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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1879%E2%80%9380%20Welsh%20Cup |
First round
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Second replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Oswestry receive a bye to the next round
Mold scratch to Druids
23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers scratch to Rhyl
Second round
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Second replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Third round
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Newtown White Star receive bye to semi final
Semi-final
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Ruthin receive bye to final
Final
References
Bibliography
The History of the Welsh Cup 1877-1993 by Ian Garland (1991)
External links
Welsh Football Data Archive
1879-80
1879–80 in Welsh football
1879–80 domestic association football cups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElasticHosts | ElasticHosts was a computer service provider based in London, England. It was founded in , and closed on 30 June 2020. It provided a cloud computing service, which used ten data centres; in the United Kingdom (two sites), Netherlands, United States (four sites), Canada, Hong Kong and Australia.
Company
ElasticHosts was privately held and competed with other public cloud-infrastructure providers such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Rackspace Cloud.
According to CEO Richard Davies, the company aimed to provide servers that were set up as similar as possible to how one would provision dedicated hosting, with the exception that the customer can self-serve at any time.
ElasticHosts' EU hosting data centres are in the UK and not Ireland. It is the first public cloud service built on Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (rather than Xen), and it has an API that has been given a good review from a REST perspective. It charges for resources (CPU, memory, disk and network) as separate entities, allowing customers to build virtual machines with widely different characteristics instead of simply categorized ones, such as small, medium and large instances.
ElasticHosts (and therefore licensees) are supported directly by BoxGrinder included in Fedora 15 as of May 2011.
Services
Cloud Servers are virtualized on-demand servers, designed to behave like physical servers. Cloud Servers can be managed via their web control panel or API.
Containers
Managed Cloud Servers take care of the set up and management of servers. Management is offered by a partner company called Cloudways.
Cloud Websites provide redundant, scalable hosting for websites. This is offered by partner company Hybrid Sites.
Reseller and referrer programs offered by Elastichosts, include one called White-Label. The White-Label Reseller Program allows companies to rebrand Elastichosts cloud hosting platform and resell it.
Elasticstack is the underlying software to provide cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This is available as a licensed product, and several other companies around the world use the same infrastructure, licensed from ElasticHosts Ltd, to provide their own branded IaaS cloud to their customers.
ElasticHosts Cloud Servers are available from ten data centres; San Jose, Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami, Maidenhead (UK), Portsmouth (UK), Amsterdam, Toronto, Hong Kong and Sydney.
Storage
ElasticHosts only has persistent storage, based on local host store. However, in 2012 it announced solid-state drives (SSD) for all instance sizes. It does not use a storage area network, but instead has directly attached RAID arrays, with iSCSI interconnects between hosts.
In 2011 the CEO predicted a greater demand for storage.
Elastic IP addresses
ElasticHosts has two types of IPv4 addresses - static and dynamic. Both are allocated from the same pools of addresses, but static addresses are kept by the account, and can be allocated to any account's server at any time. Dynamic ones are ran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAJ%20Digital%20Track%20Chart | The was a record chart that ranks the best selling digital singles in Japan, with data provided by the Recording Industry Association of Japan from April 2009. The chart measures cellphone downloads (着うたフル Chaku-Uta Full) (not downloads from PCs, or ringtones (着うた Chaku-Uta)). On July 27, 2012, the service that tracked the charts was shut down.
History
The RIAJ originally started certifying digital downloads in August 2006. At the same time, they began posting a monthly chart called the (officially the ). This now defunct chart ranked the highest Chaku-uta (ringtone) downloads for the month. The chart was disbanded in March 2009 (the final month's data being February 2009), and was replaced by the identically named weekly Chaku-Uta Full chart.
Methodology
The chart week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday and updated on every Friday at 11 a.m (JST). The first number-one song on this chart was "It's All Love!" by Kumi Koda and Misono.
At first, the data was sourced from five providers: Dwango, Mora, Mu-Mo, music.jp and Recochoku. On February 19, 2010, RIAJ announced that the data became the more expanded data sourced from 14 providers (new nine providers included the Oricon Me).
Records
Only three non-domestic artists have ever broken the top 10 charts: Michael Jackson's "Thriller" at #7 in June 2009 (directly after his death) and the Backstreet Boys' "Straight Through My Heart" at #4 in September 2009 and Lady Gaga feat. Beyoncé's "Telephone" at #5 in April 2010.
Songs with the most weeks at number one
4 weeks
Greeeen - "Haruka"
Mr. Children - "Inori ~Namida no Kidou"
Che'Nelle - "Believe"
3 weeks
AKB48 - "Flying Get"
Exile - "Motto Tsuyoku"
Hilcrhyme - "Daijōbu"
Hilcrhyme - "Shunkashūtō"
Infinity 16 welcomez Waka-danna from Shōnan no Kaze & Jay'ed - "Tsutaetai Koto ga Konna Aru noni"
Juju - "Kono Yoru o Tomete yo"
Juju with Jay'ed - "Ashita ga Kuru Nara"
Kara - "Go Go Summer!"
Kaoru to Tomoki, Tamani Mook - "Maru Maru Mori Mori!"
Kana Nishino - "Best Friend"
Kana Nishino - "If"
Kana Nishino - "Kimi tte"
Kana Nishino - "Watashitachi"
2 weeks
AKB48 - "Heavy Rotation"
AKB48 - "Kaze wa Fuiteiru"
AKB48 - "Give Me Five!"
Namie Amuro - "Love Story"
Exile - "Futatsu no Kuchibiru"
Exile - "I Wish for You"
Exile - "Yasashii Hikari"
Masaharu Fukuyama - "Hatsukoi"
Ayumi Hamasaki - "Sunrise (Love Is All)"
Hilcrhyme - "Loose Leaf"
Jamosa feat. Jay'ed & Wakadanna - "Nanika Hitotsu"
Kaela Kimura - "Butterfly"
Koda Kumi - "Ai o Tomenaide"
Mr. Children - "Kazoe Uta"
Mika Nakashima - "Always"
Kana Nishino - "Aitakute Aitakute"
Kana Nishino - "Motto..."
Kana Nishino - "Distance"
Kana Nishino - "Sakura, I Love You?"
Fuyumi Sakamoto - "Mata Kimi ni Koi Shiteru"
Shota Shimizu x Miliyah Kato - "Forever Love"
Kana Uemura - "Toilet no Kamisama"
See also
List of number one Reco-kyō Chart singles 2006–2009
References
External links
RIAJ Digital Track chart
Japanese record charts
Recording Industry Association of Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annadata | Annadata may refer to:
Annadata (1952 film)
Annadata (1954 film), a 1954 Telugu film directed by Vedantam Raghavaiah
Annadata (1972 film), a 1972 Hindi film directed by Asit Sen
Annadata (2002 film), a 2002 Bengali film directed by Ravi Kinagi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristian%20S.%20Calude | Cristian Sorin Calude (born 21 April 1952) is a Romanian-New Zealander
mathematician and computer scientist.
Biography
After graduating from the Vasile Alecsandri National College in Galați, he studied at the University of Bucharest, where he was student of
Grigore C. Moisil and Solomon Marcus. Calude received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest under the direction of Solomon Marcus in 1977.
He is currently chair professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and also the founding director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. Visiting professor in many universities in Europe, North and South America, Australasia, South Africa, including Monbusho Visiting professor, JAIST, 1999 and visiting professor ENS, Paris, 2009, École Polytechnique, Paris, 2011; visiting fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 2012; guest professor, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 2017–2020; visiting fellow ETH Zurich, 2019. Former professor at the University of Bucharest. Calude is author or co-author of more than 270 research articles and 8 books, and is cited by more than 550 authors.
He is known for research in algorithmic information theory, quantum computing, discrete mathematics and the history and philosophy of computation.
In 2017, together with Sanjay Jain, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, Wei Li, and Frank Stephan, he announced an algorithm for deciding parity games in quasipolynomial time. Their result was presented by Bakhadyr Khoussainov at the Symposium on Theory of Computing 2017 and won a Best Paper Award.
Calude was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service in the degree of Knight by the President of Romania, Mr. Klaus Iohannis, in June 2019.
In 2021, together with Sanjay Jain, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, Wei Li, and Frank Stephan, he won the EATCS Nerode Prize for their quasipolynomial time algorithm for deciding parity games.
Distinctions and prizes
"Computing Reviews Award", Association for Computing Machinery, New York City, 1986.
"Gheorghe Lazăr" Mathematics Prize, Romanian Academy, Romania, 1988.
Excellence in Research Award, University of Bucharest, Romania, 2007.
Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Auckland, 2007.
Hood Fellow, 2008–2009.
Member of the Academia Europaea, 2008.
Romanian National Order of Faithful Service in the degree of Knight, June 2019.
"EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize", 2021.
Selected bibliography
Articles
C. S. Calude, S. Jain, B. Khoussainov, W. Li, and F. Stephan. "Deciding parity games in quasi-polynomial time", SIAM Journal on Computing, (2020), STOC17-152—STOC17-188. .
A. A. Abbott, C. S. Calude, M. J. Dinneen, R. Hua. "A hybrid quantum-classical paradigm to mitigate embedding costs in quantum annealing", International Journal of Quantum Information 1950042-40 (2019). .
A. A. Abbott, C. S. Calude, M. J. Dinneen, N. Huang. "Experimentally probing the algorithmic randomness and incomputability of quantum randomness", Physica Scri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find%20Me%20Before%20I%20Die%20A%20Lonely%20Death.com | Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death.com is the third album from New Zealand electronic band Minuit.
The URL in the album title, findmebeforeidiealonelydeath.com, was a social networking site, created by the band, for inanimate objects and pets.
Three singles have been released from the album, "25 Bucks," "Aotearoa," and "Wayho."
The song, "I'm Still Dancing" was used in an episode of Grey's Anatomy which was aired in the US on 5 February 2010. The song, "Aotearoa" was used in an episode of Bones which was aired in the US on 3 February 2011. The song "Aotearoa" was also used in the Syfy adaptation of the show Being Human in the season 2 episode "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?"
The artwork for the album was created by lead singer, Ruth Carr, from 100s & 1000s in the shape of a world map.
Track listing
"Wayho"
"Run Run"
"25 Bucks"
"Queen Of The Flies"
"I Hate You"
"Maserati"
"Aotearoa"
"Yeah Yeah"
"10ft Tall"
"Vampires"
"Daddy-O"
"I'm Still Dancing"
"Long Live Zero"
"Everyone From Everywhere"
References
2009 albums
Minuit (band) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDF%20Explorer | HDF Explorer is a data visualization program that reads the HDF, HDF5 and netCDF data file formats. It runs in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. HDF Explorer was developed by Space Research Software, LLC, headquartered in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
External links
Space Research Software LLC
The HDF Group home page
Meteorological data and networks
Earth sciences graphics software
Science software for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana%20Ring%20Road | The Ljubljana Ring Road (, ) is a motorway ring road around the city of Ljubljana. The ring road forms the main hub of the Slovenian motorway network and connects to the A1 and A2 motorways. It was built from 1979 till 1999 and consists of four bypass sections: the northern bypass (), the eastern bypass (), the southern bypass (), and the western bypass (). The ring road itself is signed as the A1 on the southern and eastern parts, the A2 on the western and southern parts, while the northern sections are signed as the H3 expressway. The outer ring is 29.1 km long, while the inner ring is 28.65 km long. The average daily traffic (AADT) is the highest on the northern sections and at more than 70,000 vehicles is also the highest in Slovenia. A toll sticker system has been in use on the Ljubljana Ring Road since 1 July 2008.
References
Highways in Slovenia
Roads in Slovenia
Ring roads
Buildings and structures completed in 1999
Ring Road
Ring Road
Ring Road
Ring Road
Ring Road
Ring Road
Ring Road
Ring Road
Ring Road
Ring Road
Ring Road
Ring Road
Ring Road
1999 establishments in Slovenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres%20%28workstation%29 | The Ceres Workstation was a workstation computer built by Niklaus Wirth's group at ETH Zurich in 1987.The central processing unit (CPU) is a National Semiconductor NS32000, and the operating system, named Oberon System is written fully in the object-oriented programming language Oberon. It is an early example of an operating system using basic object-oriented principles and garbage collection on the system level and a document centered approach for the user interface (UI), as envisaged later with OpenDoc. Ceres was a follow-up project to the Lilith workstation, based on AMD bit slicing technology and the programming language Modula-2.
On the same hardware, Clemens Szyperski implemented as part of his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis an operating system named ETHOS, which takes full advantage of object-oriented technologies. A Usenet posting by Szyperski says that Oberon/F, which was later renamed to BlackBox Component Builder, incorporates ETHOS ideas and principles.
Links
ETH Computer Science History: Lilith & Ceres
Ceres-1 and Ceres-3 at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California, USA (see also its publications, especially pages 6 & 7 of Core 3.1)
(ETH Technical Report 93)
(ETH Technical Report 168)
References
Computer workstations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Hulme | Sir Philip William Hulme (born 1948) is the co-founder of Computacenter, one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses.
Career
Having graduated at Imperial College, London with a first class degree in engineering, Hulme secured a Harkness Fellowship and joined the MBA Programme at Harvard Business School. He then joined Boston Consulting Group becoming a Vice-President and Director in 1979.
Hulme, together with his former Harvard colleague Peter Ogden founded Computacenter in 1981 and expanded it into one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses. When the Company floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998 Hulme gave much of the proceeds from the sale of his shares to charity. He served as Chairman of Computacenter from 1998 to 2001.
Hulme is also a substantial shareholder in Dealogic, another British computer business.
He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to technology and philanthropy.
References
1948 births
Alumni of Imperial College London
Boston Consulting Group people
British businesspeople
Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
Harvard Business School alumni
Living people
Knights Bachelor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Century%20of%20Warfare | The Century of Warfare is a 26-part British TV documentary first released in 1993 and shown on A&E Television Networks. It was narrated by Robert Powell, and produced by Nugus/Martin Productions Ltd, and coincided with another Powell/Nugus-Martin project called Great Crimes and Trials.
Summary
The series endeavours to overview the entire century of world conflict from the turn or the century (1900) until the Gulf War in 1990/91. It covers every major conflict, as well as reviewing inter-war periods and military build-ups. It also examines lesser known theatres of major wars.
According to the official website, "An unparalleled collection of military and historical archives has been assembled from the USA, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Russia, to contribute to this epic work."
Episodes
52 minutes each. For full episode contents and details refer to the official homepage.
The Violent Century
The World Goes to War - 1900-14
Blood and Mud - Trench Warfare in the West 1914-18
War of the Eagles - The Eastern Front 1914-18
Battle Fleets and U-Boats - Naval Warfare 1914-18
Aces High - Air Warfare 1914-18
War to End All War? - 1918 and the Aftermath
Enter the Dictators - 1920-35
The War Clouds Gather - 1935-39
Blitzkrieg! - 1939-40
Britain Stands Alone - 1940-41
Sand and Sea War - War in the Mediterranean 1941-44
Hitler Turns East - Eastern Front 1941-43
The Long Road Back - Eastern Front 1943-45
Normandy to the Rhine - Western Front 1944-45
The End In Europe - Eastern and Western Fronts 1945
Oriental Blitzkrieg - Pacific Theatre 1939-42
Jungle and Ocean - Pacific Theatre 1943-45
The War at Sea - 1939-45
Air War - 1939-45
Iron Curtain - The Cold War 1946-89
Oriental Communism - China, Indo-China, and Korea 1946-89
Wars in Peace - 1945-89
Vietnam - 1955-89
War in the Middle East - 1945-89
Gulf War and the Future
OTHER
DVD Bonus Documentary (length 1:56)
Reception
The series received mixed reviews:
Positive
"The essential question, with a documentary this ambitious in scope, is whether it presents its material in both an understandable and an interesting manner, and The Century of Warfare comes out very well in both regards. Some of the material is highly complex...and the documentary does a very creditable job of presenting the facts and background information in a comprehensible manner. The Century of Warfare sets out on an ambitious program and lives up to its billing, offering an insightful and thorough look at the violent 20th century."
Neutral
"While it was certainly a monumental task to edit all of the footage together, that is all it is: a patchwork. Nothing new is offered: no tours of battlefields, or anything that would bring it to life. Naturally the film quality is poor due to its age, but images shown were clearly selected for their historical relevance to the narration, not their cinematography, and they are indeed excellent images."
"Certainly, this is a fine introduction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanophora | Cyanophora is a genus of glaucophytes, a group of rare but evolutionarily significant freshwater microalgae.
It includes the following species:
Cyanophora biloba
Cyanophora cuspidata
Cyanophora kugrensii
Cyanophora paradoxa
Cyanophora sudae
Cyanophora tetracyanea
These species are differentiated based on cell shape, number and position of cyanelles, and molecular data.
The species Cyanophora paradoxa is well-studied as a model organism.
References
Archaeplastida
Algae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybergrass | Cybergrass is the first web site dedicated to bluegrass music. The site was created on September 9, 1992 by Bob Cherry. It acquired its current name and trademark in 1995 and rebranded itself as Cybergrass - The Internet's Bluegrass Music Magazine. The site has had numerous facelifts over the years. Beginning as a lyrics site, it progressed into a bluegrass music portal with a variety of features. Today, the site's current configuration is as a daily bluegrass music news site.
The subject of the publication has always been bluegrass music. The site has been an innovator in music web sites. Cybergrass was the first website to ever carry a music awards show—the Grammys in 1996 and has webcast the International Bluegrass Music Awards show for every year they have been available from the International Bluegrass Music Association. The site was also the first Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) licensed web site (1995). In 2010, Cybergrass was listed as an IBMA bluegrass resource.
Cybergrass editorial content continues to profile artists, announce new releases, announce new events and products of interest to a bluegrass music audience. The site removed all music content when DMCA was written but continues their promotion of anything surrounding the music.
After the release of O Brother Where Art Thou, there has been a resurgence of interest in the music of Bill Monroe. More than a thousand bluegrass music related web sites are online around the world today.
References
External links
Bluegrass music
American music websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EchoStar%20X | EchoStar X, also known as EchoStar 10, is an American geostationary communications satellite which is operated by EchoStar on behalf of Dish Network. It is positioned in Geostationary orbit at a longitude of 110° West, from where it is used to provide direct broadcasting services to the United States.
EchoStar X was built by Lockheed Martin, and is based on the A2100AXS satellite bus. It is equipped with 42 J band (IEEE ) transponders, and at launch it had a mass of , with an expected operational lifespan of 16 years
The satellite was launched using a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL carrier rocket flying from the Ocean Odyssey launch platform. The launch occurred at 23:34:55 GMT on 15 February 2006, leaving Echostar X in a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Its orbit was then raised using an onboard LEROS-1C apogee motor, with insertion into geostationary orbit occurring at 20:50 GMT on 22 February.
See also
2006 in spaceflight
References
External links
Spacecraft launched in 2006
Spacecraft launched by Zenit and Energia rockets
Satellites using the A2100 bus
E10 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy%20Rock | Easy Rock is a broadcast FM network in the Philippines owned by Manila Broadcasting Company. Its studios are located in MBC Building, Star City Complex, Pasay. Its flagship station is DWRK in Metro Manila.
The format of Easy Rock resembles that of WRocK, with "no/minimal talk, less commercials and more music".
History
Easy Rock was formed on May 18, 2009. The formation of Easy Rock started with an initial rebrand of the newly acquired DWRK radio station, which MBC bought from the ACWS-United Broadcasting Network on October 6, 2008. The Easy Rock network was later expanded by rebranding a number of former Yes FM stations, Love Radio and Hot FM stations to Easy Rock.
Easy Rock stations
Easy Rock is also broadcast to 8 provincial stations in the Philippines.
See also
Manila Broadcasting Company
References
Philippine radio networks
Companies based in Pasay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear%20Friend%3A%20Karibal | Dear Friend: Karibal () is a 2009 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It is the seventh installment of Dear Friend.
Cast and characters
Jennylyn Mercado as Cheska
Jean Garcia as Claire
Wendell Ramos as Darrell
Hero Angeles as Junby
References
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape%20Escape%20%28video%20game%29 | Ape Escape is a platform video game, developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released for the PlayStation in June 1999 in North America and Japan, and July 1999 in Europe. The first in the Ape Escape series, the game tells the story of an ape named Specter who gains enhanced intelligence and a malevolent streak through the use of an experimental helmet. Specter produces an army of apes, which he sends through time in an attempt to rewrite history. Spike, the player character, sets out to capture the apes with the aid of special gadgets.
Ape Escape is played from a third-person perspective. Players use a variety of gadgets to pursue and capture the apes, traversing across several environments. The game's controls are heavily centred around the analog sticks, being the first game to require the use of the PlayStation's DualShock. Development of Ape Escape lasted over two years, and was generally focused on adapting to the use of the controller, which was a significant challenge for the development team.
Ape Escape was met with critical acclaim from critics, with praise particularly directed at the innovative use of the dual analog controls, as well as the graphics and music; the voice acting received minor criticism. The game is widely considered to be one of the greatest on the PlayStation console, and received several re-releases. The game also spawned numerous sequels and spin-offs, beginning with Ape Escape 2 in 2002. A remake, Ape Escape: On the Loose, was released for the PlayStation Portable in 2005 to mixed reviews.
Gameplay
Ape Escape is a platform game that is viewed from a third-person perspective. Players traverse several different environments to advance through the game. For most of the game, players control Spike—a boy tasked with pursuing and capturing the apes across time, preventing them from rewriting history. Players use various gadgets to pursue and capture the apes, such as the Stun Club, used as an offensive measure against enemies, and the Time Net, used to capture apes and transport them to present day. More gadgets become available as players progress through the game. Players also control vehicles throughout the game, including a rubber raft, which allows travel over water, and the water net, which assists in traversing underwater. The game's controls are heavily centered around the analog sticks: the left stick is used to move players, while the right stick manipulates the various gadgets.
The apes are equipped with helmets, which feature a siren representing their alarm level: blue means relaxed, and unaware of the player characters' presence; yellow is alert; and red indicates fully alarmed, resulting in attempting to escape or becoming hostile. An ape's personality can also be determined by the colour of shorts: yellow is standard, light blue means timid, and red represents aggressive. Some apes are equipped with weaponry, allowing them to attack players, or binoculars that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion%203 | Orion 3 was an American spacecraft which was intended for use by Orion Network Systems, as a geostationary communications satellite. It was to have been positioned in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 139° East, from where it was to have provided communications services to Asia and Oceania. Due to a malfunction during launch, it was instead delivered to a useless low Earth orbit.
Orion 3 was constructed by Hughes Space and Communications, based on an HS-601HP satellite bus. It was equipped with 10 G/H band (IEEE C band) and 33 J band (IEEE Ku band) transponders, and at launch it had a mass of . The satellite was expected to remain operational for around fifteen years. Orion Network Systems merged with Loral Space & Communications in 1999 after the Orion 3 launch failure.
Launch
The Orion 3 satellite was launched on the second flight of the Delta III rocket, using the standard 8930 configuration. The launch occurred from Space Launch Complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, at 01:00:00 GMT on 5 May 1999. The first stage and solid rocket motors performed as expected, and the first burn of the second stage was conducted as planned, injecting the spacecraft into low Earth orbit. Following this, the rocket entered a coast phase, before the second stage restarted for what was planned to be a 162-second burn to insert Orion 3 into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Around 3.4 seconds after igniting, the RL-10-B-2 engine of the second stage cut off after a malfunction was detected, leaving the spacecraft in an orbit of around , with 29.5° inclination. It was the second failure of an RL-10 powered rocket in less than a week, after the Centaur upper stage of a Titan IV rocket failed during the launch of USA-143 on 30 April, although this incident was later attributed to a programming error.
An investigation later determined that the failure of Orion 3's launch was due to the wall of the RL-10 combustion chamber being breached. The investigation found that it was likely that the breach in the chamber was along one of the seams where the chamber had been soldered. On this engine, one of those seams had failed during a static firing, and despite subsequent repair, it was suspected that the same seam had failed again.
The orbit of the Orion 3 satellite was raised slightly, and its inclination reduced, using onboard propulsion. It was left in an orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of , and 29° inclination. Its operators received US$247 million in insurance for the loss of the satellite, which was turned over to its insurers. The insurers considered asking NASA to fly a Space Shuttle mission to attach a solid rocket motor to the satellite, which would have been used to correct its orbit. The Shuttle mission would have been similar to STS-49, which reboosted Intelsat 603 following the failure of its launch on a Commercial Titan III. Unlike with Intelsat 603, however, Orion 3 would have needed to perform a Lunar flyby to reduce inclination. NAS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20flight | Life Flight or LifeFlight often refers to air ambulance services.
Life Flight may also refer to:
United States
Life Flight Network, an air ambulance serving Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington
UMass Memorial Lifeflight, an air ambulance serving Massachusetts, part of UMass Memorial Health
Metro Life Flight, an air ambulance service out of Cleveland, Ohio
Life Flight (Geisinger), an air ambulance service in Pennsylvania
Memorial Hermann Life Flight, an air ambulance service in Houston, Texas
AHN Lifeflight, operated by Allegheny Health Network and serving western Pennsylvania.
Other locations
LifeFlight Australia, an air ambulance service based in Queensland, Australia, known until July 2016 as CareFlight
LifeFlight (Nova Scotia), an air ambulance service based in Nova Scotia, Canada
Life Flight (New Zealand), an air ambulance service in New Zealand, subject of a reality series
Other uses
Life Flight (album), by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard
See also
Lifelight |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck%20Patrol | Duck Patrol was a short-lived British television comedy series that originally aired in 1998. Produced by LWT for the ITV network, it centred on a river police station by the River Thames. The series consisted of seven episodes: Flying Colours, Out to Grass, Occurrences, The Spirit of the Deep, Duck Turpin, River Rage, The Siege of Mallory Wharf.
The script for the pilot episode 'Of Ducks and Men' was re-filmed with some changes to supporting cast and main cast uniforms, and retitled as 'Flying Colours' which then became the first episode of the following series.
Cast
Richard Wilson as PC Roland "Prof" Rose
David Tennant as Simon "Darwin" Brown
Samantha Beckinsale as Gillian "Marilyn" Monroe
Trevor Cooper as James "Ollie" Oliver
Geoffrey Hutchings as Malcolm "Sarge" White
Jason Watkins as Kevin "Taz" Delaney
Craig Fairbrass as Hero
Sue Johnston as Val Rutland
John Biggins as Stan Murdoch
Jan Ravens as Angie Tennant
Episodes
Series 1 (1998)
Filming for this series began in July 1998 and ended in August 1998.
External links
ITV sitcoms
1998 British television series debuts
1998 British television series endings
1990s British sitcoms
Television series by ITV Studios
London Weekend Television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capstick%27s%20Law | Capstick's Law is a British television drama series that originally aired in 1989. Produced by Granada Television for the ITV network, it centred on a firm of solicitors in the 1950s. The period drama used Russell Harty's old house in the village of Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, for filming.
Premise
Edward and Madge Capstick are a happily married solicitor and his wife. The eldest son, Jonty, has just started his own practice. Their youngest son, Tony, is articled in London. It is May 1953. Eight years have passed since the Second World War ended, but changes in society are appearing and the pace of change is threatening family life too.
Cast
William Gaunt as Edward Capstick
Wanda Ventham as Madge Capstick
Robin Ellis as Henry Capstick
Christopher Villiers as Jonty Capstick
Jason Carter as Timothy Harger
Georgia Byng as Vicky Colnay
Gordon Gostelow as Posh Mitton
Lesley Dunlop as Sarah Harger
Nick Stringer as Birtles
Roger Brierley as Ashton
Simon Cowell-Parker as Ralph Ashton
Madge Hindle as Mrs Birtles
Cyd Hayman as Lizette Colnay
Guy Scantlebury as Anthony Capstick
Bryan Pringle as Geoff Turnbull
Mary Healy as Myra Turnbull
Phyllis Calvert as Rachel Wilson
Liz Fraser as Florence Smith
Jackie Shinn as Posh's crony
Marlene Sidaway as Peggy
Geoffrey Leesley as Arnold Mapeley
Helen Anderson as Jess Birkett
David Roper as Harry Clifton
Lynda Rooke as Mrs Clifton
James Warrior as chairman
Bernard Kay as Birkett
William Ivory as Ramsden
David Fleeshman as Stanton
Clive Wood as Roger Maitland
Rachel James as Judy Maitland
Patsy Rowlands as Miss Foster
Janet Henfrey as Miss Price
June Ellis as Mrs Webley
Paul Chapman as Gilbert Clegg
Paul Ratcliffe as Harry
Helen Howard as Lynne
Frances Cox as landlady
Tommy Boyle as Jack Collins
Julie-Kate Olivier as Pat Schofield
Michael Hughes as Supt Meadows
Martin Benson as maitre d'hotel
References
External links
Stills from the TV series
1989 British television series debuts
1989 British television series endings
1980s British drama television series
1980s British television miniseries
ITV television dramas
English-language television shows
Television series by ITV Studios
Television series set in the 1950s
Television shows set in Yorkshire
Television shows produced by Granada Television
1980s British legal television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mexico%20City%20Metro%20stations | The Mexico City Metro is a rapid transit system serving Greater Mexico City. The system has 12 lines, 195 stations and a total network length of , including maintenance tracks.
List of stations
The following table lists alphabetically all 195 metro stations of the Mexico City Metro system; the line or lines serving each station; the year the station opened; the type of station (underground, elevated or at-grade); and other transportation services the station has connections with, such as the Mexico City Metrobús (a bus rapid transit system), the Xochimilco Light Rail, STE trolleybus networks, and the RTP bus system.
Future stations
As of March 2020, an expansion of Line 12 that will connect Mixcoac to Observatorio is under construction. Two stations, Álvaro Obregón and Valentín Campa, are planned. They are projected to open in 2022.
See also
List of Mexico City Metro lines
References
External links
Mexico City
Metro stations
Mexico City metro stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental%20Sports%20Network | Monumental Sports Network, formerly NBC Sports Washington, is an American regional sports network owned by Ted Leonsis's Monumental Sports & Entertainment. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the channel broadcasts regional coverage of sports events throughout the Mid-Atlantic, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., as well as sports news and entertainment programming.
Monumental Sports Network is available on approximately 25 cable television providers throughout Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, as well as parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and West Virginia; it is also available nationwide on satellite television via DirecTV. The channel reaches more than 4.7 million households in the Mid-Atlantic region.
History
The network was launched as Home Team Sports (HTS) on April 4, 1984. Originally owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting, it was one of the first regional sports networks in the United States with rights to the Washington Bullets, Washington Capitals, and Baltimore Orioles. In 1988, the network affiliated with SportsChannel, picking up their NHL package. In 1989, HTS additionally became an affiliate of the Prime Sports Network.
In 1996, the network was folded into CBS Cable, a cable television division formed through Westinghouse Electric Corporation's merger with CBS. In February 1997, Home Team Sports became an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks, a group of regional sports networks formed the previous year through News Corporation's partial acquisition of Prime through a joint venture with that network's parent Liberty Media. In 1996, Fox/Liberty had tried to secure rights to the Bullets, Capitals, and Orioles, which would have led to the launch of a new RSN. Fox/Liberty originally outbid HTS but previous contracts gave HTS the right of first refusal. Fox/Liberty filed a lawsuit against HTS which ultimately was settled. News Corporation subsequently purchased a 34% ownership interest in HTS. CBS Corporation, which remained majority owner, eventually merged into Viacom in 1999, in a deal worth $91 billion.
Shortly after Viacom completed its merger with CBS, on June 10, 2000, Viacom announced that it would sell Home Team Sports and Minneapolis-based regional sports network Midwest Sports Channel. One month later, on July 11, Comcast agreed to acquire a 75% ownership stake in HTS and the Midwest Sports Channel from CBS, in a deal worth approximately $150 million. News Corporation, which wanted to acquire full ownership of both networks, filed a lawsuit ten days later on July 21 in an attempt to block the sale of MSC and Home Team Sports.
On September 7, 2000, as part of a settlement between the two companies, Comcast traded its equity interest in Midwest Sports Channel to News Corporation in exchange for sole ownership of Home Team Sports. The transaction was completed seven months later in mid-February 2001. The channel was relaunched as Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-3 | TDRS-3, known before launch as TDRS-C, is an American communications satellite, of first generation, which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by TRW, and is based on a custom satellite bus which was used for all seven first generation TDRS satellites.
Launch
The TDRS-C satellite was launched aboard during the STS-26 mission in 1988; the first Shuttle flight since the Challenger disaster which had resulted in the loss of the previous TDRS satellite, TDRS-B. Discovery launched from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center at 15:37:00 UTC on 29 September 1988. TDRS-C was deployed from Discovery around six hours after launch, and was raised to geostationary orbit by means of an Inertial Upper Stage.
Deployment
The two-stage solid-propellent Inertial Upper Stage made two burns. The first stage burn occurred shortly after deployment from Discovery, and placed the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. At 04:30 UTC on 30 September 1988, it reached apogee, and the second stage fired, placing TDRS-C into geosynchronous orbit. At this point it received its operational designation. Although the TDRS-2 designation had not been assigned, TDRS-C was given the designation TDRS-3 as NASA did not want to reuse the designation which had been intended for the STS-51-L payload. It was briefly placed at a longitude 151° West of the Greenwich Meridian, before being moved to 171.0° West before the end of 1988, from where it provided communications services to spacecraft in Earth orbit, including Space Shuttles. In 1990, it was relocated to 174.0° West, and again in 1991 to 62.0° West. In 1994, it returned to 171.0° West. In June 1995, it was moved to 85.0° East, from where it was used primarily for communications with spacecraft such as the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. In October 2009, as NASA began decommissioning TDRS-1, TDRS-3 was moved to 49.0° West, where it remains in storage as of 2020.
See also
List of TDRS satellites
References
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Spacecraft launched in 1988
TDRS satellites
Spacecraft launched by the Space Shuttle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S28%20%28Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn%29 | The S28 Regiobahn is a S-Bahn line in the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn network. It is operated by Transdev Rheinland GmbH as a subcontractor of Regiobahn Fahrbetriebsgesellschaft mbH (Regiobahn for short), who is the PSO operator on behalf of Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR).
The line begins in Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof, then uses the branch line via Mettmann Stadtwald; then it runs through Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof branching off to Kaarst after passing through Neuss Hauptbahnhof. Its western terminus is Kaarster See. The line is operated using Integral S5D95 DMUs at 20-minute intervals, with only two trains an hour running between Mettmann and Wuppertal. On weekends, the whole line is operated at 30-minute intervals.
Until 2021, Bombardier Talent DMUs were used, which were replaced by second-hand Integral trains from the Bavarian Oberland Railway. Electrification of the non-electrified sections is underway, but delayed. The planned electric Stadler FLIRT trains have already been built, and are currently used by Abellio Rail NRW on other lines of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn. A western extension from Kaarster See via Willich to Viersen is planned.
History
Services commenced between Mettmann and Kaarst on 26 September 1999 at 60 minute frequencies, increased to 20 minutes from 28 May 2000. On 13 December 2020, the line was extended from Mettmann Stadtwald via Wuppertal-Vohwinkel to Wuppertal Hbf.
Passenger numbers
Source: Regiobahn
1: only Düsseldorf–Mettmann, when operated by DB
2: at 60 minute frequency
3: impacted by strike
Route
The S28 services stop at all stations along the way, except Wuppertal-Sonnborn station.
The following individual railway lines are used:
from Wuppertal Hbf to Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and from Düsseldorf-Gerresheim to Düsseldorf Hbf (currently managed by DB Netz)
the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway built from 1838 to 1841 by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company
also used by RE4, RE7, RE13, RE49, S8, S9, S68
from Wuppertal-Vohwinkel to Wuppertal-Dornap Junction (currently managed by DB Netz)
the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr railway built in 1847 by the Prince William Railway Company
also used by RE49, S9
from Wuppertal-Dornap Junction to Hahnenfurth Junction (managed by Regiobahn GmbH)
the Wuppertal-Dornap Junction to Hahnenfurth Junction railway, built from 2014 to 2020 by the Regiobahn GmbH
from Hahnenfurth Junction to Düsseldorf-Gerresheim (currently managed by Regiobahn GmbH)
the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway opened by the Rhenish Railway Company between 1875 and 1879
from Düsseldorf Hbf to Neuss Hbf (currently managed by DB Netz)
the Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway opened by the Bergisch-Markisch Railway Company in 1870
also used by RE4, RE6, RE10, RE13, RB39, S8, S11
from Neuss Hbf to Kaarster See (currently managed by Regiobahn GmbH)
the Neuss–Viersen railway opened by the Rhenish Railway Company in 1877–78
References
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
1999 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20Deskpro%20386 | The Deskpro 386 is a line of desktop computers in Compaq's Deskpro range of IBM PC compatibles. The computers feature Intel's 32-bit 80386 microprocessor. Introduced in September 1986, the Deskpro 386 is the first implementation of the 80386 processor in a computer system for sale to the public. It also marks the first time that a major component of the IBM Personal Computer de facto standard was updated by a company other than IBM themselves—in this case, upgrading from the 80286 processor of the Personal Computer/AT.
The initial models of the Deskpro 386 were developed by a team of 250 people, led by Gary Stimac. It was released to high praise in the technology press and widespread adoption in enterprise and scientific engineering. Compaq continued releasing updated models of the Deskpro 386 as newer revisions of the 386 chip were introduced by Intel.
Specifications
The Deskpro 386 line features the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus identical to that of the IBM Personal Computer/AT. While the Personal Computer/AT has an 16-bit Intel 80286 microprocessor, the Deskpro 386 features Intel's then-cutting-edge 32-bit 80386 processor. The initial three models in the Deskpro 386 line—the Deskpro 386 Model 40, the Deskpro 386 Model 70, and the Deskpro 386 Model 130—differ only in the amount of storage in the included hard disk drives and in the number of ISA expansion slots on their motherboards. The models otherwise all come with at least 1 MiB of RAM and a 16-MHz Intel 80386 microprocessor. The Model 40 is equipped with a 40 MB ESDI hard drive and features six ISA expansion slots—three eight-bit slots and three sixteen-bit slots. The Models 70 and 130 are equipped with 70 MB and 130 MB ESDI hard drives, respectively; both feature five expansion slots—three eight-bit slots and two sixteen-bit slots. Externally, the design of the Deskpro 386's case is identical to that of its predecessors, the original 8088-equipped Deskpro and the 80286-equipped Deskpro 286. Each model of the Deskpro 386 features four 5.25-inch half-height drive bays, and all models are equipped stock with one 1.2-MB 5.25-inch floppy drive. The hard drives in the Models 40 and 70 are half-height units, while the Model 130's hard drive is a full-height unit.
Instead of integrating memory on the motherboards, Compaq put the RAM chips on a daughtercard that plugs into a 32-bit bus slot on the motherboard. This slot is bespoke to the Deskpro 386 and allows the transfer of information to and from the bus in 32-bit words. For the initial models, the daughtercard carries 1 MiB of RAM stock, able to take up to 2 MiB (half of its RAM sockets are unpopulated). The daughtercard itself contains a slot that can hold a special "piggyback" card that carries 4 MiB of RAM stock, upgradable up to 8 MiB. The highest amount of RAM that Compaq offered in this daughtercard-and-piggyback-card arrangement on the initial release of the Deskpro 386 was 10 MiB. Additional RAM may be installed as upgr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXXX-AM | DXXX (1008 AM) Radyo Ronda is a radio station owned and operated by Radio Philippines Network. The station's studios are located at the 3rd floor, Fairland Property Bldg., Mayor Vitaliano Agan St. (Nuñez Ext.), Zamboanga City.
History
The station was established in 1959 as DXJW under 1010 kHz. It was owned by Alto Broadcasting System of Antonio Quirino and James Lindenberg, which became ABS-CBN in 1967. On September 23, 1972, it was among the stations closed down by the government. The following year, it returned on air, this time under its current call letters and current ownership.
References
External links
Radyo Ronda Zamboanga FB Page
Radyo Ronda Zamboanga Website
Radio Philippines Network
RPN News and Public Affairs
Radio stations in Zamboanga City
Radio stations established in 1959
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI%20Pass%20Through%20Interface | SCSI Pass Through Interface (SPTI) is an application programming interface (API) accessing a SCSI device. It is developed by Microsoft Corporation and is part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.
Overview
The storage port drivers provide an interface for Win32 applications to send SCSI Command Descriptor Block (CDB) messages to SCSI devices. The interfaces are IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH and IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT. Applications can build a pass-through request and send it to the device by using this IOCTL.
SPTI is accessible to Windows software using the DeviceIoControl Windows API.
ImgBurn offers SPTI as a method for accessing optical disc drives.
Other SCSI interfaces
Windows:
Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (ASPI) by Adaptec, Nero AG and Pinnacle Systems
ASAPI by VOB Computersysteme GmbH and Pinnacle Systems
ElbyCDIO by Elaborate Bytes
Patin-Couffin by VSO Software
SCSI Pass-Through Direct (SPTD) by Duplex Secure, Ltd.
The SCSI pass-through driver for Linux is called "SCSI generic" ()
References
Further reading
Application programming interfaces
SCSI
Device drivers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASPI | ASPI may refer to:
Advanced SCSI Programming Interface, a standardized programming interface for SCSI devices
All Share Price Index, a stock indices of the Colombo Stock Exchange in Sri Lanka
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a government defence and strategic policy think tank
Asia Society Policy Institute, a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia
Autostrade per l'Italia, the largest operator of toll roads in Italy
See also
Aspy (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%20Computing%20Initiative | The United States government's Strategic Computing Initiative funded research into advanced computer hardware and artificial intelligence from 1983 to 1993. The initiative was designed to support various projects that were required to develop machine intelligence in a prescribed ten-year time frame, from chip design and manufacture, computer architecture to artificial intelligence software. The Department of Defense spent a total of $1 billion on the project.
The inspiration for the program was Japan's fifth generation computer project, an enormous initiative that set aside billions for research into computing and artificial intelligence. As with Sputnik in 1957, the American government saw the Japanese project as a challenge to its technological dominance. The British government also funded a program of their own around the same time, known as Alvey, and a consortium of U.S. companies funded another similar project, the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation.
The goal of SCI, and other contemporary projects, was nothing less than full machine intelligence. "The machine envisioned by SC", according to Alex Roland and Philip Shiman, "would run ten billion instructions per second to see, hear, speak, and think like a human. The degree of integration required would rival that achieved by the human brain, the most complex instrument known to man."
The initiative was conceived as an integrated program, similar to the Apollo moon program, where different subsystems would be created by various companies and academic projects and eventually brought together into a single integrated system. Roland and Shiman wrote that "While most research programs entail tactics or strategy, SC boasted grand strategy, a master plan for an entire campaign."
The project was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and directed by the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO). By 1985 it had spent $100 million, and 92 projects were underway at 60 institutions: half in industry, half in universities and government labs. Robert Kahn, who directed IPTO in those years, provided the project with its early leadership and inspiration. Clint Kelly managed the SC Initiative for three years and developed many of the specific application programs for DARPA, such as the Autonomous Land Vehicle.
By the late 1980s, it was clear that the project would fall short of realizing the hoped-for levels of machine intelligence. Program insiders pointed to issues with integration, organization, and communication. When Jack Schwarz ascended to the leadership of IPTO in 1987, he cut funding to artificial intelligence research (the software component) "deeply and brutally", "eviscerating" the program (wrote Pamela McCorduck). Schwarz felt that DARPA should focus its funding only on those technologies which showed the most promise. In his words, DARPA should "surf", rather than "dog paddle", and he felt strongly AI was not "the next wave".
Although the progr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel%20TV | Emmanuel TV is a Christian television network with headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. It was founded by T.B. Joshua, former senior pastor of the Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), in Lagos, Nigeria. It is also the most subscribed Christian ministry channel on YouTube worldwide with well over 1,000,000 subscribers, as of January 2019.
History
In the late 1990s, SCOAN began gaining international attention due to the distribution of video cassettes, showing clips of Joshua's early ministry and alleged miracles. Additionally, Joshua began airing regular programs purporting to show 'miracles' on local Nigerian television. However, when Nigeria's National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), under the instruction of then President Olusegun Obasanjo controversially banned the showing of 'miracles', in 2004, most of his programs were taken off air. This eventually paved the way for the emergence of Emmanuel TV on 8 March 2006 by T.B. Joshua.
Since its inception, Emmanuel TV has broadcast Christian programmes, stating that its mission is 'to preach the Good News to all mankind.' From humble beginnings, it has rapidly grown to become one of Africa's most well known brands and popular television stations. In its profile on Joshua, the BBC described him as "Nigeria's best known televangelist".
Programming
Emmanuel TV broadcasts a range of programmes from Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN). It has gained a reputation for being a Christian station that does not run any on-air campaigns for financial assistance and among the only Christian stations that does not syndicate programs of other pastors.
Emmanuel TV DStv Channel
Emmanuel TV is also found on DStv Channel 390 where biblical readings, testimonies, teaching and Christian kids programmes like cartoons which are mainly about the Bible and Jesus Christ are found.
Reach
Emmanuel TV is broadcast worldwide on various satellites. Its programmes air weekly on a number of local television stations across Africa, debuting on DStv and GOtv in November 2015, as well as Startimes in February 2016. Its playout centre is located in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Emmanuel TV's motto is 'Changing Lives, Changing Nations, Changing the World.' The station is also known for its catch-phrase, 'Distance Is Not A Barrier', encouraging viewers to 'pray along' with T.B. Joshua by 'touching the screen'. There are several claims of people receiving miraculous 'healing' through these prayers, including popular Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh who said Joshua's prayers ended her 14-year smoking addiction.
T.B. Joshua has donated televisions to prisons and hospitals so that they will be able to watch the Emmanuel TV broadcasts.
YouTube channel
Emmanuel TV's YouTube channel is the most subscribed Christian ministry YouTube channel worldwide and the third most subscribed in Nigeria. Google ranked one of Emmanuel TV's YouTube videos as the fourth most viewed clip ever within Nigeria. YouTube has shut down the channel, which clai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom2b | Freedom2b is an Australian-based network that supports LGBT people from Christian backgrounds. It helps them resolve issues of faith, sexuality, and gender identity while working to promote understanding and acceptance both in the church and within the wider community. Freedom2b is not unlike many of the other denominational groups that have been created to assist people with resolving issues of faith and sexuality such as Acceptance or Integrity, but it accepts both religious and non religious LGBTI people and does not promote a particular belief system.
Purpose
The stated agenda of Freedom2b is to offer support, information and the opportunity to share with people who have similar experiences. Freedom2b offers support to LGBTI people through face to face meetings and offers information on same sex attraction from a scientific, psychological and biblical perspective. It also promotes dialogue with religious organizations to promote understanding and acceptance.
History
Freedom2b was co-founded in 2004 by Anthony Venn-Brown (a former Australian Assemblies of God evangelist) and Phillip Wall and the first meetings were held in Surry Hills in Sydney. Anthony Venn-Brown released his autobiography A Life of Unlearning, which he said caused a flood of emails and prompted him to establish the network to give gay Christians a voice. “Up until this point there was no point of contact for the many thousands of people who were isolated.”
In 2011 Venn-Brown stepped down, with Michelle Kolev of the Melbourne chapter taking on the role of President. The year also saw the organisation re-brand from "freedom 2 b[e]" to "freedom2b".
Activities
Freedom2b conducts monthly meetings in a number of capital cities including Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, and has an online forum where participants can share their stories and discuss issues relating to faith and sexuality. Freedom2b has marched in the Sydney Mardi Gras since 2007 and participated in the 2011 Mardi Gras under the theme of “Find Freedom”.
The organization supports a range of activities within the community that promote awareness and help people reconcile their faith and sexuality. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed a number of members of freedom2b members in 2009 on their experiences of being gay and Pentecostal, and several freedom2b members were also the subject of a 2009 photography exhibition by Iain Wallace entitled “Walking between Worlds.” Freedom2b has recently been involved in workshops on suicide prevention. Three members of freedom2b, Paul Martin, Anthony Venn-Brown, and Ben Gresham are featured in an upcoming documentary "The Bedroom Commandments" that looks at the relationship between religious faith and sexuality.
Freedom2b also has a group for young people aged 18–30. Their aim is to offer a safe place for LGBTI youth and young adults from Christian backgrounds.
The youth coordinators of freedom2b in 2008 are Ben Gresham in Sydney and Duane McKibben in Mel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-4 | TDRS-4, known before launch as TDRS-D, is an American communications satellite, of first generation, which was operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System from 1989 until 2011. It was constructed by TRW, based on a custom satellite bus which was used for all seven of the first generation TDRS satellites.
History
TDRS-D was launched aboard during the STS-29 mission in 1989. Discovery launched from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center at 14:57:00 UTC on 13 March 1989. TDRS-D was deployed from Discovery a few hours after launch, and was raised to geostationary orbit by means of an Inertial Upper Stage.
Deployment
The twin-stage solid-propellant Inertial Upper Stage made two burns. The first stage burn occurred shortly after deployment from Discovery, and placed the satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). At 03:30 UTC on 14 March 1989, it reached apogee, and the second stage fired, placing TDRS-D into geostationary orbit. At this point, it received its operational designation, TDRS-4. It was placed at a longitude 41.0° West of the Greenwich Meridian, from where it provided communications services to spacecraft in Earth orbit, including the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. In 2005, it was relocated to 46.0° West.
Retirement
TDRS-4 completed its planned mission in December 2011, and was subsequently removed to a graveyard orbit above GEO orbit belt, per International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and United Nations (UN) recommendations. In May 2012, NASA reported that the orbit-raising manoeuvre had been completed successfully, and the spacecraft had been retired.
See also
List of TDRS satellites
References
Derelict satellites orbiting Earth
Spacecraft launched in 1989
TDRS satellites
Spacecraft launched by the Space Shuttle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaoke%20Joysound | Karaoke Joysound (カラオケJOYSOUND) is a karaoke service and online song library from Japanese karaoke service provider Xing. The Joysound service, which started on various karaoke computers, was adapted into a video game by Hudson Soft for Wii, licensing the Joysound online song library alongside Xing, who also helped co-develop the game with Hudson. The game was originally released in a retail package with an included USB microphone on December 18, 2008 in Japan, and was later released there as a downloadable WiiWare game on July 28, 2009.
In January 2012, Konami (which acquired Hudson Soft and all its original IPs in 2011) announced they would release the title for the first time in North America under the simplified title Karaoke Joysound, which connected to a much different music library of well-known English songs. It was originally expected for a March 2012 release, but was delayed until October 30, 2012, and was made available as both a standard disc and a microphone bundle. On July 17, 2014, the software was re-released as a downloadable WiiWare title, without any prior announcements, for the North American Wii Shop Channel, courtesy of publishers Brother International Corp. It was originally announced for a July 3 release, but it was delayed for unknown reasons.
The software is spiritually succeeded by the Joysound-licensed Wii Karaoke U app for the Wii U in 2012, and it is only available in Japan and Europe. On May 18, 2015, Konami announced the termination of the Wii Joysound service. Last date to purchase songs was July 21, 2015 and the service was shut down on October 29, 2015. A successor for the Nintendo Switch named Karaoke Joysound Switch was developed by Xing (who worked on the original games) and published by Nintendo. It was released only in Japan in 2017.
Overview
Karaoke Joysound Wii is a game "designed to provide a karaoke-club experience at home". The game requires an internet connection for players to access new songs to download. Buying tickets for songs with Nintendo Points, players rent the songs they want to sing for a limited period (from 24 hours to up to 90 days) from Xing's song library. Choosing a stage to perform on, players are able to select from a previously created avatar or use their own Miis to represent themselves. Players are also able to adjust options such as echo, key and speed of the song, and other players can use their Wii Remotes to accompany the singer by playing instruments such as cymbals and maracas.
In addition to the included microphone, the retail version includes 70 songs on disc as well as a lesson mode which trains and quizzes players on tone and rhythm, and a party mode with five minigames. Along with omitting the included songs and extra modes, the WiiWare version features a number of cosmetic changes.
Reception
In the six months after release, the retail version of Karaoke Joysound Wii sold over 250,000 copies in Japan.
Joysound Yearly Chart
Joysound published Top10 songs in Heis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20and%20Water%20Assessment%20Tool | Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a free and open source hydrology model and GIS computer simulation sponsored by the USDA.
SWAT is a well known geographic hydrological model in use by many universities and government agencies around the world, and integrates with commercial products like ArcGIS.
Some users of SWAT
The River Systems Research Group of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Washington
The Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute under the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Royal Thai Government
The Departments of Agricultural & Biological Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering at Purdue University
References
External links
Water Quality Model Passes Another Test (SWAT)
http://www.brc.tamus.edu/swat/
United States Department of Agriculture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-6 | TDRS-6, known before launch as TDRS-F, is an American communications satellite, of first generation, which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by TRW, and is based on a custom satellite bus which was used for all seven first generation TDRS satellites.
History
TDRS-F was deployed from during the STS-54 mission in 1993. Endeavour was launched from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, at 13:59:30 UTC on 13 January 1993. TDRS-F was deployed from Endeavour around six hours after launch, and was raised to geosynchronous orbit by means of an Inertial Upper Stage.
Deployment
The two-stage solid-propellent Inertial Upper Stage made two burns. The first stage burn occurred shortly after deployment from Endeavour, and placed the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). At 02:26 UTC on 14 January 1993, it reached apogee, and the second stage fired, placing TDRS-F into geosynchronous orbit. At this point, it received its operational designation, TDRS-6.
Operation
In 1994, it was placed at a longitude 46.0° West of the Greenwich Meridian, to serve as an on-orbit spare. In 1996, it was moved to 47.0° West, where it remained until 2005, when it was repositioned to 174.0° West, where, , it was used to provide communications with spacecraft in Earth orbit, such as the International Space Station (ISS) and spacecraft bringing astronauts to the ISS.
See also
List of TDRS satellites
References
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Spacecraft launched in 1993
TDRS satellites
Spacecraft launched by the Space Shuttle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20software%20for%20nanostructures%20modeling | This is a list of computer programs that are used to model nanostructures at the levels of classical mechanics and quantum mechanics.
Furiousatoms - a powerful software for molecular modelling and visualization
Aionics.io - a powerful platform for nanoscale modelling
Ascalaph Designer
Atomistix ToolKit and Virtual NanoLab
CoNTub
CP2K
CST Studio Suite
Deneb – graphical user interface (GUI) for SIESTA, VASP, QE, etc., DFT calculation packages
Enalos Cloud Platform – a cloud platform containing tools for the digital construction of energy minimized nanotubes and ellipsoidal nanoparticles and the calculation of their atomistic descriptors.
Exabyte.io - a cloud-native integrated platform for nanoscale modeling, supporting simulations at multiple scales, including Density Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamics
JCMsuite – a finite element analysis software for simulating optical properties of nanostructures
LAMMPS – Open source molecular dynamics code
MAPS - Graphical user interface to build complex systems (nanostructures, polymers, surfaces...), set up and analyze ab-initio (Quantum Espresso, VASP, Abinit, NWChem...) or classical (LAMMPS, Towhee) simulations
nanoHUB allows simulating geometry, electronic properties and electrical transport phenomena in various nanostructures
Ninithi – carbon nanotube, graphene, and Fullerene modelling software
Nanoengineer-1 – developed by company Nanorex, but the website doesn't work, may be unavailable
NEMO 3-D – enables multi-million atom electronic structure simulations in empirical tight binding; open source; an educational version is on nanoHUB and Quantum Dot Lab
Nanotube Modeler
Materials Design MedeA
Materials Studio
Materials Square - a cloud-based materials simulation web platform, provides GUI for Quantum Espresso, LAMMPS, and Open Calphad
MBN Explorer and MBN Studio
MD-kMC
PARCAS – Open source molecular dynamics code
SAMSON: interactive carbon nanotube modeling and simulation
Scigress
TubeASP
Tubegen
Wrapping
See also
References
Molecular modelling software
Carbon nanotubes
Materials science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrascleral%20plexus | The intrascleral plexus is the network of blood vessels within the substance of the sclera. Blood enters from the small connecting channels from Schlemm's canal; it exits through superficial vessels, then passing it on to the anterior ciliary veins.
References
Human anatomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2%20%28Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn%29 | Line S2 is a S-Bahn line in the Rhein-Ruhr network. It starts in Dortmund Hauptbahnhof and runs westerly. During weekdays one service per hour runs each to Essen Hauptbahnhof and Recklinghausen Hauptbahnhof using Stadler FLIRT 3XL units.
Line S2 runs over lines built by various railway companies:
from Dortmund Hauptbahnhof to Dortmund-Dorstfeld over the Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway, opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company in 1862
from Dortmund-Dorstfeld to Dortmund-Mengede over the Welver–Sterkrade railway, built by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company on 1 September 1878.
from Dortmund-Mengede to Gelsenkirchen Hauptbahnhof via Herne station over the Duisburg–Dortmund Railway opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company in 1847,
from Gelsenkirchen to Essen over the Essen–Gelsenkirchen railway, opened from Gelsenkirchen to Essen-Kray Nord by the Rhenish Railway Company in 1872 and from Essen-Kray Nord to Essen Hauptbahnhof by the Prussian state railways in 1905,
from Herne to Recklinghausen over tracks competed in October 1901 by Deutsche Reichsbahn and the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company in 1870.
S-Bahn services commenced between Dortmund and Duisburg on 2 June 1991. Services commenced between Dortmund and Essen on 29 September 1991. Services commenced between Dortmund and Recklinghausen on 24 May 1998. Services between Gelsenkirchen and Duisburg ended on 15 December 2019 and were replaced by the RB 32 (Rhein-Emscher-Bahn).
Notes
References
S02
1991 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Davis%20%28neuroscientist%29 | Karen D. Davis is a neuroscience professor at the University of Toronto, and is the head of Division of Brain, Imaging & Behaviour, Krembil Research Institute at the University Health Network. Davis was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2009, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2018 and the Royal Society of Canada in 2020 and is currently the president of the Canadian Pain Society.
She has previously held a Canada Research Chair in Brain and Behaviour. and was a Mayday Pain and Society Fellow.
Research
Davis' main interest is the central mechanisms underlying acute and chronic pain and temperature perception, the influence of attention, and mechanisms of plasticity under normal conditions and in patients with neurologic or psychiatric disorders. A variety of experimental techniques are used, including functional brain imaging (fMRI, PET, MEG), psychophysical and cognitive assessment, and electrophysiological recordings in the thalamus and cortex. Davis' laboratory has developed innovative brain-imaging approaches, culminating in the first functional MRI images of brain networks underlying the human pain experience and the first images of the impact of deep brain stimulation for Parkinsonian tremor.
Davis has also worked on variety of chronic pain conditions, concussion, and phantom pain. She has demonstrated that findings support the hypothesis that the thalamic representation of the amputated limb remains functional in amputees with phantom sensations. Through several studies, she has shown important interactions between pain and cognition, by studying how brain networks shift their function towards pain while multitasking on cognitive tasks (Seminowicz et al., 2007; Erpelding et al., 2013) or when processing multimodal sensory information (Downar et al., 2000) or during mind wandering (Kucyi et al., 2013). She has introduced two influential theories that builds on the neuromatrix concept of Melzack. In the "pain switch" concept (Davis et al., 2015), she emphasizes the basic feeling of "ouch" that must be represented by a core brain mechanism, regardless of pain intensity or quality. The other concept is called the Dynamic Pain Connectome which emphasizes that spatiotemporal representation of pain in the brain is dynamic and includes activity in the salience and default mode network as well as the ascending nociceptive and antinociceptive pathways.
Davis has published 200 journal articles and book chapters that have been cited over 20,000 times and she has an h-index of 76.
Neuroethics Activities
Davis is active in neuroethics research and knowledge translations She has written to raise awareness of the neuroethical and legal issues related to using brain imaging to diagnose chronic pain. She chaired an IASP task force that studied this issue culminating in a paper "Brain imaging tests for chronic pain: medical, legal and ethical issues and recommendations" published in Nature Reviews Neurology in 2017. S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T91 | T91 may refer to:
Asus Eee T91, a netbook computer
, a patrol vessel of the Indian Navy
T91 assault rifle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S5%20%28Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn%29 | Line S 5 is a S-Bahn line in the Rhine-Ruhr network. It is operated by DB Regio. It runs from via to . There are current plans to expand the line by building five new stations. It is operated between Dortmund and Witten at 30-minute intervals and between Witten and Hagen at 60-minute intervals using Alstom Coradia Continental type 1440.3 and class 422.
Line S 5 runs over the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 20 December 1848.
S-Bahn services commenced on the whole length of the route on 29 May 1994.
References
S05
1994 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Greens | The Global Greens (GG) is an international network of political parties and movements which work to implement the Global Greens Charter. It consists of various national green political parties, partner networks, and other organizations associated with green politics.
Formed in 2001 at the First Global Greens Congress, the network has grown to include 76 full member parties and 11 observers and associate parties as of May 2022, so a total of 87 members. It is governed by a 12-member steering committee called the Global Greens Coordination, and each member party falls under the umbrella of one of four affiliated regional green federations. The day-to-day operations of the Global Greens are managed by the Secretariat, led by Global Greens Convenors Bob Hale and Gloria Polanco since 2020.
History
The world's first green parties were founded in 1972. These were in the Australian state of Tasmania (the United Tasmania Group) and in New Zealand (the Values Party). Others followed quickly: in 1973, PEOPLE (later the Ecology Party) was set up in the UK, and in other European countries Green and radical parties sprang up in the following years.
Petra Kelly, a German ecofeminist activist, is often cited as one of the first thinkers and leaders of the green politics movement. Her work in founding the German Green Party in West Germany in 1980 was instrumental in bringing prominence to green political parties on both the national and international stages.
The first Planetary Meeting of the Greens was held in Rio de Janeiro on May 30–31, 1992 in conjunction with the Rio Earth Summit being concurrently held in Brazil. It was here that the first ever Global Greens statement was issued, beginning with this preface:
"Experience teaches us that governments are only moved to take environmental problems seriously when people vote for environmental political parties."
The first Global Greens Congress was held in Canberra, Australia, in 2001. The official Global Greens Charter was issued here, and the Congress delegates set up the framework and organizational structures that would build the Global Greens into an ongoing international network and movement, including the Global Greens Coordination. In 2010, the first Global Greens Secretary was appointed.
Global Greens Charter
The Global Greens Charter is the guiding document that establishes the principles and "core values" to which member parties and associated organizations should attempt to adhere. It sets out global principles that cross boundaries to bind Greens from around the world together:
Participatory Democracy
Nonviolence
Social Justice
Sustainability
Respect for Diversity
Ecological Wisdom
Priorities outlined in the Charter include reforming the dominant economic model, tackling climate change, ending the hunger crisis, promoting vibrant democracy, working for peace, protecting biodiversity.
The Global Greens Charter has been reviewed and updated twice during Global Greens Congresses since its orig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmi%20Corporation | Cosmi Corporation (COSMI) is an American computer software company based in Carson, California.
Software publishing
Cosmi Corporation was established in 1982, founded by George Johnson. The company published titles for many personal computer systems such as the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64 and IBM PC. This included many games, such as Forbidden Forest, The President Is Missing, or the very popular Aztec Challenge. It also published utility software including a database, word processor, spreadsheet, street maps, vacation planners, a 3D World Atlas, and other tools.
Products
Cosmi products include business and productivity, graphics and publishing, utilities, learning, languages, and games software.
Cosmi produces famous titles such as:
Print Perfect Scrapbook Deluxe - Creates memorable scrapbook layouts, templates, designs, decorative artwork, and photo editing tools.
iPod Video - Styles and protects the surface of the iPod.
Website Promoter - Contains tools that will drive traffic to a website, optimise rankings in key search engines, and boost site's popularity.
Recent activity
In recent years, Cosmi published shovelware sold at Best Buy and Office Depot. They still publish utility programs, such as Perfect Website Creator.
Cosmi published a version of OpenOffice.org called Platinum Perfect Pro Office System Software.
In 2012, Cosmi acquired ValuSoft from the now-defunct video game publisher THQ for an undisclosed sum.
References
External links
Video game companies established in 1982
Software companies established in 1982
1982 establishments in California
Software companies based in California
Organizations based in Carson, California
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
Video game companies of the United States
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI%3A%20Deadly%20Intent | CSI: Deadly Intent is a computer game based on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television series. It is the seventh CSI game released, including CSI: Miami and CSI: NY. It was released for Microsoft Windows on October 20, 2009, and for Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and Wii on October 27, 2009.
The game corresponds with the 9th season of the television series and includes the characters of Raymond Langston and Riley Adams.
Cast members of the popular TV show including Laurence Fishburne, George Eads, Paul Guilfoyle, Eric Szmanda, Lauren Lee Smith, and Robert David Hall reprised their roles for the videogame and recorded in Los Angeles with voice director Timothy Cubbison.
The Nintendo DS version of this game is called CSI: Deadly Intent - The Hidden Cases and was developed by Other Ocean. It includes four original cases created exclusively for that platform.
The Cases
Case 1: Broken Hearted
In case 1, an army wife named Lynn Bowder is found murdered in a hotel room, wearing a wedding dress. Your partner in this case is Nick Stokes.
The suspects are a Vegas visitor named Airam Dominguez, the night manager of the hotel, Charles Steer, and the victim's old friend, Kathy Burd.
It turns out that Kathy and Lynn were secretly in love, but when Lynn fell for Airam instead, Kathy killed her in a jealous rage and had Charles help her cover it up.
Case 2: Coulda Been A Contender
A referee named Rick Shimada was found dead in the fighting ring. Your partner in this case is Greg Sanders. The suspects are an angry fighter named Hank Hackett, a mysterious ring girl named Tina Allens, and the league owner, Horace Willingham. Suspect Hank Hackett is murdered halfway through the investigation, making it a double homicide.
Horace originally confesses to the murders, but it is discovered that Tina murdered Rick because he planned to expose the league for rigging matches, then killed Hank and framed him by making his death look like a suicide.
Case 3: Last Gasp
A female TV host named Clarinda Jackson was found drowned to death in a rehab center spa. Your partner in this case is Dr. Raymond Langston. The suspects are the victim's lover, Steven Tampson, her husband, Ernest Goldwasser, and a TV rival named Jack Shell.
It is discovered that Steven never had any feelings for Clarinda, but she was madly in love with him, and he only began their relationship to humor her and to ruin her marriage with her husband, as he blamed the couple for his own divorce. He kills her after she confesses she loves him.
Case 4: Extinguished
A famous fire-breather named Andrew Levesque was found dead. Your partner in this case is Riley Adams. According to the autopsy report, the victim was already dying of cancer and it seems the victim was abusive and violent. The suspects are the victim's landlord, Dr. Vincente Manoto, his wife, Ardell Levesque, and his 18-year-old stepson, Lyle Fitzer. The murderer turns out to be Lyle, as his stepfather did nothing to support their family and Lyle had |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-7 | TDRS-7, known before launch as TDRS-G, is an American communications satellite, of first generation, which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by TRW as a replacement for TDRS-B, which had been lost in the Challenger accident, and was the last first generation TDRS satellite to be launched.
History
TDRS-7 is based on a custom satellite bus which was used for all seven first generation TDRS satellites. Whilst similar to its predecessors, it differed from them slightly in that twelve G/H band (C band (IEEE)) transponders which had been included on the previous satellites were omitted. It was the last communications satellite, other than amateur radio spacecraft, to be deployed by a Space Shuttle.
Launch
The TDRS-G satellite was deployed from during the STS-70 mission in 1995. Discovery was launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B at 13:41:55 UTC on 13 July 1995. TDRS-G was deployed from Discovery around six hours after launch, and was raised to geosynchronous orbit by means of an Inertial Upper Stage.
Deployment
The twin-stage solid-propellent Inertial Upper Stage made two burns. The first stage burn occurred around an hour after deployment from Discovery, and placed the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. At 02:30 UTC on 14 July 1995 it reached apogee, and the second stage fired, placing TDRS-G into geostationary orbit. At this point, it received its operational designation, TDRS-7. It was placed at a longitude 150.0° West of the Greenwich Meridian, where it underwent on-orbit testing. In May 1996, it was moved to 171.0° West where it was stored as an in-orbit spare, and subsequently entered service. In December 2003, it was relocated to 150.5° West. It arrived the next month, and was returned to storage as a reserve satellite.
See also
List of TDRS satellites
References
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Spacecraft launched in 1995
TDRS satellites
Spacecraft launched by the Space Shuttle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KO-AM%20TV | KO-AM TV (Korean-American Television), is a digital cable network based in Seattle, Washington, United States broadcasting programming for the local Korean American community in Western Washington, located at 32008 32nd Ave. S., Federal Way, WA 98001. As an affiliate of KBS World, it broadcasts Korean programming with English subtitles and broadcasts live coverage of Korean news as well as airing a locally produced newscast six days a week.
KO-AM TV is the only Korean American TV station that broadcasts in Washington State. KO-AM TV runs several programs such as popular videos, local news, weather news, traffic updates and Today's English (영어 한마디). For popular videos, they focus on recent popular news and viral animal videos; for local news, they go to significant events that are held around Seattle and interview people there.
and broadcast news about Koreans who live in Washington State; for language learning program, they have Today's English, it is a short program that introduces one phrase in English and explains the phrase in Korean every day. Additionally, they broadcast various Korean programs that were originally broadcast in South Korea with English subtitles. For example, they broadcast Dong-Chi-Mi, a reality show, and Chun-Gi-Nu-Sul, a health program.
KO-AM TV’s Chairperson, Jong-Jae Ko, graduated from Yonsei University in South Korea. In 1983, he started working in the broadcasting
field. He is also a chairman of Worldwide Korean Christian Broadcasters Association (WCBA).
Awards
KO-AM TV was nominated by the Korean Broadcasting System in South Korea for a prize for their TV programming in 2004. They also got a prize for their TV programming from KBS Seoul Prize in 2010.
[October 13, 2015].
References
External links
Official site
Asian-American culture in Seattle
Television stations in Seattle
Foreign-language television stations in the United States
Korean-language mass media
Non-English-language mass media in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jeff%20Dunham%20Show | The Jeff Dunham Show is an American sketch comedy television series starring comedian Jeff Dunham, that aired on the American cable television network Comedy Central. It premiered on October 22, 2009, and featured Dunham interacting with the characters that he uses in his ventriloquism act, such as Walter, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Peanut, Bubba J, José Jalapeño on a Stick, and Sweet Daddy Dee. The series' final episode aired on December 10, 2009.
On December 29, 2009, it was announced that The Jeff Dunham Show would not return for a second season, despite having higher average ratings than other Comedy Central shows; Nellie Andreeva of The Live Feed cited its higher production cost as a factor.
The entire series run is included on The Jeff Dunham Show DVD, which was released on May 18, 2010.
Production
The series, which has been described as "broader and cleaner" than Dunham's standup act, was part of a multi-platform deal Dunham signed in March 2009 that includes further stand-up specials, DVDs, a consumer product partnership, and a tour. It combines segments with Dunham and his characters onstage in front of a live audience with segments where the characters visit real people and places around Los Angeles.
Episodes
Episode 1
In the pilot episode, Walter and Jeff visit a licensed psychologist to help them with their personal conflict, Achmed stars in a stand-up comedy DVD, Peanut meets pop singer and reality TV star Brooke Hogan, and Bubba J visits a real rifle range.
Episode 2
Achmed throws himself a funeral, Peanut gets Walter to interview Good Charlotte, and Bubba J recounts the day Walter was examined by, as Walter calls her, "a woman doctor".
Episode 3
Achmed tries to become an American citizen, Walter hosts a segment called "Walter's Technology Minute", Sweet Daddy Dee tries to get more black people to watch the show, and Peanut stars in an infomercial about an energy drink he invented based on his catchphrase "Neow!". José Jalepeño on a Stick appears during Walter's segment.
Episode 4
Peanut records a dance song with "Kundry Black", Bubba J visits Dr. Hsu (the doctor who examined Walter in the second episode), and a psychologist to ease his fear of doctors and hospitals, and Achmed watches his first adult film. José Jalepeño on a Stick appears at the end of Bubba J's skit.
Episode 5
Sweet Daddy Dee tries to understand Civil War reenactments, Achmed records his own ringtones, Walter tries to get a vacation for his wife for their anniversary, and Bubba J tries to "drunk-proof" a family's home.
Episode 6
Peanut tries to get dancers for the show, Walter shows off his relationship advice segment (first shown in episode 4), Achmed once again tries to become an American citizen by joining the Marines, and Bubba J records his own ringtones.
Episode 7
In the series' finale, Bubba J enters a rehabilitation center, Walter does his weekly apology to his wife in advance, Achmed tries to sell terrorism against America, and Walter records |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Angel%20Capital%20Organization | The National Angel Capital Organization (NACO Canada) was established in 2002 as the only national industry association for angel investors in Canada. Its national network now includes 4,200 angel investors, 45 incubators and accelerators, and 44 angel groups. Since its formal incorporation as National Angel Organization (NAO) in 2002, NACO Canada has published The Primer for Angel Investment in Canada (2002) and Age of the Angel: Best Practices for Angel Groups and Investors (2007), and A Practical Guide to Angel Investing, 2nd Edition, published in 2017. NAO changed its name from NAO to NACO in 2008.
History
NACO Canada was formed after the second Angel Investor Summit (2002), convened by CHIN UP Fund and chaired by Henry Vehovec. Since then NACO Canada has continued to annually organize an angel investor summit to encourage networking, education, co-investment and sharing of best practices. NACO has spawned the creation of numerous angel groups across Canada, established the Co-Investment Summit and in 2008 launched awards for the top ten angel investments in Canada.
NACO Canada also initiated the formation of the Network of Angel Organizations of Ontario, which now operates as Angel Investors Ontario (AIO).
NACO Canada’s website provides an industry newsletter, links to best practices materials and lists angel groups across the nation.
The founding President and Chair of NACO Canada was Henry Vehovec of Mindfirst and CHIN UP Fund in Toronto. He was succeeded as chair by Dan Mothersill of the Ciris Group in 2004, who in turn was succeeded by a founding partner, Andrew Wilkes. The co-chairs of the organization in 2016 were Ross Finlay and Michelle Scarborough.
In recognition of his dedicated volunteer efforts NACO Canada conferred on Mr. Vehovec the title of Honorary Chair and lifetime membership in 2005.
Present Day
In 2019, NACO Canada announced the appointment of industry veteran Claudio Rojas, as Chief Executive Officer. Rojas has been an outspoken champion of tech companies founded by Canadians in recent years and a frequent critic of the lack of high-growth companies in [Canada]".
In May 2020, The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Canadian Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages, told tech news publication BetaKit the federal government worked to get $962 million in funding for Canada’s Regional Development Agencies, “following conversations with a number of organizations including tech CEOs, chambers of commerce, the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO), and MaRS CEO Yung Wu.”
In July 2020, The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry participated in a NACO Canada Roundtable in which it was announced that angel investment activity had exceeded $1 billion.
With the release of its 2020 Angel Activity Report, NACO Canada made four recommendations to government to stimulate angel investing and support funding for Canadian entrepreneurs in the aftermath of the COVID-19 economi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxlim | Muxlim was primarily known as a social networking website for Muslims that was focused on lifestyle aspects of the community. Founded in 2006 by Mohamed El-Fatatry and Pietari Päivänen of Finland, the company was created as a Muslim lifestyle social media network with primary focus on Muslims in Muslim-minority countries.
When the social network did not develop as planned, the company shifted its focus to provide marketing gateway services to the global Muslim consumer market, utilizing Muxlim.com as a launch pad for marketing messages by global companies.
In February 2010, the company received the Tasavallan Presidentin kansainvälistymispalkinto (in English: The Internationalization Award of the President of Finland).
In February 2012, Muxlim effectively shut down its social network services, as well as its Muxlim advisory services. This came after years of monetary losses. It is reported from the company's most recent financial reports that Muxlim's income was approximately 46,000 Euros while employer costs alone amounted to 300,000 Euros, with a total net loss for the year amounting to 865,000 Euros. In 2009 there was a recorded loss of 700,000 Euros. This came after an influx of investments jump-starting the company, in 2007 receiving US$2 million from Rite Internet Ventures, and was soon looking for more investments
The Muxlim domain, as well as other services provided by the company such as IslamicTorrents.net, redirect to a promotional landing page for the founder's authorised biography. There has yet to be an official announcement regarding the fate of Muxlim.
References
External links
DinarStandard.com: Muxlim.com: A Web 2.0 Destination for Muslims
BBC: Virtual world for Muslims debuts
Finnish social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2006
Companies based in Helsinki
Islam-related websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-9 | TDRS-9, known before launch as TDRS-I, was an American communications satellite which was operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by the Boeing Satellite Development Center, formerly Hughes Space and Communications, and was based on the BSS-601 satellite bus. It was the second Advanced TDRS, or second-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, to be launched.
History
An Atlas IIA rocket was used to launch TDRS-I, under a contract with International Launch Services. The launch occurred at 22:59 GMT on 8 March 2002, and used Space Launch Complex 36A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Deployment and problems
TDRS-9 separated from its carrier rocket into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. At 06:00 on 6 October, following a series of apogee burns, it reached geostationary orbit. The orbit raising maneuvers were originally scheduled to take ten days, but ended up lasting six months due to a problem with the system used to pressurize its number two fuel tank. A valve used to release helium into the tank failed to open. This was later established to have been due to a wiring error prior to launch. Engineers developed a solution which involved pressurizing the tank using the pressurization system from the number one tank, which was still working, once the propellant in that tank had been used. When orbit raising operations resumed on 19 March, it was estimated that it would take two months to raise the satellite's orbit. It was later discovered that only using fuel from the number one tank upset the satellite's center of mass, causing the satellite to tumble when its main engines were fired. Controllers were able to compensate for this, however it took longer to raise the orbit as a result.
Operations
Upon reaching geostationary orbit, TDRS-I was initially placed at a longitude 151 degrees west of the Greenwich Meridian, and following on-orbit testing it received its operational designation, TDRS-9. In October 2003 it was moved from 151° West, and it arrived at 173.5° West in January 2004. It remained there until September, when it was moved to 64.5° West, arriving in March 2005. Engineers believed that the problems with its fuel tank pressurization system would not affect its operational lifespan.
See also
List of TDRS satellites
References
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Satellites using the BSS-601 bus
Spacecraft launched in 2002
TDRS satellites
Spacecraft launched by Atlas rockets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively%20parallel%20signature%20sequencing | Massive parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) is a procedure that is used to identify and quantify mRNA transcripts, resulting in data similar to serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE), although it employs a series of biochemical and sequencing steps that are substantially different.
How it works
MPSS is a method for determining expression levels of mRNA by counting the number of individual mRNA molecules produced by each gene. It is "open ended" in the sense that the identity of the RNAs to be measured are not pre-determined as they are with gene expression microarrays.
A sample of mRNA are first converted to complementary DNA (cDNA) using reverse transcriptase, which makes subsequent manipulations easier. These cDNA are fused to a small oligonucleotide "tag" which allows the cDNA to be PCR amplified and then coupled to microbeads. After several rounds of sequence determination, using hybridization of fluorescent labeled probes, a sequence signature of ~16–20 bp is determined from each bead. Fluorescent imaging captures the signal from all of the beads, while affixed to a 2-dimensional surface, so DNA sequences are determined from all the beads in parallel. There is some amplification of the starting material so, in the end, approximately 1,000,000 sequence reads are obtained per experiment.
Overview
MPSS allows mRNA transcripts to be identified through the generation of a 17–20 bp (base pair) signature sequence adjacent to the 3'-end of the 3'-most site of the designated restriction enzyme (commonly Sau3A or DpnII). Each signature sequence is cloned onto one of a million microbeads. The technique ensures that only one type of DNA sequence is on a microbead. So if there are 50 copies of a specific transcript in the biological sample, these transcripts will be captured onto 50 different microbeads, each bead holding roughly 100,000 amplified copies of the specific signature sequence. The microbeads are then arrayed in a flow cell for sequencing and quantification. The sequence signatures are deciphered by the parallel identification of four bases by hybridization to fluorescently labeled encoders (Figure 5). Each of the encoders has a unique label which is detected after hybridization by taking an image of the microbead array. The next step is to cleave and remove that set of four bases and reveal the next four bases for a new round of hybridization to encoders and image acquisition. The raw output is a list of 17–20 bp signature sequences, that can be annotated to the human genome for gene identification.
Comparison with SAGE
The longer tag sequence confers a higher specificity than the classical SAGE tag of 9–10 bp. The level of unique gene expression is represented by the count of transcripts present per million molecules, similar to SAGE output. A significant advantage is the larger library size compared with SAGE. An MPSS library typically holds 1 million signature tags, which is roughly 20 times the size of a SAGE library. Some of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap%20feng%20shui | In computer security, heap feng shui (also known as heap grooming) is a technique used in exploits to facilitate arbitrary code execution. The technique attempts to manipulate the layout of the heap by making heap allocations of carefully selected sizes. It is named after feng shui, an ancient Chinese system of aesthetics that involves the selection of precise alignments in space.
Operation
The term is general and can be used to describe a variety of techniques for bypassing heap protection strategies. The paper often credited with naming the technique, "Heap Feng Shui in JavaScript", used it to refer to an exploit in which a dangling pointer was aligned with a portion of an attacker-controlled chunk. However, it has also found usage in capture the flag events to describe attacks that exploit characteristics of heap layout, such as the spacing between chunks.
See also
Heap spraying
JIT spraying
References
External links
Heap Feng Shui in JavaScript - Whitepaper by Alexander Sotirov
Heap Feng Shui in JavaScript - Slides of the BlackHat presentation on this subject.
Computer security exploits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Platform%20of%20Women%20Scientists | The European Platform of Women Scientists EPWS is an umbrella organisation bringing together networks of women scientists and organisations committed to gender equality in research in all disciplines in Europe 27 and the countries associated to the European Union’s Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development. The Platform welcomes researchers working in any discipline and working in science in its widest sense, ranging from natural to social sciences, including, but not restricted to, science, engineering and technology. EPWS currently counts more than 100 member organisations, together working for more than 12.000 women researchers all over Europe active in academia and in industrial research.
Purpose
Legally established as an international non-profit organisation under Belgian law (AISBL) in November 2005 and governed by an international, multidisciplinary Board of Administration of 11 high ranking women scientists, EPWS constitutes a new strategic instrument in European research policy, complementing various initiatives taken at the European level to ensure a better participation of women scientists in research and in the research policy process as well as the inclusion of the gender dimension in research.
Goals
The Platform’s main goals are to:
Network existing networks of women scientists and networks engaged in promoting women scientists in all disciplines and promote networking among women scientists, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe and in the private sector.
Increase the participation of women scientists in European research and its decision-making bodies – as project researchers, leaders, and coordinators, in review and evaluation panels as well as high level expert groups.
Increase the participation of women scientists in national and European research programmes, especially in the Seventh EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7).
Promote the understanding and the inclusion of the gender dimension in science and research policy in all scientific fields as well as an inclusive, gender-sensitive notion of excellence and innovation.
References
External links
International scientific organizations based in Europe
Organizations for women in science and technology
Women scientists
European women in science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S1%20%28Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn%29 | Line S1 is a S-Bahn line on the Rhine-Ruhr network. It is operated by DB Regio. It runs from Dortmund via Bochum and Essen to Duisburg. From there it travels south to Düsseldorf and Hilden before continuing to Solingen. It is operated on weekdays at 15-minute intervals between Dortmund Hbf and Essen Hbf, at 20-minute intervals between Düsseldorf Hbf and Solingen and at 30-minute intervals between Düsseldorf and Essen, using coupled sets of class 422 four-car electrical multiple units.
Line S 1 runs over lines built by various railway companies:
from Dortmund Hauptbahnhof to Duisburg over the Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway, opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company in 1862,
from Duisburg to Düsseldorf-Oberbilk over the Cologne–Duisburg railway, opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company in 1845 and
from Düsseldorf-Oberbilk to Solingen over the Düsseldorf–Solingen railway opened by the Prussian state railways between 1891 and 1894.
S-Bahn services commenced between Bochum and Duisburg-Großenbaum on 26 May 1974. Services were extended from Großenbaum to Düsseldorf on 22 May 1977 and from Bochum to Dortmund on 25 September 1983. Services ran via Düsseldorf Airport Terminal station from 24 May 1998 to 28 May 2000. Services were extended from Düsseldorf to Solingen on 13 December 2009, replacing part of the former line S 7 service.
Notes
References
S01
1974 establishments in West Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRT%20Lituanica | LRT Lituanica is the third Lithuanian public television channel, operated by LRT. The channel broadcasts 24 hours per day and is a mix of original programming from LRT televizija and LRT Plius.
Launch and reach
LRT Lituanica was launched as 'LTV World' at the end of September 2007. In Europe, it is available through Astra 4A satellite, also free of charge to Kabel Digital subscribers in Germany. Starting with August 2020, LRT Lituanica is also broadcast terrestrially in North-Eastern Poland as well. In North America, the channel could have viewed free of charge on satellite Galaxy 19, 97 West until 2020.
It is also possible to watch live from the official LRT website and on the LRT YouTube channel. Since March 2023, the channel started working as HD, but only on the Internet.
Logos
References
External links
Television channels in Lithuania
Television channels and stations established in 2007
2007 establishments in Lithuania
International broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20Cost%20Information%20Service | The Building Cost Information Service (BCIS), provides cost and price data for the UK construction industry. Founded as part of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), it is now a standalone company.
History
BCIS was set up in 1961 to provide the profession with cost information in elemental format and to promote the use of elements and of elemental cost planning. The BCIS "Standard Form of Cost Analysis" (SFCA) remained an industry staple, largely unchanged, until the late 2000s. In 2012 the "New Rules of Measurement" for cost management throughout the construction process were accompanied by a modernised version of the SFCA.
In 2022, the BCIS was spun out of RICS.
The BCIS approach is the most popular costing method employed by quantity surveyors in the UK.
References
Construction organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terebi%20ga%20Kita%20Hi | is the 25th single by Japanese duo Pink Lady, released on May 5, 2003. Written by longtime Pink Lady songwriters Shunichi Tokura and Yū Aku, the song was recorded for NHK's as part of the network's 50th anniversary celebration. The music video for the song features CGI animated versions of the duo.
The song peaked at No. 183 on Oricon's singles chart.
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Yū Aku; all music is composed and arranged by Shunichi Tokura.
Charts
References
External links
(Teichiku Records)
(NHK)
2003 singles
2003 songs
Pink Lady (band) songs
Japanese-language songs
Japanese children's songs
Songs with lyrics by Yū Aku
Songs with music by Shunichi Tokura
Minna no Uta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-10 | TDRS-10, known before launch as TDRS-J, is an American communications satellite which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by the Boeing Satellite Development Center, formerly Hughes Space and Communications, and is based on the BSS-601 satellite bus. It was the third and final Advanced TDRS, or second-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, to be launched.
History
The final Atlas IIA rocket was used to launch TDRS-J, under a contract with International Launch Services. The launch occurred at 02:42 UTC on 5 December 2002, from Space Launch Complex 36A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. TDRS-10 separated from its carrier rocket into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. At 01:00 UTC on 14 December, following a series of apogee burns, it reached geostationary orbit.
Deployment
TDRS-J was initially positioned in geostationary orbit at a longitude 153 degrees west of the Greenwich Meridian, and following on-orbit testing, it received the operational designation TDRS-10. In December 2003, it was moved to 151.5° west, arriving the next month. It remained there until June, when it departed for 42.3° west. It arrived there in November, and has since been slowly drifting eastwards. By November 2005, it was at 42° west, and in November 2006, it was recorded to have been at 41.6° west. In July 2009, it was at 40.75° west. In May 2020, it was at 171 degrees west.
See also
List of TDRS satellites
References
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Satellites using the BSS-601 bus
Spacecraft launched in 2002
TDRS satellites
Spacecraft launched by Atlas rockets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWMA%20chart | In statistical quality control, the EWMA chart (or exponentially weighted moving average chart) is a type of control chart used to monitor either variables or attributes-type data using the monitored business or industrial process's entire history of output. While other control charts treat rational subgroups of samples individually, the EWMA chart tracks the exponentially-weighted moving average of all prior sample means. EWMA weights samples in geometrically decreasing order so that the most recent samples are weighted most highly while the most distant samples contribute very little.
Although the normal distribution is the basis of the EWMA chart, the chart is also relatively robust in the face of non-normally distributed quality characteristics. There is, however, an adaptation of the chart that accounts for quality characteristics that are better modeled by the Poisson distribution. The chart monitors only the process mean; monitoring the process variability requires the use of some other technique.
The EWMA control chart requires a knowledgeable person to select two parameters before setup:
The first parameter is λ, the weight given to the most recent rational subgroup mean. λ must satisfy 0 < λ ≤ 1, but selecting the "right" value is a matter of personal preference and experience. One 2005 textbook recommends 0.05 ≤ λ ≤ 0.25, while a 1986 journal article recommends 0.1 ≤ λ ≤ 0.3.
The second parameter is L, the multiple of the rational subgroup standard deviation that establishes the control limits. L is typically set at 3 to match other control charts, but it may be necessary to reduce L slightly for small values of λ.
Instead of plotting rational subgroup averages directly, the EWMA chart computes successive observations zi by computing the rational subgroup average, , and then combining that new subgroup average with the running average of all preceding observations, zi - 1, using the specially–chosen weight, λ, as follows:
.
The control limits for this chart type are where T and S are the estimates of the long-term process mean and standard deviation established during control-chart setup and n is the number of samples in the rational subgroup. Note that the limits widen for each successive rational subgroup, approaching .
The EWMA chart is sensitive to small shifts in the process mean, but does not match the ability of Shewhart-style charts (namely the and R and and s charts) to detect larger shifts. One author recommends superimposing the EWMA chart on top of a suitable Shewhart-style chart with widened control limits in order to detect both small and large shifts in the process mean.
Exponentially weighted moving variance (EWMVar) can be used to obtain a significance score or limits that automatically adjust to the observed data.
References
Quality control tools
Statistical charts and diagrams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Royal%20Pains%20characters | The following is a list of characters who have appeared on the USA Network series Royal Pains.
Cast
Main characters
Hank Lawson
Dr. Henry "Hank" Lawson (Mark Feuerstein): A successful New York ER doctor soon to be married to his lovely fiancée, he was dismissed from his job because he triaged a dying teenager before a billionaire hospital benefactor. The benefactor dies, after being initially stabilized following a femoral artery catheterization, from causes attributed to pericardial tamponade. Hank stands up for himself by stating he saved the kid. He spends the next month in a tailspin of broken engagements and unpaid bills before his brother convinces him to attend a posh party in the Hamptons. At the party, he saves supermodel April, and wins the favor of the German nobleman, Boris. This leads to referrals to other rich clientele. Despite Hank's dislike of the upper class, a potential love interest in local hospital administrator Jill Casey convinces him to become a concierge doctor. He drives a well-aged Saab 900 Turbo convertible. He is originally from New Jersey and sometimes throws a Jerseyism into his speech. In the episode "Keeping the Faith", he mentions that he is Jewish. In the fourth season episode "Business and Pleasure", Hank mentions that he graduated from Northwestern University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
In the third season finale, Hank and Evan have split, with Hank leaving HankMed and Evan hiring Dr. Van Dyke to replace him. Hank rejoins HankMed in the middle of the fourth season.
In the fourth season finale, Hank has a major accident and knocks his head, needing surgery.
In the fifth season, Hank is still recovering from his surgery and becomes dependent on pain medication that he gets Jeremiah to prescribe. In the season finale, Hank takes Boris' job offer to travel with him and his family and be their personal doctor.
In the series finale, Hank again receives an offer by Boris to travel with him and his family and be their personal doctor. Hank declines, choosing instead to travel to Africa and re-unite with Jill. Three years later, during the Memorial Day holiday, he and Jill, now married, return to the Hamptons to be with Evan, Paige and their family and continue with HankMed.
Evan R. Lawson
Evan Roth Lawson (Paulo Costanzo): Hank Lawson's brother. He is an accountant (CPA), makes himself Hank's CFO after he establishes "HankMed" as well as the unofficial Public Relations Manager. He views the Hamptons as a place to pursue attractive women, especially Divya, who continually rebuffs him. He is materialistic, especially in comparison to Hank and when promised money and fun, he is up to do anything. He tries to promote HankMed against Hank's will, and many of his subplots revolve around him engaging in some scheme (against Hank's wishes) that ends up going wrong. When Hank is given a Tesla all-electric roadster by "New Parts" Newberg and her dog Koufax, Hank in turn gives it to Evan (who later, to hel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skymeter | Skymeter was a location-based services company that provided GPS data for pricing and traffic-information-applications. Skymeter was co-founded by Bern Grush, Kamal Hassan and Preet Khalsa and was headquartered at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, Ontario.
Technology
Skymeter claimed to have developed a highly accurate and reliable GPS road-use meter using a liability-critical form of GPS technology they called "Financial-grade GPS" (FGPS) to provide highly reliable charging results that ensure fairness to the user and evidentiary assurance for the toll operator. This is in contrast to conventional GPS, which tends to fail in urban areas due to the urban canyon effect. The company marketed their technology for use in road pricing, parking, car sharing/renting/leasing, usage-based vehicle insurance, fleet management and emissions metering applications.
Receivership of Skymeter Corp, December 2012
On November 23, 2012, a “Receivership Order” was made by the Ontario Superior Court
of Justice by the MaRS Investments Accelerator Fund, pursuant to Section 243(1) of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. It was accepted on December 20, 2012. The assets of Skymeter Corp were taken over by a new group led by Roger d'Hollander and Bern Grush, called Applied Telemetrics Inc.
See also
GNSS Road Pricing
Electronic toll collection
Location-based service
References
External links
Invitation for offers to purchase the business of Skymeter Corporation (“Skymeter”)
Archive of Skymeter homepage
Article in the Toronto Star about Skymeter
Interview on BNN TV with Skymeter CEO
Article in GigaOm about Skymeter
Road traffic management
Electronic toll collection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%40icon%20sushi | @icon sushi (aicon sushi is used when @ unsupported in a filename) is a conversion and creation computer icon freeware software tool for Microsoft Windows with support for Windows Vista. It has the ability to import icons from ICO, BMP, PNG, PSD, EXE, DLL and ICL formats and can export as ICO, BMP, PNG and ICL. This software is available in multiple languages including German.
Reception
@icon sushi received mixed reviews. Softonic praises the application for its simplicity and support of XP and Vista icons, but noted that its feature set is too minimalistic. Likewise, ZDNet notes that the software lacks in features but that it is however user friendly. Clubic rated the application 3 out of 5, noting that it is portable and simple to use.
The Official Windows Magazine stated that @icon sushi is an alternative to leading commercial software such as Microangelo Toolset for creating detailed, high-resolution icons.
Citrix suggests use of @icon sushi to troubleshoot problems with icons in their software.
See also
List of icon software
References
External links
@icon sushi website (English)
Icon software
Proprietary raster graphics editors
Windows graphics-related software
Windows-only freeware
Portable software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Latin%20Entertainment | Wireless Latin Entertainment (WILAEN) is a United States producer and distributor of Latin digital entertainment content formed in 2001. The WILAEN distribution network has a presence in eight countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and the U.S.
Through its brand, Latin Garage, WILAEN produces and distributes digital services and content, such as mastertones, ringbacks, polyphonic ringtones, video ringers, images and wallpapers, and full-track downloads.
References
External Links:
AT&T Wireless Offers Latin Mobile Content
Music companies of the United States
Mobile content |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S7%20%28Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn%29 | Line S 7 is an S-Bahn line on the Rhine-Ruhr network in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which has been operated by VIAS GmbH from Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof to Solingen Hauptbahnhof since 15 December 2013. It is operated at 20-minute intervals, using LINT 41 vehicles. The service was previously classified as Regionalbahn service RB 47, known as the Der Müngstener, a reference to the Müngsten Bridge, which it crosses and DB Regio had operated it on the same route with class 628 diesel multiple units since 1994. It was also operated at 20-minute intervals, in the evenings and on weekends, every 30 minutes.
Line S 7 runs over lines built by two railway companies:
from Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof to Wuppertal-Oberbarmen station over the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway, opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company in 1847 and 1849,
from Wuppertal-Oberbarmen to Solingen Hauptbahnhof over the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen railway, opened in sections by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company between 1867 and 1872 and by the Prussian state railways between 1893 and 1897.
There was an earlier line S 7 operated by DB Regio, which began at Düsseldorf Airport Terminal station. From there it ran south to Solingen Hbf via Düsseldorf Hbf. With the change to the 2010 timetable on 13 December 2009, line S1 replaced the service between Düsseldorf Hbf and Solingen. The S11 was extended to run to Düsseldorf Airport Terminal station.
Notes
S07
2013 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20C.%20Casserley | Henry Cyril Casserley (12 June 1903 – 16 December 1991) was a British railway photographer. His prolific work in the 1920s and 1930s, the result of travelling to remote corners of the railway network in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has provided subsequent generations with a valuable source of illustrations for books and magazines.
Life
Henry Cyril Casserley was born in Clapham, County of London, the son of Edward Casserley, a minor Post Office official, and his wife Sarah (née Turton). Edward Casserley loved mechanical objects and constructed from scratch a model railway in the loft, which may have inspired his son's enthusiasm for trains. Henry spent his working life in the head offices of the Prudential Assurance Company in London (evacuated to Derby in World War 2). He married Kathleen Goose on 16 July 1931. Their son Richard, (31 December 1936 - 18 October 2017), who also took up photography and latterly acted as custodian of his father's collection.
The family lived beside the railway line just east of Bromley South railway station from 1931 to 1939 but moved to a house on a new estate at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, because the electrification of the Southern Railway greatly reduced the number of steam trains passing Bromley. Casserley acquired his first motor car in 1934, which aided his reaching obscure small railway lines and investigating windmills, in which he had also developed an interest.
He was in military service from 1942 to 1944, mostly based in the Army stores section at Bicester, but was invalided out and returned to his job at the Prudential. He retired in 1964 and devoted himself to his 'second career' as photographer and writer. His wife died in 1986 and his interest and memory then declined until his death, aged 88 in Berkhampsted.
Photography
H. C. Casserley's first camera was a Kodak no.2 folding Brownie with f/8 Rapid rectilinear lens acquired in 1919, but this was soon replaced by a professional standard Butcher's 'Popular Pressman' quarter-plate reflex camera (using 4¼" x 3¼" glass plates). In 1937 he replaced it with one of the new Leica 35 mm cameras, which was much more convenient and served him until the end of his career, being replaced with an identical model when the original was stolen in 1963.
Despite a few experiments with early commercial colour film, he remained committed to the black-and-white medium to the end and always did his own processing and printing. He was meticulous in keeping records of his negatives, using a numbering system he later shared with his son, and estimated that he had personally taken 60,000 railway subjects by 1972, in some fifty-two years of work.
He started by recording locomotives, usually 'on shed' because of the bulk of his camera and the slow film speeds, but he expanded his range to cover scenes in and around stations as his desire to travel over all lines of railway in the British Isles took him to obscure corners of the railway system. There are many characteristi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art-Net | Art-Net is a royalty-free communications protocol for transmitting the DMX512-A lighting control protocol and Remote Device management (RDM) protocol over the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) of the Internet protocol suite. It is used to communicate between "nodes" (e.g., intelligent lighting instruments) and a "server" (a lighting desk or general purpose computer running lighting control software).
Facilities
Art-Net is a simple implementation of DMX512-A protocol over UDP in which lighting control information is conveyed in IP packets, typically on a private local area network such as Ethernet. Supported functions include transmitting and receiving lighting data (e.g., fader levels for individual lights, positions of movable lights); management functions such as detecting nodes, updating node control parameters, and transmitting timecodes; and functions that allow nodes to "subscribe" to "publisher" nodes so that, for example, nodes A and B can subscribe to node C (C will unicast information to A and B).
Versions
Art-Net has gone through four versions which are claimed to be interoperable. Art-Net I used broadcasts extensively, giving a universe limit of approximately 40. Art-Net II mostly uses unicast packets, and addresses 256 universes. Art-Net III, released in 2011, addresses issues in managing larger numbers of universes, up to 32,768. Artnet IV, released in 2016, allows over 1000 ports per ip address.
Internally to the protocol, it is referred to as version 14.
Addressing
In its simplest implementation, nodes all broadcast, originally on the 2.0.0.0/8 networks.
Addressing is typically fixed per node, often locked to the MAC Address and an "OEM" code allocated to the manufacturer, and jumper settings. Networks can use DHCP or statically configured IP addresses, and use unicast packets for greater network efficiency. The protocol can address 32768 DMX "universes", each of 512 channels, limited by bandwidth.
The fixed addressing can be problematic in networks with other addressing requirements. Revision Q of the protocol addressed this problem by adding 10.0.0.0/8 as an addressing scheme. For node discovery, broadcast packets are used.
Packet format
The following table shows a typical packet, ArtDMX, for transmitting lighting values. It is sent to the fixed UDP port 0x1936 (6454 decimal).
The pink portion is the same on all Art-Net packets; the green portion is variable. The opcode (given in little endian) tells the recipient this is a packet containing DMX data in the data portion, intended to be output of the specified universe. Sequence is a sequential number between 1 and 255 allowing the recipient to reorder packets to address out-of-order delivery (this value is set to 0 to disable this feature); physical is an information packet showing the original physical universe of this data, if required. Then follows up to 512 lighting values in the range 0 to 255. Conceptually, this packet is broadcast to all nodes; bu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning%20Schulzrinne | Henning Schulzrinne is a German-American computer scientist who led research and development of the voice over IP network protocols.
Life
Schulzrinne studied engineering management at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the German Technische Universität Darmstadt in Darmstadt, where he earned his Vordiplom (cf. Diplom), then went on to earn his M.Sc. at the University of Cincinnati and his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
From 1992 to 1994 he worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories.
From 1994 to 1996 he worked in Berlin at the Forschungs-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (GMD FOKUS), an institute of the now-defunct Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD), which became part of the Fraunhofer Society as Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems. He joined the faculty of the Computer Science department at Columbia University in 1998, and served as chair and Julian Clarence Levi Professor.
He served as a co-chair of the Internet Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society.
Schulzrinne is an editor of the Journal of Communications and Networks.
Schulzrinne has contributed to standards for voice over IP (VoIP). He co-designed the Session Initiation Protocol along with Mark Handley, the Real Time Streaming Protocol, the Real-time Transport Protocol, the General Internet Signaling Transport protocol,
part of the Next Steps in Signaling protocol suite. Overall, as of November 5, 2015, his publications have been cited over 45,000 times, and he has an h-index of 80.
Schulzrinne was the chief technology officer (CTO) for the United States Federal Communications Commission, from December 19, 2011 to 2014.
He was elected as an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow in 2014 for contributions to the design of protocols, applications, and algorithms for Internet multimedia.
In 2006, Schulzrinne was elevated to IEEE fellow for contributions to the design of protocols, applications, and algorithms for Internet multimedia.
References
External links
Personal website
Columbia University faculty
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Living people
German computer scientists
German expatriates in the United States
Scientists from Cologne
Chief technology officers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Federal Communications Commission personnel
Obama administration personnel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Handley%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Mark James Handley is Professor of Networked Systems in the Department of Computer Science of University College London since 2003, where he leads the Networks Research Group.
Education
Handley received his PhD from UCL in 1997, under the supervision of Jon Crowcroft.
Career and research
While at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Handley co-founded the AT&T Center for Internet Research, as well as the XORP open-source router project (2000).
Handley is a contributor to Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards and a member of the IETF Routing Area Directorate and the Transport Area Directorate. Previously he was a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and chaired the IETF Multiparty Multimedia Session Control working group and the IRTF Reliable Multicast Research Group. He is the author or co-author of 34 Request for Comments (RFCs), including the Session Initiation Protocol, Multipath TCP and a series of other network protocols.
Awards and honours
Handley was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2003, and received the 2007 Roger Needham Award. He was the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Internet Award "For contributions to Internet multicast, telephony, congestion control and the shaping of open Internet standards and open-source systems in all these areas.", and the 2019 SIGCOMM Award "For fundamental contributions to Internet multimedia, multicast, congestion control and multi-path networks, and the standardization of Internet protocols in these domains".
Handley was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019 for substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge.
References
British computer scientists
Academics of University College London
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Royal Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%20%26%20Company | Shannon & Company, also known as Shannon & Company Productions is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, website and television programming.
History
Founded in 1976 by director/actor R.J. Adams and wife producer Diane C. Adams as a full service Advertising Agency creating television, radio and print media for a number of clients throughout Los Angeles and Orange County. In the spring of 1980, the company converted to a broadcast and film production company focusing primarily on historical documentary projects and docudramas. In 1980 the company founded The Actors Workshop, Laguna Hills, Orange County, California.
Ad agency years
Security Pacific Bank, Ming of America, Adler shoes, Sombrero Street restaurant, Gustafson Lincoln/Mercury, System VII Insurance company and Backstage.
Film production company
The company has since rolled out a number of popular films including: “Ruins of the Reich”, “The Missions of California”, “Order Castles of the Third Reich” and “The Final Journey”. Recent and future productions include "Abeo Pharisee", "The Studio Club"′, "The Christmas Quilt", "Chasing Jose'" and its newest project now in pre-production "Fatal Crossroads.". Recently Executive Producer R.J. Adams directed the filming of Orchestra Musique Sur La Mer at the Royal College of Music in early June 2012 as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee London, England.
Shannon & Company Productions/Distribution
Notes and references
References
External links
Official Website
Film production companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S9%20%28Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn%29 | Line S 9 is an S-Bahn line on the Rhine-Ruhr network, operated by DB Regio. It runs from Recklinghausen Hbf / Haltern am See in the north through Gladbeck West - Essen Hbf to Hagen (Westphalia) Main Station in the south. During the day two services per hour run between Wuppertal and Gladbeck West, one service per hour between Gladbeck and Recklinghausen Hbf and Gladbeck and Haltern am See and one service per hour between Wuppertal and Hagen, using FLIRT 3XL electric multiple units.
Line S 9 runs over lines built by various railway companies:
Line branch 1 from Recklinghausen Hbf (Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg railway) - to Abzwg Blumenthal (Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd-Hamm railway), opened by Prussian state railways on 1 May 1905, direction Gladbeck West (separation station)
Line branch 2 from Haltern am See to Marl Lippe junction over the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company on 1 January 1870, from Marl Lippe junction to Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord over the Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord–Marl Lippe railway opened by Deutsche Bundesbahn on 27 September 1968
from Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord to Gladbeck West (separation station) and Bottrop over the Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Hamm railway,
from Bottrop to Essen-Dellwig Ost over line 2248 opened by Deutsche Bundesbahn on 18 May 1952,
from Essen-Dellwig Ost to Schönebeck junction (near Essen-Borbeck Süd) over the Mülheim-Heißen–Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord railway opened by the Rhenish Railway Company on 1 December 1872,
from Schönebeck junction to Essen West over a section of line opened by Prussian state railways on 25 March 1912,
from Schönebeck junction to Essen West to Essen-Steele over the Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 1 March 1862
from Essen-Steele to Essen-Steele Ost junction (Ruhr Bridge part) over line 2193 opened by Deutsche Bundesbahn on 1 February 1978
from Essen-Steele Ost junction to Essen-Überruhr over the Essen-Überruhr–Bochum-Langendreer railway, converted to standard gauge on 1 June 1863 (although parts of the line dated back to 1811 as a horse-hauled colliery plateway) and acquired by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company in 1870,
from Überruhr to Kupferdreh over a section of the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr line opened by the Prince William Railway Company on 1 December 1847,
from Kupferdreh to Nierenhof over a section of the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr line opened by the Deil Valley Railway Company as a 820 mm gauge, horse-hauled railway on 20 September 1831 (it is regarded as Germany's oldest railway, because it used iron wheels on iron rails); this was standardised by the Prince William Railway Company in 1847,
from Nierenhof to Vohwinkel over a section of the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr line opened by the Prince William Railway Company in 1847, except for a section from near Velbert-Neviges to near Velbert-Rosenhügel, which was opened in 1868 by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Compa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20officiel%20g%C3%A9ographique | The () is a document listing the INSEE code which defines some French geographical codes.
Statistical data coding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGIG-LP | KGIG-LP (104.9 FM, "104.9 The Gig") is a low-power FM radio station broadcasting a news/talk format with some music programming devoted to local bands. Licensed to Modesto, California, United States, the station is currently owned by Fellowship of the Earth.
History
The Federal Communications Commission issued a construction permit for the station on June 30, 2003. The station was assigned the KQRP-LP call sign on July 10, 2003, and received its license to cover on May 2, 2005. On April 17, 2012, the station changed its call sign to the current KGIG-LP.
References
External links
NEW official KGIG website
Old official website
GIG-LP
GIG-LP
Mass media in Stanislaus County, California
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%20Bailliu | Lionel Bailliu is a filmmaker best known for writing and directing his Academy Award-nominated 2002 short film Squash. According to the Internet Movie Database, Bailliu also wrote four episodes of the French T.V. series Élodie Bradford, a show he created in 2004. He also wrote and directed the 2000 film Microsnake, the 2005 compilation Selected Shorts #2: European Award Winners, and the 2006 film Fair Play.
References
External links
Lionel Bailliu at the Internet Movie Database
New York Times review of Fair Play
Living people
French film directors
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lodie%20Bradford | Élodie Bradford is a French television series created by Lionel Bailliu and broadcast since 20 October 2004 on the French television network M6.
Synopsis
This series depicts Élodie Bradford, a glamorous and gaffe-prone police captain.
Cast
Guest
Philippe Lefebvre : Sébastien Auger (épisode 1)
Anthony Delon : Antoine Morfaux (épisode 1)
Monalisa Basarab : Olga (épisode 1)
Frédéric Diefenthal : Julien Lemaître (épisode 2)
Éric Savin : Ravanello (épisode 2)
Vincent Desagnat : Fabrice Saintange (épisode 3)
Thomas Jouannet : Sébastien Fondant (épisode 3)
Jean-Pierre Michaël : Nicolas (épisode 4)
Didier Bezace : Bertrand Larchet (épisode 4)
Nicolas Gob : Éric (épisode 4)
Raphaël Personnaz : Arnaud (épisode 4)
Philippe Bas : Damien Moreno (épisode 5)
Micky Sebastian : Marie-France Delort (épisode 5)
Guillaume Delorme : Le Garrec (épisode 5)
Zinedine Soualem : Franck Bécker (épisode 5)
François Levantal : François Forcalquier (épisode 5)
Thierry Godard : Jean-Louis Cazenave (épisode 5)
Recognition
Won "Grand prix de la série" (Grand prize of the series) for the episode "Une femme à la mer" at the 2007 International Television Film Festival of Luchon.
Episodes
Pilot
"Les crimes étaient presque parfaits" (The crimes were almost perfect)
"Un ami pour Élodie" (A friend for Élodie)
"Intouchables" (Untouchables)
"Une femme à la mer" (A woman at the sea)
References
External links
2004 French television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILEPOST%20GCC | MILEPOST GCC is a free, community-driven, open-source, adaptive, self-tuning compiler that combines
stable production-quality GCC, Interactive Compilation Interface and machine learning plugins to
adapt to any given architecture and program automatically and predict profitable optimizations to improve program execution time, code size and compilation time. It is currently used and supported by academia and industry and is intended to open up research opportunities to automate compiler and architecture design and optimization.
MILEPOST GCC is currently a part of the community-driven Collective Tuning Initiative (cTuning) to enable self-tuning computing systems based on collaborative open-source R&D infrastructure with unified interfaces and to improve the quality and reproducibility of research on code and architecture optimization. MILEPOST GCC is connected with the Collective Optimization Database to collect and reuse profitable optimization cases from the community and predict high-quality optimizations based on statistical analysis of past optimization data.
In January 2018, the cTuning foundation and the Raspberry Pi Foundation published an interactive article featuring MILEPOST GCC and Collective Knowledge framework "for collaborative research into multi-objective autotuning and machine learning techniques."
References
External links
Official website
Programming tools
Software optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20%28online%20social%20networking%29 | A group (often termed as a community, e-group or club) is a feature in many social networking services which allows users to create, post, comment to and read from their own interest- and niche-specific forums, often within the realm of virtual communities. Groups, which may allow for open or closed access, invitation and/or joining by other users outside the group, are formed to provide mini-networks within the larger, more diverse social network service. Much like electronic mailing lists, they are also owned and maintained by owners, moderators, or managers, who can edit posts to discussion threads and regulate member behavior within the group. However, unlike traditional Internet forums and mailing lists, groups in social networking services allow owners and moderators alike to share account credentials between groups without having to log in to every group.
History
The rise of the World Wide Web resulted in an expansion of the varieties of methods for communication on the Internet, much of which was limited in the 1980s to discussion in newsgroups, BBS and chat rooms. While the initial rise of web-based mass communication took place in the form of early Internet forums in the mid-1990s, a few services such as MSN Groups, Yahoo! Groups and eGroups pioneered the combination of web-based mailing list archives with user profiles; by 2000, such services doubled as full-fledged mailing lists and Internet forums, allowing users to create an extremely large variety of discussion and networking mediums with comparatively sparse thresholds of complexity. Further features included chat rooms (often Java-based), image and video galleries, and group calendars.
The second spurt of bullecalbel networking, one which was less dependent upon mailing list-related features and more upon Internet forum features, began in the early- to mid-2000s in the form of such services as LiveJournal, Friendster, MySpace and Facebook. These services continued the evolution of the web-based e-group as a discussion and organization medium. In the late 2000s, services such as Yammer and Micromobs further advanced e-group communication by taking advantage of microblog-style activity streams.
In virtual worlds
In Second Life, groups are centered less around discussion forums (as such, an asynchronous conferencing feature is not built into the Second Life network as of 2009) and common interest, and are more centered on maintenance of a particular geographic location inside the network. Such groups are often created by the owners of areas such as buildings, plots of land or whole islands in order to cater to the most frequent visitors and patrons of the regions. With the limited asynchronous messaging capability of Second Life, groups are also a means of mass-emailing announcements pertinent to the group, but are not completely capable of hosting discussion or deliberation of such announcement messages.
The importance of online social networking groups
Before people expanded t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology%20Data%20Service | The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is an open access digital archive for archaeological research outputs. It is located in The King's Manor, at the University of York. Originally intended to curate digital outputs from archaeological researchers based in the UK's Higher Education sector, the ADS also holds archive material created under the auspices of national and local government as well as in the commercial archaeology sector. The ADS carries out research, most of which focuses on resource discovery, cross-searching and interoperability with other relevant archives in the UK, Europe and the United States of America.
The Archaeology Data Service is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org.
History
In the late 1990s a consensus developed in the field of archaeology that archaeological data in digital form was highly fragile due to both an inadequate understanding of technical threats to its sustainability and the lack of an infrastructure to preserve it in the long term. In April 1996 a consortium comprising eight Departments of Archaeology from UK Universities joined forces with the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) to put a proposal to the Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive to establish an Archaeology Data Service. This service was to host a digital archive for archaeologists and to provide advice and guidance to the archaeological community on how to create and manage their digital datasets. As a result, the ADS was established at the University of York Department of Archaeology in September 1996 with two full-time members of staff and under the directorship of Professor Julian D. Richards. From 1996 until 2008 the ADS hosted AHDS Archaeology, a subject centre devoted to archaeology funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council via the AHDS. The AHDS closed in March 2008 as a result of a controversial decision by the AHRC to withdraw funding. The ADS now receives funding directly from AHRC, rather than through the AHDS, it is also funded by other Higher Education and cultural heritage sector organisations including the European Union.
The original consortium members were the archaeology departments of the following Universities:
The University of Birmingham
The University of Bradford
The University of Glasgow
The University of Kent at Canterbury
The University of Leicester
The University of Oxford
The University of Newcastle
The University of York
and
The Council for British Archaeology
The University of Southampton and University College London were also involved in early discussions about the formation of a digital archive for archaeological material, and joined the consortium at an early stage.
Governance
The ADS is run on a day-to-day basis by a director and a deputy director, however it is managed by a committee meeting bi-annually consisting of representatives of funding bodies, representatives of user communities and the ADS internal Management Group, comprising the Director, Depu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widening | Widening may refer to:
Lexicology
Computer Science
Widening (computer science), several techniques used in verification. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20curation | Data curation is the organization and integration of data collected from various sources. It involves annotation, publication and presentation of the data such that the value of the data is maintained over time, and the data remains available for reuse and preservation. Data curation includes "all the processes needed for principled and controlled data creation, maintenance, and management, together with the capacity to add value to data". In science, data curation may indicate the process of extraction of important information from scientific texts, such as research articles by experts, to be converted into an electronic format, such as an entry of a biological database.
In the modern era of big data, the curation of data has become more prominent, particularly for software processing high volume and complex data systems. The term is also used in historical occasions and the humanities, where increasing cultural and scholarly data from digital humanities projects requires the expertise and analytical practices of data curation. In broad terms, curation means a range of activities and processes done to create, manage, maintain, and validate a component. Specifically, data curation is the attempt to determine what information is worth saving and for how long.
History and practice
The user, rather than the database itself, typically initiates data curation and maintains metadata. According to the University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science, "Data curation is the active and on-going management of data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education; curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and provide for re-use over time." The data curation workflow is distinct from data quality management, data protection, lifecycle management, and data movement.
Census data has been available in tabulated punch card form since the early 20th century and has been electronic since the 1960s. The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) website marks 1962 as the date of their first Survey Data Archive.
Deep background on data libraries appeared in a 1982 issue of the Illinois journal, Library Trends. For historical background on the data archive movement, see "Social Scientific Information Needs for Numeric Data: The Evolution of the International Data Archive Infrastructure." The exact curation process undertaken within any organisation depends on the volume of data, how much noise the data contains, and what the expected future use of the data means to its dissemination.
The crises in space data led to the 1999 creation of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model, stewarded by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), which was formed in 1982.
The term data curation is sometimes used in the context of biological databases, where specific biological information is firstly obtained from a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image-based%20meshing | Image-based meshing is the automated process of creating computer models for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) from 3D image data (such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) or microtomography). Although a wide range of mesh generation techniques are currently available, these were usually developed to generate models from computer-aided design (CAD), and therefore have difficulties meshing from 3D imaging data.
Mesh generation from 3D imaging data
Meshing from 3D imaging data presents a number of challenges but also unique opportunities for presenting a more realistic and accurate geometrical description of the computational domain. There are generally two ways of meshing from 3D imaging data:
CAD-based approach
The majority of approaches used to date still follow the traditional CAD route by using an intermediary step of surface reconstruction which is then followed by a traditional CAD-based meshing algorithm. CAD-based approaches use the scan data to define the surface of the domain and then create elements within this defined boundary. Although reasonably robust algorithms are now available, these techniques are often time consuming, and virtually intractable for the complex topologies typical of image data. They also do not easily allow for more than one domain to be meshed, as multiple surfaces are often non-conforming with gaps or overlaps at interfaces where one or more structures meet.
Image-based approach
This approach is the more direct way as it combines the geometric detection and mesh creation stages in one process which offers a more robust and accurate result than meshing from surface data. Voxel conversion technique providing meshes with brick elements and with tetrahedral elements have been proposed.
Another approach generates 3D tetrahedral or tetrahedral elements throughout the volume of the domain, thus creating the mesh directly with conforming multipart surfaces.
Generating a model
The steps involved in the generation of models based on 3D imaging data are:
Scan and image processing
An extensive range of image processing tools can be used to generate highly accurate models based on data from 3D imaging modalities, e.g. MRI, CT, MicroCT (XMT), and Ultrasound. Features of particular interest include:
Segmentation tools (e.g. thresholding, floodfill, level set methods, etc.)
Filters and smoothing tools (e.g. volume- and topology-preserving smoothing and noise reduction/artefact removing).
Volume and surface mesh generation
The image-based meshing technique allows the straightforward generation of meshes out of segmented 3D data. Features of particular interest include:
Multi-part meshing (mesh any number of structures simultaneously)
Mapping functions to apply material properties based on signal strength (e.g. Young's modulus to Hounsfield scale)
Smoothing of meshes (e.g. topological preservation of data to ensure preservation of connectivity, and volume |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive%20Assault%20Network%202 | Massive Assault Network 2 is a massively multiplayer online game published by Wargaming. The game is a turn-based futuristic military simulation. The game is science fiction and takes place in the future, with the Free States Union vying for power against the Phantom League. Opponents square off against each other on a particular planet and fight to control all of its nations. Each player is given secret ally nations, and each nation has a limited amount of resources for building units. The game comes in both a free and subscription version. The free version provides full unit set and one level, where the subscription version provides access to several levels.
References
External links
Official Website
Massive Assault Network 2 at MobyGames
Russian video-review with gameplay on YouTube
2006 video games
Massively multiplayer online games
Turn-based tactics video games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Wargaming.net games
Video games developed in Belarus
Military science fiction video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestal%20Software | Pedestal Software was a company specializing in computer security founded in 1996 by Fernando Trias and Keith Woodard and sold to Altiris in 2005 for $65 million. It was headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts with satellite offices in San Francisco, Chicago and London. It was funded by the founders, Venrock and 3i and employed over 50 people when it was sold. Altiris was later acquired by Symantec.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
3i Group companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Symposium | African Symposium is a quarterly on-line academic journal of educational research published by the African Educational Research Network.
External links
Education journals
Academic journals established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudozygopleuridae | Pseudozygopleuridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda.
References
The Taxonomicon
Paleobiology database info
Prehistoric gastropods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm.net | Palm.net was a wireless data communication service enabling limited wireless access of the World Wide Web, provided for certain Palm, Inc. Personal Digital Assistants. Connectivity was provided through the Mobitex network. Web Clipping applications made use of the network to process data. The cost of service was $14.95 per month, and allowed a limited number of web pages to be viewed. The initial Palm model to be capable of using the service was the Palm VII, which made it the first standalone PDA to be capable of wireless internet access. Later models included the Palm VIIx and Palm i705. The service started in 1999 and was discontinued on August 31, 2004.
References
Palm, Inc.
Mobile web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20intelligence | Network intelligence (NI) is a technology that builds on the concepts and capabilities of deep packet inspection (DPI), packet capture and business intelligence (BI). It examines, in real time, IP data packets that cross communications networks by identifying the protocols used and extracting packet content and metadata for rapid analysis of data relationships and communications patterns. Also, sometimes referred to as Network Acceleration or piracy.
NI is used as a middleware to capture and feed information to network operator applications for bandwidth management, traffic shaping, policy management, charging and billing (including usage-based and content billing), service assurance, revenue assurance, market research mega panel analytics, lawful interception and cyber security. It is currently being incorporated into a wide range of applications by vendors who provide technology solutions to Communications Service Providers (CSPs), governments and large enterprises. NI extends network controls, business capabilities, security functions and data mining for new products and services needed since the emergence of Web 2.0 and wireless 3G and 4G technologies.
Background
The evolution and growth of Internet and wireless technologies offer possibilities for new types of products and services, as well as opportunities for hackers and criminal organizations to exploit weaknesses and perpetrate cyber crime. Network optimization and security solutions therefore need to address the exponential increases in IP traffic, methods of access, types of activity and volume of content generated. Traditional DPI tools from established vendors have historically addressed specific network infrastructure applications such as bandwidth management, performance optimization and quality of service (QoS).
DPI focuses on recognizing different types of IP traffic as part of a CSP's infrastructure. NI provides more granular analysis. It enables vendors to create an information layer with metadata from IP traffic to feed multiple applications for more detailed and expansive visibility into network-based activity.
NI technology goes beyond traditional DPI, since it not only recognizes protocols but also extracts a wide range of valuable metadata. NI's value-add to solutions traditionally based on DPI has attracted the attention of industry analysts who specialize in DPI market research. For example, Heavy Reading now includes NI companies on its Deep Packet Inspection Semi-Annual Market Tracker.
Business Intelligence for data networks
In much the same way that BI technology synthesizes business application data from a variety of sources for business visibility and better decision-making, NI technology correlates network traffic data from a variety of data communication vehicles for network visibility, enabling better cyber security and IP services. With ongoing changes in communications networks and how information can be exchanged, people are no longer linked excl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASVS | ASVS is an initialism with following meanings:
Advanced Space Vision System, a computer vision system designed primarily for ISS assembly
Application Security Verification Standard, a standard to performing application-level security verifications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuff%20TV | Tuff TV was an American digital broadcast television network targeted at men owned by the Tuff TV, Inc. division of Seals Entertainment Corporation. Tuff TV launched on June 30, 2009, and ceased operations August 26, 2018.
Tuff TV carried a mixture of sports (combat, motor and some team sport), lifestyle (outdoors, cooking), automotive, dramas, movies and talk show programming geared mainly at a young male audience. The network carried 3 hours of weekly E/I children's programming to comply with federal broadcasting regulations. Stations affiliating with Tuff received five minutes of local advertising per hour.
History
Tuff TV was launched in 2009 as a joint venture between Luken Communications and TUFF TV Media Group LLC. By July 2011, the network's main affiliate base were the Morris Family Broadcasting and NJR TV station groups. In mid-July 2014, Tuff TV started crowdfunding equity on SparkMarket.com to raise Investment capital, but was limited to those living in the state of Georgia.
Tuff agreed to carry some games from the first season of the Fall Experimental Football League in October and November 2014. Tuff relocated their offices to the GPB Media Building in Atlanta on June 8, 2016. On Friday, July 15, 2016, Tuff took over its distribution feed from Luken Communications earlier than planned.
In 2017 Tuff TV lost a case in civil court for Fair Labor Standards brought by a former employee.
Tuff TV, along with its parent company Seals Entertainment Company, ceased operations without announcement on August 26, 2018. The company eventually acknowledged the shutdown months later and indicated that they hoped to relaunch the channel by March 31, 2019; that date passed without a relaunch or any further news, and the site has only featured text indicating the network would be 'coming soon' with no set launch date. The network later claimed it would relaunch in 2022, but its current live stream is non-functioning, and no details about any new affiliation agreements or distribution details (be it as a broadcast subchannel or streaming network) have been made public.
References
External links
Seals Entertainment Corporation (Sealsco), parent corporation
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
Sports television networks in the United States
Defunct television networks in the United States
Men's interest channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20United%20States%20presidential%20election%20in%20Florida | Florida held an election for president of the United States on November 3, 1992. The race was extremely close – so close in fact that some news networks mistakenly reported that Democratic challenger Bill Clinton had won in the state, although incumbent President George H. W. Bush was eventually declared the winner. Bush received 40.89% of the vote to Clinton's 39.00%. The final result in Florida reflected the reluctance of many Southern states to back fellow Southerner Clinton, although Clinton was polling well in other parts of the country.
Bush won by about 100,000 votes, marking the first time Florida had backed the losing candidate since 1960, when it voted for Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy. This was also the last time until the 2020 election that Florida would back the loser of the presidential election as well only the second time since 1924. Despite Bush's narrow victory, this election marked the start of Florida's transition from a strong GOP state into a closely divided swing state for future presidential elections; just four years earlier Bush had carried Florida by 22 points, making it his second-best state in the South. This is also the only election since 1944 that Florida did not vote the same way as Ohio, a state with a similar voting history. Florida was one of 5 states that gave Perot more than 1 million votes, including California, Texas, New York, and Ohio.
Clinton flipped the heavily populated South Florida counties of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami -Dade, which had all voted for Bush in 1988, into the Democratic column, and they have remained reliable Democratic bastions in the state ever since, buoying Democratic base support in the state. Clinton's victory in Palm Beach County was noteworthy in as much as that county had not previously backed a Democratic presidential nominee since Florida's "Solid South" days when Franklin D. Roosevelt swept all sixty-seven counties in 1944. This was the last time St. Lucie County voted for a Republican presidential candidate until 2016. As of 2023, this is the last time that Florida has voted to the right of Montana, Kentucky, and Tennessee in a presidential election.
Results
Results by county
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
Alachua
Broward
Dixie
Flagler
Gilchrist
Glades
Hamilton
Hernando
Jefferson
Leon
Levy
Madison
Miami-Dade
Monroe
Okeechobee
Palm Beach
Pasco
Pinellas
Putnam
Sumter
Volusia
Note
References
Florida
1992
1992 Florida elections |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp%20Entertainment | Sharp Entertainment is a television production company based in Manhattan, New York. Founded by Matt Sharp in 2003, they have produced thousands of hours of programming in reality television. They produce TLC's top rated television franchise, 90 Day Fiancé, which consists of 6 spin off series. The February 23, 2020 premiere of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days had 3.3 million viewers, putting TLC in the #2 spot for the night. Some of their other hits include Love After Lockup (We TV), Man v. Food (Cooking Channel), Marrying Millions (Lifetime), Doomsday Preppers (National Geographic), Extreme Couponing (TLC), and The Fabulous Life (VH1).
Sharp Entertainment was acquired by Industrial Media (formerly known as CORE Media Group) in 2012. On April 28, 2016, CORE Media Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. On March 2, 2022, Sony Pictures Television announced to acquire Industrial Media and was rebranded as Sony Pictures Television - Nonfiction in November.
List of television shows produced
90 Day Fiancé
Most Outrageous Animals
Man v. Food
Underdog to Wonderdog
Call of the Wildman
Ask Aida
Extreme
The Fabulous Life of...
Biography
Videos That Rocked the World
Most Chrismasy Places in America
Most Terrifying Places in America
Christmas to the Extreme
20 Most Outrageous Moments
25 Biggest Real Estate Mistakes on HGTV
Extreme Halloween
Confessions of a Matchmaker
NoFX Backstage Passport
The iPod Revolution
30 Even Scarier Movie Moments
Criminal Records on TruTV
Misunderstood: Eminem
100 Greatest Red Carpet Moments
Red Hot Red Carpet
100 Funniest Movies
Great Thing About Holidays
Doomsday Preppers
Celebrity Nightmares Decoded
Love After Lockup
Extreme Couponing
Ghosted: Love Gone Missing
Marrying Millions
References
External links
Television production companies of the United States
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2016
Sony Pictures Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20rewriting%20system | In mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, an abstract rewriting system (also (abstract) reduction system or abstract rewrite system; abbreviated ARS) is a formalism that captures the quintessential notion and properties of rewriting systems. In its simplest form, an ARS is simply a set (of "objects") together with a binary relation, traditionally denoted with ; this definition can be further refined if we index (label) subsets of the binary relation. Despite its simplicity, an ARS is sufficient to describe important properties of rewriting systems like normal forms, termination, and various notions of confluence.
Historically, there have been several formalizations of rewriting in an abstract setting, each with its idiosyncrasies. This is due in part to the fact that some notions are equivalent, see below in this article. The formalization that is most commonly encountered in monographs and textbooks, and which is generally followed here, is due to Gérard Huet (1980).
Definition
An abstract reduction system (ARS) is the most general (unidimensional) notion about specifying a set of objects and rules that can be applied to transform them. More recently, authors use the term abstract rewriting system as well. (The preference for the word "reduction" here instead of "rewriting" constitutes a departure from the uniform use of "rewriting" in the names of systems that are particularizations of ARS. Because the word "reduction" does not appear in the names of more specialized systems, in older texts reduction system is a synonym for ARS.)
An ARS is a set A, whose elements are usually called objects, together with a binary relation on A, traditionally denoted by →, and called the reduction relation, rewrite relation or just reduction. This (entrenched) terminology using "reduction" is a little misleading, because the relation is not necessarily reducing some measure of the objects.
In some contexts it may be beneficial to distinguish between some subsets of the rules, i.e. some subsets of the reduction relation →, e.g. the entire reduction relation may consist of associativity and commutativity rules. Consequently, some authors define the reduction relation → as the indexed union of some relations; for instance if , the notation used is (A, →1, →2).
As a mathematical object, an ARS is exactly the same as an unlabeled state transition system, and if the relation is considered as an indexed union, then an ARS is the same as a labeled state transition system with the indices being the labels. The focus of the study, and the terminology are different however. In a state transition system one is interested in interpreting the labels as actions, whereas in an ARS the focus is on how objects may be transformed (rewritten) into others.
Example 1
Suppose the set of objects is T = {a, b, c} and the binary relation is given by the rules a → b, b → a, a → c, and b → c. Observe that these rules can be applied to both a and b to get c. Furtherm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%20So-myung | Somyung "Silver" Sim (born September 27, 1984), known by the pseudonym s.s.m~[SiLvEr] is one of the most successful player of the real-time strategy computer game StarCraft. Also known to be a poker player, he has made the final table of the APPT Macau 2008 (Asia Pacific Poker Tour).
Accomplishments
2003.01 Gembc KTF StarCraft League 1st Place
2004.08 iTV Ranking Event 3rd place
2004.10 Sky Pro-league 2nd Round MVP
2006.08 Sky Pro-league 1st Round MVP
2006.11 Pringles MBCGame StarCraft League 2nd Place
2007.09 Official Ambassador of Game Olympiad, Suwon City
2008 APPT Macau 9th Place- $22,692
References
External links
Silver's fan cafe (Korean)
South Korean poker players
1984 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habib%20Zargarpour | Habib Zargarpour (born 9 March 1964) is an Iranian visual effects supervisor, computer graphics supervisor, art director and creative director.
Zargarpour worked on the films Twister (1996) and The Perfect Storm (2000), for which he was nominated for two Academy Awards and won two BAFTA Awards. As of now, he is the only Asian to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
Biography
Habib Zargarpour has had almost two decades of experience in visual effect for film. He had worked as a graphic artist and fine arts illustrator since 1981, and began his career in visual effects for film in 1990 when he spent a few years working on digital effects for IMAX films in Los Angeles. He graduated with distinction in Industrial Design from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1992 and discovered his passion for design in film.
He spent 9 years at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) where he first joined the team of The Mask in 1993 as a Technical Director. Subsequent projects included the development of such effects as the particle tornadoes in Twister, the digital oceans and stormy seas in The Perfect Storm, Spawn’s cape, and the pod race simulations and crashes in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
While at ILM, he was nominated for two Academy Awards in Visual Effects for Twister and The Perfect Storm and garnered two British Academy Awards for those films working with Visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier. He worked as a Digital Effects Supervisor with John Knoll on the pod race sequences in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and on two Star Trek films: Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, working on the never before seen space anomalies and the Phoenix rocket launch sequence. Other creative projects at ILM included all digital underwater shots of Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity, and the alien creatures in Signs.
Zargarpour continues to value the CG industry as the perfect mix of technical and artistic realms. Since 2003, Habib has worked as a Senior Art Director at Electronic Arts on driving and racing titles. His projects included Need for Speed Underground and James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing. In 2006, he Art Directed a next generation title called Need for Speed: Most Wanted for which he received a VES (Visual Effects Society) Award in 2006. In 2009, he served as an official festival judge for the Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles.
, Zargarpour is a creative director of Microsoft Game Studios. He was the consulting Art Director for the Xbox One Launch title Ryse: Son of Rome collaborating with the Crytek team in Frankfurt. In 2014 he became Director of Visuals for Microsoft Studios Global Publishing.
Zargarpour is an active member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and a founding member of the Visual Effects Society (VES).
Filmography
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
The Jungle Book (2016)
Silver Cord |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S13%20%28Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn%29 | Line S 13 was an S-Bahn line of the S-Bahn Köln network. It was operated by DB Regio with class 423 electric multiple units.
At peak times, the S13 services began or end at Düren and run via Cologne to Troisdorf. In the off peak, half the S13 trains began or end at Sindorf. It ran with line S12 for most of its route, splitting from it only to run through Cologne/Bonn Airport. On working days, two services operated every hour (20 or 40 minutes apart) and together with an hourly service on line S19, services operated at 20-minute intervals. Between the peaks the S12, S13 and S19 services provided a service every 10 minutes on the central section between Köln-Ehrenfeld and Köln-Trimbornstraße.
It operated every 60 minutes on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays between Düren and Troisdorf; lines S13 and S19 jointly provided a service every 30 minutes. The S12, S13 and S19 services provided a service every 15 minutes on the central section between Köln-Ehrenfeld and Köln-Trimbornstraße.
Route
The route runs on the Cologne–Aachen line (opened by the Rhenish Railway Company between Cologne and Düren in three stages between 1839 and 1841), the East Rhine Railway (opened to Troisdorf by the Rhenish Railway in 1870, with an extension to Cologne opened in 1874) and the Cologne Airport loop (opened in 2004) The western section of the S 13 service from Düren to Köln Messe/Deutz was opened on 15 December 2002. It was extended to Troisdorf on 13 June 2004. An extension via Bonn-Beuel to Bonn-Oberkassel has been under construction since 2016,
Recent Events
In December 2020 the S13 got fully replaced by the S19, which was extending some courses of the S13 at the time. On workdays and Saturdays the S12 and S19 form a 10 minute interval between Köln-Ehrenfeld and Hennef and a 30 minute interval between Hennef and Au (Sieg). However, the S13 will be reintroduced after constructing the extension of the railway between Troisdorf and Bonn-Beuel (– Bonn Oberkassel) which is likely going to happen in 2025. The S13 will operate separately from the S19 between Bonn-Beuel and Düren in a 20 minute interval. The S19 will operate between Au (Sieg) and Köln Nippes every 20 minutes, offering nine courses in each direction between Troisdorf and Cologne (S12: 3 courses, S13: 3 courses, S19: 3 courses).
References
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
2002 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S12%20%28Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn%29 | Line S12 is a S-Bahn line of the S-Bahn Köln network in Germany. It is operated by DB Regio using class 423 electric multiple units. The S12 runs from Horrem via Cologne to Au (Sieg). It shares this route for most of its run with the S 19. With over , it is the second longest S-Bahn line in North Rhine-Westphalia, after S9.
The S12 operates every 20 minutes on workdays between Köln Ehrenfeld and Hennef (Sieg), with every third train continuing to Au (Sieg). The S19 also operates hourly between Au (Sieg) and Hennef, so there is a 30 minute clock. During rush hour, the S12 gets extended to Horrem, so with the S19 six trains operate hourly in each direction between Cologne and Horrem. Services operates every 20 minutes on Saturdays and every 30 minutes on Sundays and public holidays. On Sundays and public holidays the S12 operates every 30 minutes between Horrem and Au (Sieg).
The route runs on the Cologne–Aachen line (opened by the Rhenish Railway Company between Cologne and Horrem in three stages between 1839 and 1841), the East Rhine Railway (opened to Troisdorf by the Rhenish Railway in 1870, with an extension to Cologne opened in 1874) and the Sieg Railway (opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company between 1859 and 1862). The eastern section of the S 12 service from Au (Sieg) to Köln-Nippes was opened on 2 June 1991. It was extended to Düren on 13 June 2004, dropping Köln-Nippes. It was cut back to Horrem in December 2015.
References
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
1991 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightkite | Brightkite was a location-based social networking website. Users were able to "check in" at places by using text messaging or one of the mobile applications and they were able to see who is nearby and who has been there before. The service was created in 2007 by Brady Becker, Martin May, and Alan Seideman who previously founded the SMS notification service Loopnote. In April 2009 Brightkite was acquired by mobile social network Limbo.
By December 2011, all Brightkite apps had been pulled from app stores and the Brightkite website was replaced with a message stating, "This is not goodbye...we're just moving on to something better".
By April 2012, the Brightkite website no longer appeared to be in operation.
Overview
Brightkite allowed registered users to connect with their existing friends and also meet new people based on the places that they go. Once a user "checked in" at a place, they could post notes and photos to a location and other users could comment on those posts. Brightkite had applications for Android, iOS (iPhone), and Symbian.
Brightkite is no longer available.
Android app
The Brightkite Android app used the phone's GPS to locate the user and it had many of the same features as the iPhone app. Notable additions include mapping and background notifications.
iPhone app
The Brightkite iPhone app used the iPhone's geolocation features to automatically locate the user. From the app a user could check in, post a note or photo, send messages, browse their friend and nearby streams and access their account settings.
The Brightkite Wall
The Brightkite Wall was a visualization tool that used to show real-time updates from a place, user, or keyword. Users also have the option to display posts from Twitter containing a specific hashtag.
The Mattress Factory Art Museum used the Brightkite Wall in the museum lobby as a way to communicate with visitors.
Related applications
Brightkite had a public application programming interface (API) available to build websites and applications that augment the official website.
See also
Geosocial networking
Location-based service
References
Mobile social software
Geosocial networking
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Symbian software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Film%20%26%20Television%20Alliance | The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) is the trade association that represents companies that finance, produce and license independent film and television programming worldwide. The association is headquartered in Los Angeles, but has a global membership and wide scope of services and advocacy. Its roster of 150 member companies in 23 countries include independent production and distribution companies, sales agents, television companies, studio-affiliated companies and financial institutions. IFTA members create more than 500 independent films and countless hours of TV programming each year generating a revenue of $4 billion annually.
The freedom for independents to create and distribute movies and television shows has been threatened by a handful of consolidated media companies that control programming and distribution. As the voice and advocate for the independent industry worldwide, IFTA continues to increase public awareness of the major issues facing independents and publicly represents the independent film industry on such matters as the threat to a competitive marketplace seen in media consolidation; net neutrality; the elimination of trade barriers; the impact of new technology on our traditional business models; anti-piracy; improvement of copyright protection around the world; and the need to foster broad-based growth of the industry.
To that end, IFTA executives meet regularly with Washington lawmakers to advocate on behalf of reasonable and limited regulations to restore balance in the television and cable marketplace. IFTA endorses the principles of "net neutrality" or open access to the Internet. Net neutrality is currently threatened if broadband providers are able to discriminate in favor of certain content or applications, potentially replicating the closed and vertically integrated structure with traditional programming and distribution platforms.
In December 2008, IFTA called on the new Obama Administration to appoint an FCC chairman and commissioners who support principles of openness and diversity in the media with an open letter to his transition team, including Julius Genachowski, who was confirmed as the new FCC chairman.
IFTA lobbies against market barriers that impede the independents' ability to compete fully in national markets around the world, including import and censorship restrictions and weak copyright protection. IFTA is a member of the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), that aims to reduce online copyright infringement through a graduated response scheme called the Copyright Alert System.
What is an Independent?
According to IFTA:
An independent film or television program is financed primarily from sources outside the seven major U.S. studios. Independent entertainment programming is made at every budget range, from mainstream commercial to art house, and is seen by the public side-by-side with major studio releases. IFTA's member companies are the independents who finance, license, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QFL%20diagram | A QFL diagram or QFL triangle is a type of ternary diagram that shows compositional data from sandstones and modern sands, point counted using the Gazzi-Dickinson method. The abbreviations used are as follows:
Q – quartz
F – feldspar
L – lithic fragments
In general, the most contentious item counted is chert, which is usually counted as a lithic fragment, but is sometimes better suited in the Q pole. When this happens, the pole is renamed 'Qt' instead of Q.
The importance of a QFL triangle is mainly demonstrated in tectonic exercises. As first demonstrated in the 1979 paper by Bill Dickinson and Chris Suczek, the composition and provenance of a sandstone is directly related to its tectonic environment of formation.
Craton sands are clustered near the Q pole. As sandstones, these are known as quartz arenites.
Transitional continental sands are along the QF line. As sandstones, these are known as arkoses.
Basement uplift sands are near the F pole. This includes "thick-skinned tectonics." As sandstones, these are known as arkoses.
Recycled orogen sands plot near the Q pole, but with significant F and L components. This includes "thin-skinned tectonics" common in subduction back-arc thrusting. As sandstones, these are known as lithic sandstones.
Arc sands plot along the F and L line, with sometimes significant Q components. Clustering near the F pole indicates a dissected arc, and clustering near the L pole indicates an undissected, or new arc. As sandstones, these are known as arkoses and/or lithic sandstones.
See also
Folk classification
References
Petrology
Sandstone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartAction | SmartAction provides artificial intelligence-based voice self-service. IVA is a cloud-based, hosted service. The company was founded by inventor and entrepreneur Peter Voss and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.
History
In 2001, Peter Voss founded an R&D startup, Adaptive AI, Inc., to research and develop a prototype artificial general intelligence system based on his theory of intelligence. In 2009 Voss founded Smart Action Company, LLC to commercialize this technology. Created out of Voss' research and development, SmartAction created its first practical application of this new technology focused on the management of inbound and outbound calls for contact centers.
Technology
The company provides a Voice Registration platform that uses natural language speech recognition and is based on an object-oriented coding framework. This platforms utilises a proprietary AI engine drive the conversation with the caller, intended to improve over time. The platform is intended to make development and updates to the system quicker than older technology by using built-in knowledge and skills.
See also
Artificial Intelligence
Interactive voice response
Speech recognition
Speech synthesis (text-to-speech (TTS))
Contact center
References
Further reading
Amazon.com page
The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Applications of artificial intelligence
User interface techniques
Telephony
Telephone services
Call centre companies |
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