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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Ways | Air Ways was an Australian factual television series broadcast on the Seven Network, narrated by Corinne Grant and produced by Lyndal Marks, the executive producer in charge of Border Security. It began screening in July 2009 and was filmed in airports including Melbourne, Coolangatta, Rockhampton, Mackay, Adelaide, Launceston, Hobart and Alice Springs.
Air Ways followed the day-to-day operations of budget airline Tigerair Australia. It had a similar premise to the successful UK factual television series Airline.
Reception
Ratings
Air Ways had a strong debut, attracting an audience of 1.216 million for its first episode. Subsequent episodes have been watched by over 1.3 million viewers a week. On 25 August 2009, it was the second most popular show of the day.
Air Ways was ranked 7th in the top 15 shows for the week ending 25 July 2009 and 13th for the week ending 1 August 2009.
Season 2 of Air Ways also had a strong debut in a new Sunday evening time slot, ending up being the fourth most popular show of the night. The show continued to improve, moving to the number one position for several weeks running. Note that the final episode was in fact a repeat of a season one episode, perhaps explaining the sudden ratings slip.
Reviews
TV Tonight, an Australian television blog, rated Air Ways three stars out of five, saying that this format "makes for tasty voyeurism" and that "it will be very entertaining to those who eat up this genre."
See also
Airline (1998 TV series)
References
External links
Official site – Yahoo!7
2009 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings
Australian factual television series
Documentary television series about aviation
Seven Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian%20National%20Computer%20Confederation | The Malaysian National Computer Confederation (MNCC) is an association for information and communications technology professionals. Its stated aims are "dedicated to the development of IT Professionals and the creation of an Information Rich Society".
The MNCC was formed in 1967, then known as the Malaysian Computer Society. It was renamed to the MNCC, in 1988, when the association was registered under the Companies Act.
Activities
Notable activities include: operation of the various special interest groups (SIGs), annual conferences, seminars, as well as IT scholarships.
Members are required to comply with the code of professional conduct and practice .
Special Interest Groups
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of the MNCC include wide and varied interests such as: the Open Document Format (ODFSIG), Open Source (OSSIG), Artificial Intelligence in Industry (AI3SIG), IP Telephony, Project Management and Storage.
Digital Library
The MNCC Transactions on ICT contains free journal articles and conference papers.
Related organisations
British Computer Society
Australian Computer Society
Singapore Computer Society
External links
Malaysian National Computer Confederation website
Professional associations based in Malaysia
Information technology organizations based in Asia
Organizations established in 1967
Science and technology in Malaysia
Scientific organisations based in Malaysia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Magic%20Cottage | The Magic Cottage may refer to:
The Magic Cottage (novel), a book written by James Herbert
The Magic Cottage (TV series), a children's television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network in the 1940s and 1950s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emihamn | Emihamn is a database of passenger lists compiled from police records for Swedish emigrants departing from major Swedish ports between the years 1869–1950. Almost all emigrants were required to register with the port police prior to leaving the country. The register generally includes the passenger's name, occupation/title, age at the time of emigration, birthplace or place of residence, county, destination, and date of emigration, among other information. It is useful as a resource for genealogists who know their ancestor's name and date of emigration, but do not know the ancestor's birthplace.
References
See also
Swedish emigration to the United States
Social history of Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examinetics | Examinetics, Inc. is a provider of mobile and on-site occupational health screening and data management services in the United States. The company was established in 2004 following the consolidation of a number of small businesses providing occupational health screening and compliance services.
Examinetics is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas and operates more than 125 mobile screening units. These are used for medical surveillance testing and reporting services to US industrial and governmental companies and organizations in over 16,000 locations across the US.
Operations
Examinetics is a US-based provider of occupational health screening, surveillance, and compliance services. Since its inception in 2004, the company has acquired several subsidiaries, such as Industrial Health.
Key management personnel include Paul Fenaroli (Chairman, CEO & President), Gary Gluzberg (Chief Commercial Officer) and Hank Stratmeier (Chief Operating Officer).
Examinetics has more than 300 employees, including nurses, medical assistants, certified X-ray technologists and audiologists, the majority of whom work in the Examinetics mobile screening stations. They do nearly one million screening tests each year for more than 3,000 corporate customers.
Services
Examinetics refers to its package of services as the Examination Management Network (XM Network).
Mobile screening units
Monitoring employees in accordance with statutory guidelines is usually undertaken 'offsite' at local hospitals or clinics or 'onsite' on company property. Examinetics's services are done onsite.
The Examination Management Network (XM Network)
Examinetics developed the XM Network, a secure online data management and reporting system, for occupational health professionals and employers. The XM Network seeks to be a "data interchange standard for the occupational health industry". The XM Network allows employers to manage their employees' health data. The system is alleged to be compliant with the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
OccHealth Search
In 2008, Examinetics developed a semantic web tool called "OccHealth Search" - a search tool for occupational health professionals (OccHealth Search tool) at the same time they relaunched their main website.
References
Occupational safety and health |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whereis | whereis is a command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to locate some special files of a command like the binary file, source and manual page files. The whereis utility was first included with 2BSD, dating back to 1979.
Syntax
The whereis man page provides the following sample usage:
% # Find all files in /usr/bin which are not documented in /usr/man/man1 with source in /usr/src:
% cd /usr/bin
% whereis -u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src -f *
Analogs
The Unix type command is similar, but it identifies aliases.
Modern versions of Microsoft Windows feature a similar command: where.
It's also similar to the where utility in Multics.
See also
List of Unix commands
command (shell builtin)
which (command)
type (Unix)
hash (Unix)
References
External links
man page of whereis command
Command whereis – 10 practical examples
Unix user management and support-related utilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20power%20management | PC power management refers to software-based mechanisms for controlling the power use of Personal computer hardware. This is typically achieved through software that puts the hardware into the lowest power demand state available, making it an aspect of Green computing.
A typical office PC uses about 90 watts when active (approximately 50 watts for the base unit, and 40 watts for a typical LCD screen); and three to four watts when ‘asleep’. Up to 10% of a modern office’s electricity demand can be due to PCs and monitors.
While most PCs allow low power settings, there are frequently situations, especially in a networked environment, where processes running on the computer will prevent the low power settings from taking effect. This can have a dramatic effect on energy use that is invisible to the user. Operational testing has shown that on any given day an average of over 50% of an organization's computers will fail to go to sleep, and over long periods of time this affects over 90% of machines. This leads to most computers having the option of customizing power management systems and has created a market for third-party power management software to further control a computer’s power use.
Windows 'Insomnia' (Sleepless PCs)
The Windows power management system is based upon an idle timer. If the computer is idle for longer than the pre-set time, then the PC may be configured to sleep or 'hibernate'. Windows uses a combination of user activity and CPU activity to determine when the computer is idle.
Applications can temporarily inhibit this timer by using the 'SetThreadExecutionState' API. There are legitimate reasons why this may be necessary such as burning a DVD or playing a video. However, in many cases applications can unnecessarily prevent power management from lowering power demand. This is commonly known as Windows 'Insomnia' and can be a barrier to successfully implementing power management.
Common causes include:
Legacy or non-power management aware applications
Open file handles on remote computers
Faulty mice which can cause cursor movement even though the user is not present. (This makes the operating system believe that a user is present.)
Scheduled maintenance tasks causing significant CPU activity
High network activity
Software solutions
Operating systems have built-in settings to control power use. Microsoft Windows supports predefined power plans and custom sleep and hibernation settings through a Control Panel Power Options applet. Apple's macOS includes idle and sleep configuration settings through the Energy Saver System Preferences applet. Likewise, Linux distributions include a variety of power management settings and tools.
There is a significant market in third-party PC power management software offering features beyond those present in the Windows operating system. Notable vendors Data Synergy's 'PowerMAN', Faronics' 'Power Save', and Verdiem's 'SURVEYOR'.
Some studies have suggested that power management tool |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsLeecher | NewsLeecher is a binary Usenet client, launched in 2002, compatible with the Microsoft Windows operating system
Uses
NewsLeecher is generally considered a combination client, used primarily fof the reading and downloading of content from usenet newsgroups. Despite being considered as having combined functionality, It is only capable of posting text; it does not support the posting of binary articles.
Features
Binary and text article downloads
Text upload (posting) only
PAR2 support
Download scheduler
Multiple connections
SSL support
NZB support
Automatic split archive extraction and joining
Some features are only available in the paid version, at extra cost
Future Development - Abandoned?
The Nesleecher client hasn't had a final version released since 2016, and the current beta release has been stalled since 2019.
See also
List of Usenet newsreaders
Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
References
External links
Usenet clients
2004 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return%20Fire%202 | Return Fire 2 is a computer game developed by Silent Software and published for Windows by Ripcord Games in 1998. It is a sequel to Return Fire.
Gameplay
The game simulates a vehicle-based capture the flag competition.
Upon starting the game players are directed to their in game bunker. There, they can view the battleground with a radar and access a limited supply of vehicles: tanks, armored support vehicles (ASVs), helicopters, jets, jeeps and PT boats. The vehicles have a limited supply of fuel and ammo, and the player can only control one vehicle at a time.
The objective is to enter the enemy's base, capture their flag and bring it back to the player's base. The flag is always located in a 'flag tower', which must be destroyed before the flag can be picked up. There may be more than one enemy flag tower, but only one of them contains the flag. Although the flag may be discovered using any vehicle it can only be carried by the jeep, which is the weakest vehicle in the game. Thus, the player must destroy the enemy flag's defenses using stronger vehicles before attempting to take it.
The game retains the classical soundtrack of its predecessor, with each vehicle having its own 'theme' which is heard when the player is using that vehicle.
Development
The game was showcased at E3 1997. It was originally scheduled to release in late 1997 by MGM Interactive. It was initially announced for the Panasonic M2 console, which was aborted in mid-1997, forcing M2 to developers to either convert their M2 projects to other platforms or cancel them. Towards the end of development it was announced that Return Fire 2 would instead be released for the PC and PlayStation, but ultimately only the PC version was released.
Reception
The game received favorable to average reviews.
Notes
References
External links
1998 video games
Cancelled Panasonic M2 games
Cancelled PlayStation (console) games
Helicopter video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
North America-exclusive video games
Ripcord Games games
Strategy video games
Tank simulation video games
Vehicular combat games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
Silent Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netac%20Technology | Netac Technology Co., Ltd. () is a Chinese data storage company headquartered in Shenzhen. The company claims to be the world's first inventor of USB flash drive, although that claim is disputed by IBM and other manufacturers.
History
Founded on 29 April 1999 by Guoshun "Frank" Deng and Cheng Xiaohua, the two worked for a year developing their first product, an eight megabyte flash memory drive that Deng christened the U disk.
Products
As of 2021, Netac's product line mainly consists of solid-state drive, memory module, SD cards, USB flash drives, external hard disk drives, and peripherals.
Flash drive
On July 24, 2002, Netac was granted its first patent, for an electronic flash memory external storage method and device. At least 14 companies have since requested invalidation of this patent, as "[the patented device] has been anticipated by the combination of two references, i.e. USB System Architecture and the Handbook of Flash Memory Technology published in 1997 and such combination is obvious to those skilled in the art."
Although the company claims to have invented the first USB flash drive in 1999 and submitted a Chinese patent application for the device the same year, the patent was granted and the product launched only in 2002. IBM had released an eight megabyte USB flash drive in late 2000, which preceded Netac's offering to market by more than a year and a half.
Patents
Unlike many other Chinese OEMs, Netac holds a number of patents. By 2009, Netac had filed for over 300 patents in the US, South Korea, Singapore, and the People's Republic of China. Over 200 of those patent applications had been filed by 2005.
Patents held by Netac include:
Chinese Patent No. ZL99117225.6 for an electronic flash memory external storage method and device.
Expired US Patent No. 6,829,672, for an electronic flash memory external storage method and device.
Chinese Patent No. ZL02114797.3 for a USB Wireless Modem
South Korean Patent No. 583626, for a multifunction semiconductor storage device and method for booting-up computer host
Singaporean Patent No. SG119038, for an automatically executing method using semiconductor storage devices
Lawsuits
Intellectual-property infringement is widespread in China, and Netac has taken companies both in and outside of this nation to court in order to protect its patents.
Companies it has sued include US-based PNY Technologies, Beijing's Lenovo and Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co Ltd, Shenzen's Fuguanghui and Xingzhidao, Japan-based Sony, and Taiwan's Acer and Tai Guen Enterprise Co.
Its 2006 lawsuit against PNY Technologies was the first time a Chinese company filed patent infringement charges overseas.
Shenzhen Coocaa Network Technology Co Ltd
A joint venture with Skyworth, Shenzhen Coocaa Network Technology Co Ltd provides free high-definition movie and video download services. Netac has developed USB flash drives that, in conjunction with USB port equipped Skyworth televisions, allow video to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20constraint%20satisfaction | In artificial intelligence and operations research, hierarchical constraint satisfaction (HCS) is a method of handling constraint satisfaction problems where the variables have large domains by exploiting their internal structure.
For many real-world problems the domain elements cluster together into sets with common properties and relations. This structure can be represented as a hierarchy and is partially ordered on the subset of a relation. The expectation is that the domains are structured so that the elements of a set frequently share consistency properties permitting them to be retained or eliminated as a unit. Thus, if some elements of a set satisfy a constraint, but not all, the subsets of the set are considered. In this way, if no elements of a set can satisfy the constraint the whole set can be discarded. Thus, structuring the domain helps in considering sets of elements all at a time and hence helps in pruning the search space more quickly.
References
Constraint programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Chicago%20Food%20Depository | The Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD) is a nonprofit organization that fights hunger throughout Cook County, Illinois. The GCFD distributes donated and purchased food through a network of 700 food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and community programs, serving more than 800,000 adults and children every year. In fiscal year 2016, the GCFD distributed more than 70 million pounds of nonperishable food, produce, dairy products, and meat - the equivalent of more than 160,000 meals every day. Of the $96,883,955 spent in 2016, over 90% went to direct food distribution programs.
The GCFD is a charter member of Feeding America, the nation's food bank network.
History
The Greater Chicago Food Depository was founded in 1979 by Tom O’Connell, Robert W. Strube Sr., Rev. Philip Marquard, Gertrude Snodgrass, Ann Connors and Ed Sunshine. Following an increase of poverty in the Chicago area, the six founders were inspired to start a food bank. They followed the example of John van Hengel, who started the nation's first food bank in Phoenix, Arizona. However, due to an Illinois statute that prohibited the use of the word ‘bank’ in the name of non-banking entities, the name ‘depository’ was chosen.
A year after incorporation, the Greater Chicago Food Depository opened their doors at the Chicago South Water Market. Major benefactors included the City of Chicago, which provided a start-up grant, as well as Strube Celery and Vegetable Company, which donated warehouse space. By the end of their first year, the GCFD distributed 471,000 pounds of food from 22 food donors to 85 agencies.
Food supply grew in 1981 when Illinois legislators passed a Good Samaritan law, which protected food contributors from legal liabilities. Within a year, food donors increased to 111, distribution to 6.1 million pounds and agencies to 375. The growing food bank settled in a 91,000-square-foot (8,454 m2) facility at 4501 South Tripp Avenue in 1984.
In 1986, GCFD established a Perishable Food Program, now known as Food Rescue, with a grant from Chicago Community Trust. The program collected and distributed unused food from restaurants and caterers to soup kitchens. The depository further broadened its distribution in 1993 with new programs. The Produce People Share Program addressed the need for fresh fruits and vegetables in the community, and the first Kids Cafe began serving after-school hot meals for low-income children.
By 1998, GCFD's distribution topped 25 million pounds. In that same year, the food bank founded Chicago's Community Kitchens, a free 12-week culinary training program for unemployed and underemployed adults. In 2001, the first Producemobile, a farmers’ market on wheels, began distributing fresh produce to low-income communities.
The GCFD acquired a new warehouse and training center, in 2004, which allowed them to double their food distribution capacity. The 268,000-square-foot (24,900 m2) facility is located in Archer Heights, Chicago, and remains the he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%20national%20American%20football%20team | {{infobox
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| label4 = Confederación
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| data5 = North America
| label6 = Colors
| data6 = Green, White & Red
| label7 = Uniforms
| data7 =
| label8 = Head coach
| data8 = Raul Rivera Sanchez
| header9 = First international
| data10 = 89–0 (Palermo, Italy; 27 June 1999)
| header11 = Biggest win
| data12 = 89–0 (Palermo, Italy; 27 June 1999)
| header13 = Biggest defeat
| data14 = 6–30 (Canton, Ohio, United States; 9 July 2015)
| header15 = IFAF World Championship
| label16 = Appearances
| data16 = 4 (first in 1999)
| label17 = Best result
| data17 = Runner-up (1999, 2003)
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The Mexico national American football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol americano de México) represents Mexico in international American football competitions. The team is controlled by the Mexican American Football Federation. Mexico has participated in competitions such as the Aztec Bowl, the IFAF World Championship, and the IFAF Junior World Championship.
Mexico finished second place in both the 1999 and 2003 IFAF World Championship, losing both times to Japan. They did not participate in 2007 but returned to competition in the 2011 Championship. They returned to the podium at the 2015 IFAF World Championship, where they won a bronze medal.
The selected players are usually from teams in ONEFA, Mexico's main college football league.
Best results
IFAF World Championship record
NFL Global Junior Championship
1997 : Gold medal.
1998 : Gold medal.
1999 : Silver medal.
2003 : Bronze medal.
2004 : Bronze medal.
2005 : Bronze medal.
2007 : Bronze medal.
Mexico's junior team competed in the 2009 IFAF Junior World Cup in Canton, Ohio from 27 June to 5 July 2009.
IFAF Junior World Championship
2009 : 4 place.
2012 : Did Not Participate''
2014 : Bronze medal.
World University American Football Championship
2014 : Gold medal.
2016 : Gold medal.
See also
Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional
ONEFA
CONADEIP
References
Men's national American football teams
American football
American football in Mexico
IFAF Americas
American football teams in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware%20%28brain%29 | Wetware is a term drawn from the computer-related idea of hardware or software, but applied to biological life forms.
Usage
The prefix "wet" is a reference to the water found in living creatures. Wetware is used to describe the elements equivalent to hardware and software found in a person, especially the central nervous system (CNS) and the human mind. The term wetware finds use in works of fiction, in scholarly publications and in popularizations.
The "hardware" component of wetware concerns the bioelectric and biochemical properties of the CNS, specifically the brain. If the sequence of impulses traveling across the various neurons are thought of symbolically as software, then the physical neurons would be the hardware. The amalgamated interaction of this software and hardware is manifested through continuously changing physical connections, and chemical and electrical influences that spread across the body. The process by which the mind and brain interact to produce the collection of experiences that we define as self-awareness is in question.
History
Although the exact definition has shifted over time, the term Wetware and its fundamental reference to "the physical mind" has been around at least since the mid-1950s. Mostly used in relatively obscure articles and papers, it was not until the heyday of cyberpunk, however, that the term found broad adoption. Among the first uses of the term in popular culture was the Bruce Sterling novel Schismatrix (1985) and the Michael Swanwick novel Vacuum Flowers (1987).
Rudy Rucker references the term in a number of books, including one entitled Wetware (1988): ... all sparks and tastes and tangles, all its stimulus/response patterns – the whole bio-cybernetic software of mind. Rucker did not use the word to simply mean a brain, nor in the human-resources sense of employees. He used wetware to stand for the data found in any biological system, analogous perhaps to the firmware that is found in a ROM chip. In Rucker's sense, a seed, a plant graft, an embryo, or a biological virus are all wetware. DNA, the immune system, and the evolved neural architecture of the brain are further examples of wetware in this sense.
Rucker describes his conception in a 1992 compendium The Mondo 2000 User's Guide to the New Edge, which he quotes in a 2007 blog entry.
Early cyber-guru Arthur Kroker used the term in his blog.
With the term getting traction in trendsetting publications, it became a buzzword in the early 1990s. In 1991, Dutch media theorist Geert Lovink organized the Wetware Convention in Amsterdam, which was supposed to be an antidote to the "out-of-body" experiments conducted in high-tech laboratories, such as experiments in virtual reality.
Timothy Leary, in an appendix to Info-Psychology originally written in 1975–76 and published in 1989, used the term wetware, writing that "psychedelic neuro-transmitters were the hot new technology for booting-up the 'wetware' of the brain". Another common reference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris%20%28computer%20security%29 | Slowloris is a type of denial of service attack tool which allows a single machine to take down another machine's web server with minimal bandwidth and side effects on unrelated services and ports.
Slowloris tries to keep many connections to the target web server open and hold them open as long as possible. It accomplishes this by opening connections to the target web server and sending a partial request. Periodically, it will send subsequent HTTP headers, adding to, but never completing, the request. Affected servers will keep these connections open, filling their maximum concurrent connection pool, eventually denying additional connection attempts from clients.
The program was named after slow lorises, a group of primates which are known for their slow movement.
Affected web servers
This includes but is not necessarily limited to the following, per the attack's author:
Apache 1.x and 2.x
dhttpd
Websense "block pages" (unconfirmed)
Trapeze Wireless Web Portal (unconfirmed)
Verizon's MI424-WR FIOS Cable modem (unconfirmed)
Verizon's Motorola Set-top box (port 8082 and requires auth - unconfirmed)
BeeWare WAF (unconfirmed)
Deny All WAF (patched)
Flask (development server)
Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and earlier
Nginx 1.5.9 and earlier
Vulnerable to Slowloris attack on the TLS handshake process:
Apache HTTP Server 2.2.15 and earlier
Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 and earlier
Because Slowloris exploits problems handling thousands of connections, the attack has less of an effect on servers that handle large numbers of connections well. Proxying servers and caching accelerators such as Varnish, nginx, and Squid have been recommended to mitigate this particular kind of attack. In addition, certain servers are more resilient to the attack by way of their design, including Hiawatha, IIS, lighttpd, Cherokee, and Cisco CSS.
Mitigating the Slowloris attack
While there are no reliable configurations of the affected web servers that will prevent the Slowloris attack, there are ways to mitigate or reduce the impact of such an attack. In general, these involve increasing the maximum number of clients the server will allow, limiting the number of connections a single IP address is allowed to make, imposing restrictions on the minimum transfer speed a connection is allowed to have, and restricting the length of time a client is allowed to stay connected.
In the Apache web server, a number of modules can be used to limit the damage caused by the Slowloris attack; the Apache modules mod_limitipconn, mod_qos, mod_evasive, mod security, mod_noloris, and mod_antiloris have all been suggested as means of reducing the likelihood of a successful Slowloris attack. Since Apache 2.2.15, Apache ships the module mod_reqtimeout as the official solution supported by the developers.
Other mitigating techniques involve setting up reverse proxies, firewalls, load balancers or content switches. Administrators could also change the aff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble%20in%20Paradise%20%28TV%20series%29 | Trouble in Paradise is an Australian television documentary series on the Nine Network which first aired at on Thursday, 25 June 2009. The series is narrated by journalist Liam Bartlett and actress Brooke Satchwell, and chronicles the harrowing experiences of Australians travelling on their holidays.
Trouble in Paradise features six edited stories from a similar British series, My Holiday Hostage Hell (which is broadcast in Australia on the Crime & Investigation Network), and six originally-produced stories. Each episode consists of two stories, and six episodes have been produced.
The show was axed from the Nine Network's schedule after three of the six episodes had aired. It was eventually returned to the schedule of the Nine Network's digital multichannel, GEM, which broadcast the remaining three episodes commencing 16 March 2011.
Episodes
Notes
References
2000s Australian documentary television series
Nine Network original programming
2009 Australian television series debuts
2011 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs%20of%20Oz | Gangs of Oz is an Australian television documentary series on the Seven Network narrated by actor Colin Friels. The show looks at real stories of Australia's criminal underworld with accounts from criminals, their families and the police who risk their lives to catch them.
Episodes
Season 1
Episode 1 – Middle Eastern Gangs – The Power, The Passion, The Betrayal
Episode 2 – The Aussie Mafia – Inside The Family
Episode 3 – The Bikies – Inside The Band of Brothers
Episode 4 – The Gangland Wars – The Tale of Three Gangs
Episode 5 – Asian Gangs – Chasing The Dragon
Season 2
Episode 1 – The Bikies – Taking Care of Business
Episode 2 – The Bikies – For Love Or Money
Episode 3 – Young Guns... Loose Canons
Episode 4 – Armed and Dangerous
Episode 5 – White Powder Wars
Episode 6 – In From The Cold
Episode 7 – Friends in High Places
References
2000s Australian documentary television series
2010s Australian documentary television series
Seven Network original programming
2009 Australian television series debuts
2010 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Cambodia | Cambodia has of metre gauge rail network, consisting of two lines: one from the capital Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, and another from Phnom Penh to Poipet on the Thai border. The lines were originally constructed during the time when the country was part of French Indochina, but due to neglect and damage from civil war during the latter half of the 20th century, the railways were in a dilapidated state and all services had been suspended by 2009. Through rehabilitation efforts by the Government of Cambodia, with funding from the Asian Development Bank, Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and Australian company Toll Holdings, freight and limited passenger service returned between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville by 2016, and passenger service between Phnom Penh and Poipet was fully restored in 2019.
History
French colonial era
Before the Phnom Penh – Poipet railway was built in the 1930s, a railway line connecting Phnom Krom with Siem Reap was originally built by the French in the 1890s. The French colonial government built the first line, running from Phnom Penh to Poipet on the Thai border, between 1930 and 1940, with Phnom Penh Railway Station opening in 1932. The final connection with Thailand was completed by Royal State Railways in 1942. However, the service from Bangkok to Battambang was suspended when the French Indochinese Government resumed sovereignty over Battambang and the Sisophon area from Thailand on 17 December 1946, as Thailand was seen as a supporter of Khmer Issarak, the anti-French, Khmer nationalist political movement.
Route
Phnom Penh – Pursat – Moung Ruessei – Battambang – Sisophon – Poipet
Late 20th century
In 1955 Australia donated rolling stock, described as "railway wagons of various types", worth at the time AUS£441,000 and "needed for new rail links." Assistance from France, West Germany, and the United Kingdom between 1960 and 1969 supported the construction of the second line, which runs from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville on the southern coast to cut down the reliance on Saigon Port of Vietnam and Khlong Toei Port of Thailand. In 1960, Australia provided four third-class passenger carriages under the Colombo Plan. Rail service ceased during the war but resumed in the early 1980s. Guerrilla activities, however, continued to disrupt service.
21st century
By 2008 the service between Phnom Penh and Battambang had been reduced from daily to weekly service due to the lack of funds to maintain the tracks and rolling stock. Even the new diesel-electric locomotives from China could not run on the tracks due to the dilapidated condition. Derailing of trains in operation was not infrequent. As reported by the Phnom Penh Post in October 2008, the national railway earned merely $2 million per year; the annual freight amount stood at 350,000, and the passenger count at 500,000. The last regular rail service in Cambodia between Phnom Penh and Battambang was suspended entirely in early 2009.
In June 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Azerbaijan | Rail transport in Azerbaijan is operated by the national state-owned railway company Azerbaijan Railways (). The railway network consists of , its gauge is (Russian broad gauge), are double track and are electrified at 3 kV (3,000 V) DC.
Azerbaijan's location and infrastructure have contributed to the vibrant transport sector of the country. Railways take up 16.7% of Azerbaijan's freight traffic flows. Throughout 2005–2009, a massive railway modernisation programme was initiated. Expansions costing $795 million were announced in 2012 to respond to the growing demand for rail transport in the country.
Also Stadler Rail and local partner International Railway Distribution LLC announced the formation of a 51:49 joint venture on July 17, 2014.
History
Russian Imperial Railways 1878–1917
The first railway line in Azerbaijan then belonging to the Russian Empire was laid in 1878 and was opened in 1880 within the suburban range of Baku, which led from Sabunçu to Suraxanı, today situated within the city of Baku. The track width corresponded to the Russian gauge.
The first long-distance railway line was opened in 1883, which led from Baku to Tbilisi in Georgia.
In 1900 railway lines were opened which connected Baku via Biləcəri with Derbent and Petrovsk (Makhachkala) in Dagestan and thus connected Azerbaijan with the rest of the Russian Empire (and later the Soviet Union).
In 1908 with an extension of the railway line from Ararat in Armenia to Şərur and Julfa in the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, this part of Azerbaijan was connected with Armenia.
Thus the development of the Azerbaijani Railway was for the time being considered final.
Soviet Railways 1917–1991
After the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Russian Revolution, the country was transformed into the Soviet Union and the Russian Imperial Railways into the Soviet Railways.
Due to the availability of electricity from the vast water power sources of Azerbaijan, the very early electrification of the railway lines of Azerbaijan began.
In 1926 with the electrification with 1.2 kV (1,200 V) direct current of the railway line between Baku and Sabunçu, it became the first electrically operated railway line of the Soviet Union. Later electrifications took place with 3 kV (3,000 V) direct current.
In 1924 the railway line was extended southwards to Ələt and Neftçala.
In 1941 the railway line was extended from Horadiz and Mincivan through Armenia including a railway line extension to Kapan, to Julfa in the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan. Thus the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan was finally connected with Azerbaijan proper.
In 1941 the railway line was also extended southwards to Astara, Azerbaijan at the southern border with Iran.
In 1944 the railway line was extended to Kətəlparaq, Ağdam and Stepanakert (Xankəndi).
Until 1991 the railway traffic was operated in Azerbaijan by the Soviet Railway under the supervision of the Soviet Traffic Ministry. The Azerbaijani branch of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Uzbekistan | As of March 2017, the total length of Uzbekistan's main railway network is ( of which is electrified). A large percentage of the system's track requires major repair. The main line is the portion of the Transcaspian Railroad that connects Tashkent with the Amu Darya. There are rail links with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan (see Trans-Caspian Railway), Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan. Suburban traffic only exists around Tashkent.
High speed rail
The Tashkent–Samarkand high-speed rail line; a line upgraded to high speed operation started operation in September 2011.
International links
Uzbekistan has links to Moscow, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Saratov, Penza and Saint Petersburg (via Kazakhstan) and Kharkiv (via Kazakhstan and Russia, it was suspended since War in Donbas was begun in 2014). From Almaty connecting trains are provided to Urumchi in China. Also Tajik trains of Dushanbe-Moscow (No: 319), Moscow-Dushanbe (No: 320), Khujand-Saratov (No: 335), Khujand-Atyrau (No: 335), Saratov-Khujand (No: 336), Khujand-Moscow (No: 359), Moscow-Khujand (No: 360), Kanibadam-Bokhtar (No: 389), Bokhtar-Kanibadam (No: 389) and Atyrau-Khujand (No: 692) passes from Uzbekistan.
With only one change of trains in Moscow, passengers can travel overland from Central and Western Europe (Berlin, Cologne, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Helsinki, etc.) to Tashkent and vice versa.
The Karshi-Termez line, which extends across the border into Afghanistan, is being electrified.
In March 2018, Uzbekistan Railways began a new service, connecting Tashkent with Balykchy.
Metro lines
The Tashkent Metro was the only such line in Central Asia., until the opening of the Almaty Metro. Last development projects are detailed in Uzbekistan Railways website.
Stats
rail network carries about 40% of total freight volume in the country, and about 4% of the total land passenger volume. Around 2,350 km of the network is currently electrified, as of 2019.
Maps
UN Map
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20North%20Korea | Rail transport in North Korea is provided by Korean State Railway (조선 민주주의 인민 공화국 철도성, Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk Ch'ŏldosŏng) which is the only rail operator in North Korea. It has a network of over 6,000 km of track, of which the vast majority is standard gauge; there is, however, nearly 400 km of narrow gauge lines (762 mm) in various locations around the country.
Routes
In many cases, the name of the line is a portmanteau of the original termini. However, because of the division of Korea, some lines now terminate short of their original destinations. The following lists the main standard-gauge trunk lines:
Hambuk Line: Ch'ŏngjin Ch'ŏngnyŏn - Rajin, 331.1 km,
Kangwŏn Line: Kowŏn - P'yŏnggang, 145.8 km,
Manp'o Line: Sunch'ŏn - Manp'o, 299.9 km,
Paektusan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line: Kilchu Ch'ŏngnyŏn - Hyesan Ch'ŏngnyŏn, 141.7 km,
P'yŏngbu Line: P'yŏngyang - Kaesŏng (-> Dorasan, ROK), 187.3 km,
P'yŏngdŏk Line: P'yŏngyang - Kusang Ch'ŏngnyŏn, 192.3 km,
P'yŏngnam Line: P'yŏngyang - Namp'o, 55.2 km,
P'yŏngra Line: P'yŏngyang - Rajin (and on to Khasan, Russia), 819.0 km,
P'yŏngŭi Line: P'yŏngyang - Sinŭiju (and on to Dandong, China), 225.1 km,
Stations
Pyongyang Metro
The Pyongyang Metro operates the only known underground mass transit in North Korea. Metro services are also supplemented with above-ground tram services in both Pyongyang and a number of secondary cities.
International services
China
The primary rail gateway to North Korea is via the Sino–Korean Friendship Bridge from Dandong, China to Sinuiju, North Korea. Passenger trains are taken as far as Dandong by the China Railway at which point the domestic Chinese carriages are uncoupled and North Korean carriages and locomotive are attached. There are several other active border crossings with China, including at Manp'o and at Namyang.
Russia
Rajin has a rail link to the Russian Railways system over the Friendship Bridge across the Tumen River in the North Korea–Russia border. There is transborder passenger service from Pyongyang to Moscow, with a Korean rail car taken across the border (with bogies changed to the Russian gauge), and eventually attached to a Vladivostok-Moscow train.
Since 2013 the line over the Tumen River to Rajin is rebuilt with dual gauge track, so that standard gauge and Russian broad gauge trains from the Russian Khasan can access the port of Rajin. Railway and port are operated in a joint venture with the Russian RasonKonTrans.
South Korea
In 2000, a freight service was inaugurated, between South Korea and the industrial park at Kaesong; however, usage has been very low and most trains carry no freight.
Rolling stock
Presidential trains
Future plans
A Trans-Korean Main Line is planned, spanning North Korea and allowing South Korean rail freight access to Russian Railways.
Gallery
History
Much of the rail network in Korea was built during the period of Japanese rule, which ended in 1945. There were of railway in 1925. Much was damaged or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20development%20process | In software engineering, a software development process is a process of planning and managing software development. It typically involves dividing software development work into smaller, parallel, or sequential steps or sub-processes to improve design and/or product management. It is also known as a software development life cycle (SDLC). The methodology may include the pre-definition of specific deliverables and artifacts that are created and completed by a project team to develop or maintain an application.
Most modern development processes can be vaguely described as agile. Other methodologies include waterfall, prototyping, iterative and incremental development, spiral development, rapid application development, and extreme programming.
A life-cycle "model" is sometimes considered a more general term for a category of methodologies and a software development "process" is a more specific term to refer to a specific process chosen by a specific organization. For example, there are many specific software development processes that fit the spiral life-cycle model. The field is often considered a subset of the systems development life cycle.
History
The software development methodology (also known as SDM) framework didn't emerge until the 1960s. According to Elliott (2004), the systems development life cycle (SDLC) can be considered to be the oldest formalized methodology framework for building information systems. The main idea of the SDLC has been "to pursue the development of information systems in a very deliberate, structured and methodical way, requiring each stage of the life cycle––from the inception of the idea to delivery of the final system––to be carried out rigidly and sequentially" within the context of the framework being applied. The main target of this methodology framework in the 1960s was "to develop large scale functional business systems in an age of large scale business conglomerates. Information systems activities revolved around heavy data processing and number crunching routines".
Requirements Gathering and Analysis:
The first phase of the custom software development process involves understanding the client's requirements and objectives. This stage typically involves engaging in thorough discussions and conducting interviews with stakeholders to identify the desired features, functionalities, and overall scope of the software. The development team works closely with the client to analyze existing systems and workflows, determine technical feasibility, and define project milestones.
Planning and Design:
Once the requirements are understood, the custom software development team proceeds to create a comprehensive project plan. This plan outlines the development roadmap, including timelines, resource allocation, and deliverables. The software architecture and design are also established during this phase. User interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design elements are considered to ensure the software's usability, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Develop%20%28Apple%20magazine%29 | develop, The Apple Technical Journal, was a hard-copy magazine published by Apple containing detailed technical and programming articles written primarily by Apple engineers. Twenty-nine quarterly issues were published between January 1990 and March 1997. The headquarters was in Cupertino, CA. With Apple's purchase of NeXT and the subsequent closing of numerous divisions within Apple, develop was closed and turned into a guest column within MacTech which continues to this day.
References
External links
"develop", Article Archives at MacTech
Quarterly magazines published in the United States
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Engineering magazines
Magazines established in 1990
Magazines disestablished in 1997
Magazines published in California
Works about Apple Inc. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPC%20River%20Highlands | TPC River Highlands is a private golf club located in Cromwell, Connecticut, a suburb south of Hartford. It is part of the Tournament Players Club network operated by the PGA Tour. Since 1984, it has been the venue for the tour's annual Travelers Championship, previously known as the Buick Championship and Greater Hartford Open.
Former names
Middletown Golf Club (1928–34)
Edgewood Country Club (1934–84)
TPC of Connecticut (1984–89)
History
The club was founded in 1928 as Middletown Golf Club and became Edgewood Country Club in 1934. In the early 1980s it was bought by the PGA Tour. The golf course was redesigned to TPC standards by golf course architect Pete Dye, and reopened as the "TPC of Connecticut" in 1984. The course underwent further remodeling in 1989, this time by Bobby Weed in consultation with tour pros Howard Twitty and Roger Maltbie, and renamed the TPC at River Highlands.
Course record
The course record is 58 by PGA Tour pro Jim Furyk, which he shot during the final round of the 2016 Travelers Championship. A plaque, on the path beside the 18th green, commemorates his achievement, which is also the lowest 18-hole score in PGA Tour history. Previously, the record was held by amateur Patrick Cantlay, a 19-year-old collegian from UCLA, who set the course record of 60 at the Travelers Championship on June 24, 2011.
Scorecard
References
External links
Travelers Championship
Golf clubs and courses in Connecticut
Golf clubs and courses designed by Bobby Weed
Cromwell, Connecticut
Sports venues in Middlesex County, Connecticut
1928 establishments in Connecticut
Sports venues completed in 1928 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratificational%20linguistics | Stratificational Linguistics, also known as Neurocognitive Linguistics (NCL) or Relational Network Theory (RNT), is an approach to linguistics advocated by Sydney Lamb that suggests language usage and production to be stratificational in nature. It regards the linguistic system of individual speakers as consisting of networks of relations which interconnect across different 'strata' or levels of language. These relational networks are hypothesized to correspond to maps of cortical columns in the human brain. Consequently, Stratificational Linguistics is related to the wider family of cognitive linguistic theories. Furthermore, as a functionalist approach to linguistics, Stratificational Linguistics shares a close relationship with Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).
Linguistic strata
Stratificational Linguistics suggests that the linguistic system may be analyzed according to separate 'strata', or levels. The strata are ordered hierarchically and, whilst there are no clear-cut boundaries between strata, the elements of each stratum share similar characteristics. For example, a lexical item in the lexicogrammatical stratum is typically a specific sequence of phonemes which connects one or more lexical meanings in the semantic stratum. Several strata are involved in the production of a sound from an initial idea. In linguistic production, each stratum provides actualization or realization for the next lower stratum. Thus, speaking a word would involve a realizational pathway from the semantic stratum to the lexicogrammar, then the phonology, and then the phonetics. The reverse direction is true for linguistic perception and comprehension.
Some commonly posited stratificational units and their strata include:
The phoneme as the unit on the phonemic stratum.
The lexeme as the unit on the lexical or lexicogrammatical stratum.
The morpheme as the unit on the morphemic stratum.
The sememe as the unit on the semantic stratum.
In contrast to generativist approaches to linguistics, Stratificational Linguistics does not support the notion of an autonomous stratum for syntax. Instead, the term 'lexicogrammar', borrowed from Systemic Functional Linguistics, is preferred because Stratificational Linguistics suggests that syntactic categories are merely labels for classifying different types of lexemes but do not actually play any role in the realization of the lexemes. Rather, it is posited that what is traditionally called 'syntax' is simply the result of what orderings or sequences of lexemes are possible in the lexicogrammatical system of an individual person. In other words, there is no need to posit a separate stratum for syntax to account for syntactic phenomena. It has been further suggested that each lexeme has its own syntactic pattern which determines how it combines with other lexemes, a stance shared with Construction Grammar.
Relational networks
Linguistic units in Stratificational Linguistics are conceptualised as relational networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldiko | Aldiko is an e-book reader application for the Android and iOS operating systems. It supports the EPUB format for digital publications and incorporates facilities for browsing online catalogs on thousands of books (including thousands of free public domain work) and downloading them directly into the user's personal library. The application features a bookshelf-like user interface that lets user navigate their collection of eBooks. It also provides a customizable reading experience through configurable font and background color, font size and type, margin size, display brightness, page turn mode, etc. Additionally, the application allows users to import their own books to read them on the go. Aldiko does not support font embedding.
Features
Features on debut:
In-app browsing and downloading capability
Read detailed descriptions before purchase & download
Adjust front, background, link, layout & text alignment
Day/Night themes: switch between day/night mode when reading in high/low-luminosity areas
Brightness Control
Customizable navigation modes
Full support for Table of Contents
Quickly resume reading: the app automatically opens a book where users last left off
Bookmarks: allows users to create their own bookmarks anywhere in a book to remember sections of interest
Progress: allows users to check their reading progress in a chapter and in a book
Share: allows users to recommend books to others via email, Facebook, Twitter, SMS...
The reading engine automatically adjusts to the size of the device’s display
Library management: books can be organized by Tags or Collections
Edit detailed book information (title, author, tag, collection, rating)
Sort books by title, author, download late, last read date or rating
After the app's debut, a number of features have been added, including:
Import: allows users to import their own books to read them on the go
Option to turn pages with volume keys
Option to change the cover art of a book
Open images within a book in a separate viewer
Open links within a book on browser
Backward/forward functions: allows users to go back to where they were before clicking a link to a different section of the book
Full text search: allows users to search any word globally within a book
Dictionary lookup: allows users to look up any word definition in dictionary, Wikipedia or on Google
Option to lock display orientation
Option to set text alignment to left, justify or right
Go To: allows users to quickly access any position within a book
Option to Enable/Disable CSS Style Sheet
Support for Adobe DRM
Online catalog
The company (Aldiko Limited) behind the app has partnered with a number of content partners to offer in-app purchasing and downloading capability, including Feedbooks, Smashwords, All Romance Ebooks and O'Reilly Media. The company also said that they are working to establish partnerships with more content providers.
Standalone book applications
On September 23, 2009, the company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-1 | TDRS-1, known before launch as TDRS-A, was an American communications satellite, operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by TRW and launched by on its maiden flight, STS-6.
History
While on the pad, problems were detected with Challenger main engines and repairs were begun. During this time, a severe storm caused contamination of TDRS-1 while it was in the Payload Change-out Room on the Rotating Service Structure at the launch pad. Consequently, the satellite had to be taken back to its checkout facility, where it was cleaned and rechecked. Challenger finally lifted off from Launch Complex 39A of the Kennedy Space Center at 18:30:00 UTC on 4 April 1983.
Operations
Following deployment from Challenger, TDRS-1 was to be raised to its operational geosynchronous orbit by means of an Inertial Upper Stage, which consisted of two solid rocket motors, the first used to raise the orbit's apogee, the second its perigee. The first burn was successful, however the IUS went out of control during the second burn. TDRS-1 separated from the upper stage in a lower than planned orbit. It was eventually raised to geosynchronous orbit by means of its attitude control system. In order to achieve this, a team of engineers from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland worked for nearly three months using six one-pound thrusters on the errant satellite to push it higher in space. The failure was later identified as a collapsed second-stage nozzle Techroll Seal, a flexible ring which allows the nozzle to move and provide directional control. The Goddard engineers' successful effort required 39 adjustment burns to correct the elliptical orbit to the high geosynchronous orbit desired for TDRS-1. In connection with this rescue, Goddard Space Flight Center on 26 November 1984 honored a group of 34 individuals with the Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit, the highest level of recognition the Goddard Space Flight Center can bestow on its employees. In 1989 its operations were affected by a geomagnetic storm.
TDRS-1 formed part of the first Pole-to-Pole phone call on 28 April 1999, with TDRS-1 being used at the South Pole, and an Iridium phone being used at the North Pole (recorded in Ripley's Believe It Or Not and Guinness World Records in April 1999).
Mission duration
TDRS-1 had a design life of ten years, however in April 2008, it was still operational on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its launch. Over the years, the orbital inclination was allowed to increase so that, for portions of the day (approximately 5 hours), it was able to be used for communications with the North and then the South Pole. Along with Marisat F2, GOES 3 and LES-9, it was one of a number of satellites that were transferred to the US National Science Foundation in 1998, for communications with the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. After Marisat was retired, TDRS-1 became the primary means of communication with the research station. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Vestberg | Hans Vestberg (born 23 June 1965) is a Swedish businessman and CEO of Verizon Communications, where he has worked as executive vice president of the company's network and technology team, and as chief technology officer. Vestberg was previously the CEO of telecommunications company Ericsson, president of the Swedish Olympic Committee, and chairman of the Swedish Handball Federation.
Early life and education
Hans Vestberg was born in Hudiksvall, Sweden, in 1965. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Uppsala University in Sweden in 1991.
Career
Vestberg began his career in Hudiksvall at Ericsson Cables in 1991. He worked at Ericsson for 25 years, with management roles for the company in Sweden, China, Brazil, Mexico and the United States. He was CFO for Ericsson in Brazil from 1998 to 2000. From 2000 to 2002, Vestberg was CFO for Ericsson in North America and comptroller for the Americas. He served as president for Ericsson in Mexico from 2002 to 2003. Afterward, he served as a senior vice president and executive vice president for Ericsson before he was named chief financial officer in 2007, a post he held through 2009. Vestberg became the first CEO of Ericsson without an engineering background when he replaced Carl-Henric Svanberg in January 2010. Slowing industry demand and new competition impacted Vestberg's tenure as CEO, despite his cost cutting efforts and acquisitions. He was ousted July 2015, following Ericsson's poor financial performance.
Vestberg joined Verizon as the company's chief technology officer and executive vice president of its network and technology team on April 3, 2017. There, he oversaw Verizon's fiber network and the development of Verizon's nascent 5G network. On June 8, 2018, Verizon announced that Vestberg would succeed Lowell McAdam as the company's chief executive officer on August 1, 2018. In 2021, Verizon and Vestberg were criticized for Vestberg's $39.4 million golden parachute executive compensation plan, with a group of retired shareholders called the Association of BellTel Retirees alleging that the scale constituted boardroom misconduct.
Board participation
Vestberg chairs the World Economic Forum's Edison Alliance, a global telecom ecosystem that in 2021 focused on digital inclusion. In May 2021, Vestberg was elected to the board of directors of BlackRock, where he serves on the governance committee. Vestberg serves as a board member on the United Nations Foundation, and the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative, as well as a commissioner on the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development.
Sports
Vestberg was the chairman of the Swedish Handball Federation from 2007 to 2016. He left the Swedish Handball Federation to serve as president of the Swedish Olympic Committee from 2016 to 2018 as the country vied to host the 2026 Winter Olympics in Stockholm and Åre. Vestberg had previously played semipro handball in Brazil.
Personal life
Vestberg is married and has two children. He is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitold%20Belevitch | Vitold Belevitch (2 March 1921 – 26 December 1999) was a Belgian mathematician and electrical engineer of Russian origin who produced some important work in the field of electrical network theory. Born to parents fleeing the Bolsheviks, he settled in Belgium where he worked on early computer construction projects. Belevitch is responsible for a number of circuit theorems and introduced the now well-known scattering parameters.
Belevitch had an interest in languages and found a mathematical derivation of Zipf's law. He also published on machine languages. Another field of interest was transmission lines, where he published on line coupling. He worked on telephone conferencing and introduced the mathematical construct of the conference matrix.
Early life
Belevitch was born 2 March 1921 in Terijoki, Karelia, now incorporated into Russia, but at the time part of Finland. Belevitch's parents were Russian and his mother was an ethnic Pole. They were attempting to flee from their home in Petrograd (St Petersburg) in Russia to escape the Bolshevik revolution, which Belevitch's father opposed. Belevitch's heavily pregnant mother succeeded in crossing the border into Finland and continued on to Helsinki after Vitold was born, where the birth was registered. She headed for Helsinki because her husband's father was principal of the Russian school there. Belevitch's father was arrested before he could follow and was deported to Siberia, where he died without ever seeing his son.
In 1926 Belevitch, while still a small child, emigrated with his mother to Belgium.
Education
Belevitch was educated in French in Belgium, until July 1936 at the Notre-Dame de la Paix College at Namur. In 1937, aged 16, he enrolled at the Université Catholique de Louvain where he studied electrical and mechanical engineering, graduating in 1942. Belevitch gained his PhD in applied sciences at the same university in 1945. His sponsor was Charles Lambert Manneback and his second advisor was Wilhelm Cauer, the founder of the field of network synthesis.
From 1953 until 1985 Belevitch lectured at the university. He taught circuit theory and other mathematical subjects related to electrical science. In 1960 he became a special professor (buitengewoon hoogleraar). Although Belevitch worked as an electrical engineer, his primary interest was mathematics, especially algebra. There was a tradition in Belgium of the most gifted mathematicians entering engineering rather than pure mathematics or physics. Belevitch showed his mathematical leanings by preferring the use of blackboard and chalk to any audio-visual aids during lectures. He even lectured in this way when presenting the opening lecture to a large audience at an international conference at the IEE in London.
Career
After graduating in 1942, Belevitch joined the Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company (BTMC) in Antwerp, originally part of the International Bell Telephone Company headquartered in Brussels but, along w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20Age%20%28franchise%29 | Ice Age is an American media franchise centering on a group of mammals surviving the Pleistocene ice age. It consists of computer-animated films, short films, TV specials and a series of video games. The first five films were produced by Blue Sky Studios. The series features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Chris Wedge, who were the only constant cast members for the original films.
Five theatrical films have been released in the series: Ice Age in 2002, Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012, and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016. As of April 2016, the franchise had generated $6 billion in revenue, making it one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.
A standalone spin-off film, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, was released exclusively on Disney+ in January 2022 without Blue Sky's involvement. Simon Pegg was the only returning actor.
Films
Main series
Ice Age (2002)
Sid, a goofy but good-natured sloth, is left behind by his family and the herds of mammals journeying to the south. He meets Manny, a cynical and loner woolly mammoth who is travelling to the north, and decides to follow him, much to Manny's disdain. Along the way, the pair come across a woman who has jumped down the nearby waterfall in a desperate bid to protect her child after their camp was attacked by saber-toothed tigers. She silently pushes the infant towards Manny and Sid before disappearing into the water. The two animals decide to search for the father and return the baby to him.
The villainous Soto, leader of the sabers, instructs his second in command, Diego, to bring the baby to him so he can exact his revenge on the child's father, who frequently kills sabers with his tribe for their furs and meat. Diego comes across Manny and Sid and, since they refuse to just give him the child, he pretends to lead them towards the baby's tribe, when really Soto and the rest of the pack wait in an icy mountain range to ambush them, intending on killing Manny and stealing the child. During their journey, the trio bond over the infant and Diego must ultimately decide where his loyalties lie.
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
Manny, Sid, and Diego are currently living in a large valley surrounded by an enormously high ice wall on all sides. The trio discovers that the ice wall is actually a wall that is barely holding a massive body of water that could flood the valley to nearly a mile underwater. A vulture tells them that there is a boat at the other end of the valley that may save them all, but they only have three days to reach it or die. Manny is also having trouble fearing the fact that he may be the last mammoth left. Along the way, they meet Ellie, a bubbly female mammoth who thinks she is a possum, and her possum brothers Crash and Eddie. As they begin to travel together, Manny learns, with help from Diego and Sid, that he must move on from his past and open his hear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/989%20Sports%20Major%20League%20Baseball%20series | The MLB (Year#) series, is a series of Major League Baseball video games by Sony Computer Entertainment published under their 989 Sports label. The series was originally developed by Sony Interactive Studios America, who later became 989 Studios until eventually merging into Sony Computer Entertainment America. Following the merge the games were released under the 989 Sports brand up until 2006. Following that, MLB games from SCEA were released by San Diego Studio under the MLB: The Show series.
Games
See also
ESPN Baseball Tonight, Sony's 16-bit predecessor
MLB Pennant Race, Sony's PlayStation predecessor to the 989 Sports baseball series
MLB 06: The Show, Sony's successor to the 989 Sports baseball series
References
Sony Interactive Entertainment franchises
Major League Baseball video games
Video game franchises introduced in 1997
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20proportional%20fitting | The iterative proportional fitting procedure (IPF or IPFP, also known as biproportional fitting or biproportion in statistics or economics (input-output analysis, etc.), RAS algorithm in economics, raking in survey statistics, and matrix scaling in computer science) is the operation of finding the fitted matrix which is the closest to an initial matrix but with the row and column totals of a target matrix (which provides the constraints of the problem; the interior of is unknown). The fitted matrix being of the form , where and are diagonal matrices such that has the margins (row and column sums) of . Some algorithms can be chosen to perform biproportion. We have also the entropy maximization, information loss minimization (or cross-entropy) or RAS which consists of factoring the matrix rows to match the specified row totals, then factoring its columns to match the specified column totals; each step usually disturbs the previous step’s match, so these steps are repeated in cycles, re-adjusting the rows and columns in turn, until all specified marginal totals are satisfactorily approximated. However, all algorithms give the same solution.
In three- or more-dimensional cases, adjustment steps are applied for the marginals of each dimension in turn, the steps likewise repeated in cycles.
History
IPF has been "re-invented" many times, the earliest by Kruithof in 1937
in relation to telephone traffic ("Kruithof’s double factor method"), Deming and Stephan in 1940 for adjusting census crosstabulations, and G.V. Sheleikhovskii for traffic as reported by Bregman. (Deming and Stephan proposed IPFP as an algorithm leading to a minimizer of the Pearson X-squared statistic, which Stephan later reported it does not).
Early proofs of uniqueness and convergence came from Sinkhorn (1964), Bacharach (1965), Bishop (1967), and Fienberg (1970). Bishop's proof that IPFP finds the maximum likelihood estimator for any number of dimensions extended a 1959 proof by Brown for 2x2x2... cases. Fienberg's proof by differential geometry exploits the method's constant crossproduct ratios, for strictly positive tables. Csiszár (1975). found necessary and sufficient conditions for general tables having zero entries. Pukelsheim and Simeone (2009)
give further results on convergence and error behavior.
An exhaustive treatment of the algorithm and its mathematical foundations can be found in the book of Bishop et al. (1975). Idel (2016) gives a more recent survey.
Other general algorithms can be modified to yield the same limit as the IPFP, for instance the Newton–Raphson method and
the EM algorithm. In most cases, IPFP is preferred due to its computational speed, low storage requirements, numerical stability and algebraic simplicity.
Applications of IPFP have grown to include trip distribution models, Fratar or Furness and other applications in transportation planning (Lamond and Stewart), survey weighting, synthesis of cross-classified demographic data, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20P.%20Sanders | Daniel P. Sanders is an American mathematician. He is known for his 1996 efficient proof (algorithm) of proving the Four color theorem (with Neil Robertson, Paul Seymour, and Robin Thomas). He used to be a guest professor of the department of computer science at Columbia University.
Sanders received his Ph.D. in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization from Georgia Tech in 1993 under the guidance of professor Robin Thomas. He was the Graph Theory Resources editor of www.graphtheory.com. Sanders is a quantitative strategist at Renaissance Technologies. He has been on the faculty of the mathematics departments of Ohio State University and Princeton University.
Select work
On linear recognition of tree-width at most four, DP Sanders - SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 1996 - link.aip.org
Efficiently four-coloring planar graphs, - gatech.edu [PS], N Robertson, DP Sanders, P Seymour, R Thomas - Proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual ACM symposium on …, 1996 - portal.acm.org
References
Sanders
Four color theorem
Four color theorem Full text
Graph theorists
Georgia Tech alumni
People from Milledgeville, Georgia
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20PHP%20accelerators | This is a list of PHP accelerators.
Alternative PHP Cache (APC)
Alternative PHP Cache is a free and open (PHP license) framework that caches the output of the PHP bytecode compiler in shared memory, thus reducing parsing and disk I/O overhead for later requests; and a shared memory cache for user data. For an application consisting of a large source code base such as Drupal, a 3x increase in page generation speed is possible as a result.
It has been used at Facebook and has a mature codebase thanks to numerous contributors, including Facebook itself.
APC was originally scheduled for inclusion into the PHP core no later than PHP 6. While multiple accelerator projects were considered desirable, the focus has since moved to Optimizer Plus, and, later, Zend OPcache that is included in the core distribution as of PHP 5.5. Since March 2013, a beta version of APCu (APC User Cache) is available, in which all opcode caching abilities have been removed to support user caches in shared memory using the familiar APC API.
Website: http://pecl.php.net/package/APC
PHP version: works with all PHP versions up to PHP 5.4 (3.1.13 - beta release)
Latest beta version: 3.1.13 (2012-09-03)
Latest stable version: 3.1.9 (2011-05-14)
Status: Dormant, potentially dead (no new releases since September 2012),APCu still ongoing.
Download link: http://pecl.php.net/package/APC (source code, required for up-to-date compilation)
Official installation help: http://php.net/apc.setup and http://php.net/apc.installation (extension must be compiled against the sources of the PHP version it is to be used with; includes instructions for building on Windows)
eAccelerator
eAccelerator was born in December 2004 as a fork of the Turck MMCache project. Turck MMCache was created by Dmitry Stogov and much of the eAccelerator code is still based on his work. eAccelerator also contained a PHP encoder and loader, but the development staff discontinued the encoder and removed this feature after December 2006.
Website: http://eaccelerator.net/
PHP version: Supports PHP 4 and all PHP 5 thread-safe releases including 5.4. In older releases, the encoder will only work with PHP versions from the 4.x.x branch. eAccelerator will not work with any other versions of PHP. eAccelerator can only be used with the thread-safe version of PHP.
Latest stable version: 0.9.6.1 (2010-05-31)
Status: Dormant, potentially dead (no new releases since July 2012). The last public activity was the transfer to GitHub by Hans Rakers. The master branch supports PHP 5.4.
Github repository
Download link: (look for latest versions) http://eaccelerator.net/, download page on SourceForge
Official installation help: https://eaccelerator.net/wiki/InstallFromSource
ionCube PHP Accelerator
Launched in 2001, ionCube PHP Accelerator (PHPA) was the first freely available PHP accelerator to compete with the commercial Zend Cache product. Created before ionCube Ltd. was founded and at a time when the performance of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Uruguay | The Uruguayan railway network has about of lines, all of gauge, diesel traction with only of double track. Only half of the network is currently active. All the Uruguayan lines start from Montevideo, connecting the cities of Paysandú, Salto, Rivera and Río Branco. The rest of the lines (closed) connected the capital city with Fray Bentos, Cuareim, Artigas, Km. 329, Melo, La Paloma and Colonia del Sacramento.
History
Beginning
The work of building the first railway line in Uruguay began on April 25, 1867, with the opening of a branch between Paso del Molino and Cerro which consisted of a horse-drawn train. The national "Ferrocarril Central" had obtained the concession for the laying of tracks to Durazno, 205 km from Montevideo. However, for more than a decade they had submitted projects to no avail. The first branch between Bella Vista and Las Piedras, was inaugurated on 1 January 1869.
To continue the extension of the line and due to lack of capital in the country, many loans were contracted in London, where, as a control, a directory was established. Due to financial problems and high costs of the national administration, the British acquired the majority stake. The Central Uruguay Railway, the largest British company operating in the country, was formally born on 1 January 1878. By this time, several companies had appeared, such as the Midland Uruguay Railway. Although they were started by national capitals, they ended under British control as they were unable to find capital in the country to complete the works.
Expansion
In 1884 the Government promulgated the "Ley de Trazado General de Ferrocarriles" (Railways General Routes Law) that designed and regulated the railway network in the country. That plan established a radial system, where all the lines joined in Montevideo, the main port of Uruguay by then. Concessions were granted to British companies for a period of 25 years. After that term of exploitation, the State was responsible for expropriating the railway lines if case of non-compliance by the concessionaries.
Lines were assigned to the following companies:
Ferrocarril Central del Uruguay (Montevideo–Rivera with branches to Salto and Paysandú)
Ferrocarril de Montevideo a Colonia through Barra de Santa Lucia and Rosario
Ferrocarril del Oeste (25 de Agosto to Carmelo and Nueva Palmira via San José and branch to Mercedes)
Ferrocarril Nordeste (Montevideo–Artigas (today Río Branco) via San Ramón and Melo, with branch to Minas
Ferrocarril Uruguayo del Este (Montevideo–Laguna Merim via Pando, Maldonado, San Carlos and Rocha)
Ferrocarril de Salto a Santa Rosa (today Cuareim), with branch to San Eugenio (today Artigas)
State intervention
In 1915 the Government of Uruguay took over the Montevideo–Santiago Vázquez line, then making a similar procedure with other two broken lines. Therefore, the "Administración de Ferrocarriles y Tranvías del Estado" (FTE) was created. That State-owned company continued the expansion of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airlock%20%28video%20game%29 | Airlock is a platform video game for the Atari 2600 published by Data Age in 1982. The player runs and jumps through the interior of a crippled submarine with only ten seconds to complete each level.
Gameplay
In Airlock, players are challenged to think quickly and act decisively as they navigate the interior of a sinking submarine. The game's primary objective is to escape the submarine by progressing through its various levels, all while managing time constraints and avoiding obstacles.
As the player moves up each level of the submarine, they must collect two hatch keys to unlock the elevator that takes them to the next level. The time pressure increases the difficulty, as taking too long will cause the floors to flood, rendering escape impossible and resulting in a loss.
The roaming loose torpedoes from the crash add an additional layer of challenge to the gameplay. Players must jump over these torpedoes to avoid being momentarily stunned and losing precious time. Airlock tests the player's reflexes, decision-making skills, and ability to stay calm under pressure as they race to escape the submarine before it is fully submerged.
Reception
Frank Lovece, writing for Electronic Fun with Computers & Games in 1982, disliked that "there's little to the game once you've passed the first level." He pointed out that because the remaining time carries over to subsequent levels, the game gets easier as you progress.
In a review long after the game's release, Keita Iida concluded: "Graphics are drab in typical Data Age fashion, and sounds consist of nothing more than blips and beeps. On the other hand, it's one of the better efforts by one of the first casualties of the classic videogame era... although that's not saying much."
References
External links
Airlock at Atari Mania
1982 video games
Atari 2600 games
Atari 2600-only games
North America-exclusive video games
Platformers
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latimer%20diagram | A Latimer diagram of a chemical element is a summary of the standard electrode potential data of that element. This type of diagram is named after Wendell Mitchell Latimer, an American chemist.
Construction
In a Latimer diagram, the most highly oxidized form of the element is on the left side, with successively lower oxidation states to the right side. The species are connected by arrows, and the numerical value of the standard potential (in volts) for the reduction is written at each arrow. For example, for oxygen, the species would be in the order O2 (0), H2O2 (–1), H2O (-2):
The arrow between O2 and H2O2 has a value +0.68 V over it, it indicates that the standard electrode potential for the reaction:
O2(g) + 2H+ + 2e− ⇄ H2O2(aq)
is 0.68 volts.
Application
Latimer diagrams can be used in the construction of Frost diagrams, as a concise summary of the standard electrode potentials relative to the element. Since ΔrGo = -nFEo, the electrode potential is a representation of the Gibbs energy change for the given reduction. The sum of the Gibbs energy changes for subsequent reductions (e.g. from O2 to H2O2, then from H2O2 to H2O) is the same as the Gibbs energy change for the overall reduction (i.e. from O2 to H2O), in accordance with Hess's law. This can be used to find the electrode potential for non-adjacent steps, which gives all the information necessary for the Frost diagram.
A simple examination of a Latimer diagram can also indicate if a species will disproportionate in solution under the conditions for which the electrode potentials are given: if the potential to the right of the species is higher than the potential on the left, it will disproportionate. Therefore, hydrogen peroxide is unstable and will disproportionate (see diagram above).
See also
Frost diagram
Pourbaix diagram
Ellingham diagram
References
Electrochemistry
Potentials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Institute | In Australia, the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (Australian AI Institute, AAII, or A2I2) was a government-funded research and development laboratory for investigating and commercializing Artificial Intelligence, specifically Intelligent Software Agents.
History
The AAII was started in 1988 as an initiative by the Hawke government and closed in 1999. It was backed by support from the Computer Power Group, SRI International and the Victorian State Government. The director of the group was Michael Georgeff who came from SRI, contributing his experience with the PRS and vision in the domain of Intelligent agents. It was located in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton before moving to more spacious premises in the city centre of Melbourne, Victoria. At its peak it had more than 40 staff and took up two floors of an office building on the corner of Latrobe and Russell Streets.
In the late 1990s, the AAII spun out Agentis International (Agentis Business Solutions) to address the commercialization of the developed technology. Another company, Agent Oriented Software (AOS) was formed by a number of ex-AAII staff to pursue agent technology developing JACK Intelligent Agents. After the AAII shutdown, those staff that remained and the intellectual property were transferred to Agentis International.
Projects
This section summarizes a selection of the software and commercial projects that came out of the AAII:
Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) ongoing development and application of PRS in collaboration with SRI International
Distributed Multi-Agent Reasoning System (dMARS) an agent-oriented development and implementation environment for building complex, distributed, time-critical systems. Developed as a C++ extension to PRS.
Smart Whole AiR Mission Model (SWARMM) an agent-oriented simulation system developed by AAII in conjunction with and for the Air Operations Division (AOD) of the DSTO.
Optimal Aircraft Sequencing using Intelligent Scheduling (OASIS) an air traffic management system written in the PRS that accurately estimated aircraft arrival time, determined an optima sequence for landings and alerted operators as to the actions required to achieve the sequence. It was designed to reduce air traffic congestion and maximize the use of runways. A prototype was developed for Sydney Airport using dMARS called HORIZON.
Single Point of Contact (SPOC) was a system developed for Optus to assist customer service representatives to meet the objective to meet 98% of customer enquirers with a single point of contact with the company. The system was built using dMARS and involved a multilayer architecture.
Technical Notes
Over the course of its existence, the AAII released more than 75 of public technical notes . This section lists an available selection of these notes.
Current Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
A research institute was newly named the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) in August 2020. Formerly the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon%20%28TV%20series%29 | Rubicon is an American conspiracy thriller television series created by Jason Horwitch and produced by Henry Bromell that was broadcast on the AMC television network in 2010. The series centers on an intelligence analyst working for the American Policy Institute (API) in New York City. The series stars James Badge Dale, Jessie Collins, Lauren Hodges, Miranda Richardson, Dallas Roberts, Christopher Evan Welch, Arliss Howard, and Michael Cristofer.
The original focus of the series was influenced by conspiracy films of the 1970s such as Three Days of the Condor and The Parallax View, in which an innocent character is caught up in, and slowly unravels, a major conspiracy. Creative differences with the network, however, caused Horwitch to leave the series, after which Bromell focused the episodes more on the workers at API, which was changed from a think tank to a private intelligence agency.
Rubicon debuted on AMC on August 1, 2010, as a two-hour, two episode block. With two million viewers, the August 1 premiere set a record as the most watched debut of an AMC original series at that time. However, due to low viewing figures, AMC canceled Rubicon on November 11, 2010, stating that the show had been "an opportunity to tell a rich and compelling story, and we're proud of the series. This was not an easy decision, but we are grateful to have had the opportunity to work with such a phenomenally talented and dedicated team."
Production
Concept
The show's title references Caesar's 49 BC crossing of the Rubicon in northeastern Italy, an act of war against the Roman Republic. A press release by Bromell noted that the Roman senators "were always afraid that the Roman army would someday take over, which is exactly what happened. And that's when the republic ended and the empire—which is a dictatorship—began." The river's history was also mentioned in episode 12, when Kale Ingram compares Katherine Rhumor's late husband to Cato the Younger, whose suicide permitted his family to "make peace with Caesar and a life of their own".
The narrative of the show involves the main protagonist, an intelligence analyst, during his investigation into the mysterious death of his mentor, which is later revealed to be an act of a larger conspiracy committed by a secret society of war profiteers in corporate America, whose members may include his employer.
Creator Jason Horwitch conceived the show based on conspiracy films of the 1970s such as All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, and The Parallax View inspired by their slow-paced action and complex stories. After writing and producing the pilot, Horwitch left the show due to "creative disagreements" with the network. Producer Henry Bromell then took over the role as showrunner, making numerous changes including shifting the workplace from a civilian think tank similar to RAND to an intelligence consulting firm similar to STRATFOR. With Horwitch off-board, further production began on March 29, 2010, in New Y |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20multi-agent%20reasoning%20system | In artificial intelligence, the distributed multi-agent reasoning system (dMARS) was a platform for intelligent software agents developed at the AAII that makes uses of the belief–desire–intention software model (BDI). The design for dMARS was an extension of the intelligent agent cognitive architecture developed at SRI International called procedural reasoning system (PRS). The most recent incarnation of this framework is the JACK Intelligent Agents platform.
Overview
dMARS was an agent-oriented development and implementation environment written in C++ for building complex, distributed, time-critical systems.
See also
Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
Intelligent agent
JACK Intelligent Agents
AgentSpeak
References
d'Inverno, M., Luck, M., Georgeff, M., Kinny, D. and Wooldridge, M. (2004) "The dMARS Architecture: A Specification of the Distributed Multi-Agent Reasoning System". Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. pp. 5–53.
Mark d'Inverno, David Kinny, Michael Luck, and Michael Wooldridge. "A Formal Specification of dMARS". In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, ATAL'97 appears in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 1365, pages 155–76, 1997.
Michael Peter Georgeff, Anand S. Rao, "A profile of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 89–92, December 1996.
External links
dMARS Product Brief on the AAII website via the Internet Archive
Distributed artificial intelligence
SRI International software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXRL | DXRL (101.5 FM) is a radio station owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation and operated by TV5 Network, Inc. It currently serves as a relay station of Radyo5 in Manila. The station's transmitter is located along Ramon Chavez St., Cagayan de Oro.
History
The station began operations in 1976 as MRS 101.5, airing an adult contemporary format. In 1998, after NBC was acquired by PLDT subsidiary MediaQuest Holdings, the station rebranded as Sandy @ Rhythms 101.5 (later on shortened to Sandy 101.5) and switched to a Top 40 format. In 2007, it rebranded as 101.5 Fusion FM. In 2011, months after TV5 took over operations of the stations, it became a relay station of 92.3 Radyo5 in Manila.
References
Radio stations in Cagayan de Oro
Radio stations established in 1976
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorway%20%28typeface%29 | Motorway is a sans-serif typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for use on the motorway network of the United Kingdom. Motorway was first used on the M6 Preston bypass in 1958 and has been in use on the UK's motorways ever since. The typeface is also used in some other countries, most notably Ireland and Portugal.
Motorway comes in two weights, "Motorway Permanent" and "Motorway Temporary". Motorway Permanent is the standard weight, and is used for pale text on a dark background (for example, on white-on-blue permanent motorway signs) while Motorway Temporary is heavier, and is used for dark text on a pale background (for example, black-on-yellow temporary motorway signs). The typeface have a limited character set, only containing the numbers 0 to 9; the letters "A", "B", "E", "M", "N", "S", "W"; parentheses ("(", ")"); a comma (","); an ampersand ("&"); and the word "Toll" (treated as a single character). The character "Toll" was added to the font set in summer 2007, in order to be added to any following new M6 Toll road signs on the motorway. Previously the word "Toll" was written in Transport Medium adjacent to "M6" written in Motorway Permanent.
A full character set of the Motorway typeface was completed by the K-Type foundry in 2015, almost sixty years after its inception. The family includes the Bold (Temporary) weight, the SemiBold (Permanent) weight, and a previously unconsidered Regular (book) weight. There are also true italics for each weight.
Use in the UK
The Motorway alphabet appears on road signs on motorways in the United Kingdom, and is used for route numbers. On non-motorway roads at interchanges, the Motorway typeface may only be used on signs pointing in a direction where a driver would become immediately subject to motorway regulations. All other text on UK road signs appears in Transport.
Use in Ireland
The Motorway font is also used in Ireland. Its use is slightly different from that in the UK - in the Republic, motorway route numbers are always in Motorway font, whether the sign is on a motorway or not. In addition, on signs erected before 2009, route numbers for all-purpose roads on motorway signs were in Transport font. On signs erected since 2009, all route numbers on motorways are now in motorway font, bringing Ireland closer to the UK practice (however, as Motorway font has not previously featured the letters "R" and "L", these letters still appear in Transport). As in the UK, all other text on road signs appears in Transport font.
See also
List of public signage typefaces
Transport (typeface)
Rail Alphabet — The equivalent font on Britain's railways, also designed by Kinneir & Calvert.
Johnston (typeface) — The London Underground font, designed by Edward Johnston.
Public signage typefaces
Highway Gothic — A font also used widely around the world for traffic signs.
SNV (typeface)
DIN 1451 — The German equivalent.
References
Sans-serif typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1958
Road |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR%20K | DR K was a Danish free-to-air television channel owned by state broadcaster DR. Its programming was centred towards culture and history.
History
Originally conceived as a channel dedicated to history, the channel was first presented in 2005 in the run up to DR's new settlement with the Danish state. It would draw on DR's vast archives of Danish material. The effort would be combined with digitalising DR's archives and launching interactive services. There would also be special channels for children, the youth and drama.
When the media settlement was presented in June 2006, the plans were to launch a combined channel with children's programmes in the daytime and history programmes in the evening.
The names of the new digital terrestrial channels were presented in March 2009: DR K, DR Ramasjang (for children) and DR HD together with DR1, DR2 and DR Update. By that time, the channel had developed into a cultural channel dedicated to arts, history, design, fashion and fiction programming. The channel would timeshare between 4pm and 12am.
DR K premiered on 1 November 2009 and is broadcast on the digital terrestrial television network (DTT) and pay television platforms.
The channel switched from SD broadcasting to 720p HD in December 2016 on DTT, followed by pay television providers in early 2017.
The channel was targeted by a 20% cut in the budget plan by DR in September 2018, with the aim of closing the channel in 2020 and merging its output with that of DR2.
Logos and identities
References
Defunct television channels in Denmark
Educational and instructional television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020
DR (broadcaster) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance%20Chancellor | Chance Chancellor is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network. Introduced as the son of Nina Webster and Phillip Chancellor III, he was portrayed by various child actors from 1988 to 2001. From 2009 to 2011, actor John Driscoll portrayed the role. In 2019, actor Donny Boaz was cast in the role; he exited in February 2021. Conner Floyd debuted in the role that November.
Casting
The role of "Little Phillip" was first portrayed by infant twins Michael and Jonathan Hall in 1988 during all of the hospital scenes, followed by Andrew and Clark Rogers in 1988, Chuckie and Kenny Gravino from 1988 to 1989, and Scott and Shaun Markley from 1991 to 1993. Thomas Dekker briefly took over in 1993 before Courtland Mead assumed the role until 1995. He was first replaced by Alex D. Linz before Nicholas Pappone took over until 1999. The final child actor to portray the role was future Gossip Girl actor Penn Badgley, from May 12, 2000, to February 1, 2001.
In May 2009, it was announced that John Driscoll, previously known for his portrayal of Cooper Bradshaw on Guiding Light, had been cast in the role. He made his debut on July 16, 2009. In August 2010, it was announced that Driscoll had been let go and his last airdate was September 9, 2010. However, Driscoll returned for several guest appearances in 2011; from February to May, and from October 20 to November 11.
In November 2019, it was announced that Donny Boaz had been cast in the role of Chance; he will make his first appearance on November 8. In November of the following year, Boaz announced he would temporarily exit the role after being diagnosed with COVID-19; at press time, the actor announced he had already returned to set. It was subsequently announced Justin Gaston, the real-life spouse of Boaz's love interest Melissa Ordway (Abby Newman) had been temporarily cast in the role. On January 31, 2021, Boaz announced he had been let go from the role; he last appeared on February 1.
Storylines
1988–2001
Phillip "Chance" Chancellor is the son of the wealthy heir to Chancellor Industries, Phillip Chancellor III and Nina Webster. After his father's apparent death, his mother marries Ryan McNeil, whom Phillip thinks of as a father. He is upset when Ryan leaves Nina to be with Tricia Dennison; meanwhile, Ryan is caught between the woman he loves and the boy whom he thinks of as his son. Nina eventually convinces Phillip to spend time with his stepfather and Tricia in order to get to know her. Eventually, Ryan leaves Tricia to be with Victoria Newman and Nina begins a relationship with Tomas Del Cerro. However, Ryan remains a fixture in Phillip's life until he is killed at his wedding to Victoria in 2001. Shortly afterward, Nina and Phillip move to Los Angeles.
2009–2011
In November 2008, Nina returns to Genoa City for the funeral of Katherine Chancellor, however it is really Katherine's lookalike, Marge Cotrooke, who has died. She reveals that Phillip i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Tomlin | Charles Dana Tomlin is an author, professor, and originator of Map Algebra, a vocabulary and conceptual framework for classifying ways to combine map data to produce new maps. Tomlin's teaching and research focus on the development and application of geographic information systems (GIS). He is currently a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, having also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Ohio State University School of Natural Resources. His coursework in Landscape Architecture has extensively included GIS and cartographic modeling applications.
Contributions to GIS
Tomlin's contributions to GIS extend across a number of years and a wide variety of applications. As a student at Harvard University in the mid-1970s, he developed the Tomlin Subsystem of IMGRID as a master's thesis. Many analytical functions in IMGRID were later integrated into Imagine, a satellite image processing application developed by ERDAS.
As a doctoral student at Yale University in the late 1970s, and as a junior faculty member at Harvard in the early 1980s, Tomlin developed MAP (the Map Analysis Package), one of the most widely used programs of its kind. The open source GRASS application derives many of its raster analytical capabilities directly from MAP and was extensively used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies throughout the late 1980s. Tomlin's work on MAP has also been directly inherited by a long list of other software packages, including, OSUMAP, MAP II, MapFactory, MFWorks, MacGIS, IDRISI, MapBox, pMap, and MGE.
In 1990, Tomlin led an informal group of City and Regional Planning doctoral students at the University of Pennsylvania in founding the Cartographic Modeling Laboratory. The Cartographic Modeling Lab conducts academic research and urban and social policy analysis using GIS and spatial research applications. Tomlin has been co-director of the lab since 1995.
Map algebra
Tomlin's landmark book, Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling, was published in 1990 to expand on his earlier dissertation work on Map Algebra. A significantly revised version was released as GIS and Cartographic Modeling in 2012. Map Algebra is used for a broad array of GIS modeling applications, including suitability modeling, surface analysis, density analysis, statistics, hydrology, landscape ecology, real estate and geographic prioritization.
Early in its development, Tomlin made the decision to openly share all of the source code, documentation and algorithms associated with Map Algebra. Consequently, the overall concepts of Map Algebra are still used today in every GIS application that supports raster calculations. Esri’s Spatial Analyst solution, as well as its predecessor, the GRID module of ArcInfo, has incorporated most of the Map Algebra concepts.
While primarily applied to raster data, Map Alg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst%20cutting%20area | In computing, the burst cutting area (BCA) or narrow burst cutting area (NBCA) refers to the circular area near the center of a DVD, HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc, where a barcode can be written for additional information such as ID codes, manufacturing information, and serial numbers. The BCA can be written during mastering and will be common for all discs from that master or, more usually, will be written using a YAG laser to "cut" the barcode into the aluminum reflective layer of the finished disc, potentially adding a unique barcode to each manufactured disc.
If a BCA mark is present, it is visible to the naked eye between a radius 22.3±0.4 mm and 23.5±0.5 mm. It should not be confused with the IFPI barcode that is present on all pre-recorded discs.
The data stored in the BCA can be from 12 bytes to 188 bytes in steps of 16 bytes. The BCA can be read using the same laser for reading regular data, but requires special circuitry to be decoded. It is not mandatory for DVD players to support reading the BCA, but DVD-ROM drives should, according to the Mt. Fuji specification (an industry-standard optical drive command set). The Burst Cutting Area cannot be written without using special equipment, therefore it can be used as a tamper-proof means of identifying individual discs.
The DIVX format used BCA to uniquely identify every disc. Information for CPRM is stored in the BCA of a DVD-RAM or DVD-R/RW disc. Nintendo optical discs use a BCA mark to prevent the use of copied discs and homebrew games. On Blu-ray discs a Pre-recorded Media Serial Number (PMSN) can be stored in the BCA.
See also
ROM Mark
Notes
References
Ecma International. Standard ECMA-267: 120 mm DVD - Read-Only Disk.
DVD Forum. DVD Specification: Part 1, Annex K.
Blu-ray Disc Association. BD ROM - Physical Format Specifications (March 2007).
OSTA. "Understanding DVD: Disc Construction and Manufacturing".
OSTA. "Understanding DVD: Copying Deterrents and Content Protection".
DVD FAQ. "What is BCA or NBCA?".
DVD Demystified Glossary. "BCA".
DVD Burning Glossary. "BCA - Burst Cutting Area".
DVD
Compact Disc and DVD copy protection
Optical computer storage media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Wildeman | Richard Wildeman is a computer animator, part of the award-winning Science North Production Team. Science North is a science centre producing multi-media exhibits, displays and IMAX films.
Selected works and multimedia experiences
Aztec Theatre - Aztec On The River - TEA's Thea Award Winner
Concorde Experience - Barbados Concorde Museum - Concorde aircraft histories (2006)
Waterworks (2008)
Ground Rules - Caterpillar Inc. (2008)
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory - Object Theatre Update (2008)
Rags To Riches - Xstrata (2008)
Migration Story - Philadelphia Zoo (2009)
Creatures of the Abyss - International Multi-Media Exhibit (2009)
Critical appraise
The production team were among the winners of the 14th annual international TEA Themed Entertainment Association Thea awards.
References
http://www.philadelphiazoo.org/
http://www.aztecontheriver.com/
http://www.thesudburystar.com/media/pages/getaway09/pdf/20090612-C20.pdf
Climate Change 8. SNO 9. 2008 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada http://www.timminspress.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1585691 10. Ground Rules Article in CSC Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20110706174553/http://www.csc.ca/news/default.asp?aID=1354
Canadian animators
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B%20Bank | B2B Bank is a Schedule I Canadian bank that serves a network of some 27,000 financial professionals across key business verticals including: financial advisors and their dealerships; deposit and mortgage brokers and their firms; mutual fund and insurance manufacturers; MFDA and IIROC members.
Operations
B2B Bank offers investment and Registered Retirement Savings Plan loans, broker deposits, broker mortgages, and investment and banking accounts to a network of 27,000 financial professionals including: financial advisors and their dealerships; deposit and mortgage brokers and their firms; mutual fund and insurance manufacturers; MFDA and IIROC members.
History
B2B Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Laurentian Bank of Canada. In 1996, Laurentian Bank acquired North American Trust's personal and commercial portfolios forming a division known as Agency Banking. Four years later, Laurentian purchased Sun Life Trust Company and merged the business with the Agency Banking division. On July 1, 2000, the resulting organization was renamed B2B Trust. On July 7, 2012, the company became a Schedule I bank and was renamed B2B Bank. B2B Bank's head office is located in Toronto's financial district.
Membership
B2B Bank is a member of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC).
It is also part of THE EXCHANGE Network owned by FICANEX.
References
External links
B2B Bank
Laurentian Bank of Canada
Banks of Canada
Companies based in Toronto
Laurentian Bank of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance%20Your%20Ass%20Off | Dance Your Ass Off (also rendered in a censored form as Dance Your A** Off for broadcast television mentions and promotions) is a reality competition series on the Oxygen Network hosted by Marissa Jaret Winokur in the first season, then Melanie Brown in season two. Similar to the set up of Dancing with the Stars competitors are paired with a professional dancers in hope of impressing judges and the viewing audience. However, each of the twelve contestants are also hoping to lose weight during the process. It premiered on June 29, 2009. The medical doctor is Rob Huizenga from The Biggest Loser. The season premiere brought in 4.3 million viewers making it the most watched show in history of Oxygen Network. In the judges panel are Danny Teeson, a lifestyle coach and dancing expert, actress Lisa Ann Walter, and professional dancer Mayte Garcia, who only appeared as a guest judge for a week in season 2.
Seasons
Season 1
Season 2
International broadcasters
Australia
Australia's Nine Network began airing Dance Your Ass Off on July 21, 2009. The first episode attained a low 797,000 viewers (compared with numbers of 1.4-1.6 million viewers on the other two major commercial networks) and coming third out of fifth in overall ratings for the night by a substantial margin. Dance Your Ass Off got some of the lowest numbers the network has seen before in prime-time. The Nine Network removed the show from their schedule and replaced it with episodes of 20 to 1.
There was much criticism to the Nine Network airing Dance Your Ass Off, considering that the Oxygen Network is a low-viewed niche cable network in the United States that only targets young women exclusively with their programming, whereas Nine is a major free-to-air broadcaster for the mass-market. Within three weeks the programme was moved to Nine's multicast digital channel Go! from August 15, 2009, ending October 17 with the finale episode.
The show was panned in its reviews as well in Australia prior to its premiere, with websites such as TV Tonight giving it a rating of a ½-star out of a possible 5 stars.
International adaptations
There have been a number of local version of Dance Your Ass Off around the world based on the original US format. Licensing of the format is handled by NBCUniversal. Vietnam is the only country airing its version of Dance Your Ass Off while other countries are no longer airing its version.
References
External links
Official site
Dance Your Ass Off Video & Gallery
2009 American television series debuts
Dance competition television shows
Oxygen (TV channel) original programming
2010 American television series endings
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Magical Elves |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card%20scheme | Card schemes are payment networks linked to payment cards, such as debit or credit cards, of which a bank or any other eligible financial institution can become a member. By becoming a member of the scheme, the member then gets the possibility to issue cards or acquire merchants operating on the network of that card scheme.
UnionPay, Visa and MasterCard are three of the largest global brands, known as card schemes, or card brands. Billions of transactions go through their cards on a yearly basis.
Types
The card schemes come in two main varieties - a three-party scheme (or closed scheme) or a four-party scheme (or open scheme).
Three-party scheme
A three-party scheme consists of three main parties, as described in the adjacent diagram.
In this model, the issuer (having the relationship with the cardholder) and the acquirer (having the relationship with the merchant) are the same entity. This means that there is no need for any charges between the issuer and the acquirer. Since it is a franchise setup, there is only one franchisee in each market, which is the incentive in this model. There is no competition within the brand; rather, you compete with other brands.
Examples of this setup are Diners Club, Discover Card, and American Express, although in recent times these schemes have also partnered with other issuers and acquirers in order to boost their circulation and acceptance, and Diners Club now operates as a four-party scheme in many regions.
Four-party scheme
In a four-party scheme (also referred to as Four Corners Model, the issuer and acquirer are different entities, and this type of scheme is open for other institutions to join and issue their own cards. This is the type of card scheme used by brands such as Visa, Mastercard, Verve Card, UnionPay and RuPay. There are no limitations as to who may join the scheme, as long as the requirements of the scheme are met.
Processes
The card scheme utilizes the respective guidelines to process the card exchange data from the acquiring to the issuing bank, and vice versa, until the payment is fully completed (or denied). Credit and debit cards work with a four-party scheme, completing an open-circle framework that permits consistent flow of transactions; thus, allowing the banks to handle the whole process.
Card schemes aim to make the transaction convenient and automated for all parties involved in the loop, with the core belief that clients end up spending more than intended when the payment process is simple.
Key parties
Cardholder
A cardholder is a consumer, who owns the debit or credit card, issued by their bank, or other financial institution. They aren't legally obliged to use a single card scheme and may own various types of cards, issued by numerous institutions.
Card issuer
The card issuer, as the name implies, issues credit, debit, and prepaid cards from any of the available card schemes to all clients who went through a screening process and are, therefore, qualified to own |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGM | VGM may stand for:
Video game music, a style of music
Van Gogh Museum, a museum in Amsterdam named after the famous painter
VGM (file format), a computer music file format used in old gaming consoles
Verified Gross Mass (VERMAS or VGM), a SOLAS Convention requirement for container weight as defined by the International Maritime Organisation that transmits container weight information
Volo's Guide to Monsters, a supplement for the 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20John%20Collins | C. John "Jack" Collins is an American academic and professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary, where he has served since 1993.
He received a BS and MS (computer science and systems engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.Div. from Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Biblical Hebrew linguistics from the School of Archaeology and Oriental Studies, University of Liverpool.
Collins was Old Testament Chairman for the ESV Study Bible, served as ESV Text Editor for The English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament (Crossway, 2006), and is Old Testament Editor of the English Standard Version Study Bible.
He has published numerous articles in technical journals, as well as The New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis. In 2000 his book on the theological and exegetical aspects of divine action, entitled The God of Miracles, was published by Crossway. It was also carried by InterVarsity Press in the UK the following year. His next book, Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? was also published by Crossway in 2003, followed by Genesis 1-4: A Linguistic, Theological, and Literary Commentary, published by P&R (2006).
Collins' recent book Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?: Who They Were and Why You Should Care (Crossway, 2011), in which he highlights the importance to Christian theology of believing that the biblical period fall of man was a historical event, and explores whether such a belief can be compatible with a Darwinian view of human origins. Collins has been a prominent voice in recent discussion among evangelicals on this topic.
Works
Thesis
Books
Edited by
References
Living people
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Covenant Theological Seminary faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christel%20House%20Academy | Christel House Academy is a network of learning centers supported by Christel House International (CHI). The centers, authorized by the Mayor of Indianapolis, operate as public charter schools on multiple campus locations.
Christel House Academy South opened in 2002 on the Southside of Indianapolis and serves more than 600 low income students in grades K–12.
Christel House DORS South, an adult dropout recovery high school, is located on the Christel House South campus. Christel House DORS West, the Academy's second adult high school, opened on the Christel House West campus in 2015.
In December 2013 Christel House Academy received an F-rating in Indiana state school accountability rankings.
In subsequent years, Christel House Academy South earned a B.
References
External links
Christel House Academy (South)
Christel House DORS
Public elementary schools in Indiana
Public middle schools in Indiana
Public high schools in Indiana
Schools in Indianapolis
Charter schools in Indiana
2002 establishments in Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Raiders | Air Raiders is an action game developed by M-Network and published by Mattel. The game was released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. The game received mixed reviews from critics.
Gameplay
Air Raiders is a flight simulator whose the player has the view of an airstrip as seen from the cockpit of a jet fighter. The goal of the game was to shoot as many enemies as possible, while avoiding the enemy's cannon fire and landing safely before the fuel runs out.
Reception
Air Raiders was described as a highly underrated first-person jet fighter. A review on Epinions said that the game was impressive.
References
External links
Atari 2600 games
Atari 2600-only games
Action games
1982 video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session%20multiplexing | Session multiplexing in a computer network is a service provided by the transport layer (see OSI Layered Model). It multiplexes several message streams, or sessions onto one logical link and keeps track of which messages belong to which sessions (see session layer).
An example of session multiplexing—a single computer with one IP address has several websites open at once.
References
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mobile%20Suit%20Zeta%20Gundam%20episodes | Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is a 1985 Japanese science fiction anime television series created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Sotsu Agency, and Sunrise. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is the sequel to the 1979 Japanese science fiction series Mobile Suit Gundam. The series premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on March 2, 1985, and spanned 50 episodes to February 22, 1986. The English adaptation was released direct to DVD in the United States.
Three pieces of theme music are used over the course of the series—two opening themes and one closing theme. For the first twenty-three episodes, the opening theme is . For the remaining twenty-seven episodes, the opening theme is by Hiroko Moriguchi. The closing theme is by Mami Ayukawa. For the North American release, the opening and closing themes were changed to for the opening theme and for the closing theme, both by Shigeaki Saegusa. Songs composed by Neil Sedaka were adapted for the series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. These included the two opening themes "Zeta - Toki wo Koete" (originally in English as "Better Days are Coming") and "Mizu no Hoshi e Ai wo Komete" (originally in English as "For Us to Decide", but the English version was never recorded), as well as the end theme "Hoshizora no Believe" (written as "Bad and Beautiful"). Due to copyright, the songs were replaced for the North American DVD.
Episode list
Notes
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Zeta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive-real%20function | Positive-real functions, often abbreviated to PR function or PRF, are a kind of mathematical function that first arose in electrical network synthesis. They are complex functions, Z(s), of a complex variable, s. A rational function is defined to have the PR property if it has a positive real part and is analytic in the right half of the complex plane and takes on real values on the real axis.
In symbols the definition is,
In electrical network analysis, Z(s) represents an impedance expression and s is the complex frequency variable, often expressed as its real and imaginary parts;
in which terms the PR condition can be stated;
The importance to network analysis of the PR condition lies in the realisability condition. Z(s) is realisable as a one-port rational impedance if and only if it meets the PR condition. Realisable in this sense means that the impedance can be constructed from a finite (hence rational) number of discrete ideal passive linear elements (resistors, inductors and capacitors in electrical terminology).
Definition
The term positive-real function was originally defined by Otto Brune to describe any function Z(s) which
is rational (the quotient of two polynomials),
is real when s is real
has positive real part when s has a positive real part
Many authors strictly adhere to this definition by explicitly requiring rationality, or by restricting attention to rational functions, at least in the first instance. However, a similar more general condition, not restricted to rational functions had earlier been considered by Cauer, and some authors ascribe the term positive-real to this type of condition, while others consider it to be a generalization of the basic definition.
History
The condition was first proposed by Wilhelm Cauer (1926) who determined that it was a necessary condition. Otto Brune (1931) coined the term positive-real for the condition and proved that it was both necessary and sufficient for realisability.
Properties
The sum of two PR functions is PR.
The composition of two PR functions is PR. In particular, if Z(s) is PR, then so are 1/Z(s) and Z(1/s).
All the zeros and poles of a PR function are in the left half plane or on its boundary of the imaginary axis.
Any poles and zeroes on the imaginary axis are simple (have a multiplicity of one).
Any poles on the imaginary axis have real strictly positive residues, and similarly at any zeroes on the imaginary axis, the function has a real strictly positive derivative.
Over the right half plane, the minimum value of the real part of a PR function occurs on the imaginary axis (because the real part of an analytic function constitutes a harmonic function over the plane, and therefore satisfies the maximum principle).
For a rational PR function, the number of poles and number of zeroes differ by at most one.
Generalizations
A couple of generalizations are sometimes made, with intention of characterizing the immittance functions of a wider class of passive linear electr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Ocean%20Network | The World Ocean Network (Réseau Océan Mondial) is an international non-profit association of organizations to promote the sustainable use of the oceans. One of its motto is "Caring for the Blue Planet, you can make a difference!"
It was established in November 2002. Its office is in Nausicaä - The French National Sea Centre in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Activities
Co-sponsor with The Ocean Project of World Ocean Day on 8 June since 2003; World Oceans Day officially recognized by the United Nations in 2009.
Partner with Association of Science-Technology Centers's IGLO initiative to raise awareness of the effects of global warming (International Action on Global Warming)
Sponsored three international meetings of aquariums, museums and science centers on the ocean in 1999, 2002, and 2006
Created the "Passport" of "Citizen of the Ocean" for individual commitment to marine conservation through daily actions.
Launched "Mr Goodfish" campaign, to teach restaurateurs and chefs how to cook fish sustainably.
References
External links
International environmental organizations
World Ocean
Environmental organizations based in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JESS3 | JESS3 is an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, CA, specializing in data visualization, social media strategy, infographics, branding and web design. The firm has worked with clients including Google, Nike, Intel, Facebook, ESPN, and Samsung.
Background
JESS3 was founded in 2007 by web designer Jesse Thomas, its CEO. JESS3 is a creative interactive agency specializing in producing videos and graphics to explain complex information through "visual storytelling". The firm originally focused on design work, and later added services including social media strategy, research and development of interactive installations. The firm's eventual name was conceived by Thomas when he was a student, who replaced the "e" in his first name with the numeral "3", inspired by Eminem's logo. The firm's clients have included Nike, Intel, Microsoft, NASA, MySpace, Facebook, Google, Yahoo! and Samsung. From 2009, the company became Mashable's official design partner on projects, including their iPhone application.
, the firm has 30 employees and offices in locations across the United States, in the United Kingdom and France. JESS3 is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and has an additional office in Oklahoma City, while previously having established offices in Denver, Orlando, Portland, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
2013 Geeks on a Plane scandal
In 2013, CEO Jesse Thomas participated in the Geeks on a Plane program. While drunk on an Indian beach, Thomas took a video of his naked and drunk friend AlphaBoost CEO Matt Monahan. Thomas then uploaded the video to YouTube and posted it to JESS3's Twitter feed. As a result of the fallout of this incident, JESS3 lost most of its employees and clients.
Projects
Data visualization
JESS3 has created and co-sponsored numerous visual design projects, particularly infographics and media installations. In October 2010, JESS3 created a visual representation of Foursquare check-ins at polling locations on voting day, in cooperation with the Voting Information Project, the Pew Trusts and Rock the Vote, providing a sample of foot traffic at each location. In August of that year, the company created the "GeoSocial Universe" infographic, comparing the sizes of the largest social networks including Skype, Facebook and Twitter to the total number of mobile device users, and the mobile user base for each social network. An updated version was released in May 2011 and was featured in TechCrunch.
At the International Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011, JESS3 created a social media installation for Intel providing a visualization of real-time social media interactions at the event. Later in 2011, the company created a media wall for Samsung at the SXSWi festival in Austin, Texas. The installation presented a visualization of social media activity at the festival, including photographs, tweets, popular topics and geosocial check-ins.
Video
JESS3 produces animated videos for clients including ESPN, for whom they created a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTI%20Instruments | VTI Instruments Corporation sells precision instrumentation for electronic signal distribution, data acquisition and monitoring. The company's products are used to automate the functional testing of complex electronic systems as well as to monitor and record data that characterizes the physical integrity of aircraft, engines, and other large structures.
Formerly known as VXI Technology, it changed its name in 2009.
VTI serves the following markets: aerospace, defense, and energy and power generation. VTI's headquarters is located in Irvine, California.
History
Founded in 1990, VTI initially developed prototyping tools and offered custom design services. By 1997, VTI had introduced two new VXI-based instrumentation and signal switching platforms for functional test/ATE – the VMIP and SMIP series. In 2003, VTI purchased Agilent's mechanical test business unit, which expanded the company's product offering to address precision data acquisition and signal conditioning applications.
In 2005, VTI cofounded the LXI standard, an Ethernet-based instrumentation platform for both rack and distributed applications. VTI's first LXI Class A products were on the market by 2006
. In 2009, VTI introduced the EX1266 as the industry's first LXI Class A modular switching and measurement system.
On February 10, 2014 VTI Instruments was acquired by Ametek, Inc., Berwyn, PA, for a reported price of $74 million. VTI Instruments annual sales at the time were approximately $38 million.
References
External links
VTI Instruments website
Agilent Technologies and VXI Technology Announce Next-Generation LAN-Based Modular Platform Standard for Automated Test Systems
VXI Technology Completes Acquisition of Agilent Technologies’ Mechanical Data Acquisition Product Segment
Industry’s First LXI Class A Scalable Switch and Measurement Subsystem
Electronic test equipment manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Companies based in Irvine, California
Electronics companies established in 1990
Technology companies established in 1990
1990 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hojagarawul%20Sanctuary | Hojagarawul Sanctuary is a sanctuary (zakaznik) of Turkmenistan and a part of Köýtendag Nature Reserve.
Sites
Karlyuk Cave
An underground network of ~50 km. of caves, it contains numerous subterranean lakes home to the endemic Starostin's loach.
Kainar Baba
One of the few hot sulfide springs in Turkmenistan, this is a popular bathing spot.
References
External links
NatureProtection.gov at WebArchive
Amudarya State Nature Reserve at Unesco.org
Sanctuaries in Turkmenistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on%20Bottou | Léon Bottou (born 1965) is a researcher best known for his work in machine learning and data compression. His work presents stochastic gradient descent as a fundamental learning algorithm. He is also one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology (together with Yann LeCun and Patrick Haffner), and the maintainer of DjVuLibre, the open source implementation of DjVu. He is the original developer of the Lush programming language.
Life
Léon Bottou was born in France in 1965. He obtained the Diplôme d'Ingénieur from École Polytechnique in 1987, a Magistère de Mathématiques Fondamentales et Appliquées et d’Informatique from École Normale Supérieure in 1988 and a PhD from Université Paris-Sud in 1991. He then joined the Adaptive Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, where he collaborated with Vladimir Vapnik on local learning algorithms. in 1992, he returned to France and founded Neuristique S.A., a company that produced machine learning tools and one of the first data mining software packages. In 1995, he returned to Bell Laboratories, where he developed a number of new machine learning methods, such as Graph Transformer Networks (similar to conditional random field), and applied them to handwriting recognition and OCR. The bank check recognition system that he helped develop was widely deployed by NCR and other companies, reading over 10% of all the checks in the US in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In 1996, he joined AT&T Labs and worked primarily on the DjVu image compression technology, that is used by some websites, notably the Internet Archive, to distribute scanned documents. Between 2002 and 2010, he was a research scientist at NEC Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, where he focused on the theory and practice of machine learning with large-scale datasets, on-line learning, and stochastic optimization methods. He developed the open source software LaSVM for fast large-scale support vector machine, and stochastic gradient descent software for training linear SVM and Conditional Random Fields. In 2010 he joined the Microsoft adCenter in Redmond, Washington, and in 2012 became a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City. In March 2015 he joined Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research, also in New York City, as a research lead.
He was program chair of the 2013 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems and the 2009 International Conference on Machine Learning. He is an associate editor of the IEEE's Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, the IAPR's Pattern Recognition Letters and the independently published Journal of Machine Learning Research. In 2007, he was received one of the first Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences.
References
External links
Léon Bottou's personal website
1965 births
Living people
Machine learning researchers
French computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Gaming%20Factory%20X | Global Gaming Factory X AB was an advertising and software company based in Sweden that relies on Internet cafes and gaming venues as its medium. Global Gaming Factory X uses Smartlaunch and CyberCafePro's installed base of cafe management software at thousands of internet cafes and gaming centers around the world for digital distribution of advertising, software and services to the large groups of tourists at Internet cafes and the gamer community at gaming venues.
On 30 June 2009, Global Gaming Factory X announced its intention to buy the popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay. It also announced its intention to buy shares of Swedish P2P company Peerialism AB. Peerialism develops solutions for data distribution and distributed storage based on new P2P technology. The transaction was planned to take place in August 2009. Due to the buyers' financial troubles, the site was not sold.
One week prior to the announcement, trading in GGF's stock was shut down after an unusually large rise in the volume of trades. The company is suspected of insider trading. Global Gaming Factory X AB has been under receivership since the turn of the year 2011/2012.[5] The bankruptcy was closed on August 21, 2013.
References
External links
Peerialism AB
Companies based in Stockholm
The Pirate Bay
Online companies of Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks%20in%20Poland | Turks in Poland () are people of Turkish ethnicity living in Poland who form one of the country's smaller minority groups.
Demographics
There is little coherent statistical data regarding their numbers. The majority of these Turks live in Warsaw and Łódź but there are also Turkish communities in Gdańsk, Poznań, Kraków, and Wrocław, and students in small cities like Lublin or Krosno.
Many Turks in Poland are entrepreneurs and investors.
Naturalization
Notable people
, film director and screenwriter (Turkish father)
, graphic artist (Turkish father)
Maria Aurora of Spiegel, Ottoman Turkish mistress of Augustus II the Strong
children:
Frederick Augustus Rutowsky, commanded Saxon forces in the Siege of Pirna (Turkish mother)
Maria Anna Katharina Rutowska, noblewoman (Turkish mother)
Teuvo Tulio, film director (Turkish-Polish father)
Bibliography
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See also
Poland–Turkey relations
Turks in Europe
References
Islam in Poland
Muslim communities in Europe
Poland
Poland
Ethnic groups in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20contribution | A Satellite contribution link or service is a means to transport video programming by a satellite link from a remote source (such as an outside broadcast unit) to a broadcaster's studio or from the studio to a satellite TV uplink centre (for onward distribution by DTH, fibre, cable etc.).
Such contribution links are often made by terrestrial connections (landline, fibre, etc.) but the use of a satellite "hop" provides advantages in some situations.
Satellite operators and third party agencies provide satellite contribution links for the occasional or regular use of the client broadcasters.
Advantages
In remote locations, using terrestrial links such as fibre is prohibitively expensive whereas satellite can cheaply and easily overcome the "first-mile" connectivity gaps in rural and other remote areas. A comparable fibre service would have to use extremely diverse routing to achieve the same availability.
A single satellite link can span a huge distance that would take a terrestrial link through many countries and commercial operators. The satellite operator provides a single point of accountability whereas establishing a link and resolving service interruptions with fibre can prove difficult, especially across national borders and with multiple carriers.
Duplication of active components in the transmission and reception sites, and in-orbit backup satellite capacity provides a fully redundant contribution connection.
Monitoring of the signal allows for fast and effective changes before problems affect the service. E.g. uplink power may be automatically increased during adverse weather conditions.
SES provides an example service that provides permanent delivery of live and recorded TV and radio signals to the company's Luxembourg uplink facility (used for 15 satellites, serving over 120 million viewers) from almost any location across Europe.
Technology
Whereas satellite contribution links may be provided using transmission in (or even C band) frequencies, it is increasingly common to use the higher frequency Ka-band uplink and downlink for the contribution feed, as that band is relatively unused.
Ka-band provides for a smaller contribution uplink dish size (typically 1.8m compared to a minimum of 2.4m using Ku-band) and it can also be used as a backup for the DTH uplink itself or when a full DTH uplink antenna (typically 9m) cannot be accommodated at the client's studio.
Signals at the studio playout centre or outside broadcast unit are typically MPEG-4 compressed and transmitted in DVB-S2 for turnaround uplink to the DTH satellites, without additional processing, although IP-over-satellite transmission may also be used.
In September 2022, satellite operator, SES and live video streaming specialists, LiveU, launched an integrated hybrid end-to-end video contribution and distribution system for broadcasting live events using 4G/5G to transmit video from the remote venue to SES teleports, as an alternative to an SNG truck, and reach a g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D | 3-D, 3D, or 3d may refer to:
Science, technology, and mathematics
Relating to three-dimensionality
Three-dimensional space
3D computer graphics, computer graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data
3D film, a motion picture that gives the illusion of three-dimensional perception
3D modeling, developing a representation of any three-dimensional surface or object
3D printing, making a three-dimensional solid object of a shape from a digital model
3D display, a type of information display that conveys depth to the viewer
3D television, television that conveys depth perception to the viewer
Stereoscopy, any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image
Other uses in science and technology or commercial products
3D projection
3D rendering
3D scanning, making a digital representation of three-dimensional objects
3D video game (disambiguation)
3-D Secure, a secure protocol for online credit and debit card transactions
Biela's Comet, a lost periodic comet discovered in 1826
British Rail Class 207, sometimes known as 3Ds
Music
Artists
Robert Del Naja (born 1965), also known as 3D, English artist and musician in the band Massive Attack
The 3Ds, a rock band
Albums
3D (Go West album), 2010
"Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D, 1984, sometimes simply referred to as 3-D
3D (The Three Degrees album), 1979
3-D (I See Stars album), the debut album from the band I See Stars
3-D (SPC ECO album)
3-D (TLC album), 2002
3-D (Wrathchild America album)
Songs
"3D" (song), a 2023 song by Jungkook featuring Jack Harlow
"3-D", a song by Cheap Trick from their 1983 album Next Position Please
Other uses
3D Aerobatics, a form of flying using flying aircraft to perform specific aerial maneuvers
3D (Long Island bus), bus service in New York State
3D Test of Antisemitism, put forth by Israeli politician and human rights activist Natan Sharansky
Middle finger, the third digit (abbreviated 3D) of the hand
Three-dimensional chess
Threepence (disambiguation), a coin used in several countries, abbreviated as '3d'
The 3D ("Dudley Death Drop"), a professional wrestling double-team maneuver
See also
3ds (disambiguation)
D3 (disambiguation)
DDD (disambiguation)
3rd (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid%20Systems | Grid Systems Corporation (stylized as GRiD) was an early portable computer manufacturer, based in United States and oriented for producing of rugged and semi-rugged machines; currently the Grid computer brand still exist as Grid Defence Systems Ltd. in United Kingdom.
History
Early history
Grid Systems Corporation was founded in late 1979 by John Ellenby, who left his job at Xerox PARC and joined Glenn Edens, Dave Paulsen and Bill Moggridge to form one of Silicon Valley's first stealth companies. The company went public in March 1981. It was located at 47211 Lakeview Boulevard, Fremont, California, 94537.
The "GRiD" name with the unusual lowercase "i" in the middle was the result of discussion between John Ellenby, Glenn Edens and John Ellenby's wife, Gillian Ellenby, who pushed for the final choice. The lowercase "i" was a note of thanks to Intel for helping in the early days.
Sale of company and US division
In 1988, Tandy Corporation purchased the Grid company. AST Computer acquired the US wing of company, and was itself later acquired by Samsung.
Grid still produced the GRiDCASE laptops, and the first GRiDPad tablet also was released in 1989; Also a few rebranded models of another manufacturers were released, include Tandy/Victor Technologies Grid 386 (Compaq SLT clone), GRiDPad SL 2050 (Samsung PenMaster clone) and AST GRiDPad 2390 (Casio Zoomer/ Tandy Z-PDA clone).
Edens co-founded Waveform Corp and in 2003 joined the board of F5 Networks Inc., and John Ellenby went on to co-found the companies Agilis and augmented reality pioneer GeoVector.
GRiD Defence Systems
Grid Defence Systems formed in London, England by former employees during a management buyout of the former GRiD Computer Systems UK Ltd. in 1993.
The UK Grid company starts with a simply "GRiD 1###"-branded rugged laptop line, and in 1995 was reintroduced the GRiDCASE line.
Innovations
Grid developed and released several pioneering ideas:
First portable computer. Marketed almost exclusively to CEOs
The Grid Compass 1100, the first clamshell laptop computer
Patented the "clamshell" laptop design
First portable to use non-volatile bubble-memory
Grid-OS was a multi-tasking Text-based user interface (or TUI) and operating system
First use of electro-luminescent displays in a portable
First use of magnesium for the case
First use of the Intel 8086 and 8087 floating-point co-processor in a commercial product
Pioneered the concept of a "bus" for connecting peripherals (using GPIB)
First computer that included a fully functional telephone and telephone handset
The first commercially available tablet-type portable computer was the GRiDPad, released in September 1989. Its operating system was based on MS-DOS.
A GRiD Compass 1101 was the first laptop in space. Required special modification to add a fan to pull air through the case. Subsequently a GRiD 1530 flew on STS-29 in March 1989.
OldComputers.net called the 1982 GRiD Compass 1101 the "grand-daddy of all present |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20of%20Steel%20%28Batman%3A%20The%20Animated%20Series%29 | "Heart of Steel" is a two-part episode of Batman: The Animated Series, the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth produced, dealing with a supercomputer named H.A.R.D.A.C. and its attempts to replace Gotham citizens with robotic duplicates before initiating an AI takeover. These were the first Batman scripts to be written by Brynne Stephens, who wrote a total of 7 episodes. The episodes were directed by series regular Kevin Altieri, and originally aired on November 16 and 17, 1992.
Plot
Part 1
A woman leaves a briefcase behind at Wayne Enterprises, seemingly deliberately. That night, it grows mechanical limbs and steals microchips from a safe in the research and development department. An alarm goes off, alerting Bruce, who changes into his Batman costume and investigates. He struggles with the robot, eventually chasing it to the roof, where it fires a rocket with the microchips into the sky. Batman takes a hang glider from a rooftop storage unit and pursues it until it is recovered by the woman from the beginning of the episode, who shoots down the glider and escapes.
The next day, Bruce begins to investigate the stolen microchips. He tells Alfred these microchips are a technology called 'wetware', the first stage in the development of self-aware computers. Lucius Fox tells him that the only other company who could compete with Wayne Enterprises in that field is Cybertron Industries, run by the reclusive Karl Rossum. Bruce goes out to Cybertron to meet Rossum, who shows him a giant, prototype supercomputer called H.A.R.D.A.C., as well as introducing him to his assistant, Randa Duane. Unable to find out more, Bruce makes a date with Randa and leaves. Once he is gone Duane speaks to H.A.R.D.A.C., who scolds her not getting design specifications that it needed. H.A.R.D.A.C. is then shown building a humanlike robot, whose face is not revealed, while Randa is revealed to be the woman.
At the Gordon residence, Barbara Gordon is doing homework while Commissioner Gordon reads the newspaper. The doorbell rings and a robot version of Gordon appears, tasering him unconscious and attempting to replace him, though Barbara is immediately suspicious. In the meantime, Randa picks Bruce up from Wayne Enterprises and they go to Wayne Manor, though she manages to leave her makeup compact behind. Like the briefcase before it, the compact grows legs and begins stealing files from a computer. When Bruce is alerted to the theft, he abruptly leaves his date with Randa, whom H.A.R.D.A.C. tells that the theft has been unsuccessful, and that the files that it wants are at Wayne Manor. She knocks Alfred unconscious and, using specialized goggles, locates the Batcave and informs H.A.R.D.A.C. of Batman's secret identity.
Bruce returns home, discovers the unconscious Alfred, and immediately dons his Batman costume and proceeds to the Batcave. When he attempts to use the Batcomputer it goes haywire, and suddenly the mechanical arms which previously supported his hang glider desc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToC | ToC may refer to:
Troponin C, a protein component
Theory of Computing, a scientific journal
See also
TOC (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASSL | ASSL, assl, or variant, may refer to:
Companies and divisions
Ananda Shipyard and Shipways Limited (ASSL)
Antonin Scalia School of Law
Computing
Agglomerated SSL (assl), a fork of Open SSL, see OpenSSL#assl
Autonomic System Specification Language, see Autonomic computing
Other
Annual Status of Student Learning, a study in India carried out by Educational Initiatives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force%20Trainer | The Force Trainer is a Star Wars-themed toy which creates the illusion of performing Force-powered telekinesis.
The brain–computer interface toy, released was Uncle Milton Industries' Star Wars Science line in 2009, comes with a headset that claims to sense the brain's electric fields (similar to an EEG) and relays the signals to a tube that uses a fan to blow a ball into the air. The harder the user concentrates, the harder the fan blows, and the higher the ball is suspended. The voice of Yoda instructs the user on developing their skills.
In a 2010 episode of the College Humor series Bleep Bloop, the hosts Jeff Rubin and Pat Cassels tested out the toy, even having a co-worker, Brian Murphy, play Brain Age, a video game advertised as making you use your brain more, while he had the Force Trainer headset on.
One user of the toy argues that the brainwave effect of the Force Trainer II is fake; if the electrodes are connected directly to each other instead of being worn by the player, the game will proceed to play itself and pass all of the training exercises without any user input.
See also
Comparison of consumer brain–computer interface devices
References
External links
Mysterious "Force Trainer" Toy Explained, via Archive.org, June 10, 2015
Toy trains 'Star Wars' fans to use The Force, USA Today, January 7, 2009
Brain–computer interfacing
Star Wars merchandise
2000s toys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma%20Cook | Selma A. Cook (born 1961) is managing editor of the Youth Section and Volunteer Youth Resource Network at IslamOnline.
Life
She became a Muslim in 1988 in her native country of Australia. She migrated to Egypt in 1993.
She has written a book about her journey to Islam called ‘The Miracles of My Life,’ an Islamic poetry book called ‘The Light of Submission,’ as well as the Miss Moppy series (Islamic stories for children). She has recently published her first Islamic novel for teenagers called ‘Buried Treasure’ which is the first in the ‘Amirah Stevenson series'.
She writes articles and poetry on her Website The Islamic Garden.
She works for Hoda, a Cairo-based satellite channel.
Selma Cook said:
When you are filled with stress and uncertainty, black and white is very good, it's very easy to manage....They want to make sure everything is authentic.
Works
"A Gentle Nature So Hard to Find", oneummah
Edited
Anthologies
References
1964 births
Living people
21st-century Australian novelists
Australian non-fiction writers
Australian poets
Australian Muslims
Australian women novelists
Australian women poets
21st-century Australian women writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreamWatch | StreamWatch is an environmental monitoring program focused on the Rivanna River watershed in central Virginia in the United States. The data StreamWatch collects helps communities in the city of Charlottesville and in Albemarle, Fluvanna, and Greene gauge stream conditions and to inform planning and environmental management decisions.
StreamWatch was founded in 2002 as a joint project of The Nature Conservancy, the Rivanna Conservation Society, the Thomas Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District, the Rivanna River Basin Commission and the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission. Conservation groups. Benthic invertebrate (see bioindicator), sedimentation, stream habitat, and other types of data are collected by volunteers and professionals using established scientific protocols. StreamWatch tracks land-use data, including data about agriculture, forestry, and residential and commercial development. Fieldwork, interpretation, and reporting are guided by a technical advisory committee composed of academic and resource agency scientists. StreamWatch also compiles Rivanna watershed data collected by other organizations.
Footnotes
References
Albemarle County, Virginia. "Local Volunteer-supported Program Reports on Stream Conditions in Albemarle County Development Areas." 4/1/2005
Borden, Jeremy. "Report: Population density affects Rivanna watershed." The Daily Progress. 10/13/2006. Reprinted by StreamWatch, courtesy of Media General.
Fluvanna County, Virginia. Fluvanna County Comprehensive Plan 3/18,2009
Shulleeta, Brandon. "Rivanna River watershed fails watchdog's standards." The Daily Progress. 7/24/2008
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. 2008 Citizen/Non-Agency Monitoring Activity Report
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. 2008. Benthic TMDL Development for the Rivanna River Watershed
Whitehead, Jason. "Let it flow." C'ville. 5/8/2007
External links
Stream2Watch
A Tale of Two Streams -- Stream health video by The Daily Progress
Chesapeake Bay watershed
Nature conservation organizations based in the United States
Albemarle County
Charlottesville, Virginia
Water organizations in the United States
Environmental organizations based in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20Home%20with%20the%20Neelys | Down Home with the Neelys is a Food Network show hosted by Patrick and Gina Neely. The show depicts the Neelys sharing dishes and recipes. Taped in their Memphis home, the show, which has a relaxed demeanor, now airs seven days a week on Food Network. The Entertainment Network announced in September, 2014 that the couple would divorce after 20 years of marriage. The fate of the company remains unknown.
After its February 2008 premiere, the show became the highest-rated series debut in the five-year history of Food Network's "In the Kitchen" weekend block and continues to be a top ratings performer.
Cooking style
Gina and Pat Neely are known for their Southern cooking, typically barbecue.
External links
Down Home with the Neelys on The Food Network
Food Network original programming
2000s American cooking television series
2008 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Elephant%20Princess%20episodes | The following is an episode list for the Australian television show The Elephant Princess, which aired on Network Ten. Season 1 premiered in Australia on 13 November 2008, and season two premiered in Canada on 6 February 2011. The series revolves around Alex Wilson, a teenager from suburban Melbourne, Australia, who discovers that she is in fact the heir to the throne of Manjipur, a fictitious kingdom in a parallel world that looks like India.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2008–09)
Season 2 (2011)
References
External links
Episode guide at the Internet Movie Database
Lists of Australian drama television series episodes
Lists of Australian children's television series episodes
Lists of fantasy television series episodes
2008 Australian television seasons
2009 Australian television seasons
2011 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan%20Maximum | Titan Maximum is an American adult stop motion-animated television series created by Tom Root and Matthew Senreich for Cartoon Network's late night programing block Adult Swim. It originally aired from September 27 to November 22, 2009. A teaser premiered during the "Robot Chicken on Wheels" tour and at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International. It is a parody of the "Super Robot" anime style produced using stop motion animation.
Plot
Drafted from the solar system's best and brightest young people, Titan Force Five once defended the capital of Saturn's moon Titan using the heavily armed Mecha Titan Maximum. However, the team was disbanded due to budget cuts after a series of escalating incidents caused by Titan Force Five. Two years later, after the team members have long separated and gone to ground in civilian jobs (one of them, Spud, has even died in an accident), their former teammate Gibbs returns as a villain who wants to conquer the Solar System with an army of monsters. Now the three remaining Titan Force Five members have to reform the team to stop him. Along for the ride are Palmer's younger brother Willie (a nerdy mechanical genius) and Leon (their silent monkey janitor), who take on the former roles of Gibbs and Spud, respectively.
Characters
Titan Force Five
Commander Palmer (voiced by Breckin Meyer) – The red teammate and leader of the group, Palmer is a narcissist who sees himself as the best member of the team. His ego irritates anyone close to him, particularly Gibbs, who describes Palmer as "an egomaniacal troglodyte who will let you all die a fiery hell before he shares even one iota of glory." Palmer never takes anything seriously, even in the face of danger, however has shown to be worried when a teammate is in trouble (like when the people of Eris tried to rape his brother or when Jodi was being arrested for treason). He is always referred to by his last name, even by close family like his brother and grandparents. Since the original team disbanded, he has lived off his prior fame and accomplishments while drinking heavily and bar hopping. He eagerly retakes his role as leader of Titan Force Five when Gibbs emerges as a villain. He has a younger brother, Willie, and takes every opportunity to demean him, but regardless does care for his well-being. He has a habit of starting a fight with the saying, "You have something in your teeth... my fist!", followed by a slight awkward pause then an attack that isn't a punch. Gibbs describes his fighting style as doing nothing but "hitting the A button". Ironically, despite Gibbs hatred towards Palmer, Palmer always thought of Gibbs as a friend back when they were a team; however, Palmer left him when he got captured because Palmer was trying to get to his date. Few months later, Palmer didn't even know Gibbs was gone. His ship forms the head and torso of Titan Maximum.
Lt. Jodi Yanarella (voiced by Rachael Leigh Cook) – The quintessential "girl next door", Jodi is the bright, che |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatter%20%28video%20game%29 | Shatter is a 2009 video game developed and published by Sidhe Interactive. The game was released on July 23, 2009 for PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network, on March 15, 2010 for Microsoft Windows, on September 18, 2012 for OS X, and on March 14, 2013 for Linux. A remastered version developed by PikPok and published by Netflix was released for iOS and Android via Netflix Games on March 23, 2022. A version of the mobile remaster published by PikPok, subtitled Remastered Deluxe, was released on November 2, 2022 for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Shatter uses the Arkanoid gameplay mechanic, with the addition of physics forces "suck" and "blow" to give the player control of the ball and other physics-enabled objects.
Gameplay
The game area consists of a paddle, a ball, and a field of blocks. To clear a level, the player must destroy all of the blocks. This is most commonly done by guiding the ball into them but blocks can also be destroyed using the Shard Storm power-up, by hitting the blocks with the paddle itself, or by sucking in fragments with the shield enabled to create "ricochet" bullets.
As well as using the paddle to strike the ball, the player can also suck objects toward it or blow objects away. When a block is broken, it releases a number of shards that the players should collect in order to charge their Shard Storm bar. This can be done more efficiently by using the suck function to pull shards toward the paddle. The player collects these shards using the paddle. The suck and blow functions also affect the ball's trajectory so can be used to more accurately guide the ball to specific targets. Some blocks also react to the in-game physics and will move towards or away from the paddle as the suck and blow actions are used. The player can activate a shield around the paddle which will destroy blocks on contact; however, this also drains power from the Shard Storm meter. If a block hits the paddle when the shield is not activated the player loses control of the paddle for a few moments.
Some blocks contain power-ups that have to be collected. All power-ups in the game are positive and trigger functions such as doubling the number of shards on the screen, making the ball more easily maneuverable, or giving the player an extra life. The player collects these power-ups by catching them with the paddle. Players can also release multiple balls into the arena at once. While this allows the player to collect points and clear the stage more quickly, it also makes the game more difficult.
Development
On March 15, 2010, Shatter was released on for Windows through Steam. This updated release includes extra modes. Ports of this version for Mac OS X and Linux were released as part of the Humble Indie Bundle 6.
The soundtrack for Shatter was composed by the electronic musician Module, and has been featured in its own right by the Bandcamp independent music website.
Reception
Shatter rece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Feud%20%281978%20Australian%20game%20show%29 | Family Feud was an Australian game show based on the American show of the same name. The program ran on the Nine Network from 1978 to 1984, and on the Seven Network from 1990 to 1996. The program has been revived twice, in 2006 and 2014.
Gameplay
Two families compete, with four members on each team. A host asks representatives of the family questions that have already been answered by a survey of 100 people. Teams score points for correct answers. An answer is considered correct if it is one of the concealed answers on the game board, or judged to be equivalent. More points are given for answers that have been given by more people in the survey (one point per person). Answers must have been given by at least two of the 100 people in order to be included on the board.
Examples of questions might be "Name a famous George", "Tell me a popular family vacation spot", "Name something you do at school", or "Name a slang name for policemen". At least two people among the survey respondents must give an answer for it to appear as one of the possibilities.
The participants are not asked questions about what is true or how things really are. Instead, they are asked questions about what other people think is true. As such, a perfectly logical answer may be considered incorrect because it failed to make the survey (e.g.: for the question about Georges, George Jones was a popular country singer, but if his name was not given by at least two people it would be considered wrong).
Basics
Two opposing family members "face off" to see which family will gain control of that particular question. Sometimes, the host will read the question only once in the entire round if time is short. Traditionally, they greet each other with a handshake before the question is read. Whoever guesses the more popular answer in the survey has the option to play the question or pass it to the other family. If neither player gives a valid answer, the next member of each family gets a chance to answer, with control again going to the family giving the more popular answer. If both answers are worth the same number of points, control goes to the player that buzzed in first.
The family in control can keep the question in which the family attempts to give all the remaining answers on the board, or pass to the other family. Starting with the next family member in line, each gets a chance to give one answer. Family members may not confer with one another while in control of the board. The family gets a "strike" if a player gives an answer that is not on the board or fails to respond. There is no firm time limit, but the host has the discretion to impose a three-second count if time is short or the contestant appears to be stalling. Three strikes cause the family to relinquish control of the board, giving the other family one chance to steal the points in the bank by correctly guessing one of the remaining answers.
In the 1978–1984 version, the entire family could confer before the answer w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix%20filesystem | In Unix and operating systems inspired by it, the file system is considered a central component of the operating system. It was also one of the first parts of the system to be designed and implemented by Ken Thompson in the first experimental version of Unix, dated 1969.
As in other operating systems, the filesystem provides information storage and retrieval, and one of several forms of interprocess communication, in that the many small programs that traditionally form a Unix system can store information in files so that other programs can read them, although pipes complemented it in this role starting with the Third Edition. Also, the filesystem provides access to other resources through so-called device files that are entry points to terminals, printers, and mice.
The rest of this article uses Unix as a generic name to refer to both the original Unix operating system and its many workalikes.
Principles
The filesystem appears as one rooted tree of directories. Instead of addressing separate volumes such as disk partitions, removable media, and network shares as separate trees (as done in DOS and Windows: each drive has a drive letter that denotes the root of its file system tree), such volumes can be mounted on a directory, causing the volume's file system tree to appear as that directory in the larger tree. The root of the entire tree is denoted /.
In the original Bell Labs Unix, a two-disk setup was customary, where the first disk contained startup programs, while the second contained users' files and programs. This second disk was mounted at the empty directory named usr on the first disk, causing the two disks to appear as one filesystem, with the second disk’s contents viewable at /usr.
Unix directories do not contain files. Instead, they contain the names of files paired with references to so-called inodes, which in turn contain both the file and its metadata (owner, permissions, time of last access, etc., but no name). Multiple names in the file system may refer to the same file, a feature termed a hard link. The mathematical traits of hard links make the file system a limited type of directed acyclic graph, although the directories still form a tree, as they typically may not be hard-linked. (As originally envisioned in 1969, the Unix file system would in fact be used as a general graph with hard links to directories providing navigation, instead of path names.)
File types
The original Unix file system supported three types of files: ordinary files, directories, and "special files", also termed device files. The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) and System V each added a file type to be used for interprocess communication: BSD added sockets, while System V added FIFO files.
BSD also added symbolic links (often termed "symlinks") to the range of file types, which are files that refer to other files, and complement hard links. Symlinks were modeled after a similar feature in Multics, and differ from hard links in that they may s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20preservation | Database preservation usually involves converting the information stored in a database to a form likely to be accessible in the long term as technology changes, without losing the initial characteristics (context, content, structure, appearance and behaviour) of the data.
With the prevalence of databases, different methods have been developed to aid in the preservation of databases and their contents. These methods vary depending on database characteristics and preservation needs.
There are three basic methods of database preservation: migration, XML, and emulation. There are also certain tools, software, and projects which have been created to aid in the preservation of databases including SIARD, the Digital Preservation Toolkit, CHRONOS, and RODA.
Database characteristics
The characteristics of the database itself are taken into consideration when attempting preservation of said database. Relational databases are made up of tables which contain data in records and these tables then connect to one another through common data points that are stored in their records. However, with the emergence of big data the new NoSQL database is also coming into play. Databases are characterized as open or closed and static or dynamic. When a database is considered to be open it means it is open to additional data being added, however when a database is considered to be closed it means the opposite—that it is closed to new data because of its completed nature. A database is considered to be static when it contains records that are not edited or changed after their initial inclusion, however a database is considered to be dynamic when it contains records that may be edited in the future. Whether a database is open and static, open and dynamic, closed and static, or closed and dynamic will affect the methods used for preservation. It is more difficult to preserve a dynamic database than a static one because the data is constantly changing, and it is more difficult to preserve an open database than a closed one because data is constantly being added. The more often a database changes, either within a record or by adding a record, the more often steps must be taken to capture that change for preservation.
Database preservation methods
Three core methods of digital preservation can be applied to the preservation of databases as well. These methods include migration, XML, and emulation.
Migration
The migration method (also known as inactive archiving) involves transferring data from an obsolete database program to a newer format. There are three methods of migration: backward compatibility, interoperability, and conversion to standards. Backward compatibility involves utilizing newer software or hardware versions to open, access, and read a document which was made using an older version. Interoperability involves decreasing the possibility of obsolescence by ensuring a particular file can be accessed with more than one combination of software and hardware. Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimund%20Seidel | Raimund G. Seidel is a German and Austrian theoretical computer scientist and an expert in computational geometry.
Seidel was born in Graz, Austria, and studied with Hermann Maurer at the Graz University of Technology. He received his M. Sc. in 1981 from University of British Columbia under David G. Kirkpatrick. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 from Cornell University under the supervision of John Gilbert. After teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he moved in 1994 to Saarland University. In 1997 he and Christoph M. Hoffmann were program chairs for the Symposium on Computational Geometry. In 2014, he took over as Scientific Director of the Leibniz Center for Informatics (LZI) from Reinhard Wilhelm.
Seidel invented backwards analysis of randomized algorithms and used it to analyze a simple linear programming algorithm that runs in linear time for problems of bounded dimension. With his student Cecilia R. Aragon in 1989 he devised the treap data structure, and he is also known for the Kirkpatrick–Seidel algorithm for computing two-dimensional convex hulls.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Austrian computer scientists
German computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Cornell University alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20G.%20Kirkpatrick | David Galer Kirkpatrick is a Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of British Columbia. He is known for the Kirkpatrick–Seidel algorithm and his work on polygon triangulation, and for co-inventing α-shapes and the β-skeleton. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1974.
Works
Dissertation: Topics in the Complexity of Combinatorial Algorithms, University of Toronto 1974
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Canadian computer scientists
University of Toronto alumni
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling%20file%20system | A journaling file system is a file system that keeps track of changes not yet committed to the file system's main part by recording the goal of such changes in a data structure known as a "journal", which is usually a circular log. In the event of a system crash or power failure, such file systems can be brought back online more quickly with a lower likelihood of becoming corrupted.
Depending on the actual implementation, a journaling file system may only keep track of stored metadata, resulting in improved performance at the expense of increased possibility for data corruption. Alternatively, a journaling file system may track both stored data and related metadata, while some implementations allow selectable behavior in this regard.
History
In 1990 IBM introduced JFS in AIX 3.1 as one of the first UNIX commercial filesystems that implemented journaling. The next year the idea was popularized in a widely cited paper on log-structured file systems.
This was subsequently implemented in Microsoft's Windows NT's NTFS filesystem in 1993, in Apple's HFS Plus filesystem in 1998, and in Linux's ext3 filesystem in 2001.
Rationale
Updating file systems to reflect changes to files and directories usually requires many separate write operations. This makes it possible for an interruption (like a power failure or system crash) between writes to leave data structures in an invalid intermediate state.
For example, deleting a file on a Unix file system involves three steps:
Removing its directory entry.
Releasing the inode to the pool of free inodes.
Returning all disk blocks to the pool of free disk blocks.
If a crash occurs after step 1 and before step 2, there will be an orphaned inode and hence a storage leak; if a crash occurs between steps 2 and 3, then the blocks previously used by the file cannot be used for new files, effectively decreasing the storage capacity of the file system. Re-arranging the steps does not help, either. If step 3 preceded step 1, a crash between them could allow the file's blocks to be reused for a new file, meaning the partially deleted file would contain part of the contents of another file, and modifications to either file would show up in both. On the other hand, if step 2 preceded step 1, a crash between them would cause the file to be inaccessible, despite appearing to exist.
Detecting and recovering from such inconsistencies normally requires a complete walk of its data structures, for example by a tool such as fsck (the file system checker). This must typically be done before the file system is next mounted for read-write access. If the file system is large and if there is relatively little I/O bandwidth, this can take a long time and result in longer downtimes if it blocks the rest of the system from coming back online.
To prevent this, a journaled file system allocates a special area—the journal—in which it records the changes it will make ahead of time. After a crash, recovery simply involves reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Author%20Identifier | In the Dutch research system, the Digital Author Identifier (DAI) system assigns a unique number to all academic authors as a form of authority control. The DAI links the PICA database in institutional libraries with the METIS national research information system.
The Digital Author Identifier is a unique national number for every author active within a Dutch university, university of applied sciences, or research institute. The DAI is prepared from the ISO standard “ISNI” (International Standard Name Identifier). The DAI brings several publications from an author together, and distinguishes between authors with the same name.
Other author identifiers
The DAI is part of the national knowledge infrastructure. In the scientific community, other identifiers are in use as well, such as ORCID, ResearcherID, and ScopusId.
SURFfoundation has, in cooperation with OCLC PICA, created a connection with PICA National Thesaurus Authornames (NTA) that is supplied and maintained by university libraries. Important to this is the connection between the research information system Metis and the repositories.
Applications
There are many potential applications for the DAI. Publications by an author can be collected more easily, even though the author may have worked at several institutions. When an author changes name, for example because of marriage, the DAI remains the same, enabling anyone to find publications from before the change of name. With a tool, publication lists can be generated on the basis of the DAI. These publications are collected from several repositories in Dutch scientific institutions. With the DAI, this information can be integrated into one list.
See also
VIAF
References
External links
Martin Enserink in Science, 27 march 2009, vol. 323, p.1662–1664 (not Open Access available).
Author identification
Data modeling
Identifiers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk%20Helbing | Dirk Helbing (born January 19, 1965) is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and affiliate of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich.
Biography
Dirk Helbing studied physics and mathematics at the University of Göttingen. He completed his doctoral thesis at Stuttgart University, on modeling social processes by means of game-theoretical approaches, stochastic methods, and complex systems theory. In 1996, he completed further studies on traffic dynamics and optimization.
In 2000, he became a full professor and Managing Director of the Institute for Transport and Economics at Dresden University of Technology. Helbing was elected as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2008 and of the World Academy of Art and Science in 2016. In January 2014 Prof. Helbing received an honorary PhD from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Since June 2015 he is affiliate professor at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft, where he leads the PhD school in "Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future".
Research activities
Dirk Helbing started out as a physicist. His diploma thesis focussed on pedestrian, crowd, and evacuation modeling and simulation. During his PhD and habilitation in physics, he helped to establish the fields of socio-, econo- and traffic physics. He was also co-founder of the Physics of Socio-Economic Systems Division of the German Physical Society (DPG). As a visiting scientist at Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel, the Eötvös University in Budapest, and Xerox PARC in California, he focused on a broad variety of complex systems - including the self-organisation of pedestrians, traffic jams, bacterial patterns, and Mexican waves. At Dresden University of Technology he became the Managing Director of the Institute of Transport & Economics, worked on traffic assistant systems (i.e. early self-driving cars) and a self-organized traffic light control system, which was patented. He found that crowd disasters are caused by a phenomenon called "crowd turbulence" and worked on ways to describe, reduce and respond to such disasters. As professor of Sociology at ETH Zurich, he worked on evolutionary game theory and agent-based computer simulations of social processes and phenomena.
The work of Prof. Helbing has been widely cited in the media and academia and he has written more than 10 papers in Nature, Science and PNAS. In 2012, he won the Idee Suisse Award. He co-founded the Competence Center for Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, the Risk Center, the Institute for Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP) and the Decision Science Laboratory (DeSciL). While coordinating the FuturICT initiative, he helped to further develop disciplines such as data science, computational social science, and global systems science in Europe. This work resulted in the establishment of the Nervo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karmanos%20Cancer%20Institute | The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute is a cancer research and provider network headquartered in Detroit, Michigan affiliated with the Wayne State University School of Medicine. The Karmanos Cancer Institute has 16 treatment locations and is one of 56 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer treatment and research centers in the United States.
Karmanos' vision is a world free of cancer and its mission is to lead in transformative cancer care, research and education through courage, commitment and compassion.
History
Karmanos began as the Detroit Institute for Cancer Research in 1943. It was registered as a non-profit organization in 1949. The institute was later named the Michigan Cancer Foundation, encompassing the Meyer L. Prentis Comprehensive Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit and the cancer programs of the Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University.
In 1995, the cancer center was named after Barbara Ann Karmanos, the late wife of Peter Karmanos Jr., former chairman and chief executive officer of Compuware Corporation. Barbara Ann Karmanos succumbed to breast cancer at the age of 46.
On October 30, 2013, Karmanos Cancer Institute and McLaren Health Care Corporation signed an agreement that created the largest cancer research and provider network in Michigan. The agreement was finalized in January 2014.
In 2018, the institute reported that it had 1,000 staff members, including 300 doctors, and 100 researchers, with the staff treating approximately 12,000 patients each year It had an operating budget of $260 million.
About
The Karmanos Cancer Institute has 16 treatment locations and is one of 54 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer treatment and research centers in the United States.
Karmanos has one of the largest clinical trials programs in the nation, giving patients access to more than 250 treatments. It conducts 800 cancer-specific scientific investigations programs and clinical trials each year. The institute has a Phase 1 program, a participating site in the Early Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (ET-CTN) of the NCI.
Recognition
In 2018, Karmanos was named one of America's Best Hospitals for Cancer Care & Research by the Women's Choice Award. Previously, Karmanos had been ranked as one of America's Best Hospitals for Cancer Care by the Women's Choice Award, from 2011-2012, as well as 2014-2017. It also won the Women's Choice Award for Patient Experience in 2017.
Leadership
The Institute is under the direction of President and CEO Boris C. Pasche, M.D., Ph.D., FACP Brian Gamble is president of Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Hospital & Network, overseeing clinical operations in Detroit, as well as the Karmanos cancer network across Michigan.
References
Cancer organizations based in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Michigan
NCI-designated cancer centers
Medical and health organizations based in Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Beam%20with%20Ernie | Alpha Beam With Ernie is an edutainment video game released for the Atari 2600 by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It was developed in conjunction with the Children's Computer Workshop. The game was programmed by Michael Callahan and Preston Stuart.
Gameplay
The object of Alpha Beam is to help Sesame Street'''s Ernie pilot a small shuttle, collect fuel tanks (marked by a letter of the alphabet), and return them to his space ship so that he can return to Earth.
The game was marketed as a family-friendly game that could teach children pre-reading skills such as identifying and matching letters. Alpha Beam'' was compatible with the Atari Kid's Controller, which was sold separately, although the regular keyboard controller is also compatible.
References
1983 video games
Atari 2600 games
Atari 2600-only games
Children's educational video games
Sesame Street video games
Video games developed in the United States
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact%20Camera%20Port%202 | Compact Camera Port 2 (CCP2) is an electrical and data interface standard for cameras used in Mobile phones. It uses high speed differential serial signaling, and is defined by the Standard Mobile Imaging Architecture (SMIA) group.
Classes
CCP2 supports several different speed classes:
References
External links
Description archived from the SMIA website
Compact Camera Port 2 Application Notes
Mobile telecommunications standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Talking%20Propellerheads | The Talking Propellerheads was a high technology satire/rock/comedy band performing from 1982 through 1996. The group was composed of employees of Data General Corporation. They were notable as the "corporate band" for Data General for over 14 years, playing at industry events and company functions. Their songs documented the fall of the minicomputer industry of the 1980s with their songs about Wang, DEC, Prime, IBM and other companies. Their songs reported on changes in the minicomputer industry such as An Wang's retirement ("they thought that Fred could run the company, but An said "Fred, you're not the man for me"), as well as documenting some of the players that formed the industry: Data General founders (Ed DeCastro and Herb Richman, in "Eddie and Herb", Tom West in "Stairway to Heaven", and Ken Olsen in "Dec Stinks").
The band performed in NYC, Boston, Orlando, Denver, Kansas City, Dallas, Nashville, Atlanta and San Francisco as well as other venues. They also entertained at industry events such as Lotus World, NADGUG (Users group meetings), The Grey Eagles organization and the Uniforum Trade Show, where they opened for the Beach Boys, entertaining over 5,000 people. The band members initially were Systems Engineers (known as propellerheads), but over the years several of the band were Account Executives for the company.
Origins
The band started as a skit for the Northeast Sales Kickoff meeting with three acoustic guitars and a podium microphone. They evolved into a full rock band with two lead guitars, rhythm guitar, bass, keyboard and drums. They made over 15 rock videos that were shown at various meetings and events to entertain and provide the “Data General Culture” for new-hires. They were known in the industry as the "Prop-Tops" and the TPHeads.
Style of songs
Their songs were parody songs, poking fun at the high tech industry, sales and their competition. Their covers included everything from the Beatles (Drive My Car, B Side of Abbey Road) to Pink Floyd (Comfortably Numb) to Led Zeppelin (Rock and Roll, Stairway to Heaven) to Little Feat (Willin’). Their repertoire consisted of over 100 songs performed live and in videos.
The band was founded by Tom Ptacek and Dan Fennelly when assigned to come up with a skit for the next sales meeting. The first song was a parody of “My Generation” called “Desktop Generation”, a new computer product released by the company.
Lineup
The members of the band changed over the years but were mainly Dan Fennelly, Phil Flaherty, Patrick Wright (PATTY SMYTH, BEATLEMANIA), Bill Gustafson, Dan Chasse and Ira Leavitt. They were featured in articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Milford Daily News, The Boston Globe and The Boston Herald. They also were featured on Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 radio program as “the Hottest Band in Computerland.”
Some song titles included "Clariion Our Newborn Son" (Carry On Wayward Son), “Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn Ya’" (Hotel California), “Cobol Wizard” (Pinball |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel%20Zaks | Schmuel Zaks (born 1949) is a computer scientist and mathematician who works in the fields of distributed computing and computer networks. He is a professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he holds the Joan Callner-Miller Chair in Computer Science.
Zaks received his BSc degree from Technion in 1971 and MSc from Technion in 1972. In 1979 he received his PhD degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his PhD supervisor was Chung Laung Liu. Since then, he has done joint work with numerous co-authors, including the prolific mathematician Paul Erdős.
During the 23rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2009), a series of lectures was organized to celebrate Schmuel Zaks's and Michel Raynal's 60th birthdays and their contributions in the development of the field of distributed computing.
In 2017, Zaks received the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, at the SIROCCO 2017 conference, for his lifetime achievements in Distributed Computing.
Notes
References
Personal home page.
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External links
1949 births
Living people
Researchers in distributed computing
Theoretical computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nftables | nftables is a subsystem of the Linux kernel providing filtering and classification of network packets/datagrams/frames. It has been available since Linux kernel 3.13 released on 19 January 2014.
nftables replaces the legacy iptables portions of Netfilter. Among the advantages of nftables over iptables is less code duplication and easier extension to new protocols. nftables is configured via the user-space utility nft, while legacy tools are configured via the utilities iptables, ip6tables, arptables and ebtables frameworks.
nftables utilizes the building blocks of the Netfilter infrastructure, such as the existing hooks into the networking stack, connection tracking system, userspace queueing component, and logging subsystem.
nft
Command-line syntax
A command to drop any packets with destination IP address 1.2.3.4:
nft add rule ip filter output ip daddr 1.2.3.4 drop
Note that the new syntax differs significantly from that of iptables, in which the same rule would be written:
iptables -A OUTPUT -d 1.2.3.4 -j DROP
The new syntax can appear more verbose, but it is also far more flexible. nftables incorporates advanced data structures such as dictionaries, maps and concatenations that do not exist with iptables. Making use of these can significantly reduce the number of chains and rules needed to express a given packet filtering design.
The iptables-translate tool can be used to translate many existing iptables rules to equivalent nftables rules. Debian 10 (Buster), among other Linux distributions, uses nftables along with iptables-translate as the default packet filtering backend.
History
The project was first publicly presented at Netfilter Workshop 2008 by Patrick McHardy from the Netfilter Core Team. The first preview release of kernel and userspace implementation was given in March 2009. Although the tool has been called "the biggest change to Linux firewalling since the introduction of iptables in 2001", it has received little press attention. Notable hacker Fyodor Vaskovich (Gordon Lyon) said that he is "looking forward to its general release in the mainstream Linux kernel".
The project stayed in alpha stage, and the official website was removed in 2009. In March 2010, emails from the author on the project mailing lists showed the project was still active and approaching a beta release, but the latter was never shipped officially. In October 2012, Pablo Neira Ayuso proposed a compatibility layer for iptables and announced a possible inclusion of the project into mainstream kernel.
On 16 October 2013, Pablo Neira Ayuso submitted a nftables core pull request to the Linux kernel mainline tree. It was merged into the kernel mainline on 19 January 2014, with the release of Linux kernel version 3.13.
Overview
The nftables kernel engine adds a simple virtual machine to the Linux kernel which is able to execute bytecode to inspect a network packet and make decisions on how that packet should be handled. The operations implemented by this |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Plestis | Craig Plestis is the President and CEO of Smart Dog Media, a reality programming production company. Plestis is an executive producer of The Masked Singer and I Can See Your Voice.
Career
NBC
Plestis was the executive producer behind the NBC singing game show, The Winner Is hosted by Nick Lachey, in partnership with Talpa Media. Plestis was the creator and executive producer of approximately 70 episodes of the hit game show Minute to Win It, hosted by Guy Fieri, and winner of the International FRAPA Award for Best Studio Based Game Show. He also executive produced NBC's Who's Still Standing?, a game show that featured contestants falling through trap doors after answering trivia questions incorrectly.
As the NBC's former Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, Development and Specials, Craig Plestis oversaw all alternative programming and development for the network, including the hit series Deal or No Deal, The Biggest Loser, America's Got Talent, The Apprentice, The Singing Bee, and 1 vs. 100. His responsibilities also included overseeing NBC's Golden Globe Awards.
Smart Dog Media
Smart Dog Media created Robot Combat League, the world's first giant fighting robot competition series for the Syfy Channel in 2013. Plestis created and executive produced the series. Craig also served as the executive producer of Syfy's game show Exit, based on a popular Japanese format. He also helped develop and sold the format for Opposite Worlds, Syfy's English-language version of the popular Chilean format, Mundos Opuestos. In 2021 he also developed the television series I Can See Your Voice.
Food Network
Plestis has also worked extensively with the Food Network. He was the executive producer for Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell, initially launched as Chef Hunter. He was also executive producer for Extreme Chef, which put chefs to the test in challenges in foreign locations, ran for two seasons. Additionally, Craig Plestis was the executive producer on two half-hour syndicated series Unsealed: Alien Files and Unsealed: Conspiracy Files. Smart Dog Media also produced the mechanical challenge competition special, Unscrewed for the History Channel in December 2012, with Craig executive producing.
Later projects
In March 2021, Plestis began working with Japan's Tokyo Broadcasting System to develop unscripted formats for the U.S. and Global markets. In April 2021, he became executive producer for the new TV series Unicorn Hunters, a business investment show.
References
External links
NBC Universal
Forbes
Living people
American television producers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Godbout | Bill Godbout (October 2, 1939 – November 8, 2018) was an early computer pioneer and entrepreneur known for manufacturing and selling computer equipment, parts, and electronic kits in Silicon Valley, during the 1970s and 1980s.
He and his company, Godbout Electronics (and later CompuPro and Viasyn), were very influential in the early years of the personal computer market. Together with George Morrow, he worked on the IEEE696 (withdrawn) better known as the very popular S-100 bus.
He is featured in the book The Silicon Boys, 1999 by David A. Kaplan about the pioneers of Silicon Valley.
Early life
He was born on October 2, 1939, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Career
After college, he went straight into a job at IBM, but found himself "involuntarily recalled" to active military duty in 1961 and subsequently spending most of the 1960s in the military, being discharged in 1968. Deciding not to return to a big company, although still holding IBM in esteem, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area to assist in turning around a company in financial difficulties, an operation which concluded successfully. With the same team, he subsequently founded another business in Oakland, California and, after selling this business, enjoyed a period of semi-retirement until a friend, Mike Quinn, introduced him to the electronics surplus business in which he became fascinated. In 1973, he established Godbout Electronics in the San Francisco Bay area, out of a Quonset hut at Oakland International Airport. The New York Times called it a "popular electronics store." According to the Vintage Computer Federation, he was "a legend in the S-100 community for his 1970s-1980s work at Godbout Electronics and CompuPro."
For his store, he purchased bulk discarded electronics largely from military suppliers. Godbout "sold chips and memory boards by mail and did business with developers on a handshake basis."
After renaming the company CompuPro, he worked with George Morrow to develop the S-100 data bus, the IEEE-696. The S-100 bus was sold as part of the Altair 8800 kit machine.
Godbout manufactured S-100 compatible cards, which "formed the backbone of early systems like the Altair 8800 and homebrew machines, allowing techies to interface their processors and memory with peripherals and form useful microcomputers."
In the 1980s, Godbout focused on networking and moved his company, renamed Viasyn, to Hayward, California. He was chairman of the business. Viasyn focused on custom computing equipment for “things like medical offices, the early electronic music scene, and even niche areas like elevator control systems."
Personal life and death
Near the end of his life, he lived in the community of Concow, California, with his wife Karen. The couple had a daughter, Brandi. Godbout was a keen pilot, and would often fly planes with his friend Gary Kildall.
Godbout was killed on November 8, 2018, when the Camp Fire burned down his home and workshop in Concow. He was survived by his w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHBM | WHBM (90.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Park Falls, Wisconsin. The station is part of Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), and airs WPR's "Ideas Network", consisting of news and talk programming.
See also Wisconsin Public Radio
References
External links
Wisconsin Public Radio
HBM
Wisconsin Public Radio
NPR member stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Stevens%20%28sportscaster%29 | Bob Stevens (born November 25, 1954) is a sportscaster, best known as a former anchor on the ESPN family of networks. He was at ESPN from 1995 to 2002.
Stevens graduated from Tulsa University in 1977 with a degree in communications. From 1987-90, Stevens was the sports director at KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma. From 1990-94, Stevens was the weekend sports anchor for WEWS in Cleveland, Ohio. While he was there, Stevens created a popular show called Sports Sunday, which wrapped up the week in local sports ranging from professional, amateur, and high school. From 1994-96, Stevens worked as the sports director at WEWS, which he continued doing a month into his ESPN duties.
In 1995, Stevens conducted interviews with Jim Thome, Paul Sorrento, Tony Peña, and Julián Tavárez following the Cleveland Indians' series clinching victory in Game 3 of the American League Division Series against the Boston Red Sox for The Baseball Network/ABC.
In 2006, he started announcing Savannah State football games. He has also called football games for the Army Black Knights and also works for the PGA Tour Network.
External links
Bob Stevens - SportsCenter Tribute
Living people
Golf writers and broadcasters
American radio sports announcers
College football announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters
1954 births
American television sports anchors
American television sports announcers
University of Tulsa alumni
Television personalities from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Television anchors from Cleveland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction%20Advanced%20Data%20Link | Multifunction Advanced Data Link (MADL) is a fast switching narrow directional communications data link between stealth aircraft. It began as a method to coordinate between F-35 (the Joint Strike Fighter), but HQ Air Combat Command wants to expand the capability to coordinate future USAF strike forces of all AF stealth aircraft, including the B-2, F-22, and unmanned systems. MADL is expected to provide needed throughput, latency, frequency-hopping and anti-jamming capability with phased Array Antenna Assemblies (AAAs) that send and receive tightly directed radio signals. MADL uses the Ku band.
The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics directed the Air Force and Navy to integrate MADL among the F-22, F-35 and B-2, to one another and to the rest of network.
As of 2010, the Air Force has canceled upgrade plans for the F-22 to receive MADL citing technology maturity risks.
Critics contend that since Link 16 is the standard by which U.S. and Allied aircraft communicate, upgrades to Link-16 radios should be supported that can provide the same capabilities as MADL while maintaining interoperability.
The MADL could be used beyond a four-ship flight.
Platforms
The F-22 Raptor MADL upgrade was cancelled in 2010
The F-35 Lightning II will have MADL built in
B-2 Spirit
US Navy surface combatants with Baseline 9 Aegis Combat System can take targeting data from F-35s via MADL.
See also
Global Information Grid
Link 16
Multifunctional Information Distribution System
Network-centric warfare
References
External links
Military radio systems of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza%20telematica | In the fields of urban planning, urban regeneration and e-government, the term piazza telematica has been used in Italy since the early 1990s by a number of community network and local institutions for promoting the insertion, inside the urban upgrading processes, of the principles of sustainable development and of accessibility for all to IT tools for assuring the Right of Citizenship: the possibilities to participate in public decision processes, to access to the knowledge and training, to take part of the social local community life.
The term piazza telematica evokes a hybrid space indebted in equal parts to the real (with territorial components) and the virtual space that has to be considered as a whole, a new glocal (global – local) public space with a great symbolic value for the democratic interaction and for the social life.
The word "piazza" underlines the semantic significance of a public space traditionally located in the heart of the town centre or of a village and dedicated to communication, meeting, and the exchange of material goods and, at present, through the use of telematics systems and services, to the exchange also of immaterial goods (new virtual services and functions: remote work, coworking, online training through multi-monitor, telemedicine, e-commerce and the new sustainable mobility services such as bike sharing and car sharing.
History
1990 - The term Piazza Telematica is used for the first time in newspapers and magazines in order to describe the telematics systems and services set up for the journalists in the 12 Italian cities hosting the FIFA World Cup 1990.
1994 - Participation to the ACT-VILL project of the Direction XII Science and Technology of the European Union for the city of the 21st century corresponding to new concepts synthesised in three scenarios:
Sustainable city, a city that internalise the problems it generates, solving them instead of transferring to other or to the future.
"Glocal" city (global/local), a city with a better balance between the globalisation process and the ability to use local resources.
Post-modern or agora city, a human centred city with a harmonic relationship between the citizen and the urban design.
1995 - Participation to the European conference Urban utopias: new tools for the European Urban Renaissance, promoted by the Direction XII Science and Technology of the European Union and hosted by the Municipality of Berlin.
2004 - The first pilot project of a Piazza Telematica, supported by the European Union (div. XVI for social cohesion and sustainable development) is opened to the general public in Naples (Italy) in the bourough of Scampia.
In some other pilot projects, as is the case for the Piazza Telematica of the Municipality of Provaglio d'Iseo, the term Piazza Telematica is used in order to evoke a virtual space on the Internet open to all citizens for the exchange of ideas, proposals and participation, through forum and other web instruments, to the socio-cultur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20microblogging%20and%20similar%20services | The tables below compare general and technical information for some notable active microblogging services, and also social network services that have status updates.
General information
Features
An overview of integral features. Extras may be provided by third party applications/services, but are not listed here.
Posting and reading
Communication methods supported by the services. Extras may be provided by third party applications/services, but are not listed here.
See also
Microblogging
OpenMicroBlogging
Microblogging in China
References
Microblogging services
Microblogging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%208%20%28Honduran%20TV%20channel%29 | Canal 8 formerly known as Televisión Nacional de Honduras (Spanish for: National Television of Honduras) or TNH is a state-owned television network based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The channel is the first state-owned television channel and is operated by the Ministry of Culture and Telecommunications. Canal 8 went on the air on August 20, 2008.
External links
Canal 8 Honduras at LyngSat Address
References
Television in Honduras
Spanish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1962
Mass media in Tegucigalpa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anas%20%28company%29 |
History
Founded on 27 June 1946, the company took a government grant for the reconstruction of the Italian road network, which had been seriously damaged in World War II.
The managed road network
Anas holds the concession to manage the national road network, as governed by Decreto Legislativo no. 461 of 29 October 1999 as amended by the D.P.C.M. of 21 September 2001 ("Modifications to the Prime Ministerial Decree of 21 February 2000 identifying and transferring, pursuant to Article 101, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree no. 112 of 1998, roads not included in the national motorway and road network") and other subsequent measures. The company manages and controls a network of km of state roads, motorways, and spour route under direct management, including motorway interchanges and slip roads. The road network expanded between 2018 and 2021 as a result of the 'Rientro Strade' plan, which brought km of former highway, regional and county road back under Anas management. The plan was launched in August 2017 with the agreement sanctioned by the Conferenza Unificata, which was followed by the Prime Ministerial Decree of 20 February 2018, while the second phase of the plan started in April 2021 in execution of the D.P.C.M. of 21 November 2019. Anas's roads are divided into regional compartments of competence, of which the Sicilian one has the most extensive road network with over km.
Shareholdings
Anas has shareholdings in:
Directly controlled companies
Anas International Enterprise - 100%
Anas Concessioni Autostradali - 100%
Quadrilatero Marche Umbria - 92.38%
Stretto di Messina S.p.A. (company in liquidation) - 81.85%
Indirectly controlled companies
PMC Mediterraneum - 1.50%
Associated companies
Autostrade del Lazio - 50.00%
Concessioni Autostradali Lombarde - 50.00%
Concessioni Autostradali Venete - 50.00%
Autostrada Asti-Cuneo - 35.00%
Società Italiana per il Traforo del Monte Bianco - 32.13%
Società Italiana per il Traforo Autostradale del Frejus (Sitaf S.p.A.) - 31.75%
Other companies
Italian Distribution Council (company in liquidation) - 6.67%
Consel (Consorzio ELIS per la formazione professionale superiore) - 1.00%
Commercial data
References
External links
Anas Official Website
Transport companies of Italy
Government-owned companies of Italy
Companies based in Rome
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1946
Road authorities
Italian companies established in 1946
Construction and civil engineering companies of Italy
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane |
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