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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suresh%20P.%20Sethi | Suresh P. Sethi is Eugene McDermott Chair of operations management and director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has contributed in the fields of manufacturing and operations management, finance and economics, marketing, industrial engineering, operations research, and optimal control. He is known for his developments of the Sethi advertising model and DNSS Points, and for his textbook on optimal control.
His past and present editorial positions include departmental editor of Production and Operations Management, corresponding editor of SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and associate editor of Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Automatica.
Education
Sethi received his PhD in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University under the supervision of George B. Dantzig. He obtained a BTech with honors in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, an MS in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from Washington State University.
Academic career
Sethi is Eugene McDermott Chair of operations management and director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks at The University of Texas at Dallas. He has also taught at Rice University, University of Toronto, and Carnegie Mellon University. At University of Toronto, he was General Motors Research Professor (1988–92) and Connaught Senior Research Fellow (1984–85).
Honors and awards
Two conferences have been organized in his honor: in Aix en Provence in 2005 and at UT Dallas in 2006. Also, two books have been edited in his honor.
References
External links
SSRN Author Page of Suresh P. Sethi
Author Page of Suresh P. Sethi at RePec/EconPapers
American operations researchers
Tepper School of Business alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Rice University faculty
21st-century American economists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
IIT Bombay alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Kids%20%28Latin%20American%20TV%20channel%29 | Discovery Kids (stylized as DK) is a Latin American subscription television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and headquartered in Miami, Florida, which started as a programming block on the Latin American version of Discovery Channel. It launched on 1 November 1996, with programming aimed for older children and preschoolers. It was owned by Discovery Networks Latin America and is one of two Discovery Kids-branded channels that remains airing (the other being Discovery Kids India). The programming is entirely in either Spanish or Portuguese, depending on the region.
The channel is divided into six live feeds: Pan-regional, Colombia, Southern (plus a Chilean subfeed), Mexico and Brazil, each with their own HD simulcast feeds. Until 2019, the channel had an HD version of the channel with different schedules broadcasting to all of Latin America. The network is also available in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico, alongside several islands in the Americas, such as Barbados, Grenada, and Jamaica.
History
The Beginning era (1996–2002)
On 1 November 1996, the channel launched and programming was aimed for older children and preschoolers. Preschool programming aired in the mornings, while shows for older children aired in the afternoons-evenings. The channel was originally named Discovery Kids Channel, but was shortened to simply Discovery Kids in official promos and bumpers. Its slogan was "Discovery Kids is not an infants channel, it's a kids channel!". The logo originally showed a white stick figure jumping on a red background.
In 1998, Discovery Kids changed its name, with the word "channel" getting dropped. The logo got updated, now being a planet with a ring underneath it. Its new slogan "Baterías incluidas" made its debut.
The Rainbow era (2002–2005)
In March, 2002, preschool programming began airing around the clock on weekdays, while shows for older children only aired around the clock on weekends. The channel's current slogan "¡Aquí, en Discovery Kids!" also made its debut.
In January, 2003, the channel changed its programming to target preschoolers, removing all shows for older children, which furthermore, changed its demographic to children under 8 years of age.
In the early-to-mid 2000s, a website for the channel was launched, titled Tu Discovery Kids.
The Preschool era (2005–2009)
In February, 2005, Doki, the channel's mascot, was introduced, originally appearing in promos. Several prototypes of the mascot were made on 28 October 2004. His name is an abbreviation of the English term "A Dog for Kids". It wasn't until March 2005 that the channel itself rebranded, which furthermore, also turned Doki into a standalone mascot. In 2006, the Doki Descubre shorts began airing on the channel, airing until the year 2010.
In 2008, a new mascot was introduced, named Mundi. Originally made to celebrate Earth Day, it later became one of the standalone mascots for the channel.
The Park era (2009–2013)
In 2009, the channel received a new |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewshed%20analysis | Viewshed analysis is a computational algorithm that delineates a viewshed, the area that is visible (on the base terrain surface) from a given location. It is a common part of the terrain analysis toolset found in of most geographic information system (GIS) software. The analysis uses the elevation value of each cell of the digital elevation model (DEM) to determine visibility to or from a particular cell. The location of this particular cell varies depending on the needs of the analysis.
For example, a viewshed analysis is commonly used to locate communication towers or determining the view from a road. Viewsheds can be calculated using an individual point such as a tower or multiple points such as a line representing a road. When analyzing a line segment, each of the vertices along the line is calculated to determine its visible area. The process can also be reversed. For example, when locating a landfill, the analysis can determine from where the landfill is visible to keep it hidden from view.
Viewshed analysis process
A viewshed analysis can be performed using one of many GIS programs, such as ArcGIS Pro, GRASS GIS (r.los, r.viewshed), QGIS (viewshed plugin), LuciadLightspeed, LuciadMobile, SAGA GIS (Visibility), TNT Mips, ArcMap, Maptitude, ERDAS IMAGINE. A viewshed is created from a DEM by using an algorithm that estimates the difference of elevation from one cell (the viewpoint cell) to the next (the target cell). To determine the visibility of a target cell, each cell between the viewpoint cell and target cell is examined for line of sight. Where cells of higher value are between the viewpoint and target cells the line of sight is blocked. If the line of sight is blocked then the target cell is determined to not be part of the viewshed. If it is not blocked then it is included in the viewshed.
The algorithm is also based on a given set of variables. When performing a viewshed analysis, several variables can be used to limit or adjust the calculation. For example, if the analysis is to determine the location of a radio tower, the height of the tower could be added to the elevation of that location (cell value). If no height is given, then the viewshed analysis uses the cell value of the DEM in which the tower is located.
Another way to add the height of the tower is to use an offset variable. Offset values can be added to a sending tower as well as a receiving tower. The offset value is then added to the elevation value of the cell to obtain the actual elevation of each tower.
The viewshed analysis can also have a limited viewing angle. The viewing angle, or azimuth, of the radio tower can be incorporated into the calculation by adding two values. The first value is the lowest possible azimuth angle and the second value is the highest possible azimuth angle. The program will analyze the viewshed only within these given azimuth angles.
A vertical angle can be added as well. The values for vertical angle are from 90° (looking straigh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GooglyMinotaur | GooglyMinotaur was an instant messaging bot on the AOL Instant Messenger network. Developed by ActiveBuddy under contract by Capitol Records, GooglyMinotaur provided Radiohead-related information, and was released simultaneously with the band's fifth studio album, Amnesiac in June 2001. GooglyMinotaur was named for the character that appears on the Amnesiac album cover.
ActiveBuddy's first offering, GooglyMinotaur was by November 2001 on 387,000 buddy lists and had received more than 36 million messages. It provided tour information, band facts, MP3 downloads, and assorted exclusive content provided by the studio, Capitol Records, in addition to the idle conversation that typified the chatterbots of that period.
An article was written by the chatbot creators on its 22 year anniversary. https://chatbotsmagazine.com/radiohead-s-googlyminotaur-ee91cd600a4a
In March 2002, GooglyMinotaur was switched off, and responded with the message "Since his catapult into buddy-hood, GooglyMinotaur has sent about 60 million IM messages to nearly 1 million different people. Always dependable and infinitely wise, Googly seemed fitter and happier up until his very last days. At this time, reports state the cause of death is undetermined."
References
Chatbots
Radiohead |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JEAN | JEAN was a dialect of the JOSS programming language developed for and used on ICT 1900 series computers in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it was implemented under the MINIMOP operating system. It was used at universities including the University of Southampton. The name was an acronym derived from "JOSS Extended and Adapted for Nineteen-hundred". It was operated interactively from a Teletype terminal, as opposed to using batch processing.
JEAN programs could include expressions (such as A*(B+C)), commands (such as TYPE to display the result of a calculation) and clauses (such as FOR, appended to an expression to evaluate it repeatedly).
References
ICL programming languages
JOSS programming language family
Computer science education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easterhegg | The Easterhegg (also Easter(H)egg or EH) is an annual hacker event, created by the German Chaos Computer Club. Since 2001 the Easterhegg takes place during the Easter celebrations.
Most participants are from German-speaking countries, with others from the rest of Europe or further afield. The Easterhegg consists mostly of workshops with some lectures, with topics covering the whole spectrum from tech to culture and hackerspaces. Furthermore, Easterhegg is non-commercial and all the workers are volunteers.
External links
Official Easterhegg Portal
Official Easterhegg Portal (old portal, not maintained anymore – now redirects to easterhegg.eu)
Easterhegg Basel 2012
Easterhegg Hamburg 2011
Easterhegg München 2010
Easterhegg Hamburg 2009
Easterhegg Köln 2008
Easterhegg Hamburg 2007
Easterhegg Hamburg 2005
Easterhegg München 2004
Easterhegg Hamburg 2003
Easterhegg Düsseldorf 2002
Easterhegg Hamburg 2001
Chaos Computer Club Events
Hacker conventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMTV | AMTV (formerly known as Music Feed, sometimes known as AMTV's Music Feed) is a television programming block on MTV in the United States, first aired unofficially as a sneak preview on March 26, 2009, and launched officially on March 30, 2009. It was originally the network's primary source of music video programming, but is now a general programming block. AMTV and AMTV2 were removed from MTV's lineup in 2017, but the AMTV logo remains in use during early morning general programming. For ratings purposes, the block is marketed as a separate network from MTV.
History
As Music Feed (2009–2017)
Background
AMTV signaled the newest return of music programming on MTV. The channel had gone without any music video programming during the first few months of 2009, after it ceased broadcasting FNMTV, a similar Friday night themed block that composed of short clips of music videos. The cancellation of MTV's flagship music program, Total Request Live, in November 2008 was also seen as the end of an era for MTV, leading critics to insist MTV's music brand is "irrelevant" and to conclude that the Internet has replaced television as the preferred medium for watching music videos.
Format overview
AMTV initially combined music videos with news updates, interviews, and live music performances. It featured many full-length music videos, including some older videos, in a segment called "Throwback". During the program, the channel promoted related features on its music-based web site, MTVMusic.com.
MTV resurrected its Unplugged series by airing individual acoustic performances during prime time hours, then placing the full episode on MTV.com and also playing many of the performances during AMTV over the next few days. MTV has also referred to the program as a "laboratory for advertising partnerships," meaning that an individual company could be the sole sponsor of the program on specific mornings, inserting its brand into the program in ways other than traditional TV commercials.
As of August 18, 2009, AMTV began airing weather. At some point, AMTV added a top 10 countdown that started to air in the 8 a.m. ET hour. The countdown ceased sometime in December 2009 but returned in its new 7 a.m. ET time slot on January 6, 2010.
AMTV's schedule changed a number of times throughout 2012 and more recently ended at 8 a.m. ET and excluded Monday airings. From April 16, 2012, the Monday block returned and videos went to 9 a.m. ET again.
The 8 a.m. ET hour continued to come and go since April 2012, but notably (since sometime in 2011) were the main stay playlists that made up AMTV. These playlists were the most common on AMTV and each lasted an hour without any specific order in which they aired: Clubland, Fiercest Females, Killer Collaborations, Sucker Free Playlist, Morning Jams, Wake & Shake. Specialty playlists appeared from time to time to support upcoming programming such as new programming and upcoming award shows.
As of January 2013, the order of programming on A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kourtney%20Brown | Kourtney Eugene Brown (born February 9, 1984) is a Bahamian-American actor, television host, model and visual artist. He is best known for starring in Twentieth Century Fox's My Network TV game show, My Games Fever.
Biography
Kourtney Brown was born in Miami, Florida and raised in New Providence, Bahamas, in the capital city of Nassau. He is the youngest of four sons to a Bahamian father and a mother of African, Bahamian and Native American descent. He is a first cousin to the first Bahamian Olympic Medalist, Frank Rutherford and second cousin to Academy Award Winner, Sidney Poitier. Brown received a scholarship to the College of the Bahamas summer fine arts program at age 10. He made his film debut at age 11 when auditioning and landing a minor, one lined role in Flipper, starring Elijah Wood, released summer of 1996. Shortly thereafter, his father fell ill and died. He graduated from St. Andrew's International School of the Bahamas in 2002, where he studied drama and fine art. Brown returned to South Florida with plans to enroll in a University for the arts. These were postponed, upon being discovered by a model and talent scout. In 2003, at age 19, Brown was selected as the face of MTV's "TRL" summer campaign. He has participated in an array of film, TV and commercial projects, including being a martial arts stuntman on the UPN television show, South Beach. Since, Brown has starred in commercials for MTV, Nokia and Kentucky Fried Chicken, became the face of Sean Jean's "Unforgivable" cologne spray Viacom campaign and starred in My Games Fever, a tea hour, commercial daytime TV gameshow on Fox affiliated My Network TV stations. Throughout his career, he has starred in national and international campaign advertisements for "Kentucky Fried Chicken", "KFC Wrap Star", "Nokia", "Vehix", "Days Inn", "MTV", "Office Depot", "Jamba Juice", "Lilt U.K.: Fruit Crush", "El Dorado Furniture", "Sean Jean: Unforgivable", "Optimum Wifi", "Tobacco Free" and "William Rast" by Justin Timberlake. He received a role in Italian foreign film, Fidanzata di Papà, La (Daddy's Girlfriend). Brown currently signed with Wilhelmina Models, has appeared on the runway at Miami Fashion Week and in several print campaigns for international designers. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts and Entertainment from Miami International University of Art and Design in 2009 and specializes in figurative ceramic sculpture. Brown was selected as the face of the renown French cognac, "Hennessy" for the company's 2011 national print ad campaign. The ad appeared on billboards, nationally and in various high end magazines, including "GQ", "ESPN", "Maxim" and "Uptown". In 2011 Started his own philanthropic design company, Kreosart by Kourtney Eugene Brown, also known as Kreosart LLC.
Filmography
Actor
If You Only Knew
Fine art career
Kourtney is an acclaimed visual artist and achieved fame in South Florida from the permanent, public installation of his monumental work "Creos Aet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bien | Bien may refer to:
Bien (newspaper)
Basic Income Earth Network
Bień, Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20Madness%3A%20Nectaris | Military Madness: Nectaris is a turn-based strategy game developed for WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network by Hudson Soft. It is the latest game in the Nectaris series, and an enhanced remake of the first game.
Nectaris has the maps as the original, but features 3D graphics, new units, a new story and online co-op and competitive multiplayer modes for up to four players. Hudson claimed that all three versions are identical, save for a few multiplayer maps omitted in the WiiWare version.
The WiiWare version was discontinued in March 2012. The PlayStation Network version was delisted in Europe in 2017.
Reception
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2009 video games
Computer wargames
Hudson Soft games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Strategy video games
Turn-based tactics video games
Video games developed in the United States
Wii games
WiiWare games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
Backbone Entertainment games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonics%20%28company%29 | Kryptonics was founded in 1965 and originally manufactured polyurethane products for the mining and computer industry.
In the mid-1970s, the company introduced the Kryptonics Star Trac line of wheels that drastically changed the functionality of skateboards. It was the first company to offer wheels in color coded durometers, and to use millimeter sizing. Kryptonics soon became the dominant wheel for all types of skateboarding, excelling on all types of terrain and winning more races than any other wheel brand.
Skateboarders such as Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva, Steve Alba, Micke Alba, David Hackett, Bobby Piercy, Tommy Ryan, and many others were or are sponsored by Kryptonics.
References
External links
Skateboarding companies
Official website from Brazil
https://www.kryptonics.com.br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20in%20British%20television | This is a list of British television related events from 1998.
Events
January
1 January – The network television premiere of Forrest Gump on BBC One, starring Tom Hanks.
3 January – The US supernatural series Buffy the Vampire Slayer makes its UK debut on Sky One, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the titular character.
6 January – The BBC and ITV agree their scheduling arrangements for the 1998 World Cup which will see both England and Scotland's opening matches airing on BBC One, while each nation's second group match will air on ITV.
7 January – The BBC confirms that Helen Rollason will return to television to present weekend sports bulletins for BBC One and BBC Two following treatment for colon cancer.
8 January
ITV airs the docudrama Miracle at Sea: The Rescue of Tony Bullimore which reconstructs the events of yachtsman Tony Bullimore's dramatic rescue after his boat capsized during the 1996 Vendée Globe yacht race.
The US sitcom Veronica's Closet makes its UK debut on Sky One, starring Kirstie Alley.
9 January
Michael Parkinson returns to television with a new series of Parkinson on BBC One. Guests on the first edition are Sir Anthony Hopkins, Barry Manilow and Paul Merton.
Channel 5 signs a deal with Buena Vista Entertainment to air some of its films. This will include the network television premiere of The Rock, starring Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery.
12 January
Location filming begins for a one-off episode of the Australian soap Home and Away set in Ironbridge, Shropshire. This is the first time the soap has filmed an episode overseas. The storyline which will air later in the year sees Irene Roberts (Lynne McGranger) arrive in the UK to help Selina Roberts (Tempany Deckert) who is recovering from a bout of malaria. Selina is also reunited with her on screen fiancé Steven Matheson (Adam Willits).
The 1996 UTV logos are supplemented with a set of idents featuring people playing the UTV jingle on various musical instruments.
Debut of the comedy sketch show Goodness Gracious Me on BBC Two, starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal, Kulvinder Ghir and Nina Wadia.
13 January – Debut of the docusoap The Cruise on BBC One.
14 January
Channel 4 airs the 2000th episode of its long-running soap Brookside.
Debut of ITV Nightscreen which is shown during the early hours of the morning.
17 January – Media sources report the arrival of a new EastEnders family, the Di Marcos who will make their first appearance later in the month and set up an Italian restaurant in Albert Square. The majority of the family are written out of the soap two years later.
21 January – The former Conservative MP Rupert Allason loses a libel action against BBC Worldwide and Hat Trick Productions over comments made in a 1996 book based on the satirical series Have I Got News for You. A paragraph in Have I Got 1997 for You, had noted "...given Mr Allason's fondness for pursuing libel actions, there are also excellent legal reasons for not referring to him as a conniving li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaveRNA | taveRNA is a software suite for RNA/DNA secondary structure. It is developed in the laboratories for computational biology of the School of Computing Science at the Simon Fraser University. The suite is composed by alteRNA, for RNA density fold computing, inteRNA, for RNA-RNA interaction prediction, piRNA, for predicting the joint partition function, equilibrium concentration, ensemble energy, and melting temperature for two RNA sequences, pRuNA, a sequence based pruning RNA interaction search engine, and smyRNA, a platform independent C program novel ab initio ncRNA finder.
taveRNA is not related to the bioinformatics workflow system Apache Taverna.
References
External links
Bioinformatics software
Simon Fraser University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20Me%20a%20Supermodel%20%28season%201%29 | Season one of Make Me a Supermodel, an American reality television series based on the British series of the same name, premiered on January 10, 2008, on the Bravo television network.
Casting director Jennifer Starr joined the season 1 cast along with Cory Bautista, director of New York Model Management, as judges. Tyson Beckford and Niki Taylor played as both judges and the hosts of the show.
A casting special aired prior to the season opener on January 2, 2008, featuring many models being photographed, critiqued on the runway, and sent away until only the final choices for the season remained.
The winner of the competition, chosen by the viewers, would receive: a fashion pictorial in GQ Magazine, a cash prize of $100,000, and a one-year contract with New York Model Management.
The winner of the competition was 21-year-old Holly Kiser from Coeburn, Virginia.
Contestants
''(ages stated are at time of contest)
Contestant elimination progress
Note: The bottom three contestants chosen for the public vote are shown at the end of each episode, and the eliminated model is shown at the beginning of the following episode.
Cornflower blue background and "WIN" means the model won the challenge.
Light blue background and "HIGH" means the model had one of the highest scores for that challenge.
Pink background and "LOW" means the model had one of the lowest scores for that challenge, but was not in the bottom three.
Orange background and "BTM3" means the model was in the bottom three, and may have been given another chance by America to stay in the competition.
Dark orange background and "BTM2" means the model was in the bottom two, and may have been given another chance by America to stay in the competition.
Tomato background and "OUT" means the model was in the bottom three, but was not given another chance by America, and was sent home.
Light green background and "FINALIST" means the Final 4 were placed in the hands of America to make one of the four a supermodel.
Yellow Green background and "OUT" means the model was a runner-up for the competition.
Lime Green background and "WINNER" means the model won the entire competition, and was voted by America to become a supermodel.
Note: In Episode 10, only two people were in the bottom.
Episode 12 was a reunion for the top four to look back with the eliminated contestants.
Episodes
Photo shoots
Episode 1: Summer clothes in frigid weather in Times Square, New York City.
Episode 2: Suits and dresses while fitted with harnesses and suspended from the ceiling.
Episode 3: Sexual chemistry involving pairs, regardless of gender.
Episode 4: A ten-minute still posing as nude models for an art class in Parsons; group shots with one male among a group of females, and vice versa; then, getting full body paint to act as a group for a living art installation.
Episode 5: There were no photo shoots for the week, as the episode concentrated on catwalk in New York Fashion Week.
Episode 6: The use of emotions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble%20learning | In statistics and machine learning, ensemble methods use multiple learning algorithms to obtain better predictive performance than could be obtained from any of the constituent learning algorithms alone.
Unlike a statistical ensemble in statistical mechanics, which is usually infinite, a machine learning ensemble consists of only a concrete finite set of alternative models, but typically allows for much more flexible structure to exist among those alternatives.
Overview
Supervised learning algorithms perform the task of searching through a hypothesis space to find a suitable hypothesis that will make good predictions with a particular problem. Even if the hypothesis space contains hypotheses that are very well-suited for a particular problem, it may be very difficult to find a good one. Ensembles combine multiple hypotheses to form a (hopefully) better hypothesis. The term ensemble is usually reserved for methods that generate multiple hypotheses using the same base learner.
The broader term of multiple classifier systems also covers hybridization of hypotheses that are not induced by the same base learner.
Evaluating the prediction of an ensemble typically requires more computation than evaluating the prediction of a single model. In one sense, ensemble learning may be thought of as a way to compensate for poor learning algorithms by performing a lot of extra computation. On the other hand, the alternative is to do a lot more learning on one non-ensemble system. An ensemble system may be more efficient at improving overall accuracy for the same increase in compute, storage, or communication resources by using that increase on two or more methods, than would have been improved by increasing resource use for a single method. Fast algorithms such as decision trees are commonly used in ensemble methods (for example, random forests), although slower algorithms can benefit from ensemble techniques as well.
By analogy, ensemble techniques have been used also in unsupervised learning scenarios, for example in consensus clustering or in anomaly detection.
Ensemble theory
Empirically, ensembles tend to yield better results when there is a significant diversity among the models. Many ensemble methods, therefore, seek to promote diversity among the models they combine. Although perhaps non-intuitive, more random algorithms (like random decision trees) can be used to produce a stronger ensemble than very deliberate algorithms (like entropy-reducing decision trees). Using a variety of strong learning algorithms, however, has been shown to be more effective than using techniques that attempt to dumb-down the models in order to promote diversity. It is possible to increase diversity in the training stage of the model using correlation for regression tasks or using information measures such as cross entropy for classification tasks.
Theoretically, one can justify the diversity concept because the lower bound of the error rate of an ensemble system can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Vigay | Paul Vigay (24 October 1964 – 20 February 2009) was a British computer consultant, notable for work in developing and supporting RISC OS software and named as a leading expert on UFOs and crop circles.
Biography
Vigay was born on 24 October 1964 in Croydon. He attended the Horndean School in Waterlooville, passing 10 O-levels. His use of BBC B computers while there led to a lifelong interest in computing. He edited the Acorn section of the Micronet 800 on-line magazine in the late 1980s, and continued to support RISC OS users after Micronet 800 was withdrawn. He was the senior computer technician at Bohunt Community School for several years, maintaining a LAN of over 300 desktops around the school, until he worked for Argonet ISP from 1995 until 2005 when he opened Orpheus Internet to serve Argonet's previous customers and continue support for RISC OS users. He was also a skilled computer programmer, creating an anti-virus app and a lottery prediction app using statistical analysis, among others. According to BBC News, Vigay had a long interest in UFOs, hauntings and the occult and first became involved with crop circles in 1990 while developing equipment to detect electric current flow behind walls and floors. He contributed research for the 2002 film Signs.
Death
Vigay's body was found off Portsmouth beach on 20 February 2009 after being reported missing the previous evening. Police said that it remained unclear whether Vigay committed suicide or died accidentally. According to a hearing at Portsmouth Coroners Court, Vigay had split up with girlfriend Andrea Smith on the night of his death. Smith found a short note Vigay left which said "I love you," and included Vigay's telephone code and computer passwords. The British newspaper The Telegraph reported that a coroner termed his death a "mystery". He was buried at The South Downs Natural Burial Site near Petersfield.
References
External links
Vigay.com
Crop circle Research:Personal profile by Paul Vigay
RISCOS.org Website run by Vigay.
NHNE Crop Circle: Paul Vigay interview, interview from June 1998
1964 births
2009 deaths
British computer programmers
People from Waterlooville
Ufologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKNZ | WKNZ (88.7 FM) is a non-commercial educational broadcast radio station licensed to Harrington, Delaware, United States. WKNZ is owned and operated by The Bridge of Hope, Inc. WKNZ programming can also be heard on WNJH in Cape May, New Jersey WNKZ-FM to the south of Salisbury, Maryland and on 100.1 (W261AE) in Templeville, Maryland and on 94.9 (W235DD) in Ocean City, Maryland.
Programming
WKNZ broadcasts an adult Contemporary Christian music format, serving Central Delmarva. The primary focus of the station is to bring people of different Christian denominations together, to strengthen families and churches through positive and uplifting music and to offer hope to people trying to find their way through difficult situations.
History
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on January 25, 2008. The new station was assigned the call letters WKNZ by the FCC on June 9, 2008.
In July 2009 the station unveiled its new name, logo and slogan: 88.7fm The Bridge, Connecting, Strengthening. Originally planned to launch in the first quarter of 2010, WKNZ began regular broadcast operations on Tuesday, December 7, 2010, at 10:00 a.m.
References
External links
WKNZ official website
WKNZ construction blog
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2009
KNZ
2009 establishments in Delaware
Harrington, Delaware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabafon | Sabafon was the first GSM Network operator in Yemen, launched in February 2001.
Sabafon Logo and Slogan
Slogan: "أصالة و تواصل", (Arabic slogan, pronounced: SABAFON ... Hamzatulwasl) meaning SABAFON... the link.
Management
The company organization is represented by, Sheikh Hamdan Al-Ahmar - the chairman of the company and other management and executive staff (CEO Mr. Fahed Al-Ariqy, HR Mr Ahmed Barasheed, Technical Director eng. Abdulhadi Al Zawari , Sales Director Mr Gawhar Nasher and marketing Director Mr. Walid Akkaoui, CFO, Mr Ali Naji, IT Director Mr Iskander Saeed etc.).
Shareholders
SabaFon consists of five main partners.
The main partners are:
Al-Ahmar Group
A well known local holding entity possessing numerous companies in various fields of business activities in Yemen. Their companies vary from Bank, Oil, Power, Agencies, Franchise, Telecommunications, Fish, Airlines, Travel, Shoes, Cloths, and Food and Beverages.
Key Personnel:
Hamid Al-Ahmar - Chairman of the Board
Batelco
Is Bahrain’s leading Telecommunication Company. Serving both the corporate and consumer markets in the most liberalized and competitive market in the Middle East, Batelco sells telecommunications in Bahrain and MENA.
With significant operations in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Egypt, the Batelco Group provides voice and data services over fixed, wireless, and internet platforms, systems integration and enterprise solutions to Government and Corporate clients.
Hayel Saeed Anam & Co. Ltd.
Hayel Saeed Anam & Co. Ltd. is A local well known group, which provides a variety of services through their Industrial, Commercial, Agriculture, Fishery, Animal wealth, Hotels, Health, Banks, and Insurance Companies.
Consolidated Constructors International company S.A.L. (CCC)
One of the leading international construction companies worldwide, CCC has multiple infrastructure investments in Yemen and around the world.
Network information
The company declare it covers 68% of Yemen's population and will continue its hard efforts to roll out into new places and regions in Yemen.
The Existing Network includes:
Switches: Siemens (EWSD) Version SR9
Radio Base station: Siemens Motorola
Billing System: Protek
Microwave Equipment: Siemens Nokia
Operating frequency: 900 MHz
The planned network (2008 Plan) includes:
Switches: Siemens, NSN
Radio Base station: Siemens NSN Huawei
Billing System: Protek
Microwave Equipment: Siemens Nokia
Operating frequency: 900 MHz, 1800 MHz
See also
Yemen Mobile
MTN Group
YemenSoft
Mobile phone companies of Yemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach%20For%20India | Teach For India (TFI) is a non-profit founded by Shaheen Mistri in 2009. It is a part of the Teach For All network. Teach For India runs a two-year Fellowship and supports an Alumni movement. The Fellowship recruits college graduates and working professionals to serve as full-time teachers in low-income schools for two years. The mission of Teach For India is “one day all children will attain an excellent education.”
History
In 2006, the founder of Teach For India Shaheen Mistri, 17 years after starting the Akanksha Foundation felt compelled to address the issue of educational inequity at a larger scale. She believed that the solution was a people's movement that needed to come in unison to provide every Indian child with an outstanding education.
In 2007, Shaheen Mistri met with Wendy Kopp, the Founder of Teach For America, and the ideation process to keep ‘leadership’ at the core was ignited.
In 2009, Teach For India welcomed the first cohort, the Class of 2009, to the Fellowship. The 87 ‘Niners’ formed the beginning of a nationwide movement of diverse leaders.
In 2011, two years later, the Niners graduated from the Fellowship and became the first cohort in Teach For India's Alumni movement. The first cohort of Alumni then went on to work in several pathways such as teaching, teacher training, school leadership, and government policy solving the complex problem of educational equity.
Today, Teach For India has 900 Fellows working relentlessly to change the lives of Students in their classrooms and have become leaders driving change. Now, the organization has over 3400 Alumni who are collectively fuelling the larger movement towards their vision.
Geographical Reach
Mumbai
In the year 2009, the first cohort of the Teach For India Fellowship began in Mumbai and Pune with 87 Fellows. In 2011, they graduated with 46 Fellows and 1122 Students.
In the year 2015, The Alumni movement grew bigger. The city of Mumbai started to steadily grow its Alumni network from 43 Alumni in 2011 to 280 in 2015. ‘321’ was Mumbai's first Alumni led organization.
In the year 2020, Teach For India Mumbai collaborated with MCGM. Teach For India's partnership with the government evolved over the years from being a mere service provider to reaching out to Teach for India for advice and collaborating on projects like training MCGM staff, Student Advisory Council, and best practice sharing.
The recent numbers for 2021 shows that 144 Fellows, 3500 Students, and 860 Alumni members are in the city of Mumbai.
Pune
In 2009, the first cohort began in Pune with 87 Fellows. In the year 2011, Pune's first cohort graduated with 32 Fellows and 1100 Students.
In 2018, Pune received Secondary Education Access to English-medium secondary classrooms, which was a huge challenge for Pune's kids. This issue was addressed through the PPP model partnerships with Aakanksha Foundation and iTeach Schools.
The recent numbers indicates that Pune has 145 Fellows, 6500 Students, and 840 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidRide | RapidRide is a network of limited-stop bus routes with some bus rapid transit features in King County, Washington, operated by King County Metro. The network consists of seven routes totaling that carried riders on approximately 64,860 trips on an average weekday in 2016, comprising about 17 percent of King County Metro's total daily ridership.
RapidRide lines are faster than typical local bus routes because they service fewer stops (on average, 40% fewer than the routes they replaced), make extensive use of bus priority to preempt traffic lights, and on some lines, use special lanes to bypass traffic. RapidRide lines run no less often than every 10 minutes during peak commuting hours and every 15 minutes on weekends and during most off-peak hours. Most lines (except the B, F and H lines) also have night owl (late night and early morning) service.
History
The creation of the RapidRide network was one of the main elements of King County's "Transit Now" initiative that was proposed in April 2006 and approved by voters in November 2006. Funding for the construction and operation of the lines came from a 0.1% sales tax increase included in Transit Now, contributions from local cities and over $80 million in grants from state and federal agencies. One of the most notable local contributions was from Seattle, which funded traffic signal and roadway improvements with the city's "Bridging the Gap" property tax levy, passed at the same time as Transit Now in November 2006.
Transit Now called for a network of routes that included these bus rapid transit features:
High-frequency operation (defined as 10 minutes or less)
Faster, more reliable trip times through exclusive, HOV or Business Access and Transit (BAT) travel lanes, and/or priority at intersections through transit signal priority and queue jumps
Improved shelter waiting areas with real-time information at major stops
Low emission hybrid diesel-electric buses
Branded buses and facilities with a unique look and feel
These improvements were to be made on five key travel corridors identified in the initiative:
Shoreline/Downtown Seattle via Aurora Avenue North
West Seattle/Downtown Seattle via West Seattle Bridge
Ballard/Seattle Center/south downtown stadium area via 15th Ave Northwest & West Mercer St with service or frequent connections to Ballard High School and the Ballard business district
Federal Way-Tukwila via Pacific Highway South
Bellevue-Redmond via Crossroads and Overlake
Planning and construction began shortly after approval of the measure. Along each of the corridors, fiber-optic cable was utilized to enable a Transit Signal Priority system (to synchronize traffic signals with buses), an automated vehicle location system and the features on "tech pylons" to be installed at certain locations.
Every stop along the line received some level of improvement, with the degree of investment determined by the ridership. All stops were enhanced with new concrete, RapidRide signage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20spying | Cyber spying, cyber espionage, or cyber-collection is the act or practice of obtaining secrets and information without the permission and knowledge of the holder of the information using methods on the Internet, networks or individual computers through the use of proxy servers, cracking techniques and malicious software including Trojan horses and spyware. Cyber espionage can be used to target various actors- individuals, competitors, rivals, groups, governments, and others- in order to obtain personal, economic, political or military advantages. It may wholly be perpetrated online from computer desks of professionals on bases in far away countries or may involve infiltration at home by computer trained conventional spies and moles or in other cases may be the criminal handiwork of amateur malicious hackers and software programmers.
History
Cyber spying started as far back as 1996, when widespread deployment of Internet connectivity to government and corporate systems gained momentum. Since that time, there have been numerous cases of such activities.
Details
Cyber spying typically involves the use of such access to secrets and classified information or control of individual computers or whole networks for a strategic advantage and for psychological, political and physical subversion activities and sabotage. More recently, cyber spying involves analysis of public activity on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Such operations, like non-cyber espionage, are typically illegal in the victim country while fully supported by the highest level of government in the aggressor country. The ethical situation likewise depends on one's viewpoint, particularly one's opinion of the governments involved.
Platforms and functionality
Cyber-collection tools have been developed by governments and private interests for nearly every computer and smart-phone operating system. Tools are known to exist for Microsoft, Apple, and Linux computers and iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows phones. Major manufacturers of Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) cyber collection technology include Gamma Group from the UK and Hacking Team from Italy. Bespoke cyber-collection tool companies, many offering COTS packages of zero-day exploits, include Endgame, Inc. and Netragard of the United States and Vupen from France. State intelligence agencies often have their own teams to develop cyber-collection tools, such as Stuxnet, but require a constant source of zero-day exploits in order to insert their tools into newly targeted systems. Specific technical details of these attack methods often sells for six figure sums.
Common functionality of cyber-collection systems include:
Data scan: local and network storage are scanned to find and copy files of interest, these are often documents, spreadsheets, design files such as Autocad files and system files such as the passwd file.
Capture location: GPS, WiFi, network information and other attached sensors are used to d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21%20SearchMonkey | Yahoo! SearchMonkey (often misspelled Search Monkey) was a Yahoo! service which allowed developers and site owners to use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites. The service was shut down in October 2010 along with other Yahoo! services as part of the Microsoft and Yahoo! search deal. The name SearchMonkey is an homage to Greasemonkey. Officially the product name has no space and two capital letters.
Yahoo! SearchMonkey was selected as one of the top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008.
Default apps
SearchMonkey had many default "apps" enabled; some were site-specific while others were object-based.
Examples
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog on Amazon
Inline Rick Rolls
Thai food on yelp
SearchMonkey on wikipedia
Person search
Creating apps
Apps were made through the SearchMonkey Developer Tool. Two types of apps were possible, ones that overwrote the result (Result Apps) and others that displayed below a result (Infobars). App creation was split into two parts, data and presentation.
Data
The data for an app could be either cached or run-time. Run-time data was limited to infobars, as an external fetch would take too long for the search page to render. Pages could be scraped using XSLT or via a web services call. Any webservice could be queried using a URL Template combined with any cached data. Webservices could be chained to query multiple sources and aggregate them onto the search page. Cached data could come from a variety of sources using standard markup and vocabularies.
Microformats
RDFa
eRDF
SearchMonkey Feeds
Any data placed on a webpage in these formats would be picked up by Yahoo!'s crawlers and made available to app writers. This data was also available through Yahoo! BOSS (YQL wrapped query or documentation).
One could use the Structured Data Display app to see all the structured data with search results.
Presentation
The data was transformed into the display template using PHP hosted on Yahoo! servers. It was a simplified stripped down version of the language.
End of Life
In 2010, Yahoo shutdown SearchMonkey in favor of Microsoft's Bing search engine.
References
External links
SearchMonkey Yahoo! Developer Network
Paul Tarjan's Semantic / SearchMonkey presentation
SearchMonkey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoxus%20annectens | Geoxus annectens, also known as Pearson's long-clawed akodont or Pearson's long-clawed mouse, is a species of rodent in the tribe Abrotrichini of family Cricetidae. Molecular data suggests that its closest relative is Geoxus valdivianus. Formerly classified in its own genus, Pearsonomys, named after American zoologist Oliver Payne Pearson, it was moved to Geoxus in 2016 after a morphological and genetic reevaluation of the tribe Abrotrichini. This rodent is endemic to Chile, where it is found in Nothofagus forest of the Valdivian temperate rainforest ecoregion.
References
Geoxus
Mammals described in 1992
Endemic fauna of Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-Ukrainian%20School%20of%20Computer%20Sciences%20and%20Technologies | American-Ukrainian School of Computer Science was founded on April 16, 2004 as the result of cooperation between Ternopil National Economic University (TNEU) and University of Maine (UMaine). It is the first school in Ukraine of such type, where education is provided in English and Ukrainian, involving lecturers from the American universities, representing the Peace Corps. The school is acting as a structure within the Faculty of Computer Informational Technology at TNEU and is in Ternopil, Ukraine.
History
American-Ukrainian School of Computer Science was established at April 16, 2004 as the result of collaboration of Ternopil National Economic University (Ukraine) and University of Maine (USA). Such collaboration become possible after one-year visit of professor Anatoly Sachenko (at that time dean of the Faculty of Computer Informational Technologies at TNEU) as the Fulbright professor to the University of Maine and Bowdoin College, both in Maine, in 2002–2003.
During his visit he discussed idea of creating of such school with professors George Markowsky (Department of Computer Science at UMaine) and Allan Tucker (Bowdoin College). After his return to Ukraine, a General Agreement of Cooperation was signed between TNEU and UMaine in 2003. And a year after that, school was established. Markowsky became first director of the school.
A year after that, Sachenko became director of the AUS. An agreement about cooperation was signed between TNEU and University of South Carolina Upstate in 2006.
Benefits
Students are studying according to the American (strong practical knowledge) and Ukrainian (strong fundamental knowledge) education standards;
Education process is performing with the Computer Science;
Best students (up to five) from the school yearly may study during a semester or two in UMaine;
Education grants for studying abroad are available from UMaine;
Transfer system allows students transfer to any AUS partner university.
Partner universities
University of Maine
University of South Carolina Upstate
American University in Bulgaria
Education process
Students, according to their wishes, will have the opportunity to continue their studies at any partner university and get an American diploma in Computer Science after completing three academic years at AUS. After successful education completion in a partner university and gaining American bachelor's degree, alumni can continue studying at graduate school at a partner university and apply on master's or Ph.D. degree. AUS students who have neither possibilities nor desires to complete education in the U.S. study their fourth year in Ternopil and, after the successful examinations, obtain the Ukrainian bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Students can continue their education in the master department of TNEU or in foreign universities after the fourth year.
The lectures at the AUS are conducting by faculty from the U.S., European and Japanese universities, Peace Corps representat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack%20Television%20Network | Racetrack Television Network (RTN) is a multi-channel television network dedicated to providing live simulcasting of Thoroughbred, harness, American Quarter Horse, and greyhound racing throughout the world, along with jai alai, using multiple broadcast feeds.
RTN's full schedule is available on Dish Network in the channel 9701–9780 range (which additionally provides access to TVG2 and VSiN programming), along with an OTT website, a Roku channel, and Android and Fire TV apps.
Notes
External links
Sports television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Network%20of%20the%20European%20Capitals%20of%20Culture | The University Network of the European Capitals of Culture(UNeECC), an international non-profit association, was founded upon the initiative of the University of Pécs in Pécs, Hungary in by 15 founding members.
UNeECC invites memberships in three different categories:
Full Membership: universities from cities of the European Capitals of Culture
Associate Membership: universities from applicant cities
Supportive Membership: all others, including cities and cultural organizations with parallel interests
The Secretariat of UNEECC is at the University of Pécs in Hungary.
General Assemblies and Annual Conferences
2007: Sibiu – ’Town and Gown’
2008: Liverpool – ’ Whose Culture(?)’
2009: Vilnius – ’Innovation, Creativity and Culture’
2010: Pécs
2011: Antwerp
2012: Maribor
2013: Marseille Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference of the University Network of the European Capitals of Culture
2014: Umeå
2015: Plzeň
2016: Wrocław
In 2007 the UNeECC GA and Conference was hosted by Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu. The Keynote Speaker of the Conference was Mr. Roger O’Keeffe Principal Administrator, from European Commission Directorate for Education and Culture.
In 2008 the GA and Annual Conference was organized by Liverpool Hope University and the University of Liverpool. The Keynote Speaker of the Conference was Prince Charles-Louis d’Arenberg.
In 2010, when the European Capital of Culture programme celebrated its 25th anniversary.
The University of Pécs hosted the General Assembly and Annual Conference of UNeECC. We were organizing a joint conference of UNeECC and the Compostela Group of Universities providing a unique platform for scientific collaboration and networking.
In 2011, UNeECC celebrated its 5th year of founding. The Annual Conference was held in Antwerp, Belgium, European Capital of Culture 1993.
In 2012 UNeECC organized its Annual Conference jointly with EMUNI and the University of Maribor in Maribor, Slovenia, European Capital of Culture 2012.
In 2013 UNeECC organized its Annual Conference jointly with Aix-Marseille University and EHESS - School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Marseille, France, European Capital of Culture 2012..
Members
UNeECC currently has 47 members:
KU Leuven (through its Antwerp campus), Antwerp, Belgium
University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
University of Athens, Athen, Greece
Avignon University, Avignon, France
College of Europe, Bruges and Warsaw, Belgium and Poland
ICHEC Brussels Management School, Brussels, Belgium
Vesalius College, Brussels, Belgium
Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
FH Joanneum – University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria
Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
Cracow University of Economics, Krakow, Poland
The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krako |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/955%20acorn%20triode | The type 955 triode "acorn tube" is a small triode thermionic valve (vacuum tube in USA) designed primarily to operate at high frequency. Although data books specify an upper limit of 400–600 MHz, some circuits may obtain gain up to about 900 MHz. Interelectrode capacitances and Miller capacitances are minimized by the small dimensions of the device and the widely separated pins. The connecting pins are placed around the periphery of the bulb and project radially outward: this maintains short internal leads with low inductance, an important property allowing operation at high frequency. The pins fit a special socket fabricated as a ceramic ring in which the valve itself occupies the central space. The 955 was developed by RCA and was commercially available in 1935.
The 955 is one of about a dozen types of "acorn valve", so called because their size and shape is similar to the acorn (nut of the oak tree), introduced starting in 1935 and designed to work in the VHF range. The 954 and 956 types are sharp and remote cut-off pentodes, respectively, both also with indirect 6.3 V, 150 mA heaters. Types 957, 958 and 959 are for portable equipment and have 1.25 V NiCd battery heaters. The 957 is a medium-μ signal triode, the 958 is a transmitting triode with dual, paralleled filaments for increased emission, and the 959 is a sharp cut-off pentode like the 954. The 957 and 959 draw 50 mA heater current, the 958 twice as much. In 1942, the 958A with tightened emission specs was introduced after it turned out that 958s with excessively high emission kept working after the filament power was turned off, the filament still sufficiently heating on the anode current alone.
Pin connections
When viewing the device from above (the end without the exhaust tip), the pins are arranged in a group of three and a group of two, starting with the centre pin in the group of three and going in a clockwise direction, the pins are cathode, heater, grid, anode, heater.
Ratings
The 955 is an indirectly heated triode with heater electrically isolated from the cathode. The heater has a 6.3 volt rating, which it shares with many other common thermionic valves/electron tubes, and it draws about 150 mA.
The maximum anode voltage is 250 V, with an anode current of 420 microamperes and anode load 250 kilohm, and the maximum anode current is 4.5 mA at a voltage of 180 V with an anode load of 20 kilohm. The 955 is designed to be used in the frequency range of 60–600 MHz (5-0.5 metres wavelength).
The amplification factor obtained is between 20 and 25 depending on details of the specific stage design and operating voltage.
See also
Micropup
References
Products introduced in 1935
Vacuum tubes
Acorns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Hamilton%20%28actress%29 | Emma Hamilton (born 13 November 1984) is an Australian actress. On television, she stars in the Seven drama RFDS (2021). She has also appeared as a series lead in the Nine Network drama thriller Hyde & Seek (2016), along with series regular roles as Anne Stanhope in the Showtime historical drama The Tudors (2009–2010), Rosie Dolly on the ITV/PBS period drama Mr Selfridge (2015), and in the ITV crime thriller Fearless (2017). Her films include the Australian drama Last Cab to Darwin (2015), which earned her an AACTA nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Background
Hamilton trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Career
Hamilton made her television debut in the hit Showtime drama series The Tudors, portraying the sharp-tongued Anne Stanhope in seasons three and four. Her breakthrough role was in the highly acclaimed film Last Cab to Darwin in 2015, for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the AACTA Awards. She is known for her roles in Mr Selfridge, Hyde & Seek and Mary: The Making of a Princess.
Notable feature films include the black comedy Whole Lotta Sole with Brendan Fraser by Oscar-winning director Terry George, and the action thriller The Cold Light of Day where she starred alongside Bruce Willis and Henry Cavill.
Hamilton won her first professional role in HBO's World War II film Into the Storm, produced by Ridley Scott, upon graduating drama school. Subsequently, she made her stage debut as Isabella Thorpe in an adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey at the Salisbury Playhouse in September 2007. Her first major stage role followed in 2008 in the Royal Exchange Theatre's production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie where she played Laura Wingfield opposite Brenda Blethyn, her portrayal described as "a haunting, heartbreaking performance". In 2010 she performed alongside Gemma Arterton and Stephen Dillane in the off-West End production of Ibsen's The Master Builder. Hamilton's leading performance in the title role of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Royal & Derngate Theatre in 2012 was critically acclaimed.
In 2013 Hamilton joined the Royal Shakespeare Company playing Queen Isabella opposite David Tennant in Richard II (play), Gregory Doran's first production as artistic director. Richard II broke records as the fastest selling production in RSC history and when screened live to cinemas around the UK on 13 November 2013, played to an audience of over 60,000.
Hamilton returned to international screens as Eleanor, the malevolent red-headed half-sister of Porthos in the BBC's The Musketeers. She then went on to star in the romantic comedy Mary: The Making of a Princess in the title role of Mary Donaldson, the future Crown Princess of Denmark. The television biopic was the highest rating drama for the network for that year, earning praise as "fun...tearjerking film-making." Hamilton physically transformed herself for the role, dying her hair brunette and wearing brown contact lenses. In that ye |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult%20C | Catapult C Synthesis, a commercial electronic design automation product of Mentor Graphics, is a high-level synthesis tool, sometimes called algorithmic synthesis or ESL synthesis. Catapult C takes ANSI C/C++ and SystemC inputs and generates register transfer level (RTL) code targeted to FPGAs and ASICs.
History
In 2004, Mentor Graphics formally announced its Catapult C high level synthesis product offering hierarchical design support for synthesizing pipelined, multi-block subsystems from untimed ANSI C/C++ descriptions. Catapult C's main functionality was generating RTL (VHDL and Verilog) targeted to ASICs and FPGAs. Users specified constraints for timing and area, and provided a clock period and destination technology. Mentor also announced a Catapult C Library Builder for ASIC Designers to collect detailed characterization data.
In 2005, Mentor announced extensions to Catapult C to automatically create SystemC transaction-level models and wrappers, for simulation of the design in verification environments supporting SystemC. Mentor also introduced interface synthesis to map the data transfer implied by passing of C++ function arguments to hardware interfaces such as wires, registers, handshakes registers, memories, buses or more complex user-defined interfaces.
In 2006, Mentor announced Catapult SL (System Level) for automatically creating signal processing subsystems. Catapult SL could coordinate the partitioning of sequential C operations into multiple blocks within the subsystem, including partitioning into multiple clock domains. Catapult SL automatically inserts appropriate inter-block channels and memory buffers to assemble the sub-system.
In January 2009, Mentor announced an integration between Catapult C and its Vista SystemC design and simulation environment to automatically generate transaction-level models (TLM). In this process, the untimed ANSI C++ input to Catapult is encapsulated in a TLM wrapper; timing information is extracted from the synthesis results and back-annotated in the resulting model. The flow is compatible with the TLM-2.0 standard from the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI).
In June 2009, Mentor announced that it enhanced Catapult C with the ability to synthesize control logic, create power-optimized RTL netlists, with automatic multi-level clock gating, and an automated verification flow to enable a debug of the RTL against the original C++ input.
In January 2010, Mentor announced the ability for Catapult C to take direct SystemC input, including both cycle-based and transaction level (TLM) support.
In May 2011, Mentor announced that Catapult C supported TLM synthesis. Abstract TLM models are converted to pin-accurate, protocol-specific, SystemC models, and from there, synthesized to RTL code. Existing synthesizable descriptions can be converted to TLMs.
In August 2011, Catapult C was acquired by Calypto Design Systems.
In September 2015, Mentor Graphics acquired Calypto Design Systems, thus reacquirin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Old%20Boys%27%20Network | The Old Boys' Network: A Headmaster's Diaries 1970–1986 is the 2009 autobiography by the late headmaster of Westminster School, John Rae. It consists of the journal he kept for most of the period in which he was headmaster of Westminster School (1972– 1986), edited by him shortly before his death in December 2006, aged 75. It was published by Short Books on 2 April 2009. It was serialised as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week from 30 March to 3 April 2009, read by Tim Pigott-Smith.
See also
Westminster School
John Rae
References
2009 non-fiction books
Westminster School |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20garbage%20collection | Distributed garbage collection (DGC) in computing is a particular case of garbage collection where a remote client can hold references to an object.
DGC uses some combination of the classical garbage collection (GC) techniques, tracing and reference counting. It has to cooperate with local garbage collectors in each process in order to keep global counts, or to globally trace accessibility of data. In general, remote processors do not have to know about internal counting or tracing in a given process, and the relevant information is stored in interfaces associated with each process.
DGC is complex and can be costly and slow in freeing memory. As a cheap way of avoiding DGC algorithms, one can rely on a time lease – set or configured on the remote object; it is the stub's task to periodically renew the lease on the remote object. If the lease has expired, the server process (the process owning the remote object) can safely assume that either the client is no longer interested in the object, or that a network partition or crash obstructed lease renewal, in which case it is "hard luck" for the client if it is in fact still interested. Hence, if there is only a single reference to the remote object on the server representing a remote reference from that client, that reference can be dropped, which will mean that the local garbage collector on the server will garbage-collect the object at some future point in time.
References
Automatic memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Day%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John D. Day (from Kinmundy, Illinois, born 1947) is an electrical engineer, an Internet pioneer, and a historian. He has been involved in the development of the communication protocols of Internet and its predecessor ARPANET since the 1970s, and he was also active in the design of the OSI reference model. He has contributed in the research and development of network management systems, distributed databases, supercomputing, and operating systems.
Day received his BSc degree in electrical engineering in 1970 and MSc degree in 1976 from the University of Illinois.
From 1969 through 1978 he worked on the Illiac IV supercomputer project.
Day was adjunct professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2006 and is currently a lecturer in Computer Science at Boston University Metropolitan College.
Day is the author of the 2008 book Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals, which gave rise to Network IPC, later referred to as the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA), and the RFC documents RFC 520, RFC 728, RFC 731, and RFC 732. He has also published articles on the history of cartography, on topics such as Matteo Ricci's 16th–17th century maps.
References
External links
John Day Papers (CBI 165), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
Oral history interview with John Day, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Describes his computer science education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including vignettes of student life in the late 1960s and early 1970s and campus protests over work on the ILLIAC IV computer. A second portion of the interview gives highlights of his work on network standards-setting, including Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
Researchers in distributed computing
American computer scientists
Living people
1947 births
University of Illinois alumni
Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty
Boston University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiscale%20geometric%20analysis | Multiscale geometric analysis or geometric multiscale analysis is an emerging area of high-dimensional signal processing and data analysis.
See also
Wavelet
Scale space
Multi-scale approaches
Multiresolution analysis
Singular value decomposition
Compressed sensing
Further reading
Signal processing
Spatial analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20The%20Wire | The Wire is an American crime drama television series created by David Simon and broadcast by the cable network HBO. It premiered on June 2, 2002, and ended on March 9, 2008, comprising sixty episodes over five seasons. Set in Baltimore, Maryland, The Wire follows different institutions within the city, such as the illegal drug trade, the education system, and the media, and their relationships to law enforcement. The series features a diverse ensemble cast of both veteran and novice actors; the large number of black actors was considered groundbreaking for the time.
The Wire has been widely hailed as one of the greatest television series of all time. Despite the critical acclaim, however, the show received relatively few awards during its run. It was nominated for only two Primetime Emmy Awards – both for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series – and did not win any. Many have called its lack of recognition, especially in the Outstanding Drama Series category, one of the biggest Emmys snubs ever. Some have argued the lack of recognition was due to the show's dense plots and a disconnect between the setting and Los Angeles-based voters.
Outside of the Emmys, The Wire won a Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Dramatic Series in 2008, as well as a Directors Guild of America Award for the episode "Transitions" in 2009. It was thrice named one of the top television programs of the year by the American Film Institute and received a Peabody Award in 2004. The series was nominated for sixteen NAACP Image Awards but never won one. It was also nominated for ten Television Critics Association Awards, with its only win coming in 2008 for the group's Heritage Award.
Awards and nominations
Notes
Nominees for awards
Other
References
External links
Awards and nominations
Wire |
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}}Interferome is an online bioinformatics database of interferon-regulated genes (IRGs). These Interferon Regulated Genes are also known as Interferon Stimulated Genes (ISGs). The database contains information on type I (IFN alpha, beta), type II (IFN gamma) and type III (IFN lambda) regulated genes and is regularly updated. It is used by the interferon and cytokine research community both as an analysis tool and an information resource. Interferons were identified as antiviral proteins more than 50 years ago. However, their involvement in immunomodulation, cell proliferation, inflammation and other homeostatic processes has been since identified. These cytokines are used as therapeutics in many diseases such as chronic viral infections, cancer and multiple sclerosis. These interferons regulate the transcription of approximately 2000 genes in an interferon subtype, dose, cell type and stimulus dependent manner. This database of interferon regulated genes is an attempt at integrating information from high-throughput experiments and molecular biology databases to gain a detailed understanding of interferon biology.
Contents
Interferome comprises the following data sets:
Gene expression data of interferon regulated genes from Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, and Pan troglodytes'', manually curated from more than 30 public and inhouse microarray and proteomic datasets.
Tools
Interferome offers many ways of searching and retrieving data from the database:
Identify interferon regulated gene signatures in microarray data;
Gene Ontology analysis and annotation;
Normal tissue expression of interferon regulated genes;
Regulatory analysis of interferon regulated genes;
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) analysis and orthologue sequence download;
Interferome Management
Interferome is managed by a team at Monash University :Monash Institute of Medical Research and the University of Cambridge
References
External links
INTERFEROME
Biological databases
Immunology
Cytokines
Gene expression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankova | Ankova is a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae.
Species
Ankova belessichares (Collenette, 1936)
Ankova lignea (Butler, 1879)
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Lymantriinae
Noctuoidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etobema | Etobema is a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1865.
Species
Etobema antra (Swinhoe, 1903) New Guinea
Etobema circumdata Walker, 1865 New Guinea
Etobema eleuterioides (Semper, 1899) Philippines (Luzon)
Etobema forbesi (H. Druce, 1899) New Guinea
Etobema fusciapicalis (Rothschild, 1915) New Guinea
Etobema melanophleps (Collenette, 1930) New Guinea
Etobema rotundata (Rothschild, 1915) New Guinea
References
Lymantriinae
Noctuoidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iropoca | Iropoca is a monotypic moth genus in the subfamily Lymantriinae erected by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1904. Its only species, Iropoca rotundata, the iropoca moth, was first described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in the Australian states of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
The wingspan is about 30 mm for males while females are wingless. Males have a pattern of light and dark brown markings on the forewings and plain brown hindwings.
The larvae feed on the foliage of various Eucalyptus species.
References
Taxa named by Alfred Jefferis Turner
Moths described in 1855
Lymantriinae
Monotypic moth genera
Moths of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendria | Pendria is a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae. The genus was erected by Charles Swinhoe in 1906.
Species
Pendria rinaria (Moore, [1860]) Java, Sumatra
Pendria rotundata Swinhoe, 1906 Nias in Indonesia
Pendria dica (Swinhoe, 1891) Khasi Hills of India
References
Lymantriinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum-weight%20triangulation | In computational geometry and computer science, the minimum-weight triangulation problem is the problem of finding a triangulation of minimal total edge length. That is, an input polygon or the convex hull of an input point set must be subdivided into triangles that meet edge-to-edge and vertex-to-vertex, in such a way as to minimize the sum of the perimeters of the triangles. The problem is NP-hard for point set inputs, but may be approximated to any desired degree of accuracy. For polygon inputs, it may be solved exactly in polynomial time. The minimum weight triangulation has also sometimes been called the optimal triangulation.
History
The problem of minimum weight triangulation of a point set was posed by , who suggested its application to the construction of triangulated irregular network models of land countours, and used a greedy heuristic to approximate it. conjectured that the minimum weight triangulation always coincided with the Delaunay triangulation, but this was quickly disproved by , and indeed showed that the weights of the two triangulations can differ by a linear factor.
The minimum-weight triangulation problem became notorious when included it in a list of open problems in their book on NP-completeness, and many subsequent authors published partial results on it. Finally, showed it to be NP-hard, and showed that accurate approximations to it can be constructed efficiently.
Complexity
The weight of a triangulation of a set of points in the Euclidean plane is defined as the sum of lengths of its edges. Its decision variant is the problem of deciding whether there exists a triangulation of weight less than a given weight; it was proven to be NP-hard by . Their proof is by reduction from PLANAR-1-IN-3-SAT, a special case of the Boolean satisfiability problem in which a 3-CNF whose graph is planar is accepted when it has a truth assignment that satisfies exactly one literal in each clause. The proof uses complex gadgets, and involves computer assistance to verify the correct behavior of these gadgets.
It is not known whether the minimum-weight triangulation decision problem is NP-complete, since this depends on the known open problem whether the sum of radicals may be computed in polynomial time. However, Mulzer and Rote remark that the problem is NP-complete if the edge weights are rounded to integer values.
Although NP-hard, the minimum weight triangulation may be constructed in subexponential time by a dynamic programming algorithm that considers all possible simple cycle separators of points within the triangulation, recursively finds the optimal triangulation on each side of the cycle, and chooses the cycle separator leading to the smallest total weight. The total time for this method is .
Approximation
Several authors have proven results relating the minimum weight triangulation to other triangulations in terms of the approximation ratio, the worst-case ratio of the total edge length of the alternative triangula |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AER%20Youth%20Regional%20Network | Created by the Assembly of European Regions (AER), the Youth Regional Network (YRN) is a platform of regional-level youth organisations, councils and parliaments from across wider Europe. The platform works as a forum where young people can influence regional and European policy while exchanging experiences and good practice.
At the general Assembly in Brussels on 10 March 2023, YRN members elected their presidium, which is composed as follow:
YRN President: Jim Simonsen Jenssen (Nordland, NO)
Vice-President, Anette Amalie Bang (Nordland, NO)
Vice-President, Norbert Nagy (Salaj, RO)
Chair of the TC on Youth Participation & Governance: Sigrun Myrvang (Innlandet, NO)
Chair of the TC on Mental Health & Wellbeing: Daria Sustrietova (Kirovohrad, UA)
Chair of the TC on Gender Equality & Women Empowerment: Maylinda Bajrami (Tirana, AL)
Background
AER's Youth Regional Network was established on 25 November 2008 in Wiesbaden (Hessen region, Germany), where a founding meeting of ninety young people representing 55 European regions launched Europe's first platform of regional youth councils, parliaments and organisations. They adopted the Wiesbaden Resolution, in order to define their main priorities and goals.
The YRN was founded on the idea that decision-making should be based upon the principle of subsidiarity. This means that, on the one hand, youth policy at European level should reflect the diversity of the regions and of the young people that live in those regions. On the other hand, youth policy within the regions should maintain a European dimension so that the common challenges faced by all young people can be tackled in co-operation with the sharing of ideas, knowledge and experiences.
2010 In order to ensure that YRN functions as a genuine platform linking regional youth Councils/parliaments/NGOs with AER and its activities, the AER General Assembly agrees to adopt the Declaration on Enhanced Cooperation with YRN, which marks the recognition of its role and commitment within AER, among AER member regions & at the European level.
2013 YRN adopted its statutes, rule of procedures and strategic priorities. From May 2013, YRN got a seat in the AER Executive Board.
Mission
The mission of the YRN is to provide young people the opportunity to exchange views with other young people in order to get them more involved at the European and regional democratic processes.
Objectives
There YRN has four main objectives: networking, influencing policy, exchanging best practice and experience and promoting sustainable governance.
See also
Youth Participation
Youth Summer Academy: Held annually over a five-day period, each summer academy focuses upon a specific theme and is hosted by an AER member region. The concept of the AER Summer Academy evolved in 1996 as a response to the increase in AER member regions coming from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The Summer Academy was therefore designed as a tool to facilitate the exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20West%20Route%20Utilisation%20Strategy | The North West Route Utilisation Strategy (NWRUS) is a Route Utilisation Strategy, published by Network Rail in May 2007. It was the fifth RUS to be produced. It was included in a map published by the Office of Rail Regulation as established in May 2007. It was the first of no fewer than 5 RUSs which cover specific routes in the north-west of England; the others are the Lancashire & Cumbria RUS (published August 2008), the Yorkshire & Humber RUS (published July 2009), the Merseyside RUS (published March 2009), and the West Coast Main Line RUS (now scheduled for publication in summer 2011). In particular it "broadly covers the Manchester journey to work area, the City lines into Liverpool Lime Street and routes from Manchester to Kirkby, Southport and Blackpool", corresponding to Network Rail's then Route 20 - North West Urban.
As with other RUSs, the NWRUS took into account a number of responses, including the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).
The RUS has identified 12 generic issues and relates these to the various rail 'corridors' in the region. As has become customary with RUSs, the recommendations are also nominally grouped into short-term (to end of CP4, March 2009), medium-term (CP5, 2014) and some long-term (thereafter) solutions; however, the individual initiatives are not as clearly located in time as other RUSs.
Some issues were passed to later RUSs:
Lancashire & Cumbria; Merseyside; Yorkshire & Humber; West Coast Main Line.
A number of issues and provisional recommendations were viewed to be dependent on the December 2008 WCML timetable. The precise effect on these possible recommendations by the implementation of that timetable is difficult to ascertain.
Stations and their codes
Central and interchange stations in the Manchester conurbation
There are four central Manchester stations (with their National Rail codes), all providing various levels of interchange: Manchester Piccadilly (MAN), Manchester Oxford Road (MCO), Deansgate (DGT) and Manchester Victoria (MCV); there are two Salford stations: Salford Central (SFD) and Salford Crescent (SLD), both significant interchange stations.
Other significant stations
Codes for some other stations in the region are as follows: Liverpool Lime Street - LIV; Stockport - SPT; New Mills Central - NMC; New Mills Newtown - NMN; Trafford Park - TRA; Hadfield - HDF; Glossop - GLO; Stalybridge - SYB; Preston - PRE; Blackburn - BBN; Blackpool North - BPN; Blackpool South - BPS; Squires Gate - SQU; Kirkham & Wesham - KKM; Atherton (Manchester) - ATN; Newton-le-Willows - NLW; Manchester Airport - MIA.
The corridors
The corridors comprise two on the periphery of central Manchester, 12 'spokes' radiating from central Manchester, and one other from Liverpool. They are listed below with their general orientation and the corresponding central/interchange station(s) from which they emanate, where appropriate.
The Castlefield corridor (DGT-MAN) This is the line from Castlefield junction (west of Deansgat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon%20Graphics%20International | Silicon Graphics International Corp. (SGI; formerly Rackable Systems, Inc.) was an American manufacturer of computer hardware and software, including high-performance computing systems, x86-based servers for datacenter deployment, and visualization products. The company was founded as Rackable Systems in 1999, but adopted the "SGI" name in 2009 after acquiring Silicon Graphics Inc. out of bankruptcy.
On November 1, 2016, Hewlett Packard Enterprise completed its acquisition of SGI for $275 million.
History
Rackable Systems, Inc. era
Rackable Systems Inc. went public in June 2005, with 6.25 million shares offered at $12 per share.
In 2006, Rackable announced it had signed an agreement to acquire Terrascale Technologies, Inc.
On April 1, 2009, Rackable announced an agreement to acquire Silicon Graphics, Inc. for $25 million. The purchase, ultimately for $42.5 million, was finalized on May 11, 2009; at the same time, Rackable announced their adoption of "SGI" as their global name and brand. The following week, the company changed their NASDAQ stock ticker symbol from "RACK" to "SGI".
Silicon Graphics International Corp. era
The "new" SGI began with two main product lines: servers and storage continuing from the original Rackable Systems; and servers, storage, visualization and professional services acquired from Silicon Graphics, Inc. At the time of the acquisition's completion, SGI said that they anticipated the survival of the majority of the two companies' product lines, although some consolidation was likely in areas of high overlap between products.
In 2010, SGI announced the purchase of all the assets and assumed a limited amount of liabilities of COPAN Systems. COPAN was a provider of storage archive products for real-time access to long-term persistent data. COPAN products were offered as part of the SGI storage line.
In 2011, SGI acquired all outstanding shares of SGI Japan, Ltd. The same year, the company announced the acquisition of OpenCFD Ltd. In December, the company announced Mark J. Barrenechea's resignation as president, chief executive officer and member of the board of directors. Mark was reported to join Open Text Corporation. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that Barrenechea had agreed to continue to serve on the SGI board.
In February 2012, it was announced that Jorge Luis Titinger would become SGI's president and chief executive officer.
In 2013 SGI acquired FileTek, Inc.
On August 11, 2016, it was announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise would acquire SGI for $7.75 per share in cash, a transaction valued at approximately $275 million, net of cash and debt. The deal was completed on November 1, 2016.
See also
NUMAlink
References
1982 establishments in California
2005 initial public offerings
2016 disestablishments in California
2016 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1982
American companies established in 1999
American companies disestablished in 2016
Companies formerly listed on t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20in%20British%20television | This is a list of British television related events from 1995.
Events
January
2 January – The network television premiere of The Doors, Oliver Stone's critically acclaimed biopic of Jim Morrison on BBC2, starring Val Kilmer.
3 January – The legal drama Kavanagh QC makes its debut on ITV, starring John Thaw.
4 January – The network television premiere of Chris Walas' 1989 horror sequel The Fly II on ITV, starring Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson and John Getz with a special appearance from Jeff Goldblum.
5 January – Jack Dee guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.
9 January – Sky One begins 24-hour broadcasting, willing the overnight hours with music videos under the name Hit Mix Long Play.
16 January – BBC World Service Television was officially launched new name, new programme, new power, new transmitter, new vision, new screen and new office took place becomes BBC World on Thursday, 26 January 1995 at 19:00:00 or 7:00:00pm GMT was officially opening ceremony or grand opening to international free-to-air terrestrial news channel.
24 January – Martine McCutcheon makes her EastEnders debut as Tiffany Raymond, later Mitchell.
26 January –
At 19:00:00 or 7:00:00pm GMT, BBC World Service Television was officially opening to split into two new television services at BBC Television Centre in White City, London:
BBC World (since renamed BBC News): 24-hour English free-to-air terrestrial international news channel: news bulletins, information, business and financial news magazines and current affairs programmes officially opening ceremony or grand opening on Monday 16 January 1995 at 19:00:00 or 7:00:00pm GMT.
BBC Prime (since replaced by BBC Entertainment): 24-hour English cable lifestyle, variety and entertainment channel: variety, culture, leisure, lifestyle, art and light entertainment programmes officially opening ceremony or grand opening on Monday 30 January 1995 at 19:00:00 or 7:00:00pm GMT.
Eternal guest present an edition of Top of the Pops.
27 January – Debut of the medical drama Dangerfield on BBC1, starring Nigel Le Vaillant.
29 January – The start of BBC2's weekly roundup of proceedings in the O. J. Simpson murder trial with The Trial of O. J. Simpson.
30 January –
BBC Prime at 19:00:00 or 7:00:00pm GMT was officially opening ceremony or grand opening to cable lifestyle, variety and entertainment channel: variety, culture, leisure, lifestyle, art and light entertainment programmes.
The most watched episode of Brookside is broadcast on Channel 4 where the body of Trevor Jordache was found under the patio.
February
2 February – Kylie Minogue guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.
3 February – An edition of the live morning ITV discussion show The Time, The Place abruptly ends ten minutes early after an item about men's fashion featured a black male model wearing a skirt while another black man in the audience starts complaining that the show is racist, eventually making his way onto the stage.
5 February – Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemming%20%28monk%29 | Hemming (occasionally Heming) was a monk, author and compiler in medieval England from around the time of the Norman conquest of England. He was a senior brother at Worcester Cathedral Priory, and his significance derives from the monastic cartulary (and works therein) attributed to him.
Hemming's name is Scandinavian, which may mean either he or his ancestors were Scandinavians settled in England. His birth and death dates are unknown, but he was actively writing soon after the Conquest. Hemming became a sub-prior in the Worcester cathedral priory. He is named in both the Liber Vitae of Worcester Cathedral as well as a list of members of the cathedral chapter that was compiled during the episcopate of Samson, the bishop from 1096 to 1112.
Hemming was the eponymous author and compiler of a work usually called Hemming's Cartulary. This is a collection of documents gathered together with a series of narratives about Worcester and its cathedral chapter. His compilation includes a life of Wulfstan, the Bishop of Worcester who died in 1095. This life was written in Latin. The historian Antonia Gransden describes this work as "more like an inventory of charters in narrative form than a biography".
Although Hemming has traditionally been credited with the entire work of the cartulary, it is actually two works that were collected together after Hemming completed his work. Hemming was the author of the second, later part, which was later bound together with an earlier cartulary to form the manuscript Cotton Tiberius A xiii, one of the manuscripts in the Cotton Library. In part of the work, the preface known as the "Enucleatios libelli", Hemming names himself as the person responsible for compiling the work, and names Wulfstan as the inspiration for his work. Historians usually take the preface to mean that Wulfstan commissioned the work. The cartulary is not just a collection of deeds and charters, but includes other historical information of importance, especially for his monastery. He compiled the various documents into a narrative whole.
One of the themes of Hemming's work is the deprivations suffered by his monastery at the hands of royal officials. Hemming singled out the conquests of England by Cnut and William the Conqueror as being especially damaging.
The historian Simon Keynes calls Hemming the "historian of his house". Hemming, according to the historian V. H. Galbraith, might be considered the first archivist in English history, as he arranged to have the documents at Worcester stored under locks, and spent time repairing and restoring some of the original documents in the cathedral.
Hemming was a contemporary of two other Worcester monks who wrote historical works. One was Coleman, who wrote a now lost Life of Wulfstan that was used as a source by William of Malmesbury. Another was John of Worcester, who reworked the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle into a Chronicon ex chronicis.
Although the correct form of the name is "Hemming", a transcription |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman%20Filmmakers%20Cooperative | The Amman Filmmakers Cooperative () promotes independent Jordanian and Palestinian Diaspora filmmaking through training, experimentation, and networking. The Cooperative seeks to empower student filmmakers to produce films using very nominal resources and with the help of digital filmmaking tools. The Cooperative also manages the Jordan Short Film Festival, an art film festival established in 2004.
Overview
Founded in 2002 by Palestinian diaspora filmmaker Hazim M. Bitar, The Amman Filmmakers Cooperative (AFC) began as a social network of cinema aficionados in Jordan. In 2003, the Cooperative started offering free filmmaking workshops and production support to independent filmmakers.
Community Initiatives
In 2007 the Cooperative and the Spanish Embassy in Jordan worked together to launch Hope Films, a project that organizes workshops for disadvantaged Jordanian communities including Palestinian refugee camps. and the Jordan Short Film Festival
External links
The Amman Filmmakers Cooperative website
References
Film schools in Jordan
Palestinian artists
Palestinian film directors
Filmmaker cooperatives
Mass media in Amman
Jordanian artists
Cooperatives in Jordan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos | Clos may refer to:
People
Clos (surname)
Other uses
CLOS, Command line-of-sight, a method of guiding a missile to its intended target
Clos network, a kind of multistage switching network
Clos (vineyard), a walled vineyard; used in France, Germany and California
an alternative spelling of close in the name of a Cul-de-sac
Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voom%20HD%20International | Voom HD was a television channel providing high-definition programming from various genres. The network was available in 35 countries in Europe and Asia.
Programming was taken from the various stations owned by Voom HD Networks in the United States and includes Full Frontal Fashion, Earth Diaries and Gamespotting.
A deal between Rainbow Networks and the Stockholm-based company NonStop Television was made in 2006 that allowed NonStop to distribute the channel in Scandinavia, Finland, Iceland and the Baltic states. The channel was launched in Sweden by satellite distributor Canal Digital on November 1. This was soon followed by launched in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia and Latvia on various providers. The channel was managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting.
In much of the rest of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia the channel was represented by Zonemedia. In April 2007, they launched the channel in the Arab World via the Orbit platform.
Voom HD closed down in Europe on August 31, 2009. In many countries it was replaced by Rush HD. This was the case on the Canal Digital platform, UPC Austria and in the Czech Republic.
References
Direct broadcast satellite services
Television stations in Denmark
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nen | NEN or Nen may refer to:
Acronym
Near Earth Network (formerly Ground Network), a NASA network of ground stations to support space flight missions
NEN (TV station), an Australian television station licensed to, and serving northern New South Wales
NEN (National Entrepreneurship Network), a Wadhwani Foundation initiative for building institutional capacity for entrepreneur support.
People
Dick Nen (born 1939), former Major League first baseman
Nicolas Le Nen, French army officer
Robb Nen (born 1969), former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball
Nen Sothearoth (born 1995), Cambodian footballer
Trần Văn Nên (born 1927), former Vietnamese cyclist
Other uses
Nen language (Cameroon), a Bantoid language of Cameroon
Nen language (Papuan), a language of Papua New Guinea
Nen River, a river in China
Nen, a form of magic from the anime Hunter x Hunter
See also
Nela (name) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Major%20League%20Baseball%20television%20broadcasters |
Local
American League
National League
Former teams
See also
List of current Major League Baseball broadcasters
The Baseball Network announcers
Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States
1ABC owned television station.
2CBS owned television station.
3Fox owned television station.
4NBC owned television station.
5Superstation (bold indicates former superstation).
National
Superstations
Postseason coverage
When the League Championship Series was first instituted in 1969, the Major League Baseball television contract at the time allowed a local TV station in the market of each competing team to also carry the LCS games. So, for example, Mets fans in New York could choose to watch either the NBC telecast or Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner on WOR-TV.
1983 marked the last time that local telecasts of League Championship Series games were allowed. In 1982, Major League Baseball recognized a problem with this due to the emergence of cable superstations such as WTBS in Atlanta and WGN-TV in Chicago. When TBS tried to petition for the right to do a "local" Braves broadcast of the 1982 NLCS, Major League Baseball got a Philadelphia federal court to ban them on the grounds that as a cable superstation, TBS could not have a nationwide telecast competing with ABC's.
Since 2007, MLB playoff games on TBS are not made available to local over-the-air broadcasters in the participating teams' markets. Under the previous contract, ESPN was required to make those games available on the air in local markets.
See also
Historical NBA over-the-air television broadcasters
Historical NHL over-the-air television broadcasters
References
External links
MLB Over The Air Affiliates
BaseballChronology.com!
MLB LOCAL FLAGSHIPS AND ANNOUNCERS
ABC Sports
CBS Sports
Fox Sports original programming
Major League Baseball on NBC
Over-the-air television broadcasters
Over-the-air-television broadcasters
Over-the-air television broadcasters
Local sports television programming in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20Hubbard%20%28All%20My%20Children%29 | Jesse Hubbard is a fictional character on the long-running ABC and The Online Network soap opera All My Children and half of the Jesse and Angie supercouple. He has been portrayed by Darnell Williams since the character's inception in 1981 and continued until the character's "death" in 1988. He returned for special guest appearances in 1994, 2001, and 2002. Williams returned to the role in 2008 when it was revealed that Jesse was alive. He is the father of Frankie Hubbard, Natalia Fowler, Ellie Hubbard, and Lucy Hubbard.
Storylines
Arrival and Angie Baxter
Jesse Hubbard was a high school drop out spending most of his time at Foxy's when he met Jenny Gardner. Jenny was able to break his rough boy exterior to reveal someone who wanted to regain control of his life. Jenny agreed to help him catch up with his studies if he re-enrolled in high school.
Jesse took up his uncle Frank Grant's offer to move in with him in Pine Valley. All was going well when he accidentally left a lit cigarette, almost burning down the Grant home.
Frank introduced Jesse to a candy striper at the Pine Valley Hospital. Her name was Angie Baxter. Their first meeting was full of tension as they clashed. But their aggression gave way to passion. They began dating as the new school year started at Pine Valley University
Jesse grew tired of Liza Colby's incessant need to embarrass Jenny. Jenny left town after Liza threatened to reveal her father's crimes to Greg Nelson. Jesse went to confront Liza who told Jesse it was none of his business. When Jesse threatened to tell Greg the truth about Jenny's departure, Liza called out rape. Jesse was a wanted man. He made his way to New York to hide with Jenny. He got there just in time as an adult movie producer was accosting Jenny. Jesse and Jenny agreed to stand by each other and somehow find their way back to their loved ones in Pine Valley.
When Jesse did make it back to Pine Valley, he was spotted by Silver Kane who turned him in for Liza's rape. The trial forced Jenny to come home and confront Liza. Liza admitted the truth, and Jesse was set free. He began dating Angie again, much to the distaste of her father, Les Baxter.
Jesse mourned Frank's sudden death a stroke.
Jesse and Angie's relationship was finally on track. The loving couple had issues with intimacy. Angie had long decided to keep herself until marriage. But Jesse could not wait. He proposed to Angie, who in the rush of the marriage accepted. They quickly eloped, and shared their first night of passion together.
Things became estranged between husband and wife. Angie asked Jesse for a quickie divorce. Soon, he would learn Angie had left him because she was pregnant. He wanted to raise their son together, but Angie's father, Les Baxter, had already arranged for the child to be adopted.
Angie and Jesse teamed up to find their son. They kidnapped the boy from his adoptive family and waited in Sea City for things to blow over. Jesse named his son Frank Hubbard, aft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Baseball%20Network%20announcers | The following is a list of announcers who called Major League Baseball telecasts for the joint venture (lasting for the 1994–1995 seasons) between Major League Baseball, ABC and NBC called The Baseball Network. Announcers who represented each of the teams playing in the respective games were typically paired with each other on regular season Baseball Night in America telecasts. ABC used Al Michaels, Jim Palmer, Tim McCarver and Lesley Visser as the lead broadcasting team. Meanwhile, NBC used Bob Costas, Joe Morgan, Bob Uecker and Jim Gray as their lead broadcasting team.
Announcers, alphabetically
A
Joe Angel
Jack Arute (field reporter for ABC)
Richie Ashburn
B
Johnny Bench (field reporter for NBC, 1994)
Chris Berman
Steve Blass
Bert Blyleven
Marty Brennaman
Thom Brennaman
Steve Busby
Joe Buck
C
Dave Campbell
Harry Caray
Skip Caray
Herb Carneal
Bob Carpenter
Rick Cerone
Tom Cheek
Gary Cohen
Jerry Coleman
Bob Costas
D
Rick Dempsey
Larry Dierker
Camille Dube
E
Dick Enberg
F
Ron Fairly
Mike Flanagan
Lanny Frattare
George Frazier
G
Joe Garagiola
George Grande
Jim Gray (field reporter for NBC)
Hank Greenwald
Greg Gumbel (NBC's Baseball Night in America host, 1994)
H
Milo Hamilton
Tom Hamilton
Tom Hammond
Ken Harrelson
Ernie Harwell
Keith Hernandez
Jim Hughson
Al Hrabosky
Jim Hunter
Tommy Hutton
K
Jim Kaat
Paul Kennedy
Bill King
Harry Kalas
Duane Kuiper
M
Garry Maddox
Buck Martinez
Denny Matthews
Tim McCarver
Sean McDonough
Al Michaels
Jon Miller
Rick Monday
Bob Montgomery
Joe Morgan
Bobby Murcer
Bob Murphy
Brent Musburger
N
Dave Niehaus
P
Steve Palermo
Jim Palmer
Greg Papa
Steve Physioc
R
Claude Raymond
Jerry Remy
Ted Robinson
John Rooney
S
Billy Sample
John Saunders (ABC's Baseball Night in America host)
Mike Schmidt
Ken Singleton
Lary Sorensen
Paul Splittorff
Dewayne Staats
Dick Stockton
Hannah Storm (field reporter for NBC, 1994; NBC's Baseball Night in America host; 1995)
T
Gary Thorne
Roger Twibell
U
Bob Uecker
V
Dave Van Horne
Pete Van Wieren
Lesley Visser (field reporter for ABC)
W
Suzyn Waldman
John Wathan
Chris Wheeler
Ken Wilson
Z
Steve Zabriskie
Baseball Night in America commentator pairings
1994 schedule
All games aired on ABC; due to the strike NBC was unable to air its slate of games, which were supposed to begin on August 26.
1995 schedule
ABC scheduled games
NBC scheduled games
Postseason
1995 Division Series broadcasters
American League
National League
1995 League Championship Series broadcasters
American League
National League
1995 World Series broadcasters
See also
List of World Series broadcasters
List of American League Division Series broadcasters
List of National League Division Series broadcasters
List of Atlanta Braves broadcasters
List of Baltimore Orioles broadcasters
List of Boston Red Sox broadcasters
List of Chicago Cubs broadcasters
List of Chicago White Sox broadcasters
List of Cincinnati Reds broadcasters
List of Cleveland Guardians broadcasters
List of Colorado Rockies broadca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCS%20%28TV%20channel%29 | OCS, or previously known as Orange Cinéma Séries, is a group of French pay television networks dedicated to films and series owned and operated by Orange S.A.
The channels launched on November 13, 2008, as part of the company's new direct-to-home satellite service and was exclusive to Orange TV.
OCS is composed of three channels and a streaming service. OCS broadcast almost all their series in English with French subtitles in simulcast with the American broadcasting, but they also broadcast series dubbed in French or French series. From November 2008 to December 2022, OCS was holding the French rights to HBO production.
Since 2012, OCS TV package is now available from Bouygues Telecom, CanalSat, Numericable, Orange TV, SFR and Tahiti Nui Satellite. All subscribers have the option to subscribe to OCS with their TV distributor. OCS is also available through multi devices.
History
On 25 November 2011, Canal+ took a 33% share in Orange Cinéma Séries. Originally exclusive to La TV d'Orange, Orange Cinéma Séries joined CanalSat on 5 April 2012. On 22 September 2012, Orange Cinéma Séries became OCS to show its expansion bouquets other than Orange TV.
On 10 October 2013, OCS Happy was merged with OCS Max; OCS à la demande became the multiplatform service OCS Go; and OCS Novo was replaced by OCS City, specialised in TV series and HBO productions.
Since 2008, OCS have an exclusive contract with HBO, but other channels like Canal+ Séries can broadcasts reruns of HBO series. In 2017, OCS's contract with HBO became stricter, giving complete exclusivity to OCS.
The suite also includes a streaming service, OCS Go, who simply became OCS in 2019. Content is provided by exclusive contracts with Warner Bros., HBO, MGM and Fidelity as well as non-exclusive contracts with Gaumont, SND, BAC and Wild Side.
On 2 August 2017, OCS was launched in Switzerland on Teleclub Premium. It is also available on the Ciné-Séries bouquet of Canal+ since March 2019.
In December 2022, OCS deal with HBO ended with HBO productions leaving OCS from January 2023 onwards. Following that, OCS closed OCS City, the channel that was in charge of HBO programs, and merged it with OCS Choc to create OCS Pulp.
On January 8, 2023, Canal+ Group has announced they're acquiring both OCS and its production house, Orange Studio, which Canal+ previously owned the minority stake on Orange's pay TV arm and film division.
TV channels
Defunct TV channels
Series
OCS Max
This list includes programs from OCS Happy who have been moved to OCS Max.
2 Broke Girls
3615 Monique
Aïcha
Alphonse Président
Angry Birds Toons
Band of Brothers
Being Erica (Les Vies rêvées d'Erica Strange)
Better with You
Black Sails
Boardwalk Empire (season 1-4, other seasons on OCS City)
La Bouse
Breaking Bad (season 1-4, other seasons on OCS City)
Bunheads
Cougar Town
Crash
Éternelle
Entourage
Falling Skies
France Kbek
Fantômette (2000)
The Garfield Show (Garfield et Cie)
Gary Unmarried (La Nouvelle Vie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20Hacker | Resource Hacker (also known as ResHacker or ResHack) is a free resource extraction utility and resource compiler for Windows developed by Angus Johnson. It can be used to add, modify or replace most resources within Windows binaries including strings, images, dialogs, menus, VersionInfo and Manifest resources. It can also create resource files (*.res) from scratch and the latest release provides a number of text templates to facilitate this.
In 2002 the author stated that he had "no plans to continue development". However, since then he has released more updates.
The author also stated that he would neither release nor sell the source code.
On November 19, 2009, version 3.5.2 was released as a beta. This build added support for 64-bit executables and for displaying PNG images.
On September 16, 2011, version 3.6 was released with support for PNG icons.
On May 2, 2015, version 4.0 was released with improved support for 32-bit image files, resources can be started from scratch (with a number of resource templates), and numerous cosmetic improvements.
On August 17, 2015, version 4.2.5 was released. This build added support for changing a text resource format: Unicode, UTF-8, ANSI.
On October 14, 2016, version 4.5.28 was released.
On March 28, 2018, version 4.6.32 was released bringing minor cosmetic updates.
On April 13, 2018, version 4.7.34 was released.
On June 29, 2018, version 5.1.1 was updated.
On January 3, 2019, version 5.1.7 was published.
On November 20, 2020, version 5.1.8 was published, fixing an issues with PNG images not displaying, adding scrolling & zooming of image resources, and fixing a bug with 100MB+ binary resources crashing the hex editor.
Notes
References
External links
Resource Hacker homepage
Programming tools for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeo%20toolbox | In computer science, Orfeo Toolbox (OTB) is a software library for processing images from Earth observation satellites.
OTB was initiated by the French space agency (CNES) in 2006. The software is released under a free licence; a number of contributors outside CNES are taking part in development and integrating into other projects.
The library was originally targeted at high resolution images acquired by the Orfeo constellation: Pléiades and Cosmo-Skymed, but it also handles other sensors.
Purpose
OTB provides:
Image access: read/write access for most remote sensing image formats (using GDAL), meta-data access, visualization
Data access: vector data access (shapefile, kml), DEM model, lidar data
Filtering: blurring, denoising, enhancement for optical or radar data
Feature extraction: texture computations including Haralick, SFS, Pantex, Edge density, points of interest, alignments, lines, SIFT, SURF
Image segmentation: region growing, watershed, level sets
Classification: K-means, SVM, Markov random fields and access to all OpenCV machine learning algorithms
Change detection
Stereo reconstruction from images
Orthorectification and map projections (using ossim)
Radiometric indices (vegetation, water, soil)
Object-based segmentation and filtering
PCA computation
Visualization: a flexible visualization system, customizable via plugins;
Languages and interaction with other software
OTB is a C++ library, based on Insight toolkit (ITK). Bindings are developed for Python. A method to use OTB components within IDL/ENVI has been published. One of the OTB user defined a procedure to use the library capabilities from MATLAB.
Since late 2009, some modules are developed as processing plugins for QGIS. Modules for classification, segmentation, hill shading have provided. This effort relies only on volunteers.
OTB algorithms are now available in QGIS through the processing framework Sextante.
Applications
Additionally to the library, several applications with GUI are distributed. These application enable interactive segmentation, orthorectification, classification, image registration, etc...
Monteverdi (version 1 and 2)
The OTB-Applications package makes available a set of simple software tools . It supports raster and vector data and integrates most of the already existing OTB applications. The architecture takes advantage of the streaming and multi-threading capabilities of the OTB pipeline. It also uses features such as processing on demand and automagic file format I/O. The application is called Monteverdi,
In 2013, Monteverdi software was revamped into a new software called Monteverdi2.
License
OTB was initially distributed under the French Open Source license CeCILL (similar and compatible with the GNU GPL) and is now available under the Apache 2.0 license.
History
The development started in January 2006 with the first release in July 2006. The development version is publicly accessible.
Release history
Presentations
O |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATEL | SATEL is a Finnish radio modem manufacturer that specializes in developing independent radio networking technology for various industrial applications i.a. land surveying, SCADA, machine control, intelligent transportation systems, telemetry, environmental monitoring and Industrial Internet.
About the Company
SATEL develops and sells private radio technology. The company was founded in 1986. SATEL’s first product was a wrist alarm, shortly followed by production of the first radio modem.
Both SATEL's product development and factory are located in Finland. The distribution network of SATEL covers over 100 countries. Approx. 90% of sales is exported.
Products
Serial and TCP/IP communication
The SATEL radio modem family offers transparent serial data communication (RS-232, RS-485, RS-422). These products are used in applications ranging from Mt Everest to power distribution networks and from professional motor sports to runway telemetry at airports. Lightweight SATEL-TR4+ / SATEL-TR49 modules are designed to be integrated into a host device, for instance for transfer of GNSS correction data in a land surveying rover or real-time kinematic (RTK) base station.
The SATEL XPRS IP radio router family, which was introduced in November 2008, broadened the offering to TCP/IP based applications. It is based on a Linux operating systems and enables customer specific applications.
References
Electronics companies of Finland
Companies established in 1986
Finnish brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%20breaker | The term box breaker pertains to the mobile phone industry; where there are companies or individuals that exploit the networks' use of discounts on handsets to create their own profitable business.
Business model
Mobile phone networks fundamentally have three different ways to connect customers to the network, each of which needs a SIM-card that locks the user to the network, and provides for a mobile phone number to be associated with a handset: contract, prepaid, or SIM-only. Contract customers are committed to a minimum monthly payment for perhaps 18 months, and generally get their choice of any telephone handset. Prepaid customers have a more limited choice of handsets, also tied to the operator, but they can stop being a customer whenever they like. SIM-only customers simply buy a SIM card and put it into a handset that they already own, and again can leave whenever they like.
There has been a huge growth in the prepaid business in the last few years, and the prepaid handset business has become particularly competitive, with the handsets sold through every kind of outlet, including supermarkets and online. The increase in competition has driven prices of handsets down. For example, one could buy a GSM handset over the counter for $20 in the United States.
Mobile phone operators sell their own branded version of prepaid handsets, bundled with a SIM-card. The handsets are priced at a discount to make them more attractive. The assumption is that a customer will buy the handset, and then activate with the SIM-card in the pack, which will eventually lead to the operator making money via top-ups on the phone. Box breakers subvert this by buying the phones, and unlocking the phone (SIM lock) so that it can be used with any SIM-card, i.e. on any network. Unlocked phones command higher resale prices, so can then be sold on at a profit, and can even be used by contract customers. Additionally, online marketplaces (like eBay) enable box breakers to operate internationally and exploit fluctuations in currencies and price differences between countries.
Historically, box breakers have been procuring a large number of handsets directly from handset retailers stores that eventually suffer revenue losses from box-breaker practices. While chains like O2 and Carphone Warehouse have clamped-down on sales to box-breakers, there are many other outlets, including catalogue stores and supermarkets that have not addressed this phenomenon.
Mobile phone handsets that are in high demand - especially models that are region-exclusive - are prime targets of box breakers. Handsets can be bought as prepaid, unlocked, and then shipped to the target market for a profit. This grey-market activity is a problem both for handset vendors and for network operators.
References
Mobile telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20nucleic%20acid%20simulation%20software | This is a list of notable computer programs that are used for nucleic acids simulations.
See also
References
Computational chemistry software
Software comparisons
Molecular dynamics software
Molecular modelling software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesk | Lesk may refer to:
Łęsk, a settlement in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
Arthur M. Lesk, American molecular biologist
Mike Lesk, American computer scientist
Lesk algorithm, a classical algorithm for word sense disambiguation
Training Air Wing, Finnish Air Force (Finnish: ; ), the Finnish Air Force pilot jet aircraft training school |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy%20Zoi | Cathy Zoi is an American business executive, currently CEO of EVgo the US's largest fast charging network for electric vehicles. She is the former Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Career
Zoi is currently CEO of EVgo (the US's largest fast-charging network for electric vehicles) and co-founder and executive chairman of Odyssey Energy (a software start-up offering distributed, renewable electricity to communities and businesses in emerging economies). She formerly served as Chief Strategy Officer at C3 Energy. Prior to that she was a partner at Silver Lake Kraftwerk, "a partnership between Soros Fund Management and Silicon Valley private equity giant Silver Lake Partners.". Silver Lake is a Silicon Valley-based growth equity firm focused on energy and resource technology companies in the U.S. and internationally.
Zoi is the founding chief executive officer of the Alliance for Climate Protection, which was established and chaired by former Vice President Al Gore.
Zoi was Chief of Staff in the White House Office on Environmental Policy in the Clinton-Gore administration, where she managed the team working on environmental and energy issues. She was a manager at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where she pioneered the Energy Star Program.
She has worked for several energy-focused organizations, as group executive director at the Bayard Group, recently renamed Landis+Gyr Holdings, which is a world leader in energy measurement technologies and systems; as the assistant director general of the New South Wales EPA in Sydney, Australia; and as the founding chief executive officer of the New South Wales Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA), a $50 million fund to commercialize greenhouse-friendly technology. Under her leadership, SEDA launched the world's first nationwide green power program and the world's largest solar-powered suburb.
In February 2011, it was announced that Zoi had been hired by George Soros and private equity firm Silver Lake to run an "investment strategy focused on providing growth capital to business innovators in the energy and resource sectors"
At Stanford University in Fall of 2012, she taught a course ENERGY 154: Energy in Transition: Technology, Policy and Politics.
Makani Power announced that Zoi was named in its board of directors at the start of 2013. Google purchased Makani Power in May 2013.
Energy Star Program
During her tenure at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Zoi founded the Energy Star Program.
The Energy Star program was created in the early 1990s by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in an attempt to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission by power plants. The program was developed by John S. Hoffman, inventor of the Green Programs at EPA, working closely with the IT industry, and implemented by Zoi and Brian Johnson. The program was intended to be part of a series of v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum%20%28distributed%20computing%29 | A quorum is the minimum number of votes that a distributed transaction has to obtain in order to be allowed to perform an operation in a distributed system. A quorum-based technique is implemented to enforce consistent operation in a distributed system.
Quorum-based techniques in distributed database systems
Quorum-based voting can be used as a replica control method,
as well as a commit method to ensure transaction atomicity in the presence of network partitioning.
Quorum-based voting in commit protocols
In a distributed database system, a transaction could execute its operations at multiple sites. Since atomicity requires every distributed transaction to be atomic, the transaction must have the same fate (commit or abort) at every site. In case of network partitioning, sites are partitioned and the partitions may not be able to communicate with each other. This is where a quorum-based technique comes in. The fundamental idea is that a transaction is executed if the majority of sites vote to execute it.
Every site in the system is assigned a vote Vi. Let us assume that the total number of votes in the system is V and the abort and commit quorums are Va and Vc, respectively. Then the following rules must be obeyed in the implementation of the commit protocol:
Va + Vc > V, where 0 < Vc, Va V.
Before a transaction commits, it must obtain a commit quorum Vc.The total of at least one site that is prepared to commit and zero or more sites waiting Vc.
Before a transaction aborts, it must obtain an abort quorum VaThe total of zero or more sites that are prepared to abort or any sites waiting Va.
The first rule ensures that a transaction cannot be committed and aborted at the same time. The next two rules indicate the votes that a transaction has to obtain before it can terminate one way or the other.
Quorum-based voting for replica control
In replicated databases, a data object has copies present at several sites. To ensure serializability, no two transactions should be allowed to read or write a data item concurrently. In case of replicated databases, a quorum-based replica control protocol can be used to ensure that no two copies of a data item are read or written by two transactions concurrently.
The quorum-based voting for replica control is due to [Gifford, 1979].
Each copy of a replicated data item is assigned a vote. Each operation then has to obtain a read quorum (Vr) or a write quorum (Vw) to read or write a data item, respectively. If a given data item has a total of V votes, the quorums have to obey the following rules:
Vr + Vw > V
Vw > V/2
The first rule ensures that a data item is not read and written by two transactions concurrently. Additionally, it ensures that a read quorum contains at least one site with the newest version of the data item. The second rule ensures that two write operations from two transactions cannot occur concurrently on the same data item. The two rules ensure that one-copy serializability is maint |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver%20Area%20Network%20of%20Drug%20Users | The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users or VANDU is a not-for-profit organization and advocacy group based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The group believes that all drug users should have their own rights and freedoms. The group's members have been actively involved in lobbying for support of Insite, North America's first safe injection site, located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
Its board of directors consists entirely of current and former drug addicts. It was co-founded by Ann Livingston and Bud Osborn. Livingston had previously established a short-lived injection site called "Back Alley" on Powell Street in 1995.
The group received a grant in 2022 from the city to perform street cleaning, but the contract was rescinded for not performing the work and instead, using the grant funds for other purposes.
Background
VANDU was created in September 1997, to advocate for the delivery of health care services to drug users living in Vancouver who had been exposed to increasing rates of hepatitis C and HIV as a result of sharing needles, and to address risks to their health, such as drug overdose. It has operated an unauthorized drug consumption site and provided assisted illegal drug use for about four years until it was shut down in 2014.
A few dozen people first met in Oppenheimer Park on 9 September 1997 in response to messages posted by Livingston on utility poles throughout the Downtown Eastside. The assembled group of people decided to form an organization, and adopted the name Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users a year later. One of the attendees was Donald MacPherson, who later became drug-policy coordinator for Vancouver municipal government, and who also established the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition.
Membership grew to about 100 individuals in a few months, and eventually to over 2,000. The organization's membership is open to all individuals, but those elected to the board of directors must be current or former addicts, and votes at the organization's meetings may only be cast by current or former addicts.
City of Vancouver grant misdirection
VANDU was given a $320,000 grant from the City of Vancouver in 2022 to provide street cleaning services in the Hastings Street encampment. Questions were raised when VANDU couldn't be seen working and street cleanliness continued to deteriorate. The organization eventually admitted to diverting grant intended for street cleaning into its general funds. $160,000 of the grant was paid out, however the City of Vancouver terminated the contract when services were not delivered as expected. The city council voted to deny VANDU a $7,500 grant for arts program in 2023 for the gross misuse of public funds in 2022 making it the only grant out of 84 grants recommended by city staff to be denied by city council.
Actions and services
The organization also engages in local issues pertaining to Downtown Eastside area residents.
VANDU defends harm reduction services and supervised in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Kernel%20Labs | Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) is a privately owned company that develops microkernel-based hypervisors and operating systems for embedded systems. The company was founded in 2006 by Steve Subar and Gernot Heiser as a spinout from NICTA. It was headquartered in Chicago, while research and development was located in Sydney, Australia. The company was acquired by General Dynamics in September 2012.
Products
OKL4 Microvisor
The OKL4 Microvisor is an open-source software system software platform for embedded systems that can be used as a hypervisor, and as a simple real-time operating system with memory protection. It is a variant of the L4 microkernel. OKL4 is a Type I hypervisor and runs on single- and multi-core processors based on ARM, MIPS, and x86 processors.
OKL4 has been deployed on over 2 billion mobile phones, both as a baseband processor operating system and for hosting guest operating systems. Most notable and visible is the company's design win at Motorola for the Evoke QA4 messaging phone, the first phone which employs virtualization to support two concurrent operating systems (Linux and Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW)) on one processor core.
Paravirtualized guest OSes
OK Labs also supplies ready-to-integrate paravirtualized guest application operating systems, including OK:Symbian (SymbianOS), OK:Linux (Linux), OK:Windows (Windows) and OK:Android (Android).
Hardware virtualization
The OKL4 Microvisor supports ARM hardware virtualization extensions, as introduced in the Cortex-A15 processor. The use of hardware virtualization greatly reduces the changes required to a guest OS.
Background
OK Labs and OKL4 are the result of collaboration among academia, business, and open-source development. OK Labs technology is derived from the L4 microkernel which originated in the early 1990s at German research Lab GMD, further developed at IBM Watson Research Center, the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, the University of New South Wales and NICTA in Australia. As commercial ventures, OK Labs and OKL4 were launched by NICTA in 2006, with further investment by Citrix and other venture partners. OK Labs technology continues to benefit from ties to academia and research projects, to NICTA, and to the global open-source community.
Acquisition
The company was acquired by General Dynamics in September 2012 and has since closed its Sydney office. In February 2014, Cog Systems was founded by former Open Kernel Labs staff and continued OKL4 development in Sydney. In April 2019, Cog Systems went into liquidation and closed.
See also
Wombat (operating system)
References
External links
Open Kernel Labs homepage
Open Kernel Labs Community Wiki
NICTA home page
Cog Systems home page
Virtualization software
Mobile computers
Software companies based in Illinois
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalinda%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Rosalinda is a 2009 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 1999 Mexican television series of the same title. Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes and Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Carla Abellana in the title role and Geoff Eigenmann. It premiered on July 6, 2009, on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Totoy Bato. The series concluded on November 27, 2009, with a total of 105 episodes. It was replaced by Full House in its timeslot.
Background
Rosalinda is a Mexican telenovela that was aired in 1999 on Televisa with singer-actress Thalía in the title role and Fernando Carrillo as Fernando Jose. The series had 80 forty-five-minute episodes, It was originally created by Delia Fiallo.
The Mexican series was aired in the Philippines in 2000, dubbing in Tagalog language. After airing its first episode, its ratings began to rise and Rosalinda became the most popular telenovela in the Philippines after Marimar. Re-runs of Rosalinda were aired on GMA Network in 2008 to 2009.
Premise
The series starts with a woman named Soledado. Attorney Alfredo Del Castillo is Soledad's boss and secret lover. Jose Fernando Atlamirano, Alfredo's brother-in-law, feels lust for Soledad, but she only has eyes for Alfredo. One day, Jose Fernando sends a letter to Soledad pretending to be Alfredo. When she arrives at their meeting place, Jose Fernando tries to rape Soledad. Alfredo arrives just in time and kills Jose Fernando to save Soledad. However, Alfredo collapses from a seizure, and Soledad is left holding the gun as the help and a young Fernando Jose, Jose Fernando's son, arrives on the scene. Jose Fernando's wife and Alfredo's sister, Dona Valeria, does not believe that it was Alfredo who killed her husband, but blames Soledad. As such, Soledad is sent to prison for 24 years for a crime she did not commit.
While serving her sentence, Soledad gives birth to a baby girl, naming her Rosalinda. But because she is incarcerated, she is forced to give the baby to her sister, Dolores Perez. At the same time, Dolores' daughter dies. To avoid telling her husband, Javier, the truth, she tells him that Rosalinda is their daughter. When Soledad finds out, she gets angry, but she also realizes that her daughter will have a better future not knowing that her real mother is in jail.
Years later, Rosalinda is now an adult and falls in love with the handsome Fernando Jose. Neither knows the truth about their respective pasts. When Dona Valeria finds out that Fernando Jose is in a relationship, she gets mad at her son for dating someone beneath their social status. Dolores and Rosalinda's sister, Fedra also does not accept their relationship because she is also infatuated with Fernando Jose. But despite all the things and people going against them, Rosalinda and Fernando Jose find a way to keep their love strong.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Carla Abellana as Rosalinda Perez-Altamirano / Rosalinda Del Castillo-Altamirano / Palo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20code%20generation%20tools |
List of tools
Technical features
References
Programming tools
Code generation tools
Source code generation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty%20Wicked | Pretty Wicked is a reality show on the Oxygen Network. The series challenges 10 women to put looks aside and compete to see who is the most beautiful on the inside. The winner receives a grand prize of $50,000. The show is hosted by Caridee English, winner of America's Next Top Model. The girls are judged by three celebrity judges: plus-sized model and published author Mia Tyler, Beverly Hills psychotherapist and radio talk show host Dr. Jenn Berman, and comedian/author Kyle Cease.
Contestants
Host: Caridee English
Judge: Mia Tyler
Judge: Kyle Cease
Judge: Dr. Jenn Berman
Episode progress
The contestant won Pretty Wicked.
The contestant was the Runner-Up
The contestant won immununity from elimination.
The contestant won the challenge, but did not receive immunity.
The contestant was safe from elimination.
The contestant was in the bottom 3.
The contestant was in the bottom 2.
The contestant was eliminated.
The contestant quit the competition.
The contestant won immunity, but quit the competition.
The contestant quit, but then returned for elimination and was in the bottom 3.
In Episode 3 Katie, Qui and Reena were chosen as the bottom three, but due to Vanessa's withdrawal, there was no bottom two and none of them went home.
Episodes 7 and 8 were part of the two-hour Season Finale.
Episode review
Episode 1: Mirror Mirror Not On The Wall
Challenge: Talk to blind guys
Challenge Winner/Immunity: Julin
Bottom 3: Reena, Ana, Jillian
Eliminated: Jillian
Episode 2: Sell Your Soul
Challenge: Auction off their stuff
Challenge Winner/Immunity: Team 1 Reena, Qui, and Vanessa but immunity was chosen by Reena and Qui to go to Vanessa.
Quit: Amber (She returned for elimination)
Bottom 3: Amber, Sarah R., Julin
Eliminated: Julin
Episode 3: Slow Roasted
Challenge: Comedy Roast
Challenge Winner/Immunity: Vanessa
Bottom 3: Sarah R., Qui, ReenaQuit: Vanessa
Episode 4: You're it GirlChallenge: Slash Challenge & Interview by Pat O'BrienChallenge Winner/Immunity: Sarah C.Bottom 3: Katie, Amber, QuiEliminated: Qui
Episode 5: In Frenemy Territory Challenge: Fake Rescue Mission
Challenge Winner no one
Bottom 3: Ana, Sarah C., Reena
Eliminated: Reena
Episode 6: The Truth About Lies
Challenge: Lie Detector Test
Challenge Winner: Ana
Bottom 2: Amber, Sarah C.
Eliminated: Amber
Episode 7: Who Wins? (Part 1)
Challenge: Night on the town with aged make-up.
Challenge Winners: Sarah C., Katie
Bottom two: Ana & Sarah R.
Quit: Ana
Episode 8: Who Wins? (Part 2)
Challenge: Watching audition tape then writing a letter to "old" self
Second Runner-Up: Katie
Runner-Up: Sarah R.
Winner: Sarah C.
References
2009 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
Oxygen (TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating%20licensing | Floating licensing, also known as concurrent licensing or network licensing, is a software licensing approach in which a limited number of licenses for a software application are shared among a larger number of users over time. When an authorized user wishes to run the application, they request a license from a central license server. If a license is available, the license server allows the application to run. When they finish using the application, or when the allowed license period expires, the license is reclaimed by the license server and made available to other authorized users.
The license server can manage licenses over a local area network, an intranet, virtual private network, or the Internet.
Floating licensing is often used for high-value applications in corporate environments; such as electronic design automation or engineering tools. However, its use is broadly expanding throughout the software industry.
An on-premise license server used to be the only way to enforce floating licensing models. A license server was required at each end user's location and each computer or device in a network needed to connect to it. License files would be bound to the host ID of the license server but could be made available to any client computer in the network; with the concurrent user limit enforced by the on-premise license server. License files are usually tied to the host ID of the license server by a MAC address or Ethernet address. The number of licenses registered and installed on the license server limits the number of concurrent users.
Although on-premise license servers are the traditional method of implementing floating licensing, modern solutions make use of cloud-based and plug and play solutions.
See also
Concurrent user
Software metering
License manager
License borrowing
Node-locked licensing
Software license server
Software licenses
System administration
de:Floating License Server
ru:Плавающие лицензии |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%20dust%20devils | Martian dust devils are convective atmospheric vortices that occur on the surface of Mars. They were discovered from data reported by NASA's Viking probes, and have been photographed by orbiting satellites and surface rovers in subsequent missions.
Although comparable to terrestrial dust devils in formation and appearance, Martian dust devils can be many times larger than those found on Earth. They can be powerful enough to pose a threat to rovers and other human-made technology, although some documented encounters have actually benefitted rovers by cleaning them of dust.
Observation
The existence of dust devils on Mars was confirmed by analysis of data from the Viking probes in the early 1980s. Photographs from the Viking orbiters revealed tracks across the Martian surface suspected to be caused by dust devils, and data from the landers' meteorological instruments confirmed convective vortices as the cause. Orbital photographs previously taken by Mariner 9 also showed surface lineations initially thought to be the ridges of seif dunes, but these were also shown to be dust devil tracks based on the data from Viking.
Martian dust devils have since been detected and photographed by both orbiting satellites and rovers on the surface. The Mars Pathfinder rover detected 79 convective vortices through atmospheric pressure data, and imaged several dust devils with its wide-angle camera. On 7 November 2016, five dust devils ranging in height from 0.5 to 1.9 kilometers were imaged in a single observation by the Mars Orbiter Mission in the Martian southern hemisphere. On 27 September 2021, the Perseverance rover directly encountered a Martian dust devil, imaging and recording the sound of the vortex as it passed, the first such observation in the history of Mars exploration.
Perseverance Rover recorded a very tall dust devil in the distance on Aug. 30, 2023. It was about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) away and was moving east to west at about 12 mph (19 kph). Its width was about 200 feet (60 meters). Even though only the bottom 387 feet (118 meters) of the devil was visible in the camera frame, scientists estimated its total height at about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) based on the length of its shadow. This is higher than the average tornado on the Earth.
Formation and characteristics
Dust devils on Mars form by the same basic mechanism as those on Earth; specifically, solar energy heats the Martian surface, causing warm air near the ground to rise through the cooler air above, creating an updraft. Horizontal wind then causes rotation, forming a vortex. The lifting of surface material through the vortex creates a visible dust devil. On average, however, Martian dust devils are about three times as large as their terrestrial counterparts. The largest vortices can reach heights of up to 8 kilometers and widths of up to 700 meters, and last more than 25 minutes. The greater height of Martian dust devils may be due to a planetary boundary layer which is severa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugbaniate | Sugbaniate is a town in Greater Accra Region in southern Ghana, just north of the port at Tema.
Transport
It is served by a station on the national railway network.
See also
Railway stations in Ghana
References
Populated places in the Greater Accra Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bososo | Bososo is a town in Eastern Region, southern Ghana.
Transport
It is served by a station on the eastern mainline of the national rail network.
See also
Railway stations in Ghana
References
Populated places in the Eastern Region (Ghana) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Lawrence | Andrea Lawrence may refer to:
Andrea Lawrence (professor) (born 1946), American computer scientist and professor
Andrea Mead Lawrence (1932–2009), American skier
Andria Lawrence (born 1936), English actress and writer (a.k.a. Andrea Lawrence) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stew-Roids | "Stew-Roids" is the 13th episode in the seventh season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 26, 2009. The episode features Stewie after he is attacked at an outdoor party by Joe's infant daughter, Susie. While training Stewie, Peter injects him with performance-enhancing drugs, and Stewie becomes incredibly muscular. Meanwhile, Chris becomes the fake boyfriend of popular student Connie D'Amico. He begins to like her, and the two begin a serious relationship, leading him to become popular. After a matter of time though, his newfound popularity goes to his head, causing him to become mean and self-centered towards everyone around him.
The episode was written by Alec Sulkin and directed by Jerry Langford. It received mixed reviews from critics for its storyline and many cultural references, in addition to receiving criticism from the Parents Television Council. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed by 6.80 million viewers on its original airdate. The episode featured guest performances by Wilhoit, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Jeff Bergman, Gary Cole, Chace Crawford, Camille Guaty, Wentworth Miller and Mae Whitman along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series.
Plot
Joe and Bonnie host a backyard barbecue, where Joe's baby daughter, Susie, gets into a fight with Stewie over a doll and attacks him. Upset by this, Peter takes Stewie to train at the local gymnasium. A trainer notices Stewie struggling with barbells and offers steroids. Peter injects the drugs into Stewie, who becomes incredibly buff and develops an aggressive personality, much to the horror of his family. Stewie becomes tormenting towards Brian. As time passes, Stewie's drugs gradually wear off, much to his shock. His skin becomes incredibly loose and flabby. Stewie jumps out of his bedroom window to avoid Brian's wrath, only to have his loosened skin help him glide to safety.
Elsewhere, Connie D'Amico is unhappy to learn that she has dated nearly every single boy in the school and plans to date an unpopular boy to gain better popularity, eventually deciding on Chris. During their first date, Chris reveals that he likes Connie, who is surprised by his kind heart and actually becomes attracted to him. As a result, Chris's popularity increases at school, which leads to accolades by the jocks, cheerleaders, and other socially powerful students. Meg tries to use the relationship to gain popularity herself, only to find herself snubbed off by Chris’s newfound shallowness. That weekend night, Chris and Connie plan a house party at the Griffins’ house, but Connie becomes upset when she finds out that Chris is cheating on her with two other girls, making Connie a social outcast. She turns to a reluctant Meg, who eventually relents when a javelin thrown by Chris impales Meg's shoulder. They publicly release a video of Chris dancing naked in his room in the style of Buffalo Bill from The Sil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Bhuj | New Bhuj is a town in Kachchh District of Gujarat, India.
Transport
It is served by a broad gauge branchline of the national railway network.
A metre gauge line used to go to Naliya.
See also
Railway stations in India
References
Cities and towns in Kutch district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Guy%20%28season%207%29 | The seventh season of Family Guy first aired on the Fox network from September 28, 2008 to May 17, 2009 before being released as two DVD box sets and syndicated. The animated television series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family (father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and their anthropomorphic dog Brian), who reside in the town of Quahog. The show features the voices of series creator Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, and Mila Kunis in the roles of the Griffin family.
The season included hold-over episodes from the sixth season, which was cut short due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. It received a mixed reception from critics, the more-mixed reviews criticizing the overuse of cutaways and the more positive praising its story-based episodes. The seventh season contains some of the series' most acclaimed episodes (including "Road to Germany" and "Family Gay") and controversial episodes like "420", which caused the Venezuelan government to ban the show from its networks. The seventh season was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, making Family Guy the first animated series to be nominated in this category since The Flintstones in 1961.
The Volume Seven DVD box set was released in Region 1 on June 16, 2009, Region 2 on November 2, 2009 and Region 4 on September 29, 2009. Nine of the sixteen episodes are included in this volume. The remaining seven episodes of the season were released on the Volume Eight DVD box set in Region 1 on June 15, 2010, Region 2 on November 1, 2010 and Region 4 on June 15, 2011.
Production
The season premiered September 28, 2008 with the episode "Love, Blactually" airing on Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States. During the sixth season of the show, episodes of Family Guy and American Dad! were delayed from regular broadcast due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Series creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane sided with the Writers Guild and participated in the strike until its conclusion. Official production of Family Guy was halted for most of December 2007 and intermittent periods afterwards. Fox continued producing episodes without MacFarlane's final approval; although he refused to work on the show during the strike, his contract with Fox required him to contribute to any episodes it subsequently produced. Due to this, most sixth-season episodes had to be pushed back to this one; this left the sixth season with only twelve episodes, and the seventh season began with hold-overs from the previous one.
Crew
MacFarlane, Danny Smith, David Goodman and Chris Sheridan were the executive producers for the season. Richard Appel, Steve Callaghan, Mark Hentemann and Brian Scully were co-executive producers. Other producers included Mike Henry, Patrick Meighan, Tom Devanney, Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild, John L. Jacobs, Kara Vallow, Kirker Butler, Shannon Smith, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Kim Fertman and Brandi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28Sit%20Down%2C%20Shut%20Up%29 | The pilot episode of the American animated television series Sit Down, Shut Up originally aired in the United States on April 19, 2009 on the Fox network. The episode introduced the faculty and staff at Knob Haven High School in the fictional town of Knob Haven, Florida. In the episode, the school is facing a financial crisis and acting principal Sue Sezno has to either fire a teacher or make sure the school wins a football game. Meanwhile, assistant principal Stuart Proszakian becomes addicted to drugs that were found in a student's locker.
The episode was written by series creator Mitchell Hurwitz and directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill. The first draft was written by Hurwitz in 2000, before he pitched Arrested Development. Hurwitz based Sit Down, Shut Up on the Australian sitcom of the same name. After he had rewritten the script several times, the series was picked up by Fox. The episode received generally mixed reviews from critics. According to the Nielsen ratings, it was watched by 5.21 million households in its original airing.
Plot
Acting Principal of Knob Haven High School Sue Sezno finds a case of pills in a student's locker. Believing them to be drugs, she hands them over to science teacher Miracle Grohe to study. Miracle, however, tells them the pills may be steroids; Sue decides to test them on her new assistant Principal, Stuart Proszakian. With the assistance of P.E. teacher Larry Littlejunk, she manages to successfully trick Stuart into taking the pills, telling him that they are vitamins.
Meanwhile, Sue informs the staff that the school is in financial trouble, and the only way to raise money is to gain alumni donations from the upcoming football game or face firing a teacher. German teacher Willard Deutschebog informs English teacher Ennis Hofftard that a student may have caught him buying "filthies" (porn) at a newsstand that morning; because of this, Willard fears that if Sue hears, he may be the one getting fired. At the same time, Larry attempts to ask Miracle out on a date, but finds he cannot stand Miracle's "stupid" thoughts. As it turns out, she was the one responsible for his students' poor training in gym: she repeatedly throws out food, in honor of those in third-world countries.
At the game, bisexual drama teacher Andrew LeGustambos attempts to grab the attention of both Larry and Miracle, but the whole school stands in shock as Stuart arrives with two full and augmented breasts; the pills he had taken were actually librarian Helen Klench's female hormone replacements. Nonetheless, the school loses the game. Sue finally reveals she was not planning on actually firing any teacher on her watch. Helen arrives to inform them that they did not need to win the game after all; she had found a rare time capsule with treasures. Upon opening the time capsule, it is revealed that it is full of Willard's porn magazines that Ennis hid. Sue pitifully looks at Willard and tells him he is fired.
Production
The pilot episode of Sit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explodemon | Explodemon! is a 2D platform video game developed by Curve Studios for the PlayStation 3. It was released on the PlayStation Network in 2011. The game is also available on Microsoft Windows via GamersGate.
Overview
Players control the titular hero, Explodemon, a superhero that uses his ability to blow himself up in order to destroy enemies and objects, propel himself through the air and solve environmental puzzles.
The developers have described the game as "a loving parody of badly translated action games and everything that they embody".
Development
Design director Jonathan Biddle, who created the original Explodemon! prototype in November 2005 in his spare time, describes the game as "what Treasure would create if they mixed Yoshi’s Island with Half-Life 2, and is inspired by elements from games as diverse as Street Fighter II, Halo, Super Metroid and Bangai-O".
Reception
The PlayStation 3 version received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
Official website
Platformers
Side-scrolling video games
Superhero video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games with 2.5D graphics
2011 video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Windows games
Indie games
Cancelled PlayStation Portable games
Cancelled Wii games
Curve Games games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan%20Ring%20Road | National Highway 01 or NH01, formally called the Ring Road (; ), is a two-lane road network circulating inside Afghanistan, connecting the following major cities (clockwise): Kabul, Maidan Shar, Ghazni, Kandahar, Delaram, Herat, Maymana, Sheberghan, Mazar-i-Sharif, Puli Khumri and back to Kabul. It has extensions that connect Jalalabad, Bamyan, Khost, Lashkargah, Zaranj (Route 606), Farah, Islam Qala, Torghundi, and Kunduz. It is part of AH1, the longest route of the Asian Highway Network. National Highway 01 consists of four major sections, NH0101 to NH0104, linking the major economic centers.
History
Part of National Highway 1 has been refurbished since late 2003, particularly the Kabul–Kandahar Highway, with funds provided by the United States, Saudi Arabia and others. Most work on that stretch was done by Turkish, Indian and local companies. Japanese companies were also involved near the southern Afghan province of Kandahar. In the west, Iran participated in the two-lane road construction between Islam Qala and the western Afghan city of Herat. Pakistan rebuilt the Jalalabad–Kabul Road.
Kabul to Kandahar
The Kabul–Kandahar Highway (NH0101) is a section of National Highway 01 linking two of Afghanistan's largest cities, Kabul and Kandahar. This highway is a key portion of the Ring Road. Approximately 35 percent of Afghanistan's population lives within of the Kabul to Kandahar portion of the Ring Road.
The Kabul–Kandahar highway underwent major repairs carried out by the United States and Japanese governments with assistance in planning and design by Turkish and Indian engineers. Phase one of paving was completed in December 2003 and the highway was opened to traffic. However, the road has badly deteriorated since that time, from heavy trucks and also from terrorist sabotage. Furthermore, armed guards must protect highway repair crews from ambushes. Banditry and extortion at Taliban checkpoints continue to be problems.
Kandahar to Herat
National Highway 01 between Kandahar and Herat consists of two sections, NH0101, running from Kandahar to Delaram, and NH0102, running from Delaram to Herat.
Kabul to Jalalabad
National Highway 8 (NH08) runs from Jalalabad to Kabul, following the Tang-e Gharu gorge, parallel to the Kabul River, for . The two-lane Kabul Gorge highway runs along cliffs. Fatal traffic accidents occur in this area, mainly due to reckless driving.
See also
Transport in Afghanistan
Notes
AH1
Roads in Afghanistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20%28disambiguation%29 | Artificial intelligence is the intelligence exhibited by machines and software.
Artificial intelligence may also refer to:
Music
Albums and EPs
Artificial Intelligence (EP), or the title track, by Tom Cardy, 2021
Artificial Intelligence (John Cale album), 1985
Artificial Intelligence (series), a series of electronic music albums by Warp Records
Artificial Intelligence (compilation album), the first in the series
Artificial Intelligence, a 1997 album by the Wynona Riders
Songs
"Artificial Intelligence", a song by Detroit Grand Pubahs from the 2002 album Funk All Y'all
"Artificial Intelligence", a song by OneRepublic from the 2016 album Oh My My
Other uses
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a 2001 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Artificial Intelligence (journal), a scientific journal
Artificial intelligence in video games
Artificial intelligence in fiction, an intelligent self-aware artifact
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, a 2019 book by Melanie Mitchell
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, a 1995 book by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig
See also
Artificial intelligence in fiction
Autonomic intelligence
Expert system
Fuzzy logic
Heuristic (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20in%20British%20television | This is a list of British television related events from 1992.
Events
January
1 January
New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include the network television premiere of Michael Jackson's 1988 film Moonwalker.
New Year's Day highlights on BBC2 include the network television premieres of Radio Days and Australia.
2 January – The network television premiere of The Accused on BBC1, a graphic and disturbing film starring Jodie Foster, loosely based on the 1983 Cheryl Araujo case.
4 January – BBC2 airs Freddie Mercury: a Tribute, a special programme introduced by Elton John which celebrates the life and work of Freddie Mercury who died on 24 November 1991.
7 January
Debut of GamesMaster on Channel 4, presented by Dominik Diamond and Patrick Moore.
Debut of Cold Blood – The Massacre of East Timor, an edition of the documentary strand First Tuesday on ITV, concerning the Santa Cruz massacre.
The children's stop-motion puppet series Joshua Jones, made and produced by Bumper Films, the company behind Fireman Sam makes its debut on BBC1.
10 January – Debut of the sitcom Grace & Favour on BBC1, a spin-off of the long-running series Are You Being Served?.
12 January – The sitcom As Time Goes By makes its debut on BBC1, starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer.
13 January – The Parliamentary Channel, operated by United Artists Cable and funded by a consortium of British cable operators, is launched.
14 January – The Dreamstone, the children's animated show returns for a second series on ITV.
21 January – BBC Select launches overnight on BBC1 and BBC2 as a subscription service, showing specialist programmes for professionals including businessmen, lawyers, teachers and nurses. The service ends in 1995.
31 January – The Adult Channel launches, a satellite-delivered subscription service featuring cable versions of adult movies and top quality erotic programmes which broadcasts for four hours a day commencing from midnight to 4am.
February
6 February – BBC1 airs the documentary Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of the Queen to mark the 40th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne.
8 February – Channel 4 launches TV Heaven, a series of 13 themed Saturday evenings celebrating the best of archive British television. The programme is hosted by Frank Muir with each edition focusing, with one exception on a particular year. The first week's episode takes a look at 1967, featuring classic episodes of Coronation Street, At Last the 1948 Show, Armchair Theatre and The Frost Programme.
8–22 February – The BBC provides live and recorded coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games.
15 February – The network television premiere of Leonard Nimoy's 1987 comedy film Three Men and a Baby on ITV, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson.
18 February – Debut of the sitcom Men Behaving Badly on ITV, later on BBC1, starring Martin Clunes, Neil Morrissey and Leslie Ash.
19 February – To outcry and scandal, Channel 4 airs an episode of Dispatches e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domodossola%E2%80%93Milan%20railway | The Domodossola–Milan railway line is a major Italian railway route and an important part of the European rail network. It is one of Italy's busiest lines for both passenger and freight trains. The line connects Milan and Domodossola with Brig, an important Swiss railway junction, via the Simplon Tunnel. Direct passenger trains ran from Brig to Paris (via Lausanne and Geneva ) and Brussels and Luxembourg via Basel. The line runs through lower Varese Province, the valley of Ossola and along the shore of Lake Maggiore.
History
The line was completed to Gallarate in the early 1860s and was extended over the Ticino River in 1882, reaching Domodossola in 1888. The Simplon Tunnel was completed and the line extended to it from Domodossola in 1906; it was duplicated in 1922. It was part of the Società per le strade ferrate dell'Alta Italia (Upper Italian Railways) from 1865, the Società per le Strade Ferrate del Mediterraneo (Mediterranean Railway Company) from 1885 and Ferrovie dello Stato from 1905.
Route
The line is fully electrified at 3,000 volts DC and is double track. In some stretches between Arona and Domodossola, the two tracks are not adjacent: the southbound line towards Milan runs directly along the shore of Lake Maggiore; the northbound line towards Domodossola is located a little inland because of the local geography. At Domodossola the electrification system changes to the Swiss system of 15,000 volts AC 16.7 Hz for the Simplon Tunnel.
The regional passenger rail service is operated by Trenord. The section between Gallarate and Milan is also served by suburban line S5. The railway is also served by long-distance Eurocity and EuroNight trains, as well as the high-speed Cisalpino trains, which connect Milan to the Swiss cities of Lausanne, Geneva, Bern and Basel.
The Domodossola–Milan line is also used by freight trains operated by Trenitalia Cargo, SBB Cargo Italia and other private companies.
The line passes through the metropolitan area to the northwest of Milan, across the plain towards Gallarate. It continues through the forests of lower Varese Province towards Lake Maggiore. After Sesto Calende it crosses the Ticino River on an iron bridge, which was opened to traffic in 1882. State road 33 (the Milan–Simplon Pass road) uses the same bridge, above the railway. From Arona, the line largely runs along the western shore of Lake Maggiore, keeping above the shore, passing through the major tourist town of Stresa. After Baveno, it enters the Toce plain and runs for about up the Ossola valley to Domodossola. It then approaches the Simplon Tunnel through nine tunnels including the Varzo Tunnel, which is built as a spiral in order to gain height.
See also
List of railway lines in Italy
References
Railway lines in Lombardy
Railway lines in Piedmont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Guy%20%28season%208%29 | The eighth season of Family Guy first aired on the Fox network in twenty-one episodes from September 27, 2009, to May 23, 2010, before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication. It ran on Sunday nights between May and July 2010 on BBC Three in the UK. The animated television series Family Guy follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog.
Starting with this season, the show is animated using Toon Boom Harmony.
As of season eight, the series entered its seventh production season. Production season seven was executive produced by Chris Sheridan, David Goodman, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan and series creator Seth MacFarlane. The season's showrunners were Hentemann and Callaghan, both of whom replaced previous showrunners Goodman and Sheridan. It was the last Family Guy season to be broadcast in 4:3 and in standard definition.
The season received negative reviews from critics, who cited a lack of original writing. More positive assessments revolved around the "tail end of the season," which "threw out all its old conventions and tried something remarkably different." Season eight contains some of the series' most acclaimed episodes, including "Road to the Multiverse", "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" and "Dog Gone", as well as some of the most controversial episodes, including "Extra Large Medium", "Brian & Stewie", "Quagmire's Dad" and "Partial Terms of Endearment," which was banned from being aired on American TV, but has been released on DVD (as both a standalone episode and as part of the complete season set) and saw broadcast in the UK on BBC3. It was the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation and a Genesis Award for television comedy, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.
The Volume Eight DVD box set was released in Region 1 on June 15, 2010, Region 2 on November 1, 2010 and Region 4 on August 17, 2010. Eight of the twenty-one episodes are included in the volume. The remaining eleven episodes of the season were released on the Volume Nine DVD box set in Region 1 on December 13, 2011, and was released in Region 2 on May 9, 2011, and Region 4 on June 15, 2011. Two other episodes were released independently on DVD.
Production
Production for the eighth season began in 2008, during the airing of the seventh season. The season was executive produced by series regulars Chris Sheridan, David Goodman, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann and Steve Callaghan, along with series creator Seth MacFarlane. The showrunners for the eighth season were Hentemann and Callaghan, who replaced Goodman and Sheridan, following the conclusion of the seventh production season.
As production began, Callaghan, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Hentemann, Patrick Meighan, Brian Scully, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, Alec Sulkin, John |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX%20%28disambiguation%29 | ATX is a form factor for personal computer motherboards and power supplies.
ATX or AT-X may also refer to:
AT-X (TV network), a Japanese broadcasting service
Atbasar Airport, Kazakhstan
atx (markup language), a lightweight markup language
Austin, Texas, United States
Austrian Traded Index, a stock market index of Austria
Autotaxin, an enzyme
Ford ATX transmission, an automobile component
Toyota Aurion AT-X, an automobile
atX (gene), produces 6-Methylsalicylic acid in Aspergillus terreus
See also
A2X (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Magstar%20MP%203570 | The IBM 3570 is a series of tape drives and corresponding magnetic tape data storage media formats developed by IBM. The storage technology and media were introduced using the name Magstar MP, combining the IBM storage brand name Magstar with MP for MultiPurpose. The IBM product number 3570 was associated with the tape drives and libraries that used the Magstar MP media.
The IBM 3570 technology was specifically produced for mid-range computer systems, and for the tape cartridges to be primarily stored in and handled by automated tape libraries. The technology was specifically designed for fastest access to the data, with quick robotic tape loading and near-instant head to tape contact in mid-tape after loading. However, slower tape technologies with higher per-tape capacities proved more successful in the marketplace, and the IBM 3570 technology did not enjoy a large market penetration.
Technology
The IBM Magstar MP technology is a compact tape technology using a small dual-reel tape cartridge which was introduced in September, 1996. The key design points of this technology are:
Fast access to data through quick tape load/unload cycle times, and a mid-tape load-point design
High reliability of media and cartridges under heavy duty read and write loads
Heavy use of automated libraries for tape handling
High performance in a mid-range computing environment
The technology was upgraded in 1998 to increase both capacity and performance.
This tape format is based on an 8mm tape with 128 tracks arranged in an interleaved longitudinal serpentine format. The tapes used a metal particle technology, and the tape drives used a magneto-resistive head technology, with LZ1 data compression built into the drive. An unusual feature is the mid-tape load-point.
In contrast, most tape technologies view a tape as a linear length, similar to an audio cassette. Normally, a tape load is completed by spooling past the head to an initial load-point at one end of the tape, while forward tape motion brings the head closer towards the end-of-tape/end-of-track in a linear fashion.
IBM chose a different approach, placing the start-of-tape initial load-in point halfway along the tape's length.
Relative to the centre load-point, tracks run both backwards and forwards towards each end of the tape.
This improves average access times, with a worst-case seek request needing spool through only a maximum of half the tape's length. In comparison, traditional formats may need to spool through the full tape length, doubling the time-to-seek of IBM's product. This family of drives, alongside the StorageTek 9840, may be the only modern tape storage products taking this mid-tape load-point approach.
Media
The original tapes, called B-type, had a capacity of 5 GB uncompressed. The follow-on C-type tapes had the same capacity, but were faster. The final tape media, called C-XL, had a capacity of 7GB uncompressed. IBM advertising suggested an expected typical 3:1 data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/TC%20184/SC%204 | ISO/TC 184/SC 4 is an international standards organization responsible for industrial data. ISO/TC 184/SC 4 develops and maintains ISO standards that describe and manage industrial product data throughout the life of the product. ISO/TC 184/SC 4, Industrial data, is Subcommittee 4 of ISO/TC 184, Automation systems and integration, which is Technical Committee 184 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Example standards
ISO/TC 184/SC 4 has direct responsibility for many standards and projects. Some examples:
ISO 8000, Data quality
ISO 10303, Industrial automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange, informally known as Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP)
ISO 13584, Industrial automation systems and integration — Parts library (PLIB)
ISO 15926, Industrial automation systems and integration — Integration of life-cycle data for process plants including oil and gas production facilities
ISO 18629, Industrial automation systems and integration — Process specification language (PSL)
References
External links
ISO website
ISO website page on TC 184/SC 4
United States Technical Advisory Group (US TAG) to ISO TC 184/SC 4
Future meetings of ISO TC 184/SC 4
Product lifecycle management
184 SC 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gh0st%20RAT | Gh0st RAT is a Trojan horse for the Windows platform that the operators of GhostNet used to hack into many sensitive computer networks. It is a cyber spying computer program. The "Rat" part of the name refers to the software's ability to operate as a "Remote Administration Tool".
The GhostNet system disseminates malware to selected recipients via computer code attached to stolen emails and addresses, thereby expanding the network by allowing more computers to be infected. According to the Infowar Monitor (IWM), "GhostNet" infection causes computers to download a Trojan known as "Gh0st RAT" that allows attackers to gain complete, real-time control. Such a computer can be controlled or inspected by its hackers, and the software even has the ability to turn on the camera and audio-recording functions of an infected computer that has such capabilities, enabling monitors to see and hear what goes on in a room. A lesser known variant of Gh0st RAT is Gh0stBins, which possesses the same set of malicious tools, including keylogging and the ability to perform a system reboot.
See also
Computer surveillance
Computer insecurity
Cyber-security regulation
Cyber-warfare
Proactive Cyber Defence
Surveillance
Espionage
Phishing
References
External links
Information Warfare Monitor - Tracking Cyberpower (University of Toronto, Canada/Munk Centre)
Trojan horses
Spyware
Web security exploits
Social engineering (computer security)
Public-domain software with source code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20stations%20in%20Hong%20Kong | There are four active free-to-air television networks and one remaining licensed pay television network in Hong Kong. There is also a number of online subscription television services.
Currently, there are no new applicants for free-to-air or pay-tv licences.
In 2007, free-to-air television broadcasters in Hong Kong were allocated extra frequency bands and bandwidth to provide additional digital broadcasts over and above that needed to provide simultaneous digital and analogue broadcasting of the four original multi frequency free-to-air channels. Digital terrestrial broadcasts began on 31 December 2007. Analogue terrestrial television ended in 2020.
Free-to-air television
In operation
Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB; )
Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK; )
HK Television Entertainment (HKTVE; )
Fantastic Television Limited (FTV; )
Former licensees
Asia Television (ATV; . Non-renewal announced in 2015. Ceased operation in 2016)
Commercial Television (CTV; . Ceased operation in 1978)
Former licence applicants
New Asia Network (NAN; ), parent company Forever Top (Asia) Limited abandoned the application, following its acquisition of Cable TV Hong Kong and its subsidiary, Fantastic Television, which is a free television provider.
Phoenix Hong Kong Television (PHKTV, ), parent company Phoenix Television announced its decision to rescind the application on 18 August 2017.
Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV; ) – 2nd time applicant. First application was rejected in 2013. Mobile television licence that restricts in-home viewing granted in 2017. Gave up the application in 2018.
Licensed pay television
In operation
Now TV
Former licensees
Cable TV Hong Kong
TVB Network Vision
Free-to-air television channels
Channels currently on-air
Defunct channels
Additional channels
Operative services
Hong Kong uses the same Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast (DMB-T/H) standard as Macau and Guangdong and, because of signal overspill, viewers in Hong Kong can receive and watch all free to air channels from these areas without much difficulty.
However, because of licensing and intellectual property reasons, except for the four local free-to-air networks and CCTV-1, a subsidiary of China Central Television (CCTV), viewers outside of certain confines
are not legally allowed to watch these channels.
Residential subscribers to cable premium and subscription services are free to use these services within certain confines, usually within their own homes, and under the terms and conditions of their service provider. Other contracts deal with the provision of services to non-domestic properties, e.g. premium sport content to bars.
References and notes
Television stations in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong television-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle%27s%20Are%20Real | "Miracle's Are Real" is the second episode of the American animated television series Sit Down, Shut Up. It was originally broadcast on April 26, 2009, in the United States on the Fox network. In the episode, Miracle Grohe loses her faith in spirituality because of Larry's pragmatism. Meanwhile, Acting Principal Sue Sezno holds a school fair to raise money for the staff's insurance.
The episode was co-written by the series creator Mitchell Hurwitz and Jim Vallely and directed by Raymie Muzquiz. It received generally mixed reviews from critics. According to the Nielsen ratings, it was watched by 4.20 million households in its original broadcast.
Plot
Miracle celebrates the first day of spring by giving out flowers, but fails to realize that she is actually giving out hemlock, which ultimately puts Andrew in a coma. Because the staff's insurance does not cover "voluntary self-poisoning", Acting Principal Sue Sezno suggests they hold a school fair to raise money, advertising it as a "fair fair". Miracle tells Larry that tonight is the night her prophecy will come true. Larry challenges her spiritually-based life style by spending the night at the commune waiting for Miracle's birth star to align with Pluto. When the stars finally align, Larry is too busy trying to disprove Miracle's way of life that he does not notice that she is trying to kiss him. She runs away and throws away her fortune. Larry reads it and finds out that when Miracle's star is align with Pluto, she would receive a kiss from the greatest love of her life.
At the fair, Miracle feels depressed and gives Ennis her baby Merch to babysit. The booth Miracle got her fortune from is delivered by a mysterious man and Larry plans on using to make Miracle believe in spirituality again. Meanwhile, Sue does the raffle for the German coffee maker, which she wins herself. Ennis admits that he lost Merch, which upsets Miracle. Outraged, Ennis takes a crystal ball and throws it at the ball toss, at which Sue falls into the tub of water. Andrew and Helen then notice a magnet in Sue's skirt, which indicates that Sue cheated for the coffee maker. Ennis gets some prizes in a booth, including Merch clinging onto a Pluto doll, and Miracle sees that her prophecy has come true and thanks Ennis with a hug. She says that it is still a magical world no matter what Larry says.
Production
"Miracle's Are Real" was co-written by the creator Mitchell Hurwitz and Jim Vallely and directed by Raymie Muzquiz. It was the second episode to be produced. The first episode had to be rewritten several times before the series was picked up by Fox. The series was picked up in May 2008, but production was halted only a month later due to a contract dispute between the writers and the production company, Sony Pictures. In July 2008, a compromise was reached and the writers returned to work. On April 17, 2009, TV Squad posted an early look on various elements in the series, including the content in "Miracle's Are Real". T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduit%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Conduit" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on October 1, 1993. It was written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, directed by Daniel Sackheim, and featured a guest appearance by Carrie Snodgress as the mother of an abducted teenager.
The show centers on FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Mulder and Scully, when investigating the possible alien abduction of a teenage girl, find that the missing girl's younger brother may be capable of receiving satellite transmissions and that her mother was also party to a UFO encounter over twenty years earlier. Mulder finds himself becoming emotionally attached to the case due to its similarities to his own childhood experiences, when his younger sister Samantha was abducted from their home.
The episode, although not directly tied to the series' ongoing story arcs, provides more information on how Mulder's sister had been abducted as a child; a plot thread which would go on to become one of the more prominent of the series. The episode was filmed in British Columbia, with Buntzen Lake being used as Lake Okobogee.
Plot
At a campground at Lake Okobogee National Park in Sioux City, Iowa, Darlene Morris witnesses a flash of light outside her RV. She ventures outside to find her young son, Kevin, who claims that his teenaged sister, Ruby, has vanished.
In Washington, FBI Division Chief Scott Blevins informs Dana Scully that, unbeknownst to her, Fox Mulder has requested travel expenses to Sioux City based on a tabloid article about Ruby's disappearance. Blevins also shows Scully an X-File on the disappearance of Mulder's sister Samantha. When Scully asks Mulder about the travel expenses, he explains that Lake Okobogee was the scene of a series of UFO sightings in 1967; Darlene, then a member of a Girl Scout troop, was one of the witnesses.
When Mulder and Scully travel to Iowa and meet the Morrises, Mulder observes Kevin writing down binary code on a piece of paper; Kevin claims they are coming from static on a television screen. After submitting Kevin's code for analysis, the agents meet with the local sheriff, who tells them that Ruby was a juvenile delinquent who likely ran away. They also meet a young woman, Tessa, who says that Ruby had gotten pregnant and was planning to run away with her boyfriend, Greg Randall. The agents are unable to find Greg at the bar where he works; however, his boss tells them about UFO activity at Lake Okobogee.
Kevin's code is revealed to be part of a Defense Department satellite transmission. NSA agents ransack the Morris household, looking for any other documentation that might supposedly compromise national security. After the Morrises are taken into custody (which causes Darlene to lose her trust in him and Scully) Mulder examines the charred roof of their RV, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Ourense | The Grupo Radio Ourense is a network of radio stations in Spain. The enterprise began in 1932 with a 100-watt transmitter in Ourense, set up by Ramón Puga Noguerol. Noguerol utilized the radio station primarily to promote the record albums for sale in his commercial store. It was more of a hobby than a business.
But, three years later in 1935, the station was granted a formal license, EAJ-57, and the business became more serious. In 1966, the station became a part of a wider commercial association, La Voz del Miño. Pedro Arcas succeeded Ramón Puga at the helm.
References
Radio stations in Spain
European Broadcasting Union members
Mass media in Ourense |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivat%20Torat%20HaChaim | Yeshivat Torat HaChaim is an educational yeshiva network founded by Rabbi Shmuel Tal in 1996, originally situated in the Gush Katif (Gaza Strip) settlement of Neve Dekalim. After the 2005 disengagement from Gaza, Torat HaChaim was re-established in the religious settlement, Yad Binyamin, between Jerusalem and Ashdod.
Rav Tal believes in inclusiveness in the student body, with students representing most types of orthodoxy, Haredi and Religious Zionist, and stresses the need to become more involved in every aspect of Israeli society. He encourages his students to serve in the Nahal Haredi or to do standard National Service.
The Torat HaChaim network numbers (in 2016–2017) 1,600 students and includes:
a Talmud Torah
elementary girls school
yeshiva ketana
ulpana for girls
yeshiva gedola
kollel
yeshiva for baalei teshuva
midrasha for baalot teshuva
midrasha for women after Sherut Leumi (a variant on national Service)
yeshiva for haredi men
film and theater school (separate days for men and women)
school for counseling and therapeutic training (separate days for men and women)
Tal Chaim publication institute
off campus outreach programs
off campus teacher training program
community of families in Nazareth Ilit
Future plans include a music academy for men and women, and high schools for sons and daughters of baalei teshuva.
External links
Yeshivat Torat HaChaim Official website
Religious Zionist yeshivot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named | Named may refer to something that has been given a name.
Named may also refer to:
named (computing), a widely used DNS server
Naming (parliamentary procedure)
The Named (band), an American industrial metal group
In literature:
The Named, a fantasy novel by Marianne Curley
The Named, a fictional race of prehistoric big cats, depicted in The Books of the Named series by Clare Bell
See also
Name (disambiguation)
Names (disambiguation)
Naming (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20Me%20Believe | Make Me Believe is a music album of Pinoy Pop Superstar 2006 1st runner up and GMA Network talent Aicelle Santos. It was released under GMA Records and released 2 successful singles "Ikaw Pa Rin" and "Make Me Believe".
Track Listing
Ikaw Pa Rin (Video)
Lyrics & Music by: Janno Gibbs / Arranged by: Marvin Querido
Lullabies
Lyrics & Music by: Francis Salazar / Arranged by: Albert Tamayo
Make Me Believe (Video)
Lyrics & Music by: Francis Salazar / Arranged by: Melvin Morallos
All Gone (My Lingering's Over)
Lyrics by: Aicelle Santos / Music by: Ryan Padecio & Mike Delos Reyes / Arranged by: Marvin Querido
A House Is Not A Home
Lyrics by: Hal David / Music by: Burt Bacharach / Arranged by: Marvin Querido
Nasaan
Lyrics & Music by: Vehnee Saturno / Arranged by: Marc Santos
Give Me One More Reason
Lyrics & Music by: Vehnee Saturno / Arranged by: Jun Tamayo
Tunay Bang Iibigin
Lyrics by: Aicelle Santos / Music by: Ryan Padecio, Redj Saguin, & Mike Delos Reyes / Arranged by: Jun Tamayo
Kung Bakit Ngayon
Lyrics & Music by: Vehnee Saturno / Arranged by: Marc Santos
All The Man That I Need
Lyrics by: Dean Pitchford / Music by: Michael Gore
Maghihintay
Lyrics & Music by: Tata Betita
Singles Released
See also
GMA Network
References
2005 debut albums
GMA Music albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0C | 0C (zero C) or 0-C may refer to:
0 °C, the melting point of ice on the Celsius scale
0C, or zero carbon
Zero carbon building
Zero carbon city
0 configuration networking, or zero-configuration networking, a set of techniques that automatically creates a usable Internet Protocol (IP) network
0-coupon bond, or Zero-coupon bond, a type of discount bond
0 copula, or Zero copula, a linguistic phenomenon where a subject is joined to a predicate without overt marking of this relationship
0 crossing, or Zero crossing, a point where the sign of a function crosses the zero axis
0 consonant, or Zero consonant, a consonant-like letter that is not pronounced
See also
C0 (disambiguation)
OC (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.B.E.%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "E.B.E." (short for extraterrestrial biological entity) is the seventeenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, premiering on the Fox network on February 18, 1994. It was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and directed by William Graham. The episode introduced the recurring characters of The Lone Gunmen, played by Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund and Tom Braidwood; and saw Jerry Hardin reprise his role as Deep Throat. The episode helped explore the series' overarching mythology. "E.B.E." earned a Nielsen household rating of 6.2, being watched by 5.8 million households in its initial broadcast; and received positive reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. When Mulder and Scully investigate the possible smuggling of a crashed UFO and its inhabitant across America, they find themselves being spied on and face doubts over the motives of a secretive informant.
Inspired by the film All the President's Men (1976), "E.B.E." was the first mythology-centered episode written for the show by writers Morgan and Wong. The episode also introduced the characters of The Lone Gunmen—conspiracy theorists John Fitzgerald Byers (Harwood), Richard Langly (Haglund) and Melvin Frohike (Braidwood). The characters, who were used to help Mulder appear more credible, later became recurring characters and eventually gained their own spin-off series, The Lone Gunmen.
Plot
In the skies over Iraq, an Iraqi fighter jet shoots down a UFO, which crashes in Turkey. Later, in Tennessee, a truck driver named Ranheim shoots at something in the dark as another UFO flies overhead. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigate the sighting the next day, but Ranheim is quickly let go by the uncooperative local authorities. In a seemingly inconsequential event, a woman briefly borrows Scully's pen before they leave Tennessee.
Back in Washington, D.C., Mulder introduces Scully to the Lone Gunmen, a trio of eccentric conspiracy theorists with whom he collaborates. After returning to FBI headquarters, Scully discovers a surveillance device within her pen. Mulder meets with Deep Throat, who provides him with documentation of an intercepted Iraqi transmission regarding the downed UFO. Scully continues to investigate the Tennessee incident, learning that two thousand pounds of extra weight had been added to Ranheim's truck. She also learns Ranheim's true identity as Frank Druce. Mulder and Scully argue briefly over the trustworthiness of Deep Throat, whom Mulder defends.
Mulder intends to track Druce's truck, which is on its way to Colorado. However, before he leaves, Deep Throat approaches him at his apartment, offering the photo of a purported UFO at Fort Benning. Mulder initially believes that Druce's truck is a decoy meant to distract him from the UFO, but discovers that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KidRex | KidRex.org is a visual child-safe search engine powered by Google Programmable Search Engine. The website utilizes Google SafeSearch and maintains its own database of inappropriate websites and keywords. Additionally, social media websites are blocked by KidRex. Kidrex Pro is a premium version of the website with more features. Kidrex Pro Is currently being re-imagined into a brand new service.
Format
The site theme is stylized with colorful hand-drawn crayon and colored marker. Kidrex search results are both colorful and visual, designed for desktop use. The site is not mobile friendly. Looking up a blocked search term used to result in a 404 crayon-stylized error page, and would ask the user to "try again."
As of August 8, 2021, search results are redirected to Google, and bad search terms are no longer blocked.
History
KidRex.org was launched in December 2008. In 2013, Time magazine put KidRex on its list of the top 50 websites of 2013 and compared it to Google.
In 2018, KidRex was acquired by Alarms.org. In a blog post, Alarms.org assured users that nothing would change in the near future. They told users that "the only thing we’ve done so far is remove the annoying ads that were on the bottom of the home page". Additionally, Alarms.org stated that they "have a long list of features in mind for KidRex, including a mobile app, customized versions for your school, and more.
Controversy
In 2018, doubt was cast over KidRex's "safe search" claims, when a security researcher was able to use the search engine to return adult-orientated content search results. Additionally, KidRex has blocked LGBT related keywords and has been criticized by the public.
See also
Kiddle
KidzSearch
List of search engines
Search engine
Comparison of search engines
References
External links
American children's websites
Google
Internet search engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer programming, a variable is an abstract storage location paired with an associated symbolic name, which contains some known or unknown quantity of data or object referred to as a value; or in simpler terms, a variable is a named container for a particular set of bits or type of data (like integer, float, string etc...). A variable can eventually be associated with or identified by a memory address. The variable name is the usual way to reference the stored value, in addition to referring to the variable itself, depending on the context. This separation of name and content allows the name to be used independently of the exact information it represents. The identifier in computer source code can be bound to a value during run time, and the value of the variable may thus change during the course of program execution.
Variables in programming may not directly correspond to the concept of variables in mathematics. The latter is abstract, having no reference to a physical object such as storage location. The value of a computing variable is not necessarily part of an equation or formula as in mathematics. Variables in computer programming are frequently given long names to make them relatively descriptive of their use, whereas variables in mathematics often have terse, one- or two-character names for brevity in transcription and manipulation.
A variable's storage location may be referenced by several different identifiers, a situation known as aliasing. Assigning a value to the variable using one of the identifiers will change the value that can be accessed through the other identifiers.
Compilers have to replace variables' symbolic names with the actual locations of the data. While a variable's name, type, and location often remain fixed, the data stored in the location may be changed during program execution.
Actions on a variable
In imperative programming languages, values can generally be accessed or changed at any time. In pure functional and logic languages, variables are bound to expressions and keep a single value during their entire lifetime due to the requirements of referential transparency. In imperative languages, the same behavior is exhibited by (named) constants (symbolic constants), which are typically contrasted with (normal) variables.
Depending on the type system of a programming language, variables may only be able to store a specified data type (e.g. integer or string). Alternatively, a datatype may be associated only with the current value, allowing a single variable to store anything supported by the programming language. Variables are the containers for storing the values.
Variables and scope:
Automatic variables: Each local variable in a function comes into existence only when the function is called, and disappears when the function is exited. Such variables are known as automatic variables.
External variables: These are variables that are external to a function and can be accessed by name by any function. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionicle%3A%20The%20Legend%20Reborn | Bionicle: The Legend Reborn is a 2009 computer-animated science fantasy action film based on the Bionicle toy line by Lego. It is the fourth and final Bionicle film to be released. Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, the film is a stand-alone sequel to the trilogy of films released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment under the Miramax Home Entertainment label. It follows the toy line's 2009 story and features a different set of characters than that of the first three films. The Legend Reborn was released on September 15, 2009, in the United States and Canada, October 5 in the United Kingdom, and September 2 in Australia. The film stars Michael Dorn as the voice of Mata Nui.
The Legend Reborn was intended to be the start of a trilogy of films, but production on the sequels was cancelled due to Lego discontinuing the release of Bionicle toys in 2010. The story was concluded through other media outlets, including comic books and a web story titled the "Mata Nui Saga".
Plot
Mata Nui, the Great Spirit of the Matoran universe, is exiled from his home by his brother, Makuta Teridax. Teridax takes over Mata Nui's gigantic robot body, while Mata Nui's spirit is transferred into the Mask of Life, which crash lands on the wasteland planet of Bara Magna. Mata Nui creates a new body and befriends a Scarabax beetle named Click. He meets a villager named Metus, who warns him of dangerous tribes.
Metus takes Mata Nui to the village of Vulcanus, where gladiatorial fights settle disputes between villages. Mata Nui intervenes in a fight and befriends the Glatorian fighter Ackar. Later, Mata Nui, Ackar, and a Glatorian named Kiina are ambushed by enemies. They rescue an injured Glatorian and discover evidence of Mata Nui's connection to Bara Magna.
Mata Nui repairs and transforms the Glatorians' weapons using his mask's power. They travel to Tesara and unite the villages against the Skrall-Bone Hunter alliance. Kiina suspects Berix of betrayal but is captured by the real traitor, Metus. Mata Nui confronts Tuma, defeats him, and frees Kiina and Berix. They join forces with Ackar and Gresh to battle the Skrall and Bone Hunters.
The combined efforts of the Agori, Glatorians, and Scarabax beetles unite the villages and form a large robotic body. Mata Nui discovers a map on a coin and prepares for their next adventure.
Cast
Michael Dorn as Mata Nui
Jim Cummings as Ackar
Marla Sokoloff as Kiina
James Arnold Taylor as Berix & Vastus
Mark Famiglietti as Gresh
David Leisure as Metus
Armin Shimerman as Raanu
Fred Tatasciore as Tuma
Jeff Bennett as Strakk & Tarix
Dee Bradley Baker as Bone Hunters, Skrall & Vorox
Mark Baldo as Villagers
Production
Unlike the first three films, The Legend Reborn was produced by Threshold Animation Studios and distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, while the original trilogy was produced by Creative Capers Entertainment and distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment under the Miramax Home Enter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Agent%20Oso | Special Agent Oso ( ) is an American computer-animated children's television series created by Ford Riley for Playhouse Disney. The series debuted on April 4, 2009. It deals with Oso, a panda bear, who is a special agent working for the United Network for Investigating Quite Usual Events, an agency dedicated to helping children with such everyday tasks as mailing a letter, riding a bike, or making a sandwich. The series ended on May 17, 2012. A total of 60 episodes over two seasons have aired.
The series received generally positive reviews from critics. It was nominated for Outstanding Original Song at the 2010 Daytime Emmy Awards. Both Special Agent Oso and the spin-off, which aired during interstitials, Special Agent Oso: Three Healthy Steps (a show on healthy habits) are available to stream on Disney+.
Premise
Each episode begins with Special Agent Oso beginning a training exercise given by one of his three instructors, Wolfie, Dottie, or Bufo, which he usually fails on his first try, causing him to say "It's all part of the plan more or less." Invariably, during the exercise, at least one child is confronted with a simple task which they have trouble completing, an event which a Shutterbug drone notices, which in some way relates to Oso's assignment (primarily due to the lesson that both he and the child learn). Paw Pilot, Oso's computerized assistant, alerts him about a special assignment by alerting Oso by repeating "Special Alert" twice. Oso is always assigned to the case, and Paw Pilot, along with the voice over Mr. Dos, illustrates his client's plight and assigns him a mission to help the child complete the task. To do so, Paw Pilot provides Oso with "three special steps," a simplified step-by-step guide to completing the task, while Mr. Dos gives Oso a briefing as to the child's exact problem. Oso is transported to the child's location and attempts to follow the steps as the steps, in and of themselves, are usually too vague to complete the task properly. Paw Pilot also gives further elaborations, including at least one helpful trick, which reveals the mistake Oso has made during the training exercise. On the third and final step, Paw Pilot senses the time limit on the task between 3 and 19 seconds and begins counting down when the time limit is near. Oso and the child usually complete the task, just as the time runs out. The completion of all three steps often involves gadgets, such as a pen that can become a grappling device and a jetpack.
Returning from the assignment, the helpful trick given during the assignment always turns out to be the same trick Oso needed to complete the interrupted training exercise, which he likewise completes and passes, getting a "digi-medal," a digital award, for both the training exercise and the special assignment.
Episodes
The show has 60 episodes; 24 in the first season and 36 in the second. The episode names are usually references to the names of the James Bond films from Eon Productions, such |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubic | Clubic is a French web site, which was owned by M6 Web until March 2018, and is now independent.
Created in 2000, this webzine about computing and multimedia offers news, reviews and downloads of software applications, as well as community services. The web site integrates articles written by other web sites edited by Cyréalis such as JeuxVideo.fr, Mobinautes or NetEco. Cyréalis was bought by M6 in 2008. The editorial policy of Clubic is voluntarily geared towards the general public in order to reach a wide audience.
According to Alexa, as of 5 April 2009, Clubic is the 1,433 most visited website in the world, and the 79th in France. It has 4.3 million unique visitors each month, with 88 millions of pageviews per month.
References
External links
Official website
2000 establishments in France
News magazines published in France
French-language magazines
French news websites
Magazines established in 2000
Online computer magazines
Magazines about the media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic-numeric%20computation | In mathematics and computer science, symbolic-numeric computation is the use of software that combines symbolic and numeric methods to solve problems.
Background
Computational Algebraic Geometry
References
External links
Professional organizations
ACM SIGSAM: Special Interest Group in Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation
Computer algebra
Numerical analysis
Computational science |
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