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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations%20and%20maintenance%20centre | In mobile networks, an operation and maintenance center is the central location to operate and maintain the network.
There are various types of OMCs depending on the functionality:
OMC-B (for maintaining Node B)
OMC-R (radio. for maintaining RNC)
UMTS OMC-U
GPRS OMC-G
OMC-DO
OMC-IP
Telecommunications infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy99 | Happy99 (also termed Ska or I-Worm) is a computer worm for Microsoft Windows. It first appeared in mid-January 1999, spreading through email and usenet. The worm installs itself and runs in the background of a victim's machine, without their knowledge. It is generally considered the first virus to propagate by email, and has served as a template for the creation of other self-propagating viruses. Happy99 has spread on multiple continents, including North America, Europe, and Asia.
Significance
Happy99 was described by Paul Oldfield as "the first virus to spread rapidly by email". In the Computer Security Handbook, Happy99 is referred to as "the first modern worm". Happy99 also served as a template for the creation of ExploreZip, another self-spreading virus.
Spread
The worm first appeared on 20 January 1999. Media reports of the worm started coming in from the United States and Europe, in addition to numerous complaints on newsgroups from users that had become infected with the worm. Asia Pulse reported 74 cases of the virus from Japan in February, and 181 cases were reported in March—a monthly record at the time. On 3 March 1999, a Tokyo job company accidentally sent 4000 copies of the virus to 30 universities in Japan.
Dan Schrader of Trend Micro said that Happy99 was the single most commonly reported virus in their system for the month of March. A virus bulletin published in February 2000 reported that Happy99 caused reports of file-infecting malware to reach over 16% in April 1999. Sophos listed Happy99 among the top ten viruses reported in the year of 1999. Eric Chien, head of research at Symantec, reported that the worm was the second most reported virus in Europe for 2000. Marius Van Oers, a researcher for Network Associates, referred to Happy99 as "a global problem", saying that it was one of the most commonly reported viruses in 1999. When virus researcher Craig Schmugar posted a fix for the virus on his website, a million people downloaded it.
Technical details
The worm spreads through email attachments and usenet. When executed, animated fireworks and a "Happy New Year" message display. The worm modifies Winsock, a Windows communication library, to allow itself to spread. The worm then attaches itself automatically to all subsequent emails and newsgroup posts sent by a user. The worm modifies a registry key to automatically start itself when the computer is rebooted. In some cases, the program may cause several error messages to appear.
The worm was written by a French virus writer known as "Spanska". Other than propagating itself, the worm does no further damage to an infected computer. The worm typically uses port 25 to spread, but uses port 119 if port 25 is not available. The executable of the worm is 10,000 bytes in size; a list of spammed newsgroups and mail addresses is stored on the infected hard drive. The worm spreads only if the Winsock library is not set to read-only.
See also
List of computer worms
Timeline of comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20Dhabi%20Media%20Network | Abu Dhabi Media Network (, also ADMN) is the official media organization of the Government of Abu Dhabi. The organization was established in 2007.
The company manages over 18 brands in two categories. ADM brands include Abu Dhabi TV, Al Emarat TV, Abu Dhabi Sports Channel, Drama, National Geographic Abu Dhabi, Yas TV, Quran Kareem, Emarat FM, Abu Dhabi FM, Star FM, Abu Dhabi Classic FM, and Kadak FM. It also includes Al-Ittihad, Zahrat Al Khaleej, Majid TV, and National Geographic Al Arabiya across the publishing platform. ADM operates websites as well as applications for Zahrat Al Khaleej, Majid, Zayed Digital TV, and Mohtawa.
Incorporation
The company was created in June 2007 by Law No 13 of 2007 as a joint stock company (wholly owned by the government of Abu Dhabi) from the assets of Emirates Media Incorporated. Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, formed the five-member board of directors, which included Sheikh Al Nahyan, Mohammad Khalaf Al Mazroui (chair of the board), Ahmad Ali Al Sayegh (deputy chairman), Mohammad Omar Abdullah, Mubarak Hamad Al Muhairi, and Abdullah Musleh Al Ahbabi. The company's initial capitalization was Dh100 million (about $27.3 million in inflation-adjusted 2009 U.S. dollars). Riyad al-Mubarak was named the company's chief executive officer.
Activities
One of the first acts the new company took was to launch Abu Dhabi's first English newspaper, The National, in August 2007 (although the paper did not debut until April 2008). Martin Newland, former editor of The Daily Telegraph, was named the newspaper's first editor. The newspaper was given five years before it had to produce a balanced budget. A year later, in October 2008, the company appointed Gavin Dickinson its executive director of publishing, with authority over the media firm's newspapers, its United Printing and Publishing printing company, and its publication distribution business.
In early 2008, the company launched Abu Dhabi TV. Karim Sarkis (formerly of the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation), was named its executive director, and Ricky Ghai (previously executive vice president of programming at Orbit, was named the executive director of digital media. When it debuted, Abu Dhabi TV was the 20th most-watched Arab satellite channel, but soon reached 7th or 8th within a few months (in particular, based on the strength of its Million's Poet show). October 2008 saw the company announce the creation of the Abu Dhabi Media Zone—a 200,000 square meter campus for foreign media companies. CNN, HarperCollins, Random House, the BBC, The Financial Times and the Thomson Reuters Foundation agreed to establish operations on the site, with several of the companies offering training in journalism and filmmaking for Arab students.
The company expanded heavily in motion pictures soon thereafter. It hosted the first 10-day Middle East International Film Festival in October 2007. The festival is led by Peter Scarlet, formerly the creative director at t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variadic%20template | In computer programming, variadic templates are templates that take a variable number of arguments.
Variadic templates are supported by C++ (since the C++11 standard), and the D programming language.
C++
The variadic template feature of C++ was designed by Douglas Gregor and Jaakko Järvi and was later standardized in C++11.
Prior to C++11, templates (classes and functions) could only take a fixed number of arguments, which had to be specified when a template was first declared. C++11 allows template definitions to take an arbitrary number of arguments of any type.
template<typename... Values> class tuple; // takes zero or more arguments
The above template class will take any number of typenames as its template parameters. Here, an instance of the above template class is instantiated with three type arguments:
tuple<int, std::vector<int>, std::map<std::string, std::vector<int>>> some_instance_name;
The number of arguments can be zero, so will also work.
If the variadic template should only allow a positive number of arguments, then this definition can be used:
template<typename First, typename... Rest> class tuple; // takes one or more arguments
Variadic templates may also apply to functions, thus not only providing a type-safe add-on to variadic functions (such as printf), but also allowing a function called with printf-like syntax to process non-trivial objects.
template<typename... Params> void my_printf(const std::string &str_format, Params... parameters);
The ellipsis (...) operator has two roles. When it occurs to the left of the name of a parameter, it declares a parameter pack. Using the parameter pack, the user can bind zero or more arguments to the variadic template parameters. Parameter packs can also be used for non-type parameters. By contrast, when the ellipsis operator occurs to the right of a template or function call argument, it unpacks the parameter packs into separate arguments, like the in the body of below. In practice, the use of an ellipsis operator in the code causes the whole expression that precedes the ellipsis to be repeated for every subsequent argument unpacked from the argument pack, with the expressions separated by commas.
The use of variadic templates is often recursive. The variadic parameters themselves are not readily available to the implementation of a function or class. Therefore, the typical mechanism for defining something like a C++11 variadic replacement would be as follows:
// base case
void my_printf(const char *s)
{
while (*s)
{
if (*s == '%')
{
if (*(s + 1) != '%')
++s;
else
throw std::runtime_error("invalid format string: missing arguments");
}
std::cout << *s++;
}
}
// recursive
template<typename T, typename... Args>
void my_printf(const char *s, T value, Args... args)
{
while (*s)
{
if (*s == '%')
{
if (*(s + 1) != '%')
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clover%20Hill%20Tavern | The Clover Hill Tavern with its guest house and slave quarters are structures within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. They were registered in the National Park Service's database of Official Structures on October 15, 1966.
The tavern was built by two brothers as a stagecoach stop for the line they started in 1809 between Richmond and Lynchburg, Virginia. They had bought a farm at Clover Hill which was halfway between these town. It came with a small building that served as headquarters for their enterprise. This was expanded into a tavern and a guest house inn for travelers. It was a popular rest stop and prospered, eventually turning into a village.
History
The tavern originally opened in 1819 on the Richmond-Lynchburg Road for travelers and is the oldest original structure in the village of Appomattox Court House, with the exception of the Sweeney Prizery outside of the local of the village but within the Park. The Clover Hill Tavern inn grew and farmhouses grew up around it soon after it opened. It was built by Alexander Patteson and his brother Lilburne Patteson as a stagecoach stop for the line between Cumberland County and Lynchburg.
In 1865, on Palm Sunday, the rapidly approaching end of the Civil War changed the prosperity of the Clover Hill Tavern with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant. The Generals arranged a meeting to be held in town at the McLean House so Lee could formally surrender his troops to Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Approximately thirty thousand paroles for the Confederate soldiers were printed in the Clover Hill Tavern.
At the time of General Lee's surrender to Union commander Grant in 1865 the Tavern and its associated outbuildings were owned by Wilson Hix.
Billy Hix, Wilson's son, was the sheriff of the village of Appomattox Court House then. Brigadier General George H. Sharpe, as head of the Bureau of Military Information and Assistant Provost Marshal, made the Clover Hill Tavern his headquarters starting on April 10, 1865. Sharpe was designated by Grant to oversee the printing of parole passes which were issued to the Confederate veterans. Research by historians of the Park reveal that perhaps the paroles were printed in the wooden dining room wing at the west end of the Tavern that no longer is there. The paroles allowed the surrendered Confederate soldiers to travel unmolested to their homes.
A National Park Service marker at the front entrance of the Clover Hill Tavern reads:
Historical significance
The Clover Hill Tavern with its guest house and slave quarters have special meaning in American history as designated by the National Park Service under their criteria by embodying the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction in the mid nineteenth century. The buildings and resources constitute a typical farming community of Virginia as well as a government seat (county "court house" seat) of the nineteenth ce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Sweeney%20Cabin | The Charles Sweeney Cabin is a structure within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. It was registered in the National Park Service's database of Official Structures on June 26, 1989.
History
Charles Sweeney was the uncle of Joel Sweeney, the person that popularized the five-string American banjo. In the 1840s the Sweeney clan lived on the stagecoach road northeast of Clover Hill, the name of the village now known as the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. John Sweeney, a wheelwright and Charles' brother, lived in the old family home on the north bank of the Appomattox river with his wife and four children. When Joel was not touring the country entertaining he would stay at John's cabin. Just up the road the four children of John's, being nephews and nieces of Charles, could see their uncle's small cabin. Charles lived in the tiny cabin with his wife and two remaining children. Charles Sweeney's older son Robert, a left-handed fiddle player, lived in even a smaller cabin with his wife and baby daughter downhill from John. Charles Sweeney was born in 1794 as was his wife, Mary.
Historical significance
Pictured is Charles Sweeney, born 1837 to Charles Sweeney and Mary A. Staples. This was his Cabin at the time of the Surrender. He was a Confederate soldier and recently married to Martha J. Bryant, daughter of James Bryant and Susan Layne.
The National Park Service states the Charles Sweeney Cabin is meaningful by virtue of its association with the site of General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant. There is some evidence, in the form of a circa 1930 post card, which indicates that General Fitzhugh Lee and his staff stayed in this house the night before the Surrender. It was originally built between 1830 and 1840 by Charles Sweeney, altered between 1940 and 1950, and restored in 1988 and 1994.
Description
The Charles Sweeney Cabin is a single-story one-room structure with a loft. It is about twenty feet wide by about eighteen feet deep. The cabin is a post and beam hall house set on dry-laid fieldstone pier foundation, typical of what was in rural Virginia in the nineteenth century. The hall house consists of a "hall" or keeping room, that was the main room of the cabin. It served as an assortment of various rooms when needed; consisting of a living room, dining room, kitchen, workroom and bedroom. Cooking was done in a fireplace that was set to one end of the large room.
A rough, crudely quoined, fieldstone chimney extends to the second floor and above with brick. There are windows on the north, south and east sides. The south and east sides have single four-paneled doors. The interior of the cabin is in good condition. The roof is made of oak shakes, square-butted, and is supported at the eaves by a box cornice. The ends are covered with scribed end boards.
The one-room interior of the Charles Sweeney Cabin has a loft accessible in the northwest corner by a dog-leg stairway. The stairway has m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20County%20Jail | The New County Jail is a structure within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. It was registered in the National Park Service's database of Official Structures on June 26, 1989.
History
In the early sixteen hundreds, Captain John Smith explored the territory of Virginia under the sponsorship of the Virginia Company of London to colonize it for profits. In 1612, Smith made a map of what he had found. In his detailed map he showed the area including rivers and mountains. He also included settlements of the many tribes of Indians. Smith showed a tributary off the James River where there was an Indian Village that was called "Appamatuck". The tributary river joining the James River near this village was named after the Appamatuck Indians. There were many spelling variations for Appamatuck over the next two hundred years and it eventually developed for the English settlers into "Appomattox".
The need for localized service set about the formation of a new county by an act that was passed on February 8, 1845. It came from parts of Prince Edward, Buckingham, Charlotte and Campbell counties. The new "Appomattox County" seat was put at Clover Hill because it was centrally located along the Richmond-Lynchburg stagecoach road. Most of the new county came from Prince Edward County. There was already a stagecoach stop at Clover Hill, the new county seat hamlet which was high overlooking the Appomattox River. After officially made the courthouse seat and the name changed to "Appomattox Court House" in 1845 there was a surge of activity in real estate. Lots changed hands several times in land speculation in anticipation of new public buildings. The first building constructed was a county jail in 1845, a log structure. Then came a new courthouse across the stagecoach road west in 1846. During the American Civil War the original log jail burned down around 1867. It was replaced in 1870 with the present three story brick jail, the New County Jail, which was already started in construction in 1860.
Historical significance
The New County Jail represents the participation of the federal government in the preservation and commemoration of historically significant events. It also has distinctive characteristics as an example of embodying a type, period, and method of construction in the 1870s in rural Virginia. It is noted both as a county government seat and of a farming community in Piedmont Virginia in the nineteenth century.
Description
The New County Jail layout and exterior finish clearly depict its use as a jail. It is a three-story building of forty feet wide and twenty feet deep and across Main Street from the site of the old original wooden county jail. The construction of the building started in 1860, however it was not finished until 1867 due to the Civil War. The structure is made of brick and iron. It has at least two different brick types due to the long construction time. The prisoner jail cells with iron bars were on the top two f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peers%20House | The Peers House is a structure within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. It was registered in the National Park Service's database of Official Structures on June 26, 1989.
History
The Peers House was constructed in 1855. Samuel D. McDearmon originally sold the house to William Abbitt, who then in turn sold the house to D. A. Plunkett in 1856. When General Lee surrendered to General Grant the house on a hilltop overlooking the village of Appomattox Court House, once owned by Sheriff Plunkett, was owned and occupied by a George Peers. Peers was able to obtain the house at public auction for non-payment of loans in 1870 after Plunkett's death.
George T. Peers
George T. Peers was a well known Appomattox County clerk for some forty years. Historian Nathaniel Ragland Featherston writes in his book Appomattox County History and Genealogy that between the close of the Civil War and the time the original "court house" burned down (1892) there was a group of a dozen or so town's people in the village of Appomattox Court House that socially were like one big happy family. Among these key village people was Peers.
Historian William Marvel writes in his book A Place Called Appomattox that Peers was the longest standing court clerk. He says Peers remembers the "court house" as standing forty feet square as he drew a map of the village of Appomattox Court House ("Clover Hill").
Historical significance
The National Park Service states that the Peers House has importance by virtue of its association with the site of General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant. The Confederate soldiers marched past the house on the Richmond-Lynchburg Stage Road to go into battle on April 9, 1865. This is where they stacked their arms on April 12, 1865. One of the last artillery shots fired by the Confederate Northern Virginia killed Lieutenant Hiram Clark of the 185th New York Infantry near the Peers house on the morning of April 9, 1865.
The Peers House embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction of mid-nineteenth century rural Virginia. The building with its resources is considered typical of both a county government seat and of a farming community in Piedmont Virginia in the mid-nineteenth century.
Description
The Peers House has many of the same characteristics as the Bocock-Isbell House, which is nearby. The two story house is thirty four feet wide by eighteen feet deep and is of post and beam construction. It is built on a brick raised basement almost 6 feet above grade. The house is finished with a narrow wood siding with an almost five inch exposure. The house comes with an attic.
The Peers House has single step external end chimneys and with its narrow wood siding. The west side has a temple form entry porch raised to the first floor. There are simple box posts that support the pedimented gable over the porch. The porch gable and main roof are covered with square-butt wood shingles a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocock%E2%80%93Isbell%20House | The Bocock–Isbell House is a structure within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. It was registered in the National Park Service's database of Official Structures on June 26, 1989.
History
The Bocock–Isbell House has major importance to the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park by virtue of its association with the history and the site of General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant of the American Civil War. It was constructed in 1849 to 1850 by Thomas S. Bocock and Henry F. Bocock, brothers. Thomas was a member of the United States Congress and Speaker of the Confederate House of Representatives. At the time, Henry was Clerk of the Court for Appomattox County. Lewis Daniel Isbell (1818-1889) was Appomattox County Commonwealth Attorney during the American Civil War (Judge later) and occupied the house at the time General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865. He was Appomattox County's representative to the Secession Convention of 1861 and voted to secede from the Union.
Historical significance
The Bocock–Isbell House has importance because of its distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction during the nineteenth century in rural Virginia. The building with its resources associated with the Bocock–Isbell House are typical of both a county government seat ("court house") in Piedmont Virginia in the mid-nineteenth century and of a farming community in Virginia.
Description
The Bocock–Isbell House is much like the Peers House. The post and beam house is a three bay two-story structure. The Bocock–Isbell House is nineteen feet wide by fifty feet deep with a raised basement of brick laid in common bond. The gable roof is covered with wood shingles. The house frame is sheathed by weatherboards. The southeast closet extension has a shed roof, is two and a half feet by six and a half feet.
The north (entrance) porch has a flat roof of nearly fifteen feet by ten and a half feet. The south porch has a tin shed roof twenty feet by ten and a half feet. Both porches are on brick piers. The exterior of the house is restored and the interior is reconstructed. The first-floor, second-floor and basement windows are 6/6 DH. The first and second floor windows have shutters. The north facade entry door is a wood door with four raised panels, with a fifteen-light transom above.
The Bocock–Isbell House was restored in 1948 to 1949 and preserved in 1992 to 1993. Work was done on it again to stabilize it in 1995 and again it was preserved in 1999.
Footnotes
Sources
Bradford, Ned, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Plume, 1989
Carroll, Orville W., Historic Structures Report Part III, Architectural Data Section on Mariah Wright House, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. Ms. on file, National park Service, Chesapeake and Allegheny Systems Support Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1965
Catton, Bruce, A Stillness at Appomattox, Doubleday 1953, Librar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariah%20Wright%20House | The Mariah Wright house is a structure within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. It was registered in the National Park Service's database of Official Structures on June 26, 1989.
History
The Mariah Wright house was constructed in 1823 by Pryor Wright.
It is associated with the site where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865 with their major commanders.
Historical significance
A marker near titled "Lee's Last Attack" says:"At a last council of war held on Saturday, April 8, Lee ordered Gordon's infantry and Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry to clear the stage road of Union cavalry. The Union horsemen were pushed back but arrival of bluecoated infantry again blocked the escape route. A flag of truce halted the fighting while General Lee negotiated the surrender of his army."
Description and architecture
The single story Mariah Wright House is topped with a gable roof and attic. The structure is roughly forty feet deep by eighteen feet wide. The west side of the house has a full length front porch and a central east porch of sixteen and a half feet by seven and a half feet. Both porches are on stone piers with wood shingle shed roofs. The house siding is beaded pine weatherboard.
The Mariah Wright House had an attached kitchen wing added around 1890. In 1965 the National Park Service restored the house, removing the kitchen wing and excavating a basement and full cement foundation. Extensive archeological investigations were conducted at this time and many artifacts were found.
Footnotes
Sources
Marvel, William, A Place Called Appomattox, UNC Press, 2000,
Further reading
Bradford, Ned, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Plume, 1989
Carroll, Orville W., Historic Structures Report Part III, Architectural Data Section on Mariah Wright House, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. Ms. on file, National park Service, Chesapeake and Allegheny Systems Support Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1965
Catton, Bruce, A Stillness at Appomattox, Doubleday 1953, Library of Congress # 53-9982,
Catton, Bruce, This Hallowed Ground, Doubleday 1953, Library of Congress # 56-5960
Davis, Burke, The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts, Wings Books, 1960 & 1982,
Davis, Burke, To Appomattox - Nine April Days, 1865, Eastern Acorn Press, 1992,
Farrar, Stuart McDearmon, Historical Notes of Appomattox County, Virginia, self-published by Farrar, 1989, Original from the University of Virginia
Featherston, Nathaniel Ragland, Appomattox County History and Genealogy, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1998,
Fiero, Kathleen, Archeological Research Mariah Wright House Outbuildings, Historic Roads. National Park Service, Denver Service Center. Denver, Colorado, 1983
Glassie, Henry H., Vernacular Architecture, Indiana University Press, 2000,
Gutek, Patricia, Plantations and Outdoor Museums in America's Historic South, University of South Carolina Pres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweeney%20Prizery | The Sweeney Prizery is a structure within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. It was registered in the National Park Service's database of Official Structures on June 26, 1989.
History
This building, constructed around the year 1790, is the oldest structure in the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. The Sweeney prizery was built primarily as a residence for Alexander Sweeney and the cellar used as a prizery for his business. By 1865, it was owned by Joel Flood. Prizeries were structures in which hogsheads of tobacco were stored after the tobacco was packed, a process known as prizing.
The prizery is considered significant both due to its representation of the characteristics of a tobacco prizery and for its association with the surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Physical description
The Sweeney prizery (tobacco packing house) is a single story structure with a loft and full cellar. It was built to serve as both a prizery and as a residence. It is about thirty six feet wide by sixteen feet deep. The prizery is built into a bank. The building has a foundation of rough-hewn sandstone that makes up the cellar walls. There is board sheathing on the inside of the exterior weatherboards.
There are only three openings from the exterior to the cellar, all of which are on the southeast side. Two are the remains of doors and the other is a casement opening. There are two external chimneys, one at each gable end. While the ceiling supports have been whitewashed, the ceilings themselves are not plastered. Openings for two doors are present on the first floor of the northwest side of the structure.
Pictures of the Sweeney prizery as it looked in 1959.
Footnotes
Sources
Bradford, Ned, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Plume, 1989
Catton, Bruce, A Stillness at Appomattox, Doubleday 1953, Library of Congress # 53-9982,
Catton, Bruce, This Hallowed Ground, Doubleday 1953, Library of Congress # 56-5960
Chaffin, Tom, 2006. Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah, Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,.
Davis, Burke, The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts, Wings Books, 1960 & 1982,
Davis, Burke, To Appomattox - Nine April Days, 1865, Eastern Acorn Press, 1992,
Featherston, Nathaniel Ragland, Appomattox County History and Genealogy, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1998,
Gutek, Patricia, Plantations and Outdoor Museums in America's Historic South, University of South Carolina Press, 1996,
Hosmer, Charles Bridgham, Preservation Comes of Age: From Williamsburg to the National Trust, 1926-1949, Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States by the University Press of Virginia, 1981
Kaiser, Harvey H., The National Park Architecture Sourcebook, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008,
Kennedy, Frances H., The Civil War Battlefield Guide, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990,
Korn, Jerry et al., The Civil War, Pursuit to Appoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacionalna%20Televizija%20Happy | Nacionalna Televizija Happy (often shortened to Happy) is a privately owned TV channel in Serbia. Happy has gained a strong reputation for its entertainment programming. The station offers a compilation of international and domestic movies, American sitcoms, dramas, Indian soap operas and Latin telenovelas, as well as locally produced talk/variety shows, sitcoms and reality shows.
Happy's parent company is the Belgrade-based Invej, which also owns many business entities that often serve as sponsors of the program, which is owned by Predrag Ranković.
History
Happy was previously called Košava, the latter once owned by Marija Milošević, daughter of Slobodan Milošević, Serbia's authoritarian president in power during the 1990s. Marija Milošević sold her ownership in Kosava TV to lawyer Borivoj Pajović, who was at the time President of the board of directors in the daily newspaper Blic.
After a couple of ownership changes, in 2006 the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media issued Košava with a license with national coverage, which was shared with kids channel Happy – while Happy aired exclusively kids programming in the morning, Košava broadcast informative and current affairs programs in the evening. At that time, REM's (then RRA) decision was disputed since neither TV stations had the capacity for national broadcasting, unlike, for example, RTL which competed for a license but was not issued one.
In 2007, Predrag Ranković, known to the public for involvement in shady business deals, bought part of Kosava, although his name was never mentioned in formal ownership documents. In 2010, Košava bought Happy, and Košava changed its name to Happy and started to broadcast as one program. Former kids channel Happy changed name to Happy Kids, but channel closed in 2017.
Happy started getting a high viewership because of its TV series and movies airing, most because of Turkish drama series and Latin American telenovelas. Since its beginning, Happy has made several reality TV shows, with Parovi as most popular of them. It got Happy huge success and big viewership, but also a particular criticism.
Programming
Happy TV has been shown many foreign TV series and movies, mostly Turkish, American, Latin American, etc.
Happy TV has shown many international and domestic movies, which have been shown with great result with big viewership not only in Serbia but also in the Serbian diaspora where Happy TV is present. It has aired latest box-office hits in United States.
Since start, Happy TV has made several reality shows in co-operation with Emotion Production, and as result of it they broadcast a local version of internationally well known Wife Swap, called Menjam ženu, which had been broadcast earlier on RTV Pink. They also made a Serbian version of Wheel of Fortune called Kolo sreće, and later show called Soba sreće.
Telenovelas, drama series and soap operas
Happy TV has broadcast many foreign telenovelas, drama series and soap operas, mainly from Latin Am |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STRING | In molecular biology, STRING (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins) is a biological database and web resource of known and predicted protein–protein interactions.
The STRING database contains information from numerous sources, including experimental data, computational prediction methods and public text collections. It is freely accessible and it is regularly updated. The resource also serves to highlight functional enrichments in user-provided lists of proteins, using a number of functional classification systems such as GO, Pfam and KEGG. The latest version 11b contains information on about 24,5 million proteins from more than 5000 organisms. STRING has been developed by a consortium of academic institutions including CPR, EMBL, KU, SIB, TUD and UZH.
Usage
Protein–protein interaction networks are an important ingredient for the system-level understanding of cellular processes.
Such networks can be used for filtering and assessing functional genomics data and for providing an intuitive platform for annotating structural, functional and evolutionary properties of proteins.
Exploring the predicted interaction networks can suggest new directions for future experimental research and provide cross-species predictions for efficient interaction mapping.
Features
The data is weighted and integrated and a confidence score is calculated for all protein interactions. Results of the various computational predictions can be inspected from different designated views. There are two modes of STRING: Protein-mode and COG-mode. Predicted interactions are propagated to proteins in other organisms for which interaction has been described by inference of orthology. A web interface is available to access the data and to give a fast overview of the proteins and their interactions. A plug-in for cytoscape to use STRING data is available.
Another possibility to access data STRING is to use the application programming interface (API) by constructing a URL that contain the request.
Data sources
Like many other databases that store protein association knowledge, STRING imports data from experimentally derived protein–protein interactions through literature curation. Furthermore, STRING also store computationally predicted interactions from: (i) text mining of scientific texts, (ii) interactions computed from genomic features, and
(iii) interactions transferred from model organisms based on orthology.
All predicted or imported interactions are benchmarked against a common reference of functional partnership as annotated by KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes).
Imported data
STRING imports protein association knowledge from databases of physical interaction and databases of curated biological pathway knowledge
(MINT, HPRD, BIND, DIP, BioGRID, KEGG, Reactome, IntAct, EcoCyc, NCI-Nature Pathway Interaction Database, GO).
Links are supplied to the originating data of the respective experimental repositories and database resources.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brecknock%20Wildlife%20Trust | Brecknock Wildlife Trust () is a former wildlife trust covering the vice county of Brecknockshire in Wales. The Trust was founded in 1964, with a network of volunteers carrying out most of its work. No full-time conservation officers were in post until 1987. Heritage Lottery funding helped the Trust to expand and a bequest of £1,000,000 in 2003 resulted in the appointment of a Reserves Officer. In April 2018 it merged with The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales.
The offices of the Trust are located in Lion House, Brecon. The Trust has 22 reserves, the majority of which are in the Brecon Beacons National Park. All are open to the public free of charge.
The most visited of the reserves is at Pwll-y-Wrach ("Witches' Pool", near Talgarth; the site is 17.5 hectares in area, most of which is woodland. At the eastern end of the reserve is a waterfall flowing from the River Enig into the so-called Witches' Pool. The wildlife in this area includes bluebells, woodruff, orchids, herb paris, toothwort, dormice and dippers (which frequent the waterfall).
Another reserve run by the Trust, Glasbury Cutting, is located at Glasbury-on-Wye, in the far east of the Trust's administrative area. Formerly part of the railway line between Brecon and Hereford, which closed in 1962, it is composed partly of woodland and partly of a meadow created to encourage wild plants. Dormice, a protected species, were discovered within the reserve in 2000. In the far south-west, Cae Lynden Nature Reserve is one of three reserves close together near Ystradgynlais. The grasslands of this former sports field encourage marsh fritillary, meadow brown and gatekeeper butterflies.
Vicarage Meadows, a grassland reserve near Abergwesyn in the Irfon Valley, is managed by the Trust and the species growing there include bog asphodel, wood bitter vetch, greater butterfly orchids and small white orchids.
In March 2016, the Brecknock Wildlife Trust announced a new initiative in the Ystradgynlais area, called the Wild Communities Project. This is intended to capitalise on the results of an earlier project, the “Upper Tawe Valley Living Landscape Project". Lottery funding of £313,757 has been allocated to this project, which will take place over a three-year period.
External links
The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales Website
References
Organisations based in Powys
Wildlife Trusts of Wales
Brecon Beacons National Park
Organizations established in 1964
1964 establishments in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv6 | xv6 is a modern reimplementation of Sixth Edition Unix in ANSI C for multiprocessor x86 and RISC-V systems. It was created for pedagogical purposes in MIT's Operating System Engineering course in 2006.
Purpose
MIT's Operating System Engineering course formerly used the original V6 source code. xv6 was created as a modern replacement, because PDP-11 machines are not widely available and the original operating system was written in archaic pre-ANSI C. Unlike Linux or BSD, xv6 is simple enough to cover in a semester, yet still contains the important concepts and organization of Unix.
Self-documentation
One feature of the Makefile for xv6 is the option to produce a PDF of the entire source code listing in a readable format. The entire printout is only 99 pages, including cross references. This is reminiscent of the original V6 source code, which was published in a similar form in Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code.
Educational use
xv6 has been used in operating systems courses at many universities, including:
Ben-Gurion University
Binghamton University
CentraleSupélec
Columbia University
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute
Federico Santa María Technical University
George Washington University
Georgia Tech
IIIT Allahabad
IIT Bhubaneswar and PEC Chandigarh
IIT Bombay
IIT Delhi
IIT Madras
IIIT Delhi
IIIT Bangalore
IIIT Hyderabad
Iran University of Science and Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Linnaeus University
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad
National Taiwan University
National University of Córdoba
National University of Río Cuarto
New York University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Portland State University
Rutgers University
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Southern Adventist University
Stony Brook University
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Tsinghua University
Federal University of Minas Gerais
University College Dublin
University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Riverside
University of Hyderabad
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Leeds
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
University of Otago
University of Palermo
University of Pittsburgh
University of Strasbourg
University of South Florida
University of Tehran
University of Utah
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yale University
References
External links
Operating Systems Engineering (6.828)
RISC-V:
xv6 source code
xv6 book source code
xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system, xv6 book rev3.
x86 (unmaintained):
xv6 source code
xv6 book source code
xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system, xv6 book rev11.
Printable version of the xv6 source code, rev11.
Educational operating systems
Free software operating systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%20Cross%20method | The Hardy Cross method is an iterative method for determining the flow in pipe network systems where the inputs and outputs are known, but the flow inside the network is unknown.
The method was first published in November 1936 by its namesake, Hardy Cross, a structural engineering professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The Hardy Cross method is an adaptation of the Moment distribution method, which was also developed by Hardy Cross as a way to determine the forces in statically indeterminate structures.
The introduction of the Hardy Cross method for analyzing pipe flow networks revolutionized municipal water supply design. Before the method was introduced, solving complex pipe systems for distribution was extremely difficult due to the nonlinear relationship between head loss and flow. The method was later made obsolete by computer solving algorithms employing the Newton–Raphson method or other numerical methods that eliminate the need to solve nonlinear systems of equations by hand.
History
In 1930, Hardy Cross published a paper called "Analysis of Continuous Frames by Distributing Fixed-End Moments" in which he described the moment distribution method, which would change the way engineers in the field performed structural analysis. The moment distribution method was used to determine the forces in statically indeterminate structures and allowed for engineers to safely design structures from the 1930s through the 1960s, until the development of computer oriented methods. In November 1936, Cross applied the same geometric method to solving pipe network flow distribution problems, and published a paper called "Analysis of flow in networks of conduits or conductors."
Derivation
The Hardy Cross method is an application of continuity of flow and continuity of potential to iteratively solve for flows in a pipe network. In the case of pipe flow, conservation of flow means that the flow in is equal to the flow out at each junction in the pipe. Conservation of potential means that the total directional head loss along any loop in the system is zero (assuming that a head loss counted against the flow is actually a head gain).
Hardy Cross developed two methods for solving flow networks. Each method starts by maintaining either continuity of flow or potential, and then iteratively solves for the other.
Assumptions
The Hardy Cross method assumes that the flow going in and out of the system is known and that the pipe length, diameter, roughness and other key characteristics are also known or can be assumed. The method also assumes that the relation between flow rate and head loss is known, but the method does not require any particular relation to be used.
In the case of water flow through pipes, a number of methods have been developed to determine the relationship between head loss and flow. The Hardy Cross method allows for any of these relationships to be used.
The general relationship between head loss and flow is:
where |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Research%20on%20Multinational%20Corporations | The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO–), is an independent, non-profit research and network organisation working on social, ecological and economic issues related to sustainable development. Since 1973, the organisation investigates multinational corporations and the consequences of their activities for people and the environment around the world.
SOMO has expertise in:
Sectors and value chains
Corporate research
Corporate accountability
Economic reform
The main sectors under research by SOMO are the electronics, energy & water, minerals, agriculture & food, clothing, pharmaceuticals and the financial sectors.
History
Establishment
In the early 1970s, large groups of Dutch people declared themselves in solidarity with the reform politics of the Chilean President Allende. At the time, the process of democratising the Chilean economy was threatened by the manipulations of multinational - mainly American - corporations with interests in Chile. The violent overthrow of the Allende government in 1973 elicited mass fury against the multinationals. Several Third World organisations and sympathisers decided to establish a research bureau to monitor the activities and interests of these multinational companies. This led, in 1973, to the establishment of Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO). Two of the organisations involved in setting up SOMO were X-Y Beweging and Sjaloom.
X-Y and Sjaloom originally financed the wages and other costs of the first researcher. Later on, the growing SOMO organisation was funded for many years partly by subsidies from NCO (now NCDO).
In its early days, SOMO’s main focus was on developing countries. However, from 1975 on, SOMO carried out research in support of workers in the Netherlands who were employed by multinational companies. SOMO provided publications and training for works councils and trade union executive groups of almost all the major multinationals which had their head offices in the Netherlands. Many SOMO employees acted as experts for works councils of Dutch companies during restructuring, mergers and reorganisations.
The rise of European Works Councils (EWCs) meant that – logically – SOMO had acquired a new, related, field of operation. Drawing up company profiles of multinational companies and providing support in setting up EWCs became a core field of SOMO in the 1980s and 1990s. Research into multinational companies and the business sectors dominated by them was also becoming an important field for research.
Change of work
Around the turn of the millennium, work for the works councils decreased, leaving primarily the work focusing on developing countries. Since the end of the 1990s, research work has focused primarily on the themes of Corporate Social Responsibility, labour relationships in developing countries and international trade and investment. Commissions are obtained via subsidies issued by the Dutch government and European government bodies. SO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATHLAB | MATHLAB is a computer algebra system created in 1964 by Carl Engelman at MITRE and written in Lisp.
"MATHLAB 68" was introduced in 1967 and became rather popular in university environments running on DECs PDP-6 and PDP-10 under TOPS-10 or TENEX. In 1969 this version was included in the DECUS user group's library (as 10-142) as royalty-free software.
Carl Engelman left MITRE for Symbolics where he contributed his expert knowledge in the development of Macsyma.
Features
Abstract from DECUS Library Catalog:
MATHLAB is an on-line system providing machine aid for the mechanical symbolic processes encountered in analysis. It is capable of performing, automatically and symbolically, such common procedures as simplification, substitution, differentiation, polynomial factorization, indefinite integration, direct and inverse Laplace transforms, the solution of linear differential equations with constant coefficients, the solution of simultaneous linear equations, and the inversion of matrices. It also supplies fairly elaborate bookkeeping facilities appropriate to its on-line operation.
Applications
MATHLAB 68 has been used to solve electrical linear circuits using an acausal modeling approach for symbolic circuit analysis. This application was developed as a plug-in for MATHLAB 68 (open-source), building on MATHLAB's linear algebra facilities (Laplace transforms, inverse Laplace transforms and linear algebra manipulation).
Print publications
References
Computer algebra systems
Notebook interface |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOOPS%20Visualize | HOOPS Visualize is a 3D computer graphics software designed to render graphics across both mobile and desktop platforms. HOOPS Visualize provides 3D Graphics API to render CAD models. It's part of the HOOPS 3D Application Framework SDK. Since June 2018 it's licensed via Siemens PLM Software.
History
The HOOPS 3D Graphics System was originally developed in the mid-1980s in the CADIF Lab at Cornell University. Ithaca Software later formed to commercialize the technology. Subsequently, HOOPS was widely adopted for Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) software.
In 1993, Autodesk, Inc. acquired Ithaca Software. In 1996, HOOPS was spun out of Autodesk by Tech Soft 3D, Inc., which continues to develop and sell the HOOPS 3D Graphics System under the name HOOPS Visualize. The software is made available free of charge to educational institutions.
Overview
The program features a unified API that allows users to add interactive 3D visualization to both desktop and mobile applications. HOOPS Visualize provides a hierarchical scene management engine capable of handling a range of graphics entities, together with a graphics pipeline and interaction handling algorithms. It includes clash detection, multi-plane sectioning, and large model visualization, along with many other features.
Features include:
Retained-mode graphics system with a supporting database
Data is structured hierarchically in a scene graph
Able to use many different contexts for rendering, including DirectX, OpenGL, as well as software and hardcopy
Interfaces with C, C++, C#, and Java
Out-of-core rendering mode for visualizing large point-cloud datasets
Integrates with other engineering SDKs like ACIS, Parasolid, RealDWG, and HOOPS Exchange, as well as industry standard CAD formats
PMI support, mark-up, model trees, point clouds
Compatible with all major graphical user interfaces
Platform independent input architecture
Technical Overview
Internally it uses OpenGL or DirectX (Windows). Tech Soft 3D has developed its own framework for event handling.
The graphics kernel (Core Graphics) is based on the hierarchichal scene graph data structures.
File formats
References
Application programming interfaces
3D scenegraph APIs
C++ libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20process%20planning | Computer-aided process planning (CAPP) is the use of computer technology to aid in the process planning of a part or product, in manufacturing.
CAPP is the link between CAD and CAM in that it provides for the planning of the process to be used in producing a designed part.
Computer-aided process planning
CAPP is a link between the CAD and CAM modules.
Process planning is concerned with determining the sequence of individual manufacturing operations needed to produce a given part or product.
The resulting operation sequence is documented on a form typically referred to as a " Route Sheet" (also called a process sheet/method sheet) containing a listing of the production operations and associated machine tools for a work part or assembly.
Process planning in manufacturing also refers to the planning of use of blanks, spare parts, packaging material, user instructions (manuals), etc.
As the term "computer-aided production planning" is used in different contexts on different parts of the production process; to some extent, CAPP overlaps with the term "PIC" (production and inventory control).
As the design process is supported by many computer-aided tools, computer-aided process planning (CAPP) has evolved to simplify and improve process planning and achieve more effective use of manufacturing resources.
Process Planning is of two types:
Generative type computer-aided process planning.
Variant type process planning.
Routings that specify operations, operation sequences, work centers, standards, tooling, and fixtures. This routing becomes a major input to the manufacturing resource planning system to define operations for production activity control purposes and define required resources for capacity requirements planning purposes.
Computer-aided process planning initially evolved as a means to electronically store a process plan once it was created, retrieve it, modify it for a new part and print the plan.
Other capabilities were table-driven cost and standard estimating systems, for sales representatives to create customer quotations and estimate delivery time.
Future development
Generative or dynamic CAPP is the main focus of development, the ability to automatically generate production plans for new products, or dynamically update production plans on the basis of resource availability. Generative CAPP will probably use iterative methods, where simple production plans are applied to automatic CAD/CAM development to refine the initial production plan.
A Generative CAPP system was developed at Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool Plant (BYJC) in Beijing, China as part of a UNDP project (DG/CRP/87/027) from 1989 to 1995. The project was reported in "Machine Design Magazine; New Trends" May 9, 1994, P.22-23. The system was demonstrated to the CASA/SME Leadership in Excellence for Applications Development (LEAD) Award committee in July 1995. The committee awarded BYJC the LEAD Award in 1995 for this achievement. In order to accomplish Ge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20PC%20%28magazine%29 | Mobile PC was a monthly magazine covering mobile technology, including notebook computers, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, MP3 players, digital cameras, mobile game consoles, and other portable electronics.
History and profile
The magazine was published by Future Network USA, its first issue was released on 14 June 2004. Founded as Mobile PC in 2003, then changed to Mobile in June 2005. Christopher Null was the first editor-in-chief. A cease and desist order on the use of the confusingly similar magazine name and website domain MobileMagazine.com was sent to Future Network USA. The print publication Mobile ceased publication in November 2005 due to undetermined reasons and the domain name MobileMagazine.com was transferred to Pilato Private Consulting.
The Mobile PC editorial staff included Christopher Null, Dylan Tweney, Robert Strohmeyer, Rachel Rosmarin, Roger Hibbert, and Mark McClusky. The design staff included Chris Imlay, Christina Empedocles, and Morgan McDermott. Mobile featured a monthly product design column by MAKE editor Mark Frauenfelder.
Outstanding subscriptions to Mobile PC were fulfilled by subscriptions to Maximum PC, a sister technical magazine.
References
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Science and technology magazines published in the United States
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 2003
Magazines disestablished in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness%20model | Fitness model can mean:
Fitness model (person), a person who models, with emphasis on their physique
Fitness model (network theory), a model of network evolution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKHR-FM | CKHR-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts community radio programming on the frequency 107.3 FM in Hay River, Northwest Territories.
The station is owned by the Hay River Community Service Society. The current volunteer station manager is Mark Lundbek. Aside from broadcasting, Lundbek is also an internet professional who specializes in website design, social media management, telecommunications, video game development and international counter-terrorism.
External links
Khr
Khr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarWinds | SolarWinds Corporation is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offices in a number of locations in the United States and several other countries. The company was publicly traded from May 2009 until the end of 2015, and again from October 2018. It has also acquired a number of other companies, some of which it still operates under their original names, including Pingdom, Papertrail and Loggly. It had about 300,000 customers as of December 2020, including nearly all Fortune 500 companies and numerous agencies of the US federal government.
A SolarWinds product, Orion, used by about 33,000 public and private sector customers, was the focus of a large-scale attack disclosed in December 2020. The attack persisted undetected for months in 2020, and additional details about the breadth and depth of compromised systems continued to surface after the initial disclosure. In February 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that it was "the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen".
History
SolarWinds began in 1999 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, co-founded by Donald Yonce (a former executive at Walmart) and his brother Dave Yonce. SolarWinds released its first products, Trace Route and Ping Sweep, earlier in March 1998 and released its first web-based network performance monitoring application in November 2001. According to Michael Bennett, who became the chief executive officer in 2006, the name SolarWinds was chosen by an early employee and the company has nothing to do with solar or wind power. In 2006, the company moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas, where about 300 of the company's total 450 employees were based as of 2011. The company was profitable from its founding through its IPO in 2009.
During 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital, and Insight Venture Partners. SolarWinds completed an initial public offering of US$112.5 million in May 2009, closing at higher prices after its initial day of trading. The IPO from SolarWinds was followed by another from OpenTable (an online restaurant-reservation service), which was perceived to break a dry spell during the Great Recession, when very few companies went public. Both Bain Capital and Insight Venture Partners backed the IPO and used the opportunity to sell some of their shares during the offering.
Analysts and company executives anticipated continued expansion post-IPO, including several acquisitions. In 2010, Bennett retired as CEO and was replaced by the company's former chief financial officer Kevin Thompson. In May 2013, SolarWinds announced plans to invest in an operations hub in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was named by Forbes as "Best Small Company in America, citing high-functioning products for low costs and impressive company growth." By 2013, SolarWinds employed about 900 peo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20King%20of%20Snooker | The King of Snooker (Traditional Chinese: 桌球天王) is a TVB television drama miniseries revolving around the sport of snooker in Hong Kong. It was originally broadcast by the network in 2009, from 30 March through 24 April, and subsequently re-released on DVD in several translations.
Synopsis
World champion snooker player Yau Yat Kiu (Adam Cheng) takes everyone by surprise when he suddenly retires from the snooker world. This comes as a huge disappointment to his daughter Yau Ka Kan (Niki Chow), who has always wanted to follow in his footsteps. She feels bewildered too, for although Kiu pretends he does not care about the sport any more, he has set up a series of challenge matches on the snooker table in his restaurant. His real purpose is that he is waiting for someone he feels is worth taking on as a protégé. Kiu comes to know Kan Tze Him (Patrick Tang) by chance. Noticing his flair for snooker, Kiu decides to teach Him all he knows about the game. Later, Kan manages to persuade her father into taking her on as a student as well.
Him fancies Kan, but she is fond of Lui Kin Chung (Derek Kok), Kiu's bitter rival. Chung's manager is a devious person; in order to ensure Chung's victory against Kiu, he drugs Kiu's water with sleeping pills during a match. After the game, Chung falls out with his manager because of this when he finds out.
Later in the series, a woman named Chin To To (Joyce Tang) falls in love with Kiu. Meanwhile, Him falls out with Kiu because of Chung's ex-manager. Both master and disciple come to settle their scores on a snooker table in the end.
Cast
Awards and nominations
TVB Anniversary Awards (2009):
Best Drama
Most Improved Actress (Catherine Chau)
Viewership ratings
DVD release
The entire 20-episode miniseries has been re-released as a region-free 4-disc DVD box set in NTSC video format. It features the original Cantonese and a Mandarin Chinese audio track, with English and Malay translation subtitles, and Chinese subtitles for the hearing-impaired.
References
External links
The show's official website at TVB.com
Screen-captures and synopsis by K for TVB
Notes
In 2008, prior to filming, Joyce Cheng, along with Adam Cheng were considered, for they were daughter and father. Ultamitely, the former had schedule conflicts, ultimately causing Nikki Chow to inherit the role of Yau-Ka-Kan.
TVB dramas
Snooker on television
2009 Hong Kong television series debuts
2009 Hong Kong television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktapodi | Oktapodi is a 2007 French computer-animated short film that originated as a Graduate Student Project from Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image. The film is about a pair of love struck octopuses who through a series of comical events are separated and must find each other. Oktapodi was directed by Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, and Emud Mokhberi. Music was composed by Kenny Wood.
Oktapodi was well received, winning a number of awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Film (Animated) for the 81st Academy Awards. It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.
Plot
Two octopuses fight for their lives with a stubborn restaurant cook in a comical escape through the streets of a seaside town in Greece.
Awards and nominations
Legacy
The Academy Film Archive preserved the film under the ACME Filmworks collection.
See also
Le Building - a 2005 animated short film, also directed by students at Gobelins
References
External links
Official Homepage
2007 comedy films
2007 films
Computer-animated short films
French animated short films
2000s French-language films
Student films
2007 computer-animated films
2007 short films
French comedy short films
Films about cephalopods
2000s French films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy%20Business | Rosy Business () is a 2009 Hong Kong period television drama produced by Lee Tim-sing and TVB. Comprising 25 episodes, it originally aired on the Jade network from 27 April to 29 May 2009.
Set in Eastern China during the mid-19th century, Rosy Business follows the mercantile Chiang family, owners of Wuxi's largest rice business Hing Fung Nin. After falling ill, patriarch Chiang Kiu temporarily hands over his leadership to his fourth wife Hong Po-kei, which incurs conflict with his other wives and sons. Meanwhile the impoverished coolie Chai Kau becomes an important figure in assisting Hong Po-kei in protecting the family business from crumbling during the Taiping Rebellion. The script was inspired by the successful Chinese television series The Grand Mansion Gate (Chinese: 大宅門).
The final two episodes were aired back-to-back as a two-hour finale, including a cast interview with Scoop (東張西望). A commercial success, the final week of broadcast peaked at 47 TVRs with 3 million live viewers, becoming the second highest-rated television drama in Hong Kong of 2009. It stars Best Actress winners Sheren Tang, Nancy Wu, and Kara Wai. Rosy Business received twelve TVB Anniversary Award nominations and eight top 5 nominations, winning six of them, becoming the biggest winner of the year. The awards include Best Drama, Best Actress (Sheren Tang), Best Actor (Wayne Lai), Best Supporting Actress (Susan Tse), My Favourite Male Character (Lai), and Most Improved Male Artiste (Ngo Ka-nin). An indirect sequel, No Regrets, was released as a grand production and TVB's anniversary series in 2010.
Synopsis
In the mid-1830s, a natural disaster strikes the city of Nantong, tarnishing most of the city's rice fields. Running out of food supply, city mayor Hong Chi-wing (Wong Wai Leung) decides to use the city's military food supply to feed the people. A few days after the disaster, an official from Beijing arrives to the city to check the military supply, and upon seeing empty trailers, he sentences the Hong family to death. His daughter Hong Po-yin (Sheren Tang) escapes and becomes a maid in Prince Wai's mansion, living under the name Hong Po-kei.
Twenty years later, Po-kei reunites with the rich rice merchant Chiang Kiu (Elliot Ngok) at his manor in Wuxi, whom she was betrothed to before the disaster. Chiang Kiu's wife, Yan Fung-yee (Susan Tse) recognizes Po-kei and reveals her identity to Prince Wai, who was there for a visit. Kiu manages to convince the Prince to free her, and marries Po-kei as his fourth wife. Appreciating Po-kei's wisdom and persistence, he entrusts the business to her, with the reason that his eldest son, Bit-man (Ngo Ka-nin), is not yet ready to succeed him. Hungry for power and eager to keep tradition, Fung-yee attempts to strip Po-kei from power but Po-kei manages to keep the business in good shape. She is impressed with second son Bit-ching's (Ron Ng) intelligence and guides him to become the successor, but her efforts are met with challeng |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20G.%20Kessler | Michael G. Kessler was the founder and CEO of Kessler International, a United States-based forensic accounting, computer forensics and corporate investigations firm.
Kessler's credentials included Cr.FA (Certified Forensic Accountant), CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner), CICA (Certified Internal Controls Auditor), DABFA (Diplomate with the American Board of Forensic Accountants), and FABFE (Fellow status with the American Board of Forensic Examiners).
In January 2006 Kessler was elected chairman of the American Board of Forensic Accounting, an advisory board of the American College of Forensic Examiners.
Kessler died in June 2017.
Notable investigations
In early 2008, Kessler investigated an alleged Long Island-based Ponzi scheme masquerading as a legitimate bridge loan company, called Agape World. He alerted the FBI and other law enforcement agencies after finding evidence of a Ponzi scheme.
Shortly thereafter, the FBI and the USPIS launched their own investigation. Agape World continued to operate, but after the collapse of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, Agape World came under increased scrutiny and suspicion by investors.
In December 2008 and January 2009, Kessler received numerous reports from investors in Agape World that the payout dates for various bridge loans were being extended or not paid at all, signs that are usually indicative of a collapsing Ponzi scheme. In January 2009, Nicholas Cosmo, founder of Agape World, was arrested by authorities and is alleged to have defrauded investors of an approximate total of $370 million.
In January 2010, Kessler was hired by the city of Fort Pierce, Florida, to audit the city's Community Services Department. As a result of their work, Kessler recommended the city turn over its findings to the U.S. Attorney's Office to determine whether criminal charges should be filed.
In March 2010, the city of Deerfield Beach, Florida, hired Kessler International to audit the city's Community Grant department.
References
External links
Kessler International
1951 births
2017 deaths
American businesspeople
21st-century American people
20th-century American people
People from Ridgewood, Queens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rat%20Catchers | The Rat Catchers is a 1960s British television drama series made by Rediffusion and broadcast on ITV. The series was not networked, playing on different days of the week in London from other regions. It is about a top secret British Intelligence Unit. It receives orders from the Prime Minister and, without questioning, proceeds to battle enemy spies, saboteurs, and others to protect the security of Great Britain and the Western Alliance.
Format
The Rat Catchers is an organisation based at Whitehall in Central London but officially didn't exist, being denied at the highest level as they worked with the greatest secrecy.
The focus is on three major characters:
Peregrine Pascale Smith (portrayed by Gerald Flood) is an Oxford University-educated managing director with 12 years' experience under his belt.
Brigadier H. St. J. Davidson (portrayed by Philip Stone) is the emotionless analytical brains behind the group.
Richard William Hurst (portrayed by Glyn Owen), formerly a superintendent at Scotland Yard.
The show begins with the arrival of Richard Hurst, the new recruit to the team, an ex-policeman who was said to have gone by the book whilst in the force. However, the secrecy in the organisation's setup finds Hurst somewhat out of step with the other two, including not really knowing which of the other two really has the authority. Officially, Hurst is an employee of Smith's company: Transworld Electronics, leading to some confusion; in episode 3, he is not sure whether Smith or the Brigadier is his boss. This antagonistic approach leads him to feel left out, a situation not helped by Brigadier Davidson insistence that Hurst knows only the bare minimum about the organisation and is keen to keep it that way.
The Brigadier's catch phrase is "Say so, if you understand me." which he repeats each time he sent Smith and Hurst on a mission to ensure his orders are carried out to the letter. This was mimicked on the single version recording of the theme tune which opens with the mimicked "Say Yes, if you understand me".
The show aired in two series comprising 25 x 60-minute episodes. Stories continued over multiple episodes in two or three parts, with cliff-hanger endings.
Production
Made by – Rediffusion TV Network Production (part of the UK's then ITV network)
Producer – Cyril Coke
Director – James Ormerod
Theme music – Johnny Pearson (composer and arranger)
Season one
Broadcast 31 January 1966 to 25 April 1966, on Mondays on Rediffusion, London between 8 pm and 9 pm. Other ITV regions showed it the following Wednesday.
1. Ticket to Madrid
Written by Raymond Bowers
Ex-policeman Richard Hurst arrives and is sent on a mission. In Madrid, he and the beautiful Miss Larks (Jan Waters) come up against the cold horror of the world of espionage and deception. Also stars Norman Scace and Jeffrey Gardiner. This is one of only two surviving complete episodes.
2. The Captain Morales Story
Written by Raymond Bowers
In Madrid, Hurst comes face to face with the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM%2B | MGM+, formerly known as Epix (pronounced epics and stylized as eᴘix), is an American premium cable and satellite television network owned by the MGMPlus Entertainment subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), which is itself a subsidiary of Amazon MGM Studios. The channel's programming consists of recent and older theatrically released motion pictures, original television series, documentaries, and music and comedy specials.
Originally launched in the United States in October 2009, MGM+ is led by Michael Wright. Since he joined the network in November 2017, Epix/MGM+ has announced many new series including Godfather of Harlem starring Forest Whitaker, Perpetual Grace, LTD starring Ben Kingsley and Jimmi Simpson, Deep State, unscripted series Unprotected Sets executive produced by Wanda Sykes and the return of The Contender.
MGM+ and, depending on the carriage of any of the latter services, its three multiplex channels are sold by most traditional multichannel video programming distributors either as premium services or as part of a la carte digital movie tiers as well as by over-the-top MVPDs Sling TV, DirecTV Stream, Philo, FuboTV and YouTube TV.
The service is also sold direct-to-consumer through a proprietary streaming service of the same name, and via a la carte subscriptions independent of a traditional pay television platform sold by Apple TV Channels, Amazon Channels and The Roku Channel. Each digital platform provides a library of video on demand content and live streams of the linear MGM+ television channels. (the standalone streaming service and the Amazon Video channel provide feeds of all four MGM+ multiplex channels; Apple and Roku subscribers receive only the East Coast feed of the primary MGM+ channel.)
Following the acquisition of parent company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who had bought out the stakes of co-founders Lionsgate and Paramount by the end of 2017, by Amazon in 2022, the network announced in September that it would rebrand the service as MGM+ on January 15, 2023, a culmination of a gradual rebranding of the network to utilize the imaging of MGM itself following the buyout, as well as Amazon repositioning the network as a sister service to Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Freevee.
Background
Paramount Pictures has been involved in the pay television industry since the 1950s. From 1953 to 1961, Paramount owned Telemeter, an ambitious but expensive theater television system that transmitted using closed circuitry—as opposed to broadcast frequencies—over which customers could purchase broadcasts by inserting coins into a collection box.
In April 1980, Paramount (then owned by Gulf+Western), MCA/Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox partnered with Getty Oil to jointly develop a pay cable service to be named Premiere. The proposed channel would have maintained exclusive first-run rights to newer feature films distributed by each of the studios (which would have aired nine months before their initial telecasts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20copy | A digital copy is a commercially distributed computer file containing a media product such as a film or music album. The term contrasts this computer file with the physical copy (typically a DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, or Ultra HD Blu-ray disc) with which the digital copy is usually offered as part of a bundle. It allows the disc's purchaser to acquire a single copy of the film on a digital device such as a personal computer, smartphone, tablet computer, or digital media player, and view it on those devices without requiring access to the physical media. "Digital copy" is also commonly referred to as "Digital HD" (where it is referencing a high-definition or UHD digital copy).
Features
There are three types of a digital copy. The first is a copy made in advance and included on the disc. The second is created dynamically from the DVD content itself. In both scenarios the publisher decides which content, formats, digital rights management (DRM) systems and technical parameters are used for the Digital Copy. Digital Copy systems based on existing pre-generated files are less flexible than dynamic transcoding solutions. The third version is an alphanumeric code included on a slip of paper within the physical film's keep case, which is typed in and redeemed at an online portal which allows the customer to download the film at the store of their choice, using their own bandwidth, or stream it through a cloud service at the time of viewing as part of a retailer's digital locker where the customer retains permanent access to the film's digital file.
In the past with the first two types, the digital copy files based on existing files included only the main audio track (often only stereo) and no subtitles, compared to the multiple audio tracks and multiple subtitle options available from DVD and Blu-ray. Also, the quality was limited by the bitrate used to encode the file which is typically relatively low and not adjusted to the device to be transferred to. Bonus features were also unavailable for the most part until online movie stores were able to include them as bonus files with the download.
Digital copy files based on transcoding solutions can use the correct audio track and subtitle based on the user's location or choice and individually create the digital copy based on the target device properties (video and audio bitrate, display resolution, aspect ratio and device utilize for viewing the copy).
Most often, digital copy solutions mainly offered Apple iTunes files with their respective DRM services, with Windows Media with Windows Media DRM and FairPlay also used, but due to the latter's lack of success in the market, most digital copies utilized iTunes. Other solutions also provided support for Sony PlayStation Portable and pre-smartphone age feature phones using 3GP video files and Open Mobile Alliance DRM. Some publishers limited their digital copies to Microsoft operating systems and devices.
With audio compact discs, the original intent of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E662 | European route E662 is a class B road, part of International E-road network in Serbia and Croatia. It connects E75 at Subotica, and E73 road at Osijek.
Itinerary
: Subotica south interchange (A1) – Subotica
: Subotica – Mala Bosna – Mišićevo – Bajmok – Aleksa Šantić – Svetozar Miletić – Sombor
: Sombor – Bezdan
: Bezdan – Bezdan border crossing – 51st division bridge over the river Danube
: Batina border crossing – Batina – Zmajevac – Kneževi Vinogradi – Karanac
: Kozarac – Švajcarnica – Bridge over the river Drava – Osijek (D2 at Frigis interchange)
See also
Roads in Croatia
Roads in Serbia
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
699662
Roads in Croatia
Roads in Serbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Operational%20Art%20of%20War%20Vol.%201%3A%201939%E2%80%931955 | The Operational Art of War I: 1939–1955 is a 1998 computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft. Designed by Norm Koger, it covers military conflicts around the world at the operational level of war, between 1939 and 1955.
The Operational Art of War was critically acclaimed, and was named the best computer wargame of 1998 by publications such as Computer Gaming World, PC Gamer US and Computer Games Strategy Plus. It spawned the Operational Art of War series, beginning with the sequel The Operational Art of War II: Modern Battles 1956–2000 (1999).
Gameplay
The Operational Art of War is a computer wargame that simulates military conflicts around the world between 1939 and 1955. It takes place at the operational level.
Development
The Operational Art of War was developed at TalonSoft and designed by Norm Koger, previously responsible for wargames such as Wargame Construction Set III: Age of Rifles. It was his first project for the company; he announced that he had left Strategic Simulations to sign with TalonSoft in March 1997. That April, Koger called The Operational Art of War "the game I've wanted to do for years."
Reception
The Operational Art of War was named the best computer wargame of 1998 by Computer Gaming World, PC Gamer US, Computer Games Strategy Plus and GameSpot. It received a nomination in this category from CNET Gamecenter, and one for "Best Strategy Game of the Year" from IGN, but lost the awards respectively to People's General and StarCraft. The editors of Computer Games wrote that The Operational Art of War "balances detail against flexibility; in our minds, it does this better than most." Those of Computer Gaming World argued that it "shows that there is still plenty of life left in serious wargames."
Sales
TalonSoft struggled to distribute its games in 1998, according to Jim Rose. The Operational Art of War sold 12,789 copies in the United States that year, which accounted for $555,681 in revenue. Jason Ocampo of CNET Gamecenter reported, "TalonSoft had been shut out of Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer. When TalonSoft's games did make it to a store, they were often outnumbered by dozens of copies of a competitor's product." The company sold itself to Take-Two Interactive in late December 1998; Rose argued publicly that the move would aid in TalonSoft's distribution efforts for future games.
Reviews
The Duelist #35
Legacy
In 1998, PC Gamer US declared The Operational Art of War the 50th-best computer game ever released, and the editors called it "nothing less than a masterpiece."
Sequels
The Operational Art of War spawned the Operational Art of War series. It received a direct sequel, The Operational Art of War II: Modern Battles 1956–2000, in 1999. Later sequels include The Operational Art of War III (2006) and The Operational Art of War IV (2017).
References
External links
Official page (archived)
1998 video games
Computer wargames
Multiplayer and single-player video games
TalonSoft games
Video game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digigraphics | Digigraphics was one of the first graphical computer aided design systems to go on sale. Originally developed at Itek on the PDP-1 as EDM (Electronic Drafting Machine), the efforts were purchased by Control Data Corporation and ported to their machines, along with a new graphics terminal to support it. Systems cost almost $500,000 and supported only a few users at a time, so in spite of a number of advantages it was not cost competitive with traditional manual methods and only a few systems were sold.
History
Genesis at Itek
MIT's Lincoln Laboratory developed the first high-speed computer in the form of Whirlwind, as part of the US Air Force's SAGE project. SAGE not only required high-speed computers, but also graphical displays and light pens to operate them in real-time. The ideas developed during the SAGE program "leaked out" into the industry as SAGE wound down and its many members moved on to other projects. Ken Olsen formed Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and took many of the early SAGE programmers with them, Jack Gilmore and Charles Adams started Charles W. Adams Associates, one of the first programming companies, and Norm Taylor went to work at Itek, who was attempting to build a computerized machine for retrieving photographs from a large library.
In 1959 Gilmore at Adams met with Taylor at Itek and proposed the idea of jointly developing a computer system for engineering design. Taylor convinced Itek's management to fund development, finally receiving the go-ahead in August 1960, retaining Adams Associates to write the software The natural choice for the host computer was DEC's newly released PDP-1. The PDP-1 had many of the same features as the earlier Lincoln Lab machines, including an optional vector display and light pen support. The PDP-1 was based on an 18-bit word (1/2 the common mainframe 36-bits), had a 4,000-word core memory, and ran at about 0.1 MIPS.
Between mid-1960 and June 1961, the basic hardware was assembled, initially at Digital's facility in Maynard, and later at Itek. Itek's PDP-1 was the second one to be delivered to a customer, the first being to MIT's Project MAC. A new 25 inch tube was used, larger than the PDP-1's standard 16 inch Type 30, but packaged in a similar hexagonal case. Input was via a combination of light pen for pointing, and the PDP-1's front panel switches for commands. An overlay was used on the front panel to indicate the special functions, and another on the display for labeling outputs.
Normally the PDP-1 display was driven in software, so as the complexity of the drawings increased, performance decreased. Itek addressed this problem by developing a "display processor" that would offload the task of refreshing the screen so the computer could be used solely for processing.Vector information was stored on the outer tracks of a 36 inch hard disk supplied by Telex. Storing data only on the outside meant the linear speed was higher, providing faster throughput and allowing the system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20calculation | Water transportation and distribution networks require hydraulic calculations to determination the flowrate and pressure characteristics at one or several consumption points and the water supply flowrate and pressures needed to meet the design requirements.
In the context of fire safety, hydraulic calculations are used to determine the flow of an extinguishing medium through a piping network and through discharge devices (e.g., nozzles, sprinklers) to control, suppress, or extinguish fires.
Fire safety calculations
Hydraulic calculations verify that the water flowrate (or water mixed with additives like firefighting foam concentrate) through piping networks for the purpose of suppressing or extinguishing a fire will be sufficient to meet design objectives. The hydraulic calculation procedure is defined in the applicable reference model codes such as that published by the US-based National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), or the EN 12845 standard, Fixed firefighting system – Automatic sprinkler systems – Design, installation and maintenance.
Hydraulic calculations indicate that the combination of the two primary components of a water based fire protection system will meet the design objectives to control, suppress, or extinguish a fire:
The available water supply is sufficient in flowrate and pressure.
The pipe sizes and piping network arrangement that deliver the water to the outlets (e.g., sprinklers) are sized and arranged adequately.
Water delivery requirements
Requirements for the quantity of water discharge are specified by an applicable model code such as NFPA 13, NFPA 15, EN 12845, BS 9251, NFPA 750 CP 52, ASIB, and AS2118.1. Property insurance design standards may also apply.
The probable intensity and extent of a fire inside the building are indicated by factors including the building use, the building height, the items contained inside the building and their arrangement. These variables are compared to tables and values expressed in the model codes. The values in these tables are based on fire tests and loss history.
Available water supply
The water available is often determined by means of a water flow test, in which one or more fire hydrants are opened and the water pressures and flowrate are measured. Some municipal water jurisdictions may provide an estimate of available water supplies based on hydraulic models.
In locations where a municipal connection is not possible or practical, the required water may be drawn from an open body of water (e.g., lake, pond, river) or a water storage tank.
Hydraulic calculations determine if the available water supply pressure is adequate to provide the sprinkler system design flowrate. If not, additional water pressure is provided by a fire pump.
System piping network
Suppression system piping networks are usually arranged in one of 3 configurations: Tree, Loop, or Grid. All of these types of systems utilize large horizontal pipes - "mains" - which deliver large flowrates to small |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HYPHY%20%28software%29 | HYPHY ( ) is a free multiplatform (Mac, Windows and UNIX) computational phylogenetics software package intended to perform maximum likelihood analyses of genetic sequence data and equipped with tools to test various statistical hypotheses. The HYPHY name is an abbreviation for "HYpothesis testing using PHYlogenies". As of March 2018, about 2,000 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles cite HYPHY.
Major features
HYPHY supports analysis of nucleotide, protein and codon sequences, using predefined standard models or user-defined models of evolution. The package supports interaction through a graphical user interface as well as a batch language to set up large and complicated analyses and process the results.
HyPhy includes a versatile suite of methods to detect adaptive evolution at individual amino-acid sites and/or lineages, including generalizations of Nielsen-Yang PAML and Suzuki-Gojobori approaches and many others.
History
The development of HyPhy started in 1997, with the first public release in 2000 and the most recent version as of December 2020 being 2.5.
Software/code availability and license
HYPHY is distributed as freeware with source code released under the MIT License. Compiled binaries for Mac OS X and Windows are available for download. The source code is available so that users can compile the HyPhy application on POSIX systems.
A subset of HYPHY methods for detecting adaptive evolution are also made available by the HYPHY team at Temple University on the DataMonkey cluster.
Notes
External links
: The HYPHY home page
: The DataMonkey server, which supports a variety of HYPHY tools (at no cost).
: HYPHY/DataMonkey support
Phylogenetics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBOX | TBOX is a multi-platform c library for unix, windows, mac, ios, android, etc. It's made available under the Apache License 2.0.
TBOX includes asio, stream, network, container, algorithm, object, memory, database, string, charset, math, libc, libm, utils and other library modules.
The stream io library
supports file, data, http and socket source
supports the stream filter for gzip charset and ..
implements the multi-stream transfer using asio
The asynchronous io library
supports reactor and proactor mode
using epoll, poll, select, kqueue and iocp os system api
The database library
supports mysql and sqlite3 database and enumerates data using the iterator mode
The xml parser library
supports DOM and SAX mode and supports xpath.
The serialization and deserialization library.
supports xml, json, bplist, xplist, binary formats
The memory library
implements some memory pools for optimizating memory.
supports fast memory error detecting. it can detect the following types of bugs for the debug mode:
# out-of-bounds accesses to heap and globals
# use-after-free
# double-free, invalid free
# memory leaks
The container library
implements hash table, single list, double list, vector, stack, queue and min/max heap.
supports iterator mode for algorithm.
The algorithm library
using the iterator mode
implements find, binary find and reverse find algorithm.
implements sort, bubble sort, quick sort, heap sort and insert sort algorithm.
implements count, walk items, reverse walk items, for_all and rfor_all.
The network library
implements dns(cached), ssl(openssl and polarssl), http and cookies
supports asynchronous io mode for dns, ssl and http using the asio and stream library
The platform library
implements timer, faster and lower precision timer
implements atomic and atomic64 operation
implements spinlock, mutex, event, semaphore, thread and thread pool
implements file, socket operation
The charset library
supports utf8, utf16, gbk, gb2312, uc2 and uc4
supports big endian and little endian mode
The zip library
supports gzip, zlibraw, zlib formats using the zlib library if exists
implements lzsw, lz77 and rlc algorithm
The utils library
implements base32, base64, md5 and sha algorithm
implements assert and trace output for the debug mode
The math library
implements random generator
implements fast fixed-point calculation, supports 6-bits, 16-bits, 30-bits fixed-point number
The libc library
implements lightweight libc library interfaces, the interface name contains tb_xxx prefix for avoiding conflict.
implements strixxx strrxxx wcsixxx wcsrxxx interface extension.
optimizates some frequently-used interface, .e.g. memset, memcpy, strcpy ...
implements memset_u16, memset_u32, memset_u64 extension interfaces.
The libm library
implements lightweight libm library interfaces, the interface name contains tb_xxx prefix for avoiding conflict.
supports float and double type.
External links
TBOX
C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashbury%20Heights | Ashbury Heights is a Swedish electronic music duo from Sundsvall, Medelpad, formed in 2005. The duo consisted originally of Anders Hagström (vocals, songwriter, music, and programming) and Yasmine Uhlin (vocals). Uhlin left the band after the release of their EP, Morning Star in a Black Car, and was replaced by Kari Berg (vocals) as the lead female vocalist. Berg was a member of Ashbury Heights until 2010 and was featured on one album, Take Cair Paramour. In 2010, following a long-running dispute between Hagström and the Out of Line label, the band disbanded. The dispute was settled in 2011, whereupon Hagström and Out of Line renewed their collaboration. In 2013, Tea F. Thimé (vocals and lyrics) joined the band as the new vocalist, coming from a background of alternative modelling and burlesque performance (going by the stage name Tea Time).
History
Formation
Ashbury Heights was created when Anders Hagström asked Yasmine Uhlin if she wanted to sing on his demos. The newly formed band was signed by record label Out of Line soon after, and from then they attained wider recognition.
2008: Yasmine Uhlin's departure
Uhlin announced her departure from the band in November 2008 in Hamburg at the last concert of the Out of Line festival tour. On her blog, she wrote: "Why I am doing this is not because of lack of energy or love for the band. There are no grudges to be held and the air within Ashbury Heights is free from any pollution. You see, this is something I have to do. I need to let go in order to build something of my own. I've been fighting myself in this matter for a long time but I can't change what I truly feel."
2008–2010: Kari Berg
Anders sought a new singer and found Kari Berg. Previous to joining Ashbury Heights, she had focused mostly on singing opera. Kari was a member of Ashbury Heights from 2008 until 2010, featuring on one album and a remix for BlutEngel. The band's second studio album, Take Cair Paramour was released on July 2, 2010, and is their only album to feature Berg. A limited edition of the album was also released, including a bonus CD with remixes, demos, and exclusive tracks.
2011–2013: Disbandment and renewal
In October 2010, Hagström announced that he was disbanding Ashbury Heights due to ongoing disputes with his record label, Out of Line. This dispute was settled in 2011, resulting in the renewed collaboration between Hagström and Out of Line. However, Ashbury Heights did not start recording a new album until 2013, this time with a new singer, Tea F. Thimé.
2013–2019: Tea F. Thimé in Ashbury Heights
The first interview with the new Ashbury Heights was published in ElectroStorm 01/2014. There the band stated that Thimé had no previous experience as a singer when joining the band, but was the first full collaborative partner. She has a degree in English literature and is the first band member to co-write lyrics. Thimé used to be an alternative model and styled shoots as well as burlesque performances. The first album |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%20Frameworks | Wolf Frameworks is a web application designing and development platform as a service based in India and United States and represented via partners worldwide.
Founded in 2006, the cloud computing Infrastructure offered by the company enables users to design & deliver cross platform SaaS applications without writing technical code.
Product
WOLF is 100% AJAX, XML and .NET based and enables building of mashable and interoperable web applications by using a browser, an internet connection and the knowledge of modelling business.
Features
A technical code free designing environment for creating & delivering SaaS type business applications on the Internet
Built using a late bound SOA architecture which uses XML framework
Prevents cloud lock-in by allowing users to save their application data in their own preferred database server
Provides the ability to view & extract the Business Design (Intellectual Property) of your software application in XML.
Import, Export or filter data from Word, Excel, Project Management or CSV files
Accessed over a 128-bit secured SSL connection and hosted in a highly secured data center
Benefits
Multi-tenant SOA
Requires no coding & less technical skills
Built-in actions to integrate with external software systems
Standards oriented web service technology
Save data in a private database server & extract Application Design in XML
Requires no up-front capital expenses and minimizes operational cost
References
Web applications
Privately held companies of India
Cloud computing providers
Cloud platforms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean%20Information%20Network | The Andean Information Network (Red Andína de Informacíón) or AIN is a Bolivian non-profit non-governmental organization founded in 1992 to raise awareness on the drug war and human rights, particularly in the coca-growing areas of Bolivia. The AIN publishes and distributes reports, including media analysis and independent studies which have been cited by many organizations, including the United Nations.
See also
United States Agency for International Development
References
External links
Ledebur, K. and Youngers, C. 2013. From Conflict to Collaboration: An Innovative Approach to Reducing Coca Cultivation in Bolivia. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 2(1):9.
Organisations based in Bolivia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Tang | William Tang may refer to:
William Tang (fashion designer) (born 1959), Hong Kong fashion designer
William Tang (video game designer), author of the Horace computer game series
William Tang, former guitarist of the Hong Kong rock band Beyond |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1840%20in%20paleontology |
Anapsids
Newly named anapsids
Archosauromorphs
Newly named basal archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
Newly named plesiosaurs
Mammals
Newly named cetaceans
References
1840s in paleontology
Paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent%20data%20encryption | Transparent Data Encryption (often abbreviated to TDE) is a technology employed by Microsoft, IBM and Oracle to encrypt database files. TDE offers encryption at file level. TDE solves the problem of protecting data at rest, encrypting databases both on the hard drive and consequently on backup media. It does not protect data in transit nor data in use. Enterprises typically employ TDE to solve compliance issues such as PCI DSS which require the protection of data at rest.
Microsoft offers TDE as part of its Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2019. TDE was only supported on the Evaluation, Developer, Enterprise and Datacenter editions of Microsoft SQL Server, until it was also made available in the Standard edition for 2019. SQL TDE is supported by hardware security modules from Thales e-Security, Townsend Security and SafeNet, Inc.
IBM offers TDE as part of Db2 as of version 10.5 fixpack 5. It is also supported in cloud versions of the product by default, Db2 on Cloud and Db2 Warehouse on Cloud.
Oracle requires the Oracle Advanced Security option for Oracle 10g and 11g to enable TDE. Oracle TDE addresses encryption requirements associated with public and private privacy and security mandates such as PCI and California SB 1386. Oracle Advanced Security TDE column encryption was introduced in Oracle Database 10g Release 2. Oracle Advanced Security TDE tablespace encryption and support for hardware security modules (HSMs) were introduced with Oracle Database 11gR1. Keys for TDE can be stored in an HSM to manage keys across servers, protect keys with hardware, and introduce a separation of duties.
The same key is used to encrypt columns in a table, regardless of the number of columns to be encrypted. These encryption keys are encrypted using the database server master key and are stored in a dictionary table in the database.
Microsoft SQL Server TDE
SQL Server utilizes an encryption hierarchy that enables databases to be shared within a cluster or migrated to other instances without re-encrypting them. The hierarchy consists of a combination of symmetric and asymmetric ciphers:
Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI) protects a single instance-wide Service Master Key (SMK).
The Service Master Key encrypts the Database Master Key (DMK).
The Database Master Key is used in conjunction with a certificate to encrypt the Database Encryption Key.
The Database Encryption Key is used to encrypt the underlying database files with either the AES or 3DES cipher.
The master database that contains various system level information, user accounts and management services is not encrypted.
During database backups, compression occurs after encryption. Due to the fact that strongly encrypted data cannot be significantly compressed, backups of TDE encrypted databases require additional resources.
To enable automatic booting, SQL Server stores the lowest level encryption keys in persistent storage (using the DPAPI store). This pre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattzon | WattzOn provides utility bill data to energy and credit markets. They offer three products. Link Energy transfers data from utilities to a consumer app. Link Prime transfers utility bill payment history to credit bureaus. Snap is a machine learning system optimized for data extraction from utility bills.
WattzOn is a privately held SaaS ("Software as a Service") company that helps users in the U.S. learn how to save energy, in collaboration with cities and other business partners, through personalized plans, products and rebate information, and tips for habit changes. WattzOn provides nationwide capture of residential utility data, and they claim that a typical user saves nearly $240 per year in energy, and that their water programs save an average of 9,000 gallons per year.
WattzOn’s partners use its software platform to acquire customer utility data, and increase customer uptake of products and services, including solar.
Its flagship product, EnergyCenter, has been used by residents in communities across the U.S., and has a library of utility data connectors that allow consumer-permissioned data access to utility bills nationwide.
WattzOn was founded in 2007 and has offices in Mountain View and San Francisco, CA, where it is part of OtherLab, a group of companies co-founded by Saul Griffith.
WattzOn’s History
WattzOn was started as a free web-based online tool by Saul Griffith, Raffi Krikorian, and Jim McBride. The original offering allowed users to calculate their total energy footprint by estimating their direct and indirect power consumption with the stated goal of educating users about energy efficiency and conservation. Unlike most carbon calculators, WattzOn has always measured energy consumption, and not the by-products (CO2, or CO2-equivalent emissions).
The original idea behind WattzOn was first spoken about by Saul Griffith and Jim McBride in a presentation entitled "The Game Plan: A solution framework for the climate challenge," delivered at O'Reilly's Foo Camp and later detailed at length in Griffith's Long Now talk entitled Climate Change Recalculated. From there, Raffi Krikorian spearheaded the effort to create an online tool that anybody could use to measure his or her level of energy efficiency. That website became WattzOn.com.
In 2011 WattzOn combined with EnnovationZ Inc, a company founded by Martha Amram and Steven Ashby. Since then Martha has led WattzOn.
WattzOn was the recipient of a grant from the Department of Energy to bring consumers insights from smart meters. In partnership with Balfour Beatty, WattzOn served military families, and helped them save an average of 18% on their utility bill at 12 locations.
Presentation at The White House
In 2012, WattzOn CEO Dr. Martha Amram presented at the White House Energy Data Palooza. In 2013 Dr. Amram presented at a Green Button event organized by the White House and the Department of Energy.
WattzOn in The Media
WattzOn has garnered media coverage from a number |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LotusLive | IBM SmartCloud for Social Business is a suite of business networking and collaboration cloud-based services hosted by the IBM Collaboration Solutions division of IBM. The integrated services include social networking for businesses, online meetings, file sharing, instant messaging, data visualization,and e-mail.
IBM SmartCloud for Social Business offerings include:
IBM SmartCloud Connections provides an integrated set of collaboration tools for creating user profiles, managing contacts, creating business networking with your contacts, instant messaging, social file sharing, managing collaborative tasks called "Activities," creating "Communities," and sending out surveys through the "Forms" application.
IBM SmartCloud Meetings is a web-based online meeting service, formerly known as Lotus Sametime Unyte Meeting.
IBM SmartCloud Engage Standard combines the functionality of LotusLive Connections and LotusLive Meetings. It was code-named "Bluehouse" and was first announced at Lotusphere in January 2008.
IBM SmartCloud Notes is an e-mail, calendar, contact management, and instant messaging service in the IBM cloud. With LotusLive Notes, users access their mailbox over the Internet with a web browser or with the Lotus Notes client.
IBM SmartCloud iNotes is a web-based e-mail and calendar service. It uses the messaging assets that IBM acquired from Outblaze, a Hong Kong-based online application service provider.
IBM SmartCloud for Social Business provides a framework for third-party applications to integrate with LotusLive. IBM has announced integration with Skype, LinkedIn, Salesforce, UPS, and Silanis.
At Lotusphere 2012, IBM announced that it has rebranded the LotusLive product line as IBM SmartCloud For Social Business.
Notes
External links
IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Homepage
Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging
DeveloperWorks article on LotusLive
DeveloperWorks article on LotusLive Engage
Cloud applications
Groupware
IBM cloud services
Lotus Software software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure%20Quest | Treasure Quest may refer to:
Treasure Quest (game), 1996 computer puzzle game
Treasure Quest: Snake Island, American reality television series
Treasure Quest (TV series), treasure hunting documentary on the Discovery Channel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrammaTech | GrammaTech is a cybersecurity research services company based in Ithaca, New York. The company was founded in 1988 as a technology spin-off of Cornell University. GrammaTech software research services include the following; software analysis, vulnerability detection and mitigation, binary transformation and hardening, and autonomous computing. In September 2023, Battery Ventures acquired GrammaTech's software products division, including the CodeSonar and CodeSentry product lines. Thus establishing a new, independent entity that will operate under the CodeSecure, Inc. name and be headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
Research
GrammaTech's research division undertakes projects for private contractors, including several U.S. government agencies, such as NASA, the NSF, and many branches of the Department of Defense. GrammaTech's research is focused on both static analysis and dynamic analysis, on both source code and binaries.
GrammaTech participated and came in 2nd place in DARPA's 2016 Cyber Grand Challenge, earning $1 million as Team TECHx. GrammaTech led Team TECHx, a collaboration with the University of Virginia, using their co-developed cyber-reasoning system called Xandra.
History
GrammaTech is a 1988 spin-off from Cornell University, where its founders had developed an early Integrated Development Environment in 1978 (the Cornell Program Synthesizer) and a system for generating language-based environments from attribute-grammar specifications in 1982 (the Synthesizer Generator). Commercial systems that have been implemented using the Synthesizer Generator include ORA's Ada verification system
(Penelope),
Terma's Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering
(Raise),
and Loral's checker of the SPC Quality and Style Guidelines for Ada.
GrammaTech co-founders Tom Reps and Tim Teitelbaum received the 2010
ACM SIGSOFT
Retrospective Impact Award
for their work on the Synthesizer Generator.
GrammaTech commercialized the Wisconsin Program-Slicing Tool as CodeSurfer for C and C++ in 1999. CodeSonar for C and C++, a static analysis tool, has been available since 2005. GrammaTech co-founder Reps and two other company affiliates shared in a 2011 ACM SIGSOFT
Retrospective Impact Award
for their paper describing the Wisconsin slicing research.
GrammaTech and the University of Wisconsin have been collaborating since 2001 to develop analysis, reverse-engineering, and anti-tamper tools for binary executables. Byproducts of this research are CodeSurfer/x86 (a version of CodeSurfer for the Intel x86 instruction set), CodeSonar/x86 (a bug and vulnerability finding tool for stripped executables), and an approach to creating such systems automatically from formal semantic descriptions of arbitrary instruction set architectures.
This research was later commercialized into CodeSonar for Binaries and CodeSentry, a software composition analysis tool.
In 2019, GrammaTech was acquired by Five Points Capital.
In September 2023, Grammatech announced t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-minute%20rule | In computer science, the five-minute rule is a rule of thumb for deciding whether a data item should be kept in memory, or stored on disk and read back into memory when required. It was first formulated by Jim Gray and Gianfranco Putzolu in 1985, and then subsequently revised in 1997 and 2007 to reflect changes in the relative cost and performance of memory and persistent storage.
The rule is as follows:The 5-minute random rule: cache randomly accessed disk pages that are re-used every 5 minutes or less.
Gray also issued a counterpart one-minute rule for sequential access:
The 1-minute rule: cache sequentially accessed disk pages that are re-used every 1 minute or less.
Although the 5-minute rule was invented in the realm of databases, it has also been applied elsewhere, for example, in Network File System cache capacity planning.
The original 5-minute rule was derived from the following cost-benefit computation:
BreakEvenIntervalinSeconds = (PagesPerMBofRAM / AccessesPerSecondPerDisk) × (PricePerDiskDrive / PricePerMBofRAM)
Applying it to 2007 data yields approximately a 90-minutes interval for magnetic-disk-to-DRAM caching, 15 minutes for SSD-to-DRAM caching and 2 hours for disk-to-SSD caching. The disk-to-DRAM interval was thus a bit short of what Gray and Putzolu anticipated in 1987 as the "five-hour rule" was going to be in 2007 for RAM and disks.
According to calculations by NetApp engineer David Dale as reported in The Register, the figures for disc-to-DRAM caching in 2008 were as follows: "The 50KB page break-even was five minutes, the 4KB one was one hour and the 1KB one was five hours. There needed to be a 50-fold increase in page size to cache for break-even at five minutes." Regarding disk-to-SSD caching in 2010, the same source reported that "A 250KB page break even with SLC was five minutes, but five hours with a 4KB page size. It was five minutes with a 625KB page size with MLC flash and 13 hours with a 4KB MLC page size."
In 2000, Gray and Shenoy applied a similar calculation for web page caching and concluded that a browser should "cache web pages if there is any chance they will be re-referenced within their lifetime."
References
Memory management algorithms
Rules of thumb
Cache (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenging%20Angel%20%282007%20film%29 | Avenging Angel is a 2007 American TV Western film directed by David S. Cass Sr. It originally aired on Hallmark Channel on July 7, 2007, as part of the network's "Western Month". It was filmed at Simi Valley, California, Sable Ranch in Santa Clarita, California as well as Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park in Agua Dulce, California.
Plot
A preacher (Kevin Sorbo) witnesses his family and a group of refugees seeking shelter in his church murdered by a gang of ruthless outlaws led by Colonel Cusack (Wings Hauser). After his wife makes him promise to never seek revenge, he instead becomes a bounty hunter. When he steps in to defend a woman in a saloon, the bad guy and his two friends (who happen to be allied with The Colonel), give him a beating and toss him into the street.
A woman with a "past", named Maggie (Cynthia Watros), takes him in to care for him. He stays in her extra room, but she insists he give up his gun while at her home because she has a daughter.
The local sheriff, on Cusacks's payroll, is meanwhile trying to run off some squatters. The Sheriff's gang attempts to intimidate the squatters, but once The Preacher learns of the Sheriff's and The Colonel's dealings, he visits the squatters, who tell him they paid for the land but never got the deed. A few days later the Sheriff's posse burns down a few of the squatter's tents.
The Preacher attempts to negotiate peacefully with the Sheriff, and so visits Cusack. Cusack tries to persuade The Preacher to join his mob, which he refuses. The Sheriff then sends a message to The Preacher by having some of his men rough up Maggie. Unarmed still because of his agreement with Maggie, The Preacher catches the gang in the act and overcomes one of the men's guns, scaring the men off.
The Preacher gets his gun back from Maggie and sets out to visit the Squatters again, and is met by the Sheriff and some of his gang. The Preacher, now armed, tells the Sheriff that the squatters have a right to stay. Gunfire ensues, and The Preacher shoots the sheriff. The rest of the bad guys run off.
The Preacher then pays a visit to Cusack for a final showdown, and obtains the deed for the squatters. As he turns to leave, having satisfied his purpose for the visit, the Colonel tries to shoot him, but The Preacher is faster and kills Cusack. The Preacher returns to Maggie and her daughter.
Cast
Kevin Sorbo as The Preacher
Nick Chinlund as Quinn
Cynthia Watros as Maggie
Richard Lee Jackson as Billy
Wings Hauser as Colonel Cusack
Joey King as Amelia
Brad Carter as Gunman #2
The production designer was Scott H. Campbell, while casting was handled by Penny Perry and Amy Reese.
Reception
Avenging Angel did moderately well for Hallmark Channel when it premiered. The film scored a 2.6 household rating, making it the highest-rated ad supported cable movie for the day. A reviewer at Chud.com called it: However, TrailerFan.com wrote that "Avenging Angel delivers the goods at point-blank range." The Variety review |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiquidHD | LiquidHD technology was an architecture and a set of protocols for networking consumer electronics devices. It was designed to let consumers link their HDTVs, home theater components, PCs, gaming consoles, and mobile devices into local entertainment networks, where they could view high-definition digital content from any networked source device on any compliant display.
Silicon Image promoted LiquidHD in 2009 and sponsored a website for it that year.
Description
The LiquidHD architecture allowed network connections to be made via Ethernet, coaxial cable (i.e., MoCA or G.hn), 802.11 wireless, powerline communication (such as G.hn or other specifications such as HomePlug, HD-PLC or Universal Powerline Association), phone lines (HomePNA or G.hn) or HDMI, depending on the usage scenario and what connections were already available. Once devices were linked in a LiquidHD network, users could control them via a remote user interface, enabling sharing of source devices and facilitating activities such as pausing a program in one room and resuming it in another.
LiquidHD included protocols for:
Automatic discovery and authentication of LiquidHD-enabled devices
High-definition media streaming from live and stored sources across the network
Remote access of any source device's user interface to any LiquidHD display device, and for a single remote control at each display to control all source devices on a network.
Secure communication between connected devices
Security and content protection, including digital rights management for consumers to play their legally-obtained content on any LiquidHD display, and protect the network from hostile attacks
Development began in the summer of 2007.
It was announced January 8, 2009 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
By September 2009 analysts observed that no major customers had adopted the technology.
After announcing declining sales in the Great Recession, the company replaced its chief executive in September 2009 as it was criticized for spreading itself over too many new initiatives.
Silicon Image mentioned the technology on its web site in 2010, but quietly dropped it in early 2011 under new chief executive Camillo Martino.
See also
Digital Living Network Alliance
References
External links
Santo, Brian. “Silicon Image intros home tech network”, Communications, Engineering and Design Magazine, 2009-01-12. Retrieved on 2009-02-05.
Carnoy, David. “Silicon Image introduces next-gen home AV wireless networking technology: LiquidHD”, cnet, 2009-01-08. Retrieved on 2009-02-05.
Digital electronics
High-definition television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadbeef | Deadbeef may refer to:
0xDEADBEEF, a hexadecimal number used in various software operating systems as a magic number
DeaDBeeF, an audio player program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idis | Idis or IDIS may refer to:
Idis (Germanic), a female being in Germanic mythology
IDIS (software), direct data exchange software
IDIS (technology company), global security and surveillance manufacturer
Infectious Disease Impact Scale
International Dismantling Information System
Interoperable Device Interface Specifications, standards for interoperability for smart meters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto%20de%20Desenvolvimento%20Educacional | The Instituto de Desenvolvimento Educacional (Educational Development Institute, IDE) is a Brazilian private institution established in 2003 to develop and manage a single distribution network at the domestic and international levels for the Continued Education programs developed by the various Fundação Getúlio Vargas schools and institutes: EBAPE, EAESP, EPGE, EESP, FGV Direito Rio, Direito GV e CPDOC.
IDE comprehends the Graduate Program FGV Management; the Distance Learning Program (FGV Online), the Customized Courses Program (FGV Cursos Corporativos), the Quality and Business Intelligence Center and Quality Certification.
The Institute also relies on support from the Academic Council − made up of the directors of member schools and institutes and charged with the technical and academic validation of the long-term courses IDE markets.
External links
Fundação Getulio Vargas
2003 establishments in Brazil
Foundations based in Brazil
Organizations established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paco%20Men%C3%A9ndez | Francisco "Paco" Menéndez (1965–1999) was a Spanish computer game programmer who wrote games for 8-bit computers. His most famous work is La abadía del crimen which is regarded as one of the best games made for the ZX Spectrum.
Early works
Menéndez's first work was Fred, an arcade maze game released in 1983 which was followed by a sequel, Sir Fred, in 1986. Both games were later distributed in the United Kingdom and translated into English. Quicksilva distributed Fred while Mikro-Gen handled Sir Fred'''s UK release. Both games were well received with critics, and Crash Magazine gave Sir Fred a 91 percent rating.
La abadía del crimen
In 1988, Menéndez teamed with Juan Delcán to write La abadía del crimen (The Abbey of Crime) for Opera Soft. The game was to be a version of Umberto Eco's book The Name of the Rose but a license was not obtained as Eco never replied to Menéndez's request, so the game was renamed La abadía del crimen. Originally made for the Amstrad CPC, it was then ported to other 8-bit computers the ZX Spectrum and the MSX. The game was critically acclaimed for its graphics, sound and detail. The game helped Menéndez claim the Best Spanish Programmer award from Spanish Spectrum magazine MicroHobby. Despite its very positive critical reviews, and its moderate commercial success, the game was never officially released outside Spain.
Aftermath
After La abadía del crimen, Menéndez left the scene in order to finish his degree in Telecom Engineering. It is believed that the progressive commercialism in the videogame market and bad experiences with Mikro-Gen's distribution of Sir Fred'' was Menéndez's reasons for his sudden departure. Though he only made three games, Menéndez is widely considered as one of Spain's greatest ever game programmers.
Death
In 1999 Paco Menéndez committed suicide jumping from his apartment in Sevilla. He was aged 34.
References
External links
Paco Menéndez tribute on World of Spectrum
1965 births
1999 suicides
People from Avilés
Suicides by jumping in Spain
1999 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hawaii%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Hawaii Bowl throughout the years.
Television
Radio
References
External links
Bowls: Hawaii Bowl Earns Second-Highest Rating
Hawaii
Broadcasters
Hawaii Bowl
Hawaii Bowl
Hawaii sports-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMQ | WMQ may refer to:
The William and Mary Quarterly, a quarterly history journal in the United States
IBM WebSphere MQ, a family of network communication software products launched by IBM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Red | La Red (Spanish for "The Network" or "The Net") may refer to:
Rossana (film), known in Spanish as La red, a 1953 Mexican drama directed by Emilio Fernández
La Red (Chilean TV channel), a private television channel in Chile
, a television channel in Uruguay
, a Colombian variety show with Ronald Mayorga
See also
Red (disambiguation)
The Net (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Parallelism%20in%20Algorithms%20and%20Architectures | SPAA, the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, is an academic conference in the fields of parallel computing and distributed computing. It is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery special interest groups SIGACT and SIGARCH, and it is organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
History
SPAA was first organised on 18–21 June 1989, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. In 1989–2002, SPAA was known as Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures. In 2003, the name changed to Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures to reflect the extended scope of the conference.
In 2003 and 2007, SPAA was part of the Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC), and in 1998, 2005, and 2009, SPAA was co-located with the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC).
See also
The list of distributed computing conferences contains other academic conferences in parallel and distributed computing.
The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
Notes
External links
SPAA proceedings in ACM Digital Library.
SPAA proceedings information in DBLP.
Distributed computing conferences
Theoretical computer science conferences
Association for Computing Machinery conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datang%2C%20Sichuan | Datang (), also known as Datangpu (), is a town in Pujiang County, Chengdu, Sichuan. It has good transport links and major routes between Datang, Chengdu and Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport and it is situated in one of the most environmentally friendly and pollution-free areas of Chengdu. Hongfu Village is the head village and a major tourist attraction of Datang Town. The town economically relies on the exportation and trade of rice.
External links
Datang Telecom
Map of Datang Town
Travel China Guide
Pujiang County, Sichuan
Towns in Sichuan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballymacward | Ballymacward () is a village in County Galway, Ireland, on the R359 regional road between the main road and rail networks which traverse east-west, 24 kilometres from Ballinasloe and approximately 48 kilometres from Galway City. It was once part of the kingdom of the Soghain of Connacht.
It lies 4 km north of Woodlawn railway station. This station opened in 1858 and was closed for goods traffic in 1978. It is on the main Iarnród Éireann Intercity line from Dublin to Galway, situated between Ballinasloe and Attymon halt stations.
See also
List of towns and villages in Ireland
References
External links
Landed Estates Database - Woodlawn House
Abandoned Ireland - Woodlawn House
Towns and villages in County Galway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Churchill | Shawn Churchill is the sports director for CTV Winnipeg and a sports anchor and reporter for The Sports Network. Churchill has also worked at CKX-TV then moved to A Winnipeg to work as their sports anchor and sports reporter. His career has found him covering multiple Grey Cups, World Curling Championships, Pan Am Games and the Memorial Cup. Churchill graduated from Red River College from their creative communications program.
External links
TSN biography
Canadian Football League announcers
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Journalists from Winnipeg
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherDrive | EtherDrive is a brand name for storage area network devices based upon the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol. It was registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2004. The word was invented by Brantley Coile as a portmanteau of the words Ethernet and disk drive. EtherDrive was a trademark by Coraid from 2002 until 2015 when it was purchased by The Brantley Coile Company as part of the purchase of Coraid's software copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets in May 2015.
History
The first commercial transaction involving interstate commerce of an EtherDrive branded product was to Geoff Collyer. Some of the first EtherDrive products were embedded Z80 based boards that acted as AoE converters. These boards were attached like a daughterboard to PATA disk drives mounted and connected to a backplane that provided only power and an RJ-45 jack. These original PATA blades were aligned in a single row per shelf and addressed by over Ethernet with a shelf:slot address. The slot component eventually became referred to as a LUN.
Today, EtherDrive devices provide RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD. These use AoE to talk to the initiator but provide a hardware RAID close to disk. The device also provides a block scrubbing mechanism called RAIDShield that systematically checks every block on every disk for potential failures. When a bad block is encountered, the block is reconstructed from parity and written to another part of the disk.
EtherDrives have been used as storage for high altitude atmospheric research and aeronautical applications. Combined with SSD disks the technology is an easy solution to data acquisition in the embedded space. Since it uses AoE the device is presented to the host OS as block storage, and thus the EtherDrive requires minimum overhead from the host system.
In April 2015, Coraid was foreclosed on by its creditors. In May 2015, The Brantley Coile Company acquired the trademark and the IP and is now marketing the ATA over Ethernet storage appliance software based on the SRX and VSX products.
References
External links
Storage area networks
AT Attachment
Ethernet
Cloud storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade%20stand%20%28disambiguation%29 | Lemonade stand may refer to:
Lemonade stand, a business that is commonly owned and operated by a child or children, to sell lemonade
Lemonade Stand, a computer game used to teach basic business, math, and computer skills
Lemonade Stand, a 2011 album by Illinois (band)
See also
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USRN | USRN may stand for:
United Stations Radio Networks
Unique Street Reference Number
Nefteyugansk Airport, whose ICAO airport code is USRN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20in%20Informatics%20and%20Analysis | Service in Informatics and Analysis (SIA Ltd.) was one of the pioneering time-sharing service bureau companies in the late 1960s, later known as SIA Computer Services. Its head office was located at Lower Belgrave Street, close to Victoria Station in London, and the company had branch offices in Edinburgh, Manchester, the West End, Paris and (much later) in Hong Kong. SIA offered terminal services via the Post Office telephone network at speeds of 10, 15, 30, 60 and 120 characters per second for Teletype-style terminals and of 1200 baud, 2400 baud and 4800 baud for Remote Job Entry terminals. Later with the release of the IBM PC, systems were developed to emulate the Remote Batch and interactive terminals.
Clients could also visit the head or branch offices to submit their jobs personally or have them accepted and supervised by the production department.
In 1968 the company installed a Control Data Corporation CDC 6600 mainframe computer – the first CDC 6600 installed in the United Kingdom. It was generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, outperforming its fastest predecessor, IBM 7030 Stretch, by about three times. It remained the world's fastest computer from 1964 to 1969, when it relinquished that status to its successor, the CDC 7600. By 1974 SIA added more processing power by installing a Control Data Cyber-72 at Victoria.
SIA had assembled a comprehensive library of proven software packages drawn from all over the world. They covered a range of disciplines:
electronics, management science, integrated survey and statistical, integrated cluster analysis, segmentation analysis, simulation, financial planning, production planning and control systems, civil and structural engineering, finite element stress analysis, box girder bridge design, highway engineering, business systems, business data processing, database management and many others.
Client support groups
SIA's client support groups included:
Technical services
Supported clients writing and running their own programs, whether written in ALGOL, BASIC, COBOL, or Fortran. They provided training in all user aspects of the Kronos-75 service and on operating various types of terminal.
Commercial team
Supported the SIA sales accounting package and the database management system SYSTEM 2000. They also developed computer systems to meet various business applications to meet the individual needs of client organisations.
Applications covered included invoicing, sales ledger, sales analysis, stock control, bill of material processing,
library information retrieval and a wide range of database implementations characterised by the need to store quantities of data and
to retrieve from it in a number of differing ways.
Management sciences team
Supported the statistics, linear programming, depot location and financial modelling packages offered.
Production scheduling, warehouse siting, cash flow modelling and survey analysis are typical applications.
Engineering
Civil and str |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Noise%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Noise is a half-hour music magazine broadcast on the ITV network in the autumn of 1996. It aired between 11.00am and 11.30am on Saturdays and sat between WOW! and The Chart Show in the schedule. Like The Chart Show, it was focused on music; however, while The Chart Show was based principally on videos, The Noise featured live in-studio performances, interviews, and features.
It was presented and produced by Andi Peters, who had recently left CBBC and been put in charge of music and youth programming at LWT. The show was made by LWT from the London Studios on the south-bank and featured a variety of guests from across the musical spectrum.
The title sequence to the show depicts two middle-aged ladies enjoying tea and cakes together, while in the next room, a beat box speaker is playing a noisy tune which is disturbing both of the ladies. The loudness of the beat box causes the room to vibrate vigorously, until it breaks through the wall into the ladies' room and generates a swirl from its main speaker, sucking both of the ladies inside it as if it were a black hole. The titles were created by LWT's Bill Wilson, and the instrumental theme tune was composed by the synth-pop duo, Pet Shop Boys.
It performed poorly in the ratings and did not continue beyond its sole series; however, a special episode entitled "The Noise: Boyzone in Brazil" was produced and broadcast in 1997, the special was due to be broadcast on 6 September but was postponed due to an alternative schedule being used after the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales and was transmitted on 4 October instead. Two years later, ITV would go on to replace The Chart Show with a studio-based music performance series, CD:UK, to significantly greater success. Andi Peters later left LWT to join Channel 4, where he developed the T4 youth strand.
Julian Turner appeared on the show as an assistant to Andi Peters but left the show during the series due to artistic differences and went on to pursue a successful career in international finance.
1996 British television series debuts
1997 British television series endings
1990s British music television series
English-language television shows
London Weekend Television shows
Television series by ITV Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia%20cuspidata | Salvia cuspidata is a perennial shrub native to the Andes mountains in Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, growing at elevations up to .
Salvia cuspidata subsp. gilliesii, originally named Salvia gilliesii by George Bentham in 1873, was renamed Salvia cuspidata subsp. gilliesii in 2007. It has been only recently that gardeners have discovered the plant. It has been grown and distributed on the French Riviera since 1994 and in the U.S. since 2002.
Salvia cuspidata subsp. gilliesii reaches up to in its native habitat—somewhat less in cultivation. New stems in early spring are light green and square, quickly becoming rounded, woody, and a soft gray color. The many upright stems in a small space give the plant a tall, airy appearance. The lanceolate-shaped, serrated leaves are graduated in size, with white undersides that have pronounced veining, and lightly cover the plant. There are 3–6 flowers in well-spaced whorls on branched inflorescences. The small flowers are long, and are a deep sky-blue with a purple undertone, held in a tiny calyx that is purple on the side turned to the sun and green underneath. The upper lip has a whitish dusting, the wider lower lip has two white lines that lead insects to the nectar.
References
cuspidata
Flora of Bolivia
Flora of Chile
Flora of Peru
Plants described in 1873 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versa%20%28band%29 | Versa (stylized as VERSA) was an American rock duo formed in Port St. Lucie, Florida, in 2006, as VersaEmerge. The group consisted of Blake Harnage (guitar, vocals, and programming) and Sierra Kay (lead vocals). They had a revolving line-up, their most prolific being with bassist Devin Ingelido, who was a member from 2007 until 2011.
Following self-releases, the band signed with record label Fueled by Ramen in late 2008 and released the VersaEmerge EP and their full-length debut Fixed at Zero (2010), which met with positive reviews from alternative critics. The album didn't enter the Billboard 200 chart, but it ranked third on the Billboard Top Heatseekers. After changing their name to Versa, the duo self-released the EP Neon on January 21, 2014.
Although the band was considered part of the emo pop scene and compared to other emo female-fronted bands, Versa's music style included experimental rock, space rock and electronic rock, as being influenced by artist Björk and band Muse.
In a 2015 podcast, Sierra Kay announced that she and Blake were working on a new project under a new moniker, leaving Versa behind to not create confusion. The project between the two never materialized. Kay instead went on to form the shoegaze band Neaux.
History
2006-2009: Beginnings and early releases
Florida band VersaEmerge was formed in 2006 by Blake Harnage (guitar, backing vocals), Anthony Martone (drums), Anthony Doan (backing vocals, programming and keys), Josh Center (rhythm guitar), and Nick Osborne (bass), after the departure of the vocalist of their previous band My Fair Verona. Harnage chose the name "VersaEmerge" from the terms "vice versa", meaning opposite, and "emerge" meaning to rise up. The band recorded their first EP, Cities Built On Sand, in 2007, with new vocalist Spencer Pearson.
With the departure of the four members, the band recruited Devin Ingelido from Bury the Ashes in bass. Sierra Kusterbeck auditioned for the vocal position by sending a tape online. While the other members were not too sure about Kusterbeck, Harnage convinced them she was right for the job and she soon joined the band in 2007. Little did they know that Kusterbeck lied about her age saying she was 18 years old, when she was really 16, so she could get an audition. However, Kusterbeck later cleared this misunderstanding and explained that it was more of a mix up; she was turning 17 a week from the audition, and she said to Harnage on the phone, "I'm 17, my birthday is in a week". This was misconstrued to mean she was already 17, and was turning 18, however she actually meant she would be 17 in a week.
After the recruit of Kusterbeck, VersaEmerge played local home shows and went on tour with bands such as Kiros, Our Last Night, There for Tomorrow, and Craig Owens. The band worked hard and released their first EP with Kusterbeck, Perceptions, in May 2008. They then parted with rhythm guitarist James Lano, who was then replaced by Jerry Pierce. VersaEmerge later signed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datakit | Datakit is a virtual circuit switch which was developed by Sandy Fraser at Bell Labs for both local-area and wide-area networks, and in widespread deployment by the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs).
Datakit uses a cell relay protocol similar to Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Datakit is a connection-oriented switch, with all packets for a particular call traveling through the network over the same virtual circuit. Datakit networks are still in widespread use by the major telephone companies in the United States.
Interfaces to these networks include TCP/IP and UDP, X.25, asynchronous protocols and several synchronous protocols, such as SDLC, HDLC, Bisync and others. These networks support host to terminal traffic and vice versa, host-to-host traffic, file transfers, remote login, remote printing, and remote command execution. At the physical layer, it can operate over multiple media, from slow speed EIA-232 to 500Mbit fiber optic links including 10/100 Megabit ethernet links.
Most of Bell Laboratories was trunked together via Datakit networking. On top of Datakit transport service, several operating systems (including UNIX) implemented UUCP for electronic mail and dkcu for remote login.
Datakit uses an adaptation protocol called Universal Receiver Protocol (URP) that spreads PDU overhead across multiple cells and performs immediate packet processing. URP assumes that cells arrive in order and may force retransmissions if not.
The Information Systems Network (ISN) was the pre-version of Datakit that was supported by the former AT&T Information Systems. The ISN was a packet switching network that was built similar to digital System 75 platform.
LAN and WAN applications with the use of what was referred to as a Concentrator that was connected via fiber optics up to 15 miles away from the main ISN. The speeds of these connections were very slow to today's standards, from 1200 to 5600 baud with most connections / end users on dumb terminals. The main support for this product came from the NCSC (National Customer Support Center) in Englewood CO then later AT&T Information Systems as the company reorganized and Bell Labs.
It was in production three or more years prior to the Datakit being released. Datakit was programmed similar to a Central Office with area code and seven digit location.
In 1996, AT&T spun off Bell Labs as a separate company, Lucent Technologies–who would later merge with the French firm Alcatel to become Alcatel-Lucent, before finally being acquired by Nokia in 2016. By the late 1990s, Datakit was clearly a legacy technology, being superseded by newer technologies such as IP and Ethernet. Lucent decided to discontinue their Datakit product line, but a group of former Lucent employees started a new firm, Datatek Applications, who licensed the technology from Lucent, and aimed to support the remaining Datakit users and provide gateway solutions to assist in their migration to newer technologies. In part due to the continui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20tabletop%20role-playing%20games | The following is a timeline of tabletop role-playing games. For computer role-playing games see here.
The publication year listed here is the year of the first edition in the original country. Additional editions, translations or adaptations for use in other countries are not included in this list. For editions other than the first, consult the corresponding article.
Some games started out as generic role-playing supplements, supplements for other games, or even a different kind of game. Those games are listed in the year when they made the transition to a standalone role-playing game.
Unique games with identical or similar titles are listed separately. Unique means games that use different rules or settings but does not include rule revisions by the same author or publisher.
1970s
1974
Dungeons & Dragons
Rules to the Game of DUNGEON
1975
Boot Hill
Empire of the Petal Throne
En Garde!
Tunnels & Trolls
1976
Bunnies & Burrows
Knights of the Round Table
Metamorphosis Alpha
Monsters! Monsters!
Starfaring
1977
Chivalry & Sorcery
Flash Gordon & the Warriors of Mongo
The Realm of Yolmi
Space Patrol, later renamed Star Patrol
Space Quest
Superhero: 2044
Traveller
1978
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Bifrost
The Complete Warlock
Gamma World
High Fantasy
John Carter, Warlord of Mars
Legacy
RuneQuest
Starships & Spacemen
Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier
What Price Glory?!
1979
Adventures in Fantasy
Buccaneer
Bushido
Commando
Gangster!
Heroes
Ironhedge
Villains and Vigilantes
Ysgarth
1980s
1980
Archaeron
Basic Role-Playing
Beasts, Men & Gods
Castle Perilous
Dallas
DragonQuest
The Fantasy Trip
Land of the Rising Sun
Melanda
The Morrow Project
Odysseus
Skull and Crossbones
Space Opera
Supergame
Thieves' Guild
Top Secret
1981
Aftermath!
Arduin
Call of Cthulhu
Champions
Crimefighters
Fantasy Wargaming
Heroes of Olympus
The Mechanoid Invasion
Merc
Midgard (German RPG)
The Spawn of Fashan
Star Rovers
Stormbringer
Universe
Wild West
Wizards' Realm
1982
Alma Mater
Behind Enemy Lines by FASA
Daredevils
Drakar och Demoner (Trudvang Chronicles)
Fringeworthy
FTL:2448
Gangbusters
Inner City
Knights and Berserkers and Legerdemain
Man, Myth and Magic
Pirates and Plunder
Recon
Rolemaster
Space Infantry
Starfleet Voyages
Star Frontiers
Star Trek: The Role Playing Game
Swordbearer
Worlds of Wonder
1983
Droids
Element Masters
Espionage!, later renamed Danger International
James Bond 007
Lands of Adventure
Légendes (French RPG)
Lords of Creation
L'Ultime Épreuve (French RPG)
Mach: The First Colony
Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes
Other Suns by FGU
Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game
Powers and Perils
Privateers and Gentlemen
Stalking the Night Fantastic
Star Quest
Super Squadron
Superworld
Timeship
To Challenge Tomorrow
The Valley of the Pharaohs
Victorian Adventure
Warhammer The Mass Combat Fantasy Role-Play |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Emmy%20Awards | 2009 Emmy Awards may refer to:
61st Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2009 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored primetime programming during June 2008 – May 2009
36th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2009 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored daytime programming during 2008
30th Sports Emmy Awards, the 2009 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored sports programming during 2008
37th International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERNET | The Education and Research Network (ERNET) is an autonomous scientific society of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. ERNET has made a significant contribution to the emergence of networking in the country. It practically brought the Internet to India and has built up national capabilities in the area of net-working, especially in protocol software engineering. It is the first internet service in india. It has not only succeeded in building a large network that provides various facilities to the intellectual segment of Indian society—the research and education community, it has over the years become a trendsetter in the field of networking.
Focus
ERNET is largest nationwide terrestrial and satellite network with point of presence located at the premiere educational and research institutions in major cities of the country. Focus of ERNET is not limited to just providing connectivity, but to meet the entire needs of the educational and research institutions by hosting and providing relevant information to their users. Research and Development and Training are integral parts of ERNET activities. The activities at ERNET India are organised around five technology focus areas:
National Academic and Research Network
Research and Development in the area of Data Communication and its Application
Human Resource Development in the area of High-end Networking
Educational Content
Campus-wide High Speed Local Area Network
Beginning
ERNET was initiated in 1986 by the Department of Electronics (DoE), with funding support from the Government of India and United Nations Development Program (UNDP), involving eight premier institutions as participating agencies— NCST (National Centre for Software Technology) [Now CDAC] Bombay, IISc (Indian Institute of Science) Bangalore, five IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) at Delhi, Bombay, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras, and the DoE, New Delhi. ERNET began as a multi protocol network with both the TCP/IP and the OSI-IP protocol stacks running over the leased-line portion of the backbone. Since 1995, however, almost all traffic is carried over TCP/IP.
History of ERNET
ERNET started with Dial-up network in 1986–87.
Initially UUCP mail was only service started by ERNET.
First leased line of 9.6 kbit/s was installed in Jan’1991 between Delhi and Mumbai.
ERNET was allotted Class B IP address 144.16.0.0 by InterNIC in 1990. Subsequently, Class C addresses were allotted to ERNET by APNIC.
All IITs, IISc Bangalore, DOE Delhi and NCST Mumbai were connected by 9.6 kbit/s leased line by 1992.
In 1992, 64 kbit/s Internet gateway link was commissioned from NCST Mumbai to UUNet in Virginia near Washington DC.
In 1998 ERNET India was registered as Autonomous Society.
In 1999-2000 new terrestrial high speed backbone was set up.
In 2000 POP infrastructure was upgraded.
Satellite WAN was set up in 1993.
Today, 1100 institutes are ERNET users under different schemes.
ERNET backbone
ERNET |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellix | Trellix (formerly FireEye and McAfee Enterprise) is a privately held cybersecurity company that was founded in 2022. It has been involved in the detection and prevention of major cybersecurity attacks.
It provides hardware, software, and services to investigate cybersecurity attacks, protect against malicious software, and analyze IT security risks.
In March 2021, Symphony Technology Group (STG) announced its acquisition of McAfee Enterprise in an all-cash transaction for US$4.0 billion. STG completed the acquisition of McAfee’s Enterprise business in July 2021 with plans for re-branding. In June 2021, FireEye sold its name and products business to STG for $1.2bn. STG combined FireEye with its acquisition of McAfee's enterprise business to launch Trellix, an extended detection and response (XDR) company. Meanwhile, McAfee Enterprise's security service edge (SSE) business would operate as a separate company to be known as Skyhigh Security.
History
FireEye was founded in 2004 by Ashar Aziz, a former Sun Microsystems engineer. FireEye's first commercial product was not developed and sold until 2010. That same year, FireEye expanded into the Middle East. This was followed by the opening of new offices in the Asia Pacific in 2010, Europe in 2011 and Africa in 2013.
Initially, FireEye focused on developing virtual machines to download and test internet traffic before transferring it to a corporate or government network. The company diversified over time, in part through acquisitions.
In December 2012, founder Aziz stepped down as CEO and former McAfee CEO David DeWalt was appointed to the position. DeWalt was recruited to prepare the company for an initial public offering (IPO). The following year, FireEye raised an additional $50 million in venture capital, bringing its total funding to $85M. In late 2013, FireEye went public, raising $300M. FireEye remained public until 2021.
At the time, FireEye was growing rapidly. It had 175 employees in 2011, which grew to 900 by June 2013. Revenues multiplied eight-fold between 2010 and 2012. However, FireEye was not yet profitable, due to high operating costs such as research and development expenses.
In December 2013, FireEye acquired Mandiant for $1bn. Mandiant was a private company founded in 2004 by Kevin Mandia that provided incident response services in the event of a data security breach. Mandiant was known for investigating high-profile hacking groups. Before the acquisition, FireEye would often identify a security breach, then partner with Mandiant to investigate who the hackers were. Mandiant became a subsidiary of FireEye. Since acquiring Mandiant, FireEye has been called in to investigate high-profile attacks against Target, JP Morgan Chase, Sony Pictures, Anthem, and others.
In late 2014, FireEye initiated a secondary offering, selling another $1.1bn in shares, to fund development of a wider range of products. Shortly afterward, FireEye acquired another data breach investigation company, n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duna%20World | Duna World is the international television service of Duna Média, the Hungarian public broadcaster. It airs a mix of programming from Duna TV's domestic channels, together with special programmes aimed at the Hungarian diaspora in Europe, Africa, North America (especially in states near the Canada–United States border), Australia, Eurasia (Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan) and now in Asia Pacific.
It airs news and current affairs programming, as well as shows about Hungarian culture including drama, music, movies and more. Since September 12, 2020, its channel space became shared with M4 Sport+, a part-time service produced by sister station M4 Sport, which airs exclusively on weekends between 14:00 and 22:00. The service features broadcasts of Hungarian sports events, specially, from the Nemzeti Bajnokság I football division. It is broadcast worldwide in all Duna World feeds, regardless of the territories where it broadcasts.
External links
Duna World
Television networks in Hungary
International broadcasters
Television channels and stations established in 2006
2006 establishments in Hungary
Mass media in Budapest
MTVA (Hungary) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Paprika | TV Paprika is a Hungarian television channel operated by AMC Networks International Central Europe. Its name is a pun on how peppers for making stuffed peppers is often labelled at markets, short for "tölteni való paprika" which means "peppers to fill".
External links
www.tvpaprika.hu
AMC Networks International
Television networks in Hungary
Television channels and stations established in 2004
2004 establishments in Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyam%20scandal | The Satyam Computer Services scandal was India's largest corporate fraud until 2010. The founder and directors of India-based outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services, falsified the accounts, inflated the share price, and stole large sums from the company. Much of this was invested in property. The swindle was discovered in late 2008 when the Hyderabad property market collapsed, leaving a trail back to Satyam.
The scandal was brought to light in 2009 when chairman Byrraju Ramalinga Raju confessed that the company's accounts had been falsified.
History
For many years Satyam accounts showed profits that had never existed, cash at the bank that did not exist, which inflated the share price. Raju and friends then sold shares. The accounts also showed $3m of "salary payments" to people who did not exist. These in fact went to board members. The falsified accounts were used to obtain cheap loans in the USA which were stolen by Raju and never entered into the accounts. Much of the money was squandered in real estate deals in Hyderabad. When the property market collapsed in 2008, the money vanished and whistle-blowers began to be heard. A failed attempt by Raju to use Satyam to buy a property company led to the scandal being uncovered.
Initial confession and investigation
On 7 January 2009, the chairman of Satyam, Byrraju Ramalinga Raju, resigned, confessing that he had manipulated the accounts of Rs 7,000 crore in several forms. The global corporate community was said to be shocked and scandalised.
In February 2009, the CBI took over the case and filed three partial charge sheets (dated 7 April 2009, 24 November 2009, and 7 January 2010), over the course of the year. All charges arising from the discovery phase were later merged into a single charge sheet.
On 10 April 2015, Byrraju Ramalinga Raju was convicted with 10 other members.
Role of Auditors
PricewaterhouseCoopers affiliates served as independent auditors of Satyam Computer Services when the report of scandal in the account books of Satyam Computer Services broke. The Indian arm of PwC was fined $6 million by the SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) for not following the code of conduct and auditing standards in the performance of its duties related to the auditing of the accounts of Satyam Computer Services. In 2018, SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) barred Price Waterhouse from auditing any listed company in India for 2 years, saying that the firm was complicit with the main perpetrators of the Satyam fraud and did not comply with auditing standards. SEBI also ordered disgorgement of over Rs 13 crore wrongful gains from the firm and 2 partners. PwC announced their intent to get a stay order.
Aftermath
"We are obviously shocked by the contents of the letter. The senior leaders of Satyam stand united in their commitment to customers, associates, suppliers and all shareholders. We have gathered together at Hyderabad to strategize the way forward in light |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAC-1 | DAC-1, for Design Augmented by Computer, was one of the earliest graphical computer aided design systems. Developed by General Motors, IBM was brought in as a partner in 1960 and the two developed the system and released it to production in 1963. It was publicly unveiled at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in Detroit 1964. GM used the DAC system, continually modified, into the 1970s when it was succeeded by CADANCE.
History
Genesis
GM was an early computer user, using punched card machines as early as 1952 for engineering analysis. In 1955 they moved their computing services into the new Data Processing department of GM Research Laboratories. In 1956, together with North American Aviation, they developed the first "official" batch processing operating system for IBM systems, GM-NAA I/O. In 1958 they were one of the earliest users of IBM's new FORTRAN compiler.
In June 1958 GM Research started a program to better understand the problems and potential improvements in the industrial design process. The team found that each step of the process -from initial conception and body styling through engineering design and finally to detailed parts drawings- used different types of diagrams. Each division within the company had to have their own drawing departments to support them. Time was being lost, and errors introduced, when the diagrams moved from one department to another and had to be re-drawn into the local format. Even the task of looking up the diagrams in the engineering libraries represented a significant amount of time. When modifications were made to drawings, this process repeated itself.
Convinced that automation was a solution to at least some of these problems, in 1959 Donald Hart tasked the Data Processing department of GM Research to start developing a system to store diagrams for rapid retrieval and simple modifications. The idea was that the diagrams would be digitized into the computer, displayed interactively to allow rotations, scaling and projections, and then printed on demand. Lookups would be handled via punched card queries, which would allow operators to quickly retrieve documents for manipulation into whatever local format the user needed, and then print it. Repetitive queries could be automated simply by saving the card stack.
Prototype
The Data Processing department had already been experimenting with an IBM 704 computer displaying points on the IBM 780 display which were recorded to 8 mm film. One early use was plotting traffic simulations. However, the displays were not based on storage tubes, so the images disappeared shortly after they were drawn. In order to keep the image on the screen, the program had to be put into a loop, continually refreshing the display. While this was happening the computer could not be used for other tasks. Although it was suitable for demonstration purposes, a real-world system would need additional hardware to offload this task from the CPU.
Another problem was printing the diagrams. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamad%20bin%20Thamer%20Al%20Thani | Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer bin Mohammed Al Thani (Arabic: حمد بن ثامر بن محمد آل ثاني) is the chairman of the board of the Al Jazeera Media Network, based in Qatar.
Career
In 1987, Al Thani joined the Ministry of Information and Culture in Qatar as undersecretary to the minister of information until 1994.
In 1996, he launched Al Jazeera. Al Thani served as director general until the appointment of Dr Mostefa Souag and has served as president of the board of administration.
He is a member of the ruling family of Qatar, the House of Thani.
Al Thani has a journalism degree from Qatar University.
References
Living people
Hamad bin Thamer A
Place of birth missing (living people)
Qatari businesspeople
Qatari media executives
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PosteMobile | PosteMobile is an Italian telecommunications company owned by Italian Post, which operates in the mobile telephony sector as Mobile Virtual Network Operator (Full MVNO) on the Wind network and, since 2017, it also offers fixed-line telephony and Internet services.
Since December 2016, PosteMobile is the title sponsor of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).
The Ministry of Economic Development has assigned the operator PosteMobile five decades of the prefix 371 (371-1, 371–3, 371–4, 371–5, 371–6).
History
On April 5, 2007, the agreement between Italian Post and Vodafone was made official which envisages the birth of PosteMobile S.p.A. It was precisely on November 15 of the same year that the company began to enter the mobile telephony sector, starting the sale of SIM cards initially available only to postal employees. On November 26, PosteMobile launches its first public offer: after about 10 days from the launch, customers increased to reach 40,000 people. And at the end of 2007 the share of approximately 140,000.
On 11 April 2008 PosteMobile launched its mobile banking services called "Simplify" thanks to the technical support of Gemalto, later renamed "SIMply BancoPosta" and in 2009, precisely on 7 July, PosteMobile announced that it had reached one million customers.
On 1 April 2011, Italian Post conferred on PosteMobile the "Rete TLC Fissa" business branch which manages the entire geographical network of post offices and operational and administrative offices of Italian Post.
In 2013, PosteMobile changed its network operator, relying on the Wind network.
In April 2017, PosteMobile entered the world of fixed-line telephony services with the launch of the "PosteMobile Casa" offer.
References
External links
Poste Italiane
Telecommunications in Italy
Mobile phone companies of Italy
Mobile virtual network operators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viadeo | Viadeo is a Web 2.0 professional social network whose members include business owners, entrepreneurs and managers. Viadeo was often compared to LinkedIn, offering free access but not being able to compete with the larger corporation. As of 2014, the site had 65 million members.
Company information
Viadeo was founded under its original name, Viaduc, in May 2004 by Dan Serfaty, a graduate of the HEC School of Management in Paris, and Thierry Lunati, a graduate of École centrale Paris. The name was changed to Viadeo in November 2006.
From November 2006 to August 2007, Viadeo raised €5 million twice in funding from investors AGF Private Equity and Ventech. Later that year, Viadeo announced the acquisition of Tianji.com, a Chinese business social network.
Six months after purchasing Tianji, in July 2008 Viadeo acquired its Spanish competitor ICTnet. Launched in 1995, ICTnet had 300,000 members and is popular in South America.
In early 2009, Viadeo acquired the Indian professional social networks services, ApnaCircle. ApnaCircle, with 300,000 members at the time of the acquisition, was founded by Yogesh Bansal and later joined by Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail, as board member.
On 13 October 2009, Viadeo announced the acquisition of the Canadian contact management website, unyk.com. At the time, unyk had 16 million members around the world, and this made Viadeo second only to its main competitor LinkedIn in terms of total membership.
The company is headquartered in Paris, and employs a global staff of 450, with offices in London, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Beijing, New Delhi, Mexico City, Montreal, and San Francisco. In 2009, Viadeo had estimated annual turnover of $40 million and is profitable since last quarter of 2009.
In August 2015, Viadeo announced they had engaged in an advertising campaign in France to promote a 'new vision' and that the member base had passed the 10 million mark in France.
In 2016, after a failed attempt to conquer international markets, the company was taken over by Le Figaro.
Partnerships
Google OpenSocial: Viadeo is partner since launch in 2007
IBM Lotus Notes: Viadeo available for professionals using IBM Lotus Notes
Microsoft Outlook Connector: Viadeo available on Outlook.
See also
LinkedIn
Business network
Reputation systems
Social network
List of social networking websites
References
External links
Viadeo Website
Viadeo Corporate Website
Internet properties established in 2004
Professional networks
French social networking websites
Software companies of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Istanbul | The former capital of the Ottoman Empire was once served, on both its Asian and European sides, by a large network of trams in Istanbul. Its first-generation tram network first operated as a horse tram system starting in 1871, and was eventually converted to electric trams in the early twentieth century. The original tram network finally closed in 1966.
Trams returned in 1990, and a second generation of modern tram service began service in 1992. In this modern era, Istanbul is served by three separate tramway systems. The Asian side has a heritage tramline, whereas the European side has both a heritage tramline and a modern tram system.
History
Istanbul inaugurated horse trams in 1871 and these served the people of Istanbul until 1912. Following this date, electric trams were put in place and they were the main means for urban public transport until 1966. Many additional tramlines were added over time, and the system reached its greatest extent in 1956 with 108 million passengers carried by 270 tram-cars on 56 tram lines. But starting from the mid-1950s, automobile traffic congestion in Istanbul increased rapidly. Bus and taxi services grew rapidly over the same period of time. The number of private cars also increased greatly, and many narrow streets, which were ideal for trams, now started filling up with motor vehicles. Tramcars were not modernized for many decades, and some of the 1911 electric cars were still running in the 1960s. At that time, modern buses provided faster and smoother journeys, whereas the trams were slower, narrow single-coach cars and had many outdated features like bow collectors. Poor maintenance of tracks caused derailments and bumpy rides. Due to the city's rapid growth, reconstruction of Istanbul's infrastructure became urgent, and many streets were widened. The transport authority thought that slow tram transport sharing road space with fast bus transport would cause many problems in trying to guarantee smoother city transportation. In sum, the tramway had little comfort and was slow because it was caught in the traffic jam caused by the cars, and the tracks were also outdated, noisy and in the middle of the street. Cars had to pass the tramway on the right, causing danger for the pedestrians boarding and alighting the tramway. Comparatively, electric trolleybuses had proved to be a good alternative to trams in many countries. Due to all of these factors, the transport department decide to replace trams with trolleybuses in Istanbul.
Trolleybuses service started well, but due to their needed continuous high investment and maintenance, they were not affordable to transport authority either, and trolleybus service survived only 23 years.
After closing the tram network in mid-1960s, it was believed that by removing the old-fashioned obstacle to smooth city traveling, the city would be able to move faster than before, but this belief was proven to be false in the following years. The uncontrolled increase in petrol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%2B%20Kuchnia | Canal+ Kuchnia is a Polish television channel owned and operated by Canal+. Canal+ Kuchina broadcasts programming related to food and cooking.
See also
Canal+ Domo
Ale Kino+
References
External links
Official website
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Canal+ Premium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ale%20Kino%2B | Ale Kino+ is a Polish television channel owned and operated by Canal+. It is available on the networks of cable television and the digital platform Cyfra+ (now nc+) since 16 April 1999.
It broadcasts 22 hours daily and is exclusively devoted to cinema films and documentaries and interviews. Since July 2008, certain items of programming are broadcast in the 16/9 format and with the option to select a language.
References
External links
Official website
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Canal+ Premium
1999 establishments in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%2B%20Domo | '' Domo+ is a Polish television channel owned and operated by Canal+.
On 1 December 2020, a Czech-language version was launched on Skylink, named Canal+ Domo. It have the same programming but it is commercial-free. The Polish Domo+ became Canal+ Domo on 15 April 2021.
See also
Canal+ Kuchnia
References
External links
www.domoplus.pl
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Canal+ Premium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper%2B | Hyper+ (formerly Hyper) was a Polish television programming block broadcast on Teletoon+ from 1 September 2001 to 1 July 2014. At launch, it replaced Game One-branded block which was broadcast on the channel from 1 August 1999 (when the channel was known as Minimax at the time) until 31 August 2001. It showed the computer gaming and Japanese anime series. It was shown every night from 10pm to 2am Polish time.
References
External links
Television programming blocks in Europe
2001 introductions
2001 establishments in Poland
2014 disestablishments in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Fortean%20Organization | The International Fortean Organization (INFO) is a network of professional Fortean researchers and writers. John Keel, author and parapsychologist, in both his writings and at his appearances at INFO's FortFest, said "the International Fortean Organization (INFO) carries on Charles Fort's name as successor to the Fortean Society." Keel, Colin Wilson and John Michell were long-time advisors to the organization.
The International Fortean Organization (INFO) publishes the INFO Journal: Science and the Unknown, keeps a library of Forteana and offers research service. Science Digest, in 1978, mentions their "attempts to handle inquiries from a world-wide membership". The Skeptic's Dictionary says "The International Fortean Organization publishes INFO Journal several times a year. It features stories on such topics as anomalous astronomical phenomena, anomalies in the physical sciences, scientific hoaxes and cryptozoology." The quarterly INFO Journal grew from a 54-page publication to a 69-page publication and according to Factsheet Five, a publication dedicated to the review of periodicals, by 1993 was the longest-running Fortean publication.
John Michell and Bob Rickard in their book Unexplained Phenomena said of the International Fortean Organization "INFO was founded in 1965 as the natural successor to the original Fortean Society." Colin Wilson said he wished to assure The American Spectator that Charles Fort is far from forgotten and credited the publishing efforts of the International Fortean Organization's INFO Journal.
Una McGovern in Chamber's Dictionary of the Unexplained said, "Seven years lapsed between the demise of the Fortean Society and the formation of the International Fortean Organization (INFO)...which played a vital role in encouraging a new generation of young forteans." Although the Fortean Society was never officially dissolved their aims were continued by the International Fortean Organization according to Lewis Spence in the "Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology" and encouraged by Damon Knight who credited the organization in his introduction to the Complete Works of Charles Fort published by Dover. Martin Gardner, in a chapter devoted to Fort, which according to the Sceptic Report neither scorns or damns, in Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, notes that Fort doubted everything, even his own speculations. Gardner makes the point that Forteanism serves to remind science that no theory is above doubt, and that knowledge is provisional, it serves a 'sound and healthy' purpose.
History
The organization was formed in the early 1960s by brothers, the writers Ron and Paul Willis, who acquired much of the material of the original Fortean Society which had begun in 1932 in the spirit of Charles Fort but which had grown silent by 1959 with the death of its founder Tiffany Thayer. The Fortean Society was formed by a friend of Charles Fort, Theodore Dreiser, who had threatened his publisher that he would leave |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Discovery%20and%20Query%20Builder | Data Discovery and Query Builder (DDQB) is a data abstraction technology, developed by IBM, that allows users to retrieve information from a data warehouse, in terms of the user's specific area of expertise instead of SQL.
DDQB serves the user through a web based graphical user interface and configurable data abstraction model (DAM), which contains both an understanding of the user knowledge domain and the database below it.
DDQB uses a set of Eclipse-based customization tooling and can be deployed as a set of Web Services.
See also
Business Intelligence
Ad hoc query
Full text search
Unstructured information
Data access
Information retrieval
Information science
Web Services
External links
Data Virtualization through IBM and Mayo Clinic Collaboration
Related Papers
W.A. de Landgraaf, Data grids in theory and practice, 2008
Data analysis software
IBM software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%E2%80%93Newell%20theorem | In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, the Gordon–Newell theorem is an extension of Jackson's theorem from open queueing networks to closed queueing networks of exponential servers where customers cannot leave the network. Jackson's theorem cannot be applied to closed networks because the queue length at a node in the closed network is limited by the population of the network. The Gordon–Newell theorem calculates the open network solution and then eliminates the infeasible states by renormalizing the probabilities. Calculation of the normalizing constant makes the treatment more awkward as the whole state space must be enumerated. Buzen's algorithm or mean value analysis can be used to calculate the normalizing constant more efficiently.
Definition of a Gordon–Newell network
A network of m interconnected queues is known as a Gordon–Newell network or closed Jackson network if it meets the following conditions:
the network is closed (no customers can enter or leave the network),
all service times are exponentially distributed and the service discipline at all queues is FCFS,
a customer completing service at queue i will move to queue j with probability , with the such that ,
the utilization of all of the queues is less than one.
Theorem
In a closed Gordon–Newell network of m queues, with a total population of K individuals, write (where ki is the length of queue i) for the state of the network and S(K, m) for the state space
Then the equilibrium state probability distribution exists and is given by
where service times at queue i are exponentially distributed with parameter μi. The normalizing constant G(K) is given by
and ei is the visit ratio, calculated by solving the simultaneous equations
See also
BCMP network
References
Probability theorems
Queueing theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaak%20Electronics | Schaak Electronics was a consumer electronics company based in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The company started in the early 1970s with audio products, then expanded to personal computers and other electronics. Although it was the largest company of its kind in the region, it became defunct in the mid-1980s.
Schaak Electronics was originally an audio-related products company headed by Richard L. (Dick) Schaak which expanded to personal computers (Digital Den) and other consumer electronics from the early 1970s to about 1986, headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.
History
Early history
Schaak Electronics had its origins in a small radio and television repair shop in South Minneapolis, begun in 1957 by Leander Schaak. In 1960, his son Richard, known as Dick, dropped out of school and began working for his father. Dick soon took over the business when Leander died unexpectedly that October.
As Dick Schaak learned the business, he began advertising and focusing on audio equipment. By 1971, he had expanded the business to ten stores, including one in St. Cloud and one in Rochester, in addition to eight in the Twin Cities. Two years later he had stores in Milwaukee and Chicago. The Jaycees named him one of ten outstanding young men in Minnesota in 1972.
In 1972, Schaak Electronics, Inc., had its initial public offering of shares; Dick Schaak controlled about 80% of the stock. At that time the company was described as a retail seller of audio equipment for home and office use.
In 1973, Dick Schaak engineered a dramatic change in the company. The Tandy Corporation had been ordered to divest itself of Allied Radio. With the opportunity to buy not only 8 Allied stores in Chicago, but 19 in other locations, he made the acquisition and Schaak Electronics was now double its original size.
By December, 1974, Schaak Electronics was advertising on local Twin Cities air waves, broadcasting at least two different radio commercials on KTCR-FM with a character named Uncle Allie talking to his nephew Timmy. These two characters also appeared in a Schaak Electronics - Allied Radio catalog during the mid-1970s.
But the expansion proved to be too much, especially in the context of economic recession in the US. Schaak Electronics lost money in 1974, in spite of significant sales increases. The pattern continued in 1975 with even more sales and even more money lost. In spite of efforts to control costs by closing some stores, Schaak Electronics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the spring of 1975. A two-year battle with creditors ensued, including American National Bank and Manufacturers Hanover.
By 1976, issues with the banks were resolved and the company returned to profitability. By 1978, creditors had been repaid and profitability continued to grow.
In 1977 they opened their fifteenth location at Burnsville Center in Burnsville, Minnesota.
As the 1980s began, Schaak Electronics reported sales figures around $50 million a year, and growing rapidly. By 1984, the com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Evolution-Data%20Optimized%20network%20equipment%20suppliers | This is a list of notable providers of Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) infrastructure equipment:
Airvana in partnership with Nortel, provides EV-DO infrastructure to Verizon Wireless, Sprint Corporation in North America.
Alcatel-Lucent is the supplier for a majority of CDMA operators, including Verizon Wireless, U.S. Cellular and Sprint Corporation
Bridgewater systems
Ericsson has done several trials in China and has commercial deployment in South America.
Huawei
Motorola provides cellular infrastructure to Sprint, Verizon, and other operators.
Nortel
Samsung
Tellabs
ZTE has deployed CDMA EV-DO networks in Sudan, Morocco and India
References
Lists of telecommunications companies
Mobile telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oobi | Oobi may refer to:
Oobi (TV series), an American children's program on the Noggin network
Oobi (toy), Parker Brothers toy introduced in 1971, to send messages from one location to another
OOBI, for out-of-band infrastructure, term in the telecommunications industry for voice communication since the 1950s
See also
Ubi (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cassowary is a large flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea.
Cassowary may also refer to:
Cassowary (software), a toolkit to solve equations on a computer
Cassowary plum, Cerbera floribunda, poisonous plant
Cassowary Coast Region, local government in Queensland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdate | On Unix-like operating systems, rdate is a tool for querying the current time from a network server and, optionally, setting the system time. Rdate uses the Time Protocol. The Time Protocol is generally considered obsolete and has been replaced by the Network Time Protocol (NTP).
When used to set the local system time, rdate operates by changing system time immediately to the time and date returned by the server. Abrupt changes of clock settings have been found to cause problems for software relying on timing. This led to the development of the Network Time Protocol, which gradually changes the system time and does not skip ticks.
Due to the problems described above, rdate is generally used only on systems where NTP is not available, or in specialized circumstances where it is required that system time be set correctly as soon as possible during initial setup, before services which may be vulnerable to abrupt time-changes have started.
See also
ntpd
References
– Describing the Time Protocol used by rdate
Open-rdate, a project implementing the rdate command
Network time-related software
Internet Standards
Internet protocols
Unix network-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAT%20and%20WADS%20conferences | WADS, the Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium, is an international academic conference in the field of computer science, focusing on algorithms and data structures. WADS is held every second year, usually in Canada and always in North America. It is held in alternation with its sister conference, the Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), which is usually held in Scandinavia and always in Northern Europe. Historically, the proceedings of both conferences were published by Springer Verlag through their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Springer continues to publish WADS proceedings, but starting in 2016, SWAT proceedings are now published by Dagstuhl through their Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics.
History
The first SWAT took place in 1988, in Halmstad, Sweden. The first WADS was organised one year later, in 1989, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Until 2007, WADS was known as the Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, and until 2008, SWAT was known as the Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory.
See also
The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
Notes
References
. Also available as a Princeton University technical report TR-521-96. Section 13.2 mentions the following conferences (in this order) as examples of "major algorithms conferences" with "a large amount of geometry": SODA, ISAAC, ESA, WADS, SWAT.
. Section 7.3.2 mentions the following conferences (in this order) as examples of conferences that publish articles on pattern matching (in addition to more narrow conferences CPM, COCOON, RECOMB, SPIRE, ISMB): DCC, ESA, FOCS, FSTTCS, ICALP, ISAAC, MFCS, SODA, STACS, STOC, SWAT, WAE, WADS.
The 2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences. Conferences on tier A ("... would add to the author's respect...") include SWAT and WADS.
External links
Bibliographic information about SWAT at DBLP
Bibliographic information about WADS at DBLP
Theoretical computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20News | City News might refer to one of the following:
City News (film), 1984
City News Los Angeles, an LGBT newspaper
CityNews, news and current affairs programming on the Citytv network in Canada
CityNews Channel, defunct news channel
City News Bureau of Chicago, a former news bureau
City News Service, a regional news service covering Southern California
See also
City Paper (disambiguation)
Business news
City Journal
City Newspaper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper%20diagram | A Piper diagram is a graphic procedure proposed by Arthur M. Piper in 1944 for presenting water chemistry data to help in understanding the sources of the dissolved constituent salts in water. This procedure is based on the premise that cations and anions in water are in such amounts to assure the electroneutrality of the dissolved salts, in other words the algebraic sum of the electric charges of cations and anions is zero.
A Piper diagram is a graphical representation of the chemistry of a water sample or samples.
The cations and anions are shown by separate ternary plots. The apexes of the cation plot are calcium, magnesium and sodium plus potassium cations. The apexes of the anion plot are sulfate, chloride and carbonate plus hydrogen carbonate anions. The two ternary plots are then projected onto a diamond. The diamond is a matrix transformation of a graph of the anions (sulfate + chloride/ total anions) and cations (sodium + potassium/total cations).
The required matrix transformation of the anion/cation graph is:
The Piper diagram is suitable for comparing the ionic composition of a set of water samples, but does not lend itself to spatial comparisons. For geographical applications, the Stiff diagram and Maucha diagram are more applicable, because they can be used as markers on a map. Colour coding of the background of the Piper diagram allows linking Piper Diagrams and maps
Water samples shown on the Piper diagram can be grouped in hydrochemical facies. The cation and anion triangles can be separated in regions based on the dominant cation(s) or anion(s) and their combination creates regions in the diamond shaped part of the diagram.
See also
Ternary diagram, just one triangle
QAPF diagram, a common application
References
Diagrams
Water chemistry
Physical chemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Woodward | Dr Martin R. Woodward (28 May 1948 – 27 October 2006) was a British computer scientist who made leading contributions in the field of in software testing.
Martin Woodward was an academic in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool in England. As part of his leading role in software testing, for 13 years, until shortly before his death, Woodward was the Chief Editor of the journal Software Testing, Verification & Reliability (STVR), a major international journal in the field of software testing.
Woodward undertook software testing research in areas such as mutation testing, maturity models, testability, etc.
References
External links
Martin R. Woodward publications on Microsoft Academic
1948 births
2006 deaths
Academics of the University of Liverpool
English computer scientists
Software testing people
Academic journal editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Carl%20Feldman | Gene Carl Feldman has been an oceanographer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) since 1985. His primary interest has been to try to make the data that NASA gathers from its spaceborne fleet of Earth observing instruments, especially those monitoring the subtle changes in ocean color, as scientifically credible, readily understandable and as easily available to the broadest group of people possible. He has been involved in a number of past and present NASA missions including the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS), the Sea-Viewing Wide Field Sensor (SeaWiFS) and the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and along with the NASA Ocean Biology Processing group which he co-leads, been given the responsibility for designing, implementing and operating the data processing and mission operations component of ocean salinity mission called Aquarius, a space mission developed by NASA and the Space Agency of Argentina - Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE) that was successfully launched in June 2011 and began routine operations on December 1, 2011 and completed its prime mission in June 2015.
Prior to his work with NASA, his experience included extended service (3½ years) as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Western Samoa, where among other things he was involved in fish farming, sea turtle conservation, boat building and village fisheries development and work with the NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service as a fisheries biologist in Seattle, Alaska and San Diego. These experiences led to his becoming a Graduate Research Fellow at the Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, where for his dissertation, he used satellite and oceanographic data to study the variability in, and the relationship between, the physical and biological processes in the ocean. He earned his Ph.D. in Coastal Oceanography in 1985.
Gallery
Notes
Ocean Color documents from various authors available from the "OceanColor Web"
References
External links
NASA Biographical Webpage
NASA's OceanColor Web
Publication list
Dr. Gene Carl Feldman presents lecture "Satellites, Seabirds and Seals: A thirty year retrospective of Ocean Color from Space" on June 27, 2012 at NASA Goddard
Monitoring the Earth from Space with SeaWiFS
SeaWiFS 10 Year Global Biosphere Animation
Climate Warming Reduces Ocean Food Supply
Dr. Betsy Pugel interviews Dr. Gene Carl Feldman for “Straight from the Scientist’s. Mouth”
From Sea to Shining Sea - A Film Treatment for the Science Channel Documentary about the Ben Franklin
American oceanographers
Goddard Space Flight Center people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Stony Brook University alumni
Articles containing video clips |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasalance | Nasalance is a measure of the degree of velopharyngeal opening in voiced speech formed by computing the ratio of the amplitude of the acoustic energy at the nares, An, to amplitude of the acoustic energy at the mouth, Am. The term nasalance usually refers to this ratio as a percentage,
and thus may be more properly expressed as percent nasalance. The term originated in the work of Fletcher and his associates and is now implemented in a number of commercially available devices. There are small differences in the manner in which nasalance is computed in various devices, and differences in the manner in which the oral and nasal acoustic energies are separated physically, as by a hard separator plate held against the upper lip vs. a two-chamber pneumotachograph mask. However, there have been no conclusive studies of the effect of these differences on a relevant underlying physical variable, such as the area of the velopharyngeal opening.
See also
Nasalization
Nasality
References
Human voice
Nasalization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPE | XPE may refer to:
Windows XP Embedded, Microsoft's embedded operating system
Cross-linked polyethylene
XPE (DDB2) |
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