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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Klima%20%28artist%29 | John Klima (born 1965 in Redondo Beach, United States) is an American new media artist, who uses hand-built electronics, computer hardware and software to create online and in gallery artworks.
Received his BFA from State University of New York in 1987
He has had solo exhibitions at Postmasters Gallery and the Whitney Museum's Artport in New York City, and the Bank Gallery in Los Angeles
For a period in 1993 Klima worked as a coder for Microsoft developing Microsoft's internal PowerPoint slides, to create the illusion of a presentation on screen.
In 1996 he worked for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, his work with the company included the design of a learning game that was later distributed to the sales representatives of the company for the launch of Zyrtec.
In 2014 John founded Scratchbuilt Studios in Lisbon, Portugal. The studio is used for music and experimental sound projects.
In 2018 he was invited to The New Art Fest, an art and technology festival based in Lisbon and exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (Lisbon).
He lives and works in Brooklyn and is currently adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brooklyn Polytechnic University. Klima was a resident at Eyebeam.
Works
1997: Cartesian Theater
1999: Serbian Skylight
1999: gb AI
1999: pmg
2000: glasbead
2001: Go-Fish
2001: ecosystm
2001: EARTH
2002: Terrain Machine
2002: Speedo-Mat
2002: The Great Game, Epilogue
2002: The Great Game
2002: Context Breeder
2002: American Cinema
2002: Jack and Jill
2002: Political Landscape, Emotional Terrain
2002: EARTH, Discrete Terrains
2003: Time Machine
2003: The Great Game: Iraq Expansion Pack
2004: TERRAIN
2005: TRAIN
2006: RAPUNSEL
Further reading
(Brown University open source )
References
External links
Primary website of John Klima
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/_whats_your_bac_1/
1965 births
Living people
American digital artists
Rhode Island School of Design faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis%20Software | Atlantis Software was a London-based UK computer games publisher that released a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s.
The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in January 1984 with the first four games released in May of that year. The philosophy of the company was to sell high volume at low 'pocket-money' prices: initially, all games were £1.99. The Atlantis Gold label was launched the following year at £2.99, but the Gold tag was soon dropped, with games at both prices being released under the Atlantis logo but with the suggested price on the cover.
The company's primary focus remained on the low-cost cassette-based games for 8-bit machines for £1.99 and £2.99 (commonly known as "budget" games) that formed a significant part of the UK 8-bit software market during the 1980s.
They later also moved into the 16-bit disk-based market and published games for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga.
Selected titles
Master Mariner, 1984 (ZX Spectrum)
Monster Munch, 1984 (Commodore 64)
Cops 'n' Robbers, 1985 (VIC-20, C64, Commodore 16, Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Atari 8-bit)
Death Race, 1985 (VIC-20, C64, C16, Atari 8-bit)
League Challenge, 1986 (Spectrum, C64, C16, Electron, BBC, Atari 8-bit, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST)
Survivors, 1986 (Spectrum, C64, C16, Electron, BBC, Atari 8-bit, CPC, MSX)
Panik!, 1986 (C16, Electron, BBC, Atari 8-bit)
Gunfighter, 1988 (Spectrum, C64, Electron, BBC, Atari 8-bit, CPC)
Crack-Up!, 1989 (Spectrum, C64, Electron, BBC, Atari 8-bit, CPC)
Encounter!, 1989 (Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64)
Cavemania, 1990 (Spectrum, C64, CPC, Amiga, ST)
Hobgoblin, 1990 (Spectrum, C64, Electron, BBC, CPC)
Apache Flight, 1992 (Amiga, ST)
Dates shown are for the first version. In many cases, ports to other machines were released over a number of years (e.g. League Challenge wasn't ported to Amiga until 1991).
References
External links
Atlantis Software Game Cover Gallery on Retromuseums
Atlantis Softology on Retromuseums
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resilient%20control%20systems | In our modern society, computerized or digital control systems have been used to reliably automate many of the industrial operations that we take for granted, from the power plant to the automobiles we drive. However, the complexity of these systems and how the designers integrate them, the roles and responsibilities of the humans that interact with the systems, and the cyber security of these highly networked systems have led to a new paradigm in research philosophy for next-generation control systems. Resilient Control Systems consider all of these elements and those disciplines that contribute to a more effective design, such as cognitive psychology, computer science, and control engineering to develop interdisciplinary solutions. These solutions consider things such as how to tailor the control system operating displays to best enable the user to make an accurate and reproducible response, how to design in cybersecurity protections such that the system defends itself from attack by changing its behaviors, and how to better integrate widely distributed computer control systems to prevent cascading failures that result in disruptions to critical industrial operations. In the context of cyber-physical systems, resilient control systems are an aspect that focuses on the unique interdependencies of a control system, as compared to information technology computer systems and networks, due to its importance in operating our critical industrial operations.
Introduction
Originally intended to provide a more efficient mechanism for controlling industrial operations, the development of digital control systems allowed for flexibility in integrating distributed sensors and operating logic while maintaining a centralized interface for human monitoring and interaction. This ease of readily adding sensors and logic through software, which was once done with relays and isolated analog instruments, has led to wide acceptance and integration of these systems in all industries. However, these digital control systems have often been integrated in phases to cover different aspects of an industrial operation, connected over a network, and leading to a complex interconnected and interdependent system. While the control theory applied is often nothing more than a digital version of their analog counterparts, the dependence of digital control systems upon the communications networks, has precipitated the need for cybersecurity due to potential effects on confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information. To achieve resilience in the next generation of control systems, therefore, addressing the complex control system interdependencies, including the human systems interaction and cybersecurity, will be a recognized challenge.
Defining resilience
Research in resilience engineering over the last decade has focused in two areas, organizational and information technology. Organizational resilience considers the ability of an organization to adapt and survive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seton%20Healthcare%20Family | Seton Healthcare Family, also known as Seton Family of Hospitals, is a Roman Catholic-affiliated hospital network in the Greater Austin area. It is a member of Ascension, a not-for-profit health organization located in St. Louis, Missouri.
History
A grassroots effort in the 1890s by citizens of Austin, Texas led to the opening of the Seton Infirmary on May 26, 1902. The citizenry asked the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul to construct a Catholic hospital to take care of the sick and poor.
Over 100 years later the one 42-bed hospital, originally known as "Seton Infirmary" and located at 600 West 26th Street in Austin, Texas, has grown to serve a population of more than 1.8 million, with a special regard for the sick and poor. A Catholic health organization, Seton provides millions of dollars in charity care for the uninsured every year.
The healthcare network now includes five major medical centers, two of which are designated Level I Trauma Centers. Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas is the only dedicated hospital for children in the region. Seton also operates two community hospitals, two rural hospitals and a mental health hospital along with multiple locations for outpatient medical services and three primary care clinics for the uninsured. Four facilities are designated Magnet hospitals by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Seton has become the largest private employer in Central Texas, with approximately 11,000 associates.
In 2011, Seton partnered with the University of Texas System Board of Regents and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, one of the nation's leading academic medical centers, to increase the amount of medical education and medical research conducted in Central Texas.
Austin CyberKnife Center
Austin CyberKnife is based in the Clinical Education Center, on the campus of the former University Medical Center Brackenridge campus.
The Austin CyberKnife Center is a cancer treatment center using CyberKnife technology to treat malignant and benign tumors throughout the body. It has a Lung Optimization Treatment (LOT) System.
Facilities
Ascension Seton Williamson
Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas
Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas
Seton Medical Center Austin
Seton Edgar B. Davis Hospital
Seton Highland Lakes Hospital
Seton Northwest Hospital
Seton Southwest Hospital
Seton Shoal Creek Hospital
Cedar Park Regional Medical Center
Seton Medical Center Hays
Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital
Seton Smithville Regional Hospital
Seton Medical Center Harker Heights
Former
Brackenridge Hospital (owned by the City of Austin, contracted to Seton from 1995, until its closure in 2017)
Awards
Maternity Qualify Matters Award, Childbirth Connection
Dell Children’s LEED Platinum, US Green Building Council
Top 100 Integrated Health Systems, Verispan
Ernest A. Codman Award, Joint Commission
References
External links
Seton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSON | BSON () is a computer data interchange format. The name "BSON" is based on the term JSON and stands for "Binary JSON". It is a binary form for representing simple or complex data structures including associative arrays (also known as name-value pairs), integer indexed arrays, and a suite of fundamental scalar types.
BSON originated in 2009 at MongoDB. Several scalar data types are of specific interest to MongoDB and the format is used both as a data storage and network transfer format for the MongoDB database, but it can be used independently outside of MongoDB.
Implementations are available in a variety of languages such as C, C++, C#, D, Delphi, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Lua, OCaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Smalltalk, and Swift.
Data types and syntax
BSON has a published specification. The topmost element in the structure must be of type BSON object and
contains 1 or more elements, where an element consists of a field name, a type, and a value. Field names are strings. Types include:
Unicode string (using the UTF-8 encoding)
32 bit integer
64 bit integer
double (64-bit IEEE 754 floating point number)
decimal128 (128-bit IEEE 754-2008 floating point number; Binary Integer Decimal (BID) variant), suitable as a carrier for decimal-place sensitive financial data and arbitrary precision numerics with 34 decimal digits of precision, a max value of approximately 106145
datetime w/o time zone (long integer number of milliseconds since the Unix epoch)
byte array (for arbitrary binary data)
boolean (true and false)
null
BSON object
BSON array
JavaScript code
MD5 binary data
Regular expression (Perl compatible regular expressions ("PCRE") version 8.41 with UTF-8 support)
An important differentiator to JSON is that BSON contains types not present in JSON (e.g. datetime and byte array) and offers type-strict handling for several numeric types instead of a universal "number" type. For situations where these additional types need to be represented in a textual way, MongoDB's Extended JSON format can be used.
Efficiency
Compared to JSON, BSON is designed to be efficient both in storage space and scan-speed. Large elements in a BSON document are prefixed with a length field to facilitate scanning. In some cases, BSON will use more space than JSON due to the length prefixes and explicit array indices.
Example
A document such as will be stored as:
\x16\x00\x00\x00 // total document size
\x02 // 0x02 = type String
hello\x00 // field name
\x06\x00\x00\x00world\x00 // field value (size of value, value, null terminator)
\x00 // 0x00 = type EOO ('end of object')
See also
Comparison of data serialization formats
JSON
CBOR
Smile (binary JSON)
UBJSON
Protocol Buffers
Action Message Format
Apache Thrift
MessagePack
Document-oriented database
MongoDB
Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
Wireless Binary XML (WBXML)
Efficient XML |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology%20in%20Canada | The Scientology movement has been present in Canada since at least the 1960s. According to the most recent available census data, there were 1,745 individuals in Canada identifying as Scientologists in 2011. Scientology has encountered difficulties in obtaining status as a tax exempt organization, as has happened in other countries.
Locations
Toronto
The Toronto organization's 8-storey building at 696 Yonge Street was vacated in 2012 and boarded up in 2013 for a renovation to an "Ideal Org". The plans would "remove all interior walls on all floors, remove all exterior walls ... and construct new exterior and interior alterations to all floors." In 2015, Scientology owed over $100,000 in property taxes and penalties. As of 2022, the building was still boarded up and vacant.
Montreal
In 2007, the Montreal organization purchased the historic La Patrie building in downtown Montreal's Latin Quarter with plans to renovate it as an Ideal Org, but the building remained vacant. In 2015, the organization owed $117,000 in taxes, fines and interest. They paid off enough of that bill to avoid a sale of the building, but in 2016 faced another substantial tax bill and risked having the building auctioned off.
Cambridge
In 2013, a new Ideal Org was opened in Cambridge, Ontario at 1305 Bishop St. N.
Guelph
In 2017, Scientology rented the building at 40 Baker Street for administrative offices. A month later, there were demonstrators out front protesting the presence of Scientology in Guelph.
Legal status as a religion
Religious scholars David G. Bromley and Douglas Cowan, writing in a 2006 publication, state that Scientology has so far failed to gain official recognition as a religion in Canada.
The Church has failed to win status as a federally registered charity for tax purposes. A November 2007 article in The Varsity, a University of Toronto student newspaper, stated that the Church of Scientology is classified as a religious non-profit organization in Canada whose ministers can perform marriages, and that Scientologist public servants are allowed to take time off work for Scientologist holidays. However, since marriage is governed in Canada by provincial law, it is unclear whether Scientology is actually accredited in any Canadian province to perform legal marriages.
The Lee Report
In 1966, the provincially appointed Committee on the Healing Arts began investigating medicine and healing in Ontario. The study involved the examination of hypnosis and groups that use it, as well as several sectarian groups including Scientology. The resulting report in 1970, by John A. Lee, entitled Sectarian Healers and Hypnotherapy was dubbed The Lee Report.
Lee's work included an examination of groups which purported to heal mainly through the use of suggestion. Though Scientologists disclaim any interest in healing physical or mental disorders, they also claim that 70% of human illness is psychosomatic and can be cured by Scientology.
From 1967 through 1968 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20Belarusian%20census | The 1999 Belarusian census was the first census in Belarus after it became an independent state after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Previous census data in the territory of Belarus may be found in Soviet censuses and the Russian Empire census.
See also
2009 Belarusian census
References
Demographics of Belarus
Census
1999 censuses
Censuses in Belarus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer%20Cellular | Consumer Cellular is an American postpaid mobile virtual network operator founded by John Marick and Greg Pryor in October 1995. The company offers cellphones, no-contract cellphone plans, and accessories with a focus on users age 50-plus. Including its corporate headquarters in Portland, Oregon, Consumer Cellular is completely U.S. based, employing more than 2,400 people at three additional locations in Phoenix, Arizona, and a support center in Redmond, Oregon.
Consumer Cellular provides wireless service using network capacity from AT&T and T-Mobile (conversation with Consumer Cellular Support in May 2022 confirmed that only the AT&T network is being used at this time for new subscribers phones) and also resells AT&T wholesale wireless services to other virtual operators. The company has been included on the Inc 5000 list as one of America’s fastest growing companies every year since 2009. , the company has close to 4 million subscribers.
History
John Marick and Greg Pryor founded Consumer Cellular in 1995 with a goal of providing low-cost service to casual mobile users of all ages. In 2008, Consumer Cellular became a preferred provider for AARP members, becoming the first cellphone company to market extensively to the over-50 demographic.
The company's first retail presence was established in 2011 with a partnership with Sears stores. In 2014, Consumer Cellular was introduced in Target stores, and in 2018 became available at select U.S. Best Buy stores. In 2013, the company introduced a smartphone financing program called EasyPay that is available to consumers purchasing smartphones that cost $200 and up. That same year, the company partnered with SquareTrade to begin providing cellphone protection plans.
In February 2013, in celebration of its one millionth customer, Consumer Cellular donated $1 million: $100,000 to each of five non-profit partners, and the remainder to its employees. To celebrate its 20th anniversary and its milestone of 2 million customers, it donated $2 million to the Knight Cancer Challenge on behalf of their customers in 2015. After reaching 2.5 million customers in the summer of 2017, it donated 2.5 million meals via Feeding America, and to mark the addition of its 3 millionth customer in October 2018, the company donated $500,000 to each of three charities selected by its employees. In May 2018, Consumer Cellular announced an investment in GrandPad and also became a distributor of the GrandPad tablet in the United States.
In August 2019, the company celebrated its 3.5 millionth customer by donating $350,000 to the American Red Cross through the Disaster Responder Program. In the fall of 2020, to honor its 25th anniversary, Consumer Cellular donated $2.5 million to Toys for Tots. In October 2020, upon the decision of Marick and Pryor to retire, Ed Evans was installed as CEO, replacing Marick.
Products
Consumer Cellular offers low-cost, no-contract monthly cellphone plans with simple cutoff points to offer flexibili |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMP%20File | The YMP file (file-extension .ymp) which stands for YaST Meta Package, is a file used in the openSUSE operating system (based on the Linux kernel). It is used in a feature called one-click install. This allows a user to click a "One-Click Install" button on certain websites to automatically install software, without having to download and install the software separately. The YMP file will open the one-click install manager which is managed by YaST. The system will automatically add the repository containing the application, and then download and install the program.
The file contains XML content of where to find the package and other such details.
Installation software
SUSE Linux
XML software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacechase | Spacechase is a fixed shooter video game for the Atari Video Computer System (later called the Atari 2600) written by Ed Salvo and published by Games by Apollo in 1981.
Gameplay
In orbit of an unnamed "moon," the player uses a Starcruiser to destroy formations of alien enemy raiders that attack from above. The lunar surface rotates in the background, but has no effect on gameplay. The player's ship can maneuver in eight directions within the lower third of the game screen. As the game advances, the aliens attacks begin to include "Lazer-Directed Heat-Seeking Proton Missiles".
There are single and two-player games; players alternate turns in the latter. The game can be handicapped for each player by setting the Atari's Difficulty Switch. In the "A" position the player's shots are slower than when the switch is in the "B" position.
Reception
Spacechase became Apollo's best selling title. Apollo also marketed Spacechase with an offer to make customized or "monogrammed" versions of Spacechase. Less than 10 were sold, and several were given to press including Electronic Games magazine co-founder Arnie Katz.
PM Magazine visited Apollo's offices to film a segment on Apollo and Spacechase, with Leeza Gibbons doing the interview. The segment included programmer Ed Salvo making a customized Spacechase for Gibbons, changing three shapes in the explosion graphic to her initials. When her ship was destroyed, Leeza's initials appeared.
Reviews
The Atari Times, reviewed by Ethan C. Nobles, gave it a 75% rating.
neXGam (German), reviewed by Michael Tausendpfund, gave it a 63% rating.
References
External links
Spacechase at Atari Mania
1981 video games
Atari 2600 games
Atari 2600-only games
Fixed shooters
Games by Apollo
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20Direct%20Access%20Programming%20Library | A user direct access programming library (or uDAPL) defines a single set of user application program interfaces (APIs) for all Remote direct memory access (RDMA)-capable transports. The uDAPL mission is to define a transport-independent and platform-standard set of APIs that exploit RDMA capabilities, such as those present in InfiniBand, Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA), and ROI WG of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
External links
https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/dapl/documentation/uDAPL_v20.pdf
http://www.datcollaborative.org/udapl.html (obsolete, broken)
http://www.datcollaborative.org/uDAPL_doc_062102.pdf (obsolete, broken)
Programming libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLAD-FM | KLAD-FM (92.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States. The station, established in 1974, is currently owned by Basin Mediactive, LLC.
Programming
KLAD-FM broadcasts a country music format. Syndicated programs include The Big Time with Whitney Allen.
History
This station began regular operations on July 19, 1974, broadcasting with 27,000 watts of effective radiated power on a frequency of 92.5 MHz.
The station, launched as a sister station to KLAD (960 AM), was assigned the call sign KLAD-FM by the Federal Communications Commission. KLAD-FM was owned by 960 Radio, Inc., and led by Cyrus L. Smith as company president and general manager with August O. Crandall serving as both program director and music director.
During the day, KLAD-FM operated as a simulcast of KLAD, airing a country & western music mix. By 1978 KLAD-FM had changed its call sign to KJSN but it continued the simulcast.
In February 1986, 960 Radio, Inc., reached an agreement to sell KJSN to Lost River Broadcasting, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on March 25, 1986, but the transaction was never consummated and control of KLAD remained with 960 Radio, Inc. The station was reassigned the call sign KLAD-FM by the FCC on December 25, 1996. One week later, AM sister station KLAD dropped that long-held callsign for KLKL.
In March 1988, 960 Radio, Inc., reached a new agreement to sell this station, this time, to Todd Communications, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on May 11, 1988, and the transaction was consummated on May 13, 1988. Just under two years later, in February 1990, Todd Communications, Inc., contracted to sell this station to B&B Broadcasting, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 18, 1990, and the transaction was consummated on June 1, 1990.
In August 1998, B&B Broadcasting, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to New Northwest Broadcasters, Inc., as part of a six-station deal valued at $7.9 million. The deal was approved by the FCC on October 20, 1998, and the transaction was consummated on December 10, 1998.
In May 2011, New Northwest Broadcast, LLC, reached an agreement to sell KLAD-FM and four other radio stations to Basin Mediactive, LLC.
References
External links
KLAD-FM official website
LAD-FM
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1974
Klamath Falls, Oregon
1974 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-fractional%20programming | In mathematical optimization, linear-fractional programming (LFP) is a generalization of linear programming (LP). Whereas the objective function in a linear program is a linear function, the objective function in a linear-fractional program is a ratio of two linear functions. A linear program can be regarded as a special case of a linear-fractional program in which the denominator is the constant function 1.
Formally, a linear-fractional program is defined as the problem of maximizing (or minimizing) a ratio of affine functions over a polyhedron,
where represents the vector of variables to be determined, and are vectors of (known) coefficients, is a (known) matrix of coefficients and are constants. The constraints have to restrict the feasible region to , i.e. the region on which the denominator is positive. Alternatively, the denominator of the objective function has to be strictly negative in the entire feasible region.
Motivation by comparison to linear programming
Both linear programming and linear-fractional programming represent optimization problems using linear equations and linear inequalities, which for each problem-instance define a feasible set. Fractional linear programs have a richer set of objective functions. Informally, linear programming computes a policy delivering the best outcome, such as maximum profit or lowest cost. In contrast, a linear-fractional programming is used to achieve the highest ratio of outcome to cost, the ratio representing the highest efficiency. For example, in the context of LP we maximize the objective function profit = income − cost and might obtain maximum profit of $100 (= $1100 of income − $1000 of cost). Thus, in LP we have an efficiency of $100/$1000 = 0.1. Using LFP we might obtain an efficiency of $10/$50 = 0.2 with a profit of only $10, but only requiring $50 of investment.
Transformation to a linear program
Any linear-fractional program can be transformed into a linear program, assuming that the feasible region is non-empty and bounded, using the Charnes-Cooper transformation. The main idea is to introduce a new non-negative variable to the program which will be used to rescale the constants involved in the program (). This allows us to require that the denominator of the objective function () equals 1. (To understand the transformation, it is instructive to consider the simpler special case with .)
Formally, the linear program obtained via the Charnes-Cooper transformation uses the transformed variables and :
A solution to the original linear-fractional program can be translated to a solution of the transformed linear program via the equalities
Conversely, a solution for and of the transformed linear program can be translated to a solution of the original linear-fractional program via
Duality
Let the dual variables associated with the constraints and be denoted by and , respectively. Then the dual of the LFP above is
which is an LP and which coincides with the dual of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr%20Farfa%C5%82 | Piotr Grzegorz Farfał (born 18 May 1978 in Głogów) is a Polish rightwing politician of the League of Polish Families and former President of the Polish national TV network TVP.
Biography
Farfał studied law at the University of Szczecin and at the College of Banking in Wrocław. He was active in the nationalist All-Polish Youth and the National Revival of Poland. As a student he wrote for the right-wing newspapers "Front" and "Szczerbiec" (The Sword). However, when the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza described him as a "former neo-Nazi", Farfał sued, only to have his lawsuit thrown out by a local court.
In May 2006 Farfał became a supervisory board member and vice-president of the state-run TV network TVP, and was appointed president in December 2008. After assuming office he cancelled a contract financing the biopic The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, on the life of Irena Sendler who had helped save thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust. In protest the French-German TV network Arte suspended cooperation with TVP, considering Farfał's views "incompatible with Arte’s philosophy based on intercultural exchange", and stating that "the party that TVP's chairman is presently connected with does not share European values."
A number of Polish public media figures, including film directors Agnieszka Holland and Andrzej Wajda, subsequently appealed to the public to boycott TVP on Polish Constitution day, 3 May 2009.
Works
Myśleć po polsku ("Thinking Polish")
References
1978 births
Living people
People from Głogów
University of Szczecin alumni
League of Polish Families politicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYKR | DYKR (96.7 FM), broadcasting as 96.7 XFM, is a radio station owned by DCG Radio-TV Network and operated by Y2H Broadcasting Network, Inc. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the 4th floor, Monarch Finance Corporation (MFC) Bldg., Lacson St., Bacolod.
History
The station was established in 1993 by Exodus Broadcasting Company as one of the provincial WRock stations. After its Manila flagship station was acquired by Manila Broadcasting Company on October 6, 2008, the station was relaunched as a separate entity from WRocK Online. In May 2010, due to lack of resources and financial challenges, WRocK Online, along with the station, went off the air.
In 2020, DCG Radio-TV Network acquired the frequency from Exodus. In early 2022, Yes2Health Advertising took over the station's operations and began its test broadcast as XFM, carrying a news and music format. XFM Bacolod officially launched on April 4, 2022.
References
Radio stations in Bacolod
Radio stations established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMI%20Standard | The OpenMI (Open Modeling Interface) Standard defines an interface that allows models to exchange data in memory at run-time. When the standard is implemented, existing models can be run simultaneously and share information, for instance at each time step, making model integration feasible at the operational level. The OpenMI standard was created with the intent to facilitate model integration, which is helpful in understanding and predicting process interactions and achieving an integrated approach to environmental management.
The OpenMI standard is owned and maintained by the OpenMI Association, an open, not for profit group of international organizations and people. On the 1st of July 2014 the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the Open Modelling Interface Standard Version 2 (OpenMI) as an OGC standard.
OpenMI architecture
OpenMI is based on a ‘request & reply’ mechanism and a pull-based pipe-and-filter architecture, which consists of communicating components (source components and target components) that “exchange memory-based data in a predefined way and in a predefined format”.
The OpenMI standard interface has three functions:
Model Definition: This allows other linkable components to find out what items a given model can exchange in terms of quantities simulated and the locations at which the quantities are simulated.
Configuration: This defines what will be exchanged when two models have been linked for a specific purpose.
Run-time operation: This enables the model to accept or provide data at run time.
OpenMI standard in a nutshell
The OpenMI is interface-based
Its standardized part is defined as a software interface specification.
The interface acts as a contract between software components.
The interface specification is not limited to specific technology platforms or implementations.
The interface implementation may be limited by the technology supported in a specific release.
By adopting the implemented interface a component becomes an “OpenMI-compliant” component.
The OpenMI is open
Its specification is publicly available via the Internet.
Its source code is open and available under Lesser GPL license conditions.
It enables linkages between different kinds of models developed by different disciplines for different scientific domains.
It offers a complete metadata structure to describe the numerical data that can be exchanged in terms of semantics, units, dimensions, spatial and temporal representation and data operations.
It provides a means to define exactly what is linked, how and when.
Its default implementation and software utilities are available under an open source software license.
The OpenMI is a standard
It standardizes the way data transfer is specified and executed.
It allows any model to talk to any other model (e.g. from a different developer) without the need for co-operation between model developers or close communication between integrators and model developers.
Its generic nature doe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoko%20Namba | is a Japanese entrepreneur, and the former CEO of DeNA Co., Ltd. She is vice-chair of the Japan Business Federation.
In 1999 she founded DeNA, one of Japan's largest mobile social network and mobile game companies. She transitioned from CEO to Executive Chairman of DeNA in 2011 to focus on her family and personal life. In 2021, she was appointed vice-chair of the Japan Business Foundation to become the first woman in the post in its 75-year history.
Namba received an MBA from Harvard Business School and was the third Japanese woman to become a partner at McKinsey & Co. She started DeNA after working on a consulting assignment with Sony's So-net while she was a consultant at McKinsey.
References
External links
Tomoko Namba's Official Blog "DNA of DeNA" (Ameba Blog)
1962 births
DeNA
Living people
McKinsey & Company people
Tsuda University alumni
Harvard Business School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneClimate | OneClimate is a nonprofit internet climate news, social activism and social networking site. It received international media attention during the 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference for its 'Virtual Bali' initiative, and also during the COP15 event in Copenhagen.
OneClimate was jointly founded by Anuradha Vittachi and Peter Armstrong, who were the co-founders of OneWorld.net.
In December 2007, Ed Markey became the first US politician to utilize the medium of Second Life, through which he addressed the delegates of the UNFCCC in Bali as part of OneClimate's Virtual Bali event. It was estimated that the carbon dioxide saved in not flying Rep. Markey to Bali was around 5.5 tons.
The following year OneClimate ran Virtual Poznań in Poland for COP14. Notable speakers included Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Yvo de Boer and The Age of Stupid Director, Franny Armstrong. The event was broadcast each evening on the OneClimate website as well as in Second Life.
In May 2010, The Guardian also named OneClimate as one of the 50 key people to follow on Twitter.
See also
World People's Conference on Climate Change
References
External links
Environmental organisations based in London
International climate change organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowmoss%20tram%20stop | Shadowmoss is a tram stop on the Airport Line of the Manchester Metrolink which opened on 3 November 2014.
The stop is one of the least used on the Metrolink network.
Services
Trams run every 12 minutes north to Victoria and south to Manchester Airport (every 20 minutes before 6 am).
Ticket zones
Shadowmoss stop is located in Metrolink ticket zone 4.
References
External links
Metrolink stop information
Shadowmoss area map
Light Rail Transit Association
Airport route map
Tram stops in Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundthorn%20tram%20stop | Roundthorn is a tram stop on the Manchester Metrolink network. It opened on 3 November 2014 on the Airport Line, between Southmoor Road and Roundthorn Road. The stop is next to the Roundthorn Industrial Estate and is the closest Metrolink stop to Wythenshawe Hospital.
Services
Trams run every 12 minutes north to Victoria and south to Manchester Airport. Between 03:00 and 06:00, a service operates Deansgate-Castlefield and Manchester Airport every 20 minutes.
Ticket zones
Roundthorn stop is located in ticket zones 3 and 4.
References
External links
Metrolink stop information
Roundthorn area map
Light Rail Transit Association
Airport route map
Tram stops in Manchester
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2014
2014 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20cable | Active cables are copper cables used for data transmission that use an electronic circuit to boost the performance of the cable. Without an electronic circuit, a cable is considered a passive cable. Passive cables are prone to data degradation from channel impairments, including attenuation, crosstalk, and group velocity distortion. In active cables, a circuit using one or several integrated circuits is embedded in the cable to compensate for some or all of these impairments. This active boosting allows cables to be more compact, thinner, longer, and to transmit data faster than passive cables.
Active cables are used in enterprise networks, which are extremely common in modern data communication systems. They are also used to connect consumer devices such as cameras, gaming consoles, and HDTVs.
Embedding circuitry in cables can allow for less copper to be used in cable production while still retaining performance, reducing the weight of the cable by as much as 80%, and reducing cable size. Other benefits include longer reach and lower power consumption.
Consumer electronics
Active cables are more compact and portable than passive cables. Therefore, they are an ideal choice for use with products such as smartphones, HDTVs, gaming consoles, and DV cameras. DisplayPort is the latest consumer electronics standard that has enabled support for active cables by allocating power supply pins inside the connector. Active DisplayPort cables enable ultra-thin (32 AWG and thinner) and long-reach interconnects which are particularly valuable for the use with the miniature Mini DisplayPort form-factor.
Enterprise and storage applications
Active cables play an important role in enterprise and storage applications due to the confined space and air-flow requirements in data centers and the long reaches (typically up to 30 meters) required to make some of the rack-to-rack connections. Because active cables can facilitate thin cable gauges the cables have a tighter bend radius, which can give cables in these applications easier maneuverability and allow for better airflow.
Active cable adoption in data centers has been growing steadily. As of 2010, half of SFP+ interconnect volume is in active cables (as opposed to passive copper cables and optical transceiver modules). In addition to this, the advent of QSFP (Quad SFP) interconnects for 40 Gigabit Ethernet and InfiniBand is driving the widespread adoption of active cables in this form-factor.
Standards
InfiniBand
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
DisplayPort
PCI Express
HDMI
USB
Thunderbolt
Criticism
Opponents of active cable technology often criticize the fact that the electronics in an active cable design could be placed inside the connected devices instead, and an inexpensive passive cable used to connect the devices. Digital alternatives to using analog equalizers and impedance matching circuits to improve cable performance also exist, such as channel estimation or link adaptation.
Another criticism of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20M.%20Johnson | Anthony Michael Johnson is an American experimental physicist, a professor of physics, and a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He is the director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research (CASPR), also situated on campus at UMBC. Since his election to the 2002 term as president of the Optical Society, formerly the Optical Society of America, Johnson has the distinction of being the first and only African-American president to date. Johnson's research interests include the ultrafast photophysics and nonlinear optical properties of bulk, nanostructured, and quantum well semiconductor structures, ultrashort pulse propagation in fibers and high-speed lightwave systems. His research has helped to better understand processes that occur in ultrafast time frames of 1 quadrillionth of a second. Ultrashort pulses of light have been used to address technical and logistical challenges in medicine, telecommunications, homeland security, and have many other applications that enhance contemporary life.
Johnson also serves as the deputy director and materials research thrust leader for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center for Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment, or MIRTHE, established in 2006. Headquartered at Princeton University, it is a collaboration of physicists, engineers, chemists, environmental and bio-engineers, and clinicians from City College of New York, Johns Hopkins University, Rice University, Texas A&M University, and UMBC.
Early life and education
Johnson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the first of three sons for his blue-collar parents. His middle-class beginnings did not prepare him for a career in science, until his parents gave him a small chemistry set for Christmas. After he "nearly blew up the family home making gunpowder in the basement", he was completely captivated by the enabling power of science, and he thought he could be the first in his family to attend college. Johnson knew he wanted to pursue a STEM career, and he decided to study physics when his high school physics teacher took a special interest in him, and encouraged him to focus his efforts on the uber science. Johnson decided to attend the same college that his high school physics teacher attended, and he graduated with a B.S. in physics from the Polytechnic Institute of New York in 1975. That same evening, he was married in a small ceremony at his fiancée's home. Johnson went on to earn a Ph.D. in physics in 1981 from the Graduate Center at the City College of the City University of New York (CCNY). His PhD thesis research was conducted at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, with support from the Bell Labs Cooperative Research Fellowship Program for Minorities (CRFP). Johnson's doctoral thesis research was advised by David H. Auston (formerly Bell Labs) and Robert Alfano (CCNY).
Career and service
Prior |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction%20and%20Analysis%20of%20Distributed%20Processes | CADP (Construction and Analysis of Distributed Processes) is a toolbox for the design of communication protocols and distributed systems. CADP is developed by the CONVECS team (formerly by the VASY team) at INRIA Rhone-Alpes and connected to various complementary tools. CADP is maintained, regularly improved, and used in many industrial projects.
The purpose of the CADP toolkit is to facilitate the design of reliable systems by use of formal description techniques together with software tools for simulation, rapid application development, verification, and test generation.
CADP can be applied to any system that comprises asynchronous concurrency, i.e., any system whose behavior can be modeled as a set of parallel processes governed by interleaving semantics. Therefore, CADP can be used to design hardware architecture, distributed algorithms, telecommunications protocols, etc.
The enumerative verification (also known as explicit state verification) techniques implemented in CADP, though less general that theorem proving, enable an automatic, cost-efficient detection of design errors in complex systems.
CADP includes tools to support use of two approaches in formal methods, both of which are needed for reliable systems design:
Models provide mathematical representations for parallel programs and related verification problems. Examples of models are automata, networks of communicating automata, Petri nets, binary decision diagrams, boolean equation systems, etc. From a theoretical point of view, research on models seeks for general results, independent of any particular description language.
In practice, models are often too elementary to describe complex systems directly (this would be tedious and error-prone). A higher level formalism known as process algebra or process calculus is needed for this task, as well as compilers that translate high-level descriptions into models suitable for verification algorithms.
History
Work began on CADP in 1986, when the development of the first two tools, CAESAR and ALDEBARAN, was undertaken. In 1989, the CADP acronym was coined, which stood for CAESAR/ALDEBARAN Distribution Package. Over time, several tools were added, including programming interfaces that enabled tools to be contributed: the CADP acronym then became the CAESAR/ALDEBARAN Development Package. Currently CADP contains over 50 tools. While keeping the same acronym, the name of the toolbox has been changed to better indicate its purpose:
Construction and Analysis of Distributed Processes.
Major releases
The releases of CADP have been successively named with alphabetic letters (from "A" to "Z"), then with the names of cities hosting academic research groups actively working on the LOTOS language and, more generally, the names of cities in which major contributions to concurrency theory have been made.
Between major releases, minor releases are often available, providing early access to new features and improvements. For more information, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Foundations%20of%20Computer%20Science | The International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science is a computer science journal published by World Scientific. It was founded in 1990, covering the field of theoretical computer science, from algebraic theory and algorithms, to quantum computing and wireless networks. Since 1997, the Editor-in-Chief has been Oscar Ibarra of the Department of Computer Science, University of California.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 0.416.
Abstracting and indexing
The Journal is abstracted and indexed by:
Mathematical Reviews
Inspec
DBLP Bibliography Server
Zentralblatt MATH
Science Citation Index Expanded
ISI Alerting Services
CompuMath Citation Index
Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology
MathSciNet
Computer Abstracts
External links
Journal website at World Scientific
Computer science journals
Academic journals established in 1990
World Scientific academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectAccess | DirectAccess, also known as Unified Remote Access, is a VPN technology that provides intranet connectivity to client computers when they are connected to the Internet. Unlike many traditional VPN connections, which must be initiated and terminated by explicit user action, DirectAccess connections are designed to connect automatically as soon as the computer connects to the Internet. DirectAccess was introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2, providing this service to Windows 7 and Windows 8 "Enterprise" edition clients. In 2010, Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) was released, which simplifies the deployment of DirectAccess for Windows 2008 R2, and includes additional components that make it easier to integrate without the need to deploy IPv6 on the network, and with a dedicated user interface for the configuration and monitoring. Some requirements and limitations that were part of the design of DirectAccess with Windows Server 2008 R2 and UAG have been changed (see requirements below). While DirectAccess is based on Microsoft technology, third-party solutions exist for accessing internal UNIX and Linux servers through DirectAccess. With Windows Server 2012, DirectAccess is fully integrated into the operating system, providing a user interface to configure and native IPv6 and IPv4 support.
Technology
DirectAccess establishes IPsec tunnels from the client to the DirectAccess server, and uses IPv6 to reach intranet resources or other DirectAccess clients. This technology encapsulates the IPv6 traffic over IPv4 to be able to reach the intranet over the Internet, which still (mostly) relies on IPv4 traffic. All traffic to the intranet is encrypted using IPsec and encapsulated in IPv4 packets (if a native IPv6 connection cannot be established), which means that in most cases, no configuration of firewalls or proxies should be required. A DirectAccess client can use one of several tunneling technologies, depending on the configuration of the network the client is connected to. The client can use 6to4, Teredo tunneling, or IP-HTTPS, provided the server is configured correctly to be able to use them. For example, a client that is connected to the Internet directly will use 6to4, but if it is inside a NATed network, it will use Teredo instead. In addition, Windows Server 2012 provides two backward compatibility services DNS64 and NAT64, which allows DirectAccess clients to communicate with servers inside the corporate network even if those servers are only capable of IPv4 networking. Due to the globally routable nature of IPv6, computers on the corporate network can also initiate a connection to DirectAccess clients, which allows them to remotely manage (Manage Out) these clients at any time.
Benefits
DirectAccess can be deployed for multiple sites. It allows for a secure encrypted VPN. This is controlled through Group Policies which allows the administrator to maintain a secure network.
Requirements
DirectAccess With Windows Server 2008 R2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi%20Radio%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kiwi Radio is a pirate radio broadcaster transmitting from New Zealand.
Kiwi Radio may also refer to:
KiWi Radio (radio show), a syndicated teen hits radio show
Kiwi FM, a New Zealand radio network
KIWI, a commercial radio station in McFarland, California
See also
List of radio stations in New Zealand
Radio in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S8%20%28ZVV%29 | The S8 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network, and is one of the network's lines connecting the cantons of Zürich and Schwyz.
Route
The line runs from Winterthur via Oerlikon and the Weinberg Tunnel to Zürich Hauptbahnhof and continues on the left shore of Lake Zurich (over the Lake Zürich left-bank railway line) to Pfäffikon (SZ).
The line's overnight service (SN8), operating on weekends after midnight, runs between Zürich HB and Lachen (SZ).
Stations
Winterthur
Effretikon
Dietlikon
Wallisellen
Zurich Oerlikon
Zurich Hauptbahnhof
Zurich Wiedikon
Zurich Enge
Zurich Wollishofen
Kilchberg
Rüschlikon
Thalwil
Oberrieden
Horgen
Au ZH
Wädenswil
Richterswil
Bäch
Freienbach SBB
Pfäffikon (SZ)
Rolling stock
most services are operated with RABe 514 class trains.
Scheduling
The train frequency on the S8 is usually one train every 30 minutes and the trip takes 68 minutes.
History
Originally, the S8 operated between Zürich Oerlikon and Zürich Hauptbahnhof (Zurich main station) via (through the Wipkingen Tunnel). The S8 reversed directions at Zurich main station. With the opening of the Weinberg Tunnel on 15 June 2014 and simultaneous timetable change, the route was changed to its current state.
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
Trams in Zürich
References
ZVV official website: Routes & zones
Zürich S-Bahn lines
Canton of Schwyz
Transport in Thurgau
Transport in the canton of Zürich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Joslyn | Cliff Joslyn (born 1963) is an American mathematician, cognitive scientist, and cybernetician. He is currently the Chief Knowledge Scientist and Team Lead for Mathematics of Data Science at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Seattle, Washington, US, and visiting professor of Systems Science at Binghamton University (SUNY).
Biography
Cliff Joslyn studied at Oberlin College and received a BA in Cognitive Science and Mathematics, with High Honors in Cybernetics, in 1985. In 1987 he continued at the State University of New York at Binghamtonm studying under George Klir. In 1989 he received an MS, and in 1994 received a PhD, both in Systems Science, including the thesis "Possibilistic Processes for Complex Systems Modeling".
From 1994 to 1996 he was an NRC Research Associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. From 1996 to 2007 he was team leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he led the Knowledge and Information Systems Science research team in the Modeling, Algorithms and Informatics (CCS-3) Group of the Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences Division. Since 2007 he is Chief Scientist for Knowledge Sciences and the Team Leader for Mathematics of Data Science at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Seattle, Washington.
In 2022 Joslyn took a position as a visiting professor of Systems Science in the Systems Science and Industrial Engineering department at Binghamton University.
Joslyn is on the editorial boards of the "International Journal of General Systems" and "Biosemiotics".
In 1991 Joslyn was awarded the Sir Geoffrey Vickers' Award for Best Student Paper from the International Society for the Systems Sciences. In 1997 he received the Distinguished Performance Award: A Large Team Award for IRS Fraud Detection Projects, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Work
Joslyn's research interests extend from "order theoretical approaches to knowledge discovery and database analysis to include computational semiotics, qualitative modeling, and generalized information theory, with applications in computational biology, infrastructure protection, homeland defense, intelligence analysis, and defense transformation".
Principia Cybernetica
Principia Cybernetica is an international organization in the field of cybernetics and systems science focused on the collaborative development of a "computer-supported evolutionary-systemic philosophy in the context of the transdisciplinary academic fields of Systems Science and Cybernetics".
The organisation was initiated in 1989 by Joslyn, Valentin Turchin of the City College of New York, and Francis Heylighen from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. These three scientists managed the project and worked together in an editorial board, which manages the collection, selection and development of the material, and the implementation of the computer system.
Knowledge and Information Systems Science
At Los Alamos Joslyn and his Knowledge and Information Systems Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOLY%20%28Michigan%29 | WOLY (1500 AM) was a radio station broadcasting a religious format. Licensed to Battle Creek, Michigan, United States, the station was owned by the Christian Family Network. The station was on the air without a license from 2004 to 2009.
Recent history
In 2004, WOLY's last license was set to expire on October 1 of that year; however, the station failed to file the proper paperwork by the due date, which was June 1, 2004—according to Federal Communications Commission regulations, renewals for broadcast licenses are due four months prior to the current license's expiration. According to the FCC, the station's owners failed to file any paperwork for renewal, resulting in the station's license expiration, and the station's legal calls were deleted from the database, appended as "DWOLY".
On June 13, 2006, the FCC sent the owners a letter, stating that the station was on the air illegally, and must cease broadcasting; the owners never responded to that letter. It wasn't until January 15, 2009 that the owners filed paperwork to the FCC for a renewal of license and a "special temporary authority". The owners explained that they did attempt to file the renewal in a timely manner before the 2004 expiration, but, according to the FCC:
''"...its president could not electronically file a renewal application because he was “completely befuddled by the electronic filing requirements of the FCC... [and that his] Internet Service Provider was not compatible with the FCC’s electronic filing system.” Christian Family Network also claims that despite numerous telephone calls to Commission staff, “no staff member advised [the president] that a paper renewal application could be filed if accompanied by a request for waiver of the mandatory electronic filing requirement.”"
The FCC refused to accept the owner's reason. On May 27, 2009, the FCC denied WOLY's renewal and petition, and mandated that the station leave the air immediately. WOLY complied with the order and is no longer on the air.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWOLY (Facility ID: 11032)
FCC History Cards for WOLY (covering 1960-1980 as WVOC / WWKQ)
OLY
Radio stations established in 1963
1963 establishments in Michigan
Radio stations disestablished in 2006
2006 disestablishments in Michigan
Defunct religious radio stations in the United States
OLY
OLY |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Afternoon%20%28TV%20program%29 | This Afternoon (stylised as THIS afternoon) is a short-lived Australian news and current affairs television program that was broadcast by the Nine Network. It was produced by the network and broadcast live from 4:30pm to 5:30pm weekdays for two-and-half weeks in mid-2009.
The program focused on news, sport, weather and entertainment and featured current affairs reports and interviews. The program was presented by Andrew Daddo, radio presenter and journalist Katrina Blowers and news presenter Mark Ferguson. Nine News reporters from around the country and overseas provided reports on news and entertainment.
On 15 July 2009, the Nine Network cancelled This Afternoon after 12 airings due to poor ratings. With the demise of This Afternoon, Nine reinstated Nine Afternoon News (which had been replaced by This Afternoon), followed by Antiques Roadshow at 5.00pm and Hot Seat at 5.30pm. As a result, Nine News had Mark Ferguson as national presenter until left the Nine Network on 25 September 2009 to join the Seven Network.
See also
List of programs broadcast by Nine Network
List of Australian television series
References
2009 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings
Australian television news shows
English-language television shows
Nine News |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20switching%20multifractal | In financial econometrics (the application of statistical methods to economic data), the Markov-switching multifractal (MSM) is a model of asset returns developed by Laurent E. Calvet and Adlai J. Fisher that incorporates stochastic volatility components of heterogeneous durations. MSM captures the outliers, log-memory-like volatility persistence and power variation of financial returns. In currency and equity series, MSM compares favorably with standard volatility models such as GARCH(1,1) and FIGARCH both in- and out-of-sample. MSM is used by practitioners in the financial industry to forecast volatility, compute value-at-risk, and price derivatives.
MSM specification
The MSM model can be specified in both discrete time and continuous time.
Discrete time
Let denote the price of a financial asset, and let denote the return over two consecutive periods. In MSM, returns are specified as
where and are constants and {} are independent standard Gaussians. Volatility is driven by the first-order latent Markov state vector:
Given the volatility state , the next-period multiplier is drawn from a fixed distribution with probability , and is otherwise left unchanged.
{|
|-
| drawn from distribution || with probability
|-
| || with probability
|}
The transition probabilities are specified by
.
The sequence is approximately geometric at low frequency. The marginal distribution has a unit mean, has a positive support, and is independent of .
Binomial MSM
In empirical applications, the distribution is often a discrete distribution that can take the values or with equal probability. The return process is then specified by the parameters . Note that the number of parameters is the same for all .
Continuous time
MSM is similarly defined in continuous time. The price process follows the diffusion:
where , is a standard Brownian motion, and and are constants. Each component follows the dynamics:
{|
|-
| drawn from distribution || with probability
|-
| || with probability
|}
The intensities vary geometrically with :
When the number of components goes to infinity, continuous-time MSM converges to a multifractal diffusion, whose sample paths take a continuum of local Hölder exponents on any finite time interval.
Inference and closed-form likelihood
When has a discrete distribution, the Markov state vector takes finitely many values . For instance, there are possible states in binomial MSM. The Markov dynamics are characterized by the transition matrix with components .
Conditional on the volatility state, the return has Gaussian density
Conditional distribution
Closed-form Likelihood
The log likelihood function has the following analytical expression:
Maximum likelihood provides reasonably precise estimates in finite samples.
Other estimation methods
When has a continuous distribution, estimation can proceed by simulated method of moments, or simulated likelihood via a particle filter.
Forecas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20mechanism | The exponential mechanism is a technique for designing differentially private algorithms. It was developed by Frank McSherry and Kunal Talwar in 2007. Their work was recognized as a co-winner of the 2009 PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
Most of the initial research in the field of differential privacy revolved around real-valued functions which have relatively low sensitivity to change in the data of a single individual and whose usefulness is not hampered by small additive perturbations. A natural question is what happens in the situation when one wants to preserve more general sets of properties. The exponential mechanism helps to extend the notion of differential privacy to address these issues. Moreover, it describes a class of mechanisms that includes all possible differentially private mechanisms.
The mechanism
Algorithm
In very generic terms, a privacy mechanism maps a set of inputs from domain to a range . The map may be randomized, in which case each element of the domain corresponds to a probability distribution over the range . The privacy mechanism makes no assumption about the nature of and apart from a base measure on . Let us define a function . Intuitively this function assigns a score to the pair , where and . The score reflects the appeal of the pair , i.e. the higher the score, the more appealing the pair is.
Given the input , the mechanism's objective is to return an such that the function is approximately maximized. To achieve this, set up the mechanism as follows:
Definition: For any function , and a base measure over , define:
Choose with probability proportional to , where .
This definition implies the fact that the probability of returning an increases exponentially with the increase in the value of . Ignoring the base measure then the value which maximizes has the highest probability. Moreover, this mechanism is differentially private. Proof of this claim will follow. One technicality that should be kept in mind is that in order to properly define the should be finite.
Theorem (differential privacy): gives -differential privacy.
Proof: The probability density of at equals
Now, if a single change in changes by at most then the numerator can change at most by a factor of and the denominator minimum by a factor of . Thus, the ratio of the new probability density (i.e. with new ) and the earlier one is at most .
Accuracy
We would ideally want the random draws of from the mechanism to nearly maximize . If we consider to be then we can show that the probability of the mechanism deviating from is low, as long as there is a sufficient mass (in terms of ) of values with value close to the optimum.
Lemma: Let and , we have is at most . The probability is taken over .
Proof: The probability is at most , as the denominator can be at most one. Since both the probabilities have the same normalizing term so,
The value of is at most one, and so thi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%20Ghost | STONEGHOST or "Stone Ghost", is a codename for a network operated by the United States' Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for information sharing and exchange between the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Some sources say that New Zealand is also participating, and that Stone Ghost therefore connects, and is maintained by the defense intelligence agencies of all Five Eyes countries.
Stone Ghost does not carry Intelink-Top Secret information. In the past, it was known as Intelink-C and may also be referred to as "Q-Lat" or "Quad link". It is a highly secured network with strict physical and digital security requirements. The network hosts information about military topics, and about SIGINT, foreign intelligence and national security.
In October 2022, a paper issued online by the Atlantic Council on sharing intelligence, authored by two now retired intelligence community insiders, refers to this programme: 'The situation is compounded by the different accreditation processes and standards, for example between the United States and the United Kingdom, where national versions of STONEGHOST (the jointly sponsored FVEY Above Secret Defense IT system), are not fully aligned.'
2012 Canadian spy case
Royal Canadian Navy intelligence officer Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Delisle pled guilty on 10 October 2012 to charges including having downloaded and sold information from the Stone Ghost system to the Russian spy agency GRU. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, minus time served on February 6, 2013, for contravening the Security of Information Act.
References
Anglosphere
Defense Intelligence Agency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20John%20Jenkins%20Jr. | Robert John Jenkins Junior (born 1966 in Akron, Ohio), also known as Bob Jenkins, is an American computer professional and author of several fast pseudorandom number generators such as ISAAC and hash functions (Jenkins hash)
References
1966 births
Living people
People from Akron, Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki%E2%80%93Kasami%20algorithm | The Suzuki–Kasami algorithm is a token-based algorithm for achieving mutual exclusion in distributed systems. The process holding the token is the only process able to enter its critical section.
This is a modification to Ricart–Agrawala algorithm in which a REQUEST and REPLY message are used for attaining the critical section, but in this algorithm, a method was introduced in which a seniority vise and also by handing over the critical section to other node by sending a single PRIVILEGE message to other node. So, the node which has the privilege it can use the critical section and if it does not have one it cannot. If a process wants to enter its critical section and it does not have the token, it broadcasts a request message to all other processes in the system. The process that has the token, if it is not currently in a critical section, will then send the token to the requesting process. The algorithm makes use of increasing Request Numbers to allow messages to arrive out-of-order.
Algorithm description
Let be the number of processes. Each process is identified by an integer in .
Data structures
Each process maintains one data structure:
an array (for Request Number), being the ID of the process containing this array, where stores the last Request Number received by from
The token contains two data structures:
an array (for Last request Number), where stores the most recent Request Number of process for which the token was successfully granted
a queue , storing the ID of processes waiting for the token
Algorithm
Requesting the critical section (CS)
When process wants to enter the CS, if it does not have the token, it:
increments its sequence number
sends a request message containing new sequence number to all processes in the system
Releasing the CS
When process leaves the CS, it:
sets of the token equal to . This indicates that its request has been executed
for every process not in the token queue , it appends to if . This indicates that process has an outstanding request
if the token queue is not empty after this update, it pops a process ID from and sends the token to
otherwise, it keeps the token
Receiving a request
When process receives a request from with sequence number , it:
sets to (if , the message is outdated)
if process has the token and is not in CS, and if (indicating an outstanding request), it sends the token to process
Executing the CS
A process enters the CS when it has acquired the token.
Performance
Either or messages for CS invocation (no messages if process holds the token; otherwise requests and reply)
Synchronization delay is or ( requests and reply)
Notes on the algorithm
Only the site currently holding the token can access the CS
All processes involved in the assignment of the CS
Request messages sent to all nodes
Not based on Lamport’s logical clock
The algorithm uses sequence numbers instead
Used to keep track of outdated requests
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada%20Norris | Dame Ada May Norris, DBE, CMG (née Bickford; 28 July 1901–10 July 1989) was an Australian women's rights activist and community worker. She founded the UNAA National Status of Women Network in 1974 and served as President of Australia's National Council of Women. In 1975 Norris headed the Australian International Women's Year Committee.
Education
Ada May Bickford was educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated in 1924 (BA Dip. Ed.).
Marriage
In 1929, she married John Gerald Norris (1903-1990), a future Victoria Supreme Court jurist, later styled as Sir John Norris; they had two daughters, Rosemary (born 1933) and Jane (born 1938).
Rosemary would later be known as the Hon. Rosemary Balmford, a
barrister, lawyer, law lecturer and judge. Jane completed architecture at the University of Melbourne, worked extensively in Theatre and film production design in the UK and became head of Design at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS; 1988-1994).
Honours
Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal 1953
Ada Norris was appointed OBE on 10 June 1954
Appointed DBE on 12 June 1976 "for distinguished community service".
Appointed a CMG (in her capacity as President of Australia's National Council of Women)
Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal 1977
Awarded the UN Peace Medal 1975
References
External links
Monash University archives
Victoria, Australia government archives site
1901 births
1989 deaths
Australian Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Australian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Activists from Melbourne
University of Melbourne alumni
20th-century Australian women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraz%C3%B3n%20Partido | Corazón Partido (Broken Heart), is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and Argos Comunicacion. This limited-run series ran for 90 episodes from November 1, 2005 to June 16, 2006. This telenovela was aired in 17 countries around the world.
Story
"Corazón Partido" tells the story of a young woman that returns to her country in search of the son that was tragically taken from her arms at birth. Out of the 25 million people that inhabit the city, she will meet a married man and fall desperately in love with him, without knowing that he is the adoptive father of her lost child.
Cast
Danna García - Aura Echarri Medina
José Ángel Llamas - Adrian Rincon / Santiago Rincon
Saby Kamalich - Virginia Graham
Carlos Torres Torrija - César Echarri #1
Julio Bracho Castillo - César Echarri #2
Ximena Rubio - Nelly Zambrano
Anna Ciocchetti - Fernanda Medina
Khotan Fernández - Sergio Garza
Alejandro Cava - Ramón Cadena 'El Tanque'
Alejandra Lazcano - Claudia
Angeles Marin - Ernestina de Zambrano
Carlos de la Mota - German Garza
Enrique Singer - Rogelio Garza
Evangelina Martinez - Consuelo 'Chelo' Delgado
Giovan Ramos - Nelson Córdoba
Gizeth Galatea - Rocio
Juan Carlos Barreto - Erasmo
Juan Luis Orendain - Gregorio Medina Arce
Karina Mora - Alejandra Garza
Luis Gerardo Mendez - Ignacio 'Nacho' Echarri
Paco Mauri - Amador Zambrano
Patricia Marrero - Filomena Bolado
Sergio Adriano Ortiz Garda - Esteban Rincon Zambrano
Alejandro Felipe - Piquin
Toni Helling - Betina
Eréndira Dávalos - Rosa
Mario Loría - Hilberto
References
External links
2005 telenovelas
2006 telenovelas
2005 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
2005 Mexican television series debuts
2006 Mexican television series endings
2005 Chilean television series debuts
2006 Chilean television series endings
Argos Comunicación telenovelas
Telemundo telenovelas
Television series by Universal Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Computer%20Society | Irish Computer Society was founded in 1967 as the professional representing information and communication technology professionals in Ireland.
Its objective is to promote professional information and computer skills. The ICS is a member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies. In 1997 the ICS co-founded European Computer Driving Licence (Ireland).
The Irish Computer Society host seminars, workshops and conferences on current topics of interest and also conduct surveys of trends in the industry. National events include the National Data Protection Conference, the Public Sector IT Conference, the Leaders Conference, and in 2014 they ran the first Tech Week Ireland with 42,000 people taking part all over Ireland.
The ICS run a variety of courses aimed at those in the IT Industry. There is a QQI Level 8 programme run with the National College of Ireland and an MSc run in conjunction with the Irish Association of Software Architects and the Technological University of Dublin(Tallaght). The Chartered IT Professional qualification is offered by the ICS on licence from the British Computer Society.
The ICS has also made representations and submissions to government committees and forums (for example of e-voting), where ICT knowledge is beneficial and on areas of concern for ICT professionals.
The ICS is a nomination body for the Industrial and Commercial Panel for Seanad Éireann. The ICS promotes ICT skills in schools by information campaigns and sponsoring competitions.
Membership
The ICS has different grades of membership dependent on the qualifications.
Student
Affiliate
Associate
Member
Fellow
References
External links
ICS - Official Home Page
European Computer Driving Licence - ICS Skills Online
Organisations based in the Republic of Ireland
Organizations established in 1967
Information technology organizations based in Europe
Professional associations based in Ireland
1967 establishments in Ireland
Seanad nominating bodies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEDOS | IDEDOS is a ROM-based disk operating system written in 6502/65816 assembly language for the Commodore 64, 128 and SuperCPU. Its main purpose is to control ATA(PI) devices connected to an IDE64 cartridge and present them like normal Commodore drives. Additionally it supports networked drives (PCLink) and has a built-in machine code monitor and file manager.
Architecture
The C64 KERNAL uses a vector table at page 3 to allow redirection of common kernal file handling and basic functions. This feature is used by IDEDOS to hook into the C64 kernal.
The operating system itself is divided into four pages of 16 KiB which are mapped in when required. The mapping is temporarily switched off while interrupts are running for increased compatibility, however this causes a ≈40 μs latency.
Additional RAM for buffers and internal data are also mapped in from either the IDE64 cartridge (28 KiB) or the additional RAM of the SuperCPU is used. The standard kernal memory locations at page zero and page two are handled in a kernal-compatible way; temporarily used memory is restored after the routines are finished.
Beyond the kernal table IDEDOS has two new calls for bulk data handling (read/write) which allows much faster data transfer rates than the character-based I/O.
The native file system is non-CBM style at the low level to allow partitions greater than 16 MiB. High-level features like the 16-character filenames or filetypes are retained. Due to complexity and memory requirements, the filesystem creation and consistency check is not part of the operating system, unlike CBM DOS or CMD DOS.
Additional filesystems like ISO 9660 or FAT are abstracted internally and mostly use the same routines for handling, thereby little difference is noticeable to user programs, except if some features are not fully implemented.
The device handling is done by additional device numbers assigned to the new devices. The device numbers for IDEDOS devices are configurable and is normally in the range of 10–14. Over the years many programs assumed that there is only device 8 and do not allow selecting anything else; this can be worked around by temporary changing the used IDEDOS device number to 8.
For standard devices, the original kernal routines are used, while IDEDOS devices use custom routines which closely imitate the results and behavior of kernal calls for floppy devices. Kernal calls not going through the vector table (most notably IEC bus-specific calls) present an incompatibility with those programs using them.
Special features (like CD-ROM audio handling) are implemented by new channel 15 commands, while features not found on floppy drives follow the CMD style commands to allow programs to easily support a wider range of devices.
Unlike intelligent external devices which have a separate processor (like 1541 with CBMDOS), IDEDOS runs on the host computer, thereby all disk routines block until finished. This rules out the use of "IRQ loaders" which are commonly used |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana%20Radio%20Network | Louisiana Radio Network (LRN) is a state radio network based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that produces news, sports, business and agricultural news programming distributed via satellite to 62 affiliates throughout Louisiana and parts of Mississippi. LRN is a sponsor of the annual Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction and publishes Tiger Rag Magazine, which focuses on Louisiana State University sports.
Launched in 1974, the network was acquired in 2010 by Jim Engster, who has been involved with LRN since 1983.
In August 2012, LRN merged its agrinews programming with the Louisiana Farm Bureau Radio Network to create the only agriculture network of its kind in Louisiana, the Louisiana Farm Bureau Agrinews Network, and one of the South’s largest agrinews programming networks.
Programming
LRN's daily broadcast schedule is a mix of live and prerecorded programs that air throughout the day.
LRN provides two news-call programs, each consisting of up to 20 actualities by newsmakers of the day. Affiliates are free to integrate the cuts into locally produced newscasts. LRN news scripts are transmitted to affiliates similar to wire services. The network also offers various news features, which includes the latest business and financial news.
With access to microphones in the Louisiana House of Representatives and the Louisiana State Senate, LRN provides daily coverage of the Louisiana legislature during all regular and special sessions. Ask the Governor is a monthly radio show that offers residents a chance to speak directly to Governor John Bel Edwards on topics they see as important.
History
One of the country's earliest state radio networks, LRN was launched in 1974 as the Louisiana Network by five investors — Tim Patton, Rhett and Ann McMahon, John Brewer and John Keogh. The network offered live, hourly newscasts via leased broadcast circuits, or dedicated long-distance telephone lines, to 12 charter affiliates. Stations in Ferriday, Oak Grove and Farmerville were among the first affiliates, several of which remain with the network.
After assembling the broadcast and electronic equipment, the McMahons and Brewer constructed a studio and small office. Once the studio was linked to the broadcast circuits leased from South Central Bell, the first LRN newscast aired in October 1974.
Brewer and Ann McMahon wrote and announced 13 daily newscasts Monday-Friday for the first year. Though the newscasts originally were timed by hand, the network used a control clock synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time to maintain accurate broadcast schedules.
The LRN staff began expanding in 1975 with the hiring of a full-time sales manager and a farm director in 1976.
Gulf Coast expansion
In 1978, LRN and the Georgia Network formed Interstate Communications Inc. and launched the Florida Network. Separately, LRN bought the fledgling Mississippi Network (MN) in 1980 and moved its operations from the outskirts of Jackson, Mississippi, to a new downtown office a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug%20lord | A drug lord, drug baron, kingpin, lord of drugs, or narcotrafficker is a type of crime boss, who is in charge of a drug-trafficking network, organization, or enterprise.
Such lords are often difficult to bring to justice, as they are normally not directly in possession of something illegal but are insulated from the actual trade in drugs by several layers of staff. The prosecution of drug lords is therefore usually the result of carefully planned infiltration into their networks, often using informants from within the organizations.
When a group of independent drug lords collude with each other, in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade, they form an organization called a drug cartel. The formations of drug cartels are very common in Latin American countries.
Organizational role
Since the 1970s, research on organized crime leadership (and, by extension, drug lords) has evolved. Where once studies emphasised the importance of the leader's human capital (e.g. individual traits), it has now developed to focus upon the leader's social capital (e.g. information and resource brokers, social status, access to information).
List of well-known drug lords
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
Known as "El Padrino" (The Godfather) and "El Jefe de Jefes" (The boss of bosses) was born in 1946, and is the founder and former leader of the Guadalajara Cartel, the first mexican super-cartel ever established. He had strong ties with the Cali Cartel and Escobar's Medellin Cartel as he distributed drugs for them. He controlled almost all of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico–United States border in 1970s and the 80s. Until the end of the 1980s, Guadalajara Cartel headed by Félix Gallardo was one of the most powerful cartels in the world. He had a huge involvement in politics and bribed political authorities to protect himself and his business. After his capture in 1989 for the alleged murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena, Félix and allegedly the Mexican Government decided to divide up the trade he controlled as it would be more efficient and less likely to be brought down by law enforcement.
Félix Gallardo instructed his lawyer to convene the nation's top drug narcos in 1989 at a house in the resort of Acapulco where he designated the plazas (turfs) or territories. The Tijuana route would go to his nephews, the Arellano Felix brothers. The Ciudad Juárez route would go to the Carrillo Fuentes family and to Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. Miguel Caro Quintero would run the Sonora corridor. Joaquín Guzmán Loera and Héctor Luis Palma Salazar were left the Pacific coast operations, with Ismael Zambada García joining them soon after and thus becoming the Sinaloa Cartel, who was not yet a party to the 1989 pact. Félix Gallardo still planned to oversee national operations and remained one of Mexico's major traffickers, maintaining his organization via mobile phone until he was transferred in the 1990s to the Altiplano maximu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EquaTerra | EquaTerra was acquired by KPMG effective February 18, 2011. As a member of KPMG's network of member firms, EquaTerra continues to provide global sourcing advisory services in information technology (IT), finance and accounting (F&A), human resources (HR), supply chain management and other business processes.
History
EquaTerra was founded in 2003 by Mark Toon, Mark Hodges and David Karabinos. The firm worked with clients in 19 languages in over 60 countries.
In 2005, the firm acquired Insource Partners, a Dallas based information technology consulting firm.
In November 2006, EquaTerra announced the acquisition of Avanti Advisory, LLC, an outsourcing advisory firm founded in 2001 by Peter Iannone, past president of TPI.
In September 2007, EquaTerra acquired the largest European sourcing advisory firm, Morgan Chambers.
Created in 2005, EquaTerra Public Sector LLC was the entity under which EquaTerra's public sector practice operated.
In 2009, EquaTerra announced the formation of EquaSiis, a wholly owned company focused on market intelligence and improving operational performance through EquaSiis software and tools. EquaSiis offered sourcing and operational governance software – EquaSiis Enterprise and Workbench along with research and consulting services for outsourcing service providers.
Effective February 18, 2011, KPMG LLP (US), KPMG Holdings Limited (UK) and KPMG International acquired the business and subsidiaries of advisory firm EquaTerra Inc.
Rankings
In 2009 the Black Book of Outsourcing ranked EquaTerra as #1 Finance & Accounting Advisor, third ranked Full Service Sourcing Advisor, fourth ranked Business Process Outsourcing Advisor, ninth ranked IT Advisor, and eighth ranked HR advisor.
In both 2009 and 2010, The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, (IAOP), ranked EquaTerra as #2 in their listings, IAOP World's Best Outsourcing Advisors.
References
External links
Official web site of the firm
KPMG
Companies based in Houston
International management consulting firms
American companies established in 2003
Consulting firms established in 2003
Management consulting firms of the United States
Privately held companies based in Texas
2003 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjaak%20Brinkkemper | Jacobus Nicolaas (Sjaak) Brinkkemper (born Monnickendam, 18 January 1958) is a Dutch computer scientist, and Full Professor of organisation and information at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University.
Biography
Brinkkemper received a BA from the University of Amsterdam in 1980 and an MSc from the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1984, both in Mathematics. In 1990 he received a PhD at the same university with his thesis Formalisation of information systems modelling, supervised by Eckhard Falkenberg and Alex Verrijn Stuart.
In 1984 he became an assistant professor at the department of Informatics at the Radboud University. In 1992 he became associate professor at the University of Twente. In addition, he has been a process architect at Baan from 1996 to 2002 and a consultant at Emendas for another year. Since 2004 Brinkkemper is full professor at Utrecht University, where he leads a group of about twenty researchers specialized in product software development and entrepreneurship.
He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Business Informatics, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Database Management, Journal on Information Systems and e-Business Management, and Management Information Systems Quarterly. Since 1989 he is a member of the International Federation for Information Processing IFIP WG 8.1 working group on information systems design and evaluation.
Work
Brinkkemper's research interests are methodology of product software development, software implementation, methods, requirements management, method engineering, information systems methodology, CASE-tools, and system development tools.
Publications
Brinkkemper has published several books, papers, and articles. Books:
Sjaak Brinkkemper. Formalisation of information systems modelling. PhD thesis Radboud University, Nijmegen 1990
Sjaak Brinkkemper and Matti Rossi. Metrics in Method Engineering. 1994.
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Kalle Lyytinen and Richard J. Welke (eds.). Method engineering: principles of method construction and tool support. International Federation for Information Processing, 1996.
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Arne Solvberg, Eva Lindencrona. Information systems engineering: state of the art and research themes. London etc. : Springer, 2000.
Colette Rolland, Sjaak Brinkkemper and Motoshi Saeki (eds.). Engineering information systems in the Internet context. International Federation for Information Processing IFIP TC8/WG8.1, 2002.
John Krogstie, Andreas Lothe Opdahl, and Sjaak Brinkkemper (eds.). Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering. Berlin: Springer, 2007. * Jolita Ralyté, Sjaak Brinkkemper, and Brian Henderson-Sellers (eds.). Situational Method Engineering: Fundamentals and Experiences: Proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, 12–14 September 2007, Geneva, Switzerland. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 244. Berlin: Springer, 2007.
Articles, a selection:
Referenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Interchange%20Format | Standard Interchange Format, called SIF, is a geospatial data exchange format. A standard or neutral format used to move graphics files between DOD Project 2851 and is currently codified in Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata maintained by the Federal Geographic Data Committee.
Unit 69 of the NCGIA Core Corriculum in GIS states that SIF is a "popular data exchange format for many GIS packages" and was "developed to support exchange of data between Intergraph and other systems."
Navteq uses Standard Interchange Format (SIF)
Another example of data available in SIF format can be found online from the NASA's BOREAS project that also claims that the SIF format is "not well documented."
Additional criticism of SIF, along with recognition of SIF's ubiquity and utility for exchanging data, is acknowledged in the online journal article "Is a Standard Terrain Data Format Necessary?"
See also
Map database management
References
External links
Geocodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Masala | Hum Masala (, formerly known as Masala TV) is a 24-hour Urdu language food television channel owned by Hum Network. It is based in Karachi, Pakistan.
History
It was started on 22 November 2006 in Pakistan.
In 2017, Hum Masala was launched in the United Kingdom.
Programs
Masala Mornings , Monday to Friday 11:30 am
Tarka , Monday to Friday 2:00 pm
Fusion Food , Monday to Friday 4:00 pm
Mehboob's Kitchen , Monday to Friday 5:00 pm
Riwayti Pakwan , Saturday 12:00 pm
Meat Menu , Sunday 12:00 pm
Food Diaries , Saturday and Sunday 3:00 pm
Lively Weekend , Saturday and Sunday 4:30 pm
Chefs
Shireen Anwar
Rida Aftab
Chef Saad Butt
Chef Mahnoor
Chef Mehboob
Chef Arif Jamali
Chef Mohammed Ali
Chef Zarnak Sidhwa
Hosts
Kiran
Abeel Javed
References
External links
Television stations in Pakistan
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Hum Network Limited
2006 establishments in Pakistan
Television stations in Karachi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/567th%20Cyberspace%20Operations%20Group | The 567th Cyberspace Operations Group is a United States Air Force organization at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, assigned to the 67th Cyberspace Wing. It was activated in June 2018.
The group's predecessor was activated as the 567th Air Service Group, a support unit for a combat group at the end of World War II. It did not deploy until after the end of the war and was inactivated in 1945.
The group was activated once again in 1952 as the 567th Air Base Group to replace the support elements of the inactivating 325th Fighter-Interceptor Wing. A year later Air Defense Command (ADC) established it as the 567th Air Defense Group, an operational headquarters for fighter-interceptor squadrons as well. It was replaced in 1955 when ADC transferred its mission, equipment, and personnel to the 325th Fighter Group in a project that replaced air defense groups commanding fighter squadrons with fighter groups with distinguished records during World War II. The two groups were consolidated in April 2019.
Mission
The group plans and executes cyberspace operations to assist supported commanders to fight in contested cyberspace environment. It operates to remove adversary cyberspace capabilities; defends the supported commander's key cyberspace assets; and prepares local cyberspace defenders to sustain advanced cyberspace defense tactics, techniques and procedures to ensure freedom of action within friendly cyberspace, while denying adversaries the same.
History
World War II
The group was activated at Venice Army Air Field, Florida toward the end of World War II as the 567th Air Service Group and trained to support a single combat group in an overseas theater. Its 985th Air Engineering Squadron would provide maintenance that was beyond the capability of the combat group, its 1005th Air Materiel Squadron would handle all supply matters, and its Headquarters & Base Services Squadron would provide other support. It deployed to Guam in the fall of 1945, but arrived after the end of hostilities and was inactivated on 1 December. The unit was disbanded in October 1948.
Cold War air defense
During the Cold War the group was reconstituted, redesignated as the 567th Air Base Group, and activated at McChord Air Force Base, Washington in 1952 as part of a major reorganization of Air Defense Command (ADC) responding to ADC's difficulty under the existing wing base organizational structure in deploying fighter squadrons to best advantage. It replaced the 325th Air Base Group as the USAF host unit for McChord. while the operational elements of the inactivating 325th Fighter-Interceptor Wing transferred to the 4704th Defense Wing. The group was assigned seven squadrons to perform its support responsibilities. The group also maintained aircraft stationed at McChord.
The group was redesignated as the 567th Air Defense Group and assumed responsibility for air defense of the Northwest United States. It was assigned the 317th and 318th Fighter-Interceptor Squa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoding%20the%20Heavens | Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-old Computer and the Century Long Search to Discover Its Secrets by Jo Marchant is an exploration of the history and significance of the Antikythera Mechanism ( ), an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known mechanical computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until a thousand years later.
Marchant approaches the mystery of the mechanism in a narrative that begins with the discovery of the Antikythera wreck in 1901 and includes a primer on the development of scuba gear in the 19th century. Throughout the book, Marchant weaves ancient history with the lives and travails of the handful of contemporary scientists who bucked conventional wisdom with their belief that the mechanism embodied technological and mathematical expertise thought to be impossible for its time. It is believed to have been built about 150–100 BC and yet the delicate bronze clockwork it embodies would not be known to Europe until the Middle Ages.
The author acknowledges (p. 302) that none of the principal researchers from the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project were involved "in any way" with the writing of the book. The project has published a commentary that sets out problems with the book's account of their work.
The book's account of the collaboration between Michael Wright and Allan Bromley is disputed.
Editions
The book was first published in November 2008 in hardback by William Heinemann Ltd. (). It was republished by Da Capo Press in hardback in 2009 (), and in paperback in 2010 ().
Reviews
Anonymous. (January 26, 2009). "Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-old Computer and the Century Long Search to Discover Its Secrets" Publishers Weekly, Starred Review (accessed 31 May 2009)
Collins, P. (February 25, 2009). "Review: Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchant" New Scientist (accessed 31 May 2009)
Lake, E. (January 8, 2009). "Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World’s First Computer by Jo Marchant" The Telegraph (accessed 31 May 2009)
Sims, M. (March 8, 2009). "'Decoding the Heavens' by Jo Marchant", Los Angeles Times (accessed 30 May 2009)
Turney, J. (November 21, 2008). "Clockwork marvel before its time" The Independent (accessed 31 May 2009)
References
2008 non-fiction books
21st-century history books
History books about Greece
Technology books
Heinemann (publisher) books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDEL-FM | KDEL-FM (100.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Arkadelphia, Arkansas, United States. The station is owned by Arkansas Rocks Radio Stations Network.
The station was assigned the KDEL-FM call sign by the Federal Communications Commission on January 31, 1979.
Former logo
References
External links
Fox Sports Radio Arkansas Facebook
DEL-FM
Clark County, Arkansas
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1979
1979 establishments in Arkansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviat%20Networks | Aviat Networks (NASDAQ:AVNW) is a global provider of microwave transport and backhaul solutions, providing public and private operators with communications infrastructure to accommodate the growth of IP-centric, multi-gigabit data services.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas since November 2019, Aviat Networks has operations in North and South America, Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.
The company's President and CEO is Peter Smith, who was appointed on January 2, 2020.
History
The company was founded on January 29, 2007 with the merger of Harris Corporation’s Microwave Communications Division and Stratex Networks and incorporated under the name Harris Stratex Networks. The company renamed and rebranded itself to become Aviat Networks on January 28, 2010.
Stratex Networks was the new name for Digital Microwave Corporation (DMC) which was founded in 1984 in San Jose, California.
In February 2009, Harris Stratex acquired Telsima, developer and provider of WiMAX Forum Certified products for use in next-generation broadband wireless networks, for $12 million. In September 2008, Harris Stratex announced a partnership agreement with Telsima for end-to-end 4G network solutions.
In July 2022, Aviat completed the acquisition of Redline Communications, a leading provider in mission-critical data infrastructure.
Name and ticker symbol change
On January 28, 2010, at the opening of the Nasdaq trading session, Harris Stratex Networks announced they had renamed their company to become Aviat Networks. Along with the name change the company unveiled new corporate branding with a new company logo and relaunch of the corporate website. The company also changed their NASDAQ ticker symbol to AVNW. The new symbol began trading on the morning of January 29, 2010, retiring the old HSTX; this date also marked the company's third anniversary since incorporation.
Customer profile and recent contracts
Aviat Networks customers include fixed and mobile operators, public safety operators, state and federal governments, utilities, oil and gas companies, broadcast and transportation network operators worldwide.
Products and solutions
Aviat's portfolio of wireless products encompasses microwave and millimeter wave bands between 5 and 80 GHz. Architectures supported include split-mount (indoor/outdoor), all-outdoor and all-indoor radio designs to accommodate operators' specific needs.
References
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
Telecommunications companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S12%20%28ZVV%29 | The S12 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network. The S12 is one of the network's lines connecting the cantons of Zürich, Aargau, Schaffhausen, Thurgau and St. Gallen.
Route
Line S12 commences at Brugg station, in the canton of Aargau, and follows the Zürich–Baden railway as far as Zürich Hardbrücke station and the approaches to Zürich Hauptbahnhof station. Passing through the lower level platforms at this station, the line then passes through the Hirschengraben and Zürichberg tunnels, and Stettbach station, before joining the Zürich to Winterthur line. The S12 follows this line as far as Winterthur Hauptbahnhof station, running non-stop between Stettbach and Winterthur, from where it continues to either Schaffhausen, or Wil SG.
Trains on the S12 usually run every 30 minutes, with a journey time of around 96 to 97 minutes. The alternation of trains to Schaffhausen and Wil SG Seen provides an hourly service to each terminus.
Stations
The following stations are served by the S12.
Stations served by all S12 trains
Brugg AG
Turgi
Baden
Wettingen
Neuenhof
Killwangen-Spreitenbach
Dietikon
Glanzenberg
Schlieren
Zürich Altstetten
Zürich Hardbrücke
Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Zürich Stadelhofen
Stettbach
Winterthur Hauptbahnhof
Stations served by trains on the S12 Schaffhausen branch
Winterthur Hauptbahnhof
Hettlingen
Henggart
Andelfingen
Marthalen
Dachsen
Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall
Neuhausen
Schaffhausen
Stations served by trains on the S12 Wil SG branch
Winterthur Hauptbahnhof
Winterthur Grüze
Winterthur Hegi
Räterschen
Schottikon
Elgg
Aadorf
Guntershausen
Eschlikon
Sirnach
Wil SG
Rolling stock
S12 services are operated by RABe 511 units, except for weekday services to Schaffhausen which are run by Re 450 class locomotives pushing or pulling double-deck passenger carriages.
History
Before the timetable change in late 2018, at Winterthur, alternate trains took different routes, running either over the Tösstalbahn as far as Winterthur Seen station, or over the Winterthur to Etzwilen line as far as Seuzach station.
Trains on the old S12 route usually ran every 30 minutes, with a journey time of around 70 to 75 minutes. The alternation of trains to Seuzach and Winterthur Seen provided an hourly service to each terminus.
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
Trams in Zürich
References
External links
ZVV official website: Routes & zones
Zürich S-Bahn lines
Transport in Aargau
Transport in the canton of Zürich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilin%20Television | Jilin Television (JLTV, ) is a television network covering the Changchun city and Jilin province area. It was founded and started to broadcast on October 1, 1959. JLTV currently broadcasts in Chinese, Manchu, and Mongol.
Channels
Jilin Satellite Television
City Channel
Movie Channel
Rural Channel
Lifecycle Channel
Public & News Channel
Variety & Cultural Channel
Jilin Jiayou Shopping Channel
Northeast Opera Channel (pay channel)
Changying Channel
Yanbian Satellite Television
Former channels
Basketball Channel (pay channel, stopped airing on January 25, 2022)
External links
Official Site
Television networks in China
Mass media in Changchun
Television channels and stations established in 1959 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9%20Tchad | The Télé Tchad is the national broadcaster of the Central African state of Chad. Télé Tchad broadcasts in Arabic and French. It primarily broadcasts news, educational programming, cultural, religious, and local sport programming 20 hours a day.
History
Télé Tchad began broadcasting on December 10, 1987. Upon its debut, the channel only broadcast four days a week (Thursday through Sunday) and only broadcast in and around N'Djamena through a tower in the Goudji neighborhood. Originally, the station used journalists and personalities from Chadian radio, including Malla Woulou Yakéma, Topono Celestin, and Aldom Nadji Tito. In its early years, the broadcaster received technical support and supplies from West Germany and from Télédiffusion de France.
When Idriss Déby took power in Chad in 1990, he put the broadcaster under the control of the Ministry of Information.
In 2008 the broadcaster expanded, including stations in Mongo, Borkou, Doba, Biltine and Tibesti as well as a satellite service that was able to broadcast to the Chadian diaspora in Europe, North Africa and elsewhere.
In 2012, the broadcaster had a new headquarters built on Avenue Charles de Gaulle in N'Djamena at the cost of 19 billion CFA francs. The building, which houses both Tele Tchad and Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne, is 70 meters tall and includes the broadcast tower.
Controversies
Due to the ongoing human rights situation in Chad, the national broadcaster is seen as favoring the government. Reporters Without Borders frequently lists Chad near the bottom of its list of World Press Freedom rankings, due to "Violence, arbitrary arrest and cyber-censorship for journalists in Chad".
See also
Media of Chad
Telecommunications in Chad
References
External links
La Télé-Tchad, la chouchou de Deby
Lyngsat Address
Television networks
Publicly funded broadcasters
Television stations in Chad
Television channels and stations established in 1987
State media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairway%20to%20Heaven%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Stairway to Heaven is a 2009 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 2003 South Korean television series of the same title. Directed by Joyce E. Bernal, Andoy Ranay and Mac Alejandre, it stars Dingdong Dantes and Rhian Ramos. It premiered on September 14, 2009, on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Adik Sa'Yo. The series concluded on December 11, 2009, with a total of 65 episodes.
The series was released on DVD by GMA Home Video and is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dingdong Dantes as Pocholo "Cholo" Fuentebella
Rhian Ramos as Jodi Reyes-Fuentebella / Jenna Cruz
Supporting cast
TJ Trinidad as Tristan Aragon / Charlie Matias
Glaiza de Castro as Eunice Aragon
Sandy Andolong as Zoila Fuentebella
Jestoni Alarcon as Jovan Reyes
Jean Garcia as Maita Aragon-Reyes
Soliman Cruz as Dindo Aragon
Karen delos Reyes as Bernadette "Badet" Mallari
Carlo Gonzalez as Enrico
Paul Holmes as John
Say Alonzo as Sheryl
Ricci Chan as Giorgio
Guest cast
Joshua Dionisio as young Cholo
Barbie Forteza as young Jodi
Jhake Vargas as young Tristan
Jhoana Marie Tan as young Eunice
Mosang as Violet
Nonie Buencamino as Rodolfo
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Stairway to Heaven earned a 33.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 30.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Philippine television series based on South Korean television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20Center%20Films | Cinema Center Films (CCF) was the theatrical film production company of the CBS Television Network from 1967 to 1972. Its films were distributed by National General Pictures. The production unit was located at CBS Studio Center in the Studio City district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, and produced 30 films.
History
CBS chairman William S. Paley and Frank Stanton founded the network's first film division, Cinema Center Films, in 1967, with Gordon T. Stulberg as its first chief.
In February 1967 CBS had bought the studios of Republic Pictures (which would be renamed CBS Studio Center) for $9.5 million. The following month they announced Stulberg's appointment, stating they intended to make ten films a year at a cost of $3.5 million each on average. Paley and Stulberg met with Gulf & Western chairman Charles Bluhdorn, who had just acquired Paramount Pictures, in a search for a distributor, but Bluhdorn's over chumminess turned off Paley. Stulberg reported to John A. Schneider, CBS network president.
The studio's first notable talent signing was with Doris Day which resulted in their first movie With Six You Get Eggroll. Initially, CCF was generally termed by the film community as a maker only of "fluffy films" that seemed designed for rebroadcast on CBS.
Their second signing was with Bob Banner Associates, who were to make a series of projects that did not come to fruition. National General Pictures agreed to distribute their films in August 1967, agreeing to provide $60 million for 22 movies. They signed a four-picture deal in 1967 with Jalem, Jack Lemmon's company worth $21 million – Jalem was to produce four films, two in which Lemmon was to appear. Other people who signed deals with the company include producer William Graf, and actor Steve McQueen via his company Solar Productions. Robert Culp's company also signed.
Ogilvy Mather was hired in July 1969 to provide advertising for the division. To counter-act the film community's perception of being a "fluffy films" producer Stulberg recommended making The Boys in the Band to Paley. Little Big Man was CCF's biggest hit at the box office despite a cost overrun. CCF also financed a Broadway production, Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, a Don Petersen drama that opened in February 1970. Paley moved responsibility at CBS for CCF from Schneider to Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records, which was then owned by CBS.
Twenty-six films were produced under Stulberg until he left to work at 20th Century Fox in 1971. CBS closed the unit in 1972; its last film was the Peanuts animated musical Snoopy, Come Home. The studio never reported a profit in any year of its operation losing money on the 20 out of 27 films for a total loss of $30 million.
Postscript
Distribution of Cinema Center's films were transferred from National General Pictures to Warner Bros. in a November 1973 deal that also included those of First Artists Productions.
CBS sold 28 CCF films to Viacom in 1979 for $30 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advances%20in%20Electrical%20and%20Computer%20Engineering | Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava since 2001. , the editor-in-chief is Adrian Graur. The journal covers research on all aspects of electrical and computer engineering. Extended versions of selected papers presented at the Development and Application Systems Conference are published in this journal.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Science Citation Index Expanded
Scopus
Inspec
ProQuest databases
EBSCO databases
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 0.650, and a 5 years impact factor of 0.639.
References
External links
Electrical and electronic engineering journals
English-language journals
Open access journals
Academic journals established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20%28German%20TV%20channel%29 | Cartoon Network is a German pay television channel which primarily broadcasts cartoons. It is based in Munich and is available in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Broadcasting
In August 2013, SES Platform Services (later MX1, now part of SES Video) won an international tender by Turner Broadcasting System to provide playout services for Cartoon Network, Boomerang, glitz*, TNT Film and TNT Serie (in both SD and HD) for the German-speaking market, digitization of existing Turner content, and playout for Turner on-demand and catch-up services in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Benelux region, from November 2013.
M7 Group's Kabelkiosk stopped broadcasting of Cartoon Network on 1 March 2017.
History
Cartoon Network launched in Germany on September 3, 2005 as a Saturday morning programming block on kabel eins. In December 2013 kabel eins cancelled the programming block. In June 2006, a German version of Boomerang was launched; this was followed by the simultaneous launch of Cartoon Network Germany as a 24-hour channel and TCM Germany on December 5, 2006. On 1 September 2016, Cartoon Network Germany re-branded using graphics from the Check It 4.0 branding package.
Logos
Programming
Current
Source:
Adventure Time
Batwheels
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
Ben 10 (2016 TV series)
Craig of the Creek
DC Super Friends
Jade Armor
Lego Monkie Kid
Looney Tunes Cartoons
New Looney Tunes
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Teen Titans Go!
The Amazing World of Gumball
The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe
Total DramaRama
We Baby Bears
We Bare Bears
References
External links
Official Site
Austrian Official Site (Redirects to German)
Swiss Official Site
Press office
Children's television networks
Cartoon Network
Television stations in Germany
Television stations in Austria
Television stations in Switzerland
German-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Turner Broadcasting System Germany
2006 establishments in Germany
2006 establishments in Austria
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Romania | This is a list of urban tramway systems in Romania. It includes all tram systems, past and present. Cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
Transport in Romania
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
List of trolleybus systems
References
Romania
Tramways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging%20%28scheduling%29 | In computer science for Operating systems, aging (US English) or ageing is a scheduling technique used to avoid starvation. Fixed priority scheduling is a scheduling discipline, in which tasks queued for utilizing a system resource are assigned a priority each. A task with a high priority is allowed to access a specific system resource before a task with a lower priority is allowed to do the same. A disadvantage of this approach is that tasks assigned with a lower priority may be starved when a large number of high priority tasks are queued. Aging is used to gradually increase the priority of a task, based on its waiting time in the ready queue.
Problem
In priority-based scheduling algorithms, a major problem is indefinite block, or starvation. A process that is ready to run but waiting for the CPU can be considered blocked. A priority scheduling algorithm can leave some low-priority processes waiting indefinitely. A steady stream of higher-priority processes can prevent a low-priority process from ever getting the CPU.
Application
Aging is used to ensure that jobs with lower priority will eventually complete their execution. This technique can be used to reduce starvation of low priority tasks.
There are many ways to implement aging, but all have the same principle that the priority of a process should increase as it waits in the ready queue. The increase in priority may or may not be equal to the waiting time of the process.
Example
Suppose a system with priority range of 0-512. In this system, 0 means highest priority.
Consider a process with priority 127. If we increase its priority by 1 every 15 minutes, then in more than 32 hours the process will age to 0 priority and get executed.
References
Processor scheduling algorithms
^ Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne Operating System Principles, 6th ed., p.162 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20Drive | A hard disk drive is a computer storage device containing rigid rotating platters.
Hard Drive may also refer to:
Solid-state drive, a computer storage device that has no moving parts
Hard Drive (The Sorry Kisses album), a 2008 album by The Sorry Kisses
Hard Drive (Art Blakey album), a 1957 album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Hard Drive (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
HardDrive (radio show), a rock radio show
Hard Drive, a 1993 techno-thriller novel by David Pogue
Hard Drive (film), a film starring John Cusack
Hard Drive (website), a satirical video game vertical published by The Hard Times
See also
Hardrive, an American garage house production and remix team better known as Masters at Work |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%20Media%20Television%20%28Ireland%29 | Virgin Media Television Ltd (formerly known as TV3 Television Network Ltd; previously traded as the TV3 Group until August 2018) is a commercial television company in Ireland, based in Dublin. Launched in 1998 as TV3 Television Network, the TV3 Group was formed in January 2009. The company was acquired by Liberty Global in 2015, and the channels were rebranded to Virgin Media Television in 2018.
The network was reportedly put up for sale by its owner Liberty Global in June 2021. By November 2021, the then chief executive had reportedly "ruled this out".
History
Virgin Media Television (previously TV3 Television Network Ltd and later TV3 Group) is operated by Virgin Media Ireland and owned by Liberty Global. Under its previous operations TV3 Television Network Ltd and later the TV3 Group; the company was owned by different companies including Canwest, Granada and Doughty Hanson & Co.
The initial company TV3 Television Network Ltd was established in the early 1990s as a response to the development of the IRTC in October 1998. The former broadcasting regular Independent Radio & Television Commission (now the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland) was created to regulate broadcasting in Ireland. In 1990 following an invitation by the IRTC to seek interests from independent broadcasters, a consortium (Tullamore Beta Ltd) came together to launch the Republic of Ireland's first independent channel and third terrestrial channel. The launch of TV3 was delayed and the licence was revoked due to this delay. Following a court case, the license was eventually restored in 1993. It was agreed that 49% of the company would be sold to UTV, to raise much-needed cash for investment in facilities. By 1995, UTV decided not to partner up with Tullamore Beta and instead focused on its own channels being made available through digital television providers in Ireland. In 1997, Canadian communications company Canwest bought a major stake in the new company in order to help launch the independent network.
Canwest: 1998–2001
By 1998, Canwest was already a major owner of television and radio stations across a number of territories including Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
The consortium Tullamore Beta and Canwest launched TV3 on 20 September 1998. However, in 2001 Canwest confirmed it would sell a stake to ITV plc.
Canwest & ITV: 2001–2006
In September 2000, Granada Media plc (a predecessor company of ITV plc which then owned six ITV franchises) agreed to acquire 45% of the company from the original TV3 consortium. This was part of a deal which gave TV3 the right to simulcast with ITV certain Granada programming. The Granada plc shareholding was taken over by ITV plc upon the merger of Granada with Carlton on 2 February 2004. In early 2001, the station officially launched threetext, the teletext service, much of the content from Thomas Crosbie Media. Test transmissions of this service commenced in late 2000, but as early as 1999 limited programming content was provide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel%20%28disambiguation%29 | Opel Automobile is a German car manufacturer.
Opel may also refer to:
OPEL Networks, a former Australian telecommunications provider
Opel (album), an album by musician Syd Barrett
People
Adam Opel (1837–1895), founder of Opel, the company
Adolf Opel (1935–2018), Austrian writer, filmmaker, and editor
Barbara Opel (born 1963), American caretaker and criminal
Carl von Opel (1869–1927), co-founder of Opel
Friedrich Opel (1875–1938), German cyclist, race car driver and industrial engineer
Fritz von Opel (1899–1971), German automotive engineer
Georg von Opel (born 1966), great-grandson of Adam Opel
Hans von Opel (1889–1948), son of Carl von Opel
Jackie Opel (1938–1970), Barbadian singer
John R. Opel (1925–2011), U.S. computer businessman
Nancy Opel (born c. 1957), American singer, actress, and teacher
Rikky von Opel (born 1947), Liechtenstein racing driver
Robert Opel (1939–1979), American photographer
Sophie Opel (1840–1913), industrialist and wife of Adam Opel
Wilhelm von Opel (1871–1948), co-founder of Opel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late%20night%20television | Late night television is one of the dayparts in television broadcast programming. It follows prime time and precedes the overnight television show graveyard slot. The slot generally runs from about 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. ET, with variations according to the time zone and broadcaster.
In the United States and Canada, the term is synonymous with the late-night talk show, a type of television comedy talk show and variety show. Thus, the late night programming block is considered more important in North America. On most major-network stations, a late-night news airs at the beginning of the block.
Due to the complications of effects of time zones on North American broadcasting, live professional sporting matches such as baseball, hockey, and basketball played in Pacific and Mountain Time Zone cities, such as Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, and Seattle, are often played in the primetime of the Pacific and Mountain Time Zones, but late night in the Central and Eastern time zones, and their lateness often contributes to a perceived East Coast bias in sports media.
In the United Kingdom, the late night spot is from 11:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. and not seen as a priority; ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 air repeat programs in the time slot, and the BBC's channels (BBC One, Two, Three and Four) primarily show BBC News, air movies, or repeats. Similarly, Australian and New Zealand television primarily air American late shows, lower-priority imported series, late movies or overflows of sports programming in the late night time slot.
On cable television, programming strategies in this time slot include timeshift channel of prime time programs and, in the case of children's television series channels, sign-on and sign-off and allowing more adult-oriented fare for the overnight hours under another brand. Two examples are the children's channels Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, which changes over to Adult Swim and Nick at Nite, respectively, at an hour when most pre-adolescent children go to sleep. Adult Swim and Nick at Nite typically airs series programming, such as reruns of sitcom, that may have coarser language and more adult themes than Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.
After 11:00 p.m., Japan airs adult talk or variety shows as well as late night anime. This is also true of the United States-based cable channel Cartoon Network, which targets children and young teens during daytime and primetime hours, but changes over to its Adult Swim brand in late night slots, which targets young adults with its content.
See also
Late-night news
Late-night talk show
Late night television in the United States
List of late-night American network TV programs
References
Television genres
Television programming
Television terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Salon | Open Salon was a hybrid blogging platform and social network site started by the Salon Media Group, Inc. According to Salon Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh "Open Salon gets rid of traditional gatekeepers, and makes our smart, creative audience full partners in Salon'''s publishing future." After registering, users can start blogging immediately as well as rating and commenting on other posts. The Open Salon home page functions as a real-time magazine cover and is updated throughout the day. The best Open Salon content was featured on the cover of Salon.com.
On May 29, 2009, Open Chats debuted--short, 5-minute interviews with OS contributors. Saturn Smith appeared in the first feature.
Open Salon articles were frequently featured on the front page of Salon'' in the first two years of Open Salon's operation, but eventually disappeared. In December 2012, the Open Salon site appeared to have fallen into disrepair as a result of spam accounts overloading the system and many Open Salon bloggers moved on to the website Our Salon.
On March 9, 2015, Salon Media Group, Inc. announced it would be closing Open Salon after six years of hosting a community of writers and bloggers. Participants were notified and given two weeks to view their content before permanent closing of the site, which took place on March 31, 2015.
Honors
Open Salon was a finalist in the 2009 National Magazine Awards under the interactive feature-- a category that recognizes an outstanding feature or section of a website that uses multimedia technology, tools, community platforms or other interactive formats to deliver or share content such as news, information and entertainment, rather than practical instruction or advice.
References
American social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawak%20Ko%20ang%20Langit | (International title: Heaven in My Hands / ) is a 2003 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gina Alajar, it stars Assunta de Rossi and Jomari Yllana. It premiered on July 14, 2003. The series concluded on November 7, 2003 with a total of 85 episodes. It was replaced by Walang Hanggan in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Assunta de Rossi as Lorena
Jomari Yllana as Julian
Supporting cast
Melanie Marquez as Amapolla
Regine Tolentino as Rebecca
Rustom Padilla (now known as BB Gandanghari)
Jeffrey Quizon
Jao Mapa
Jake Roxas
Carlos Morales
John Apacible
Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino
Nonie Buencamino
Anna Larrucea
Sarah Jane Abad
Shyr Valdez
BJ de Jesus
References
External links
2003 Philippine television series debuts
2003 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series by TAPE Inc.
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20memories | Early memories may refer to:
In humans
Childhood amnesia
Memory#Memory in infancy
In computing
Computer memory#History |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANTIS%20Air%20Defence%20System | MANTIS Air Defence System (Modular, Automatic and Network Capable Targeting and Interception System), formerly titled NBS-C-RAM ( Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar), is a very short range air defence protection system of the German Air Force, intended for base-protection. It is produced by Rheinmetall Air Defence, a subsidiary of Rheinmetall of Germany. It is a part of the air force's future SysFla air-defence project.
System
The MANTIS system is intended to detect, track and shoot down incoming projectiles before they can reach their target within very close range. The system itself is based on Oerlikon Contraves' Skyshield air defence gun system. A MANTIS system consists of six 35 mm automatic guns (capable of firing 1,000 rounds per minute), a ground control unit and two sensor units. The guns fire programmable AHEAD ammunition, developed by Rheinmetall Weapons and Munitions - Switzerland (formerly Oerlikon Contraves Pyrotec). The ammunition carries a payload of 152 tungsten projectiles weighing 3.3 g (51 gr) each.
The MANTIS radar can acquire a target within two seconds, then engage it with one of the guns firing a 36-round burst. Two guns directed by one radar each can engage multiple targets. After being manually activated, the system operates fully automatically.
Originally, the German Army ordered a first batch of two systems in 2009, to be delivered in 2013, with two more systems planned to follow later, but were never bought. Both MANTIS systems have been transferred to the German Air Force, which is now responsible for all air defence tasks. The first two systems cost around €110.8 million, plus another €20 million for training and documentation purposes. In a follow-on contract, worth around €13.4 million, Rheinmetall will also deliver the corresponding ammunition to the Bundeswehr.
The German Air Force took possession of the first MANTIS system on January 1, 2011. It was first deployed to Mali at the end of 2017, although without the guns.
On 7 February 2023, Germany announced it would be donating two MANTIS systems to Slovakia to strengthen Slovak air defences permanently.
On 24 October 2023, The Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic (Ozbrojené sily Slovenskej republiky) took over the Mantis air defence system from the German Army on Tuesday at the 11th Air Force Brigade in Nitra. Their task will be to strengthen the protection of the eastern border with Ukraine.
See also
CIWS
LFK NG—the new air-defence missile of the German Army within the "SysFla" project
Phalanx CIWS—In 2004 the United States began to develop a land-based standalone model of its Phalanx Weapon System called the Centurion CRAM which was deployed to the Middle East in 2008
Rheinmetall Oerlikon Millennium Gun—Naval CIWS by Rheinmetall using same gun
References
35 mm artillery
Anti-aircraft guns of Germany
Anti-aircraft guns
Anti-aircraft weapons
Military equipment introduced in the 2010s
Missile defense
Post–Cold War weapons of Germany
Rheinmetall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian%20School%20and%20College | Cambrian School and College is a secondary and higher secondary school in Bangladesh, run by the BSB Global Network, and established in 2004. Ln. M.K. Bashar is the chairman and Ashraful Ahsan Khan is the principal. It has 16 campuses in Dhaka and Chittagong, Bangladesh.
References
External links
Official website
Colleges in Bangladesh
Colleges in Dhaka District
Colleges in Chittagong
Private colleges in Bangladesh
Schools in Chittagong District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C%20Sharp%20software | C# is a programming language. The following is a list of software programmed in it:
Banshee, a cross-platform open-source media player.
Beagle, a search system for Linux and other Unix-like systems.
Colectica, a suite of programs for use in managing official statistics and statistical surveys using open standards.
Chocolatey, an open source package manager for Windows.
Docky, a free and open-source application launcher for Linux.
FlashDevelop, an integrated development environment (IDE) for development of Adobe Flash websites, web applications, desktop applications and video games.
GameMaker Studio 2, a game engine with an editor written in C#
HandBrake, a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files.
KeePass, a free and open-source password manager primarily for Windows.
Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), an open-source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application.
Lphant, a peer-to-peer file sharing client.
Microsoft Visual Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. Also programmed in C++.
MonoDevelop, an open source integrated development environment.
NMath, a numerical package for the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Open Dental, a dental practice management software.
OpenRA, a free remake of the classic Command & Conquer game.
osu!, a free and open-source (before freeware) Indie rhythm game with 4 modes for Microsoft Windows, Linux and macOS.
Paint.NET, a freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework..
Pinta, an open-source, cross-platform bitmap image drawing and editing program.
SharpDevelop, a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE) for the .NET Framework.
Windows Installer XML (WiX), a free software toolset that builds Windows Installer packages from XML.
C Sharp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochi%20Media | Mochi Media was a browser-based games network, with more than 140 million monthly active users and 15,000 games on nearly 40,000 publisher websites. Mochi Media's products included tools for Flash-based web developers to display in-game advertising, complete micro-transactions and display score boards in games. The company was headquartered in downtown San Francisco.
The company was founded in 2005. Mochi Media was dissolved by its parent company Shanda Games on 31 March 2014. All of its services were wound down, and final payments were paid to those eligible at the end of April 2014.
Mochi API
MochiMedia offered an ActionScript API to developers so that they could implement advertisements, leaderboards, and in-game micro-transactions.
MochiAds
MochiAds was an advertisement application targeting specifically towards monetizing web browser games using the Flash Player platform.
Advertisements could be displayed as a game's pre-loader or as content inside the game itself.
Mochi Coins
In 2009, Mochi Media released a new system to access paid content in browser games called MochiCoins. The platform allowed developers to put additional content or features in the games, which users paid for with the MochiCoins in their account. These coins could be purchased through Mochi Media's website using credit cards, PayPal or SuperRewards.
On 17 September 2012, Mochi Media made an announcement that they would discontinue Mochicoins. Players could no longer purchase Mochicoins after 5 October, and on 15 October, Mochicoins was discontinued. MochiCoins could be traded in for Ninja Kiwi coins beginning on 15 October.
MochiSocial
MochiSocial allowed developers to send game data to social networking sites. These interactions included posting to a news stream, sending gifts to or inviting friends, and posting achievements. Players of a game could opt to become a "Fan" of a game developer. This allowed the player to receive updates from game developers on new games or content. Developers also got access to data from the social interactions within their games. They could choose to offer certain features of their games to registered users only, and hide them from guests.
MochiScores
MochiScores allowed developers to implement leaderboards into their game. Players could submit their score and compare their score with others around the world. Developers could choose between displaying a numerical value or a time, and could set the sorting criteria for a leaderboard. They could also implement achievements to the scoreboard based on a player's score.
Publishers
The Mochi Publisher program provided three ways for website publishers to earn income from free games that were distributed to them. Publishers were given access to a library of games, a revenue share from games and an API to customize content specific for certain games. An example is setting leaderboards to only display scores from a certain domain.
Shutdown
Mochi Media parent company Shanda dissolved |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%A9rn%20covariance%20function | In statistics, the Matérn covariance, also called the Matérn kernel, is a covariance function used in spatial statistics, geostatistics, machine learning, image analysis, and other applications of multivariate statistical analysis on metric spaces. It is named after the Swedish forestry statistician Bertil Matérn. It specifies the covariance between two measurements as a function of the distance between the points at which they are taken. Since the covariance only depends on distances between points, it is stationary. If the distance is Euclidean distance, the Matérn covariance is also isotropic.
Definition
The Matérn covariance between measurements taken at two points separated by d distance units is given by
where is the gamma function, is the modified Bessel function of the second kind, and ρ and are positive parameters of the covariance.
A Gaussian process with Matérn covariance is times differentiable in the mean-square sense.
Spectral density
The power spectrum of a process with Matérn covariance defined on is the (n-dimensional) Fourier transform of the Matérn covariance function (see Wiener–Khinchin theorem). Explicitly, this is given by
Simplification for specific values of ν
Simplification for ν half integer
When , the Matérn covariance can be written as a product of an exponential and a polynomial of order :
which gives:
for :
for :
for :
The Gaussian case in the limit of infinite ν
As , the Matérn covariance converges to the squared exponential covariance function
Taylor series at zero and spectral moments
The behavior for can be obtained by the following Taylor series (reference is needed, the formula below leads to division by zero in case ):
When defined, the following spectral moments can be derived from the Taylor series:
See also
Radial basis function
References
Geostatistics
Spatial analysis
Covariance and correlation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20My%20Life%20%28TV%20series%29 | All My Life is a 2009 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mac Alejandre and Andoy Ranay, it stars Aljur Abrenica and Kris Bernal. It premiered on June 29, 2009 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on September 18, 2009 with a total of 60 episodes. It was replaced by Ikaw Sana in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kris Bernal as Romina Estrella
Aljur Abrenica as Jules Romualdez
Supporting cast
Manilyn Reynes as Sally Estrella
Gelli de Belen as Amelia Dela Paz-Estrella
Zoren Legaspi as Romano Estrella
Lani Mercado as Marita Castor-Romualdez
Jay Manalo as Gary Romualdez
Byron Ortile as Luigi Romualdez
Martin Delos Santos as Maui Romualdez
Stef Prescott as Nicole
Jade Lopez as Lindsay
Jay Aquitania as August
Jenny Miller as Dessa
Paulo Avelino as Perry
LJ Reyes as Maricar
Gladys Guevarra as Luningning
Chris Cayzer as Joseph
Bryan Termulo as Dino
Moymoy Obeso as Calo
Roadfil Obeso as Totoy
Guest cast
Matteo Guidicelli as Matt
Lloyd Samartino as Gilbert
Renz Valerio as Luke Estrella
Yasmien Kurdi as Princess
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of All My Life earned a 23.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 22.7% rating.
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S55%20%28ZVV%29 | The S55 was a regional railway service of the S-Bahn Zürich in Switzerland on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network.
Until timetable change in late 2015, the S55 linked Niederweningen and Oberglatt, as a short-working of the then routing of service S5. With the timetable change, the service S55 was dropped altogether, and service S5 was diverted away from Niederweningen. Service on this stretch of line is now provided by service S15.
References
Former Zürich S-Bahn lines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20quadratic%20covariance%20function | In statistics, the rational quadratic covariance function is used in spatial statistics, geostatistics, machine learning, image analysis, and other fields where multivariate statistical analysis is conducted on metric spaces. It is commonly used to define the statistical covariance between measurements made at two points that are d units distant from each other. Since the covariance only depends on distances between points, it is stationary. If the distance is Euclidean distance, the rational quadratic covariance function is also isotropic.
The rational quadratic covariance between two points separated by d distance units is given by
where α and k are non-negative parameters of the covariance.
References
Spatial analysis
Geostatistics
Covariance and correlation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihltal%20Z%C3%BCrich%20Uetliberg%20Bahn | The Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn AG – commonly abbreviated to SZU – is a railway company and transport network in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The network comprises the Uetliberg railway line and the Sihltal railway line, a cable car and a network of bus services.
The SZU is jointly owned by the city of Zürich (32.6%), the municipalities of Adliswil, Langnau am Albis, Horgen, Thalwil and Uitikon (6.8%), the Canton of Zürich (23.8%), the federal government (27.8%), and other parties (9%). It is constituted as an Aktiengesellschaft (AG) or public company.
History
The history of the SZU dates back to two separate companies, which built the two railways that now make up the SZU. The first of these companies was the Uetlibergbahn-Gesellschaft, which opened its line from Bahnhof Selnau in Zurich to the summit of the Uetliberg mountain in 1875. This was followed in 1892 by the Sihltalbahn company (SITB), which opened a line from Bahnhof Selnau to Sihlwald. In 1897 this latter line was extended to Sihlbrugg and a connection with the Thalwil to Zug line of the Swiss Northeastern Railway (NOB).
In 1920, the Uetlibergbahn-Gesellschaft became bankrupt and was liquidated. Two years later the Uetlibergbahn was taken over by the Bahngesellschaft Zürich–Uetliberg (BZUe). In 1923 the Uetlibergbahn was electrified using the direct current system, whilst the following year the Sihltalbahn was electrified using alternating current.
In 1932 the SITB took over the management of the BZUe, but the two companies remained in existence until 1973, when they were merged to form the SZU. In the meantime, in 1954, the SITB had taken over the management of the Adliswil-Felsenegg cable car.
In 1990, the two lines were extended from their previous joint terminus at Bahnhof Selnau to a terminus at . This extension involved the construction of a new rail tunnel from Selnau to Zurich HB, and a new underground intermediate station adjacent to the former terminus. The underground platforms used at Zurich HB were already in existence, having been built prior to 1973 for a U-Bahn scheme that was ultimately rejected by voters. Once the new extension had been opened, the former terminus at Selnau was redeveloped and little evidence of it is now visible.
In 1995, the company took over responsibility for bus services in parts of the district of Horgen through which the Sihltalbahn is running.
In 2006, after 109 years, the Sihltalbahn stopped servicing Sihlbrugg and the last but one station Sihlwald became the new terminus.
Operation
Rail network
The SZU continues to operate the original Uetlibergbahn and Sihltalbahn lines. The two lines share a common double-track section between Zürich Giesshübel and , with the final approach in tunnel, partly under the Sihl river. A dedicated pair of underground platforms are used at the Hauptbahnhof with no rail connection to the rest of the station.
Also operated is a connecting line from Giesshübel to the Swiss Federal Railways at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Salin | Phillip Kenneth Salin (1950–1991) was an American economist and futurist, best known for his contributions to theories about the development of cyberspace and as a proponent of private (non-governmental) space exploration and development.
Education and early life
Salin was born in Hollywood, California and raised in San Rafael, California. Salin's father was Lothar Salin, a psychotherapist and public interest activist in San Rafael. His grandfather was Edgar Salin, an historian/economist/philosopher at Basel, Switzerland and a leader of the so-called "Historical School" of political and social philosophy. Salin earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UCLA in 1970, and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University. He did postgraduate studies with James G. March at Stanford University. Some of Salin's early work on telecommunications policy started the breakup of AT&T and the deregulation of the field. In the early-70's, Salin worked as a programmer at Bechtel Financing Services, where he invented a precursor of spreadsheet software.
Space
In the 1980s, Salin applied his economics expertise to the problem of access to outer space. He cofounded ARC Technologies/Rocket Company/Starstruck, a private space launch company. On February 28, 1984, Salin testified to the US House Space Science and Applications Subcommittee of the Committee on Science and Technology, stating that NASA had substantially underestimated the cost of its launches and thus was massively subsidizing them, harming other competitors such as the Atlas and Delta rockets. NASA's published cost and price
of $71 million per launch contrasted with Salin's calculated costs of $200 to $250 million per launch.
In 1987, Salin and James C. Bennett published "The Private Solution to the Space Transportation Crisis". A NASA bibliography on the Shuttle described it as:
The authors of this lengthy article assert that confused and short-sighted decisions dominated by political expediency have been made about the U.S. space program for the past 30 years. Overly large and ambitious systems have been chosen, resulting in the present crisis in space transportation. The history of commercial aircraft development offers an alternative example of producing a range of sizes and capabilities for a wide variety of users and shows that the space transportation industry could benefit from applying the decision-making processes used in private enterprise. The authors examine strategies for privatization of the Shuttle and conclude that policy support for the commercial launch industry must be continued. NASA must also be reoriented toward its basic research function, and more government services should be bought from the private sector.
American Information Exchange
In 1984 Salin founded the American Information Exchange (AMIX), a network for the buying and selling of information, goods and services. Salin invented the concepts of smart contracts, and buying and selling which are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrin%20scaffold | A fibrin scaffold is a network of protein that holds together and supports a variety of living tissues. It is produced naturally by the body after injury, but also can be engineered as a tissue substitute to speed healing. The scaffold consists of naturally occurring biomaterials composed of a cross-linked fibrin network and has a broad use in biomedical applications.
Fibrin consists of the blood proteins fibrinogen and thrombin which participate in blood clotting. Fibrin glue or fibrin sealant is also referred to as a fibrin based scaffold and used to control surgical bleeding, speed wound healing, seal off hollow body organs or cover holes made by standard sutures, and provide slow-release delivery of medications like antibiotics to tissues exposed.
Fibrin scaffold use is helpful in repairing injuries to the urinary tract, liver lung, spleen, kidney, and heart. In biomedical research, fibrin scaffolds have been used to fill bone cavities, repair neurons, heart valves, vascular grafts and the surface of the eye.
The complexity of biological systems requires customized care to sustain their function. When they are no longer able to perform their purpose, interference of new cells and biological cues is provided by a scaffold material. Fibrin scaffold has many aspects like being biocompatible, biodegradable and easily processable. Furthermore, it has an autologous nature and it can be manipulated in various size and shape. Inherent role in wound healing is helpful in surgical applications. Many factors can be bound to fibrin scaffold and those can be released in a cell-controlled manner. Its stiffness can be managed by changing the concentration according to needs of surrounding or encapsulated cells. Additional mechanical properties can be obtained by combining fibrin with other suitable scaffolds. Each biomedical application has its own characteristic requirement for different kinds of tissues and recent studies with fibrin scaffold are promising towards faster recovery, less complications and long-lasting solutions.
Advantages of fibrin scaffold
Fibrin scaffold is an important element in tissue engineering approaches as a scaffold material. It is advantageous opposed to synthetic polymers and collagen gels when cost, inflammation, immune response, toxicity and cell adhesion are concerned. When there is a trauma in a body, cells at site start the cascade of blood clotting and fibrin is the first scaffold formed normally. To achieve in clinical use of a scaffold, fast and entire incorporation into host tissue is essential. Regeneration of the tissue and the degradation of the scaffold should be balanced in terms of rate, surface area and interaction so that ideal templating can be achieved. Fibrin satisfies many requirements of scaffold functions. Biomaterials made up of fibrin can attach many biological surfaces with high adhesion. Its biocompatibility comes from being not toxic, allergenic or inflammatory. By the help of fibrinolysis inhib |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20carving | File carving is the process of reassembling computer files from fragments in the absence of
filesystem metadata.
Introduction and basic principles
All filesystems contain some metadata that describes the actual file system. At a minimum, this includes the hierarchy of folders and files, with names for each. The filesystem will also record the physical locations on the storage device where each file is stored. As explained below, a file might be scattered in fragments at different physical addresses.
File carving is the process of trying to recover files without this metadata. This is done by analyzing the raw data and identifying what it is (text, executable, png, mp3, etc.). This can be done in different ways, but the simplest is to look for the file signature or "magic numbers" that mark the beginning and/or end of a particular file type. For instance, every Java class file has as its first four bytes the hexadecimal value CA FE BA BE. Some files contain footers as well, making it just as simple to identify the ending of the file.
Most file systems, such as the FAT family and UNIX's Fast File System, work with the concept of clusters of an equal and fixed size. For example, a FAT32 file system might be broken into clusters of 4 KiB each. Any file smaller than 4 KiB fits into a single cluster, and there is never more than one file in each cluster. Files that take up more than 4 KiB are allocated across many clusters. Sometimes these clusters are all contiguous, while other times they are scattered across two or potentially many more so called fragments, with each fragment containing a number of contiguous clusters storing one part of the file's data. Obviously, large files are more likely to be fragmented.
Simson Garfinkel reported fragmentation statistics collected from over 350 disks containing FAT, NTFS and UFS file systems. He showed that while fragmentation in a typical disk is low, the fragmentation rate of forensically important files such as email, JPEG and Word documents is relatively high. The fragmentation rate of JPEG files was found to be 16%, Word documents had 17% fragmentation, AVI had a 22% fragmentation rate and PST files (Microsoft Outlook) had a 58% fragmentation rate (the fraction of files being fragmented into two or more fragments). Pal, Shanmugasundaram, and Memon presented an efficient algorithm based on a greedy heuristic and alpha-beta pruning for reassembling fragmented images. Pal, Sencar, and Memon introduced sequential hypothesis testing as an effective mechanism for detecting fragmentation points. Richard and Roussev presented Scalpel, an open-source file-carving tool existing since 2005 and initially based on Foremost.
File carving is a highly complex task, with a potentially huge number of permutations to try.
To make this task tractable, carving software typically makes extensive use of models and heuristics.
This is necessary not only from a standpoint of execution time, but also for the accuracy of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing%20Maps%20Platform | Bing Maps Platform (previously Microsoft Virtual Earth) is a geospatial mapping platform produced by Microsoft. It allows developers to create applications that layer location-relevant data on top of licensed map imagery. The imagery includes samples taken by satellite sensors, aerial cameras (including 45 degree oblique "bird's eye" aerial imagery licensed from Pictometry International), Streetside imagery, 3D city models and terrain.
Bing Maps Platform also provides a point-of-interest database including a search capability. Microsoft uses the Bing Maps Platform to power its Bing Maps and Azure Maps products.
Key features of the Bing Maps Platform include:
Photo-based images with features such as Streetside and 45 degree oblique "bird’s eye" views (nominally including 4 views at 90 degree viewpoint increments) that present data in context while simplifying orientation and navigation.
The ability to overlay standard or custom data points and layers with different themes.
Building-level geocoding for more than 70 million addresses in the United States.
Developer support options available.
Set of APIs available upon which developers can build applications.
See also
Apple Maps – Apple's mapping service
Bing Maps
Esri – Esri ArcGIS
Google Maps – Google's mapping service
MapQuest
Microsoft Research Maps – public domain (older than five years) satellite imagery via Microsoft servers
Nokia Maps – Nokia’s mapping service
OpenStreetMap – OpenStreetMap
Yahoo! Maps – Yahoo! Map Web Services
External links
Bing Maps Enterprise APIs
Bing Maps Documentation
Bing Maps Developer account
Bing Maps V8 Interactive SDK
Bing Maps Blog
Microsoft Bing
GIS software
Web Map Services
Keyhole Markup Language
Freeware
Astronomy software
Virtual globes
Earth sciences graphics software
Satellite imagery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastLoad | FastLoad may refer to:
Teradata FastLoad, a database utility
Epyx FastLoad, a peripheral cartridge for the Commodore 64 computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Ghent | The Ghent tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Ghent, a city in the Flemish Region of Belgium, with a total of three lines (1, 2 and 4). Since 1991, the network has been operated by De Lijn, the public transport entity responsible for buses and trams in Flanders.
As of the end of 2008, the network had 40 HermeLijn trams and 43 PCC trams.
General description
The network covers approximately
. The track gauge is and trams are powered by 600 V DC overhead wires. The network uses dedicated rights of way as well as mixed traffic; the right of way on Groot-Britanniëlaan is shared with buses.
The system used to have one short tunnel, around long, passing underneath Sint-Pieters railway station. The Sint-Pieters Station tram stop was located inside the tunnel. It was opened on June 28, 1996.
The system has no triangles and only a single turnback loop. Therefore, all rolling stock must be bidirectional, with cabs at each end. There are also two non-switch 90-degree crossings, between the lines of routes 1 and 21/22, on the crossing of Zonnestraat with Veldstraat as well as Korte Meers street. There are two crossings because the track of route 1 passes over streets in each direction. Along the Korte Meer the tram track goes toward the city center, the Korenmarkt stop, yet returns along the pedestrian/tram-only shopping area along the Veldstraat.
On streets where tram tracks are located away from the sidewalk, i.e. in the middle of the roadway, stops are located on islands with pedestrian overpasses leading to them. This improves pedestrian safety.
History
Overview
Horse-drawn trams appeared in Ghent in 1874. The rolling stock consisted of 43 carriages, 14 of them open and the other 29 closed, with 100 horses used to draw them. The horse-drawn trams were operated by Les Tramways de la Ville de Gand, which existed until 1897.
On August 13 of 1897 operating concessions were issued to the Société Anonyme des Railways Économiques de Liège-Seraing et Extensions (RELSE) and the Compagnie Générale des Railways à voie étroite (CGR). These companies merged on January 4, 1898 to form the SA des Tramways Electriques de Gand. The aim of this move was to replace horses by electric traction, as well as the further usage of the tram network. It was also decided to use battery-powered trams, since they did not require unsightly overhead lines.
The power of battery operated trams was . Each tram carried 45 passengers. The maximum speed of each was ; by law, the operator was not allowed to travel any faster. A special generating station was built to charge the batteries of these trams.
However, battery traction was operationally unsuccessful, so in 1903 a decision was made to install overhead electrification. The first trams powered by overhead lines entered service in 1904. This date marks the birth of a tramway in Ghent. From 1904 to 1961 the system was operated by "Tramway Electriques de Gand" (TEG).
Du |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zed%20Shaw | Zed A. Shaw is a software developer best known for creating the Learn Code the Hard Way series of programming tutorials, as well as for creating the Mongrel web server for Ruby web applications. He is also well known for his polemical views on programming languages and communities.
Software
Shaw authored the Mongrel web server for Ruby web applications. Mongrel was the first web server used by Twitter, and inspired Node.js, according to its creator Ryan Dahl. Mongrel2 is the language-agnostic successor to Mongrel.
He has also written a Python mail server called Lamson, on which the mailing list site LibreList is built.
Learn Code the Hard Way
Shaw is the author of learncodethehardway.org, which offers to teach users Python, Ruby, C, Regex, and SQL.
Polemics and controversies
Shaw has been outspoken in his criticism of certain programming language and technical communities.
Ruby on Rails
His most famous and well-covered piece was the article "Rails is a Ghetto" which has since been removed from his site.
Opposition to Python 3
"There is a high probability that Python 3 is such a failure it will kill Python." - Zed Shaw
Shaw has a long-standing rant opposing Python 3, where he finds the new string type difficult to use, and as a result believes it should not be adopted. Nonetheless, in February 2017 he published a first draft of Learn Python 3 The Hard Way.
He stated in November 2016 that "Python 3 is not Turing complete" due to claims from Python project developers that Python 2 code cannot be made to run in the Python 3 VM. This statement has drawn a lot of criticism.
Criticism of certain behaviors within startup culture
Shaw has spoken about the amounts of vague and misleading information that is pervasive on the startup and entrepreneur culture, particularly concerning self-proclaimed startup advisors or entrepreneurship "gurus", having demonstrated publicly how some notable figures in the industry appear to speak and provide advice from a background of success that they never actually attained.
Shaw is also behind an initiative entitled "Programming, Motherfucker", whose manifesto claims that programmers are "tired of being told we're socially awkward idiots who need to be manipulated to work in a Forced Pair Programming chain gang."
Books
Mongrel (Digital Shortcut): Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006.
Professional Ruby Collection: Mongrel, Rails Plugins, Rails Routing, Refactoring to REST, and Rubyisms CD1 (Ruby Series). Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007.
Learn Python the Hard Way. Self-published (1st and 2nd Editions), 2010 and 2011. and
The Command Line Crash Course. Self-published, 2011.
Learn Regex the Hard Way. Self-published, 2011.
Learn SQL the Hard Way. Self-published, 2011.
Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code 3rd edition. Republished under Addison-Wesley Professional, 2013. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20Central%20Family%20%28Dutch%20TV%20channel%29 | Comedy Central Family was a television channel broadcasting comedy TV series. It launched in the Netherlands as a joint venture between Paramount International Networks and Endemol. It featured both foreign acquisitions and Dutch series from the Endemol libraries.
Its launch was originally scheduled for 1 September 2008. It was, however, delayed and the channel eventually launched through cable operator Ziggo on 1 October 2008. On the channel, the Dutch, American, British and Flemish comedy series are aired. Comedy Central Family was available via cable company Ziggo, KPN, Delta and Caiway.
Comedy Central Family closed in the Netherlands on 31 May 2018. However, some of its programmes did move to Comedy Central Extra.
See also
Comedy Central
Comedy Central Extra
References
Comedy Central
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
Defunct television channels in the Netherlands
2008 establishments in the Netherlands
2018 disestablishments in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saba%20TV%20Network | Saba TV Network is an Afghan satellite television network featuring two television channels. They are Saba TV and Saba World. It is owned by Saba Media Organization. It is being broadcast throughout Afghanistan. It was launched in Spring 2006, and started broadcasting in late 2007.
Saba TV and Saba World is especially made for those who want to learn everything in the wild, and medical care.
Satellite
The channel is available to Cable TV and Satellite, on Yamal 202 at 49E.
Saba TV also has different entertainment programs, such as TER YADOONA (The Past Memories), which is dedicated for Old is Gold Songs of Afghanistan, India and Iran. It is broadcast 6 days a week at 16:00, Afghan Time. They also have beneficial programs for children, called AKO BAKO.
See also
Television in Afghanistan
References
https://www.lyngsat.com/tvchannels/af/Saba-TV.
External links
Official website.
Television in Afghanistan
2006 establishments in Afghanistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable%20locality | Computer software is said to exhibit scalable locality if it can continue to make use of processors that out-pace their memory systems, to solve ever larger problems.
This term is a high-performance uniprocessor analog of the use of scalable parallelism to refer to software for which increasing numbers of processors can be employed for larger problems.
Overview
Consider the memory usage patterns of the following loop nest (an iterative two-dimensional stencil computation):
for t := 0 to T do
for i := 1 to N-1 do
for j := 1 to N-1 do
new(i,j) := (A(i-1,j) + A(i,j-1) + A(i,j) + A(i,j+1) + A(i+1,j)) * .2
end
end
for i := 1 to N-1 do
for j := 1 to N-1 do
A(i,j) := new(i,j)
end
end
end
The entire loop nest touches about 2*N**2 array elements, and performs about 5*T*N**2 floating-point operations.
Thus, the overall compute balance (ratio of floating-point computations to floating-point memory cells used) of this entire loop nest is about 5T/2.
When the compute balance is a function of problem size, as it is here, the code is said to have scalable compute balance.
Here, we could achieve any compute balance we desire by simply choosing a large enough .
However, when is large, this code will still not exhibit good cache reuse, due to poor locality of reference:
by the time new(1,1) is needed in the second assignment, or the second time step's execution of the first assignment,
the cache line holding new(1,1) will have been overwritten with some other part of one of the arrays.
Tiling of the first i/j loop nest can improve cache performance,
but only by a limited factor, since that nest has compute balance of about 5/2.
To produce a very high degree of locality, for example 500 (to run this code efficiently with an array that will not fit in RAM and is relegated to virtual memory), we must re-use values across time steps.
Optimization across time steps has been explored in a number of research compilers;
see work by Wonnacott, by Song and Li, or by Sadayappan et al. for details of some approaches to time-tiling.
Wonnacott demonstrated that time tiling could be used to optimize for out-of-core data sets;
in principle, any of these approaches should be able to achieve arbitrarily high memory locality without requiring that the entire array fit in cache (the cache requirement does, however, grow with the required locality).
The multiprocessor techniques cited above should, in principle, simultaneously produce scalable locality and scalable parallelism.
References
Compiler optimizations
Articles with example pseudocode |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EchoStar%20Mobile | EchoStar Mobile, an Irish company with commercial operations headquartered in the United Kingdom and a data centre based in Griesheim, Germany, is a mobile operator that provides connectivity across Europe through a converged satellite and terrestrial network. EchoStar Mobile is a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, a provider of satellite communications devices.
History
EchoStar Mobile Limited was established in 2008 as Solaris Mobile, a joint venture company between SES and Eutelsat Communications to develop and commercialize the first geostationary satellite systems in Europe for broadcasting video, radio and data to in-vehicle receivers and to mobile devices, such as mobile phones, portable media players and PDAs. In January 2014 all stock in Solaris Mobile was acquired by EchoStar Corporation and in March 2015 the company was renamed EchoStar Mobile.
The agreement to set up Solaris Mobile was reached in 2006 with the company formed in 2008. SES and Eutelsat – both successful European satellite operators, providing TV and other services from geostationary satellites to millions of cable and direct-to-home viewers – invested €130m in the venture. The services to be developed included video, radio, multimedia data, interactive services, and voice communications, with the primary aim of delivering mobile television any time, anywhere. Its headquarters is in Dublin, Ireland.
Solaris Mobile's first commercial contract was with Italian media publishing group Class Editori, to launch a digital radio service in Italy. A hybrid satellite/terrestrial network will initially be deployed in Milan, in October 2011 and extended across the country in 2012. Solaris claims that the network will enable Italians to access dozens of new digital radio channels broadcasting music, news, entertainment and sports, in their original format with continuity of reception across the entire country, and that the digital audio signal will be complemented with new visual media services such as programme information and traffic data.
Applications
The EU Telecoms Commissioner, Viviane Reding, has commented, "Mobile satellite services have huge potential: they can enable Europeans to access new communication services, particularly in rural and less populated regions."
Solaris Mobile primarily intends to provide mobile TV and interactive services to handheld and vehicle receivers. For in-vehicle use, the mobile satellite receivers could also double as web browsers providing full Internet access, and deliver interactive services such as online reservations, emergency warnings, or toll payments.
The coverage across Europe will also enable the system to be used for situations when other means of communication are not possible, such as gathering data (traffic, weather, pollution) from moving vehicles, and support for emergency and rescue services in isolated regions, under extreme conditions or when terrestrial networks have been compromised.
To avoid the requirement for mob |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20Paper%20Shotgun | Rock Paper Shotgun is a British video game journalism website. It was launched in July 2007 to focus on PC games and was acquired by Gamer Network, a network of sites led by Eurogamer, in May 2017.
History
Rock Paper Shotgun was founded by Kieron Gillen, Jim Rossignol, Alec Meer and John Walker in 2007. All four were freelancing for Future Publishing and wanted to create a website focused entirely on PC games.
Gillen announced that he would no longer be involved in posting the day-to-day content of Rock Paper Shotgun in 2010, focusing more on his work with Marvel Comics. He continued to act as a director and occasionally write essay pieces for the site. Rossignol founded his own game studio, Big Robot, in 2010, but also continued to contribute to the site for six more years. Meer and Walker left in 2019.
Rock Paper Shotgun contributors include:
Leigh Alexander
Cara Ellison
Cassandra Khaw
Porpentine
Emily Short
Robert Yang
Controversies
Fox News and Bulletstorm
On 8 February 2011, the game Bulletstorm came under scrutiny by Fox News through two articles by journalist John Brandon, describing the game as the worst game in the world. The game was targeted because of its profanity, crude behaviour (examples of which including the game's skill-shot system, which has a move that rewards players for shooting at an enemy's genitals), and sexual innuendo. Alongside the panel of Fox News anchors was the psychiatrist Carole Lieberman, who remarked: "Video games have increasingly, and more brazenly, connected sex and violence in images, actions and words. This has the psychological impact of doubling the excitement, stimulation, and incitement to copycat acts. The increase in rapes can be attributed, in large part, to the playing out of such scenes in video games." Other claims included that the game could reach audiences as young as nine years old, and that the gore and profanity could seriously traumatise a child of that age group.
These claims were largely ridiculed among gaming websites, including Rock Paper Shotgun, who ran a series of articles discrediting the reports by Fox News. The articles analysed Lieberman's claims and found only one of eight sources she provided had anything to do with the subject at hand. Fox News acknowledged that they had been contacted by Rock Paper Shotgun and responded to their claims on 20 February 2011 through another article, stating that the game still remained a threat to children.
Public domain article
In 2014 a Rock Paper Shotgun article by John Walker about the existence of orphaned classic video games, and the suggestion to let them enter the public domain after 20 years, raised a controversial public debate about copyright terms and public domain between game industry veterans John Walker, George Broussard and Steve Gaynor.
Notes
References
External links
2007 establishments in the United Kingdom
British entertainment websites
Internet properties established in 2007
Video game blogs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-in%20soft-out%20decoder | A soft-in soft-out (SISO) decoder is a type of soft-decision decoder used with error correcting codes. "Soft-in" refers to the fact that the incoming data may take on values other than 0 or 1, in order to indicate reliability. "Soft-out" refers to the fact that each bit in the decoded output also takes on a value indicating reliability. Typically, the soft output is used as the soft input to an outer decoder in a system using concatenated codes, or to modify the input to a further decoding iteration such as in the decoding of turbo codes.
Examples include the BCJR algorithm and the soft output Viterbi algorithm.
See also
Decoding methods
Error detection and correction
Forward error correction
References
Error detection and correction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saang%20Sulok%20ng%20Langit | (International title: Heaven's Corner / ) is a 2005 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Ruel S. Bayani, it stars Maxene Magalona, Raymond Bagatsing and Oyo Boy Sotto. It premiered on January 31, 2005, replacing Leya, ang Pinakamagandang Babae sa Ilalim ng Lupa. The series concluded on August 12, 2005, with a total of 138 episodes. It was replaced by Kung Mamahalin Mo Lang Ako in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Raymond Bagatsing as Vergel
Oyo Boy Sotto as Marky
Maxene Magalona as Gemma
Supporting cast
Jennifer Sevilla as Alona
Alicia Mayer as Juliana
Dindin Llarena as Joanna
Jay Manalo as Dante
Maggie Wilson as Bettina
Bing Loyzaga as Odette
January Isaac as Evelyn
Karla Estrada as Liana
Raquel Villavicencio as Amparo
Rich Vergara as Tommy
Andrew Shimmer as Nicolo
Reggie Curley as Ronald
John Medina as Justin
JJ Zamora as Butil
Recurring cast
Harlene Bautista as Ninang
Jess Lapid, Jr. as Brando
Ruby Rodriguez as Rosa
Anton dela Paz as Bojo
Abigael Arazo as Letlet
Ira Eigenmann as Alice
Jacque Estevez as Peachy
Neil Ryan Sese as Mike
Vice Ganda
References
External links
2005 Philippine television series debuts
2005 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series by TAPE Inc.
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut%20Education%20Network | The Connecticut Education Network (CEN) is a regional research and education network. The network provides internet services for Connecticut K-12 schools, libraries, and higher education institutions. CEN provides a fiber optic connection to each and every K-12 school district in the state of Connecticut, fully funded by the state's general fund and federal e-rate dollars.
CEN also offers an ISP program for paying customers. These include both public and private higher education institutions as well as other educational entities.
History
Then Lieutenant Governor, Jodi Rell, launched an unprecedented effort to guarantee that Connecticut’s schools and libraries have access to the best possible technology and that students are “cyber-ready” by the sixth grade. Her work resulted in the creation of the Connecticut Education Network, the nation’s first all-optical network. The Connecticut Education Network was signed into law in the year 2000 under Connecticut general statute §4d-82a. By 2005, every public school district in Connecticut was online.
References
Academic computer network organizations
Science and technology in Connecticut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micoquien | {
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The Micoquien is an early middle paleolithic industry, that is found in the Eemian and in an early episode of the Würm glaciation (about 130,000 to 60,000 BCE). The Micoquien is distinguished technologically by the appearance of distinctly asymmetrical bifaces. Its discoverer and namer was the archeologist and art trader Otto Hauser. Hauser then sold a great number of so-called Micoque-wedges that he found in excavations in La Micoque (in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Dordogne, France) to museums and collectors.
The specially formed handaxes from La Micoque exhibited an often rounded base. The problem with the term Micoquien is that later excavations have revealed an older time placement for the La Micoque axes, which are now dated in the Riss glaciation.
A wider artifact from the Micoquien is the Keilmesser (bifacially worked knife), which has a clearer chronology in Central Europe. From this some archeologists have proposed substituting the term Keilmesser group for Micoquien.
Micoquien artifacts are distributed across all of Eastern Europe and Central Europe. In Germany they can be found at Balver Höhle and Lonetal.
Notes
References
Debénath, A.; Rigaud, J.-Ph. (1986), Le gisement de La Micoque.- in: Rigaud, J.-Ph. (dir.): Informa-tions archéologiques: circonscription d'Aquitaine; Gallia Préhist. 29; CNRS; Paris; 236-237.
Debénath, A.; Rigaud, J.-Ph. (1991), La Micoque.- Gallia Informations Préhistoire et Histoire; 1991-1; CNRS; Paris; 21-25.
Hauser, O. (1916), La Micoque, die Kultur einer neuen Diluvialrasse. Leipzig.
Peyrony, D. (1933), La Micoque et ses diverses industries.- XVe Congrès International d'Anthropolo-gie et d'Archéologie Préhistorique (suite), Ve Session de l'Institut International d'Anthropologie; Paris 20-27 Septembre 1931; Librairie E. Nourry; Paris; Extrait; 1-6.
Peyrony, D. (1938), La Micoque. Les fouilles récentes. Leur signification.- Bulletin de la Société Pré-historique Française 35; Paris; 121; 257-288.
Rosendahl, G. (1999), La Micoque und das Micoquien in den altsteinzeitlichen Sammlungen des Reiss-Museums Mannheim.- Mannh. Geschichtsblätter N. F. 6; Ubstadt-Weiher; 315-351.
External links
Geröllgeräte-Industrien
Rosendahl, G. (2004), Die oberen Schichten von La Micoque.
Industries (archaeology)
Paleolithic Europe
Archaeological cultures of Europe
Middle Paleolithic
Neanderthals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible%20Computational%20Chemistry%20Environment | The Extensible Computational Chemistry Environment (ECCE, pronounced "etch-ā") provides a sophisticated graphical user interface, scientific visualization tools, and the underlying data management framework enabling scientists to efficiently set up calculations and store, retrieve, and analyze the rapidly growing volumes of data produced by computational chemistry studies.
Major features
Support for building molecular models.
Graphical user interface to a broad range of electronic structure theory types. Supported codes currently include NWChem, GAMESS (UK), Gaussian 03, Gaussian 98, and Amica. Other codes are registered based on user requirements.
Graphical user interface for basis set selection.
Remote submission of calculations to UNIX and Linux workstations, Linux clusters, and supercomputers. Supported queue management systems include PBS, LSF, NQE/NQS, LoadLeveler and Maui Scheduler.
Three-dimensional visualization and graphical display of molecular data properties while jobs are running and after completion. Molecular orbitals and vibrational frequencies are among the properties displayed.
Support for importing results from NWChem, Gaussian 94, Gaussian 98, and Gaussian 03 calculations run outside of the ECCE environment.
Extensive web-based help.
See also
External links
Git Hub source code
Computational chemistry software
Molecular modelling software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrelac | Fibrelac is a Swiss company specialized in optic-fibre-based services for professionals - companies, operators and public authorities.
Network
Fibre Lac has developed and manages its own network, which represents more than 50,000 km of optical fibres along the Swiss motorways, mainly between Geneva and Zurich via Lausanne, Bern and Basle.
The Fibre Lac network access to the principal interconnection and peering points, data-processing centres, technological zones and exchange centres throughout Switzerland.
Products
The company is active in the three following domains:
Design (i.e. consultancy, design) and the construction of optical fibre networks
Provision and maintenance of dark fibre
Provision of managed services
History
1998-1999
The first job taken on by the founders, to which the Company owes its name, was the laying of an optical-fibre cable under Lake Geneva, spanning a distance of about 100 km between Geneva and Villeneuve (Vaud).
2000-2001
Fibrelac designed and built a system of tubes and chambers for optical fibres which connects Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Basle and Zurich, following the motorway.
2002-2004
Fibrelac launched the first commercial offer for an MPLS managed band-width in Switzerland. It also extends its network up to the principal interconnection and peering points in the country.
2005-2007
Fibrelac was bought out by private Swiss interests. It filed a patent application for the design of microgroove FTTH networks.
Since 2008
Fibrelac is celebrating its first ten years, and takes this opportunity to reworks its corporate identity. The Company installed a MPLS 10Gbit/s covering the main Swiss cities.
External links
Fibrelac - Company Website
Telecommunications companies of Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing%20information%20system | A marketing information system (MIS) is a management information system (MIS) designed to support marketing decision making. Jobber (2007) defines it as a "system in which marketing data is formally gathered, stored, analysed and distributed to managers in accordance with their informational needs on a regular basis." In addition, the online business dictionary defines Marketing Information System (MKIS) as "a system that analyzes and assesses marketing information, gathered continuously from sources inside and outside an organization or a store." Furthermore, "an overall Marketing Information System can be defined as a set structure of procedures and methods for the regular, planned collection, analysis and presentation of information for use in making marketing decisions." (Kotler, at al, 2006)
MIS is really becoming very decisive while and before taking any decisions of Marketing, Positioning & Launching in any new markets.
Overview
Reid and Bojanic(2010) claimed that, " The term market research informs relatively narrowly than Marketing Information System(MkIS) which is altered from the term management information systemization. Market research indicates that information is collected for a specific reason or project; the major objective is a one-time use. "
"A marketing information system, which continuously collects the initial, routine and systematic data, is not only used for one particular topic but is designed for monitoring the degree of marketing success to ensure the achievable of the operation as well."
Importance
As the concepts are very self explanatory MIS is very useful for all the establishments for taking early and post decisions, analysing the performance of the target and achievements based on availability of required structured data etc. Developing an MIS system is becoming extremely important as the strength of economies rely on services and to better understand the specific needs of customers. Kotler, et al. (2006) defined it more broadly as "people, equipment, and procedures to gather, sort, analyze, evaluate, and distribute needed, timely, and accurate information to marketing decision makers."
Insofar as an economy focuses on services, marketing is important to "monitor the marketing environment for changes in buyer behavior competition, technology, economic conditions, and government policies." In this sense, the role of marketing is becoming pivotal for an organization to "adapt to changes in the market environment." (Harmon, 2003)
As an economy relies on the acquisition of knowledge, MkIS systems are necessary to be able to define and differentiate the value proposition that one organization provides with respect to another, as well as to define their competitive advantage. (Harmon, 2003)
The main benefit of MkIS systems is to integrate market-monitoring systems with strategy development and the strategic implementation of policies and processes that help capture and act on customer management applicati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAD%20system | The term CAD system can refer to
Computer-aided design (CAD)
Computer-aided diagnosis system
Computer-assisted dispatch
Specific CAD systems:
ARRIS CAD
Caddie (CAD system)
Data Design System
Drawing Express
GenerativeComponents
Power systems CAD
Render Plus Software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Historia | Discovery Historia is a Polish television channel broadcasting history-related programmes. The channel was originally a joint-venture between Discovery Networks and TVN, but TVN left the venture in 2009. (Discovery later acquired TVN Owner Scripps.)
It is headed by Barbara Bilińska-Kępa.
From its launch, the channel featured some Polish productions, such as Wielkie Ucieczki, Rozmowy niekontrolowane Macieja Szumowskiego, Historie z Karty and Archiwum X. Śledztwa po latach.
On 30 May 2009 TVN withdrew from the channel and sold its stake to Discovery Networks. Hence, the channel became fully owned by Discovery Networks Central Europe.
Because TVN was no longer associated with the channel and Discovery Networks has updated its corporate profile, the channel received a new logo on 1 October 2009. The new logo was created in-house by Discovery.
Discovery Historia used to be exclusively available on the satellite platform N, but that changed after TVN sold their share. The cable operator Jambox announced they would offer the channel in October 2009. Later in the same month it was launched on Multimedia Polska.
Logos
References
External links
Warner Bros. Discovery networks
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2006
2006 establishments in Poland
Polish-language television stations
Mass media in Warsaw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Tinney | Robert Frank Tinney (born November 22, 1947) is an American contemporary illustrator known for his monthly cover illustrations for the microcomputer publication Byte magazine spanning over a decade. In so doing, Tinney became one of the first artists to create a broad yet consistent artistic concept for the computing world, combining a specific artistic style with visual metaphor to showcase emerging trends in personal computing technology.
Early life and work
Robert Frank Tinney was born on November 22, 1947, in Penn Yan, New York. He later moved with his family to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There he attended Istrouma High School where his talent for art, and specifically illustration, became distinctly apparent. He later attended Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, now known as Louisiana Tech University.
Byte magazine covers
Carl Helmers, Editor-in-Chief for Byte, contacted Tinney about the new magazine in 1975; sending him a copy of the first issue released in September. Tinney was given the opportunity to produce the artwork for the magazine covers and his first print appeared on the December 1975 issue. Tinney created over 100 pieces of artwork for the magazine covers.
His artwork for Byte was done by hand and consisted of drawn illustrations with tissue paper, oil painting, and designer wash and airbrush.
Tinney would later sell limited edition prints of his Byte magazine covers to the general public; accepting orders on his website.
References
1947 births
Living people
American illustrators
Louisiana Tech University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartbook | A smartbook was a class of mobile device that combined certain features of both a smartphone and netbook computer, produced between 2009 and 2010.
Smartbooks were advertised with features such as always on, all-day battery life, 3G, or Wi-Fi connectivity and GPS (all typically found in smartphones) in a laptop or tablet-style body with a screen size of 5 to 10 inches and a physical or soft touchscreen keyboard.
A German company sold laptops under the brand Smartbook and held a trademark for the word in many countries (not including some big markets like United States, China, Japan, or India). It acted to preempt others from using the term smartbook to describe their products.
Smartbooks tended to be designed more for entertainment purposes than for productivity and typically targeted to work with online applications. They were projected to be sold subsidized through mobile network operators, like mobile phones, along with a wireless data plan.
The advent of much more popular tablets like Android tablets and the iPad, coupled with the prevailing popularity of conventional desktop computers and laptops have displaced the smartbook.
History
The smartbook concept was mentioned by Qualcomm in May 2009 during marketing for its Snapdragon technology, with products expected later that year. Difficulties in adapting key software (in particular, Adobe's proprietary Flash Player) to the ARM architecture delayed releases until the first quarter of 2010.
Smartbooks would have been powered by processors which were more energy-efficient than traditional ones typically found in desktop and laptop computers. The first smartbooks were expected to use variants of the Linux operating system, such as Google's Android or ChromeOS. The ARM processor would have allowed them to achieve longer battery life than many larger devices using x86 processors.
In February 2010, ABI Research projected that 163 million smartbooks would ship in 2015.
In many countries the word Smartbook was a trademark registered by Smartbook AG. In August 2009 a German court ruled Qualcomm must block access from Germany to all its webpages containing the word Smartbook unless Smartbook AG is mentioned. Smartbook AG defended its trademark.
A February 2010 ruling prevented Lenovo from using the term.
By the end of 2010, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs admitted that tablet computers such as the iPad already occupied the niche of the smartbook, so the name was dropped.
In February 2011 Qualcomm won its legal battle when the German patent office ruled the words "smart" and "book" could be used. However, several trademarks have been registered.
Designs
Always Innovating Touch Book
In March 2009 the Always Innovating company announced the Touch Book. It was based on the Texas Instruments OMAP 3530 which implemented the ARM Cortex-A8 architecture. It was originally developed from the Texas Instruments Beagle Board. It had a touchscreen and a detachable keyboard which contained a second battery. The d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Entertainment%20Content%20Ecosystem | The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE, LLC.) was a consortium of major film studios, consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers, networking hardware vendors, systems integrators, and Digital Rights Management (DRM) vendors listed below. The consortium was announced in September 2008 by its president, Mitch Singer, who was also the chief technology officer (CTO) of Sony Pictures Entertainment at the time. DECE was chartered to develop a set of standards for the digital distribution of premium Hollywood content. The consortium created a set of rules and a back-end system for the management of those rules that enabled consumers to share purchased digital content among a domain of registered consumer electronics devices.
DECE's digital locker system was named UltraViolet.
Amazon, Apple, Disney, and Google were not members of DECE. In February 2014, Disney launched its own digital locker system named Keychest and an associated streaming platform named Disney Movies Anywhere. In October 2017, Disney expanded Keychest to outside studios and renamed Disney Movies Anywhere to Movies Anywhere. Movies Anywhere currently connects to Amazon Video, FandangoNOW, Google Play/YouTube, Apple TV/iTunes, Microsoft Movies & TV, Vudu, Verizon Fios, and Xfinity.
On January 30, 2019, after servicing more than 30 million users with over 300 million pieces of TV and movie content, Variety reported the closure of the UltraViolet system on July 31, 2019; DECE recommended confirming connections of UltraViolet content to Vudu and FandangoNow in the US and connections to Flixster outside the US before the service's closure to maintain existing digital rights. DECE, LLC as an entity officially dissolved in August 2020.
Members
DECE members included:
Adobe Systems
Akamai Technologies
Alcatel Lucent
Arxan Technologies
Best Buy
BluFocus Inc.
British Sky Broadcasting
British Telecom
castLabs
Catch Media
Cineplex Entertainment
CinemaNow
Cisco
Comcast (Including NBCUniversal)
Cox Communications
CSG Systems' Content Direct
Deluxe Digital
Dolby Laboratories
DTS (sound system)
FandangoNOW
FilmFlex
Fox Entertainment Group
Fujitsu
Hewlett Packard
Huawei Technologies
IBM
Intel
Kaleidescape
Lionsgate
Motorola Mobility
Nagravision
NDS Group
NeuMovie
Neustar
Nokia
PacketVideo
Panasonic
Paramount Pictures
Royal Philips Electronics
QuickPlay Media
RIAA
Red Bee Media
Rovi Corporation
Saffron Digital
Samsung Electronics
SeaChange International
Secure Path Technology
Sonic Solutions
Sony Corporation
Switch Communications
TalkTalk
Technicolor
Testronic Labs
Toggle
Toshiba
Verance
Verimatrix
VeriSign Inc.
Verizon Communications, Inc.
Vubiquity
Vudu
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Widevine Technologies
References
Technology consortia
Digital rights management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawkill | The Sawkill or Saw-kill (the Dutch place-name for Saw Mill Creek) was the largest hydrological network on Manhattan island in New York City before the Dutch colony of New Netherland was founded in 1624. This stream began "within four blocks of the Hudson River":
A rill flowing east from the rocky ridge overlooking Bloomingdale Village, which rose near Ninth Avenue and 85th Street, flowed in a southerly direction through Manhattan Square, where it spread into a little pond, and then turned east, crossing Central Park to Fifth Avenue, receiving three tributaries within its limits, two from the north and one from the south. At 75th Street near Third Avenue it was joined by another stream. Near this junction the old Boston Post Road crossed it, and then from this point, the stream ran due east to its outlet near the foot of 75th Street
emptying into the East River between two rocky points. Along its route the stream separated into two branches, with the name 'Sawkill' reserved for the southern arm of the creek. The name for the smaller, northern stream is undocumented, but is recorded by the Randel Map (1870) as entering the East River at 79th Street.
Early history
Undoubtedly, the stream received its name from the saw mill that existed for some time "in the bed of 74th Street, about 250 ft east of Avenue A." The workers of the saw mill are thought to have been primarily the slaves of the Dutch West India Company, whose lodgings, stationed at the mouth of the Sawkill until at least 1639, were referenced as "the quarter of the blacks, the [West India] company's slaves" in the first landmark map of Manhattan Island, the Manatus Map of 1639. It is thought that the slaves would use the stream to float the logs hewn by the mill to the East River, from which they would be transported to the newly established fort at New Amsterdam, at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, or thence to the Netherlands.
The creek originated at the present day site of the American Museum of Natural History. The creek ran through the park site, south of Seneca Village, originally exiting the park under Fifth Avenue near 74th Street, where Conservatory Water lies today, before emptying in the East River. To create the Central Park Lake the outlet was dammed with a broad, curving earth dam, which carries the East Carriage Drive past the Kerbs Boathouse (1954), at the end of the Lake's eastern arm, so subtly that few visitors are aware of the landform's function.
Arch Brook
Although local historian Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes regarded the Sawkill as, "the well known Saw-kill, which played an important part in the early days of Manhattan" by 1677, when the land was transferred from the Dutch West India Company to Abraham Shotwell, the stream was known commonly as "ye run of water, formerly called ye saw mill creeke." Eventually the saw mill was replaced by a leather mill and the Sawkill was dammed and arched over in the early-mid 19th century, creating a much smaller stre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumen%20Technologies | Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink) is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services. The company was a member of the Fortune 500 and the S&P 500 index from 1999 until 2023. Its communications services include local and long-distance voice, broadband, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), private line (including special access), Ethernet, hosting (including cloud hosting and managed hosting), data integration, video, network, public access, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), information technology, and other ancillary services. Lumen also serves global enterprise customers across North America, Latin America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and Asia Pacific.
History
The earliest predecessor of Lumen was the Oak Ridge Telephone Company in Oak Ridge, Louisiana. In 1946, Clarke McRae Williams, received ownership of the family's telephone company as a wedding gift. Clarke purchased the Marion Telephone Company and eventually made it his base of operation as he grew his company through more acquisitions. The company remained as a family-operated business until it became incorporated in 1968. It went public in 1971.
1967–1999
By 1967, Oak Ridge Telephone Company served three states with 10,000 access lines. That year, the company was incorporated as Central Telephone and Electronics. Clarke M. Williams served as president and chairman of the board.
In 1971, the company was renamed Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc. In 1972, Century Telephone acquired the La Crosse Telephone Corporation, of Wisconsin. This began a multi-decade spree of acquisitions which grew the size of the company. The company went public in 1978 on the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1985, Century Telephone sold several subsidiaries to Colonial Telephone for $4.66 million.
In 1987, the stock price rapidly increased from its low that year, before dropping in the 1987 stock market crash. Earnings grow each year from their 1983 low, and by 1987 they reached nearly US$20 million.
From 1991-1995 the company continued its acquisition strategy which added tens of thousand of phone lines and grew the long term debt from $205 million to $602 million with $115 million in annual net income. By 1995 it was the 16th largest communications company in the United States with over 3000 employees. Two hundred employees were unionized through the Communications Workers of America.
In 1997 the company bought Pacific Telecom for $1.5 billion. This acquisition added 1.9 million cell lines to Century's network and nearly doubled the size of the company. After the acquisition Century's network served 21 states and 2 million customers. The company sold off some of its telephone assets to smaller competitors for hundreds of millions of dollars.
2000s
In 2000, the company acquired 490,000 telephone lines from Verizon for $1.5 billion. It then sold "s |
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