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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassia%20caudata | Brassia caudata is a species of orchid. It is found widespread across the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere, reported from southern Mexico (Chiapas, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz), Central America, southern Florida, Greater Antilles, Trinidad, northern South America. It is also known by the common names tailed Brassia, spider orchid and cricket orchid.
References
External links
IOSPE orchid photos
Encyclopedia of Life, spider orchid, Brassia caudata
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants, spider orchid, cricket orchid, Brassia caudata
Santa Barbara Orchid Estate
caudata
Plants described in 1759
Orchids of Florida
Orchids of Belize
Orchids of Mexico
Orchids of Central America
Flora of Cuba
Orchids of Haiti
Flora of the Dominican Republic
Orchids of Jamaica
Flora of Trinidad and Tobago
Orchids of South America
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Techniscope%20films | This is an incomplete list of notable films shot in the Techniscope format. As of May 2011, The Internet Movie Database lists over 1,200 films shot in the Techniscope format. Notable titles include:
The Pharaohs' Woman (1960)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Death Drums Along the River (1963)
Law of the Lawless (1964)
Coast of Skeletons (1964)
Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
East of Sudan (1964)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Stage to Thunder Rock (1964)
Guerillas in Pink Lace (1964)
Wonderful Life (US: Swingers' Paradise, 1964)
Arizona Raiders (1965)
Black Spurs (1965)
Deadwood '76 (1965)
Sandy the Seal (1965)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Town Tamer (1965)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Pop Gear (1965)
The Ipcress File (1965)
The Skull (1965)
Apache Uprising (1965)
Texas Across the River (1966)
Lightning Bolt (1966)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
The Appaloosa (1966)
Johnny Reno (1966)
King of Hearts (1966)
Arizona Colt (1966)
Beau Geste (1966)
Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
The Psychopath (1966)
Deadlier Than the Male (1966)
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
A Bullet for the General (1966)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Nashville Rebel (1966)
Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang (1966)
The Projected Man (1966)
Thunderbirds Are GO (1966)
Waco (1966)
Red Tomahawk (1967)
Gunfight in Abilene (1967)
Tobruk (1967)
OK Connery (1967)
Hostile Guns (1967)
Fort Utah (1967)
Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)
Counterpoint (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)
Charly (1968)
Buckskin (1968)
Thunderbird 6 (1968)
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
Rogue's Gallery (1968)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Five Bloody Graves (1970)
Blue Water, White Death (1971)
Duck, You Sucker! (1971)
The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)
THX 1138 (1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Blood of Ghastly Horror (1972)
The Holy Mountain (1973)
American Graffiti (1973)
Dead People (1973)
Amici miei (1975)
Death Machines (1976)
Ultimo Mondo Cannibale (1977)
The Bees (1978)
Zombi 2 (1979)
House by the Cemetery (1981)
The Beyond (1981)
Titanic (1997) (the underwater scenes, digitally opened up to 16:9 in 2012 restoration)
Panic Room (2002) (all slow-motion sequences)
Hunger (2008)
Bran Nu Dae (2009)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
The Fighter (2010)
Shame (2011)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
House at the End of the Street (2012)
Möbius (2013)
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
Alex Cross (2013)
Oldboy (2013)
American Hustle (2013)
I, Tonya (2017)
Good Time (2017)
Sound of Metal (2019)
References
Internet Movie Database (IMDb) list of Techniscope films
External links
http://imdb.com/SearchTechnical?PCS:Techniscope
Techniscope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter%20Revolution | Twitter Revolution is a term used to refer to different revolutions and protests, most of which featured the use of the social networking site Twitter by protestors and demonstrators in order to communicate.
Events known as X(Twitter) Revolution
2009 Moldova civil unrest, claiming that the elections, which saw the governing Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) win a majority of seats, were fraudulent
2009–2010 Iranian election protests, also known as Green Revolution and Facebook Revolution, following the 2009 Iranian presidential election
2010–2011 Tunisian revolution, also known as Jasmine Revolution and Wikileaks Revolution, in which the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ended after 23 years
Egyptian Revolution of 2011, in which the regime of Hosni Mubarak was ended after 30 years
Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine, beginning in November 2013.
2021 storming of the United States Capitol, on January 6, 2021, rioters supporting United States President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Characteristics
In the "Twitter revolution", the relationship between the new media and social movement has three distinct characteristics: 1) The Twitter streams represent the interaction mechanism of ecological network 2) The Twitter streams embedding or be embedded into different types of control process; 3) The Twitter streams reflect the change of social movement ecology.
Positive influence
According to the study of the Egyptian revolution, American Scholar Linz put forward that there are four ways affect collective action:
Make the disgruntled citizens more coordinated take some public action;
through the information cascade (information cascades) to improve the predictive chance of success
accelerate the cost of the repression of the union movement.
Through information dissemination increase the other regional and global public attention.
Negative influence
Twitter revolutions can also have a negative influence on the social movement. Malcolm Gladwell defined the SNS activity as weak ties and low level organization structure, and put forward that the social relations constructed through the Internet is very difficult to translate into collective action. Additionally, It is a challenge of the social practice of using social media for political information construction and dissemination of democratic consultation; therefore, political culture, and social participation of ideological discourse problems created by the social media becomes very important. Twitter analysis tools is played an important role in getting word about the events in Iran out to the wider world. Together with YouTube, it helped focus the world's attention on the Iranian people's fight for democracy and human rights. New media over the last year created and sustained unprecedented international moral solidarity with the Iranian struggle—a struggle that was being waged many years before Twitter was ever conceived. Thirdly, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIGADDA | BIGADDA was an Indian e-commerce website owned by Reliance Entertainment, part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The site was a social network site.
BIGADDA claimed that the top 20 cities account for 45% users from within India while 40% of the users come from Tier III cities like Tuticorin, Bhilai, Amritsar, Guwahati, Surat, Nasik.
Dataquest, a popular IT journal also featured BIGADDA along with sites like IndyaRocks & BharatStudent as one of the top 25 web 2.0 start-ups in India.
Features
Users could upload and share unlimited photos for free, can upload and share music, and can listen to a varied range of songs.
An application platform that was OpenSocial v0.8 compliant was provided. It included some games from Zapak (a partner site) and other applications.
Bigadda closed its operations in 2011 in the face of stiff competition from other social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
See also
List of social networking websites
Social network
Social software
OpenSocial
References
External links
Official site
Companies based in Mumbai
Indian companies established in 2007
Reliance Group
E-commerce in India
2007 establishments in Maharashtra
Real estate companies established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTXC%20Quadros | RTXC Quadros is a real time operating system (RTOS) written mainly in the C programming language. It is mainly intended for use in embedded systems.
The RTXC RTOS was originally developed by AT Barrett and Associates in the 1970s. It is currently maintained by Quadros Systems, Inc., of Houston, Texas.
RTXC Quadros comes with a tracing tool which give insight in the runtime dynamics and timing, RTXCview.
External links
OEM.com listing
Audio Design Line article
RTC Magazine article on dual mode processing
List of Operating Systems
Real-time operating systems
Embedded operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Cardiac%20Audit%20Database | National Congenital Heart Disease Audit (NCHDA) (formerly called the Central Cardiac Audit Database) is a database established in 2000 for quality assurance purposes, to monitor the outcome for an individual who has undergone cardiac treatment. It comprises six national heart disease audits. Each audit enables health professionals to continually measure and improve care by comparing their work to specific standards and national trend. These audits from 2011 are part of the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research formerly at University College London and in April 2015 moved to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Audits
The following audits are available within the CCAD:
Adult cardiac interventions
Cardiac rhythm management
Adult cardiac surgery
Congenital heart disease
Heart failure
Myocardial infarction (MINAP)
References
External links
National Health Service
Medical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly%27s%20Draw-A-Story | Orly's Draw a Story is a video game released in 1997 by Broderbund. The game won the 1998 Interactive Achievement Award for Computer Innovation. The game is aimed at the 5-10 year old age-group and carries an age rating of 3+. It was designed by ToeJam & Earl Productions and released by Broderbund. The main character Orly is voiced by Alreca Whyte.
Gameplay
It focuses around the two main characters, Orly, an 8-year-old girl and her anthropomorphic talking frog friend Lancelot who lives in Jamaica. The game features four unique stories narrated by Orly. The player is able to illustrate each of the stories with their own paintings, either original drawings or using ready-prepared objects. As Orly tells the story the user is asked to create an item such as a friend for a flying monster or a birthday present to give to Orly.
The objects become animated and are then used as part of the story. Clicking on the shutter opens up a series of template drawings that can be coloured by the player. At the end of the story, the user can choose to save or discard the picture and then view it back in full.
Additional features within the game include "Make A Storybook" where the player can create their own series of scenes and type text to make up their own story, while there is also a "Doodle Pad" for practicing drawing skills.
Stories
Each story has a unique storyline and the player is asked to design different objects and scenes for each one.
"The Ugly Troll People"
"The Strange Princess"
"Lancelot, Bug Eater"
"One Big Wish"
Reception
The game received positive reviews from video game reviewers, as well as prestigious non-gaming publications such as Computer Life and Newsweek, but was not a market success. Allgame's Lisa Karen Savignano wrote "This is a game full of ideas that will spark wonderful and creative stories from your child, both onscreen and off." She went on to say "The game is much better than most contemporary drawing games on the market... Don't be surprised if the game uncovers the storyteller in your own child and you are treated to some very imaginative stories." The Independent listed the game as one of the 50 best ways of boosting a child's brainpower in 1999.
Awards
After its release, Orly's Draw-A-Story won an award at the inaugural Interactive Achievement Awards in 1998 for "PC Creativity Title of the Year", triumphing over Disney's Magic Artist, Barbie Cool Looks Fashion Designer, Print Artist Platinum and The American Girls Premiere.
Educational release
The game was repackaged in 2001 by The Learning Company as an educational game for use in schools.
References
External links
Main page
Broderbund website
Product reviews by Computer Life and Children's Software Revue
allgame Profile
1997 video games
Broderbund games
Classic Mac OS games
Video games about amphibians
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Drawing video games
Children's educational video games
Video games set in Jamaica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Atlantic%20Population%20Project | The North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) is a collaboration of historical demographers in Britain, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden to produce a massive census microdata collection for the North Atlantic Region in the late-nineteenth century. The database includes complete individual-level census enumerations for each country, and provides information on over 110 million people. This large scale allows detailed analysis of small geographic areas and population subgroups.
The NAPP database is designed to be compatible with the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), and is disseminated through the IPUMS data-access system at the Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota. Major collaborators on the project include Lisa Dillon, University of Montreal; Chad Gaffield, University of Ottawa; Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Statistics Iceland; Marianne Jarnes Erikstad, University of Tromsø; Jan Oldervall University of Bergen; Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota; Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota; Kevin Schürer, UK Data Archive; Gunnar Thorvaldsen, University of Tromsø; and Matthew Woollard, UK Data Archive. The project is also coordinated by the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota.
See also
National Historical Geographic Information System
References
External links
North Atlantic Population Project
Minnesota Population Center
Integrated Health Interview Series
Databases
Demographics by region
University of Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time%20web | The real-time web is a network web using technologies and practices that enable users to receive information as soon as it is published by its authors, rather than requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates.
Difference from real-time computing
The real-time web is different from real-time computing in that there is no knowing when, or if, a response will be received. The information types transmitted this way are often short messages, status updates, news alerts, or links to longer documents. The content is often "soft" in that it is based on the social web—people's opinions, attitudes, thoughts, and interests—as opposed to hard news or facts.
History
Examples of real-time web are Facebook's newsfeed, and Twitter, implemented in social networking, search, and news sites. Benefits are said to include increased user engagement ("flow") and decreased server loads. In December 2009 real-time search facilities were added to Google Search.
The absolutely first realtime web implementation worldwide have been the WIMS true-realtime server and its web apps in 2001-2011 (WIMS = Web Interactive Management System); based on the True-RealTime Web (WEB-r) model of above; built in WIMS++ (server built in Java) (serverside) and Adobe Flash (ex Macromedia Flash) (clientside). The true-realtime web model was born in 2000 at mc2labs.net by an Italian independent researcher.
Real-time search
A problem created by the rapid pace and huge volume of information created by real-time web technologies and practices is finding relevant information. One approach, known as real-time search, is the concept of searching for and finding information online as it is produced. Advancements in web search technology coupled with growing use of social media enable online activities to be queried as they occur. A traditional web search crawls and indexes web pages periodically, returning results based on relevance to the search query. Google Real-Time Search was available in Google Search until July 2011.
See also
Comet
Collaborative real-time editor
Firebase
Internet of Things (IoT)
Meteor
Microblogging
Mojolicious
Node.js
Prospective search
PubNub
Push Technology
Vert.x
References
External links
Internet search |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redcort%20Software | Redcort Software is an American software company that develops time and attendance software for both Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers. Redcort Software is headquartered in Fresno, California, in the middle of California's central San Joaquin Valley.
History
In late 1997, Redcort Development (then a regional technology consulting firm) launched the redcort.com web site.
Products
Virtual TimeClock is employee time clock software that enables businesses to track employee time and attendance, simplify payroll, manage labor costs, and track attendance compliance. It is a software alternative to mechanical employee time clocks and paper time card systems.
Recognition
Redcort Software's products are routinely mentioned by Apple Inc. in their Apple Business Profiles, and reviewed in leading industry computer magazines like MacLife, Macworld, and CPA Technology Advisor.
See also
Time tracking software
Comparison of time tracking software
Time clock
Timesheet
Time and attendance
External links
Redcort Software
References
Business software
Business software companies
Software companies established in 1997
Software companies based in California
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined%20Federated%20Battle%20Laboratories%20Network | The Combined Federated Battle Laboratories Network (CFBLNet) is a laboratory environment which utilizes a distributed Wide Area Network (WAN) as the vehicle to simulate training environments and to de-risk command and control (C2) and intelligence capabilities by conducting Research and Development, Training, Trials and Assessment (RDTT&A) on command, control, communication, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) initiatives and training events. Since 2001, membership has been established and represented by three core parties: the U.S. Joint Staff, the Combined Communications and Electronics Board (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States), and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (including NATO agencies and 31 member nations, not all of which actively participate). Besides the core parties to the CFBLNet Technical Arrangement, three nations (Austria, Sweden and Switzerland) have become Guest Mission Partners under rules contained in CFBLNet governance documentation referred to as Publication 1.
CFBLNet provides the main platform for conducting Coalition Interoperability Assurance and Validation (CIAV) events in the context of Federated Mission Networking.
Network Structure
The CFBLNet consists of a distributed and integrated network architecture of combined, joint, and military service infrastructure components (networks, database servers, application servers, client workstations, etc.). These strings of network equipment and services are located within the confines of the various national and international battle laboratories and experimentation sites of the participants, which provide the applications, analytic tools, and communications necessary to conduct initiatives or experiments.
No single nation owns the CFBLNet infrastructure; each member nation is responsible for the funding and maintenance of its own systems and CFBL network segments, which hook into the backbone at a defined Point-of-Presence (POP). All CFBLNet members must respect the sovereignty and intellectual property of the other nations. Also, each country is responsible for funding its own experiments. The Multinational Information Sharing (MNIS) in Fort Meade, Maryland (USA) maintains day-to-day control of the network and coordinates activities on the network.
The U.S. CFBLNet infrastructure is extensive and reaches to international demarcation points for the Southern Hemisphere and Europe. Nations and organizations within nations which are not a part of the Technical Agreement must be sponsored to become a Guest CFBLNet Mission Partner (GMP) by a charter member, Core CFBLNet Mission Partner (CMP), to sponsor initiatives and to connect to the CFBLNet.
History
The CFBLNet grew out the network designed to support the U.S. Joint Warfighter Interoperability Demonstrations (JWID), which used to build a support network for the period of the demonstrations and tear it down each year after the demonstrations. In 1999, the C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTBUS | FASTBUS (IEEE 960) is a computer bus standard, originally intended to replace Computer Automated Measurement and Control (CAMAC) in high-speed, large-scale data acquisition. It is also a modular crate electronics standard commonly used in data acquisition systems in particle detectors.
Bus description
A FASTBUS system consists of one or more segments. Each segment may be a "crate segment" or a "cable segment". Segments are connected together using a segment interconnect (SI). A crate segment typically consists of a backplane with slots to hold up to 26 modules, mounted in a 19-inch rack. Each module is typically a printed circuit board with a front panel, similar to a blade PC. Modules are physically about 14 inches by 15 inches, and may occupy one or more adjacent slots.
Small systems may consist of only one crate segment, or a small number of independent crate segments connected directly to a central computer rather than using segment interconnects.
FASTBUS uses the emitter coupled logic (ECL) electrical standard, which allows higher speed than TTL and generates less switching noise. Segments implement a 32-bit multiplexed address/data bus, which allows a larger address space than CAMAC. A module may be a master or slave. There may be multiple masters in a segment; masters arbitrate for control of the bus and then perform data transfers to or from slaves. This allows for very fast read-out of an entire segment by doing a chained block read from a master with a general-purpose CPU. Each I/O card will then assume mastership, send its data and then hand off mastership to the next card in a sequence, all without the overhead of the supervising board with the general-purpose CPU.
Cable Segments are implemented using 32-bit-wide parallel twisted-pair cables and a differential signalling scheme. The electrical standard allows regular ECL receiver chips but requires custom
transmitter circuits which allow lines to be safely driven both high and low at the same time - this feature is required by the arbitration logic.
Full-size crates hold 26 modules. Each module may dissipate up to 70 W, giving a total crate heat load of 1750 W. Modules require a −5.2 V supply for the ECL interface, usually a separate −2 V supply for ECL termination, and often a +5 V supply for TTL or CMOS logic. The FASTBUS standard also has +15 V and -15 V pins on the backplane, which are typically fed with very small power supplies as most modules use very little +/- 15 V (or any at all). Special high-capacity power supplies with large 15 V supplies would have to be used if modules drew large amounts of current on those rails. Crates typically have dedicated 200 A or 300 A switched-mode power supplies, providing current to the modules through multiple pins on the backplane connector. A large installation typically has multiple racks, each with three crates. Cooling and air handling are a significant issue, as is the safe design of high-current power distribution.
Physical de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocardial%20Ischaemia%20National%20Audit%20Project | The Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) (previously known as the "Myocardial Infarction National Audit Database") began in late 1998 when a broadly based steering group developed a dataset for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). This allowed clinicians to examine the management of myocardial infarction within their hospitals against targets specified by the National Service Framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease. The audit project produces annual reports on "How the NHS manages heart attacks" to show the performance of hospitals, ambulance services and cardiac networks in England and Wales against national standards and targets for the care of heart attack patients.
MINAP recently changed its name to reflect the importance of all acute coronary syndromes. Quarterly reports are available for hospitals, strategic health authorities, and the Department of Health. MINAP provided thrombolysis data to the Healthcare Commission for their Annual Health Check. MINAP provides data to ambulance services to help monitor patient outcomes and support improvements in training and care delivery. MINAP also provides data to cardiac networks to support service improvement. MINAP is the first national audit to release annual reports showing hospital performance against NSF targets in the public domain which are available below. Sustained improvement of performance against NSF targets for thrombolysis and use of secondary prevention medication has been demonstrated since the end of 2000.
National Health Service (England) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI%20calculator%20character%20sets | In computing, a character set is a system of assigning numbers to characters so that text can be represented as a list of numbers (which are then stored, for example, as a file). For example, ASCII assigns 61 to "A". As part of the design process, Texas Instruments (TI) decided to modify the base Latin-1 character set for use with its calculator interface. By adding symbols to the character set, it was possible to reduce design complexity as much more complex parsing would have to have been used otherwise.
TI-83 Plus/84 Plus Series
TI-86
The TI-86 character encoding aligns with the ASCII printable characters, but includes its own characters in place of the C0 control codes and 0x7F, as well as defining its own characters in the 0x80 to 0xFF range (which is not part of ASCII).
TI-89/92 Series
The TI-89/92 Series calculators use a character encoding similar to Latin-1, except that most of the control characters are replaced with mathematical symbols or Greek letters. All characters are printable except the null character.
See also
Calculator character sets
References
Calculator character sets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoomerMedia | ZoomerMedia Limited is a Canadian media company controlled by Moses Znaimer, the founder of the Citytv network. Originally focusing on properties targeting what the company calls "zoomers", or the 45+ demographic, in 2022, the company began expanding the company's target audience by acquiring youth-focused properties BlogTO and Daily Hive.
History
ZoomerMedia was formed in December 2007 following Znaimer's acquisition and merger of Kemur Publishing, publishers of CARP Magazine, and website operator Fifty-Plus.Net International. It provides marketing, membership, and other services to CARP (formerly the Canadian Association of Retired Persons), of which Znaimer serves as executive director, and publishes Zoomer Magazine (the renamed CARP Magazine). The company also operates several Internet properties including a portal and a social networking site, all targeted to older adult audiences.
In addition, Znaimer previously personally owned a variety of other assets through his privately held company, MZ Media, that were also unofficially considered part of the "ZoomerMedia" group. These included southern Ontario classical music radio stations CFMZ-FM and CFMX-FM (Classical 96.3 and Classical 103.1 respectively), adult standards station CFZM Toronto (AM 740), and the annual IdeaCity conference.
In June 2009, ZoomerMedia Limited announced a deal to acquire the broadcasting assets of S-VOX, which includes conventional stations CHNU-TV and CIIT-TV along with specialty channels VisionTV and One: the Body, Mind & Spirit channel, for $25 million. As part of the transaction and a related private placement, Znaimer also merged MZ Media into ZoomerMedia.
Following the transactions (which required the approval of minority shareholders and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Znaimer owns 66% of the combined company, and insurance company Fairfax Financial owns 28%. All of these transactions were completed on June 30, 2010.
In 2022, ZoomerMedia began acquiring more youth-focused online properties, including BlogTO and Daily Hive.
Assets
Conventional television stations
ZoomerMedia's two conventional stations were part of a television system known as Joytv until August 2013 when CIIT was rebranded as "Hope TV" and dropped all non-religious programming. As Joytv, they were licensed as religious television stations that air religious-based programs in addition to other family friendly and entertainment programs. Both were previously owned by S-VOX. They had previously been a part of the Omni Television system, having been previously owned by Trinity Television before the sale to Rogers. Rogers sold the two stations to S-VOX on March 31, 2008.
CHNU-TV, Vancouver, British Columbia (Joytv)
CIIT-TV, Winnipeg, Manitoba (FAITHTV)
Specialty channels
VisionTV (Canada) and ZoomerTV (United States)
ONETV (Canada) and ONETV US (United States)
Radio
CFMZ-FM, Toronto, Ontario (The New Classical 96.3 FM)
CFZM, Toronto, Ontario (Zo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herminiimonas%20aquatilis | Herminiimonas aquatilis is a bacterial species isolated from drinking water.
References
External links
Type strain of Herminiimonas aquatilis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Burkholderiales
Bacteria described in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-recurrence%20quantification | Cross-recurrence quantification (CRQ) is a non-linear method that quantifies how similarly two observed data series unfold over time. CRQ produces measures reflecting coordination, such as how often two data series have similar values or reflect similar system states (called percentage recurrence, or %REC), among other measures.
References
Signal processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi%20coefficient | In statistics, the phi coefficient (or mean square contingency coefficient and denoted by φ or rφ) is a measure of association for two binary variables.
In machine learning, it is known as the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) and used as a measure of the quality of binary (two-class) classifications, introduced by biochemist Brian W. Matthews in 1975.
Introduced by Karl Pearson, and also known as the Yule phi coefficient from its introduction by Udny Yule in 1912 this measure is similar to the Pearson correlation coefficient in its interpretation.
Definition
A Pearson correlation coefficient estimated for two binary variables will return the phi coefficient.
Two binary variables are considered positively associated if most of the data falls along the diagonal cells. In contrast, two binary variables are considered negatively associated if most of the data falls off the diagonal.
If we have a 2×2 table for two random variables x and y
where n11, n10, n01, n00, are non-negative counts of numbers of observations that sum to n, the total number of observations. The phi coefficient that describes the association of x and y is
Phi is related to the point-biserial correlation coefficient and Cohen's d and estimates the extent of the relationship between two variables (2×2).
The phi coefficient can also be expressed using only , , , and , as
Maximum values
Although computationally the Pearson correlation coefficient reduces to the phi coefficient in the 2×2 case, they are not in general the same. The Pearson correlation coefficient ranges from −1 to +1, where ±1 indicates perfect agreement or disagreement, and 0 indicates no relationship. The phi coefficient has a maximum value that is determined by the distribution of the two variables if one or both variables can take on more than two values. See Davenport and El-Sanhury (1991) for a thorough discussion.
Machine learning
The MCC is defined identically to phi coefficient, introduced by Karl Pearson, also known as the Yule phi coefficient from its introduction by Udny Yule in 1912. Despite these antecedents which predate Matthews's use by several decades, the term MCC is widely used in the field of bioinformatics and machine learning.
The coefficient takes into account true and false positives and negatives and is generally regarded as a balanced measure which can be used even if the classes are of very different sizes. The MCC is in essence a correlation coefficient between the observed and predicted binary classifications; it returns a value between −1 and +1. A coefficient of +1 represents a perfect prediction, 0 no better than random prediction and −1 indicates total disagreement between prediction and observation. However, if MCC equals neither −1, 0, or +1, it is not a reliable indicator of how similar a predictor is to random guessing because MCC is dependent on the dataset. MCC is closely related to the chi-square statistic for a 2×2 contingency table
where n is th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Isle%20of%20Wight%20Steam%20Railway%20locomotives%20and%20rolling%20stock | This is a comprehensive list of rolling stock of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway at Havenstreet, Isle of Wight.
Steam locomotives
Havenstreet currently boasts a surplus of ex-Wight railway network stalwarts & industrial tank engine designs. More are being restored all the time, covering for other locomotives as they themselves are taken out of service. In the near future, additional classes from the mainland may be brought in for when the railway expands its operations.
Diesel locomotives
Three diesel shunters are currently in the custody of the railway, all of which have run a majority of service trains, as opposed to the usual steam-hauled passenger services.
Operational
Undergoing overhaul, restoration or repairs
Stored or static
Multiple Units
Undergoing overhaul, restoration or repairs
The Ryde Pier Petrol Tram was built in 1927 by Drewry. It was withdrawn in 1969 when the tramway closed. It is undergoing restoration work, with a possibility of running the tram on the IOWSR in the future.
Stored or Static
The British Rail Class 483 483007, named "Jess Harper," was transferred from the Island Line to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway in 2021 for static display in the carriage shed at Havenstreet Station. The train was originally built in 1940 as London Underground 1938 Stock. A medium-term goal of the Steam Railway is to have 483007 operate on the line, either by having propulsion provided by one of the diesel shunters, or by being converted to battery power.
The Ryde Pier Electric Tram was built by Merres Pollard and Sons in 1911. It was withdrawn in 1927 and replaced by a petrol tram. In 1980, it was brought for a price of £2 by a private owner and was given to the Isle of Wight Council who cosmetic restored it. It went to the Cothy Bottom Heritage Center, Newport Quary and the Isle of Wight Bus Museum before being put away out of the public view. In 2018, ownership was transferred to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway (IOWSR).
Coaching stock
All of the railway's operational coaches have been built to a pre-grouping design. These have been restored by the skilled Havenstreet staff and are the envy of many Southern Region preserved railways.
IWR coaches
The stock collection includes a small set of original Isle of Wight Railway passenger stock.
LB&SCR coaches
The stock collection currently has six coaches of the former LB&SCR, the earliest built in 1896.
LC&DR coaches
The London, Chatham and Dover Railway's role in the south of England ensured an ample collection of stock for the owning groups.
SE&CR coaches
An amalgamation of LC&DR and SER, the South Eastern and Chatham Railway also contributed to the Island Line's working stock.
MSJ&AR coaches
NLR coaches
Coach under-frames
The Railway uses various under-frames from donor vehicles to place coach bodies on top.
Southern Railway Vans
The Railway has complete SR Vans stored ready to be used as donor vehicles, or are currently operational on the railway.
Goods wagons
Brake van |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGRIS | AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a global public domain database with more than 12 million structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology. It became operational in 1975 and the database was maintained by Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development, and its content is provided by more than 150 participating institutions from 65 countries. The AGRIS Search system, allows scientists, researchers and students to perform sophisticated searches using keywords from the AGROVOC thesaurus, specific journal titles or names of countries, institutions, and authors.
Early AGRIS years
As information management flourished in the 1970s, the AGRIS metadata corpus was developed to allow its users to have free access to knowledge available in agricultural science and technology. AGRIS was developed to be an international cooperative system to serve both developed and developing countries.
With the advent of the Internet, along with the promises offered by open access publishing, there was growing awareness that the management of agricultural science and technology information, would have various facets: standards and methodologies for interoperability and facilitation of knowledge exchange; tools to enable information management specialists to process data; information and knowledge exchange across countries. Common interoperability criteria were thus adopted in its implementation, and the AGRIS AP metadata was accordingly created in order to allow exchange and retrieval of Agricultural information Resources.
AGRIS 2.0
AGRIS covers the wide range of subjects related to agriculture science and technology, including forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, human nutrition, and extension. Its content includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more. A growing number (around 20%) of bibliographical records have a corresponding full text document on the web which can easily be retrieved by Google.
On 5 December 2013 AGRIS 2.0 was released. AGRIS 2.0 is at the same time:
A collaborative network of more than 150 institutions from 65 countries, maintained by FAO of the UN, promoting free access to agricultural information.
A multilingual bibliographic database for agricultural science, fuelled by the AGRIS network, containing more than 8 million records largely enhanced with AGROVOC, FAO's multilingual thesaurus covering all areas of interest to FAO, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc.
A mash-up web application that links the bibliographic AGRIS knowledge to related resources on the web using the Linked Open Data methodology. An AGRIS mashup page (e.g. http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=QM2008000025 ) is a web page where an AGRIS resource is displayed together with relevant knowledge extracted from e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working%20timetable | A working timetable (WTT) - (Fr. horaire de service (HDS) or service annuel (SA); N. America Employee timetable) - The data defining all planned train and rolling-stock movements which will take place on the relevant infrastructure during the period for which it is in force; within the EU, it is established once per calendar year. The trains included may be passenger trains, freight trains, empty stock movements, or even bus and/or ship connections or replacements.
Contents
The detail found in Working Timetables includes the timings at every major station, junction, or other significant location along the train's journey (including additional minutes inserted to allow for such factors as engineering work or particular train performance characteristics), which platforms are used at certain stations, and line codes where there is a choice of running line.
Further information may include the train's identification (or "reporting") number which, in Network Rail practice, consists of a four digit alpha-numeric code where the first number indicates the type of train (fast, stopping, Freightliner and so on), followed by a letter indicating the area of operation or destination and then two figures denoting the individual service; what service the train next forms; what formation ("consist") the train has, its maximum speed, and any other information relevant to the operation of the train. A WTT for the Parisian Petite Ceinture belt railway gives a gradient profile and track diagram for the entire railway.
In the USA, the New Haven Railroad Employee Timetable contained such information as: the maximum allowable speeds for different types of locomotives; electrical operating instructions concerning the operation of the AC catenary system and pantographs; designation of on which lines the different types of signalling were operational, e.g. manual block, automatic block and centralized traffic control.
Railway companies incorporate their philosophy of service provision into their timetable in numerical, chronological form. In the beginning of commercial railways, the timetable was the authority for a train to be at a particular location at a specified time, subject to any restrictions imposed by the rules, regulations and engineered safety controls (which were originally minimal). As such, instructional publications were often referred to as 'appendices' to the working timetable. As the rules and regulations gradually expanded following accidents, the working timetable became more of a guide than an absolute authority.
Safe working
The working timetable is effectively the foundation of railway safe operations and one of six main instructional publications which employees of Traffic departments in British style railways traditionally had at their disposal. The other publications were the Rule Book, General Appendix to the Working Timetable, Sectional or Local Appendix to the Working Timetable, Regulations for Train Signalling, circulars and weekly no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLite-AMGA | The ARDA Metadata Grid Application (AMGA) is a general purpose metadata catalogue and part of the European Middleware Initiative middleware distribution. It was originally developed by the EGEE project as part of its gLite middleware, when it became clear that many Grid applications needed metadata information on files and to organize a work-flow. AMGA is now developed and supported by the European Middleware Initiative.
AMGA as a metadata service allows users to attach metadata information to files stored on the Grid, where metadata can be any relationally organized data typically stored in a relational database system (RDBMS). In addition, the metadata in AMGA can also be stored independently of any associated files, which allows AMGA to be used as a general access tool to relational databases on the Grid. AMGA features a simple to learn metadata access language, which has been very useful for the adoption of AMGA in smaller Grid applications, as it considerably lowers the technical hurdle to make use of relational data. Access via SQL92 is also supported.
One of the main features of AMGA, and one unique to it, is the possibility to replicate metadata between different AMGA instances allowing the federation of metadata (e.g. By the Health-e-child project), but also to increase the scalability and improve the access times on a globally deployed Grid (as done by the Wisdom project). Performance and efficiency of the access across WANs has been independently targeted by an access protocol optimised for the bulk transfer of metadata across WANs using data streaming.
Security on the Grid is a major concern, and AMGA features different authentication methods via (Grid-Proxy-) Certificates as well as very flexible accesses control mechanisms for individual data items based on ACLs. In particular these security features have made AMGA the de facto standard for metadata and relational database access on the Grid for biomedical applications. Prominent projects making use of AMGA in this field are Wisdom where AMGA was used in both their campaigns against Avian Flu and malaria, and the Health e-Child project.
References
External links
AMGA homepage
EMI homepage
Health-e-Child project
Middleware
Grid computing products
Metadata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon%20Safety%20Products | Falcon Safety Products, Inc. is a manufacturer of gas dusters (Dust-Off), horns, computer related cleaning supplies and gaming accessories. The family-owned company operates in the United States and the United Kingdom, with its headquarters in Branchburg, New Jersey. The company was founded in 1953.
Key Executives
Phil Lapin – Chief Executive Officer and President
Gregory Mas- Executive Vice President – Finance, Operations & International Sales
Michael Genner – Sales Director of Falcon UK
Steve Smith - Senior Vice President of Sales
Jen Rappaport- Marketing Manager
Products
The company produces a variety of compressed gas lint, debris and dust removers for computers, keyboards and other equipment. They also offer screen cleaning wipes and cloths.
Critique
The company has been included as part of a class action regarding its Dust-off, and Century, Maxell and Insignia dusters. The aerosol inhalant abuse case was filed by the estate of Michael Robins, an inhalant abuser whose death was attributed to sudden sniffing death syndrome and difluoroethane toxicity.
References
External links
Company website
Cleaning products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Calombaris | George Dimitrios Calombaris (born 4 October 1978) is an Australian chef and restaurateur and television personality. Calombaris was one of the judges of the Network 10 series MasterChef Australia from 2009 to 2019. Prior to his role on MasterChef Australia, Calombaris appeared regularly on the daytime Network Ten cooking show Ready Steady Cook.
He owned several restaurants in Melbourne. His flagship restaurant, The Press Club, was awarded The Age Good Food Guide "Best New Restaurant 2008" with Calombaris named "Chef of the Year 2008". Calombaris draws on his Greek, Cypriot and Italian heritage for inspiration.
In 2019, Calombaris's company MAdE Establishment Group admitted to underpaying $7.83 million in wages to 515 employees, which was back-paid. MAdE agreed to pay $200,000 to the Australian Government and to undertake a number of other activities. In February 2020, MAdE went into voluntary administration with the majority of its venues closed immediately.
Education
Calombaris went to Mazenod College in Mulgrave and studied at Box Hill Institute of TAFE. He won the Bon Land scholarship in 1999 while an apprentice.
Career
He also entered the Bocuse d'Or culinary grand prix in Lyon, France, when he was 23-years-old, and finished in 16th position.He spent two years working at Reserve, in Melbourne's Federation Square where, at the age of 24, he won Young Chef of the Year, Best New Restaurant and two chef's hats in The Age Good Food Guide. In 2004, the Global Food and Wine Magazine voted him as one of the Top 40 chefs of influence in the world. In 2006, Calombaris opened his own restaurant in Melbourne, The Press Club designed by renowned restaurant architects Mills Gorman. In 2008, he opened two other restaurants in Melbourne, Maha Bar and Grill (with chef Shane Delia) and Hellenic Republic (with chef Travis McAuley) both in collaboration with Mills Gorman. Also in 2008, he opened his first international restaurant, The Belvedere Club, in a hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos. In December 2010, Calombaris teamed up again with Mills Gorman to open P M 24 with culinary legend Philippe Mouchel. In 2011, he opened St Katherine's in Kew, again with Shane Delia and Mills Gorman. In January 2012 he opened Mama Baba located in South Yarra, Melbourne. In July 2019, The Press Club closed, and was replaced by a new restaurant, Elektra.
Calombaris has published five cookbooks: The Press Club, Hellenic Republic: Greek Cooking from The Hellenic Heart, Your Place or Mine, Cook With Us with MasterChef Australia co-judge, Gary Mehigan.
He appears in Who's Who in Australia 2011 edition and appeared at the 2011 Good Food & Wine Show.
In January 2012, he criticised the federal government's Fair Work Act for instituting high penalty rates paid to restaurant staff, which he claimed were uneconomical for small businesses. He complained that some of his restaurants were unprofitable on a Sunday because he was required to pay staff up to $40 an hour. He is quoted |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Mehigan | Gary Mehigan (born 12 February 1967) is an English-Australian chef and restaurateur. Mehigan was one of the original judges of the Network 10 series MasterChef Australia.
Career
Chef
Mehigan trained at The Connaught and Le Souffle in London before moving to Melbourne in 1991. He has headed the kitchen in some of Melbourne's most prominent restaurants including Browns, Burnham Beeches Country House and Hotel Sofitel before opening the award-winning Fenix in 2000 and later selling it to the Leonda by the Yarra group in 2013. He formerly co-owned The Boathouse in the Melbourne suburb Moonee Ponds.
He was selected as one of the entrants to the 2012 edition of Who's Who in Australia.
Television career
Mehigan was one of the original judges on Network 10's MasterChef Australia with George Calombaris and Matt Preston. He left the show in 2019 after its 11th season. Mehigan also co-hosted two shows on Australia's LifeStyle Food channel, Good Chef Bad Chef and Boys Weekend, and appeared at the 2011 Good Food & Wine Show.
In July 2015, Mehigan began a new TV series called Far Flung with Gary Mehigan, where he travelled to various countries in Asia such as India, Vietnam, Laos, China and South Korea to learn local cooking techniques and recipes, which he uses as inspiration for a recipe he demonstrates at the end of each episode.
After leaving MasterChef Australia, on 23 October 2019 it was announced that Mehigan and fellow MasterChef Australia judge Matt Preston would join Manu Feildel in 2020 with a new show on the Seven Network called Plate of Origin. In 2022 Mehigan appeared as a guest judge on the twelfth season of My Kitchen Rules.
References
External links
Official website
Living people
British chefs
British television chefs
Australian television chefs
Australian restaurateurs
MasterChef Australia
English emigrants to Australia
1967 births
Television personalities from Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Dad%21%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of American Dad! originally aired on the Fox network from September 28, 2008, to May 17, 2009. It consisted of twenty episodes and was released as two DVD box sets and in syndication. American Dad! follows the dysfunctional Smith family—father Stan, mother Francine, daughter Hayley, son Steve, the pet fish Klaus, and extraterrestrial alien Roger, all of whom reside in their hometown of Langley Falls, Virginia. Season 5, which premiered with the episode "1600 Candles" and ended with "Stan's Night Out", was executive produced by David Zuckerman, Kenny Schwartz, Rick Wiener, Richard Appel, Matt Weitzman, Mike Barker, and series creator Seth MacFarlane. Weitzman and Barker served as the season's showrunners.
Season 5 satirized various political and social topics, including incest, the coming out aspect of homosexuality, and appeal to fear propaganda. The season was met with generally positive reception from critics. Some went on to criticize the show for the level of inconsistency. However, the overall development of the show during this season was praised by critics, saying that "the show has grown into its own over the past seasons." The season premiere was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) in 2009.
The Volume 4 DVD box set was released in Region 1 on April 28, 2009, Region 2 on April 20, 2009, and Region 4 on November 18, 2009. Six of the 21 episodes are included in the Volume 4 DVD box set. The remaining fourteen episodes of the season were released on the Volume 5 DVD box set, released in Region 1 on June 15, 2010, Region 2 on June 14, 2010, and Region 4 on November 3, 2010.
Production
During Season 4, episodes of American Dad! and its sister show, Family Guy, were delayed from regular broadcast due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the series, publicly sided with the Writers Guild, and fully participated in the strike and other events pertaining to the issue. The official production of American Dad! started to dwindle as of February 2008, with a delay in production becoming imminent through much of March and April. The strike ended on February 12, 2008; and the series resumed airing regularly within a few months.
Production for Season 5 began in 2008, during the airing of the Season 4. The season was executive produced by series regulars David Zuckerman, Kenny Schwartz, Rick Wiener, Richard Appel, Matt Weitzman, Mike Barker, and series creator Seth MacFarlane. The showrunners for the season were Weitzman and Barker. As production began Matt Weitzman, Jim Bernstein, Chris and Matt McKenna, Brian Boyle, Erik Sommers, Laura McCreary, Jonathan Fener, Erik Durbin, David Zuckerman and Kenny Schwartz all stayed on from the previous season. Both Matt Fusfeld and Alex Cuthbertson received their first writing credit for the series. Directors Pam Cooke, Josh Aoshima, Tim Parsons, Rodney Clouden, Albert Calleros, Joe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastiera%20shqip | Tastiera Shqip DK is an Albanian modified keyboard layout, fully compliant with the new way Albanians use the computers. The layout was studied by the teams of Pasioni and Albword. The software is free to download, use and distribute for personal use only.
External links
Tastiera Shqip DK on Pasioni
AS Tastiera shqipe
Keyboard layouts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDPX-TV | WDPX-TV (channel 58) is a television station licensed to Woburn, Massachusetts, United States, broadcasting the digital multicast network Grit to the Boston area. It is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Ion Television station WBPX-TV, channel 68 (and its Concord, New Hampshire–licensed full-time satellite WPXG-TV, channel 21). WDPX-TV and WBPX-TV share studios on Soldiers Field Road in Boston's Allston neighborhood; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WBPX-TV's spectrum from a tower on Parmenter Road in Hudson, Massachusetts.
History
Channel 58 first signed on January 16, 1984 as 12,000-watt W58AO, a low-power station owned by Cape Cod Broadcasting and originally licensed to Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, with studio facilities in Hyannis.
After temporarily going dark for one week a year-and-a-half later, channel 58 would relaunch on July 19, 1985, as full-power independent station WCVX, transmitting at a powerful 1.2 million watts. Its lineup included a twice-nightly newscast. However, it suffered early on due to lack of cable coverage, as the Supreme Court had struck down the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s must-carry rule on the very day WCVX launched, thus knocking it out of the 60 percent of homes in the Cape Cod region relying on cable television. Despite this early hurdle, however, area cable systems gradually began adding WCVX to their lineups, and by August 1987, it was carried by every provider on Cape Cod.
In spite of achieving the necessary cable carriage, WCVX was still ailing financially, and by late 1987, Cape Cod Broadcasting president Don Moore was forced to turn the station over to Sentry Federal Savings Bank, which chose Dan Carney to take over daily operations the following January. While viewership increased under Carney's tenure, WCVX continued to lose money, and after laying off nearly 85 percent of staffers just two years later, Sentry attempted to find a new owner for the struggling station. At one point, Sentry entered into negotiations with the owners of WNAC-TV, the Fox affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island, about possibly acquiring WCVX as a satellite station, but the deal collapsed after it was decided by the Fox affiliate board that any resulting boost would be minimal at best, especially considering that Cape Cod's aforementioned widespread cable penetration (which had increased to nearly 100 percent by late 1990, when the talks took place) meant that the Boston and Providence stations were already easily viewable there. Unable to find another willing buyer, Sentry decided to shut down WCVX, and the station went dark in the early hours of July 2, 1991, following an airing of the 1955 film Kentucky Rifle.
Three years after its demise, in 1994, Boston University bought the license and relaunched the station as WZBU, a Cape Cod satellite of Boston's WABU, channel 68 (along with WNBU in Concord, New Hampshire).
In 1999, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Missing%20Lynx | The Missing Lynx (Spanish: El Lince perdido) is a 2008 computer-animated adventure action comedy film produced by Spanish studios Kandor Graphics and YaYa! Films and producer Antonio Banderas. The film is directed by Raul Garcia and Manuel Sicilia, and written by them and Jose E. Machuca. It is presented by Banderas himself. With the film released in Spain on December 25, 2008 in Spanish, it is released in the United States on March 9, 2012 in English. The film is about a bunch of animals from Doñana National Park in Spain, trying to save other animals kidnapped by the bad guys. The movie takes place in the natural parks of Andalusia. The film was developed using servers supplied by Kandor. The Missing Lynx received mixed reviews from internet audience polls and it earned $1.4 million on a $6.5 million budget. The Missing Lynx was released on DVD in October 15, 2009 by Aurum Productions.
Plot
After one of his countless mishaps, Félix (Felix in the English version), a clumsy and unlucky Iberian lynx, is transported to the animal recovery shelter at the Doñana National Park, along with Beeea (Beeety in the English version), a daredevil goat, and Astarté, a brave falcon with an injured wing. However, the national park has undergone security measures while Félix was gone. Mysterious animal kidnappings have occurred at other national parks and animal preservations, which had caused the shelter to be turned into a prison-like structure, leading Félix's paranoid chameleon friend, Gus, to believe that their human caretakers are in a conspiracy to keep the animals locked up for experiments. While the others are skeptical of Gus' claims, a female lynx, Lincesa (Lynxette in the English version), is brought to the shelter; she and Félix begin to form an attraction to each other.
In the dead of night, the shelter is infiltrated by mercenaries led by Newmann, the self-titled "greatest hunter in the world", hired by an eccentric millionaire, Noé (Noah in the English version), who has created a sort of Noah's Ark for threatened species. Due to the antics of two bumbling mercenaries, Félix is able to escape from his cage and free his friends from the transport trucks, with the exception of Lincesa being hit with a sedative dart by Newmann. With some encouragement, Astarté is able to fly back to the shelter and set off the alarm, alerting the humans to their disappearance. Félix and his friends set out to find the kidnapped animals and stop Noé's plans, later accompanied by their mole friend, Rupert, who escaped from the ship. They enlist a pack of wolves to help them evade Newmann and the pursuing mercenaries; however, the wolves are caught, along with a few other animals, and Félix starts to believe that it's his bad luck to blame for them being followed. They meet Diogenes, a vulture with a mission to clean the environment, who supplies the group with materials to build a makeshift transport to outrun the mercenaries. However, Félix abandons the group to prot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTPX-TV | WTPX-TV (channel 46) is a television station licensed to Antigo, Wisconsin, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Wausau–Rhinelander market. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains transmitter facilities near Glandon, Wisconsin.
Until 2021, the station's public file was maintained at studios on North Flint Road in Glendale, where WPXE-TV, the Ion station in the Milwaukee market, was based. In October of that year with the 2019 repeal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Main Studio Rule, Ion Media officially registered its studio facility (along with most Ion-owned stations) as the Scripps Center in Cincinnati. The same month, Green Bay sister station WGBA-TV launched Ion as its fifth subchannel, with the affiliation moving from WBAY-TV.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed; PSIP is subject to verification:
Paxson Communications/Ion Media chose to run WTPX-TV as a digital-only station upon signing on in 2001, and held no analog license for the station. Thus, WTPX-TV never had any digital transition channel, flash-cut or analog transition period. It moved from its original physical channel 46 to channel 19 during the FCC's spectrum repack in June 2018, but continues to use channel 46 as its virtual channel position.
External links
Ion Television affiliates
Grit (TV network) affiliates
Ion Mystery affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Bounce TV affiliates
Defy TV affiliates
Scripps News affiliates
E. W. Scripps Company television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2001
2001 establishments in Wisconsin
TPX-TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Howlett | Jack Howlett CBE (30 August 1912 – 5 May 1999) was a British mathematician and computer scientist who was head of the Atlas Computer Laboratory for the duration of its existence.
Personal life and early career
He was educated at Stand Grammar School, Whitefield, Manchester and read mathematics at Manchester University. He was awarded a PhD in 1944 for research on the Numerical Integration of Partial Differential Equations.
He worked with the research department of the LMS Railway from 1935 to 1940. He often described his relief when his calculations of the performance of a new braking system were tested successfully on a real steam locomotive complete with sceptical crew.
During the war he worked in research establishments on numerical analysis, under experts including Douglas Hartree, and using equipment such as early mechanical differential analyzers. This was applied to various problems including the atomic bomb project code-named Tube Alloys.
In 1948 he became head of the Computing Section in Theoretical Physics Division, AERE Harwell. He worked on many of the early reactor projects.
In 1966 he was elected Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He was a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
He was appointed a CBE in the New Years Honours List of 1969.
He was married to Joan, with whom he had five children. He enjoyed a wide range of musical and artistic activities, was a keen Scottish country dancer, took part in amateur dramatics, and enjoyed cycling and hill-walking. He was known to colleagues for his colourful dress sense and for his lively inquiring mind, extending well beyond narrow professional interests.
Atlas Computer Laboratory
He was appointed Director of the Atlas Computer Laboratory in 1961, where he stayed until retirement in 1975. The Laboratory was created to provide a service to researchers across the United Kingdom with a need for large-scale computing power.
Peter Hall, a Director of Ferranti and later ICL, described how Howlett did business: "I explained to Jack that to order an Atlas we needed a contract that committed them to over £3m for a machine which we could not specify in performance, reliability, or delivery date. Jack did his best to get a commitment from us, but all we could offer was 'best endeavours'. So Jack worked on the contracts people and we got a contract ... which depended totally on trust between Jack and the authority on the one hand, and Jack and Ferranti – essentially me – on the other. It all worked out. It enabled the Atlas Laboratory to get off the ground, and Ferranti to establish the Atlas computer in the market place."
Retirement
On retirement from the Atlas Laboratory, Howlett took up a post with ICL as founding editor of the ICL Technical Journal, a publication designed to give technical information about research and product innovation both inside the company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSIS | RSIS may refer to:
Ramsar Sites Information Service, a database of sites governed by the Ramsar Convention
S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, a section of Nanyang Technological University
See also
RSI (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20G.%20F.%20Francis | John G.F. Francis (born 1934) is an English computer scientist, who in 1961 published the QR algorithm for computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, which has been named as one of the ten most important algorithms of the twentieth century. The algorithm was also proposed independently by Vera N. Kublanovskaya of the Soviet Union in the same year.
Francis was born in London in 1934. In 1954 he worked for the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC). In 1955–1956 he attended Cambridge University, but did not complete a degree. He then returned to the NRDC, where he served as assistant to Christopher Strachey. At this time he devised the QR transformation. In 1961 he left the NRDC to work at Ferranti Corporation, Ltd. and then at the University of Sussex. Subsequently, he had positions with various industrial organizations and consultancies. His interests encompassed artificial intelligence, computer languages, and systems engineering, although he never returned to the field of numerical computation.
By 1962, Francis had left the field of numerical analysis, and subsequently had no idea of the impact his work on the QR algorithm had had, until re-contacted by Gene Golub and Frank Uhlig in 2007, by which time he was retired and living in Hove, England (near Brighton). Still in good health, he was the opening speaker at a mini-symposium that marked 50 years of the QR algorithm, held at the 23rd Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis in Glasgow in June 2009. Francis was awarded a University of Sussex honorary doctorate in July 2015.
References
Further reading
Gene Golub, Frank Uhlig (2009), "The QR algorithm: 50 years later – its genesis by John Francis and Vera Kublanovskaya, and subsequent developments", IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, vol. 29, no. 3, pages 467-485.advanced publication online
Numerical analysts
English computer scientists
1934 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecting%20Communities | Connecting Communities: Expanding Access to the Rail Network is a 2009 report by the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) identifying potential expansion of the National Rail passenger railway network in England, primarily through the construction or re-opening of railway lines for passenger services, and the construction or re-opening of up to 40 new passenger railway stations.
The report was published on 15 June 2009, and identified 14 commercially viable schemes involving new passenger lines, requiring the definite re-opening or construction of at least 30 new stations. These schemes would use a mixture of historically closed lines, recently closed or currently operating freight-only lines, or sharing heritage railway tracks with permission from their owners. The report also identified seven commercially viable sites for new Park and Ride stations (a.k.a. Parkway stations) to be built on existing lines. The report also identified seven potential new passenger 'link lines' on the existing rail network, opening up new passenger routes but without new stations.
The report covered relatively low cost, short term, localised schemes, with lead times from initiation to completion ranging from 2 years 9 months to 6 years, complementing larger schemes already in place for completion past 2014. For the schemes to reach completion, the proposals would need to be taken forward by the respective local and regional governments, Network Rail (the infrastructure owner) and the Department for Transport.
The schemes would complement development to the national rail network already undertaken since 1995, comprising the completion of 27 new lines (totalling 199 track miles) and 68 stations, with 65 new station sites identified by Network Rail or government for possible construction. However the great majority of these new lines and stations are in Scotland, Wales and London. The report examined schemes in England only, since rail development in Scotland and Wales was already being organised by Transport Scotland and the Welsh Assembly.
Methodology
ATOC took a top down approach to the method of identifying possible sites for introducing new services and infrastructure, by first identifying areas and communities not well served by the current national network, and then comparing those with opportunities for development based on simple reinstatement or existing lines or the construction of relatively short new lines. This approach took into account the fact that many communities had grown in population since losing a previous service, and others had been entirely built without a rail connection.
Using demographic and industry data, ATOC compared the usage levels of passenger rail in other well-served areas of the country, and determined a baseline population figure of 15,000 (based on the 2001 census), above which level, communities were considered potential candidates for commercially viable new schemes.
These potential locations were then compared |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOL%20PLAY | GOL PLAY is a Spanish sports television network dedicated fully to football (from 2009) and other sports (from 2016). The channel, created by Mediapro in September 2008, is distributed through cable operators, Internet television, and from August 2009, through digital terrestrial television.
Mediapro's original intention was to broadcast the channel through terrestrial television, opening a slot for pay television, and in 2009 negotiations began with the Government of Spain. On 13 August 2009, an urgent decree approved premium contents on terrestrial television, and Gol Televisión began its broadcasting on 14 August.
History
For the current history, see also :es: Gol (canal de televisión)
The channel previously existed as Gol Televisión and was broadcasting from September 19, 2008 until June 30, 2015, when the rental agreement between Mediapro and Atresmedia ended to broadcast in one of its multiplexes. The channel was replaced, already outside the DTT, by beIN Sports thanks to the agreement between Mediapro and Al Jazeera (owner of beIN globally).
Mediapro managed to rent a frequency to return to DTT in Spain after the licensing contest of 2015.
On March 22, 2016, Mediapro announced that it would regain the name of Gol T for its new open channel on DTT. During the weeks prior to the presentation of the channel, Mediapro issued a video loop with images of various sports and a text that indicated that soon on that frequency you could enjoy a new sports channel. During this period, the night of April 11 to 12, 2016, the boxing match between Pacquiao and Bradley III was aired.
Finally, on June 1, 2016, the channel's test emissions began, already with the GOL logo (without the 'T'). During the broadcasts in tests, several live competitions were broadcast, including football, tennis, motor, extreme sports, etc.
On June 29, 2016 the Galician operator R Galicia incorporated the signal to channel 80 of its television service, thus being the first operator to have the sports channel.
On August 16, 2016, the operator Movistar + added the signal to channel 62 of its television service, both in satellite, IPTV and Fiber. Subsequently, on November 25, 2016, it incorporated the HD signal of the channel on the same channel, for fiber clients, but not for satellite clients.
On August 17, 2016, operator Vodafone TV incorporated the SD signal into channel 99 of its television service. On November 3, 2016, operator Vodafone TV incorporated the signal in HD 1080i to channel 99 of its television service.
On August 12, 2022, the channel was renamed as GOL PLAY, after this change films, series and entertainment programs were added to the programming. The reform of the channel was carried out to improve the audience levels in the time slots where sports are not broadcast, however, the transmission of events and sports information continued to be the fundamental points of the channel's grid.
Programming
Current
Football
Soccer
FIFA
Men's:
FIFA World Cup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Cycle%20Limited | E-Cycle Limited (formerly Remploy e-cycle) is a not-for-profit organisation based in Tonypandy that specialises in the data safe, ethical refurbishment, recycling and disposal of end-of-life IT and telecommunications equipment.
The Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher (MAR) company was set up in 2001 to help accommodate the European Union's WEEE Directive. Once cleansed of all pre-existing data - using Blancco software which has been approved for Government data cleansing use and exceeds US Federal Government standards – end-of-life IT equipment is redeployed, remarketed, donated, recycled or otherwise disposed of via approved third parties and in line with government and EU legislation.
Originally based in Barking, Essex, the company added three further sites in Porth, South Wales; Heywood, Greater Manchester and Preston, Lancashire. Of these four sites, two have now closed (Barking, and Preston), on the grounds that they are not financially sustainable. The remaining two sites, and the e-cycle business itself, was the subject of takeover negotiations by a 3rd party in 2013.
E-cycle was originally part of Remploy, the UK’s leading provider of specialist employment services for disabled people. Following the UK government's decision to stop funding Remploy factory businesses, e-cycle was acquired in a management buyout on 16 September 2013, becoming E-Cycle Limited. The company works with a range of organisations and clients, employing more than 230 people, 95 per cent of whom are disabled.
Since 2001, e-cycle has overseen the donation of some 30,000 data safe PCs to African countries through the Digital Pipeline programme.
See also
Electronic waste by country
References
External links
E-Cycle Limited
YouTube channel with inside look at Remploy e-cycle equipment reprocessing
e-Waste UK blog initiated by Remploy e-cycle
Digital Pipeline programme
Companies based in Rhondda Cynon Taf
Electronic waste in the United Kingdom
Technology companies established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Reynold%20B.%20Johnson%20Data%20Storage%20Device%20Technology%20Award | The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award was a Technical Field Award of the IEEE that was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 2004 and was discontinued in 2011. The award was presented annually from 2006–2010 for outstanding contributions to the advancement of information storage, with an emphasis on technical contributions in computer data storage device technology. The award was named to honor Reynold B. Johnson.
The award was presented to three co-recipients in 2006, and to individuals from 2007–2010.
Recipients of this award received a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
Recipients
2010: David B. Bogy
2009: Kinam Kim
2008: Stanley H. Charap
2007: Mason L. Williams
2006: Eliyahou Harari
2006: Sanjay Mehrotra
2006: Jack Yuan
References
External links
IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award page at IEEE
List of recipients of the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award
Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Billings | Dr. Paul R. Billings is a distinguished American doctor, lecturer, researcher, professor, and consultant on genetic information. His research interests include the impact of genomic data on society, the integration of genomics with diagnostics in health and medical care, and individualized genomic medicine. He is the author of over 250 publications and has appeared on talk shows such as The Oprah Show and 60 Minutes. He is currently the CEO and Director of Biological Dynamics.
Biography
Dr. Billings is a board-certified internist and clinical geneticist known for his extensive expertise in genomics and molecular medicine that spans more than 40 years. Dr. Billings has served many notable organizations, including roles with the Scientific Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Administration and the Genomic Medicine Advisory Committee at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He also served as a member of the United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's advisory committee on Genetics, Health, and Society. He was formerly a director of the Personalized Medicine Coalition and a member of the IOM Genomics Roundtable, helping to make an impact on healthcare for broad populations.
Dr. Billings is the CEO and Director at Biological Dynamics, a company dedicated to improving global health outcomes by identifying early stage disease through its proprietary exosome diagnostic technology. Its ExoVerita™ platform offers a simple and automated workflow to capture and analyze exosomes, powering advanced detection tests for some of the most challenging diseases. Biological Dynamics’ ExoVita™ assays utilize the ExoVerita platform to enable reliable surveillance and early cancer detection to help enhance and extend lives.
Prior to his role as CEO at Biological Dynamics, Dr. Billings was the Chief Medical Officer at Natera, a leader in cell-free DNA testing. Prior to that, he completed an Executive-in-Residence program at the California Innovation Center of Johnson & Johnson, a consultant for Quest Diagnostics Inc., and served as the medical director of the IMPACT Cancer Care Program at Thermo Fisher Scientific (TFS). Dr. Billings also held key roles at MissionBio, Life Technologies Inc. (LIFE), and the Genomic Medicine Institute, located at El Camino Hospital, the largest community hospital in Silicon Valley.
Dr. Billings founded and led a number of companies focused on genetic and diagnostic medicine throughout his career, including Omica/FabricGenomics, GeneSage Inc., and CELLective Dx Corporation. He has held academic appointments at prestigious institutions, including Harvard University, UC San Francisco, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley. Notably, his work on genetic discrimination played a crucial role in creating and passing the federal Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008. From 2003-2007, he was senior vice president for corporate development at Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (NYSE: LH).
He served as a d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beast%20%282009%20TV%20series%29 | The Beast is an American crime drama series starring Patrick Swayze and Travis Fimmel. The series, which only ran for one season, debuted on A&E Network. It was Swayze's final acting performance before his death in 2009. Despite receiving largely positive reviews from critics, it garnered low Nielsen ratings and was cancelled in early June 2009.
Plot
Set in Chicago, veteran middle-aged FBI agent Charles Barker applies controversial techniques in his attempts to bring criminals to justice, which often border on illegal and unsettle his uninitiated rookie partner, Ellis Dove. Over the course of the first season, Barker is investigated by fellow FBI agents for alleged misconduct. Dove's loyalty to his partner is challenged when FBI internal affairs agent Ray Beaumont (Larry Gilliard) approaches him to gain information. Shortly thereafter, Dove learns of darker secrets in Barker's past.
Characters
Charles Barker (Patrick Swayze) is a veteran FBI agent, and an expert at going undercover, gaining the confidence of criminals and setting them up for a long hard fall in prison. As skilled an actor as he is a cop, Barker has taken a rookie agent—Ellis Dove—under his wing. Barker acts as Ellis's acting coach, trainer, and mentor. Barker appears to be a patriot whose loyalty should go unquestioned, but his superiors think he has been seduced into criminal activity. In the pilot episode, it is revealed that he is fluent in Russian and that he is being investigated by the FBI.
Ellis Dove (Travis Fimmel) is a rookie FBI agent and Charles Barker's trainee in the undercover trade. Under intense pressure from Barker to become a chameleon, Ellis never knows when Barker will send him on some impossible little test, some on-the-spot improv that may or may not cost him his life. Stressed, tense, and under impossible performance pressure, Ellis needs a break. However, that's not the worst of it; an Internal Affairs team is trying to recruit Ellis to spy on his mentor Barker.
Harry Conrad (Kevin J O'Connor) is an FBI agent who appears to be Barker's handler at the FBI, and he's supervising Ellis as well. As a seasoned professional, he knows Barker well enough to speak to him in terse personal code—but for newbie Ellis, he needs to spell things out, including his deep respect for Barker's work.
Rose Lawrence (Lindsay Pulsipher) is Ellis's neighbor, with whom he shares a romantic relationship. A law student, she is sharp enough to spot something odd about Ellis (who keeps his job a closely guarded secret) and takes the relationship slowly.
Ray Beaumont (Larry Gilliard) is a fellow FBI Agent working for Internal Affairs who is investigating Charles Barker. Sly and sneaky in his ways, he attempts to use Ellis to get information to help make his case that Barker is dirty.
Episodes
Reception
Alan Sepinwall writes "... you watch Swayze in The Beast, and you realize that this is the best performance of his career—that the opportunity to play a part like this, and to p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%E2%80%93Machine | The J–Machine (Jellybean-Machine) was a parallel computer designed by the MIT Concurrent VLSI Architecture group in conjunction with the Intel Corporation. The machine used "jellybean" parts—cheap and multitudinous commodity parts, each with a processor, memory, and a fast communication interface—and a novel network interface to implement fine grained parallel programs.
History
The J-machine project was started in 1988 based on work in Bill Dally's doctoral work at Caltech.
The philosophy of the work was "processors are cheap and memory is expensive," the J in the project's title standing for jellybean which are small cheap candies. In order to make use of large numbers of processors, the machine featured a novel network interface using message passing. This allowed a node to send a message to any other node within 2 microseconds.
Three 1024-node J-machine systems have been built and are kept at MIT, Caltech and Argonne National Laboratory.
External links
The Jellybean Machine
Notes
Massively parallel computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfamily%20database | SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, structural, and evolutionary units that form proteins. Domains of common Ancestry are grouped into superfamilies. The domains and domain superfamilies are defined and described in SCOP. Superfamilies are groups of proteins which have structural evidence to support a common evolutionary ancestor but may not have detectable sequence homology.
Annotations
The SUPERFAMILY annotation is based on a collection of hidden Markov models (HMM), which represent structural protein domains at the SCOP superfamily level.
A superfamily groups together domains which have an evolutionary relationship. The annotation is produced by scanning protein sequences from completely sequenced genomes against the hidden Markov models.
For each protein you can:
Submit sequences for SCOP classification
View domain organisation, sequence alignments and protein sequence details
For each genome you can:
Examine superfamily assignments, phylogenetic trees, domain organisation lists and networks
Check for over- and under-represented superfamilies within a genome
For each superfamily you can:
Inspect SCOP classification, functional annotation, Gene Ontology annotation, InterPro abstract and genome assignments
Explore taxonomic distribution of a superfamily across the tree of life
All annotation, models and the database dump are freely available for download to everyone.
Features
Sequence Search
Submit a protein or DNA sequence for SCOP superfamily and family level classification using the SUPERFAMILY HMM's. Sequences can be submitted either by raw input or by uploading a file, but all must be in FASTA format. Sequences can be amino acids, a fixed frame nucleotide sequence, or all frames of a submitted nucleotide sequence. Up to 1000 sequences can be run at a time.
Keyword Search
Search the database using a superfamily, family, or species name plus a sequence, SCOP, PDB, or HMM ID's. A successful search yields the class, folds, superfamilies, families, and individual proteins matching the query.
Domain Assignments
The database has domain assignments, alignments, and architectures for completely sequence eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms, plus sequence collections.
Comparative Genomics Tools
Browse unusual (over- and under-represented) superfamilies and families, adjacent domain pair lists and graphs, unique domain pairs, domain combinations, domain architecture co-occurrence networks, and domain distribution across taxonomic kingdoms for each organism.
Genome Statistics
For each genome: number of sequences, number of sequences with assignment, percentage of sequences with assignment, percentage total sequence coverage, number of domains assigned, number of superfamilies assigned, number of families assigned, average |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20%28command%29 | In computing, various shells maintain a record of the commands issued by the user during the current session. The history command works with the command history list. When the command is issued with no options, it prints the history list. Users can supply options and arguments to the command to manipulate the display of the history list and its entries. The operation of the history command can also be influenced by a shell's environment variables. For example, an environment variable can be set to control the number of commands to retain in the list.
History
In early versions of Unix the history command was a separate program. However, most shells have long included the history command as a shell built-in, so the separate program is no longer in common use.
Implementations
The command is available in various Unix shells, as well as in PowerShell, ReactOS, and KolibriOS.
It is also included as external command in PTS-DOS where it keeps a resident part, sometimes in conventional memory.
Since most current history commands are shell built-ins, details depend on the choice of shell.
bash
The history command has the following syntax in bash:
history [-c] [-d offset] [n]
history -awrn [filename]
history -ps arg [arg...]
tcsh
The history command has the following syntax in tcsh:
history [-hTr] [n]
history -S|-L|-M [filename] (+)
history -c (+)
The first form prints the history event list. If n is given only the n most recent events are printed or saved. With -h, the history list is printed without leading numbers. If -T is specified, timestamps are printed also in comment form. (This can be used to produce files suitable for loading with 'history -L' or 'source -h'.) With -r, the order of printing is most recent first rather than oldest first.
With -S, the second form saves the history list to filename. If the first word of the savehist shell variable is set to a number, at most that many lines are saved. If the second word of savehist is set to `merge', the history list is merged with the existing history file instead of replacing it (if there is one) and sorted by time stamp. (+) Merging is intended for an environment like the X Window System with several shells in simultaneous use. Currently it succeeds only when the shells quit nicely one after another.
With -L, the shell appends filename, which is presumably a history list saved by the -S option or the savehist mechanism, to the history list. -M is like -L, but the contents of filename are merged into the history list and sorted by timestamp. In either case, histfile is used if filename is not given and ~/.history is used if histfile is unset. `history -L' is exactly like 'source -h' except that it does not require a filename.
Note that login shells do the equivalent of `history -L' on startup and, if savehist is set, `history -S' before exiting. Because only ~/.tcshrc is normally sourced before ~/.history, histfile should be set in ~/.tcshrc rather than ~/.login.
If histlit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwale | Pinwale is the code name for a National Security Agency (NSA) collection and retrieval system for so-called "Digital Network Intelligence", including internet e-mail. It is searchable by monitored NSA analysts.
The existence of the system was first revealed by an NSA analyst who was trained in its use during 2005. However, according to Homeland Security Today, Pinwale contains information much more than email. It also contains other forms of Internet data, and other forms of digital communications as well. Its software has built-in protections against collecting from any of the Five Eyes members. Unlike its successor XKeyscore, targets for Pinwale have to be approved beforehand by the FISC.
According to information obtained by The Guardian from Edward Snowden, Pinwale is part of a "multi-tiered system" to address the issue of NSA "collecting so much internet data that it can be stored only for short periods of time." The system allows analysts to store "interesting" content in databases such as Pinwale, which is capable of storing material for up to five years.
Pinwale consists of at least two known partitions referred to as "Sweet" and "Sour".
According to the documents leaked by Snowden, Pinwale normally processed about 60 GB data per day without trouble. However, Pinwale was overwhelmed when Yahoo started mass mailbox transfers between its data centers, which were captured by the NSA's MUSCULAR program that taps the private clouds of Google and Yahoo. Monitored email accounts being hacked by spammers also present a challenge to Pinwale, because they can cause the database of suspect email addresses to grow exponentially with information of no intelligence value.
See also
2013 mass surveillance disclosures
TURBULENCE
PRISM
XKeyscore
References
Government databases in the United States
National Security Agency operations
Privacy of telecommunications
Privacy in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Lindsey | Charles Lindsey may refer to:
Charles H. Lindsey, British computer scientist
Charles Lindsey (editor) (1820–1908), English-born Canadian journalist and editor
See also
Charles Lindsay (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintados%20%28TV%20series%29 | Pintados (International title: The Painted Ones) is a Philippine television drama action series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark Reyes, it stars Angelika dela Cruz, Michael Flores, Assunta de Rossi, Vandolph Quizon and Sherwin Ordonez. It premiered on September 4, 1999. The series concluded on September 2, 2000 with a total of 52 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Michael Flores as Daniel Cervantes / Datu
Angelika dela Cruz as Reewa Zulueta / Diwata
Vandolph as Antonio Sto. Domingo / Tattoo
Assunta de Rossi as Maya Feliciano / Mayumi
Sherwin Ordoñez as Pido Zapata / Kidlat
Supporting cast
Lindsay Custodio as Caline Mendoza
Ryan Eigenmann as Katana
Robert Seña as Guro
Ace Espinosa as Raja
Jaime Fabregas as Anak Araw
Rustom Padilla Dr. Virus
Michael V. as Uno Dos Tres
Samantha Lopez as Thundara
Manny Castañeda as Madam Odorifica
Smokey Manaloto as Mad Bomber
Mel Martinez as Damarama
KC Montero as KC / Kaptain Crusader
Michael Lukban as Himself
Kirby Ramos as Matthew
Monsour Del Rosario as Sung Long
References
External links
1999 Philippine television series debuts
2000 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine action television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPWAP | The Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol is a standard, interoperable networking protocol that enables a central wireless LAN Access Controller (AC) to manage a collection of Wireless Termination Points (WTPs), more commonly known as wireless access points. The protocol specification is described in RFC 5415.
Protocol overview
CAPWAP is based on Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP). The state machine of CAPWAP is similar to LWAPP's, but with the addition of a full Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) tunnel establishment. The standard provides configuration management and device management, allowing for configurations and firmware to be pushed to access points (APs). Because the overall state design of the CAPWAP protocol is largely the same as the finite-state machine (FSM) in LWAPP, a detailed diagram is not needed.
The protocol uses a generic encapsulation and transport mechanism, making it independent of a specific radio technology. The specification of CAPWAP for a particular wireless technology is called a binding. An IEEE 802.11 binding is provided in RFC 5416.
CAPWAP uses UDP ports 5246 (control channel) and 5247 (data channel).
Implementations
An example software implementation of CAPWAP is OpenCAPWAP.
See also
Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP) used to manage a large set of WAPs
Wireless LAN - networks consisting of one or more access points plus one or more devices
References
IEEE 802.11
Network access
Telecommunications infrastructure
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech%20Thunderpad%20Digital | ThunderPad Digital is a game controller by computer peripherals company Logitech. The drivers only supports Windows 95 to Windows 98 and will not work on Windows XP or later operating systems. The button outlay is a look-alike to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System controller.
Specifications
8 bindable buttons
8 way directional pad, so called D-pad
15-pin game controller/MIDI connector
"Logitech Entertainment Control Center" drivers for bindings and such
System requirements
IBM PC with an i386 CPU or higher
DOS 5.0 or higher (Windows 95 recommended)
15-pin game controller/MIDI connector port
CD-ROM drive for the driver disk
Thunderpad Digital
Computer peripherals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Forefront%20Unified%20Access%20Gateway | Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is a discontinued software suite that provides secure remote access to corporate networks for remote employees and business partners. Its services include reverse proxy, virtual private network (VPN), DirectAccess and Remote Desktop Services. UAG was released in 2010, and is the successor for Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) which was released in 2007. UAG is part of the Microsoft Forefront offering. Microsoft discontinued the product in 2014, although the Web Application Proxy feature of Windows Server 2012 R2 and later offers some of its functionalities.
History
Unified Access Gateway was originally developed by a startup company named Whale Communications in Rosh HaAyin, Israel. Whale's initial product, e-Gap, was designed to create physical separation between networks of disparate trust levels. It consisted of an appliance housing a 512k memory chip that toggled connections between two servers via a SCSI bus. The product was originally built to offer sneaker-net services and shortly thereafter features to enable HTTP connections were added. In the 90's and early 2000's, e-Gap was enhanced to provide comprehensive reverse proxy features that included in-depth filtering of inbound traffic to ensure the security of the web servers and applications it protected. As adoption grew, the product pivoted to focus more specifically on Remote Access use-cases and additional features and licensing options were added to provide employee and contractor remote access across a range of connectivity options. In 2002, the market evolved into offering more comprehensive SSL VPN features. Whale's uniqueness was in its ability to granularly filter and alter the flow of traffic to enable a path of least access and protect from both known and unknown attacks/vulnerabilities using an application specific positive logic filtering engine.
On 18 May 2006, Microsoft announced that it would be acquiring Whale Communications. Microsoft completed the acquisition on 26 July 2006. Following this acquisition, the product was renamed Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway Server 2007. With this version, the SCSI-based Air Gap (e-Gap) was dropped, and the product was unified as a single-server appliance. Instead of using the Air Gap as the security barrier, IAG used Microsoft's ISA Server firewall product. IAG was offered to the public as a pre-installed appliance by Celestix Networks, IVO Networks, PortSys and nAppliance. In 2009, with the release of Service Pack 2 for IAG, the product was also offered directly to the public from Microsoft in the form of a virtual appliance (a first of its kind form-factor for Microsoft) - a pre-installed VHD which could be run on Hyper-V or VMware Workstation.
In April 2008, Microsoft announced that the next generation of IAG will be named Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG). The product was released on 24 December 2009. UAG's core new functionality centered on its Dir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPJR-TV | KPJR-TV (channel 38) is a religious television station licensed to Greeley, Colorado, United States, serving the Denver area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located in rural southwestern Weld County, east of Frederick.
The station formerly operated from a studio located on Yates Street in Westminster. TBN closed the facility in 2018 and sold it to Christian Television Network, ahead of the Federal Communications Commission's 2019 abolition of the "Main Studio Rule".
History
KPJR-TV first signed on the air on June 12, 2009; as it launched on the date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate, the station was the first television station in the Denver market that did not launch with a companion analog signal.
Subchannels
This station's digital signal, like most other full-service TBN owned-and-operated stations, carries five different TBN-run networks.
References
External links
www.tbn.org – Trinity Broadcasting Network official website
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 2009
PJR-TV
2009 establishments in Colorado |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDM | LDM, Ldm or LdM may stand for:
Science and technology
Logical data model, a representation of an organization's data, organized in terms of entities and relationships
Logical Disk Manager
Local Data Manager
LTSP Display Manager, an X display manager for Linux Terminal Server Project
Latitude dependent mantle, a widespread layer of ice-rich material on Mars
Unit for Loading meter, average height in a truck.
Other
Laguna del Maule (LdM)
Leonora Di Millie, a high end fashion brand
Scuola Lorenzo de' Medici, Italy
Liberal Democrats (UK), a British political party
Left defensive midfielder, a position in association football
Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport
Louis/Dressner McKenna, an American importer of wine. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Koji%20Kobayashi%20Computers%20and%20Communications%20Award | The IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE established in 1986. This award has been presented annually since 1988 for outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications.
The award is named in honor of Koji Kobayashi, who has been a leading force in advancing the integrated use of computers and communications.
The award may be presented to an individual, multiple recipients or team of up to three people.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
The award is sponsored by NEC.
Recipients
1988: Stuart Wecker
1989: Alexander G. Fraser
1990: Elwyn R. Berlekamp
1991: Stephen S. Lavenberg
1991: Martin Reiser
1992: Vinton G. Cerf
1992: Robert E. Kahn
1993: Gottfried Ungerboeck
1994: Jonathan Shields Turner
1995: Norman Abramson
1996: K. Mani Chandy
1997: Tim Berners-Lee
1998: Jack Keil Wolf
1999: Whitfield Diffie
1999: Martin Hellman
1999: Ralph Charles Merkle
2000: Ronald L. Rivest
2000: Adi Shamir
2000: Leonard Adleman
2001: John M. Cioffi
2002: Van Jacobson
2003: Bruce Hajek
2004: No Award
2005: Frank Kelly
2006: Nicholas F. Maxemchuk
2007: Donald F. Towsley
2008: Don Coppersmith
2009: Nick McKeown
2010: Larry L. Peterson
2011: Thomas J. Richardson
2011: Rüdiger L. Urbanke
2012: Jean Walrand
2013: Thomas Anderson
2014: George Varghese
2015: Albert Greenberg
2016: Leandros Tassiulas
2017: Kannan Ramchandran
2018: Victor Bahl
2019: R. Srikant
2020: Balaji Prabhakar
2021: Hari Balakrishnan
2022: Muriel Medard
2023: Ion Stoica
2024: Anja Feldmann
References
External links
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award page at IEEE
List of recipients of the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20state%20highways%20in%20Rajasthan | Rajasthan state has a good road network. The name of that highway is Rajasthan State Highway as "RJ SH", There are 48 National Highways in Rajasthan with total length of 10599.67 km (31-03-2019) and 170 State Highways with total length of 15517.5 km.
Expressways
List of Expressways in Rajasthan is as follows:
1. Amritsar–Jamnagar Expressway EC-3 NH-754, 1,257 km, greenfield, 6-lane.
2. Ludhiana-Bhatinda-Ajmer Expressway, greenfield, 6-lane.
3. Delhi–Jaipur Super Expressway, 195.1, will run parallel to NH-48 from Kherki Daula (Gurgaon) to Chandwaji, greenfield, under-construction.
4. Delhi–Jaipur Expressway NH-48 , operational.
5. Delhi–Mumbai Expressway, greenfield, operational.
5a. Jaipur–Kishangarh Expressway, greenfield, operational.
Planned, but not yet approved by MoRTH.
6. Kisthwar-Ludiana-Hisar-Mandsaur-Pune-Panvel roure.
6a. Kishtwar-Ludhiana-Hisar-Jaipur-Kota-Mandsaur- Expressway, mix of brownfield and greenfield.
6b. Mandsaur-Ratlam-,Shirdi-Pune-Dhabol-Panji Expressway, mix of brownfield and greenfield. From Mandsaur, Ratlam, Rajgarh, Barwani, Shirpur, Dhile, Malegaon, Manmad, Shirdi, Sangamner, Pune, Malkhed, Velhe, Mahad, Dapoli, Dhabol-Guhagar (bridge), Jaigad (bridge), Ratnagiri, Vijaydurg to Panvel.
7. DSDBO-Chandigarh-Hisar-Beawar-Vadodra Expressway to Mumbai, mix of brownfield and greenfield.
8. Ambala-Patiala-Sirsa-Anupgarh Expressway, mix of brownfield and greenfield.
9. Killar-Pathankot-Fazilka-Sri Ganganagar Expressway, mix of brownfield and greenfield.
10. Sri Ganganagar-Ramgarh-Badhwa Expressway, greenfield, along Pakistan border via Anupgarh, Khajuwala, Ranjeetpura to Badhwa & Jasiya on Pakistan border.
11. Jaisalmer Expressway, brownfield & greenfield. From Badhwa to Loonar, Sam, Jaisalmer, Buili, Tanot/Kishangarh, Longewala, Badhwa.
12. Sam-Mavsari-Tharad-Deesa-Palanpur-Bichhiwara-Dungarpur-Pratapgarh route.
12a. Sam-Mavsari Expressway, direct alignment, mix of brownfield and greenfield, via Gagriya, Dadusar, Binjasar, Bakhasar-Mavsari.
12b. Mavsari-Palanpur Expressway, direct alignment, mix of brownfield and greenfield, via Gagriya, Dadusar, Binjasar, Bakhasar-Mavsari, Tharad, Deesa, Palanpur, Idar, Biloda, Bichhiwara, Dungarpur, Pratapgarh.
13. Dadoorewala-Phalodi-Jaipur Expressway, mix of brownfield and greenfield, via Nachna, Phalodi, Nagaur, Makeana-Kuchaman, Jobner, Jaipur.
14. Khajuwala-Bikaner-Kuchaman Expressway, mix of brownfield and greenfield, meet "Dadoorewala-Phalodi-Jaipur Expressway" near Kuchaman.
15. Sri Ganganagar-Narnaul-Mathura-Khatima Expressway, mix of brownfield and greenfield, via Taranagar, Sardulpur, Pilani, Buhana, Narnaul, Alwar, Mathura, Bareilly, Khatima.
16. Delhi-Mahendragarh-Jodhpur-Binjasar Expressway, mix of brownfield and greenfield, via Najafgarh, Badli, Kosli, Mahendragarh, Sikar, Malusar, Khatu Khurd, Kuchera, Gotan, Jodhpur, Jodhpur-Balotra-Sindhari existing, Sindhari-Mangta-Itada-Binhasar greenfield.
17. Delhi-Narnaul-Sir Creek Exp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Dean | Mark Dean may refer to:
Mark Dean (computer scientist) (born 1957), American inventor and computer engineer
Mark Dean (footballer) (born 1964), English soccer player
Mark Dean (swimmer) (born 1967), USA Olympic team member in 1988
Mark Dean (American football) (1917–2006), American football player and coach
Mark Dean (basketball) (born 1971), Bahamian basketball player
Mark Dean (politician) (born 1980), American politician from West Virginia
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20data%20visualization | Biology data visualization is a branch of bioinformatics concerned with the application of computer graphics, scientific visualization, and information visualization to different areas of the life sciences. This includes visualization of sequences, genomes, alignments, phylogenies, macromolecular structures, systems biology, microscopy, and magnetic resonance imaging data. Software tools used for visualizing biological data range from simple, standalone programs to complex, integrated systems.
State-of-the-art and perspectives
Today we are experiencing a rapid growth in volume and diversity of biological data, presenting an increasing challenge for biologists. A key step in understanding and learning from these data is visualization. Thus, there has been a corresponding increase in the number and diversity of systems for visualizing biological data.
An emerging trend is the blurring of boundaries between the visualization of 3D structures at atomic resolution, visualization of larger complexes by cryo-electron microscopy, and visualization of the location of proteins and complexes within whole cells and tissues.
A second emerging trend is an increase in the availability and importance of time-resolved data from systems biology, electron microscopy and cell and tissue imaging. In contrast, visualization of trajectories has long been a prominent part of molecular dynamics.
Finally, as datasets are increasing in size, complexity, and interconnectedness, biological visualization systems are improving in usability, data integration and standardization.
List of visualization software
Many software systems are available for visualization biological data. The list below links some popularly used software, and systems grouped by application areas.
Medusa - A simple tool for interaction graph analysis. It is a Java based application and available as an applet.
Cytoscape - An open source software for integrating bio-molecular interaction networks with high-throughput expression data and other molecular states.
Proviz - ProViz is a standalone open source application under the GPL license.
PATIKA - It is a tool with integrated visual environment for collaborative construction and analysis of cellular pathways.
References
External links
Related conferences
BioVis: Symposium on Biological Data Visualization
Applications of Information Visualization in Bioinformatics
CIBDV: Computational Intelligence for Biological Data Visualization
IVBI: Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics Symposium
VMLS: Visualization in Medicine & Life Sciences
VIZBI: Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data
Bioinformatics
Visualization (graphics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write%20%26%20Wrong | Write & Wrong (also known as And She Was) is a 2007 Lifetime Television film directed by Graeme Clifford and starring Kirstie Alley and Eric Christian Olsen.
External links
Lifetime (TV network) films
2007 television films
2007 films
2007 comedy-drama films
Films directed by Graeme Clifford
American comedy-drama television films
Films shot in Vancouver
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICK-FM | CICK-FM, is a Canadian radio station, that broadcasts community radio programming at 93.9 FM over Gitdumden Territory in Smithers, British Columbia.
Owned by Smithers Community Radio Society, the station received CRTC approval on June 18, 2009.
CICK launched in January 2010.
On August 29, 2012, Smithers Community Radio Society received CRTC approval to operate an English-language 50 watt FM community radio station at Smithers.
CICK is a volunteer operated community radio station that provides programming with a focus on local artists, non-mainstream Canadian music, and commentary reflecting the community's diverse perspectives. With over 30 local shows and twice as many volunteers, it has become a hub for new music and art promotion in the community.
The summer of 2015 saw the opening of the Lounge Car, Smithers Community Radio's live music broadcasting studio and concert venue.
References
External links
Smithers Radio
CICK-FM History - Canadian Communication Foundation
Earshot CICK 93.9FM top 30
Ick
Ick
Smithers, British Columbia
Radio stations established in 2010
2010 establishments in British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbin%20Tomaszeski | Corbin Tomaszeski (born ) is a Canadian restaurant consultant and celebrity chef based in Toronto, Ontario. He is known for his appearances on the Food Network shows Restaurant Makeover and Dinner Party Wars. He graduated from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Tomaszeski was formerly the executive chef at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel and conference center in Toronto.
References
External links
Corbin on Food Network
1970s births
Living people
Canadian television chefs
People from Toronto
Participants in Canadian reality television series
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology alumni
Canadian male chefs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrajit%20Bajaj | Chandrajit Bajaj (born 1958 in Calcutta, India) is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin holding the Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization and is the director of the Computational Visualization Center, in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES).
Career
Dr. Bajaj studied Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and obtained his BTech degree in 1980. From there he went on to Cornell University, where he obtained his master's degree and PhD in Computer Science, in 1983 and 1984, respectively. He held a faculty position in computer science at Purdue University from 1984 to 1997, a visiting assistant professorship in Computer Sciences at Cornell University from 1990 to 1991, and was the Director of the Image Analysis and Visualization Center at Purdue University from 1996 to 1997. Since 1997, he has been a professor of Computer Sciences, the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair of Visualization, and the director of the Computational Visualization Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
Bajaj's research has been in the fields of computational biology, geometric modeling, image processing, computational geometry, computer graphics, compression, mesh generation, scientific computation, and visualization.
Bajaj is a current editorial board member for the ACM Computing Surveys, the International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications, and the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. He has been an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Graphics. Bajaj served as the conference program chair or co-chair for the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2002 and the SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling in 2011.
Awards
Bajaj has been selected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009) and the American Association of the Advancement of Sciences (2008). His research has been awarded the Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty Award in 2011.
Several of his publications have been selected for best paper awards including Computer Aided Design and the 2010 Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling.
Selected publications
Bajaj has authored or co-authored over 100 articles in scholarly journals as well authoring or editing several books listed below.
Books
References
External links
American computer scientists
Indian computer scientists
Cornell University alumni
IIT Delhi alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
1958 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris%20Atteberry | Kris Atteberry is an American baseball broadcaster. He joined John Gordon and Dan Gladden as the pre- and post-game host and backup play-by-play broadcaster for the Minnesota Twins Radio Network in 2007. Prior to joining the Minnesota Twins, Atteberry was the radio and television voice of the independent minor league St. Paul Saints for five seasons. He has also called football and basketball games for Montana State University.
A native of Bozeman, Montana, Atteberry is a 1996 graduate of Stanford University with a degree in English literature.
References
External links
Kris Atteberry broadcaster biography
Twins Radio Network
Feature article in Hotchkiss Magazine
Living people
Radio in Minnesota
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Minnesota Twins announcers
Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
People from Bozeman, Montana
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20test%20generator | Random test generators (often abbreviated RTG or ISG for Instruction Stream Generator or Instruction Sequence Generator) are a type of computer software that is used in functional verification of microprocessors. Their primary use lies in providing input stimulus to a device under test.
In a simulation/testbench verification environment, the simulator processes input created by the RTG and coverage monitors may be used to verify that the generator is properly testing the design.
Random test generators range in scope from simple scripts and parameterized macros that can be created in a matter of weeks to full featured systems requiring extensive software development. Random test generators are most often created by the designing organizations.
Table Based Generators
Table based test generators are the simplest RTGs available. Creation of such generators can be accomplished relatively quickly, and maintenance requirements are often low. These generators work by capturing knowledge of the design's instruction set architecture and storing it in a relational database for later use. Because of their simplistic nature, table based generators may be used by less skilled personnel to create interesting tests. There is a drawback to these generators however, as their implementation is generally restricted to simple architectures. Usage on more complex ISAs may result in an inability to reach corner cases or create complex scenarios. Table based generators may also generate invalid tests at times.
Static Generators
Static generators are similar to table based generators with the exception that the majority of the instruction, operand and data selection reside in complex procedural code. Static generators are capable of producing more random behavior than table based generators, but still have trouble hitting many corner-cases. In addition, the skill level required to create and maintain such a tool rises sharply once this level of sophistication is reached.
Dynamic Generators
Dynamic generators incorporate significant knowledge about the architecture being tested. They enhance the ability of less-skilled users to generate complex tests that can hit hard-to-reach corner cases without stumbling on subtle programming pitfalls. This added knowledge, flexibility and ease-of-use is reflected in a more complex generator, and consequently the cost of creating and maintaining the generator are greater than for table-based or static generators.
References
External links
IBM Genesys Pro
Obsidian Software RAVEN
MicroTESK, an open-source ISG developed by the Russian Academy of Sciences
IEEE article - A universal random test generator for functional verification of microprocessors and system-on-chip
Electronic circuit verification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Marquis | Mary Elizabeth Marquis (born 28 November 1935) is a former leading interviewer and presenter on BBC Scotland from the mid-1960s, and became the face of the network's evening news programme Reporting Scotland until 1988, including the whole of the 1970s Nationwide era when input from BBC broadcasters based at the corporation's other studios around the UK contributed to a national programme.
Early life
Marquis was born in Glasgow. She trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.
Career
She joined Border TV as an in-vision continuity announcer and presenter in 1961. She was the first person seen on screen at Border, opening the station's transmission with the words "Good evening and welcome to Border Television" when it went on air for the first time at 5:45pm on Friday 1 September 1961.
Two years later she moved to BBC Scotland, travelling all over Scotland to interview people for A Quick Look Round (and later for her own series First Person Singular from 1970 – 75), before becoming one of the three lead presenters of Reporting Scotland at its inception in 1968, and subsequently, the programme's main anchor for most of the next twenty years. With the start of Nationwide in 1969, she became a frequent face on television across the whole of the UK.
Marquis left Reporting Scotland to become one of the first presenters of Good Morning Scotland and stand-in as anchor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme but later returned to television news at BBC Scotland in September 1975, continuing as anchor of Reporting Scotland until her departure from the BBC in 1988.
She has subsequently been involved with various arts, medical and academic organisations, and also did a series of live interviews at the Edinburgh Festival. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1983 New Year Honours list, and honoured with a special award for 'Special Contribution to Scottish Broadcasting' at the 2007 Scottish BAFTA awards.
RCS awards an annual Mary Marquis prize for student performance in television, commemorating her time there.
Personal life
In 1962 she married Jack Anderson, a Glasgow (subsequently also Canada and London)-based architect and lecturer, and a son David was born two years later. Although expecting to be dismissed, she continued to appear on screen almost until the birth (including one interview conducted on a roof), and was back in the studio afterwards within six weeks.
References
External links
Title sequences for Reporting Scotland, TV ark. Including a 1985 version, seguing to Mary Marquis at the news desk
Mary Marquis attempting to feed the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo (film clip), BBC News Scotland website
Reported Scotland: 50 Years of BBC TV News, 60-minute BBC Scotland film, shown 30 September 2007. YouTube copy.
Living people
BBC Scotland newsreaders and journalists
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Mass media people from Glasgow
Scots language activists
Scottish television presenter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco%20Macro | Banco Macro is the second largest domestically-owned private bank in Argentina, and the sixth-largest by deposits and lending. It began operating in 1988 as a bank and has a wide network of branches and ATMs throughout the country, which allows it to provide banking services to a broad customer base.
Overview
Banco Macro began operations as Financiera Macro, a brokerage specializing in arbitrage founded by Mario Brodersohn, José Dagnino Pastore and Alieto Guadagni, in 1976. The institution was purchased by a competing arbitrageur, Jorge Brito, in 1985. Granted authorization to operate as a commercial bank by the Central Bank of Argentina in 1988, Banco Macro operated as a wholesale bank until 1995, becoming a pioneer in the Argentine corporate bonds market. During this interim. its business revolved around money market investments, trading of government and corporate bonds and financial services for medium and larger companies.
Macro acquired capital stock in numerous privatized provincial banks during 1996: Banco Misiones (93%), Banco Salta (98%) and Banco Jujuy (100%). It later acquired Banco Noroeste C.L. and participated in the restructuring of a number of struggling, private-sector and cooperative banks: Almafuerte Coop. Ltdo., Mayo S.A., Israelita de Córdoba S.A. and Mendoza S.A. (increasing its presence in the northern and central areas of Argentina).
Macro purchased 60% of Banco Bansud in December 2001. This entity was a leader private bank in the southern part of Argentina, with significant background in its area of influence and a large branch network; but it had been adversely affected by that year's economic and financial crisis. Following the August 2002 purchase of Scotiabank Quilmes, Macro acquired the remaining shares of Banco Bansud and, in December 2004, it acquired Nuevo Banco Suquía S.A. - becoming the third-ranking private Argentine bank in terms of net assets, the fourth in terms of deposits and the fifth in terms of credit outstanding to the private sector.
Macro acquired Banco Empresario del Tucumán and Banco del Tucumán, in 2005. These two institutions were made a part of the Macro Group, maintaining Banco del Tucumán as financial agent for the province and incorporating the acquired bank's branches. Macro then acquired Nuevo Banco Bisel S.A., in 2006. Bisel's acquisition made Macro the largest private, domestically-owned bank in Argentina, with around 7,900 employees and 440 branches,. In March, 2006, the bank changed its corporate name from Macro Bansud to Macro, and was listed in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), becoming the first Argentine company to be listed abroad since 1997.
The merger with Nuevo Banco Suquía S.A. was completed in 2007. This further advanced Macro's presence in the interior provinces of Argentina, adding over 250 branches. Macro is the only Argentine bank to have enjoyed 28 consecutive quarters of net profit as of early 2009; in 2008, it earned a net, pre-tax income of US$288 million. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%20Doeng | Bat Doeng () is a town in Kampong Speu province in central Cambodia.
Transport
It is served by a station on the national railway network.
Bat Doeng is the proposed site for the junction of a new railway connecting Cambodia with Vietnam at Lộc Ninh.
See also
Transport in Cambodia
References
Towns in Cambodia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20highways%20in%20Haryana | The state of Haryana in North India has a vast road network with 34 National Highways (NH) with a total length of 2,484 km, 11 Expressways (including 3 National Expressways), State Highways (SH) with a total length of 1,801 km, major district roads (MDR) with a length of 1,395 km and other district roads with a length of 26,022 km (2016).
List of National Highways in Haryana
National Highway 105 (India)
National Highway 11 (India)
National Highway 148A (India)
National Highway 148B (India)
National Highway 148N (India)
National Highway 152 (India)
National Highway 152A (India)
National Highway 152D (India)
National Highway 248A (India)
National Highway 248BB (India)
National Highway 254 (India)
National Highway 334B (India)
National Highway 334D (India)
National Highway 344 (India)
National Highway 352 (India)
National Highway 352A (India)
National Highway 352R (India)
National Highway 352W (India)
National Highway 44 (India)
National Highway 444A (India)
National Highway 48 (India)
National Highway 5 (India)
National Highway 52 (India)
National Highway 54 (India)
National Highway 7 (India)
National Highway 703 (India)
National Highway 709 (India)
National Highway 709A (India)
National Highway 709AD (India)
National Highway 9 (India)
National Highway 907 (India)
National Highway 907G (India)
National Highway 919 (India)
Kaithal Pundri Karnal Highway
State Highways (SH)
The state highways are arterial routes of a state, linking district headquarters and important towns within the state and connecting them with national highways or Highways of the neighboring states.
Major District Roads (MDR)
Other District Roads (ODR)
Haryana also has at least 11,216 km other district roads (ODR), also known as the village roads.
Expressways
Following expressways, also called e-ways, pass through Haryana.
See also
List of National Highways in India by highway number
Railway in Haryana
Airports in Haryana
Divisions of Haryana
References
External links
Multi-model transport network map of Haryana, created by Haryana Space Applications Centre, Hisar (HARSAC)
Road network of Haryana, created by HARSAC
Haryana PWD Site
State Highways
Haryana State Highways
State Highways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharing%20the%20Secret | Sharing the Secret is a 2000 American television drama film about a teenage girl's struggle with bulimia and its effect on her parents and friends. Originally airing on CBS television networks in the United States, the film has also aired on cable television's Lifetime Network. In 2001, the film received a Peabody Award for "an impressive, moving, and candid portrait of a teenager in crisis."
Plot
By all outward appearances, teenager Beth Moss (Alison Lohman) has a good life. She is attractive, popular, and excels academically and at ballet. Beth, however, feels that she is not living up to expectations and is not in control of her life. Adjusting to her parents' divorce and trying to live up to their opposing compliments, Beth is afraid to grow up and at the same time struggles to fit in with her maturing friends. She turns to binging and purging as a means to gain control over at least one aspect of her life.
The first sign of any problem comes with a dizzy misstep during a ballet class. Beth begs her instructor (Irina Gasanova) not to tell her mother (Mare Winningham). In a later scene, Beth first hides a severe symptom (bleeding gums) from her friends, but then teaches one friend (Kady Cole) how to purge by inducing vomiting.
When playing a game with another friend, Sophia (Brighton Hertford), Beth cites her mother's complaints about the patients she sees in her child psychology practice as the cause of her greatest fear, which is to "not fit in ... in some way." She tells her friend that she does not want to be "like those people."
Throughout the film, Beth becomes adept at hiding her symptoms. After she passes out in her school hallway, she calls her step-mother (Mary Crosby) to pick her up from school to avoid telling her mother. At her father's (Tim Matheson) insistence, she sees a physician who diagnoses her as anemic. When the doctor asks if she has been eating, she says that she usually eats properly, but has not lately because she was sick. She then hides her scarred knuckles. When Beth's mother notices these Russell's signs later, Beth passes them off as old cat-scratches.
Upon Beth's return to school, her school counselor (Khadijah Karriem) confronts the girl with the observation that she may be bulimic. The school counselor is very sympathetic and attempts to get Beth to discuss her problems. Beth is forced to tell her mother, but insists that she no longer has a problem. This sets off a major conflict between the mother and daughter. Dr. Moss decides Beth must enter counseling. This conflict is paralleled in the film as Beth's grandmother (Diane Ladd) tries to console her daughter without really understanding her situation.
Another parallel is seen in one of Dr. Moss's patients, a little girl named Rachel (Camryn Grimes) who; like Beth, is feeling squeezed out by her father (Lawrence Monoson) and stepfamily. Beth hints at her resentment towards her stepmother, referring to her as a trophy wife. Beth begins counseling and is, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT1%20%28disambiguation%29 | ANT1 may refer to:
ANT1 – Greek TV network airing in Greece and Cyprus
ANT1 Group – Owner of ANT1 network
ANT1 Pacific – Subscription TV channel partially owned by ANT1 Greece
ANT1 Europe – Free TV channel partially owned by ANT1 Greece
ANT1 Satellite – Subscription TV channel partially owned by ANT1 Greece
ANT1 (protein) – ANT1 (adenine nucleotide translocator 1) is the most abundant protein in the inner mitochondrial membrane. It is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the SLC25A4 gene
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRI%20%28company%29 | IRI (Information Resources, Inc.) is a data analytics and market research company headquartered in the United States. The company provides clients with consumer, shopper, and retail market intelligence as well as analysis on consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, and healthcare industries.
History
Information Resources, Incorporated (IRI) was formed in Chicago in 1979 by market researcher John Malec and Gerald Eskin, a University of Iowa marketing professor. The two purchased scanners for supermarkets to gather point-of-sale data based on bar codes in grocery stores that could be sold to CPG companies to track what customers purchase.
In 1983, IRI became a public company.
By 1993, Fortune Magazine named IRI a "company to watch" for expanding into two of its sizeable markets: analyzing nationwide scanner data on consumer products and producing computer software. At that time, slightly more than half of IRI's revenues came from Info scan, its marketing data service.
In late 2003, IRI was acquired by joint-venture cooperation between enterprise software provider Symphony Technology Group and investment capital firm Tennenbaum Capital Partners.
In March 2011, New York-based private equity firm New Mountain Capital bought Symphony IRI and the company announced that it was changing its name back to Information Resources Inc., or IRI.
In April 2013, Symphony IRI Group, Inc. announced that it was rebranding as IRI.
In January 2019, New Mountain Capital and Vestar Capital Partners (“Vestar”) announced that Vestar would lead a new investment in IRI.
Management
In February 2004, IRI named former Electronic Data Systems Corp executive Scott Klein as its president and CEO, succeeding Joe Durret. Klein served as CEO until October 2007, when he moved to IRI's parent company, Symphony Technology Group, and was succeeded by former Salesforce.com executive John Freeland.
In June 2012, Symphony IRI Group, Inc. appointed former Aon COO and McKinsey & Company senior partner Andrew Appel as president and CEO to succeed John G. Freeland, who moved to an interim role as executive vice chairman.
In May 2021, IRI named former Google executive and CPG advertising leader Kirk Perry as president and CEO, succeeding Andrew Appel, who remained in the company as an advisor and member of its board of directors.
References
Market research
Business services companies established in 1979
Companies based in Chicago
1979 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20Disk%20User | Commodore Disk User, also referred to as CDU, was a magazine for the Commodore range of computers, including the Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and Commodore Plus/4. Each issue had a cover-mounted disk containing software.
History
It was published in the UK by Argus Specialist Publications which also published the Your Commodore. It was aimed at Commodore users who had a 1541 disk drive and did not want to have to type in program listings. It also meant that larger programs could be included with the magazine. Initially, an issue of the magazine was published every two months but after two years, it became monthly.
The magazine survived until the end of 1991. The last issue (number 36) was cover dated October 1991. Copies were scanned into Archive.org in 2011.
References
Bi-monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Home computer magazines
Commodore 8-bit computer magazines
Magazines established in 1987
Magazines disestablished in 1991
Magazines published in London
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Video game magazines published in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McCaslin | John McCaslin (born October 31, 1957) is an American newspaperman, broadcaster and author. He is the former co-anchor of America’s Morning News, produced by Talk Radio Network. On a daily basis for nearly two decades, he penned the syndicated political column titled Inside the Beltway.
Personal life
McCaslin was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the son of senior FBI Special Agent Robert W. McCaslin. He graduated from Old Dominion University in 1980 with a degree in speech communication.
Career
McCaslin began his journalism career in 1980 in Kalispell, Montana, working as news director and anchor of radio station KOFI-AM. From 1982–84 he was news director and anchor of Bee Broadcasting, Inc. stations KJJR-AM and KBBZ-FM in Whitefish, Montana. He was also an award-winning correspondent for United Press International and stringer for NBC and ABC.
In 1984, McCaslin joined the Washington Times as a White House correspondent, working under Jeremiah A. O’Leary. For two years, he covered the war in Nicaragua from Washington, Miami and Managua. His other beats included the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Congress. He was appointed assistant national editor, and became metropolitan editor when DC Mayor Marion Barry was the target of a federal investigation and indictment. In 1992 he began penning Inside the Beltway, which was later syndicated by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and Chicago’s Tribune Media Services and was hosted on wsRadio in 2008–2009. His writings have appeared in a number of national publications. His cover stories for Capitol File magazine have featured Katie Couric, Katherine Heigl, Mira Sorvino, Padma Lakshmi, Kerry Washington, and Lauren Graham. He has also been a travel writer, filing extensively from around the world.
McCaslin has been a regular guest of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and Booknotes with Brian Lamb, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday, and the BBC. He has been guest host for Rush Limbaugh, Mary Matalin, Sam Donaldson, Oliver North and Michael Reagan, among other syndicated radio hosts.
In 2009, McCaslin was tapped by the Talk Radio Network to be co-host of America's Morning News, syndicated to 200-plus stations around the country and featuring interviews with U.S. presidents and politicians to Hollywood elites and national sports figures. McCaslin resigned as co-host in 2013. In 2014, McCaslin joined the digital news startup Styrk as director of content. In January 2017, he became editor of the Rappahannock News, published since 1877 in Little Washington, Virginia. In September 2022, he became a columnist for the Flathead Beacon in Kalispell.
Books
Weed Man: The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine (2009)
Inside the Beltway: Offbeat Stories, Scoops and Shenanigans from Around the Nation’s Capitol (2004)
Chicken Soup for the Grandma's Soul (2006)
References
External links
America's Morning News - Talk Radio Network
American t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20coal%20reserves | The reserve list specifies different types of coal and includes countries with at least 0.1% share of the estimated world's proven reserves of coal. All data are taken from the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) via BP; all numbers are in million tonnes.
Background
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements; chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
As a fossil fuel burned for heat, coal supplies about a quarter of the world's primary energy and two-fifths of its electricity.
The largest consumer and importer of coal is China. China mines almost half the world's coal, followed by India with about a tenth. Australia accounts for about a third of world coal exports, followed by Indonesia and Russia.
Coal is largely held in the Earth in areas that it needs to be mined from, and is generally present in coal seams.
Estimation of proved reserves
Unlike "resources", which is the amount that could technically be extracted, according to BP "total proved reserves of coal" is "generally taken to be those quantities that geological and engineering information indicates with reasonable certainty can be recovered in the future from known reservoirs under existing economic and operating conditions". Thus, like oil reserves, coal reserves can vary with coal and carbon prices. There are various definitions of "reserve".
Unlike the internationally traded commodities hard or soft coal, lignite is not traded far from the place where it is mined because of its low value relative to transport costs, so it does not have a national price. For example lignite costs within India vary greatly.
List
See also
List of countries by coal production
World energy supply and consumption
World energy resources
Estimated ultimate recovery
Proven reserves
References
coal reserves
Energy economics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20North%20and%20Mid%20Wales | Heart North and Mid Wales is a regional radio station owned by Communicorp UK and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcasts to North and Mid Wales from studios in Gwersyllt, near Wrexham.
Heart North and Mid Wales launched at 6am on Tuesday 6 May 2014, replacing the former Heart North West and Wales station. The rebrand coincided with the relaunch of Heart South Wales - meaning a fully separate North and Mid Wales licence, effectively restoring a regional service to South and West Wales.
History
In December 2008, GMG Media was awarded an FM licence to launch a new Real Radio station serving North and Mid Wales. Initially, the company pledged to produce separate local programming and news bulletins for the region in addition to off-peak pan-Wales output. Following an agreed format change request, the existing service covering south and west Wales was instead expanded to form a national service with no opt-outs. Real Radio Wales began broadcasting to the area at 8am on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
On 6 February 2014, Global Radio reached an agreement to sell the Northern licence for Real Radio Wales and seven other stations across the UK to Communicorp. The adjoining South and West Wales licence remains under Global's ownership. Under OFCOM rules, the sale required the then all-Wales station to be split into two with separate Heart stations launched under separate owners.
The new Heart North and Mid Wales station launched at 6am on Tuesday 6 May 2014. The move coincided with the rebrand and relaunch of Heart's North West and Wales and Cymru stations as part of the Capital network. The Heart and Capital stations share facilities at Global's studios in Gwersyllt, near Wrexham.
In February 2019, following OFCOM's decision to relax local content obligations from commercial radio, Global announced it would replace Heart North and Mid Wales' local breakfast and weekend shows with networked programming from London.
As of 3 June 2019, the station's local output consists of a three-hour Drivetime show on weekdays, alongside local news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising.
Analogue (FM)
Digital (DAB)
On air date March 2013
Programming
All networked programming originates from Global's London headquarters, including Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden.
Regional programming is produced and broadcast from the Wrexham studios from 4-7pm on weekdays, presented by Oli Kemp and Megan Llyn.
News
Global's Cardiff Bay and Wrexham newsrooms broadcast hourly regional news bulletins from 6am-7pm on weekdays and 6am-12pm at weekends with headlines on the half hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows.
National news updates air hourly from Global's London headquarters at all other times.
References
External links
Adult contemporary radio stations in the United Kingdom
Communicorp
North Wales
Radio stations established in 2011
Heart North Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aho%20%28name%29 | Aho is a Finnish surname meaning "glade". Notable people with the surname include:
Aimo Aho (1951–2014), Finnish javelin thrower
Alfred Aho (born 1941), Canadian computer scientist
Bill Aho (born 1957), American businessman
Claire Aho (1925–2015), Finnish photographer
Eero Aho (born 1968), Finnish actor
Eric Aho (born 1966), American painter
Esko Aho (born 1954), former prime minister of Finland
Heikki Aho (filmmaker) (1895–1961), Finnish film director, of Aho & Soldan film production company
Heikki Aho (footballer) (born 1983), Finnish footballer
Joni Aho (born 1986), Finnish footballer
Juhana Aho (born 1993), Finnish ice hockey player
Juhani Aho (1861–1921), Finnish writer
Junior Aho (born 1999), French American football player
Jussi Halla-aho (born 1983), Finnish politician
Jussi Hauta-aho, Finnish rapper known as Kube
Jyrki Aho (born 1974), former Finnish ice hockey player
Kalevi Aho (born 1949), Finnish composer
Matti Aho (1934–1984), Finnish boxer
Matti Luoma-aho (1885–1943), Finnish politician
Martti Johannes Aho (1896–1986), Finnish colonel
Martti Korkia-Aho (1930–2012), Finnish politician
Ninos Aho (1945–2013), Assyrian poet and activist
Paavo Aho (1891–1918), Finnish athlete
Pascal Aho, Beninese sprinter
Peter Aho, (born 2003), Nigerian cricketer
Petri Aho, Finnish guitarist
Raila Aho (born 1937), Finnish politician
Sebastian Aho (ice hockey, born 1997), Finnish ice hockey player
Sebastian Aho (ice hockey, born 1996), Swedish ice hockey player
Seppo Aho, (born 1944), Finnish pentathlete
Susan Aho (born 1974), Finnish singer-songwriter and member of Värttinä
Teppo Hauta-aho (1941–2021), Finnish musician
Tommy Mansikka-Aho, Finnish musician
Tuomas Aho (born 1981), Finnish footballer
Viljo Aho, (1932–2013), Finnish boxer
Wayne Sulo Aho (1916–2006), American contactee
Finnish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Access | All Access may refer to:
"All Access" (CSI: NY), an episode of CSI: NY
All Access Mzansi, a show on the M-Net network in South Africa
Paramount+, formerly known as CBS All Access, an over-the-top streaming service operated by the ViacomCBS
UFC All Access, a reality TV show
VH1: All Access, a series of TV music specials
See also
All Access Europe, a 2002 video album by Eminem
All Access Pass, a comedy TV program
All Access Pass (video), a music DVD by Hilary Duff
All Access to All Things, a 2003 DVD by Mudvayne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novak%20Djokovic%20career%20statistics | This is a list of the main career statistics of the Serbian professional tennis player Novak Djokovic. All statistics are based on data from the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
Performance timelines
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Singles
Current through the 2023 Davis Cup Group stage
Doubles
* not held due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Grand Slam tournaments
Djokovic has won an all-time record 24 Grand Slam titles and he is the only man to achieve a triple Career Grand Slam by winning each of the four majors at least three time. Djokovic is also the only man in tennis history to be the reigning champion of all four majors at once across three different surfaces. He is the record holder for the most Grand Slam final played (36) and the only player to reach at least 7 finals at each of the four majors.
Grand Slam tournament finals: 36 (24 titles, 12 runner-ups)
Year–end championships
Djokovic has won a record six year-end championships (tied with Federer). He also holds a record streak of four titles from 2012 to 2015.
Year–end championship finals: 8 (6 titles, 2 runner-ups)
ATP Masters
Djokovic has won a record 39 Masters titles and he is the only player to complete the Career Golden Masters by winning all Masters tournaments of the tennis calendar, a feat he achieved twice. He also holds the record for most Masters won in a season with six titles in 2015.
Finals: 57 (39 titles, 18 runner-ups)
ATP career finals
Singles: 136 (96 titles, 40 runner-ups)
Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)
Summer Olympics
Singles: 3 (1 bronze medal, 2 fourth places)
Mixed doubles: 1 (1 fourth place)
ATP Challengers & ITF Futures
Singles: 6 (6 titles)
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
ATP ranking
Djokovic has spent the most weeks as ATP world No. 1, a record total of 397. He had been ranked No. 1 in a record 12 different years and finished as year-end No. 1 a record seven times. Djokovic also holds the record for most points accumulated at the top of the rankings (16,950).
Timeline
Weeks statistics
*.
ATP world No. 1
Weeks at No. 1 by span
World No. 1 ranking records
Span holding the No. 1 ranking
Age at first and last dates at No. 1
Head-to-head records
Record against top-10 players
Djokovic's match record against those who have been ranked in the top 10. Active players are in boldface.
Record against players ranked No. 11–20
Active players are in boldface.
Viktor Troicki 13–1
Andreas Seppi 12–0
Philipp Kohlschreiber 12–2
Feliciano López 9–1
Sam Querrey 9–2
Alexandr Dolgopolov 6–0
Albert Ramos Viñolas 6–0
Bernard Tomic 6–0
Kyle Edmund 6–1
Paul-Henri Mathieu 6–1
Jarkko Nieminen 6–1
Robby Ginepri 5–0
Florian Mayer 5–0
Igor Andreev 4–0
Borna Ćorić 4–0
Marcel Granollers 4–0
Cristian Garín 3–0
Lorenzo Musetti 3–1
Nikoloz Basilashvili 2–0
Juan Ignacio Chela 2–0
Aslan Karatsev 2–1
Benoît Paire 2–1
Pablo Cuevas 1–0
Alex de Minaur 1–0
Dominik Hrbatý 1–0
Jerzy Janowicz 1–0
Tommy Paul 1–0
Andrei Pavel 1–0
Guido Pella 1–0
Ben S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20molecular%20graphics%20systems | This is a list of notable software systems that are used for visualizing macromolecules.
Key
The tables below indicate which types of data can be visualized in each system:
See also
Biological data visualization
Comparison of nucleic acid simulation software
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
List of microscopy visualization systems
List of open-source bioinformatics software
Molecular graphics
Molecule editor
References
External links
A rather detailed, objective, and technical assessment of about 20 tools.
Chemistry software
molecular graphics systems
Molecular modelling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETV%202 | ETV 2 may refer to:
ETV2, Estonian television channel operated by ERR
ETV2 (India), Telugu news channel in Andhra Pradesh, India, operated by ETV Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsearch | Tsearch may mean:
tsearch/tsearch2, the full-text search extension for PostgreSQL
tsearch, the C programming language function for a binary search tree
Tsearch, the memory scanner, debugger similar to Cheat Engine used for Cheating in video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilar%20Rubio | Pilar Rubio Fernández (born 17 March 1978) is a Spanish reporter and TV presenter. She became famous for covering events for the program Sé lo que hicisteis... for the television network La Sexta. From January 2010 to January 2013 she was linked to Telecinco, having hosted Operación Triunfo and ¡Más que baile!, besides of being the protagonist of the series Piratas, released in May 2011. Since 2014 has appeared as a collaborator in El Hormiguero. In 2012, she started a relationship with footballer Sergio Ramos, with whom she has four children, they married in 2019.
Trajectory
She began to study Economics, although she did not finish the degree. She modelled in several men's magazines, and appeared in the movies Isi & Disi, alto voltaje and Carlitos y el campo de los sueños, also in two shorts: Merry Christmas of Fran Casanova and Cuestión de química of Juan Moya, acting along with Cristina Peña and Arturo Valls among others. In television she has appeared in commercials Amstel, Canal+, Hyundai and in programs like Lo que necesitas es amor, The Price Is Right, La azotea de Wyoming and in Six pack, broadcast by the network Cuatro. Her definitive public success was her appearance in the comedy program Sé lo que hicisteis... of La Sexta, in which she reported diverse news articles. In the summer of 2007 she appeared in a humorous homemade videotapes program called La ventana indiscreta.
She won the award of best television reporter with Premio Joven 2007. In 2008 and 2009 she was selected as the sexiest woman in the world by the Spanish edition of the FHM magazine.
From 14 July to 29 August 2008, and in July 2009, she presented the program Sé lo que hicisteis... replacing Patricia Conde, who was on vacation. In January 2010 she was replaced by Cristina Pedroche.
She was hired by Telecinco on 12 November 2009 where she presented ¡Más que baile! and in 2011 the talent show Operación Triunfo that was canceled after 35 days due to low ratings. In May 2011 she became one of the stars of the new series of Telecinco Piratas. After 8 episodes, the series had to be withdrawn due to low ratings.
On 13 February 2012, the magazine Interviú published some of her naked photos. They were taken 14 years before for other publications of the same publishing group.
On 25 June 2012, she presented with José Corbacho the talent contest Todo el mundo es bueno, canceled three weeks later due to low ratings.
Since 2014 she has appeared as a collaborator in the comedy show El Hormiguero.
2013 was as Undead, on Annihilator's Feast album cover.
Personal life
She began a relationship with Spanish and then Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos in September 2012. It was confirmed during the FIFA Ballon d'Or gala. They have four sons.
On 16 July 2018, the couple got engaged. The wedding took place in Ramos' home-town of Sevilla on 15 June 2019.
Television
Lo que necesitas es amor, Antena 3. (1998-1999)
The Right Price, TVE. (1999-2001)
Esto es vida, TVE.
La azotea de Wyomi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20the%20Lawnmower | Larry the Lawnmower is an Australian pre-schoolers program broadcast that airs on Seven Network in Australia. created by Tim Faircloth.
The series follows Larry the Lawnmower and his four friends Wheelie the Wheelbarrow, Rosie the Rake, Tangles the Hose and Flash the Spade and their adventures in the backyard. The program is narrated and all the characters are voiced by Jay Laga'aia.
The program premiered on 9 December 2008 at 11:00am. A second series began on 16 February 2009. On 21 May 2009 it was announced due to popular demand the series would be repeated. In December 2015, Larry the Lawnmower reruns aired on 7TWO until February or March 2016 before re-airing the reruns again in May 2017 and January 2018.
References
External links
Official site
Ambience Entertainment
Larry the Lawnmower on 7plus
Seven Network original programming
2008 Australian television series debuts
2010 Australian television series endings
2000s preschool education television series
2010s preschool education television series
Australian preschool education television series
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
Australian non-fiction television series
Australian children's television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20language | In mathematics, logic and computer science, a formal language (a set of finite sequences of symbols taken from a fixed alphabet) is called recursive if it is a recursive subset of the set of all possible finite sequences over the alphabet of the language. Equivalently, a formal language is recursive if there exists a Turing machine that, when given a finite sequence of symbols as input, always halts and accepts it if it belongs to the language and halts and rejects it otherwise. In Theoretical computer science, such always-halting Turing machines are called total Turing machines or algorithms (Sipser 1997). Recursive languages are also called decidable.
The concept of decidability may be extended to other models of computation. For example, one may speak of languages decidable on a non-deterministic Turing machine. Therefore, whenever an ambiguity is possible, the synonym used for "recursive language" is Turing-decidable language, rather than simply decidable.
The class of all recursive languages is often called R, although this name is also used for the class RP.
This type of language was not defined in the Chomsky hierarchy of . All recursive languages are also recursively enumerable. All regular, context-free and context-sensitive languages are recursive.
Definitions
There are two equivalent major definitions for the concept of a recursive language:
A recursive formal language is a recursive subset in the set of all possible words over the alphabet of the language.
A recursive language is a formal language for which there exists a Turing machine that, when presented with any finite input string, halts and accepts if the string is in the language, and halts and rejects otherwise. The Turing machine always halts: it is known as a decider and is said to decide the recursive language.
By the second definition, any decision problem can be shown to be decidable by exhibiting an algorithm for it that terminates on all inputs. An undecidable problem is a problem that is not decidable.
Examples
As noted above, every context-sensitive language is recursive. Thus, a simple example of a recursive language is the set L={abc, , , ...};
more formally, the set
is context-sensitive and therefore recursive.
Examples of decidable languages that are not context-sensitive are more difficult to describe. For one such example, some familiarity with mathematical logic is required: Presburger arithmetic is the first-order theory of the natural numbers with addition (but without multiplication). While the set of well-formed formulas in Presburger arithmetic is context-free, every deterministic Turing machine accepting the set of true statements in Presburger arithmetic has a worst-case runtime of at least , for some constant c>0 . Here, n denotes the length of the given formula. Since every context-sensitive language can be accepted by a linear bounded automaton, and such an automaton can be simulated by a deterministic Turing machine with worst-case |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Medical%20Telemetry%20Service | Wireless Medical Telemetry Service (WMTS) is a wireless service specifically defined in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for transmission of data related to a patient's health (biotelemetry). It was created in 2000 because of interference issues due to establishment of digital television. The bands defined are 608-614 MHz, 1395-1400 MHz and 1427-1432 MHz. Devices using these bands are typically proprietary. Further, the use of these bands has not been internationally agreed to, so many times devices cannot be marketed or used freely in countries other than the United States.
Because of this, in addition to WMTS, many manufacturers have created devices that transmit data in the ISM bands such as 902-928 MHz, and, more typically, 2.4-2.5 GHz, often using IEEE 802.11 or Bluetooth radios.
FCC statements
There is an FCC statement on coexistence of WMTS in various frequency bands.
Prior to the establishment of the WMTS, medical telemetry devices generally could be operated on an unlicensed basis on vacant television channels 7-13 (174-216 MHz) and 14-46 (470-668 MHz) or on a licensed but secondary basis to private land mobile radio operations in the 450-470 MHz frequency band. This meant that wireless medical telemetry operations had to accept interference from the primary users of these frequency bands, i.e., the television broadcasters and private land mobile radio licensees. Further, if a wireless medical telemetry operation caused interference to television or private land mobile radio transmissions, the user of the wireless medical telemetry equipment would be responsible for rectifying the problem, even if that meant shutting down the medical telemetry operation.
The FCC was concerned that certain regulatory developments, including the advent of digital television (DTV) service, would result in more intensive use of these frequencies by the primary services, subjecting wireless medical telemetry operations to greater interference than before and perhaps precluding such operations entirely in many instances. To ensure that wireless medical telemetry devices can operate free of harmful interference, the FCC decided to establish the WMTS. In a Report and Order released on June 12, 2000, the FCC allocated a total of 14 megahertz of spectrum to WMTS on a primary basis. At the same time, it adopted a number of regulations to ensure that the WMTS frequencies are used effectively and efficiently for their intended medical purpose. The WMTS rules took effect on October 16, 2000
WMTS rules by FCC
Band Plan:
The frequencies currently allocated for WMTS are divided into three blocks: the 608-614 MHz frequency band (which corresponds to UHF TV channel 37 but is not used by any TV station because it is used for radio astronomy) and the 1395-1400 MHz and 1427-1432 MHz frequency bands (both of which had been used by the Federal Government but were reallocated to the private sector under the Omnibus Budget Reconcilia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hackers%20Conference | The Hackers Conference is an annual invitation-only gathering of designers, engineers and programmers to discuss the latest developments and innovations in the computer industry. On a daily basis, many hackers only interact virtually, and therefore rarely have face-to-face contact. The conference is a time for hackers to come together to share ideas.
History
The first Hackers Conference was organized in 1984 in Marin County, California, by Stewart Brand and his associates at Whole Earth and The Point Foundation. It was conceived in response to Steven Levy's book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which inspired Brand to arrange a meeting between the individuals, or "hackers", the book named. The first conference's roughly 150 attendees included Steve Wozniak, Ted Nelson, Richard Stallman, John Draper, Richard Greenblatt, Robert Woodhead, and
Bob Wallace. The gathering has been identified as instrumental in establishing the libertarian ethos attributed to cyberculture, and was the subject of a PBS documentary, produced by KQED: Hackers - Wizards of the Electronic Age.
Participants at the original 1984 Hackers Conference
Here is the list of participants at the original 1984 Hackers Conference, given in the contact list distributed to participants titled "List of Participants at the Hackers' Conference November 9–11, 1984"
Arthur Abraham,
Roe Adams,
Phil Agre,
Dick Ainsworth,
Bob Albrecht,
Bill Atkinson,
Bill Bates,
Allen Baum,
Bruce Baumgart,
Mike Beeler,
Ward Bell,
Gerry Berkowitz,
Nancy Blachman,
Steve Bobker,
Stewart Bonn,
Russell Brand,
Stewart Brand,
John Brockman,
Dennis Brothers,
Bill Budge,
John Bumgarner,
Bill Burns,
Art Canfil,
Steve Capps,
Doug Carlston,
Simon Cassidy,
Dave Caulkins,
Richard Cheshire,
Fred Cisin,
Mike Coffey,
Margot Comstock,
Rich Davis,
Steven Dompier,
Wes Dorman,
John Draper,
Mark Duchaineau,
Les Earnest,
Philip Elmer-DeWitt,
Erik Fair,
Richard Fateman,
Lee Felsenstein,
Jay Fenlason,
Fabrice Florin,
Andrew Fluegelman,
Robert Frankston,
Paul Freiberger,
Rob Fulop,
Robert Gaskins,
Nasir Gebelli,
Steve Gibson,
Geoff Goodfellow,
Richard Greenblatt,
Roger Gregory,
Leslie Grimm,
Robert Hardy,
Brian Harvey,
Dick Heiser,
Matt Herron,
Andy Hertzfeld,
Bruce Horn,
David Hughes,
John James,
Tom Jennings,
Jerry Jewell,
Chris Jochumson,
Ted Kaehler,
Sat Tara Khalsa,
Scott Kim,
Peter LaDeau,
Fred Lakin,
Marc Le Brun,
Jim Leeke,
David Levitt,
Steven Levy,
Henry Lieberman,
Efrem Lipkin,
William Low,
David Lubar,
Scott Mace,
John Markoff,
David Maynard,
Bob McConaghy,
Roger Melen,
Diana Merry,
Mark Miller,
Charles Moore,
Michael Naimark,
Ted Nelson,
Terry Niksch,
Guy Nouri,
David Oster,
Ray Ozzie,
Donn Parker,
Howard Pearlmutter,
Mark Pelczarski,
Michael Perry,
Patricia Phelan,
Tom Pittman,
Eric Podietz,
Kevin Poulsen,
Jerry Pournelle,
Larry Press,
Steve Purcell,
Christopher Reed,
David Reed,
Barbara Robertson,
Michael Rogers,
Pete Rowe,
Peter Samson,
Steve Saunders,
Laura Scholl,
Rich Schroeppel,
Tom Scoville,
Rony Se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altos%20Computer%20Systems | Altos Computer Systems was founded in 1977 by David G. Jackson and Roger William Vass Sr. It focused on small multi-user computers, starting with multi-user derivatives of CP/M, and later including Unix and Xenix-based machines. In its 1982 initial public offering on NASDAQ, the company raised $59M. Thereafter the company's stock was traded under the symbol ALTO.
Coming under increasing pressure from competitors in the server market, such as Compaq and Sun Microsystems, Altos posted a $5M loss (its first ever) in the fiscal year ending in June, 1989. In the aftermath, Altos was acquired by Acer in 1990 for $94M, although mostly for its US distribution channels rather than its technology. Shortly before this acquisition, there were about 128,000 Altos systems installed throughout the world.
Company history and products
According to a brief history of the company, which ran as an advertisement on their 10th anniversary, Altos Computer Systems was started by Dave Jackson in 1977 when he designed a single-board microcomputer in a room he rented on Stevens Creek Boulevard. According to this account, the company bootstrapped itself with profitable sales from the beginning, with a revenue of $260,000 in the first year. Jackson named the company after Los Altos Hills, California, where he lived.
In an interview from May 1979, the company's vice-president Roger Vass described the Altos' strategy at the time as selling OEM computer systems. Vass also said that the company's revenue had reached an annual figure of $5M that year, after 15 months of operations. The company's single-board computer product was named "Sun-Series 8000" at this point; it was based on 4-MHz Z80 processor and shipped with 32 KB of RAM, expandable to 64 KB. Altos eschewed using the (fairly standard at the time) S-100 bus, but packed their board with a disk controller (which could connect up to two 8-inch Shugart drives), two serial and one parallel port, while also leaving room for another optional Z80 to be used as DMA controller and an optional AMD 9511 floating-point coprocessor. As operating system, this machine could use CP/M or Oasis.
ACS 8000
In the aforementioned interview, Vass also described their plans for the company's first multi-user computer, based on a CP/M-derived executive that they called AMEX (Altos Multiuser Executive). Their new design planned to support up to four users, by providing each user with its own 48 KB of dedicated program memory (addressable by the 8-bit Z80 processor through bank switching), while the 16 KB of memory for the operating system's image could be shared by all users. An advertisement for the "Sun-Series ACS8000-6" sold under Altos' own brand appeared in the November 1979 issue of Byte, and indeed promised to support up to four users by means of its AMEX kernel, and supporting a maximum system memory of 208 KB. The ACS 8000 could run at least three multi-user operating systems: Altos' own AMEX, Oasis, or MP/M. The sample code for th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20hiding | In computer science, information hiding is the principle of segregation of the design decisions in a computer program that are most likely to change, thus protecting other parts of the program from extensive modification if the design decision is changed. The protection involves providing a stable interface which protects the remainder of the program from the implementation (whose details are likely to change). Written in another way, information hiding is the ability to prevent certain aspects of a class or software component from being accessible to its clients, using either programming language features (like private variables) or an explicit exporting policy.
Overview
The term encapsulation is often used interchangeably with information hiding. Not all agree on the distinctions between the two, though; one may think of information hiding as being the principle and encapsulation being the technique. A software module hides information by encapsulating the information into a module or other construct which presents an interface.
A common use of information hiding is to hide the physical storage layout for data so that if it is changed, the change is restricted to a small subset of the total program. For example, if a three-dimensional point (, , ) is represented in a program with three floating-point scalar variables and later, the representation is changed to a single array variable of size three, a module designed with information hiding in mind would protect the remainder of the program from such a change.
In object-oriented programming, information hiding (by way of nesting of types) reduces software development risk by shifting the code's dependency on an uncertain implementation (design decision) onto a well-defined interface. Clients of the interface perform operations purely through the interface, so, if the implementation changes, the clients do not have to change.
Encapsulation
In his book on object-oriented design, Grady Booch defined encapsulation as "the process of compartmentalizing the elements of an abstraction that constitute its structure and behavior; encapsulation serves to separate the contractual interface of an abstraction and its implementation."
The purpose is to achieve the potential for change: the internal mechanisms of the component can be improved without impact on other components, or the component can be replaced with a different one that supports the same public interface. Encapsulation also protects the integrity of the component, by preventing users from setting the internal data of the component into an invalid or inconsistent state. Another benefit of encapsulation is that it reduces system complexity and thus increases robustness, by limiting the interdependencies between software components.
In this sense, the idea of encapsulation is more general than how it is applied in object-oriented programming. For example, a relational database is encapsulated in the sense that its only public interface is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findo%20Gask%20%28band%29 | Findo Gask were an electropop band from Glasgow, Scotland, comprising Gerard Black (Kaoss Pad, Guitar, Vocals & Synths), Michael Marshall (Guitar, Drums, Synths & Programming), Gregory Williams (Bass, Vocals, Synths & Guitar) and Gavin Thomson (Synths, Vocals, Programming, Guitar, Bass).
Discography
Singles
"Findo Gask"/"Errors" split 7-inch (2005)
"Va Va Va" (2007)
"One Eight Zero" (2008)
References
External links
Findo Gask's MySpace Page
Findo Gask's Last.fm Page
OSCarr releases Gindo Gask Findo Gask press release, 2007
Findo Gask on the Under The Radar blog from the Scotsman
Musical groups from Glasgow
Scottish indie rock groups
Musical groups established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendra%20%28TV%20series%29 | Kendra is an American reality television series that debuted on the E! cable network, on June 7, 2009. The program is the first spin-off of The Girls Next Door, and documents the life of model Kendra Baskett, a former girlfriend of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, after moving out of the Playboy Mansion, including her engagement and marriage to football player Hank Baskett and her adjustment to being a first-time mother.
On March 21, 2012, Kendra announced that she had parted ways with E!, as the network "went in a different direction". This was following comments made by then-new E! president Bonnie Hammer in July 2011, where she vowed to "get rid of the more Playboy trashy element" from the network while the final season was completing production. This pledge also led to the cancellation of Holly's World.
The series was then followed up with Kendra on Top, which aired on WE tv from 2012-2017.
Synopsis
Kendra follows the antics of The Girls Next Door's Kendra Wilkinson. The blonde bombshell finds herself at a crossroads in her life as she leaves behind the luxuries and amenities of the legendary Playboy Mansion and ventures out to live on her own for the very first time. Newly married to Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Hank Baskett, Kendra struggles to find a balance between being a housewife, her new-found domestic duties and the fun, uninhibited lifestyle she has always lived.
Development
While shooting Season Five of "The Girls Next Door", Kendra confided to Executive Producer Kevin Burns that she would like to move out of the Playboy Mansion and move on with her life. Burns asked her if she was open to the idea of having a show of her own and, with her blessing, took the idea to E! The concept would involve "Kendra ... [moving] out and [living] with two roommates and it would be something like Three’s Company with her being a hot, hip-hop version of Suzanne Somers". However once Kendra revealed to Burns in September 2008 that she was in fact in a relationship (and weeks later, engaged), he realized the show he had envisioned wouldn't be viable and, instead, "ended up [with] a romance between [Kendra] and Hank and their engagement".
Cast
Kendra Baskett (b."Kendra Leigh Wilkinson" June 12, 1985 San Diego, California) She is the former star of The Girls Next Door (along with Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt) and a former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner. She has moved out of the Playboy Mansion and had rented a house in the valley of Los Angeles, California. In mid-2009 Kendra gave birth to a baby boy named Henry Baskett IV (born December 11, 2009) with husband Hank Baskett while living in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Hank Baskett (b."Henry "Hank" Baskett III" September 4, 1982 Clovis, New Mexico) He is Wilkinson's new husband. He moved in with Wilkinson on his off season from football, and the two were wed on June 27. The couple decided to move to Philadelphia to raise their baby boy due to Baskett's football commitments; they later moved to Indianap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Peter%20Chan | Patrick Peter Chan is a Canadian computer scientist based in Silicon Valley, California. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he attended the University of British Columbia, and the University of Waterloo. He holds a masters in Computer Science and has made some contributions to the field.
Education and career
Patrick Chan got a BS degree from the University of British Columbia before moving on to earn his MS degree at the University of Waterloo. He got his first job at his alma mater, UBC, before finding employment at Digital. After leaving Digital, he joined Sun Microsystems Inc. where he helped James Gosling create Java. He later moved to work at KMart's BlueLight.com as the company's CTO. He then worked as VP of Engineering of Composite Software, a San Mateobased firm specializing in virtual database integration. Currently, he works at Twitter in San Francisco.
Accomplishments & Awards
While best known for his Java Almanac and Java Class Libraries publications, Chan's most significant work was as a founding member and lead developer of the original Java platform project at Sun Microsystems, Inc. His publication "Rooms" was an early conception that paved the way for the implementation of virtual desktops. While working at BlueLight.com, he was recognized by InformationWeek Magazine as being one of the top 25 influential CTOs in 2000.
Chan was the winner of the 1998 Duke Award at JavaOne. In 2005, Chan earned a place in the 2006 World Settlers of Catan Championship by winning the qualifying tournament at the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio.
Publications
Patrick Chan, The Java Developers Almanac 1.4, Volume 1: Examples and Quick Reference, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002,
References
Canadian computer scientists
Living people
Scientists from Vancouver
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Berber | Philip Berber is an Irish-born American technology entrepreneur, now engaged in philanthropy, international aid, social entrepreneurship and impact investing. He sold CyBerCorp, his online brokerage for day traders, to Charles Schwab for $488m in 2000. He and his wife Donna then formed and funded A Glimmer of Hope, pledging $100 million of Schwab stock to endow the foundation.
He is currently engaged with philanthropy in Austin - by way of Glimmer|Austin- supporting local innovate early-stage non profits and social ventures. Philip is also engaged with Berber Family Investments and BerberFam, their Family Office, and serves on the Glimmer Board.
Early life
Berber was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1958. He attended Wesley College, Dublin and went to University College Dublin and studied Commerce (B Comm). He moved to London in 1979 and met his wife Donna a few years later. They moved to Houston, Texas in 1991, and to Austin in 1995 where they live with their three sons.
Business recognition
Berber won the Entrepreneur of the Year award for Central Texas in 2000 and was a national finalist the same year. University College Dublin awarded him with the Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2009, and that year Wall Street Journal described Berber as the “real star at the Clinton Global Initiative”.
Giving
Berber is Chairman and co founder of A Glimmer of Hope, a family foundation and international NGO, formed and funded by Berber and his wife Donna in 2000.
BusinessWeek listed the Berbers at #40 amongst “the 50 most generous philanthropists” in 2002.
Barron’s ranked the Berbers as sixth in the world on the list of “The 25 Best Givers" in 2009 and 7th in 2010.
The Berbers and Glimmer were featured in the book Richistan.
Ventures
In 2011, Berber was involved at the early stages of Circuit of the Americas (COTA), which brought Formula One back to the US.
References
1958 births
Living people
Alumni of University College Dublin
Businesspeople from County Dublin
People educated at Wesley College, Dublin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronize%20It | Synchronize It! is a file synchronization software which allows users to compare and synchronize folders that can be stored on the same computer, on different computers, in archives or on FTP sites. Various synchronization modes (actions) and comparison rules are available.
Features
Folders comparison
The most common application of Synchronize It! is to compare two folders — a source folder and a target folder. Users can choose whether subfolders should be included (allowing exclusion of specific subfolders), whether only matching folders should be compared and users can apply file filters. Various actions and comparison modes are available (see below). Custom sessions can be saved and organized into projects.
Compare folder with archive
Zip archives are supported internally and external archivers can be used to support other archive types. Archives support allows users to:
create backup archives from folders;
compare folders content with archived version and update it;
compare and synchronize two archives with each other.
Command line switches
Synchronize It! can also be started and configured from command line. This allows automation and implementation in other tools, such as Total Commander.
Synchronize non-connected PCs
The package feature can be used to synchronize distant, non-connected PCs. A list of the files contained in the source folder is stored in a small package file, that can be kept on a USB stick. The package is then synchronized with the target folder on another computer. Files only present or modified on the target computer will be packed into the package. A package hence contains only the files that are different and not the entire folder, which makes it a tool to keep non-connected computers synchronized (e.g. a PC at work and a PC at home).
Reporting and printing
Results form comparison can be printed or exported and published as HTML reports.
Portability
Synchronize It! also works without installation and is only 2.5 MB in size. It can be run directly from a USB stick.
Actions
The following actions / synchronization modes are available:
Comparison rules
1 Date comparison in all rules takes into account global time-related options, such as Ignore 2 secs difference etc.
See also
File synchronization
Comparison of file synchronization software
Windows Live FolderShare
SyncToy
Beyond Compare
GoodSync
References
External links
Developer
Development blog
Support forum
Article on how to implement Synchronize It! in Total Commander
Synchronize It |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretzky%20NHL%202005 | Gretzky NHL 2005 is an ice hockey video game featuring professional NHL hockey player Wayne Gretzky. It was developed by Page 44 Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable (the latter as just Gretzky NHL). Mike Emrick provides commentary for the game. The PS2 version has Wayne Gretzky on the cover in a New York Rangers uniform.
Reception
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2004 video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
National Hockey League video games
Page 44 Studios games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation Portable games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United States
Wayne Gretzky games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardley%2C%20Gateshead | Wardley is a residential area in Gateshead, located around from Newcastle upon Tyne, from Sunderland, and from Durham. In 2011, Census data for the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council ward of Wardley and Leam Lane recorded a total population of 8,327.
Wardley is made up of mainly privately-owned housing, with a number of local shops located on Keir Hardie Avenue, and a post office, which is situated on Lingey Avenue. A bar and brasserie, The Green, is located on Leam Lane, along with Heworth Golf Club.
Demography
According to the 2011 Census, the Wardley and Leam Lane ward has a population of 8,327. 51.2% of the population are female, slightly above the national average, while 48.8% are male. Only 2.5% of the population were from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) group, as opposed to 14.6% of the national population.
Data from the 2011 Census found that the average life expectancy in Wardley and Leam Lane is 79.9 years for men, and 81.9 years for women. These statistics compare fairly favorably, when compared to the average life expectancy in the North East of England, of 77.4 and 81.4 years, respectively.
Car ownership is higher than the average in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead (63.5%), but lower than the national average of 74.2% – with 67.8% of households in the Wardley and Leam Lane ward owning at least one car.
Education
Wardley is served by two primary schools: Wardley Primary School and White Mere Community Primary School – both of which are rated "good" by Ofsted. Nearby primary schools include Lingey House Primary School and St. Augustine's Primary School in Leam Lane, and St. Alban's Catholic Primary School in Pelaw.
In terms of secondary education, Wardley is located within the catchment area for Heworth Grange School in Leam Lane. An inspection carried out by Ofsted in January 2017 deemed the school to be "inadequate". Students from the area also attend the nearby Cardinal Hume Catholic School in Wrekenton, rated "outstanding" by Ofsted in January 2014, as well as St. Joseph's Catholic Academy in Hebburn, which was rated "requires improvement" by Ofsted in January 2019.
Governance
Wardley and Leam Lane is a local council ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. This ward covers an area of around , and has a population of 8,327. As of April 2020, the ward is served by three councillors: Anne Wheeler, Linda Green and Stuart Green. Wardley is located within the parliamentary constituencies of both Gateshead and Jarrow. As of April 2020, constituencies are served by MPs Ian Mearns and Kate Osborne, respectively.
Transport
Air
The nearest airport to Wardley is Newcastle International Airport, which is located around away by road. Teesside International Airport and Carlisle Lake District Airport are located around away by road, respectively.
Bus
Wardley is served by Go North East's local bus services, with frequent routes serving Gateshead, as well as Newcastle upon Tyne, South Tyneside and Washi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed%20Al%20Afghani%20%28CIA%20detainee%29 | Mohammed Al Afghani is a citizen of Afghanistan, held by the United States in the CIA's network of black sites.
Background
Amnesty International reports he was born in Saudi Arabia; that he was captured in Peshawar, Pakistan, in May 2004; that he was transferred from Pakistani custody on June 15, 2004, to CIA custody with three other men, including Marwan Jabour.
Disappearance
On April 22, 2009 Propublica published a list of CIA captives and its estimate of their current status.
The location and status of most of the individuals on that list were described simply as "unknown". They estimated that Mohammed Al Afghani had been transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
The Department of Defense has acknowledged holding an individual they named as "Muhammad Rahim al Afghani"—but they said he was captured in Lahore, Pakistan in 2007.
See also
List of people who disappeared
References
2000s missing person cases
Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Missing people
Year of birth missing
Missing person cases in Pakistan
People subject to extraordinary rendition by the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brylkinia | Brylkinia is a genus of East Asian plants in the grass family. The only known species is Brylkinia caudata, native to Japan, China (Sichuan, Jilin), and Russia (Kuril, Sakhalin).
See also
List of Poaceae genera
References
Pooideae
Grasses of Asia
Grasses of China
Flora of Eastern Asia
Flora of the Russian Far East
Monotypic Poaceae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan%20Jabour | Marwan Jabour is a former captive held in the CIA's network of black sites.
He was raised him Saudi Arabia by his Palestinian guest worker parents.
He moved to Pakistan for study, in 1994.
The Washington Post interviewed Mawrwan Jabour at his home in Pakistan, after his release.
They reported that he had been accused of being an "al Qaeda paymaster". According to its report, he confirmed he had traveled to Afghanistan for military training, in 1999, because he hoped to travel to Chechnya to help Chechens fight Russia. But he told the Washington Post he was told it would not be possible for him to travel to Chechnya, so he returned to Pakistan.
He confirmed that after the American invasion of Afghanistan some of the men he trained with in Afghanistan in 1999 sought him out in Pakistan.
These men had fled the war zone, with their families, and asked for his help. He described their wives and children being seriously wounded.
He acknowledged that, with financing from al Qaeda, he helped several dozen individuals with food, medicine and travel documents.
He was captured in early 2004, and transferred to the CIA's network of secret interrogation centers on June 16, 2004.
The Washington Post reports that American security officials confirmed he was held by the CIA, but would not discuss his accounts of conditions there.
He was able to help human rights workers to place a number of the other individuals who had been held by the CIA.
Human Rights Watch published a fifty-page report on February 26, 2007 based on their own interviews with Marwan Jabour.
Marwan Jabour told Human Rights Watch that he was beaten during the six weeks he spent in Pakistani custody.
He said a friend he was visiting, and another guest, were taken into Pakistani custody at the same time he was.
He told Human Rights Watch none of the men, women and children he helped were affiliated with Al Qaida.
Other techniques Marwan Jabour described experiencing included sleep deprivation, stress positions, enforced nudity, the administration of psychoactive drugs and having a rubber cord tied around his penis so he could not urinate.
He said he wasn't beaten in US custody, but he was subjected to sleep deprivation and stress positions there too, and he was shown a small wooden box where he was told Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been confined for extended periods of time, and threatened that this technique could be applied to him too.
According to the Taipei Times, Paul Gimigliano, a CIA spokesman, issued a statement in response to the Human Rights Watch report.
According to Gimigliano the CIA's program of secret extrajudicial detention and use of extended interrogation techniques was:
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"...with great care and close review, producing vital information that has helped disrupt plots and save lives."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritsuko%20Nemoto | is a Japanese actress. From 1983 to 1996, she portrayed the nurse Shiho in Series 7–14 of the long-running prime-time series Ōoka Echizen on the nationwide Tokyo Broadcasting System network. A frequent guest star in jidaigeki roles, she has seven appearances in Mito Kōmon to her credit. Contemporary roles include parts in a 2004 television series spinoff of Castle of Sand and the 1985 Star Tanjō. Ritsuko also acts in two-hour mystery dramas, with roles in the Monday, Wednesday and Saturday prime-time slots.
Ritsuko has appeared in two films. She was in the 1994 Natsu no Niwa: The Friends, directed by Shinji Sōmai and in the 2005 Semi Shigure, directed by Mitsuo Kurotsuchi.
Her product endorsements include advertisements for Calpis, House Foods, and Lake (Shinsei Financial Co., Ltd.).
References
Sources
This article incorporates material found in the article 根本りつ子 (Nemoto Ritsuko) in the Japanese Wikipedia.
External links
>根本りつ子 - プロフィール - Yahoo!人物名鑑 Yahoo! profile
Japanese actresses
Living people
1959 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20element%20model%20data%20post-processing | Finite element model data post-processing is a paradigm for transforming the often highly detailed and complex outputs of Finite Element Method (FEM) calculations into a format that is easily understood by the user. The outputs from post-processing may be used in engineering judgements or analysis, as part of validity/functionality checks on the FEM model, or for the purpose of reporting results.
Post processing of finite element data generally requires additional software or programming to specify how the data is to be transformed or presented. This software may include checks on the codes and standards to which the model must comply e.g. the check of panel stiffened structures. Using this software can be considered part of the knowledge-based engineering principle.
References
Finite element software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axerra%20Networks | Axerra Networks is a leading provider of circuit emulation and service emulation solutions over packet access networks for mobile backhaul and business service delivery.
Company overview
Axerra's pseudowire (PW) solutions enable mobile operators, cable MSOs, competitive access providers, and incumbent carriers to extend IP and legacy voice and data services in native format over Ethernet, IP, and MPLS networks.
The result is greater operational efficiency, new revenue opportunities, and a smooth migration strategy to a single converged network without losing any revenue streams from profitable legacy services.
Axerra's solutions enable all service providers to benefit from pseudowires by converting any access network (carrier ethernet, broadband wireless including WiMAX, cable HFC, xDSL, xPON, etc.) into a multiservice alternative to TDM access.
Axerra Networks is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with offices in the US, Russia and Poland.
In 2010, DragonWave acquired the company for $9.5 million.
Technology overview
Pseudowires (PW) enable providers to roll out a full complement of both emerging and legacy services from their IP and MPLS networks.
PW technology is a hot topic because it furnishes greater operational efficiency while simultaneously enabling a smooth migration strategy to a single converged network, without stranding any revenue streams from legacy services.
The term 'pseudowire' comes from the IETF's Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) working group, which is chartered to define a mechanism that emulate the essential attributes of services such as ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet or Circuit Emulation over a Packet Switched Network (PSN). The goals of PWE3 are similar in many ways to what we have known for over a decade as 'multiservice.' The difference is that Ethernet, IP and MPLS have replaced ATM as the fundamental switching and transport technology. PWE3 working group was originally formed in mid-2001, although pseudowires were originally known as private wires (a little-known fact). Even so, the ideas behind pseudowires did not originate in 2001. Axerra Networks has been at the forefront of envisioning multiservice using Ethernet, IP and MPLS since before 1999. Axerra coined the terms Multiservice over IP (MSoIP), Circuit Emulation Service over IP (CESoIP), Frame Relay over IP (FRoIP), and ATM over IP (ATMoIP) – and still owns the Internet domain names and trademarks for these terms. Thus, Axerra has been an early innovator of pseudowire technology and a leading contributor to the PWE3 standardization efforts rapidly reaching fruition in PWE3, as well as ITU-T, the Broadband Forum (BBF), and the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), bode well for the adoption of pseudowire technology by the service provider industry. Axerra understands that pseudowire is simply a new term for the next generation of multiservice – multiservice over IP and MPLS. Based on its experience in this technology, predating even its new name, and based on contri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REFIt | rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. It can be used to boot multiple operating systems, including triple-boot setups with software such as Apple's Boot Camp Assistant. It also provides a way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment. The name "rEFIt" is likely a play on the terms "refit" and "EFI".
Development on "rEFIt" was abandoned by Christoph Pfisterer in 2010. However, in 2012 the developer Roderick W. Smith forked is as a new project called rEFInd, which still has active development to this day.
References
External links
rEFIt
rEFInd
Free boot loaders
Free system software
Macintosh firmware
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goto | Goto (goto, GOTO, GO TO, GoTo, or other case combinations, depending on the programming language) is a statement found in many computer programming languages. It performs a one-way transfer of control to another line of code; in contrast a function call normally returns control. The jumped-to locations are usually identified using labels, though some languages use line numbers. At the machine code level, a goto is a form of branch or jump statement, in some cases combined with a stack adjustment. Many languages support the goto statement, and many do not (see § language support).
The structured program theorem proved that the goto statement is not necessary to write programs that can be expressed as flow charts; some combination of the three programming constructs of sequence, selection/choice, and repetition/iteration are sufficient for any computation that can be performed by a Turing machine, with the caveat that code duplication and additional variables may need to be introduced.
In the past there was considerable debate in academia and industry on the merits of the use of goto statements. Use of goto was formerly common, but since the advent of structured programming in the 1960s and 1970s its use has declined significantly. The primary criticism is that code that uses goto statements is harder to understand than alternative constructions. Goto remains in use in certain common usage patterns, but alternatives are generally used if available. Debates over its (more limited) uses continue in academia and software industry circles.
Usage
goto label
The goto statement is often combined with the if statement to cause a conditional transfer of control.
IF condition THEN goto label
Programming languages impose different restrictions with respect to the destination of a goto statement. For example, the C programming language does not permit a jump to a label contained within another function, however jumps within a single call chain are possible using the setjmp/longjmp functions.
Criticism
At the pre-ALGOL meeting held in 1959, Heinz Zemanek explicitly cast doubt on the necessity of GOTO statements; at the time no one paid attention to his remark, including Edsger W. Dijkstra, who later became the iconic opponent of GOTO. The 1970s and 1980s saw a decline in the use of GOTO statements in favor of the structured programming paradigm, with GOTO criticized as leading to unmaintainable spaghetti code. Some programming style coding standards, for example the GNU Pascal Coding Standards, recommend against the use of GOTO statements. The Böhm–Jacopini proof (1966) did not settle the question of whether to adopt structured programming for software development, partly because the construction was more likely to obscure a program than to improve it because its application requires the introduction of additional local variables. It did, however, spark a prominent debate among computer scientists, educators, language designers and application program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient%20%28novel%29 | Ambient is the dystopian debut novel of cyberpunk writer Jack Womack, the first in his Dryco series. Published in 1987, it was translated into Slovak by Michal Hvorecký, and has a significant cult following. Actor Bruce Willis optioned the novel, and renewed the option in 1995 (thus enabling Womack to quit his "day job").
References
1987 American novels
1987 science fiction novels
Debut science fiction novels
Novels by Jack Womack
Cyberpunk novels
Dryco series
Dystopian novels
Weidenfeld & Nicolson books
1987 debut novels |
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