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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20IRAM%20project | The Berkeley IRAM project was a 1996–2004 research project in the Computer Science Division of the University of California, Berkeley which explored computer architecture enabled by the wide bandwidth between memory and processor made possible when both are designed on the same integrated circuit (chip). Since it was envisioned that such a chip would consist primarily of random-access memory (RAM), with a smaller part needed for the central processing unit (CPU), the research team used the term "Intelligent RAM" (or IRAM) to describe a chip with this architecture. Like the J–Machine project at MIT, the primary objective of the research was to avoid the Von Neumann bottleneck which occurs when the connection between memory and CPU is a relatively narrow memory bus between separate integrated circuits.
Theory
With strong competitive pressures, the technology employed for each component of a computer system—principally CPU, memory, and offline storage—is typically selected to minimize the cost needed to attain a given level of performance. Though both microprocessor and memory are implemented as integrated circuits, the prevailing technology used for each differs; microprocessor technology optimizes speed and memory technology optimizes density. For this reason, the integration of memory and processor in the same chip has (for the most part) been limited to static random-access memory (SRAM), which may be implemented using circuit technology optimized for logic performance, rather than the denser and lower-cost dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), which is not. Microprocessor access to off-chip memory costs time and power, however, significantly limiting processor performance. For this reason computer architecture employing a hierarchy of memory systems has developed, in which static memory is integrated with the microprocessor for temporary, easily accessible storage (or cache) of data which is also retained off-chip in DRAM. Since the on-chip cache memory is redundant, its presence adds to cost and power. The purpose of the IRAM research project was to find if (in some computing applications) a better trade-off between cost and performance could be achieved with an architecture in which DRAM was integrated on-chip with the processor, thus eliminating the need for a redundant static memory cache—even though the technology used was not optimum for DRAM implementation.
Contribution
While it is fair to say that Berkeley IRAM did not achieve the recognition that Berkeley RISC received, the IRAM project was nevertheless influential.
Although initial IRAM proposals focused on trade-offs between CPU and DRAM, IRAM research came to concentrate on vector instruction sets.
Its publications were early advocates of the incorporation of vector processing and vector instruction sets into microprocessors, and several commercial microprocessors, such as the Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX), subsequently adopted vector processing instruction set extensi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoNumber | AutoNumber is a type of data used in Microsoft Access tables to generate an automatically incremented numeric counter. It may be used to create an identity column which uniquely identifies each record of a table. Only one AutoNumber is allowed in each table.
The data type was called Counter in Access 2.0.
Forms
There are three forms in which AutoNumbers can be generated:
start value plus increment AutoNumbers generated by this mechanism start with the start number and increment with the increment value, checking for collision with existing table rows.
random AutoNumbers generated by this mechanism are assigned using a pseudo-random number generator that generates long integers and checks for collisions with existing table rows.
replication IDs AutoNumbers generated by this mechanism are IDs generated in a manner to make it highly improbable that collisions will occur. They are Microsoft Globally Unique Identifiers, and the probability of collision is low until the year AD 3400.
The default size of an AutoNumber is a 4-byte (long) integer. This is the size used for start+increment and random AutoNumbers. For replication ID AutoNumbers, the FieldSize property of the field is changed from long integer to Replication ID.
If an AutoNumber is a long integer, the NewValues property determines whether it is of the start+increment or random form. The values that this property can take are "Increment" and "Random".
Use
The default AutoNumber type is a start+increment counter, with a start value of 1 and an increment of 1. Although in many instances such an AutoNumber field will appear as if it contains the row count, it does not. Deletion of rows from a table, for example, does not cause AutoNumber fields to be re-numbered, but instead leaves "holes" in the numbering. Similarly, if a transaction to add a row to a table is begun but later aborted, the AutoNumber assigned for that row will not be re-used.
The default start+increment form with the start value of 1 and increment of 1 is not suitable for all circumstances. There are reasons to choose each form, and trade-offs in doing so.
The default start and increment values might reveal information about a table that it is desired not to reveal to people viewing individual table rows. For example, using an AutoNumber field for a customer ID might reveal information that it is desirable not to reveal to, say, customer number 6. This is one example of occasion where the start value of an AutoNumber field is raised, so that customer number 6 has, say, AutoNumber field value 10006.
Using random values is desirable in cases where it would be unfortunate if it were possible to guess the next values assigned to new rows in the table. This usage is rare, however.
A common problem with AutoNumber fields is encountered if tables are replicated. If multiple users are using multiple replicas of the table, then it is likely that they will end up assigning the same values to AutoNumber fields in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakty%20TVN | Fakty TVN (simplified to Fakty; ) is the flagship newscast of TVN, one of Poland's major television networks. The programme was launched on 3 October 1997, which was also the first day of the entire TVN. As of May 2019, it has an average audience of 3.2 million viewers, making it Poland's most watched television newscast.
History
The programme was created by two former TVP journalists, Grzegorz Miecugow and Tomasz Lis, with Lis serving as its original main presenter. It was the first news programme in Polish television based on the North American concept of "anchor" where presenter does not simply read the text prepared by others but he or she has vital influence on the overall shape of the programme. For the first 8 months of its existence, it was broadcast at 19:30 which made it compete directly with its main rival Wiadomości. In May 1998 it was moved to its current time slot at 19:00, enabling viewers to watch both programmes. For the first few years it used to have four regional versions with local news (broadcast from Warsaw, Łódź, Gdańsk and Kraków) but eventually those were cancelled. From 1997 till 2004 the late evening version was produced (airing usually around 23:00) and from 2000 till 2007 there was also the afternoon edition (airing around 17:00). Since 2007 the main edition broadcast from Warsaw (with presenters travelling during exceptional events) has been the only one being aired.
In 2004 Lis was fired by TVN's management (following an interview with the Polish edition of Newsweek in which when asked if he was interested in running for the President of Poland, he failed to give a clear "no"). He was replaced as main presenter by Bogdan Rymanowski. In the same year the programme's team was merged into TVN24, network's 24-hour news channel and the two started to share the newsroom and main studio. Fakty did retain some level of autonomy though, keeping its own staff headed by a separate Editor-in-Chief. Since Autumn 2004, the programme has had two main presenters, each of them fronting the weekday editions every second week. For the first 20 months since the change those were Justyna Pochanke and Bogdan Rymanowski. In May 2006 former Wiadomości star presenter Kamil Durczok took over as one of the main presenters (replacing Rymanowski who fronted his last edition two months earlier) and was also nominated Fakty's Editor-in-Chief.
In May 2008 the weekday editions were expanded by adding Fakty po Faktach (Facts after the Facts) section, which is aired only on TVN24 (thus available only via cable and satellite networks, with no terrestrial transmission) and allows to get into more detail with the day's main stories by adding longer interviews and analysis. In the first weeks both sections were presented by the same person. Later this has been changed and now there is different host for each of the two parts. For the viewers who decide to stay with TVN after the programme instead of switching to TVN24, the programme is followed by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Country%20Network | The Country Network is an American cable, streaming and broadcast television network that specializes in broadcasting country music videos and exclusive original music-based content; its playlist of videos extends from the 1990s through the present day. The network also airs occasional infomercials and traditional advertising.
The network is headquartered in Haltom City, Texas, with offices in Nashville, Tennessee, and New York.
History
The network first launched on January 7, 2009, as the Artists & Fans Network; the music video that inaugurated the network was the Kid Rock video "All Summer Long". AFN was first carried on satellite through DirecTV on channel 236.
In August 2009, after suffering from financial problems, Southern Venture Capital Group sold all the assets of the company to one of the founders, Warren Hansen, who then changed its name to the American Music Video Network, and rolled out the programming with a new look and feel. On February 15, 2010, the company was renamed The Country Network to represent its focus on country music. Around this time, The Country Network began to transition into a digital multicast network, carried over-the-air on broadcast television stations across the United States as well as the first broadcast network to simulcast to Roku, iPhone, iPad, web, and other OTT outlets.
On May 20, 2013, Zuus Media announced its acquisition of The Country Network. On June 1, 2013, Zuus Media announced the rebranding as Zuus Country. Zuus Country was to be the first of several music video networks of various formats. Only one of these other formats, Zuus Latino, ever made it to air.
In January 2016, the network was purchased by a Texas-based company, TCN Country LLC, with a 43,000-square-foot studio, production and broadcast facility. TCN Country changed the brand back to The Country Network, reviving its original name and logo for the revival of the network.
In 2021, The Country Network, after having previously placed its online Web stream behind a paywall, launched TCN FAST (Free Advertising Supported Television), a free online feed of the channel that is distributed through advertiser-supported over-the-top streaming services.
Affiliates
As of 2013, Zuus Country has television stations in over 41 television markets in 26 states, covering approximately 34 million over the air households an 18 million cable subscribers. ZUUS Country (at the time, still named The Country Network) signed a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group in August 2010 to be carried on digital subchannels of Sinclair stations in most of its media markets; the network began airing on Sinclair owned and/or operated stations on October 10, 2010. After Sinclair's original drop of several affiliates in late 2015, the network was down to 24 markets (The contract with Sinclair was expired in June 2017). When TCN Country LLC purchased the network, they immediately started growing the distribution and as of January 30, 2017 the network was up to 54 ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Explorer | Microsoft Explorer may refer to the following products by Microsoft:
Internet Explorer, a web browser included with Microsoft Windows operating systems
Windows Explorer, a file manager system in Microsoft Windows operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybris%20%28video%20game%29 | Hybris is a vertically scrolling shooter for the Amiga home computer developed by Cope-Com and published by Discovery Software.
Gameplay
Players choose a player character commander from either Lovett or Maverick and begin play, controlling a spaceship which can be moved up and down the screen, as well as left and right. Airborne alien enemies and groundbased defensive weapons appear as the game scrolls upwards constantly, these can be destroyed by the player's weapon fire. More advanced weapons can be collected in the form of power ups. Hybris has a weapon enhancement feature, called "expansion"; once a new weapon has been collected it can be temporarily upgraded by the player rotating the joystick or pressing "Enter" on the keyboard, each weapon can be enhanced three times before a new weapon is needed in order to enhance again. Pressing "Space" on the keyboard activates a smart bomb that destroy every enemy (except bosses) and bullet on the screen: player starts with three of them.
Legacy
Cope-Com later created the spiritual successor Battle Squadron.
The creators are working to port the game to Android and iOS.
References
1989 video games
Amiga games
Amiga-only games
Cope-Com games
Single-player video games
Vertically scrolling shooters
Video games developed in Denmark
Discovery Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goble | Goble may refer to:
People
Brian Roy Goble (1957–2014), Canadian singer and musician
Carole Goble (born 1961), professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester
Elaine Goble (born 1956), Canadian visual artist
George H. Goble, staff member at Purdue University
Graeham Goble (born 1947), Australian singer-songwriter, founder of Little River Band
Jonathan Goble, an American Baptist minister and missionary
Les Goble (1932–2019), American football player
Paul Goble (1933–2017), award-winning author and illustrator of children's books
Paul A. Goble (born 1949), American analyst, writer and columnist
Robert Goble (1903–1991), English harpsichord builder
Stanley Goble (1891–1948), senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force
Steve Goble (born 1960), retired English footballer
Tony Goble (1943–2007), Welsh artist
Warwick Goble (1862–1943), Victorian illustrator of children's books
Places
United States
Goble, Oregon
Gobles, Michigan
South Africa
Goble Park, a stadium in Bethlehem, South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%20%28disambiguation%29 | A hacker is a highly skilled computer expert, including:
Security hacker, someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network
Hacker may also refer to:
Computing and technology
Hacker culture, a computer programmer and security hacker subculture focused on intellectual and creative aspects of hacking
HackerNest, a nonprofit organization and movement that builds local technology communities worldwide
People
Hacker (surname), includes a list of people with the name
Michael Amato or The Hacker (born 1972), French electroclash and tech producer
Arts, media, and entertainment
Fictional characters
Hacker, cyborg sidekick character in TV series The Centurions
Hacker T. Dog, puppet character on Scoop and CBBC links
Hacker Republic, Lisbeth Salander aka Wasp, Plague, and Trinity, hacker friends and colleagues in the series which includes The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Jim Hacker, title character in Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
Staff Sergeant Hacker, a character on the US TV series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
The Nameless Hacker, the main protagonist of the game System Shock (1994)
The Hacker, a character on the US TV series Cyberchase
Films
Hacker (film), a 2016 crime thriller
Hackers (film), 1995 MGM film starring Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie
Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age, a 1985 video documentary inspired by Stephen Levy's 1984 book
Games
Hacker (card game), 1992 Steve Jackson Games release
Hacker (video game), 1985 puzzle/strategy computer game by Activision
Hackers (video game), 2016 strategy video game by Trickster Arts
Literature
Hacker, a children's novel by Malorie Blackman
Hackers (anthology), a 1996 anthology of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, a 1984 book by Stephen Levy
Music
"Hacker", a song on Death Grips's 2012 album The Money Store
"The Hacker", a song by British industrial group Clock DVA
Brands and enterprises
Hacker Brewery, and its beer, since 1972 merged into Hacker-Pschorr Brewery
Hacker Radio Ltd, a British manufacturer of consumer electronics products
Hacker-Craft, boats made by the Hacker Boat Company
See also
Hack (disambiguation)
Hacking (disambiguation)
Hacks (disambiguation)
Haka (disambiguation)
Hakka (disambiguation)
fi:Hakkeri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20SSH%20servers | An SSH server is a software program which uses the Secure Shell protocol to accept connections from remote computers. SFTP/SCP file transfers and remote terminal connections are popular use cases for an SSH server.
General
Platform
The operating systems or virtual machines the SSH servers are designed to run on without emulation; there are several possibilities:
No indicates that it does not exist or was never released.
Partial indicates that while it works, the server lacks important functionality compared to versions for other OSs but may still be under development.
Beta indicates that while a version is fully functional and has been released, it is still in development (e.g. for stability).
Yes indicates that it has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.
Dropped indicates that while the server works, new versions are no longer being released for the indicated OS; the number in parentheses is the last known stable version which was officially released for that OS.
Included indicates that the server comes pre-packaged with or has been integrated into the operating system.
The list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common platforms today.
Features
See also
List of SFTP server software
Comparison of SSH clients
References
Cryptographic software
Internet Protocol based network software
SSH servers
Secure Shell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G | In telecommunications, 5G is the fifth-generation technology standard for cellular networks, which cellular phone companies began deploying worldwide in 2019, and is the successor to 4G technology that provides connectivity to most current mobile phones.
Like its predecessors, 5G networks are cellular networks, in which the service area is divided into small geographical areas called cells. All 5G wireless devices in a cell are connected to the Internet and the telephone network by radio waves through a basestation and antennae in the cell. The new networks have higher download speeds, with a peak speed of 10 gigabits per second (Gbit/s) when there is only one user in the network. 5G has higher bandwidth to deliver faster speeds than 4G and can connect more devices, improving the quality of Internet services in crowded areas. Due to the increased bandwidth, it is expected the 5G networks will increasingly be used as general internet service providers (ISPs), competing with existing ISPs such as cable internet, and also will make possible new applications in internet-of-things (IoT) and machine-to-machine areas. Cellphones with 4G capability alone are not able to use the 5G networks.
Overview
5G networks are cellular networks, in which the service area is divided into small geographical areas called cells. All 5G wireless devices in a cell communicate by radio waves with a cellular base station via fixed antennas, over frequencies assigned by the base station. The base stations, termed nodes, are connected to switching centers in the telephone network and routers for Internet access by high-bandwidth optical fiber or wireless backhaul connections. As in other cellular networks, a mobile device moving from one cell to another is automatically handed off seamlessly.
The industry consortium setting standards for 5G, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), defines "5G" as any system using 5G NR (5G New Radio) software — a definition that came into general use by late 2018.
Several network operators use millimeter waves called FR2 in 5G terminology, for additional capacity and higher throughputs. Millimeter waves have a shorter range than the lower frequency microwaves, therefore the cells are of a smaller size. Millimeter waves also have more trouble passing through building walls and humans. Millimeter-wave antennas are smaller than the large antennas used in previous cellular networks.
The increased data rate is achieved partly by using additional higher-frequency radio waves in addition to the low- and medium-band frequencies used in previous cellular networks. For providing a wide range of services, 5G networks can operate in three frequency bands — low, medium, and high.
5G can be implemented in low-band, mid-band or high-band millimeter-wave. Low-band 5G uses a similar frequency range to 4G cellphones, 600–900 MHz, which can potentially offer higher download speeds than 4G: 5–250 megabits per second (Mbit/s). Low-band cell towers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Waters%20%28disambiguation%29 | Blue Waters is an American supercomputer.
Blue waters or Bluewaters may also refer to:
Blue waters, the global deep oceans
Blue Waters, Christ Church, Barbados, a populated place in the parish of Christ Church, Barbados
Blue Waters F.C., a Namibian football club
Bluewaters Island, Dubai, UAE
Battle of Blue Waters
See also
Bluewater (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead%20Imagery%20Research%20Data%20Set | The Overhead Imagery Research Data Set (OIRDS) is a collection of an open-source, annotated, overhead images that computer vision researchers can use to aid in the development of algorithms. Most computer vision and machine learning algorithms function by training on a large set of example data. Further, for many academic and industry researchers, the availability of truth-labeled test data helps drive algorithm research.
While a great deal of terrestrial imagery is available on the Internet from various sources, there are few (if any) repositories of overhead imagery. The limited overhead imagery that is found via sources such as Google Earth or Google Maps is copyrighted or may have limited use.
Vehicle Data Set
The initial ~1,000 images in the OIRDS is focused on an Automatic Target Detection (ATD) task for passenger vehicles. Passenger vehicles in the OIRDS consist of cars, trucks, vans, & pick-ups. The vehicle data set is composed of USGS and VIVID images. All
of these images are color RGB images. The annotations that describe the images are documented in detail in.
Current status
OIRDS v1.0 was released in September, 2009. This version contains ~900 annotated images with ~1800 targets identified.
Limitations
The current OIRDS data set only has vehicle annotations. It does not include other target types. Additionally, recent trends in computer vision include image context for many detection and classification problems. While researchers are encouraged to provide those annotations, they are not currently provided.
See also
Comparison of datasets in machine learning
References
External links
Links to Data Sets
https://sourceforge.net/projects/oirds/ – OIRDS Homepage (Includes download)
http://www.vision.caltech.edu/Image_Datasets/Caltech101/ – Caltech 101 Homepage (Includes download)
http://www.vision.caltech.edu/Image_Datasets/Caltech256/ – Caltech 256 Homepage (Includes download)
http://labelme.csail.mit.edu/ – LabelMe Homepage
Links to some sources of OIRDS imagery
United States Geological Survey website – source of a majority of the vehicle data set imagery.
DARPA VIVID Program website – source of a small portion of the vehicle data set imagery.
Other Links
CVPR 2009 website where OIRDS was demonstrated
AIPR-Workshop 2009 website where some OIRDS work was published
Datasets in computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KALU | KALU (89.3 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station broadcasting an urban contemporary music format with some talk radio programming, licensed to Langston, Oklahoma, United States. Established in 1975, the station is owned by Langston University. KALU is operated by the University's Department of Broadcast Journalism and School of Arts and Sciences
References
External links
Official Website
Talk radio stations in the United States
Langston University
Urban contemporary radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1975
1975 establishments in Oklahoma
Logan County, Oklahoma
ALU |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hub%20Culture | Hub Culture is an invitation-led social network service that operates its own digital currency, Ven. Hub Culture is located in Bermuda. Founded in 2002, it claims it had 32,000 members by 2021 - based on registered accounts.
History
In November 2002, Hub Culture was founded by Stan Stalnaker. It was named after his book Hub Culture: The Next Wave of Urban Consumers published in the same year.
In 2006 and 2008, United Kingdom operations where incorporated, Hub Culture Services and Hub Culture Pavilions, respectively.
As of March 2017, Hub Culture claimed to have 25,000 members, although this is impossible to verify.
In 2020 Hub Culture launched AQUA, the Active Quarantine User Ally, a HubID based health and travel service created during the COVID-19 pandemic. By 2021, the network claimed it had 32,000 accounts.
Organisation
The Hub Culture group of companies is privately held with offices in Bermuda, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and the United States.
Ven Currency
Launched in 2007, Ven is a Digital currency used by members of Hub Culture to buy, share and trade knowledge, goods and services. Anyone in the network and can use Ven at any 'Pavilion' or used for micropayments online. The value of Ven is determined on the financial markets from a basket of currencies, commodities and carbon futures. It trades against other major currencies at floating exchange rates. Global pricing for Ven is provided by Thomson Reuters.
Pavilions
In 2008, Hub Culture established its first 'Pavilions', coworking project spaces in cities that offer concierge and consulting services, meeting space, on an internet enabled technology platform. Pavilions may be either temporary and permanent. They have been opened in Beijing, Bermuda, Cannes, Cancún, Copenhagen, Davos, Glasgow, Ho Chi Minh City, Ibiza, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Marrakech, Miami, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sacramento, Southampton, St. Moritz and Venice. Among these locations, in December 2009 was a Pavilion in Copenhagen to coincide with COP15, a beachfront location in Cancún to coincide with COP16, and a guest house location in Durban for COP17.
Between 2009 and 2020 temporary Pavilions opened in Davos, Switzerland during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. "Hub Maison" arrived in New York City for New York Fashion Week in its first fashion oriented collaboration with Sportmax. The New York Pavilion became the first Pavilion to offer contemporary retail fashion selections for sale in digital currency. In May 2010, Hub Culture opened the Cannes Clubhouse, a venue tied to the 63rd Cannes Film Festival in collaboration with Grey Goose. A private island in Croatia and Bali villa project also use Ven as a means of exchange. The 2011 Davos Pavilion made history with the first vehicles available for sale in Ven, with the all-electric Nissan LEAF on offer. In 2012, portions of the Davos Pavilion became the first in Europe to be powered by zero-emission energy from the Nissan Leaf using the Leaf-t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalupe%20Radio%20Network | Guadalupe Radio Network is an American radio network based in Midland, Texas. It is owned by La Promesa Foundation, and is Doing Business As (D.B.A.) Guadalupe Radio Network. The Guadalupe Radio Network provides Catholic religious radio programming to its stations. As of 2023, it includes 45 radio stations in the United States
History
The Guadalupe Radio Network began on July 19, 2000 with the station KJBC, in Midland, Texas. By 2023, it included 45 radio stations in the Houston, Kansas, North Texas, West Texas, South Texas, Central Texas, Alabama, Florida, Washington, DC, and New Mexico markets.
Radio stations
The Guadalupe Radio Network broadcasts in the following markets:
Alabama & Florida Market
WJUV-FM 88.3, Cullman, Alabama
WQOH-FM 88.7, Springville, Alabama
WMMA-FM 97.9, Irondale, Alabama
WMMA-AM 1480, Irondale, Alabama
WDLG-FM 90.1 FM, Grove Hill, Alabama
WDWR-AM 1230, Pensacola, Florida
WDWR-FM 103.3, Pensacola, Florida
WPHK-FM 102.7, Blountstown, Florida
WCVC-FM 96.9, Tallahassee, Florida
WCVC-AM 1330, Tallahassee, Florida
Kansas Market
KQSH-FM 90.7, Dodge City, Kansas
Houston, Texas Market
KSHJ-AM 1430, Houston, Texas
KSHJ-FM 96.1, Houston, Texas
North Texas Market
KEES-AM 1430, Gladewater, Texas
KJON-AM 850, Carrollton, Texas
South & Central Texas Market
KGWU-AM 1400, Uvalde, Texas
KJMA-FM 89.7, Floresville, Texas
KYRT-FM 97.9, Hunt, Texas
KIVM-FM 91.1, Fredericksburg, Texas
KBMD-FM 88.5, Marble Falls, Texas
Washington, DC Market
WMET-FM 103.1, Gaithersburg, Maryland
WMET-AM 1160, Gaithersburg, Maryland
West Texas & New Mexico Market
KPDE-FM 91.5, Eden, Texas
K210BX-FM 89.9, Van Horn, Texas
KDCJ-FM 91.5, Kermit, Texas
KBKN-FM 91.3, Lamesa, Texas
KQOA-FM 91.1, Morton, Texas
KSIF-FM 91.7, Wellington, Texas
K219LT-FM 91.7, Clayton, New Mexico
Spanish
KVDG-FM 90.9, Midland, Texas
KKUB-AM 1300, Brownfield, Texas
KJON-AM 850, Carrollton, Texas
KXGB-FM 105.1, Great Bend, Kansas
KODC-FM 102.1, Dodge City, Kansas
KQOA-FM 91.1, Morton, Texas
Programming
Guadalupe Radio Network's programming consists of a blend of original programming and syndicated radio shows. The vast majority of the latter are produced by the radio arm of Eternal Word Television Network or by Catholic Answers. These programs include "Catholic Answers Live", "The Son Rise Morning Show", "Catholic Connection" featuring Teresa Tomeo, "Women of Grace", "More 2 Life" featuring Greg and Lisa Popcak, "The Doctor is In" featuring Ray Guarendi, "Kresta in the Afternoon" featuring Al Kresta,
GRN also broadcasts a number of shows it produces itself, including 'Catholic Drive Time', 'The Spirit World', and 'A Life Lived Joyfully'. Some individual GRN radio stations also include local religious programming, as well as diocesan programming.
References
External links
Guadalupe Radio Network Website
American radio networks
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States
Catholic radio stations
Organizations based in Midland, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLPF | KLPF (1180 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. It is the flagship station of the Guadalupe Radio Network, which provides Catholic religious radio programming to several radio stations in the United States. Licensed to Midland, Texas, United States. The station, established in 1950, is currently owned by the La Promesa Foundation.
KLPF had been granted an FCC construction permit to move to a different transmitter site, change frequency from 1150 kHz to 1180 kHz, and increase day power to 25,000 watts and night power to 215 watts. The license to operate at this transmitter was issued on October 13, 2016.
History
Known as KJBC since it was founded in 1950, the station was assigned call sign KVDG on October 1, 2007. On January 31, 2008, the station changed its call sign to KLPF.
References
External links
LPF
Catholic radio stations
LPF
Radio stations established in 1950
1950 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTKC%20%28AM%29 | KTKC (1460 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish language Christian format, relaying programming from primary station KHCB League City, Texas. Licensed to Springhill, Louisiana, United States, the station is currently owned by Houston Christian Broadcasters, Inc.
References
External links
KTKC website
Christian radio stations in Louisiana
Spanish-language radio stations
Webster Parish, Louisiana
Radio stations established in 1954 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBA%20on%20NBC | The WNBA on NBC is the branding used for presentations of Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) games produced NBC Sports and broadcast on the NBC television network in the United States.
NBC showed Women's National Basketball Association games from 1997 to 2002 as part of their NBA on NBC coverage before the league transferred the rights to ABC/ESPN.
Background
On June 27, 1996, NBC Sports was announced as the WNBA's first national broadcaster. The WNBA soon also had television deals in place with the Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation joint venture channels, ESPN and Lifetime Television Network, respectively. At the time, NBC didn't pay television rights fees to the league's teams.
NBC nationally televised the very first WNBA game on June 21, 1997. The game featured the New York Liberty facing the Los Angeles Sparks in Los Angeles. For NBC's final season with the WNBA in 2002, they again began their season's worth of coverage on Memorial Day weekend with the Liberty and Sparks. NBC would proceed to televise WNBA games on Saturday and Sunday afternoons culminating in the Championship game on August 30.
Music and segments
A more rock-oriented variant of John Tesh's theme, "Roundball Rock" introduced by NBC to coincide with the debut of the WNBA. NBC's halftime report was sponsored by Lee Jeans.
Ratings
NBC Sports' broadcast of the inaugural WNBA game between the Liberty and Sparks received a 3.8 overnight national rating. Although NBC's end-of-season average for 1999 was even with 1998's average, viewership had actually increased from 1,540,000 households in 1998 to 1,607,000 in 1999. On the same token however, Nielsen ratings for NBC broadcasts of WNBA games slipped from 2 million households reached in 1997—the WNBA's inaugural season—to 1.5 million in 1999.
The average rating for the first 9 of the 10 WNBA games NBC carried in the 2001 season was only 1.1, compared to a 2.0 rating its first season.
WNBA Finals coverage
The very first WNBA season concluded with what was at the time, a single championship game. The following year, the finale series into a best-of-three games series, with NBC airing the first two games and ESPN airing the decisive third game. In 1999, ESPN aired the first game of the championship series while NBC covered the following two. Come the year 2000, Lifetime temporarily assumed ESPN's role as the WNBA's cable outlet for the WNBA Championship. Like the year prior, Lifetime broadcast the first game while NBC covered the second and ultimately decisive game between the Houston Comets and New York Liberty. This marked Houston's fourth consecutive WNBA Championship.
ESPN returned to the fold in the year 2001, broadcasting the first game with NBC airing the second and decisive game between the Los Angeles Sparks and Charlotte Sting. For NBC's final year of coverage in 2002, ESPN2 this time, broadcast the first game with NBC again covering what would become the second and ultimately decisive game. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culturally%20Authentic%20Pictorial%20Lexicon | The Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon is a dictionary database of images of various objects in a culturally authentic setting for language learning. All images are presented with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, allowing for broad academic use by language teachers. The database is also useful for researchers in the field of applied linguistics, visual cognition, and automated image recognition. The database averages 30,000 hits per month and has been incorporated into the curricula of many college and high-school level German teachers.
The idea for the lexicon is partially based on Shaughnessy's experience with teaching materials that used American-based images and clip art to demonstrate German words and concepts. By presenting objects in their culturally authentic context, the CAPL is designed to prepare students to live in the environment where the language is spoken. The photographic entries are real photographs, not clip art, to force teachers to "teach terms for things that actually occur in everyday German life – instead of American concepts that have no direct European equivalent."
The project was founded in 2003 as a pilot project with over 1,000 unique entries for the German language. The first images were collected by Shaughnessy in Germany and Austria through a grant from W&J College. In 2006, it received a $200,000 appropriation from the U.S. federal government. In 2008, the project was expanded to include more languages thanks to an $85,480 grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
The CAPL was featured in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education and has been recommended for use by the Goethe Institute, German Academic Exchange Office and the National Capital Language Resource Center. The book The Bilingual Mental Lexicon noted the Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon's value in German language instruction for "naming and sorting activities, and in awareness-raising discussions."
References
External links
CAPL home page
Washington & Jefferson College
Creative Commons-licensed websites
Language education materials
Internet properties established in 2003
Online dictionaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30%20Rock%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of 30 Rock, an American television comedy series, consists of 22 episodes and began airing on October 15, 2009, on the NBC network in the United States. The season was produced by Broadway Video, Little Stranger, and NBC Universal; the executive producers were series creator Tina Fey, Lorne Michaels, Marci Klein, David Miner, and Robert Carlock.
30 Rock is centered on The Girlie Show with Tracy Jordan (TGS), a fictional sketch comedy series, and its head writer Liz Lemon, portrayed by Fey. The series follows Lemon as she juggles her job and her personal life. Early in the season Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) and Liz work to find a new cast member for TGS. The season also sees NBC being purchased by Kabletown, a fictionalized depiction of the acquisition of NBC Universal by Comcast. Additionally, Liz has an ongoing relationship with a man she thought might be her "Future Husband" later in the season.
During the 2009–2010 upfront presentation on May 19, 2009, NBC announced that the show's fourth season, following the precedent set by its third season, would premiere several weeks behind the rest of the network's Thursday night lineup following a multi-week run of Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday specials. On June 25, NBC released its full fall premiere schedule, with 30 Rock returning on October 15, 2009. The fourth season aired under NBC's promotional banner "Comedy Night Done Right" on Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The season drew 15 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, down from its previous record breaking totals of 17 and 22 in the second and third seasons, respectively. The season was released on DVD in the United States on September 21, 2010, as a three-disc set.
Synopsis
Season 4 continues with Liz's love advice proving to be a disaster for most of her male co-workers, while she meets someone who could be her love interest (Michael Sheen), despite being reluctant about it. She also attempts to buy an apartment located above hers. Meanwhile, Jack falls for two women and is forced to choose one of them - his high school sweetheart (Julianne Moore), or someone who is similarly successful as him (Elizabeth Banks) while trying to impress the Kabletown executives.
Tracy, yearning to be taken more seriously, tries to earn an EGOT while starring in the movie Hard to Watch and Jenna meets a new love interest who is also a straight drag queen (Will Forte) and meets her mother, Verna (Jan Hooks). However, things don't go well for Kenneth as certain events lead to endangering his job as an NBC page.
NBC's purchase by the Philadelphia-based cable company Kabletown, a fictionalized depiction of the acquisition of NBC Universal by Comcast that occurred during the season, becomes a recurring storyline. Fictional GE CEO Don Geiss (Rip Torn) dies. Jack assigns the TGS crew to search for a new cast member; Josh Girard (Lonny Ross) to quit but eventually try and fails to come back. Ultimately, the new cast member is Jack "Dan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komma%20caudata | Komma caudata is a cryptomonad, and the only described species in the genus Komma, although four or five more species may exist. Its cells are 4.5–5.5 μm wide by 7–10 μm long and bear two unequal flagella.
References
Cryptomonads |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton%20Incorporated | Soliton Incorporated is a Canadian company formed in 1993 to continue supporting and developing the programming language Sharp APL, and related products and services, originally developed by Canadian company I. P. Sharp Associates.
History
Soliton was formed in 1993 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with Clarke Bruce as president, and with some of the former employees of I. P. Sharp Associates. The business was in some ways a continuation of parts of I. P. Sharp, which was bought by Reuters Group in 1987. Reuters was interested mainly in Sharp's historic databases, and allowed some parts of the business to buy themselves out from Reuters.
Timeline
1987 – I. P. Sharp Associates is bought by Reuters
1993 – Soliton Incorporated is founded
1997 – Soliton develops TimeSquare, a timeseries database with an SQL-like syntax
2006 – TimeSquare business sold to SunGard, becoming part of their referencePoint EDM business
See also
Kenneth E. Iverson
Eugene McDonnell
External links
APL programming language - Chronology
Technology companies of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-off | Roll-off is the steepness of a transfer function with frequency, particularly in electrical network analysis, and most especially in connection with filter circuits in the transition between a passband and a stopband. It is most typically applied to the insertion loss of the network, but can, in principle, be applied to any relevant function of frequency, and any technology, not just electronics. It is usual to measure roll-off as a function of logarithmic frequency; consequently, the units of roll-off are either decibels per decade (dB/decade), where a decade is a tenfold increase in frequency, or decibels per octave (dB/8ve), where an octave is a twofold increase in frequency.
The concept of roll-off stems from the fact that in many networks roll-off tends towards a constant gradient at frequencies well away from the cut-off point of the frequency curve. Roll-off enables the cut-off performance of such a filter network to be reduced to a single number. Note that roll-off can occur with decreasing frequency as well as increasing frequency, depending on the bandform of the filter being considered: for instance a low-pass filter will roll-off with increasing frequency, but a high-pass filter or the lower stopband of a band-pass filter will roll-off with decreasing frequency. For brevity, this article describes only low-pass filters. This is to be taken in the spirit of prototype filters; the same principles may be applied to high-pass filters by interchanging phrases such as "above cut-off frequency" and "below cut-off frequency".
First-order roll-off
A simple first-order network such as a RC circuit will have a roll-off of 20 dB/decade. This is approximately equal (to within normal engineering required accuracy) to 6 dB/octave and is the more usual description given for this roll-off. This can be shown to be so by considering the voltage transfer function, A, of the RC network:
Frequency scaling this to ωc = 1/RC = 1 and forming the power ratio gives,
In decibels this becomes,
or expressed as a loss,
At frequencies well above ω=1, this simplifies to,
Roll-off is given by,
For a decade this is;
and for an octave,
Higher order networks
A higher order network can be constructed by cascading first-order sections together. If a unity gain buffer amplifier is placed between each section (or some other active topology is used) there is no interaction between the stages. In that circumstance, for n identical first-order sections in cascade, the voltage transfer function of the complete network is given by;
consequently, the total roll-off is given by,
A similar effect can be achieved in the digital domain by repeatedly applying the same filtering algorithm to the signal.
The calculation of transfer function becomes somewhat more complicated when the sections are not all identical, or when the popular ladder topology construction is used to realise the filter. In a ladder filter each section of the filter has an effect on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo | Pharo is an open source, cross-platform implementation of the classic Smalltalk-80 programming language and runtime. It is based on the OpenSmalltalk virtual machine called Cog (VM), which evaluates a dynamic, reflective, and object-oriented programming language with a syntax closely resembling Smalltalk-80.
Pharo is shipped with source code compiled into a system image that contains all software necessary to run Pharo. Like the original Smalltalk-80, Pharo provides several live programming features such as immediate object manipulation, live updates, and just-in-time compilation. The image includes an IDE-like software to modify its components.
Pharo was forked from Squeak v3.9 in March of 2008.
Overview
Pharo is a pure object-oriented dynamically typed and reflective language. The stated goal of Pharo is to revisit Smalltalk design and enhance it.
The name Pharo comes from the French word "phare" () which means lighthouse. This is why the Pharo logo shows a drawing of a lighthouse inside the final letter O of the name.
Key features
Virtual machine
Multiplatform virtual machine with JIT, combined generational garbage collector, ephemerons, forwarders
Fast object enumeration
Easy call stack manipulation
AST metalinks
Relatively low memory consumption
Customizable compiler
Optional complete object memory persistence
Resumable exceptions
Fast object serialization
Built-in software
Optional fusion of developed program and development environment
Live object inspection
Language features
Simple syntax
Object-oriented programming
Immediate object identity swapping
Dynamic inheritance
Objects as methods
Optional Green threads
Customizable metaclasses
Easy to use proxy objects
Relation to Smalltalk
Pharo is based on general concepts of Smalltalk but seeks to improve on them so does not limit itself to them. The basic syntax of the language has a close resemblance to Smalltalk. However, the way classes are defined in Pharo differs from other Smalltalk dialects.
Language syntax
The Pharo syntax is based on Smalltalk-80 language syntax with several extensions. Some of these are common among modern Smalltalk dialects.
literals for dynamic arrays. The expressions that specify the array content are evaluated in time of the program execution
{1. 2. 1+2}
literals for byte arrays that can be composed only of integer numbers in the range from 0 to 255
#[1 2 3 4]
literals for scaled decimals, a representation of fixed point decimal numbers able to accurately represent decimal fractions
3.14s2
pragmas. In Smalltalk-80 the pragmas are used only for primitive methods. In Pharo they are fully capable method annotations
<gtInspectorPresentationOrder: 30>
two double quotes inside a comment are interpreted as a single double quotes character that is part of the content of the comment
The Pharo language syntax is supposed to be very simple and minimalistic. The basic language elements are often presented on a single pos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Luxury%20Institute | The Luxury Institute is a premium goods and services research, training and consulting firm based in New York City, New York and Boca Raton, Florida. It has the largest global network of luxury experts. It has conducted more quantitative and qualitative research on affluent consumers than any other entity. Over the last 17 years, the firm has served over 1,100 luxury and premium goods and services brands. The Luxury Institute's reports, as well as CEO Milton Pedraza, have been cited in luxury industry articles by publications including Marketing Week, The Wall Street Journal, Women's Wear Daily, and the CEOWORLD magazine.
Luxury Brand Status Index (LBSI)
The Luxury Institute publishes annual Luxury Brand Status Index surveys, which aggregate the brand preferences of high-net-worth individuals within various luxury market categories. In 2009, some available categories included:
Business publications (US)
Business websites (US)
Champagne and Sparkling wines (US)
Cognac (US)
Consumer publications (US)
Consumer websites (US)
Gin (US)
Handbags (US, Europe, Japan, China)
Home appliances (US)
Hotels (US)
Jewelry (US)
Liqueur (US)
Men's fashion (US, China)
Men's shoes (US, China)
Retailers (US)
Rum (US)
Scotch (US)
Table wines (US)
Ultra luxury autos (US)
Vodka (US)
Wealth management firms (US)
Whiskey (US)
Women's fashion (US, Europe, Japan, China)
Women's shoes (US, Europe, Japan, China)
References
Market research companies of the United States
Works about public opinion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR%20P4 | DR P4 is the regional radio channel of Denmark's national public broadcasting corporation, DR. The 10 regional stations which make up P4 originate their own local programming and also carry jointly produced nationwide content. P4's programming is a mixture of popular music, traffic announcements, national and regional news.
History
The name "P4" originates from 1973 when it was the name of a radio programme directed towards younger audience and broadcast on Sunday evenings on DR P1. This programme had been broadcast for 24 years when it was closed in 1997.
On 4 April 1960 DR started regional programming on DR P2.
At this time six stations were available: Bornholms Radio in Rønne, Midtjyllands Radio in Aarhus, Nordjyllands Radio in Aalborg, Radio Fyn in Odense, Sjællands Radio in Næstved, and Sønderjyllands Radio in Aabenraa.
At the beginning each station broadcast only half an hour of its own programming, each Monday from 19.15. Two years later this was expanded to 45 minutes. From 1967 a 40-minute round-up from all the regions was also broadcast on Tuesdays.
It was the expansion of FM radio, which necessitated the building of a denser network of transmitters to ensure good reception in all parts of the country, which also made regional radio technically possible.
DR had in 2001 won the rights to use Denmark's new fourth nationwide FM channel to which DR P2 was moved on 1 September 2001. The regional programming stayed on the former P2 regional channels and was re-launched as DR P4.
In March 2013 DR P4 became the first of DR's radio channels to be available on DAB+ digital radio. The other stations were available on standard DAB.
DR P4 Regional stations
DR P4 Bornholm
Began in 1960 as Bornholms Radio.
DR P4 Esbjerg
Began broadcasting on 1 January 2007.
DR P4 Fyn
Began in 1960 as Radio Fyn.
DR P4 København
Began in 1962 as Københavns Radio.
DR P4 Midt & Vest
Began in April 1974 as Regionalradioen i Holstebro; was later renamed Radio Midt & Vest.
DR P4 Nordjylland
DR P4 Sjælland
Formerly DR Regionalen; was expanded following the closure in 2013 of P4 Nordvestsjælland to cover the area formerly covered by the latter station.
DR P4 Syd
DR P4 Trekanten
Began in 1980 as Kanal 94; was later renamed P4 Trekanten and now covering a smaller area. The Trekanten (triangle) region is the area which includes the three major centres of Fredericia, Kolding, and Vejle as well as the towns of Billund, Haderslev, Middelfart, and Vejen.
DR P4 Østjylland
Began in 1960 as Østjyllands Radio.
References
Radio stations in Denmark
Radio stations established in 1960
DR (broadcaster) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICL%207500%20series | The ICL 7500 series (7501, 7502, 7503, 7561, etc.) was a range of terminals and workstations, that were developed by ICL during the 1970s for their new range ICL 2900 Series mainframe computers. The colour scheme was compatible with the 2900. The term 7561 is a commonly used though loose term for the interactive video aspects of the 7502 series. The 7501 and 7502 systems were known as Modular Terminal Processors in marketing publications. 7501 and 7502 systems were built at Blackhorse Road, Letchworth (1/3 factory).
7502 consisted of a system enclosure containing up to eight PCB's (CPU card, memory cards, peripheral controllers and video cards). It was similar in size to a desk side or tower PC, but was mounted horizontally. As it was intended to function in an office environment, steel-framed, wood-veneered cabinets and furniture were available for the processor and peripheral units. The 7502 system enclosure had two levels to include space for the dual, 8-inch floppy disc unit. The interior of the cabinet was covered with acoustic-absorbent foam material to cut the noise from the cooling fans. The maximum connectivity was 8 x 7561 VDU stations and four serial printers, but in the early systems it was necessary to reduce the VDU attachments if floppy disc storage was attached. The rear of the 7502 system carried the connectors for VDUs, modem and serial printers and a set of 8 "engineer's switches" which could be used to input data and set options for "teleloading" software.
7501 comprised a smaller enclosure integrated beneath a 7561 VDU terminal. It had only 5 card slots in the backplane and offered reduced connectivity with only one additional VDU terminal possible. A narrow operator's console with indicators, rotary-switch and modem control switches was implemented below the VDU screen bezel.
7501 and 7502 were functionally the same and shared identical interfaces and system software. A 4 Kbyte Read-Only Memory (ROM) in the normal address space provided a system bootstrap capable of downloading the operating software over the normal synchronous communications line, loading or dumping from/to local floppy disc or providing a local engineer's console. For diagnostic purposes an Engineer's Test Unit could be installed between the CPU card and the backplane. This gave the engineer full capability of reading and writing registers or memory and single-stepping machine code or CPU microcode. A digital cassette tape device could be used to load test or operating software.
7503 was similar to 7502 but was normally used as for Remote Job Entry. It featured a line printer, card reader and operator console integrated into a larger operators desk. It used totally different hardware and architecture for its processing system. 7503 was developed by a team in Stevenage, while 7502 was developed in Kidsgrove.
7561 VDUs were memory-mapped display monitors, and not character-based terminals. The tube phosphor was green in colour. The keyboards were sepa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Georgeff | Michael Peter Georgeff is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who has made contributions in the areas of Intelligent Software Agents and eHealth.
Georgeff is a former program director in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, and former director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute Ltd., at the University of Melbourne. Georgeff is Founder and chief executive officer of Precedence Health Care and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University.
Early life and education
Georgeff has a BSc in Physics and Mathematics from Melbourne University, Australia, a B.E. in Aeronautical Engineering from Sydney University, and a PhD from Imperial College London.
Career
While at SRI International, Georgeff was involved in the development of the Procedural Reasoning System and its application to monitor the Reaction Control System of the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery in 1997. Georgeff's work on PRS popularized the field of Intelligent agents and defined the Belief-Desire-Intention software model for programming intelligent agents. In 1988, Georgeff was invited back to Australia to start the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute which continued work developing and commercializing intelligent agent technology. While at the AAII, Georgeff started Agentis International to explore the commercialization of Intelligent agent technology.
Georgeff was instrumental in at least the following contributions to the field of Intelligent Software Agents: Procedural Reasoning System: An intelligent agent architecture and framework and seminal example of the BDI software model; and Belief-Desire-Intention software model: An intentional software framework for programming intelligent agents based on the BDI cognitive model.
In the early 2000s, Georgeff joined Monash University as director of the e-Health Research Unit of the Monash Institute of Health Services Research, to investigate the application of advanced ICT to health and medicine. Georgeff founded and is CEO of Precedence Health Care, a company dedicated to investigating the commercialization of eHealth technology.
He was the academic supervisor of Rodney Brooks (former director of the MIT Media lab, and founder of IRobot), and Christian Guttmann (global head of Artificial Intelligence and Vice President at Tieto, professor at UNSW).
References
External links
Agentis Software
DBLP: Michael P. Georgeff
Monash University e-Health Research Unit
Precedence Health Care Homepage
Artificial intelligence researchers
Australian computer scientists
Australian cognitive scientists
Living people
SRI International people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Ashton-Hart | Nick Ashton-Hart is the Geneva Representative of the Digital Trade Network (DTN) and represents the ICC United Kingdom on the UK delegation to the meetings of the International Telecommunication Union. He has served in various capacities as the representative of the technology sector to the UN and its member-state delegations in Geneva for more than a decade, including with the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA). Prior to that he was senior director for participation and engagement and director for at-large at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
He has been the lead negotiator for the 48 European member-state regional grouping in the ITU on various economic issues at ITU meetings from 2011 to the present.
Ashton-Hart has been active in international policy development and intergovernmental negotiations in various areas for more than 25 years, from trade policy as a representative of the private sector to the WTO and as an advisor to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), was a Member for the Technical Community of the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation on Public Policy Issues Pertaining to the Internet (WGEC) 2016-2018 convened by the UN General Assembly, sustainable urban development (UN Habitat II Conference, Istanbul, 1996 and preparatory conferences), Intellectual Property (WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, 2001–2014 and the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents, 2008–2014), and Internet Governance (at ICANN).
He began his business career as an artist manager for musicians, such as James Brown (in partnership with Frank "Superfrank" Copsidas at Intrigue Music LLc) and Heaven 17, and has served as a director and managing director of various organisations, including executive director of the International Music Managers Forum (IMMF), an international non-governmental organisation representing the interests of music managers and their clients. He retired from artist management in 2004.
Ashton-Hart speaks regularly on international public policy issues, especially related to trade policy, including testifying as an expert witness at the UK House of Commons, at the World Trade Organization's meetings on the digital economy and trade and development. In intellectual property policy he's spoken at events including Digital Hollywood and MusicTank, the Transatlantic Consumers Dialogue (TACD), organs of government such as the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament, and organs of the United Nations and its specialised agencies, for several years during meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization on behalf of CCIA.
References
Living people
World Intellectual Property Organization people
World Trade Organization people
1967 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20Latin%20Billboard%20Music%20Awards | Below are the winners of the 2005 Billboard Latin Music Awards. The 12th annual event was held April 28 at Florida's Miami Arena and broadcast live on the Telemundo network.
The Billboard Latin Music Awards honor the most popular albums, song, and performers in Latin music, as determined by the actual sales and radio airplay data that shapes Billboards weekly charts during a one-year period from the issue dated Feb. 14, 2004, through this year's Feb. 5 issue.
Hot Latin Track Of The Year
"Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor," Juanes (Surco/Universal Latino)
Hot Latin Track Of The Year, Vocal Duet
"Duele El Amor," Aleks Syntek With Ana Torroja (EMI Latin)
Hot Latin Tracks Artist Of The Year
Paulina Rubio (Universal Latino)
Songwriter Of The Year
Leonel Garcia
Producer Of The Year
Rudy Perez
Latin Pop Album Of The Year, Male
"Mi Sangre," Juanes (Surco/Universal Latino)
Latin Pop Album Of The Year, Female
"Pau-Latina," Paulina Rubio (Universal Latino)
Latin Pop Album Of The Year, Duo Or Group
"Fuego," A.B. Quintanilla III Presents Kumbia Kings (EMI Latin)
Latin Pop Album Of The Year, New Artist
"Si," Julieta Venegas (Ariola/BMG Latin)
Top Latin Albums Artist Of The Year
Los Temerarios (Fonovisa/UG)
Latin Rock/Alternative Album Of The Year
"Street Signs," Ozomatli (Concord Picante/Concord)
Tropical Album Of The Year, Male
"Para Ti," Juan Luis Guerra (Vene/Universal Latino)
Tropical Album Of The Year, Female
"Flor De Amor," Omara Portuondo (World Circuit/Nonesuch/Warner Bros.)
Tropical Album Of The Year, Duo or Group
"Hasta El Fin," Monchy & Alexandra (J&N/Sony Discos)
Tropical Album Of The Year, New Artist
"Recordando Los Terricolas," Michael Stevan (Fonovisa/UG)
Regional Mexican Album Of The Year, Male Solo Artist
"Mexico En La Piel," Luis Miguel (Warner Latina)
Regional Mexican Album Of The Year, Male Duo Or Group
"Za Za Za," Grupo Climax (Musart/Balboa)
Regional Mexican Album Of The Year, Female Group or Female Solo Artist
"Locos De Amor," Los Horoscopos De Durango (Procan/Disa)
Regional Mexican Album Of The Year, New Artist
"Za Za Za," Grupo Climax (Musart/Balboa)
Latin Greatest Hits Album Of The Year
"Dos Grandes," Marco Antonio Solis & Joan Sebastian (Fonovisa/UG)
Latin Compilation Album Of The Year
"Agarron Duranguense," Various Artists (Disa)
Latin Jazz Album Of The Year
"Cositas Buenas," Paco De Lucia (Blue Thumb/GRP)
Latin Dance Club Play Track Of The Year
"Not In Love/No Es Amor (Club Remixes)," Enrique Iglesias (Interscope/Universal Latino)
Latin Rap/Hip-Hop Album Of The Year
"KOMP 104.9 Radio Compa," Akwid (Univision/UG)
Publisher Of The Year
WB, ASCAP
Publishing Corporation Of The Year
Warner/Chappell Music Publishing
Latin Pop Airplay Track Of The Year, Male
"Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor," Juanes (Surco/Universal Latino)
Latin Pop Airplay Track Of The Year, Female
"Te Quise Tanto," Paulina Rubio (Universal Latino)
Latin Pop Airplay Track Of The Year, Duo or Group
"Duele El |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNJY | WNJY (89.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Netcong, New Jersey. The station is owned by New York Public Radio, and is an affiliate of their New Jersey Public Radio network.
WNYC assumed control of the stations that make up NJPR under a management agreement on July 1, 2011.
External links
NJY
Radio stations established in 2008
2008 establishments in New Jersey
NPR member stations
New York Public Radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20state%20highways%20in%20Uttar%20Pradesh | Uttar Pradesh state has two major road networks. There are 35 national highways (not listed here), with a total length of , and 83 state highways, with a total length of .
References
External links
Uttar Pradesh State Highways Authority Map
Uttar Pradesh State Highways
State Highways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20to%20coverage | Alpha to coverage is a multisampling computer graphics technique, that replaces alpha blending with a coverage mask. This achieves order-independent transparency for when anti-aliasing or semi-transparent textures are used. This particular technique is useful for situations where dense foliage or grass must be rendered in a video game.
Alpha to coverage multisampling is based on regular multisampling, except that the alpha coverage mask is ANDed with the multisample mask. Alpha-to-coverage converts the alpha component output from the pixel shader to a coverage mask. When the multisampling is applied each output fragment gets a transparency of 0 or 1 depending on alpha coverage and the multisampling result.
See also
Spatial anti-aliasing
Multisample anti-aliasing
Color depth
References
External links
GPU Gems 3 ‒ Chapter 4. Next-Generation SpeedTree Rendering
Street Fighter IV PC explained in detail
Image processing
Computer graphic artifacts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic4ppc | Basic4ppc (pronounced "Basic for PPC") is a programming language originally for Pocket PC handheld computers running Windows Mobile operating system, by Anywhere Software. Since 2014, B4x ("B for x") was renamed, and currently, 2023, supports multiple devices and their OS, including desktop and mobile solutions with development adaptions for these environments. The language is based on a BASIC-like syntax, taking advantage of Microsoft's .NET technology, to allow additional libraries, graphical user interface design of windows forms, rapid application development (RAD), and .NET framework compatible compilation. The language implements a unique way of adding objects to a program without being object-oriented. Its advantages are simplicity, development pace and the integration with .NET framework. A special version of the integrated development environment (IDE) allows developing straight onto the Windows Mobile device or. With the demise of Windows Mobile operating system and the devices running it Basic4PPC came to the end of its life in about 2012. For owners of Basic4PPC it remains a useful Windows-desktop BASIC compiler as it runs code directly in the Windows environment and it can compile a project to a Windows 'exe' file for use as a Windows program.
History (major versions)
Version 1.00 of Basic4ppc was released in 2005. It was targeted mainly for handheld devices, letting users program in a unique device IDE. Basic concepts were introduced there, such as the direct naming reference and the syntax.
Version 2.0 added major improvements with user interface, controls and optimization.
8/2006 - Version 3.0 released, improved stability, allowed stand-alone compiling for first time.
12/2006 - Version 4.0 released, introduced ability to use external libraries for first time.
5/2007 - Version 5.0 released, with fully new IDE and support for Smartphones.
12/2007 - Version 6.0 created a breakthrough, introduced optimized compiling, thus allowing far better performance on both device and desktop compiled applications.
10/2008 - Version 6.5 released, introduced modules support.
06/2009 - Version 6.8 released, with automatic support for different screen resolutions and addition of two new collections objects.
04/2010 - Version 6.9 released, added support for typed variables and subs.
2014 - currently, 2023, supports various OS, including Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, Arduino, Raspberry PI, ESP8266/ESP32.
Android
In 2010 a version for Android phones/tablets was released, this is a separate environment working along the same lines and the language is "basic" like and can be compiled to Android devices.
Language features
Dual development platform: Basic4ppc allows development straight on the handheld device via a fully compatible Device IDE. Code written on either device or desktop IDEs is identical for both platforms and operating systems. Compilation, however, must target either device or desktop, due to the difference in the operating |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Humphreys | Arthur L. C. Humphreys (1917–2003) was a managing director of International Computers Limited and a long-time member of the British computer industry.
He joined the British Tabulating Machine Company in 1940, and was involved in the negotiations with Powers-Samas that led to the formation of International Computers and Tabulators in 1958. In 1968, on the formation of ICL, he became its first Managing Director. When Geoff Cross became managing director in 1972, Humphreys was moved to the post of Deputy Chairman, where he remained until his retirement in 1983.
References
External links
Oral history interview with Arthur L. C. Humphreys, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
International Computers Limited people
1917 births
2003 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susse%20Chalet | The Susse Chalet brand was a chain of franchise hotels with all locations in the United States in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states. Hotels featured free local calls, dataports, expanded cable television, and continental breakfast. Most properties offered meeting facilities and swimming pool. The chain was sold in 2000 and the brand phased out shortly after.
History
Fred Roedel founded the chain in 1967 with the opening of the first Susse Chalet Motor Lodge in Nashua, New Hampshire. By 1975, the company, then known as Chalet Susse International, had 15 motels. Early properties were traditional two-story units with all-exterior corridors. In 1983, the company opened its first multi-story facility in Manchester, New Hampshire. This new prototype could have three to five stories with interior corridors and between 105 and 160 rooms. Later, the company introduced bedside "Command Centers" to its rooms; they were desktop devices that included alarm clock, telephone, light and climate controls of the room.
Over the years, the company sold and renovated older properties to bring them up to the same standard as more recently built properties. Susse Chalet also introduced the Grand Chalet and Susse Saver brands. Grand Chalets were larger properties, while Susse Savers mostly were older two-story locations aimed at budget travelers. The company introduced the Susse VIP reward program which featured free nights after a number of stays and extra amenities like express check-in, late check-out and continental breakfast delivered to the member's room each morning. By 2000, there were 34 Susse Chalet hotels in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states.
Sale to Olympus
On February 24, 2000, Olympus Hospitality Group acquired the New England–based 34-hotel economy lodging chain. The assets purchased by Olympus included ownership of 27 hotels flying the Susse Chalet Inns, Grand Chalet Inns and Susse Savers flags. The acquisition also included franchise and or management agreements for 7 other Chalet Susse branded properties located in New Hampshire.
In August 2000, Olympus Hospitality Group and Marriott International, Inc. entered into a franchise license agreement under which 20 of Olympus Hospitality's Susse Chalet hotels were to be converted to the Fairfield Inn by Marriott brand. The remaining properties were either converted or sold. In New Haven, Connecticut, Salem, New Hampshire and Portland, Maine, the former Susse Chalet Inns, converted to the Fairfield Inn brand, switched to the La Quinta Inn brand during the 2000s (decade).
References
External links
Roedel Companies
Hotel chains in the United States
Hospitality companies of the United States
Defunct hotel chains
Hotels established in 1967
Hotels disestablished in 2000
1967 establishments in New Hampshire
Defunct companies based in New Hampshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EvoSwitch | EvoSwitch is part of the Ocom Group, based in Amsterdam and described as Europe's largest privately owned Internet service provider.
Sites
Netherlands
The EvoSwitch data centre in the Waarderpolder (Haarlem) is known for hosting the Wikimedia Foundation's PoP that serves as web cache for traffic from Europe, as part of a €300,000 donation of in-kind support to the foundation.
Virginia
In 2012, the company announced the signing of a long-term lease to open its WDC1 data center in Manassas, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., where many other companies needing "colocation and interconnection services" are based. They expect this location to facilitate business with providers such as Verizon and Sidera Networks. They would compete to provide cloud computing and virtual services against companies including CenturyLink's Savvis, Terremark and Equinix.
The WDC1 data center was created by leasing three one-megawatt data halls from the COPT6 (PowerLoft) data center in Manassas. The PowerLoft site is located in the Innovation Technology Park of George Mason University, a 1600-acre campus whose other tenants include "the FBI Northern Virginia Resident Agency, American Type Culture Collection, Mediatech ... the GMU/NIH Biosafety Research Laboratory, the Virginia Department of Forensics Science, Comcast, [and] Zestron".
Marketing strategies
The company plans a Power Usage Effectiveness rating of 1.3, which it hopes to use as a selling point. The Haarlem data centre is advertised as carbon neutral.
Partners and competitors
In January 2014, the EvoSwitch data centre in Virginia began exchanging Internet traffic with LINX NoVA (part of London Internet Exchange).
It has an agreement with IX Reach.
References
External links
EvoSwitch
WDC1 on WikiMapia.
Companies based in Amsterdam
Haarlem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerchoonz.com | Kerchoonz was a social networking website founded in April 2005 and launched live in June 2008. Kerchoonz has been described as "A modern Record Deal" for bands and artists. Music fans have access to music for free and the bands get paid for each stream listened to via an advertising share that they receive from the site. Bands can also sell their music directly from their profile player and set the price for their own download sales. Users can create free accounts in the following categories: Fan, Artist, Record Label, DJ, Industry Pro or Writer were connected to labels, managers, publishers, venues, vendors, promotors and more. It was the first company in the world that paid musicians for downloads and streams of their music via advertising revenue and via a subscription model. Kerchoonz was a global marketplace that connected bands and artists to record labels, managers, venues, vendors and offered an online shop for bands, allowing bands to sell their digital downloads and their physical CDs, T-shirts and gear through their own social networking profile on the site as well as in K-Ching, an on-line direct sale and auction marketplace. Kerchoonz was monetized via a subscription model, advertising model and commissions on transactions within the marketplace. Regular non-artist members can also sell used and new items on K-Ching and set up a store on their Kerchoonz profile. First online digital company that paid artist for streams
Kerchoonz offered an online shop for bands, allowing bands to sell their digital downloads and their physical CDs, T-shirts and gear through their own social networking profile on the site as well as in K-Ching, an on-line direct sale and auction marketplace. Regular non-artist members can also sell used and new items on K-Ching and set up a store on their Kerchoonz profile. The company grew to 14,400,000 users in the space of two years.
The site was created as 'an alternative to piracy'.
Profile
Kerchoonz.com is a music focused website with a social networking side to it, much like Bebo or MySpace.
Powered by ISRC codes: The ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is the international identification system for sound recordings and music video recordings. Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording which can be permanently encoded into a product as its digital fingerprint. Encoded ISRC provide the means to automatically identify recordings for royalty payments. Kerchoonz uses the ISRC to track and pay for downloads and streams.
History
Founders: Indiana Gregg and Ian Morrow. The site launched in beta in June 2008 with a £250,000 ($490,000) start-up co-investment from Scottish Enterprise and the Discovery Investment fund. The company received a further £180k seed funding from the Discovery Investment Fund VCT and Scottish enterprise in February 2009. Kerchoonz was formed as an alternative to piracy.
Deals
In July 2009, Music Week and Billboard magazine announced a deal betwe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew%20computer | Homebrew computer may refer to:
Homebuilt computer
Homebrew Computer Club |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Empire-db | Apache Empire-db is a Java library that provides a high level object-oriented API for accessing relational database management systems (RDBMS) through JDBC. Apache Empire-db is open source and provided under the Apache License 2.0 from the Apache Software Foundation.
Compared to Object-relational mapping (ORM) or other data persistence solutions such as Hibernate, iBATIS or TopLink Empire-db does not use XML files or Java annotations to provide a mapping of plain (old) Java object (POJO's) to database tables, views and columns. Instead Empire-db uses a Java object model to describe the underlying data model and an API that works almost solely with object references rather than string literals.
Empire-db's aim is to provide better software quality and improved maintainability through increased compile-time safety and reduced redundancy of metadata. Additionally applications may benefit from better performance due to full control over SQL statements and their execution by the developer compared to most OR-mapping solutions.
Major benefits
Empire-db's key strength is its API for dynamic SQL generation for arbitrary select, update, insert or delete statements, purely by using Java methods which reference the model objects. This provides type-safety and almost entirely eliminates the use of string literals for names or expressions in code. Additionally DBMS independence is achieved through a pluggable driver model.
Using references to table and column objects significantly improves compile-time safety and thus reduces the amount of testing. As a positive side effect the IDE's code completion can be used to browse the data model, increases productivity and eliminates the need for other external tools or IDE-plugins.
Further the object model also provides safe and easy access to meta-information of the data model such as field data type, maximum field length, whether a field is mandatory and a finite choice of options for a field's values. Metadata is user-extensible and not limited to DBMS related metadata. Availability of meta-information encourages more generic code and eliminates redundancies throughout application layers.
Features at a glance
Data model definition through a Java object model omits the need to learn XML schemas or annotations and easily allows user interceptions and extensions.
Portable RDBMS independent record handling and command definition with support for a variety of relational databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Derby, H2 and HSQLDB (as of version 2.0.5)
DDL generation for target DBMS from object definition, either for the entire database or for individual objects such as tables, views, columns and relations.
Type-safe API for dynamic SQL command generation allows dynamic building of SQL statements using API methods and object references only instead of string literals. This provides a high degree of type-safety which simplifies testing and maintenance.
Reduced amount of Java code and powerful i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20Fischer | Michael John Fischer (born 1942) is an American computer scientist who works in the fields of distributed computing, parallel computing, cryptography, algorithms and data structures, and computational complexity.
Career
Fischer was born in 1942 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He received his BSc degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1963. Fischer did his MA and PhD studies in applied mathematics at Harvard University; he received his MA degree in 1965 and PhD in 1968. Fischer's PhD supervisor at Harvard was Sheila Greibach.
After receiving his PhD, Fischer was an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1968–1969, an assistant professor of mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1969–1973, and an associate professor of electrical engineering at MIT in 1973–1975. At MIT he supervised doctoral students who became prominent computer scientists, including David S. Johnson, Frances Yao, and Michael Hammer.
In 1975, Fischer was nominated as a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. Since 1981, he has been a professor of computer science at Yale University, where his students included Rebecca N. Wright. Fischer served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM in 1982–1986. He was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1996.
Work
Distributed computing
Fischer's 1985 work with Nancy A. Lynch and Michael S. Paterson on consensus problems received the PODC Influential-Paper Award in 2001. Their work showed that in an asynchronous distributed system, consensus is impossible if there is one processor that crashes. Jennifer Welch writes that “This result has had a monumental impact in distributed computing, both theory and practice. Systems designers were motivated to clarify their claims concerning under what circumstances the systems work.”
Fischer was the program chairman of the first Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) in 1982; nowadays, PODC is the leading conference in the field. In 2003, the distributed computing community honoured Fischer's 60th birthday by organising a lecture series during the 22nd PODC, with Leslie Lamport, Nancy Lynch, Albert R. Meyer, and Rebecca Wright as speakers.
Parallel computing
In 1980, Fischer and Richard E. Ladner presented a parallel algorithm for computing prefix sums efficiently. They show how to construct a circuit that computes the prefix sums; in the circuit, each node performs an addition of two numbers. With their construction, one can choose a trade-off between the circuit depth and the number of nodes. However, the same circuit designs were already studied much earlier by Soviet mathematicians.
Algorithms and computational complexity
Fischer has done multifaceted work in theoretical computer science in general. Fischer's early work, including his PhD thesis, focused on parsing and formal grammars. One of Fischer's most-cited works deals with string mat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 39th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 20, 1987. The ceremony was broadcast on Fox for the first time, as the network premiered a year earlier from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California.
For the second straight year, The Golden Girls won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. The winner for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series was L.A. Law, which, for its first season, won four major awards, and led all shows, with 13 major nominations. The winner for Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special, Promise, set a new record, with five major wins. This record still stands for TV movies, though it was tied by Temple Grandin in 2010. The Tracey Ullman Show received three major nominations on the night, making it the first ceremony in which the network Fox received a major nomination. This was the only time that Hill Street Blues wasn't nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, in its seventh and last season; also, no males actors of Hill Street Blues were nominated (even with 20 previous nominations). Only Betty Thomas for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series was nominated, and did not win, making her the only one in the cast to be nominated in all seasons.
NBC continued its dominance of the field, becoming the first network to gain over eighty major nominations (82). Its résumé was highlighted by gaining all five nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series. This had been done only once before (in 1977, but with a field of only four shows), and has not been matched in either field since.
Winners and nominees
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Guest performances
Individual performances
Directing
Writing
Most major nominations
Most major awards
Notes
References
External links
Emmys.com list of 1987 Nominees & Winners
039
1987 television awards
1987 in California
September 1987 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20mobile%20radio | Digital mobile radio (DMR) is a digital radio standard for voice and data transmission in non-public radio networks. It was created by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and is designed to be low-cost and easy to use. DMR, along with P25 phase II and NXDN are the main competitor technologies in achieving 6.25 kHz equivalent bandwidth using the proprietary AMBE+2 vocoder. DMR and P25 II both use two-slot TDMA in a 12.5 kHz channel, while NXDN uses discrete 6.25 kHz channels using frequency division and TETRA uses a four-slot TDMA in a 25 kHz channel.
DMR was designed with three tiers. DMR tiers I and II (conventional) were first published in 2005, and DMR III (Trunked version) was published in 2012, with manufacturers producing products within a few years of each publication.
The primary goal of the standard is to specify a digital system with low complexity, low cost and interoperability across brands, so radio communications purchasers are not locked into a proprietary solution. In practice, given the current limited scope of the DMR standard, many vendors have introduced proprietary features that make their product offerings non-interoperable with other brands.
Specifications
The DMR interface is defined by the following ETSI standards:
TS 102 361-1: Air interface protocol
TS 102 361-2: Voice and General services and facilities
TS 102 361-3: Data protocol
TS 102 361-4: Trunking protocol
The DMR standard operates within the existing 12.5 kHz channel spacing used in land mobile frequency bands globally, but achieves two voice channels through two-slot TDMA technology built around a 30 ms structure. The modulation is 4-state FSK, which creates four possible symbols over the air at a rate of 4,800 symbols/s, corresponding to 9,600 bit/s. After overhead, forward error correction, and splitting into two channels, there is 2,450 bit/s left for a single voice channel using DMR, compared to 4,400 bit/s using P25 and 64,000 bit/s with traditional telephone circuits.
The standards are still (as of late 2015) under development with revisions being made regularly as more systems are deployed and improvements are discovered. It is very likely that further refinements will be made to the standard, which will necessitate firmware upgrades to terminals and infrastructure in the future to take advantage of these new improvements, with potential incompatibility issues arising if this is not done.
DMR covers the RF range 30 MHz to 1 GHz.
There are DMR implementations, (as of early 2016), that operate as low as 66 MHz (within the European Union, in 'Lo-Band VHF' 66–88 MHz.)
The DMR Association and manufacturers often claim that DMR has superior coverage performance to analogue FM. Forward error correction can achieve a higher quality of voice when the receive signal is still relatively high. In practice, however, digital modulation protocols are much more susceptible to multipath interference and fail to provide service in area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprocessing%20monitor | A teleprocessing monitor (also, Transaction Processing Monitor or TP Monitor) is a control program that monitors the transfer of data between multiple local and remote terminals to ensure that the transaction processes completely or, if an error occurs, to take appropriate actions.
The term is frequently used in mainframe-based wide area networks, where TP monitors manage the transfer of data between several clients making requests to a server. TP monitors will control and manage the data smoothly to available servers by detecting hardware failures and switching to another node.
Teleprocessing monitors were originally developed to allow several clients to connect to one server. However, they developed to what are now known as transaction processing monitors (TPMs). A TPM breaks down applications or code into transactions and ensures that all databases are updated in a single transaction. This is useful for airline reservations, car rentals, hotel accommodations, ATM transactions or other high volume transaction locations. TP monitors ensure that transactions are not lost or destroyed. Sometimes they are referred to as middleware, because the client sends the data for query or processing to the server database and then it is sent back to the user terminal. This can be accomplished remotely and by multiple users simultaneously. TP monitors are easily scalable allowing for increase in users and data processed.
Examples include the CICS (Customer Information Control System) for IBM mainframes introduced in July 1969, which can process thousands of transactions per second; IBM Information Management System (IMS, more specifically its IMS TM, also known as IMS DC, component); ACMS (Application Control Management System) for OpenVMS; UNIVAC TIP; Transarc Encina and Oracle Tuxedo are major TP monitors in the Unix client/server environment.
See also
Transaction processing system
Transaction processing
References
External links
Puntti, Tanya. (2007). “Database Application Development”. TP Monitors in large database systems.
Transaction processing
Wide area networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuleae | Inuleae is a tribe of flowering plants in the subfamily Asteroideae.
Genera
Inuleae genera recognized by the Global Compositae Database as of April 2022:
Adelostigma
Allagopappus
Allopterigeron
Amblyocarpum
Antiphiona
Anvillea
Asteriscus
Blumea
Blumeopsis
Buphthalmum
Caesulia
Calostephane
Carpesium
Chiliadenus
Chrysophthalmum
Coleocoma
Cratystylis
Cyathocline
Cylindrocline
Delamerea
Dittrichia
Doellia
Duhaldea
Epaltes
Feddea
Geigeria
Ighermia
Inula
Iphiona
Iphionopsis
Jasonia
Karelinia
Laggera
Lifago
Limbarda
Litogyne
Merrittia
Monarrhenus
Musilia
Nanothamnus
Neojeffreya
Nicolasia
Ondetia
Pallenis
Pechuel-loeschea
Pegolettia
Pentanema
Perralderia
Pluchea
Porphyrostemma
Pseudoblepharispermum
Pseudoconyza
Pterocaulon
Pulicaria
Rhanteriopsis
Rhanterium
Rhodogeron
Sachsia
Schizogyne
Sphaeranthus
Stenachaenium
Streptoglossa
Telekia
Tessaria
Thespidium
Triplocephalum
Varthemia
Vieraea
References
Asteraceae tribes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHCU | KHCU may refer to:
KHCU (FM), a radio station (93.1 FM) licensed to serve Concan, Texas, United States
Kyung Hee Cyber University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Association%20of%20Directory%20and%20Database%20Publishers | The European Association of Directory and Database Publishers, known as EADP, was founded in 1966. EADP is the key representative for the European directory and database publishing sector. As such, EADP has 180 members from 36 countries and represents the interests of some 340 directory publishers. The associations members and affiliate members include publishers and stakeholders from the industry such as suppliers and vendors. It is based in Brussels.
EADP's activities include:
Maintaining an up-to-date member directory
Facilitating an annual congress and a separate annual conference
Monitoring EU legal activities of relevance to the industry
Compiling an annual statistical report and benchmarking studies
The North American counterpart to the EADP is the Yellow Pages Association (YPA).
References
External links
YPA web-site
EADP web-site
Trade associations based in Belgium
Directories
Organizations established in 1966 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBUB | KBUB (90.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country gospel music format. Licensed to Brownwood, Texas, United States, the station is currently owned by Blm of Brownwood and features programming from Salem Communications.
History
On December 23, 2005, the station was sold to Living Word Church Of Brownwood and on March 27, 2008, the station was sold to BLM of Brownwood.
References
External links
BUB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection%20%28user%20interface%29 | In computing and user interface engineering, a selection is a list of items on which user operations will take place. The user typically adds items to the list manually, although the computer may create a selection automatically.
Selections are enacted through combinations of key presses on a keyboard, with a precision pointing device (mouse or touchpad and cursor, stylus), or by hand on a touchscreen device. The simultaneous selection of a group of items (either a subset of elements in a list, or discontinuous regions in a text) is called a multiple selection.
Context menus will usually include actions related to the objects included in the current selection - the selection provides the "context" for the menu.
Types
Uses
Text selection is associated with the cut, copy and paste operations and done with a cursor, caret navigation or touch.
Image editing applications can feature specialized graphical tools for the selection and modification of areas and shapes or to interact with colours, such as the magic wand selection tool, the lasso selection tool, the marquee selection (bounding box), or the color picker. The border of a selected area in an image is often animated with the marching ants effect to help the user to distinguish the selection border from the image background.
Video editing programs may utilise dynamic controls and advanced digital effects on the selected region.
Files and other interface components can be selected and used with the advent of GUIs.
Selection and manipulation in 3D virtual environments
Range selection
A variation to facilitate the selection of a range of items in a long list on touch screen devices is range selection, sparing the user from tapping each item individually.
It is implemented since early versions of ES File Explorer, where only two listed items (file or directory) need to be highlighted to select all in-between, in resemblance to the shift key selection of desktop file managers such as Windows Explorer and Nemo file manager.
Ideally, the two list items are navigated to with a draggable scroll bar.
Simultaneous editing
Simultaneous editing is a technique in End-user development research to edit all items in a multiple selection. It allows the user to manipulate all the selected items at once through direct manipulation. The technique also appears in data wrangling tools, allowing the user to make the same changes to several records of the same kind in a table.
The term simultaneous editing is also used to describe collaborative editing in collaborative real-time editors.
Column selection
A column selection is a text selection feature found in text editors which allows the user to select characters in a grid-like fashion, selecting characters in several lines at the same columns. This is usually initiated by pressing the alt key (instead of the shift key, which creates a continuous selection) to select text when dragging. Some applications also enable text to be typed in multiple li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Association%20for%20Computer-Assisted%20Language%20Learning | EUROCALL, full name the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning, is a not-for-profit educational association devoted to the promotion of the use of information and communications technology in teaching and learning foreign languages: v. Davies G. (2004).
History
EUROCALL was set up by a small group of enthusiasts in 1986, and in 1993 it was launched as an official association with the aid of European Commission funding, with Graham Davies as its Founder President (1993-2000).
Conferences
A EUROCALL conference is held in August/September annually in a European country. Since 2006 the annual EUROCALL conference has included an online Virtual Strand for participants who are unable to attend the conference in person. Since 2012, the EUROCALL proceedings have been published in Open access by Research-publishing.net.
Publications
The main publication of EUROCALL is ReCALL, which is a refereed journal published three times a year by Cambridge University Press. The online EUROCALL Review also appears at regular intervals.
Administration
The administrative headquarters of EUROCALL moved from the University of Limerick to the University of Ulster in July 2010. The current President of EUROCALL is Mirjam Hauck, The Open University. The President is supported by an elected Executive Committee.
Second Life
EUROCALL shares a virtual headquarters with CALICO in Second Life.
Annual awards
EUROCALL offers the following annual awards:
A Research Award that aims to encourage newcomers to research in the field of computer-assisted and technology-enhanced language learning by providing an opportunity to submit an original article for publication in the ReCALL journal.
The János Kohn Scholarship, which commemorates and celebrates the life and work of János Kohn, a highly valued and respected EUROCALL colleague who died in March 1999. The annual scholarship enables a young teacher or researcher permanently based in a Central European member state to participate in a EUROCALL conference by providing funding towards the cost of attendance.
Membership and affiliations
A total of 19 European states maintain national EUROCALL websites. A total of over 30 countries worldwide are represented in EUROCALL's membership.
EUROCALL is affiliated with its sister associations CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) and IALLT (International Association for Language Learning Technology) in the USA.
EUROCALL is also a member of WorldCALL.
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
EUROCALL currently has five Special Interest Groups:
Computer Mediated Communication (CMC SIG)
CorpusCALL
EUROCALL/CALICO joint virtual worlds and serious games
Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL SIG)
Intelligent CALL (ICALL SIG)
CALL Teacher Education SIG
Graduate SIG
References
External links
CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium)
EUROCALL main website
IALLT (International Association for Language Learning Technology)
See also
C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective%20operation | Collective operations are building blocks for interaction patterns, that are often used in SPMD algorithms in the parallel programming context. Hence, there is an interest in efficient realizations of these operations.
A realization of the collective operations is provided by the Message Passing Interface (MPI).
Definitions
In all asymptotic runtime functions, we denote the latency , the communication cost per word , the number of processing units and the input size per node . In cases where we have initial messages on more than one node we assume that all local messages are of the same size. To address individual processing units we use .
If we do not have an equal distribution, i.e. node has a message of size , we get an upper bound for the runtime by setting .
A distributed memory model is assumed. The concepts are similar for the shared memory model. However, shared memory systems can provide hardware support for some operations like broadcast () for example, which allows convenient concurrent read. Thus, new algorithmic possibilities can become available.
Broadcast
The broadcast pattern is used to distribute data from one processing unit to all processing units, which is often needed in SPMD parallel programs to dispense input or global values. Broadcast can be interpreted as an inverse version of the reduce pattern (). Initially only root with stores message . During broadcast is sent to the remaining processing units, so that eventually is available to all processing units.
Since an implementation by means of a sequential for-loop with iterations becomes a bottleneck, divide-and-conquer approaches are common. One possibility is to utilize a binomial tree structure with the requirement that has to be a power of two. When a processing unit is responsible for sending to processing units , it sends to processing unit and delegates responsibility for the processing units to it, while its own responsibility is cut down to .
Binomial trees have a problem with long messages . The receiving unit of can only propagate the message to other units, after it received the whole message. In the meantime, the communication network is not utilized. Therefore pipelining on binary trees is used, where is split into an array of packets of size . The packets are then broadcast one after another, so that data is distributed fast in the communication network.
Pipelined broadcast on balanced binary tree is possible in .
Reduce
The reduce pattern is used to collect data or partial results from different processing units and to combine them into a global result by a chosen operator. Given processing units, message is on processing unit initially. All are aggregated by and the result is eventually stored on . The reduction operator must be associative at least. Some algorithms require a commutative operator with a neutral element. Operators like , , are common.
Implementation considerations are similar to broadcast (). For pipe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20LGBT%20Network | The Russian LGBT Network () is a non-governmental LGBT rights organization working for the social acceptance of and protection of the rights of LGBT people in Russia. Founded in 2006, it was reformed into the first (and only) Russian inter-regional LGBT rights organization on October 19, 2008. The organization is a member of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) and is led by Russian LGBT rights activist Igor Kochetkov.
Goals
The network was created to rally public support for the elimination of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, to spread the idea of tolerance in Russian society and to help LGBT people lead public lives.
Structure
The network is governed by a conference, which meets at least once a year. Between conferences, the network is managed by a council headed by a chairperson; both are elected by the conference. The network has 14 regional branches:
Saint Petersburg
Petrozavodsk
Pskov
Arkhangelsk
Volgograd
Kazan
Naberezhnye Chelny
Perm
Samara
Tyumen
Omsk
Tomsk
Kemerovo
Novosibirsk
Crimea
Two offices, in Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk, were closed at the beginning of 2010. In addition, the network has 11 LGBT organizations:
Exit LGBT Organization (St. Petersburg)
LesbiPARTYya (St. Petersburg)
Serving Nuntiare et Recreare (LGBT Christians) (St. Petersburg)
Perspective (Arkhangelsk)
Ural-Positive (Ekaterinburg)
Anti-Dogma Info (Chelyabinsk)
League (Volgograd)
Human Rights Center of Krasnoyarsk
The Walls Need to Talk (SDG) (Krasnoyarsk)
Karelia Circle (Petrozavodsk)
Rainbow House (Tyumen)
Activities
The network offers organizational support and guidance to psychologists, lawyers and other professionals working with the LGBT community, activist groups and local human rights and LGBT rights organizations. With other human rights organizations like Memorial, it seeks recognition for members of the LGBT community who suffered criminal persecution in USSR as victims of political repression.
2009
2009 was declared the Memorial Year for Gay and Lesbian Victims of Political Repression, in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the criminalization of homosexuality.
At a February 2009 Moscow press conference the Russian LGBT Network and the Moscow Helsinki Group released a paper entitled "The Situation for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgendered People in the Russian Federation", the first in-depth study of the legal position of LGBT people in Russian history. The 100-page paper analyzes relevant Russian laws, citing specific examples of rights infringement and discrimination.
From March 23 to March 29, 2009 the network sponsored the third Week Against Homophobia in Russia, with roundtables, films, demonstrations and performances in Arkhangelsk, Kemerovo, Tomsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Novosibirsk, Petrozavodsk, Tyumen, Rostov-na-Donu, Chelyabinsk and Saint Petersburg. There is also an "Assistance manual for those who suffered from discrimination or ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurothallis%20cordata | Pleurothallis cordata is a species of orchid occurring from western South America to Venezuela.
cordata
Orchids of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20J%20Hottest%20100%20of%20All%20Time%2C%202009 | The Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time was a music poll conducted in 2009 amongst listeners of Australian youth radio network Triple J. Over half a million votes were compiled, with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" collecting the highest number of votes. Voters could submit a list of up to ten different songs as well as nominating one of these as their "all-time" favourite song. It was the fifth such poll organised by Triple J, following similar polls in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1998. Initially, all songs were eligible for the annual Triple J Hottest 100. However, from 1993 onward (after having no list in 1992), only songs released in the previous year were permitted. Thus, the Hottest 100 of All Time is conducted via a separate vote, held irregularly to reflect listeners' favourite songs across all eras. The 2009 list was designed to reflect the twentieth anniversary of the Hottest 100's inception. The Triple J Hottest 100 of all time was broadcast over two nights on ABC TV's music show Rage. However, certain songs were omitted from the broadcast because they were never made into music videos.
Full list
Bold: Previous winner of a standard Hottest 100
Green background: Australian artists
Artists with multiple entries
Five Tracks
Dave Grohl (1, 40, 74 with Nirvana, 9 with Foo Fighters and 45 with Queens of the Stone Age)
Four Tracks
Jeff Buckley (3, 7, 56, 69)
John Lennon (24, 44, 86 with The Beatles, 11 as a solo artist)
Radiohead (5, 13, 15, 28)
Three Tracks
Nirvana (1, 40, 74)
The Beatles (24, 44, 86)
The Smashing Pumpkins (35, 51, 78)
Two Tracks
AC/DC (63, 91)
Daft Punk (58, 96)
Led Zeppelin (10, 98)
Massive Attack (22, 93)
Metallica (19, 31)
Michael Jackson (26, 41)
Pearl Jam (25, 39)
Pink Floyd (16, 53)
Powderfinger (21, 27)
Rage Against the Machine (2, 89)
The Rolling Stones (80, 88)
Tool (37, 57)
Trivia
News of Michael Jackson's death surfaced during the final week of voting. Triple J announcers pointed out that both "Thriller" and "Billie Jean" were already polling enough votes to feature in the top 100, but that the final week of voting pushed both songs further up the list.
This is the first Hottest 100 Of All Time where The Cure did not achieve more than one track.
This is the first Hottest 100 Of All Time where R.E.M. did not achieve any tracks. In all other years, they had achieved at least two.
Only one vote separated No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age from Hey Jude by The Beatles.
Radiohead swapped the #5 and #13 positions they had held in the 1998 all time countdown with "Creep" and "Paranoid Android".
Franz Ferdinand is the second band behind Powderfinger to come 1st and 100th in a Hottest 100. Take Me Out is also the first song in the Hottest 100 to have reached both ends of the countdown.
This is the first Of All Time countdown to not feature any songs from the year of the countdown.
This countdown also is the first to not feature any Australian artists in the Top 10.
It was announced at the beginning of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool%20of%20Radiance%20%28novel%29 | Pool of Radiance is a novel based on the Pool of Radiance computer role-playing game. It was written by James Ward and Jane Cooper Hong, and published by TSR in November 1989. The novel is set in the Forgotten Realms setting based on the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. This book was the first in a trilogy, followed by Pools of Darkness and Pool of Twilight.
Plot summary
Dragon described the novel's plot: "Five companions find themselves in the unenviable position of defending the soon-to-be ghost town against a rival possessing incredible power."
Three companions, Shal Bal of Cormyr, Tarl Desanea, a cleric of Tyr, and Ren o' the Blade are brought together in Phlan by circumstance and encounter various threats as they work to purge the city of civilized Phlan, the restored part of the destroyed city of Old Phlan, culminating in a faceoff with the Lord of the Ruins, Tyranthraxus.
Reception
In the Io9 series revisiting older Dungeons & Dragons novels, Rob Bricken commented that "frankly, I'm unsurprised that Pool of [Radiance] rolls a straightforward 4—no bonuses, no penalties, just a simple, unquestionable failure."
References
1989 novels
Fantasy novels
Forgotten Realms novels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310%20Ukrainian%20Cup | The 2009–10 Ukrainian Cup was the 19th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition, currently known as DATAGROUP – Football Ukraine Cup or Kubok of Ukraine.
The Cup began with the preliminary round where teams from Druha Liha and Amateur Cup champions participate. In the Second Preliminary Round teams from Persha Liha are drawn into the competition and then in the Round of 32 teams from the Premier League enter the competition.
Tavriya Simferopol defeated Metalurh Donetsk 3–2 in the Cup Final and are Ukraine's Cup Winner representative in the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League 2010–11.
Team allocation
Fifty two teams entered the competition
Distribution
Round and draw dates
All draws held at FFU headquarters (Building of Football) in Kyiv unless stated otherwise.
Bye berth
The bye berth appeared because of a small technicality in the pre-season berth allocation. Originally FC Ihroservice Simferopol to the last moment was considered as a member of the 2009–10 First League, yet it was given a condition to provide financial guarantees with the suspense time on July 8, 2009 (2pm LST). With the already ongoing Ukrainian Cup competition that was drawn on July 7, 2009 (just a day ahead), the Crimean club failed to satisfy that condition. The Professional Football League of Ukraine withdrew the club from all its competitions and arranged additional play-off between the second placed teams of the 2008-09 Ukrainian Second League (Arsenal – Poltava). After winning the play-off on July 12, 2009, FC Arsenal Bila Tserkva became a member of the 2009-10 Ukrainian First League, yet the berth assigned to Ihroservice was preserved as bye which was given to FC Kharkiv during the draw on July 22, 2009.
Competition schedule
First Preliminary Round (1/64)
In this round entered 17 teams from Druha Liha and winners of the Ukrainian Amateur Cup. The draw for the First Preliminary Round was held on July 7, 2009. The matches were played July 18, 2009.
Notes:
Qualify as Amateur Cup Champions of Ukraine 2008
Match not played due to bus accident involving Dynamo Khmelnytsky with several key players receiving serious injuries. PFL withdraws Dynamo from the Cup competition.
Originally drawn in this round, Yednist Plysky advanced into the next round due to FC Titan Donetsk withdrawal from the Professional ranks.
Technical 3–0 victory awarded to FC Morshyn. Olimpik Donetsk refused to travel, explaining that its staff had to arrange Euro U-19 2009. The PFL fined Olimpik Donetsk 15,000 hryvni for not arriving for the scheduled match.
Second Preliminary Round (1/32)
In this round entered all 18 teams from Persha Liha. They were drawn against the 9 winners of the First Preliminary Round. The draw for the Second Preliminary Round took place July 22, 2009.
The matches were played August 5, 2009, unless otherwise noted.
Notes:
FC Kharkiv advances into the next round due to Ihroservice Simferopol withdrawal from the professional ranks.
The ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Older%20Americans%20Act | The Older Americans Act of 1965 (, ) was the first federal level initiative aimed at providing comprehensive services for older adults. It created the National Aging Network comprising the Administration on Aging on the federal level, State Units on Aging at the state level, and Area Agencies on Aging at the local level. The network provides funding—based primarily on the percentage of an area's population 60 and older—for nutrition and supportive home and community-based services, disease prevention/health promotion services, elder rights programs, the National Family Caregiver Support Program, and the Native American Caregiver Support Program.
The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 14, 1965.
In 2016, Congress reauthorized the Act in its entirety, effective through FY 2019. In March 2020, the Act was reauthorized through 2024.
Overview
The OAA was passed as a part of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society reforms. It followed closely behind the Civil Rights Act and the Economic Opportunity Act which included many similarly structured programs, based around a centralized network of funding for a decentralized (community level) service delivery system. The OAA was a response to Congressional concerns about the lack of community social services for senior citizens.
Funding for many Great Society programs as well as Johnson’s political capital, dwindled during the Vietnam War. Some programs and agencies were dismantled by later administrations, such as Nixon’s and Ford’s slow dissolution of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Other programs, such as those under the OAA, Medicare, Medicaid, and initiatives in the arts and humanities continue to survive.
The stated purpose of the OAA is to ensure equal opportunity to the fair and free enjoyment of: adequate income in retirement; the best possible physical and mental health services without regard to economic status; suitable housing; restorative and long term care; opportunity for employment; retirement in health, honor, and dignity; civic, cultural, educational and recreational participation and contribution; efficient community services; immediate benefit from proven research knowledge; freedom, independence, and the exercise of self-determination; and protection against abuse neglect and exploitation.
Legislative process
Representative John E. Fogarty (D-RI) introduced legislation on January 27, 1965, as H.R. 3708. The bill moved through the House and was referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor in March 1965. It passed the House on March 31 on a 395 to 1 roll call vote. The bill established an Administration on Aging (AoA) within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW).
In the Senate, H.R.3708 was introduced by Lister Hill (D-AL). On June 16, the Senate passed H.R. 3708 by a roll call vote of 72 to 5. On July 6, 1965, the House agreed to the Senate’s version of H.R. 3708.
Structure
The act is divided into seven titles.
Title I is a declara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai%20Eye%20103.8 | Dubai Eye is a Dubai-based talk radio station owned by Arabian Radio Network, which provides business, news, current affairs, sports, entertainment and special interest programming for a cross-cultural audience.
Presenters
Shows
Weekdays
6-10am The Business Breakfast with Brandy Scott, Richard Dean, & Tom Urquhart
6-10am Dubai Eye on One (simulcast on Dubai One)
10-1pm The Agenda with Georgia Tolley
1-2pm Entertainment Extra
2-5pm Afternoons with Helen Farmer
5-8pm Off Script with Chris McHardy, Robbie Greenfield & Sonal Rupani
8-11pm Nightshift with Mark Lloyd
Saturdays
4-7pm Extra Time at the Weekend
Presenters
Brandy Scott
Richard Dean
Tom Urquhart
Helen Farmer
Mark Lloyd
Chris McHardy
Robbie Greenfield
Sonal Rupani
Awards
Business Breakfast, winner of the International Radio Conference Breakfast Show of the Year, 2006/2007.
See also
Radio and television channels of Dubai
References
External links
Dubai Eye 103.8 (official website)
Radio stations in the United Arab Emirates
Mass media in Dubai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata%20Docomo | Tata Docomo was an Indian mobile network operator, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Teleservices deriving its name from NTT Docomo who invested in the company in 2008. In October 2017, Bharti Airtel announced a merger deal with Tata Teleservices and the acquisition of Tata Docomo. As of 21 July 2019, all Tata Docomo users are merged with Airtel network and provided with all the Airtel services.
The consumer mobile businesses of Tata Docomo, Tata Teleservices (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Limited (TTML) have been merged into Bharti Airtel from 1 July 2019.
History
Tata Docomo was part of the Indian conglomerate Tata Group. The company received the licence to operate GSM services in nineteen telecom circles and was allotted spectrum in eighteen of these circles and launched GSM services on 24 June 2009. It began operations first in South India and currently operates GSM services in eighteen of twenty two telecom circles. It has licences to operate in Delhi but has not been allocated spectrum from the Government. Docomo provides services throughout India. Tata Docomo offers both prepaid and postpaid Mobile Phone services. It has become very popular with its one-second pulse, especially in semi-urban and rural areas.
In November 2008, NTT Docomo invested in Tata Teleservices, at a share for a 26.5% stake in the latter. Docomo, TTSL and Tata Sons had in March 2009 signed shareholder agreement for the business alliance. In March 2009, Docomo acquired a 27.31% in Tata Teleservices for Rs 12,924 crore and 20.25% in Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd, the listed arm of TTSL, for 949 crore. Overall, Docomo holds 26.5% in Tata Teleservices.
On 5 November 2010, Tata Docomo became the first private sector telecom company to launch 3G services in India. Tata Docomo had about 49 million users at the end of March 2017.
In April 2011, Tata Docomo signed Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor as its brand ambassador on a three-year contract, now the contract is expired. For the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, actors Vijay and Ram Charan are the brand ambassadors respectively.
In October 2017, Bharti Airtel announced its acquisition of Tata Docomo having roughly 17 million subscribers.
Rebranding & Reformation
On 20 October 2011, the Tata Group brought its brands – Indicom (CDMA), Walky (Fixed Wireless Phone), Photon INTERNET – under the Tata Docomo brand. All subscribers to these services were transited to the Tata Docomo's network on 20 October 2011. In 2015, Virgin Mobile India company was merged with Tata Docomo. T24 Mobile company was merged with Tata Docomo on 15 August 2018. All operations around these companies across India had merged into Tata Docomo's entity to form second largest CDMA and GSM network in India.
NTT Docomo Exit
According to the agreement between the Tata Group and NTT Docomo, the latter had the right to sell its stake if Tata Docomo missed performance targets, with Tata getting right of the first refusal. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Center%20for%20Effective%20Philanthropy | The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization focused on the development of comparative data to enable higher-performing philanthropic funders.
CEP's mission is to provide data so that philanthropic funders can improve their effectiveness. CEP believes that improved effectiveness of philanthropic funders can have a positive impact on nonprofit organizations and the people and communities they serve.
CEP pursues its mission through data collection that fuels:
Research that looks into questions facing funders and their leaders. Drawing from comparative data, its objective is to provide funders with insights that they can apply to their work.
Assessment Tools that are rooted in research and allow individual funders to gauge their performance. CEP offers tools that provide data for foundation leaders to optimize their organization's performance.
Programming and Communications feeding CEP efforts to build leaders who can maximize the impact of philanthropic institutions.
History
CEP received initial funding in 2001, produced its first publication in 2002, and conducted its first Grantee Perception Reports and Applicant Perception Reports in 2003. Since then, CEP has produced 34 research reports on foundation performance assessment, foundation strategy, foundation governance, and foundation-grantee relationships. More than 285 foundations, most among the largest in the United States, have used CEP's assessment tools, and many have implemented significant changes on the basis of what they have learned.
CEP has created data sets relevant to foundation leaders, surveying foundations' staffs, boards, grantees, stakeholders, donors, and even beneficiaries and applicants. CEP hosts programming focused on issues related to funder effectiveness.
CEP's work was reported on in a 2004 article in The New York Times, "Charities Surprise Donor Foundations with Bluntness" and The Chronicle of Philanthropy profiled CEP in their 2005 article "Giving Charities a Voice". In June 2009, The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlighted CEP's work with the Gates Foundation developing a survey for students attending Gates-funded high schools
CEP has a staff of 36 and has offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and San Francisco, California, United States.
Research
CEP's research projects delve into issues of funder effectiveness, examining common practice, and challenging conventional wisdom.
Publications
Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff (July 2013)
Foundation Transparency: What Nonprofits Want (May 2013)
Employee Empowerment: The Key to Foundation Staff Satisfaction (December 2012)
Room for Improvement: Foundations' Support of Nonprofit Performance Assessment (September 2012)
Grantees' Limited Engagement With Foundations' Social Media (July 2012)
The State of Foundation Performance Assessment: A Survey of Foundation CEOs (September 2011)
Rhetoric versus Reality: A Strategic Disconnect at Commu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable%20architecture | An Executable Architecture (EA), in general, is the description of a system architecture (including software and/or otherwise) in a formal notation together with the tools (e.g. compilers/translators) that allow the automatic or semi-automatic generation of artifacts (e.g. capability gap analysis (CGA), models, software stubs, Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL)) from that notation and which are used in the analysis, refinement, and/or the implementation of the architecture described.
Closely related subjects
Subjects closely related to EA include:
Object Management Group's Model-driven architecture
Object Management Group's Business Process Management Initiative
Vanderbilt University's Model Integrated Computing (MIC)
Implementations
Implementations of EA include:
Rational Rose
Generic Modeling Environment (GME)
Open-Source eGov Reference Architecture (OSERA)
See also
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI)
Business Process Modeling Language (BPML)
Executable Operational Architecture
Model-driven architecture (MDA)
Model-driven engineering (MDE)
Object Management Group (OMG)
Semantic Web
Unified Process
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Vanderbilt University
References
External links
Model Integrated Computing (MIC) Website
OSERA's Website
Executable Architecture of Software-Defined Enterprises
Systems engineering
Military acquisition
Military simulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scot%20Gresham-Lancaster | Scot Gresham-Lancaster (born 1954 in Redwood City, California) is an American composer, performer, instrument builder, educator and educational technology specialist. He uses computer networks to create new environments for musical and cross discipline expression. As a member of The Hub, he is one of the early pioneers of "computer network" music, which uses the behavior of interconnected music machines to create innovative ways for performers and computers to interact. He performed in a series of "co-located" performances, collaborating in real time with live and distant dancers, video artists and musicians in network-based performances.
As a student, he studied with Philip Ianni, Roy Harris, Darius Milhaud, John Chowning, Robert Ashley, Terry Riley, Robert Sheff, David Cope, and Jack Jarret, among others. In the late 1970s, he worked closely with Serge Tcherepnin, helping with the construction and distribution of Serge's Serge Modular Music System. He went on to work at Oberheim Electronics. In the early 1980s, he was the technical director at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music. He has taught at California State University, Hayward, Diablo Valley College, Ex'pression College for Digital Arts, Cogswell College, and San Jose State University. He taught at University of Texas at Dallas in the School of Arts Technology and Emerging Communication (ATEC) until 2017, and is currently a Visiting Researcher at CNMAT, UC Berkeley. He is also a Research Scientist at the ArtSci Lab at ATEC.
He was a composer in residence at Mills College Center for Contemporary Music. At STEIM in Amsterdam, he has worked to develop new families of controllers to be used exclusively in the live performance of electroacoustic music. He is an alumnus of the Djerassi Artist Residency Program. He has toured and recorded as a member of The Hub, Room (with Chris Brown, Larry Ochs and William Winant), Alvin Curran, ROVA saxophone quartet, the Club Foot Orchestra, and the Dutch ambient group NYX. He has performed the music of Alvin Curran, Pauline Oliveros, John Zorn, and John Cage, under their direction, and worked as a technical assistant to Lou Harrison, Iannis Xenakis, David Tudor, Edmund Campion, Cindy Cox and among many others.
Since 2006, he has collaborated with media artist Stephen Medaris Bull in a series of "karaoke cellphone operas" with initial funding provided by New York State Council for the Arts. He has worked in collaboration with Dallas theater director Thomas Riccio developing sonic interventions for many of his productions.
Publications
Experiences in Digital Terrain: Using Digital Elevation Models for Music and Interactive Multimedia
The Aesthetics and History of the Hub: The Effects of Changing Technology on Network Computer Music
Mixing in the Round
Flying Blind: Network and feedback based systems in real time interactive music performances
No There, There: A personal history of telematic performance
Discography
The HUB: Boundary La |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X/Open%20Transport%20Interface | The X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) is an Open Group specification for network application programming present in UNIX System V operating systems. It provides OSI transport layer services with protocol independence. Although Open Group considers this specification withdrawn, an implementation is part of the standard programming interfaces on modern UNIX System V operating systems where it is implemented using the STREAMS character input/output mechanism.
Overview
The X/Open Transport Interface is a specification that defines an independent transport-service interface for network applications. Programs using XTI can be run over a variety of transport providers, such as the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Xerox Network Systems (XNS), Systems Network Architecture (SNA), X.25, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or any other transport layer provider that function at Layer 4 of the OSI Model.
XTI provides similar functionality as the Berkeley sockets interface, however it is protocol independent in contrast to the socket interface which is heavily biased toward the Internet Protocols. It is based on the UNIX System V Transport Layer Interface (TLI)., which is a transport service definition adhering to the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.
XTI consists of a cooperating STREAMS module, link library application programming interface (API), header files, and the rules and restrictions elaborating how XTI processes work and interact.
Protocol independence
XTI is protocol independent. However, applications still need to be aware of the desired transport system in order to select it. Applications can achieve this transport protocol independence using the Network Selection Facilities also provided by the XTI/TLI library (libnsl).
Sockets-to-XTI/TLI equivalents
Although XTI/TLI is similar to the BSD socket interface, neither is included or includes the other one and several
functions having the same role have different behavior. Both, the TLI and BSD sockets interfaces in UNIX SVR 3 and SVR 4 operating systems releases are implemented using the same underlying STREAMS Transport Service Interface.
The following table shows approximate equivalence between the POSIX XTI and sockets interfaces:
To ascertain the proper sequence of library function calls, XTI/TLI uses state indicators, in a similar manner to the sockets API. However, some socket API functions can be called from multiple states (e.g. sendmsg from unbound state on connectionless socket, connect from unbound state on connection-oriented socket); whereas XTI API functions can only be issued from a specific and corresponding state (e.g. t_bind may only be issued from the unbound state, t_connect only from the bound state).
XTI/TLI Asynchronous Mode
Real-time XTI end user application will use XTI interface asynchronously (otherwise there are no guarantees about how long a call waiting for data will block). The set of functions is the same as synchronous calls but when initializin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alperton%20Community%20School | Alperton Community School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status. It has a specialism in maths, computing and arts and it is located in the Alperton area of the London Borough of Brent, England.
The school is divided into two sites: the lower school on Ealing Road near Alperton Underground station, consisting of Years 7, 8 and 9 and the upper school on Stanley Avenue, consisting of Years 10, 11, 12 and 13. It has approximately 2000 students.
In July 2016 the Ofsted report judged the school to be “Good with Outstanding Leadership and Management”.
History
In 1922, Alperton Hall mansion was purchased in order to support the educational needs of the growing industrial town and opened with the overseeing headmaster Mr Edmund Lightley. In 1928 the school adopted the name Wembley County Grammar School and the original mansion was demolished in 1938 to allow for a new appropriate site to be built for a traditional grammar school.
A separate school on Ealing Road named Alperton County Mixed School was developed in 1948 on a new site near Alperton tube station on Kennedy's Farm which required the demolition of the adjacent Joy Cottages sitting alongside the station. The requirement grew from the previous local school named Alperton School, which had existed since 1876 on a site now hosting the Shree Sanatan Hindu temple, becoming inappropriate due to the Education Act of 1944 and the increased demand because of area growth. In 1957 the school was split into Alperton Boys and Alperton Girls both being shaped into secondary moderns with Mr T. Hostler as headmaster for boys and Miss J. Dawson head teacher for girls respectively, although officially the girls site was not completed until 1962.
The three schools, Wembley County Grammar, Alperton Boys, and Alperton Girls were amalgamated as to form Alperton High School in 1967.
Mr Roy Innes was recruited as the headmaster to see through the new comprehensive school merger and development and after a decade retired in 1977.
During the early 1990s through the Local Management of Schools (LMS) initiative the school took control over its own finances and in 1993 was renamed Alperton Community School. From 1991, Mr Pankaj Gulab as Deputy Head saw through the change to a local managed school and in 1992 he became the headmaster.
In 2003 the new headmaster was Miss Margaret Rafee. During her tenure, the school managed to achieve an "Outstanding" Ofsted report in 2011 and had won the British Council's International School Award in 2012. Thereafter it was in the top 5% of schools in the country in terms of student progress over a four-year period.
The school converted to Cooperative Academy status in September 2012, and a year later Rafee left the school to be replaced by a new headmaster, Mr Gerard McKenna. In 2014, its first Ofsted judgment as an academy had dropped to "Requires improvement" before recovering to "Good" in 2016.
The main site at Ealing Road was completely renov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2005–06 Canadian network television schedule indicates the fall prime time schedules for Canada's major English broadcast networks. For schedule changes after the fall launch, please consult each network's individual article.
The CBC fall schedule was delayed because of the "CBC" lockout which ended in October.
2005 official fall schedule
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Top weekly ratings
Note: English Canadian television only by viewers age 2 and up
Data sources: BBM Canada official website
References
External links
BBM Canada Top Weekly Television Ratings
2005 in Canadian television
2006 in Canadian television
Canadian television schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%2010%20%28Jun%C3%ADn%2C%20Argentina%29 | Junín TV (call sign LRH 450 TV) is a television station broadcasting on channel 10 from Junín, Buenos Aires. The station carries programs from América TV
Local programming
Notivisión - newscast
Consulta Médica ("Medical Consultation") - health advice
Television stations in Argentina
Television channels and stations established in 1985
Argentine companies established in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit%20mask | Edit mask may refer to:
Bit mask
Filter criteria called edit mask (for example, erasing of leading zeros and non-numerical symbols) for various computerized input fields
The user mask associated with each process in Unix and Linux systems, which restricts the permissions that can be set on newly created files |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%20Tonight | MLB Tonight is the signature program that airs on MLB Network and is simulcast on MLB Network Radio. The show offers complete coverage of all Major League Baseball games from 6pm ET – 1am ET during the regular season, and gives news from all 30 MLB teams during the offseason. It is taped live in Studio 3 of the MLB Network facility in Secaucus, New Jersey, but also features segments taped in Studio 42. The program aired from the beginning of Spring Training to the end of the World Series and was replaced in the offseason by Hot Stove, until it started to air in the offseason, and Hot Stove became MLB Network's weekday morning show. The show won the Sports Emmy Award for best Daily Outstanding Studio Show for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015.
Air times
MLB Tonight airs seven days per week, starting at 6pm ET on weekdays until the last MLB game of the night has ended. MLB Tonight is followed by Quick Pitch, MLB Network's highlights show of record.
On Saturdays, the show airs before and/or after the Saturday Night Baseball game. In 2012, the Sunday edition of MLB Tonight was expanded to air from 1pm to 8pm ET.
Personalities
Hosts
Greg Amsinger: (2009–present)
Scott Braun: (2011–2023)
Brian Kenny: (2011–present)
Matt Vasgersian: (2009–present)
Matt Yallof: (2009–present)
Fran Charles: (2013–2023)
Adnan Virk: (2019–present)
Analysts
Sean Casey: (2009–present)
Ron Darling: (2013–present)
John Hart: (2009–present)
Al Leiter: (2009–present)
Mike Lowell: (2011–present)
Dan Plesac: (2009–present)
Harold Reynolds: (2009–present)
Billy Ripken: (2009–present)
Dave Valle: (2009–present)
Pedro Martinez: (2015–present)
Yonder Alonso: (2021–present)
Ryan Dempster: (2014–present)
Dan O'Dowd: (2015–present)
Carlos Peña: (2014–present)
Buck Showalter: (2019–present)
Jim Thome: (2014–present)
Chris Young: (2021–present)
Hunter Pence: (2022–present)
Reporters
Sam Ryan (2011–2018)
Insiders
Jon Heyman: (2009–present)
Ken Rosenthal: (2009–2021)
Tom Verducci: (2009–present)
Peter Gammons: (2010–present)
Jon Morosi: (2016–present)
Joel Sherman: (2009–present)
Jayson Stark: (2019–present)
Commentators
Bob Costas: (2009–present)
Matt Vasgersian: (2009–present)
Segments
Capital One Premier Play: This segment shows viewers the key plays of certain games, similar to the "Web Gems" segment on ESPN's Baseball Tonight. (Although it occasionally features offensive plays and completion of no-hitters.) This segment is also featured on Quick Pitch.
Clubhouse Confidential: With sabermetrics continually at the forefront of baseball conversations, Clubhouse Confidential with Brian Kenny serves as an open forum to discuss and debate topics using modern statistical research and value projection.
Inside Info: This is an interview segment with one of the Baseball Insiders.
Inside the Park: This segment features live coverage of an ongoing game.
Update: A brief update of an ongoing game, which includes a certain key play (such as a double play, a strikeout, a home run, etc.).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS | ChromeOS, sometimes styled as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS, is a Linux-based operating system developed and designed by Google. It is derived from the open-source ChromiumOS and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface.
Google announced the project in July 2009, initially describing it as an operating system where applications and user data would reside in the cloud. ChromeOS was used primarily to run web applications.
All ChromiumOS and ChromeOS versions support progressive web applications (such as Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365), as well as web browser extensions (which can resemble native applications). ChromeOS (but not ChromiumOS) from 2016 onwards can also run Android applications from Google Play. Since 2018, ChromiumOS/ChromeOS version 69 onwards also support Linux applications, which are executed in a lightweight virtual machine with a Debian environment.
History
To ascertain marketing requirements, developers relied on informal metrics, including monitoring the usage patterns of 200 machines used by Google employees. Developers also noted their own usage patterns.
ChromeOS was initially intended for secondary devices like netbooks, and not as a user's primary PC. Google has requested that its hardware partners use solid-state drives "for performance and reliability reasons" as well as the lower capacity requirements inherent in an operating system that accesses applications and most user data on remote servers. In November 2009, Matthew Papakipos, engineering director for the ChromeOS, announced that ChromeOS would only support solid-state storage (i.e. not mechanical hard-disks), and noted that ChromeOS only required one-sixtieth as much drive space as Windows 7. Ten years later, in 2019, the recovery images Google provided for ChromeOS were still only between 1 and 3 GB in size.
On November 19, 2009, Google released ChromeOS's source code as the ChromiumOS project. At a November 19, 2009 news conference, Sundar Pichai–at the time Google's vice president overseeing Chrome–demonstrated an early version of the operating system. He previewed a desktop which looked very similar to the desktop Chrome browser, and in addition to the regular browser tabs also had application tabs, which take less space and can be pinned for easier access. At the conference, the operating system booted up in seven seconds, a time Google said it would work to reduce. Additionally, Chris Kenyon, vice president of OEM services at Canonical Ltd, announced that Canonical was under contract to contribute engineering resources to the project with the intent to build on existing open-source components and tools where feasible.
Canonical was an early engineering partner on the project, and initially ChromiumOS could only be built on an Ubuntu system. In February 2010, the ChromiumOS development team switched to Gentoo Linux because Gentoo's package management system Portage was more flexible. The ChromiumOS build envir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer%20interaction | Human–computer interaction (HCI) is research in the design and the use of computer technology, which focuses on the interfaces between people (users) and computers. HCI researchers observe the ways humans interact with computers and design technologies that allow humans to interact with computers in novel ways. A device that allows interaction between human being and a computer is known as a "Human-computer Interface (HCI)".
As a field of research, human–computer interaction is situated at the intersection of computer science, behavioral sciences, design, media studies, and several other fields of study. The term was popularized by Stuart K. Card, Allen Newell, and Thomas P. Moran in their 1983 book, The Psychology of Human–Computer Interaction. The first known use was in 1975 by Carlisle. The term is intended to convey that, unlike other tools with specific and limited uses, computers have many uses which often involve an open-ended dialogue between the user and the computer. The notion of dialogue likens human–computer interaction to human-to-human interaction: an analogy that is crucial to theoretical considerations in the field.
Introduction
Humans interact with computers in many ways, and the interface between the two is crucial to facilitating this interaction. HCI is also sometimes termed human–machine interaction (HMI), man-machine interaction (MMI) or computer-human interaction (CHI). Desktop applications, internet browsers, handheld computers, and computer kiosks make use of the prevalent graphical user interfaces (GUI) of today. Voice user interfaces (VUI) are used for speech recognition and synthesizing systems, and the emerging multi-modal and Graphical user interfaces (GUI) allow humans to engage with embodied character agents in a way that cannot be achieved with other interface paradigms. The growth in human–computer interaction field has led to an increase in the quality of interaction, and resulted in many new areas of research beyond. Instead of designing regular interfaces, the different research branches focus on the concepts of multimodality over unimodality, intelligent adaptive interfaces over command/action based ones, and active interfaces over passive interfaces.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) defines human–computer interaction as "a discipline that is concerned with the design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them". A key aspect of HCI is user satisfaction, also referred to as End-User Computing Satisfaction. It goes on to say:
"Because human–computer interaction studies a human and a machine in communication, it draws from supporting knowledge on both the machine and the human side. On the machine side, techniques in computer graphics, operating systems, programming languages, and development environments are relevant. On the human side, communication theory, graphic and industrial design disciplines, li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann%20LeCun | Yann André LeCun ( , ; originally spelled Le Cun; born 8 July 1960) is a Turing Award winning French computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta.
He is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks (CNN), and is a founding father of convolutional nets. He is also one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology (together with Léon Bottou and Patrick Haffner). He co-developed the Lush programming language with Léon Bottou.
LeCun received the 2018 Turing Award (often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing"), together with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, for their work on deep learning.
The three are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI" and "Godfathers of Deep Learning".
Early life
LeCun was born at Soisy-sous-Montmorency in the suburbs of Paris. His name was originally spelled Le Cun from the old Breton form Le Cunff and was from the region of Guingamp in northern Brittany. "Yann" is the Breton form for "John".
Education
He received a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the ESIEE Paris in 1983 and a PhD in Computer Science from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (today Sorbonne University) in 1987 during which he proposed an early form of the back-propagation learning algorithm for neural networks.
Career
Bell Labs
In 1988, he joined the Adaptive Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, United States, headed by Lawrence D. Jackel, where he developed a number of new machine learning methods, such as a biologically inspired model of image recognition called convolutional neural networks, the "Optimal Brain Damage" regularisation methods, and the Graph Transformer Networks method (similar to conditional random field), which he applied 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-Research as head of the Image Processing Research Department, which was part of Lawrence Rabiner's Speech and Image Processing Research Lab, and worked primarily on the DjVu image compression technology, used by many websites, notably the Internet Archive, to distribute scanned documents. His collaborators at AT&T include Léon Bottou and Vladimir Vapnik.
New York University
After a brief tenure as a Fellow of the NEC Research Institute (now NEC-Labs America) in Princeton, NJ, he joined New York University (NYU) in 2003, where he is Silver Professor of Computer Science Neural Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Neural Science. He is also a professor at the Tando |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20202001%E2%80%93203000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20Radio | Spectrum Radio was a multi-ethnic radio network based in London. It catered to over 20 different ethnic communities.
Spectrum Radio was distinguished by its multiethnic, foreign language programmes, many of which had been on air since its launch in 1990. Before its closure, it broadcast programmes for the British Chinese community in both Cantonese and Mandarin.
Originally on 558 kHz, the station switched to DAB only under the name Spectrum Radio after changing back from Panda Radio.
In 2019 the station's studio moved to a new facility on London's South Bank.
In February 2020, the station was issued with a winding up order by the High Court and its broadcasting license was therefore suspended.
Network
Spectrum Radio (DAB and online)
Chinese Spectrum (online, two hours a day)
Sout-al-Khaleej (DAB and online)
Spectrum World Music Radio (online)
References
External links
Chinese Spectrum
Radio stations in London
Multilingual broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20Extension%20Society | The Life Extension Society (LES) with its network of coordinators was the first cryonics organization in the world. It was founded by Evan Cooper in 1964 to promote cryonic suspension of people, and became the seed tree for cryonics societies throughout the US where local cryonics advocates would meet as a result of contact through the LES mailing list. The original LES ceased existence near the end of the 1960s, but an organization with the same name and similar objectives was incorporated in Maryland in 1992.
History
In 1962, Cooper privately published a manuscript named Immortality: Physically, Scientifically, Now under his pseudonym, Nathan Duhring. The book is considered by Michael Darwin "a modest, almost apologetic one; the ideas it contains are the stuff of genius and the fabric of change, in it, he advocated that men need not be born only to die and that if they were frozen at or near the time of death they might yet have a chance to live again, whole and complete, forever." In the same year, but shortly after Cooper's book appeared, a Michigan college physics teacher, Robert Ettinger, privately published his book The Prospect of Immortality, that independently suggested the same idea. Ettinger came to be credited as the originator of cryonics, perhaps because his book was republished by Doubleday in 1964 on the recommendations of Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl, and received more publicity. Ettinger also stayed with the movement longer. Nevertheless, the cryonics historian R. Michael Perry has written: “Evan Cooper deserves the principal credit for forming an organized cryonics movement.”
See also
Life extension
References
External links
Evan Cooper, Immortality: Physically, Scientifically, Now
Robert Ettinger, The Prospect of Immortality
Cryonics organizations in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configural%20frequency%20analysis | Configural frequency analysis (CFA) is a method of exploratory data analysis, introduced by Gustav A. Lienert in 1969. The goal of a configural frequency analysis is to detect patterns in the data that occur significantly more (such patterns are called Types) or significantly less often (such patterns are called Antitypes) than expected by chance. Thus, the idea of a CFA is to provide by the identified types and antitypes some insight into the structure of the data. Types are interpreted as concepts which are constituted by a pattern of variable values. Antitypes are interpreted as patterns of variable values that do in general not occur together.
Basic idea of the CFA algorithm
We explain the basic idea of CFA by a simple example. Assume that we have a data set that describes for each of n patients if they show certain symptoms s1, ..., sm. We assume for simplicity that a symptom is shown or not, i.e. we have a dichotomous data set.
Each record in the data set is thus an m-tuple (x1, ..., xm) where each xi is either equal to 0 (patient does not show symptom i) or 1 (patient does show symptom i).
Each such m-tuple is called a configuration. Let C be the set of all possible configurations, i.e. the set of all possible m-tuples on {0,1}m. The data set can thus be described by listing the observed frequencies f(c) of all possible configurations in C.
The basic idea of CFA is to estimate the frequency of each configuration under the assumption that the m symptoms are statistically independent. Let e(c) be this estimated frequency under the assumption of independence.
Let pi(1) be the probability that a member of the investigated population shows symptom si and pi(0) be the probability that a member of the investigated population does not show symptom si. Under the assumption that all symptoms are independent we can calculate the expected relative frequency of a configuration c = (c1 , ..., cm) by:
Now f(c) and e(c) can be compared by a statistical test (typical tests applied in CFA are Pearson's chi-squared test, the binomial test or the hypergeometric test of Lehmacher).
If the statistical test suggests for a given -level that the difference between f(c) and e(c) is significant then c is called a type if f(c) > e(c) and is called an antitype if f(c) < e(c).
If there is no significant difference between f(c) and e(c), then c is neither a type nor an antitype. Thus, each configuration c can have in principle three different states. It can be a type, an antitype, or not classified.
Types and antitypes are defined symmetrically. But in practical applications researchers are mainly interested to detect types. For example, clinical studies are typically interested to detect symptom combinations that are indicators for a disease. These are by definition symptom combinations which occur more often than expected by chance, i.e. types.
Control of the alpha level
Since in CFA a significance test is applied in parallel for each configuration c the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjo%205 | Panjo 5 was an Australian dance and pop music quintet. The band was formed following a reality television talent show called Airtime!, which was broadcast on Nickelodeon and the Nine Network.
Their second song, "Stay Closer" received airtime on the Today Network and peaked at number 33 on the Australian Top 100 Physical Singles Chart. The release of "Stay Closer" followed the release of the band's debut song "Move" on 1 November 2008.
They officially announced their break-up on 19 November 2009 on their Facebook and Myspace page, with no third single released.
One year after the release of "Stay Closer", former member Elen Menaker altered her stage name to Elen Levon. She released her debut single "Naughty" (Nufirm/Ministry of Sound) on 30 September 2011, and featured Australian artist and producer Israel Cruz.
Discography
Singles
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Australian pop music groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDH | PDH may refer to:
Angiotensin-converting enzyme, an enzyme
Plesiochronous digital hierarchy, in telecommunications networks
Pound–Drever–Hall technique for stabilizing a laser's output
Pyranose dehydrogenase (acceptor), an enzyme
Pyruvate dehydrogenase, an enzyme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skia | Skia or SKIA may refer to:
Skia (typeface), a humanist sans-serif typeface
Skia Graphics Engine, a software library that provides functionality for computer graphics operations
Shade (mythology) (classical Greek skia, Greek: σκιά), the spirit or ghost of a dead person, residing in the underworld
South Kerry Independent Alliance, former name of an Irish political party
SKIA College, Philippines
See also
Skias, settlement in ancient Arcadia
Skia Dwa or Golden Stool, royal and divine throne of the Ashanti people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2009–10 daytime network television schedule for four of the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2009 to August 2010. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, and any series canceled after the 2008–09 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with Fox or MyNetworkTV, as the former network and the latter programming service did not offer (and continues not to offer) a daytime network schedule or network news, and Ion Television, as its schedule was composed mainly of paid programming and syndicated reruns at the time.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
Notes:
ABC, NBC and CBS offer their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop.
(†) Many CBS affiliates returned the 3:00 p.m. ET timeslot to their affiliates starting September 21, although some stations continue to air Let's Make a Deal during the 3:00 p.m. hour to this day. In the two weeks preceding the October 5 debut of Let's Make a Deal, to fill a gap in the schedule caused by the discontinuance of Guiding Light, CBS aired repeats of The Price is Right in the timeslot.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC World News
All My Children
America This Morning
General Hospital
Good Morning America
One Life to Live
The View
This Week
ABC Kids
The Emperor's New School
Hannah Montana
Power Rangers RPM
The Replacements
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
That's So Ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20Assault | Ion Assault is a multidirectional shooter video game developed by Coreplay and published by Black Inc. for the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and Microsoft Windows. It was released in North America and Europe on September 23, 2009. Its gameplay is similar to that of the classic arcade shooter Asteroids. Ion Assault was the first Xbox Live Arcade game developed in Germany.
Ion Assault was released for Windows on the Steam platform on November 17, 2010. It was delisted in 2015, but got relisted in 2018 for Xbox 360 and in 2019 for Steam.
Reception
Ion Assault received mixed reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the game holds scores of 62/100 for the PC version based on 4 reviews and 74/100 for the Xbox 360 version based on 23 reviews. It received praise for its graphics, particle effects and gameplay (including the recharging mechanic for the main weapon), but received criticism for its controls, short campaign and screen clutter during intense battles.
References
External links
(Wayback Machine copy)
2009 video games
Multidirectional shooters
Video games developed in Germany
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
Xbox 360 games
Windows games
PlayStation Network games
BitComposer Interactive games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Coreplay games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyeryong%20station | Gyeryong station is a KTX station. It is on the Honam Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in South Chungcheong Province
Gyeryong
Railway stations opened in 1911
Korea Train Express stations
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1910s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeongeup%20station | Jeongeup station is a KTX station in the city of Jeongeup. It is on Honam high-speed railway and the normal speed Honam Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in North Jeolla Province
Jeongeup
Railway stations opened in 1912
Korea Train Express stations
1912 establishments in Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1910s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimcheon%20station | Gimcheon Station is a railway station on the Gyeongbu Line and the Gyeongbuk Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in North Gyeongsang Province
Gimcheon
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1905 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waegwan%20station | Waegwan station is a railway station on the Gyeongbu Line in South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in North Gyeongsang Province
Chilgok County
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1905 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daegu%20station | Daegu station is a station on the Gyeongbu Line and Daegu Metro Line 1 in Chilseong-dong, Buk District, Daegu, South Korea.
External links
Daegu Station – Korail
DTRO virtual station
Cyber station information from Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation
See also
Autumn Uprising of 1946
Lotte Department Store
Railway stations in Daegu
Buk District, Daegu
Daegu Metro stations
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1905 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyeongsan%20station | Gyeongsan station is a railway station on the Gyeongbu Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in North Gyeongsang Province
Gyeongsan
Korea Train Express stations
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1905 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samnangjin%20station | Samnangjin Station is a railway station on the Gyeongbu Line and the Gyeongjeon Line.
References
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in South Gyeongsang Province
Miryang
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1905 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeongju%20station | Yeongju Station is a railway station on the Jungang Line, the Yeongdong Line and the Gyeongbuk Line in South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in North Gyeongsang Province
Yeongju
Railway stations opened in 1941
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1940s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join%20dependency | In database theory, a join dependency is a constraint on the set of legal relations over a database scheme. A table is subject to a join dependency if can always be recreated by joining multiple tables each having a subset of the attributes of . If one of the tables in the join has all the attributes of the table , the join dependency is called trivial.
The join dependency plays an important role in the Fifth normal form, also known as project-join normal form, because it can be proven that if a scheme is decomposed in tables to , the decomposition will be a lossless-join decomposition if the legal relations on are restricted to a join dependency on called .
Another way to describe a join dependency is to say that the relationships in the join dependency are independent of each other.
Unlike in the case of functional dependencies, there is no sound and complete axiomatization for join dependencies, though axiomatization exist for more expressive dependency languages such as full typed dependencies. However, implication of join dependencies is decidable.
Formal definition
Let be a relation schema and let be a decomposition of .
The relation satisfies the join dependency
if
A join dependency is trivial if one of the is itself.
2-ary join dependencies are called multivalued dependency as a historical artifact of the fact that they were studied before the general case. More specifically if U is a set of attributes and R a relation over it, then R satisfies if and only if R satisfies
Example
Given a pizza-chain that models purchases in table Order = {order-number, customer-name, pizza-name, courier}.
The following relations can be derived:
customer-name depends on order-number
pizza-name depends on order-number
courier depends on order-number
Since the relationships are independent there is a join dependency as follows: *((order-number, customer-name), (order-number, pizza-name), (order-number, courier)).
If each customer has his own courier however, there can be a join-dependency like this: *((order-number, customer-name), (order-number, pizza-name), (order-number, courier), (customer-name, courier)),
but *((order-number, customer-name, courier), (order-number, pizza-name)) would be valid as well. This makes it obvious that just having a join dependency is not enough to normalize a database scheme.
See also
Chase (algorithm)
Universal relation assumption
References
Database normalization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%20management%20knowledge%20base | The Log Management Knowledge Base is a free database of detailed descriptions on over 20,000 event logs generated by Windows systems, syslog devices and applications. Provided as a free service to the IT community by Prism Microsystems, the aim of the Knowledge Base is to help IT personnel make sense of the large amounts of cryptic and arcane log data generated by network systems and IT infrastructures.
Log data provides a record of all corporate system activity and is critical for improving security, complying with requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and PCI-DSS, and optimizing IT operations. However, given the large number of logs produced by different devices, their inherent obscurity and the lack of a standard logging format, system-specific expertise is typically needed to extract any meaningful intelligence.
The Knowledge Base provides this expertise free of charge via a searchable web repository with the aim of making log data readily understandable by all. The Knowledge Base can be searched using any combination of event log ID, source or fragments of the description field. Advanced search options are available as well
See also
System administration
Log management and intelligence
References
External links
Knowledge Base EventTracker Knowledge Base
System administration
Network management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonus | Consonus Technologies, Inc, now called StraTech, provides Information Technology services (data centers, managed services, IT consulting and IT infrastructure services) to businesses in the United States. Consonus' services allow for data back-up and disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, data protection, and virtualization. Consonus also provides hosting, maintenance, technical support and consulting services.
History
Consonus was formed by the merger of Strategic Technologies, Inc. (STI) of Cary, North Carolina and Consonus of Salt Lake City, Utah on January 23, 2007.
Strategic Technologies was founded in 1988 as CAD Systems of the Carolinas, a Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing company. It quickly diversified into engineering automation, general system infrastructure design and implementation. In 1991, the company was renamed Strategic Technologies, Inc. and increased its portfolio to include services like training and skills transfer, document and imaging management, system support, network and systems management solutions, and business systems.
Consonus, headquartered in Salt Lake City, was founded by Questar Corporation in 1996 to store, protect and manage business information and systems. In 2005, it was sold to Knox Lawrence International (a private equity firm).
See also
Colocation centre
Data center
References
External links
Information technology companies of the United States
Privately held companies based in North Carolina
Information technology consulting firms of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIBC-FM | CIBC-FM is a low-power Type B Native radio station which provides First Nations community radio programming on the frequency of 98.1 MHz/FM in Cowessess, Saskatchewan, Canada. The station is owned by Cowessess Community Projects Inc., which received approval from the CRTC on May 9, 2012. In the application, the station said that it would broadcast at least ten hours a week in Cree, with the remainder of its programming in English.
References
External links
IBC
Cree culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Korte | Bernhard H. Korte (born November 3, 1938 in Bottrop, Germany) is a German mathematician and computer scientist, a professor at the University of Bonn, and an expert in combinatorial optimization.
Biography
Korte earned his doctorate (Doctor rerum naturalium) from the University of Bonn in 1967. His thesis was entitled "Beiträge zur Theorie der Hardy'schen Funktionenklassen" (translated, "Contributions to the theory of Hardy function classes"), and was supervised by Ernst Peschl and Walter Thimm. He earned his habilitation in 1971, and briefly held faculty positions at Regensburg University and Bielefeld University before joining the University of Bonn as a faculty member in 1972. At the University of Bonn, Korte is the director of the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics.
Korte has been a guest professor at Stanford, Cornell, the University of Waterloo, MIT, Yale and Rutgers University, along with institutions in Rome, Pisa, Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro.
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Awards and honors
In 1997, Korte received the State Prize of Nordrhein-Westfalen, and in 2002 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is also a winner of the Humboldt Prize and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
German computer scientists
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1938 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20Hair | Based on a book written by Ellen Byerrum (Crimes of Fashion), Killer Hair (also known as Crimes of Fashion: Killer Hair) is a television film that aired on the Lifetime Movie Network in 2009. The storyline follows a fashion journalist, Lacey Smithsonian, as she investigates the discovery of a dead body inside her friend's Washington, DC hair salon.
Synopsis
The story begins with the discovery of an emerging fashion stylist's dead body. Angie Woods, a stylist recognized for succeeding with difficult rejuvenation jobs, is found dead with a razor in her hand. Investigators suggest that Woods committed suicide because of the unattractive hairstyle she was wearing. Smithsonian (Maggie Lawson), a fashion columnist and amateur private investigator, is an acquaintance of Woods and suspects something more sinister; she believes that a notable client of Woods, a congressional staffer with a salacious web site, is somehow implicated. Detective Vic Donovan (Victor Webster) is assigned to the case. This causes complications due to his prior romantic affair with Smithsonian.
Cast and characters
Lacey Smithsonian - Maggie Lawson
Stella Lake - Sadie LeBlanc
Brooke Barton - Sarah Edmondson
Vic Donovan - Victor Webster
Mac - James McDaniel
Tony Trujillo - Mark Consuelos
Felicity Pickles - Jocelyne Loewen
Detective Harding - Jason Schombing
Agent Thorn - Peter Kelamis
Josette Radford - Finola Hughes
Boyd Radford - Christopher Shyer
Beau Radford - Christopher Jacot
Marcia Robinson - Lynda Boyd
Rose Smithsonian - Mary McDonnell
Charise Smithsomian - Katharine Isabelle
Sherri Gold - Carmen Moore
Tammi - Sarah Smyth
Sequel
A sequel based on another book by Byerrum, Hostile Makeover, was televised seven days after this film, on June 28, 2009.
Release formats
The film was released on DVD in various countries and an iTunes version was available exclusively in the United States.
References
External links
2009 television films
2009 films
Lifetime (TV network) films
Films based on American novels
Films based on mystery novels
Films set in Washington, D.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korte%20%28surname%29 | The surname Korte may refer to:
The surname Körte spelled without diacritics
Bernhard Korte, German mathematician and computer scientist
Eero Korte, Finnish football midfielder
Elizabeth Korte, American television writer
Gerard de Korte, Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop of the diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden
Gianluca Korte, German footballer
Jan Korte, former football player from the Netherlands
Jan Korte (politician) (born 1977), German politician
Hans Korte, German television actor
Karl Korte, American composer of contemporary classical music
Karl Korte, American jockey
Oldřich František Korte, Czech composer, pianist, publicist and writer
Pat Korte, American political activist and organizer for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Raffael Korte, German footballer
Ralph Korte, the namesake of the Ralph Korte Stadium
Steven Korte, American football running back
Steve Korte, former offensive guard and center in the NFL
See also
De Korte, Dutch surname |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirocco%20station | Sirocco is a light rail station on the Blue Line of the CTrain network in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is located along the north side of 17th Ave SW, between 69 Street and 45 Street stations, and was opened on December 10, 2012, as part of the West LRT extension from Sunalta to 69 Street.
Location and station layout
The station is located along the north side of 17th Ave SW, just east of Costello Blvd, with westbound trains arriving from the north and eastbound trains arriving from the south.
The station includes a large park and ride just east of West Market Square, which can accommodate upwards of 450 vehicles.
History
The station was built as a part of the West LRT extension of the Blue Line, which also included Sunalta, Shaganappi Point, Westbrook, 45 Street, and 69 Street. The station, along with the rest of the West LRT, opened for a preview service on December 8, 2012, and opened for revenue service on December 10, 2012.
In its first year of service, Sirocco served an average of 3,040 boardings per day.
References
CTrain stations
Railway stations in Canada opened in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINQPad | LINQPad is a software utility targeted at .NET Framework and .NET Core development. It is used to interactively query SQL databases (among other data sources such as OData or WCF Data Services) using LINQ, as well as interactively writing C# code without the need for an IDE. This expands its use to a general "test workbench" where C# code can be quickly prototyped outside of Visual Studio. It can also be used to write code in the VB.NET, SQL and F# languages.
This product is freemium, keeping the C# auto-complete feature disabled until the user purchases a license.
LINQPad supports the following LINQ dialects:
Entity Framework
LINQ to Objects
LINQ to SQL
LINQ to XML
References
External links
LINQPad Extensions
LINQPad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry%20River%20%28Jamaica%29 | The Dry River is a river in St Mary, Jamaica.
Course
The head of the river is a network of about 10 unnamed streams which rise on either side of the border between the parishes of St Mary and Portland in a district called Cocoa Wood. The highest of these reaches to just over on the east flank of Telegraph Mountain, a spur on the north of the Grand Ridge of the Blue Mountains, which is the site of a secondary triangulation station. From here the river flows essentially northwards until it reaches the Caribbean Sea just west of the Golden Grove Estate. Along the way it passes a number of small settlements and named regions including (working downstream from south to north):
Perrys Tavern Gap
Warminister (sic)
Mount Joseph
Evandale
Happy Hut
Two Paths
Timsberry
Enfield
Juno Pen Village
Fort Stewart
Gradient
From its source at just over the Dry River falls to the contour just below Timsberry bridge in a little over , an average gradient of about 1 in 9. For this part of its course it has the character of a swift moving mountain river with numerous small waterfalls and rapids. Below the contour its character changes as it enters a relatively flat valley and slows, taking about to fall the final to sea level at its mouth, an average gradient of about 1 in 118.
Infrastructure
Working downstream from south to north, the first bridge is at Timsberry where the river crosses from east to west under an unclassified road. The second is a little south of Enfield where it crosses back. The final two bridges come just before the river enters the sea; here it crosses from south to north first under a road bridge carrying the A4 from Kingston to Annotto Bay and then under a railway bridge carrying the now defunct Kingston to Port Antonio railway line.
The 1966 Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map shows the final two bridges as a single, combined road and rail bridge. There were a number of these along this coast, many built when the railway was first constructed in the mid-1890s, so it is quite possible that it was replaced at some point after 1966 but prior to the railways closure in 1978.
Tributaries
Most of the tributaries of the Dry River are short and appear to be unnamed. Working upstream from north to south (and taking the highest reaching tributary to be the true source) there are:
Four unnamed on the west or right bank.
Three unnamed on the east or left bank.
The May River on the west or right bank, which joins immediately below the Timsberry road bridge.
Two unnamed on the east or left bank.
Three unnamed on the west or right bank.
One unnamed on the east or left bank.
One unnamed on the west or right bank.
Dry River elsewhere in Jamaica
There are several other uses of the name Dry River in Jamaica, all being minor tributaries. They are located in the parishes of Clarendon, St Andrew and St Thomas.
See also
List of rivers of Jamaica
References
General
Ford, Jos C. and Finlay, A.A.C. (1908).The Handbook of Jamaica. Jamaica Governm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2009–10 Canadian network television schedule indicates the fall prime time schedules for Canada's major English and French broadcast networks. For schedule changes after the fall launch, please consult each network's individual article.
Note: TQS rebrands as the V Network
2010 official winter schedule
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Top weekly ratings
Note: English Canadian television only by viewers age 2 and up
Data sources: BBM Canada official website
References
External links
BBM Canada Top Weekly Television Ratings
2009 in Canadian television
2010 in Canadian television
Canadian television schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson%20Lake%20%28Nova%20Scotia%29 | Ferguson Lake is a lake of Cape Breton Regional Municipality located in Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
Canadian Geographical Names Database
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
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