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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20One | Computer One is a science fiction novel of the near future by British novelist Warwick Collins, published in 1993. The novel charts the discovery by Professor Enzo Yakuda (the main protagonist) that the international civil network of computers known as "Computer One" will come to see humanity as a threat and move to eliminate it.
Plot summary
The novel describes a near utopia in which almost everything is automated by Computer One, with humanity's primary struggle being what to do with all its leisure time when there is very little work to be done.
Though analogous to the Internet, the Computer One of the novel assumes a far greater unity of purpose and truth. Whereas the content of sites on the World Wide Web varies greatly and typically reflects the views of individual authors, Computer One provides a single authoritative source of information with no ambiguity.
References in popular culture
In 1983, Australian band Dear Enemy released a song titled "Computer One". The song questions the ability of Computer One to know and instruct where matters of love and human motive are concerned.
Computer One by Warwick Collins on Goodreads
Sources
1993 British novels
1993 science fiction novels
British science fiction novels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larkin%20Community%20Hospital | Larkin Community Hospital (LCH) is a for-profit 146-bed general medical, surgical and psychiatric teaching hospital. In the last year with available data, LCH had about 7,523 emergency department visits and 5,792 admissions. Physicians at the hospital performed 794 inpatient and 739 outpatient surgeries.
LCH is the only hospital in Miami-Dade County with an Area of Critical Need designation by the Florida Board of Medicine. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
The hospital is part of Larkin Health System, an integrated healthcare delivery system accredited by the Joint Commission with locations in South Miami, Hialeah and Hollywood, Florida. This network of acute care hospitals provide a complete continuum of healthcare services, including a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, and home health agencies in Miami-Dade and Broward County.
History
In 2013 LCH was named Top Urban Hospital by The Leapfrog Group.
In March 2014, LCH began accepting applicants for its new Advance Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) residency program.
In February 2016, Larkin Community Hospital acquired Palm Springs General Hospital now called Larkin Community Hospital Palm Springs Campus, located at 1475 W 49th Pl, Hialeah, FL 33012.
Services
The Miami Neuroscience Center at Larkin offers Gamma Knife® therapy. Gamma Knife is a non-invasive neurological procedure used to treat brain tumors, head and neck cancer, and neurological conditions such as trigeminal neuralgia and arteriovenous malformations.
The Dermatology Center at Larkin provides care for dermatological conditions, such as immunobullous disorders, collagen vascular diseases and papulosquamous disorders. The center also treats cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and chronic graft vs host disease. This center is equipped with photopheresis, hydrotherapy and phototherapy units.
The Larkin Outpatient Multi Specialty Center offers services in a variety of specialities, including: neuromusculoskeletal medicine, sports medicine, orthopedics, cardiology, hematology, and oncology.
Graduate medical education
Larkin Community Hospital operates a number of residency training and fellowship programs for newly graduated physicians. The residencies train physicians specializing in: dermatology, internal medicine, neurology, ophthalmology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry, radiology, family medicine, gastroenterology, rheumatology, hematology & oncology, and surgery. All programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). LCH also operates podiatry and dentistry residency programs. As of 2019, the hospital had 350 medical residents in 30 different programs.
The resident physicians at the Larkin Community Hospital obtain training and experience working at affiliated training sites such as:
Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, FL
Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
Borinquen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20mural | Computer-aided mural (CAM) is the use of computer technology for designing mural art and wall decoration resulting in the frescography procedure, which was invented in 1998 by German muralist Rainer Maria Latzke. CAM may be used to design completely individual illusionary or decorative mural art. It is especially useful for artists who re-use certain images in each project, but also for people who cannot draw or paint at all.
Properties of CAM
When starting a new project CAM software requests a user to fill in measurements, these will usually be of the wall which the frescography is later mounted to.
Once the project has been created the user may choose from a library of images which are categorized into themes and motives.
The library will either be filled with content by the user himself, or the user can purchase a CAM software which is already filled by the manufacturer, the Dreamworlds Design Studio.
The user creates designs by placing the motifs on the workspace. By giving the motifs layer attributes, it is possible to put image elements such as skies or oceans in the background and a beach or vegetation in the foreground. With additional options such as re-sizing and cropping individual motifs, a design gains depth and realistic proportions.
To avoid long waiting times when selecting new motifs CAM software uses low-resolution preview images. These are often only a hundredth of the original size, yet still large enough on a computer screen. After a design is completed it is converted into a PSD where each motif is automatically placed into its own layer to allow further changes and editing to be made with Adobe Systems's Photoshop.
History and development
In the past, standard image editing software such as Photoshop or Illustrator were used to digitally create wall decoration such as theatre backdrops or billboards. The market for this type of art was scarce due to computers being expensive, and not being able to cope with the high resolution image files.
Only recent advances in computer and hardware technology allow artists to scan and print their work in very high and detailed quality.
The last hurdle for artists to overcome was the large size a high-resolution image would produce. Even though there are no more problems cutting out individual images- to actually assemble several large images to create a design is still a challenge.
That is why CAM software not only works as design software, but is also a data management tool. In the front-office of the software the user will be working with low resolution files (GIF or PNG to keep transparency). Once a design is finished it is rendered or converted back into a PSD file using the images maximum resolution and converting their color-coding from RGB to CMYK.
Computer hardware and operating systems
Today most Computer-Aided Mural software runs on Windows based PCs. Recent development in Emulator technologies and Apple's switch to Intel based hardware provide the option of running C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arff | Arff or ARFF may refer to:
Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF)
Attribute-Relation File Format (ARFF), an input file format used by the machine learning tool Weka (machine learning) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACS3 | The MACS3 Loading Computer System is a computer controlled loading system for commercial vessels, developed by Navis. Prior to October, 2017 it was offered by Interschalt maritime systems GmbH, before by Seacos Computersysteme & Software GmbH.
MACS3 consists of computer hardware and a range of software, which aim to minimize the operational load while loading a vessel, and to prevent any hard limitations from being breached.
Design principles
The software architecture and user interface of the MACS3 Loading Computer System are designed according to the standard ISO 16155:2006 Ships and marine technology - Computer applications - Shipboard loading instruments, and to the following Rules and Recommendations:
DNVGL Class Guideline DNVGL-CG-0053 : Approval and certification of the software of loading computer systems
ABS Guidance Notes for the Application of Ergonomics to Marine Systems
BV Rules for the Classification of Steel Ships, Pt C, Ch 3, Sec 3 "COMPUTER BASED SYSTEMS"
IACS Recommendation on Loading Instruments (No 48)
Software structure
The software of MACS3 Loading Computer System includes the MACS3 Basic Loading Program, performing functions of Categories A and B according to the ISO 16155:2006 and (optionally) a range of additional modules and programs, performing functions of Category C:
PolarCode Basic Module
BELCO Container Management Module
DAGO Dangerous Goods Modules
StowMan Stowage Planning
SEALASH Lashing Module
MIXCARGO General Cargo Module
RoRo Module
Crane Operation Module
Bulk Carrier Modules
Tanker Modules
BallastMAN Ballast Water Exchange Module
Voyage History
DastyMAN Damage Stability
Online Program (Tanks Online)
The system runs under Windows 10 Professional 64Bit.
Programs and Features
MACS3 Basic Loading Program
MACS3 Basic Loading Program is designed for all vessel types (containership, tanker, Bulk carrier, general cargo, RoRo, Passenger ship) in accordance with the unified IACS Requirement L5 "Onboard Computers for Stability Calculations". It is approved by all leading classification societies:
LR,
ABS,
DNVGL,
BV,
ClassNK,
KR,
CCS.
MACS3 Basic Loading Program performs:
Ship stability and strength calculations, covering all pertinent international regulations like e.g. IMO A.749
Numerical and graphical results for metacentric height GM , trim, heel, draft, shear forces, bending moments and torsion
Metacentric height GM check against various approved GM requirement curves
GZ curve for dynamic stability
Automatic wind pressure calculation
Automatic ballast tank optimization
Tank plan with visual editing
Optional online measurement of tank levels and draft (sold separately)
User interface with tabbed main window for multiple views, all fully customizable
Screen and print reports in PDF, HTML and XML formats
MACS3 Basic Loading Program supports client–server software architecture for distributed cargo management and allows the complete loading condition (container, tanks, general cargo and constant items) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris%20%28software%29 | Osiris Serverless Portal System (usually abbreviated as Osiris sps or Osiris) is a freeware program used to create web portals distributed via peer-to-peer networking (P2P) and autonomous from centralized servers. It is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems.
Unlike common tools used to publish information on the Internet, such as content management systems, Internet forums or blogs based on a centralized system, the data of an Osiris portal are shared (via P2P) between all its participants. Because all the contents necessary for navigation are replicated on every computer, the portal can be used without a central server. Thus, the portal is always accessible because it is immune to denial of service attacks, Internet service provider limitations (such as traffic shaping and censorship) and hardware failure. In this way, a web portal can be operated at very low costs and free from external control.
History
Osiris was started by a developer named "Berserker" as an outgrowth of KeyForum. Osiris was written in C++ and designed to be decentralized, indestructible and expand beyond a simple a web forum. "Clodo" joined the project several months later.
Osiris was officially announced on October 2, 2006 after 2 years of development. The team is composed of 2 developers (Clodo & Berserker), two employees (DanielZ and Rei.Andrea) and a group of supporters/beta-testers (many of whom were already on the team KeyForum).
Starting from version 0.12, Osiris has become multi-platform, this was possible by migrating from the Visual Studio to the wxWidgets library.
Key features
Osiris is the result of a union between peer-to-peer (P2P) technology and web portals.
It allows anyone to create a web portal for free, without depending on anyone or needing special technical knowledge.
Allows one to create content anonymously, allowing one to contribute to freedom of expression and speech.
Osiris offers a full-text search engine that allows searching across all portals' content.
Low resource utilization: with the increase of users in a portal there is a reduction of the workload on single nodes, as work is distributed among all network nodes.
Uses P2P infrastructure (based on Kademlia) for the portals distribution, a field where there are few and difficult-to-use alternatives.
Administration is based on the reputations system, which is a new way to manage users in a distributed system without using central servers.
Basic concepts
Osiris differs from classic P2P programs in that it is focused on security and distributed data management.
Security
The system is anonymous. It is not possible to make an association between a user and their IP address, hence one cannot trace the person who created a content.
Even with physical access to an Osiris installation it is impossible to trace the actual user without knowing his password.
2048-bit digital keys guarantee the authenticity of content (digitally signed in order to prevent counterf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Hunter | National Hunter is a British credit fraud checking agency that operates an "anti-fraud data sharing system", operated by Experian Decision Analytics, on behalf of its members, around 90 British financial institutions, including banks, building societies, mortgage lenders and finance companies. Information entered by applicants for credit within one of the member organisations is recorded in the system, and can be cross-checked against other applications.
For instance, a person applying for a loan with one company and stating their salary as £10,000 could have their application rejected if in a subsequent application for a different product from a different company they stated their salary as £100,000. The process is not fully automated in the way most credit scoring is – suspicious applications are flagged by National Hunter and then checked before an institution makes the decision to decline an application. According to Barclaycard, "Every night, we send it almost all our card applications. Next morning, its computers send them back, either with OK or showing a potential fraud, If it's the latter, then we might decide to contact the applicant, although that may depend on other factors."
Individuals have a statutory right to obtain a copy of the information held by the company about them, in accordance with the Data Protection Act. National Hunter recommends applicants request their credit report as a first step in finding out why they have been rejected for credit but the credit report will not show the data that is on National Hunter, indicating why a lender thinks a customer's application is fraudulent.
The system was set up in 1993, by MCL Software of Southport, Merseyside, now an Experian subsidiary. The Guardian newspaper has described National Hunter as the UK's "secret credit reference agency".
References
External links
Companies based in Stoke-on-Trent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes%20interpolation | Barnes interpolation, named after Stanley L. Barnes, is the interpolation of unevenly spread data points from a set of measurements of an unknown function in two dimensions into an analytic function of two variables. An example of a situation where the Barnes scheme is important is in weather forecasting where measurements are made wherever monitoring stations may be located, the positions of which are constrained by topography. Such interpolation is essential in data visualisation, e.g. in the construction of contour plots or other representations of analytic surfaces.
Introduction
Barnes proposed an objective scheme for the interpolation of two dimensional data using a multi-pass scheme. This provided a method to interpolating sea-level pressures across the entire United States of America, producing a synoptic chart across the country using dispersed monitoring stations. Researchers have subsequently improved the Barnes method to reduce the number of parameters required for calculation of the interpolated result, increasing the objectivity of the method.
The method constructs a grid of size determined by the distribution of the two dimensional data points. Using this grid, the function values are calculated at each grid point. To do this the method utilises a series of Gaussian functions, given a distance weighting in order to determine the relative importance of any given measurement on the determination of the function values. Correction passes are then made to optimise the function values, by accounting for the spectral response of the interpolated points.
Method
Here we describe the method of interpolation used in a multi-pass Barnes interpolation.
First pass
For a given grid point i, j the interpolated function g(xi, yi) is first approximated by the inverse weighting of the data points. To do this as weighting values is assigned to each Gaussian for each grid point, such that
where is a falloff parameter that controls the width of the Gaussian function. This parameter is controlled by the characteristic data spacing, for a fixed Gaussian cutoff radius wij = e−1 giving Δn such that:
The initial interpolation for the function from the measured values then becomes:
Second pass
The correction for the next pass then utilises the difference between the observed field and the interpolated values at the measurement points to optimise the result:
It is worth to note that successive correction steps can be used in order to achieve better agreement between the interpolated function and the measured values at the experimental points.
Parameter selection
Although described as an objective method, there are many parameters which control the interpolated field. The choice of Δn, grid spacing Δx and as well influence the final result. Guidelines for the selection of these parameters have been suggested, however the final values used are free to be chosen within these guidelines.
The data spacing used in the analysis, Δn may be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai%20Jack%20%28character%29 | Samurai Jack, sometimes addressed as The Samurai or simply Jack, is a sobriquet adopted by the titular protagonist of the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim animated television series Samurai Jack (20012004; 2017). He was created by Genndy Tartakovsky and is voiced by Phil LaMarr. The character is introduced as a Japanese prince raised since youth as a samurai warrior, who trains under numerous teachers in a variety of skills in order to destroy the demon Aku with his divinely crafted sword. Seconds before he can kill Aku, the demon sends him eons into the future, where Aku's future self rules all of Earth unopposed. Adopting the alias "Jack", the samurai makes it his mission to find a way back to his time and prevent Aku's post-apocalyptic dystopia.
Conception and character
Samurai Jack, as a character, was originally conceived by the series creator Genndy Tartakovsky. The basic premise of Samurai Jack comes from Tartakovsky's childhood fascination with samurai culture and the bushido code, as well as a recurring dream where he'd wander a post-apocalyptic Earth with a samurai sword and travel the world fighting mutants with his crush. The show is meant to evoke 1970s cinematography, as well as classic Hollywood films such as Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia and Spartacus. Thematic and visual inspirations come from Frank Miller's comic book series Rōnin, including the premise of a master-less samurai warrior thrown into a dystopic future in order to battle a shape-shifting demon. Similarly, the episode "Jack and the Spartans" was specifically inspired by Miller's graphic novel 300 that retold the Battle of Thermopylae. Cartoon Network executive Mike Lazzo recalled Tartakovsky pitching him the series with Phil LaMarr as Jack as the main character: "He said, 'Hey, remember David Carradine in Kung Fu? Wasn't that cool?' and I was like, 'Yeah, that's really cool.' That was literally the pitch." Cartoon Network billed [Samurai Jack] as a series "that is cinematic in scope and that incorporates action, humor, and intricate artistry."
Storylines
After his father is captured and his homeland taken over by the demon lord Aku, the child who would become known as "Samurai Jack" was trained to be the ultimate samurai by teachers from various cultures around the world in order to wield his family's sword against Aku. After reuniting with his mother as an adult, he leaves to destroy Aku using his father's sword. Seconds before he can destroy Aku, the demon casts the samurai into the far future, in which Aku reigns supreme. Adopting a name for the first time, "Jack", Jack fights the forces of Aku for the following fifty years, as he attempts to both destroy Aku in the future and find his way back to the past to destroy Aku there.
The Premiere Movie
Part I: The Beginning
Jack was born a prince to his father's empire, in an era greatly resembling Japan's Edo Period in appearance, albeit with culture closer to the Nara and Heian periods, shortly after Aku was sealed awa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yenka | Yenka is a suite of educational software products which allows students to simulate scientific experiments, create mathematical models, design electronic circuits or learn computer programming. Yenka is developed by Crocodile Clips Ltd. The software is based around a variety of subjects such as computer programming and chemistry.
Features
Yenka uses a unified interface to model reactions in scientific and technological subject areas, often in 3D. The software is intended to display results in real time or simulated time at 0.1x or 10x speed, replicating actual results (for example, a completed circuit will illuminate a light-emitting diode (LED), but applying too much electric current will destroy it). Yenka also allows educators to design lessons and interactive content for students.
References
Educational software
Educational software companies
Science education software
Software for children |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20M.%20Chambers | John M. Chambers may refer to:
John Chambers (statistician) (John McKinley Chambers), creator of the S programming language and core member of the R programming language project
John M. Chambers (politician), Irish-American businessman and politician from New York
See also
John Chambers (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Crime%20and%20Intellectual%20Property%20Section | The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) is a section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in charge of investigating computer crime (hacking, viruses, worms) and intellectual property crime. They are additionally responsible for prosecuting privacy invasions by criminals such as hackers, cyberstalkers, and purveyors of mobile spyware, and specializing in the search and seizure of digital evidence in computers and on networks.
CCIPS has been responsible for:
the prosecution of infamous hackers such as Albert Gonzalez, who led a hacking ring that stole over 40 million debit and credit card numbers by infiltrating major payment processor and retail networks across the country,
the multi-nation effort that disrupted the "Gameover ZeuS" Botnet and "CryptoLocker" Ransomware scheme that was connected to the indictment of the alleged Russian cybercriminal Evgeniy Bogachev,
obtaining a conviction that was handed down by a New Jersey jury in the case of Christopher Rad, who organized an international securities fraud ring and stock manipulation through Botnets,
the indictment of Kim Dotcom, who operated Megaupload.com, a website that enabled large scale online copyright infringement and digital piracy,
and working with various U.S. Attorney's Offices across the nation as well as a number of international partners to prosecute "Darknet market" websites hosted by the Tor network.
References
Federal law enforcement agencies of the United States
United States intellectual property law
Computer law organizations
United States Department of Justice agencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATP | NATP may refer to:
National Agricultural Technology Project, India
National Association of Tax Professionals, United States
Network address and port translation
New American Tea Party, United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Drama%20Network | European Drama Network is a producer and online distributor of modern movies of classic plays and texts. Founded by producer Simon M. Woods in 2007, its first film was The Mandrake Root, based on the play The Mandrake by Niccolò Machiavelli in 1518, and directed by Malachi Bogdanov. In a co-production with Warwick Business School it produced a short comedy The Inferno Show presents Machiavelli The Prince of Comedy with Machiavelli trapped in hell and finding it not like his dream. Currently the company is developing the movie From Ithaca With Love The Odyssey based on Homer's The Odyssey which will be set in the modern day but made in Ancient Greek and Latin and will be subtitled into 40 languages and distributed free to every school and university in the world. The film is loosely based on a play of the same name produced by the company's founder as part of the New Generation arts Festival in Birmingham in 2006.
European drama network was founded with the aim of making modern movies from classic plays and bringing them to a global audience via the internet, because many these plays and stories would struggle to find an outlet in mainstream cinema or TV.
References
External links
European Drama Network website
Video production companies
Companies based in Birmingham, West Midlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20bookmarking | Enterprise bookmarking is a method for Web 2.0 users to tag, organize, store, and search bookmarks of both web pages on the Internet and data resources stored in a distributed database or fileserver. This is done collectively and collaboratively in a process by which users add tag (metadata) and knowledge tags.
In early versions of the software, these tags are applied as non-hierarchical keywords, or terms assigned by a user to a web page, and are collected in tag clouds.
Examples of this software are Connectbeam and Dogear. New versions of the software such as Jumper 2.0 and Knowledge Plaza expand tag metadata in the form of knowledge tags that provide additional information about the data and are applied to structured and semi-structured data and are collected in tag profiles.
History
Enterprise bookmarking is derived from Social bookmarking that got its modern start with the launch of the website del.icio.us in 2003. The first major announcement of an enterprise bookmarking platform was the IBM Dogear project, developed in Summer 2006. Version 1.0 of the Dogear software was announced at Lotusphere 2007, and shipped later that year on June 27 as part of IBM Lotus Connections. The second significant commercial release was Cogenz in September 2007.
Since these early releases, Enterprise bookmarking platforms have diverged considerably. The most significant new release was the Jumper 2.0 platform, with expanded and customizable knowledge tagging fields.
Differences
Versus social bookmarking
In a social bookmarking system, individuals create personal collections of bookmarks and share their bookmarks with others. These centrally stored collections of Internet resources can be accessed by other users to find useful resources. Often these lists are publicly accessible, so that other people with similar interests can view the links by category or by the tags themselves. Most social bookmarking sites allow users to search for bookmarks which are associated with given "tags", and rank the resources by the number of users which have bookmarked them.
Enterprise bookmarking is a method of tagging and linking any information using an expanded set of tags to capture knowledge about data. It collects and indexes these tags in a web-infrastructure knowledge base server residing behind the firewall. Users can share knowledge tags with specified people or groups, shared only inside specific networks, typically within an organization. Enterprise bookmarking is a knowledge management discipline that embraces Enterprise 2.0 methodologies to capture specific knowledge and information that organizations consider proprietary and are not shared on the public Internet.
Tag management
Enterprise bookmarking tools also differ from social bookmarking tools in the way that they often face an existing taxonomy. Some of these tools have evolved to provide Tag management which is the combination of uphill abilities (e.g. faceted classification, predefined tags, etc. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatoire%20de%20musique%20et%20d%27art%20dramatique%20du%20Qu%C3%A9bec | The Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec (CMADQ) is a public network of nine state-subsidised schools offering higher education in music and theatre in Quebec, Canada. The organization was established in 1942 as a branch of the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec by the government of Quebec during the premiership of Maurice Duplessis. Orchestra conductor Wilfrid Pelletier and composer Claude Champagne are credited for their zeal in promoting this project, and the two men led the organization as director and assistant director for its first several years. The organization's current director general is Nathalie Letendre.
The first two conservatoires in the CMADQ network were for music and were established in Montreal in 1943 and Quebec City in 1944. During the 1950s the organization founded additional schools for the theatre arts in both those cities, followed by four additional music conservatoires in 1967 in Chicoutimi, Hull, Trois-Rivières, and Val-d'Or. The seventh and last school for music to be added was in Rimouski in 1973. Many of Canada's most successful musicians and artists of the theatre of the 20th and 21st centuries have been trained or taught at these schools.
History
During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Canadian composer Claude Champagne put together a large report on music education. This report was presented to the Quebec government by Champagne and conductor Wilfrid Pelletier with the hopes of establishing Canadian institutes of higher learning for music. The report closely examined music education in Europe as well as in Canada and plans were soon formed to establish a network of state-subsidized schools which would be modelled after European conservatoires, particularly the Conservatoire de Paris. On 29 May 1942 The Conservatory Act ('Loi du conservatoire') was passed by the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, which allocated a $30,000 budget to form the CMADQ's first school, the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (CMQM). The CMQM opened its doors in January 1943 with its first round of courses, which were held at the Saint-Sulpice Library. Pelletier was the school's first director and Champagne the first assistant director.
With the successful opening of the CMQM, the CMADQ, under Pelletier's leadership, began plans to establish a similar conservatoire in Quebec City, the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec. These plans were swiftly carried out and the school's first day of classes occurred on 17 January 1944 with Pelletier also serving as this school's first director. Most of the conservatoire's original faculty were also teachers at the CMQM and commuted back and forth between the two schools during its early years.
Originally the CMADQ was only concerned with musical education, but Pelletier felt that Quebec needed conservatoires for studies in theatre as well. He proposed the idea to the Quebec government and was met with resistance. However, he won the ear of Premier Mauric |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper%20Stars | Bumper Stars is an online, social, arcade game published on select social networking sites. Developed by Large Animal Games, Bumper Stars was released on April 24, 2007 on the social networking website Facebook. The game was later released on Bebo and MySpace. Stand-alone versions of Bumper Stars are also available on Candystand and Shockwave. Since its release, over 20 million games have been played.
Bumper Stars was featured as a top ten addictive game on Facebook by industry insiders on May 6, 2009.
Bumper Stars was a showcased finalist at the 2008 Electronic Entertainment Expo as part of IndieCade '08.
Gameplay
Bumper Stars is described as a hybrid of pool and arcade games. While the aiming process is similar to billiards, the resulting character action mimics pinball. The player clicks the Star, drags the mouse to aim, and then releases the Star. The object of the game is for a player’s "Star" (character) to consume as much available food product as possible within three shots, while hitting the "bumpers"(large, round, stationary items on the screen) to earn additional points. Special bumpers add a multiplier to the player’s score when hit. Players looking to maximize scores will try to hit as many special bumpers in a single shot as possible. Bonus points are earned when all special bumpers disappear and when the player clears a level in a single or two shots.
Special bumpers add a multiplier to the player’s score when hit. Players attempting to maximize scores will try to hit as many special bumpers in a single shot as possible. Bonus points are earned when all special bumpers disappear and when the player clears a level in a single or two shots.
Players will earn credits in solo games each time they play (once a day for starting the game) and for achieving a new high score. In challenge games the winner receives credits based on the number of challenge participants.
Game Features
The Store
Each new player begins with default items, including a green arena, basic bumpers, fruit, and the character Bumpy Beaver. Players may add items through purchase in the game’s Store. The Store contains characters, background settings (also referred to as ‘arenas’) bumpers, and food products for use in game. Each player may purchase items with either credits (earned by playing games and winning challenges) or Benjees (a game currency developed by Large Animal Games requiring purchase through a third party).
Achievements
Players are awarded achievements for outstanding game play such as earning a high score or playing challenges. Players are rewarded with credits for earning achievements. Achievements are located in the My Stuff tab or the player information box and are visible to other players once earned.
Leaderboards
Bumper Stars features extensive score keeping between friends and the rest of Bumper Stars players across all social networks the game is published on. Scores are kept based on average score, best score, # of game friends, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries%20Brouwer | Andries Evert Brouwer (born 1951) is a Dutch mathematician and computer programmer, Professor Emeritus at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is known as the creator of the greatly expanded 1984 to 1985 versions of the roguelike computer game Hack that formed the basis for NetHack. He is also a Linux kernel hacker. He is sometimes referred to by the handle aeb.
Biography
Born in Amsterdam, Brouwer attended the gymnasium, and obtained his MSc in mathematics at the University of Amsterdam in 1971. In 1976 he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Vrije Universiteit with a thesis entitled "Treelike Spaces and Related Topological Spaces", under the supervision of Maarten Maurice and Pieter Baayen, both of whom were in turn students of Johannes de Groot. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University.
After graduation Brouwer started his academic career at the Mathematisch Centrum, later Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. From 1986 to 2012 he was Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).
Work
Brouwer's varied research interests include several branches of discrete mathematics, particularly graph theory, finite geometry and coding theory.
He has published dozens of papers in graph theory and other areas of combinatorics, many of them in collaboration with other researchers. His co-authors include at least 9 of the co-authors of Paul Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 2.
Hack
In December 1984, while at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), he made the first public release of Hack on Usenet. Hack was an implementation of Rogue originally written in 1982 by Jay Fenlason and a few others, but Brouwer heavily modified and expanded it. He distributed a total of four versions of Hack between December 1984 and July 1985.
The source code was released as free software, and it was widely copied, played, and ported to multiple computer platforms. When Mike Stephenson brought together a large development team via Usenet to produce an enhanced version in 1987 incorporating changes from many of the Hack derivatives, they respected Brouwer's wishes by renaming their game NetHack, as Brouwer might "...eventually release a new version of his own."
Linux kernel
Brouwer has also been involved with the development of Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. He was previously the maintainer of the man pager program man and the maintainer of the Linux man-pages project (from 1995 to 2004), and he is a kernel maintainer in the areas of disk geometry and partition handling.
Brouwer also serves as specialist in security aspects of Unix and Linux for EiPSI (Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information), TU/e's information security research institute.
Selected publications
References
External links
Brouwer's University home page
Brouwer's Hack page at CWI
1951 births
Living people
Dutch computer programmers
Dutch mathematicians
Graph theorists
Linux kernel programmers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrological%20optimization | Hydrological optimization applies mathematical optimization techniques (such as dynamic programming, linear programming, integer programming, or quadratic programming) to water-related problems. These problems may be for surface water, groundwater, or the combination. The work is interdisciplinary, and may be done by hydrologists, civil engineers, environmental engineers, and operations researchers.
Simulation versus optimization
Groundwater and surface water flows can be studied with hydrologic simulation. A typical program used for this work is MODFLOW. However, simulation models cannot easily help make management decisions, as simulation is descriptive. Simulation shows what would happen given a certain set of conditions. Optimization, by contrast, finds the best solution for a set of conditions. Optimization models have three parts:
An objective, such as "Minimize cost"
Decision variables, which correspond to the options available to management
Constraints, which describe the technical or physical requirements imposed on the options
To use hydrological optimization, a simulation is run to find constraint coefficients for the optimization. An engineer or manager can then add costs or benefits associated with a set of possible decisions, and solve the optimization model to find the best solution.
Examples of problems solved with hydrological optimization
Contaminant remediation in aquifers. The decision problem is where to locate wells, and choose a pumping rate, to minimize the cost to prevent spread of a contaminant. The constraints are associated with the hydrogeological flows.
Water allocation to improve wetlands. This optimization model recommends water allocation and invasive vegetation control to improve wetland habitat of priority bird species. These recommendations are subject to constraints like water availability, spatial connectivity, hydraulic infrastructure capacities, vegetation responses, and available financial resources.
Maximizing well abstraction subject to environmental flow constraints. The goal is to measure the effects of each user's water use on other users and on the environment, as accurately as possible, and then optimize over the available feasible solutions.
Improving water quality. A simple optimization model identifies the cost-minimizing mix of best management practices to reduce the excess of nutrients in a watershed.
Hydrological optimization is now being proposed for use with smart markets for water-related resources.
Pipe network optimization with genetic algorithms.
PDE-constrained optimization
Partial differential equations (PDEs) are widely used to describe hydrological processes, suggesting that a high degree of accuracy in hydrological optimization should strive to incorporate PDE constraints into a given optimization. Common examples of PDEs used in hydrology include:
Groundwater flow equation
Primitive equations
Saint-Venant equations
Other environmental processes to consider |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20findings%20in%20the%20Hurt%20Report | This is the list of Findings in section 12.1 (pages 416-419) of the Hurt Report.
Throughout the accident and exposure data there are special observations which relate to accident and injury causation and characteristics of the motorcycle accidents studied. These findings are summarized as follows:
Approximately three-quarters of these motorcycle accidents involved collision with another vehicle, which was most usually a passenger automobile.
Approximately one-quarter of these motorcycle accidents were single vehicle accidents involving the motorcycle colliding with the roadway or some fixed object in the environment.
Vehicle failure accounted for less than 3% of these motorcycle accidents, and most of those were single vehicle accidents where control was lost due to a puncture flat.
In the single vehicle accidents, motorcycle rider error was present as the accident precipitating factor in about two-thirds of the cases, with the typical error being a slide-out and fall due to overbraking or running wide on a curve due to excess speed or under-cornering.
Roadway defects (pavement ridges, potholes, etc.) were the accident cause in 2% of the accidents; animal involvement was 1% of the accidents.
In the multiple vehicle accidents, the driver of the other vehicle violated the motorcycle right-of-way and caused the accident in two-thirds of those accidents.
The failure of motorists to detect and recognize motorcycles in traffic is the predominating cause of motorcycle accidents. The driver of the other vehicle involved in collision with the motorcycle did not see the motorcycle before the collision, or did not see the motorcycle until too late to avoid the collision.
Deliberate hostile action by a motorist against a motorcycle rider is a rare accident cause.
The most frequent accident configuration is the motorcycle proceeding straight then the automobile makes a left turn in front of the oncoming motorcycle.
Intersections are the most likely place for the motorcycle accident, with the other vehicle violating the motorcycle right-of-way, and often violating traffic controls.
Weather is not a factor in 98% of motorcycle accidents.
Most motorcycle accidents involve a short trip associated with shopping, errands, friends, entertainment or recreation, and the accident is likely to happen in very short time close to the trip origin.
The view of the motorcycle or the other vehicle involved in the accident is limited by glare or obstructed by other vehicles in almost half of the multiple vehicle accidents.
Conspicuity of the motorcycle is a critical factor in the multiple vehicle accidents, and accident involvement is significantly reduced by the use of motorcycle headlamps-on In daylight and the wearing of high visibility yellow, orange or bright red jackets.
Fuel system leaks and spills are present in 62% of the motorcycle accidents in the post-crash phase. This represents an undue hazard for fire.
The median pre-crash speed w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20Raindrop | Master Raindrop is an animated television program produced jointly by Australian, New Zealand and Singaporean companies that first screened on the Australian Seven Network from 15 March 2008 to 14 February 2009. There are 26 episodes of 24 minutes duration.
Overview
The series begins with personifications of two of the five elements, Raindrop (water) and Shao Yen (wood), training with their Master, Yun, in the ancient art of Chitaido. However the strongest leader in the Land of a Thousand Legends, General Bu, upsets the peaceful world by taking Yun to begin his attempt to capture the four elements after Flamo, the fire element, joins him voluntarily. General Bu does this to stop the elements joining together and defeating him. Master Raindrop and Shao Yen are soon joined by the other two elements: Jin Hou, the metal element (an anthropomorphic golden monkey), and Niwa, the earth element (a humanoid girl who appears to be made of clay). Together they attempt to rescue Master Yun and travel to the place where the golden dragon was defeated and restore him to power.
Cast
Josh Anderson as Master Raindrop
Jane U'Brien as Jin Hou, Red boy and various characters
Rachel King as Niwa
Sarah Aubrey as Shao Yen
Josh Quong Tart as Flamo
David Francis as Grub
Brian Meegan as General Bu
Production
The series was produced by Big Communications, Flux Animation Studio, Flying Bark Productions, Media Development Authority, and Southern Star Entertainment. As well as individually by Brent Chambers, Vincent Lim, Geoff Watson and Yasmin McConville. Directed by Susan Oliver, Steve Cooper and Kevin Wotton. It was written by Paul Barber, Kym Goldsworthy, Lisa Hoppe, Brendan Luno, John Mein, Kitty Phipps, Gina Roncoli, James Walker, Anthony Watt, David Witt, Leonard Mah, James Meldrum, Joshua Chiang and Jeff Lawrence. Series one consisted of 26 episodes and was produced in 2008.
Reception
The series has received mixed reviews. It has been accused of copying many of the martial arts and element-related themes in popular children's cartoons like Avatar: The Last Airbender, Xiaolin Showdown and Samurai Jack.
International broadcasts
Episodes
References
External links
Master Raindrop at IMDb
2008 Australian television series debuts
2000s Australian animated television series
Australian children's animated television series
Australian computer-animated television series
New Zealand children's animated television series
Singaporean animated television series
Seven Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper%20Maru | "Piper Maru" is the fifteenth episode of the third season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on February 9, 1996. The episode was written by executive producer Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Rob Bowman. "Piper Maru" is one of those which helped to explore the series' overarching mythology. Its introduction of the black oil became a storyline milestone for the series. The black oil would later go on to play a much larger role in the series, including a pivotal role in the 1998 X-Files movie. "Piper Maru" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.6, being watched by 16.44 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, a French salvage ship sends a diving crew to recover a mysterious wreckage from World War II, but the crew falls prey to a bizarre illness forcing FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) to investigate the source. Their investigation brings them face-to-face with Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea).
"Piper Maru" was written to showcase two visual images Chris Carter had wanted to include in a script "since the beginning of the show". The first of these was that of a deep-sea diver finding a still-living pilot trapped in the wreckage of a World War II-era fighter plane and the second was that of a black-and-white flashback taking place in a submarine. The title of the episode is a reference to the names of Gillian Anderson's daughter, who had been born during the production of the second season.
Plot
Piper Maru, a French salvage vessel, is exploring the Pacific Ocean. Gauthier, a member of the ship's crew, dives down into the sea and finds a sunken fighter plane from World War II. He is shocked to find a man alive in the plane's cockpit, with what looks like black oil in his eyes. When Gauthier returns to the surface, he has become possessed by the black oil.
In Washington, Walter Skinner tells agent Dana Scully that the FBI's investigation into her sister's murder has been made inactive, despite the evidence that had been recovered. Fox Mulder tells Scully about the Piper Maru, which had laid anchor at the same coordinates as another ship believed to have salvaged a UFO; when the Piper Maru came to port in San Diego, her crew was found suffering from radiation burns. Aboard the ship, the agents find traces of the black oil on Gauthier's diving suit. Upon viewing a video of the dive, Scully identifies the sunken plane as a P-51 Mustang. Meanwhile, Gauthier returns home and searches for something. When his wife Joan arrives, the black oil passes itself along to her.
Scully visits an old friend of her father's, Commander Christopher Johanson (Robert Clothier), seeking information about the plane. Johanson |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWX%20Right%20Now | SWX Right Now (Sports and Weather Right Now) is a regional digital subchannel network broadcasting high school and college sports, and automated weather and news on Cowles Company-owned stations throughout Eastern Washington state, the Idaho Panhandle, and Montana. The channel airs over the secondary digital subchannels of Cowles' three NBC network affiliated stations in Eastern Washington, including KHQ-TV in Spokane, KNDO in Yakima and KNDU in Richland, as well as the third subchannel of KULR-TV in Billings, Montana. In addition, it is seen on most cable systems throughout the markets they serve.
Typical programming on SWX Right Now includes three-minute weather forecasts called The Weather Authority and sports segments titled SWX Sports Update. Programming carried includes Gonzaga University men's basketball; local high school and college football; Spokane Chiefs Western Hockey League games; and a sports commentary show from a studio located in "The Q" bar at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino in suburban Airway Heights.
Stations
Events
College
Eastern Washington University football
University of Idaho football
Gonzaga University men's and women's basketball
Crimson & Gray football scrimmage
Local events
Armed Forces Torchlight Parade
Bloomsday Race
Greater Spokane League high school basketball
Rubber Chicken Lewis and Clark High School vs Joel E. Ferris High School Rivalry Basketball games & Spirit contest
Groovy Shoes Shadle Park High School vs North Central High School Rivalry Basketball games & Spirit contest
Stinky Sneaker University High School vs Central Valley High School Rivalry Basketball games & Spirit contest
Local sports
HAPO Columbia Cup (hydroplane racing)
Spokane Chiefs hockey
Tri-City Americans hockey
Sports shows
The Mark Few Show
A traditional weekly's coach's program featuring Gonzaga men's basketball coach Mark Few and Greg Heister discussing the week in Zags basketball, along with team features.
Toyota's Best Doggone Zags Show
A detailed analysis program about Zags basketball which airs Sunday and Monday nights.
Friday Night Lights
An extended traditional Friday night high school sports highlights show featuring teams throughout Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho.
SWX Tonight
A weeknight show that covers high school and college sports in the Montana area, as well as highlights from national sports. Hosted by Shaun Rainey and Zach Kaplan.
References
External links
SWX Right Now official website
Cowles Company
Sports television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2008
2008 establishments in Washington (state)
Mass media in Spokane, Washington
Television stations in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familienbuch | A Familienbuch (, "Family-book") was a family register, a genealogical summary that was issued in Germany by the local civil registry upon marriage and contained data on birth, marriage and death of the couple as well as the birth data of any children stemming for this marriage.
It was introduced from July 1, 1938, same kind like books for birth and death. However, the Familienbuch dates to much earlier. At least to 1920 in Breslau, Germany, for example.
From January 1, 1958, it was modified: Marriage entry was done by the local civil registry, but the "book" itself which was a paper then was moved to the local civil registry when the family did a removal.
Since January 1, 2009, Familienbücher have no longer been issued.
Family registers
Marriage in Germany
Identity documents of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo-consistency | In computer vision, photo-consistency determines whether a given voxel is occupied. A voxel is considered to be photo consistent when its color appears to be similar to all the cameras that can see it. Most voxel coloring or space carving techniques require using photo consistency as a check condition in Image-based modeling and rendering applications.
Usage
3D Volumetric Reconstruction.
Image registration.
Multi-view reconstruction.
References
Computer vision
Stereoscopy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance-stabilizing%20transformation | In applied statistics, a variance-stabilizing transformation is a data transformation that is specifically chosen either to simplify considerations in graphical exploratory data analysis or to allow the application of simple regression-based or analysis of variance techniques.
Overview
The aim behind the choice of a variance-stabilizing transformation is to find a simple function ƒ to apply to values x in a data set to create new values such that the variability of the values y is not related to their mean value. For example, suppose that the values x are realizations from different Poisson distributions: i.e. the distributions each have different mean values μ. Then, because for the Poisson distribution the variance is identical to the mean, the variance varies with the mean. However, if the simple variance-stabilizing transformation
is applied, the sampling variance associated with observation will be nearly constant: see Anscombe transform for details and some alternative transformations.
While variance-stabilizing transformations are well known for certain parametric families of distributions, such as the Poisson and the binomial distribution, some types of data analysis proceed more empirically: for example by searching among power transformations to find a suitable fixed transformation. Alternatively, if data analysis suggests a functional form for the relation between variance and mean, this can be used to deduce a variance-stabilizing transformation. Thus if, for a mean μ,
a suitable basis for a variance stabilizing transformation would be
where the arbitrary constant of integration and an arbitrary scaling factor can be chosen for convenience.
Example: relative variance
If is a positive random variable and the variance is given as then the standard deviation is proportional to the mean, which is called fixed relative error. In this case, the variance-stabilizing transformation is
That is, the variance-stabilizing transformation is the logarithmic transformation.
Example: absolute plus relative variance
If the variance is given as then the variance is dominated by a fixed variance when is small enough and is dominated by the relative variance when is large enough. In this case, the variance-stabilizing transformation is
That is, the variance-stabilizing transformation is the inverse hyperbolic sine of the scaled value for .
Relationship to the delta method
Here, the delta method is presented in a rough way, but it is enough to see the relation with the variance-stabilizing transformations. To see a more formal approach see delta method.
Let be a random variable, with and .
Define , where is a regular function. A first order Taylor approximation for is:
From the equation above, we obtain:
and
This approximation method is called delta method.
Consider now a random variable such that and .
Notice the relation between the variance and the mean, which implies, for example, heteroscedasticity in a linear mode |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychophysiological%20interaction | Psychophysiological interaction (PPI) is a brain connectivity analysis method for functional brain imaging data, mainly functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). It estimates context-dependent changes in effective connectivity (coupling) between brain regions. Thus, PPI analysis identifies brain regions whose activity depends on an interaction between psychological context (the task) and physiological state (the time course of brain activity) of the seed region.
History and development
The PPI method was proposed by Friston and colleagues in 1997. The model includes an interaction term between a psychological variable (task design) and physiological variable (the time series of a brain region). If the interaction term can explain the brain activation of another brain region after taking into account the main effects of the psychological and physiological variables, then it implies a task-dependent connectivity between the two brain regions.
The PPI method is mainly applied to blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signals measured by functional MRI (fMRI). The hemodynamic response is slow compared with fast neuronal activities. Therefore, Gitelman and colleagues proposed to first deconvolve the BOLD time series of the seed with hemodynamic response function, so that the resulting "neuronal level" signals could match with the timing of the task design (the psychological variable). Before the multiplication, both the psychological and physiological variables should be centered.
If an fMRI experiment is designed with multiple conditions, then there will be multiple psychological variables included in the model. In this case, a modeling strategy named generalized PPI was proposed.
Traditionally, the PPI analysis was implemented using a seed-based strategy. That is, the PPI term is defined using a pre-defined seed, and a voxel-wise analysis is performed to identify regions in the whole brain that showed task modulated connectivity with the seed region. The PPI method can also be applied to every pair of regions in the brain, so that the whole-brain task modulated connectivity, i.e. task connectome, can be mapped.
Implementations
Major fMRI data analysis software, including SPM, FSL, AFNI, and CONN, all have modules for PPI analysis. There is also Generalized PPI Toolbox, which is a MATLAB based toolbox dedicated for PPI analysis.
See also
Brain connectivity estimators
Dynamic causal modeling
References
Neuroimaging
Cognitive neuroscience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20Genome | The Movie Genome is an approach to indexing movies based on attributes in order to create movie catalogs with extensive, detailed data about each title.
Description
The Movie Genome concept is borrowed from the Human Genome Project, a scientific project to identify and map all human genes. Similarly, a Movie Genome, as used by semantic movie discovery engine Jinni, identifies and indexes multiple “genes” (elements and aspects) of a movie.
A comparable initiative is the Music Genome Project, intended to "capture the essence of music at the fundamental level.” The Music Genome technology is used by Pandora to play music for Internet users based on their preferences.
Movie Genome attributes might include mood, tone, plot, and structure. Jinni’s Movie Genome has a taxonomy created by film professionals, while titles are automatically indexed using a mixture of metadata and reviews and a proprietary Natural Language Processing solution to assign semantic tags to content and users.
Applications
The Movie Genome has several applications in the area of movie discovery. It can power search engines, notably semantic search, which takes a meaning-based approach to interpreting queries by identifying concepts within the content, rather than keywords. The data about each title in a Movie Genome can also support an item-based recommendation engine that recommends based on similarities between content items and users’ preferred “genes.” By contrast, collaborative filtering is used to make recommendations based on statistical similarities in preferences between users.
The concept of “genes” or “DNA” has also been applied to other types of entertainment. For example, GamerDNA has a database of games that locates games based on gameplay elements such as setting, tone and game mechanics.
Examples
Jinni has created a Movie Genome by taking a taxonomic approach to cataloging titles, analyzing user reviews and metadata. The technology is used to power a semantic discovery engine for movies and TV shows.
References
External links
Jinni.com
Online film databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Embedded%20Automotive | Windows Embedded Automotive (formerly Microsoft Auto, Windows CE for Automotive, Windows Automotive, and Windows Mobile for Automotive) is a discontinued operating system subfamily of Windows Embedded based on Windows CE for use on computer systems in automobiles. The operating system is developed by Microsoft through the Microsoft Automotive Business Unit that formed in August 1995. The first automotive product built by Microsoft's Automotive Business Unit debuted on December 4, 1998 as the AutoPC, and also includes Ford Sync, Kia Uvo, and Blue&Me. Microsoft's Automotive Business Unit has built both the software platforms used for automotive devices as well as the devices themselves. The current focus is on the software platforms and includes two products, Microsoft Auto and Windows Automotive.
History
The Windows Embedded Automotive operating system was originally shipped with the AutoPC that was jointly developed by Microsoft and Clarion. The system was released in December 1998, and referred to the operating system itself as "Auto PC". Microsoft's Auto PC platform was based on Windows CE 2.0, and had been announced in January of that year.
On October 16, 2000, Microsoft officially announced the next version of the platform. This version of the operating system was renamed to "Windows CE for Automotive" and had new applications preinstalled like the Microsoft Mobile Explorer.
On October 21, 2002, Microsoft announced that the platform would be renamed to "Windows Automotive". The version added support for development using the .NET Compact Framework.
Windows Automotive 4.2 reached General Availability on June 1, 2003 and Windows Automotive 5.0 reached GA on August 8, 2005.
With the release of Ford Sync, Microsoft renamed the platform from "Windows Mobile for Automotive" to "Microsoft Auto".
Microsoft again renamed the operating system as "Windows Embedded Automotive", and updated its version to 7 on October 19, 2010. This is the latest in MS Auto category, and is based on the Windows CE platform.
Windows Embedded Automotive 7 reached GA on March 1, 2011.
In December 2014, Ford announced that the company would be replacing Microsoft Auto with BlackBerry Limited's QNX.
References
External links
Windows Embedded Automotive official website
Windows CE
Discontinued versions of Microsoft Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20Checkout%20Channel | CNN Checkout Channel was a satellite television network operated by ActMedia and Turner Broadcasting System through its CNN and Turner Private Networks subsidiaries. The network was a place-based out-of-home advertising service, fed via televisions installed in the checkout lines of participating supermarkets. The service carried a mixture of news programming provided by CNN, accompanied by national advertising sold by the network. Costs of installing the service's equipment were covered by Turner, and stores received a share of national advertising revenue.
By 1993, CNN Checkout Channel was carried in 840 stores. Reception to the service was mixed; some were neutral to the concept, while cashiers at its participating stores found the in-store televisions broadcasting its programming to be distracting. After believing that it would be too difficult to make the service profitable, Turner discontinued CNN Checkout Channel in March 1993, and took a write-down of $16 million.
Background
CNN Checkout Channel was first announced in September 1990 as a joint venture between the marketing firm ActMedia, who provided a startup cost of nearly $70 million, and CNN, who provided content for the service. Turner Broadcasting System would have an option to acquire an equity stake. Turner operated Checkout Channel through its Turner Private Networks subsidiary, which also operated CNN Airport Network.
The service was conceptualized by Richard Larsen, an MIT professor of queueing theory; he explained that "waiting in a supermarket checkout line is something we all experience daily. We're hassled by high levels of stress and frustration. It's a subtle form of imprisonment, but the Checkout Channel changes empty time to informative and productive time." CNN Checkout Channel was initially trialed at a Kroger location in Detroit. For its wider roll-out, it was introduced at stores in markets such as Atlanta, Charlotte, Columbus, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, and San Jose. Acme Markets, A&P, Finast, and Kroger served as partner chains for the service.
The CNN Checkout Channel broadcast blocks of news programming, interspersed with commercial advertising. National advertising packages with exclusivity in certain product segments were sold in quarterly and yearly packages. ActMedia president Wayne LoCurto explained that advertising rates for CNN Checkout Channel were comparable to those of traditional daytime television. Among the launch advertisers were Coca-Cola, Campbell's, Ford Motor Company, Kraft, Kimberly Clark, and Walt Disney World. The service also covered the costs of installation and equipment (such as televisions and the satellite system), and participating stores received a cut of advertising revenue.
The launch of CNN Checkout Channel was meant to provide another platform for CNN content besides television at home; Turner Private Networks vice president Scott Weiss explained that "I think we are reacting to what we believe is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remopleurides | Remopleurides is an extinct genus of trilobites.
References
External links
Remopleurides at the Paleobiology Database
Remopleurididae
Asaphida genera
Ordovician trilobites of North America
Ordovician trilobites of Asia
Ordovician trilobites of Europe
Bromide Formation
Paleozoic life of Newfoundland and Labrador
Paleozoic life of the Northwest Territories
Paleozoic life of Nunavut
Paleozoic life of Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20Gold%20Network | The Pure Gold Network is a network of radio stations owned and operated by ARN.
Stations
As of 1 July 2022, the Pure Gold network consists of five radio stations.
Networked shows
JAM Nation with Jonesy & Amanda
The Christian O'Connell Show (except Adelaide)
This Week In Music (except Adelaide)
Digital radio
The Pure Gold Network simulcasts each station in the network on Digital Radio in their local markets. Prior to the merger of iheartradio they also broadcast Pure Gold 80's, featuring 1980s music, Pure Gold 90's, featuring 1990s music, and, in a joint venture with the KIIS Network, the adult contemporary-formatted Chemist Warehouse Remix.
External links
Pure Gold website
Australian Radio Network
Australian radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex%20volume%20approximation | In the analysis of algorithms, several authors have studied the computation of the volume of high-dimensional convex bodies, a problem that can also be used to model many other problems in combinatorial enumeration.
Often these works use a black box model of computation in which the input is given by a subroutine for testing whether a point is inside or outside of the convex body, rather than by an explicit listing of the vertices or faces of a convex polytope.
It is known that, in this model, no deterministic algorithm can achieve an accurate approximation, and even for an explicit listing of faces or vertices the problem is #P-hard.
However, a joint work by Martin Dyer, Alan M. Frieze and Ravindran Kannan provided a randomized polynomial time approximation scheme for the problem,
providing a sharp contrast between the capabilities of randomized and deterministic algorithms.
The main result of the paper is a randomized algorithm for finding an approximation to the volume of a convex body in -dimensional Euclidean space by assuming the existence of a membership oracle. The algorithm takes time bounded by a polynomial in , the dimension of and .
The algorithm combines two ideas:
By using a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method, it is possible to generate points that are nearly uniformly randomly distributed within a given convex body. The basic scheme of the algorithm is a nearly uniform sampling from within by placing a grid consisting of -dimensional cubes and doing a random walk over these cubes. By using the theory of rapidly mixing Markov chains, they show that it takes a polynomial time for the random walk to settle down to being a nearly uniform distribution.
By using rejection sampling, it is possible to compare the volumes of two convex bodies, one nested within another, when their volumes are within a small factor of each other. The basic idea is to generate random points within the outer of the two bodies, and to count how often those points are also within the inner body.
The given convex body can be approximated by a sequence of nested bodies, eventually reaching one of known volume (a hypersphere), with this approach used to estimate the factor by which the volume changes at each step of this sequence. Multiplying these factors gives the approximate volume of the original body.
This work earned its authors the 1991 Fulkerson Prize.
Improvements
Although the time for this algorithm is polynomial, it has a high exponent.
Subsequent authors improved the running time of this method by providing more quickly mixing Markov chains for the same problem.
Generalizations
The polynomial-time approximability result has been generalized to more complex structures such as the union and intersection of objects. This relates to Klee's measure problem.
References
Computational geometry
Approximation algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics%20for%20Equity%20and%20the%20Environment%20Network | Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3) is a network of economists doing applied research on environmental issues with a social equity focus. E3 is based in Portland, Oregon.
History and mission
E3 was founded in 2007 by economists Kristen Sheeran, Frank Ackerman, James Boyce, Eban Goodstein, and Astrid Scholz with the goals of (1) developing better theory and research within the economics profession and (2) involving progressive, environmental economists more actively in policy development.
Programs and activities
E3 maintains a Green Economist Directory, searchable by state of residence and area of expertise, of over 150 economists who are committed to its vision of an "engaged, practical economics". To be included in the directory, economists sign a statement that they agree with the following principles: (1) a clean and safe environment is a birthright of every person; (2) safeguarding the natural environment is inseparable from promoting social justice; and (3) today’s environmental challenges demand an alternative to the anti-regulatory, anti-reform bias that dominates public policy debates.
E3 helps connect its economists with NGOs, media, and decision makers who need economic arguments for environmental protection. E3 economists publish in journals, books, and newspapers. E3 also works with graduate students in economics to get them more involved in applied research on environmental issues through workshops, internships, and dissertation fellowships.
E3’s climate taskforce has contributed to the debates over the economics of global warming. Climate taskforce economists have testified before Congress and the European Parliament and presented their research at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the American Economic Association, the United States Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE), and other venues. They have also participated in press conferences on climate policy organized by the NRDC, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and other organizations. The taskforce’s more recent project, Real Climate Economics.org, launched in May 2009.
Associated organizations
Ecotrust
Stockholm Environment Institute
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Notes
External links
E3 Network
Real Climate Economics.org
Real People, Real Environments, and Realistic Economics
Economists’ Statement on Climate Change
Environmental organizations based in Oregon
Organizations based in Portland, Oregon
2007 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL7%20aECG | HL7 aECG (the HL7 Annotated Electrocardiogram) is a standard medical record data format for storing and retrieving electrocardiogram data for a patient. Like other HL7 formats, it is XML based.
The HL7 aECG standard was created in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s digital electrocardiogram initiative which was introduced November, 2001. The FDA initiative required ECG waveforms and annotations submitted to the FDA to have a standard format for the data. At the time, no current ECG waveform standards met all the FDA's needs. As a result, the FDA, sponsors, core laboratories, and device manufactures worked together within HL7 to create a standard to meet the FDA requirements.
The aECG standard was created by HL7's Regulated Clinical Research Information Management (RCRIM). It passed final balloting in January, 2004, and was accepted by ANSI May, 2004.
References
Cardiology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20constraint%20satisfaction%20processes | In behavioral psychology, Parallel constraint satisfaction processes (PCSP) is a model of human behavior that integrates Connectionism, neural networks, and parallel distributed processing models.
Dynamic model of attitude
This model integrates these three areas to propose a holistic explanation for an individual's response to cognitive dissonance. It models an explanation of the dynamic structure of attitudes and the attitude change involved in cognitive dissonance theory. PCSP posits that beliefs impose constraints on other beliefs, and conditions can either constrain or make salient different aspects of one's beliefs. Attitudes and beliefs are therefore changeable, due to trying to satisfactorily fit with the various constraints of circumstances as well as adapt to the constantly evolving truths in life. It is not an alternative to the theory but rather a model that incorporates the many facets of cognitive dissonance theory.
Cognitive dissonance theory centers mainly on:
Cognition
Self-concept
Social identity
Human beings may give greater importance to one of these areas but no single factor will be the sole influence. The different theories are probably all accurate given the right time, the right place, and the right individual, therefore an integrated more holistic model may better explain the reasons for attitude/behavior inconsistency and the change of attitude following cognitive dissonance.
Gestalt psychology
Researchers (Read 1991) have found within Gestalt psychology an integrated model of explaining attitude change that incorporates neuroscientific and social psychological concepts.
Theories of cognitive dissonance as well as its alternatives are based on the assumption that the attitudes and beliefs one holds are fixed entities. Recently psychologists have progressed from categorizing psychological phenomena as static, to recognizing the dynamic aspects that vary with different contexts.
The concept of neural network models uses the Gestalt principle of totality to explain social, emotional and cognitive tendencies.
In a feedback or parallel constraint satisfaction network, activation passes around symmetrically connected nodes until the activation of all the nodes asymptotes or "relaxes" into a state that satisfies the constraints among the nodes. This process allows for the integration of a number of different sources of information in parallel.
Social psychology
Parallel constraint satisfaction processes can be applied to three broad areas in social psychology:
Impression formation and causal attribution
Cognitive consistency
Goal-directed behavior.
This approach revealed that some phenomena that seem unexpected or counterintuitive are in actuality due to the normal functioning of the cognitive system. For example, Shultz and Lepper (1996) noted that in thinking about cognitive dissonance in terms of parallel constraint satisfaction processes, it becomes clear that cognitive consistency phenomena—such as those studied b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fashion%20Show%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection (originally styled as The Fashion Show) is an American reality television series which premiered on May 7, 2009, on the Bravo cable network. The show focuses on fashion design and features hosts fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi and supermodel Iman. The contestants compete against each other to create the best clothes. They are restricted in time, materials, and theme; the resulting designs are judged and one or more designers is eliminated each week. The show was originally co-hosted by singer Kelly Rowland; she was replaced by Iman in Season 2.
It replaced Bravo's first fashion-competition TV show Project Runway, following its move, accompanied by no small amount of controversy, to Lifetime.
Internationally the show was broadcast on Dutch television RTL 5 and was broadcast on British Pay-TV channel Really. Bravo made no move to renew the show after the second season ended on 25 January 2011.
Format
Season 1
Season 1 features Kelly Rowland and Isaac Mizrahi as hosts. The hosts are also judges and are joined by Fern Mallis and Laura Brown in the judging panel.
Fifteen designers compete to win $125,000 and have their fashions sold in retail. America chose the winner as these designers were presented with challenges that tested their skill.
Season 2
New host Iman (who had previously hosted the Canadian edition of Project Runway), returning host Isaac Mizrahi (who would go on to judge Project Runways All-Star season), and returning judge Laura Brown of Harper's Bazaar gathered together as the second season introduced a new format. The contestants are split up into two fashion "houses". Each fashion house is expected to assemble a cohesive fashion show for each episode, from the ground up, including everything from the lighting, music, the set, and the fashions.
Simply called The Fashion Show during the show's first season, the second season's restyled title is The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection.
Season 2 premiered on November 9 at 10:00 pm/9:00 pm central, and features 12 designers competing to create the ultimate collection and for the chance to win $125,000 provided by TRESemme Professional Hair Care.
In one episode, Calvin Tran declares about having to work with other contestants, "Oh, here go hell come!" It became widely ridiculed on The Soup.
Season 1 contestants
Season 1 challenges
: Team 1, consisting of Angel, James-Paul, Lidia, Merlin are selected as the top team. But Lidia is chosen as the individual winner of this challenge and wins an immunity.
: Team 3, consisting of Haven, Johnny R., and Reco, are selected as the top team. But Johnny R. is chosen as the individual winner of this challenge.
: The remaining eight contestants are separated into four teams consisting of: Anna & Haven; Johnny R. & Merlin; Lidia & James-Paul; and Daniella & Reco. The four teams each create one outfit.
: The remaining four contestants presented an entire collection on the runway from which the judges choose |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%20Chaves | Ramon "Ram" Chaves III (born 1983) is best known for joining the first season of Pinoy Idol from GMA Network where he managed to finish as the second runner up.
He may end up as third placer, but he still got a management contract from GMA Network, along with Jayann Bautista and Pinoy Idol winner Gretchen Espina.
Early life
He was born in 1983 in Cagayan de Oro, Chaves graduated in high school in Cagayan de Oro in Xavier University, a Jesuit-owned university in March 1999.
Theirs was the last batch when XUHS was strictly an all-male institution.
Chaves joined his dad in Dubai after finishing his BS Business Management course at Xavier University in 2003. His father is a limousine driver there at Burj al-arab, the hotel famous for its distinctive dhow shape.
A year later, Chaves returned to Manila where he worked as a call center agent.
Before joining Pinoy Idol, he used to be a vocalist of a rock band.
Personal life
He is married to longtime girlfriend, with his son Ramon Chaves IV. He is son of Ramon Chaves, Jr. with his grandfather Ramon Chaves, Sr..
Pinoy Idol
Chaves auditioned in the SMX Convention Center in SM Mall of Asia in Pasay, Philippines. His reason for joining in the said competition was to give a shot for stardom and take his original songs and singing to a new level.
He was in the bottom group twice in the whole competition including the semi-final round where they were still 24 hopefuls. He still managed to be in the finale along with Jayann Bautista and Gretchen Espina but he lost his chance to Espina, leaving Bautista as the 1st runner up.
Pinoy Idol performances
Pinoy Idol finale
The finale was described as a competition among the Philippines' three major island groups, with Espina representing Visayas while runners-up Jayann Bautista of Pampanga Province representing Luzon and Ram Chaves of Cagayan de Oro representing Mindanao.
Post Pinoy Idol
Chaves performed the theme song of Sine Novela's Una Kang Naging Akin starring Maxene Magalona, Wendell Ramos and Angelika dela Cruz.
Mae Flores, who finished 11th in Pinoy Idol also had the chance same as Chaves. She performed the theme song of "Dapat Ka Bang Mahalin?" having the same title (originally performed by Sharon Cuneta). It stars Aljur Abrenica, Kris Bernal.
Ram Chaves Band
Chaves and his band mates have recently released their album called Sutil.
The Ram Chaves Band already existed even before Chaves joined Pinoy Idol. The band have already pure original songs that are enough to have two albums.
Ram Chaves Band, formerly known as Sutil Band, eventually had some changes when it comes to members. Their debut album Sutil consists of 12 original songs including their carrier single "Kol Center" which was written by Chaves, himself. It was created four years ago while Chaves was in call center.
Another song from the album is entitled "Hiwaga" that is gaining popularity among radio listeners.
Chaves also joined Talentadong Pinoy on TV5, along with the band called |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains%20MPS | JetBrains MPS (Meta Programming System) is a language workbench developed by JetBrains. MPS is a tool to design domain-specific languages (DSL). It uses projectional editing which allows users to overcome the limits of language parsers, and build DSL editors, such as ones with tables and diagrams.
It implements language-oriented programming. MPS is an environment for language definition, a language workbench, and integrated development environment (IDE) for such languages.
Composable languages
Developers from different domains can benefit from domain-specific language extensions in general-purpose programming languages. For example, Java developers working with financial applications might benefit from built-in support of monetary values. Traditional text-based languages are subject to text ambiguity problems which makes such extensions problematic.
MPS supports composable language definitions. This means that languages can be extended, and embedded, and these extensions can be used, and will work, in the same program in MPS. For example, if Java is extended with a better syntax for collections and then again extended with a better syntax for dates, these extensions will work well together.
MPS solves grammar ambiguity issues by working with the abstract syntax tree directly. In order to edit such a tree, a text-like projectional editor is used.
Reusable language infrastructure
MPS provides a reusable language infrastructure which is configured with language definition languages. MPS also provides many IDE services automatically: editor, code completion, find usages, etc.
Existing languages
Base Language - 99% Java reimplemented with MPS. There are a lot of extensions of this language
collections language
dates language
closures language
regular expressions language
Language definition languages - these language are implemented with themselves, i.e. bootstrapped
structure language
editor language
constraints language
type system language
generator language
MPS applications
Mbeddr
mbeddr is an embedded development system based on MPS. It has languages tailored to embedded development
and formal methods:
Core C language
Components
Physical units
State machines
YouTrack
In October 2009, JetBrains released the YouTrack bug tracking system - the first commercial software product developed with MPS.
Realaxy editor
In April 2010, the Realaxy ActionScript Editor beta was released, the first commercial IDE based on the MPS platform.
PEoPL
PEoPL is a tool for software product line engineering realised in MPS.
GDF (Gamification Design Framework)
GDF is a framework for designing and deploying gameful applications. GDF consists of domain-specific languages allowing for stepwise refinement of application definitions, from higher levels of abstraction towards implementation code to be run on a gamification engine.
According to GDF's case study from Jetbrains, MPS was chosen for three main reasons: the need to provide text-based DSLs, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Rail%20Route%2023%20%28North%20West%20Rural%29 | Network Rail's (NR) strategic route 23 encompassed mainly the English rural railway lines of Lancashire and Cumbria. It excluded the part of the West Coast Main Line (WCML) that bisects the counties. It included the following lines:
the Settle and Carlisle line from Skipton to Carlisle
the Cumbrian Coast line from Carnforth to Carlisle via Sellafield and Workington
the Roses line from Preston to Burnley Manchester Road/Hall Royd Junction, and the branch to Burnley Central and Colne
the Blackburn to Hellifield line via Clitheroe, part of the Ribble Valley Line
the Hellifield (Settle Junction) to Carnforth line via Wennington
the Hellifield to Skipton line
the Ormskirk to Farrington Curve Junction (near Preston) line
the Oxenholme to Windermere branch of the WCML
various freight-only branches and chords, including in the Carlisle area
Some of these routes and/or services are designated as Community Rail Partnerships (CRP):
East Lancashire CRP (Preston to Colne service)
West of Lancashire CRP (Southport to Wigan, Ormskirk to Preston)
Lakes Line CRP (Oxenholme to Windermere)
Clitheroe Line CRP (Manchester to Clitheroe service).
In 2010, Network Rail restructured its route categorisation. Routes 10, 20 and 23, and parts of Routes 9 and 11, were merged into Strategic Route H: Cross-Pennine, Yorkshire & Humber and North West.
References
Network Rail routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganyan%20Kita%20Kamahal | (International title: That's How Much I Love You) is a 1998 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Jay Altarejos, it stars Carmina Villarroel, Bobby Andrews and Onemig Bondoc. It premiered on April 13, 1998. The series concluded on August 7, 1998 with a total of 85 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Carmina Villarroel as Eloisa Espiritu
Bobby Andrews as Henry Cortez
Onemig Bondoc as Jules Alonzo
Supporting cast
Sandy Andolong as Teresa
Gladys Reyes as Gwen
Bart Guingona as Julian
Ramon Recto as Gonzalo
Dindi Gallardo as Greta
Kim delos Santos as Isabel
Dino Guevarra as Marlon
Angela Zamora as Bettina
Recurring cast
Lee Robin Salazar
Katya Santos
Carmen Enriquez
Ynez Veneracion
Nonie Buencamino
Maureen Mauricio
Richard Quan
Sheree Lara
Joko Diaz
Maricel Morales
Naty Santiago
Ardie Aquino
References
External links
1998 Philippine television series debuts
1998 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television series by Viva Television
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo%20II%20%28expansion%20card%29 | The Echo II is a plug-in expansion card, speech synthesizer card for the Apple II and Apple IIe personal computers that allow applications to use speech synthesis. The Echo II provides a speaker/headphones jack on board, with a physical volume control adjustment.
The Echo II software can synthesize either unlimited text-to-speech using stitched phonemes, or play back raw LPC data for specific words, with resulting higher speech quality.
LPC (linear predictive coding) is the speech synthesis technology used, which allowed applications to encode speech data in a compact form. The Echo II uses the TMS 5220 LPC Speech Chip which was popular in other speech synthesizers.
References
External links
Mirrors.apple2.org.za
Echo II and other Street Electronics speech cards
Apple history page showing newer echo 2 card
Apple II peripherals
Speech synthesis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoardEx | BoardEx is a global data company specializing in relationship mapping and intelligence.
Founded in 1999, and with offices in New York, London and Chennai, BoardEx is a wholly owned subsidiary of Euromoney PLC, a member of the FTSE 250 share index.
BoardEx holds in-depth profiles of over one million of the world's business leaders and its proprietary software shows the relationships between and among these individuals. This information is updated daily. Its Relationship Capital Management platform is available in the cloud. Additional integration tools include application programming interfaces (APIs), data feeds and Salesforce app.
BoardEx is a subscription-based service, which is not "self referential". Each person in the database is individually researched as a result of their connection at senior level with a major company. Their team of 350+ analysts researches, verifies and maintains millions of company and director profiles daily. They update data within 24 hours from point of disclosure. Change detection technology alerts the team to management changes on company websites.
Its clients include companies and organizations within the banking, legal and professional services, executive search, asset and wealth management, private equity, academic and not-for-profit sectors.
History
Management Diagnostics Ltd, also known as BoardEx, was originally registered in 1999 in the UK. The company spent £2 million on a prototype of the service to show investors. The product was developed with the help of Professor David Norburn, head of Imperial College Management School, Professor Donald Hambrick from Columbia Business School, and Professor Brian Boyd of Arizona State University. Boardex launched in 2001, and marketing for the service began in April 2002. An office in the United States was opened in early 2003. In May 2003, the Financial News said that "BoardEx is well placed to become a commanding force in the world's boardrooms." BoardEx received a boost in clients after the Higgs review on the effectiveness of non-executive directors was released in the UK. The company was privately funded until mid 2008 when Goldman Sachs took a minority interest. On October 7, 2014, TheStreet, Inc. acquired BoardEx for approximately $21 million at closing. The transaction was completed on November 3, 2014. In 2018, TheStreet announced the sale of BoardEx and The Deal to Euromoney Institutional Investor.
Features
BoardEx consolidates public domain information concerning the board of directors and senior management of publicly quoted and large private companies. Since the data changes regularly, the database does not rely on annual reports.
Each company is represented by a Company Summary page, summarizing the Executive Directors, Non-Executive Directors and Senior Managers, the Board structure, remuneration, committee members and board movements.
Each individual profile has information on remuneration, including salary, bonuses, and incentive pay, and re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granicus%20Valles | The Granicus Valles are a network of valleys in the Amenthes quadrangle of Mars, located at 30° north latitude and 229° west longitude. They are 750 km long and are named after the ancient name for a river in Turkey. The system has been identified as outflow channels.
References
Valleys and canyons on Mars
Amenthes quadrangle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Computer%20and%20the%20Brain | The Computer and the Brain is an unfinished book by mathematician John von Neumann, begun shortly before his death and first published in 1958. Von Neumann was an important figure in computer science, and the book discusses how the brain can be viewed as a computing machine. The book is speculative in nature, but von Neumann discusses several important differences between brains and computers of his day (such as processing speed and parallelism), as well as suggesting directions for future research.
At only 96 pages, the book was originally intended for Yale's Silliman lectures, but it was published posthumously. The first edition was published in 1958 with a preface by Klara Dan von Neumann. The second edition, published in 2000, contains a foreword by Paul Churchland and Patricia Churchland that places von Neumann's views in the context of science at that time. The third edition, published in 2012, features a foreword by Ray Kurzweil. It has the .
See also
Computational theory of mind
References
External links
Computer books
Neuroscience books
1958 non-fiction books
Yale University Press books
John von Neumann |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagina | IMAGINA (originally known as International Forum of New Images) was the name of an annual festival on computer graphics (CG) and communications technology (CT) that took place from 1986 to 2000 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. It was created by the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA). The conference was sometimes compared to the CG festival part of SIGGRAPH.
The first IMAGINA festival was held in 1981, while the actual name IMAGINA was only introduced in 1986. In 1985, the Prix Pixel-INA awards were created within the framework of the IMAGINA festival. The categories have changed over the years.
In 2000, the festival was sold to the Monte-Carlo television festival, which decided to switch towards a meeting targeting professionals.
References
External links
Official website
Official website of Imagina
Imagina Awards 2010 - Nominees
Imagina 2012 - Industry And Virtual Technologies
Computer-related events
Recurring events established in 1986
Recurring events disestablished in 2000
2000 disestablishments in Monaco
1986 establishments in Monaco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZK%20%28framework%29 | ZK is an open-source Ajax Web application framework, written in Java, that enables creation of graphical user interfaces for Web applications with little required programming knowledge.
The core of ZK consists of an Ajax-based event-driven mechanism, over 123 XUL and 83 XHTML-based components, and a mark-up language for designing user interfaces. Programmers design their application pages in feature-rich XUL/XHTML components, and manipulate them upon events triggered by end user's activity. It is similar to the programming model found in desktop GUI-based applications.
ZK uses a server-centric approach in which the content synchronization of components and the event pipe-lining between clients and servers are automatically done by the engine, and Ajax plumbing codes are completely transparent to web application developers. Therefore, the end users get the similar engaged interactivity and responsiveness as a desktop application, while programmers' development retains a similar simplicity to that of desktop applications.
ZK does not use the standard web request-response mechanism and does not send form fields to the server by making a GET request with query parameters or a POST request. Instead, AJAX requests are sent to the server to update the internal state of each screen widget. At the browser, ZK only downloads a JSON description of the web page and uses a client renderer to turn that into a UI. It's quite efficient and under closer inspection, does not download everything at once. A look at the traffic between client and the server reveals several requests going back and forth between client and browser until the page rendering eventually completes.
The optional client-side customization allows the developer to leverage the client-side resources with the so-called server+client fusion, for customization and to reduce the Ajax traffic.
In addition to component-based programming in a manner similar to Swing, ZK supports a mark-up language for rich user interface definition called ZUML.
ZUML is designed for non-programmer developers to design user interfaces intuitively.
ZUML allows developers to meld different markup languages, such as Mozilla XUL language and XHTML, seamlessly into the same page.
ZUML allows developers to embed scripts in pure Java language (interpreted by BeanShell) and use EL expressions to manipulate the components and access data.
Features
Simply Java. ZK is renowned for its "Ajax without JavaScript" approach, enabling developers to build rich web applications transparently without any knowledge of Ajax and JavaScript.
Responsive design themes along with Bootstrap support
HTML 5 and CSS 3 support
Over 100 Ajax components offer UI designers a variety of feature rich components to meet the demands of enterprise Ajax applications.
ZUML makes the design of rich user interfaces similar to authoring HTML pages. ZUML is a variant of XUL inheriting all features available to XML, and separates the UI definition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery%20and%20Imagination | Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and (later) Thames Television.
Outline
The series featured television plays based on the works of well-known authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, M. R. James, and Edgar Allan Poe. All bar one of the first two ABC series starred David Buck as Richard Beckett, originally a character from Sheridan Le Fanu's story "The Flying Dragon", as narrator. Beckett was made the central character of the series, taking the roles of various characters from some of the original stories. The first two series, although transmitted as two separate runs, were recorded in a single production block. The episode without Buck as the lead ("The Open Door") features Jack Hawkins. Unlike BBC dramas from the period, location exterior shots were also recorded onto video tape rather than 16mm film, giving a more consistent look to the production. Only series 5 was filmed in colour.
Episodes
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Series 4
Series 5
Archive status and availability
Of the episodes from the ABC era, only the versions of "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Open Door" (series 1) have survived. All the other episodes from the first three series are not known to exist, although the Thames episodes (series 4 and 5) survive. A brief clip from "Casting the Runes" (from series 3) also exists. Domestic audio recordings of the otherwise missing episodes "The Lost Stradivarius", "The Body Snatcher", "The Tractate Middoth", "Lost Hearts", "The Canterville Ghost" and "Room 13" also exist. These recordings have been uploaded to YouTube.
Network has released all eight remaining episodes on a four disc DVD set along with the surviving clip of "Casting the Runes".
References
Wheatley, Helen. Gothic Television (Manchester University Press 2006) p36 ff.
External links
Haunted TV.
1966 British television series debuts
1970 British television series endings
1960s British drama television series
1970s British drama television series
1960s British anthology television series
1970s British anthology television series
British supernatural television shows
British horror fiction television series
ITV television dramas
Television shows produced by ABC Weekend TV
Television shows produced by Thames Television
Television shows shot at Teddington Studios
English-language television shows
British fantasy drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy%20Prime | Playboy Prime is an adult reality compilation series of Playboy TV programming.
Format
Marketed as a Playboy TV greatest hits collection, Playboy Prime consisted of 52 different 60-minute compilations containing segments from past and current shows from the network. 6-7 different series were usually packaged into one episode, with new Playmate bumpers and narration added to segue between pieces. Episodes premiered during the "primetime" 8pm hour on Playboy TV
In addition to utilizing segments and skits from existing Playboy TV shows, several new 10 minute pieces were created specifically for use on Playboy Prime. Two segments in particular were Hot Babes Doing Stuff Naked and Gadget Or The Girl, hosted by Last Comic Standing winner, Iliza Shlesinger.
Other Playboy TV programs packaged into Playboy Prime included Totally Busted, 69 Sexy Things 2 Do Before You Die, and Around the World in 80 Babes.
External links
Playboy Prime Official Site
2000s American reality television series
2007 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
Television series by Playboy Enterprises
Playboy TV original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20interface%20style%20sheet%20language | A User interface stylesheet language is a stylesheet language which is meant to be applied to graphical computer user interfaces. They primarily act as subsidiary languages to style UI elements which are either programmed or marked-up (as in XML-based markup languages).
Examples
Cascading Style Sheets as used in Mozilla's XUL user interface
Qt Style Sheets as used in KDE4
Robert Staudinger's CSS theming for GTK+
References
Stylesheet languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshav%20Memorial%20Institute%20of%20Technology | Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology is a college of engineering in Hyderabad in the state of Telangana in south-central India.
It offers B.Tech degrees in computer science and engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data science, and information technology.
References
External links
KMIT
Recruiting Companies
KMIT Finishing School
Information technology schools in India
Universities and colleges in Hyderabad, India
Educational institutions established in 2007
2007 establishments in Andhra Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmark%20Channel%20%28international%29 | Hallmark Channel, formerly Hallmark Entertainment Network, in international markets was owned by several media companies. Over their history, the various channels were operated by Hallmark Entertainment Networks, Inc. (1995–2005), Sparrowhawk Media, Limited (2005–2007) and Universal Networks International (2007–2011). Universal Networks International rebranded or discontinued the channels by July 2011. Hallmark Entertainment Networks, Inc. was owned by Crown Media Holdings, Inc. Sparrowhawk Media was owned by venture capital companies and Universal Networks International is owned by NBCUniversal.
History
Hallmark Entertainment Network
Crown Media thus shifted directions in 1994 with the sale of the cable systems. Also that year, Hallmark Cards purchased RHI Entertainment for $365 million getting a 1,800 plus hours film library then formed Hallmark Entertainment as RHI's parent corporation. Hallmark Entertainment then formed Hallmark Entertainment Network, Inc. in mid-1995 to start the Hallmark Entertainment Network (HEN) pay TV channel in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The company waited to start a domestic channel due to lack of carriage space and its programming domestic rights were held by others. The Benelux channel launched in June 1995.
Hallmark Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company started a partnership in May 1998 to launch the Kermit Channel in Asia and Latin America expect to start in September 1998 with distribution handled by Hallmark Entertainment Network. The HEN channels had internationally about six million subscribers at this time.
Crown Media was reformed into Crown Media Holdings, Inc. in 2000 as part of a re-organizational plan that included the company going public. Crown Media Holdings was formed as a subsidiary of Hallmark Entertainment (Hallmark). Hallmark transferred Hallmark Entertainment Network, Inc. and its interest in the Odyssey Network into Crown Media Holdings. While its channels had 50 million subscribers at the IPO, the company had not made a profit yet with Hallmark Entertainment Network, Inc. losing $35.5 million in 1998 on revenue of $23.7 million, and in 1999 it lost $56.7 million on revenue of $31.9 million.
EM.TV had Henson Company withdrawal from the Kermit Channel partnership with Crown Media. In November 2001, Kermit Channel Asia except for in India was shut down while Kermit blocks remained on the Asian HEN. The channel was discontinued in India in December 2001.
When Crown took control of and renamed the Odyssey Network channel to the Hallmark Channel in August 2001 with plans to quickly add original programming, the international Hallmark Entertainment Network soon did the same.
Sparrowhawk Media
In 2005, Hallmark Entertainment put the Hallmark Channels up for sale, but with disappointing offers with drew the channels from the market. The European media library rights and Hallmark Channels in international markets were sold for about $242 million in 2005 to Sparrowhawk Media, a p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit%20DataCine | Spirit DataCine is a telecine and a motion picture film scanner. This device is able to transfer 16mm and 35mm motion picture film to NTSC or PAL television standards or one of many High-definition television standards. With the data transfer option a Spirit DataCine can output DPX data files. The image pick up device is a solid state charge-coupled device. This eliminated the need for glass vacuum tube CRTs used on older telecines. The units can transfer negative film, primetime, intermediate film and print film, stock. One option is a Super 8 gate for the transfer of Super 8 mm film. With a sound pick up option, optical 16mm and 35mm sound can be reproduced, also 16mm magnetic strip sound. The unit can operate stand alone or be controlled by a scene by scene color corrector. Ken Burns created The Civil War, a short documentary film included in the DVD release, on how he used the Spirit DataCine to transfer and remaster this film. The operator of the unit is called a Colorist or Colorist Assistant. The Spirit DataCine has become the standard for high-end real-time film transfer and scanning. Over 370 units are used in post-production facilities around the world. Most current film productions are transferred on Spirit DataCines for Television, Digital television, Cable television, Satellite television, Direct-to-video, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, pay-per-view, In-flight entertainment, Stock footage, Dailies, Film preservation, digital intermediate and digital cinema. The Spirit DataCine is made by DFT Digital Film Technology GmbH in Darmstadt, Germany.
All Spirit DataCines use continuous transport motion, using a capstan and constant film tension. An optional optical audio pick up system can be mounted in the capstan. All Spirit DataCines use a xenon lamp for illumination into a diffusion chamber to minimize dust and scratch visibility. With the standard 35mm lens gate: super 35 mm and academy 35 mm are supported. Also 2, 3, 4, perf are supported. VistaVision 8-perf and 6 perf are an option. The unit comes with select-a-speed, this gives the section of a film speeds from 2.00 frames per second to 57.00 fps in SDTV and 2.00 to 31.00 fps in HDTV interlace format. With the optional 16mm lens gate standard 16mm and Super 16 mm are supported. With the 16mm lens gate an optional Super 8 mm film gate can be added. 16mm audio system also support 16mm mag or magnetic strip sound track on the motion picture would be picked up by a head and could be fed to an audio sound mixing console or to the VTR.
Spirit DataCines use a charge-coupled device Line Array – CCD for imaging. In print mode a “white” light is shone through the exposed film image into a lens and then to prism, color glass separates out the image into the three primary colors, red, green and blue. Each beam of colored light is then projected at a different CCD, one for each color. The CCD converts the light into an electrical signal that produces a modulated video signal which is color corrected and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20transport%20in%20Cardiff | Bus transport in Cardiff, the capital and most populous city in Wales, forms the major part of the city's public transport network, which also includes an urban rail network, Waterbus and international airport. Cardiff is a major city of the United Kingdom and a centre of employment, retail, business, government, culture, media, sport and higher education.
Most of the city's comprehensive bus network is operated by Cardiff Bus, which is owned by Cardiff Council. The main hub and terminus of the network was Cardiff Central bus station, which closed for redevelopment of the site in the autumn of 2015. The new Cardiff Bus Interchange is expected to open in 2023.
Operators such as Stagecoach South Wales and Newport Bus link the city with other urban areas in South Wales. Adventure Travel operates services including the Fflecsi demand responsive service in north Cardiff. TrawsCymru operates a long-distance route to Aberystwyth, Cardiff Airport (currently suspended) and West Wales, while National Express, Megabus and FlixBus operate long-distance coaches to towns and cities throughout Wales, Scotland and England.
History
Trams
Horse buses ran in the city from 1845 to 1909 and horse trams from 1872 to 1904. The first tram route ran from High Street in the city centre to the Cardiff Docks and was operated by the Cardiff Tramway Company. In 1898, Cardiff County Borough Council obtained Parliamentary powers to take over all the tramways in the area and to launch electric trams. The new routes formally opened in May 1902 with the first recorded accident later that month – a collision with a cyclist. More than 23 million passengers were carried in 1904, up from 18 million the previous year. When Cardiff became a city in 1905, 131 electric trams were operating on the network, mainly focusing on the busy Cardiff Docks. In 1928, the network peaked at 142 cars and routes covering 19.5 miles (31.3 km). By 1929, the tram network stretched from Victoria Park in the west, to Grangetown and Cardiff Docks in the south, to Roath and Splott in the east, and to Gabalfa in the north.
The council initially refused to allow motor buses to operate in the city, but reversed this decision in 1910 and operated its own from 1920. 81 tramcars were also introduced by Cardiff Corporation Transport to negotiate the city's low railway bridges. By 1939, these vehicles were becoming worn out and it was decided to phase out tramcars.
Trolleybuses and motor buses
In 1942, trolleybuses began to replace tramcars. The last tram service ran to Whitchurch in February 1950, making it the last place in Britain to commence trolleybus operation after Glasgow. Trolleybus routes were generally the same as tram routes although extensions were made. The furthest and final extension of the network came in 1955, to Ely, where trams had never run. At this point, the system peaked at 79 vehicles and 18 route miles.
In 1959, the Cardiff Corporation Transport (later City of Cardiff Transport) rout |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Gray | Raphael Gray (born in Lambeth, London) is a British computer hacker who, at the age of 19, hacked computer systems around the world over a period of six weeks as part of a multi-million pound credit card mission. He then proceeded to publish credit card details of over 6,500 cards as an example of weak security in the growing number of consumer websites.
Biography
Gray was able to break into the secure systems using an £800 computer he bought in his home town Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire, Wales. After publishing the credit card info on his websites, Gray posted a personal message saying law enforcers would never find him "because they never catch anyone. The police can't hack their way out of a paper bag." He also sent Viagra tablets to Bill Gates' address and then published what he claimed to be the billionaire's own number.
He was tracked down by ex-hacker Chris Davis who was insulted by Gray's "arrogance". It took Davis under a day to find Gray's information, which he then forwarded to the FBI. "The FBI was actually quite easy to deal with, although technically, they didn't really understand what it was I was explaining to them. The local police were also very polite, but they didn't understand it," said Davis. Gray was arrested when FBI agents and officers from the local Dyfed Powys Police turned up at the door of his home, which he shared with his mother, brother and sister in March 2000.
See also
List of convicted computer criminals
References
External links
PBS Interview with Raphael Gray
British computer criminals
English people of German descent
English people of Ugandan descent
Living people
People from Lambeth
People on the autism spectrum
People with traumatic brain injuries
Year of birth missing (living people)
English people with disabilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra%20Industriel | Opéra Industriel is a short film produced by Pacific Data Images in 1986. Parts of the film have been used in compilations such as Beyond the Mind's Eye and State of the Art of Computer Animation. The film portrays a number of humanoid, expressionless robots in a monochrome scene that resembles a factory or a forge.
External links
1986 films
1986 short films
Canadian animated short films
French-language Canadian films
1980s English-language films
1980s Canadian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL8 | PL8 or similar may refer to:
PL/8, a programming language
PL-8 (missile), a Chinese missile
Holbeton, Devon, United Kingdom postcode
Levasseur PL.8, a French aircraft
PL 8 Ersatz P.II, a German Parseval airship
PL8.email, a web platform that sends email messages to vehicle plates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buildout | Buildout is an open-source software build tool. Buildout is created using the Python programming language. It implements a principle of separation of configuration from the scripts that do the setting up.
Buildout is primarily used to download and set up dependencies in Python eggs format of the software being developed or deployed. Recipes for build tasks in any environment can be created, and many are already available.
Major features
Configuration files are INI format
Support for setuptools and eggs
Plugin support through Buildout recipes
Sample configuration
[buildout]
develop = .
parts = test
[test]
recipe = zc.recipe.testrunner
eggs = theegg
Notable applications
Grok
Plone
Zope
See also
List of build automation software
References
External links
Compiling tools
Build automation
Free software programmed in Python |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide%20Investigation%20Tracking%20System | Homicide Investigation Tracking System (HITS) is a violent crime database program of the Washington State Office of the Attorney General. The system tracks homicides and rapes in and/or relating to the states of Washington and Oregon and also receives data from at least three other states and Canada. The database provides information on over 14,000 murders and over 10,000 sexual assaults to local law enforcement agencies as well as advice and assistance in ongoing investigations. Notable cases that have been assisted by HITS include Gary Ridgway (also known as the Green River Killer), John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo (the Beltway snipers), and serial killer Robert Lee Yates.
References
Keppel, Robert D. and Joseph G. Weis. "Improving the Investigation of Violent Crime: The Homicide Investigation and Tracking System." National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Public Domain.
External links
Washington State Office of the Attorney General – Homicide Investigation Tracking System (HITS)
HITS Overview
Washington State Criminal Justice Division (CRJ)
Law enforcement in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20re%20Sherwood | In re Sherwood was a case decided in 1980 by the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. It dealt with a patent regarding the analysis of seismological data.
Case details
Background
In 1975, John Sherwood filed a patent for an invention referred to as "Continuous Automatic Migration of Seismic Reflection Data with Waveform Preservation." The invention involved using a computer to measure and analyze seismological data. The patent application was initially rejected on two grounds: that it was unpatentable subject matter and that the 35 U.S.C §112's "best mode" requirement was not fulfilled. This rejection was affirmed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office Board of Appeals. Sherwood then appealed to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
Issues
There were two issues before the court. First was the matter of whether or not the subject matter of the patent was patentable—the examiner and the board had claimed that the patent was for algorithms and thus unpatentable. Second, the court had to decide whether or not the fact that the patent did not disclose source code meant the "best mode" requirement was unfulfilled.
Decision
The court reversed the decision of the board on both grounds, finding that there was more to the patent claim than just algorithms and that source code disclosure was unnecessary, as someone "skilled in the art" could write the necessary source code.
Importance
In re Sherwood was important primarily because it is one of the first cases to establish that source code disclosure is not necessary for fulfillment of the "best mode" requirement.
References
In re Application of Sherwood. 613 F .2d 809; January 10, 1980, Decided.
External links
35 U.S.C §112 on BitLaw.
1980 in United States case law
Software patent case law
United States patent case law
Law articles needing an infobox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4ttendal | Jättendal is a locality situated in Nordanstig Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 253 inhabitants in 2010.
A runestone carved by a female runemaster, cataloged as HS 21 under Rundata, is located here.
References
Populated places in Nordanstig Municipality
Hälsingland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALICO%20%28consortium%29 | CALICO, The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, is a North American-based international scholarly organization, founded in 1983, dedicated to research and development in the use of computer technology in second/foreign language learning and teaching. CALICO has developed alongside the field of CALL or Computer Assisted Language Learning, and includes language educators, educational technology professionals, language technology consultants and language center directors, software designers and developers, and second language acquisition researchers, as well as graduate students in these fields. CALICO special interest groups, which reflect the changing nature of the field, currently include computer-mediated communication, gaming, graduate students, intelligent CALL, language teaching and learning technologies, second language acquisition and technology, teacher education, and virtual worlds.
CALICO holds an annual conference with workshops at universities and in cities across North America, and has an official presence at related conferences worldwide, as well as relationships with other organizations like ACTFL, IALLT, and EuroCALL. Partnering with Equinox Publishers, it also publishes a book series as well as a scholarly, online-only, fully referenced journal, CALICO Journal.
CALICO is governed by three elected leaders serving one-year rotating terms (President, Vice-President, and Past President), along with a board of six members serving three-year terms.
References
External links
CALICO website
Educational technology academic and professional associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWJBarnabas%20Health | RWJBarnabas Health is a network of independent healthcare providers in New Jersey, based out of West Orange. Members include academic centers, acute care facilities, and research hospitals. The goals of the network include collaboration on educational and research programs.
RWJBarnabas Health was created through the 2016 merger of the Robert Wood Johnson Health System and the Saint Barnabas Health Care System.
As of 2022, RWJBarnabas employs approximately 37,000 employees, 9,000 physicians, and 1,000 resident and interns.
History
In July 2015, Saint Barnabas Health Care System, headquartered in West Orange, New Jersey, and Robert Wood Johnson Health System, headquartered out of New Brunswick, New Jersey, signed an agreement outlining a merger between the two health systems. The Federal Trade Commission, as well as the New Jersey Attorney General, needed to review the deal before it was official, with the expectation that the merger would be approved and completed in the following year.
On March 30, 2016, the two health systems officially merged and formed RWJBarnabas Health. The transaction created New Jersey's largest health care system and the largest private employer in the state.
After the merger, Barry Ostrowsky, CEO of Saint Barnabas, took over as president & CEO of the new health system, while Stephen Jones, CEO of Robert Wood Johnson Health, was named Chief Academic Officer. Company leadership also announced that a formal headquarters would not be named, rather the business operations would be run out of the West Orange offices while the academic operations would continue out of the New Brunswick location.
In January 2023, Mark Manigan replaced Barry Ostrowsky as president & CEO of the health system.
Acquisitions
Trinitas Regional acquisition
In October 2019, the leaders of RWJBarnabas Health signed a letter of intent to acquire the Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, itself established by the consolidation of St. Elizabeth Hospital and Elizabeth General Medical Center. The preliminary letter of intent was a nonbinding agreement that laid out a basic structure for the proposed acquisition of the hospital and the nearby long-term care center. Trinitas would still retain its core Catholic ideologies upon the acquisition and continue to maintain its affiliation with the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth.
On November 12, 2020, it was announced that the health systems had signed a definitive agreement that the two systems would merge. The Trinitas board of directors would still oversee day-to-day operations.
On January 6, 2022, Trinitas and its facilities officially became part of the health system.
Saint Peter's acquisition
In late 2019, it was announced that the leaders of RWJBarnabas Health and the leaders of Saint Peter's Healthcare System signed a letter of intent to explore a merger. The preliminary plan calls for significant investments in Saint Peter's by RWJBarnabas Health to help expand the ou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone%20diagram | In computing, tombstone diagrams (or T-diagrams) consist of a set of “puzzle pieces” representing compilers and other related language processing programs. They are used to illustrate and reason about transformations from a source language (left of T) to a target language (right of T) realised in an implementation language (bottom of T). They are most commonly found describing complicated processes for bootstrapping, porting, and self-compiling of compilers, interpreters, and macro-processors.
T-diagrams were first used for describing bootstrapping and cross-compiling compilers by Harvey Bratman in 1961, who reshaped the diagrams originally introduced by Strong et al. (1958) to illustrate UNCOL. Later on, others, including McKeeman et al. and P.D. Terry, explained the usage of T-diagrams with further detail. T-diagrams are also now used to describe client-server interconnectivity on the World Wide Web. A teaching tool TDiag has been implemented at Leipzig University, Germany.
See also
Bootstrapping (compilers)
References
Compilers
Compiler construction
Computer programming
Self-hosting software
Program transformation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20data%20type | Some programming languages provide a complex data type for complex number storage and arithmetic as a built-in (primitive) data type.
Complex-number arithmetic
A complex variable or value is usually represented as a pair of floating-point numbers. Languages that support a complex data type usually provide special syntax for building such values, and extend the basic arithmetic operations ('+', '−', '×', '÷') to act on them. These operations are usually translated by the compiler into a sequence of floating-point machine instructions or into library calls. Those languages may also provide support for other operations, such as formatting, equality testing, etc. As in mathematics, those languages often interpret a floating-point value as equivalent to a complex value with a zero imaginary part.
Language support
The FORTRAN COMPLEX type.
The C99 standard of the C programming language includes complex data types and complex-math functions in the standard library header <complex.h>.
The C++ standard library provides a complex template class as well as complex-math functions in the <complex> header.
The Go programming language has built-in types complex64 (each component is 32-bit float) and complex128 (each component is 64-bit float).
The Perl core module provides support for complex numbers.
Python provides the built-in complex type. Imaginary number literals can be specified by appending a "j". Complex-math functions are provided in the standard library module cmath.
Ruby provides a class in the standard library module .
OCaml supports complex numbers with the standard library module .
Haskell supports complex numbers with the standard library module (previously called ).
Mercury provides complex numbers with full operator overloading support in the extras distribution, using .
Java does not have a standard complex number class, but there exist a number of incompatible free implementations of a complex number class:
The Apache Commons Math library provides complex numbers for Java with its class.
The JScience library has a number class.
The JAS library allows the use of complex numbers.
Netlib has a complex number class for Java.
javafastcomplex also adds complex number support for Java
jcomplexnumber is a project on implementation of complex number in Java.
JLinAlg includes complex numbers with arbitrary precision.
Common Lisp: The ANSI Common Lisp standard supports complex numbers of floats, rationals and arbitrary precision integers. Its basic mathematical functions are defined for complex numbers, where applicable. For example the square root of -1 is a complex number: ? (sqrt -1)
#C(0 1) ; the result of (sqrt -1)
Scheme: Complex numbers and functions (e.g. sin) are included in the language specification. Their implementation is however optional in the R5RS standard, while in R6RS is mandatory.
The .NET Framework provides System.Numerics.Complex since version 4.0.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20center%20infrastructure%20efficiency | Data center infrastructure efficiency (DCIE), is a performance improvement metric used to calculate the energy efficiency of a data center. DCIE is the percentage value derived, by dividing information technology equipment power by total facility power.
See also
Power usage effectiveness
Performance per watt
Green computing
Data center infrastructure management
IT energy management
References
Benchmarks (computing)
Energy conservation
Electric power |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20data%20type | Some programming languages provide a built-in (primitive) rational data type to represent rational numbers like 1/3 and -11/17 without rounding, and to do arithmetic on them. Examples are the type of Common Lisp, and analogous types provided by most languages for algebraic computation, such as Mathematica and Maple. Many languages that do not have a built-in rational type still provide it as a library-defined type.
Representation
A variable or value of that type is usually represented as a fraction m/n where m and n are two integer numbers, either with a fixed or arbitrary precision. Depending on the language, the denominator n may be constrained to be non-zero, and the two numbers may be kept in reduced form (without any common divisors except 1).
Languages that support a rational data type usually provide special syntax for building such values, and also extend the basic arithmetic operations ('+', '−', '×', '/', integer powers) and comparisons ('=', '<', '>', '≤') to act on them — either natively or through operator overloading facilities provided by the language. These operations may be translated by the compiler into a sequence of integer machine instructions, or into library calls. Support may also extend to other operations, such as formatting, rounding to an integer or floating point value, etc.. As in mathematics, those languages often interpret an integer value as equivalent to a rational value with a unit denominator.
Language support
Built-in or core library:
C++ has included support for compile-time rational arithmetic in the form of the contents of its standard library's header since its 2011 revision.
Clojure can perform arithmetic on rational numbers and offers a literal form to represent them.
Go provides rational numbers in the standard library, in the package.
J provides rational numbers in the base language. For example, is one-third. Rationals in J use arbitrary precision integers for both the numerator and denominator, allowing arbitrary precision non-integers. For instance, represents the square root of three to 50 decimal digits.
Julia provides rational numbers with the rational operator, . For example, 6//9 == 2//3 && typeof(-4//9) == Rational{Int64}.
Haskell provides a type, which is really an alias for ( being a polymorphic type implementing rational numbers for any type of numerators and denominators). The fraction is constructed using the % operator.
OCaml's Num library implements arbitrary-precision rational numbers.
Perl: core module implements arbitrary-precision rational numbers. The pragma can be used to turn on transparent BigRat support.
Raku: use by default type (rational numbers with limited-precision). data type implements arbitrary-precision rational numbers.
Python: The standard library includes a class in the module .
Ruby: native support using special syntax.
Smalltalk represents rational numbers using a class in the form where and are arbitrary size integer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Systems | Bridgewater Systems was a Canadian network management technology firm. It developed software for phone and cable companies. The firm was acquired by Amdocs in 2011.
History
Bridgewater was founded by Doug Somers and Russ Freen in 1997. From 2004 to 2007, Bridgewater's revenues grew from $13.7 million to $39 million. In 2007 Bridgewater made an initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the stock symbol BWC, where it raised $35 million. In 2008 Bridgewater expanded its long-time relationship with Verizon Wireless by signing a three-year contract which included an initial order valued at $30 million. The April 2010 Infonetics Research report ranked Bridgewater as #1 in the 2009 policy market In 2011, Bridgewater's board unanimously approved a takeover bid from Amdocs, an American headquarter technology firm, valuing the company at $215 million.
References
External links
Official site
Companies based in Ottawa
Telecommunications companies of Canada
Telecommunications equipment vendors
Amdocs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried%20Brauer | Wilfried Brauer (8 August 1937 – 25 February 2014) was a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich.
Life and work
Brauer studied Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. He received a PhD in Mathematics 1966 from the University of Bonn for a dissertation on the theory of profinite groups.
Wilfried Brauer and his wife Ute were two of the 19 founding members of the German Informatics Society. From 1998 to 2001, he was chairman of the German Informatics Society. From 1994 to 1999, he was vice president of the International Federation of Information Processing.
He received several awards and honours:
Felix Hausdorff-Gedächtnispreis (1966)
IFIP Silver Core (1986)
honorary doctor of the University of Hamburg (1996)
Werner Heisenberg Medal (2000)
IFIP Isaac L. Auerbach Award (2002)
honorary doctor of the Freie Universität Berlin (2004)
One of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (2014, posthumous).
Publications
Below is a selection of books written by Brauer.
Über das Turingsche Modell einer Rechenmaschine und den Begriff des Algorithmus, Diploma Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 1962
Zur Theorie der pro-endlichen Gruppen. Doctorate Thesis, Universität Bonn, 1968 (Advisor: Wolfgang Krull)
with Klaus Indermark: Algorithmen, Rekursive Funktionen und Formale Sprachen (in German), 1968.
Automatentheorie (in German), Teubner 1984.
with Friedrich L. Bauer and H. Schwichtenberg: Logic and Algebra of Specifications, 1993
Editorship
Wilfried Brauer (ed.): Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 3. Jahrestagung, Hamburg, 8.-10. Oktober 1973. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 1, Springer 1973
Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series. Series Editors: Brauer, W., Hromkovič, J., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., publisher's page.
References
External links
Wilfried Brauer at the mathematics genealogy project
German computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
1937 births
2014 deaths
Presidents of the German Informatics Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka%20%28disambiguation%29 | Vodka is a distilled alcoholic beverage.
Vodka may also refer to:
VoDKa, a cyber alias of Columbine school shooter Dylan Klebold
Vodka (horse), a Japanese racehorse
Vodka (Case Closed), a character in Case Closed
"Vodka" (song), a 2008 song by Morena
"Vodka", a song by Korpiklaani from their 2009 album Karkelo
Vodkaa, komisario Palmu, a 1969 film by Matti Kassila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobabad%20Junction%20railway%20station | Jacobabad Junction Railway Station (, ) is located in Jacobabad, Sindh, Pakistan. Jacobabad serves as a major junction for Pakistan Railways network with tracks branching off to Kot Addu (via Dera Ghazi Khan). It is staffed and has a booking office.
History
In 1906, it was converted into a junction.
Train routes
The routes are Jacobabad from linked with Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Multan, Faisalabad, Hyderabad, Rohri, Sukkur, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Kot Adu, Gujrat, Larkana, Gujranwala, Khanewal, Nawabshah, Attock, Dadu, and Nowshera.
Train services from Jacobabad
See also
Pakistan Railways
Jacobabad
Jacobabad Tehsil
Jacobabad District
References
Railway stations in Jacobabad District
Railway stations on Rohri–Chaman Railway Line
Railway stations on Kotri–Attock Railway Line (ML 2)
Railway stations on Larkana–Jacobabad line
Railway stations in Sindh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dgun%20no%20Onmitsu%21%20Kage%20J%C5%ABhachi | is a television jidaigeki series. It ran in prime time on the TV Asahi network in Japan. The first episode aired on January 27, 1996, and the 19th and final installment was broadcast on June 29 of that year. The series starred Kunihiko Mitamura with Yoko Minamino, Yūji Kishimoto, and Bengal as the team of secret agents working under the leadership of Kōtarō Satomi. Kyōko Tsujisawa also appeared regularly.
The series is set during the Edo period of the history of Japan. The eighth Tokugawa shōgun, Yoshimune, had officially had 17 families of oniwaban, his private ninja guards. The title group was the secret 18th group. The series begins some months after Yoshimune's death as his fourth son Hitotsubashi Munetada (Satomi) brings the group back together. The team leader is Kanō Ametarō (Mitamura), a hairdresser. The other members are Miki (Minamino), a doctor; Otojirō (a chef); and Inokichi (an acrobat). Oharu (Tsujisawa) owns the small restaurant where her brother Otojirō works.
Many actors and actresses appeared in guest roles. Among them were Hiroshi Arikawa, Yoriko Douguchi, Saiko Isshiki, Shun Ōide, Mitsutaka Tachikawa, Naoya Uchida, Kenichi Endō, Seizō Fukumoto, Ken Nishida, Shun'ya Wazaki, Yuki Ninagawa, Kenta Satoi, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Kei Taguchi, Susumu Kurobe, Seiichirō Kameishi, Shinsuke Mikimoto, Tsutomu Isobe, and Gorō Mutsumi. Three guests had portrayed oniwaban on the television series Abarenbō Shōgun, including the versions that preceded and followed Shōgun no Onmitsu! Kage Jūhachi in the same time slot on TV Asahi.
The closing theme is the song Utakata, sung by Mayumi Itsuwa.
The series originally appeared in the Saturday 8:00–8:54 p.m. prime-time slot on the TV Asahi network. It aired during the hiatus between the sixth and seventh versions of the jidaigeki Abarenbō Shōgun. The Jidaigeki Channel rebroadcast the series via satellite and cable.
References
Sources
This article incorporates material found in 将軍の隠密!影十八 (Shōgun no Onmitsu! Kage Jūhachi) in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on May 10, 2009.
Jidaigeki television series
Ninja fiction
TV Asahi original programming
1996 Japanese television series debuts
1996 Japanese television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYKB-TV | DYKB-TV, channel 8, is a television station of Radio Philippines Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Purok KBS, Pta. Taytay Road, Sum-ag, Bacolod.
RPN TV-8 Bacolod currently programs
Newsroom Negros (2015-present)
RPN TV-8 Bacolod previously aired programs
NewsWatch Negros (1982-2012)
Area of coverage
Primary areas
Bacolod
Negros Occidental
Secondary areas
Portion of Iloilo
Portion of Iloilo City
Portion of Guimaras
See also
Solar News Channel
Radio Philippines Network
List of Radio Philippines Network affiliate stations
Television stations in Bacolod
Radio Philippines Network stations
Television channels and stations established in 1961 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Telecom%20Platform | OTP is a collection of useful middleware, libraries, and tools written in the Erlang programming language. It is an integral part of the open-source distribution of Erlang. The name OTP was originally an acronym for Open Telecom Platform, which was a branding attempt before Ericsson released Erlang/OTP as open source. However neither Erlang nor OTP is specific to telecom applications.
The OTP distribution is supported and maintained by the OTP product unit at Ericsson, who released Erlang/OTP as open-source in the late 90s, to ensure its independence from a single vendor and to increase awareness of the language.
It contains:
an Erlang interpreter (which is called BEAM);
an Erlang compiler;
a protocol for communication between servers (nodes);
a CORBA Object Request Broker;
a static analysis tool called Dialyzer;
a distributed database server (Mnesia); and
many other libraries.
History
Early days
Originally named Open System, it was started by Ericsson in late 1995 as a prototype system that aimed to select from a range of appropriate programming technologies and system components, including computers, languages, databases and management systems, to support a remote access system being developed at Ericsson. In the same year, following the collapse of another gigantic C++-based project, Open System was ordered to provide support when it restarted from scratch using Erlang. The result was the highly successful AXD301 system, a new ATM switch, announced in 1998. Open System system was later named Open Telecom Platform (OTP) when the first prototype was delivered in May 1996. OTP has also become a specific product unit within Ericsson since then, providing management, support and further development.
The early OTP system components in 1998:
Distributed application management
SASL - error logging, release handling
OS resource monitoring
EVA - protocol independent event/alarm handling
Mnesia - real-time active data replication
SNMP - operations and maintenance interface
INETS - simple HTTP support
A key subsystem in OTP is the System Architecture Support Libraries (SASL), which gave a framework for writing applications. The early version of SASL provided:
Start-up scripts
An application concept
Behaviours (design patterns)
Error handling
Debugging
High-level software upgrade in runtime without shutdown
The behaviours provide programmers with yet higher abstractions for efficient program design. The early version included:
Supervision
Servers
Event handling
Finite-state machines
OTP Components
The OTP components can be divided into six categories:
Basic Applications - Basic Erlang/OTP functionality.
Compiler A compiler for Erlang modules.
Kernel Functionality necessary to run Erlang/OTP itself.
SASL (System Architecture Support Libraries) A set of tools for code replacement and alarm handling etc.
Stdlib The standard library.
Operations and Maintenance - OAM both of the system developed by the user and of Erlang/OTP it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun%20School | Fun School is a series of educational packages developed and published in the United Kingdom by Europress Software, initially as Database Educational Software. The original Fun School titles were sold mostly by mail order via off-the-page adverts in the magazines owned by Database Publications. A decision was made to create a new set of programs, call the range Fun School 2, and package them more professionally so they could be sold in computer stores around the UK. Every game comes as a set of three versions, each version set to cater for a specific age range.
Fun School 1
Fun School 1 is the first set of educational games, created in 1984 by Database Educational Software for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro computers. The three individual games catered for children aged under 6 years, between 6 and 8 years and over 8 years respectively. They also include five children's nursery rhymes. The products were tested in classrooms and were educationally approved.
Fun School 2
Fun School 2 is the second set of educational games, created in 1989 by Database Educational Software. It was released on more computers than its predecessor including Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga, MS-DOS and RISC OS. The three individual games catered for children aged under 6 years, between 6 and 8 years and over 8 years respectively.
The Fun School 2 games were programmed using the STOS (derived from BASIC) programming language with the STOS Compiler Engine.
Fun School 2 was reviewed as "The number one choice for our school" by Shelley Gibson. Fun School 2 was rated 3rd place in the "Gallup full-price software chart". Commodore Force rated Fun School 2 for Under 6 Years as #43, Fun School 2 Ages 6–8 as #36 and Fun School 2 Over 8 Years as number 10 in rankings of the top 100 Commodore 64 games of 1993. Despite its popularity among children, Fun School 2 was criticised by left-wing educationalists due to a competition element and the matter was brought to British MP Kenneth Baker.
Fun School 3
Fun School 3 is the third set of educational games, created in 1990 by Database Educational Software released for the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari ST, Amiga, Amiga CD32, MS-DOS and RISC OS computers. The three individual games catered for children aged under 5 years, between 5 and 7 years and over 7 years respectively. The games and their age ranges took in to full account of the new National Curriculum and the school syllabus content at the time.
The Fun School 3 games were developed using the STOS (derived from BASIC) programming language with the STOS Compiler Engine. For the Amiga version it was converted to AMOS using the AMOS Compiler by William Cochrane and Peter Hickman.
The Amiga version was hosted on the "Commodore 1990 Christmas" talk show along with AMOS 3D. The Amstrad PCW version won the European Computer Leisure Award as "Best Home Education Package" and also got the 8000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blay%20Whitby | Dr Blay Whitby is a philosopher and technology ethicist, specialising in computer science, artificial intelligence and robotics. He is based at the University of Sussex, England.
Blay Whitby graduated with first class honours from New College, Oxford University in 1974 and completed his PhD on "The Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence" at Middlesex University in 2003. His publications are predominantly in the area of the philosophy and ethical implications of artificial intelligence. His views place particular stress on the moral responsibilities of scientific and technical professionals, having some features in common with techno-progressivism. Widening engagement in science and increasing levels of debate in ethical issues is also an important concern.
Whitby is a member of the Ethics Strategic Panel of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. He also participates in art/science collaborations.
Selected publications
Whitby, B.R. (2003), A.I. A Beginner's Guide, Oxford: OneWorld Publications.
Whitby, B.R. (1996), Reflections on Artificial Intelligence: The Social, Legal, and Moral Dimensions, Oxford: Intellect Books.
Whitby, B.R. (1988), A.I., A Handbook of Professionalism, Chichester: Ellis Horwood.
References
External links
Blay Whitby website
Centre for Research in Cognitive Science home page
Interview with Blay Whitby
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Alumni of Middlesex University
Academics of the University of Sussex
British philosophers
Artificial intelligence researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflator | In statistics, a deflator is a value that allows data to be measured over time in terms of some base period, usually through a price index, in order to distinguish between changes in the money value of a gross national product (GNP) that come from a change in prices, and changes from a change in physical output. It is the measure of the price level for some quantity. A deflator serves as a price index in which the effects of inflation are nulled. It is the difference between real and nominal GDP.
In the United States, the import and export price indexes produced by the International Price Program are used as deflators in national accounts. For example, the gross domestic product (GDP) equals consumption expenditures plus net investment plus government expenditures plus exports minus imports. Various price indexes are used to "deflate" each component of the GDP to make the GDP figures comparable over time. Import price indexes are used to deflate the import component (i.e., import volume is divided by the Import Price index) and the export price indexes are used to deflate the export component (i.e., export volume is divided by the Export Price index).
It is generally used as a statistical tool to convert dollars purchasing power into "inflation-adjusted" purchasing power, thus enabling the comparison of prices while accounting for inflation in various time periods.
See also
Bureau of Labor Statistics
GDP Deflator
Gross domestic product
Deflation
Inflation
Economic indicators
Producer price index (PPI)
Consumer price index (CPI)
References
External links
Deflator in glossary, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Division of Information Services
Deflator, Investorwords
Can inflation be prevented?, MIT
Economic data
Time series
Inflation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Baby%20Blue%20Movie | The Baby Blue Movie was a late-night programming block on the Canadian television channel Citytv that primarily aired softcore pornography and erotica films. Initially broadcast from 1972 to 1975 to generate publicity for the then-upstart channel, Baby Blue was the first regularly-scheduled adult television program to air in North America. The series was revived in the 1990s as Baby Blue 2, which aired until 2008.
History
CITY-TV began broadcasting out of Toronto, Ontario on September 28, 1972 as the first commercial ultra high frequency (UHF) television station in Canada. Station founder Moses Znaimer aired feature films as the bulk of Citytv's programming as the station established itself, and hired Brian Linehan to purchase and schedule movies. To generate publicity for the new station and communicate that it was for "mature, urban adults," Znaimer conceived of a regularly scheduled block of softcore adult films to air on Friday nights, which became The Baby Blue Movie. The title was suggested by Znaimer's partner Marilyn Lightstone, who noted that because the films were not "blue" movies (a term for X rated films), they could be classified as "baby blue" instead. I Am Curious (Yellow) aired as the first Baby Blue Movie on September 29, 1972, with the film's companion I Am Curious (Blue) airing the following night. Robert Lantos later joined as a producer after acquiring Canadian broadcasting rights to short films from the New York Erotic Film Festival and selling the rights to Znaimer, which aired as The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival.
The Metropolitan Toronto Police exerted frequent pressure on Znaimer and Citytv over Baby Blue, and in January 1975 the station was charged with obscenity for the Baby Blue broadcast of Love Boccaccio Style. While the charge was eventually dismissed, Znaimer elected to cancel Baby Blue shortly thereafter; the program had accomplished its goal of generating publicity for Citytv, and the network was running out of acceptable films to broadcast. On May 2, 1975, the all-ages film Cat Ballou aired in the time slot normally reserved for Baby Blue, with the viewer discretion notice comedically re-phrased to indicate that "the following program is for family audiences."
To mark the 20th anniversary of Citytv, The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival was screened on September 28, 1992 as a one-off installment of Baby Blue titled Baby Blue Returns. The series was revived as Baby Blue 2 in the late 1990s as a companion to Ed's Night Party, with the viewer discretion warning delivered by Citytv journalist Mark Dailey. CHUM Limited was acquired by CTVglobemedia in 2007 and the Citytv stations were sold to Rogers Media later that year; Baby Blue ceased broadcasting shortly thereafter, with Sex House Volume 1 airing as the final Baby Blue Movie on August 30, 2008.
Programming
Films
All The Loving Couples
The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival
Bummer
Camille 2000
The Dark Side of Tomorrow
D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPtronics | IPtronics was a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Its products include integrated circuits for parallel optical interconnect applications intended for the computer, storage and communication industries. IPtronics' design center is certified by STMicroelectronics, which is also their semiconductor foundry partner. In June 2013, IPtronics was acquired by Mellanox Technologies.
History
IPtronics was founded in 2003 and built up by former directors, managers and engineers from Giga A/S, which was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2000 for US$1.25 billion. On June 4, 2013, it was announced that IPtronics was acquired by Mellanox Technologies at a total cash purchase price of approximately $47.5 million, subject to certain adjustments.
Founders and staff
Three former Giga employees, Niels Finseth, Steen Bak Christensen, and Eivind Johansen, co-founded IPtronics. Giga A/S specialized in products for telecommunication and data communication applications, as for example OC-48 and OC-192. Finseth was previously an engineering manager, responsible for all 10 Gbit/s IC product development. Mr. Christensen was also previously an engineering manager, responsible for all 2.5 Gbit/s development. Johansen was a co-founder of Giga (1987) as well, serving as the technical director until the acquisition by Intel, followed by a CTO position at Intel's Optical Component Division (OCD) and being appointed Intel Fellow in 2001, a corporate VP position for his technical leadership in optical communication. In May 2004, Henning Lysdal was recruited as COO, previously high-speed PHY development manager at Intel OCD. Lysdal later became VP of engineering after hiring a dedicated director of operations. Two former colleagues from Giga/Intel, who were at that time CEOs in their respective Danish electronic companies, were recruited to IPtronics. Steen Gundersen came from a position as the CEO of Alight Technologies and Jesper Wolf Bek came from a position as the CEO of Kaleido Technology.
In the beginning, the founders worked together in the garage of Steen Bak Christensen in Roskilde. As the first employee was hired in February 2005, IPtronics moved into new premises outside Roskilde.
Giga had customer support.
In 2006, Intel closed its Danish office, which resulted in even more new electronics start-ups in Copenhagen metropolitan area as well as many employees joining already existing companies such as IPtronics. However, several new additions to the staff from 2008 and beyond have a different background than from Giga or Intel, such as Navid Ostadian-Binai.
During 2006, the company appointed Jørgen Bardenfleth as chairman of the board of directors. Bardenfleth is the country general manager of Microsoft Denmark. In November 2011, IPtronics announced Martin Rofheart as chairman.
Early products
The company's first customer was CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The IPtronics chips were produced with TriQuint Semico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Laure%20Ryan | Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent literary scholar and critic. She has written several books and articles on narratology, fiction, and cyberculture and has been awarded several times for her work. She attended the University of Geneva to study literature as an undergraduate, before moving to the United States in 1968. attending graduate school at the University of Utah, where she received her M.A. in Linguistics and German, alongside a Ph.D in French. She later obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego.
She has worked as a consultant and software engineer and has published over fifty articles, translated into several languages and dedicated, in particular, to the concept of digital narrative, narrative theory, genre theory, linguistic approaches to literature, and digital culture and given numerous invited lectures. In Avatars of Story, she embraces a transmedial definition of narrative based on cognitive premises. She currently resides in Bellvue, Colorado where she worked as a Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado from 2009 to 2010 before working as a Gutenberg Fellow at Johannes Gutenberg University, from 2010 to 2011. She edited the Johns Hopkins Guide to New Media and Digital Textuality with Lori Emerson and Benjamin Robertson, which was published in 2014.
Awards
Awarded the 1992 Annual Prize for Independent Scholars by the Modern Language Association for Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory
Awarded the 2002 Jeanne and Aldo Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association for Narrative as Virtual Reality
2001-2002 Recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship. Project: Literary Cartography
Awarded the 2017 Wayne Booth award for lifetime achievement by the International Society for the Study of Narrative
Bibliography
Narrating Space, Spatializing Narrative. Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8142-1299-8)
Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, series Parallax, 2015)
Avatars of Story. (University of Minnesota Press, series Electronic Mediations, 2006)
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991)
References
1946 births
Living people
American literary critics
American women literary critics
Swiss women literary critics
21st-century American women writers
Swiss literary critics
Swiss women writers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Video game researchers
Women video game critics
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Electronic literature critics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20re%20Hayes%20Microcomputer%20Products%2C%20Inc.%20Patent%20Litig. | In re Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. Patent Litig., 982 F.2d 1527 (Fed. Cir. 1992) was a case decided in 1992 by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the successor of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. It concerned, among other things, whether or not the software on a patented device needed to be disclosed in a patent application.
Case details
Background
In 1985, Dale Heatherington was issued a patent entitled "Modem with Improved Escape Sequence Mechanism to Prevent Escape in Response to Random Occurrence of Escape Character in Transmitted Data," and the patent was assigned to Hayes Microcomputer Products. When other companies began marketing modems that made use of infringing technologies, Hayes asked for licensing fees. The infringing companies then filed suit, claiming that Hayes's patent was invalid because it did not meet the disclosure requirements of 35 U.S.C §112 because the patent did not contain a description of the firmware on the modem.
Issues
The main issue before the court was whether or not a patent like Hayes's needs to disclose the code for the firmware or software that runs on the invention in order to meet §112's disclosure requirements.
Decision
The court decided in favor of Hayes. In its decision, it referred to an earlier case, In re Sherwood, in which the court stated that source code disclosure was often not necessary to fulfill §112's disclosure requirement, since the creation of source code is usually within the skill of the art.
Importance
In re Hayes was important primarily because it built upon the precedent set by Sherwood that source code disclosure is often not required.
References
External links
35 U.S.C §112 on BitLaw.
Software patent case law
United States patent case law
1992 in United States case law
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit cases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcpkill | Tcpkill is a network utility program that can be used to terminate connections to or from a particular host, network, port, or combination of all. These programs take standard Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) filters. This can be used for both port mirroring and arp spoofing.
Examples
To prevent any connections to the host www.google.com use this command:
/usr/sbin/tcpkill −9 host www.google.com
The computer that is attempting to go to that site will be blocked from that site only, but can surf any other site. It is a good idea to either redirect the output into nothingness ( > 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) or into a file for later analysis (> file.tcpkill ). By default, it will redirect output to the console.
More hosts can be specified with the command:
/usr/sbin/tcpkill −9 host www.google.com and host www.yahoo.com
To block well−known ports e.g., napster (port 8888 and port 6699) or gnutella (port 6346), the command:
/usr/sbin/tcpkill −9 port 8888 and port 6699
or
/usr/sbin/tcpkill −9 port 6346
DoS with tcpkill
Tcpkill can be used to create a DoS attack within a WAN or LAN, and this can be done by using a sniffer like dsniff or tcpdump to look at the packets that are being transmitted and to pick a target that you want to deny service. Assume the target has been identified as 192.168.100.38, a simple command like:
tcpkill -9 host 192.168.100.38
will kill all outgoing tcp packets (TCP segment) between the target and the rest of the network. Prior to the attack the target can receive packets from the rest of the network.
Options
-i
the -i option specify which interface you want the program to listen on. The default option interface on most computers is eth0, because most computers only have one interface.
-1...9
The -1 to -9 specify the degree of brute force you want the attack to use on the target, with -1 being the least brute and -9 being the most brute. Computers on network with very fast connection usually require more brute force in order to successfully perform a DOS attack on them. Otherwise the command can be run without the -1 to -9 option or the -i option.
This is a description of one of the various dsniff programs. This text belongs to the dsniff “README” written by the author Dug Song:
See also: filesnarf , macof , mailsnarf , msfsnarf , sshmitm , tcpnice , urlsnarf webmitm , webspy .
References
External links
Dsniff README file. https://archive.today/20060920051522/http://olympus.het.brown.edu/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/share/doc/dsniff/README
Unix network-related software
Web software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ability%20Office | Ability Office is an office suite developed by Ability Plus Software and distributed and marketed by Ability Software International and which consists of a word processor, spreadsheet, database, modules for presentation and photo or image editing, plus a photo/image organiser and vector line drawing application. The current version (V6) offers a level of compatibility with Microsoft Office, allowing users to create, load from and save both to Microsoft Office 2010 (*.docx etc.) and earlier (*.doc etc.) file formats. In the same way, the photo and image editing application will create, load from and save to Adobe Photoshop (*.psd) file formats, together with other mainstream graphical file types.
Not only can version 6 be downloaded from the Ability website, older versions are also available for download. The most recent version is version 11.
Development history
Development began in 1992 following a decision to replace Ability Plus, an existing DOS-based integrated package, and a first release was made in 1995 called Ability for Windows and consisted of modules for word processing, spreadsheet, database and communications (a terminal program).
A second version was released in 1998 called Ability Office 98. The framework for the entire suite was changed from Borland OWL to Microsoft MFC resulting in better performance and the database was re-written to use the Jet Database Engine.
Since then, modules have been added (an image editing module in 2000 and a presentation module in 2004) but the architecture has broadly remained the same with the step to a fully Unicode version being made in 2008. Ability Office is 100% C++, entirely 32-bit and uses the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 compiler.
New version 8, released September 2018, includes Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Database, Photo-editor, has a Microsoft Office 2016 style interface, is compatible with Windows 10 and all Windows versions back to XP, supports ODF import/export, allows switching interfaces between traditional toolbar mode and ribbon style, supports for 4k/hi-res displays, supports OOXML import/export — native support for docx, xlsx, pptx, and is free for personal (non-commercial) use.
OEM versions
In October 2006, Tesco launched a range of own-brand software that included Tesco Complete Office, a Tesco-branded version of Ability Office.
Corel (Home) Office, Corel Home Suite are based on Ability Office 5.
Version summary
Source:
See also
List of office suites
Comparison of office suites
References
External links
Official website
British brands
Office suites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2degrees | 2degrees is a New Zealand telecommunications provider. Its mobile network launched on 4 August 2009 after nine years of planning. 2degrees offers prepaid and pay-monthly mobile services, as well as fixed-line phone and broadband services. 2degrees is the third-largest wireless carrier in New Zealand, with 1.3 million subscribers as of July 2015.
It has spent over NZ$550 million building its mobile network, which covers Ashburton, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Hastings, Invercargill, Levin, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Oamaru, Palmerston North, Queenstown, Rotorua, Taupō, Tauranga, Timaru, Wanganui, Wellington and Whangārei. The network works with UMTS-900 and UMTS-2100, and LTE Band 3, 8 and 28 mobiles. In areas without 2degrees coverage, handsets roam on One NZ's GSM and UMTS network. 2degrees refers to areas where it has its own 3G coverage as "mobile broadband zones".
2degrees is owned by Voyage Australia Pty Limited and is part of its Vocus Group. Until 1 June 2022, it was majority owned by US-based Trilogy International Partners.
In March 2015, 2degrees announced it had acquired Snap,
a broadband-based ISP, and from 28 July, began offering broadband and home-phone services in addition to existing mobile services.
Naming
The name of the company refers to the six degrees of separation concept, which was lessened to an estimated two degrees of separation as per New Zealand's population in 2001 (3.88 million). This is no longer considered accurate; in fact, aside the fact that New Zealand's population has almost doubled in the more than two decades since, the two degrees of separation was never statistically proven and considered unlikely to be accurate. In 2015, an article in Stuff.co.nz described the theory as "another part of the myth of New Zealand exceptionalism".
Network
2degrees was formerly known as NZ Communications and previously as Econet Wireless. Planning began in 2000, but details were not revealed until 11 May 2009 and pricing was announced a day before launch. 2degrees accepted its first customers on 4 August 2009 for 2G calling/txting only. Nearly a year later, on 3 August 2010, 3G was turned on and new data plans announced for use in areas where 2degrees has its cell towers. 2degrees launched its 4G network in 2014.
Coverage
2degrees had native GSM (900M/1800) with EDGE data in the main centres using Huawei kit at launch. And had a roaming agreement with Vodafone NZ (GSM with GPRS only), so had nationwide coverage on launch day.
2degrees launched 3G (UMTS 900/2100) services in August 2010 in all coverage areas, including One NZ roaming locations.
2degrees launched 4G LTE (B3 1800) services in Auckland in June 2014 and expanded to its own network over the next two years.2degrees progressively extended its own network covering most of New Zealand's population.
In 2020, 2degrees ended its national roaming agreement with One NZ. It now has an infrastructure sharing agreement with Vodafone NZ on 200 remote t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZBS-TV | DZBS-TV, channel 12, is a television station of Radio Philippines Network. The station's transmitter is located at Mt. Sto. Tomas, Tuba, Benguet Province.
Areas of coverage
Baguio
Benguet
Previously aired programs
Kapampangan News (via CNN PH national feed)
Itanong Mo Kay Soriano
See also
Radio Philippines Network
List of Radio Philippines Network affiliate stations
References
Television channels and stations established in 1961
Radio Philippines Network stations
Television stations in Baguio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apropos%20%28Unix%29 | In computing, is a command to search the man page files in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Apropos takes its name from the French "à propos" (Latin "ad prōpositum") which means about. It is particularly useful when searching for commands without knowing their exact names.
Behavior
Often a wrapper for the command, the apropos command is used to search the "name" sections of all manual pages for the string/s (called keyword/s) specified. The output is a list of all manual pages containing the search term in their name or description. This is often useful if one knows the action that is desired, but does not remember the exact command or page name. apropos search is case insensitive.
usually searches in a precompiled database that is shared with , a command for obtaining the brief description of a specific command whose exact name is already known.
Sample usage
The following example demonstrates the output of the command:
$ apropos mount
free (1) - Display amount of free and used memory in the system
mklost+found (8) - create a lost+found directory on a mounted Linux second extended file system
mount (8) - mount a file system
mountpoint (1) - see if a directory is a mountpoint
ntfsmount (8) - Read/Write userspace NTFS driver.
sleep (1) - delay for a specified amount of time
switch_root (8) - switch to another filesystem as the root of the mount tree.
umount (8) - unmount file systems
In this example, is used to search for the keyword "mount", and returns the indicated man pages that include the term "mount".
The following example demonstrates the output of the command with an regexp keyword (abc.n) and a regular keyword:
$ apropos abc.n xzless
XTestGrabControl (3) - XTest extension functions
xzless (1) - view xz or lzma compressed (text) files
In this example, is used to search for the keywords (with an regexp .) "abc.n" and xzless, and returns the indicated man pages that include the keywords.
Related utilities
is a command for obtaining the brief description of a specific command whose exact name is already known. It uses the same database as does. On systems with mandoc, it is a wrapper for (search by name only).
$ whatis whatis
whatis(1) - search the whatis database for complete words
is a command for indexing all on-disk manuals into a database that and can read from. It first appeared in the 2BSD of 1979, but has since been rewritten multiple times in different implementations of . is a command that performs the same function in man-db.
The database is traditionally plain text, but man-db, the implementation found on many Linux distributions, use a Berkeley DB instead. The mandoc implementation used on many BSD distributions likewise has its own innovations on the format.
See also
Man page
whatis
References
External links
at the LinuxQuestions.org wiki
Unix text processing utilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherApe | EtherApe is a packet sniffer/network traffic monitoring tool, developed for Unix. EtherApe is free, open source software developed under the GNU General Public License.
Functionality
Network traffic is displayed using a graphical interface. Each node represents a specific host. Links represent connections to hosts. Nodes and links are color-coded to represent different protocols forming the various types of traffic on the network. Individual nodes and their connecting links grow and shrink in size with increases and decreases in network traffic.
History
Originally authored by Juan Toledo, the first version of EtherApe (version 0.0.1) was released on February 18, 2000. In a 2006 survey, Insecure.org named EtherApe number 43 on its list of the "Top 100 Network Security Tools".
Features
Some of the features listed about EtherApe include (the following list refers to version 0.9.20 of EtherApe):
graphical network traffic display
color-coded node and links for most used protocols
optional background image
traffic may be viewed on one's own network, end to end (IP) or port to port (TCP)
a variety of frame and packet types are supported
data view can be manipulated using a network filter
clicking a node or link provides additional information regarding including protocol and traffic information
summary protocol and node table
can read traffic from a file or an actual network
handles traffic on Ethernet, WLAN, VLAN plus several other media and encapsulation types
supports both IPv4 and IPv6
XML export of node, link and traffic statistics
"central node ring" mode.
"column" mode.
optional name resolving using c-ares library
packet capture and display run on different processes
Security
EtherApe requires root privileges to capture packets (but not to replay captured files). Starting with release 0.9.15 capturing is delegated to a separate process, while the main interface can run with lower privileges, significantly reducing the risk associated with capturing packets from untrusted sources (e.g. Internet).
See also
Comparison of packet analyzers
tcpdump, a packet analyzer
Ngrep, a tool that can match regular expressions within the network packet payloads
netsniff-ng, a free Linux networking toolkit
Wireshark, a GUI based alternative to tcpdump
dsniff, a packet sniffer and set of traffic analysis tools
References
Free network-related software
Free network management software
Packet analyzer software that uses GTK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWBL | WWBL is a 50,000 watt FM radio station licensed to the city of Washington, Indiana. The station broadcasts the Real Country format from ABC Radio Networks. WWBL is branded as The Bullet 106.5.
WWBL signed on in 1948.
History
WwBL began as WFML, owned by Paul & Helen Bausman, who also owned the local newspaper. The facility was upgraded for a more powerful service to the 50 kW signal used today by 1979.
In 1986, WFML was sold to Greene Broadcasting, who installed a Top 40 format and the call sign WRTB.
After Robert Greene's death in 1991, the station was sold again to Old Northwest Broadcasting, who changed the format to country and call sign to the present WWBL in 1993.
Current on-air staff
Weekdays (Mon-Fri)
"Cowboy" Ken Booth (Morning Pickup) 5:00am–10:00am
Katie Sullivan 10:00am–3:00pm
Mark Brochin (Sports)
John Szink (Local News)
Other programs
Earl Pitts American commentaries (twice during the Morning Pickup weekdays and a best of Earl Pitts on Saturday)
Fox News Radio (at the top of each hour from 5:00am to 9:00am)
References
External links
WWBL Website
Original Company Website
WBL
Country radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific%20Emissions%20Trading%20Forum | The Asia-Pacific Emissions Trading Forum (AETF) was an information service and business network dealing with domestic and international developments in emissions trading policy in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The AETF was originally called the Australasian Emissions Trading Forum, and was founded in 1998 under the auspices of the Sydney Futures Exchange following a proposal from Beck Consulting Services. From 2001 until 2011 the AETF published the AETF Review (Bib ID 3998494), held regular member meetings and convened numerous events and conferences. The AETF Review was published six times per year and included original articles on emissions trading developments and related topics.
In 2011 the AETF formed the foundation of the new Carbon Market Institute, a not-for-profit institute, established in Melbourne, Australia to continue and develop the AETF programs.
The AETF was founded to assist all potential stakeholders understand and respond to emissions trading developments both domestically and internationally. Emissions trading is a key element of the Kyoto Protocol and subsequent proposals to manage global greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. National or regional schemes are operating in the European Union, New Zealand and the United States and are under active consideration in China, Japan and elsewhere. In Australia, legislation under Clean Energy Future Scheme has been passed to introduce a national emissions trading scheme from 2015.
Australia’s Clean Energy Future Scheme
The policy and legislative background
The current Australian government's Clean Energy Future legislative package represents the culmination of an unprecedented policy development effort in Australia, supported by detailed economic modelling undertaken by the Department of the Treasury (Australia). This package includes a price on carbon from July 2012 transitioning into a national cap and trade scheme from July 2015.
The December 2008 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) White Paper was one milestone towards the Government's ultimate policy objective of implementing a cost-effective and forward-looking climate policy, which fully accounts for Australia's particular environmental, economic and geopolitical situation.
Australia's emissions reduction target
The Australian Government in February 2010 submitted its plans for incorporation into the Copenhagen Accord for cutting emissions by the year 2020. Australia will have a 5 per cent reduction target with no conditions applying and will only lift its target to 15 per cent or 25 per cent if countries like China, India and the United States agree to verifiable reductions. This is in line with previous Government announcements on Australian emissions reduction levels.
See also
American Clean Energy and Security Act
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Carbon Market Institute
Climate of Australia
Emissions trading
European Union Emissions Tradi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibus | Ibus or IBus may refer to:
Intelligent Input Bus (IBus), an input-method framework for Unix-like computer operating-systems
iBus (London), an Automatic Vehicle Location system used on London's buses
iBus (Indore), BRT buses of Indore
International Bitterness Units scale (IBUs), a measure of the bitterness of beer
iBUS (device), a bus-monitoring and -management device for road transport systems
See also
Ibis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXWP-TV | DXWP-TV, channel 5, is a television station of Southern TV Industries and affiliate of People's Television Network. Its studio, transmitter and broadcast facility is located at Pioneer Avenue, General Santos. Currently the station is inactive.
History
1977 - DXBG-TV channel 8 was launched by the National Media Production Center as Government Television (GTV) under Lito Gorospe and later by then-Press Secretary Francisco Tatad. It is the first television station in Soccksargen.
1980 - GTV then became Maharlika Broadcasting System (MBS).
February 24, 1986 - Following the People Power Revolution on which it was taken over by pro-Corazon Aquino, MBS was renamed People's Television (PTV).
March 26, 1992 - President Cory Aquino signed Republic Act 7306 turning PTV Network into a government corporation known formally as People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI) and PTV General Santos moved its frequency from Channel 8 to channel 5 in 1992, which became an affiliate station of Southern TV Industries.
July 16, 2001 - Under the new management appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, PTNI adopted the name National Broadcasting Network (NBN) carrying new slogan "One People. One Nation. One Vision." for a new image in line with its new programming thrusts, they continued the new name until the Aquino administration in 2010.
October 6, 2011 – People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI) became a primary brand National Broadcasting Metwork was retired.
2018 - After it was lasted for twenty six years in General Santos, the station went silent.
Television stations in General Santos
Television channels and stations established in 1985
1985 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXNL-TV | DXNL-TV, channel 27, is a television station of Siam Broadcasting Corporation and affiliate of People's Television Network. Its head offices, studios, transmitters and broadcast facilities are located at Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro and at Executive Centrum building J. R. Borja Street, Cagayan de Oro. Currently the station is inactive.
History
PTV Cagayan de Oro begin its broadcasts on Channel 8 (DXHB-TV) as the affiliate of Government Television (GTV) through National Media Production Center and later renamed Maharlika Broadcasting System (MBS) in 1980. In 1986, after the People Power Revolution, MBS was renamed People's Television (PTV) followed by frequency from Channel 8 to Channel 7 with the call sign DXBS-TV. On March 26, 1992, by virtue of Republic Act 7306, PTV became People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI).
Then in 1995, DXNL-TV Channel 27 was launched by GMA Network through Citynet Television which was turned into a music channel, Channel V Philippines from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, the station was launched by National Broadcasting Network (NBN) and adopted mostly programs that showcase the programs of the Arroyo administration. On October 6, 2011, NBN was renamed back as People's Television Network (PTV), eventually, after fifteen years of broadcasting of the original Channel 7. In 2018, after it was lasted for seventeen years in Cagayan de Oro, the station is currently off the air.
Television stations in Cagayan de Oro
People's Television Network stations
Television channels and stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro%20de%20Levantamientos%20Integrados%20de%20Recursos%20Naturales%20por%20Sensores%20Remotos | The Center for Integrated Survey of Natural Resources by Remote Sensing (CLIRSEN) is currently making a base of satellite data located on the boundaries of the provinces of Pichincha and Cotopaxi in Ecuador.
History
The origins of the base date back to 1957, when the Ecuadorian government of Camilo Ponce started scientific collaborations with NASA. During the sixties the Ecuadorians received signals and monitored missions for the Apollo program, including the famous Apollo 11 mission.
Services
The center of integrated surveys of natural resources by remote sensing is a project that seeks to encompass a number of scientific, educational, among others for development of aerospace Ecuador. The agency regulates activities that space is the Ecuadorian Air Force in coordination with the Military Geographical Institute.
Science and technology in Ecuador |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Data%20Integrator | Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is an extract, load, transform (ELT) tool (in contrast with the ETL common approach) produced by Oracle that offers a graphical environment to build, manage and maintain data integration processes in business intelligence systems.
History
Oracle purchased Sunopsis in October 2006 and re-branded it as Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). The aim of this acquisition was to enhance the Oracle Fusion Middleware offering, which required broad support to heterogeneous sources and targets. After the purchase Oracle continued to offer separately ODI as well as its former ETL product Oracle Warehouse Builder. In January 2010 Oracle announced their intention to merge them into a single product (Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition).
Components
Oracle Data Integrator comprises the following components:
The Modular Repository, made up of a master repository and of one or several work repositories to store metadata about the data integration process. These repositories can be installed on any database engine that supports ANSI ISO 89 syntax.
The graphical interface modules (topology manager, designer, security manager, operator) and the execution agents (agent). These are entirely built with Java components that give access to the repository in client/server mode.
Metadata Navigator, a Servlet/JSP application that enables access to the repository through a Web interface.
Lightweight Designer, a Web application to view and edit objects in the repository through a Web browser.
Oracle Data Integrator Public Web Services, which allow users to leverage Oracle Data Integrator features in a Service-oriented architecture (SOA).
References
External links
Overview of Oracle Data Integrator
Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Warehouse Builder Statement of Direction
Extract, transform, load tools
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20locker | A digital locker or cyberlocker is an online file or digital media storage service. Files stored include music, videos, movies, games and other media. The term was used by Microsoft as a part of its Windows Marketplace in 2004. By storing files in a digital locker, users are able to access them anywhere they can find internet connections. Most (but not all) digital locker services require a user to register. Prices range from free to paid, divided according to the complications and strength of the lock.
Uses
Digital lockers, as opposed to simple file storage services, are typically associated with digital distribution — a commercial store where you can buy content such as Steam, Google Play, Amazon, and iTunes.
Download / Play / Watch
Digital locker services often come with integrated client software that allows users to play the movies or games or songs.
Upload
Many digital locker services enable users to upload their own content or provide synchronization software that will scan a user's computer and upload the appropriate media for them.
Matching
Some services like Google Play and iTunes will match songs users have to a digital signature, allowing them to skip the sometimes slow process of uploading the media file. Rather, once the song is matched, it will just be added to a user's library.
Digital rights management
Digital lockers are often used as a way of controlling access to media via Digital Rights Management (DRM). Services such as Steam, Origin, Blizzard, Vudu, and others offer to users the convenience of a digital locker in exchange for the control of DRM.
Copyright infringement
Some digital locker services such as Hotfile and MegaUpload have been accused of being large contributors towards copyright infringement. The MPAA alleged that Hotfile and similar services promote copyright infringement by paying users referral fees, and thus encouraging them to upload popular copyrighted content.
See also
File hosting service
Cloud storage
Comparison of file hosting services
Comparison of file synchronization software
Comparison of online backup services
Comparison of online music lockers
File sharing
Digital distribution
References
Video game development
Digital rights management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABNT%20NBR%2015606 | ABNT NBR 15606 refers to a collection of technical standards that govern the transmission of digital terrestrial television in Brazil.
The data coding aspects of the Brazilian Digital Terrestrial Television Standards are described in the following documents published by ABNT, the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas): ABNT NBR 15606-1:2007 - Digital terrestrial television - Data coding and transmission specification - Part 1: Data coding; ABNT NBR 15606-2:2007 - Digital terrestrial television - Data coding and transmission specification - Part 2: Ginga-NCL for fixed and mobile receivers: XML application language for application coding; ABNT NBR 15606-3:2007- Digital terrestrial television - Data coding and transmission specification - Part 3: Data transmission specifications for digital broadcasting; and ABNT NBR 15606-5:2008 - Digital terrestrial television - Data coding and transmission specification – Part 5: Ginga-NCL for portable receivers: XML application language for application coding.
The standard was written by telecommunications and television experts from many countries with their works coordinated by the SBTVD Forum and cover in detail all the aspects of video and audio coding that applies to SBTVD. The complete document can be found and downloaded freely in English, Spanish and Portuguese at ABNT's website.
The standard addresses one of the main advances regarding the middleware specification, one of the Brazilian digital television system. The middleware specification comprises a procedural portion, performed by Java, and a declarative portion, performed by NCL and Lua, with a bridge that allow for mutual access between them. The combined Brazilian middleware specification is called Ginga.
Document technical overview
Brazil will have a unique joint implementation of declarative and procedural middleware and the bridge between them. The Brazilian data coding system is called Ginga and comprises the language specification used by the presentation engine Ginga-NCL, the monomidia coding and GEM compliant Java presentation engine.
The lower level protocol is the data carrousel for transmission of a data block without any kind of semantics. On the upper level the object carrousel allows the transmission of file, archives, applications, folders and event synchronization. Object carrousel is not part of the Japanese ARIB standards, but rather defined on DVB and ATSC standards.
NCL, Nested Context Language, is a XML application language recommendation that allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations in a very simple and efficient manner. Using NCL, an author can describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks (user interaction) with media objects, define alternatives for presentation (adaptation), and describe the layout of the presentation on multiple devices. Unlike HTML or XHTML, NCL has a stricter separation between content and st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20Nukem | Duke Nukem is a media franchise named for its main character, Duke Nukem. Created by the company Apogee Software Ltd. (now 3D Realms) as a series of video games for personal computers, the series expanded to games released for various consoles by third-party developers. The first two games in the main series were 2D platformers, while the later games have been a mix of first-person and third-person shooters.
In 2010, the rights of the series were acquired by Gearbox Software, who completed the development of Duke Nukem Forever and released it on 10 June 2011 in Europe and Australia and on 14 June 2011 in North America. The franchise generated over $1 billion in revenue by 2001.
Games
Main series
The first three games in the series were developed by Apogee Software, which in 1996 rebranded as 3D Realms. The original game, Duke Nukem, was released in 1991. It is a two-dimensional platform game for the IBM PC and features 320×200, 16-color EGA graphics with vertical and horizontal scrolling. The original game has three episodes, the first distributed as shareware. When Apogee learned that the name "Duke Nukem" might have already been trademarked for the Duke Nukem character from the television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers, they changed it to Duke Nukum for the 2.0 revision. The name was later determined not to be trademarked, so the spelling Duke Nukem was restored for Duke Nukem II and all successive Duke games.
The sequel, Duke Nukem II, is more than four times larger and took advantage of 256-color Video Graphics Array (VGA) graphics, Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) music, and digitized sound. While the game uses three different 16-color palettes, only 16 colors are actually used onscreen at once.
The third game of the series is the first-person shooter (FPS) Duke Nukem 3D, released in 1996. Like most FPS games of the day, Duke Nukem 3D features three-dimensional environments with two-dimensional sprites standing in for weapons, enemies, and breakable background objects. Duke Nukem 3D was released for MS-DOS, Mac OS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, game.com, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Nintendo 64, and later re-released during 2008 for Xbox Live Arcade, and for iOS and Nokia N900 during 2009. Duke Nukem 3D has more than a dozen expansion packs.
The most recent installment in the main video game series, Duke Nukem Forever, was delayed for more than a decade after the initial announcement during April 1997, leading to its being named as a piece of vaporware. Initial development had begun at 3D Realms, but in 2009, 3D Realms was forced to lay off many of its staff, and development of Duke Nukem Forever stalled. Take-Two Interactive, which was to publish the game, sued 3D Realms for failing to deliver, which was settled in 2010. Gearbox Software had close contact with many of the laid off 3D Realms staff and quietly hired them to continue its development as Triptych Games. 3D Realms sold the rights to Duke Nukem to Gearbox in 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-DSS | The Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) is the global security standard created by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).
PA-DSS was implemented in an effort to provide the definitive data standard for software vendors that develop payment applications. The standard aimed to prevent developed payment applications for third parties from storing prohibited secure data including magnetic stripe, CVV2, or PIN. In that process, the standard also dictates that software vendors develop payment applications that are compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).
Ultimately the PA-DSS was retired in late 2022, though existing implementations using PA-DSS applications do not necessarily lose their compliance status. The PCI Council since established a new software validation program, the PCI Software Security Framework.
Requirements
For a payment application to be deemed PA-DSS compliant, software vendors must ensure that their software includes the following fourteen protections:
Do not retain full track data, card verification code or value (CAV2, CID, CVC2, CVV2), or PIN block data.
Protect stored cardholder data.
Provide secure authentication features.
Log payment application activity.
Develop secure payment applications.
Protect wireless transmissions.
Test payment applications to address vulnerabilities and maintain payment application updates.
Facilitate secure network implementation.
Cardholder data must never be stored on a server connected to the Internet.
Facilitate secure remote access to payment application.
Encrypt sensitive traffic over public networks.
Secure all non-console administrative access.
Maintain a PA-DSS Implementation Guide for customers, resellers, and integrators.
Assign PA-DSS responsibilities for personnel, and maintain training programs for personnel, customers, resellers, and integrators.
Governance and enforcement
PCI SSC has compiled a list of payment applications that have been validated as PA-DSS compliant, with the list updated to reflect compliant payment applications as they are developed.
Creation and enforcement of these standards currently rests with PCI SSC via Payment Application-Qualified Security Assessors (PA-QSA). PA-QSAs conduct payment application reviews that help software vendors ensure that applications are compliant with PCI standards.
History
Governed originally by Visa Inc., under the PABP moniker, PA-DSS was launched on April 15, 2008 and updated on October 15, 2008. PA-DSS then became retroactively distinguished as "version 1.1" and "version 1.2".
In October 2009, PA-DSS v1.2.1 was released with three noted changes:
Under “Scope of PA-DSS,” align content with the PA-DSS Program Guide, v1.2.1, to clarify applications to which PA-DSS applies.
Under Laboratory Requirement 6, corrected spelling of “OWASP.”
In the Attestation of Validation, Part 2a, update “Payment Application Functionality” to be consisten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked%20Insights | Networked Insights Inc. is an analytics software company headquartered in Chicago, IL with additional offices in New York City and Madison. Founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Dan Neely, the company aims to help its customers make marketing and advertising more effective by capturing and analyzing social media conversations from blogs, internet forums, microblogs like Twitter and social networks like Facebook.
Networked Insights’ technology platform, called 'Kairos', includes online analytical processing and social media measurement tools. Its software as a service analytics platform combines user-defined logic with multiple sources of network data and ability for intelligence gathering and analysis across open social media and private customer networks. The Networked Insights platform discerns engagement using semantic analysis around specific topics and themes relevant to a brand, differing from traditional social media monitoring in that it doesn't require users to manually read through content.
References
Software companies established in 2006
Software companies based in Wisconsin
Companies based in Madison, Wisconsin
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Link%20light%20rail%20stations | Link is a light rail system operated by Sound Transit that serves the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. The network consists of 31 stations on two unconnected lines: nineteen on the 1 Line and twelve on the T Line in Tacoma. Link stations are located within four cities in King and Pierce counties: fourteen in Seattle, twelve in Tacoma, two in SeaTac and one in Tukwila. The two lines had a combined average weekday ridership of 82,783 and total ridership of 26 million in 2019, placing it seventh among the busiest light rail systems in the United States. The busiest station by daily ridership is Westlake station in Seattle, while the least busy is Convention Center/South 15th Street station in Tacoma.
The first Link segment began service on August 23, 2003, with the opening of five stations on the Tacoma Link (now the T Line). The initial, segment of Central Link (now the 1 Line) with 12 stations was opened from Seattle to Tukwila on July 18, 2009, and was later extended to the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport on December 19, 2009. The first infill station of the Link system was Commerce Street/South 11th Street station on the T Line, which opened on September 15, 2011. The 1 Line was extended north to the University of Washington on March 19, 2016, and south to Angle Lake station on September 24, 2016. A northern extension to Northgate station with three stations opened on October 2, 2021. The T Line was extended in September 2023 with six new stations and one relocated stop.
, Sound Transit is building four extensions of the Link network that will open between 2024 and 2026 with 20 new stations. Among these are the 2 Line with ten stations from Seattle to Bellevue and Redmond on the Eastside, scheduled to open in two phases split between 2024 and 2025; and extensions of the 1 Line north to Lynnwood in 2024 and south to Federal Way in 2026. These extensions are planned to add an additional to the light rail network, carrying an estimated 280,000 daily riders by 2030.
Further expansions approved by Sound Transit 3 in 2016 are planned to expand the light rail network by and 39 stations to a total of of track and 70 to 75 stations by 2044, carrying 500,000 daily passengers. The light rail network will include lines to Ballard and West Seattle in Seattle in 2039 and 2032, respectively; Kirkland and Issaquah on the Eastside in 2044; and extensions to Everett and Tacoma in 2041 and 2032, respectively. Three infill stations in Seattle and Tukwila will also be built as part of the Sound Transit 3 program.
All 1 Line light rail stations are built with , platforms, arranged in the center or sides of the two tracks, with capacity to handle a four-car train with vehicles; T Line stations are built with , platforms that can accommodate a one-car train measuring in length. The majority of stations are built at-grade on the surface, with the platform elevated slightly above street level; there are also elevated statio |
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