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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fforest%20Fawr%20Geopark | Fforest Fawr Geopark is a Geopark in the Brecon Beacons National Park, south Wales. It is the first designated Geopark in Wales having gained membership of both the European Geoparks Network and the UNESCO-assisted Global Network of National Geoparks in October 2005. The Geopark aims to promote and support sustainable tourism and other opportunities to improve the economy of the area whilst safeguarding the natural environment. Its aims largely coincide with the statutory duties and purpose of the National Park within which it sits.
History of designation
An initial application to the European Geoparks Network (EGN) made for a more geographically restricted Geopark based on the upper Swansea Valley was turned down in 2003 but the present area which extends to was accepted by the EGN at their meeting in October 2005.
A Geopark Development Officer was appointed in January 2007 whilst the National Park Authority also employs an education officer part of whose time is dedicated to the Geopark and the Geopark’s Waterfalls Centre was staffed by two information assistants from summer 2007 until June 2016.
The Geopark hosted a meeting of the European Geoparks Network in Brecon in spring 2011.
Together with the United Kingdom's six other geoparks, Fforest Fawr Georpark was formally recognised by UNESCO in December 2015.
In common with other European Geoparks, Fforest Fawr is reassessed on a four yearly (previously three yearly) cycle. A successful revalidation took place in 2008 after an initial three-year period of membership of the EGN with another in 2012. It was reassessed again in 2016.
Administration of the Geopark
Fforest Fawr Geopark is run by a partnership of several organisations, the principal ones being Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, Cardiff University and the British Geological Survey. A Partnership Board meets annually whilst a Management Group meets quarterly to consider strategy and project work. Both the Board and the Group derive their membership from a wide cross-section of interests with a stake in the success of the Geopark. These interests include but are not restricted to:
Swansea University
National Trust
Brecon Beacons Park Society
Dyfed Archaeological Trust
Brecon Beacons Tourism
Earth Science Education Forum
Natural Resources Wales
Geography
The Geopark comprises the western half the Brecon Beacons National Park in southern Wales. At its heart are the mountain massifs of Fforest Fawr, the Black Mountain (Welsh: 'Y Mynydd Du') and the central Brecon Beacons. The designated area includes the surrounding lowlands; principally parts of the Usk, Towy, Tawe and Taf valleys.
Geology
Rocks from the Ordovician Period through to the Carboniferous outcrop in various parts of the Geopark. The oldest (of late Ordovician age) occur in the northwest whilst the youngest (of late Carboniferous age) occur along its southern margins.
Many of the Ordovician and Silurian age sandstones and mudstones were faulted and tightl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Geoparks%20Network | The European Geoparks Network (EGN) functions as the regional organization of the Global Geoparks Network (GGN) and the UNESCO International Geosciences and Geoparks Programme (UNESCO-IGGP). Its main objective is to ensure cooperation between geoparks for the protection of geological heritage and the promotion of sustainable development of their territories in Europe. In 2020 January, the EGN had 75 institutional members (UNESCO Global Geoparks) from 26 European countries and there are several aspiring geopark projects, applying for a UNESCO label and therefore the permanent EGN membership.
History
The 1990s are widely considered as the birth of geoheritage as a dedicated domain of the geosciences, dealing with the preservation and valorisation of the Earth's abiotical heritage, its geodiversity. The idea of coordinated work on geology-focused territorial frameworks in Europe was discussed during the International Geological Congress in Beijing, 1997. After preparatory meetings in 1999, four European territories assembled in Lesvos, between 3–5 June 2000:
Réserve Géologique de Haute-Provence – France
Natural History Museum of Lesvos Petrified Forest – Greece (Lesvos)
Geopark Gerolstein/Vulkaneifel – Germany
Maestrazgo Cultural Park – Spain
They signed the convention on the establishment of the European Geoparks Label and the Network itself, with the intention of sharing information and expertise, as well as defining common tools.
On 20 April 2001, during the 3rd EGN Coordination Meeting, the Convention of Cooperation was signed between UNESCO Division of Earth Sciences and the EGN at Parc Cabo de Gata in Spain, defining the basis of the partnership between the two signatories.
In February 2004 the Global Geoparks Network (GGN) was founded in Paris by the members of EGN and the Chinese Geopark Network. The international partnership was developed under the umbrella of UNESCO and in October 2004 the Madonie Declaration was issued during the 5th Annual Meeting of EGN. It recognized the EGN as the official branch of the UNESCO – Global Geoparks Network in Europe. The declaration also underlines that EGN serves as a reference for the creation of similar continental networks of geoparks worldwide.
From March 2015 (35th European Geoparks Meeting, Paris, France), EGN continued as the regional geopark network of GGN. In November 2015, the 38th UNESCO General Conference adopted the International Geosciences and Geoparks Programme, officially approving the geopark concept to its framework and merging it with the existing International Geoscience Programme. The UNESCO Global Geopark label was created and all institutional members of EGN received it automatically.
Organization
The EGN operates under the auspices of the Statutes of the Global Geoparks Network, supplemented with the Rules of Operation of EGN, based on the Charter of EGN, signed in 2000. Its headquarters are located in the Haute-Provence UNESCO Global Geopark in Digne-les-Bains, Fran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapLight | MapLight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization that reveals and tracks the influence of money in politics in the United States. The organization publishes a free public database linking money and politics data sources, including campaign contributions to politicians, how politicians vote on bills, and support and opposition to legislation. MapLight provides data on both campaign finance and voting behavior in one database.
MapLight uses an in-house research team in addition to data sources that include OpenSecrets and GovTrack.
Policy positions
MapLight advocates for public funding of elections and increased campaign finance regulations. MapLight expressed disagreement with the Supreme Court rulings Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.
Funding
MapLight's donors include the Sunlight Foundation, Open Society Foundations, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Tides Foundation. In June 2014, Politico reported that MapLight was a recipient of funding through the Democracy Alliance, a network of liberal donors who coordinate their anonymous political giving. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, in 2010 George Soros underwrote a joint project between MapLight and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism to highlight the influence of money in Wisconsin politics.
References
External links
MapLight Homepage
Open Congress
Followthemoney.org
Los Angeles Times column: MapLight's Daniel Newman wants to help Californians 'follow the money'
Political organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20trading%20platform | In finance, an electronic trading platform also known as an online trading platform, is a computer software program that can be used to place orders for financial products over a network with a financial intermediary. Various financial products can be traded by the trading platform, over a communication network with a financial intermediary or directly between the participants or members of the trading platform. This includes products such as stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, derivatives and others, with a financial intermediary such as brokers, market makers, Investment banks or stock exchanges. Such platforms allow electronic trading to be carried out by users from any location and are in contrast to traditional floor trading using open outcry and telephone-based trading. Sometimes the term trading platform is also used in reference to the trading software alone.
Electronic trading platforms typically stream live market prices on which users can trade and may provide additional trading tools, such as charting packages, news feeds and account management functions. Some platforms have been specifically designed to allow individuals to gain access to financial markets that could formerly only be accessed by specialist trading firms using direct market access. They may also be designed to automatically trade specific strategies based on technical analysis or to do high-frequency trading.
Electronic trading platforms are usually mobile-friendly and available for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android, making market entry easier and helping with the surge in Retail Investing.
Etymology
The term 'trading platform' is generally used to avoid confusion with 'trading system' which is more often associated with the trading method or strategy than the computer system used to execute orders within financial circles. In this case, platform is used to mean a type of computing system or operating environment such as a database or other specific software.
Historic development
Transactions have traditionally been handled manually, between brokers or counterparties. However, starting in the 1970s, a greater portion of transactions have migrated to electronic trading platforms. These may include electronic communication networks, alternative trading systems, "dark pools" and others.
The first electronic trading platforms were typically associated with stock exchanges and allowed brokers to place orders remotely using private dedicated networks and dumb terminals. Early systems would not always provide live streaming prices and instead allowed brokers or clients to place an order which would be confirmed some time later; these were known as 'request for quote' based systems.
In 1971, Nasdaq was created by the National Association of Securities Dealers and operated entirely electronically on a computer network. Nasdaq was opened on 8 February 1971. It rapidly gained popularity and by 1992, it accounted for 42% of trade volume in the US.
With the advent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS | webOS, also known as LG webOS and previously known as Open webOS, HP webOS and Palm webOS, is a Linux kernel-based multitasking operating system for smart devices such as smart TVs that has also been used as a mobile operating system. Initially developed by Palm, Inc. (which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard), HP made the platform open source, at which point it became Open webOS.
The operating system was later sold to LG Electronics, and was made primarily a smart TV operating system for LG televisions as a successor to LG Netcast. In January 2014, Qualcomm announced that it had acquired technology patents from HP, which included all the webOS and Palm patents; LG licenses them to use in their devices.
Various versions of webOS have been featured on several devices since launching in 2009, including Pre, Pixi, and Veer smartphones, TouchPad tablet, LG's smart TVs since 2014, LG's smart refrigerators and smart projectors since 2017.
History
2009–2010: Launch by Palm
Palm launched webOS, then called Palm webOS, in January 2009 as the successor to Palm OS. The first webOS device was the original Palm Pre, released by Sprint in June 2009. The Palm Pixi followed. Upgraded "Plus" versions of both Pre and Pixi were released on Verizon and AT&T.
2010–2013: Acquisition by HP; the launch of Open webOS
In April 2010, HP acquired Palm. The acquisition of Palm was initiated while Mark Hurd was CEO, however he resigned shortly after the acquisition was completed. Later, webOS was described by new HP CEO Leo Apotheker as a key asset and motivation for the purchase. The $1.2 billion acquisition was finalized in June. HP indicated its intention to develop the webOS platform for use in multiple new products, including smartphones, tablets, and printers.
In February 2011, HP announced that it would use webOS as the universal platform for all its devices. However, HP also made the decision that the Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, and the "Plus" revisions would not receive over-the-air updates to webOS 2.0, despite a previous commitment to an upgrade "in coming months." HP announced several webOS devices, including the HP Veer and HP Pre 3 smartphones, running webOS 2.2, and the HP TouchPad, a tablet computer released in July 2011 that runs webOS 3.0.
In March 2011, HP announced plans for a version of webOS by the end of 2011 to run within Windows, and to be installed on all HP desktop and notebook computers in 2012. Neither ever materialized, although work had begun on an x86 port around this time involving a team in Fort Collins, Colorado; work was scrapped later in the year.
In August 2011, HP announced that it was interested in selling its Personal Systems Group, responsible for all of its consumer PC products, including webOS, and that webOS device development and production lines would be halted. It remained unclear whether HP would consider licensing webOS software to other manufacturers. When HP reduced the price of the Touchpad to $99, the existing inventory qui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawn%20File | A drawn file is a type of file used to preserve image drawings. The filename extension for this is .drawn, .drawing, or, for computers that only support three-letter extensions, .drw.
Programs
According to FileInfo.net files with a .drw extension can be opened by the following programs:
Mac OS
Apple AppleWorks
Windows
Microsoft Picture It!
CorelDRAW
Corel Paint Shop Pro
References
Graphics file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Supernatural%20and%20The%20Winchesters%20characters | Supernatural is an American television drama series created by writer and producer Eric Kripke. It was initially broadcast by The WB network from September 13, 2005, but after the first season, the WB and UPN networks merged to form The CW network, which was the final broadcaster for the show in the United States by the series' conclusion on November 19, 2020, with 327 episodes aired. The Winchesters, a spin-off prequel/sequel series to Supernatural developed by Robbie Thompson, Jensen Ackles and Danneel Ackles, premiered on The CW from October 11, 2022.
Supernatural and The Winchesters each feature two main characters, Sam Winchester (played by Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (played by Jensen Ackles), and Mary Campbell (played by Meg Donnelly) and John Winchester (played by Drake Rodger).
In Supernatural, the two Winchester brothers are hunters who travel across the United States, mainly to the Midwest, in a black 1967 Chevy Impala to hunt demons, werewolves, vampires, ghosts, witches, and other supernatural creatures. Supernatural chronicles the relationship between the brothers, their friends, and their father. Throughout the seasons, the brothers work to fight evil, keep each other alive, and avenge those they have lost. In The Winchesters, Dean Winchester narrates the story of how his parents John Winchester and Mary Campbell met, fell in love and fought monsters together while in search for their missing fathers.
Supernatural features many recurring guests that help Sam Winchester and Dean Winchester with their hunts and quests. Frequent returning characters include hunter Bobby Singer (who becomes a father figure to Sam and Dean after season two), Castiel (an angel), Crowley (a demon and the King of Hell), and Jack Kline (the Nephilim). The series also featured recurring appearances from other angels, demons, and hunters.
Cast
Main
Recurring
Notable guests
Notes
Angels
Angels of God are extremely powerful spiritual beings. Merely perceiving their true form - even psychically - typically results in blindness, as the appearance of their natural "visage" is overwhelming. Only a select few can withstand their true appearances and voices, though no one is ever featured on the show that could do so. They often take human vessels to exist in and interact with the physical world; however, they can only enter with the hosts' consent. Angels need a particular vessel called the "chosen" one or "true vessels" to be their host if they want to reach their full potential.
Most angels are portrayed as emotionless authoritarian beings. Some angels show disdain for humanity, noting that humans are flawed and inferior creations. Lucifer was the only angel to refuse kneeling before humans at God's command. All angels, fallen or not, refer to each other as siblings and refer to God as their Father. However, most angels never actually meet or talk to God. God, their former leader, is noted as missing throughout the majority of the show, leavi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Clinger%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | William D. Clinger is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is known for his work on higher-order and functional programming languages, and for extensive contributions in helping create and implement international technical standards for the programming language Scheme via the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Clinger was an editor of the second through fifth Revised Reports on Scheme (R2RS – R5RS), and an invited speaker on Scheme at the Lisp50 conference celebrating the 50th birthday of the language Lisp. He has been on the faculty at Northeastern University since 1994.
Research
Clinger obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Carl Hewitt. His doctoral research revolved around defining a denotational semantics for the actor model of concurrent computing, which is the same model of computing that originally motivated development of Scheme.
In addition to editing the R2RS – R5RS Scheme standards, Clinger's contributions to Scheme have included the development of compilers for two implementations of the language: MacScheme, and Larceny. He also invented efficient algorithms for hygienic macro expansion, accurate decimal-to-binary conversions, and bounded-latency generational garbage collection.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer programmers
American computer scientists
Northeastern University faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20market | A smart market is a periodic auction which is cleared by the operations research technique of mathematical optimization, such as linear programming. The smart market is operated by a market manager. Trades are not bilateral, between pairs of people, but rather to or from a pool. A smart market can assist market operation when trades would otherwise have significant transaction costs or externalities.
Most other types of auctions can be cleared by a simple process of sorting bids from lowest to highest. Goods may be divisible, as with milk or flour, or indivisible, as with paintings or houses. Finding a market-clearing allocation corresponds to solution of a simple knapsack problem, and does not require much computation. By contrast, a smart market allows market clearing with arbitrary constraints. During market design, constraints are selected to match the relevant physics and economics of the allocation problem. A good overview is given in McCabe et al. (1991).
Combinatorial auctions are smart markets in which goods are indivisible, but some smart markets allocate divisible goods such as electricity and natural gas.
Compared to traditional market structures, a smart market substantially reduces transaction costs, allows competition which would not be possible otherwise, and can eliminate externalities. Despite complex constraints, a smart market allows the benefits of a modern financial exchange system. Fulfilment of the contract is backed by the exchange; parties are generally anonymous; the market manager enforces regulation to ensure fairness and transparency; and markets are orderly, especially during stressful conditions.
A smart market may be a one-sided auction in which participants buy from the market manager, a one-sided procurement (reverse auction) in which participants sell to the market manager, or two-sided, in which the market manager balances supplying participants with demanding participants. In a two-sided smart market, the market manager may be a net seller, a net buyer, or simply a revenue-neutral broker.
Smart markets are achievable due to an enabling confluence of technologies: the internet to transmit users’ bids and the resulting prices and quantities, increased computation power to run the simulation and linear program, and real time monitoring.
Examples of smart markets
The term appears to have been first used by Rassenti, Smith, and Bulfin in 1982. That article proposed a combinatorial auction for airplane take-off and landing slots. The U.S. government is now seeking to implement such an auction.
The modern electricity market is an important example of a two-sided smart market., Electricity markets clear every few minutes, and require coordination to ensure that power generation matches demand, and that power flows do not exceed network line capacities. Generators offer to supply tranches of power at a range of prices. Wholesale power distributors bid to buy tranches of power at a range of prices. To clear th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression%20templates | Expression templates are a C++ template metaprogramming technique that builds structures representing a computation at compile time, where expressions are evaluated only as needed to produce efficient code for the entire computation. Expression templates thus allow programmers to bypass the normal order of evaluation of the C++ language and achieve optimizations such as loop fusion.
Expression templates were invented independently by Todd Veldhuizen and David Vandevoorde; it was Veldhuizen who gave them their name. They are a popular technique for the implementation of linear algebra software.
Motivation and example
Consider a library representing vectors and operations on them. One common mathematical operation is to add two vectors and , element-wise, to produce a new vector. The obvious C++ implementation of this operation would be an overloaded operator+ that returns a new vector object:
/// @brief class representing a mathematical 3D vector
class Vec : public std::array<double, 3> {
public:
using std::array<double, 3>::array;
// inherit constructor (C++11)
// see https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/using_declaration
};
/// @brief sum 'u' and 'v' into a new instance of Vec
Vec operator+(Vec const &u, Vec const &v) {
Vec sum;
for (size_t i = 0; i < u.size(); i++) {
sum[i] = u[i] + v[i];
}
return sum;
}
Users of this class can now write Vec x = a + b; where a and b are both instances of Vec.
A problem with this approach is that more complicated expressions such as Vec x = a + b + c are implemented inefficiently. The implementation first produces a temporary Vec to hold a + b, then produces another Vec with the elements of c added in. Even with return value optimization this will allocate memory at least twice and require two loops.
Delayed evaluation solves this problem, and can be implemented in C++ by letting operator+ return an object of an auxiliary type, say VecSum, that represents the unevaluated sum of two Vecs, or a vector with a VecSum, etc. Larger expressions then effectively build expression trees that are evaluated only when assigned to an actual Vec variable. But this requires traversing such trees to do the evaluation, which is in itself costly.
Expression templates implement delayed evaluation using expression trees that only exist at compile time. Each assignment to a Vec, such as Vec x = a + b + c, generates a new Vec constructor if needed by template instantiation. This constructor operates on three Vec; it allocates the necessary memory and then performs the computation. Thus only one memory allocation is performed.
Example implementation of expression templates :
An example implementation of expression templates looks like the following. A base class VecExpression represents any vector-valued expression. It is templated on the actual expression type E to be implemented, per the curiously recurring template pattern. The existence of a base class like VecExpression is n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20Collections | Concurrent Collections (known as CnC) is a programming model for software frameworks to expose parallelism in applications. The Concurrent Collections conception originated from tagged stream processing development with HP TStreams.
TStreams
Around 2003, Hewlett-Packard Cambridge Research Lab developed TStreams, a stream processing forerunner of the basic concepts of CnC.
Concurrent Collections for C++
Concurrent Collections for C++ is an open source C++ template library developed by Intel for implementing parallel CnC applications in C++ with shared and/or distributed memory.
Habanero CnC
Rice University has developed various CnC language implementations based on their Habanero project infrastructure.
See also
Stream processing
Flow-based programming (FBP)
Tuple space
Functional reactive programming (FRP)
Linda (coordination language)
Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
Cilk/Cilk Plus
Intel Parallel Studio
Notes
References
External links
Intel Concurrent Collections for C++ for Windows and Linux at Intel DZ, a "What If" project
Intel Concurrent Collections for C++ at GitHub
CNC - Habanero Concurrent Collections as part of the Rice University Habanero project
Parallel computing
Concurrent programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20M.%20Demarest | Joseph M. Demarest, Jr. is an associate executive assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and was formerly the assistant director in charge of the FBI's cyber division. He is responsible for the FBI's operations to protect the United States from cyber-based national security threats.
Early career
Before joining the FBI, Demarest was a Deputy Sheriff in Hillsborough County, Florida. Demarest left the FBI in 2008 and worked as an executive for Goldman Sachs, before returning to the FBI in January 2009.
FBI career
Demarest began his career at the FBI in 1988 as a special agent. He was initially assigned to the Anchorage Division, where he investigated white collar crime, drug, violent crime, and foreign counterintelligence cases. In 1990, he was transferred to the New York Division, where he was assigned to a Colombian drug squad. He was promoted to squad supervisor in 1999, and was selected as SWAT team leader. In 2000, he was selected to serve as the drug branch's acting assistant special agent in charge.
After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Demarest was selected as one of two shift commanders for the PENTTBOM investigation. In that position, he led an ad hoc task force of over 400 federal, state, and local investigators from over 40 agencies to investigate the more than 5,500 PENTTBOM-related leads.
Demarest was promoted to unit chief at FBI Headquarters in 2002, where he served in the International Terrorism Operations Section (ITOS) within the Counterterrorism Division. In 2003, he was promoted to assistant section chief of ITOS. He later served as an acting section chief in ITOS until he was promoted to management positions in the International Terrorism Branch for the New York Division, ultimately becoming special agent in charge for counterterrorism. He served in that role until early 2008.
In January 2009, Demarest began serving as the assistant director in charge of the New York Division, where he oversaw several major investigations, including the terrorism investigation OPERATION HIGHRISE; the Bernard Madoff case; and the piracy investigation of MV Maersk Alabama.
In June 2012, Demarest was appointed the assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division following the departure of former assistant director Gordon M. Snow. In 2015, he was promoted by FBI director James Comey to the position of associate executive assistant director.
References
External links
fbi.gov
city-journal.org
FBI - Demarest
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Hillsborough County, Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Jackson%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Daniel Jackson (born 1963) is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the principal designer of the Alloy modelling language, and author of the book Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis.
Biography
Jackson was born in London, England, in 1963.
He studied physics at the University of Oxford, receiving an MA in 1984. After completing his MA, Jackson worked for two years as a software engineer at Logica UK Ltd. He then returned to academia to study computer science at MIT, where he received an SM in 1988, and a PhD in 1992. Following the completion of his doctorate Jackson took up a position as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, which he held until 1997. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT since 1997.
In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Jackson is also a photographer, and has an interest in the straight photography style. The MIT Museum commissioned a series of photographs of MIT laboratories from him, displayed from May to December 2012, to accompany an exhibit of images by Berenice Abbott.
Jackson is the son of software engineering researcher Michael A. Jackson, developer of Jackson Structured Programming (JSP), Jackson System Development (JSD), and the Problem Frames Approach.
Research
Jackson's research is broadly concerned with improving the dependability of software. He is a proponent of lightweight formal methods. Jackson and his students developed the Alloy language and its associated Alloy Analyzer analysis tool to provide support for lightweight specification and modelling efforts.
Between 2004 and 2007, Jackson chaired a multi-year United States National Research Council study on dependable systems.
Selected publications
References
External links
Daniel Jackson MIT home page
Daniel Jackson photography website
1963 births
Living people
Photographers from London
Alumni of the University of Oxford
British computer programmers
British expatriate academics in the United States
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
MIT School of Engineering faculty
English computer scientists
Formal methods people
Software engineering researchers
Computer science writers
20th-century British photographers
21st-century British photographers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling%20bot | Gambling bots are software which use a gambling website's Application programming interface (API) to speed up the process of placing bets based upon a gambling system or betting strategy to decide which bets to place.
Gambling bots are disliked by many professional gamblers, as a human player obviously cannot compete, as a bot is directly linked to the site and processes odds faster than any human player. In addition, bots never get nervous or suffer from misgivings about their bets and thus achieve results efficiently and in short periods of time. On the down side, these applications could very well lose very quickly if set up incorrectly or minor mistakes are made in coding. In the beginning, humans were better at the nuances, such as bluffing, and could easily beat the bots. However, in recent years, advancement in artificial intelligence has been significant enough to oppose human game.
References
Gambling technology
Internet bots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamenta%20Informaticae | Fundamenta Informaticae is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering computer science. The editor-in-chief is Damian Niwiński. It was established in 1977 by the Polish Mathematical Society as Series IV of the Annales Societatis Mathematicae Polonae, with its main focus on theoretical foundations of computer science. The journal is currently hosted on the Episciences.org platform of the Center for direct scientific communication, and published by IOS Press under the auspices of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
Further reading
Janusz Kowalski, 2004. The Polish Mathematical Society (PTM). European Mathematical Society Newsletter 54:24-29.
External links
Computer science journals
Theoretical computer science
IOS Press academic journals
Academic journals established in 1977
English-language journals
5 times per year journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Retention%20Directive | The Data Retention Directive (Directive 2006/24/EC), later declared invalid by the European Court of Justice, was at first passed on 15 March 2006 and regulated data retention, where data has been generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks. It amended the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications. According to the Data Retention Directive, EU member states had to store information on all citizens' telecommunications data (phone and internet connections) for a minimum of six months and at most twenty-four months, to be delivered on demand to police authorities.
Under the directive, the police and security agencies would have been able to request access to details such as IP addresses and time of use of every email, phone call and text message sent or received. There was no provision in the directive that permission to access the data must be confirmed by a court. On 8 April 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the Directive invalid in response to a case brought by Digital Rights Ireland against the Irish authorities and others because blanket data collection violated the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, in particular the right of privacy enshrined in Article 8(1).
History
In September 2005, during the United Kingdom's presidency of the European Council, a plenary session was held concerning the retention of telecommunications data, chaired by the UK's Home Secretary. This led to an agreement reached by the Council at its meeting on the 1 and 2 December that was then adopted in March 2006, under the Austrian presidency.
Implementation
Romania
The EU directive has been transposed into Romanian law as well, initially as Law 298/2008. However, the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) subsequently struck down the law in 2009 as violating constitutional rights. The court held that the transposing act violated the constitutional rights of privacy, of confidentiality in communications, and of free speech. The European Commission subsequently sued Romania in 2011 for non-implementation, threatening Romania with a fine of 30,000 euros per day. The Romanian parliament passed a new law in 2012, which was signed by president Traian Băsescu in June. The Law 82/2012 has been nicknamed "the Big Brother law" (using the untranslated English expression) by various Romanian non-governmental organisations opposing it, as well as the Romanian media. On 8 July 2014 this law too was declared unconstitutional by the CCR.
Criticism
The Data Retention Directive had sparked serious concerns from physicians, journalists, privacy and human rights groups, unions, IT security firms and legal experts.
Annullment
On 8 April 2014, in the landmark Digital Rights Ireland and Ors case, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the Directive 2006/24/EC invalid for violating fundamental rights. The Council's Legal Services have b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Vaio%20P%20series | The Sony Vaio P series is a range of ultraportable subnotebook computers launched in January 2009.
It was marketed as a "lifestyle PC", although they share many characteristics with netbook computers.
Description
The Sony Vaio P series features an 8" LED-backlit display with native resolution of 1600x768, coupled with Intel GMA 500 integrated graphics, an Intel Atom Silverthorne Z5x0 CPU with Intel Poulsbo US15W chipset, and up to 2GB of DDR2 memory. Notably, the P series sports non-upgradeable RAM that is soldered to the motherboard, with some models including just 1GB of RAM. It uses a pointing stick in the keyboard as its pointing device. Exact specs vary by region. An integrated "Motion Eye" webcam (optional in some models) is located on the upper right corner of the display bezel. Built-in GPS (some models), Bluetooth, 802.11 b/g/n wireless and 3G or HSDPA mobile broadband comprise its connectivity options. Like most ultraportables and netbooks, an internal optical drive is not present.
At launch, the pre-installed operating system was one of the 32-bit versions of Windows XP, which has lower resource requirements than Windows Vista. Several people have succeeded in installing various versions of Linux on the Vaio P, most notably Ubuntu Linux (Version 9.04, Jaunty). Ubuntu is arguably the best alternative due to its ease of installation and configuration, and the fact that it allows for full 3D graphics to be utilized. Since the release of Windows 7, the P series now ships with that OS installed. The P series has been criticized for poor performance in part due to the excessive pre-installed software, but also because of the poor performance of the integrated graphics.
Compared with most other Intel Atom-based netbooks, the P series was considerably more expensive. However, the Atom Silverthorne platform adopted by the P series sported lower power consumption and higher-clocked processor options compared to the more common Diamondville platform. Later models of the Vaio P included these faster CPUs. In addition, the P series is the lightest device in its class, weighing roughly the same as the Apple iPad 2 tablet and less than all 10" netbooks, and the 7" Asus Eee PC models. The 1600x768 resolution of the P series' 8" display is also comparable to that of much larger laptops, such as the 12.1" Thinkpad X200s and its 1440x900 resolution.
Launch specs
The Vaio P was launched in five colour options: Dove White, Emerald Green, Glossy Black, Gold, and Sangria Red.
Dependent on the model, storage was a 60GB or 80GB hard disk drive, or 64GB, 128GB, or 256GB solid state drive.
Minor model updates included Windows 7, larger SSDs, and faster Atom processors.
May 2010 update
The VPC-P11 series launched in May 2010 featured a refreshed exterior, an accelerometer to enable switching from landscape to portrait mode, a tiny 16mmx16mm touchpad built into the LCD bezel, and a choice of five colours - 'electric orange, neon green, hot pink, icy whi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Ledin | George Ledin, Jr. (born January 28, 1946) is an American computer scientist and professor of computer science at Sonoma State University. Ledin's teaching of computer security at Sonoma State has been controversial for its inclusion of material on how to write malware. Ledin is a strong critic of the antivirus software industry, whose products he considers almost useless. Ledin also helped found the computer science program at the University of San Francisco, and published several books on computing in the 1970s and 1980s.
Education and career
Ledin is a 1967 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
He started teaching computer science at the University of San Francisco in 1965, as the second computer scientist at the university, five years before the university's computer science department itself was founded. In 1970, he served as vice-president of The Fibonacci Association, and host of its annual meeting. In 1973, as a researcher in the Institute of Chemical Biology and instructor in computer science at the university, he was the chair of the first national conference on ALGOL, By 1980 he was head of the computer science department at the university.
He earned a Juris Doctor at the University of San Francisco in 1982, and moved to the Sonoma State faculty in 1984.
Books
Ledin is author or co-author of books including:
Programming the IBM 1130 (with Robert K. Louden, 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, 1972)
A Structured Approach to General BASIC (Boyd & Fraser, 1978)
The Programmer's Book of Rules (Lifetime Learning / Wiley, 1979)
Understanding Pascal (Alfred Publishing, 1981)
Pascal (Mayfield Publishing, 1982)
The Personal Computer Glossary (Alfred Publishing, 1983)
The COBOL Programmer's Book of Rules (with Victor Ledin and Michael D. Kudlick, Lifetime Learning / Wiley, 1983).
Personal life
Ledin was born in Austria. He and his co-author Victor Ledin are brothers, both sons of Georgii Grigorievich Ledin (1921–2019), an immigrant from the Georgian city of Sukhumi.
References
External links
Dr. Ledin page @ Sonoma State University.
"Not teaching malware is harmful" @ Sonoma State University.
Living people
American computer scientists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of San Francisco alumni
Sonoma State University faculty
Computer security specialists
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists
1946 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaswitch | Metaswitch Networks is a private UK-based company which was acquired by Microsoft in July 2020. Metaswitch Networks designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed telecommunications software to communication service providers, equipment manufacturers and large enterprises.
Corporate history
Metaswitch (formerly Data Connection Ltd) was founded in 1981 by seven former IBM employees led by Ian Ferguson, who remained on the board of directors until the company's acquisition by Microsoft. The company's earliest business areas included IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and retail point of sale systems. In the 1990s, the company began developing network protocol software.
In 2000, the company launched the Metaswitch brand, which provided softswitches and network management systems designed to enable telephone service providers to migrate to Voice over IP (VoIP) networks while still supporting legacy telephone technologies. By 2008, the Metaswitch division was responsible for 78% of the company's revenue.
In April 2009, the company announced intentions to consolidate all of its products and business operations under the Metaswitch brand, with two business units: the Carrier Systems Division and Network Protocol Division. In October 2009, the company rebranded itself as Metaswitch Networks, to reflect the growing focus on the products and services that it sells to telephone service providers.
In August 2011, the company formally changed its name from Data Connection Ltd to Metaswitch Networks Ltd.
In July 2014, the company moved some of its software to open-source with the launch of Project Calico. Project Calico was subsequently spun out into an independent startup, Tigera, Inc., with Andy Randall (formerly the general manager of Metaswitch’s Networking Business Unit) as CEO.
In May 2020, Microsoft announced a definitive agreement to acquire Metaswitch Networks. On 15 July 2020, the acquisition was completed.
Acquisitions
In March 2010, the firm acquired AppTrigger Inc, a provider of service broker software in Richardson, Texas. In April 2011, it acquired Colibria AS, a provider of Rich Communication Suite (RCS) software in Oslo, Norway. In February 2017, Metaswitch acquired OpenCloud Ltd, a provider of an open mobile services platform.
Ownership and investors
In 1987, Metaswitch established the Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) to hold shares of the company on behalf of the employees, which enabled company-wide profit sharing.
In January 2008 Francisco Partners, a private equity firm, and Sequoia Capital, a venture capitalist firm, invested an undisclosed sum in Metaswitch.
References
External links
Official Website
Networking companies
Networking software companies
Telecommunications equipment vendors
Companies based in the London Borough of Enfield
British companies established in 1981
Telecommunications companies established in 1981
Software companies established in 1981
2020 mergers and acquisitions
Microsoft acquisitions
Microsoft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Channel%20%28Latin%20American%20TV%20channel%29 | Disney Channel is a Latin American pay television network broadcasting throughout Hispanic America and Brazil. It was officially launched on July 27, 2000 as a premium-label channel in Hispanic America, and also in Brazil back on April 5, 2001, and became a basic pay TV network in 2004.
It is available using four different feeds, each with various programming schedules and timings. It is mostly marketed to children; however, in recent years the range of viewers has expanded to include an older audience. Disney Channel is operated by Disney Media Networks Latin America and owned by The Walt Disney Company Latin America, both of which are originally from The Walt Disney Company.
History
In July 2000, while Disney Channel in the United States changed its "premium television" label to "basic" subscription TV network, the channel was launched in Latin America using the same graphical branding as Disney Channel in Europe, created by GÉDÉON, but with most of the same programming as the US version (some differences were abound). In the beginning, the network's broadcast was divided in two feeds": North feed, aimed towards Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and South feed, aimed towards South America (excluding Brazil), each with different programming schedules. Disney Channel also launched its first original production, Zapping Zone, with hosts bringing news and introducing the Disney Channel Original Series to the audience.
On April 5, 2001, a Brazilian feed was also launched, replacing Disney Weekend, a weekend-only broadcast channel; it began at around 8:00pm, coinciding the premiere of The Lion King, as it now broadcasts every single day.
In 2004, Anne Sweeney, a veteran cable executive, took control of Disney–ABC Television Group and changed the design from the channels worldwide. On that same year, Disney Channel became a "basic" cable channel and used the 2002 look of Disney Channel U.S. Along with the new look, the channel started to air new series, mainly focused on teenagers and placing the original animated cartoons in earlier schedules. In the morning schedule, Playhouse Disney was aired with programming for children aged 2–7.
In 2005, the network became one of the most viewed channels in the region, premiering Disney Channel Original Series such as That's So Raven and Phil of the Future.
A fourth feed, known as the Central feed, was created and was broadcast on Colombia, Venezuela, Central America and the Caribbean, broadcasting from Colombia and using the Colombian time zone.
In 2006, very successful series and films such as Hannah Montana, The Cheetah Girls, High School Musical and Jump In! premiered.
In July 2007, the channel rebranded its graphical package to a more "hip" look, using the "Ribbon" branding of the US Disney Channel.
On June 1, 2008, The Walt Disney Company Latin America launched Playhouse Disney (currently Disney Junior, a preschool-oriented channel focused solely on programming for young children aged 2 t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyk | Cyk or CYK may refer to:
CYK algorithm, a grammar-related algorithm
Cyk, Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Cyk, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Çük, a Tatar holiday
CYK, the National Rail station code for Clydebank railway station, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG%20%28disambiguation%29 | In computing, WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get.
The quote "What you see is what you get" was popularized by Geraldine Jones, a character from the television show The Flip Wilson Show.
WYSIWYG may also refer to:
Music
WYSIWYG (album), a 2000 album by Chumbawamba
"WYSIWYG", an instrumental by rock band Clutch from the 2004 album Blast Tyrant
Other uses
WYSIWYG (TV series), a 1990s CITV series
WYSIWYG Film Festival, an annual Christian film festival
WYSIWYG Report, Design and Perform, a suite of visualisation software for theatre lighting design by CAST
See also
What You See Is What You Get (disambiguation)
Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn%20Kimber | Glenn Kimber is an American author and educator. He founded Kimber Academy, a network of private schools, and is a prominent figure among U.S. homeschooling families.
Kimber has testified before a number of legislative committees in several states pertaining to Constitutional and educational issues. He has also been a guest on a number of radio and television talk shows.
Upon returning from Vietnam, Kimber continued his university studies, graduating with a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University. He then joined with W. Cleon Skousen in establishing an educational foundation called the Freemen Institute, which was organized for the purpose of teaching American History and Constitutional studies. During the next number of years, Kimber presented patriotic seminars and conferences in all 50 states and in a number of foreign countries.
Kimber is a past president of the National Center for Constitutional Studies (NCCS), a conservative constitutionalist institution. He earned a B.S. in Accounting from Brigham Young University in 1971. Kimber was instrumental in developing a program for television called “The Miracle of America,” which was presented in a number of states.
Coral Ridge Baptist University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Humanities in 1988. Kimber consulted on the initial curriculum design of George Wythe College, which awarded him a Ph.D. in Education in 1994, two years after it opened. As a result of these degrees, he uses the designation of "Dr." in his curricula vitae.
Kimber joined William H. Doughty in building the Institute for Constitutional Education after it broke from the NCCS in 1986. He was also a board member at Doughty's Meadeau View Institute in the early 1990s.
He married a daughter of W. Cleon Skousen in 1965. He and his wife have authored over 100 textbooks and educational guides which emphasize the U.S. Constitution, America's Founding Fathers, and moral and religious values in all five core subjects. George Wythe College awarded her a B.S. in Biblical Studies in 1993, and under Skousen's mentorship, Coral Ridge Baptist University awarded her a masters in Religious Education the next year.
Kimber and Donald N. Sills (founder of George Wythe College) partnered to found a for-profit university called American Founders University.
He established a series of private schools called the Benjamin Franklin Academies to incorporate a strong moral and patriotic curriculum back into the classroom. In 2001 he also established the Kimber Academies, a private school for students ages K – 12.
Kimber conducts American History tours, as well as tours to the Middle East including Egypt, Jordan, and Israel.
References
American male writers
American educators
Brigham Young University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoh%20Fuk%20Tong%20stop | Hoh Fuk Tong () is a stop on the MTR Light Rail network in Tuen Mun District, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is located at ground level at Castle Peak Road - San Hui next to CCC Hoh Fuk Tong College and Hoh Fuk Tong Centre.
Being part of Fare Zone 2 for single ride tickets, the stop serves CCC Hoh Fuk Tong College's vicinity and the southeastern part of San Hui.
History
Hoh Fuk Tong Stop commenced operation on 2 February 1992 along with the Tuen Mun Northeast Extension of Light Rail Transit.
The stop is named after Hoh Fuk Tong Centre and CCC Hoh Fuk Tong College, which are in turn named after Revd. Hoh Fuk Tong, the first ever Christian pastor of Chinese ethnicity in Hong Kong.
Hoh Fuk Tong Stop is the only Light Rail stop in Hong Kong named after an individual.
Rail service
Hoh Fuk Tong Stop is served by route 614 and its short-working service 614P.
References
See also
Hoh Fuk Tong Centre
MTR Light Rail stops
Former Kowloon–Canton Railway stations
Tuen Mun District
Railway stations in Hong Kong opened in 1992
1992 establishments in Hong Kong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20cable%20news | Cable news channels are television networks devoted to television news broadcasts, with the name deriving from the proliferation of such networks during the 1980s with the advent of cable television.
In the United States, the first nationwide cable TV news channel to launch was CNN in 1980, followed by Financial News Network (FNN) in 1981 and CNN2 (now HLN) in 1982. CNBC was created in 1989, taking control of FNN in 1991. Through the 1990s and beyond, the cable news industry continued to grow, with the establishment of several other networks, including, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and specialty channels such as Bloomberg Television, Fox Business Network, and ESPN News. More recent additions to the cable news business have been CBSN, Newsmax TV, TheBlaze, NewsNation, part-time news network RFD-TV, and the now defunct Al Jazeera America and Black News Channel.
As some of the most widely available channels, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC are often referred to as the "big three" with Fox News having the highest viewership and ratings. While the networks are usually referred to as 24-hour news networks, reruns of news programs and analysis or opinion programming are played throughout the night, with the exception of breaking news.
Regional 24-hour cable news television channels that are primarily concerned with local programming and cover some statewide interest have included Spectrum News (a brand used for multiple networks including in upstate New York, North Carolina, Florida and Texas), NY1 (which operates from New York City), News 12 Networks, FiOS1, and the former Northwest Cable News (NWCN) (which operated from Seattle). New England Cable News covers the six-state region of New England.
"Big Three" news channels
Listed by the number of viewers, the 'Big Three' cable TV news channels are:
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel (Fox News) launched on October 7, 1996, and was formed under the ownership of News Corporation (founded by Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch), the fifth largest media company in the United States behind Sony, the original Viacom (now Paramount Global), Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery), The Walt Disney Company, Seagram (now NBCUniversal) and MGM. The network is headed by chief executive officer Rupert Murdoch. The network began broadcasting its programming in high definition TV in May 2008.
Since the network's launch, Fox News has gradually grown to become the highest-rated cable network until January 2021, when MSNBC surpassed Fox News briefly before returning to the number two position in February. Fox News's former prime time lineup included programs such as The O'Reilly Factor, hosted by Bill O'Reilly, which had been a top rated program since the early 2000s when considered among major cable news channels. The channel's longtime slogans are "Fair and Balanced" and "We Reported, You Decide". Current slogans are "Most Watched. Most Trusted."; "Real News. Real Honest Opinion." and "America's Watching".
MSNBC
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20Boot | Rapid Boot is an EFI BIOS alternative using a Linux kernel (in the BIOS flash part) developed by Intel Corporation, primarily intended for computer clusters.
See also
Coreboot
Das U-Boot
References
Anton Borisov (6 January 2009) The Open Source BIOS is Ten. An interview with the coreboot developers, The H
External links
BIOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinmaster | Spinmaster is an arcade game developed and released by Data East in December, 1993 in North America, in Europe the same year and on February 18, 1994 in Japan. It is the first game Data East developed and released for the SNK Neo-Geo MVS hardware. Its character designs are almost identical to the ones in Data East's Sega Genesis game titled Dashin' Desperadoes; however, the rest of both games are completely different. Also, Spinmaster'''s gameplay, artwork style, animations of some characters and the styles of its weapons were heavily inspired by another arcade game by Data East titled Joe & Mac, according to the Japanese Miracle Adventure arcade flyer.
After Data East became defunct due to its bankruptcy back in 2003, G-Mode bought the intellectual rights to the Neo-Geo game as well as most other Data East games and licenses them globally.
The game was later re-released on the Virtual Console in Japan on August 3, 2010, the PAL region on November 12, 2010 and in North America on November 22, 2010.
Gameplay
Players progress across the side-scrolling levels, jumping to avoid obstacles and reach platforms and defeating enemies with a default yo-yo weapon or weapons obtained from treasure chests. They can also crouch or slide tackle to attack enemies or evade incoming attacks. Quickly tapping the attack button rapid-fires weapons, and holding the attack button charges an alternate fire mode that varies depending on the equipped weapon. There are also limited screen-clearing super attacks that also vary depending on the equipped weapon.
There are five worlds of several stages each. Each world ends with a boss fight that awards a fragment of a treasure map when defeated. After collecting the full map, players choose one of three locations, each of which are a different ending to the game.
Plot
Many years ago, a large treasure was hidden by a mysterious man on an uncharted island. The man of mystery drew the location of the treasure on a map and hid it deep in the forest of the island. Days turned to weeks, weeks turned to years, and years turned to decades. The man who hid the map disappeared, never to be seen again. During this time, the map became dirty and weathered, eventually tearing into five pieces which were scattered about the corners of the world. One of these pieces wafted its way into the possession of the young treasure seeker named Johnny. Living with his girlfriend Mary and his rugged cowboy partner named Tom, Johnny dreamed of the day when he would some day find the ancient treasure on the hidden island of the mysterious man.
Then one day, the greedy, treasure-seeking mad scientist, Dr. De Playne appeared in Johnny's little town. Seizing Johnny's piece of the treasure map and kidnapping Mary, Dr. De Playne set out to find the treasure and buy up all the toys and candy of the world, plunging the children of earth into a bitter darkness of continuous study and well-balanced meals. Johnny and Tom pursued the mad Dr. De Playne w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascale%20Nadeau | Pascale Nadeau (born 2 April 1960) is a Canadian news presenter for Télévision de Radio-Canada from Quebec. Previously a daytime presenter for the all-news network Réseau de l'information and a local presenter for CBFT in Montreal, she has been the weekend presenter of the network's flagship newscast Le Téléjournal since September 2008.
She succeeded Céline Galipeau, who became the program's main weekday presenter following the retirement of Bernard Derome.
Biography
Nadeau is the daughter of the television journalist Pierre Nadeau; and the goddaughter of Peter Jennings, She studied special needs education at university, but left the field after a year and began working as a journalist for news radio station CKAC in Montreal. She subsequently moved to TQS and later to TV5, before joining Radio-Canada in 1996. Nadeau has two children, named Alexandra and Julien.
References
1960 births
Canadian television news anchors
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
French Quebecers
Living people
Canadian women television journalists
Journalists from Quebec
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation people
21st-century Canadian journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOALIB | Service-oriented architecture library (SOALIB) is used to distribute reusable service-oriented architecture (SOA) software in a manner similar to other computing libraries. SOA consists of loosely coupled interoperable services which use messaging based on both Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Representational State Transfer (REST). A library in computing is a set of compiled modules which are tested and ready for reuse. A similar concept is used for SOA, in that whatever technology is used to develop the service can also be distributed in library form. A Java-based SOA library may be distributed in Web ARchive (WAR) or Enterprise Archive (EAR) file formats. C, C++, and .NET applications may be distributed as a shared object (in Unix and Linux), a Dynamic Link Library (in Windows), or as an executable file.
History
Service-oriented architecture is usually tied to the redesign of an entire software system and determines how to decompose the single software unit into loosely coupled components, in which each loosely coupled component acts as an interoperable service. Such a task is enormous and may take a significant amount of time, while on the atomic level (where atom is defined as a single loosely coupled service that is self-contained), most services are reusable regardless of the application. As an example, all matter is built with atoms, yet all material things are different. At the atomic level, however, they appear uniform. Similarly, all software can be built on loosely coupled services which serve as the "atoms" of the redesign process. Because loose coupling is difficult to determine, the opposite is not true. That means it is easier to build a complete software system by using available loosely coupled services.
By building service-oriented architecture libraries, each of which is a loosely coupled service, complex applications can be developed by making use of these services. Because new applications depend on all loosely coupled services, as long as one sticks to loose coupling, the final application is also loosely coupled. While it is true that the final application depends on many hierarchical loosely coupled systems, it remains loosely coupled because all the hierarchy is based on atomic services.
Objectives
Building SOA requires the loose coupling of services as a starting point. They are termed as atomic services. The first step is to determine the atomic services. Then build these atomic services for reuse. A large number of such atomic services could be created, upon which composite services will be built. Composite service are services that are built only upon atomic services.
Steps
Identify, build, and test loosely coupled atomic services.
Identify, build, and test loosely coupled composite services, where each composite services is made up of atomic services only.
Build integrated services, where each of the integrated services are made up of composite and atomic services.
Build complex software system via |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Huckabee%20Report | The Huckabee Report was a radio program hosted by former Republican governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee, that aired from January 2009 to May 1, 2015. The program was broadcast on Cumulus Media Networks (formerly Citadel Media and ABC Radio Networks), three times each day (Monday–Friday), and each commentary was approximately 4 minutes long.
On March 23, 2009, The Huckabee Report replaced News and Comment with Gil Gross and The Rest of the Story with Doug Limerick on all network stations that still carried them. Both of the programs Huckabee replaced were originally hosted by Paul Harvey, who had died three weeks prior. Pat Reeder was a writer for the show. In February 2010, Citadel Media announced The Huckabee Report reached more than 500 affiliates, making it the fastest growing radio program of the past decade.
Late in 2014, when he had more than 500 stations, Huckabee said he would syndicate the program himself.
On April 15, 2015, Huckabee announced on his program that broadcasts on the radio would end but that subscribers could hear similar content which they would pay for.
References
External links
ABC Radio Networks
Mike_Huckabee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%20You%20Think%20You%20Can%20Dance%20%28American%20season%205%29 | So You Think You Can Dance is a United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network. Season five premiered on May 21, 2009, with Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy returning as permanent judges and Cat Deeley returning to host. Jeanine Mason was crowned America's Favorite Dancer on August 6, 2009, making her the second female to win the show. For the first time, the show moved to a new stage, but it turned out to be the last season at CBS Studios.
Auditions
Open auditions for this season were held in the following locations:
Las Vegas week
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Mia Michaels, Lil' C, Adam Shankman, Debbie Allen.
The Las Vegas callbacks were held at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. 172 dancers were invited to participate in the callback auditions. This number was cut to 32 dancers, 16 male and 16 female, before the announcement of the season's top 20 contestants. Las Vegas week included the following rounds, with cuts made after each:
Top 20 Contestants
Female Contestants
Male Contestants
Elimination chart
Contestants are listed in reverse chronological order of elimination.
The song for the eliminated female contestants was "Already Gone" by Kelly Clarkson. The song for the eliminated male contestants was "On Your Own" by Green River Ordinance.
Performances
Week 1 (June 10, 2009)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Adam Shankman
Couple dances:
Week 2 (June 17, 2009)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Lil' C
Couple dances:
Week 3 (June 24, 2009)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Toni Basil
Couple dances:
Week 4 (July 1, 2009)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Mia Michaels
Couple dances:
Week 5 (July 8, 2009)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Tyce Diorio
Couple dances:
Week 6 (July 15, 2009)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Debbie Allen
Group dances:
Couple dances:
Solos:
Week 7 (July 22, 2009)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Ellen DeGeneres, Mary Murphy, Mia Michaels
Group dance: Top 8: "Let It Rock"—Kevin Rudolf featuring Lil Wayne (Choreographer: Travis Wall)
Couple dances:
Solos:
Week 8 (July 29, 2009)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Lil' C
Group dances:
Couple dances:
Solos:
Week 9 (August 5, 2009)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Adam Shankman
Group dance: Top 4: "Boys Boys Boys"—Lady Gaga (Pop-Jazz; Choreographer: Wade Robson)
Duo dances:
Solos:
Results shows
Week 1 (June 11, 2009)
Group dance: Top 20: "Boom Boom Pow"—The Black Eyed Peas (Hip-hop; Choreographer: Shane Sparks)
Musical guest: "Fire Burning"—Sean Kingston
Guest dancers: Miriam Larici and Leonardo Barrionuevo: "Tangueira" from Forever Tango (Argentine Tango)
Solos:
Eliminated:
Paris Torres
Tony Bellissimo
New partners:
None
Week 2 (June 18, 2009)
Group dance: Top 18: "Higher Ground"—Stevie Wonder (Contemporary; Choreographer: Mia Michaels)
Musical guest: "Goodbye"—Kristinia DeBarge
Guest dancer: Amrapali Ambeg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNC-Alfa | GNC-Alfa is a telecommunications network services operator in Armenia. The company owns a fiber-optic network passing along the Iran–Armenia gas pipeline. GNC-Alfa network is designed to provide wholesale transport network services to fixed and mobile operators and ISPs, as well as transit services via Armenia.
In 2012, Rostelecom acquired 75% minus one share stake in GNC-ALFA via its wholly owned subsidiary, Teleset Networks.
In November 2021 the news broke that 100% of “GNC-Alfa”, held by “Rostelecom” since 2019, has been listed for sale.
References
Telecommunications companies established in 2007
Telecommunications companies of Armenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratstvo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bratstvo ("brotherhood" in Slavic languages) was a network of religious communities in the 16 and 17th centuries.
Bratstvo may also refer to:
Football clubs
FK Bratstvo Cijevna, in Podgorica, Montenegro
FK Bratstvo Lisičani, in Kičevo, Republic of Macedonia
FK Bratstvo Krnjača, in Belgrade, Serbia
NK Bratstvo Gračanica, in Gračanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
FK Bratstvo Bratunac, a football club in Bosnia and Herzegovina
FK Bratstvo Resen, the former name of FK Jildirimspor, in Resen, Republic of North Macedonia
Industry
Bratstvo, an ammunition factory in Novi Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bratstvo, a restaurant once owned by Biserka in Macedonia
Bratstvo, a steel manufacturing company in Aleksandrovo, Subotica, Serbia
Bratstvo pipeline, part of the natural gas transmission system of Ukraine
Other
SS Bratstvo (1963), a Russian multi-purpose freighter
Bratstvo (party), a political group founded by Dmytro Korchynsky in 2002 in Ukraine
Bratstvo (weekly), a Bulgarian-language newspaper in Serbia
Bratstvo, a term for clans in the tribes of Montenegro
Bratstvo-Telep, a local community in Telep, a neighborhood of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia
sl:Bratstvo (razločitev) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20Inspiron%20Mini%20Series | The Dell Inspiron Mini Series is a line of subnotebook/netbook computers designed by Dell. The series was introduced in September 2008 amidst the growing popularity of low-cost netbook computers introduced by competitors.
9 Series
The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (also called the Inspiron 910), was announced on September 4, 2008, as a netbook set to contend with other low-cost ultra-portables such as the ASUS Eee PC and Acer Aspire One. The Mini 9 was also sold as the Dell Vostro A90 by the Dell Small Business Unit.
The Mini 9 began shipping on September 16, 2008, starting at US$349. It is built by Compal Electronics, which also makes the MSI Wind Netbook and the HP Mini-Note 2133.
It is Dell's first netbook. It was retired on May 29, 2009.
Features
SSD/Ubuntu Netbook Remix
Dell initially shipped versions of the Mini 9 with only partially usable storage, after models were built using a software image that fit just the basic 4GB SSD. Standard operating system upgrades later fixed the issue.
SSD
The Mini 9 uses a very special SSD drive. It is a 50mm solid state module (MO-300A) with mini PCIe interface. It uses IDE/PATA signal, so replacing it with a module with SATA signal won't work, although it will fit in the socket.
Battery capacity
In January, it was suspected that some units were shipping with 24 watt-hour capacity batteries, labeled as 32 watt-hour. The low-capacity batteries appear to be those manufactured in Tokyo. It was later determined that the software used to examine the batteries was incorrectly reporting the capacity and has since been reported to be fixed with an upgrade of the BIOS.
Specifications
Processor: Intel Atom N270.
Memory: 512 MB, 1 GB or 2 GB of shared dual channel DDR2 SDRAM @ 533 MHz.
Chipset: Intel US15W Express.
Graphics: integrated Intel GMA 950.
LCD Display: 8.9" LED-backlit widescreen with 1024 × 600 resolution.
Storage: 8 or 16 GB SSD (Windows XP Home Edition SP3 32-bit), or 32 GB (Ubuntu Linux version 8.04.1) SSD.
Optical Drive: None;
Battery: 4-cell (32 Whr) lithium-ion battery.
Camera: 0.3 MP webcam.
Wi-Fi Card: Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g mini-card.
Bluetooth: Dell Wireless Bluetooth Internal 350 (2.0).
I/O ports: 3 USB 2.0 ports, 1 Fast Ethernet port, 1 3-in-1 memory card reader, 1 VGA output, 1 headphone jack, 1 microphone jack, and 1 power adapter port.
10 Series
Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1010)
The Mini 10 (1010) is a netbook with a 10.1" screen that was designed to fill the gap between the Mini 9 and Mini 12. It began shipping on February 26, 2009 with a base price of US$399.
It has the Intel Atom Z520 and Z530 processor configurations. The default Mini 10 model has a 16:9 widescreen display with a 1024x600 (originally 1024x576) or 1366x768 (described as 720p) HD resolution and an HDMI port. It uses the Poulsbo chipset. It can be customized with GPS or integrated TV tuner. The service manual displays two full-height MiniPCI-E internal slots, and one half-height. It is unclear whether |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcaldine%20Power%20Station | The Barcaldine Power Station is a combined-cycle power station in Barcaldine, Queensland. Its NEMMCO registered capacity as of January 2009 was 55 MW.
According to the Geoscience Australia database, it is also known as the Len Wishaw power station and consists of a 38 MW gas turbine and a 15MW steam turbine. The steam turbine at the power station is to be taken offline.
The power station was built by Energy Equity Corporation, with the gas turbine being completed in 1995 and the steam turbine added in 1999. The station had originally been planned for Blackall. Enertrade acquired the station and associated gas pipeline in June 2003. With the dissolution of Enertrade in May 2007, the station and pipeline were acquired by Ergon Energy Queensland Pty Ltd.
See also
List of active power stations in Queensland
References
Natural gas-fired power stations in Queensland
Barcaldine Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20K.%20Raju | Chandrakant Raju (born 7 March 1954) is an Indian computer scientist, mathematician, educator, physicist and polymath. He received the Telesio Galilei Academy Award in 2010 for defining a product of Schwartz distributions, for proposing an interpretation of quantum mechanics, dubbed the structured-time interpretation, and a model of physical time evolution, and for proposing the use of functional differential equations in physics.
Early life and education
Raju was born on 7 March 1954 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. He obtained a B.Sc. degree from the Institute of Science, Bombay (1973), an M.Sc. from the Department of Mathematics University of Mumbai, Bombay (1975), and a Ph.D. at the Indian Statistical Institute (1980).
Career
During the early 1980s, he was a faculty member at the Department of Statistics, University of Pune. Raju was a key contributor to the first Indian supercomputer, PARAM (1988–91),
Raju has also done considerable historical research, most notably claiming infinitesimal calculus was transmitted to Europe from India.
Raju built on E.T. Whittaker's beliefs that Albert Einstein's theories of special and general relativity built on the earlier work of Henri Poincaré. Raju claims that they were "remarkably similar", and every aspect of special relativity was published by Poincaré in papers between 1898 and 1905. Raju goes further, saying that Einstein's failure to recognise the need for functional differential equations constitute a mistake that underlies subsequent relativistic physics. He proposes that relativistic physics must be reformulated using functional differential equations.
Through his research, Raju has claimed that the Western philosophy of science, including its aspects that pertain to time and the nature of mathematical proof are rooted in the theocratic needs of the Roman Catholic Church.
He has authored 12 books and dozens of articles, mainly on the subjects of physics, mathematics, and the history and philosophy of science.
Bibliography
References
Further reading
External links
C.K. Raju's Website
On Google scholar - His work on Statistics
On Google scholar - His work on Physics
20th-century Indian physicists
1954 births
Living people
People from Gwalior
Scientists from Madhya Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitizer%20%28disambiguation%29 | A digitizer is a machine that converts an analog object, image or signal into a digital (i.e. computer-readable) format.
Digitiser, digitizing or digitising may also refer to:
Graphics tablet or digitizing tablet
Digitiser, a UK Teletext-based video games magazine
Digitizer in a touchscreen, the sensor layer between the display and the outer layer of glass or plastic
Digitizer, a fictional transformation device used in the television show Denji Sentai Megaranger |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erroneous%20program | In the design of programming languages, an erroneous program is one whose semantics are not well-defined, but where the language implementation is not obligated to signal an error either at compile or at execution time. For example, in Ada:
In addition to bounded errors, the language rules define certain kinds of errors as leading to erroneous execution. Like bounded errors, the implementation need not detect such errors either prior to or during run time. Unlike bounded errors, there is no language-specified bound on the possible effect of erroneous execution; the effect is in general not predictable.
Defining a condition as "erroneous" means that the language implementation need not perform a potentially expensive check (e.g. that a global variable refers to the same object as a subroutine parameter) but may nonetheless depend on a condition being true in defining the semantics of the program.
Notes
Programming language design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketStudio | PocketStudio by Winsoft is an IDE supporting rapid application development (RAD) for Palm OS and related operating systems such as Garnet OS or Access Linux Platform. In some regard similar to Delphi and Lazarus, it has a visual form designer, an object inspector and a source code editor.
Distinguishing features
PocketStudio's programming language is a subset of Pascal that has been adapted to the needs of Palm OS development. The compiler generates native code targeting the Motorola MC68000 family microprocessor.
For debugging, the Palm OS emulator POSE is embedded. As an alternative, the Garnet OS simulator can be used. PocketStudio integrates wireless development including Bluetooth technologies. Other features are a project manager, code templates, inline assembler support and code examples.
The IDE runs on Windows and generates PRC files for being transferred to handhelds via HotSync or for distribution via internet or storage media.
Supporting third party libraries
Several APIs support development with PocketStudio via special libraries. Examples are:
ASE.PalmLibrary, a multipurpose library
ASTA SkyWire (see below)
Cephes, a collection of mathematical routines for scientific and engineering applications
MathLib, shared library of IEEE-754 double math functions
VoiceIt voice recognition software
XPrint System Library, a shared library that enables printing support in applications
Applications produced with PocketStudio
ASTA SkyWire Client for Palm OS, a cross-platform wireless toolkit with PocketStudio interface libraries.
SPINA is a medical cybernetic software package, that allows for calculating constant structure parameters of endocrine feedback control systems from hormone levels obtained in vivo. This free software comes with source code for Lazarus/FPC and PocketStudio.
SITKPalm, a System Information Tool Kit for Palm OS.
External links
winsoft
winsoft news server with several groups on PocketStudio
PocketStudio developers forum
Jim Cooper: Introduction to PalmOS Programming
Palm OS software
Integrated development environments
Pascal (programming language) compilers
Pascal programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayers%20for%20Bobby | Prayers for Bobby is a televised drama film that premiered on the Lifetime network on January 24, 2009. The film is based on the book of the same name by Leroy F. Aarons, which is itself based on the true story of the life and legacy of Bobby Griffith, a gay young man who killed himself in 1983 due to his mother's homophobia. Ryan Kelley stars as Bobby Griffith and Sigourney Weaver portrays his mother Mary.
The film was watched by more than 6 million viewers during its two-day initial run. It received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Television Movie and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Weaver, who was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Plot
Mary Griffith is a devout Christian who raises her four children—Ed, Bobby, Joy and Nancy—according to the evangelical teachings of her local Presbyterian church in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Walnut Creek, California.
Ed finds Bobby resisting temptations to overdose on Aspirin as an initial suicide attempt before Bobby confides to him that he is gay. Life changes for the entire family after Mary learns about his secret. In hopes of converting him, she takes him to a psychiatrist, who explains to Bobby's parents that a person's homosexuality is the result of lacking a close relationship with their parents. She then advises Bobby to pray harder and seek solace in Church activities, as well as to arrange a special bonding time with his father. While spending such quality time with his father, Bobby explains his desire to become a writer, to which his father suggests "some dreams are just not realistic."
Bobby's father and siblings slowly come to terms with his homosexuality, but Mary believes God can cure him. To get away from his family, Bobby visits his cousin Jeanette in Portland, Oregon; she has always been accepting of his sexual orientation and tries to help him realize that his mother will never change. Desperate for his mother's approval, he does what is asked of him, but through it all, the Church's disapproval of homosexuality and his mother's attempts to suppress his growing behaviors in public cause him to grow increasingly withdrawn and depressed.
Stricken with guilt, Bobby finds a boyfriend, David, at a gay bar. Nonetheless, before leaving the house with David, Mary informs Bobby that she "will not have a gay son." After Bobby finds David betraying him for another man, he continues to think of his mother's words of prejudice, i.e., when saying "homosexuality is a sin and (gays) are doomed to spend eternity in hell," as well as calling him "sick," "perverted," and "a danger to our children." Following his subsequent depression and self-loathing which intensifies, one night he free falls off of a bridge onto a highway and into the path of an oncoming eighteen-wheeler truck, which kills him instantly. The family receives the news the following day and are devastated.
F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-spectrum%20language | A wide-spectrum language (WSL) is a programming language designed to be simultaneously a low-level and a high-level language—possibly a non-executable specification language. Wide-spectrum languages are designed to support a programming methodology based on program refinement.
The concept was introduced by F. L. Bauer et al. in 1978:
...The program should then be developed step by step applying correctness
preserving transformations.... The development process
thus involves usually multiple reshapings....
Since most current programming languages do not contain
all the concepts needed for the formulation of the different
versions, the programmer is nowadays forced to
use different languages. To avoid the transition from
one language to another, it seems appropriate to have
one coherent language frame covering the whole spectrum
outlined above, i.e. a wide spectrum language.
The advantage of a single language rather than separate specification, high-level, and low-level languages is that the program can be incrementally refined, with intermediate versions retaining some higher-level and some lower-level constructs.
Bauer's group developed the CIP-L wide-spectrum language and the CIP-S program transformation system.
See also
Extended ML, a wide-spectrum language based on ML
One major implementation of Common Lisp, SBCL, has an interface to assembly language called VOP(Virtual OPerator), in which the user can manipulate registers directly.
RAISE Specification Language, described as a wide-spectrum specification language
Notes
References
F. L. Bauer, et al., "Towards a wide spectrum language to support program specification and program development", ACM SIGPLAN Notices 13:12:15-24 December, 1978. full text (subscription)
F.L. Bauer, The wide spectrum language CIP-L, vol. 1 of The Munich Project CIP, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 183, Berlin, 1985. .
Z. Chen et al., "A wide-spectrum language for object-based development of real-time systems", International Journal of Information Sciences 118:15-35 (1999)
Theo de Ridder, "Using Python as a Wide-Spectrum Language", EuroPython 2002.
Programming language classification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediaset%20Plus | Mediaset Plus was an Italian entertainment television channel which started broadcasting on 1 December 2008, carrying an entertainment-themed programming produced by Mediaset. It closed on 2 July 2011, and its programs were moved to the digital channels La5 and Mediaset Extra.
Programming
Domenica Cinque
Mattino Cinque
Pomeriggio Cinque
Studio Aperto
TG5
Verissimo
Matrix
References
External links
Mediaset television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Italian-language television stations
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
Sky Italia
Defunct television channels in Italy
2008 establishments in Italy
2011 disestablishments in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident%20registration | A resident register is a government database which contains information on the current residence of persons. In countries where registration of residence is compulsory, the current place of residence must be reported to the registration office or the police within a few days after establishing a new residence. In some countries, residence information may be obtained indirectly from voter registers or registers of driver licenses. Besides a formal resident registers or population registers, residence information needs to be disclosed in many situations, such as voter registration, passport application, and updated in relation to drivers licenses, motor vehicle registration, and many other purposes. The permanent place of residence is a common criterion for taxation including the assessment of a person's income tax.
Africa
South Africa
South Africa introduced the Population Registration Act in 1950, which created a national population register, and required the classification of residents based on race, and the issuing of identity cards. This system formed an important part in the pass laws, one of the dominant features of South Africa's apartheid system, after the Native Laws Amendment Act and the Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents Act of 1952 regularized their use. The apartheid system effectively ended in 1986.
Americas
Canada
Canada does not have compulsory registration of residence, though residence information needs to be disclosed in many situations, such as voter registration, passport application, provincial health care card, and updated in relation to drivers licenses, motor vehicle registration, and many other purposes.
United States
Neither the federal government of the United States nor any U.S. state has formal resident registration systems. Refusing or neglecting to answer questions for the United States Census, such as current address, is punishable by fines of $100, for a property or business agent to fail to provide correct names for the census is punishable by fines of $500, and for a business agent to provide false answers for the census is punishable by fines of $10,000. Registrants in the Selective Service System (conscription in the United States) must notify Selective Service within 10 days of any changes to any of the information he provided on his registration card, like a change of address. In California, anyone with a driver's license must notify DMV of a change of address within 10 days or face a typical fine of $214, and anyone who has applied for or received a vehicle registration must notify DMV of a change of address within 10 days or face a typical fine of $178.
Voter registration has a residency requirement and is used for jury assignments and other government tasks.
A person's current address is often registered for state-issued identification cards and driver licenses. In some jurisdictions a "non-driver's license" or "non-driver photo identification card" is issued as a document contai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskpart | In computing, diskpart is a command-line disk partitioning utility included in Windows 2000 and later Microsoft operating systems, replacing its predecessor, fdisk. The command is also available in ReactOS.
Overview
The diskpart utility is used for partitioning internal hard drives, but can also format removable media such as flash drives.
It has long been possible, theoretically, to partition removable drives – such as flash drives or memory cards – from within Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP; e.g., during system installation. In reality, however, it was not possible to create, for instance, a recovery console, for such a device. A message would appear: 'Cannot format removable disk'. Microsoft noticed this error, and responded by disabling the functionalities of creating and viewing partitions on the device from within Windows, beginning with Vista up to Windows 10.
With diskpart, scripts are supported to facilitate such functions. For example, the code below would create a new partition:
create partition logical size=2048
assign letter=F
Specifically, the above will create a 2 GB logical partition, provided that adequate space is available, and assign it the drive letter 'F:'.
The installed disks and their associated volumes and/or partitions can be viewed using these commands:
list disk
list volume
list partition
The sel command will select them.
The command clean will perform a "quick" disk wipe,
and clean all zeroes out the entire partition/disk.
The ReactOS version was developed by Lee Schroeder and is licensed under the GPLv2.
Recovery Console
On the Recovery Console, which is included in all Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, there is a diskpart command which is significantly different from the one included in the actual operating system. It only provides functionality for adding and deleting partitions, but not for setting an active partition.
See also
Logical Disk Manager
Disk Utility
parted, cfdisk
List of disk partitioning software
Windows Imaging Format
Loop devices
PartitionMagic
References
Footnotes
Citations
Further reading
External links
Windows administration
Hard disk software
Disk partitioning software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next%20Big%20Sound | Next Big Sound (NBS) is a New York–based company which provides analytics for online music. The company analyses the popularity of musicians in social networks, streaming services, and radio. The company was acquired by Pandora Radio in May 2015.
Business model
Next Big Sound allows users to track mentions of bands and musical artists across several music websites, such as Last.fm, MySpace, Facebook, iLike, and Twitter. NBS calculates and graphs each of these statistics over time and compares the data to that of other similar bands. The site has been tracking this data since June 2009, and reports analyzing over 486,000 bands.
History
The business grew from a class assignment at Northwestern University, where founders Samir Rayani (CTO), Alex White (CEO), Jason Sosnovsky (since parted with NBS) and David Hoffman (CPO) attended. As part of the entrepreneur class, students present their ideas to venture capitalists. The Next Big Sound received US$25,000 in seed money. In the summer of 2009, the company was chosen to participate in the TechStars incubator program for online startups in Boulder, Colorado. On June 1, 2012, the company moved its headquarters from Boulder to New York City.
Next Big Sound was named one of the 10 best music startups of 2010 by Billboard Magazine and CEO Alex White was named to Billboard's 30 Under 30 executives to watch list.
On May 25, 2014, the company announced a new division, Next Big Book, and a partnership with Macmillan Publishers. Next Big Sound raised $7.5 million in funding from Foundry Group, IA Ventures and others. On May 19, 2015, Pandora acquired the company.
On October 1, 2021, the company announced in a blog post that the Next Big Sound platform would be shutting down on November 1. However, the team stated that they would be transitioning to working on Pandora's Artist Marketing Platform (AMP), which would continue to share data with partners such as Billboard.
References
External links
2008 establishments in New York City
Companies based in New York City
Music companies of the United States
American companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Kyiv%20Faculty%20of%20Radio%20Physics%2C%20Electronics%20and%20Computer%20Systems | Faculty of Radio Physics, Electronics and Computer Systems (formerly known as Faculty of Radiophysics) is a part of National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv and is devoted to the fundamental study in different branches of physics on the one hand and mathematics and electronics on the other.
Foundation and history
The Faculty was founded in 1952. Its foundation was caused by the urgent need in a highly skilled engineers' preparation due to the Soviet military–industrial complex requests. Best students from the neighbouring Faculty of Physics were proposed to move into the newly created faculty. Hence, faculty of Radiophysics obtained its first graduators in 1953. The scholarship for the students of radiophysics was twice higher than for their colleagues from other faculties of the University.
Interesting fact: Faculty of Radiophysics was subordinated to the Ministry of Defence of USSR (not to the Ministry of Education likewise other faculties were).
First years faculty of radiophysics was never mentioned officially. It obtained its official name later on: 'the Faculty #3'.
Three departments were created: the department of electrophysics, the department of electronics and the department of radiophysics. Since then the faculty has awarded degrees to over 6,000 graduates.
Faculty changed its name to Faculty of Radio Physics, Electronics and Computer Systems on March 5 of 2014.
Scientific research
The present-day major areas of research are physical electronics, radiophysics, micro-, nano- and quantum electronics, low-temperature plasma physics, semiconductor electronics, medical radiophysics.
Students are widely involved into scientific research and exploration. This is a characteristic feature of the faculty that corresponds to the Bologna Process requirements.
Faculty of radiophysics has established tight relations with scientific and educational centers abroad: United States, France (École centrale de Lyon, Institut polytechnique de Lyon), Taiwan, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, China and others. The teachers, postgraduates and students are involved into international programmes that provide an opportunity to travel abroad and participate in study or research exchange projects.
Explorations are carried out within programmes that include:
nanoelectronics
plasmochemistry
low-temperature plasma
cryogenics
generation-recombination processes in the highly dopped and graded band-gap semiconductors
physical properties of the metal–semiconductor contact
laser spectroscopy
physical processes in the fiber optics flow lines
spin wave electrodynamics and electronics
new radiophysical methods' development for the diagnostics and treatment
Education
The Faculty provides taught courses and awards degrees on the following levels:
Bachelor (4-year full-time course)
Specialist (1-year full-time course) (till 2010)
Master (2-year full-time course)
Improvements and innovations in teaching are permanent to meet requirements of the B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEC%2039 | WEC 39: Brown vs. Garcia was a mixed martial arts event held by World Extreme Cagefighting that took place on March 1, 2009 in Corpus Christi, Texas. The event aired live on the Versus Network. WEC Featherweight Champion Mike Brown made his first title defense against number one contender Leonard Garcia at this event.
Background
An originally announced title fight rematch between WEC Welterweight Champion Carlos Condit and challenger Brock Larson was cancelled when Larson suffered an injury in training. It was then announced that following this event, the WEC would dissolve their welterweight division into the UFC.
Richard Crunkilton was scheduled to face Bart Palaszewski at this event in what was originally slated to be a WEC Lightweight Championship title eliminator. However, Crunkilton was pulled from the bout due to an injury and was replaced by WEC newcomer Ricardo Lamas.
Justin Haskins was originally slated to face WEC newcomer Douglas Lima at this event, but Lima was forced out of the event due to delays in getting paperwork from the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. Lima was replaced by fellow WEC newcomer Mike Pierce.
WEC featherweight fighter and former UFC Lightweight Champion Jens Pulver filled in for Frank Mir on color commentary for this event, joining Todd Harris on the announce team.
The event drew an estimated 531,000 viewers on Versus.
Results
Bonus Awards
Fighters were awarded $7,500 bonuses.
Fight of the Night: Johny Hendricks vs. Alex Serdyukov
Knockout of the Night: Damacio Page
Submission of the Night: Mike Brown
See also
World Extreme Cagefighting
List of World Extreme Cagefighting champions
List of WEC events
2009 in WEC
External links
Official WEC website
References
World Extreme Cagefighting events
2009 in mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts in Texas
Sports in Corpus Christi, Texas
2009 in sports in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20the%20Saviour%20%28Washington%2C%20D.C.%29 | The Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC is a network of nine independent, ecumenical Christian faith communities and over 40 ministries that have grown out of the original Church of the Saviour community founded in the mid-1940s. The current ministries and faith communities are the result of an alternative approach to “church” and church structures which is the hallmark of the Church of the Saviour. This approach and these structures were formed in an effort to improve Christian discipleship and “recover... something of the vitality and life, vigor and power of the early Christian community." In that effort the church's approach emphasizes integrity of membership, the ministry of the laity, and communal intimacy and accountability. This desire for intimacy and accountability among members of the church is what led the community to break into smaller congregations rather than try to grow larger as a single church. It has also led to the formation of small groups called “mission groups”, made up of 2 to 15 members gathered around a shared sense of vocation or God's calling. These groups became the fundamental unit of community and accountability in the church, and the various groups, each following their own sense of call, gave rise to most of the ministries associated with the church. As a structure, the mission groups have been continued in one form or another in the church's offspring faith communities. Through the writings of longtime church member Elizabeth O'Connor (1928–1998) and others, Church of the Saviour has become influential among Christian religious groups throughout the country
and has informed such contemporary movements as the missional church movement, the Emergent Church movement, and the New Monasticism movement.
See also
Academy of hope
External links
Inward/Outward - Church of the Saviour
References
Churches in Washington, D.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Selinger | Patricia G. Selinger is an American computer scientist and IBM Fellow, best known for her work on relational database management systems.
Education
She received A.B. (1971), S.M. (1972), and Ph.D. (1975) degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University.
Biography
She played a fundamental role in the development of System R, a pioneering relational database implementation, and wrote the canonical paper on relational query optimization. She is a pioneer in relational database management and inventor of the technique of cost-based query optimization. She was a key member of the original System R team that created the first relational database research prototype. The dynamic programming algorithm for determining join order proposed in that paper still forms the basis for most of the query optimizers used in modern relational systems. She also established and led IBM’s Database Technology Institute, considered one of the most successful examples of a fast technology pipeline from research to development and personally has technical contributions in the areas of database optimization, data parallelism, distributed data, and unstructured data management. Before her retirement from IBM, she was the Vice President of Data Management Architecture and Technology at IBM.
Dr. Selinger was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1994, IBM’s highest technical recognition, and is an ACM Fellow (2009) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1999) for leadership and contributions to relational database technology.
Dr. Selinger has published more than 40 papers, and also received the ACM Systems Software Award for her work on System R. She received the SIGMOD Innovation Award in 2002, the highest ACM award given in the area of data management.
From 2014 through 2016, Dr. Selinger was the Chief Technology Officer at Paradata (Paradata.io) where she worked on challenging problems in data harmonization, curation, provenance, and entity resolution to provide transparency to the supply chain. Paradata technology transforms real-time data into verified insights and executable actions.
From 2017 through 2018, Dr. Selinger served as a Principal Architect at Salesforce.com. She is now retired.
References
External links
IBM Women in Technology Profile
Database Dialogue with Pat Selinger, an interview conducted by James Hamilton and published in the Communications of the ACM
IBM Fellows
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Database researchers
Living people
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter%20validation | In computer software, the term parameter validation is the automated processing, in a module, to validate the spelling or accuracy of parameters passed to that module. The term has been in common use for over 30 years. Specific best practices have been developed, for decades, to improve the handling of such parameters.
Parameter validation can be used to defend against cross-site scripting attacks.
See also
Data validation
Strong typing
Error handling
Sanity check
Notes
References
"Parameter validation for software reliability", G.B. Alleman, 1978, webpage: ACM-517: paper presents a method for increasing software reliability through parameter validation.
Software testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20GMTV%20programmes | The following details are for the programmes that GMTV (Good Morning Television) broadcast on ITV.
GMTV is the former breakfast television franchise for the UK's ITV network. It began broadcasting on Friday 1 January 1993 and finished on Friday 3 September 2010, being replaced by ITV Breakfast.
GMTV
1993–2000
GMTV is the original brand for GMTV's weekday breakfast magazine programme from 6:00 am. It included national and international news stories, regional news, weather, interviews, cookery and health features, human-interest and showbiz stories, and competitions.
In spring 1993, shortly after the channel's launch, a separate news-focused programme was introduced between 6:00am and 7:00 am, which in early 1994 became The Reuters News Hour. The main 6:00–9:00 am programme remained named GMTV but, as part of the show's new look for the millennium, this main programme later became GMTV Today.
On 3 January 2000, GMTV relaunched and changed the names of each of their programmes. This now meant the programme GMTV did not exist. This was then split up into The Newshour and GMTV Today. This titling for the programmes remained until January 2009, when GMTV relaunched.
The first presenters were:
Eamonn Holmes
Anne Davies
Michael Wilson
Fiona Armstrong
Lorraine Kelly
2009–2010
GMTV underwent a major revamp on 5 January 2009, reverting to its original title, and incorporating the GMTV Newshour into the show as well. The show returned with a new set and new onscreen graphics. For the first time since the station's launch the logo was changed from the 'sun' logo. Despite the changes, the same theme music and headline beds were still used throughout the programme and nothing altered with the weather until 18 January 2010. However, on 9 March 2009, GMTV introduced new theme music and headline beds to its main programmes, replacing the previous music that had been in use since 2000. On 31 August 2009, GMTV saw the introduction of 3D graphics, graphic animations, through the use of a new system called VizRT, and a voice-over announcer to introduce presenters at the top of the hour. These were later slightly revised in October of that year.
The show had previously been criticised for its poor journalistic approach although from 2009 it took on a more confident approach, with 7-minute bulletins at the top of the hour, a detailed bulletin at half-past the hour, and the Top Stories at 15 and 45 minutes past each hour. These replaced the hour and half-hour bulletins which featured previously.
Fiona Phillips and Andrea McLean left the show in late 2008. In November 2008 it was announced that Sky News business presenter Emma Crosby would replace Phillips, and the BBC's Kirsty McCabe would replace McLean as weather presenter. Aside from the new members of the team, previous presenters continued to present in their previous slots and, from August 2009, a voice-over at the top of the hour referred to the show as GMTV with .... This continued until Penny Smith |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calypso%20Ichthyological%20Database | The Calypso Ichthyological Database numbering system is an open source free repository allowing the unique identification numbering of all fish species with a six-numeral fixed number. This number remains the same throughout any alterations or taxonomic changes to the species' accepted current scientific name and allows for recording of species data in 32 unique data fields including all previous names in 32 languages. It has been in use since 1994 and was pioneered by its inventor, Gerald H. Jennings, with the technical assistance of Terry Hall. It is accompanied by a vast photographic library of fish species and is free at the point of use to all researchers and academics. Much of the data is also available in published format and online.
References
Hall, T.R. and Jennings, G. (1996) The Calypso Ichthyological Database. Calypso Publications.
See also
Ichthyology terms
Biological databases
Ichthyology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20H.%20Jennings | Gerald Jennings (born 1946) is a British aquarist and ichthyological taxonomist who has specialised in both the production of databases related to the identification of species and the production of simplified printed guides to fish identification. He has authored and co-authored over 100 books on fishes and fish related subjects. His photographic library has also been made freely available online.
Works
Jennings, G.H.(1995–2004) Mediterranean Fishes. Calypso Publications.
Jennings, Gerald (1996 on) Sea and Freshwater Fishes of Arabia (series).Calypso Publications.
Jennings, G. et al. (1996) The Calypso Ichthyological Database. Calypso Publications.
Hall, T.R., Ford, Dr. D., Carrington, Dr. N.,Jennings, G.H. et al. A History of Tropical Marine Fishkeeping in the U.K.1960-1980 (1997) Calypso Publications.
Jennings, G.H. (1997) Asian Freshwater Fishes.
Notes
References
Mediterranean Fishes."Guido Lanfranco, The Times of Malta, August 8th 1979 Valletta "
Asian Freshwater Fishes."FAMA,Volume 21 Number 8, August 1998 pp.194/195"
External links
http://www.oceanexpert.net/viewMemberRecord.php?&memberID=8619
http://www.fishbase.org/Collaborators/CollaboratorsTopicList.php
http://www.calypso.org.uk
http://www.kraken-marina.com
http://www.seawaters.org
https://independent.academia.edu/GeraldJennings/Analytics/activity/overview
1946 births
Living people
British ichthyologists
British taxonomists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing%20synchronization%20function | Timing synchronization function (TSF) is specified in IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) standard to fulfill timing synchronization among users. A TSF keeps the timers for all stations in the same basic service set (BSS) synchronized. All stations shall maintain a local TSF timer. Each mobile host maintains a TSF timer with modulus 264 counting in increments of microseconds. The TSF is based on a 1-MHz clock and "ticks" in microseconds. On a commercial level, industry vendors assume the 802.11 TSF's synchronization to be within 25 microseconds.
Timing synchronization is achieved by stations periodically exchanging timing information through beacon frames. In (intra) BSS, the AP sends the TSF information in the beacons. In Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS, ad-hoc), each station competes to send the beacon.
Each station maintains a TSF timer counting in increments of microseconds (μs). Stations adopt a received timing if it is later than the station’s own TSF timer.
IBSS operation overview
All stations in the IBSS adopt a common value, aBeaconPeriod, that defines the length of beacon intervals or periods. This value, established by the station that initiates the IBSS, defines a series of target beacon transmission times (TBTTs) exactly aBeaconPeriod time units apart. Time zero is defined to be a TBTT.
All stations in the IBSS compete for beacon transmission every aBeaconPeriod time units. This time period is called a beacon period (BP). At the beginning of each BP, there is a beacon generation window consisting of w + 1 slots each of length aSlotTime. Each station calculates a random delay uniformly distributed in [0, w] and is scheduled to transmit a beacon when the delay timer expires. If a beacon arrives before the random delay timer has expired, the station cancels the pending beacon transmission and the remaining random delay. Upon receiving a beacon, a station sets its TSF timer to the timestamp of the beacon if the value of the timestamp is later than the station’s TSF timer.
References
See also
Point coordination function
IEEE 802.11 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIYbio%20%28organization%29 | DIYbio is an informal umbrella organization for individuals and local groups active in do-it-yourself biology, encompassing both a website and an email list. It serves as a network of individuals from around the globe that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, biohackers, amateur biologists, and do-it-yourself biological engineers who value openness and safety. It was founded by Jason Bobe and Mackenzie Cowell in 2008.
The website provides resources for those in the do-it-yourself biology community. It maintains a directory of local groups encompassing both meetup groups and organizations maintaining community laboratory space, and a weekly blog listing events hosted by these organizations. The website also hosts safety information including ethics codes developed by the community and an "ask a biosafety professional" feature, as well as DIY instructions for making several types of laboratory equipment.
Community
The blending of biology expertise gained from experimentation, and software development, quality control, awareness of open source principles, and security expertise transferred from the professional work of many DIYbio enthusiasts, has led to a unique subculture among this community, with some members referring to themselves as biopunks in reference to the cypherpunks of the turn of the century. The work 'A Biopunk Manifesto' delivered by Patterson at the UCLA conference lays down the principles of the biopunk movement, in an homage to the prior work of cypherpunk Eric Hughes.
That a significant proportion of the DIYbio mailing list membership are openly in support of outsourcing DNA synthesis and sequencing makes it difficult to determine whether this definition truly applies; in general, the two hobbies are impossible to distinguish and share a common community. Both are forms of citizen science. As DIYbio has grown, tools and materials have become available including instructions on how to build lab equipment and DIYbio stores like The ODIN that provide inexpensive materials.
Some participants call themselves ‘biohackers’, not hackers in the sense of infiltrating protected places and stealing information, but hackers in the original sense of taking things apart and putting them back together in a new, better way. These biohackers often pursue these interests outside of their jobs, companies or institutional labs.
Activities
Beginning in 2009 the FBI engaged active members of the DIYbio Google Groups mailing list much like they engage scientific boards at universities and businesses. The dialogue focused on safety issues and aimed to instill a sense of self-policing in the ad-hoc online community. Because DIYbio and biohacking takes place on an international level, the FBI is limited in its ability to monitor and investigate all activity. However, in 2012 the FBI held a DIYbio conference in Walnut Creek, California where they paid to fly in biohackers from all over the world in an attempt t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference%20on%20Innovative%20Data%20Systems%20Research | The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) is a biennial computer science conference focused on research into new techniques for data management. It was started in 2002 by Michael Stonebraker, Jim Gray, and David DeWitt, and is held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California.
CIDR focuses on presenting work that is more speculative, radical, or provocative than what is typically accepted by the traditional database research conferences (such as the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) and the ACM SIGMOD Conference).
See also
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)
ACM SIGMOD Conference
External links
CIDR website
Data management
Computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20systems%20technician | The United States Navy occupational rating of data systems technician (abbreviated as DS) was a designation given by the Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) to enlisted members who satisfactorily complete initial data systems technician "A" school training. The primary training location for the DS rating was Combat System Technical Schools Command (CSTSC) at Mare Island Vallejo, CA.
It was established in 1961 and merged into the electronics technician and fire controlman ratings on 1 October 1998.
DSs are electronics technicians who specialize in naval tactical data system computer systems including: digital computers, video processors, tape units, buffers, key sets, digital-display equipment, data-link terminal sets and related equipment. DSs also specialized in the maintenance of shipboard ADP systems and associated peripheral equipment including, but not limited to, card reader/punch/interpreter, magnetic tape and disk drives and various printers. They clean, maintain, lubricate, calibrate and adjust equipment. DSs run operational tests, diagnose problems, make routine repairs and evaluate newly installed parts and systems units.
See also
List of United States Navy ratings
External links
Data Systems Technician 3 & 2 Rate training manual and nonresident career course - for rates DS3 & DS2 - Naval Education and Training Command
Data Systems Technician 1 And C Volume 2 - for DS1 & DSC - Naval Education and Training Command. 1983,revised 1986
Data Systems Technician Page
United States Navy ratings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgenau%20School%20of%20Engineering | The Volgenau School of Engineering is part of the George Mason University College of Engineering and Computing. Based in the Fairfax campus of George Mason University in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Volgenau School offers programs at the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. levels.
Established in 1985, the Volgenau School of Engineering was the first engineering school in the United States to focus its scholarship primarily on information technology-based engineering. It was also the first school to offer a doctoral degree in information technology and remains the Commonwealth of Virginia's only school of engineering with its main campus in the National Capital Region.
In conjunction with its 20th anniversary, the school received a $10 million gift from Ernst and Sara Volgenau and was named The Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering in honor of this gift. This gift enabled the school to create new academic and research programs in bioengineering.
In April 2009, the school moved to a new building. A portion of the building is reserved as lease space for companies who want to work closely with faculty and students.
Departments
Department of Bioengineering
Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Information Sciences and Technology
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Statistics
Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research
Undergraduate programs
The school offers the following undergraduate degree programs:
Applied Computer Science
Information Technology
Bioengineering
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Cyber Security Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Statistics
Systems Engineering
Information Technology
The program is run by the Department of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). It includes web development, computer graphics, information systems, telecommunications, event-driven programming, network administration, and information security. There are currently five areas of Concentrations within the IST Department: Information Security, Database Mining and Programming, Networking and Telecommunications, and Web Development and Multimedia.
Postgraduate programs
The Volgenau School offers 15 MS degree programs, close to thirty focused 15-credit certificates, and six post-master's degree programs including five Ph.D. programs and an Engineer in IT degree program.
Master of Science Programs
The school offers the following MS degree programs:
Applied Information Technology
Bioengineering
Biostatistics
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Computer Science
Computer Engineering
Computer Forensics
Data Analytics Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Geotechnical, Construction, and Structural Engineering, MEng
Information Security & Assurance
Information Systems
Management of Secure Information Systems
Operatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef%20Australia | MasterChef Australia is an Australian competitive cooking reality show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by Endemol Shine Australia and screens on Network 10. Restaurateur and chef Gary Mehigan, chef George Calombaris and food critic Matt Preston served as the show's main judges until 2019, when they were replaced by Series 4 winner and chef Andy Allen, food critic Melissa Leong, and restaurateur and chef Jock Zonfrillo.
The series has also spawned five spin-off series: Celebrity MasterChef Australia, which featured celebrity contestants, Junior MasterChef Australia, which featured younger contestants, MasterChef Australia All-Stars, which featured returning contestants from the first three series, MasterChef Australia: The Professionals, which featured professional chefs as contestants, and the upcoming Dessert Masters, which will feature professional pastry chefs.
In October 2023, it was announced Leong would not be returning for the 2024 series, Allen will be returning with a new set of judges including Poh Ling Yeow, Sofia Levin & Jean-Christophe Novelli.
Format
MasterChef Australia has a different format from that of the original British MasterChef and MasterChef Goes Large formats. Initial rounds consist of a large number of hopeful contestants from across Australia individually "auditioning" by presenting a food dish before the three judges in order to gain one of 50 semi-final places. Entrants must be over 18 years old and their main source of income cannot come from preparing and cooking fresh food in a professional environment.
The semi-finalists then compete in several challenges that test their food knowledge and preparation skills. In series 1, the top 50 competed until 20 were left, with the final 20 progressing to the main stage of the show. From series 2 onwards, 24 contestants progress. The contestants will then be whittled down through a number of individual and team-based cooking challenges and weekly elimination rounds until a winning MasterChef is crowned. The winner plays for a prize that includes chef training from leading professional chefs, the chance to have their own cookbook published, and A$250,000 in cash.
Episodes
MasterChef Australia airs five nights a week from Sunday to Thursday. Each night features a different episode format, however some episodes modify the format slightly. The typical episode formats are as follows:
Sunday is the Challenge night. From series 3, it can range from a variety of challenges, including a Mystery Box, where each contestant is given the same box of ingredients and are to create a dish using only those ingredients. The Judges then pick three dishes Based on Technique and Visual Appearance Alone and a winner chosen. There can also be an Invention Test, where contestants have to invent a dish relevant to a theme using a core ingredient. There can also be Off-Site Challenges and Team Challenges, which often involve cooking for large numbers of people. The to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Outreach%20College | Australian schools which were formerly referred to as Christian Outreach College (COC) through their affiliation with the Christian Outreach Centre (now International Network of Churches), include:
Citipointe Christian College, formerly Christian Outreach College Brisbane
Highlands Christian College, formerly Christian Outreach College Toowoomba
Suncoast Christian College, formerly Suncoast Christian Outreach College, at Woombye on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
See also
Riverside Christian College, formerly Maryborough Christian Academy at the Maryborough Christian Outreach Centre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy%20coloring | In the study of graph coloring problems in mathematics and computer science, a greedy coloring or sequential coloring is a coloring of the vertices of a graph formed by a greedy algorithm that considers the vertices of the graph in sequence and assigns each vertex its first available color. Greedy colorings can be found in linear time, but they do not, in general, use the minimum number of colors possible.
Different choices of the sequence of vertices will typically produce different colorings of the given graph, so much of the study of greedy colorings has concerned how to find a good ordering. There always exists an ordering that produces an optimal coloring, but although such orderings can be found for many special classes of graphs, they are hard to find in general. Commonly used strategies for vertex ordering involve placing higher-degree vertices earlier than lower-degree vertices, or choosing vertices with fewer available colors in preference to vertices that are less constrained.
Variations of greedy coloring choose the colors in an online manner, without any knowledge of the structure of the uncolored part of the graph, or choose other colors than the first available in order to reduce the total number of colors. Greedy coloring algorithms have been applied to scheduling and register allocation problems, the analysis of combinatorial games, and the proofs of other mathematical results including Brooks' theorem on the relation between coloring and degree.
Other concepts in graph theory derived from greedy colorings include the Grundy number of a graph (the largest number of colors that can be found by a greedy coloring), and the well-colored graphs, graphs for which all greedy colorings use the same number of colors.
Algorithm
The greedy coloring for a given vertex ordering can be computed by an algorithm that runs in linear time. The algorithm processes the vertices in the given ordering, assigning a color to each one as it is processed. The colors may be represented by the numbers and each vertex is given the color with the smallest number that is not already used by one of its neighbors.
To find the smallest available color, one may use an array to count the number of neighbors of each color (or alternatively, to represent the set of colors of neighbors), and then scan the array to find the index of its first zero.
In Python, the algorithm can be expressed as:
def first_available(color_list):
"""Return smallest non-negative integer not in the given list of colors."""
color_set = set(color_list)
count = 0
while True:
if count not in color_set:
return count
count += 1
def greedy_color(G, order):
"""Find the greedy coloring of G in the given order.
The representation of G is assumed to be like https://www.python.org/doc/essays/graphs/
in allowing neighbors of a node/vertex to be iterated over by "for w in G[node]".
The return value is a dictionary mapping vertices t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfectly%20orderable%20graph | In graph theory, a perfectly orderable graph is a graph whose vertices can be ordered in such a way that a greedy coloring algorithm with that ordering optimally colors every induced subgraph of the given graph. Perfectly orderable graphs form a special case of the perfect graphs, and they include the chordal graphs, comparability graphs, and distance-hereditary graphs. However, testing whether a graph is perfectly orderable is NP-complete.
Definition
The greedy coloring algorithm, when applied to a given ordering of the vertices of a graph G, considers the vertices of the graph in sequence and assigns each vertex its first available color, the minimum excluded value for the set of colors used by its neighbors. Different vertex orderings may lead this algorithm to use different numbers of colors. There is always an ordering that leads to an optimal coloring – this is true, for instance, of the ordering determined from an optimal coloring by sorting the vertices by their color – but it may be difficult to find.
The perfectly orderable graphs are defined to be the graphs for which there is an ordering that is optimal for the greedy algorithm not just for the graph itself, but for all of its induced subgraphs.
More formally, a graph G is said to be perfectly orderable if there exists an ordering π of the vertices of G, such that every induced subgraph of G is optimally colored by the greedy algorithm using the subsequence of π induced by the vertices of the subgraph. An ordering π has this property exactly when there do not exist four vertices a, b, c, and d for which abcd is an induced path, a appears before b in the ordering, and c appears after d in the ordering.
Computational complexity
Perfectly orderable graphs are NP-complete to recognize. However, it is easy to test whether a particular ordering is a perfect ordering of a graph. Consequently, it is also NP-hard to find a perfect ordering of a graph, even if the graph is already known to be perfectly orderable.
Related graph classes
Every perfectly orderable graph is a perfect graph.
Chordal graphs are perfectly orderable; a perfect ordering of a chordal graph may be found by reversing a perfect elimination ordering for the graph. Thus, applying greedy coloring to a perfect ordering provides an efficient algorithm for optimally coloring chordal graphs. Comparability graphs are also perfectly orderable, with a perfect ordering being given by a topological ordering of a transitive orientation of the graph. The complement graphs of tolerance graphs are perfectly orderable.
Another class of perfectly orderable graphs is given by the graphs G such that, in every subset of five vertices from G, at least one of the five has a closed neighborhood that is a subset of (or equal to) the closed neighborhood of another of the five vertices. Equivalently, these are the graphs in which the partial order of closed neighborhoods, ordered by set inclusion, has width at most four. The 5-vertex cycle graph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20Studio | Japan Studio was a Japanese video game developer based in Tokyo. A first-party studio for Sony Interactive Entertainment (formerly Sony Computer Entertainment), it was best known for the Ape Escape, LocoRoco, Patapon, Gravity Rush and Knack series, the Team Ico games, Bloodborne, The Legend of Dragoon, and Astro's Playroom. In April 2021, Japan Studio was reorganized and merged with Team Asobi and other SIE studios.
History
Japan Studio was founded in Tokyo on 16 November 1993. The studio was run similar to Sony Music Entertainment during its first few years, with producers seeking out creative talent and nurturing them to help develop new games. Examples of these works included PaRappa the Rapper by Masaya Matsuura, and Everybody's Golf by Masashi Muramori.
Shuhei Yoshida oversaw Japan Studio from 1996 through 2000. Yoshida started creating teams within Japan Studio and hired for them, while simultaneously assisting other developers for Sony-published exclusives. New games such as Ape Escape and The Legend of Dragoon came out from Yoshida's approach, as well as dedicated teams such as Team Ico for Ico, and Polyphony Digital for Gran Turismo (which eventually was spun out as its own first-party developer for Sony). Alongside these first-party titles, the latter years of the original PlayStation saw strong third-party support, with games like Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid. According to Yoshida, this led Sony into some complacency on relying on third-party games to support further consoles, and oversight and support for first-party games was less of a priority. Though Japan Studio's output during the PlayStation 2 years were strong, it struggled to release successful games during the PlayStation 3 era. Yoshida attributed this to the general game development practice in Japan which he described as a "grassroots and bottom up", without a clear vision of what a final game would look like, with exceptions being for people like Kazunori Yamauchi or Fumito Ueda who possessed a specific drive towards a product. In contrast to Western video game development, Yoshida said Japan Studio's methods tended to allow games to wander. Allen Becker, who led Japan Studio starting in 2011, said that their compliancy during the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 era caused the studio to fall behind on updated tools and methodologies for game development.
Yoshida took over full control of Japan Studio in 2008, at the same time that the PlayStation 3 was out and Sony was preparing to launch the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. Around that time, mobile gaming and casual gaming started to become a major factor in the Asian video game market and drove competition from the consoles. Sony found that there was a lack of triple-A third-party support for these new products, and they had to turn to rely on their internal studios for game support. To get Japan Studio back on track, Sony brought in Becker, who had been working at Santa Monica Studio, to lead Japan Stud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mole%20%28Australian%20season%201%29 | The first season of the Australian version of The Mole aired between 27 February and 24 April 2000, on Seven Network. It took place mostly in Tasmania and was hosted by actor Grant Bowler.
Show details
In this, the first season of The Mole, the players only knew ahead of time that they had applied to, and been accepted to appear on, a new reality game show. The knowledge that one among them was a traitor and working to sabotage their efforts was not revealed until just before the first round of gameplay began. Hundreds of people responded to a newspaper advertisement asking for applicants, and from this advertisement came the nine genuine contestants. The Mole was hired separately, though it was revealed during the season finale that he was artificially put through the rigors of the application process, so that he would be able to naturally talk about the experience with the others. The maximum prize for the season was $200,000, and this was the only season where the announced maximum and the actual maximum were the same. In contrast to all subsequent seasons, the events of each episode were referred to as "challenges" rather than "assignments."
In the years that followed, Alan Mason became the adjudicator and question researcher on the Australian version of The Weakest Link, as well as the question verifier on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and the runner-up, Abby Coleman, is now a radio announcer on Hit 105 FM in Brisbane.
Contestants
Elimination chart
Indicates the player won the game
Indicates the player was the mole
Indicates the player won a free pass
Indicates the player scored the lowest on the quiz and was eliminated
Episodes
Episode 1
Parachute Jumping: After meeting for the first time at Melbourne's Essendon Airport and learning that one among them was the Mole, the players were presented with the challenge of flying to Tasmania and landing before the plane did - by tandem parachute jumping. If all ten of them jumped, the group would win $10,000. Several of them were nervous, particularly Josephine and James, but all ten jumped and the money was won.
Luggage Repack: After the parachute jumping, Abby, Ben, Jan, Patrick, and Rocky were taken straight to the group's hotel, while the other five were stopped and told to repack all ten players' luggage into backpacks. Whatever was left behind would be lost to that person for the remainder of their time on the show. Later, at the hotel, the host asked each of the five who were taken there straight away to predict an item that the others had kept out of their backpack (left it behind). If all of them guessed a specific, correct item, the group would win $5,000. The host had a video recording showing all of the items that were sent home, and each of them guessed a correct item, winning the money.
Hostage Rescue: The players were told to pick someone to be woken up very early the next morning. On a majority vote, Patrick was chosen. The host woke him in his hotel room at 3:07 AM t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly%3A%20A%20Tale%20of%20Two%20Cities | Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, the second series of the Nine Network crime drama series Underbelly, originally aired from 9 February 2009 to 4 May 2009. It is a thirteen-part series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the marijuana trade centred on the New South Wales town of Griffith. The timeline of the series is the years between 1976 and 1987. Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities primarily depicts the Mr. Asia drug syndicate and its influence on crime in Australia. Among the characters presented are real-life criminals Robert Trimbole, Terry Clark, George Freeman, Christopher Dale Flannery, Alphonse Gangitano and the Kane Brothers. The mini-series is a prequel to the 2008 production Underbelly, which was about the Melbourne gangland killings and forms part of the Underbelly series.
The series premiered on the Nine Network on 9 February at 8.30pm, with the double episode premiere attracting an average of 2,501,500 viewers nationally, in the mainland capitals. The show has consistently rated highly, being the most watched show on Australian television for all episodes broadcast so far. In New Zealand, the series began broadcast on 4 March where it has been advertised as Underbelly: The Mr Asia Story. This name stems from the common misidentification of protagonist Terry Clark as "Mr Asia". "Mr Asia" was in fact the name assigned to Marty Johnstone by Auckland reporter Pat Booth in his series of investigative newspaper articles into the Mr Asia drug syndicate. Johnstone was both Clark's business partner and victim.
Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities is the second in the series of five to date. It was followed by a third series, Underbelly: The Golden Mile.
Synopsis
The series is a broadly fictional account of the Australian criminal underworld, loosely based on events in New South Wales and Victoria between 1976 and 1987. The story revolves around the organised crime groups that stemmed from the Griffith-based marijuana trade, led by "Aussie Bob" Trimbole (Roy Billing) and "Kiwi Terry" Clark (Matthew Newton).
New Zealand drug trafficker Clark arrives in Sydney with plans to establish a heroin racket. He meets with marijuana-grower Trimbole but is at first rebuffed and bashed by crime figure George Freeman (Peter O'Brien). Soon however, he convinces Trimbole he is genuine and the two establish a partnership. The activities of local politician Donald Mackay (Andrew McFarlane) put their plans in jeopardy and when attempts to extort and blackmail him fail, Trimbole decides to have him killed without informing anyone. Trimbole and his right-hand man, Gianfranco "Frank" Tizzoni (Tony Poli), visit Melbourne to organise the hit. Detective Liz Cruickshank (Asher Keddie) is tipped off about the murder plot but her boss Joe Messina (Peter Phelps) discredits the informant, Les Kane (Martin Dingle-Wall), as unreliable. When Mackay is murdered by James Frederick Bazley (Scott Burgess), the efforts of detective Warwick Mobbs (Matt Passmore) to inve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Clark%20%28spy%29 | Maj. John Clark was an American spy for George Washington, and was primarily responsible for operating the intelligence network in and around Philadelphia during the British occupation of that city during the American Revolutionary War.
Early career
Clark was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the 1st Continental Infantry (Pennsylvania Rifles) on January 1, 1776, and was made a major of the 2nd Pennsylvania Battalion of the Flying Camp on September 14, 1776. He originally came to the attention of George Washington during the evacuation of Long Island and Manhattan. Directed to travel across Long Island Sound, he then scouted troop movements on Long Island.
Revolutionary War
Clark was responsible for operating one of the most notable spy rings organized and run by the Continental Army during the war, one which prevented the destruction of Washington's army at least three different times.
His most important assignment occurred during the period September to December 1777 when, despite a serious injury to his shoulder, he was tasked by Washington with obtaining information about General Howe's activities in Philadelphia. Clark set up a group of informants and couriers, and sent 30 detailed reports to Washington which allowed the Continental Army to react to British movements. When Clark set up a hoax in which he employed a false name while pretending to be a Quaker Loyalist who would inform on the Americans to General Howe, Howe was fooled, and offered Clark inducements to support the British cause. When Washington learned of this hoax, he prepared a false report of the Continental Army's strengths and planned movements, and ordered it delivered to Howe. A courier also acquired information about British activities while delivering messages on Clark's behalf.
In December, with his wound still not healed, and after having not seen his wife in more than a year, Clark asked Washington to be released from service. Washington agreed, and introduced Clark to Henry Laurens, who gave Clark a desk job as auditor of Army expenses. For the remainder of his life, Clark lived quietly, and continued to maintain his secrecy regarding the names of the informants and couriers who helped him.
See also
Intelligence in the American Revolutionary War
Intelligence operations in the American Revolutionary War
Notes
References
Hastedt, Glenn P. Espionage: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2003., .
Rose, Alexander Washington Spies,
Heitman, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army. .
Further reading
Clark, John J., Jr. "Letters from Major John Clark, Jr., to General Washington during the Occupation of Philadelphia by the British Army." 'Bulletin of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1 (1845–1847).
Continental Army officers from Pennsylvania
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
American spies during the American Revolution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%E2%80%93Bologna%20high-speed%20railway | The Milan–Bologna high-speed railway is a railway line that links the cities of Milan and Bologna, part of the Italian high-speed rail network. It runs parallel to the historical north–south railway between Milan and Bologna, which itself follows the ancient Roman Road, the Via Aemilia. The new railway follows the Autostrada A1 closely for much of its length. The new line allows faster traffic to run separated and increase the overall railway capacity between the two cities.
The line is part of Corridor 1 of the European Union's Trans-European high-speed rail network, which connects Berlin to Palermo. The line is long from the Milano Centrale to Bologna Centrale station, with trains taking about 1 hour and 5 minutes to cover the distance.
The first section of the line on the outskirts of Milan was opened in 1997. A section between Bologna and Modena was opened for freight traffic in September 2006 and for passenger traffic in October 2007. The rest of the route was opened to commercial traffic on 13 December 2008 to coincide with the main European timetable change. The Bologna–Florence high-speed line, the remaining Milan-Novara section of the Milan–Turin high-speed line and the Gricignano di Aversa–Naples section of the Rome–Naples high-speed line opened to traffic in December 2009, completing the high speed line from Turin to Salerno, except for planned underground level at Bologna and new station in Florence. The underground level at Bologna was opened on 8 June 2013.
History
The proposal to build a high speed line from Milan to Bologna was announced by the Italian rail operator Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) in January 1988. The proposal was slowed by legal actions related to several corruption investigations, which led to the Tangentopoli scandal. On 15 October 1991 FS established a new company, Treno Alta Velocità SpA (TAV), to plan, build and manage the new Italian high-speed lines. Its design was approved on 21 December 1993, leading to the commencement of the process to gain environmental and governmental approvals for the route. Final approvals were gained for the project in the Bologna area and between Milan and Parma on 23 July 1997 and for the rest of the route on 31 July 1998. On 15 March 2000, TAV, Italferr (FS's engineering division) and the ENI/CEPAV UNO consortium signed a contract to build the line. Construction works were initially expected to take 69 months at an expense of €4.9 billion. In fact, it ended up taking 96 months and costing €6.9 billion.
The first section of the new Milan-Bologna was opened in 1997 between Milan Rogoredo and Sordio junction. The new line was built to trunk line standards, rather than as a high-speed railway and was electrified at the traditional 3,000 V DC, rather than the 25 kV AC to be applied to the main high-speed section.
Construction of the rest of the new line started in 2002 under the direction of TAV. On 29 May 2005 the new line was extended south to Melegnano-Tavazzano and the temp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Bass%20%28engineer%29 | Charlie Bass, is an American electrical engineer, academician and entrepreneur. He was the co-founder of the networking company Ungermann-Bass in 1979. Led by Ralph Ungermann and staffed by several colleagues from Zilog, Ungermann-Bass helped commercialize ethernet, had a successful IPO, and then was purchased by Tandem Computers.
Bass was also co-founder of Parallan Computer in July 1986, a maker of high-specification, multi-processor servers, and Starlight Networks in late 1990, a software company involved in streaming media and Socket Mobile, Inc. in 1992.
In 1972, Bass received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Hawaii. He has taught at University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Santa Cruz; and Stanford University, and he worked for Zilog. In 1989, he formed his own venture capital company, Bass Associates. Bass is currently an advisor to Rising Tide, a venture capital partnership.
References
University of Hawaii COE Distinguished Lecture Series Charlie Bass: How To Maneuver Venture Capital
21st-century American engineers
Living people
1941 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20Toolkit | Forensic Toolkit, or FTK, is a computer forensics software originally developed by AccessData, an Exterro company. It scans a hard drive looking for various information. It can, for example, potentially locate deleted emails and scan a disk for text strings to use them as a password dictionary to crack encryption.
FTK is also associated with a standalone disk imaging program called FTK Imager. This tool saves an image of a hard disk in one file or in segments that may be later on reconstructed. It calculates MD5 and SHA1 hash values and can verify the integrity of the data imaged is consistent with the created forensic image. The forensic image can be saved in several formats, including DD/raw, E01, and AD1.
References
External links
AccessData Forensic Toolkit (PDF)
Computer forensics
Digital forensics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuggington | Chuggington (also known as Chuggington: Tales from the Rails since series 6) is a British computer-animated children's television series aimed at preschoolers, produced by Ludorum PLC (Series 1–5) and Herschend Entertainment Studios (series six). It is broadcast on the BBC's CBeebies channel and other channels internationally. Originally composed of 5 series running from 2008 to 2015, the series left its five-six year hiatus when a new batch of episodes was released on Disney Junior in the United States on June 29, 2020, and on CBeebies in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2021. A seventh series is currently in production.
Setting
In the fictional town of Chuggington are young novice anthropomorphic railway locomotives, called "Trainees", Koko, Wilson, Brewster, Hoot, Toot and Piper. The trainees and sometimes the more experienced chuggers learn the value of loyal friendship, telling the truth, listening carefully, persisting under adversity, completing tasks, resolving conflict without violence, and similar values. The locomotives, called "Chuggers", are intelligent, empathetic, independent and somewhat self-directed. They have mobile facial and body features. Chuggers have no crews, yet some have crew doors that can open. Chuggers regularly interact with humans such as passengers and maintenance crews. Some chuggers are modeled after well known locomotives.
The town of Chuggington has a central area of large modern buildings. Side-by-side railway tunnels coloured red, blue, yellow and green run under the town centre, leading to the outside world. Countryside settings include a farm, a safari park, and a quarry. A 'Chugston Hotel' is mentioned. "Old Chuggington", an abandoned old town with a similar name to the titular town, overgrown with wild vegetation, is occasionally visited.
Episodes
Characters
Wilson, Brewster and Koko are the main characters in Chuggington.
Young trainees
Main
Non-Advanced
Adult trains
Ambiguous
Humans
Production
The creative core behind Chuggington is Sarah Ball, a producer and director who worked on Bob the Builder, and Don Toht, who designed the characters and sets.
The computer animation is made with Autodesk Maya software.
As well as the regular ten-minute episodes, there are four-minute shows, Chuggington: Badge Quest, focusing on the trainees' efforts to earn reward badges for their "Chugger" training.
Three Chuggington specials were commissioned for release on DVD from 2013 onwards.
On 10 December 2018, Herschend Entertainment Studios acquired the rights to the series.
Broadcast
The first series of 52 episodes was sold to broadcasters including the BBC, ABC (Australia), TF1 (France),Super RTL (Germany) and Fuji TV (Japan) in a deal announced in February 2008. A second series of 26 episodes was purchased by the BBC and many other broadcasters throughout the world. Aimed at children between the ages of 3 and 6, Chuggington made its UK debut as a "soft launch" on BBC Two on 22 September 2008. In the U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrascale%20Cloud%20Services | Cirrascale Cloud Services is a cloud computing services company headquartered in San Diego, California. Cirrascale was formerly Verari Technologies, founded in 2010, which acquired the technology and products of Verari Systems and changed its name to Cirrascale Corporation in August 2010. In 2017, Cirrascale Corporation sold its hardware business to BOXX Technologies and changed its name to Cirrascale Cloud Services. Cirrascale Cloud Services was purchased by Craftsman Capital Partners later in 2017.
Cirrascale Cloud Services offers deep learning infrastructure solutions for self-driving vehicles, medical imaging, and natural language processing (NLP).
Executives
David Driggers – CEO & Founder
Chris Witt – CFO
Chris Piecukonis – SVP Sales & Marketing
References
Companies based in San Diego
Computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locks%20with%20ordered%20sharing | In databases and transaction processing the term Locks with ordered sharing comprises several variants of the two-phase locking (2PL) concurrency control protocol generated by changing the blocking semantics of locks upon conflicts. One variant is identical to strict commitment ordering (SCO).
References
D. Agrawal, A. El Abbadi, A. E. Lang: The Performance of Protocols Based on Locks with Ordered Sharing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 6, Issue 5, October 1994, pp. 805–818,
Data management
Databases
Concurrency control
Transaction processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-task%20computing | Many-task computing (MTC) in computational science is an approach to parallel computing that aims to bridge the gap between two computing paradigms: high-throughput computing (HTC) and high-performance computing (HPC).
Definition
MTC is reminiscent of HTC, but it "differs in the emphasis of using many computing resources over short periods of time to accomplish many computational tasks (i.e. including both dependent and independent tasks), where the primary metrics are measured in seconds (e.g. FLOPS, tasks/s, MB/s I/O rates), as opposed to operations (e.g. jobs) per month. MTC denotes high-performance computations comprising multiple distinct activities, coupled via file system operations. Tasks may be small or large, uniprocessor or multiprocessor, compute-intensive or data-intensive. The set of tasks may be static or dynamic, homogeneous or heterogeneous, loosely coupled or tightly coupled. The aggregate number of tasks, quantity of computing, and volumes of data may be extremely large. MTC includes loosely coupled applications that are generally communication-intensive but not naturally expressed using standard message passing interface commonly found in HPC, drawing attention to the many computations that are heterogeneous but not "happily" parallel".
Raicu et al. further state: "There is more to HPC than tightly coupled MPI, and more to HTC than embarrassingly parallel long running jobs. Like HPC applications, and science itself, applications are becoming increasingly complex opening new doors for many opportunities to apply HPC in new ways if we broaden our perspective. Some applications have just so many simple tasks that managing them is hard. Applications that operate on or produce large amounts of data need sophisticated data management in order to scale. There exist applications that involve many tasks, each composed of tightly coupled MPI tasks. Loosely coupled applications often have dependencies among tasks, and typically use files for inter-process communication. Efficient support for these sorts of applications on existing large scale systems will involve substantial technical challenges and will have big impact on science."
Related Areas
Some related areas are multiple program multiple data (MPMD), high throughput computing (HTC), workflows, capacity computing, or embarrassingly parallel. Some projects that could support MTC workloads are Condor, Mapreduce, Hadoop, Boinc, Cobalt HTC-mode, Falkon, and Swift.,
References
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOMAK | LOMAK is an acronym for Light Operated Mouse And Keyboard. It is an assistive technology device designed for use by people who cannot use a standard computer keyboard and mouse. The Lomak is clipped to an adjustable stand placed vertically underneath the computer screen and is operated by a small laser pointer mounted on a hat or headband. Some people who have arm movement can alternatively use the Lomak horizontally with a hand-pointer. It can be used as an additional keyboard and mouse with any desktop or laptop computer which has a spare USB port. Like many computer peripherals for people with special access needs, it is very expensive, about $1500.
Description
The Lomak keyboard is a USB 1.0 device which plugs into a computer's USB port. It does not require installation of any software. When used in mouse mode, it can move the computer's mouse cursor at fast or slow speeds as selected by the user, and generate left or right clicks on command. When used in keyboard mode, it can generate any of the characters created by a standard keyboard, including Shift, Ctrl, and Alt combinations.
The keyboard has three circles of keys each surrounding a central Confirm sensor, with setup and control keys in a horizontal bar below. Each key comprises a light sensor and an associated LED indicator which turns on when the key is active. Each change of key is optionally accompanied by an audible click. Characters are selected and sent to the computer when confirmed.
The head-pointer contains a laser and operates from an internal battery for about eight hours between charges. It turns off when pointed away from the keyboard and left stationary for a time. It has an internal switch which awakes the device when it is moved.
Notesai overlay
The Lomak can be set to operate with the Notesai overlay, which fastens to the top surface of the keyboard. This overlay assigns two characters to every second sensor on the central circle. Each pair of characters comprises a high-use primary character (such as 'A') and a lesser-used secondary character (such as 'B'). The effect is to double the angular space between the characters, with the lesser-used characters being selected by a shift operation.
The Notesai arrangement permits people with limited head control (such as those with cerebral palsy and similar conditions) to select characters more easily than with the closely spaced Lomak layout. The choice of layout (Lomak or Notesai) is a user-configurable option.
Internationalization
In order to generate language-specific characters and accent marks, the Lomak can be user-configured to emulate keyboards used in several countries. The keys on keyboards for international users have icon graphics in place of text. The international characters are selected by a shift procedure. The Lomak currently can emulate keyboards used in the following locales:
Belgian French
Danish
French
German
Norwegian
Spanish
Swedish/Finnish
US/UK (the standard setting, which can be u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid%20Arabnia | Hamid Reza Arabnia is a professor of computer science at the University of Georgia, United States.
He has been the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Supercomputing since 1997.
References
External links
1958 births
Living people
University of Georgia faculty
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate%20Recipe%20Showdown | Ultimate Recipe Showdown is a program shown on Food Network. The program was originally hosted by Marc Summers and Guy Fieri. For the second season, Fieri hosted the program alone.
There were three seasons between 2008 and 2010.
Format
Each contest had three home cooks who had won their way into the competition. The episode had a theme such as "comfort food". Each round had a specialized section of the theme, such as macaroni and cheese. In each round, the contestants would be given points out of 100. The three judges included Katherine Alford, Kerry Simon and Russ Parsons. The judges would not watch the contestants as they judged. The top scorer of the night won the top prize of $25,000 and their recipe was featured on the menu of T.G.I. Friday's.
For the second season there were some format changes. Each episode had a theme, but four contestants competed in the entire program. The two rounds were Signature, where the contestants had 2 hours to make a dish, and the Speed Round, where the contestants had 30 minutes for a dish. This time the judges watched the contestants throughout the program. The judges were Alford, Michael Psilakis (owner of Dona, Kefi, and Anthos, three popular Greek restaurants) and Linda Fears, editor-in-chief of Family Circle magazine.
References
External links
Food Network original programming
2008 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Risks%20Report | The Risks Report is an published by the World Economic Forum ahead of the Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Based on the work of the Global Risk Network, the report describes changes occurring in the global risks landscape from year to year. The report also explores the interconnectedness of risks, and considers how the strategies for the mitigation of global risks might be structured.
Sources for the report include an assessment by several major insurance and reinsurance companies and focus workshops, interviews and a survey of internationally recognised experts. The report is intended to raise awareness about the need for a multi-stakeholder approach to the mitigation of global risk.
By year
2023
The Global Risks Report 2023 was released on 11th Jan 2023. The report lists cost of living crisis as the top global risk in the short term while failure to mitigate climate change is the top concern for the long term.
2020
The Global Risks Report 2020 highlights environmental pressures more than any of its predecessors. The report identifies five of the top five risks by likelihood and four of the top five by impact as environmental risks (if "water crisis" is also counted as an environmental risk, rather than a "societal risk" as classified in the report). The only non-environmental risk among the top five likely and top five impactful was "weapons of mass destruction". Pandemics did not receive a top spot in 2020, but were given one in the 2021 report. Pandemics could also be qualified as an environmental risks given the zoogenic nature of COVID-19.
2019
The Global Risks Report 2019 highlights environmental concerns, which "accounted for three of the top five risks by likelihood and four by impact". The second area of concern was the risk of data fraud and cyber-attacks.
2018
The Global Risks Report 2018 highlights four concerns: (1) persistent inequality and unfairness, (2) domestic and international political tensions, (3) environmental dangers and (4) cyber vulnerabilities. One recurring theme is humanity's inadequate competence in dealing with complex systems and the danger of complacency. The report was edited by Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz.
2009
The Global Risks Report 2009 identifies deteriorating fiscal positions, a hard landing in China, a collapse in asset prices, gaps in global governance and issues relating to natural resources and climate as the pivotal risks facing the world this year. While Global Risks 2008 highlighted food security, systemic financial risk and supply chain risk as areas of focus for the short term, Global Risks 2009 focuses on the impact of the financial crisis on levels of economic risk and its implications for other risk areas. The 2009 report stresses the importance of considering the long-term implications of many of the decisions taken today in response to immediate financial and economic challenges. The report also explores how the lack of effective global governance was a factor in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometric%20software | Psychometric software is software that is used for psychometric analysis of data from tests, questionnaires, or inventories reflecting latent psychoeducational variables. While some psychometric analyses can be performed with standard statistical software like SPSS, most analyses require specialized tools.
Sources
There exist many free tools developed by researchers and educators. Important websites for free psychometric software include:
CASMA at the University of Iowa, USA
REMP at the University of Massachusetts, USA
Software from Harold Doran
Software from Brad Hanson
Software from John Uebersax
Software from J. Patrick Meyer
Software directory at the Institute for Objective Measurement
Software from Lihua Yao
Software from Larry Nelson
Software from Matthew Courtney, Kevin Chang, Eric Mei, Kane Meissel, Luke Rowe, and Laila Issayeva
In addition, there is an increasing number of packages for R that can be found in the CRAN Task View: Psychometric Models and Methods
Classical test theory
Classical test theory is an approach to psychometric analysis that has weaker assumptions than item response theory and is more applicable to smaller sample sizes.
autopsych
autopsych
autopsych is a free and open-source web app with multiple features for conducting Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Rasch modelling. CTT functions include percentage correct, observed scores for each item category, item-total correlations, item-rest correlations (with user-specified confidence intervals), item-rest point biserial/polyserial correlations, Cronbach’s alpha, alpha-if-deleted, and full Pearson correlation matrix (item matrix) with levels of statistical significance. The autopsych app also performs multiple Rasch-based functions including basic Rasch many-facets analysis for DIF, fixed item equating for dichotomous item-response matrices, one-way ANOVA, and inter-rater reliability analysis.
CITAS
CITAS (Classical Item and Test Analysis Spreadsheet) is a free Excel workbook designed to provide scoring and statistical analysis of classroom tests. Item responses (ABCD) and keys are typed or pasted into the workbook, and the output automatically populates; unlike some other programs, CITAS does not require any "running" or experience in psychometric analysis, making it accessible to school teachers and professors.
jMetrik
jMetrik is free and open source software for conducting a comprehensive psychometric analysis. It was developed by J. Patrick Meyer at the University of Virginia. Current methods include classical item analysis, differential item functioning (DIF) analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory, IRT equating, and nonparametric item response theory. The item analysis includes proportion, point biserial, and biserial statistics for all response options. Reliability coefficients include Cronbach's alpha, Guttman's lambda, the Feldt-Gilmer Coefficient, the Feldt-Brennan coefficient, decision consistency indices, the condition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPX | EPX may refer to:
Eosinophil peroxidase, a protein
East Passyunk Crossing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood
Eric's Pixel Expansion, a pixel art scaling algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryeh%20Neier | Aryeh Neier (born April 22, 1937) is an American human rights activist who co-founded Human Rights Watch, served as the president of George Soros's Open Society Institute philanthropy network from 1993 to 2012, had been National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1970 to 1978, and he was also involved with the creation of the group SDS by being directly involved in the group SLID's renaming.
Early life and education
Neier was born into a German Jewish family in Berlin, then in Nazi Germany. He was the son of Wolf (a teacher) and Gitla (Bendzinska) Neier, and he became a refugee as a child when his family fled in 1939 when he was two years old. He graduated from Cornell University with highest honors in 1961.
Career
He served as an adjunct professor of law at New York University.
Neier was hired by the ACLU in 1963 and became the organization's executive director in 1970. During his time as executive director, he helped grow the organization's membership from 140,000 to 200,000. Neier was criticized for his decision to have the ACLU support the National Socialist Party of America, a Neo-Nazi group, in its efforts to march in Skokie, Illinois, in the case National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, despite the presence in Skokie of large numbers of Jews and Holocaust survivors. The ACLU's representation of the group resulted in 30,000 members who ended their ACLU membership. He also led the ACLU's efforts to protect the civil rights of prisoners and those in mental hospitals, fought for the abolition of the death penalty and to make abortions available to those who need them. In his 1979 book, Defending My Enemy: American Nazis in Skokie, Illinois, and the Risks of Freedom, Neier defended his actions in support of the Skokie march, arguing that Jews are best protected by ensuring that the rule of law allowing minorities to speak out is afforded to all groups.
At a party in Washington, D.C., in early 1976, an attendee from New York indicated that he would not vote for Jimmy Carter for president because of his Southern accent, to which Charles Morgan, Jr., the ACLU's legislative director replied "That's bigotry, and that makes you a bigot." Neier reprimanded Morgan, criticizing Morgan for taking a public position on a candidate for public office. Morgan resigned from his post in April 1976, citing efforts by the bureaucracy at the ACLU to restrict his public statements.
In 1978 he was among the founders of Helsinki Watch, which was renamed Human Rights Watch in 1988. As a human rights activist, Neier has led investigations of human rights abuses around the world, including his role in the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He has contributed articles and opinion pieces to newspapers, magazines and journals including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review and Foreign Policy.
He now teaches a course called "Promoting Human Rights: History, Law, Methods a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20%28computer%29 | Anton is a massively parallel supercomputer designed and built by D. E. Shaw Research in New York, first running in 2008. It is a special-purpose system for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins and other biological macromolecules. An Anton machine consists of a substantial number of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), interconnected by a specialized high-speed, three-dimensional torus network.
Unlike earlier special-purpose systems for MD simulations, such as MDGRAPE-3 developed by RIKEN in Japan, Anton runs its computations entirely on specialized ASICs, instead of dividing the computation between specialized ASICs and general-purpose host processors.
Each Anton ASIC contains two computational subsystems. Most of the calculation of electrostatic and van der Waals forces is performed by the high-throughput interaction subsystem (HTIS). This subsystem contains 32 deeply pipelined modules running at 800 MHz arranged much like a systolic array. The remaining calculations, including the bond forces and the fast Fourier transforms (used for long-range electrostatics), are performed by the flexible subsystem. This subsystem contains four general-purpose Tensilica cores (each with cache and scratchpad memory) and eight specialized but programmable SIMD cores called geometry cores. The flexible subsystem runs at 400 MHz.
Anton's network is a 3D torus and thus each chip has 6 inter-node links with a total in+out bandwidth of 607.2 Gbit/s. An inter-node link is composed of two equal one-way links (one traveling in each direction), with each one-way link having 50.6 Gbit/s of bandwidth. Each one-way link is composed of 11 lanes, where a lane is a differential pair of wires signaling at 4.6 Gbit/s. The per-hop latency in Anton's network is 50 ns. Each ASIC is also attached to its own DRAM bank, enabling large simulations.
The performance of a 512-node Anton machine is over 17,000 nanoseconds of simulated time per day for a protein-water system consisting of 23,558 atoms. In comparison, MD codes running on general-purpose parallel computers with hundreds or thousands of processor cores achieve simulation rates of up to a few hundred nanoseconds per day on the same chemical system. The first 512-node Anton machine became operational in October 2008.
The multiple petaFLOP, distributed-computing project Folding@home has achieved similar aggregate ensemble simulation timescales, comparable to the total time of a single continuous simulation on Anton, specifically achieving the 1.5-millisecond range in January 2010.
The Anton supercomputer is named after Anton van Leeuwenhoek, who is often referred to as "the father of microscopy" because he built high-precision optical instruments and used them to visualize a wide variety of organisms and cell types for the first time.
The ANTON 2 machine with four 512 nodes and its substantially increased speed and problem size has been described.
The National Institutes of Health have su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20vehicle%20charging%20network | An electric vehicle charging network is an infrastructure system of charging stations to recharge electric vehicles. Many government, car manufacturers, and charging infrastructure providers sought to create networks. Today, charging network vendors include either proprietary solutions (ex. Tesla or ChargePoint), or hardware agnostic solutions (ex. AmpUp, EVConnect, and Shell Recharge). Hardware-agnostic vendors allow for customers to switch out their charge stations and/or switch to a different network vendors (similar to an unlocked smartphone); whereas proprietary vendors do not allow customers to switch.
Maps
The Go Electric Stations was a global station navigation system. The project included free smartphone apps via Next Charge and provided free data and information to users and providers regarding stations all around the world.
PlugSurfing is a community based charging station locator. PlugSurfing is merging static and realtime availability charging station information and crowd sources information through mobile apps and other devices. This way PlugSurfing responds to the needs of the electric driver.
OpenChargeMap is an open source database with a public API for sharing and distributing charging location information globally. Information in this system is gathered both manually and automatically from a variety of data sources. The project aims to provide globally relevant data freely to other application developers and navigation providers.
EV Charger Maps was a volunteer-run effort coordinated by EV Charger News that cataloged EV charging station information across the U.S.
LEMnet is an internet database is operated by Park & Charge. The database not only provides locations of the Park & Charge stations but also everyone is free to register their stations. It offers KMZ map files and POI collection files for navigation systems enhanced with information required for electric vehicle owners to find a public charging point in Europe.
In Spain, Alargador offers an editable map of EV recharge points in which everybody who wants to share their electric outlet can do it easily. All data is downloadable freely to most common GPS navigators and mapping software. Another source is ElectroMaps to find a station in Spain.
Pod Point provides one of the UK's largest public charging networks with over 1,500 stations. The live charging station map provides the address, charging rate, connector type and availability of public charging stations. In 2015, they launched the Open Charge public network with smartphone-enabled charging points that are reliable and easy to use.
PlugShare is a crowdsourced map of public, private and residential charging locations. The site uses Google Maps to provide a map of charging locations and their own database to filter by charging type. Public chargers, private chargers, and residential charging locations are listed. The service provides an app for iOS and Android which allows users to locate chargers near their |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami%20Valley%20Hospital | Miami Valley Hospital (MVH) is a large urban hospital in Dayton, Ohio, and is a member of the Premier Health Partners network. The hospital has two additional locations; Miami Valley Hospital South in Centerville, Ohio, and Miami Valley Hospital North in Englewood, Ohio. It has the Dayton region's only Level I Trauma Center, a regional adult burn center, and a level 3 neonatal intensive care unit. Miami Valley Hospital has 7,370 employees and 970 beds, and saw over 400,000 outpatient visits in 2007. Miami Valley Hospital's emergency and trauma center contains 72 beds and is the busiest emergency department in Ohio. Miami Valley Hospital also operates three air ambulances known as CareFlight. Miami Valley Hospital is a top 100 hospital in the United States for clinical excellence. The hospital also holds numerous awards from HealthGrades, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report. The Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University is the affiliated university. It also holds recognition as a Magnet hospital, the highest distinction in nursing. It gained its first designation in 2019. https://www.nursingworld.org/organizational-programs/magnet/find-a-magnet-organization/
History
Miami Valley Hospital opened as the Protestant Deaconess Hospital in 1890. In 1895, the hospital treated patients for an average cost of 74 cents per patient per day. The hospital charged five dollars a week for a private room and whatever the patient could afford in the public wards. Dayton's first emergency room was opened beneath the main surgery floor in 1912. MVH also established outpatient clinic in 1913 in response to the aftermath of the 1913 flood. From the 1920s to the 1950s, the hospital saw the most advancements in expansion and additions. As the hospital made advancements in care, in 1952, MVH opened the Radioisotope Laboratory, a forerunner to nuclear medicine. MVH was the first non-university hospital in Ohio to be authorized by the Atomic Energy Commission to use radioactive materials in research and patient care. In 1983, MVH's first air ambulance, CareFlight, was put into service, which made rapid emergency transport available within a radius. By its second year, CareFlight was averaging more than one transport every day. CareFlight operates four helicopters, based at the hospital main campus in Dayton, Lebanon-Warren County Airport, and Grimes Field in Urbana, Ohio, and Darke County Airport in Versailles, Ohio.
In 2010, the Neurological Institute at Miami Valley Hospital was established. The neurological institute is in partnership with Premier Health Partners and Wright State University. The Center focuses on the treatment, diagnosis, and research of neurological disorders.
On the June 2nd, 2022, a shooting occurred at the hospital, when Brian Booth, a 30-year old inmate at the county jail, fatally shot Darrell Holderman, a 78-year old security guard. Booth then reportedly pointed his gun at others in the hospital, before shooting himself dead in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adir | Adir or ADIR may refer to:
Air Data Inertial Reference Unit (ADIRU), a key component of the Air Data Inertial Reference System (ADIRS), which supplies air data and inertial reference information to aircraft systems
Adir, meaning "Strong One," one of the names of God in Judaism
Adir Hu, a hymn sung by Jews worldwide at the Passover Seder
Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised, a structured interview conducted with the parents of individuals who have been referred for the evaluation of possible autism or autism spectrum disorders
People
Ilana Adir (born 1941), Israeli Olympic sprinter
Adir Ascalon, surrealist painter and sculptor, son of Maurice Ascalon
Adir Maman (born 1991), Israeli footballer
Adir Miller (born 1974), Israeli actor and comedian
Adir Zik (1939-2005), Israeli television producer and journalist
See also
Adheera, fictional villain in the 2022 Indian film KGF: Chapter 2, played by Sanjay Dutt
Arabic-language masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Bicycle%20Network | The Community Bicycle Network (CBN) existed to provide a network for bike recycling clubs and other community economic development projects in Toronto. It was founded in 1993 and closed down in 2017.
Non-profit Bike Shop
CBN operated as a bicycle cooperative much like similar organizations like Bikes Not Bombs in Massachusetts and Our Community Bikes in Vancouver, BC. Its for-profit operations helped to support other non-profit projects in the community. The main activity of the bike shop was to collect donated bikes from individuals, condominiums, small business and the City of Toronto, and refurbish the bikes for resale. CBN also offered up the space for individuals to rent tools and fix their bikes with mechanic help. CBN's bike mechanic workshops were popular, with courses offered throughout the year and for specific topics. Other services CBN offered include bike and trailer rentals.
History
CBN underwent a number of transitions throughout its history. It started out as a network of bike recycling clubs and a location to house such organizations as Transportation Options and the Latin American Bike Club. Over time most of the bike clubs folded and some of the other organizations either spun off to become independent or folded themselves. CBN transitioned to host Bikeshare as its main operation. CBN was popularly known for the Bikeshare program that functioned as a bicycle-lending library across Central Toronto with 16 hubs from 2001 to 2006. For its time it was North America's largest and most popular bike-sharing program with 150 bikes, 16 hubs and 400 active members. Bikeshare, however, failed to gain long-term financial support from private or government funders despite much effort. In 2006 Bikeshare was shelved. It was at this point that CBN transitioned to a non-profit bike shop while still maintaining a focus on its mission of refurbishing bikes and providing bike education to the community.
At the end of 2017, CBN officially closed down.
External links
Community Bicycle Network website
References
Cycling in Toronto
Cycling organizations in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convert%20%28command%29 |
In computing, convert is a command-line utility included in the Windows NT operating system line. It is used to convert volumes using the FAT file systems to NTFS.
Overview
convert is an external command first introduced with Windows 2000. If the drive cannot be locked (for example, the drive is the system volume or the current drive) the command gives the option to convert the drive the next time the computer is restarted.
On Unix-like systems, there are similar tools like convertfs, a utility which performs in-place conversion between any two file systems with sparse file support and btrfs-convert, a tool that can convert from ext2/ext3/ext4 or reiserFS file system to Btrfs in-place.
Syntax
The command-syntax is:
convert volume /FS:NTFS [/V]
Example
The following command converts the volume on drive D: to NTFS. The /v command-line option will cause it to display all messages during the conversion process.
C:\>convert d: /fs:ntfs /v
References
Further reading
External links
Microsoft TechNet Convert article
Hard disk software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Elmo%20%E2%80%93%20Hikari%20no%20Raihousha | is a 65-minute television special first originally aired in April 1986, in the Kansai region network Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. Although credited to Leiji Matsumoto, the show was originally created to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Kansai Electric Power Company, who sponsored and produced the film. It was later released on VHS format on November 21, 1987, by Pony Canyon.
The events of the story are centered on a Japanese solar power plant based in the planet Mercury called "Saint Elmo". Its name was based on the rare scientific phenomenon called St. Elmo's fire, named after Erasmus of Formiae. This phenomenon occurs in electrical weather at which high points (like masts on ships) will charge and give off a glow.
Plot
Japan builds a large space power plant called Saint Elmo in the planet Mercury. The plant supports Earth with its large solar energy supply, but, when there is an abnormality at the plant, Earth has to send several technicians to fix the problem.
Staff
Director: Tomoharu Katsumata
Script: Hiroyasu Yamaura
Music: Michiru Oshima
Animation: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi
Design: Katsumi Itahashi
Cast
Tōru Furuya, as
Hideyuki Tanaka
Kei Tomiyama
Keiko Han
Kōzō Shioya
Leiji Matsumoto
Masako Nozawa
Reiko Mutō
Theme songs
The show features two theme songs, "Prometheus Futatabi" and "Tomoshibi wa Eternity", both performed by Yūko Ishikawa. The first was composed by Akihiro Yoshimi, while the second was composed by Yūhei Hanaoka. They were both arranged by Eiji Kawamura and the lyrics were written by Kayoko Fuyumori.
References
External links
Leijiverse: Saint-Elmo Hikari no Raihôsha
1980s science fiction films
1986 anime films
1986 television films
1986 films
Anime television films
Japanese animated science fiction films
Fiction set on Mercury (planet)
Toei Animation films
Films directed by Tomoharu Katsumata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maatkit | Maatkit was a toolkit for development and administration of open-source databases. Most of Maatkit’s functionality was designed for MySQL, but it also supported PostgreSQL and other databases. It has been discontinued and merged into the Percona Toolkit as of 2011.
References
External links
Official Debian packages
Free database management systems
Discontinued software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyaxa%20lucidata | Epyaxa lucidata is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. It is endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1862 using material collected by Andrew Sinclair and named Larentia lucidata. The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand.
References
Xanthorhoini
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
Moths described in 1862
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au%C3%B0unn%20illsk%C3%A6lda | Auðunn illskælda (Old Norse "the bad skald") was a 9th-century Norwegian skald. Skáldatal lists him as one of Harald Finehair's skalds. Egils saga Skallagrímssonar notes that he was Harald's oldest skald, and had earlier been a skald for Harald's father Hálfdan svarti. He was called illskælda because he had once in a drápa about Harald copied a refrain from another skald called Úlfr Sebbason. The drápa was subsequently called Stolinstefja "the drápa with the stolen refrain". Only a few stanzas of his works are known today.
The Hauksbók contains a tale called the Skaldasaga Haralds harfagra ("Saga of the Skalds of Harald Fairhair") describing an expedition to Sweden undertaken by Olvir Hnufa, Thorbjorn Hornklofi, and Auðunn to expiate an offense. Its historicity is disputed.
Notes
References
Aschehoug & Gyldendal (2005). Store norske leksikon, vol. 1, 4th ed. Kunnskapsforlaget.
Meijer, Bernhard (ed.) (1904). Nordisk familjebok. Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks tryckeri.
9th-century Norwegian poets
Norwegian male poets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare%20by%20Russia | Cyberwarfare by Russia includes denial of service attacks, hacker attacks, dissemination of disinformation and propaganda, participation of state-sponsored teams in political blogs, internet surveillance using SORM technology, persecution of cyber-dissidents and other active measures. According to investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, some of these activities were coordinated by the Russian signals intelligence, which was part of the FSB and formerly a part of the 16th KGB department.
An analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2017 outlines Russia's view of "Information Countermeasures" or IPb (informatsionnoye protivoborstvo) as "strategically decisive and critically important to control its domestic populace and influence adversary states", dividing 'Information Countermeasures' into two categories of "Informational-Technical" and "Informational-Psychological" groups. The former encompasses network operations relating to defense, attack, and exploitation and the latter to "attempts to change people's behavior or beliefs in favor of Russian governmental objectives."
Online presence
US journalist Pete Earley described his interviews with former senior Russian intelligence officer Sergei Tretyakov, who defected to the United States in 2000:
Tretyakov did not specify the targeted web sites, but made clear they selected the sites which are most convenient for distributing the specific information. According to him, during his work in New York City in the end of the 1990s, one of the most frequent subjects was the War in Chechnya.
According to a publication in Russian computer weekly Computerra, "just because it became known that anonymous editors are editing articles in English Wikipedia in the interests of UK and US intelligence and security services, it is also likely that Russian security services are involved in editing Russian Wikipedia, but this is not even interesting to prove it — because everyone knows that security bodies have a special place in the structure of our [Russian] state"
Cyberattacks
It has been claimed that Russian security services organized a number of denial of service attacks as a part of their cyber-warfare against other countries, such as the 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia and the
2008 cyberattacks on Russia, South Ossetia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. One identified young Russian hacker said that he was paid by Russian state security services to lead hacking attacks on NATO computers. He was studying computer sciences at the Department of the Defense of Information. His tuition was paid for by the FSB.
Estonia
In April 2007, following a diplomatic row with Russia over a Soviet war memorial, Estonia was targeted by a series of cyberattacks on financial, media, and government websites which were taken down by an enormous volume of spam being transmitted by botnets in what is called a distributed denial-of-service attack. Online banking was made inaccessible, government employees were suddenly unable to commun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMule | JMule is an open source file sharing client written in Java for eDonkey2000 networks. JMule is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, it is based on Java platform and requires at least Java SE 6.0 for operation. At a more general level this is a project that try to accomplish several goals. For now the client has Swing and SWT user interfaces, but more user interfaces were to come soon as of 2010. The name "JMule" comes from a "J" (Java) and a "Mule" (like eMule, aMule).
Development
As of 2010, JMule is under an active development mostly using open source software. The main IDE is Eclipse with AspectJ plugin that runs on Ubuntu Linux. The source code is stored in a public CVS repository provided by SourceForge.net The JMule Team releases nightly builds of the client but not on a regular basis. In 2010, the development priority was focused on Kad DHT and network infrastructure.
References
External links
File sharing software
Free file sharing software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
EDonkey Clients for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20network%20buses | List of electrical characteristics of single collision domain segment "slow speed" network buses:
The number of nodes can be limited by either number of available addresses or bus capacitance. None of the above use any analog domain modulation techniques like MLT-3 encoding, PAM-5 etc.
PSI5 designed with automation applications in mind is a bit unusual in that it uses Manchester code.
See also
Multidrop bus
Characteristic impedance
Category 5 cable
Telegrapher's equations
Single-ended signaling
Network segment
CEBus
KNX (EIB)
References
External links
bipom.com - Micro interfacing.pdf
Computer networks
Serial buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectbeam | Connectbeam, a company based in Mountain View, California, provided enterprise social software. The company provided two core services: social bookmarking and aggregation of links and metadata for content from other social software applications. The company's stated goal was to establish the enterprise social network by integrating employees' user-generated content.
Connectbeam was founded by Puneet Gupta in December 2005. Gabriel Venture Partners lead a Series A round of $3.5 million for the company in July 2007. Connectbeam sells into the global enterprise market, and has been recognized for innovation by Gartner, InformationWeek, eContent and KMWorld.
In July 2011, the Connectbeam website was removed.
See also
Social bookmarking
Social network
Enterprise social software
Social computing
External links
Connectbeam website
References
Software companies based in California
Companies based in Mountain View, California
Defunct software companies of the United States
2005 establishments in California
2011 disestablishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20mail | Hybrid mail is mail that is delivered using a combination of electronic and physical delivery. Usually, it involves digital data being transformed into physical letter items at distributed print centres located as close as possible to the final delivery addresses. An e-mail letter (also L-mail and letter mail) is a letter which is sent as an email using a computer, then printed out and delivered as a traditional (physical) letter. It is a communication means between the cyber and the material world. The printer or mail transfer agent prints the electronic mail on paper, the mail transport agent packs it into an envelope and the mail delivery agent or postman delivers it to the receiver's mailbox. Generally there is a fee for this service; however very small amounts and single email letters may be free of charge depending on the service provider and generally fees are much lower than cost incurred in sending the mail directly or by using a franking machine. Research shows that in the UK, for a simple enclosed letter, posted 2nd class, the saving could be as much as much as 40% per letter.
There are also reverse systems, where handwritten letters can be delivered as email. This mail scanning service, sometimes called letter email, is increasingly popular with businesses and individuals who wish to access their mail from another country. However, special care must be taken to inspect local laws and the service provider's scanning practices to ensure that they are not reading the mail or acting on behalf of the client from a legal standpoint.
See also
E-COM
.post
Mail forwarding
Email forwarding
Online post office
Personal letter
Postal history
Print-to-mail
V-mail
Webmail
Fax
Notes
Email
Webmail
Letters (message)
Postal services
Communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20software%20under%20the%20GNU%20AGPL | This is an incomplete list of software that are licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, in alphabetical order.
Akvo platform - data platform for Sustainable Development Goals and international development tracking
Alaveteli
Ampache - web based audio/video streaming application
Anki - the desktop version is under GNU AGPL, the Android version is under GPLv3.0
Bacula
BEdita 3 Open
BerkeleyDB - a b-tree NoSQL database developed by Oracle, the open source license is under GNU AGPL
Bitwarden password management service server code
Booktype - online book production platform
CiviCRM the open-source CRM for non-profits with its mobile application CiviMobile.
CKAN - data management system
Co-Ment - online text annotation and collaborative writing
Diaspora
EdX
Evercam - Camera Management Software
Feng Office Community Edition
FreeJ
FreePBX
Frei0r
Friendica
GarganText - Collaborative tool to map information from semantical analysis of texts
Genenetwork
Genode - MicroKernel based Operating System Framework
Ghostscript
Gitorious
GlobaLeaks
GNUnet - Internet-like anonymous peer-to-peer network stack
Grafana
Grafana Tempo
Grafana Loki
Humhub - Social Network Software
Instructure Canvas
iText
Kune - collaborative social network
Launchpad
Lemmy (Software)
LibreTime radio automation server
Libbitcoin
lichess
logseq - a knowledge management software
Loomio
Mastodon (software)
Mattermost server code
MediaGoblin
Minds
Minio
MongoDB - until late 2018, when they switched to SSPL
MuPDF - a lightweight and high-quality pdf reader developed by Artifex Software Inc
Naeon
Nextcloud - private cloud software
Nightscout
OnlyOffice - MS Office compatible free software office suite
Opa - a web application programming language
OpenBroadcaster
OpenBTS
OpenCog
Open Library
OpenRemote - IoT Middleware
OpenVPN3
ownCloud
PeerTube
PikoPixel - pixel-art editor
plausible.io
poeticmetric.com - Free as in freedom web analytics tool.
POV-Ray
pretix
Proxmox Virtual Environment - a server virtualization management platform
Public Whip
RapidMiner - data mining suite, old versions are released as AGPL
RStudio
ScyllaDB - Cassandra-like NoSQL DB
Seafile
Searx
SecureDrop
Seeks
Servoy
Signal (software) server code
Snap! (programming language)
snyk.io
Sones GraphDB
StatusNet
stet
SugarCRM (community edition)
Wakanda Server
Wikidot
Wiki.js - A wiki application built on Node.js
WURFL
XBlock
YottaDB Hierarchical key-value NoSQL database. All software under the YottaDB project (e.g., Octo for SQL access) is also AGPL v3.
Zarafa (software)
References
Free and open-source software licenses
Lists of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20William%20Olle | T. William (Bill) Olle (born 1933 and died March 2019) was a British computer scientist and consultant and President of T. William Olle Associates, England.
Biography
Bill Olle was educated at Boston Grammar School (1943-1950). He received an M.Sc. degree in 1954 and a Ph.D. degree in 1957, both in Astrophysics at the University of Manchester, which involved extensive programming work on the Manchester University Electronic Computer.
In 1957, he moved to the Netherlands, where he worked in computing for a NATO organization. In 1964, he moved to the United States, where he was employed by Control Data Corporation in Palo Alto, California until 1966. From 1967 to 1971, he was employed by the RCA Corporation in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. In 1972, after a year in Norway, he returned to the UK to establish his own consultancy firm, T. William Olle Associates, specializing in database management applications and information systems methodologies. He consulted clients in Europe, Australia, and Canada, and presented lectures on database topics around the world. He retired in 1993.
Beginning in the 1970s, Olle became active in the CODASYL organization as Chairman of its Systems Committee and spearheaded the preparation of two early analytical reports on "Generalized Database Management Systems". He represented the British Computer Society on IFIP TC8 from its inception in 1977. He was also active in database standards work in ISO and was chairman of the BSI standards committee for many years.
Bill Olle was awarded an honorary doctorate by Middlesex University in 2001.
Work
Olle's research interest in the field of computing started in 1953 at the University of Manchester. In the 1960s, he became interested in database applications, and after his retirement in the 1990s, he focused on the history of computing and on "professionalism in the computer field".
Publications
Olle published numerous books and articles. The following is a selection:
1971. Feature Analysis of Generalized Data Base Management Systems: technical report Conference on Data Systems Languages Systems Committee.
1978. Codasyl approach to data base management.
1983. Information Systems Design Methodologies: Improving the Practice. IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Feature Analysis of Information Systems Design Methodologies 1983: York, England. Edited with Henk G. Sol and C. J. Tully.
1982. Information Systems Design Methodologies: A Comparative Review. IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference. Edited with H.G. Sol and A.A. Verrijn Stuart.
1988. Computerized Assistance During the Information Systems Life Cycle. Proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference on Computerized Assistance During the Information Systems Life Cycle, Cris 88, Egham, England, 19–22 September 1988. Edited with A. A. Verrijn Stuart and L. Bhabuta.
1988. Information systems methodologies: a framework for understanding. North-Holland.
References
Sources
1933 births
Living people
British computer scientists
Enterprise |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Lam | Barry Lam (; born 24 April 1949) is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman, and the founder and chairman of Quanta Computer. He is also a patron of the arts and a philanthropist in the area of culture and education.
On 25 May 2021, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth at $5.98 Billion.
Barry Lam was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. His father was an accountant for the Hong Kong Club. He studied engineering in Taiwan, graduating from National Taiwan University with bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering.
In 1973, he and some former classmates founded , a manufacturer of handheld calculators. As president of the company he built it into the largest contract manufacturer of calculators. In the late 1980s, he became convinced that notebook computers would be the next big product. He left Kinpo and founded Quanta Computer in 1988. He set up Quanta Computer with the help of a colleague, C. C. Leung, with capital of less than US$900,000. It had a turnover of NT$777 billion in 2007, US$23.7 billion.
In 2006, Fortune Magazine included Quanta in the Fortune Global 500 Companies, and in 2007, Forbes placed Quanta 15th in its ranking of the world's most admired computer companies, the highest of a Taiwanese company. Quanta designs and manufactures for clients such as Apple Inc., Compaq, Dell, Gateway, BlackBerry Ltd., Hewlett-Packard, Alienware, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, MPC, Sharp Corporation, Siemens, Sony, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba. It is the largest manufacturer of PC notebooks worldwide and has diversified into servers, storage, and liquid-crystal display terminals.
Quanta
Lam established the Quanta Research and Development Center at its headquarters in Taiwan. The center works on many collaborative projects with major institutions such as MIT, National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica on producing next generation products.
MIT Project T-Party
In 2005, Lam and Quanta joined forces with MIT on Project T-Party, a five-year initiative to create the next generation of platforms for computing and communication. The project aims to create new interfaces and explore new ways of managing and accessing information.
One Laptop per Child
Lam decided that Quanta would be the original design manufacturer (ODM) for the OLPC XO-1 by the One Laptop per Child project. Quanta took orders for one million laptops as of 2007-02-15. The OLPC project was also part of Quanta's Blue Ocean Strategy, entering new market segments which are uncontested in terms of competition.
Arts patronage and philanthropy
Lam is one of the foremost patron of the arts in Taiwan.
He has a personal collection of more than 1,000 works of art and in particular, he collects Chinese paintings and calligraphy. One of his favourite painters is Zhang Daqian, and he has more than 250 of his works. He is a sponsor of the Zhang Daqian Museum, which is housed in the artist's former home. He has incorporated a Museum of Art a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroMobile | AeroMobile Communications Limited is a registered mobile network operator for the aviation industry and is based in the UK. It provides technology and services that allow the safe use of passengers' own mobile phones while inflight. A subsidiary of Panasonic Avionics Corporation its services are often installed alongside Panasonic's Wi-Fi network and can be installed either at the point of aircraft manufacture or retro-fitted across both Airbus and Boeing aircraft. Panasonic Avionic's Wi-Fi network and AeroMobile's mobile phone network are complimentary services and provide passengers with a choice of inflight connectivity options.
Since launching the service in March 2008, over 40 million passengers have connected to the network and AeroMobile now has over 20 airline partners offering passengers inflight voice, SMS and data services on selected, connected flights. Airline partners include Emirates, Etihad, KLM, Lufthansa, SAS, Virgin Atlantic, Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Turkish Airlines.
In December 2015 AeroMobile launched the world's first 3.5G inflight mobile network with Air Berlin. The 3.5G network provides passengers with a substantial increase in data speeds, faster browsing and quicker posts.
Company milestones
Customers
Aer Lingus - Launched 2013: A330-200s and A330-300s
Air France - Launched 2013: B777
Air Serbia - Launched 2015: A319 and A320
Alitalia- Launched 2015: A330-200s
Cathay Pacific - Launched 2016: A350
Emirates Airline - Launched 2008: A330-200s, A340-300s, A340-500s, B777-200, B777-300ERs, GSM and GPRS services
Etihad - Launched 2012: A330s, A380 and B777-300ERs
Eurowings - Launched 2016: A330
EVA Air - Launched 2014: B777
KLM - Launched 2013: B777
Kuwait Airways - Launched 2016: B777
Malaysia Airlines - Launched 2018: A350-900, GSM and GPRS services
Malindo Air - Launched 2015: B737-900s
Lufthansa - Launched 2014: A330-300s, B747-400s, B747-800s, A380-800s, A340-300s, GSM and GPRS services
SAS - Launched 2012: B737s GSM and GPRS (email) services
Qatar Airways - Launched 2014: A330-200
Singapore Airlines Launched 2013: B777-300ER
SWISS Launched 2016: B777 and A330
Turkish Airlines - A330-300s and B777-300ERs
Virgin Atlantic - Launched 2011: A330, B747-400 GSM and GPRS services
See also
Aircell
Connexion by Boeing
Inmarsat
Mobile phones on aircraft
OnAir
References
External links
Mobile phone companies of the United Kingdom
Travel technology
Telenor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20retrieval | XML retrieval, or XML information retrieval, is the content-based retrieval of documents structured with XML (eXtensible Markup Language). As such it is used for computing relevance of XML documents.
Queries
Most XML retrieval approaches do so based on techniques from the information retrieval (IR) area, e.g. by computing the similarity between a query consisting of keywords (query terms) and the document. However, in XML-Retrieval the query can also contain structural hints. So-called "content and structure" (CAS) queries enable users to specify what structure the requested content can or must have.
Exploiting XML structure
Taking advantage of the self-describing structure of XML documents can improve the search for XML documents significantly. This includes the use of CAS queries, the weighting of different XML elements differently and the focused retrieval of subdocuments.
Ranking
Ranking in XML-Retrieval can incorporate both content relevance and structural similarity, which is the resemblance between the structure given in the query and the structure of the document. Also, the retrieval units resulting from an XML query may not always be entire documents, but can be any deeply nested XML elements, i.e. dynamic documents. The aim is to find the smallest retrieval unit that is highly relevant. Relevance can be defined according to the notion of specificity, which is the extent to which a retrieval unit focuses on the topic of request.
Existing XML search engines
An overview of two potential approaches is available. The INitiative for the Evaluation of XML-Retrieval (INEX) was founded in 2002 and provides a platform for evaluating such algorithms. Three different areas influence XML-Retrieval:
Traditional XML query languages
Query languages such as the W3C standard XQuery supply complex queries, but only look for exact matches. Therefore, they need to be extended to allow for vague search with relevance computing. Most XML-centered approaches imply a quite exact knowledge of the documents' schemas.
Databases
Classic database systems have adopted the possibility to store semi-structured data and resulted in the development of XML databases. Often, they are very formal, concentrate more on searching than on ranking, and are used by experienced users able to formulate complex queries.
Information retrieval
Classic information retrieval models such as the vector space model provide relevance ranking, but do not include document structure; only flat queries are supported. Also, they apply a static document concept, so retrieval units usually are entire documents. They can be extended to consider structural information and dynamic document retrieval. Examples for approaches extending the vector space models are available: they use document subtrees (index terms plus structure) as dimensions of the vector space.
Data-centric XML datasets
For data-centric XML datasets, the unique and distinct keyword search method, namely, XDMA for XML databa |
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