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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScreenFlow | ScreenFlow from Telestream, Inc. is a screencasting and video editing software for the macOS operating system. It can capture the audio and video from the computer, edit the captured video, add highlights or annotation, and output a number of different file types such as AIFF, GIF, M4V, MOV, and MP4.
Version 5 added the support of video and audio capturing from a connected iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
Version 9 of ScreenFlow was released on November 12, 2019 as a direct purchase from Telestream, Inc and via the Mac App Store.
Major Release Dates
Awards
ScreenFlow won the Editors' Choice Award from Macworld in December 2012.
ScreenFlow won an Eddy Winner award from Macworld in December 2008.
See also
Comparison of screencasting software
References
Further reading
'ScreenFlow 5 review: The Mac's best screencasting app gets better with iOS capture' by Christopher Breen (November 28, 2014) — Macworld
External links
2008 software
MacOS multimedia software
Streaming software
Screencasting software
Proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20L.%20Erb | Joseph Erb (born January 7, 1974) is a Native American computer animator, educator, and artist and a member of the Cherokee Nation.
Background
Joseph Erb was born on January 7, 1974, and currently lives in Gore, Oklahoma. He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He used his artistic skills to teach Muscogee Creek and Cherokee students how to animate traditional stories. He currently serves on the board of the Cherokee Arts and Humanities Council.
Animation for language preservation
Erb created the first Cherokee animation in the Cherokee language, The Beginning They Told. The 11-minute animated piece relays parts of the Cherokee's creation story, featuring Buzzard, Beaver, and the Water Beetle, who brings fire to humanity.
He combines traditional storytelling with 21st-century technology as a means of teaching the Cherokee language to young people. His work has frequently been screened by the National Museum of the American Indian. "We're competing with mass culture," Erb says. "The kids have a choice; they can watch our animation or they can watch Elmo. You have to compete with all of that so the children will want to know their traditional stories and their language."
Besides collaborating with students to produce animation in their tribal languages, Erb also produce educational material, such as animated shorts of animals singing numbers and colors in Cherokee. The animated format provides a solution for the challenge of relaying what is traditional oral history to the next generation.
Erb trained and mentors his colleagues, Roy Boney Jr. (Cherokee Nation), Matt Mason (Cherokee) and Nathan Young (Pawnee-Delaware-Kiowa), and together their work has established Tahlequah, Oklahoma as the "Indian Animation Capital".
His work is shown at Native film festival throughout the United States and currently his work is supported in part by the Cherokee Nation. Mason, Boney, and Erb formed a production company called Cherokee Robot.
Erb's collaboration with students has led to some surprising new developments in the retelling of oral histories. Muscogee Creek middle school students and Erb created a video that combined animation, claymation and diorama sets to tell the story of Indian Removal. Their account has the Muscogee Creeks, freezing on the Trail of Tears, traveling through space to Paris, France, where beret-wearing Frenchmen teach the Creeks to stomp dance. Rabbit, the Muscogee Trickster, steals a coal of fire from the French and takes it back to the Creeks on their way to Indian Territory.
Visual art
Erb is also a fine artist. He addresses contemporary realities facing Indian people through his sculpture, paintings, and jewelry. The Cherokee Heritage Center in Park Hill, Oklahoma frequently exhibits his work. Several of his paintings are a part of the permanent collection at the Sequoyah National Research Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Videography
"Trail of Tears" (2009) producer
Hero (2007)
D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90.9%20Sea%20FM | 90.9 Sea FM (call sign: 4SEA) is a radio station on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. It is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Hit Network, and is also the network hub for the regional Hit Stream, broadcasting shows at times from 9am - 12am across the Hit Networks across Australia.
History
The Sea FM brand name and original logo was created by Gold Coast Broadcasters Pty Ltd for just the one station - 90.9 Sea FM - after the Gold Coast was granted a new commercial FM licence. 90.9 Sea FM began broadcasting in 1989 with programming consulted by Austereo. The original Sea FM on-air line-up was a strong team of experienced Announcers, many having made their name previously in Metropolitan radio including - Craig Bruce (Fox FM) & Sammy Power, Ian 'Lofty' Fulton (4IP), Grahame "Durry" Rodgers (2SM & 2NX), Sue Moses (Triple M Sydney & Network 10), Gregg Easton (2UW & 4BK), Joe Miller (3XY & Eon FM), Dean Miller and Simon Franks.
In November 2011, controversy erupted after rumours surfaced that popular long-term breakfast co-host, Moyra Major, was to be replaced by entertainer Charli Robinson, after Robinson had filled in for six weeks while Major was on maternity leave. It was reported that Major had been replaced due to a significant increase in ratings for the breakfast show during Robinson's stint as co-host. Robinson and her co-host Paul Gale were replaced by Heather Maltman, Dan Anstey and Ben Hannant on 5 December 2016.
On 15 December 2016 Sea FM Gold Coast became known as Hit 90.9 Sea FM in Southern Cross Austereo’s mass re-branding of its regional radio network. Along with Sea FM Central Coast they were able to retain their heritage name for the moment.
On 3 July 2018 Sea FM Gold Coast had dropped the word "Hit" out of its station name "Hit 90.9 Sea FM", reverting to its original name "90.9 Sea FM", as well as its sister station 101.3 Sea FM on the Central Coast of New South Wales.
On 12 July 2019, SCA’s Hit Network announced the Gold Coast’s Sea FM would rebrand becoming Hit90.9 from 29 July 2019. The rebrand came with a new Breakfast show with Dan Anstey and Ben Hannant joined by Lise Carlaw and Sarah Wills.
In July 2020, Carlaw and Wills resigned and it was later announced that Bianca Dye would join the team with the show titled Bianca, Dan & Ben. In August 2021, it was rebranded back to Sea FM.
In June 2022, Anstey resigned to join Triple M Brisbane's Big Breakfast with Marto, Margaux and Dan Anstey.
References
Contemporary hit radio stations in Australia
Radio stations established in 1989
Radio stations on the Gold Coast, Queensland
1989 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%20of%20the%20Cybersecurity%20and%20Infrastructure%20Security%20Agency | The Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is a high level civilian official in the United States Department of Homeland Security. The Director, as head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS, is the principal staff assistant and adviser to both the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security for all DHS programs designed to reduce the nation's risk to terrorism and natural disasters. The Director is appointed from civilian life by the President with the consent of the Senate to serve at the pleasure of the President.
The position was created in November 2018, replacing the position of Under Secretary of Homeland Security for National Protection and Programs.
Overview
The Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is responsible for directing all of the Department of Homeland Security's integrated efforts to reduce the risk of terrorism and natural disasters to the Nation's physical, cyber and communications infrastructure.
The Director is a Level III position within the Executive Schedule. As of January 2022, the annual rate of pay for Level III is $187,300.
Directors
Reporting officials
Officials reporting to the Director of the CISA include:
Deputy Director of CISA - Nitin Natarajan
Executive Director of CISA - Brandon Wales
Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity Division (CSD) - Eric Goldstein
Executive Assistant Director for Infrastructure Security Division (ISD) - Dr. David Mussington
Executive Assistant Director for Emergency Communications (ECD) - Billy Bob Brown, Jr.
Assistant Director for National Risk Management Center (NRMC) - Mona Harrington (Acting)
Assistant Director for Integrated Operations Division (IOD) - Bridget Bean
Assistant Director for Stakeholder Engagement Division (SED) - Alaina Clark
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find%20a%20Family | Find a Family is a British television programme that aired between 1989 and 1991 across the ITV network. The programme was an appeal to rehome disadvantaged children for adoption or long-term fostering.
It usually took the form of a series of short videos shown during advertisement breaks between scheduled program slots. The video would appeal for a foster family to a homeless child seeking a family. During that same week there would be a longer programme which highlighted the results of the phone in campaign for that week.
The theme music for the show was written by Allan Clarke and Gary Benson and performed by The Hollies. The track, "Find Me a Family" (note the slight variation from the programme's title), was released as a single and peaked at No. 79.
The show is not to be confused with the identically titled occasional slot in LWT's The Weekend Live. In 2009, Channel 4 aired a documentary series following a similar theme under the title "Find Me a Family".
References
Find a Family at BFI
1989 British television series debuts
1991 British television series endings
Adoption forms and related practices
English-language television shows
ITV (TV network) original programming
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Central Independent Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20J%20Hottest%20100%20of%20All%20Time%2C%201998 | The Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time was a music poll conducted in August 1998 amongst listeners of Australian youth radio network Triple J. Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" collected the highest number of votes to claim the top position. 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 fourth such poll organised by Triple J, following similar polls in 1989, 1990 and 1991. 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.
Full list
Note: Australian artists
Artists with multiple entries
Five Tracks
The Cure (66, 74, 85, 89, 98)
Four Tracks
Nirvana (1, 45, 62, 87)
Pearl Jam (3, 10, 22, 56)
Three Tracks
Jeff Buckley (4, 29, 47)
Metallica (7, 9, 91)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (26, 84, 96)
Radiohead (5, 13, 54)
The Smashing Pumpkins (33, 40, 71)
Tool (24, 48, 57)
U2 (11, 23, 93)
Two Tracks
Beastie Boys (38, 44)
Ben Folds Five (32, 52)
Faith No More (19, 35)
Hunters & Collectors (2, 68)
Jebediah (50, 82)
Led Zeppelin (6, 63)
New Order (30, 60)
Nine Inch Nails (14, 72)
Pink Floyd (41, 90)
R.E.M. (51, 73)
Silverchair (59, 83)
The Offspring (55, 80)
The Whitlams (36, 43)
Other Notes
It was marked with a comical moment when Robbie Buck played the wrong Led Zeppelin song.
Grinspoon's track 'Just Ace', which reached #88 and Ben Folds Five's track 'Brick' which came #32 is to date the only song to chart in an All Time countdown before an official yearly countdown.
Notes
External links
Triple J's Hottest 100 of All Time, 1998
1998 in Australian music
1998 All Time
Australia Triple J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson%20topology | In mathematics and theoretical computer science the Lawson topology, named after Jimmie D. Lawson, is a topology on partially ordered sets used in the study of domain theory. The lower topology on a poset P is generated by the subbasis consisting of all complements of principal filters on P. The Lawson topology on P is the smallest common refinement of the lower topology and the Scott topology on P.
Properties
If P is a complete upper semilattice, the Lawson topology on P is always a complete T1 topology.
See also
Formal ball
References
G. Gierz, K. H. Hofmann, K. Keimel, J. D. Lawson, M. Mislove, D. S. Scott (2003), Continuous Lattices and Domains, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, Cambridge University Press.
External links
"How Do Domains Model Topologies?," Paweł Waszkiewicz, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 83 (2004)
Domain theory
General topology
Order theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perro%20amor%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Perro Amor (Dog Love) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo that originally ran in the United States from January to July 2010. This is a Colombian remake of the 1998 Cenpro Televisión daily telenovela Perro Amor, written by Natalia Ospina and Andrés Salgado. As with most of its other telenovelas, Telemundo broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
Plot
The action takes place in Miami, Florida. Perro amor tells the story of two lovers: Antonio "el perro (Dog)" Brando (Carlos Ponce) and Camila Brando (Maritza Rodríguez), who are also cousins. Ever since their teens, they have been playing at love. Now they are two lovers trying to live a life full of adventure, passion, conquests and bets. Anything goes: making love in a window in the bathroom of their office, or on the day of Antonio's wedding. All under one condition: no love between them, nor for anyone else. Love is a game, and the one who falls in love loses.
Antonio is all set to marry Daniela (Maritza Bustamante), the daughter of his father's business partner. But on their wedding day Camila makes him one of her famous bets: he wouldn't dare leave the bride at the altar. Antonio accepts the bet and goes through with it, refusing to say "I do" regardless of the likely consequences: Daniela's dad is the largest investor in the Brando family's construction company. Antonio's offensive behavior jeopardizes an important development project in which the Brando family's fortune is tied up, leaving the Brandos on the brink of bankruptcy. Also, on the day of the wedding, while preparing for the wedding (and after making love to Camila), through the window he spots Sofia (Ana Lucía Domínguez), whose mother is the caterer for the wedding and Sofia her assistant.
Parallel to this, the cash-pressed Brando family business deceives and defrauds Dagoberto (Gerardo Riveron), who represents a group of poor homeowners, who are said to benefit from the project that Daniela's father is investing in, but the Brandos, (notably Camila and her husband Gonzalo (Rodrigo de la Rosa) as the other members of the family are not familiar with the real master plan, as Camila is the head of the project), take possession of the houses in the neighborhood and then refuse to pay for them. This drives Dagoberto to take his own life rather than face the neighbors who trusted him. His son, Rocky (Khotan Fernández) swears revenge. Rocky is an honest young man who dreams of being a musician, a promising pop singer who is in love with Sofia, offering her a sincere love without lies or bets. He's trying everything he could do to take revenge on the Brandos.
But Antonio and Camila have gone too far, regardless of Sofia. The economic future of the construction company is at stake, along with a whole neighborhood, a family and the happiness of Rocky. But something will change: Antonio's father, Pedro (Victor Camara), puts Antonio out on the street for being irr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz%20Brzozowski | Janusz Brzozowski is the name of:
Janusz Brzozowski (handballer) (born 1951), Polish handball player
Janusz Brzozowski (computer scientist) (1935–2019), Polish-Canadian computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Boney%20Jr. | Roy Boney Jr. (ᎧᏂᎦ ᎪᎳᎭ, b. Dec, 1st, 1978) is a Cherokee comic artist, fine artist, computer animator and language preservationist from Locust Grove, Oklahoma, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and a hereditary member of the Deer Clan.
Background
Roy Boney Jr. grew up speaking the Cherokee language. He studied at Oklahoma State University, earning a BFA in Graphic Design. He received his Master of Arts degree at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he was a member of the Sequoyah Research Center team and received the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Fellowship.
Cherokee language
Boney works as the manager of the Cherokee Nation language program, and previously was as a language media specialist for the Cherokee Nation.
Visual arts
With Matthew Shepherd, Boney created the graphic novel series, Dead Eyes Open, published by Slave Labor Graphics. From a comic background, Boney ventured into fine art drawing and painting. His fine art debut in 2006 yielded the Grand Prize at the Cherokee Heritage Center's Trail of Tears art show and inclusion in the traveling exhibit, Frybread and Roses: The Art of Native American Labor. Several of Boney's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Sequoyah National Research Center.
Media arts
Boney collaborated with Joseph L. Erb at American Indian Resource Center, Inc., teaching animation to Muscogee Creek and Cherokee Children. Their Native language animated films have received numerous awards. Erb and Boney developed an iPhone application for Cherokee language text messaging and are developing Cherokee language social network and video games.
Writing
Boney is a regular contributor to Indian Country Today Media Network and First American Art Magazine.
See also
List of Native American artists from Oklahoma
Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas
References
External Sources
Oral History Interview with Roy Boney Jr.
Cherokee Nation artists
Native American drawing artists
Native American painters
Living people
1978 births
Painters from Oklahoma
People from Locust Grove, Oklahoma
Animators from Oklahoma
20th-century Native American artists
21st-century Native American artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Transportes%20A%C3%A9reos | Real Transportes Aéreos (acronym to Redes Estaduais Aéreas Limitadas, literal translation: State Air Networks Limited) was a Brazilian airline founded in 1945. It was merged into Varig in 1961, when Varig bought the Consórcio Real-Aerovias-Nacional, of which Real was the main carrier.
History
Real was founded by Vicente Mammana Netto and Linneu Gomes, two former TACA pilots. TACA also started up Aerovias Brasil, a Brazilian airline that later would form a consortium with Real. In November 1945 Mammana and Gomes bought three Douglas DC-3 and on November 30, 1945 it was authorized to fly. The first flight took off on February 7, 1946 from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. Later a second route, São Paulo to Curitiba was started.
Real grew by offering low fares because it had lower costs. It is said that it started a fare war to which followed a schedule war. In spite of this, Real was able to grow by extending the service to Curitiba to Porto Alegre and opening flights to Londrina and São José do Rio Preto. Real opened many flights to new locations in precarious operating conditions. It had a bad maintenance record and crews were pressured to fly under adverse conditions. The results were many serious accidents.
Real bought Linhas Aéreas Wright in 1948, Linhas Aéreas Natal in 1950 and Linha Aérea Transcontinental Brasileira in 1951, expanding its network on the northeast and center-west of Brazil.
In 1951 Real started its first international flight, from São Paulo to Asunción via Curitiba and Foz do Iguaçu. The Paraguayan Government also granted to Real domestic traffic rights on its route from Asunción to Uruguaiana via Encarnación. Encarnación is the most important city in the south of Paraguay.
The year 1954 brought to Real the most dramatic growth of its history: by purchasing the already established Aerovias Brasil, Real gained the prestige, experience and influence that it lacked. With the acquisition of Transportes Aéreos Nacional in 1956, a consortium which took the name of Consórcio Real-Aerovias-Nacional was created to fly on the entire Brazilian territory. Though maintaining legal independent identities, because they were controlled by the same person, Linneu Gomes, the three airlines operated jointly and in practice it was Real which controlled the consortium. The consortium dominated the passenger traffic on the triangle São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, the economic center of the country. In 1957 it created a route to Brasília, then still under construction.
To compete with Varig which flew from Rio de Janeiro to New York City with Lockheed Super Constellations 1049G on the east coast, Real received three Lockheed Super Constellations 1049H in 1958 and started a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Los Angeles via Manaus-Ponta Pelada, Bogotá, and Mexico City. In 1960 this route was extended to Honolulu and Tokyo-Haneda; São Paulo to Tokyo and return took just over a week.
The expansion took its toll leading to the gradual purchase |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Crowcroft | Jonathan Andrew Crowcroft (born 23 November 1957) is the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, and the chair of the programme committee at the Alan Turing Institute.
Education
Crowcroft was educated at Westminster School and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics in 1979 from the University of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate student of Trinity College, Cambridge. He then gained a Master of Science degree in computing in 1981 and PhD in 1993, both from University College London.
Career and research
Crowcroft joined the University of Cambridge in 2001, prior to which he was Professor of Networked Systems at University College London in the Computer Science Department. After he stepped down from UCL, he was succeeded by his former PhD student Mark Handley. he is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Crowcroft contributed to successful start-up projects. He has been a member of the Scientific Council of IMDEA Networks Institute since 2007. He served on the advisory board of Max Planck Institute for Software Systems .
Crowcroft has written, edited and co-authored a books and publications which have been adopted internationally in academic courses, including TCP/IP & Linux Protocol Implementation: Systems Code for the Linux Internet, Internetworking Multimedia and Open Distributed Systems.
Crowcroft has also done research in theoretical network science, particularly in the area of Turing switches, and he has suggested to replace general-purpose computers acting as network switches with specially-built hardware dedicated to packet switching, as well as using optical technology for the same purpose.
He is a director of the Matrix Foundation.
Awards and honours
Crowcroft was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. His nomination reads:
He was elected an ACM Fellow in 2003, a chartered fellow of the British Computer Society,
a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2004. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board 1996-2002, and attended
most of the first 50 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meetings.
Crowcroft served as general chair for the ACM SIGCOMM conference between 1995 and 1999, and received the SIGCOMM Award in 2009. The award to Crowcroft was
References
British computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge
1957 births
Living people
People educated at Westminster School, London
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Alumni of University College London
Fellows of the Royal Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons%20Computer%20Fantasy%20Game | Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game is a handheld electronic game released by Mattel in 1981. Designer Peter Oliphant claims that it was one of the more basic projects he worked on during his career.
Release
The Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game was released in the fall of 1981. Mattel stated that the game immediately sold out, setting it apart from some of Mattel Electronics' more well-known sports-themed handhelds.
Display
The game unit is a portable game with an LCD screen, and is powered by watch batteries.
The game opens with an isometric view of a simple 3D dungeon. The player is represented by a minor character who appears to be holding a sword aloft. The protagonist is at a crossroads in four passageways. The character's placement is indicated by an expanded letter and number, which always starts at A0. A cursor button moves a black arrow in one of four directions, while a move button moves the surface in the same way.
The character that the player would be controlling and the maze are depicted in the bottom left corner of the tiny screen, giving room for other icons that indicate when other items and monsters are nearby in one of the four directions. This contains a bat that can randomly pick the character up and place the character elsewhere in the maze. There is also a pit that will kill the character if the character does not have a rope to pull the character out of the pot. The rope occurs at the beginning of the game's most accessible setting, in the dungeon in the intermediate location, and there is no rope in the most challenging environment.
Gameplay
The LCD screen displayed a dungeon junction in quasi-three dimensions, coupled with hints of routes that the player may explore further. Each intersection also featured a number and letter designation, allowing the player to create a map while searching. The dungeon itself was made up of 100 squares laid out in ten rows ten. However, because the dungeon circled around itself, if the player were to walk beyond the edge in any direction, the character would resurface at the other edge.
The gameplay is similar to Hunt The Wumpus, in that the player moves through a maze, must beware of bats and pits, and must find an arrow and shoot it at the dragon without entering its lair directly. To win, the player must first find the magical arrow, then the dragon, and then shoot it with the weapon while in another room.
Every few seconds, an ominous four-tone piece of music plays as the player navigates through the maze. Each movement is accompanied by a tapping sound that is meant to indicate movement. The player will hear a descending sound followed by a few notes from a death dirge if the character falls into a pit. Unlike Hunt for the Wumpus, D&D's gameplay takes place on a ten by ten grid, with each square representing a different room.
The positioning of the dozen pits, the magical arrow, rope, and dragon are determined at random in each game. When the player wins, the p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2017 | National Cycle Route 17 is part of the United Kingdom's National Cycle Network. It presently runs southwards from Rochester, via Maidstone to Ashford where it links with National Cycle Route 18.
The route is open and is signed between Rochester and Maidstone, with the rest due for development. It leads from Rochester, via mainly minor roads, towards Blue Bell Hill, where it meets the North Downs Way (long distance footpath), both routes follow the Pilgrim's Way to Detling.
There is also a spur line down to the county town of Maidstone. The Pilgrim's Cycle Trail carries on towards Hollingbourne, after which it becomes traffic free towards (above Harrietsham, then via minor roads to Charing. It then heads to Westwell, Kent, and then via traffic-free route to Ashford, via Kennington, Kent.
In Ashford, it meets National Route 18 heading to the town centre, the route then heads out of Ashford via Sevington.
In future, it will continue to the south coast, through Bonnington and then (near Newchurch, Kent), it will link with National Cycle Route 2 between Folkestone and Lydd. Heading west, it will follow the approximate line of the North Downs Way National Trail entering Surrey.
References
Transport in Kent
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E263 | European route E 263 is a Class B road part of the International E-road network. It runs only through Estonia, begins in Tallinn and ends in Luhamaa, Võru County, and shares exactly the same route as Estonian national road 2.
Route: Tallinn – Tartu – Võru – Luhamaa.
Its total length is .
Route
Harju County
Tallinn
/ Narva, Saint Petersburg
Tallinn Airport
Jüri / Keila, Paldiski
Kose Kehra, Jägala
Kose Juuru, Hagudi
Kose
Ardu
Järva County
Mäo Pärnu/Rakvere
Nurmsi Koeru
Koigi
Imavere Võhma, Viljandi, Karksi-Nuia
Jõgeva County
Adavere
Põltsamaa
Jõgeva
Kõo, Võhma
Puurmani
Tartu County
Kärevere Kärkna
Tähtvere Tartu
Tartu
Viljandi
/ Valga, Valmiera, Inčukalns / Jõhvi
Tõrvandi
Ülenurme
Tartu Airport
Reola Põlva
Tatra Otepää, Sangaste
Kambja
Põlva County
Saverna Põlva
Kanepi
Otepää, Rõngu
Põlva, Räpina
Võru County
Vagula Sõmerpalu, Sangaste, Tõrva
Võru
Põlva
Räpina
-> Varstu, Valga
Vastseliina
Luhamaa /
Gallery
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
263
E263 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LucidDB | LucidDB is an open-source database purpose-built to power data warehouses, OLAP servers and business intelligence systems. According to the product website, its architecture is based on column-store, bitmap indexing, hash join/aggregation, and page-level multiversioning.
Overview
Purpose-built for data warehousing, OLAP, and business intelligence, LucidDB is a "columnar Business Intelligence database". It handles ETL functionality using extensions to ANSI SQL, by using 'wrappers' around a range of data sources (databases, text files, Web services, etc.), allowing them to be queried as though they were all databases. It can also be used for enterprise information integration. LucidDB uses the Optiq query planning and execution framework.
LucidDB achieves high performance by automatically identifying required indexes and creating them on the fly without the need for manual intervention. It includes a bulk loader that permits merge and update operations as well as insert.
LucidDB server is licensed under GPL, while LucidDB client is licensed under LGPL.
Current status
It appears that LucidDB is no longer being maintained based on its GitHub entry. The SourceForge page has not been updated since 2010.
LucidDB has had a long run as the first pure play open source column store database.
However, with no commercial sponsors and no ongoing community activity it's time to OFFICIALLY shut the doors.
There will be no future code, or binary releases (this repository may at some point) of luciddb. All assets (wiki, issues, etc) will likely start coming down as well over the course of 2014.
Appreciate all the effort by all those involved with LucidDB.
Optiq, has given home and new life to portions of the LucidDB codebase. If you're interested in speaking SQL to NoSQL sources please the Optiq project.
Connectors
JDBC driver
ADO.NET provider
References
External links
Eigenbase Foundation
Client-server database management systems
Free database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E264 | European route E 264 is a Class B road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Jõhvi, Estonia and ends in Inčukalns, Latvia. E264 consists of Estonian main road no. 3 and Latvian main road A3. The entire route is part of Via Hanseatica corridor.
The road follows: Jõhvi – Tartu – Valga – Valka – Valmiera – Inčukalns.
Gallery
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
264
E264
E264 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlipFactory | FlipFactory from Telestream is a video transcoding and workflow automation application. It enables the transfer of media and metadata files between professional video systems, including catch servers, broadcast servers, edit systems, streaming and distribution servers, storage area networks and digital asset management systems.
FlipFactory is used by News Digital Media, and Australian News Corp, to do all their video transcoding. BBDO New York also uses FlipFactory from Telestream to help them go tapeless.
As of December 2016, FlipFactory is no longer available or supported; Telestream have a new package called "Vantage."
Specifications
Avid and Dolby E workflow integration
Pass through and decoding of Dolby E for broadcast and editing
Avid workflows ingest and deliver media files and metadata in and out of Avid TransferManager Interplay networks
Microsoft IIS7 Smooth Streaming
Loudness correction for ads
HD VANC data preservation and insertion
H.264 closed caption support for IPTV workflows
References
Technicolor highlights broadcast services at NAB – David Austerberry – April 22, 2009
High-Definition Ads Arrive Via IP – Robin Berger – October 1, 2008
FlipFactory and Launch automation – Marco A. Rivera – May 2008
Flipping over HD – Claudia Kienzle – January 9, 2008
Case Study: Simplifying Digital Asset Management – Nancy Davis Kho – December 28, 2007
Automating the web workflow – David Stewart – October 2007
Telestream breaks into sports graphics arena – TVB Europe Editor – April 12, 2007
Video conversion software
Classic Mac OS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-source%20data | Single-source data (also single source) is the measurement of TV and/or other mass media's advertising exposure and purchase behavior, over time for the same individual or household. This measurement is gauged through the collection of data components supplied by one or more parties overlapped through a single, integrated system of data collection matched to the person or household level. How these data are stored is known as a single-source database.
In TV advertising measurement, single-source data is used to explore how advertising exposure influences individuals or households' loyalty and buying behavior across different windows of time, e.g., year, quarter, month, and week. Single-source data is a compilation of (1) home-scanned sales records and/or loyalty card purchases from retail or grocery stores and other commercial operations, (2) ad exposure (or not) from TV tune-in data from cable set-top boxes or people meters (pushbutton or passive) or household tuning meters, and (3) Household demographic information.
The significance of single-source data resides in its ability to provide a natural and controlled measurement of advertising effectiveness within the market, particularly through the comparison of exposed and non-exposed consumers. This data exhibits a longitudinal structure and offers a high level of dis-aggregation, both at the individual and temporal levels. Single-source data serves to illuminate variations in household exposure to a brand's advertisements and their corresponding purchasing patterns in the context of advertising fluctuations.
Companies
"Project Apollo" was designed to be a single source, national market research service based on Nielsen's Home Scan technology for measuring consumer purchase behavior, combined with Arbitron's Portable People Meter system, measuring electronic media exposure. In January 2006, The Nielsen Company and Arbitron Inc. completed the deployment of a national pilot panel of more than 11,000 persons in 5,000 households.
Seven advertisers (P&G, Unilever, Walmart, Pfizer, Pepsi, Kraft), S.C. Johnson, signed on as members of the Project Apollo Steering Committee. The Committee worked with Arbitron and Nielsen to evaluate the utility of multimedia and purchase information from a common sample of consumers. Individuals within the sample were given incentives to voluntarily carry Arbitron's Portable People Meter, a small, pager-sized device that collects the person's exposure to electronic media sources: broadcast television networks, cable networks, and network radio as well as audio-based commercials broadcast on these platforms. Consumer exposure to other media such as newspapers, magazines, and circulars was collected through additional survey instruments. The project was shuttered in February 2008 due to sample size, cost, and insufficient client commitment.
Prior to Apollo, there were other attempts to provide single-source measurement in the U.S., including Arbitron's Scan Americ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Trade%20Internet%20System | The U.S. Trade Internet System is a comprehensive, interactive, on-line source of agricultural import and export data maintained by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service. Users can find, organize, and customize this data (including that provided through BICO and FATUS) by commodity grouping, country, year, and related categories.
References
External links
Website
United States Department of Agriculture programs
Foreign Agricultural Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jointly%20Administered%20Knowledge%20Environment | The Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment, or jake, was the first open source OpenURL link server. It was a free database created by Yale University. Jake contained metadata about periodicals, including which databases a periodical appeared in, and whether it was indexed, abstracted, or full-text. Additionally, "Jake contains descriptions of 162 of the widely subscribed-to databases, search interfaces and free standing electronic services. Specifications such as title lists, number of titles with citations, and number of titles with full text are given for database descriptions."
Jake was used by Simon Fraser University to create their own electronic resource management solution. Despite its initial growth, by December 2006, jake was no longer being supported. As of July 14, 2009, the jake website now directs users to OCLC's WorldCat Link Manager (WCLM), an expensive subscription service that replicates what jake once offered for free. The corresponding OCLC WorldCat Link Manager site now as of at least February 26, 2012 indicates that it has been retired.
References
Online databases
Free software
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Library automation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkes%20University%20Election%20Statistics%20Project | The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project is a free online resource documenting Pennsylvania political election results dating back to 1796.
Currently, the database documents Pennsylvania's county-level vote totals for President, Governor, United States Senator, and Congressional elections back to 1796. The database also contains directories for members of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly and the Pennsylvania General Assembly, dating back to 1682.
According to the database's designer, Wilkes University Professor Harold E. Cox, "No other state has anything like it." The project's impetus began in 1996, when Cox inquired about 19th century election statistics, only to find that the data would cost $1,000.
The project has been cataloged by the Pennsylvania State University Libraries and the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania. It has been cited as a source in academic books about the Supreme Court of the United States, Communist politicians in Pennsylvania, and a survey of state-level political parties.
See also
Elections in Pennsylvania
References
External links
Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1682-2006 - The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project
Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1682-2006 - Mirror site
Wilkes University
Politics of Pennsylvania
Online databases
Elections in the United States
Internet properties established in 1996
1996 establishments in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NutshellMail | NutshellMail was a social network aggregation service that allowed users to manage and interact with updates from social networking services through a consolidated email digest. NutshellMail supported Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Ning.
In March 2008, PC World wrote an article suggesting that NutshellMail could allow users to streamline their social network experience LifeHacker called NutshellMail "The Sledgehammer" to filter and manage online social lives in a May 2009 article.
Background
NutshellMail was founded in October 2008 by David Lyman, Mark Schmulen, Scott Mury, and David Neubauer. NutshellMail initially launched with a focus on email consolidation. However, as social networks and social media such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter dramatically increased their user bases, NutshellMail released support for these services and made social network aggregation and interaction the primary focus of its development.
On May 24, 2010, NutshellMail was acquired by Constant Contact.
In September 2010, NutshellMail discontinued their email consolidation service altogether to focus on social media based features.
In February 2016, Constant Contact announced the service shutdown for March 22, 2016.
Recognition
On May 28, 2009, Facebook announced that NutshellMail was one of 20 winners of the fbFund 2009 competition out of a pool of over 400 applicants. NutshellMail was participating in the fbFund 2009 Rev incubator program and had received funding through the fbFund. fbFund was administered by Facebook and funded by Accel Partners and The Founders Fund. On November 19, 2009, Ning announced that Nutshellmail won the Ning Appathon competition as a Best Ported App finalist.
References
Defunct social networking services
Social information processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing%20IDE | The Wing Python IDE family of integrated development environments (IDEs) from Wingware was created specifically for the Python programming language, with support for editing, testing, debugging, inspecting/browsing, and error checking Python code.
There are three products in this product line, each focused on different types of users:
Wing Pro – a full-featured commercial version, for professional programmers
Wing Personal – a free version that omits some features, for students and hobbyists
Wing 101 – a very simplified free version, for teaching beginner programmers
Wing Pro provides local and remote debugging, editing (with multiple key bindings, auto-completion, and auto-editing), multi-selection, source browser and code navigation, code refactoring, error checking, auto-reformatting, unit testing, version control, project management, Python environment and package management, search abilities, fine-grained customization, support for Docker and LXC containers, assistance for working with third party frameworks and tools (such as Django, Flask, Matplotlib, Pandas, Blender, Maya, Unreal Engine, PyQt, wxPython, and others) through Python scripting, and comprehensive documentation.
Wing Personal and Wing 101 omit some of these features. All three versions of Wing run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Free licenses for Wing Pro are available on application for some educational uses and for unpaid open-source software developers.
Debugger
The debugger can be used to track down and fix bugs, and also as a way to write new code interactively in the live runtime state for which the code is being designed. The level of the debugging support depends on the version used.
Wing 101 supports:
Debug code launched from the IDE (as a file or module with 'python -m')
Interactive debugging from (and within) the integrated Python Shell
Exception and traceback reporting
View stack, local/global variables, and return values
Data frame and array viewer
Integrated Debug I/O tool with configurable text encoding
Optional native console I/O
Steps over importlib frames
Wing Personal adds:
Multi-threaded debugging
Debug code launched outside of the IDE, including code running under a web framework or embedded instance of Python
Debug value tool tips
Alter debug data values
Define named entry points and debug launch configurations
Wing Pro adds:
Interactive Debug Probe command line for inspecting the current debug frame, with auto-completion, syntax highlighting, goto-definition, call tips, and documentation links
Multi-process and automatic child process debugging
Launch remote debug processes from the IDE
Conditional and ignore-counted breakpoints
Enable/disable breakpoints
Move debug program counter
Debug unit tests
Tutorials and extra features for Django, Flask, Jupyter, matplotlib, web2py, Plone, Zope, Docker, AWS, Vagrant, Raspberry Pi, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Blender, Unreal Engine, Nuke, and many others
The ability to press Shif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dineurodes | Dineurodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae, Subfamily Larentiinae. OLIGOPLEURA Herrich-Schäffer, [1855] is also a valid name.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplochroa | Diplochroa is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplurodes | Diplurodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
Species
Diplurodes decursaria (Walker, 1862)
Diplurodes indentata Warren, 1897
Diplurodes inundata Prout, 1929
Diplurodes kerangatis Holloway, 1993
Diplurodes petras (Meyrick, 1897)
Diplurodes semicircularis Holloway, 1993
Diplurodes sinecoremata Holloway, 1993
Diplurodes submontana Holloway, 1976
Diplurodes sugillata Prout, 1932
Diplurodes triangulata Holloway, 1993
Diplurodes vestita Warren, 1896
References
Diplurodes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Boarmiini
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drepanopsis | Drepanopsis is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash%20Zone | Crash Zone is an Australian children's science fiction television series which aired on the Seven Network from 13 February 1999 to 25 August 2001. It was produced by Australian Children's Television Foundation, in association with the Disney Channel, and ran for 26 episodes. The series stars five high school students, "high-tech whiz kids" of varied backgrounds, who are hired by the president of the Catalyst software company to save her failing business. The premise of the series was unique in that it was one of the first series to examine the early use of the internet as well as the video game industry and artificial intelligence.
Plot
Mike Hansen (Nikolai Nikolaeff), Alison 'Pi' Renfrey (Cassandra Magrath), Rebecca 'Bec' Chan (Frances Wang), Marcello Di Campili (Paul Pantano) and Abraham 'Ram' Foley (Damien Bodie) are five Melbourne high school students who all have a strong interest in computers, online gaming and the internet. While playing an online computer game, they each discover a coded message. The message prompts them to follow a series of clues that eventually leads them to a meeting with Alexandra Davis (Nicki Wendt), president of the software company Catalyst.
Confessing that she was the author of the messages, Davis reveals to the teenagers that her company is struggling and she would like to hire one of the teens as game testers in order to design games for her company at "The Crash Zone". Davis proposes a competition in which the winner takes the job, and while the competition is fierce, she is impressed by their teamwork and offers them all positions in the company. The one exception is Ram, who she feels is too young, but who is allowed to remain with the teens. As well as the developing friendships with each other and their social lives, the teenagers also discover Virgil (Matt Parkinson), a mysterious artificial intelligence which exists on the internet.
The second series has the teenagers returning from their summer vacations to find the financial situation at Catalyst to have become much more serious. Davis has been forced to lay off most of her staff and they may be next. Two new characters are introduced in the second series, 12-year-old Penny Gallagher and her father Matthew Gallagher. Penny Gallagher, who is befriended by Ram, persuades her father to offer Davis a deal to save Catalyst from bankruptcy. Although knowing very little about the video game industry, Matthew Gallagher is a very successful businessman and very quickly turns the company around. However, his changes often results in conflict between him and the staff.
Characters
Alison 'Pi' Renfrey (Cassandra Magrath) - The daughter of a highly popular actor and is usually regarded as the richest of the group. She is beautiful, spirited and occasionally rude. In series 2 Pi and Mike start dating.
Marcello Di Campili (Paul Pantano) - Of Italian ancestry, he has high hopes of becoming super rich one day and often gets into trouble as a result of his various |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beer%20Hunter | The Beer Hunter may refer to
A 1986 Computer Adventure Game by Mike Roberts (writer, video game designer, politician)
A TV series about beer by Michael Jackson (writer)
An episode of the TV series Minder: List of Minder episodes#The Beer Hunter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softphone | A softphone is a software program for making telephone calls over the Internet using a general purpose computer rather than dedicated hardware. The softphone can be installed on a piece of equipment such as a desktop, mobile device, or other computer and allows the user to place and receive calls without requiring an actual telephone set. Often, a softphone is designed to behave like a traditional telephone, sometimes appearing as an image of a handset, with a display panel and buttons with which the user can interact. A softphone is usually used with a headset connected to the sound card of the PC or with a USB phone.
Applications
See Comparison of VoIP software
Communication protocols
To communicate, both end-points must support the same voice-over-IP protocol, and at least one common audio codec.
Many service providers use the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Skype, a popular service, uses proprietary protocols, and Google Talk leveraged the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).
Some softphones also support the Inter-Asterisk eXchange protocol (IAX), a protocol supported by the open-source software application Asterisk.
Features
A typical softphone has all standard telephony features (DND, Mute, DTMF, Flash, Hold, Transfer etc.) and often additional features typical for online messaging, such as user presence indication, video, wide-band audio. Softphones provide a variety of audio codecs, a typical minimum set is G.711 and G.729.
Requirements
To make voice calls via the Internet, a user typically requires the following:
A modern PC with a microphone and speaker, or with a headset, or USB phone.
Reliable high-speed Internet connectivity like digital subscriber line (DSL), or cable service.
Account with an Internet telephony service provider or IP PBX provider.
Mobile or landline phone.
See also
Auto dialer
Chatcord
Comparison of VoIP software
Computer telephony integration
H.323
List of SIP software
Mobile VoIP
Videotelephony
VoIP phone
References
VoIP software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCCA | NCCA may refer to:
National Centre for Computer Animation, part of the Media School at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, a museum, exhibition and research organization in Moscow, Russia
National Championship of College A Cappella, former name of International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, a singing competition
National Collegiate Cycling Association, a division of USA Cycling
National Commission for Certifying Agencies, the accreditation body of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence
National Commission for Culture and the Arts, official arts council of the Philippines
National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, a statutory organization that provides the primary school and post-primary curriculum in Ireland
National Council of Churches in Australia, an ecumenical organisation
Neuroblastoma Children's Cancer Alliance UK, charity that helps children and families
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
See also
NCAA (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20A.%20Ellis | Margaret A. Ellis is a notable author of computer books.
Ellis received a master of science degree in computer science from the University of California. She is the coauthor of The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, with Bjarne Stroustrup. She also coauthored Designing and Coding Reusable C++ with Martin D. Carroll (1995). She has worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories, UNIX System Laboratories, and Novell in compiler development.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American technology writers
Women technology writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-installed%20software | Pre-installed software (also known as bundled software) is software already installed and licensed on a computer or smartphone bought from an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). The operating system is usually factory-installed, but because it is a general requirement, this term is used for additional software apart from the bare necessary amount, usually from other sources (or the operating system vendor).
Unwanted factory-installed software (also known as crapware or bloatware) can include major security vulnerabilities, like Superfish, which installs a root certificate to inject advertising into encrypted Google search pages, but leaves computers vulnerable to serious cyberattacks that breach the security used in banking and finance websites.
Some mirror sites for freeware use unwanted software bundling that similarly installs unwanted software.
Unwanted software
Often new PCs come with factory-installed software which the manufacturer was paid to include, but is of dubious value to the purchaser. Most of these programs are included without the user's knowledge, and have no instructions on how to opt-out or remove them.
A Microsoft executive mentioned that within the company these applications were dubbed craplets (a portmanteau of crap and applet). He suggested that the experience of people buying a new Windows computer can be damaged by poorly designed, uncertified third-party applications installed by vendors. He stated that the antitrust case against Microsoft prevented the company from stopping the pre-installation of these programs by OEMs. Walt Mossberg, technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, condemned "craplets" in two columns published in April 2007, and suggested several possible strategies for removing them.
The bundling of these unwanted applications is often performed in exchange for financial compensation, paid to the OEM by the application's publisher. At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, Dell defended this practice, stating that it keeps costs down, and implying that systems might cost significantly more to the end user if these programs were not factory-installed. Some system vendors and retailers will offer, for an additional charge, to remove unwanted factory-installed software from a newly purchased computer; retailers, in particular, will tout this service as a "performance improvement." In 2008, Sony Corporation announced a plan to charge end users US$50 for the service; Sony subsequently decided to drop the charge for this service and offer it for free after many users expressed outrage. Microsoft Store similarly offers a range of "Signature Edition" computers sold in a similar state, as well as extended warranty and support packages through Microsoft.
On smartphones
Mobile phones typically come with factory-installed software provided by its manufacturer or mobile network operator; similarly to their PC equivalents, they are sometimes tied to account management or other premium services offered |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%20Bullets%20Back | 100 Bullets Back are an English electro/dance/pop duo from Oxford, England consisting of David Clayton (keyboards, synthesizers, bass guitar, backing vocals, programming) and Noel Pearson (vocals, guitars, synthesizers, programming). They have released two studio albums, five singles and two EPs. They played their last gig in early 2011 as part of a one-off reunion show at Abort, Retry, Fail?, and are currently on long term hiatus as they explore other projects.
Early history
Clayton and Pearson first met at The Henry Box School in Witney, Oxfordshire when Clayton joined the Sixth Form after moving to the area. Realising a shared interest in music (particularly the bassoon) and especially the thriving Brit Pop scene, the two formed their first band, 'The Hairy Palmers' with friend James Wood. The shambolic acoustic based outfit never performed live and although primarily played covers, saw the two write their first songs together.
After finishing school, both Clayton and Pearson attended Staffordshire University. With the demise of 'The Hairy Palmers', the two started writing original material in earnest under the guise of 'Cider and Black'. A cassette entitled Cider and Black: The demos was recorded live and showcased an acoustic, Brit Pop sound of original material. A few live acoustic performances took place before the band changed their name to 'Atticus' and began to introduce electric guitars into their material. This was relatively short lived however as the band soon disbanded when the two went backpacking around the world, only reuniting for a couple of open mic events when the two met up in Sydney, Australia.
On returning from their travels, the pair decided to form a fully amplified live band which saw Pearson taking up guitar and vocal duties while Clayton took up the bass and vocals. Needing a drummer, David's brother Martyn Clayton was recruited. Martyn had learnt the drums while the others had been away and had spent the previous year playing in local metal bands. Martyn's main input however was that of choosing the band name, '100 Bullets Back'. The trio rehearsed in the Clayton's parents garage and played their first gigs together later that year, with a set consisting of new original material and some favourite covers such as Pet Shop Boys "Opportunities", The Kinks "Waterloo Sunset" and Martyn's version of Elvis's "Hound Dog".
First recordings
After only a handful of gigs and one live recording "Clipped", the band ventured into the studio to record their first demo proper, Significant Silence EP. Needing piano on a couple of songs, the band brought in school friend Andrea Johnston for the recordings, but were so happy with her input, asked her to join permanently. The new line up started gigging regularly around Oxford and Reading whilst developing their bank of songs and ventured into the studio once again to record another demo, The Violence EP, in 2003. With this recording, the musical direction of the band began to move |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz%20Brzozowski%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Janusz (John) Antoni Brzozowski (May 10, 1935 – October 24, 2019) was a Polish-Canadian computer scientist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo's David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.
In 1962, Brzozowski earned his PhD in the field of electrical engineering at Princeton University under Edward J. McCluskey. The topic of the thesis was Regular Expression Techniques for Sequential Circuits. From 1967 to 1996 he was Professor at the University of Waterloo. He is known for his contributions to mathematical logic, circuit theory, and automata theory.
Achievements in research
Brzozowski worked on regular expressions and on syntactic semigroups of formal languages. The result was Characterizations of locally testable events written together with Imre Simon, which had a similar impact on the development of the algebraic theory of formal languages as Marcel-Paul Schützenberger's characterization of the star-free languages.
In the area, today at least four concepts bear Brzozowski's name in honour of his contributions: The first is the Brzozowski's conjecture about the regularity of noncounting classes. Second, Brzozowski's algorithm, a conceptually simple algorithm for performing DFA minimization. Third, the Brzozowski derivative of a formal language or of a generalised regular expression. Fourth, Eilenberg's reference work on automata theory has a chapter devoted to the so-called Brzozowski hierarchy inside the star-free languages, also known as dot-depth hierarchy. Notably, Brzozowski was not only co-author of the paper that defined the dot-depth hierarchy and raised the question whether this hierarchy is strict, he later also was co-author of the paper resolving that problem after roughly ten years. The Brzozowski hierarchy gained further importance after Wolfgang Thomas discovered a relation between the algebraic concept of dot-depth and the alternation depth of quantifiers in first-order logic via Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé games.
He received the following academic awards and honours:
NSERC Scientific Exchange Award to France (1974–1975)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship (1984)
Computing Research Association Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding contributions and service as a member of the CRA Board of Directors (1992)
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Canada (1996)
Medal of Merit, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (2001)
IBM Canada Canadian Pioneer in Computing (2005)
The Role of Theory in Computer Science, a one-day conference in honour of John Brzozowski's 80th birthday (2015)
The Role of Theory in Computer Science: Essays Dedicated to Janusz Brzozowski, World Scientific (2017)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Computer Science Canada/Informatique Canada (CS-CAN/INFO-CAN) (2016)
CIAA 2017 Sheng Yu Award for Best Paper for Complexity of Proper Prefix-Convex Regular Languages by J. Brzozowski and C. Sinnamon
CIAA 2018 Sheng Yu Award for Best Paper for S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide%20Data%20Program | The Pesticide Data Program (PDP) is a program initiated in 1991 by the Agricultural Marketing Service division of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The PDP is empowered to collect pesticide residue data on selected food commodities, primarily fruits and vegetables. PDP produces an annual summary; the last such summary for 2016 data was released in early 2018.
PDP data are used by the EPA to support its dietary risk assessment process and pesticide registration process, by the Food and Drug Administration to refine sampling for enforcement of tolerances; by the Foreign Agricultural Service, to support export of U.S. commodities in a competitive global market; by the Economic Research Service to evaluate pesticide alternatives; and by the public sector to address food safety issues.
References
https://www.ams.usda.gov/press-release/usda-releases-2016-annual-pesticide-data-program-summary
External links
PDP homepage
Pesticide Data Program Annual Summary, Calendar Year 2009
Pesticide organizations
United States Department of Agriculture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance-based%20inspection%20system | The Performance-Based Inspection System (PBIS) is a computer-based system used by USDA’s meat and poultry inspection agency, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The system organizes inspection requirements, schedules inspection activities, and maintains records of findings for meat and poultry processing operations under federal inspection.
Controversy
PBIS has been at issue because consumer advocates and some inspectors have contended that it is not flexible and second-guesses inspectors’ more reliable experience and judgment. USDA views it as an objective tool for inspection that enhances rather than undermines inspectors’ roles.
References
United States Department of Agriculture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20IdeaPad%20S12 | The IdeaPad S12 is a line of consumer-oriented netbook computers designed by Lenovo. It is a model in the IdeaPad series and their first netbook to have a 12" screen. The computers were put on the market in 2009 and currently come in black and white.
Description
It contains either an Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz processor or a Via Nano 1.3 GHz processor. They support 802.11 b/g wireless networking and come with three USB ports, an ExpressCard/34 expansion slot, a 4-in-1 media reader, VGA and HDMI outputs and an ethernet port. The S12 is one of the first netbooks to support nVidia's ION platform for mobile HD video playback.
Past revision
The IdeaPad S12 has a base price of (USD) $449 for the Intel Atom N270 model and (USD) $429 for the Via Nano ULV 2250. It features a 12.1" 1280×800 WXGA display with a 160GB hard disk drive, which can be upgraded by removing the keyboard and 1GB DDR2 SDRAM, which is easily upgraded via a user access panel on the bottom of the netbook.
Last lineup
The S12 was revised on 22 October 2009 and was priced between (USD) $399 and $649. It comes with either Windows XP Home Edition or Windows 7 Home Premium, a 160–320 GB hard drive, and 1–3 GB of RAM.
References
External links
S12
Netbooks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctrl%20%28web%20series%29 | Ctrl is an American comedy web series by NBC. It is the first stand-alone web series launched by a major television network. The series stars Tony Hale as a typical office-working, self-confidence-lacking nerd who discovers he can undo things (as well as employ other keyboard functions) in real life. It is an adaptation and expansion of the short film Ctrl Z by Robert Kirbyson, which was a winner at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
CTRL was spotted and developed by SXM from the original short film Ctrl Z, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. SXM ultimately partnered with NBC's digital studio to produce the online series. After NBC shut the digital studio in 2011, all rights reverted to SXM, who are currently developing Season 2 with Yahoo and a private investor. By 2012, the episodes were no longer on the NBC website, and by 2022 no longer on Hulu.
Cast
Tony Hale as Stuart Grundy
Steve Howey as Ben Piller
Emy Coligado as Elizabeth
Edgar Morais as Jeremy
Richard Karn as Arthur Piller
Scott L. Schwartz as a security guard
Episodes
Games
There are also two games on the NBC website. The first lets you guess Stuart's password ("MERLIN'S IVORY BEARD") and watch some extra video clips. The second lets you explore Stuart's desktop. You can use Stuart's password from the first game to watch more of the second. By manipulating the flash file by going "back" in the flash file, you can get the option to type in a Username and Password with a submit button below.
References
External links
Ctrl on NBC's Official Website (as of 2012-04-02, the actual link works but no videos are present)
Ctrl on Hulu
American comedy web series
American science fiction web series
2009 web series debuts
2009 web series endings
American time travel television series
NBC original programming
Television shows set in Los Angeles
Television series by Universal Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimetric%20electrical%20network | An antimetric electrical network is an electrical network that exhibits anti-symmetrical electrical properties. The term is often encountered in filter theory, but it applies to general electrical network analysis. Antimetric is the diametrical opposite of symmetric; it does not merely mean "asymmetric" (i.e., "lacking symmetry"). It is possible for networks to be symmetric or antimetric in their electrical properties without being physically or topologically symmetric or antimetric.
Definition
References to symmetry and antimetry of a network usually refer to the input impedances of a two-port network when correctly terminated. A symmetric network will have two equal input impedances, Zi1 and Zi2. For an antimetric network, the two impedances must be the dual of each other with respect to some nominal impedance R0. That is,
or equivalently
It is necessary for antimetry that the terminating impedances are also the dual of each other, but in many practical cases the two terminating impedances are resistors and are both equal to the nominal impedance R0. Hence, they are both symmetric and antimetric at the same time.
Physical and electrical antimetry
Symmetric and antimetric networks are often also topologically symmetric and antimetric, respectively. The physical arrangement of their components and values are symmetric or antimetric as in the ladder example above. However, it is not a necessary condition for electrical antimetry. For example, if the example networks of figure 1 have an additional identical T-section added to the left-hand side as shown in figure 2, then the networks remain topologically symmetric and antimetric. However, the network resulting from the application of Bartlett's bisection theorem applied to the first T-section in each network, as shown in figure 3, are neither physically symmetric nor antimetric but retain their electrical symmetric (in the first case) and antimetric (in the second case) properties.
Two-port parameters
The conditions for symmetry and antimetry can be stated in terms of two-port parameters. For a two-port network described by normalized impedance parameters (z-parameters),
if the network is symmetric, and
if the network is antimetric. Passive networks of the kind illustrated in this article are also reciprocal, which requires that
and results in a normalized z-parameter matrix of,
for symmetric networks and
for antimetric networks.
For a two-port network described by scattering parameters (S-parameters),
if the network is symmetric, and
if the network is antimetric. The condition for reciprocity is,
resulting in an S-parameter matrix of,
for symmetric networks and
for antimetric networks.
Applications
Some circuit designs naturally output antimetric networks. For instance, a low-pass Butterworth filter implemented as a ladder network with an even number of elements will be antimetric. Similarly, a bandpass Butterworth with an even number of resonators will be antimetric |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Dairy%20Board | The New Zealand Dairy Board (NZDB) was a statutory board in control of the export of all New Zealand dairy products from its formation in 1923 until 2001. It operated through a global network of marketing subsidiaries.
In 2001, the Dairy Board was merged with the two largest New Zealand dairy cooperatives (which represented 96% of the industry) to a company initially called GlobalCo, but shortly afterwards renamed Fonterra.
The merger required approval from the Commerce Commission, which it declined, so a special Act of Parliament, the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001 was passed allowing the merger to occur.
See also
Fonterra
New Zealand Meat Producers Board 1922
New Zealand Wool Board 1944
Dairy farming in New Zealand
Agriculture in New Zealand
References
External links
Our history at Fonterra
Marketing boards
Foreign trade of New Zealand
Dairy farming in New Zealand
Dairy organizations
Fonterra
Dairy marketing
Agricultural organisations based in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2003–04 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.
2003 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
2003 in Canadian television
2004 in Canadian television
Canadian television schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang-8.com | Lang-8.com is a language exchange social networking website geared towards language learners. The website is run by Lang-8 Inc., which is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, there are over 750,000 registered users spanning more than 190 countries and 90 languages.
History
Yangyang Xi, born in China and raised in Japan, conceived of Lang-8.com when he was 23 years old. At that time, he was a student at Kyoto University studying abroad in Shanghai, China. There, he kept a journal with his Chinese friends. Yangyang was studying Chinese and wrote entries in Chinese for his friends to correct. In return, his friends wrote entries in Yangyang's primary language (Japanese) for him to correct. This would be the catalyst for Lang-8.
In August 2006, Yangyang and classmate Kazuki Matsumoto created Lang-8.com as a research project. The program was limited to the students of Kyoto University. Between April and August 2007 the website was restructured and on June 29, 2007 YangYang Xi established the Lang-8 Inc. company.
In 2009, Yangyang and Kazuki had a falling out and Kazuki left the company. Yangyang is currently the CEO of the company.
In 2016, Lang-8 raised 200 million Yen.
Since February 2017, no new user registrations have been allowed. They say they originally planned to lift the suspension after 6 months. In March 2018 they finally extended the suspension without a specific end date. According to their blog post, this suspension is due to the fact that they are a small company so they do not have the resources to deal with spammers and bots that have been abusing the platform, and to work on the Lang-8 app and its sister service HiNative simultaneously.
Features
Features common to all accounts
Users are able to post in the language(s) they are learning and that post will appear to native speakers of that language for correction. Users are limited to two learning languages.
Users can also correct posts written in their native language. The correction feature includes things such as color coding, bold, and strikethrough.
Premium account features
Entries posted by premium account members are given priority display which increases the likelihood of receiving a correction.
Other premium account features include the ability to add images to entries, download PDF versions of entries/corrections, add an unlimited number of learning languages, hide advertisements, perform personal journal searches, customize the background with images, and make suggestions to improve correction entry.
Community
As of December 2013, the website has over 750,000 registered members and continues to experience solid growth. However, users have been unable to register and are redirected to their other service, HiNative, which had about 240,000 users by the end of September 2016, since March 2017.
The user base is made up of people from over 190 countries, speaking around 90 different languages. The primary user base is Japanese, with approximately 30% of users originating |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysethia | Dysethia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysethiodes | Dysethiodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eariodes | Eariodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecchloropsis | Ecchloropsis is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccoptopteryx | Eccoptopteryx is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectropidia | Ectropidia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
Species
Ectropidia altiprimata Holloway, 1993
Ectropidia coremaria Hampson
Ectropidia exprimata (Walker, 1861)
Ectropidia fimbripedata Warren, 1900
Ectropidia harmani Holloway, 1993
Ectropidia illepidaria (Walker, 1861)
Ectropidia quasilepidaria Holloway, 1993
Ectropidia semijubata (Prout, 1929)
Ectropidia shoreae (Prout)
References
Ectropidia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Boarmiini
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epione%20%28moth%29 | Epione is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1829.
Species
Epione emundata (Christoph, 1880)
Epione exaridaria (Graeser, 1890)
Epione repandaria (Hufnagel, 1767)
Epione vespertaria (Linnaeus, 1767)
References
Ourapterygini
Taxa named by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCOP%20%28FM%29 | WCOP (103.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station, licensed to Eldred, Pennsylvania. It is an owned-and-operated station in the Family Life Network, a regional Christian broadcaster.
History
McKean County's first FM
What would eventually become WCOP began at a time when Kane, Pennsylvania, the station's original city of license, was experiencing a sharp decline in its local economy. Originally assigned the call letters WRXZ and going on the air December 22, 1981, 103.9 came on the air at a time of extensive expansion of the FM radio band; the FCC's Docket 80-90 resulted in a boom of new FM stations in suburban and rural locations through the 1980s.
WRXZ was founded by Huber-Dixon Broadcasting, with T.R. Dixon serving as president, and Clarence V. Huber, Jr. as general manager.
WRXZ would be competing for advertising revenue with a well-established AM competitor, WKZA, that had been on the air since 1954, and had been controlled for many years by a New York-based company (the Bilbat Broadcast Bunch dba locally as Raise Kane Radio, Inc.) that had other stations in its portfolio in addition to its own.
The call letters were changed to WIFI about two years after going on the air, and it didn't take long for WIFI to make an impact on its competitor, though not enough to effectively put it out of business until years later. WIFI was the very first FM station to come on the air in McKean County, with WBRR in Bradford coming on the air three years later.
WHKS in Port Allegany and WQRM in Smethport would not come on the air until six and seven years later, respectively. Though only 3,000 watts at the time of its debut, Kane was located at the top of a mountain, which allowed WIFI a huge coverage area from a relatively short antenna, thus enabling it to serve all of McKean County and parts of New York's Twin Tiers area, as well as a portion of Elk and Warren Counties.
The fall of WKZA and rise of WLMI
Despite the emergence of FM as the leading broadcast technology and the fact that WIFI offered listeners local radio service after WKZA's then-FCC-mandated shutdown at sunset, WKZA remained the dominant local radio service, and by 1987, WIFI's finances were depleted, and the station was taken off the air until a new buyer could be found.
Industrialist Dennis Heindl of Ridgway, Pennsylvania, purchased the station for $105,000 in January 1988 from Mountain Forest Communications. The station was renovated, re-equipped, and reassigned the call letters WLMI, for Laurel Media, Inc. (His manufacturing company was Laurel Manufacturing Inc.)
Heindl returned the station to the air in April 1988. In 1989, Heindl sold WLMI and a construction permit for an unbuilt station in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania (assigned the calls WDDH then, now known today as WDSN), to William Hearst, president of Clarion County Broadcasting. As WLMI began to entrench itself as a formidable competitor in town, many of WKZA's staff defected to WLMI, leaving Raise Kane Radio to put WKZA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erioptereta | Erioptereta is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erschoffia | Erschoffia is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eualloea | Eualloea is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euangerona | Euangerona is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodena | Geodena is a genus of moth from the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Ennominae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometra | Geometra is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
Species in Europe
Geometra papilionaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometrinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongropteryx | Gongropteryx is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyostega | Gyostega is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Abraxini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliomata | Heliomata is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
Species
Heliomata cycladata Grote & Robinson, 1866 – common spring moth
Heliomata fulliola Barnes & McDunnough, 1917
Heliomata glarearia (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
Heliomata infulata (Grote, 1863) – rare spring moth
References
External links
Macariini
Moth genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulstina | Hulstina is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1903.
Species
Hulstina aridata Barnes & Benjamin, 1929
Hulstina exhumata (Swett, 1918)
Hulstina formosata (Hulst, 1896)
Hulstina grossbecki Rindge, 1970
Hulstina imitatrix Rindge, 1970
Hulstina nevadaria Brown, 1998
Hulstina tanycraeros Rindge, 1970
Hulstina wrightiaria (Hulst, 1888)
Hulstina xera Rindge, 1970
References
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydata | Hydata is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iotaphora | Iotaphora is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
Species
Iotaphora admirabilis (Oberthur, 1884)
Iotaphora iridicolor (Butler, 1880)
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometrinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauria | Kauria is a rare genus of moth in the family Geometridae, found most commonly in the Appalachian Mountains.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Melanthiini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrtolitha | Kyrtolitha is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Larentiini
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacaria | Lacaria is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laciniodes | Laciniodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Asthenini
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laneco%20%28moth%29 | Laneco is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Ennominae
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptocolpia | Leptocolpia is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrolyrcea | Macrolyrcea is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleco%20%28moth%29 | Malleco is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanga%20%28moth%29 | Matanga is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanotesia | Melanotesia is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merida%20%28moth%29 | Merida is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoptila | Mesoptila is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
Species
Mesoptila compsodes Meyrick, 1891
Mesoptila deviridata (Warren, 1907)
Mesoptila excita (Prout, 1958)
Mesoptila festiva (Prout, 1916)
Mesoptila melanolopha Swinhoe, 1895
Mesoptila murcida Mironov & Galsworthy, 2012
Mesoptila unitaeniata (Warren, 1906)
References
External links
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Eupitheciini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methydata | Methydata is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbaena | Microbaena is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Comibaenini
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mictodoca | Mictodoca is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneta%20%28moth%29 | Moneta is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting | Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting) is the practice of registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name, with a bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.
The term is derived from "squatting", which is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building that the squatter does not own, rent, or otherwise have permission to use.
Terminology
In popular terms, "cybersquatting" is the term most frequently used to describe the deliberate, bad faith abusive registration of a domain name in violation of trademark rights. However, precisely because of its popular currency, the term has different meanings to different people. Some people, for example, include "warehousing", or the practice of registering a collection of domain names corresponding to trademarks with the intention of selling the registrations to the owners of the trademarks, within the notion of cybersquatting, while others distinguish between the two terms. In the former definition, the cybersquatter may offer to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.
Similarly, some consider "cyberpiracy" to be interchangeable with "cybersquatting", whereas others consider that the former term relates to violation of copyright in the content of websites, rather than to abusive domain name registrations.
Because of the various interpretations of the term, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in a 1999 report, approved by its member states, considered it as the abusive registration of a domain name.
Legal resolution
International
Since 1999, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has provided an administrative process wherein a trademark holder can attempt to claim a squatted site.
Trademark owners in 2021 filed a record 5,128 cases under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)'s Arbitration and Mediation Center, eclipsing the 2020 level by 22%. The surge pushed WIPO cybersquatting cases to almost 56,000 and the total number of domain names covered past the 100,000 mark. As a matter of comparison, in 2006, there were 1823 complaints filed with WIPO, which was a 25% increase over the 2005 rate.
The accelerating growth in cybersquatting cases filed with the WIPO Center has been largely attributed by the WIPO Center to trademark owners reinforcing their online presence to offer authentic content and trusted sales outlets, with a greater number of people spending more time online, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Representing 70% of WIPO's Generic top-level domain (gTLD) cases, .com demonstrated its continuing primacy.
WIPO UDRP cases in 2021 involved parties from 132 countries. The top three business areas were Banking and Finance (13%), Internet and IT (13%), and Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals (11%). The U.S., with 1,760 cases filed, France (93 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morina%20%28moth%29 | Morina is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabla%20%28moth%29 | Nabla is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Geometridae
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca%20%28moth%29 | Nazca is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Nacophorini
Geometridae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20External%20Disk%20Drive | The Macintosh External Disk Drive is the original model in a series of external -inch floppy disk drives manufactured and sold by Apple Computer exclusively for the Macintosh series of computers introduced in January 1984. Later, Apple would unify their external drives to work cross-platform between the Macintosh and Apple II product lines, dropping the name "Macintosh" from the drives. Though Apple had been producing external floppy disk drives prior to 1984, they were exclusively developed for the Apple II, III and Lisa computers using the industry standard -inch flexible disk format. The Macintosh external drives were the first to widely introduce Sony's new -inch rigid disk standard commercially and throughout their product line. Apple produced only one external -inch drive exclusively for use with the Apple II series called the Apple UniDisk 3.5.
400K
The original Macintosh External Disk Drive (M0130) was introduced with the Macintosh on January 24, 1984. However, it did not actually ship until May 4, 1984, sixty days after Apple had promised it to dealers. Bill Fernandez was the project manager who oversaw the design and production of the drive. The drive case was designed to match the Macintosh and included the same 400-kilobyte drive (a Sony-made -inch single-sided mechanism) installed inside the Macintosh. Although very similar to the 400-kilobyte drive which newly replaced Apple's ill-fated Twiggy drive in the Lisa, there were subtle differences relating mainly to the eject mechanism. However, confusingly all of these drives were labelled identically. The Macintosh could only support one external drive, limiting the number of floppy disks mounted at once to two, but both Apple and third party manufacturers developed external hard drives that connected to the Mac's floppy disk port, which had pass-through ports to accommodate daisy-chaining the external disk drive. Apple's Hard Disk 20 could accommodate an additional daisy-chained hard drive as well as an external floppy disk.
3.5-inch single-sided floppies had been used on several microcomputers and synthesizers in the early 1980s, including the Hewlett Packard 150 and various MSX computers. The standard on all of these was MFM with 80 tracks and 9 sectors per track, giving 360 KB per disk. However, Apple's custom interface uses Group Coded Recording (GCR) and a unique format which puts fewer sectors on the smaller inner tracks and more sectors on the wider outer tracks of the disk. The disk speeds up when accessing the inner tracks and slows down when accessing the outer ones. This is called the "Zoned CAV" system; there are five zones of 16 tracks each. The innermost zone has 8 sectors per track, the next zone 9 sectors per track, and so on; the outermost zone has 12 sectors per track. This allows more space per disk (400 KB) and also improves reliability by reducing the number of sectors on the inner tracks which had less physical media to allocate to each sector.
The external 40 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iken.in | iKen.in is an interactive knowledge sharing & social networking site, built on a collaborative learning model. The website was built keeping in mind the specific needs and dynamics involved in a learning process. Its participatory learning model helps users to share content and connect with peers. Apart from User Generated Content, UGC, users can also learn by taking tests available on the website which are customized for each standard (grade) in the K-12 segment. Also, Iken.in has a play section that features educational interactive games.
History
iKen is the brand of Mexus Education Private Limited. iKen is prominently known for its presence in schools for providing e-learning applications, Preschool curriculum and STEM education offerings.
Over a period of time Iken.in has now evolved as a platform for connecting Schools - Students - Parents - Educators through iKen App and web platform.
Website
Iken.in primarily is a knowledge sharing website with a social networking feature. The course curriculum multimedia content available on Iken.in is developed by Mexus Education while users contribute by uploading content created by them adding to a repository of education oriented UGC.
The website is primarily targeted at the K-12 segment, in line with related course material developed by Mexus Education under the iKen Books & iKen Library brand. On login, users define themselves as students or professionals. Students or learners can access course curriculum content specifically designed for their respective standards or grade. Professionals can participate and share knowledge & experience in their field of expertise.
Although the website was designed keeping in mind the demands of a school based curriculum, the definition of a student & professional could be extended to a ‘learner’ and a ‘teacher’. This provides enough scope for users on Iken.in across various age groups to learn from peers and also from other participants who could share their knowledge like school & college teachers, Graduate & B-school students, professionals working in different industries & sectors, parents, individuals
employed in corporate businesses or non-governmental organizations (NGOs), etc.
The website is developed around key sections Share, Connect, Learn, Test and Play.
The ‘Connect’ section allows users to connect with peers & virtual mentors. The ‘Learn’ section on iKen consists of curriculum oriented content developed by iKen which can be customized by users to meet their specific requirements. The ‘Test’ feature allows users to test their level of knowledge and provides a real time performance assessment personalized manner. The ‘Share’ section allows users to create multimedia content with others in the form of videos, presentations, documents, etc. Users receive constructive feedback from peers & other participants. The ‘Play’ on iKen consists of learning oriented educational games which help students learn.
See also
E-Learning
Virtual education
Multimedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20codec | IP codecs are used to send video or audio signals over an IP network such as the Internet. The initials "IP" here stand for "Internet Protocol", while the term "codec" is short for "encoder/decoder" or "compressor/decompressor".
IP video codecs
IP video codecs are used widely in security and broadcast applications to send video between two locations. Video codecs use compression algorithms to send good video quality at substantially lower bit rates than uncompressed signals. Broadcast applications often use MPEG-2 and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standards for video compression. The EBU is working on a minimum set of common standards for real-time video over IP transmissions. The recommended standards and protocols are designed to ensure compatibility between different codecs and provide adequate high-quality transmissions.
IP audio codecs
IP audio codecs are used to send broadcast quality audio over IP from remote broadcast locations to radio and television studios around the globe. IP codecs are ideal for use in remote broadcasts, as studio/transmitter links (STLs) or for studio-to-studio audio distribution.
IP audio codecs use audio compression algorithms to send high-fidelity audio over both wired broadband IP networks and wireless broadband networks.
References
Further reading
Tieline Website Explaining Audio Over IP
IP Audio website with audio over IP broadcast information
EBU - Tech 3326 for Audio Contribution over IP
EBU - Tech 3329 Tutorial on Audio Contribution over IP
Thomas R. Ray III, "Beyond ISDN: Welcome to the Age of the IP Codec", RadioInfo, 25 February 2013
Digital audio
Audio network protocols
Networking standards
Film and video technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly%3A%20The%20Golden%20Mile | Underbelly: The Golden Mile, the third series of Nine Network's crime drama series Underbelly, originally aired from 11 April to 27 June 2010. It is a thirteen-part series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the mile-long nightclub/red light district in the Sydney suburb of Kings Cross, also known as the "Golden Mile", between 1988 and 1999. It primarily depicts the organized crimes in Kings Cross and the police corruption leading up to the 1995 Wood Royal Commission. It is a prequel to Underbelly, which was about the Melbourne gangland killings, and a sequel to Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities. Among the characters presented are John Ibrahim, Kim Hollingsworth, George Freeman, Lenny McPherson and MP John Hatton. Some of the characters, particularly those of the NSW Police, reprise their roles from A Tale of Two Cities.
The series premiered on the Nine Network on 11 April 2010 at 8.30 pm, with the double episode premiere attracting an average of 2.23 million viewers nationally, in the mainland capitals. The series also premiered on TV3 in New Zealand on Wednesday 5 May 2010 at 8:30 pm.
Synopsis
The series begins in 1988, a year after the events of the previous series. An intelligent but rebellious Lebanese high school boy named John Ibrahim joins his friends in Kings Cross with plans and dreams of making a fortune. Throughout the series the plot shows how John began his entrepreneurship by working for underworld figures like George Freeman and Lenny McPherson, who at the time were the ultimate kings of the Cross. The series also shows the corruption within NSW Police ranks stationed in Kings Cross, particularly Trevor Haken, Jim Egan and Dennis Kelly, who reprise their roles from Season 2 and Graham "Chook" Fowler, Eddie "Parrot" Gould and Neville "Scully" Scullion.
George Freeman dies from an asthma attack, leaving the Cross up for grabs by anyone with power on the street. A young woman named Kim Hollingsworth appears and the series explains Kim's story from being an ordinary working girl to a high-end stripper/prostitute. In the center of the series, social justice crusader and NSW MP John Hatton initiates the Wood Royal Commission to investigate corrupt police officers. Police detective Trevor Haken becomes an informant during the Commission, helping the government expose corrupt officers in Kings Cross, while his family life is torn apart. The other detectives are caught and Jim Egan commits suicide. In Kings Cross, John Ibrahim has become a notable businessman after acquisition of most entertainment complexes in the area and being acquitted of a manslaughter charge. The dominance of traditional players in the Cross like Bill and Louis is now under threat from the arrival of a stable of new characters, including drug dealer Benny Kassab and his violent and impulsive enforcer Danny "DK" Karam.
Kim Hollingsworth decides to apply for the police academy after growing sick of her life as a sex worker. She is approach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20Psychiatry%20Network | The Critical Psychiatry Network (CPN) is a psychiatric organization based in the United Kingdom. It was created by a group of British psychiatrists who met in Bradford, England in January 1999 in response to proposals by the British government to amend the Mental Health Act 1983. They expressed concern about the implications of the proposed changes for human rights and the civil liberties of people with mental health illness. Most people associated with the group are practicing consultant psychiatrists in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS), among them Dr Joanna Moncrieff. A number of non-consultant grade and trainee psychiatrists are also involved in the network.
Participants in the Critical Psychiatry Network share concerns about psychiatric practice where and when it is heavily dependent upon diagnostic classification and the use of psychopharmacology. These concerns reflect their recognition of poor construct validity amongst psychiatric diagnoses and scepticism about the efficacy of anti-depressants, mood stabilisers and anti-psychotic agents. According to them, these concerns have ramifications in the area of the use of psychiatric diagnosis to justify civil detention and the role of scientific knowledge in psychiatry, and an interest in promoting the study of interpersonal phenomena such as relationship, meaning and narrative in pursuit of better understanding and improved treatment.
CPN has similarities and contrasts with earlier criticisms of conventional psychiatric practice, for example those associated with David Cooper, R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz. Features of CPN are pragmatism and full acknowledgment of the suffering commonly associated with mental health difficulties. As a result, it functions primarily as a forum within which practitioners can share experiences of practice, and provide support and encouragement in developing improvements in mainstream NHS practice where most participants are employed.
CPN maintains close links with service user or survivor led organisations such as the Hearing Voices Network, Intervoice and the Soteria Network, and with like-minded psychiatrists in other countries. It maintains its own website. The network is open to any sympathetic psychiatrist, and members meet in person, in the UK, twice a year. It is primarily intended for psychiatrists and psychiatric trainees and full participation is not available to other groups.
Coercion and social control
The other involved the introduction of community treatment orders (CTOs) to make it possible to treat people against their wishes in the community. CPN submitted evidence to the Scoping Group set up by the government under Professor Genevra Richardson. This set out ethical and practical objections to CTOs, and ethical and human rights objections to the idea of reviewable detention. It was also critical of the concept of personality disorder as a diagnosis in psychiatry. In addition, CPN's evidence called for the use of advance st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanusha%20Naidu | Sanusha Naidu is an author, academic and research specialist in the Integrated Rural and Regional Development research programme at the South African Regional Poverty Network. After completing a BA Law degree and an honours degree in political science at the University of Durban-Westville, she obtained an MA in International Relations from Staffordshire University, England.
She specialises in the mapping of South African corporate trade relations in Southern Africa, implications of free trade arrangements on poverty-reduction strategies, democratic change and consolidation in Africa: public-policy choices and behaviour of actors and the implication of SA's multilateral approach to international relations in the 21st century: the case of reforming multilateral institutions.
Prior to joining the HSRC, Sanusha was Senior Africa researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs. She also has lectured in the department of political science of the University of Durban-Westville.
She is the research director of the China in Africa project with Fahamu in South Africa. Naidu was a research fellow at the Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University, and research specialist in the Democracy and Governance research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa
Books
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?: Africa and China (Editor) with Kweku Ampiah, 2008
China in Africa, with Ian Taylor, Margaret C. Lee and Henning Melber, 2007
China in Africa: Chinese and African perspectives (Editor) with Axel Harneit-Sievers and Stephen Marks, 2009
Articles
India’s African Relations: Playing Catch up with the Dragon
Chinese investment: Good for Africa?
References
http://www.sarpn.org.za/staff/staffSN.php
http://www.fahamubooks.org/book/?GCOI=90638100804370&fa=author&Person_ID=152
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester%20Hydraulic%20Power | Manchester's Hydraulic Power system was a public hydraulic power network supplying energy across the city of Manchester via a system of high-pressure water pipes from three pumping stations from 1894 until 1972. The system, which provided a cleaner and more compact alternative to steam engines, was used to power workshop machinery, lifts, cranes and a large number of cotton baling presses in warehouses as it was particularly useful for processes that required intermittent power. It was used to wind Manchester Town Hall clock, pump the organ at Manchester Cathedral and raise the safety curtain at Manchester Opera House in Quay Street. A large number of the lifts and baling presses that used the system had hydraulic packings manufactured by John Talent and Co.Ltd. who had a factory at Ashworth Street, just off the Bury New Rd. close to the Salford boundary.
Manchester Corporation opened its first pumping station in 1894, following pioneering schemes in Kingston upon Hull and London. The scheme was a success and additional pumping stations to cope with the demand for power were added in 1899 and 1909. Modernisation started in the 1920s, when the original steam pumps were replaced by electric motors at two pumping stations. The greatest volume of water was supplied in the 1920s, although the length of the water mains continued to increase until 1948. Usage started to decrease in the 1930s, and the first pumping station closed in 1939. By the 1960s, there were serious concerns about the state of some of the equipment and corrosion in the high-pressure mains, and in 1968 the corporation announced its intent to switch the system off, which it did at the end of 1972.
The grade II listed pumping station built in Baroque style at Water Street has a new life as part of the People's History Museum, while one of its pump sets has been restored and is displayed at the Museum of Science and Industry, where it is part of a larger display about hydraulic power.
History
While Joseph Bramah had registered a patent for the distribution of high-pressure water via a ring main at the London Patent Office on 29 April 1812, and engineer William Armstrong had installed hydraulic systems for single customers from the 1840s, the first installation of a public hydraulic power network became operational in Kingston upon Hull in 1876. Edward B. Ellington was responsible, and created the General Hydraulic Power Company, from which developed the London Hydraulic Power Company. With the technology tested, and Ellington's model of marketing hydraulic power as a public utility having proved successful, Manchester Corporation obtained an act of Parliament authorising it to build a network to distribute hydraulic power to the city in 1891.
The corporation had the advantage over a private company in that it did not have to apply for permission to dig up the streets to install the network of high-pressure water mains. The pumping station was situated on Whitworth Street West, bet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QResearch | QResearch is a large consolidated UK database derived from the anonymised health records of over 18 million patients.
the data is taken from around 1,000 general practices throughout the UK. Historical records extend back to the early 1990s.
The database is open, with ethical restrictions, to academic researchers. The costs are controlled to allow the scheme to be self-funding while allowing good access to researchers.
QSurveillance
QSurveillance is a near-real-time surveillance scheme to collect, analyse and report on rates of infectious diseases and influenza-related conditions, flu vaccine and pneumococcal vaccine uptake. The UK Health Protection Agency have quoted QSurveillance statistics during the 2009 flu pandemic in the United Kingdom.
See also
Clinical Practice Research Datalink
The Health Improvement Network
References
Government databases in the United Kingdom
Medical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Virginia%20MetroNews | West Virginia MetroNews is a radio network heard on many radio stations throughout the State of West Virginia. The network is owned by the West Virginia Radio Corporation. West Virginia MetroNews offers a mix of news and talk. It held the rights to live play-by-play coverage of West Virginia University Mountaineers sports games, which it marketed under the DBA name "Mountaineer Sports Network", but lost these rights following the end of the 2012/13 basketball season. The network also provides coverage of select high school football and basketball games that happen in West Virginia.
Availability
The network is carried on all West Virginia Radio Corporation owned stations, and is syndicated to stations in markets where WVRC does not do business. Within a radio market, there is generally only one or two West Virginia MetroNews affiliates, which are almost always owned by the same company due to market exclusivity.
Programming
News
The company produces a traditional local news and weather update, designed to follow a national update, at the "top of the hour" for stations following a "full-service" format.
Morning News
"The Morning News" is all news program that updates the news of West Virginia, along with statewide weather and sports on a 22-minute cycle. The show is hosted by anchors Chris Lawrence and Jennifer Smith. This runs from 6-9 AM on weekdays.
Talkline
"Talkline" is a two-hour-long call in show featuring host Hoppy Kercheval, who generally takes a moderate to conservative take on most issues. The show features local, state, and national guests along taking questions from callers throughout the state of West Virginia. This show runs from 10 to 12 weekdays.
Hotline
Hotline is a mixed sports and general entertainment lifestyle discussion show hosted by Dave Weekley. The program runs from 3-6 weekdays.
Sportsline
Sportsline is a one-hour-long weeknight program and a two-hour Sunday program that primarily discuses West Virginia University sports. The program is hosted by Tony Caridi and Travis Jones. It currently runs from 6-7 weekdays, and 6–8 on Sundays.
WV Outdoors
"WV Outdoors" is an outdoors program that focuses on fishing and hunting, though does delve into other sport topics. The show is hosted by Chris Lawrence and runs 1 hour, from 7 to 8 on Saturday mornings.
High School Game Night
"High School Game Night" is a Wednesday and Friday 3 and 1/2 hour program that features live scores, interviews, and analysis of all the high school football games in progress throughout the state of West Virginia. The show is hosted by Fred Persinger and Dave Jecklin. The company also owns the rights to the WVSSAC playoffs.
Outdoors Today
"Outdoors Today" is a two-minute weekday report on the goings-on in West Virginia outdoors. The segment is hosted by WV Outdoors host Chris Lawrence.
High school basketball
West Virginia MetroNews carries live coverage of select basketball games throughout the state of West Virginia, and hold |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20InterCultural%20Exchange | NICE – Network of InterCultural Exchange is a German-Argentine cooperation, which applies itself to the educational and cultural exchange between Europe and Argentina. Its goal is to support students in organising long term stays (e.g. internships) in Argentina, to acquire among work experience soft skills as intercultural flexibility.
History
NICE was founded in 2004 in Córdoba, where it is headquartered to this day. The foundation was triggered by the discontentment of the founder members with the improvable offer of the internship intermediation and mentoring in Argentina, which they got to know on site as trainees.
The fascination for the South American continent and the emotional need to introduce the vitality and the cultural heritage of Argentina to interested and open-minded students led quickly to an intercultural network, which is manifested in the multilingualism of the NGO today.
Objective
NICE is aimed at the promotion of the international cultural and knowledge exchange by honorary general counselling about Argentina, but mainly by individual intermediation of internships and volunteerings, offering of Spanish courses at the integrated language school and the organization of accommodations with locals. In this way the students shall be allowed to get to know the everyday (working) life and the lived reality of Argentina as their own live and consequently strengthen not only their professional but also their intercultural competence.
External links
Review of NICE
English website of NICE
German website of NICE
French website of NICE
NICE-Language School
Córdoba, Argentina
Education in Argentina
Education in Germany
Student exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WORK-IX | WORK-IX is an Internet Exchange Point situated in Hamburg (Germany).
Founded in 2002 by Hamburg ISP n@work, it enjoyed some growth, mainly with other regional players and content delivery networks.
In 2007, DE-CIX acquired WORK-IX and took over operations. It continues to provide interconnections for regional traffic. It is open to both eco members and the general public.
External links
Website of the WORK-IX with traffic statistics
Internet exchange points in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathlight%20Technology | Pathlight Technology was a pioneer in the field of Storage Area Networks. Based in Ithaca, NY, Pathlight was formed in 1994 as a spin-out from Ironics, a manufacturer of VME computer, IO and memory boards.
Pathlight was involved in the development of Serial Storage Architecture products, and in Fibre Channel products.
Pathlight merged with ADIC in 2001.
Products
One of the significant products from Pathlight was the SAN Gateway, which provided multi-directional bridging between multiple Parallel SCSI ports and multiple Fibre Channel ports. IBM teamed with Pathlight to provide the SAN Data Gateway (IBM Product 2108-G07 ) and SAN Data Gateway Router (IBM Product 2108-R03 ).
References
Computer storage companies
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemke%27s%20algorithm | In mathematical optimization, Lemke's algorithm is a procedure for solving linear complementarity problems, and more generally mixed linear complementarity problems. It is named after Carlton E. Lemke.
Lemke's algorithm is of pivoting or basis-exchange type. Similar algorithms can compute Nash equilibria for two-person matrix and bimatrix games.
References
(Available for download at the website of Professor Katta G. Murty.)
External links
OMatrix manual on Lemke
Chris Hecker's GDC presentation on MLCPs and Lemke
Linear Complementarity and Mathematical (Non-linear) Programming
Siconos/Numerics open-source GPL implementation in C of Lemke's algorithm and other methods to solve LCPs and MLCPs
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCKN | KCKN (1020 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Spanish Religious radio format in Roswell, New Mexico. It is owned by Radio Vision Cristiana Subsidiary Corp. Much of the programming is also heard on co-owned WWRV 1330 AM in New York City.
KCKN is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for AM stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It is a Class B outlet, required to protect Class A clear channel station KDKA Pittsburgh. So KCKN uses a directional antenna at all times, with a three-tower array by day and a six-tower array at night. KCKN's transmitter is on La Luz Road at Old Clovis Highway in Roswell.
History
The station signed on the air for the first time in December 1965 under the call sign KSWS. It was co-owned with KSWS-TV (now KOBR-TV). In 1987, the station changed its call letters to KCKN. On November 13, 2000, the station changed its call sign to KXEM and on December 1 of that year to KINF. As KINF, the station aired a news/talk format. The station reverted to the current KCKN calls on January 12, 2006.
A sister FM station was purchased in 1986.
In the Kansas City market the station was using the call sign KBCQ at the time programming Top 40 and the FM station had the KCKN call sign and a country music format. In April 1987, the call signs and formats of the two stations were flipped and 1020 became KCKN Country and the FM became KBCQ-FM Top 40. In the early 90s, KCKN switched to a soft adult contemporary format with a large news commitment. Night time programming has been religion for years.
In late August 2005, while operating under a local marketing agreement (LMA), the station was off the air due to technical problems. The LMA was ended and the station signed back on the air in early February, 2006, under the call sign KCKN programming Classic Country music. In 2012, the station was sold to Radio Vision Cristiana Subsidiary Corp. KCKN switched to Spanish language Christian radio.
On June 11, 2018 the transmitter for KCKN caught fire and badly damaged the transmitter building. KCKN requested a special temporary authority (STA) to operate an auxiliary transmitter. The FCC approved the request; however, the fire department forbade using it until electrical inspections took place. KCKN remained silent until inspections took place.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KCKN
Christianity in New Mexico
CKN
CKN
Radio stations established in 1965
1965 establishments in New Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%20plot | A Manhattan plot is a type of plot, usually used to display data with a large number of data-points, many of non-zero amplitude, and with a distribution of higher-magnitude values. The plot is commonly used in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to display significant SNPs.
It gains its name from the similarity of such a plot to the Manhattan skyline: a profile of skyscrapers towering above the lower level "buildings" which vary around a lower height.
GWAS
In GWAS Manhattan plots, genomic coordinates are displayed along the x-axis, with the negative logarithm of the association p-value for each single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) displayed on the y-axis, meaning that each dot on the Manhattan plot signifies an SNP. Because the strongest associations have the smallest p-values (e.g., 10−15), their negative logarithms will be the greatest (e.g., 15). The different colors of each block usually show the extent of each chromosome.
References
Statistical charts and diagrams
Genetic epidemiology
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumpStart%20Adventures%206th%20Grade%3A%20Mission%20Earthquest | JumpStart Adventures 6th Grade: Mission Earthquest is a game created by Knowledge Adventure in the JumpStart series. In this game A.R.T., a computer with artificial intelligence, has gone haywire, and now wants to "redesign the chaotic system that is Earth". Zack and Jess, twin brother and sister agents of Earthquest, stop him with the help of their Uncle Eli and dog Roswell. A.R.T. seems to be inspired by HAL 9000 from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
JumpStart 6th Grade is now part of a 5-disc set called JumpStart Advanced 4th-6th Grade, along with JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective, JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Sapphire Falls, and two bonus discs.
Subjects
Language Arts
Math
Data Interpretation
Percents
Geometry
Biology
Geology
Zoology
History
Geography
Fine Arts
Characters
Zack
Zack is a male human with blond hair and is one of the main characters in the game. Although clearly not mean, Zack seems to have a bit more "attitude" then Jess and is rude on a few occasions. He also appeared in JumpStart SpyMasters: Unmask the Prankster, JumpStart SpyMasters: Max Strikes Back, and Adventure Challenge (also called Far-Out Field Trips, Ultimate Field Trips, and Extreme Field Trips), all in which he does not seem as rude as he does in his original appearance.
Jess
Jess is Zack's twin sister and one of the main characters. Her hair is short and red and she doesn't seem to have as much attitude as Zack. Like her brother, she has appeared in JumpStart SpyMasters: Unmask the Prankster, JumpStart SpyMasters: Max Strikes Back, and Adventure Challenge.
Uncle Eli
Uncle Eli is one of the main characters. Intelligent, with gray hair, and wearing a green shirt and glasses, he helps Zack and Jess in different ways to accomplish their missions.
Roswell
A dog, Roswell is blue in color and helps capture A.R.T.'s robots before they are taken to the Robot Re-Organizer.
Enos
A brown-colored monkey, Enos was sent on a rocket ship with A.R.T. at the start of the game - before A.R.T. even caused trouble - because the human astronauts were asking for too much money. However, while in space, A.R.T. told Enos that "there's been a change of plans" and that he would use robots to redesign Earth, in which Enos promptly freaked out in response to and pressed the S.O.S. button. This apparently ended up sending an image of him and A.R.T. to Earthquest, A.R.T. cut a wire to prevent anything else from being sent. Upon seeing it, Uncle Eli then told Jess & Zack about A.R.T., and the adventure began.
A.R.T.
The main villain, A.R.T. is a computer with artificial intelligence who desires to redesign Earth using robotic menaces than Zack and Jess are to conquer. He is said to have evil logic, Uncle Eli noticed it when he helped develop him.
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