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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%20in%20British%20television | This is a list of British television related events from 1988.
Events
January
1 January
New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include the network television premiere of Roger Donaldson's 1984 historical drama The Bounty, starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins.
BBC2 airs a five-hour Whistle Test special to welcome in 1988 which aired from 9:35pm on New Year's Eve to 2:55am on New Year's Day. The special takes a look back through the archives in what is the programme's final outing. It will be three decades later in 2018 before a new edition of the programme is broadcast.
Michael Grade takes on the role of Chief Executive of Channel 4.
From today, each programme on ITV is no longer preceded by the identifier of the regional company that had produced the show.
2 January – No. 73 is broadcast for the final time on ITV. It has been known as 7T3 since January.
4 January – BBC1 moves the repeat episode of Neighbours to a 5:35pm evening slot, the decision to do this having been made by controller Michael Grade on the advice of his daughter.
5 January – Actor Rowan Atkinson launches the new Comic Relief charity appeal.
6 January – All ITV regions network Emmerdale Farm in the Wednesday and Thursday 6:30pm slot.
8 January – Launch of LWT News, a news service from London Weekend Television providing at least eight bulletins each weekend for the ITV London region and created as a response to IBA concerns about the lack of a proper news service in London at weekends.
9 January – The network television premiere of the 1984 film Supergirl on ITV, starring Helen Slater.
11 January
The US animated series The Real Ghostbusters, based on the hit 1984 Ghostbusters movie makes its UK debut on Children's ITV.
Debut of the game show Fifteen to One on Channel 4, presented by William G. Stewart. The show's first winner is Gareth McMullan, a teacher from Northern Ireland.
14 January – Talks between TV-am's management and the ACTT union begin, aiming to resolve the ongoing strike.
25 January – TVS launches Late Night Late and gradually extends its broadcast hours over the next few months.
25–29 January – TV-am airs a week of live broadcasts from Sydney to celebrate Australia's bicentenary and featuring Anne Diamond and Mike Morris.
30 January – The network television premiere of the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy on ITV, starring Roger Moore.
February
1 February
TV-am celebrates its fifth birthday, with Anne Diamond being joined by Richard Keys, Gyles Brandreth, Su Pollard and Jimmy Greaves. It is the first time has been able to get its daily output down to an hour of pre-recorded material since the beginning of the strike. However, the station continues to air imports of old US shows for several months.
The deadline on which the ACTT must accept TV-am's "Ten Point Plan" aimed at resolving the strike. However, the plan is rejected by a ballot and the union refuses to resume negotiations.
5 February – The inaugural Red Nose Day sees Comic Relief air its first A Night |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20%28Indonesian%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Indonesia (PT Musik Televisi Indonesia until 2007) was an Indonesian free-to-air television network, part of MTV. The network was launched on 5 May 1995, It was the fifth MTV version launched in the world, and first to broadcast via free-to-air television. MTV Indonesia later became part of programming block on ANteve along with MTV Asia programs, before moving to the newly inaugurated network Global TV on 7 March 2002, MTV Indonesia also aired on Singapore and Malaysia via Suria, it was closed for the second time on 1 November 2015.
History
MTV Indonesia aired MTV shows such as TRL, Fanatic, Diary; Europe, Asia such as Most Wanted, Fresh, Alternative Nation, Asia Hitlist, Land, Rock, Absolute, Fresh, Connect, Wow, Non Stop Hits, 100% Indonesia, Ampuh and Screen.
MTV Asia launched MTV Indonesia on 5 May 1995 and ANteve began to aired MTV program since launch of MTV Indonesia, due to financial crisis, ANteve terminated MTV program on 7 March 2002, on the same day, Global TV started alliance with MTV Asia to aired MTV Indonesia.
On 1 April 2002, MTV Indonesia started on Global TV while still trial broadcast.
On 1 May 2002, MTV Indonesia launched on Global TV and later, on 8 October 2002, Global TV officially launched as music television channel and MTV now aired for 24 hours.
MTV on Global TV became the world first free-to-air television channel to aired MTV for 24 hours.
Like many MTV channel in other countries, MTV Indonesia program with English language from United States and Asia are subtitled.
MTV Indonesia also aired on Singapore and Malaysia with Suria from 2003 until 2006.
On 15 January 2005, Global TV reduced MTV program to 12 hours and started produce own program after agreement with MTV on 15 October 2004 with MNC Media owner Hary Tanoesoedibjo.
On 1 January 2007, Global TV and MNC Media acquired MTV Indonesia after previous contract agreement with MTV Asia, Global TV officially produce programs on MTV Indonesia with MNC Media in-house under license from MTV Networks, previously MTV program are tapped in Malaysia now broadcast live at Global TV studio. Live programs included the grand finale of MTV VJ Hunt, MTV Indonesia Movie Awards, MTV Indonesia Music Awards, MTV Staying Alive and MTV EXIT.
On 1 January 2012, Global TV stopped airing MTV Indonesia, but still aired MTV EXIT on 1 September 2012 without the MTV logo.
On 1 November 2014, MTV Indonesia relaunched with the tagline "1000% anak muda" or "1000% youth" and aired on local television CTV networks in Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar, Banjarmasin.
On 1 November 2015, MTV Indonesia closed for the second time after Grup Karsa not renewed contract with Viacom.
Radio and magazine
MTV Trax was a radio station using frequency 101.4 FM, established on 1 January 2000 in Jakarta, Semarang and Yogyakarta.
MTV Magazine was an entertainment magazine that discussed music, movies and lifestyle. It was established on 1 January 2000 in Jakarta. Later when the franchise w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20Panamanian%20census | The 2000 Panamanian census gathered important demographic and economic data for the Panama. It was the tenth national census of population and sixth of housing. It was conducted on May 14, 2000, by the Republic of Panama General Directorate of Statistics and Census.
References
Demographics of Panama
Panama
Census
Censuses in Panama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate%20tax%20in%20the%20Netherlands | Netherlands benefits from a strategic geographic location, a world-class economy, a stable political climate, and a skilled workforce. The Netherlands has a large network of tax treaties, a low corporate income tax rate and a full participation exemption for capital gains and profits. These characteristics, in addition to a favorable tax environment, make Netherlands one of the most open economies in the world for multinational corporations (MNCs).
Overview
Corporate tax in the Netherlands deals with the tax payable in the Netherlands on the profits earned by companies. For tax purposes, a company formed under Dutch law is considered a resident of the Netherlands and personal and business income taxes are levied in the Netherlands on worldwide income earned by tax residents. Non-residents who operate a business in the Netherlands are subject to personal or corporate income tax in the Netherlands. As of January 1, 2022, the normal Corporate Income Tax Rate (CIT) rate is 25.8 percent (25 percent in 2021). There are two income tax brackets. The first income bracket is subject to a lower rate of 15%. This tax level has been increased to EUR 395,000 in taxable income (EUR 245,000 in 2021). The excess of taxable income is taxed at the usual rate.
Profits earned by both public and private enterprises are normally subject to corporate income tax. Foundations and associations may be required to file corporate income tax reports in specific circumstances. Certain types of income, however, can be exempted or excluded from the tax base. When it comes to income from Dutch sources, non-resident entities only have a limited tax liability. Corporate income tax is not paid by some legal entities, such as fiscal investment institutions. Some legal entities may be free from corporate income tax if they invest jointly.
Dividends distributed by Dutch resident corporations with capital divided into shares are subject to a withholding tax in the Netherlands. The general rate of dividend withholding tax that Dutch resident corporations are generally subject to pay is 15%. A double taxation treaty can lower the withholding tax rate for international receivers. Furthermore, dividends may be free from taxation in the Netherlands, subject to anti-abuse rules, if both of the following conditions are met:
The receiver of the dividends dispensed by the Dutch corporation is a resident of the European Union, the European Economic Area, or another nation with which the Netherlands has signed a tax treaty involving a dividend article (provided that the corporation is not treated as a tax resident of another nation as a result of a tax treaty between the two countries).
The recipient of the dividends is a resident of the Netherlands
The Netherlands has committed to accept the minimum criteria (primary purposes test and dispute resolution) as well as some optional aspects of the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phred%20%28software%29 | Phred is a computer program for base calling, that is to say, identifying a nucleobase sequence from fluorescence "trace" data generated by an automated DNA sequencer that uses electrophoresis and 4-fluorescent dye method. When originally developed, Phred produced significantly fewer errors in the data sets examined than other methods, averaging 40–50% fewer errors. Phred quality scores have become widely accepted to characterize the quality of DNA sequences, and can be used to compare the efficacy of different sequencing methods.
Background
The fluorescent-dye DNA sequencing is a molecular biology technique that involves labeling single-strand DNA sequences of varied length with 4 fluorescent dyes (corresponding to 4 different bases used in DNA) and subsequently separating the DNA sequences by "slab gel"- or capillary-electrophoresis method (see DNA Sequencing). The electrophoresis run is monitored by a CCD on the DNA sequencer and this produces a time "trace" data (or "chromatogram") of the fluorescent "peaks" that passed the CCD point. Examining the fluorescence peaks in the trace data, we can determine the order of individual bases (nucleobase) in the DNA. Since the intensity, shape and the location of a fluorescence peak are not always consistent or unambiguous, however, sometimes it is difficult or time-consuming to determine (or "call") the correct bases for the peaks accurately if it is done manually.
Automated DNA sequencing techniques have revolutionized the field of molecular biology – generating vast amounts of DNA sequence data. However, the sequence data is produced at a significantly higher rate than can be manually processed (i.e. interpreting the trace data to produce the sequence data), thereby creating a bottleneck. To remove the bottleneck, both automated software that can speed up the processing with improved accuracy and a reliable measure of the accuracy are needed. To meet this need, many software programs have been developed. One such program is Phred.
History
Phred was originally conceived in the early 1990s by Phil Green, then a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. LaDeana Hillier, Michael Wendl, David Ficenec, Tim Gleeson, Alan Blanchard, and Richard Mott also contributed to the codebase and algorithm. Green moved to University of Washington in the mid 1990s, after which development was primarily managed by himself and Brent Ewing. Phred played a notable role in the Human Genome Project, where large amounts of sequence data were processed by automated scripts. It was at the time the most widely used base-calling software program by both academic and commercial DNA sequencing laboratories because of its high base calling accuracy. Phred is distributed commercially by CodonCode Corporation, and used to perform the "Call bases" function in the program CodonCode Aligner. It is also used by the MacVector plugin Assembler.
Methods
Phred uses a four-phase procedure as outlined by Ewing et al. to determin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue%20marketing | Dialogue marketing emerged in the early 2000s as companies engaged willing consumers in an ongoing dialogue to create lasting relationships. For example, based on data, marketers invite groups of likely consumers to connect with the company. The engagement process provides value to both the consumer and the company. Marketers use these opportunities as data collection points. The companies use the data to further customize their marketing messages and personalize the experience for their consumers and market segments. In exchange for sharing opinions, buying patterns, product preferences, etc., consumers receive perks such as discounts, tips, and free trials as well as appropriate messaging from the company.
To succeed, dialogue marketing requires that businesses understand their unique value and how it impacts consumers, identify their key customers and prospective customers, develop the appropriate messages and methods to engage them, implement a plan to reach out and connect with the right consumers, and to foster relationships with them. Measurement is a key component of dialogue marketing as it helps businesses track and measure their marketing and sales successes and failures and refine their strategy based on the feedback received.
Comprising four essential stages, dialogue marketing integrates advertising, public relations and marketing into one strategy. Vendors include advertising agencies, marketing and branding companies, digital printers, data specialists, social media experts and loyalty and referral program designers.
Combining traditional methods of advertising with technological advancements such as Web 2.0, social media, personalized microsites, variable data printing and blogs, marketers have found that dialogue marketing is both an efficient and effective means of spending their marketing dollars. In focusing marketing efforts on those individuals who are already open to engagement and creating opportunities for them to connect on their terms, businesses increase brand loyalty, referrals, cross-sales and repeat business.
History of Dialogue Marketing
Dialogue marketing can track its roots to permission marketing and relationship marketing, and is similar to engagement marketing and double loop marketing. A direct reaction to traditional push marketing, the goal of dialogue marketing is to develop ongoing and long-lasting relationships with the right consumers.
Dialogue marketing is based on the premise that engaging consumers in relevant and personal conversations is more important than ever. As technology arms consumers with new ways to ignore messaging, disconnect from branding and disengage from the marketplace altogether; marketers believe that connecting on a personal level with consumers who do or will buy because the company resonates with them helps companies differentiate themselves and stand out as leaders in the marketplace.
The Dialogue Marketing Process
Dialogue marketing is a four-stage process designed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Modular%20Data%20Center | The Google Modular Data Center was a modular data center built from a set of shipping containers, and used by Google to house some of its servers.
The data centers were rumored to cost US$600 million each, and use from 50 to 103 megawatts of electricity. They housed the computing resources that comprise the Google platform.
History
Google was reported in November 2005 to be working on their own shipping container datacenter. Google's patent on the concept was still pushed through the patent system and was successfully issued in October 2007. In 2009 Google announced that their first container based data center has been in production since 2005.
See also
Sun Modular Datacenter
References
External links
Going Green at Google
Google Data Center
Google real estate
Data centers
Intermodal containers
Modular datacenter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVault | EVault is a part of Carbonite, and a brand name for some of Carbonite's product offerings. EVault and its partner network develop and support on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid backup and recovery services for mid-market customers in need of data backup, data recovery, disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, and cloud storage or online backup services. The company primarily services customers in heavily regulated industries—financial services, legal, health care—as well as in government, education, telecommunications, and charity/nonprofit. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the company has sales, service, and data center operations in North America and EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa).
History
EVault was founded in 1997 as a cloud services company, backed by Council Ventures, with General Partner Gary Peat as lead investor in Series A in 2001. By 2006 EVault had become, through revenues and acquisitions (including the Open File Manager product line from St. Bernard Software), one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America. Seagate Technology, which had acquired ActionFront Data Recovery Labs in November, 2005 and launched Seagate Recovery Services, acquired EVault in 2007. In 2007 Seagate also acquired MetaLINCS, which provides E-Discovery software and managed service solutions.
In September 2008, Seagate rebranded these acquisitions, which had been operating as a division of Seagate under the name Seagate Services, as a new entity, formally named i365, a Seagate Company. Seagate Recovery Services was taken from the i365 basket in 2011. In December 2011, the EVault name was restored in light of its greater cachet in the marketplace. On 16 December 2015, Carbonite acquired Seagate's EVault cloud backup service, including the brand name and logo, for $14M USD.
In 2019, Carbonite was acquired by OpenText, "a global leader in Enterprise Information Management".
Backup and Recovery Products and Services
The EVault line includes disk-based software, appliances, and software-as-a-service or SaaS, all of which share a common technology platform. The company encourages customers to deploy EVault on-premises and offsite technologies in combination as hybrid, or "cloud-connected," solutions.
EVault SaaS for cloud-based backup and recovery.
EVault Cloud Disaster Recovery Service for managed recovery in the EVault cloud with 4-, 24-, and 48-hour Service Level Agreements.
EVault Plug-n-Protect for appliance-based, on-premises, all-in-one backup and recovery.
EVault Software for disk-to-disk, on-premises backup and recovery.
EVault Endpoint Protection for integrated backup, recovery, and data security for laptops and desktops.
References
Computer storage companies
Seagate Technology
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20A.%20Kowalski | R. A. Kowalski may refer to:
Richard Kowalski (born 1963), astronomer
Robert Kowalski (born 1941), logician and computer scientist
See also
Kowalski, a Polish surname |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Fox | Mark Fox may refer to:
Mark S. Fox (born 1952), Canadian computer scientist
Mark I. Fox (born 1956), United States Navy officer
Mark Fox (basketball) (born 1969), American basketball coach
Mark Fox (footballer) (born 1975), English footballer
See also
Marcus Fox (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty%20Fire%20Control%20Table | The Admiralty Fire Control Table (A.F.C.T.) was an electromechanical analogue computer fire-control system that calculated the correct elevation and deflection of the main armament of a Royal Navy cruiser or battleship, so that the shells fired would strike a surface target. The AFCT MK 1 was fitted to and in the early 1920s, while the battleships , , and , and the battlecruiser , received Mk VII tables in the late 1930s. Battleships of the King George V class received a Mk IX table, while received the final variant, the Mk X. The AFCT was the successor to the Dreyer tables, developed by Captain (later Admiral) Frederic Charles Dreyer, and the Argo Clock, developed by Arthur Pollen, and received developmental input from both men.
The Admiralty Fire Control Clock (AFCC) was a simplified version of the AFCT and was used for the local control of main armament and primary control of secondary armament of battleships and cruisers, and the main armament of destroyers and other small vessels. Some smaller cruisers also used the AFCC for main armament control. The chief difference between the AFCT and the AFCC was the provision of a paper plotter in the former, which could plot both own ship and target ship movement and record the mean point of impact of the salvoes fired.
The AFCT and AFCC were used for gunnery control against surface targets. The High Angle Control System and Fuze Keeping Clock were used for gunnery control against aircraft.
See also
Director (military)
Notes
Further reading
External links
The RN Pocket Gunnery Book
Illustration of the AFCT
B.R. 901/43, Handbook of The Admiralty Fire Control Clock Mark I and I*, 1943
Illustration of the AFCC
HMS Prince of Wales's Gunnery Aspects Report with discussion of, and plotter output from, her AFCT Mk IX
BRITISH MECHANICAL GUNNERY COMPUTERS OF WORLD WAR II
Artillery operation
Military computers
Fire-control computers of World War II
Military equipment introduced in the 1920s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken%20pipe | Broken pipe may refer to:
a character ¦, also known as a broken bar
a condition in programming (also known in POSIX as EPIPE error code and SIGPIPE signal), when a process requests an output to pipe or socket, which was closed by peer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNC%20router | A computer numerical control (CNC) router is a computer-controlled cutting machine which typically mounts a hand-held router as a spindle which is used for cutting various materials, such as wood, composites, metals, plastics, glass, and foams. CNC routers can perform the tasks of many carpentry shop machines such as the panel saw, the spindle moulder, and the boring machine. They can also cut joinery such as mortises and tenons.
A CNC router is very similar in concept to a CNC milling machine. Instead of routing by hand, tool paths are controlled via computer numerical control. The CNC router is one of many kinds of tools that have CNC variants.
Applications
A CNC router can be used to produce items such as door carvings, interior and exterior decorations, wood panels, sign boards, wooden frames, moldings, musical instruments, furniture. In addition, they see use in industry in the thermoforming of plastics by automating the trimming process. CNC routers can help ensure part repeatability and sufficiently efficient output for production, or allow one-off designs to be made.
Use
CNC routers are controlled by a computer. Coordinates are uploaded into the machine controller from a separate program. CNC router are often used with two software applications—one to make designs (CAD) and another to translate those designs into a G-code or M-code program of instructions for the machine (CAM) in vertical, horizontal and perpendicular coordinates. As with CNC milling machines, CNC routers can be controlled directly by manual programming, but CAD/CAM allows wider possibilities for contouring, speeding up the programming process and in some cases creating programs whose manual programming would be impractical. On some controllers the G-code can be loaded as a vector file on the router control panel. A vector file can be created from a picture file by using a drawing (CAD) software.
The human operator selects the machine tool (such as a -inch (6-MM) v-bit or a -inch core box bit), speed, cut depth and tool path. For cut path, most machines give the options of tracing the vectors, cutting outside the vectors, or cutting inside the vectors. The operator determines the center point of the part, clamps the part onto the table, moves the bit directly above the marked center and down to the face of the part, and marks this as the starting point. The operator moves the bit up a few inches and selects the run G-code function. The machine begins to cut the design.
Computer-aided manufacturing
CAM software makes the CAD drawing/design into a code called G-code. The illustration shows what a bare-bones CNC machine might look like without its computer controller.
Sizes and configurations
CNC routers come in many configurations, from small home-style D.I.Y. "desktop", to large industrial routers manufactured for commercial use. CNC routers are used in sign shops, cabinet making, aerospace and boat-making.
Although there are many configurations, most CNC routers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCCO%20II | WCCO II was an early local cable channel serving the Minneapolis area. The channel was owned by Midwest Communications and meant to complement programming on broadcast station WCCO-TV.
History
The network, launched by Midwest Radio and Television (later Midwest Communications) in 1982 was described as an "experimental cable channel", originally filled much of its schedule with rebroadcasts of WCCO's newscasts and ESPN's SportsCenter, as well as programming from the Financial News Network. A second cable channel called WCCO Cable Weather Channel was also launched at the same time, initially providing automated weather forecasts 24 hours a day before transitioning into providing live weather forecasts in early 1983. In 1985, an agreement was made to fill most of WCCO II's schedule with music videos produced by K-TWIN. A few hours were reserved for rebroadcasts of newscasts and other programming.
On March 1, 1989, WCCO II was relaunched as the Midwest Sports Channel when it acquired rights to Twins broadcasts. CBS acquired Midwest in 1992, then sold MSC (by 1997 also featuring a Milwaukee sub-feed, now Fox Sports Wisconsin) to News Corporation in 2000, and it became Fox Sports North, which is today Bally Sports North.
References
Television channels and stations established in 1982
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1989
1982 establishments in Minnesota
1989 disestablishments in Minnesota
Defunct local cable stations in the United States
Television stations in Minneapolis–Saint Paul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LONI%20Pipeline | The LONI Pipeline is a free distributed system for designing, executing, monitoring and sharing scientific workflows on grid computing architectures.
Pipeline allows users to connect and run any number of different software tools, and conveniently visualize and download the results.
Unlike other workflow processing environments, Pipeline does not require new tools and services to include or be built against the core Pipeline libraries. The Pipeline environment references all data, services and tools as external objects. This allows the Pipeline to run as a light-weight middleware, but at the same time, restrict the scope of its applications. For example, the Pipeline does not provide a set of internal core libraries, filters, and processes for rudimentary image processing (e.g., image addition). All tools necessary to complete an analysis protocol must first be built as external stand-alone applications or services, whose interface methods are then described in the Pipeline XML language. Users can connect to the LONI Cranium server to gain quick access to a wide array of pre-built software applications, such as FSL, AFNI, and FreeSurfer already described in XML as modules and workflows. Pipeline allows users to create new workflow descriptions, edit existing ones, and share their work with others.
Typical pipeline server installations include a suite of core resources that are available to all users with access to the specific server, however, different servers will have different suites of default module and module-group (pipeline) definitions. The previous release (version 5) of the LONI Pipeline provided a mechanism for integrating heterogeneous and incongruous data including images, clinical charts and demographic meta-data.
The LONI Pipeline has hundreds of users in a variety of fields (e.g., genomics, neuro-imaging, and Biomedical Informatics) from academic institutions around the world.
Features
Pipeline has cross platform compatibility, and the ability to connect from your local client to a remote server for executing processing and analysis on other operating systems.
Pipeline grants developers the opportunity to create their own plugins to communicate with various grid managers. The default Pipeline package includes the JGDIPlugin and the DRMAAPlugin plugins created for Sun Grid Engine but they may work with Oracle Grid Engine, Univa Grid Engine or Son of Grid Engine. Both plugins are housed under the gridplugins directory which is parented under the dist directory in the installed package of Pipeline. All additional plugins you wish to employ can be downloaded separately.
The Pipeline Library grants users access to hundreds of predefined neuroimaging solutions, including data, modules and workflows that are regularly updated.
Other integral features of the LONI Pipeline are:
Distributed client-server and platform-agnostic computational infrastructure
Reliable, asynchronous and secure data processing
Automated and intellige |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staden%20Package | The Staden Package is computer software, a set of tools for DNA sequence assembly, editing, and sequence analysis. It is open-source software, released under a BSD 3-clause license.
Package components
The Staden package consists of several different programs. The main components are:
pregap4 – base calling with Phred, end clipping, and vector trimming
trev – trace viewing and editing
gap4 – sequence assembly, contig editing, and finishing
gap5 – assembly visualising, editing, and finishing of NGS data
Spin – DNA and protein sequence analysis
History
The Staden Package was developed by Rodger Staden's group at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England, since 1977. The package was available free to academic users, with 2,500 licenses issued in 2003 and an estimated 10,000 users, when funding for further development ended. The package was converted to open-source in 2004, and several new versions have been released since.
During the years of active development, the Staden group published a number of widely used file formats and ideas, including the SCF file format, the use of sequence quality scores to generate accurate consensus sequences, and the ZTR file format.
See also
Genome Compiler
Phred base calling
Phrap
Consed
CodonCode Aligner
MacVector
UGENE
Vector NTI
References
External links
Bioinformatics software
Computational science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoko | Esoko is an online agricultural marketing and messaging service, based in Accra, Ghana. The service sends out market data and other information to individuals, agribusiness, government agencies, projects by text messaging, and also gives personalised price alerts, buy and sell offers, bulk text messaging, stock counts and polling via text.
History
Esoko began as TradeNet in 2005 with the encouragement of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and in partnership with FoodNet in Uganda. Focused on agricultural marketing it provided current market data via text messaging and the web to stakeholders within the agriculture and trade sectors in developing countries.
In 2005 TradeNet signed a three year agreement with USAID's MISTOWA program to adapt the product and make it available to their target beneficiaries (MISTOWA's mission was to increase regional trade in West Africa by 20%). Esoko was described by The Economist as "a simple sort of eBay for agricultural products across a dozen countries in West Africa".
In April, 2009 TradeNet rebranded as Esoko, switching to a new platform with a broader set of tools. The name Esoko originated from the Swahili name Soko which means market; the 'e' representing 'electronic'. The eSoko name was also an idea brought from the eRwanda Project in Rwanda where they have a different version of eSoko, owned by the Ministry of Agriculture (www.esoko.gov.rw). In 2008, the eRwanda Project granted permission to TradeNet to use the name Esoko.
Currently Esoko is active in 16 countries through different partnership agreements; both public sector agricultural projects and Esoko country resellers and franchises.
Investors
Mark Davies (founder), Jim Forster, International Finance Corporation, Soros Economic Development Fund
Working in
Partners
References
Agricultural marketing organizations
Organisations based in Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Frankenberg | Robert J. Frankenberg (born 1947) is an American computer engineer and business executive who served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Novell, Inc. from 1994 to 1996.
Life and career
Frankenberg spent much of his career at Hewlett-Packard (HP), starting there in 1969. While at HP, he earned a degree in computer engineering from San Jose State University in 1974 and completed the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1985 he was promoted to general manager of the Information Systems Group and made vice president in 1989. He led the revival of HP's personal computer unit, and in 1991, he was promoted to group vice president of personal information products.
He then moved to Novell in 1994, succeeding Raymond Noorda. He spent much of his tenure divesting properties acquired by Noorda in a bid to compete with Microsoft. He sold Wordperfect and Quattropro to Corel and Unix Systems Laboratories to Santa Cruz Operation, taking huge losses. Analysts stated that Novell missed opportunities to capitalize on client–server computing and emerging Internet-based technologies.
In 1997 he became president and CEO of Encanto Networks, Inc. He has been a management consultant with NetVentures since 1996. Frankenberg has served on several corporate boards, including Nuance Communications, Inc., Daw Technologies, Inc., and Scansoft, Inc. He has been on the boards of Electroglas, Inc. since 1993, Caere Corporation since 1996, Secure Computing Corporation since 1996, National Semiconductor since 1999, and Sqlstream since 2011. He served as board chair and acting CEO of Kinzan, Inc. from 1999 to 2006. In 2013, he was appointed as a board member to Polycom, a broadband service company, along with Martha Helena Bejar.
He has served as a trustee of Westminster College, Salt Lake City, since 1997.
References
External links
Robert J. Frankenberg profile via Forbes
1947 births
Living people
American computer businesspeople
San Jose State University alumni
Novell NetWare
Novell people
20th-century American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Geers | Douglas Geers is an American composer, and the founder of the Spark Festival.
Career
Geers is an associate professor of music composition and director of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM) at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College (USA). He had been a professor of music at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA), where he founded the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts and was its Director from 2003-2009. Geers also is a member of the Electric Music Collective and the electroacoustic band, Sønreel.
Education
Geers received a B.A. in English and Music from Xavier University, a M.A. in Music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a D.M.A. from Columbia University in 2002. From 2000 to 2001, he completed a one-year research/composition residency at the Norwegian Center for Music in Technology and the Arts in Oslo, Norway. His teachers include Fred Lerdahl, Tristan Murail, Brad Garton, Jonathan Kramer, George Edwards, Allen Sapp (composer), Frederick Bianchi, and Darrell Handel.
Selected works
Inanna (2009) multimedia theater
Calling (2008) opera
Sweep (2008) for PLOrk with violin and percussion
Laugh Perfumes (2006) violin concerto
Tremor Transducer (2004) for five instruments and computer
Memory Dust (2003) for big band and computer
Gilgamesh (2002) multimedia concerto/theater
Enkidu (2001) for violin and computer
Reality House (1998) for chamber septet
Ripples (1997) electroacoustic music
Recordings
Love Paint
Music for Fish
60x60 2006
SEAMUS 20th Anniversary Electroclips
60x60 2005
Defiant (Electric Music Collective)
Incandescence (Electric Music Collective)
60x60
Sonic Circuits IX
Music from SEAMUS, volume ten
References
External links
Douglas Geers' website
Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music
College Conservatory of Music
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century classical composers
20th-century classical composers
American electronic musicians
Brooklyn College faculty
American male classical composers
American classical composers
Living people
Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
21st-century American composers
University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music alumni
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20the%20Exterminator | Billy the Exterminator (formerly The Exterminators) is an American reality television series which aired on the A&E network.
The show followed the professional life of William "Billy" Bretherton, an entomologist, pest control technician, and the proprietor of Vexcon Animal and Pest Control in Benton, Louisiana, which serves the Shreveport-Bossier metropolitan area. Bretherton, a former Senior Airman in the United States Air Force, had previously been featured on the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs series on the season 1 episode "Vexcon", and the season 2 episode "Termite Controller". Both previously and in his current show, Bretherton is known for his unusual fashion style, consisting mostly of Goth-like black garments (many of them leather) with large silver jewelry and steel studs and spikes in various configurations. He has stated on camera that the leather is tough enough to block most bites and stings, while the studs/spikes serve to intimidate animals and make them reluctant to attack him.
Many members of Bretherton's family, such as his parents, "Big" Bill and Donnie, and his brother, Ricky, as well as other employees, make frequent appearances. Donnie Bretherton normally acts as Vexcon's dispatcher and rarely goes out on jobs. Ricky's ex-wife, Pam, resigned during the production of the first season.
As noted in many episodes, Bretherton prefers, if at all possible, to relocate captured animals and is a proponent of natural methods of control. He frequently gives a description of the pests, their preferred environment, and any diseases (usually using their Latin names) associated with them. Ricky Bretherton acquired an allergy to bee and wasp stings due to being stung so many times. However Ricky found that this allergy has somewhat vanished/subsided as of 2015.
Billy Bretherton entered the United States Air Force at age nineteen intent on a career in law enforcement. However, his military entrance examination indicated that he had an aptitude for biology, and he was sent to study both biology and entomology. His extermination career began in earnest while stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
Show history
"Back in 2004 Pilgrim Films contacted us and wanted to shoot a pilot for Discovery Channel (that was a) reality pest control show", said Bretherton. "They had interviewed about 200 different companies and found us and liked us. They sent scouts out that rode around with us for a day, made the determination that we would be good for filming, and we ended up on Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe". The Spike network was also approached about picking up the series.
Originally called The Exterminators during its first season in 2009 on A&E, the show was renamed Billy the Exterminator before the second season. The title change is reflected in repeats of season one episodes.
Beginning in the show's fourth season, the Bretherton brothers go to various places throughout the United States to assist with local exterminators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic%20%28comics%29 | Ballistic, in comics, may refer to:
Ballistic (Image Comics), a comic book character appearing in Marc Silvestri's series Cyberforce
Ballistic (DC Comics), a DC Comics superhero
See also
Ballistic (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis%20International%20Variety%20Catalogue | The Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC) is a database of various species and varieties/cultivars of grapevine, the genus Vitis. VIVC is administered by the Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding (Institut für Rebenzüchtung Geilweilerhof) in Siebeldingen, Germany, and contains information from grapevine collections existing in various institutes of viticulture around the world. As of April 2009, the information in the database brought together information from 130 institutions located in 45 countries, and contains about 18,000 entries.
The database was started in 1983, and has been available online since 1996. Its initial creation was supported by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine and the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, a forerunner of Bioversity International. The purpose of the VIVC database is to provide documentation on available grapevine genetic resources, and to be a source of information to grape breeders, viticultural researchers and others.
The information on grape cultivars in VIVC includes basic characteristics of the cultivars, holding institutes, passport data, and all known synonyms, which are quite numerous for many grape cultivars. In some cases, photos and genetic information (microsatellite information used for DNA profiling) are included.
References
External links
Vitis International Variety Catalogue
Vitis
Viticulture
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Electronics%20and%20Computer%20Science%2C%20University%20of%20Southampton | Electronics and Computer Science, generally abbreviated "ECS", at the University of Southampton was founded in 1946 by Professor Erich Zepler. It offers 23 undergraduate courses (in computer science, Web Science, electronic engineering, electrical and electromechanical engineering and IT in organisations), 11 MSc intensive one-year taught programmes and PhD research opportunities.
ECS was the first academic institution in the world to adopt a self-archiving mandate (2001) and since then much of its published research has been freely available on the Web. It created the first and most widely used archiving software (EPrints) which is used worldwide by 269 known archives and continues to be evolved and supported by ECS.
Reputation
ECS is regarded by the IET as having the "biggest and strongest department in the country in Electrical and Electronic Engineering."
Electronics and Electrical Engineering in ECS was ranked 2nd in the UK in both Good University Guide published by the Times and the Complete University Guide published by the Independent. Computer Science was ranked 4th and 5th in the UK respectively in these two publications.
Research
The research conducted by ECS has achieved the top 5* rating in the last two Research Assessment Exercises, and in 2003 it was awarded the prestigious ‘best 5*’ rating by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). ECS currently contains six research groups:
Agents, Interaction and Complexity
Communications, Signal Processing and Control
Electronic and Software Systems
Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Nano Research Group
Web and Internet Science
Fire and reconstruction
In 2005, a large fire destroyed part of the Mountbatten Building, holding optical fibre research laboratories (the world-renowned Optoelectronics Research Centre, ORC) and the microchip fabrication laboratories. It is estimated that the costs for rebuilding the centre and replacing the equipment will be around £50 million, making this what is believed to be the world's most destructive university fire. The fire that consumed the Mountbatten Building on 30 October 2005 had devastating consequences not just for research in the School of Electronics and Computer Science but for many other partners and collaborators in the UK and around the world whose work was destroyed along with the Building.
The replacement facility was constructed on the site of the previous Mountbatten, and was completed in October 2008. The modern design by Jestico + Whiles includes glass curtain walls, decorated by a mathematical fractal pattern, which allows those outside to view the research taking place in the clean rooms. The chiral fractal design was chosen as it had been used by Southampton researchers working with optics and nanotechnology.
Notable Staff
Main: Notable Staff of the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
The School is home to a number of notable staff including Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrella%20TV | Estrella TV () is an American Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by the Estrella Media subsidiary of HPS Investment Partners, LLC. The network primarily features programs, the vast majority of which are produced by the network itself, aimed at Hispanic and Latino American audiences – featuring a mix of entertainment series, reality television series, drama series, news, sports, and imported Mexican-produced feature films.
Estrella TV's programming, production and advertising operations are headquartered in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank, California. The network's operations are overseen by Estrella Media CEO Peter Markham, who has been in the post since the departure of co-founder Lenard Liberman amid a corporate reorganization in October 2019. The network is available in many media markets via low-power and some full-power over-the-air broadcast television stations (many of which carry Estrella TV on their digital subchannels), and on select cable television providers through either a local broadcast affiliate or the network's default national feed.
History
Beginnings
Estrella TV's beginnings trace back to 1998, when Liberman Broadcasting – owner of Spanish language radio stations in several media markets with large Spanish language populations, including four radio stations in the third-largest U.S. market – made its entry into television broadcasting when its founders, Mexican-born media executive Jose Liberman and his son Lenard, purchased KRCA (channel 62) in Los Angeles, California, a television station affiliated with the Shop at Home Network at the time.
On August 31, 1998, Liberman converted KRCA into an independent station with a dual-ethnic programming format. The station ran a block of Spanish language programs during its daytime schedule – running from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays – originally consisting largely of dubbed versions of drama series from the Universal Television library (such as Airwolf and Emergency!) and Mexican-produced feature films; the remainder of KRCA's schedule consisted of Asian-imported programming from Japan and various South Asian countries. By 2002, KRCA dropped its Asian-imported programming and became a Spanish language outlet full-time. Liberman acquired two additional stations over the next six years; in 2001, the company bought English Shop-at-Home affiliate KZJL (channel 61) in Houston, Texas. Then in 2004, it purchased KMPX (channel 29) in Dallas–Fort Worth, which then served as the original flagship owned-and-operated station of religious broadcaster Daystar (which subsequently purchased PBS station KDTN to replace KMPX as its flagship); Liberman also purchased low-power station KSDX-LP (channel 29) in San Diego, California that same year.
In 1999, the Liberman family hired Miguel Banojian, an ex Vice President of Univision and ex member of Univision's board of directors, to form what became LBI's television division which under such corporate structure, developed a tele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Events%20Television%20Network | Special Events Television Network (SETN) is the name of a defunct syndicated television package that broadcast tape delayed NASCAR races from 1984 to 1988. SETN aired races (typically from Martinsville and Pocono as well as from Rockingham, Charlotte, Richmond and Daytona for good measure) that didn't have live television deals at the time. The broadcasts were aired on tape delay because certain promoters still feared that live telecasts would hurt their gate. SETN also sold VHS videos of some races it carried, with additional footage not seen on TV. In addition to its stock car racing, the network produced twelve telecasts of International Hot Rod Association events.
SETN was headed by Jim Wiglesworth (father of Survivor: Borneo runner up Kelly Wiglesworth) out of Greensboro, North Carolina. SETN was underfunded, and since profits were slim, so were rights fees. Ultimately, the growing popularity of racing on ESPN as well as the overall lack of cash flow drove them out of the business. SETN ceased operations in June 1988; the first Pocono race that year was seen on the Financial News Network's Score weekend sports service, and Martinsville, the last holdout against live television rights, signed an ESPN deal for its fall race.
After SETN folded, one Pocono race a year was produced by Jim Wiglesworth on pay-per-view for Viewer's Choice (now In Demand) from 1988 to 1990. They were not a huge success, as fans were reluctant to pay for what they could see last week for free. The Viewer's Choice shows were noteworthy in that they premiered viewer phone-in questions during the races.
Commentators
Lap-by-lap
Dave Despain
Eli Gold
Mike Joy
Color commentary
Dick Berggren
Benny Parsons
Ron Bouchard
Phil Parsons
Jerry Punch
Pit road
Bob Heiss
Pat Patterson
Stations
References
External links
Google Search - Timeline
Nascar Racing on TV in the 80s--SETN
NASCAR on television
Defunct television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1984
1984 establishments in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1988
1988 disestablishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda%20Fran%C3%A7ozo | Amanda Françozo (born July 7, 1979) is a Brazilian television presenter and model. Since 2007, she has presented the chat show Papo De Amigos on the Rede Gazeta television network based in São Paulo. She is also an exponent of Carnaval Samba dancing, and in 2008 and 2009 was appointed Madrinha da Bateria (Godmother of the Percussion) for the Vai-Vai samba school.
References
External links
Papo De Amigos official website (Portuguese)
Living people
1979 births
Brazilian television personalities
Brazilian television presenters
Brazilian female models
People from São Paulo (state)
Brazilian women television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Star%20Force%3A%20Jik%C5%ABreki%20no%20Himitsu | is a video game developed and published by Tecmo on November 11, 1986 for the Family Computer only in Japan.
The game was featured in episode 111 (14th Season) of GameCenter CX.
While this video game was originally assigned by Hudson Soft to be the publisher, Tecmo (then known as Tehkan) decided to both develop and publish the game as they were the official copyright owners.
Gameplay
The game is the sequel to Tecmo's famous shoot 'em up arcade game, Star Force. Unlike most shoot 'em ups during the time of its release, Super Star Force is a combination of a shoot 'em up and an adventure game. Players must go back in time in order to defeat the evil planet Gordess. However, seven time stones must be collected from each level's hidden dungeon. Taking advantage of the time travel opportunities during the game can help to unravel the mysteries of "time and space". Players have to simply repeat the actions of the distant past in order to progress.
The game starts in the year 2010 and players must destroy the enemies in the past so that the player can confront the final boss in the year 2137. When the player's ship is destroyed while navigating through the air, his score time is cut in half. The highest possible score in the game is 99,990, which is used as currency in the dungeons and the time travel sequences. A completely non-linear structure allows players to travel back in time nearly at will. The farther away in time that the player wants to travel to, the more "time units" are required to reach the destination, acting like the player's fuel supply. After accomplishing the missions that can be done through the spacecraft, the player must land on the ground and accomplish missions on foot.
While the player is stationed on the ground, this video game functions as a dungeon exploration game with shoot 'em up elements. This game has two endings; a happy ending where the history of the planet has been saved and a sad ending where the revelations of Gordess' resurrection has come true. After achieving a game over, players can press the start button to continue the game (in the year 2010) with all their possessions intact as long as they don't press the reset button or turn off the console.
Characters
Ralph
The protagonist of the game, who is the male pilot of the Neo Final Star time traveling starship.
Norm
He sells items and gives hints to Ralph for solving the key to the adventure. The Solomon Key is the item that appeared in hourglass and is the property of Norm. His physical appearance during the game is in a red suit of armor with sharp horns on top of the helmet.
Time periods
0001 (Ending of the Fetal Movement)
The legendary underground slave-owning empire of Erujinba exists near a vast number of distinctive volcanoes. Through the crater of a volcano, the entrance to the empire can be accessed by the player. Unlike the other stages, there is no infinite looping with the areas. The flying components of this level would end at their appropri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbo%20%28video%20game%29 | Robbo is a puzzle video game designed by Janusz Pelc and published by LK Avalon in 1989 for the Atari 8-bit family. A success on the Polish domestic market, it was later ported to other computer platforms and released in the United States as The Adventures of Robbo.
Gameplay
The game's design was partly inspired by Boulder Dash, but with the gravity aspect removed. The player controls the titular little robot through a series of planets (56 in the original Atari version), each being a vertically-scrolling maze filled with various objects and obstacles. The goal of each level is to collect a preset number of bolts scattered around (there could be extra bolts on the map, and bolts could also be acquired from random item generators), and then reach a capsule that takes the hero to the next planet. On his way Robbo must avoid deadly obstacles that include moving creatures, laser turrets, and large magnets. Various items can be found, including keys that open doors, bullets that kill enemies and destroy impassable walls of rubble, crates that can be pushed, bombs that explode upon being shot, and mirrors that teleport the hero around the level.
Development and release
Robbo was designed and programmed by Polish programmer Janusz Pelc in 1989 for the Atari 8-bit family, and was the first product of the company Laboratorium Komputerowe Avalon, which he established together with his school mate Tomasz Pazdan that same year in Rzeszów; both were 19 years old and had just passed the matura. A demo version was also published, as an advertisement for both the game and the company, that contained 4 unique levels, and listed addresses of Avalon's software distributors that sold Robbo.
The game's initial release announced a contest in the on-screen manual, in which the first five players that finished Robbo and sent description of the ending sequence to Avalon, would receive the company's next game as a prize. By 1991, the company received a few thousand solutions.
Pelc created a construction kit called Robbo Konstruktor, published by Avalon in December 1990 in a bundle with another game Lasermania. The utility allowed to edit level layouts and save them as standalone games. This led to a large number of different Robbo games being created on the Atari by enthusiasts, with new versions still surfacing .
Ports
Pelc left Avalon in 1990 and was hired in a Kraków-based company Doctor Q, which also employed his friend Maciej Miąsik. Under the wings of Doctor Q both developers began porting Robbo to the IBM PC compatible platform, which resulted in a demo version with 6 levels, published in 1991. When that same year Marek Kubowicz, one of the chairmans of Doctor Q, left to establish a new company XLand with the intent to publish video games, he was joined by Pelc and Miąsik. In the new company the developers finished Robbo for MS-DOS, which was consequently published by XLand in Poland in 1993. This version had enhanced 256-color VGA graphics and digitized sou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Inner%20Sanctum%20episodes | Inner Sanctum Mystery is a radio drama that originally aired on the Blue Network between January 7, 1941, and October 5, 1952. The majority of the original episodes are thought to be lost. However, Episode 10 entitled “The Patient Vanishes,” written for March 11, 1941 airdate, exists and was written by Frank R. Gould, who also wrote Episode 1 and Episode 7. Below is a list of episodes and the original airdates.
A total of 527 episodes were produced, but a majority are presumed to be lost. Less than 200 are known to exist today. A number of the episodes that exist are edited versions that were rebroadcast on Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) as part of Mystery Playhouse hosted by Peter Lorre. These episodes edited out the commercials as well as the original introductions and postscripts by Raymond. They were replaced with an introduction by Peter Lorre.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1: 1941
Inner Sanctum premiered on the Blue Network on January 7, 1941.
Season 5: 1945
There was no episode broadcast on May 8, 1945, because of V-E Day.
Season 6: 1946
Season 7: 1947
Season 8: 1948
Season 9: 1949
Season 10: 1950
Season 11: 1951
Season 12: 1952
Many of the shows in season 12 reused previous stories. Some used exactly the same scripts while others used slightly modified scripts. Most of these were recorded using one or more different voice actors than were in the original stories. Because of these differences, they are not technically re-runs, though they are often referred to that way.
See also
Old-time radio
References
Notes
Sources
Terrace, Vincent (1981). Radio's golden years: the encyclopedia of radio programs, 1930–1960, San Diego, CA: A.S. Barnes,
Lackmann, Ronald W. (2000). The Encyclopedia of American Radio: An A–Z Guide to Radio from Jack Benny to Howard Stern, New York: Facts On File,
External links
Inner Sanctum Mysteries – Old Time Radio Researchers Certified Set at the Internet Archive
Inner Sanctum Mysteries – Single Episodes at the Internet Archive
Inner Sanctum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-Duck | Cyber-Duck is a digital transformation agency founded in 2005 and based in Elstree, United Kingdom. The company specialises in user experience (UX), software development and digital optimisation.
The company employs over 90 staff in the UK and Europe. It works with clients from the financial, pharmaceutical, sport, motoring and security sectors, among others. These include the Bank of England, Cancer Research UK, GOV.UK Verify partner CitizenSafe, The Commonwealth of Nations and Sport England.
History
Cyber-Duck was founded in 2005 by Danny Bluestone in his flat in Mill Hill, United Kingdom. After a few months, the firm moved into its first office in Borehamwood.
Projects with Ogilvy, London Creative and Wisteria followed before Cyber-Duck moved to offices in Devonshire House, Borehamwood. In 2010, the firm was commissioned to develop a website for the European Commission in the UK.
In 2011, the company moved to a self-contained premises in Elstree, Hertfordshire. Shortly afterward, Cyber-Duck was listed on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA in recognition of its substantial revenue growth over the previous five years.
As the company grew, its expertise also broadened. This resulted in guest spots on several television shows. Cyber-Duck was featured in an episode of the Gadget Show in 2011, and Chief Production Officer Matt Gibson appeared on BBC Watchdog in 2013 to assist in researching websites and their checkout processes.
The firm continued to attract business from companies in London, so the decision was made to open a new office in central London. The Farringdon office opened in 2015, and was followed by a rebrand.
In 2016, Cyber-Duck went on to work with the Bank of England. Ahead of the launch of the new polymer £5 note, featuring Winston Churchill, the company was tasked with creating a user-friendly website to showcase the new banknote and promote public awareness. The success of the campaign led to further commissions, including 2017's website the New Ten and a redesign of the Bank of England's main website.
The firm underwent significant growth in 2020, beginning working partnerships with Sport England and the College of Policing. During this time they also launched DevOps as a new service.
In 2022, the Farringdon office closed and was relocated to a new office space in Holborn. The Laravel, Drupal and DevOps teams expanded, and Cyber-Duck became the lead Digital Agency for Worcester, Bosch Group. Several members of the team appeared on The Digital Society on Sky UK.
Awards & Accreditations
Cyber-Duck is known for its focus on process accreditation as a driver of creativity. In 2011, the company obtained its first ISO 9241 accreditation in Human Centred Design for interactive systems.
Two years later, Cyber-Duck obtained a further certification, the ISO 9001 for Quality Management Systems. It acquired another certification in 2016 with the ISO 27001 – the focus of this accreditation was Information Security Management. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar%20%28supercomputer%29 | Jaguar or OLCF-2 was a petascale supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The massively parallel Jaguar had a peak performance of just over 1,750 teraFLOPS (1.75 petaFLOPS). It had 224,256 x86-based AMD Opteron processor cores, and operated with a version of Linux called the Cray Linux Environment. Jaguar was a Cray XT5 system, a development from the Cray XT4 supercomputer.
In both November 2009 and June 2010, TOP500, the semiannual list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, named Jaguar as the world's fastest computer. In late October 2010, the BBC reported that the Chinese supercomputer Tianhe-1A had taken over the top spot, achieving over 2.5 quadrillion calculations per second, thereby bumping Jaguar to second place. The November 2010 TOP500 list confirmed the new rankings.
In 2012, the Cray XT5 Jaguar was upgraded to the Cray XK7 Titan hybrid supercomputing system by adding the Gemini network interconnect and fitting all of the compute nodes with Kepler generation Nvidia GPUs.
Development
The Jaguar system has been through a series of upgrades since installation as a 25-teraFLOPS Cray XT3 in 2005. By early 2008, Jaguar was a 263-teraFLOPS Cray XT4. In 2008, Jaguar was expanded with the addition of a 1.4-petaFLOPS Cray XT5. By 2009, after an upgrade from 2.3 GHz 4-core Barcelona AMD processors to 2.6 GHz 6-core Istanbul AMD processors, the resulting system had over 200,000 processing cores connected internally with Cray's Seastar2+ network. The XT4 and XT5 parts of Jaguar are combined into a single system using an InfiniBand network that links each piece to the Spider file system.
Jaguar's XT5 partition contains 18,688 compute nodes in addition to dedicated login/service nodes. Each XT5 compute node contains dual hex-core AMD Opteron 2435 (Istanbul) processors and 16 GiB of memory. Jaguar's XT4 partition contains 7,832 compute nodes in addition to dedicated login/service nodes. Each XT4 compute node contains a quad-core AMD Opteron 1354 (Budapest) processor and 8 GiB of memory. Total combined memory amounts to over 360 terabytes (TB).
Jaguar uses an external Lustre file system called Spider for all file storage. The file system read/write benchmark is 240 GB/s, and it provides over 10 petabytes (PB) of storage.
Hundreds of applications have been ported to run on the Cray XT series, many of which have been scaled up to run on 20,000 to 150,000 processor cores.
The petaFLOPS Jaguar seeks to address some of the most challenging scientific problems in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, seismology, chemistry, astrophysics, fusion, and combustion. Annually, 80 percent of Jaguar's resources are allocated through DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, a competitively selected, peer-reviewed process open to researchers from universities, industry, government, and non-profit organizations.
See also
Phoe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Naked%20Brothers%20Band%20films | The Naked Brothers Band began their run on Nickelodeon with an independent film, which later was co-opted by the network as a pilot for the later series of the same name. Later made-for-TV movies were created and aired as the series went on, and eight films aired on Nickelodeon. Often the latter films were either two episodes which aired together or an extended episode (as Nickelodeon usually uses the "movie" definition for hour-long episodes of their series), and usually aired as either part of either a holiday event on the network or on a weekend. Several of the films have also received a DVD release by the "Nick DVD" division of Paramount Home Entertainment.
Film history
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie – the first film/later pilot, which saw theater/film festival release on October 25, 2005 before the Nickelodeon series, and premiered on the network on January 27, 2007
The Naked Brothers Band: Battle of the Bands – the second film which premiered on Nickelodeon on October 6, 2007
The Naked Brothers Band: Sidekicks – the third film which premiered on Nickelodeon on January 21, 2008
The Naked Brothers Band: Polar Bears – the fourth film which premiered on Nickelodeon on June 6, 2008
The Naked Brothers Band: Mystery Girl – the fifth film which premiered on Nickelodeon on October 18, 2008
The Naked Brothers Band: Operation Mojo – the sixth film which premiered on Nickelodeon on November 22, 2008
The Naked Brothers Band: Naked Idol – the seventh film which premiered on Nickelodeon on March 14, 2009
The Naked Brothers Band: The Premiere – the eighth film which premiered on Nickelodeon on April 11, 2009
The Naked Brothers Band (TV series) episodes
Lists of television films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR%20on%20TNN | NASCAR on TNN was the name of a television program that broadcast NASCAR races on The Nashville Network (now Paramount Network).
History
TNN started showing races live in 1991, but it had aired taped coverage of a few Winston Cup races in the 1980s on its American Sports Cavalcade program.
TNN had a self-operating and self-promoting sub-division called TNN Motor Sports, and aired races produced by that division from 1991 to 2000. Under the TNN Motor Sports umbrella, NASCAR series races (including those of the then-Winston Cup Series and Busch Grand National Series, as well as the Craftsman Truck Series) were the most prominently featured, but races of smaller circuits such as the International Motor Sports Association IMSA Sports Car Series, ASA, USAC, the NHRA, and ARCA were also showcased, as was motorcycle and speedboat racing.
In 1995, the motorsports operations were moved into the industrial park located at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, where TNN had purchased controlling interest in World Sports Enterprises, a motorsports production company.
Also by 1995, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, who at the time owned the CBS networks and had an existing relationship with TNN through its Group W division, purchased TNN and its sister network CMT outright to form CBS Cable, along with a short-lived startup network entitled Eye On People (now Investigation Discovery). TNN's ties to CBS allowed it to carry CBS Sports' run overs, which happened during a NASCAR Busch Series race at Texas Motor Speedway in 1999. The network however was a center of controversy for not airing the following year's Busch Series race at the same track after the initial broadcast on CBS rained out, instead showing Tom Sawyer.
Races aired
TNN picked up several of the "second tier" Winston Cup races of the time, whose rights packages were allowed to expire by ESPN. Races at tracks such as Rockingham, Dover, Pocono, Loudon, and Phoenix, were among the events signed.
In general, ESPN abandoned slower, longer, races. 500-mile races at Rockingham, Dover and Pocono were known to last upwards of five hours, requiring a broadcast window as long as six hours to include pre-race and post-race coverage. While the growing ESPN network did not want to dedicate such large windows to what were regarded as second-tier races, TNN's relatively open schedule for Sunday afternoons allowed for the large broadcast windows that these races required. The races at Rockingham and Dover were shortened to 400 miles in 1995 and 1997, respectively, but remained part of the TNN lineup.
TNN began airing NASCAR’s all-star race, then known as The Winston, when it was moved to prime time in 1992. This meant that, at its peak, TNN was home to eight Cup Series broadcasts per season, a quarter of the schedule; this consisted of both races at Rockingham, Dover, and Loudon, Phoenix's lone race, and the June race at Pocono (TBS aired the July race).
In 1998, TNN acquired the one-time r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke%20programming | Keystroke programming describes a specific way of programming by which each keystroke on a device or application is recorded in some way and then played back so that the recorded key-presses can be repeated multiple times. Keystroke programming is most commonly but not exclusively found in programmable calculators, but there are keystroke-programmable software applications, too, for example Vim (text editor)
Example: TI Calculators
The Texas Instruments TI-58/TI-58C/TI-59 calculators were programmable, and program storage took the form of a sequence of codes which (mostly) corresponded to the position of keys on the calculator keypad. Here is a simplified diagram of the basic key layout:
Each key is assigned a two-digit code; for most (but not all) keys, the tens digit comes from the row number (as indicated down the left of the table) and the units digit comes from the column number (as indicated across the top of the table).
Now consider a very simple program, which adds 2 to the number being displayed, and then stops. The program is entered starting from program location 000, and looks like this:
To use this program, you would enter the number n to be operated on, press to ensure the current program location was 000, then to start execution. When the program stops (which should happen quite quickly for such a simple program), the display will be showing the number n + 2.
You can see that the codes 85, 95 and 91 correspond to the positions of the keys labelled , and on the grid above, but the code for the is not 83 as you would expect from the grid position, but 02. This last code was chosen to be more easily understandable by a human trying to read the program. There is no row 0, so the codes 00 .. 09 are used to represent the keys .. .
Context-Dependent Interpretations
These TI calculators allowed for addressing up to 100 data memory locations, numbered 00 to 99 (some models had a lower limit than this). A keystroke sequence like (store the currently-displayed number into memory 42) would be encoded as 42 42. In this case the first 42 is the key code for the key, but the second 42 is not a key code, but a memory register number. The calculator knows to interpret it as such because that's what has to follow the code for the key.
Program addresses were 3 digits, potentially allowing programs to consist of up to 1000 steps, numbered 000 to 999 (though in fact none of the models produced allowed for this maximum). A branch instruction, for example (unconditional branch to location 345) would be encoded as 61 03 45. In this case the hundreds digit of the branch destination is in the units digit of the second instruction byte (after the opcode), with a zero tens digit; and the remaining digits are in the third instruction byte.
A code sequence like 61 11, on the other hand, represents the keystrokes , which is a branch to the location marked by the symbolic label . The calculator can tell this is a symbolic branch, rathe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole%20in%20the%20Wall%20%28Philippine%20game%20show%29 | Hole in the Wall is a Philippine television game show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Michael V. and Ogie Alcasid, it premiered on April 20, 2009 on the network's Telebabad line up. The show concluded on November 27, 2010 with a total of 2 seasons and 235 episodes.
Hosts
Ogie Alcasid as Angelina and Kim Min Yung
Michael V. as Yaya and Bianca
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Hole in the Wall earned a 27.7% rating.
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine game shows
Philippine television series based on non-Philippine television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation%20%28analytical%20chemistry%29 | In analytical chemistry, cross-validation is an approach by which the sets of scientific data generated using two or more methods are critically assessed. The cross-validation can be categorized as either method validation or analytical data validation.
See also
Validation (drug manufacture)
Verification and validation
References
Analytical chemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaldo%20Jabor | Arnaldo Jabor (12 December 1940 – 15 February 2022) was a Brazilian film director and producer, screenwriter, writer, journalist and political pundit for Brazilian television network Rede Globo.
Biography
He was of jewish lebanese descent and identified as an atheist.
Initially associated with the Cinema Novo movement with his first fiction feature Pindorama (1970), Jabor went on directing nine films between 1965 and 1990. His 1973 film All Nudity Shall Be Punished won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. In the 1980s, Jabor reached critical and commercial success with his erotically-charged psychological romantic dramas I Love You (1981) and Love Me Forever or Never (1986), with the latter gathering a Palm d'Or nomination at the 39th Cannes Film Festival.
At the end of his filmmaking career, he considered his satirical comedy Tudo Bem (1978) as his best film.
Jabor died as a result of a stroke in São Paulo on 15 February 2022, at the age of 81.
Filmography
O Circo (1965)
A Opinião Pública (1967)
Pindorama (1970)
All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973)
O Casamento (1976)
Tudo Bem (1978)
I Love You (1981)
Love Me Forever or Never (1986)
Carnaval (1990)
A Suprema Felicidade (2010)
Meu Último Desejo (upcoming)
Bibliography
Os canibais estão na sala de jantar (Editora Siciliano, 1993)
Sanduíches de Realidade (Editora Objetiva, 1997)
A invasão das Salsichas Gigantes (Editora Objetiva, 2001)
Amor É Prosa, Sexo É Poesia (Editora Objetiva, 2004)
Pornopolítica, (Editora Objetiva, 2006)
Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar, (Editora Objetiva, 2007)
References
External links
1940 births
2022 deaths
Brazilian film directors
Brazilian screenwriters
Brazilian film producers
Businesspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian people of Lebanese descent
Brazilian columnists
Brazilian male writers
Brazilian atheists
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGV%20Management | The FGV Management is a Brazilian private institution established in 2003 to develop and manage a single distribution network at the domestic at international levels for the Continued Education programs developed by the various Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
Created in 1999, and initially the fruit of a partnership between EBAPE and EPGE, FGV Management's objective is to distribute and manage broad graduate courses, including MBAs and short-run curses (Cademp).
FGV Management has a Partners Network made up of more than 30 institutions in over 80 cities. These institutions are responsible for tasks including program marketing, logistics and execution, while the contents, faculty and academic coordination are FGV's exclusive responsibility.
The FGV Management Network is made up of own center and associate institutes distributed strategically across Brazil. Its structure comprehends five superintendences (Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, São Paulo and two regional areas for the rest of Brazil) and by associate institutes ISAE Paraná, ISAE Manaus and ISAE Maranhão.
It maintains international partnerships with universities in Europe − ISCTE (Lisbon), IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) − and the United States − Ohio University, University of California, The University of Tampa, Columbia Business School and The University of Chicago −, where students can take part in short- and medium-term programs. International programs are available to all IDE students.
FGV Management has graduate and short-term programs that attempt to meet the needs of five different professional segments:
FGV CEO Internacional, in partnership with the Columbia University and IMD (for presidents, vice presidents, directors and superintendents);
MBA Programs (for directors, managers and professionals);
Graduate degree in Business Administration (for recent graduates and trainees);
Graduate degree in Private Law and Enterprise (for legal practitioners interested in putting into practice the knowledge gained in Law School);
Cademp Programs.
External links
Official website
Fundação Getulio Vargas
Organizations established in 2003
Foundations based in Brazil
2003 establishments in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Garner%20%28author%29 | Joe Garner is a former radio executive (Westwood One Radio Networks), American author, and keynote speaker who resides in Los Angeles.
Career
Garner spent twenty years working in the radio industry, over ten of those years of which he was employed as an executive with the Westwood One radio network. He contributed to the creation and production of numerous audiobooks for Simon & Schuster. He presides over an entertainment production company, Joe Garner Enterprises, in Los Angeles.
Garner has become an author of historical books, both traditional and multimedia. With his book We Interrupt This Broadcast, he combined storytelling and history describe landmark events. His pairing of broadcast audio with photographs and the written word attained the New York Times Bestseller List in two consecutive years. A 10th anniversary, fourth edition featuring new stories and a new Afterword from NBC's Brian Williams, was released in October 2008. He has documented events in sports with And the Crowd Goes Wild (1999) and And the Fans Roared (2000). He chronicled Notre Dame's football history with Echoes of Notre Dame Football: Great and Memorable Moments of the Fighting Irish (2001). Garner compiled television history in Stay Tuned: Television’s Unforgettable Moments (2002). He has honored Hollywood films with Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments From the Movies (2003); has chronicled the history of 20th century comedy with Made You Laugh: The Funniest Moments in Comedy (2004); and captured the milestone moments in NASCAR history in Speed, Guts & Glory (2007). 100 Yards of Glory, is a book and video documentary about NFL history, his fourth publication with Bob Costas, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It became a New York Times and USA Today bestseller in January 2012. His most recent work written in collaboration with Michael Ashley was released October 23, 2018 titled It's Saturday Morning!: Celebrating the Golden Era of Cartoons 1960s-1990s (2018) detailing the Saturday Morning cartoons many of us grew up with through the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.
In addition to Costas, Garner has collaborated with Dustin Hoffman, Bill Kurtis, Carl and Rob Reiner, Regis Philbin, NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon, Dick Van Dyke, Walter Cronkite, and NBC anchor Brian Williams.
References
External links
Garner interview, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2002
Garner interview, CNN Sunday Morning, 2004
American male non-fiction writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Sound%20Factory | Digital Sound Factory is a sound design company that creates sound libraries, known as SoundFont libraries, for playback on synthesizers and computers compatible with Steinberg Cubase, Cakewalk Sonar, Reasonstudios, Steinberg Halion, Native Instruments Kontakt, Apple GarageBand, Apple Logic, Ableton Live, GenieSoft Overture, Finale, Creative Labs Audigy/X-Fi, E-MU Systems EmulatorX/Proteus X, LMMS, FL Studio, MuseScore, Mixcraft, VSamp, SFZ, SynthFont, Ardour, FluidSynth and more.
History
Digital Sound Factory was founded by Timothy Swartz in 2007 and employs musicians and performs detailed recordings of their instruments. The recordings are processed using digital signal processors and mapped to a MIDI piano keyboard. Modern music, television, movies, and advertisements are composed using these sounds by electronic musicians Using software synthesizers, composers can have a large collection of sound content on command.
Since 1971 the sound libraries at E-mu Systems were recorded into samples designed to play back audio on physical hardware. Digital Sound Factory has an exclusive license with E-mu to re-master the primary source libraries to function on modern computer formats. Digital Sound Factory's first releases include the E-mu Systems Proteus and Emulator sounds, the Ensoniq ASR/EPS/TS sounds, and brand new sound libraries recorded recently independent of the E-MU sound library.
Digital Sound Factory's content is integrated with:
Cakewalk
Creative Labs
E-MU Systems
Line 6
PreSonus
Propellerhead Software
Yamaha Music Corporation
Timeline of major products
2007 - Digital Sound Factory releases E-MU Systems' original Proteus trilogy (directly from the Protozoa ROM expansions from Proteus 2000) and Emulator SoundFont libraries
2008 - Digital Sound Factory releases E-MU Cakewalk Proteus Pack (Proteus 2000, Mo’ Phatt, Virtuoso, Planet Earth, Xtreme Lead-1, & PX-7 Drums)
2008 - Digital Sound Factory releases Propellerhead Reason Refills
2009 - Digital Sound Factory releases Yamaha Motif World XSpedition, XStrings, Vocal XSpressions, & Steinway Grand libraries
2010 - Digital Sound Factory releases Cakewalk company Dimension SFZ Instrument volumes 1 -13. Includes Grand Piano, Vinatage Synthesizers, World Instruments, Guitars, Basses, Drums, Orchestral, Hip Hop, and more.
2011 - Digital Sound Factory releases Cakewalk company Rapture Sound Expansion volumes. Includes Analog Digital Synth Resources, Dance Tools, Film Score, and Synthesizer Rage.
2012 - Digital Sound Factory releases Cakewalk company Z3TA+2 Sound Expansions. Includes Digital Keys, Fashion Leads, Ultraspheres, Wave Scapes, & Xtreme Synth Basses.
2012 - Digital Sound Factory releases Native Instruments Kontakt Sound Expansions. Featured products are the E-MU Systems Proteus Pack, Ensoniq ASR, Performance Synthesizers, Yamaha Concert Grand Pianos, and Steinway Grand Piano.
2013 - Digital Sound Factory endorsed by Mason & Hamlin Piano company to sample and reproduce the CC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-availability%20application%20architecture | In information technology, high-availability application architecture is a process followed when implementing a new application into an existing business-wide computer system or ERP while minimizing downtime. ff
The architecture contains three stages: development, quality assurance, and production.
Definition
In the above definition, high availability is "a design and implementation that ensures a certain degree of operational continuity", and application architecture refers to the actual concept and design of implementing a new configuration into the particular system.
Summary
In the IT world minimizing downtime is very important, and in order to implement a new configuration into an existing computer system one must follow strict architectural guidelines before releasing the new configuration into production. Following the application architecture guidelines will greatly reduce the potential downtime when implementing a new configuration into an existing system.
Stages of architecture
There are three stages that an application must go through before it "goes live." Each of these stages must pass through the transport directory before going on to the next stage.
Development
The development stage is where program changes, and configuration settings are modified to meet the needs of the new or existing system.
Quality assurance
During the quality assurance stage the configuration settings, and program changes that impact the application are tested. If any faults are detected, they are corrected during this stage.
Production
The final stage that the application enters is the production stage, which entails the actual system that a company runs its business on.
Transport directory
The transport directory serves as a compiler for all of the changes to the application that occur through the stages. This component is the mechanism that allows the changes to be tracked from stage to stage. When the application is released for production, it will be delivered out of the transport directory.
References
Information technology management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%20diagramming%20method | Arrow diagramming method (ADM) is a network diagramming technique in which activities are represented by arrows. ADM is also known as the activity-on-arrow (AOA) method.
Usage
ADM is used for scheduling activities in a project plan. Precedence relationships between activities are represented by circles connected by one or more arrows. The length of the arrow represents the duration of the relevant activity. ADM only shows finish-to-start relationships, meaning that each activity is completed before the successor activity starts.
Sometimes a "dummy task" is added, to represent a dependency between tasks, which does not represent any actual activity. The dummy task is added to indicate precedence that can't be expressed using only the actual activities. Such a dummy task often has a completion time of 0.
Use of ADM as a common project management practice has declined with the adoption of computer-based scheduling tools. In addition, the precedence diagram method (PDM), or activity-on-node (AON), is often favored over ADM.
ADM network drawing technique the start and end of each node or event is connected to an arrow.
The start of the arrow comes out of a node while the tip of the arrow goes into a node. Between the two nodes lies an arrow that represents the activity.
The event represented by the circular node consumes neither time nor resources.
A node is a specific, definable achievement in the project.
It has zero duration and consumes nil resources.
All activities that lead into a node must be completed before the activity lines following this node can start.
See also
Precedence diagram method
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
References
Project management techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b | O3b is a satellite constellation in Medium Earth orbit (MEO) owned and operated by SES, and designed to provide low-latency broadband connectivity to remote locations for mobile network operators and internet service providers, maritime, aviation, and government and defence. It is often referred to as O3b MEO to distinguish these satellites from SES's forthcoming O3b mPOWER constellation.
O3b originally stood for "other three billion", or the other three billion people at the time that did not have stable internet access, and the constellation was initially built, owned and operated by O3b Networks, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of SES in 2016 and ownership and operation of the constellation passed to SES Networks, a division of SES. The O3b MEO constellation began offering service in March 2014.
History
Initially planned to launch in 2010, the first four O3b satellites reached orbit on a Soyuz-2 / Fregat-MT launch vehicle by Arianespace on 25 June 2013. After discovering a hardware defect in the initial satellites, O3b postponed the planned September 2013 launch of four additional satellites so repairs could be made. The second four satellites were launched by the same type of rocket from the Space Center in French Guiana, on 10 July 2014 and the O3b system started full commercial service on 1 September 2014.
The third launch of four took place in December 2014, bringing the satellite constellation to 12 satellites. Four years later, four additional satellites were launched on 9 March 2018 on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Centre Spatial Guyanais. In December 2018, Thales Alenia Space said that tests on the final four O3b satellites would be completed by the end of January 2019 and the four satellites were successfully launched on 4 April 2019.
In 2010, operators in the Cook Islands, Pakistan and Nigeria were among the first to prebook capacity on the O3b constellation to serve their respective markets.
In 2010, O3b announced the selection of Europe Media Port to be the first provider of Gateway Teleport services for O3b's global network and a contract with Viasat for the production and installation of Ka-band infrastructure.
In July 2014, SES Government Solutions (now SES Space & Defense), a subsidiary of (then O3b investor, now owner) SES, received approval to offer O3b services on their General Services Administration (GSA) schedule allowing SES GS to be the first distribution partner to offer O3b capability directly to the U.S. Government.
In November 2014, MS Quantum of the Seas became the first cruise ship to provide fast internet to guests through O3b Networks. The service is branded "Voom" by its cruise line, Royal Caribbean International and it was subsequently rolled out to every ship in their fleet.
In August 2015, SES subsidiary, SES Government Solutions (now SES Space & Defense) agreed on a one-year contract with US government scientific agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to supply O3b ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/output | In computing, input/output (I/O, i/o, or informally io or IO) is the communication between an information processing system, such as a computer, and the outside world, possibly a human or another information processing system. Inputs are the signals or data received by the system and outputs are the signals or data sent from it. The term can also be used as part of an action; to "perform I/O" is to perform an input or output operation.
are the pieces of hardware used by a human (or other system) to communicate with a computer. For instance, a keyboard or computer mouse is an input device for a computer, while monitors and printers are output devices. Devices for communication between computers, such as modems and network cards, typically perform both input and output operations. Any interaction with the system by an interactor is an input and the reaction the system responds is called the output.
The designation of a device as either input or output depends on perspective. Mice and keyboards take physical movements that the human user outputs and convert them into input signals that a computer can understand; the output from these devices is the computer's input. Similarly, printers and monitors take signals that computers output as input, and they convert these signals into a representation that human users can understand. From the human user's perspective, the process of reading or seeing these representations is receiving output; this type of interaction between computers and humans is studied in the field of human–computer interaction. A further complication is that a device traditionally considered an input device, e.g., card reader, keyboard, may accept control commands to, e.g., select stacker, display keyboard lights, while a device traditionally considered as an output device may provide status data, e.g., low toner, out of paper, paper jam.
In computer architecture, the combination of the CPU and main memory, to which the CPU can read or write directly using individual instructions, is considered the brain of a computer. Any transfer of information to or from the CPU/memory combo, for example by reading data from a disk drive, is considered I/O. The CPU and its supporting circuitry may provide memory-mapped I/O that is used in low-level computer programming, such as in the implementation of device drivers, or may provide access to I/O channels. An I/O algorithm is one designed to exploit locality and perform efficiently when exchanging data with a secondary storage device, such as a disk drive.
Interface
An I/O interface is required whenever the I/O device is driven by a processor. Typically a CPU communicates with devices via a bus. The interface must have the necessary logic to interpret the device address generated by the processor. Handshaking should be implemented by the interface using appropriate commands (like BUSY, READY, and WAIT), and the processor can communicate with an I/O device through the interface. If differen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo%20Mar%C3%ADn | Gustavo Marín, a Chilean-French economist and sociologist, is noted in particular for his key role in the creation and development of the longstanding international network, the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World. He was Director of the world-governance think tank, the Forum for a new World Governance (FnWG) from 2007 to 2015. He is currently retired.
Political prisoner under Pinochet's military regime in Chile
Born on April 24, 1950, in Antofagasta, in northern Chile. Today, he is married and has four children.
Of Quechua and Aymara descent, he was a student at the School of Sociology of the Catholic University until 1970. He quit school to live with the Mapuche people in southern Chile, where he was one of the main organizers of a widespread movement to recover land that had been taken away from the Mapuche communities by colonizers. He resisted against the coup led by Augusto Pinochet on September 11, 1973, and stayed underground until April 1974, when he was captured by the military intelligence services. He was detained for several months in the secret jails of the dictatorship then sentenced to a 20-year prison term by a military court. He was adopted by Amnesty International and other Human Rights organizations, which allowed him to be evacuated to France in November 1976.
A political refugee in France
As a political refugee in France, he began working in 1977 as a telephone installer, while pursuing his higher education. He obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris 8. From 1983 to 1986 he worked in the Development Department of the Cimade. He returned to Chile through Argentina in 1986. There, he worked at Pries-Cono Sur (South Cone Regional Social and Economic Research Program, a research network in economic, social, and political fields), as Coordinator of research centers, universities, labor unions, and NGOs in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay.
Works in 1988 and 1991
During this period, he published the following books, widely used as sources in academic works:
Los grupos transnacionales y la crisis, Editorial Nueva América, Buenos Aires, 1988.
Estado autoritario, deuda externa y grupos económicos, with Patricio Rozas, Ediciones Chile América CESOC, Santiago, 1988.
El endeudamiento bancario de los grupos económicos, su incidencia en la crisis de pagos y las políticas des Estado de Chile, with Patricio Rozas, PRIES CONO SUR, Santiago, 1988.
El mapa de la extrema riqueza: 10 años después, with Patricio Rozas, Ediciones Chile América CESOC, Santiago, 1989.
"Chile Hacia el Siglo XXI: Crisis del Capitalismo y Recomposición de las clases sociales," Documentos de Trabajo no. 43, PRIES CONO SUR, Santiago, 1991.
International solidarity network and the World Social Forum
In 1992, he returned to France and worked as Head of the Future of the Planet Program at the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind, an independent foundation instituted under Swiss law and ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloom%203 | Gloom 3 (also known as Ultimate Gloom and Gloom 3: Zombie Edition) is a video game for the Amiga computer, released in 1997. Gloom 3 was the third proper, commercially released clone of the first-person shooter Doom in the Gloom series on the Amiga.
Gloom 3s author, Gareth Murfin, was proprietor of Alpha Software, with additional graphics made by James Caygill and Jason Jordache.
The game was one of two games produced by Alpha Software for the Amiga, the other being Zombie Massacre, at a time when the machine was less popular. Although the game was critically well received by publications such as CU Amiga, at the time of release games for the Amiga were on the decline and not deemed commercially viable, and the game received criticism for its appearance.
Despite the "3" in the title, this is actually the second game in the Gloom series, as there is no such game as Gloom 2. According to one of the people who worked on this game, the reason for the game being called "Gloom 3" was because he confused Gloom Deluxe for Gloom 2, even though Gloom Deluxe was actually an updated version of the first game, not a sequel.
References
External links
Gloom 3 at the Amiga Hall of Light
Gloom 3 at Lemon Amiga
1997 video games
Amiga games
Amiga-only games
Amiga 1200 games
Video game clones
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games about zombies
Video games with 2.5D graphics
First-person shooters
Sprite-based first-person shooters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten%20Lund | Carsten Lund (born July 1, 1963) is a Danish-born theoretical computer scientist, currently working at AT&T Labs in Bedminster, New Jersey, United States.
Lund was born in Aarhus, Denmark, and received the
"kandidat" degree in 1988 from the University of Aarhus and his Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago in computer science. His thesis, entitled The
Power of Interaction, was chosen as an ACM 'Distinguished Dissertation'.
Lund was a co-author on two of five competing papers at the 1990 Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science characterizing complexity classes such as PSPACE and NEXPTIME in terms of interactive proof systems;
this work became part of his 1991 Ph.D. thesis from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Lance Fortnow and László Babai, for which he was a runner-up for the 1991 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
He is also known for his joint work with Sanjeev Arora, Madhu Sudan, Rajeev Motwani, and Mario Szegedy that discovered the existence of probabilistically checkable proofs for NP-hard problems and used them to prove hardness results for approximation problems; in 2001 he and his co-authors received the Gödel Prize for their share in these discoveries.
More recently he has published highly cited work on internet traffic engineering.
He has been working for AT&T Laboratories since August 1991.
References
External links
AT&T Labs Homepage
1963 births
Living people
Theoretical computer scientists
Scientists at Bell Labs
Aarhus University alumni
People from New Jersey
Gödel Prize laureates
Danish computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20set | Service set can refer to:
Service set (802.11 network), a particular 802.11 wireless network.
Service set identifier, a name given to that network
Basic Service Set, the group of devices associated to an access point
Extended Service Set, the entire campus of a wireless network using the same identifier
Tea service, a formal tea set. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolerx | Tolerx, Inc. was a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was focused on discovering and developing new therapies designed to treat patients by reprogramming the immune system, allowing for long-term remission of immune-related diseases after a short course of therapy. Targeted diseases include type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), cancer, chronic and viral diseases. In 2008, Tolerx was named one of Fierce Biotech’s Fierce 15. In October 2011, Tolerx was shut down due to an unsuccessful Phase III trial in patients recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
Development programs
Tolerx’s lead product candidate, otelixizumab, also known as TRX4, is a novel monoclonal antibody being developed for the treatment of autoimmune type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases. The efficacy and safety of otelixizumab in the treatment of type 1 diabetes is currently being studied in a pivotal Phase 3 study called DEFEND (Durable-response therapy Evaluation For Early or New-onset type 1 Diabetes). Tolerx entered into a collaboration with Glaxo SmithKline in October 2007 relating to the development and commercialization of otelixizumab. Otelixizumab has been granted Orphan Drug Status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Additionally, in collaboration with Genentech, Tolerx is developing a modified version of TRX1, a humanized monoclonal antibody that binds to the CD4 receptor found on both T effector and T regulatory cells. The safety and activity of TRX1 was evaluated by Tolerx in a single-dose, placebo-controlled, double-blind Phase 1 clinical trial. The data from the Phase 1 clinical trial showed TRX1 was well tolerated, did not deplete T cells, and had no observed first-dose side effect. The modified version of TRX1, designated MTRX1011A, is being developed for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, which may include rheumatoid arthritis, cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE), multiple sclerosis (MS), and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
The Tolerx pipeline also includes two pre-clinical candidates: TRX518, an antibody directed to GITR (glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor), a surface receptor molecule that has been shown to be involved in inhibiting the suppressive activity of T regulatory cells and extending the survival of T effector cells, and TRX385, a monoclonal antibody that recognizes ILT3, an inhibitory receptor expressed by dendritic cells and monocytes. These pre-clinical candidates may be developed for the treatment of cancer and viral diseases.
Leadership
Herman Waldmann, PhD, FRCPath, MRCP, FRS, FMedSci, Co-Founder, Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, Professor of Pathology, Head of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and Clinical Director of the Therapeutic Antibody Centre (TAC), University of Oxford
“A pioneer in the field of monoclonal antibody production”
Douglas J. Ringler, VMD, Co-Founder, President & CEO
Louis Vaickus, MD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin%E2%80%93Waterford%20railway%20line | The Kildare-Waterford line is a railway line in Ireland connecting Dublin with the major port of Waterford City in County Waterford. The line is part of the significant network of InterCity routes connected to the Dublin-Cork Main Line from . The line was constructed by the Great Southern and Western Railway. At Cherryville Junction, County Kildare the line splits from the Cork line. Both passenger and freight services run on the line. InterCity passenger services are operated by the 22000 Class DMUs. is located on a short spur off the line; freight trains use the Lavistown loop line to avoid reversal there.
Services
Monday-Thursday
7 trains in each direction Dublin to Waterford
2 trains to Dublin
1 train Dublin to Carlow
Friday
8 trains in each direction Dublin to Waterford
1 train Dublin to Carlow
2 trains Carlow to Dublin
Saturday
7 trains Dublin-Waterford
8 trains Waterford-Dublin
Sunday
4 trains in each direction Dublin to Waterford
The journey times range from 1h 55min to 2h 20min Dublin to Waterford and 1h 48min to 2h 16min Waterford to Dublin.
References
Railway lines in Ireland
Railway lines opened in 1844 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobil%201%20The%20Grid | Mobil 1 The Grid is a motorsport magazine show, which is aired worldwide by more than 130 broadcasters each month, including CBS Sports Network in North America, beIN Sports, Fox Sports (Australia) and CNBC Globally.
The show is narrated by Eddy Temple-Morris, John Hindhaugh and Charlie Brougham, and supported by lubricant Mobil 1. It is produced by Sunset + Vine. The show first aired in March 2009, with 26 weekly shows during the first year. In 2022, the show is in its 14th season with 10 episodes annually supported by exclusive online features across social media platforms.
Features
Mobil 1 The Grid goes behind the scenes at races worldwide and films exclusive stories on everything on 4 wheels from Formula One to IndyCar and FIA World Endurance Championship to the World Rally Championship.
In 2022 the show has regularly shown features on Formula One World Champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing and the Stewart-Haas Racing and other teams and drivers involved in the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Truck Series. As well as covering a variety of international races like the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the infamous Bathurst 1000 and the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. Not only does Mobil 1 The Grid feature global racing on the half-hour TV show, it also publishes exclusive content on its social platforms Twitter and Instagram and the full episodes on YouTube monthly.
See also
Mobil 1
Sunset + Vine
External links
Sunset + Vine Production
Mobil 1 The Grid YouTube
Mobil 1 in Motorsport
2009 British television series debuts
Motorsports television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Late%20News%20%28British%20TV%20programme%29 | The Late News is a British late evening news programme that was broadcast on ITV television network on Friday at 11:00pm between 18 January 2008 to 6 March 2009. It was produced by ITN.
The thirty-minute news programme, introduced alongside a revamped News at Ten that aired from Monday to Thursday, enabled ITV to air dramas and entertainment programming past 10:00pm on Friday evenings. The Late News was initially presented by News at Ten newscasters Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham. After two months, The Late News was realigned with ITV News branding and presented by one newscaster, although continued to be introduced by continuity announcers and billed in television listings as The Late News until its demise. Following an increase in viewing figures for News at Ten, ITV cancelled The Late News on 2 March 2009 in order for the 10:00pm programme to air every weeknight at that time.
Presenters
References
External links
2008 British television series debuts
2009 British television series endings
British television news shows
English-language television shows
ITN
ITV news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie%20Massacre%20%28video%20game%29 | Zombie Massacre is a 1998 video game for the Amiga computer. It is a clone of the first-person shooter Doom.
Production
Zombie Massacre'''s authors were proprietor of Alpha Software, Gareth Murfin, Dave Boaz‚ Dave Newton (coder)‚ Frank Wille with graphics by James Caygill‚ Jason Jordache‚ Liam Weford, Slawomir Stascheck and music by William Morton (musician). The game was one of two games produced by Alpha Software for the Amiga, the other being Gloom 3, at a time when the machine was being squeezed out of the market. The game was developed using the Gloom engine, but is not to be mistaken for Gloom 4''.
References
External links
Hall of Light – The database of Amiga games
1998 video games
Amiga games
Amiga-only games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games about zombies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droplitz | Droplitz is a 2009 puzzle video game developed by Blitz Arcade and published by Atlus USA. It was released for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, Microsoft Windows and iOS in June 2009 In May 2012 a sequel called Droplitz Delight was released for Windows Phone.
Reception
The PC and PlayStation 3 versions received "generally favorable reviews", while the Xbox 360 version received above-average reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
Since its release, the Xbox 360 version sold 6,740 units worldwide by January 2011. Sales moved up to 10,341 units by the end of 2011.
Dispute
There is an ongoing dispute as to who originally came up with the original game concept for Droplitz as an individual provided evidence that they came up with a very similar game concept over one year before the release of Droplitz and attempted to pitch it to the same game studio, Blitz Games Studios, which would then go on to produce the Droplitz game.
References
External links
2009 video games
Atlus games
Blitz Games Studios games
IOS games
PlayStation Network games
Puzzle video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
Windows Phone games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Othersiders | The Othersiders is an American paranormal reality television series that premiered on June 17, 2009 on Cartoon Network. The program follows a group of five teenagers who are interested in the paranormal and explore reportedly haunted sites to discover any evidence of ghosts. Aimed for a teen audience, it had a similar concept as Ghost Hunters. In June 2009, the series was a part of Cartoon Network's CN Real programming block. The second season of The Othersiders premiered on October 7, 2009 and ended on October 30, 2009.
Team members
Riley Litman - lead investigator- the one who supplies the staff
KC Costonis - case manager- the person who decides the place they go to
Sam Hirsch - group webmaster- posts the videos and info they learned from them going to the place
Zack Burke - tech manager- supplies the staff with the technology
Jackie Zhao - researcher- the one who gets info on where they go
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2009)
Season 2 (2009)
References
External links
2009 American television series debuts
2009 American television series endings
2000s American television series
2000s American reality television series
American fantasy television series
Cartoon Network original programming
Paranormal reality television series
Television series about ghosts
Television series about teenagers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20S.%20Davidson | Edward S. Davidson is a professor emeritus in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Research interests
His research interests include computer architecture, pipelining theory, parallel processing, performance modeling, intelligent caches, and application tuning. In the 1970s, he developed the reservation table approach to optimum design and cyclic scheduling of pipelines, designed and implemented an eight-node symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system in 1976, and developed a variety of systematic methods for modeling performance and enhancing systems, including early work on simulated annealing, wave pipelining, multiple instruction stream pipelines, decoupled access-execute architecture, and polycyclic scheduling (aka software pipelining). He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Education
1961 Harvard University, B.A. in Mathematics
1962 University of Michigan, M.S. in Communication Science
1968 University of Illinois, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Teaching
1968–1973 Stanford University, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
1973–1987 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
1988–present University of Michigan, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Service
1984-1987 Hardware Design Director, Cedar Parallel Supercomputer at Center for Supercomputing Research at University of Illinois
1988-1990 Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
1994-1997 Director, Center for Parallel Computing, University of Michigan
1997-2000 Associate chair for Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Awards
1992 IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award for "pivotal seminal contributions to the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of high performance computer systems."
1996 Taylor L. Booth Education Award for "contributions to the establishment of computer engineering as an academic discipline and for nurturing many leaders of this field during their formative years in the profession."
2000 IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award "for his seminal contributions to the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of high performance pipelines and multiprocessor systems"
References
External links
Official Michigan page
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Harvard College alumni
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFLP%20%28AM%29 | KFLP (900 AM) is a radio station licensed to Floydada, Texas, United States. The station serves the Lubbock area. It originates programming from studios in Lubbock, TX and Floydada, TX. Station is currently owned by Anthony L. Ricketts. It broadcasts agribusiness news, markets, and weather reports. It is the flagship station for the All Ag Radio Network. Syndicated programs developed by the All Ag Network including Agriculture Today, the Agribusiness Report, Growing Cotton, American Cattle News, and the Ag News Update.
History
The station went on-air as 'KFLD' on April 1, 1951. This call sign remained until 1972, when it was again changed to 'KFLP' and then to 'KFBA', on July 9, 1980. On January 28, 1985, it changed call signs yet-again to 'KKAP', then on June 6, 1992, to 'KAWA'. On March 22, 1996, it was reverted to the 1972 call sign 'KFLP', which is the current call sign.
References
External links
Paramount Broadcasting Website
FLP
Radio stations established in 1951
1951 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECOWAS%20rail | One of the goals of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is the development of an integrated railroad network.
Aims include the extension of railways in member countries, the interconnection of previously isolated railways and the standardisation of gauge, brakes, couplings, and other parameters.
Proposed lines
The first line would connect the cities and ports of Lagos, Cotonou, Lomé and Accra and would allow the largest container ships to focus on a smaller number of large ports, while efficiently serving a larger hinterland. This line connects gauge and systems, which would require four rail dual gauge, which can also provide standard gauge.
Gauge (railway)
Standards
Brakes: Air brakes
Electrification: 25 kV AC
Couplings: vary
See also
AfricaRail
References
Economic Community of West African States
Rail transport in Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPT%20%28software%29 | TPT (time partition testing) is a systematic test methodology for the automated software test and verification of embedded control systems, cyber-physical systems, and dataflow programs. TPT is specialised on testing and validation of embedded systems whose inputs and outputs can be represented as signals and is a dedicated method for testing continuous behaviour of systems. Most control systems belong to this system class. The outstanding characteristic of control systems is the fact that they interact closely interlinked with a real world environment. Controllers need to observe their environment and react correspondingly to its behaviour. The system works in an interactional cycle with its environment and is subject to temporal constraints. Testing these systems is to stimulate and to check the timing behaviour. Traditional functional testing methods use scripts – TPT uses model-based testing.
TPT combines a systematic and graphic modelling technique for test cases with a fully automated test execution in different environments and automatic test evaluation. TPT covers the following four test activities:
test case modelling
test execution in different environments (automated)
test result analysis (test assessment (automated))
test documentation (automated)
test management
Graphic test cases
In TPT tests are modelled graphically with the aid of special state machines and time partitioning. All test cases for one system under test can be modelled using one hybrid automaton. Tests often consist of a sequence of logical phases. The states of the finite-state machine represent the logical passes of a test which are similar for all tests. Trigger conditions model the transitions between the test phases. Each state and transition of the automaton may have different variants. The combination of the variants model the individual test cases.
Natural language texts become part of the graphics, supporting the simple and demonstrative readability even for non-programmers. Substantial techniques such as parallel and hierarchical branching state machines, conditional branching, reactivity, signal description, measured signals as well as lists of simple test steps allow an intuitive and graphic modelling even of complex test cases.
The test's complexity is hidden behind graphics. The lowest level signal description consists of either test step lists or so called direct definitions.
Modelling simple sequences: Test-Step List
Through the use of the Test-Step List, one can model simple sequences of test steps that do not need to execute in parallel, such as setting signals (Set channel), ramping signals (Ramp channel), setting parameters (Set parameter), and waiting (Wait). Requests for the expected test results can be made within the test sequence to evaluate the system under test as it runs. It is also possible to place subautomatons in the Test-Step List, which in turn contain automatons and sequences, resulting in hierarchical Test-Step Lists. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETN | SETN may refer to:
SET News, news channel of the Sanlih E-Television in Taiwan
Special Events Television Network, defunct syndicated television package
Colonel Carlos Concha Torres Airport, ICAO code SETN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR%20on%20TBS | NASCAR on TBS is the name of a former television program that broadcast NASCAR races on the TBS cable network. Select NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now NASCAR Cup Series), Busch Series (now Xfinity Series), and Craftsman Truck Series races were aired on TBS from its debut in 1983 up to the 2000 season.
Races were switched to TNT in 2001 as part of the then-new NASCAR television deal, although the initial plans were for TBS Superstation to carry the races. Instead, Turner decided that NASCAR would better fit TNT's "We Know Drama" slogan.
Coverage overview
Before the existence of ESPN, live coverage of NASCAR Winston Cup races on television was limited. CBS covered the Daytona 500, the June race at Michigan and the July race at Talladega. ABC usually did the Atlanta race in the spring.
TBS broadcast the Richmond spring race, held the week after Daytona Speedweeks, from 1983 to 1995, as well as the fall races at Rockingham (1985-1987), Atlanta (1983-1985) and Riverside (1982-1987).
For several years in the 1990s, the only Cup Series races aired on TBS were the two races from Charlotte Motor Speedway (Coca-Cola 600 from 1988-2000, UAW-GM Quality 500 from 1989-2000); TBS did not have rights to The Winston, which usually aired on TNN. Also, the channel aired the July race at Pocono Raceway from 1993 to 2000. TBS was also the home of the postseason exhibition races held at Suzuka Circuit and Twin Ring Motegi in Japan from 1996–1998.
The now defunct Prime Network meanwhile, was the first to televise NASCAR Winston Cup qualifying races on a regular basis. The telecasts were mainly for races that would be televised by TBS.
TBS aired side-by-side coverage during commercials during the 2000 UAW-GM Quality 500 in Charlotte.
TBS race schedule
Winston Cup Series
1980s
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990s-2000
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Busch Grand National Series
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Craftsman Truck Series
1995
1996
1997
1998
Commentators
Booth announcers/analysts included Ken Squier, Buddy Baker, and Dick Berggren. After TBS made a host/booth switch, Allen Bestwick became the lap-by-lap announcer with Baker and Berggren in the booth for TBS' 2000 coverage at Lowe's and Pocono.
Lap-by-lap
Allen Bestwick
Ken Squier
Color commentary
Buddy Baker
Dick Berggren
Geoff Bodine
Neil Bonnett
Chuck Bown
Dick Brooks
Barry Dodson
Chris Economaki
Johnny Hayes
Ernie Irvan
Glenn Jarrett
Dave Marcis
Chad Little
Benny Parsons
Phil Parsons
Richard Petty
Greg Sacks
Lyn St. James
Ken Stabler
Kenny Wallace
Cale Yarborough
Pit road reporters
Jack Arute
Dick Berggren
Steve Byrnes
Alice Cook
Dave Despain
Chris Economaki
Jerry Garrett
Charlie Harville
Glenn Jarrett
Mike Massaro
Benny Parsons
Phil Parsons
Pat Patterson
Randy Pemberton
Mark Pfister
Bob Varsha
Mike Hogewood
Jerry Punch
Mike Wallace
Joe Whitlock
Matt Yocum
Studio hosts
Late 1980s broadcast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQIK%20%28AM%29 | KQIK (1230 AM) was an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Lakeview, Oregon. The station, which began broadcasting in 1956, was owned by Joseph E. Kalisek.
Programming
, KQIK is silent pending the signing of a lease for the station's studio and transmitter location. KQIK normally broadcasts a country music format branded as "K-Country 1230" and including programming from both Citadel Media and Dial Global. Syndicated music programming includes America's Grand Ole Opry Weekend from Westwood One.
In addition to its music programming, KQIK airs high school football games and select other sporting events featuring the Lakeview High School Honkers as a member of the Table Rock Sports Network. KQIK airs University of Oregon Ducks football as a member of the Oregon Sports Network.
History
This station began regular operations on December 5, 1956, broadcasting with 250 watts of power on a frequency of 1230 kHz. Assigned the legal call sign KQIK, the station was originally owned and operated by Pacific Northwest Radio, Inc. KQIK was authorized to increase the power of its daytime signal to 1,000 watts beginning in 1967.
KQIK was acquired by Lake County Communications, Inc., on April 1, 1974. From the late 1960s through the late 1970s, the station aired a middle of the road music format with 10 to 12 hours of country music programming each week.
In August 1984, Lake County Communications, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to KQIK, Ltd. The deal was approved by the FCC on October 9, 1984, and the transaction was consummated on November 25, 1985.
In May 1993, KQIK, Ltd., reached an agreement to sell this station to New Start Enterprises, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on June 30, 1993, and the transaction was consummated on October 10, 1994. The new owners had the Federal Communications Commission change the station's call sign to KRIT on October 21, 1994. This change would prove short-lived as the station was reassigned the KQIK call sign by the FCC on November 7, 1994.
In December 1998, New Start Enterprises, Inc., reached an agreement to transfer the broadcast license for this station to the Clause Charitable Remainder Trust. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 9, 1999, and the transaction was consummated on June 14, 1999.
In August 2003, the Clause Charitable Remainder Trust (Beverly J. Clause, trustee) reached an agreement to sell this station and FM sister station KQIK-FM to Crystal Clear Broadcasting Company, Inc., for a combined sale price of $118,000. The deal was approved by the FCC on October 17, 2003, and the transaction was consummated on December 10, 2003. At the time of the sale, both stations broadcast country music formats.
On May 27, 2011, Crystal Clear Broadcasting Company, Inc., signed an agreement to sell KQIK (without its FM sister station) to Joseph E. Kalisek for a total price of $12,500. The FCC approved the deal on September 21, 2011, and the transaction was formally |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Coast%20Main%20Line%20Route%20Utilisation%20Strategy | The East Coast Main Line Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS), published by Network Rail in February 2008, was the seventh RUS.
RUSs are established by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) unless the latter objects within 60 days. A letter formally confirming establishment, but with some qualifications, was sent by ORR to NR in April 2008, and the RUS is included in NR's map as established.
The scope includes the whole of Strategic Route 8 - East Coast Main Line and Route 9 - North East Routes, and part of Route 5 (the Hitchin-Cambridge line). Not strictly within the scope but relevant to the service mix forming present and future utilisation of the RUS area are parts of Route 11 (to Sheffield and to Lincoln, and the diversionary joint GN/GE route from Peterborough to Doncaster via Lincoln), Route 10 (to Hull and to Bradford) and Route 24 (to Aberdeen).
As with other RUSs, the ECMLRUS took into account a number of responses, including the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).
The routes and services covered by the RUS are varied in type. At the London end and in the vicinity of other major cities are inner suburban and metro-like services, which are vital commuter routes; across the RUS area there are cross-country and fast medium-distance passenger services, including inter-city services; there are long-distance (and in the British context very long distance) high-speed passenger services (LDHS) from London to a number of major cities in Scotland and northern England; and there are significant freight flows that use part of the area. A number of issues arise from the mix and intensity of these services, and the RUS addresses these in 10 groups.
Some issues are closely related to other RUSs: Scotland RUS (Edinburgh Waverley station and Portobello junction); Freight RUS.
Some issues were passed to later RUSs: Lancashire & Cumbria Yorkshire & Humber (Y&H RUS), the Network RUS, West Coast Main Line (WCML).
The RUS needs to be seen against existing contingent and prospective schemes, especially against the Thameslink project, which will see a step-change in services continuing through central London onto the network south of London. The timing of some interventions identified in the RUS are dependent on certain works in this programme being brought forward.
Groups of gaps and issues, with recommendations
A number of routes and services suffer from overcrowding of passengers in each usually 3-hour peak periods (mostly divided into a middle 'high' peak hour and two 'shoulder' peaks). In almost all cases these problems are foreseen, in the absence of interventions, to get worse owing to forecast growth in passenger traffic. These are simply referred to as "peak crowding" in the detail below.
London inner suburban services
The inner suburban services mainly comprise services from Welwyn Garden City on the main ECML route and from Hertford North on the Hertford loop, branching off just south of Stevenage and immediately north of Alexandra Palace, to Kings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samplesort | Samplesort is a sorting algorithm that is a divide and conquer algorithm often used in parallel processing systems. Conventional divide and conquer sorting algorithms partitions the array into sub-intervals or buckets. The buckets are then sorted individually and then concatenated together. However, if the array is non-uniformly distributed, the performance of these sorting algorithms can be significantly throttled. Samplesort addresses this issue by selecting a sample of size from the -element sequence, and determining the range of the buckets by sorting the sample and choosing elements from the result. These elements (called splitters) then divide the array into approximately equal-sized buckets. Samplesort is described in the 1970 paper, "Samplesort: A Sampling Approach to Minimal Storage Tree Sorting", by W. D. Frazer and A. C. McKellar.
Algorithm
Samplesort is a generalization of quicksort. Where quicksort partitions its input into two parts at each step, based on a single value called the pivot, samplesort instead takes a larger sample from its input and divides its data into buckets accordingly. Like quicksort, it then recursively sorts the buckets.
To devise a samplesort implementation, one needs to decide on the number of buckets . When this is done, the actual algorithm operates in three phases:
Sample elements from the input (the splitters). Sort these; each pair of adjacent splitters then defines a bucket.
Loop over the data, placing each element in the appropriate bucket. (This may mean: send it to a processor, in a multiprocessor system.)
Sort each of the buckets.
The full sorted output is the concatenation of the buckets.
A common strategy is to set equal to the number of processors available. The data is then distributed among the processors, which perform the sorting of buckets using some other, sequential, sorting algorithm.
Pseudocode
The following listing shows the above mentioned three step algorithm as pseudocode and shows how the algorithm works in principle. In the following, is the unsorted data, is the oversampling factor, discussed later, and is the number of splitters.
function sampleSort(A[1..n], , )
// if average bucket size is below a threshold switch to e.g. quicksort
if n / k < threshold then smallSort(A)
/* Step 1 */
select S = [S1, ..., S(p−1)k] randomly from // select samples
sort // sort sample
[s0, s1, ..., sp−1, sp] <- [-∞, Sk, S2k, ..., S(p−1)k, ∞] // select splitters
/* Step 2 */
for each a in A
find such that sj−1 < a <= sj
place in bucket bj
/* Step 3 and concatenation */
return concatenate(sampleSort(b1), ..., sampleSort(bk))
The pseudo code is different from the original Frazer and McKellar algorithm. In the pseudo code, samplesort is called recursively. Frazer and McKellar called samplesort just once and used quicksort in all following iterations.
Complexity
The complexity, given in Big O notation, for a pa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20embossing | Image embossing is a computer graphics technique in which each pixel of an image is replaced either by a highlight or a shadow, depending on light/dark boundaries on the original image. Low contrast areas are replaced by a gray background. The filtered image will represent the rate of color change at each location of the original image. Applying an embossing filter to an image often results in an image resembling a paper or metal embossing of the original image, hence the name.
Technical details
The emboss filter, also called a directional difference filter, will enhance edges in the direction of the selected convolution mask(s).
When the emboss filter is applied, the filter matrix is in convolution calculation with the same square area on the original image. So it involves a large amount of calculation when either the image size or the emboss filter mask dimension is large. The emboss filter repeats the calculation as encoded in the filter matrix for every pixel in the image; the procedure itself compares the neighboring pixels on the image, leaving a mark where a sharp change in pixel value is detected. In this way, the marks form a line following an object's contour. The process yields an embossed image with edges highlighted.
Four primary emboss filter masks are:
According to the need to enhance edge details from different directions, we can also rotate the emboss filter masks, such as:
To control the depth of edges, we can enlarge the emboss filter masks, such as:
Example
Two different emboss filters are applied to the original photo. Image (a) is the result of a 5×5 filter with the +1 and -1 in the horizontal direction, which emphasizes vertical lines. Image (b) is the result of a 5×5 filter with the +1 and -1 in the vertical direction; it emphasizes horizontal lines. Since the entries of a given emboss filter matrix sum to zero, the output image has an almost completely black background, with only the edges visible. Adding a 128 value of brightness (half the 0-255 range) to each pixel creates the final, displayed images with grey-toned backgrounds:
See also
Sobel operator
References
External links
Bump map - Embossing
Computer graphic techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus%20%28cloud%20computing%29 |
Nimbus is a toolkit that, once installed on a cluster, provides an infrastructure as a service cloud to its client via WSRF-based or Amazon EC2 WSDL web service APIs. Nimbus is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the Apache License, version 2.
Nimbus supports both the hypervisors Xen and KVM and virtual machine schedulers Portable Batch System and Oracle Grid Engine. It allows deployment of self-configured virtual clusters via contextualization. It is configurable with respect to scheduling, networking leases, and usage accounting.
Requirements
Xen 3.x
Kernel-based Virtual Machine
Java 1.5+
Python (2.4+)
Linux kernel's Netfilter and ebtables for a bridging firewall
DHCP server
See also
Cloud-computing comparison
References
External links
Cloud infrastructure
Free software for cloud computing
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Free software programmed in Python
Virtualization software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird-Ohs | Weird-Ohs is a computer-animated television series produced by Decode Entertainment, Mainframe Entertainment and EM.TV in association with the Testors Corporation. The show was originally aired in 1999 until 2000 on Fox Family (now Freeform) in the United States and YTV in Canada. Only 13 episodes of the series were ever produced (with one season).
Synopsis
The show that focused on deformed characters and their misadventures in Weirdsville, a place just off Route 66. It was based on a popular toy line, and featured two anthro teenagers, Portia and Eddie, living in a world populated with talking cars.
Production
The concept and characters were based on the Weird-Ohs series of polystyrene model kits by the Hawk Company. The characters in the model kits were popular in the early 1960s as satire on America's car culture.
Honours
In 2000, the show was nominated for a Gemini award.
Characters
Digger (voiced by Kathleen Barr): Portia's brother.
Eddie (voiced by Cusse Mankuma): Digger's best friend.
Portia (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain): Digger's older sister.
Daddy-O Chassis (voiced by Scott McNeil): Digger and Portia's teacher at their school.
Mama-B Chassis (voiced by Kathleen Barr): Daddy-O's wife. She owns Mama-B's Diner. Her voice is an imitation of actress Katharine Hepburn.
Baby Chassis (voiced by Ian James Corlett): Daddy-O and Mama-B's infant son.
Davey (voiced by Scott McNeil): A biker and Portia's crush, who doesn't notice her. He loves his motorcycle.
Wade (voiced by Ian James Corlett): A snobby rich kid and Digger's rival. Wade has a crush on Portia, who doesn't reciprocate his feelings.
Killer McBash (voiced by Scott McNeil): Wade's bodyguard/valet/driver.
Leaky Boat Louie (voiced by Mark Acheson): A big sailor guy who has different jobs, similar to Hollywood from 2 Stupid Dogs.
Uncle Huey (voiced by Garry Chalk): A hillbilly driving a car similar to the Arkansas Chuggabug 8 from Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races. He has a pet crocodile/alligator named Carry-On.
Slingrave Curvette (voiced by Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff): A one-time substitute teacher and later principal. She makes occasional appearances as a Vanna White-like game show co-host/model.
Episodes
At one point, the show was considered lost media and only a few segments have been found. But now there are a few more episodes available.
Telecast and home media
Weird-Oh's was originally aired in 1999 until 2002 on Fox Family (now Freeform) in the United States and YTV in Canada (with repeats until the mid-2000s). The show was released in 2000 as a set of three videotapes by ADV Films titled "Lights, Camera, Traction", "Wheel Trouble", and "Traffic Jam". YTV released the entire series on DVD in 2005. These items were never published in large quantities and remain rare. As of 2022, the show was uploaded on YouTube (with full episodes).
References
External links
1990s American animated television series
1990s Canadian animated television series
2000s American animated television seri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%20in%20British%20television | This is a list of British television related events from 1987.
Events
January
1 January – New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include the network television premiere of Local Hero and the classic film To Have and Have Not.
2 January
The Japanese-American animated series ThunderCats makes its UK debut on BBC1.
The network television premiere of the 1982 Steven Spielberg produced supernatural horror film Poltergeist on BBC1, starring JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson.
3 January
Closedowns reappear on Yorkshire Television when its experiment with 24-hour television, which had begun last August and had consisted of a simulcast of music video channel Music Box, is put on hiatus.
The US sitcom Perfect Strangers makes its UK debut on BBC1.
5 January – EastEnders is sold to Australia and goes to air on ABC along with In Sickness and In Health.
6 January
The Guardian reports that Central has acquired the European division of the American production company Filmfair for £1.5million. Filmfair goes on to produce several of the station's networked children's series before being sold onto the Storm Group (Caspian) in 1991.
Inspector Morse, based on the books by Colin Dexter makes its debut on ITV with John Thaw in the title role, the series would run until 2000.
7 January – Ben Elton's comedy series Filthy Rich & Catflap is shown on BBC2.
9 January – The Friday night chat show The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross makes its debut on Channel 4.
12 January – The five-part Australian World War I drama Anzacs makes its UK debut on BBC1, starring Paul Hogan.
13 January – Yorkshire Television becomes the second ITV region to launch a Jobfinder service. It broadcasts for an hour after closedown.
16 January – The Zircon affair becomes public knowledge when The Guardian reports that the government ordered the BBC to shelve a documentary in the Secret Society series about the Zircon satellite. Two days later, documentary maker Duncan Campbell is subject to an injunction preventing him from discussing or writing about the programme's content, but subsequently writes an article about the episode for the New Statesman.
29 January – Alasdair Milne is sacked by the newly appointed Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors, Marmaduke Hussey. He is replaced by a senior BBC accountant, Michael Checkland.
February
5 February – Princess Anne appears on the long-running sports quiz A Question of Sport on BBC1, a matter of weeks after team captain Emlyn Hughes famously mistook a picture of her on a horse for jockey John Reid. The episode gains a record audience of 19 million viewers.
21 February – An apparently inebriated Oliver Reed appears on the ITV chat show Aspel & Company where he stumbles and lurches around the set.
24 February – The sitcom Hardwicke House, set in a dysfunctional comprehensive school makes its debut on ITV. However, the series is badly received by critics and viewers and is abruptly cancelled after just two episodes are shown, the second is broadcast the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20field%20sieve | In mathematics the Function Field Sieve is one of the most efficient algorithms to solve the Discrete Logarithm Problem (DLP) in a finite field. It has heuristic subexponential complexity. Leonard Adleman developed it in 1994 and then elaborated it together with M. D. Huang in 1999.
Previous work includes the work of D. Coppersmith about the DLP in fields of characteristic two.
The discrete logarithm problem in a finite field consists of solving the equation for , a prime number and an integer. The function for a fixed is a one-way function used in cryptography. Several cryptographic methods are based on the DLP such as the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, the El Gamal cryptosystem and the Digital Signature Algorithm.
Number theoretical background
Function Fields
Let be a polynomial defining an algebraic curve over a finite field . A function field may be viewed as the field of fractions of the affine coordinate ring , where denotes the ideal generated by . This is a special case of an algebraic function field. It is defined over the finite field and has transcendence degree one. The transcendent element will be denoted by .
There exist bijections between valuation rings in function fields and equivalence classes of places, as well as between valuation rings and equivalence classes of valuations. This correspondence is frequently used in the Function Field Sieve algorithm.
Divisors
A discrete valuation of the function field , namely a discrete valuation ring , has a unique maximal ideal called a prime of the function field. The degree of is and we also define .
A divisor is a -linear combination over all primes, so where and only finitely many elements of the sum are non-zero. The divisor of an element is defined as , where is the valuation corresponding to the prime .
The degree of a divisor is .
Method
The Function Field Sieve algorithm consists of a precomputation where the discrete logarithms of irreducible polynomials of small degree are found and a reduction step where they are combined to the logarithm of .
Functions that decompose into irreducible function of degree smaller than some bound are called -smooth. This is analogous to the definition of a smooth number and such functions are useful because their decomposition can be found relatively fast. The set of those functions is called the factor base.
A pair of functions is doubly-smooth if and are both smooth, where is the norm of an element of over , is some parameter and is viewed as an element of the function field of .
The sieving step of the algorithm consists of finding doubly-smooth pairs of functions. In the subsequent step we use them to find linear relations including the logarithms of the functions in the decompositions. By solving a linear system we then calculate the logarithms.
In the reduction step we express as a combination of the logarithm we found before and thus solve the DLP.
Precomputation
Parameter selection
The algorith |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikeyy | Mikeyy is the name of a computer worm that spread approximately 10,000 automated messages ( or "tweets") across social networking and microblogging website Twitter.com in four discrete attacks "between 2 AM Saturday April 11, 2009 Pacific time and early Monday (April 14, 2009) morning" before it was "identified and deleted". The tweets promoted a website called StalkDaily.
The worm was written by 17-year-old Michael Mooney who operates a website to point out vulnerabilities in Twitter while advertising his website.
References
Computer worms
Twitter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance%20intersection | Covariance intersection (CI) is an algorithm for combining two or more estimates of state variables in a Kalman filter when the correlation between them is unknown.
Formulation
Items of information a and b are known and are to be fused into information item c. We know a and b have mean/covariance , and , , but the cross correlation is not known. The covariance intersection update gives mean and covariance for c as
where ω is computed to minimize a selected norm, e.g., the trace, or the logarithm of the determinant. While it is necessary to solve an optimization problem for higher dimensions, closed-form solutions exist for lower dimensions.
Application
CI can be used in place of the conventional Kalman update equations to ensure that the resulting estimate is conservative, regardless of the correlation between the two estimates, with covariance strictly non-increasing according to the chosen measure. The use of a fixed measure is necessary for rigor to ensure that a sequence of updates does not cause the filtered covariance to increase.
Advantages
According to a recent survey paper and, the covariance intersection has the following advantages:
The identification and computation of the cross covariances are completely avoided.
It yields a consistent fused estimate, and thus a non-divergent filter is obtained.
The accuracy of the fused estimate outperforms each local one.
It gives a common upper bound of actual estimation error variances, which has robustness with respect to unknown correlations.
These advantages have been demonstrated in the case of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) involving over a million map features/beacons.
Motivation
It is widely believed that unknown correlations exist in a diverse range of multi-sensor fusion problems. Neglecting the effects of unknown correlations can result in severe performance degradation, and even divergence. As such, it has attracted and sustained the attention of researchers for decades. However, owing to its intricate, unknown nature, it is not easy to come up with a satisfying scheme to address fusion problems with unknown correlations. If we ignore the correlations, which is the so-called "naive fusion", it may lead to filter divergence. To compensate this kind of divergence, a common sub-optimal approach is to artificially increase the system noise. However, this heuristic requires considerable expertise and compromises the integrity of the Kalman filter framework.
References
Control theory
Nonlinear filters
Linear filters
Signal estimation
Robot control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986%20in%20British%20television | This is a list of British television related events from 1986.
Events
January
1 January
New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include a Paul Young concert simulcast with BBC Radio 1.
The network television premieres of the 1981 fantasy film Clash of the Titans and the 1979 Sylvester Stallone sequel Rocky II on BBC1.
2 January – A special edition of Tomorrow's World travels back a century to discover the latest developments in science and technology from 1886.
4 January – Televised football returns to British television after the contractual dispute from the previous year is resolved.
6 January – Debut of the children's animated series Jimbo and the Jet-Set on BBC1.
9 January
Rowan Atkinson returns as Edmund Blackadder in the BBC1 comedy series Blackadder II, moving forward in time to the Elizabethan era. Also featuring Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry and Miranda Richardson.
BBC2 launches the follow-up series to the acclaimed political satire Yes Minister with Yes, Prime Minister.
10 January – Debut of the comedy-drama mystery series Lovejoy on BBC1, starring Ian McShane as the titular roguish antiques dealer, based on the novels by Jonathan Gash and it was adapted for television by Ian La Frenais. Despite being a moderate rating success was not brought back until 6 January 1991 following a five-year gap between the first and second series.
12 January – Debut of the high-tech game show Catchphrase on ITV, presented by Roy Walker.
14 January – Debut of the private detective series Boon on ITV, starring Michael Elphick.
17 January – BBC1 airs a feature-length episode of US soap Dynasty that sets up the storyline ready for the spin-off series Dynasty II: The Colbys which begins on 24 January.
19 January – Debut of the Screen Two film The Silent Twins, a drama based on the true story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical twin sisters known as the "Silent Twins" because they refuse to speak to anyone but each other.
21 January – Debut of The Really Wild Show on BBC1.
24 January – The US soap Dynasty II: The Colbys makes its UK debut on BBC1.
28 January – NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates. Pictures from CNN in the United States, owned by Turner Broadcasting System, then owners of the superstation WTBS, is broadcast around the world.
February
4 February – Thorn EMI sells its stake in Swindon Cable to British Telecom and the new owners axe Focus on Swindon and other local programming and replaces it with bought-in content.
8 February – The game show Every Second Counts makes its debut on BBC1, presented by Paul Daniels.
19 February – BBC1 airs Round Britain Whizz, an edition of the science documentary series Q.E.D.. The 30-minute programme consists of a sped up flight around the coastline of Great Britain with guest appearances from geologists and TV personalities including Patrick Moore, David Bellamy and Terry Wogan telling the viewer about the geology and natural history of certain areas.
26 February – Channe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldcom%20PR%20Group | Worldcom Public Relations Group is an international network of independently owned public relations firms, with 112 integrated communications agencies in 35 countries.
The group was established in 1988, to allow independent firms to serve national and multi-national clients while maintaining the service characteristic of independent agencies. Partner agencies must pass WORLDCOM benchmarks in areas including client services, financial operations, business and human resource management and partnership cooperation.
Co-operation between partners is fostered by the exchange of knowledge and experience at meetings on international and regional level. The Group is governed by an elected board of directors and three regional boards with the support of a chief operating officer.
The network also conducts continuing education for partner firms through web conferencing and its Worldcom University workshops.
In 2002 Worldcom PR Group was often mistaken for the MCI Worldcom telecom company that filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Principals of the network of independent PR firms maintained that the incident was inconvenient, but that they would not change the name of their group.
References
External links
Worldcom Home Page
Public relations companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In computer programming, a constant is a value that should not be altered by the program during normal execution, i.e., the value is constant. When associated with an identifier, a constant is said to be "named," although the terms "constant" and "named constant" are often used interchangeably. This is contrasted with a variable, which is an identifier with a value that can be changed during normal execution, i.e., the value is variable.
Constants are useful for both programmers and compilers: For programmers they are a form of self-documenting code and allow reasoning about correctness, while for compilers they allow compile-time and run-time checks that verify that constancy assumptions are not violated, and allow or simplify some compiler optimizations.
There are various specific realizations of the general notion of a constant, with subtle distinctions that are often overlooked. The most significant are: compile-time (statically valued) constants, run-time (dynamically valued) constants, immutable objects, and constant types (const).
Typical examples of compile-time constants include mathematical constants, values from standards (here maximum transmission unit), or internal configuration values (here characters per line), such as these C examples:
const float PI = 3.1415927; // maximal single float precision
const unsigned int MTU = 1500; // Ethernet v2, RFC 894
const unsigned int COLUMNS = 80;
Typical examples of run-time constants are values calculated based on inputs to a function, such as this C++ example:
void f(std::string s) {
const size_t l = s.length();
// ...
}
Use
Some programming languages make an explicit syntactic distinction between constant and variable symbols, for example considering assignment to a constant to be a syntax error, while in other languages they are considered syntactically the same (both simply an identifier), and the difference in treatment is semantic (assignment to an identifier is syntactically valid, but if the identifier is a constant it is semantically invalid).
A constant value is defined once and can be referenced many times throughout a program. Using a constant instead of specifying the same value multiple times can simplify code maintenance (as in don't repeat yourself) and can be self documenting by supplying a meaningful name for a value, for instance, instead of 3.1415926.
Comparison with literals and macros
There are several main ways to express a data value that doesn't change during program execution that are consistent across a wide variety of programming languages. One very basic way is by simply writing a literal number, character, or string into the program code, which is straightforward in C, C++, and similar languages.
In assembly language, literal numbers and characters are done using the "immediate mode" instructions available on most microprocessors. The name "immediate" comes from the values being available immediately from the instruction stream, as opposed to lo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiru%20FM | Hiru FM is a Sinhala radio station in Sri Lanka owned by ABC Radio Networks. It covers the whole island.
Awards
Most Popular Radio Channel - International MACO Awards 2012
References
Sinhala-language radio stations in Sri Lanka
Asia Broadcasting Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection%20policy | Protection policy may refer to:
Policies
Information protection policy
Data protection policy
Planetary protection policy
Whistleblower protection policy
Environmental protection policy
Farmland protection policy
Child protection policy
Cultural heritage protection policy
Finance
Income protection policy
Payment protection policy
Tax protection policy
Protectionism, a trade protection policy
Technology
Executable space protection policy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade%20railway%20junction | The Belgrade railway junction (, ) is a large-scale reconstruction of the rail network in Belgrade, Serbia. It was launched 1971 with works officially starting 1974 with the construction of the New Railway Bridge. The central part of the scheme is formed by the Belgrade Centre railway station, better known as Prokop after the neighborhood it is located in, which is served via three tunnels beneath the city center.
Construction of the Belgrade railway junction was mostly completed with the opening of the Vukov spomenik underground passenger station in 1995. As the completion of the Prokop railway station was severely delayed due to lack in funding the network, which was planned to replace the old rail network and the historical central station up till today is only used for the BG Voz S-train of the urban modal city network.
During World War II, German occupational administration developed a project of Belgrade railway junction, which never materialized. Very detailed and specific plans are kept in the Belgrade Railway Museum.
Concept
The main feature of the railway scheme is that all railway installations cross the town center underground and do not collide with the urban infrastructure. Three tunnels adding in length have been constructed. They connect the central railway station at Prokop with the main rail links to the west, north and south of the city.
The Belgrade railway junction is an intermodal project for long distance, suburban and city traffic, including a shunting station with attached tracks a descending ramp, shunting and loading-unloading group of tracks, a locomotive depot, as well as a major passenger station - Belgrade Centre - and technical passenger stations. The suburban traffic within the complex runs in three directions with an underground station at Vukov Spomenik in downtown Belgrade.
Within the scheme the Belgrade railway junction is serving seven main international rail routes with a considerable capacity. Part of the junction are 15 passenger stations, a new marshalling yard serving the international transport Makiš with centralized and automatic management and traffic control and a daily capacity of 600 railway cars. Within the Prokop central station plans to build of business space exist.
By 2018, the system is envisioned to be centered around the Prokop (passenger traffic), Zemun (freight traffic) and Makiš (marshaling yard) stations.
Construction history
1970s-2000s
Works began in 1974 by building the bridge across the river Sava and the tunnels "Vračar" and "Dedinje". The bridge, New Railway Bridge, was finished in 1979, while the tunnels were finished in 1993 and 1988, respectively.
The Zemun railway station was built from 1977 to 1981 when was opened, even though it was never fully finished. In the early 1980s, the marshaling yard in Makiš was arranged. In 1982 the double-track railway Zemun-Zemun Polje was finished and part of the passenger-technical Zemun railway station was built. In 1984 doub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabourList | LabourList is a British news website supportive of, but independent of, the Labour Party, launched in 2009. Describing itself as Labour's "biggest independent grassroots e-network", the site's content includes news, commentary, interviews, campaign information, analysis and opinion from various contributors and sources across the Labour and trade union movement. It is funded by trade unions, adverts, and individual donors. LabourList started as a weblog with reader comments, but in February 2019 the ability for readers to write comments was removed.
Contributors and content
The site features breaking news, analysis, opinion, policy and ideas from a broad cross-section of the Labour movement from activists to cabinet ministers, in addition to regular editorials and posts by the sitting editor and a core group of columnists, which include Luke Akehurst and Maya Goodfellow. Ministers from the last Labour government who have blogged on the site include Peter Mandelson, Ed Balls, David Miliband, Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander. Labour movement figures such as Alastair Campbell, Sunder Katwala formerly of the Fabian Society, Jessica Asato of Progress and Neal Lawson of Compass number among LabourList's other frequent contributors. Its first editor, Derek Draper, claimed that the site had done "exceptionally well" to "ask for advice and contributions from readers" leading the "introduction of excellent new grassroots bloggers, like Dan McCurry", who "have much to contribute to the direction and strategy of our movement".
The site has also developed journalists Laurie Penny and Rowenna Davis, and former editor Alex Smith.
History
Draper commissioned Tangent, who had built the Labour Party's website, to build the LabourList website software in late 2008, prior to the website's launch on 10 January 2009. The official launch at Labour HQ was attended by Peter Mandelson, Douglas Alexander, Tom Watson and the Labour general-secretary Ray Collins.
In its first few months, much external commentary about LabourList was couched in the context of the site's problematic and controversial start, leading to the resignation of Draper, who had founded it as well as being the first editor. Writing on the publication of the Total Politics Top 100 Political Blogs, Conservative Party blogger Iain Dale wrote: "Perhaps the biggest achievement goes to LabourList and Alastair Campbell, who both enter the top twenty after only seven months of blogging activity. For LabourList to appear anywhere at all following its disastrous start under the leadership of Derek Draper is a minor miracle in itself. But its new editor Alex Smith has established it as a serious left of centre forum in a very short time".
In June 2009, LabourList became the British affiliate to American liberal news website The Huffington Post.
LabourList's coverage of an abortive coup against Gordon Brown in early 2010 drew more praise as the site cemented its reputation as a news source and a reliable bar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name%20collision | In computer programming, a name collision is the nomenclature problem that occurs when the same variable name is used for different things in two separate areas that are joined, merged, or otherwise go from occupying separate namespaces to sharing one. As with the collision of other identifiers, it must be resolved in some way for the new software (such as a mashup) to work right.
Problems of name collision, and methods to avoid them, are a common issue in an introductory level analysis of computer languages, such as for C++.
History
The term "name collision" has been used in computer science for more than three decades, when referring to names in various classification systems.
Avoiding name collisions
There are several techniques for avoiding name collisions, including the use of:
namespaces - to qualify each name within a separate name group, so that the totally qualified names differ from each other.
renaming - to change the name of one item (typically the one used less often) into some other name.
prefixing - putting unique characters before the names so that the names differ and further name collisions are unlikely to happen by accident.
See also
local variables, variable data items that are local to a module
Name mangling
Naming collision
Notes
References
Programming language design
Information theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2PRIV | Peer-to-peer direct and anonymous distribution overlay (P2PRIV) was a conceptual anonymous peer-to-peer overlay network introduced at Warsaw University of Technology in 2007. P2PRIV hides an initiator of communications by a parallelization of network nodes receiving or sending user data independently. This concept is contrary to other anonymity networks topologies. The anonymity networks employ a serial communication as a common basis and hide the initiator in a cascade of network nodes forwarding user data consecutively. The main advantage of P2PRIV is viewed as a possibility of providing high-speed anonymous data transfer while anonymous data can be sent directly and independently in the distributed network.
The last update on the web site was in 2009. The official web site is down since 2013.
Description
P2PRIV separates anonymization from user data transport. Before sending data, signalization tokens are forwarded over classical anonymous cascades towards formation of so-called cloning cascades (CC). The well-known anonymous techniques (i.e. Mix network and Crowds' Random walk algorithm) are utilized in hiding the initiator of the CC. Then, after a random interval of time, each CC member (i.e. group of clones and the true initiator) communicates directly and independently with destination nodes. A process of finding the true initiator among network nodes is hard to perform even for an adversary able to collude a significant part of overlay network.
Weaknesses
P2PRIV requires a fully distributed network with distributed information content to assure high-anonymous access to its resources. A utility of P2PRIV in client-server like services, e.g., World Wide Web system, or in hybrid P2P topologies, is problematic in its current form.
See also
Anonymous P2P
Secure communication
Overlay network
References
External links
The P2PRIV Project
Paper proposing P2PRIV: A Concept of an Anonymous Direct P2P Distribution Overlay System
Paper describing overlay transport protocol for P2PRIV: Low-Latency Parallel Transport in Anonymous Peer-to-Peer Overlays
Anonymity Bibliography
Anonymity networks
Network topology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin%E2%80%93Westport/Galway%20railway%20line | The Dublin-Westport/Galway line is a major railway route from Dublin to Galway or Westport, County Mayo. The line is part of the greater intercity rail network formed by branches of the main line between Dublin and Cork. The route to Westport and Galway branches away from the main line at Portarlington in County Laois and continues as far as Athlone in County Westmeath, where it splits again, with one branch to Westport and the other to Galway.
Westport line
The Westport line was opened by the MGWR in 1866 to serve what was then a major port. At this point, services ran from Broadstone station in Dublin via Mullingar. However, the GSWR route reached Athlone in 1859, which gave a second route from Kingsbridge station. Following the rationalisation of the railway network by Córas Iompair Éireann, the GSWR route was made the main route from Dublin to the west coast after 1973.
Galway line
The Galway line was opened by the MGWR in 1851, which became the primary route to the west coast city from Dublin. The GSWR route to Athlone opened in 1859, but the company also ran another route in the west of the country, when it purchased the Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway, which operated the Waterford-Collooney route that called at Athenry. In 1973, CIÉ made the former GSWR route the main one to Galway, with services on the old MGWR line slowly withdrawn, until they were ended in 1987.
Today
As of March 2018 all services to both Westport and Galway are operated under the Intercity brand using the former GSWR route from Dublin Heuston. Services are operated by Iarnród Éireann's 22000 Class DMU. There are nine trains daily in each direction to and from Dublin and Galway on Monday to Thursday with 8 from Heuston to Galway and nine from Galway to Dublin. On Saturday there are 9 trains from Heuston to Galway and 8 from Galway to Heuston. On Sunday there are 6 trains in each direction from Heuston to Galway.
There are 4 trains from Heuston to Westport Monday to Thursday and 5 from Westport to Heuston. On Friday there are 5 trains in each direction. On Saturday and Sunday there are 3 trains from Heuston to Westport and 4 from Westport to Heuston. These trains usually operate in 3 to 7 car ICR trains.
References
Railway lines in Ireland
Railway lines opened in 1851 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround%20%28British%20game%20show%29 | Runaround was a children's game show produced by Southern Television for the ITV network between 2 September 1975 and 7 September 1981. It was much more successful than the original American version. The original host was comedian Mike Reid. In 1977 his place was taken by Leslie Crowther and Stan Boardman, before Reid returned in 1978. The ball in tube scoring was copied from the US version but with two colours; red worth one point for a correct answer and yellow worth two points for being the only contestant to choose the right answer (this was reversed in later series). Metal Mickey made his screen debut on the British version of the show after being discovered by the show's in-vision researcher, Tim Edmunds. The series ended when Southern Television's franchise ended at the end of 1981. The game was also incorporated into the two seasons of the short-lived ITV Saturday morning show Saturday Banana hosted by Bill Oddie from 1978.
A spin-off entitled Poparound was produced by Central and aired between 19 June 1985 and 4 June 1986 with Gary Crowley as the host.
Transmissions
Runaround
Out of 103 episodes from 12 series that were made during its 6-year run, 33 survived from the archives, which included Episode 4 of Series 8, Episodes 5 & 9 of Series 9, The 1979 Christmas Special, Episodes 1, 3–5, 7–8 & 10–13 of Series 10, Episodes 1–7 & 9–14 of Series 11 and all 6 episodes of Series 12.
Poparound
References
External links
1975 British television series debuts
1986 British television series endings
1970s British children's television series
1980s British children's television series
British children's game shows
British television shows featuring puppetry
1970s British game shows
1980s British game shows
British television series based on American television series
ITV game shows
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Southern Television
Television shows produced by Central Independent Television
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz%20Kulik | Seymour "Buzz" Kulik (July 23, 1922 – January 13, 1999) was an American film director and producer. He directed 72 films and television shows, including the landmark CBS television network anthology series Playhouse 90 and several episodes of The Twilight Zone. Kulik went on to direct made-for-TV movies, such as Brian's Song
After leaving the army as a first lieutenant after World War II, Kulik went to work in the mail room at J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency in New York. He eventually saw a notice at work that they were looking for people to direct programs for a new medium called television, and Kulik responded. A lifelong baseball fan, he started directing the cameras at Yankee Stadium before starting a career directing live television programming such as Playhouse 90 and Lux Video Theater. He moved to Los Angeles in 1953 and eventually began directing some of the landmark series of the 1950s and 1960s including Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, Wagon Train, Rawhide, Dr. Kildare and The Defenders (for which he directed the pilot episode). He directed a dozen episodes of Twilight Zone, which brought him lasting fame and recognition among the legion of fans who religiously watch the Twilight Zone marathons that continue to air on holidays to this day.
Kulik also began directing feature films in the 1960s including Explosive Generation with William Shatner, Warning Shot with David Jansen, Villa Rides with Robert Mitchum, Yul Brynner, and Charles Bronson, and Riot with Gene Hackman and Jim Brown. He directed the first television mini-series, Vanished, with Richard Widmark and James Farentino. In 1971, he directed what many critics and fans feel is the greatest television film ever made, Brian's Song, for which he received "Best Director" honors from the Directors Guild of America. For several years in a row the lead actors in the films he directed won "Best Actor" of the year including Peter Ustinov for A Storm in Summer, James Caan for Brian's Song, Alan Alda for Kill Me if You Can, Susan Clark for Babe, and Anthony Hopkins for The Lindbergh Kidnapping. Some of the prominent long-form mini series he directed were From Here to Eternity with Natalie Wood and William Devane, Around the World in 80 Days with Pierce Brosnin and Peter Ustinov, and Kane and Abel with Peter Strauss.
In the 1970s and 1980s he also directed feature films including To Find a Man, Shamus with Burt Reynolds, and The Hunter with Steve McQueen.
Over the course of a career that lasted more than 40 years, Buzz Kulik established himself, and is remembered today, as one of the greatest television directors of all time.
Filmography
Collector's Item (1958 TV film)
Perry Mason Case of the Pint-Sized Client (1958 TV)
Perry Mason Case of the Dangerous Dowager (1959 TV)
The Explosive Generation (1961)
Kings of Broadway (1962 TV film)
The Yellow Canary (1963)
Ready for the People (1964)
Kentucky Jones (1964–1965 TV series)
Warning Shot (1967)
Campo 44 (1967 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Cloud%20Computing%20Interface | The Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) is a set of specifications delivered through the Open Grid Forum, for cloud computing service providers. OCCI has a set of implementations that act as proofs of concept. It builds upon World Wide Web fundamentals by using the Representational State Transfer (REST) approach for interacting with services.
Scope
The aim of the Open Cloud Computing Interface is the development of an open specification and API for cloud offerings. The focus was on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) based offerings but the interface can be extended to support Platform and Software as a Service offerings as well.
IaaS is one of three primary segments of the cloud computing industry in which compute, storage and network resources are provided as services. The API is based on a review of existing service-provider functionality and a set of use cases contributed by the working group. OCCI is a boundary API that acts as a service front-end to an IaaS provider’s internal infrastructure management framework. OCCI provides commonly understood semantics, syntax and a means of management in the domain of consumer-to-provider IaaS. It covers management of the entire life-cycle of OCCI-defined model entities and is compatible with existing standards such as the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI). Notably, it serves as an integration point for standardization efforts including Distributed Management Task Force, Internet Engineering Task Force and the Storage Networking Industry Association.
Context
OCCI began in March 2009 and was initially led by RabbitMQ and the Complutense University of Madrid. Today, the working group has over 250 members and includes numerous individuals, industry and academic parties. The OCCI operates under the umbrella of the Open Grid Forum (OGF), using a wiki and a mailing list for collaboration.
Goals
Interoperability: allow different Cloud providers to work together without data schema/format translation, facade/proxying between APIs and understanding and/or dependency on multiple APIs
Portability: no technical/vendor lock-in and enable services to move between providers allows clients to easily switch between providers based on business objectives (e.g., cost) with minimal technical costs, thus enabling and fostering competition.
Integration: the specification can be implemented with both the latest infrastructures or legacy ones.
Extensibility: thanks to the use of a meta-model and capabilities discovery features, an OCCI client is able to interact with any OCCI server using provider-specific OCCI extensions.
Specific Implementations
They implement specific extensions of OCCI for a particular service: IaaS, PaaS, brokering, etc.
Several implementations have been announced or released.
Generic Implementations (frameworks)
Here are frameworks to build OCCI APIs.
Complementing these are a variety of developer tools.
Alternatives
Alternative a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adejeania%20bicaudata | Adejeania bicaudata is a species of parasitic fly in the family Tachinidae. It is found in South America.
References
Further reading
Adejeania
Articles created by Qbugbot
Insects described in 1947 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet%20Society | Pet Society is a defunct social-network game developed by Playfish that could be played on Facebook. The game ranked as one of the most popular Facebook applications. Players could design their pets by choosing genders, names, colors and altering appearances. The user interacted with their pets through washing, brushing, petting and feeding.
The game was launched August 8, 2008 by Playfish and at its "peak had 50 million monthly players, 5 million daily players and made as much as $100,000 a day by selling in-game items." Electronic Arts acquired Playfish in November 2009. The game was scheduled to close on June 14, 2013; the server shut down on June 18.
An iOS version, Pet Society Vacation was released in 2011 with similar gameplay, but set on a tropical island with new settings like an underwater reef.
Gameplay
Players' pets could interact with each other within the "friend" network. Pets could visit the pets of their owner's friends and perform activities with these pets (washing, grooming, feeding, etc.) A pet could visit other pets as many times a day as it wished. The players received coins and Paw Points on their first visit of the day to each friend, but earn only Paw Points for subsequent visits. Participating in the Daily Lottery, visiting friends, winning awards, cleaning or playing with pets, winning hurdle races, or betting on the outcome of hurdle races also provided players with ways to earn coins. Visiting friends, buying items, and using the stadium earned players Paw Points.
Paw Points were akin to XP/EXP (Experience) in other social games of the sort; gaining sufficient paw points made the pet level up. When a pet leveled-up, the player received coins, new features and special statuses. During Pet Societys initial release, there were 34 levels. In 2009, after houses were enlarged to accommodate 10 rooms, 13 additional levels were added, bringing the total to 47. In August 2010, the level cap of Pet Society was raised to 100.
Some certain items were required to be bought at a certain level.
Reception
Gamezebo gave it 5 out of 5 stars, liking the content variety and fun unique activities, but warning the players aren't raising pets.
See also
Playfish
References
External links
Official blog
Official page on Playfish
Pet Society trailer on YouTube
2008 video games
Electronic Arts franchises
Facebook games
Free online games
Inactive online games
IOS games
Life simulation games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Playfish games
Products and services discontinued in 2013
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Virtual pet video games
Virtual world communities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Tofts | Chris M. N. Tofts (born 1964) is an English computer scientist.
Education
Chris Tofts studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Clare College, Cambridge, followed by a Diploma in Computer Science from the same college. He went on to do a PhD supervised by Robin Milner in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Career
Tofts' postdoctorate research saw some of the first applications of process algebra to the study of the behaviour of animals and disease processes, which led to his interest in the correctness of simulation models.
Tofts held lectureships at Swansea University (1992–94), the University of Manchester (1994–96), and the University of Leeds (1996–99). From 1999 to 2008 he was a scientist at Hewlett-Packard (HP) Research Laboratories in the UK. From 2008 to 2011 he was the Chief Mathematics Officer of Concinnitas Ltd before returning to HP.
Chris Tofts is a visiting Professor of Computer Science at Swansea University. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, as well as a past President of the BCTCS.
Books
Chris Tofts, Concurrency, Complexity and Performance, Springer, 2007. .
References
External links
Chris Tofts — Publications and Patents
1964 births
Living people
Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of Swansea University
Academics of the University of Manchester
Academics of the University of Leeds
Hewlett-Packard people
English computer scientists
English science writers
Formal methods people
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlock%20%28band%29 | Interlock was a British industrial metal band. It was formed in London in 1996 by John Tyrell (guitars/programming) and Syan (bass), and it disbanded in 2008.
Biography
Early history
Interlock was formed in 1996 by guitarist, programmer and songwriter John Tyrell. Taking his influence from bands such as Fear Factory, My Dying Bride and Nine Inch Nails, he was joined by the co-founder, and only other consistent member, Syan (bass). A demo, which was later to become known as demo '97 was recorded on a 4 track and Digital Compact Cassette and subsequently released in May 1997. Matthew Lee (vocals/lyrics/samples) and Syan, a friend of John, filling in on female vocals also featured on this demo. The band gained some attention from UK magazines and fanzines due to the use of electronics, male and female singers and the accompanying inlay; a full colour, photocopied, eight-page design from John and spray painted audio cassette.
They played some small tours of the UK despite issues with maintaining a stable line up. Early Interlock shows were marked by the absence of a live drummer, the band performing to a pre-recorded drum and sample track, sometimes joined onstage by various keyboard players and at one point a violinist.
Interlock self-released the Submerged EP in 1999, with new female singer Emmeline May to even more widespread magazine praise, gaining features in Kerrang!s 'scumscene' section and small features in Terrorizer. After a few shows in support of the EP, the band released a split album with neo-classical goth band Seventh Harmonic, remixing three of their songs and one of Interlock's own. In 2000 Matthew Lee left the band. Hal Sinden (vocals/lyrics), grandson of actor Donald Sinden, joined shortly after.
Death by Design
Interlock entered the studio in 2001 to record a split album with fellow London band, Needleye. The album Death by Design was recorded entirely by John under the Deepwater Production moniker, recording both Interlock's and Needleye's songs. It featured two original songs by each artist, two remixes of each other and a collaborative track. The CD was released in 2002 on the Armalyte Records label, with a full co-headline UK tour with Needleye. Future Kingsize Blues drummer, Tori Lucian joined Interlock on the tour. The band became regularly seen in Terrorizers end of year polls as "best unsigned band" and Hal Sinden as "most shaggable male", and in 2003 were part of a documentary on gothic culture Sex, Lies and Bondage Tape, first shown on Anglia TV.
crisis//reinvention
The band started writing new material as soon as they had confirmed their new drummer Matt Platts (ex Salem Orchid, ex Nightnurse) towards the end of 2002. Chris 'Static' Dixon (guitars) also joined at the start of 2004, due to John fracturing his arm and needing a backup guitarist.
The band started talking with Anticulture Records after airplay on Maz Star's Total Rock Radio show, which included a never officially released version of Björk's "Arm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Thompson%20%28sinologist%29 | Paul Mulligan Thompson (10 February 1931 – 12 June 2007) was a British sinologist and pioneer in the field of Chinese computer applications.
Biography
Paul Thompson was born at Xingtai in Hebei province, China, where his Northern Irish parents worked as missionaries with the China Inland Mission. He attended the Chefoo School, a Christian boarding school at Yantai in Shandong province, until November 1942 when the staff and students were interned at the Temple Hill Japanese Internment Camp. A few months later, in the summer of 1943, Thompson and his family were moved to the Weixian Internment Camp in Shandong (modern Weifang city), where they remained until liberated by American paratroopers in 1945. His family then moved back to Northern Ireland, and Thompson completed his schooling in Belfast.
After leaving school he travelled widely, and studied at the Free University of Amsterdam, the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis (where he married his wife, Marcia Cole, in 1952), and the U.S. Army Language School at Monterey, California, but he did not obtain a degree from any of these institutions. He also worked for several years as an interpreter in Japan and a teacher in Taiwan. In 1959 he was accepted into the University of Washington at Seattle, where he obtained a BA in 1960, and studied for his PhD on the lost book of Shenzi under Hellmut Wilhelm.
After receiving his PhD he taught at the University of Wisconsin from 1963 to 1970, and then in 1970 he was appointed to a position at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, where he remained until his retirement in 1996. He was a key figure, together with D. C. Lau, Angus Graham and Sarah Allan, in making SOAS a world-renowned centre for the teaching of Chinese philosophy during the 1970s and 1980s.
Thompson's major academic achievement was The Shen Tzu Fragments (1979), a work of textual scholarship in which he constructed a critical edition of the lost book of Shen Dao (probably originally composed during the early 3rd century BC) from the hundreds of quotations from it that are preserved in other Chinese texts. The methodology that he devised for analyzing the Shenzi fragments was based on the methods originally developed in Classical and Biblical scholarship, and was the first time that such methods had been applied to a classical Chinese text.
In addition to his work on early Chinese philosophy, Thompson was interested in the use of computers for sinological research, and in the early 1980s developed a Chinese text input system that used dynamic tables of statistical frequency to generate a list of candidate characters, thus laying the groundwork for the development of the most common Chinese language input systems in use today.
He died of cancer in 2007.
After his death, Thompson's family presented his library to the Centre for Excavated Texts and Ancient Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai. In 2009 a conference was held in his memory at Fudan University, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%20Upfal |
Eli Upfal is a computer science researcher, currently the Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He completed his undergraduate studies in mathematics and statistics at the Hebrew University, Israel in 1978, received an M.Sc. in computer science from the Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel in 1980, and completed his PhD in computer science at the Hebrew University in 1983 under Eli Shamir. He has made contributions in a variety of areas. Most of his work involves randomized and/or online algorithms, stochastic processes, or the probabilistic analysis of deterministic algorithms. Particular applications include routing and communications networks, computational biology, and computational finance.
He is responsible for a large body of work, including, as of May 2012, more than 150 publications in journals and conferences as well as many patents. He has won several prizes, including the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award and the Levinson Prize in Mathematical Sciences. In 2002, Eli Upfal, was inducted as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and in 2005 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He received, together with Yossi Azar, Andrei Broder, Anna Karlin, and Michael Mitzenmacher, the 2020 ACM Paris Kanellakis Award.
Eli is a coauthor of the book
References
External links
Eli Upfal's website
Living people
Theoretical computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Israeli computer scientists
Brown University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%3AScintilla | I:Scintilla is a post-industrial music band from Chicago, Illinois, currently consisting of Brittany Bindrim (vocals/lyrics), Jim Cookas (guitar/programming), Vincent Grech (drums), Dean Dunakin (bass) and Myles Arwine (guitar). They are currently signed to Belgian label Alfa Matrix.
To date, they have released four studio albums and four EPs.
History
Early years and The Approach (2002–2004)
I:Scintilla was conceptualized in Champaign, IL in Jim Cookas' bedroom in October 2002. In January 2003, Chad Mines joined the group as bassist followed shortly by Jason Allen on guitar and programming in March. Upon formation, they immediately began writing their debut album, The Approach while still searching for a vocalist. Many singers were auditioned before finding Brittany Bindrim, who they found to be a perfect fit. The album was finished and self-released on July 29, 2004. The album contained early versions of many songs that would appear on later albums.
Alfa-Matrix and Havestar (2005–2006)
After a previously full year of nonstop live performances, I:Scintilla was discovered and signed by Belgian electro label Alfa-Matrix. In March 2005, Jason Allen left the band and Chad Mines moved to guitar. Bethany Whisenhunt was brought on to play bass. The band continued to work on the release of its first EP, Havestar, while providing material for a future full-length album.
The Havestar EP was released by Alfa-Matrix in the summer of 2006. In addition to a few re-mastered songs from The Approach, remixes by Combichrist, Diskonnekted, Neikka RPM, Implant, and Klutae are included.
The Havestar EP also highlights the first collaboration with producer and artist Wade Alin, who is known for music works Christ Analogue, The Atomica Project, and Scanalyzer. This collaborative process adds a consistent working sound quality that carries forward to I:Scintilla's following full-length album Optics.
After its release, Havestar peaked at #13 on the Deutsche Alternative Charts Top 20 Singles list.
Optics and The Immortal Tour (2007–2008)
I:Scintilla released their second full-length album Optics in June 2007. The album consisted of many older, reworked songs as well as multiple new releases. Optics was released in single-CD format as well as a two-disc edition, containing a second disc entirely of remixes by bands such as Combichrist, Clan of Xymox, and Ego Likeness.
While this album was being made, Mines and Whisenhunt departed the band. Instead of replacing the members, Jim Cookas began programming the bass parts and played all of the guitar parts.
Optics peaked at #6 on the Deutsche Alternative Charts Top 10 Albums list, and was featured in multiple alternative magazines.
Preceding the album release, I:Scintilla performed at Wave-Gotik-Treffen in May 2007.
I:Scintilla joined with the then-Tallahassee-based darkwave band The Crüxshadows and Canadian electro act Ayria for the U.S. stretch of The Crüxshadows' Immortal Tour in 2008. At this point, the band i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20Network-to-Network%20Interface | The Private Network-to-Network Interface (PNNI) is a link-state routing protocol used in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. PNNI is similar to the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) used for IP routing.
PNNI is a suite of network protocols that can be used to discover an ATM network topology, create a database of topology information, and route calls over the discovered topology.
PNNI is a link-state routing protocol, which means that the protocol collects information about the current state of links and nodes in the network to build a network database. The PNNI network database can be used to determine the network structure and the current state of network components. To build the PNNI network database, each PNNI node must receive topology information from all the other devices in the network. To keep the database current, the node must receive regular updates from other nodes.
The PNNI protocol communicates the state of a PNNI network in PNNI Topology State Elements (PTSEs). PTSEs are discrete messages that contain information about one of the following types of network components:
PNNI nodes
Reachable addresses
PNNI links between nodes
To enable communications with other nodes, each switch needs to have all the PTSE information for each switch in the network. Each node is responsible for flooding out its own PTSE information to all the other switches in the network.
Since up-to-date PTSE information is required for optimal routing decisions to be made, there are several different mechanisms in place to help ensure that all nodes have reasonably accurate PTSE information. The five common reasons for updating PTSEs are as follows:
Resources administratively added, removed or altered on a node.
Resource failure such as a loss of signal (LOS) on a link.
A significant change in link resources due to virtual circuits (VCs) routing or .
Periodic updates defined by the PTSE refresh and PTSE lifetime interval timers.
A processor switch module (PXM) switchover.
PTSE information is passed between nodes using PNNI topology state packets (PTSPs). These packets utilize the routing control channel (RCC; VPI = 0 and VCI = 18) between adjacent nodes. The RCC is also used for Hello packets and other PNNI messages. If the switch is unable to establish the RCC with the adjacent node, then PTSE information is not exchanged. Once a node receives PTSE information, the node stores the contents, or element information, in the database. This information is used to generate precomputed routing tables that identify routes to other network devices. PNNI uses the Dijkstra's algorithm for shortest path first (SPF) calculation. The PNNI database is also used to perform on-demand routing when the appropriate routing table does not contain a viable path.
PNNI measures line capacities and delays in addition to simple cost metrics.
References
External links
ITU-T recommendations
Networking standards
Routing protocols
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov%20Railway | Kirov Railway (; until 1935 Murman Railway) is a broad gauge Russian railway network that links the Murman Coast and Murmansk city (in the north) and Saint Petersburg (in the south). The railway is operated by the Arktika passenger train. The total distance between Saint Petersburg and Murmansk is , the section between Petrozavodsk and Kola having a length of . It has 52 stations. The line is of vital military importance because of Murmansk being an ice-free port on the Arctic Sea. The northern part between Petrozavodsk and Kola was built in 1915–1917, due to a lack of workers under assignment of an increasing number of German and Austrian war prisoners. In 1941–1943 the central part between Svir and Petrozavodsk was occupied by the Finnish Army under orders from Mannerheim during the Second World War. Originally called the Murman Railway, the line was renamed the Kirov Railway in 1935 in honor of Sergei Kirov, a prominent Bolshevik leader of the Russian revolution, who had been assassinated the year before. The railway was electrified in 2005.
See also
Murmansk–Nikel Railway
List of named passenger trains of Russia
External links
Railway lines in Russia
Rail transport in Murmansk Oblast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blepharipa | Blepharipa is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Species
Blepharipa albocincta (Mesnil, 1970)
Blepharipa angustifrons (Mesnil, 1967)
Blepharipa auricaudata (Townsend, 1933)
Blepharipa auripilis (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863)
Blepharipa carbonata (Mesnil, 1970)
Blepharipa chaetoparafacialis Chao, 1982
Blepharipa chryseps (Malloch, 1935)
Blepharipa coesiofasciata (Macquart, 1851)
Blepharipa fulviventris (Macquart, 1851)
Blepharipa fusiformis (Walker, 1849)
Blepharipa jacobsoni (Townsend, 1927)
Blepharipa latigena (Mesnil, 1970)
Blepharipa limitarsis (Walker, 1861)
Blepharipa manipurensis Lahiri, 2004
Blepharipa mutans (Walker, 1861)
Blepharipa nigrina (Mesnil, 1970)
Blepharipa orbitalis (Townsend, 1927)
Blepharipa pauciseta (Mesnil, 1957)
Blepharipa paulista (Townsend, 1929)
Blepharipa peruana (Townsend, 1929)
Blepharipa pratensis (Meigen, 1824)
Blepharipa schineri (Mesnil, 1939)
Blepharipa sericariae (Rondani, 1870)
Blepharipa sugens (Wiedemann, 1830)
Blepharipa tibialis (Chao, 1963)
Blepharipa wainwrighti (Baranov, 1932)
Blepharipa zebina (Walker, 1849)
References
Tachinidae
Brachycera genera
Taxa named by Camillo Rondani
Diptera of South America
Diptera of North America
Diptera of Asia
Diptera of Europe
Diptera of Australasia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceromasia | Ceromasia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Species
C. auricaudata Townsend, 1908
C. hybreas (Walker, 1849)
C. rubrifrons (Macquart, 1834)
References
Tachinidae genera
Exoristinae
Taxa named by Camillo Rondani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaplagia | Metaplagia is a genus of bristle flies in the family Tachinidae.
Species
Metaplagia brevicornis Brooks, 1945
Metaplagia cordata (Reinhard, 1959)
Metaplagia facialis (Reinhard, 1956)
Metaplagia latifrons (Reinhard, 1956)
Metaplagia occidentalis Coquillett, 1895
Metaplagia orientalis (Townsend, 1915)
References
Diptera of North America
Dexiinae
Tachinidae genera
Taxa named by Daniel William Coquillett |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phryxe | Phryxe is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Species
Phryxe caudata (Rondani, 1859)
Phryxe erythrostoma (Hartig, 1838)
Phryxe heraclei (Meigen, 1824)
Phryxe hirta (Bigot, 1880)
Phryxe magnicornis (Zetterstedt, 1838)
Phryxe nemea (Meigen, 1824)
Phryxe patruelis Mesnil, 1953
Phryxe pecosensis (Townsend, 1926)
Phryxe prima (Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1889)
Phryxe semicaudata Herting, 1959
Phryxe setifacies (Villeneuve, 1910)
Phryxe tenebrata Herting, 1977
Phryxe tolucana Reinhard, 1956
Phryxe unicolor (Villeneuve, 1908)
Phryxe vulgaris (Fallén, 1810)
References
Tachinidae
Brachycera genera
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy
Diptera of North America
Diptera of Asia
Diptera of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllophilopsis | Phyllophilopsis is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Species
Phyllophilopsis albifacies (Bigot, 1889)
Phyllophilopsis anomala (Townsend, 1939)
Phyllophilopsis caudata (Townsend, 1927)
Phyllophilopsis disgracilis Nihei & Dios, 2016
Phyllophilopsis dolichotarsis (Curran, 1934)
Phyllophilopsis evanida Reinhard, 1958
Phyllophilopsis fasciata (Curran, 1934)
Phyllophilopsis gracilis (Townsend, 1919)
Phyllophilopsis longipes (Thompson, 1968)
Phyllophilopsis longitarsus (Wulp, 1891)
Phyllophilopsis medinops (Townsend, 1934)
Phyllophilopsis neotropica (Townsend, 1927)
Phyllophilopsis nitens (Coquillett, 1899)
Phyllophilopsis pallidicornis (Bigot, 1889)
Phyllophilopsis similis (Townsend, 1934)
Phyllophilopsis tenuifrons Curran, 1934
References
Diptera of South America
Diptera of North America
Exoristinae
Tachinidae genera
Taxa named by Charles Henry Tyler Townsend |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoxanthozona | Pseudoxanthozona is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Species
Pseudoxanthozona denudata Townsend, 1931
Distribution
Venezuela.
References
Tachinidae
Brachycera genera
Monotypic Brachycera genera
Taxa named by Charles Henry Tyler Townsend
Diptera of South America
Endemic fauna of Venezuela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uromedina | Uromedina is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Species
Uromedina atrata (Townsend, 1927)
Uromedina caudata Townsend, 1926
Uromedina eumorphophaga (Baranov, 1934)
Uromedina rufipes Shima, 1985
References
Diptera of Asia
Exoristinae
Tachinidae genera
Taxa named by Charles Henry Tyler Townsend |
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