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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%3A%20108 | Hero: 108 is an animated television series created by Yang-Ming Tarng for Cartoon Network. It was broadcast on Cartoon Network and the Kabillion On Demand service in the United States and aired on the Cartoon Network international channels elsewhere. The series is co-produced by MoonScoop Entertainment, Gamania, Hong Ying Animation and Telegael Teoranta for Turner Entertainment Networks International Limited. It premiered on March 1, 2010.
The show was renewed for another season, which began airing on May 7, 2012, on Cartoon Network (Russia and Southeastern Europe), UK, April 30 on Cartoon Network Too, and on Cartoon Network in the United States on June 4, 2012. The series ended its run on July 9, 2012.
Synopsis
Many years ago in the Hidden Kingdom, animals and humans lived in perfect harmony until an evil trickster named HighRoller arrived and fooled the animals into thinking humans were their enemies. Chaos reigned in the Hidden Kingdom until Commander ApeTrully formed a task force called Big Green to reunite the animals and humans while fighting the forces of HighRoller and the Zebra Brothers.
The storyline in a typical episode follows a formula, although the formula varies and several episodes depart from it: Commander ApeTrully goes on a mission to the castle of an animal kingdom to make peace and ask its inhabitants to join Big Green, bringing a gift of gold as a token of goodwill. The animals generally dismiss the gift, and usually capture ApeTrully who calls for help from First Squad. Members of First Squad (usually everyone except Mr. No Hands, who does come along on occasion) deploy by descending through a maze of tubes and landing on turtles fitted with tank treads, and then are launched through a tunnel and out over the water. When they arrive where ApeTrully is being held, a battle or contest ensues, during which special talents or abilities of the animals are revealed, often something based on their nature. After the battle or contest, the animals usually concede to First Squad's skills saying through translation by ApeTrully (unless the animal rulers can talk) that they would be honored to join Big Green. After joining, the animals often are assigned a particular duty at Big Green based on their demonstrated skills, which may help solve a problem introduced in a subplot.
The show is very loosely based on the ancient Chinese novel Water Margin focusing on the exploits of First Squad and Second Squad.
Episodes
Characters
Big Green
Big Green is a peace-making force with goals to restore peace between the humans and animals:
Commander ApeTrully (voiced by Ian James Corlett) - Commander ApeTrully is the eccentric, well-meaning leader of Big Green. He formed Big Green in hopes of restoring friendship between animals and humans. In most episodes, he would end up captured by the animals he visits when trying to make peace with them with piles of gold. When in danger, he activates the device on his head to call for First Squad. In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%20Pedestrian%20Network | The Dallas Pedestrian Network or Dallas Pedway is a system of grade-separated walkways covering thirty-six city blocks of Downtown Dallas, Texas, United States. The system connects buildings, garages and parks through tunnels and above-ground skybridges. The network contains an underground city of shops, restaurants and offices during weekday business hours.
The underground network was the idea of Montreal urban planner Vincent Ponte, who was also responsible for Montreal's Underground City.
Connected to the Dallas Pedestrian Network
Hotels:
Sheraton Dallas Hotel
Fairmont Hotel
Dallas Marriott Downtown
Hotel Indigo
Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown
Westin
Cambria Dallas Downtown (Tower Petroleum Building)
Office Buildings:
Comerica Bank Tower
Chase Tower
1700 Pacific
Bank of America Plaza
Renaissance Tower
Fountain Place
Plaza of the Americas
Bryan Tower
KPMG Centre
Patriot Tower
Energy Plaza
Ross Tower
One Main Place
Republic Center
Pacific Place
1600 Pacific Tower
The Drever
Parks
Cancer Survivors Plaza
Thanks-Giving Square
Residential Buildings
Titche-Goettinger Building
Gables Republic
1900 Pacific Residences (Corrigan Tower)
1505 Elm
Other
First Baptist Church
Universities Center at Dallas
Majestic Garage
Elm Street Garage
Metropolitan Garage
Changing attitudes
In 2005, then-mayor Laura Miller told the New York Times the system of tunnels was "the worst urban planning decision that Dallas has ever made... if I could take a cement mixer and pour cement in and clog up the tunnels, I would do it today".
The Dallas Pedestrian Network is targeted for de-emphasis by the Downtown Dallas 360 initiative, in an effort to bring more focus on street-level activity. While initial plans had called for a more direct shutdown, a report in April 2012 concluded that a series of measures discouraging further growth or unnecessary maintenance of the system were all that were called for; Downtown Dallas Inc. CEO John Crawford concluded, "[The underground tunnels] aren't much of an issue anymore."
References
External links
Official Website
Map of Pedestrian System on Google Maps
Photos of Pedestrian Network
https://web.archive.org/web/20110818073906/http://id.erudit.org/revue/uhr/2009/v37/n2/029574ar.pdf "Ultramodern Underground Dallas: Vincent Ponte’s Pedestrian-Way as Systematic Solution to the Declining Downtown" by Charissa N. Terranova
The Dallas Morning News, "Walking the Underground Tunnel"
Buildings and structures in Dallas
Tunnels in Dallas
Underground cities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20N900 | The Nokia N900 is a smartphone made by Nokia. It supersedes the Nokia N810. Its default operating system, Maemo 5, is a Linux-based OS originally developed for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. It is the first Nokia device based upon the Texas Instruments OMAP3 microprocessor with the ARM Cortex-A8 core. Unlike the three Nokia Internet tablets preceding it, the Nokia N900 is the first Maemo device to include phone functionality (quad-band GSM and 3G UMTS/HSDPA).
The N900 functions as a mobile Internet device, and includes email, web browsing and access to online services, a 5-megapixel digital camera for still or video photography, a portable media player for music and video, calculator, games console and word processor, SMS, as well as mobile telephony using either a mobile network or VoIP via Internet (mobile or Wi-Fi). Maemo provides an X-terminal interface for interacting with the core operating system.
It was launched at Nokia World on 2 September 2009 and was released in November 2009 in the United States and 9 European countries.
The N900 was launched alongside Maemo 5, giving the device an overall more touch-friendly interface than its predecessors and a customizable home screen which mixes application icons with shortcuts and widgets. Maemo 5 supports Adobe Flash Player 9.4, and includes many applications designed specifically for the mobile platform such as a new touch-friendly media player.
History and availability
The Nokia N900 was announced on 17 September 2008 during a keynote presentation by Ari Jaaksi of Nokia. New supported features were announced for Maemo 5 such as cellular connectivity over 3G/HSPA, TI OMAP3 processor and high definition camera support. No news on backward compatibility for older Internet Tablets and no time frame was established. The release of the pre-alpha Maemo 5 software development kit, in December 2008 targeted exclusively the OMAP3 architecture, revamped the user interface, included support for hardware graphics acceleration and other functionalities not found in Internet Tablets at the time such as cellular data connectivity and high definition camera support.
The first photo and specifications of the N900, codenamed Rover while being developed, came out in May 2009. The release of FCC approval documents in August 2009 confirmed the device and provided the second codename RX-51. The Nokia N900 was officially announced on 2 September 2009 at Nokia World 2009 in Germany. Nokia says it is step 4 of 5 in the line of Maemo devices which started in 2005 with the Nokia 770.
The device was initially available in selected markets starting November 2009 (4 December in the UK) with a retail price of €599 in Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain, €649 in France, 2499 zł in Poland, 5995 kr in Sweden and £499 in the United Kingdom, all prices including VAT but excluding subsidies. The retail price at launch was US$649 in the United States excluding sales taxes and subsidies. It will be available in Ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CroatianTV-America | CroatianTV-America, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of EURO-World Network Inc.; the Broadcaster's representative for North America and South America; responsible for the overall Marketing and Distribution Strategy of the media offering. The company broadcasts Croatian radio and television programming to the Croatian communities in North America (Canada and the United States).
CroatianTV-America has launched three (3) Croatian television channels and three (3) Croatian radio channels and plans on launching others.
Television Channels
HRT - Croatian Television (Picture of Croatia)
NOVA - NOVA World
RTL - RTL Televizija
CMC - Croatian Music Channel
Radio Channels
HRT - Croatian Radio (Voice of Croatia)
Narodni - Narodni Radio
MIR - Radio MIR
Availability
The CroatianTV-America programming package is available in North America on the Galaxy-19 (DTH) Direct-to-home satellite platform and/or on the NexTV-America Internet Television platform. CroatianTV-America intends to be available on some of the major cable networks in the US and Canada in 2012.
External links
NEXTV-America
NEXTV-Canada
Other links
STN
Intelsat
Irdeto
Ethnic Channels Group
Croatian Radio Television
NOVA TV
RTL Televizija
Croatian Music Channel
Television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland%20International%20High%20School | Oakland International High School opened in August 2007 with the support of The Internationals Network for Public Schools, Oakland Unified School District, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The school targets a population of students, newly arrived immigrants, who have historically been under-served nationally, in California, and in Oakland.
History
OIHS is a member of The Internationals Network for Public Schools, a non-profit organization that grew out of the work of a group of international high schools in New York City. It now supports 12 schools in New York and California. The first international high school, located on the campus of LaGuardia Community College, opened in 1985; two more followed in the 1990s. Since 2001, the network has opened and supported nine additional high schools with the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The network of schools annually serves 4,000 students immigrating from 90 countries. The network's mission is to provide quality education to recently arrived immigrants by developing and interconnecting small high schools based on the Internationals approach.
Site
The school campus is the former Verdese Carter Middle School, built in the 1970s. The site formerly served as Woodrow Wilson Junior High School from 1926.
Mission
The mission of OIHS is to provide newly arrived immigrants a quality alternative education focused on English language acquisition in preparation for college.
Students
100% of the student body is made up of English language learners, nearly all of whom immigrated to the US in the last four years. Collectively, students speak over 30 languages other than English. Students have come from over three dozen countries: Afghanistan, Brazil, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cuba, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iraq, Japan, Liberia, Macau, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Yemen. 52% of students are Latino, 6% African, 36% Asian, and 6% Arab or White. Approximately 25% of students hold refugee immigration status, having escaped ethnic conflicts in Liberia, Nepal, Burma, and Central Asia. More than 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Approximately 97.2% of students are socioeconomically disadvantaged.
To promote a sense of community and support, class sizes are kept small, holding only 25 students or fewer. The total enrollment for the school in the 2017-2018 academic year was 360 students, maintaining a maximum of 100 students per grade level. In their freshman and sophomore years, students at OIHS are kept within a tight circle of the same four teachers who strengthen their basic English skills. As upperclassmen, students are acquainted with new teachers and are given the opportunity to participate in internships at local businesses, gov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HungarianTV-America | HungarianTV-America, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of EURO-World Network Inc. and the broadcaster's representative for North America. The company broadcasts Hungarian radio and television programming to the Hungarian communities in North America (Canada and the United States).
HungarianTV-America has launched six Hungarian television channels and one Hungarian radio channels and plans on launching others.
Television Channels
Duna TV
m2
Magyar ATV
HírTV
Echo TV
Radio Channels
Folk Radio
Availability
The HungarianTV-America programming package is available in North America on the NexTV-America Internet Television platform. HungarianTV-America intends to be available on DirecTV, Dish Network and some of the major cable networks in the US and Canada in 2010.
See also
DUNA TV
M2
ATV
HIRTV
References
Television networks in Hungary
24-hour television news channels in the United States
hu:Hír Televízió
hu:Hír TV
hu:Magyar ATV
hu:Duna TV
hu:Magyar Televízió |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMedia%20Network | eMedia Network, Inc. (EWN) is an American-based media company that markets and distributes various international television and radio services to ethnic viewers in North America as well as Australia & New Zealand. It was founded in February 2005 and is based in San Diego, California.
In 2015, EuroWorld Network underwent a corporate re-branding, the company was renamed eMedia Network.
eMedia Network currently distributes over 20 television channels and 2 radio stations catering to the following ethnic groups: Croatian, Hungarian, Macedonian and Serbian.
Offices
Headquarters
United States: San Diego
Australia: Sydney
Sales offices
Canada: Vancouver and Toronto
Croatia: Zagreb
Hungary: Budapest
Serbia: Belgrade
Channels
Croatian
Slika Hrvatske†
Voice of Croatia†
Klasik TV‡
Laudato TV‡
Nova World†
Posavina TV‡
RTL Croatia World‡
RTL Televizija†
Sportska TV‡
Z1
Hungarian
Duna TV‡
Duna World†
Echo TV‡
Hír TV‡
M1‡
M2‡
M4 Sport‡
RTL+‡
RTL II‡
RTL Klub‡
TV2‡
Macedonian
Alfa TV‡
ERA TV‡
MRT 1†
MRT 2†
Serbian
DM Sat‡
K3‡
OTV Valentino‡
Pink‡
RTS Sat†
Radio Belgrade†
RTRS‡
RTV 1‡
RTV 2‡
SerbianTV-America
NOTE:
† - Available via Satellite & IPTV
‡ - Available via IPTV only
Availability
eMedia Network channels are distributed via satellite on the following platforms: Galaxy-19 at 97°W (North America coverage) and Optus D2 at 152° East (Australia and New Zealand coverage). In addition, eMedia Network operate its own IPTV platform iON, which is available in North America and Australia. The IPTV service originally launched in partnership with Canadian ethnic broadcaster Ethnic Channels Group as NEXTV America & NEXTV Australia. However, in 2015 the service was re-launched as iON with eMedia Network taking over full control alongside new broadcast partner GSS Media.
World Media International
On August 21, 2013, eMedia Network announced a partnership with Australian Pay-TV provider World Media International to create an IPTV platform for their services. Through this agreement EWN distributed the following channels for WMI via IPTV:
Arabic (Al Hayat TV 2, Al Kahera wa Al Nas, Al Jadeed, Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera Sports, Al Tahrir TV, ART Hekayat, ART Movies, ART Variety, BBC Arabic, Cima Channel, Future News, Future Television, Iqraa TV, MBC, Melody Arabia Murr Television, Noursat, OTV & Syria Drama)
Greek (ANT1 Pacific & Greek Cinema)
Italian (Mediaset Italia, Rai Italia & Rai News24)
Polish (Toya TV, TV Trwam, TVP Info, TVP Polonia, TVS)
As of 2017, these channels are no longer distributed by eMedia Network.
See also
Satellite Telecommunications Network
Intelsat
Irdeto
Ethnic Channels Group
Globecast Australia
References
External links
Official site
Mass media companies of the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20exchange%20autotrading | Forex autotrading is a slang term for algorithmic trading on the foreign exchange market, wherein trades are executed by a computer system based on a trading strategy implemented as a program run by the computer system.
The trading strategy consist of a set of criteria, and is typically programmed, but can also be created by using a method combining the set of criteria visually without programming. It can be run in highly specialized setups, but is also used by private traders on more simple platforms.
The set of criteria used in a trading strategy for Automated Trading are mostly based on technical analysis.
Types
There are two types of automated forex trading which consist of:
A completely automated system or known as a robotic forex trading: Generally, this method is what you would classify as a "trading machine" or "black box trading" which executes orders based on certain algorithms based on its creator. The creator of the automatic trading script has already decided on the aspects of the order such as the timing, price or quantity and initiates the order automatically. Users can only interfere by tweaking the technical parameters (such as lot size, risk parameters, stop-losses and take profit) of the program; all other control is handed over to the trading script.
A Signal-based forex generator: You need to manually execute orders generated by a trading system which has an algorithm in-built to highlight a potential entry and close signal and a user manually executes these trade orders with a broker.
Advantages
An automated trading environment can generate more trades per market than a human trader can handle and can replicate its actions across multiple markets and time frames. An automated system can trade tirelessly and continuously without any disturbance. An automated system is also unaffected by the psychological swings that human traders are prey to. This is particularly relevant when trading with a mechanical model, which is typically developed on the assumption that all the trade entries flagged will actually be taken in real time trading.
Disadvantages
While Forex autotrading systems, especially cloud-based ones that are active 24/7, are an attractive idea to many investors, as a decentralized and relatively unregulated market, the risk of Forex scams is high. Forex autotrading, as it brings Forex trading to the masses, makes even more people susceptible to frauds. Bodies such as the National Futures Association and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have issued warnings and rules to avoid fraudulent Forex trading behavior.
See also
Automated trading system
Retail forex
Forex signal
Retail forex platform
Algorithmic trading
National Futures Association (NFA)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
References
Foreign exchange market
de:Forexbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinse%20%28album%29 | Rinse is an album by Minotaur Shock, released in 2003.
Track listing
"46 Tops" – 3:25
"Stack On Rat" – 4:15
"Don't Be A Slave To No Computer" – 7:00
"Let Me Out" – 3:54
"The Downs" – 4:50
"Albert Park Music" – 9:50
"Motoring Britain" – 6:14
"Avon Ranger" – 6:25
"Repertor" – 4:17
"Rockpoolin'" – 5:44
"Lady Came From Battic Wharf (W/Sui Said Love)" – 6:22
References
Minotaur Shock albums
2003 albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E61 | European route E61 forms part of the United Nations International E-road network, of which it is a Class A intermediate north–south route. long, it connects the southern part of Austria to the Adriatic Sea.
Itinerary
The E 61 routes through four European countries:
Austria
Slovenia
Italy
: Fernetti - Villa Opicina - Trieste
: Trieste - Basovizza - Pesek di Grozzana
Slovenia
: Krvavi Potok - Kozina - Starod
Croatia
: Pasjak border crossing - Rupa interchange
: Rupa - Rijeka (A6 Orehovica interchange)
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
61
E061
E061
E061
E061 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Computer%20and%20System%20Sciences | The Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of computer science. JCSS is published by Elsevier, and it was started in 1967. Many influential scientific articles have been published in JCSS; these include five papers that have won the Gödel Prize. Its managing editor is Michael Segal.
Notes
References
External links
Journal homepage
ScienceDirect access
DBLP information
Computer science journals
Elsevier academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish%20Women%27s%20Rights%20Watch | Kurdish Women's Rights Watch (KWRW) was set up in June 2004 as a non-profit-making, non-political network of activists, academics, lawyers and journalists. Based in the United Kingdom, KWRW grew out of Kurdish Women's Action Against Honour Killings (KWAHK), an association that was set up in 2000. The current president is Nazand Begikhani.
It campaigns to promote awareness of the condition of Kurdish women, with particular attention to domestic violence and honour killings. It also works to improve the health and education of Kurdish women, in cooperation with women's groups and human rights organisations in Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. It is currently working with Bristol University on a study of honour-based violence in Iraqi Kurdistan and the United Kingdom.
Their site is hacked.
References
Women's rights organizations
Civil rights organizations
Women's rights in Kurdistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loginventory | LOGINventory is an agentless network inventory tool written by Schmidt's LOGIN GmbH. LOGINventory is compatible with Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 including 64Bit versions.
Functionality
LOGINventory collects the data of all networked Windows computers as well as the information of other SNMP-capable devices. Among these are print servers, hubs, routers, switches, Linux and Mac computers. LOGINventory works agentless by using the existings APIs and is integrated into Microsoft Management Console
History
The tool hit the market with version 3 in January 2002. Since then it was continuously improved and is available in English and German languages. In March 2016 LOGINventory7 was launched. Version 7 was especially developed with regards to inventory virtualized infrastructures.
Licensing
LOGINventory is free for up to 20 PCs. Commercial versions are available for networks with more than 20 assets.
References
Review on TechWorld
Review on Download.com
External links
Official website of LOGINventory
Support Forum (English/German)
Internet Protocol based network software
System administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Aurora%20Business%20Network | African Aurora Business Network, abbreviated as AABN, is an enterprise development non-governmental Organization headquartered in Accra, Ghana. The organization assists micro and small scale enterprises (MSEs) and its environment through partnerships, capacity building, creative products and advisory services.
History
AABN was established in 1999 and in 2001 registered by guarantee as a limited liability company in Ghana. AABN has provided business development services for government institutions such as the Ministry of Trade and Industry and Private Sector Development and the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs under the UNDP Gender Programme. They also implemented projects for the International Labour Organisation as well as various clients in Ghana.
Their work also focuses on employment opportunities for university graduates.
References
Business organisations based in Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planka.nu | Planka.nu is a network of organizations in Sweden promoting tax-financed zero-fare public transport with chapters in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Skåne and Östergötland. Planka.nu was founded in 2001 by the Swedish Anarcho-syndicalist Youth Federation in response to the increasingly expensive ticket prices in the public transport system in Stockholm. The campaign has received much attention because of the controversial methods used to promote free public transport: Planka.nu encourage people to fare-dodge in the public transport,
aiding its members in paying penalty fares through the insurance fund p-kassan.
History
In 2001, the Stockholm chapter of the Swedish Anarcho-syndicalist Youth Federation () launched the campaign Planka.nu (literally, fare-dodge.now) as a reaction to a rise in ticket prices by the Stockholm County Council. The domain name .nu, which belongs to the
island of Niue but is sold primarily to foreigners, was chosen because it means "now" in Swedish. The standard top level domain for Sweden is .se.
With growing membership and interest, the campaign was detached from the SUF to form an independent organization. Local organizations have since started up in Gothenburg in 2003, Östergötland in 2005 and Skåne in 2009. A sister organization, pumm.it has been created in Helsinki, Finland. In November 2008, Planka.nu released Freepublictransports.com, a global forum for the free public transport movement.
Ticket fares in Stockholm have increased dramatically over time. By one measure—single ticket price for a journey—Stockholm has the most expensive-to-use public transport in the world, as of March 2009.
Activism
In the tradition of the Italian autonomists, Planka.nu advocate self-reduction, where the price of the service is determined by the consumer. Whereas in other cases this is done in agreement with (at least some) employees of the service provider, in the case of Planka.nu fare-dodgers are encouraged to evade fares without seeking permission.
Since its conception Planka.nu has broadened its methods and now functions as a think tank with public transport, urban planning and climate change as its main areas of focus, as well as an insurance fund. The network also uses standard leftist methods, such as rallies, adbusting, and pamphlets. Together with refugee rights organization Ingen människa är illegal, the Swedish chapter of No one is illegal, Planka.nu provides tickets for immigrants living in Sweden without asylum, since a paperless immigrant might otherwise be reported to the police and deported if caught riding without a ticket.
P-kassan
Failing to purchase a ticket or traveling using an incorrect pass is subject to a penalty fare of 1200 SEK in the public transport systems of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Östergötland. In return for a membership fee (paid monthly or biannually) members are refunded by Planka.nu if fined, through the solidarity fund P-kassan. Net income from p-kassan is used in the aforementioned partners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YARD%20%28software%29 | YARD, is an embedded documentation generator for the Ruby programming language. It analyzes the Ruby source code, generating a structured collection of pages for Ruby objects and methods. Code comments can be added in a natural style.
YARD is useful even if the target source code does not contain explicit comments. YARD will still parse the classes, modules, and methods, and list them in the generated API files.
YARD extends upon the capabilities of RDoc in a number of dimensions:
extensibility
modularity
parsing
Dan Kubb has created an ancillary tool, named Yardstick, which verifies YARD (or RDoc) documentation coverage.
See also
Comparison of documentation generators
RDoc
Ruby Document format
References
External links
YARD project home page
Loren Segal's YARD page on GitHub
Dan Kubb's Yardstick page on GitHub
Free documentation generators
Software using the MIT license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnathan%20A.%20Rodgers | Johnathan Rodgers is president and CEO of TV One, a real-life and entertainment cable television network targeting adult African American viewers. Launched in January 2004 with major backing from Radio One and Comcast, TV One features a broad range of real-life and entertainment programming designed to enlighten, entertain, inform and inspire a diverse audience of adult African American viewers. The network is currently available in nearly 48 million U.S. households, and is available in both standard and high definition formats.
Rodgers has announced he will retire on July 31, 2011.
Career
Rodgers joined TV One in 2003, after a six-year stint as president of Discovery Networks, the domestic television division of Discovery Communications. During his tenure, the company's U.S. cable networks increased from two - Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel - to 11. Under Rodgers, the Discovery Channel achieved its highest ratings ever. In addition, Rodgers oversaw the conversion of The Learning Channel into TLC and the successful launches of Animal Planet, Discovery Kids and Discovery Health.
Prior to joining Discovery, Rodgers had a successful 20-year career at CBS, where he held a variety of executive positions including President of CBS' television stations group. During his career at CBS Television, Rodgers also served as an award-winning producer, news director and general manager; he was also an executive producer for CBS News.
Rodgers began his professional career as a print journalist working as a writer-reporter for Sports Illustrated; he later worked for Newsweek Magazine as an associate editor. Following that stint, Rodgers worked as a writer for WNBC-TV Channel Four News in New York City. Among the award-winning film editors that he worked with on the Sixth and 11th Hour News was Donald Swerdlow (now Don Canaan).
Rodgers received his undergraduate degree in journalistic studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and his masters in communications from Stanford University. He also served in the U.S. Army for two years.
Rodgers formerly served on the board of directors of the Procter & Gamble Company and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Nike and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), and is a trustee of the University of California (Berkeley) Foundation. He has been named to Ebony Magazine’s Power 150, and recognized as “The Visionary” in Essence magazine’s 2008 Black Hollywood Celebration of Excellence. He has also been named by Black Enterprise magazine to its list of the Top 50 Power Brokers in Hollywood and is the recipient of the NCTA’s Vanguard Award for Programmers, the cable industry’s highest honor presented to a programming executive. In 2009, he has been named to the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame and honored with a Trumpet Award, created to celebrate and honor African-American achievers in diverse fields including law, medicine, business, politics and entertainment. Rodg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intereconom%C3%ADa%20TV | Intereconomía TV (commonly referred as "Intereconomía") is a Spanish television network centered on political and economic news from a right-wing political point of view. However, in 2010, Intereconomía TV has renewed its content and is now a national television channel; because of this, in 2010 Intereconomía Corporation has created Intereconomía Business, a channel dedicated to economic and financial news.
Intereconomía TV currently has programs including news (Crónica 1, Crónica 2), politics (El gato al agua), health (+ Vivir), travel (Vuelta y vuelta), entertainment (Lista de bodas) and sports (Punto pelota). It has also incorporated dating shows (Dando caña).
These new programs have brought Intereconomía TV 1.2% of the television share in Spain in June 2010, a historical record of a new channel.
Due to economic mismanagement, now Intereconomía TV is asking for money in a savings account to viewers.
See also
Television in Spain
Sociedad Gestora de Televisión Net TV
Intereconomía TV (Spanish)
Notes
External links
www.eltorotv.com
Conservatism in Spain
Television stations in Spain
Television channels and stations established in 2005
2005 establishments in Spain
Spanish-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board | Single-board may refer to:
Single-board computer, a complete computer built on a single circuit board
Single-board microcontroller, a microcontroller pre-built onto a single printed circuit board |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybricon%20Corporation | Hybricon Corporation is a provider of systems packaging serving the military, aerospace, homeland security, medical and high-end Industrial markets and develops embedded computing systems using OpenVPX, VPX, VXS, VMEbus, VME64X, CompactPCI, rugged MicroTCA, and custom bus structures.
History
Charles Michael Hayward, who was born in Argentina in 1928, started a consulting business in his basement in 1976, and incorporated as Hybricon Corporation in 1978 as business grew.
They were originally located in Littleton, Massachusetts, and sold wire wrap products by 1979.
In September 2000, Paul R. Freve was appointed as president, after Hayward served for 22 years.
Hybricon is a member of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) through 2008, VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA), and member of the OpenVPX Industry Working Standards Group when it formed in 2009. Hybricon along with Curtiss-Wright were the first to demonstrate a live OpenVPX System at the trade show Milcom in Boston in October 2009. The system included an OpenVPX backplane in a Hybricon SFF-4 Small Form Factor conduction-cooled chassis with Curtiss-Wright Control small form factor 3U cards.
In 2010, Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems acquired Hybricon for $19 million in cash.
At the time it was based in Ayer, Massachusetts. It became the engineered packaging business unit.
Hybricon was estimated to have $17 million per year in sales at the time.
By the end of 2010. it announced a thermal management technology called CoolWall.
In 2015, Atrenne Integrated Solutions acquired the assets of Hybricon from Curtiss-Wright.
Based in Minneapolis, Atrenne was formed in 2014 from a merger of AbelConn Electronics, CBT Technology, Photo Etch, and SIE Computing Solutions. It was led by Jan Erik Mathiesen at the time.
In April, 2018, Toronto-based Celestica acquired Atrenne, after announcing the agreement in January.
See also
List of United States defense contractors
Systems integrator
Government contractor
References
1976 establishments in Massachusetts
2010 disestablishments in Massachusetts
American companies established in 1976
American companies disestablished in 2010
Computer companies established in 1976
Computer companies disestablished in 2010
Computer enclosure companies
Former defense companies of the United States
Defunct companies based in Massachusetts
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Military industry
Military technology
Systems engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20import | Static import is a feature introduced in the Java programming language that allows members (fields and methods) which have been scoped within their container class as public static, to be used in Java code without specifying the class in which the field has been defined. This feature was introduced into the language in version 5.0.
The feature provides a typesafe mechanism to include constants into code without having to reference the class that originally defined the field. It also helps to deprecate the practice of creating a constant interface (an interface that only defines constants then writing a class implementing that interface, which is considered an inappropriate use of interfaces.)
The mechanism can be used to reference individual members of a class:
import static java.lang.Math.PI;
import static java.lang.Math.pow;
or all the static members of a class:
import static java.lang.Math.*;
For example, this class:
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello World!");
System.out.println("Considering a circle with a diameter of 5 cm, it has");
System.out.println("a circumference of " + (Math.PI * 5) + " cm");
System.out.println("and an area of " + (Math.PI * Math.pow(2.5, 2)) + " sq. cm");
}
}
Can instead be written as:
import static java.lang.Math.*;
import static java.lang.System.out;
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
out.println("Hello World!");
out.println("Considering a circle with a diameter of 5 cm, it has");
out.println("a circumference of " + (PI * 5) + " cm");
out.println("and an area of " + (PI * pow(2.5, 2)) + " sq. cm");
}
}
Ambiguity
If two static members of the same name are imported from multiple different classes, the compiler will throw an error, as it will not be able to determine which member to use in the absence of class name qualification.
For example, the following code will fail to compile:
import static java.lang.Integer.*;
import static java.lang.Long.*;
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(MAX_VALUE);
}
}
In this case, MAX_VALUE is ambiguous, as the MAX_VALUE field is an attribute of both java.lang.Integer and java.lang.Long. Prefixing the field with its class name will disambiguate the class from which MAX_VALUE is derived, but doing so makes the use of a static import redundant.
Notes
References
Static Import in Java 8 (Oracle)
Java (programming language)
Articles with example Java code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Situation%20Saturday | Real Situation Saturday () was a Korean variety show shown on the SBS network. Many popular programs have aired on this Saturday line-up, including X-Man and Real Romance Love Letter, dominating Saturday evening ratings for a long time. It began to air for 60 mins. from November 8, 2003 to July 2, 2005, later expanded to 130 mins from July 9, 2005 to October 28, 2006, and cut back to 70 mins. from November 4, 2006 to January 6, 2007 and ended its run because it suffered competition from Infinite Challenge.
Season 1 Segment
X-Man
Aired: November 8, 2003 - October 9, 2004 (Moved to Good Sunday)
Starring: Kang Ho-dong, Yoo Jae-suk, Kim Je-dong
Real Situation Finding X-Man (Korean: 실제상황 X맨을 찾아라) was that program that began Real Situation Saturday. It later moved to Good Sunday to revive that line-up and to make way for Love Letter.
Season 2 Segments
Real Romance Love Letter
Aired: October 16, 2004 - October 28, 2006
Seasons: 3
Starring: Kang Ho-dong
Real Romance Love Letter (Korean: 리얼 로망스 연애편지) was a programme featuring male and female contestants competing for "each other".
Our Children Have Changed
Aired: July 9, 2005 - October 28, 2006 (in Real Situation Saturday. Airs today as stand-alone program.)
Starring: Shin Dong-yup
Our Children Have Changed (Korean: 우리 아이가 달라졌어요) is a program about the difficulties of raising children. The predecessor is Shin Dong-yup's Love's Commissioned Mother.
Super Junior's Full House
Aired: May 27, 2006 - August 12, 2006
Starring: Shin Dong-yup, Super Junior
Super Junior's Full House (Korean: 슈퍼주니어의 풀하우스) was a program where the group, Super Junior, would host 2 foreigners as they stayed in South Korea. The show presents comedic experiences between the South Korean boy band Super Junior and two female international students, who did a homestay with Super Junior for a month.
My Love, Monkey
Aired: September 2, 2006 - October 28, 2006
Starring: Ayumi, Jung Jae-yong
My Love, Monkey (Korean: 내사랑 몽키) was a program about raising monkeys.
Season 3 Segment
Love Choice
Aired: November 4, 2006 - January 6, 2007
Starring: Kim Yong-man
Love Choice (Korean: 선택남녀) was a program where male celebrities would attempt to date regular women. It was part of the short-lived 70 mins Real Situation Saturday and Good Sunday weekend.
References
External links
Real Situation Saturday Official Homepage
Love Choice Official Homepage
Our Children Have Changed Official Homepage
Seoul Broadcasting System original programming
South Korean game shows
South Korean variety television shows
South Korean reality television series
2003 South Korean television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference%20on%20Computer%20Vision%20and%20Pattern%20Recognition | The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is an annual conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, which is regarded as one of the most important conferences in its field. According to Google Scholar Metrics (2022), it is the highest impact computing venue.
Affiliations
CVPR was first held in Washington DC in 1983 by Takeo Kanade and Dana Ballard (previously the conference was named Pattern Recognition and Image Processing). From 1985 to 2010 it was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. In 2011 it was also co-sponsored by University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Since 2012 it has been co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Computer Vision Foundation, which provides open access to the conference papers.
Scope
CVPR considers a wide range of topics related to computer vision and pattern recognition—basically any topic that is extracting structures or answers from images or video or applying mathematical methods to data to extract or recognize patterns. Common topics include object recognition, image segmentation, motion estimation, 3D reconstruction, and deep learning.
The conference is highly selective with generally <30% acceptance rates for all papers and <5% for oral presentations. It is managed by a rotating group of volunteers who are chosen in a public election at the Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence-Technical Community (PAMI-TC) meeting four years before the meeting. CVPR uses a multi-tier double-blind peer review process. The program chairs (who cannot submit papers), select area chairs who manage the reviewers for their subset of submissions.
Location
The conference is usually held in June in North America.
Awards
CVPR Best Paper Award
These awards are picked by committees delegated by the program chairs of the conference.
Longuet-Higgins Prize
The Longuet-Higgins Prize recognizes CVPR papers from ten years ago that have made a significant impact on computer vision research.
PAMI Young Researcher Award
The Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researcher Award is an award given by the Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TCPAMI) of the IEEE Computer Society to a researcher within 7 years of completing their Ph.D. for outstanding early career research contributions. Candidates are nominated by the computer vision community, with winners selected by a committee of senior researchers in the field. This award was originally instituted in 2012 by the journal Image and Vision Computing, also presented at the CVPR, and the IVC continues to sponsor the award.
PAMI Thomas S. Huang Memorial Prize
The Thomas Huang Memorial Prize was established at CVPR 2020 and is awarded annually starting from CVPR 2021 to honor researchers who are recognized as examples in research, teaching/mentoring, and service to the computer vision community.
Acceptance Rates
See also
International Conference on Computer Vision
European Conference on Computer Visi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda%20Cherry | Lorinda Cherry ( Landgraf; November 18, 1944 – February 2022) was an American computer scientist and programmer. Much of her career was spent at Bell Labs, where she was for many years a member of the original Unix Lab. Cherry developed several mathematical tools and utilities for text formatting and analysis, and influenced the creation of others.
Early life
Cherry was born on November 18, 1944 to John F. and Evelyn K. Landgraf. She had one sister, Carynn Elizabeth. Raised in Verona, New Jersey, she graduated from Verona High School and received a Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics) from the University of Delaware in 1966.
Computer science career
Cherry started as a Technical Assistant (TA) at Bell Labs in 1966, initially working in Acoustics and Speech Research on vocal tract simulation. She received her Masters in computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1969.
At Bell Labs, Cherry was involved in projects with Ken Knowlton and James L. Flanagan related to computer graphics that resulted in the computer animation language BEFLIX, and the Atoms program for creating images of three-dimensional stick-and-ball molecular models. She also worked with Manfred Schroeder to produce computer graphics for a show at the Brooklyn Museum. Her time spent writing FORTRAN programs for others' projects convinced Cherry that her own interests lay in pursuing systems work.
For a period of about one year, Cherry was attached to the anti-ballistic missile Safeguard Program, working on the utility recording system. This change necessitated her relocating to Bell's Whippany, New Jersey facility, as well as spending time at the test site located on the Kwajalein Atoll, where her husband had earlier been posted. Cherry monitored the results of missile test firings. Prior to her departure to Whippany, she confirmed with Samuel Pope Morgan Jr., then director of computing science research at Bell, that she would be able to return to her previous position.
In 1971 Cherry joined the Computing Science Research Center, where her work focused on graphics, word processing, and language design. Some of her earliest work there consisted of configuring systems to run an early version of Unix written in assembly language. She was introduced to the system by Douglas McIlroy.
Cherry participated in several projects that involved the statistical analysis of text. In one project, she and Robert Morris developed a technique to identify typographical errors using digrams and trigrams, a table of common English words, and the root-mean-square of the trigram indicies. This led to the development of , a program that became the de facto spell checker for Unix until replaced it.
Cherry was promoted to a Member of the Technical Staff (MTS) in 1976, giving her more freedom to pursue her own projects. One of the first projects that she personally initiated after becoming a member of the technical staff also involved use of trigrams to compress the text contained in a telephone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooler%20Master | Cooler Master Technology Inc. is a computer hardware manufacturer based in Taiwan. Founded in 1992, the company produces computer cases, power supplies, air and liquid CPU coolers, laptop cooling pads, and computer peripherals. Alongside its retail business, Cooler Master also is an original equipment manufacturer of cooling devices for other manufacturers, including NVIDIA (VGA coolers), AMD (CPU and VGA coolers), and EVGA (motherboard heatsinks). The company has sponsored major eSports events. Some of Cooler Master's products have won awards including the iF product design award.
History
Facilities
The company headquarters of Cooler Master is located in Neihu District, Taipei City, Taiwan and has a manufacturing facility in Huizhou, China. To support international operations, the company also has branch offices in various continents, including United States (Fremont, California and Chino, California), the Netherlands (Eindhoven), Italy (Milano), France (Paris), Germany (Augsburg), Russia (Moscow), and Brazil (São Paulo).
Products
The company in March 2020 continues to release its own gaming headsets, with products like the MH670 headphones allowing customization through the Cooler Master configuration app, named Portal. It also makes esports mice.
One of its main current products is the Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler, which PCWorld says is "arguably the most popular CPU air cooler for the budget-minded crowd wanting to upgrade from the stock options." The company also makes other air coolers, liquid coolers, PC cases, fans, and power supplies.
In January 2020, the company changed its applicator style to a new wide-tipped applicator, with Cooler Master stating that it was to alarm fewer parents about the older syringe shape.
The KFConsole, a home video game console launched in December 2020, is part of a partnership between Cooler Master and KFC.
CM Storm
CM Storm is a subsidiary brand created in 2008. Products are developed using research collected from partnerships with gaming organizations in eSports including Mousesports and Frag Dominant. In September 2009, CM Storm launched the Sentinel Advanced mouse with a programmable organic light-emitting diode display. In January 2012, CM Storm launched the QuickFire Ultimate keyboard. In January 2013, CM Storm launched the Sirus S gaming headset featuring an inline remote with volume control and microphone mute button. As of 2018, Cooler Master no longer sells products under the CM Storm brand.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
List of computer hardware manufacturers
Noctua (company)
References
External links
Cooler Master Global Home page
1992 establishments in Taiwan
Computer enclosure companies
Computer power supply unit manufacturers
Technology companies established in 1992
Manufacturing companies based in New Taipei
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Computer hardware cooling
Taiwanese brands
Computer peripheral companies
Computer keyboard companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B8velte%20railway%20halt | Høvelte railway halt () is a railway halt on the Hillerød radial of the S-train network in Greater Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located between Birkerød station and Allerød station and primarily serves Høvelte Barracks. There is only one station platform by the northbound track. Only the five first trains in the morning and the five last trains in the night stop and only at request. On Sundays and in holidays it is the last eleven trains.
Maintenance is done by Høvelte Barracks.
The name Høvelte is relatively new. It was introduced in the 1930s. The former name of the locality was Luserød.
References
External links
Trains stopping at Høvelte
S-train (Copenhagen) stations
Buildings and structures in Allerød Municipality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLWT | KLWT (1230 AM) was a radio station broadcasting a news talk information format. Licensed to Lebanon, Missouri, United States, the station was owned by Go Productions LLC and featured programming from Salem Radio Network.
Go Productions surrendered the station's license to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on October 17, 2016; the FCC cancelled KLWT's license and deleted its call sign on November 9, 2016.
Notable staff
Jim Bohannon - Radio talk show host (retired October 14, 2022), member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. His career began at KLWT while a teenager growing up in Lebanon.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DKLWT (Facility ID: 36876)
LWT
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1964
1964 establishments in Missouri
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations disestablished in 2016
2016 disestablishments in Missouri
LWT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDVY | KDVY (93.5 FM, KHCB Radio Network) is a terrestrial American radio station broadcasting a Christian format. Licensed to Crockett, Texas, United States, the station serves the Piney Woods area of East Texas.
The station is currently owned by Houston Christian Broadcasters, Inc. KDVY's transmit tower is located on Texas State Highway 7, halfway between Centerville and Crockett.
KBPC LLC. filed paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission on October 8, 2019, to donate KBPC to Houston-based Houston Christian Broadcasters for no monetary consideration. The FCC granted the license transfer on January 17, 2020, with the former "Smooth Rock 93.5" branding and format signing off the next day.
The station's call sign was changed from KBPC to KDVY on January 27, 2020. KDVY fully simulcasts the parent station of the KHCB Radio Network, KHCB-FM.
History
The station was assigned the call sign KCKR on October 12, 1982. It received a license to cover on May 28, 1985, signing on with a country format, and using the "Kicker" branding. On June 15, 1987, the station changed its call sign to KBHT, to KBPC on February 12, 2013, and finally to KDVY on January 27, 2020.
KBKDVYPC has been a country music station for most of its existence. The only exceptions were under the stewardship of Weston Entertainment, who changed then KBHT to classic rock, the previous smooth rock format which replaced "Pine Country", and the current Christian programming from Houston Christian Broadcasters.
Weston Entertainment sold KBHT to KBPC, LLC. (Also owned by Greg Weston) in 2013, after accusations of sexual harassment were levied against Weston and Corporate station management, forcing the facility off of the air. KBPC, LLC. returned KBHT to the air on June 5, 2013. Once operations resumed, KBHT reverted to country music, changed call letters to KBPC, and renamed "Pine Country 93.5". In 2016, the courts found in favor of Carla Leigh & Jimmy Hill in a sexual harassment case and the two former DJs were awarded an undisclosed settlement in the case.
As "Smooth Rock 93.5", the station returned a local rock based format to the Piney Woods area. The format blended current recording artists like Puddle of Mudd with classic rock groups such as Journey, focusing on ballads and adult rock hits.
Previous KBHT classic rock hosts include Jimmy "The Hitman" Hill, Carla Leigh, Big Chuck "The Original Outlaw" Franklin, JR Blue & "Magic" Mike Hubbard, and Jake "The Snake" Auston.
References
External links
DVY
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1985
1985 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYBI | KYBI (100.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country format. Licensed to Lufkin, Texas, United States, the station serves the Lufkin-Nacogdoches area. The station features programming from Citadel Media and Dial Global.
History
KYBI was first proposed and requested by Darrell Yates, owner of KRBA, in October 1977. The request was granted by the Federal Communications Commission on December 19, 1977. The facility was granted the call letters KDEY, as a Class A with 1.9 kilowatts ERP, operating on 99.3 MHz, and was officially licensed on July 27, 1978.
The station changed its call sign to KUEZ on July 1, 1987. In January 2002, 99.3 KUEZ was granted a construction permit to change frequencies to the current 100.1 MHz, as to allow for construction of a new facility to be built south of Diboll, Texas using the 99.3 allocation. The new facility was constructed in 2005, and is currently in operation, licensed to Corrigan, Texas as KYTM.
On February 15, 2005, the move to 100.1 was granted a license to cover on its new operating channel, and changed its call sign to the current KYBI in the process, which was moved from sister station 101.9 (now KSML-FM).
References
External links
YBI
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Data%20Relay%20System | The European Data Relay System (EDRS) system is a European constellation of GEO satellites that relay information and data between satellites, spacecraft, UAVs, and ground stations. The first components (a payload and dedicated GEO satellite) were launched in 2016 and 2019.
Purpose and context
The designers intend the system to provide almost full-time communication, even with satellites in low Earth orbit that often have reduced visibility from ground stations. It makes on-demand data available to, for example, rescue workers who want near-real-time satellite data of a crisis region.
There are a number of key services that will benefit from this system's infrastructure:
Earth Observation applications in support of time-critical and/or data-intensive services; e.g., change detection, environmental monitoring.
Government and security services that need images from key European space systems such as Global Monitoring for Environment and Security.
Emergency response and crisis intervention applications that need information and data over areas affected by natural or man-made disasters.
Security forces that transmit data to Earth observation satellites, aircraft and unmanned aerial observation vehicles, to reconfigure such systems in real time.
Weather satellite services that require the fast delivery of large quantities of data around the world.
The system has been developed as part of the ARTES 7 programme and is intended to be an independent, European satellite system that reduces time delays in the transmission of large quantities of data. The programme is similar to the American Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System that was set up to support the Space Shuttle—but EDRS is using a new generation Laser Communication Terminal (LCT) which carries data at a much larger bit rate: the laser terminal transmits 1.8 Gbit/s across 45,000 km (the distance of a LEO-GEO link), while the TDRSS provides ground reception rates of 600 Mbit/s in the S-band and 800 Mbit/s in the Ku- and Ka-bands.
Such a terminal was successfully tested in 2007/8 during in-orbit verification between the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X and the American NFIRE satellite, both in LEO, when it achieved 5.5 gigabits per second. A similar LCT was installed on the commercial telecommunication satellite Alphasat.
Network
EDRS infrastructure consists of two geostationary optical payloads and a Ka band payload, a ground system consisting of a satellite control centre, a mission and operations centre, a feeder link ground station (FLGS), and four data ground stations.
Space Segment
The first EDRS payload, EDRS-A, comprising a laser communication terminal and a Ka band inter-satellite link, was placed on-board Eutelsat commercial telecommunication satellite, called Eutelsat 9B (COSPAR 2016-005A). The satellite was launched in January 2016 by a Proton-M rocket and will be positioned at 9°E.
A second EDRS payload was launched aboard a dedicated spacecraft. The EDRS-C (COSPAR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFFF-FM | WFFF-FM (96.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Columbia, Mississippi, United States, the station is owned by Haddox Enterprises, Inc. and features programming from Westwood One and USA Radio Network.
History
The station was assigned the call sign WFFF-FM on November 7, 1966, and was first licensed on June 1, 1967.
References
External links
FFF-FM
Columbia, Mississippi
Radio stations established in 1966
1966 establishments in Mississippi
Classic hits radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBKN | WBKN (92.1 FM, "B92 Country") is an American radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Brookhaven, Mississippi, the station is currently features programming from Citadel Media and Dial Global. The station is owned by North Shore Broadcasting Co., Inc.
On September 21, 2011, Charles W. Dowdy, acting as the sole owner of license holder Brookhaven Broadcasting, Inc., dissolved the corporation and assigned the broadcast licenses it held (WMJU and WBKN) to himself acting as debtor in possession before initiating a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The FCC approved the license transfer on December 19, 2011.
On October 25, 2019, the station's license was transferred to North Shore Broadcasting Co., Inc.
References
External links
B 92 The Boss Facebook
BKN
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1976
1976 establishments in Mississippi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Grand%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Grand is a British television drama series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network, broadcast between 4 April 1997 and 3 April 1998, The Grand was shown on Plus from January-April 2002 and was shown on Sundays at 1:00pm and 7:00pm. It was written by Russell T Davies and set in a grand hotel in Manchester in the 1920s.
There are two series: eight episodes in the first series were broadcast from 4 April 1997 to 23 May 1997 and ten in the second series from 30 January 1998 to 3 April 1998. All 18 episodes were written by Russell T Davies. The cast included Susan Hampshire, Julia St. John, Tim Healy, Michael Siberry, Stephen Moyer and Mark McGann.
The two series were novelised by Catrin Collier, under the pen name Katherine Hardy.
Characters
The series featured the Bannerman family that owned and ran the hotel, the staff that lived in the basement and occasional guests.
At the series opening, the very upright John Bannerman (Michael Siberry) has just reopened the Grand, which he inherited from his overbearing father and which he now owns and operates with his staid and steady wife, Sarah (Julia St. John). On opening night of the new, refurbished Grand, their son, Stephen (Stephen Moyer in the first series, Ifan Meredith in the second) returns from service in World War I. Initially a happy occasion, it soon becomes apparent that Stephen is a damaged young man who hides his pain in alcohol. Their daughter, Adele (Camilla Power), a young teenager, feels ignored and finds more in common with the staff than she does her own family. After an unfortunate series of events puts the Grand in financial jeopardy, John's younger brother, Marcus (Mark McGann), a very intelligent but seemingly heartless businessman with shady connections to the underworld, offers to save the day by becoming a partner in the hotel—but are his motivations genuine, or does he have an ulterior motive? Also featured are John's stuffy mother, Mary, and Marcus' "lady friend," the beautiful Ruth Manning (Amanda Mealing in the first series, Victoria Scarborough in the second) who appears to be every bit Marcus' equal when it comes to cold-hearted calculation.
Jacob Collins (Tim Healy) is the all-seeing hall porter, seemingly in total control, yet plagued by demons of his own. Mrs Harvey (Christine Mackie) is the housekeeper who rules over the chambermaids with the iron hand of a prison guard. The most level headed of the chambermaids is the lovely Kate Morris (Rebecca Callard), who fights to convince herself and others that everyone has their place. Another chambermaid, the lively, likable, but unsatisfied and eternally in trouble Monica Jones (Jane Danson) is Kate's polar opposite. Lynn Milligan, Brenda Potter, Monica Jones play the other chambermaids. The ready-steady footman/bartender is Clive (Paul Warriner). Guests that featured in the series were Miss Esme Harkness (Susan Hampshire),
a madame and semi-retired prostitute, who takes Monica under her wing; James Corn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE/ACM%20Transactions%20on%20Networking | IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering communication networks. It is published by the IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications. The current editor-in-chief is Sanjay Shakkottai (University of Texas). The previous editor-in-chief was Ness B. Shroff (Ohio State University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 3.376.
References
External links
Computer science journals
Transactions on Networking
English-language journals
Transactions on Networking
Bimonthly journals
Academic journals established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa%20no%20Y%C5%8Dsei%20Densetsu | is a Family Computer Disk System game. It stars the Japanese idol Risa Tachibana.
References
External links
1988 video games
Famicom Disk System games
Famicom Disk System-only games
Japan-exclusive video games
Konami games
Video games based on real people
Video games scored by Kiyohiro Sada
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBZO%20%28AM%29 | KBZO (1460 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish Sports format airing programming from TUDN Radio. Licensed to Lubbock, Texas, United States, the station serves the Lubbock area. The station is owned by Entravision Holdings, LLC.
History
A station at 1460 was activated by a couple of ex-KSEL sales reps in 1953. Their 500-watt daytimer had studios and tower at 52nd and Magnolia in southeast Lubbock. the assigned call letters were KVSP.
In 1954, the station was sold to the McAlister and Maples interests (variously KICA CLovis, NM KGMC Englewood Colorado, KPOS Post, and KBYG Big SPring at various times). Studios were moved into a penthouse suite of the recently completed Great Plains Life Insurance Building, a 20-floor-tall building at 12th and Avenue L (then as now the tallest building in Lubbock). The call letters were changed to KLLL for "Lubbock's Liveliest Listening". In short order, the new owners raised power to 1,000 watts, still as a daytime-only station.
KLLL (AM) was sold to the Corbin family in 1958. They purchased local FM station KBFM a decade later, and eventually changed calls from KBFM to KLLL-FM. The studio building was damaged in 1970 during the great Lubbock tornado and KLLL spent several days off air. They used the former KSEL studios on east Broadway (vacated in 1968 when KSEL moved to their new KSEL-TV sister station plant in South Lubbock). KLLL-FM returned to the air using the KSEL-TV tower. New KLLL studios were built at 1314 50th Street and were placed into use in 1976.
In 1982, KLLL was spun off to local oilman Terry Wynn. KLLL call letters stayed with the FM and the FM company purchased 1590 AM (by then KEND because it was a full-time station), and 1460 changed its format to Adult Contemporary and its call letters to KWAZ for "Kwazy Way-dio". Studios moved to 3210-B 34th Street. 1460 asked the FCC for another fM channel (class A on 106.3 which was granted) and filed for the new channel (along with many others). The grant eventually went to the now KEJS (FM) which went on air in the late 1980s.
The station received a construction permit in 1984 for a new transmitter site and new city of License of Carlisle, Texas. The new site would have required three new towers north and east of Lubbock. The site was never built. Some time later, the FCC granted day-timers use of night-time hours at appropriately reduced night powers.
KWAZ became an early medium-market all-talk station, using network programs from ABC TalkRadio, and CNN Headline News Audio. One of the engineers in this time was Kyle Wesley (now director of engineering for Radio Disney and its owned and operated broadcast stations).
The station was assigned the call sign KTLK in November 1983. On November 30, 1993,the station changed its call sign to KTNP, and on December 1, 1994, to the current KBZO. On September 8, 2019 The Format Was Flipped From Spanish Sports To Norteño Y Ranchera Music José. It has since flipped back to spanish sports with program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNAB-FM | KNAB-FM (104.1 FM, The Peoples Choice) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Burlington, Colorado, U.S., the station is currently owned by Knab and features programming from Citadel Broadcasting and Westwood One.
References
External links
NAB-FM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Lupin is a 2007 Philippine television drama action series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is loosely based on a series of French fictional crime novels featuring the Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc. Directed by Mike Tuviera and Lore Reyes, it stars Richard Gutierrez in the title role. It premiered on April 9, 2007, on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on August 17, 2007, with a total of 95 episodes.
The series was released in DVD by GMA Records.
Overview
Created by Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin first appeared in a series of short stories serialized in 1905 and published in book form as Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur in 1907 (translated into English as The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar).
Born in the late 19th century, Lupin is a gentleman thief, a master of disguise, and an amateur detective. While operating on the wrong side of the law, he is still a force for good. Those who Lupin defeats are worse villains than he. Other characters in the stories include Lupin's faithful accomplice Grognard and his lawman adversary Inspector Justin Ganimard. In some stories Lupin faces Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (called "Herlock Sholmès" for copyright reasons).
The Lupin stories have been adapted for television (including animation), cinema, and comics.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Richard Gutierrez as André Lupin / Lupin De Dios / Xedric Apacer
Supporting cast
Janno Gibbs as Inspector Clavio Angeles
Katrina Halili as Veronica Arkanghel / Ashley Calibr
Rhian Ramos as Avril Legarda
Ehra Madrigal as Brigitte Maisog
Boy2 Quizon as Castor
Tirso Cruz III as Fundador "Duroy" De Dios
Ricky Davao as Moon Raven
Lani Mercado as Cecilia Lupin
Ara Mina as Anna Nicole
Polo Ravales as Josh Apacer
Bearwin Meily as Danggoy
Alicia Alonzo as Nelia
Ramon Christopher Gutierrez as Perez
Almira Muhlach as Victoria Apacer
LJ Reyes as Elaine
Sandy Talag as Angela
Guest cast
Michael de Mesa as Minggoy Buang / Miguel Apacer
Elvis Gutierrez as Sundance Raven
Melissa Mendez as Edith Legarda
Alyssa Alano as Marry
Dick Israel as Jouquin Bagbag
Benjie Paras as Generoso / Jenny
Debraliz as Guring
Andrew Wolfe as Adonis Angeles
Dante Rivero
Bing Davao
Patricia Ysmael as Christa
Rea Nakpil as Trixie
Gerard Pizzaras as Ernie
Neil Ryan Sese as Lopez
Sheree as Virgin
Abby Cruz as Angeli Villavicer
January Isaac as Jorja
John Apacible as Maskardo
Tuesday Vargas as Magdalene
Roy Alvarez as Ybrahim Santiago
Nonie Buencamino as Arsenio Lupin
Joyce Jimenez as Courtney Amor
Giselle Sanchez as Sanaita
Rez Cortez as Milyones
Kier Legaspi as Katas
Paul Alvarez as Uno
Mang Enriquez as Enriquez
Gary Estrada as Captain Rosas
Joyce Ching as young Brigitte Maisog
Mon Confiado
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Television shows based on Arsène Lupin
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka%20University%20of%20Arts%20Junior%20College | is a junior college in Higashisumiyoshi-ku Osaka, Japan, and is part of the Osaka University of Arts network.
The Junior College was founded in 1951 as Naniwa Gaikokugo Tanki Daigaku by Hideyo Tsukamoto. The predecessor of the school, a Hirano Eigaku-Juku, was founded in 1945. The
course of Childcare was founded in 1953. The Distance education was founded in 1955. The foundation of Distance education course is the earliest in Japanese Junior Colleges.
External links
Osaka University of Arts Junior College
Education in Osaka
Universities and colleges established in 1951
Japanese junior colleges
Private universities and colleges in Japan
Universities and colleges in Osaka Prefecture
Distance education institutions based in Japan
1951 establishments in Japan
Alumni
Asuka – WWE Superstar. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Internationals%20Network%20for%20Public%20Schools | Internationals Network for Public Schools is an educational nonprofit supporting International high schools and academies, serving newly arrived immigrants who are English language learners (ELLs), in New York, California, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Internationals Network also partners with other schools and districts across the country.
Mission
The mission of Internationals Network is to provide quality education for recently arrived immigrants by growing and sustaining a strong national network of innovative International High Schools, while broadening our impact by sharing proven best practices and influencing policy for English learners on a national scale.
History
Internationals Network’s history of academic success began in 1985 with the founding of the first high school on the campus of LaGuardia Community College, a collaborative effort between the New York City Department of Education and the City University of New York. In response to the many educational challenges faced by English language learners within district schools, The International High School at LaGuardia was designed specifically to provide quality education for these students. During the next nine years, two additional International High Schools were opened in Brooklyn and Manhattan. To facilitate interschool collaboration and learning, these schools joined together in 1995 to form the International Schools Partnership. In 2001, a fourth school was established in the Bronx. When the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation initiated educational reform through small school development for those students most underserved, they approached the Partnership to recreate its successful model to promote high school age English language learner achievement across the country.
Born from the International Schools Partnership, Internationals Network for Public Schools was formalized as a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2004 to support existing schools and create additional International High Schools nationwide. As an intermediary working closely with local education departments and community based organizations, Internationals now supports 19 International High Schools and Small Learning Communities in New York City, California’s Bay Area, Alexandria, Virginia, and Washington, DC.
Based on Internationals core work – almost 30 years of staff and practitioner experience in developing, refining and adapting the Internationals’ Approach in its schools, Internationals now collaborates nationally with districts, schools and school development partners to bring its professional development services to support educators who teach English language learners across the nation. Additionally, Internationals engages with state and local departments of education to increase policy maker awareness of the regulatory issues that both inhibit and promote best practices in ELL education and immigrant family supports.
Internationals Approach
At International high schools, a badge of prestige repl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Reading%20List | The California Reading List is a literature database designed to help pupils that undertook standardized testing identify age appropriate and challenging reading material. Each pupils recommended list is delivered as part of the results notification for the California Standardized Testing and Reporting exams as a number between 1 and 13. In conjunction with the pupils grade level, an age appropriate recommended reading list is presented.
See also
California High School Exit Exam
External links
California Department of Education, "California Reading List".
startest.org, California Reading list.
Education in California
Standardized tests in the United States
Education reform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Ericsson%20C510 | The C510 is one of the mobile phones in Sony Ericsson's Cyber-shot series. Released on 7 January 2009, it was a successor to the K510i model. It is widely characterised as one of Sony Ericsson best non-smartphone devices released to the market.
Features
The C510 is one of the first mobile phones to come integrated with Smile Shutter technology. Along with face detection this feature automatically takes a photo when a person smiles. This feature was later added to the C905 model. The phone can also play YouTube videos, upload pictures to the blogging site Blogger and comes with Facebook integrated.
The phone also has a protector for the camera, scratch-resistant display and buttons with blue illumination while in shooting mode for features such as flash. The phone also offers a large selection of settings for exposure and a built in photo editor.
Performance
The camera can shoot at up to 3.2 MP and can record video at 30 frame/s in QVGA format. A firmware upgrade will allow the phone to run processes such as Windows Live Messenger. The phone supports auto rotation for portrait to landscape via the built-in accelerometer which is also used for various other applications such as a step counter (Walk Mate) and some games. The phone has the ability to work as a modem, and in a good 3G signal area up to reasonable broadband speeds can be achieved. It supports memory cards up to 8 GB in capacity via the Memory Stick Micro port.
Java Platform 8
The C510 has Sony Ericsson Java Platform 8 profile and so allows Flash Lite to run as a front-end to Java ME.
References
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_c510-2640.php
https://web.archive.org/web/20010525040028/http://sonyericsson.com/
External links
Cyber-shot cameras
Sony Ericsson mobile phones
Mobile phones introduced in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Jones%20%28English%20footballer%29 | Rodney Ernest Jones (born 23 September 1945) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
External links
Rod Jones career stats at the Post-War Players Database
1945 births
Living people
Footballers from Manchester
English men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Rotherham United F.C. players
Burnley F.C. players
Rochdale A.F.C. players
Barrow A.F.C. players
Mossley A.F.C. players
English Football League players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbo | Zimbo may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
TV Zimbo, a television network in Angola
Zimbo (film), a 1958 Bollywood film
Zimbo Trio, a Brazilian instrumental ensemble established in 1964 in São Paulo
a character in the Aaahh!!! Real Monsters cartoon series
"Zimbo", a song by Echo & the Bunnymen from the 1981 album Shine So Hard
Other uses
Zimbo (Ruler of the Jagas), the predecessor of Mussasa in what is now Angola
"Zimbo", a demonym for a person from Zimbabwe
Zimbo, a term proposed by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, meaning a philosophical zombie which can interrogate and discuss its own internal states |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare%20Breeding%20Birds%20Panel | The Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP) is an ornithological body which collects data on the breeding attempts and successes of the rarer species of birds breeding in the United Kingdom. It was created in 1968 as a subcommittee of the RSPB, with representation from the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and British Birds magazine.
In December 1972 it became an autonomous body, financed jointly by the BTO, RSPB, British Birds and, later, the NCC. The formation of the RBBP as an independent body was announced in April 1973, and data on rare breeding birds was reported on for the years 1973 onwards. Its role was given as:
The aims of the Panel are to collect in one place all information on rare breeding birds so that changes in status—both increases and decreases—can be monitored, and so that essential information is not lost (as has happened in the past) through the deaths of those keeping rare breeding records secret.
The panel collects data on more than 160 species of rare and scarce breeding birds in the UK. These are divided into four categories:
Category A - Rare species
Category B - Less scarce species
Category C - Less scarce and widespread species
Category D - Rare non-native species
The panel's logo is a black-necked grebe.
Members
In order to maintain their neutrality, panel members are appointed in a personal capacity, and so do not formally represent their employing or sponsoring organisation.
Former
Former members have included:
Peter Conder (founding member, 1968)
Colin Bibby
Malcolm Ogilvie (Secretary, 1993–2006)
See also
British Birds Rarities Committee
References
External links
Species List
Annual Reports
Ornithology in the United Kingdom
Bird rarities committees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McFee | McFee is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Allan McFee (1913–2000), often irreverent announcer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio and TV networks
Bruce McFee (born 1961), Scottish politician
Henry Lee McFee (1886–1953), pioneer American cubist painter and a prominent member of the Woodstock artists colony
John McFee (born 1950), American singer, songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist
June King McFee (died 2008), contributor to the world of art education, with her research and publications
Malcolm McFee (1940–2001), English TV and film actor
Michael McFee, poet and essayist from Asheville, North Carolina
Oonah McFee (1916–2006), award-winning Canadian novelist and short story writer
William McFee (1881–1966), writer of sea stories
See also
Joel McFee Pritchard (1925–1997), Republican politician from Washington
McAfee
McPhee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBRY | WBRY (1540 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Woodbury, Tennessee, United States, the station is owned by Volunteer Broadcasting, LLC and features programming from Citadel Broadcasting.
Translators
WBRY programming is also carried on a broadcast translator station to extend or improve the coverage area of the primary station.
References
External links
Country radio stations in the United States
BRY
BRY |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude%2C%20What%20Would%20Happen | Dude, What Would Happen is an American live-action reality series that aired on Cartoon Network originally as part of its CN Real block which aired a line of live-action reality shows promoted in the summer season of 2009. The show premiered on August 19, 2009, preceded by another CN Real series Bobb'e Says. The show is hosted by three male teenagers (C.J. Manigo, Jackson Rogow, and Ali Sepasyar) who wondered what would happen if some wild event, scheme or experiment were to occur. The three teens attempt to create the event themselves and consult experts ("The Lab Dudes") when needed.
The series went on to have four seasons aired throughout a span of two years, in which the series eventually ended in September 2011, as the series was not announced for a renewal by Cartoon Network.
Dude, What Would Happen was one of only two CN Real shows (the other being Destroy Build Destroy) to have been renewed for additional seasons, as the other CN Real shows had already been cancelled earlier due to critically negative reception.
Cast
C.J. Manigo
Jackson Rogow
Ali Sepasyar
OGHRM
Production
In the "Dudes Make It Happen" weekend special, it was revealed that new episodes were coming. These episodes ranked #1 in their timeslot among boys 6–11 on all television.
The show was listed as returning for Cartoon Network's 2010–2011 season. The next season began airing on October 6, 2010.
In February 2011, Vincent Cariati renewed his contract to serve an additional four seasons as the series' showrunner, co-creator and co-executive producer. The show had four seasons aired, but was not announced as a returning series, automatically cancelling the series altogether.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2009–10)
Season 2 (2010)
Season 3 (2011)
References
External links
2009 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
2000s American teen television series
2010s American teen television series
American educational television series
Cartoon Network original programming
English-language television shows
American non-fiction television series
Science education television series
Television series about teenagers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAC | STAC may refer to:
Computers and electronics
stac (Set AC Flag) instruction on x86 CPUs, part of Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
Stac Electronics, a former American technology company
Lempel–Ziv–Stac, a data compression algorithm developed by Stac Electronics
SigmaTel Audio Codec
an extended version of the Graphic Adventure Creator software
SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog, an open specification to describe geospatial information.
Education
Southern Theatre Arts Centre, a training venue in Durrington by Sea, Worthing, West Sussex, England
St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York
Saint Thomas Aquinas College (Sogod), Southern Leyte, Philippines
St Andrew's College, Christchurch, New Zealand
Transportation
Service des transports de l'agglomération chambérienne (Stac), a transport service in Chambéry, France; part of Compagnie générale française des transports et entreprises
Service de transport adapté de la Capitale, a transport service in Quebec, Canada
Special Transit Advisory Commission, a commission that founded the Triangle Transit transport service in North Carolina, United States
STAC Swiss Government Flights, see List of airline codes (S)
Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee
Other uses
STAC (protein), a protein containing a C1 domain
Sepak Takraw Association of Canada, a sport association
Sirtuin-activating compound, a class of biochemical compounds
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Crime, see Crime hotspots
Stac, the Gaelic word for a sea stack, commonly used in Scotland
See also
STACS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand%20Phonetics | Shorthand Phonetics is an indie rock and film score outfit from Bandung, Indonesia which, as of 2013, only comprises Ababil Ashari (vocals, guitars, bass and programming). The outfit was established on 13 April 2004, although conflicting reports claims that the band has been releasing material since 2003. The outfit has been releasing music for Yogyakarta, Indonesia netlabel Yes No Wave Music since 2007.
Shorthand Phonetics used to be a five-piece full band comprising Ababil Ashari, Alfonsus Tanoto (bass), Daniel Sastro (guitar), Kevin Yapsir (guitar) and Alvin Lasmana (drums). This line up produced the first Shorthand Phonetics album, Fanfiction: From the Seriously Absurd to the Absurdly Serious (2006). After the release of this album however, the rest of the band members left to pursue academic degrees outside Indonesia, more specifically America and Singapore. This left Ababil to continue the namesake as a songwriting/recording outfit.
The Shorthand Phonetics recorded sound is a mix of staccato guitars, melodic strumming, frenetic drumming, and basic bass lines with loose vocals, that talk about mundane annoyances of life, produced in a lo-fi manner using webcam microphones and a laptop.
The outfit has topped the Jakarta Globe's list for the "Top 5 Indonesian Albums of ’09" for the film score album Score No. 1 (Dream:Chase) in A major, Op. 17 for Three Electric Guitars, One Bass Guitar and One Drum Kit.
The outfit's latest release, Cantata no. 6 (Assistants of Assistants) in Varying Keys, Op. 25 for Three Electric Guitars, One Bass Guitar, One Drum Kit, One Tenor and Additional Voices Where Appropriate was released on 10 August 2011.
In 2014, Shorthand Phonetics moved to Jakarta, Indonesia and gained two new permanent members in Dylan Amirio (bass, vox) and Garbanu Priduarja (drums, vox). This line-up lasted one year before Shorthand Phonetics disbanded in 2015.
Discography
Albums
Film scores
References
Indonesian rock music groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Central%20Hockey%20League%20seasons | This is a list of seasons of the Central Hockey League since its inception.
References
External links
Historic standings and statistics - at Internet Hockey Database
Central Hockey League seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecule%20Man%20%28video%20game%29 | Molecule Man is an isometric 3D action-adventure video game released by Mastertronic in 1986 for a variety of 8-bit home computers. A level editor is included which enables the player to design their own mazes.
Plot
Molecule Man is trapped in a radioactive maze and must reach the escape teleport before the radiation kills him.
Gameplay
The player controls the Molecule Man in his quest to escape within a time limit. He must find the teleport and repair it using 16 circuit board pieces that are scattered around the maze. Bombs must be purchased to blow open inaccessible areas. Meanwhile, the radiation is killing him and health pills must be purchased to prolong his life.
Coins can be found lying around. These must be collected and taken to dispensers to purchase bombs and pills.
Reception
ZX Computing wrote, "No not another 3-D maze game! 'Fraid so". A 1986 review for Sinclair User was more positive:
References
External links
Molecule Man at Atari Mania
1986 video games
Action-adventure games
Video games with isometric graphics
ZX Spectrum games
Amstrad CPC games
Commodore 64 games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 16 and Plus/4 games
MSX games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Mastertronic games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telosma%20cordata | Telosma cordata () is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae (tribe Marsdenieae), native to China and Indo-China. It is cultivated elsewhere and may occur wild as an introduced species. Common names include Chinese violet, cowslip creeper, Pakalana vine, Tonkin jasmine and Tonkinese creeper. The plant bears clusters of golden yellow blooms along the vining stems during summer months. Individual blooms emerge successively over a period of weeks emitting a rich, heavy fragrance during the day and night.
Characteristics
Telosma cordata is classified as a creeper that can climb as far as 2–5 meters. The vine is small, round and very tough; it is considered poisonous for pigs. As the tree is older, the vine will change from green to brown. The top is covered with dense white bush that can cover other trees completely. The plant can be reproduced by cutting or seeding and grows in airy soil in bright sunlight. It can be found in evergreen, mixed deciduous forests, grove woods and dry forests all over Indo-China.
Leaf
Telosma cordata has single heart-shaped leaves growing in pairs. The leaf is about 4–7.5 cm wide and about 6–11 cm long with smooth underside. The leaf is very thin, with veins that can be clearly seen. The stem is about 1.2–2 cm long.
Flower
The flowers bloom as a bouquet consisting of about 10–20 flowers. The greenish-yellow flower has a strong fragrance especially in the evening. It has a diameter of about 1.5 cm with 5 petals and 5 stamens which are connected to each other and to the pistils. The blooming season is usually March–May, although sometimes flowers can be found in July–October.
Fruit
The fruit is smooth, green and round with pointed ends. The interior contains many flat seeds with white fluff attached to the ends. The produce season is around June–August.
Uses
The top, fruit and flowers can all be consumed as vegetables. The top is believed to be the most nutritious part. The flower is used in desserts and for ornamental purposes in bouquets and wreaths. The plant's vines are tough and can be used as ropes. The wood can be used for construction in some cases. The plant has also been used for traditional medicinal purposes, as an antipyretic, an antidote for poison, a tranquilizer, and for the relief of backbone pain.
See also
Telosma procumbens
References
External links
Glass-noodles with Shrimps and Pakalana Flowers
ขจร สรรพคุณและประโยชน์ของดอกขจร 24 ข้อ ! (ผักสลิด,ดอกสลิด). 2016. ขจร สรรพคุณและ ประโยชน์ของดอกขจร 24 ข้อ ! (ผักสลิด,ดอกสลิด). [ONLINE] Available at: http://frynn.com/ขจร/. [Accessed 2 February 2016].
Asclepiadoideae
Thai cuisine
Vietnamese cuisine
Inflorescence vegetables
Flora of China
Plants described in 1768
Taxa named by Nicolaas Laurens Burman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuoka%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | is a Japanese TV station affiliated with Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS) in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. This station broadcasts programs throughout Fukuoka Prefecture as well as most of Saga Prefecture.
TV channel
Main station
Fukuoka 32ch(Digital) 37ch(Analog)
Tandem office
Haki 58ch(A)
Kitakyūshū 32ch(D) 35ch(A)
Kurume 21ch(D) 52ch(A)
Munakata 20ch(D)
Ōmuta 21ch(D) 43ch(A)
Yukuhashi 32ch(D) 43ch(A)
Program
Other TV stations in Fukuoka
NHK Fukuoka and Kitakyushu
Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting (KBC, , affiliated with TV Asahi and ANN) - 1
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting (RKB, , affiliated with TBS TV, Inc. and JNN) - 4
TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting (TVQ, , affiliated with TV Tokyo and TX Network) - 7
Television Nishinippon Corporation (TNC, , affiliated with CX and FNN / FNS) - 8
External links
The official website of the FBS
Nippon News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1969
Mass media in Fukuoka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20Nishinippon%20Corporation | is a Japanese TV station affiliated with Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS) in Fukuoka. This station serves Fukuoka Prefecture and also acts as the default FNN affiliate for western portions of Yamaguchi Prefecture including Yamaguchi City and Shimonoseki, as Yamaguchi Prefecture does not have an FNN affiliate of its own.
History
In 1957, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications announced the first TV channel plan. In Fukuoka Prefecture, operators such as "Nishinippon Television" funded by Nishinippon Shimbun and "Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting" funded by Asahi Shimbun applied for a TV broadcasting license. On October 22, 1957, Nishiippon Television received a preliminary license conditionally on the premise of "merging with Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting as much as possible". Therefore, Nishinippon TV's investment ratio at that time was 70% for Nishinippon Shimbun and 30% for Asahi Shimbun. At the second founder meeting held on January 7, 1958, Nishinippon TV decided to build a signal transmitting station in Sarakura Mountain, Yawata City. On April 1 of the same year, Nishinippon Television officially registered and established a company. Since one of Tokyo's two flagship stations, Radio Tokyo Television, had a network relationship with RKB Mainichi Broadcasting in Fukuoka Prefecture at that time, Nishinippon TV management decided to air Nippon Television programming instead.
JOHX-TV was originally established as an affiliate of Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS) in Yahata (Yahata Higashi-ku, Kitakyūshū) in August 1958, airing on VHF channel 9; a station in Fukuoka was established in February 1962 as JOJY-TV. They changed affiliation from NNN and NNS to FNN and FNS in October 1964 - changing their national programming to that of Fuji Television. The head office was moved to Fukuoka, and the call sign changed from "JOHX-TV" (still the call sign of Kitakyūshū satellite station (airing on VHF channel 10)) to "JOJY-TV" in December 1974. They relocated their office to its current location near Fukuoka Tower in August 1996. During the station's first 53 years of broadcasting, JOHX-TV's analog signal was receivable over-the-air in most of Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Digital broadcasts on JOJY-TV began on 1 July 2006, and the analog signal continued to broadcast until 24 July 2011, when JOHX-TV (which served northern portions of Fukuoka Prefecture and western portions of Yamaguchi Prefecture) ceased operations.
TV channel
Main station
Fukuoka 34ch(Digital) 9ch(Analog)
Tandem offices
Kitakyūshū 29ch(D) 10ch(A:JOHX-TV)
Kurume 29ch(D) 60ch(A)
Minami Ōmuta 29ch(D) 56ch(A)
Ōmuta 29ch(D) 55ch(A)
Yukuhashi 34ch(D) 54ch(A)
Itoshima 34ch(D)
Munakata 29ch(D)
Programs
BASEBALL SPECIAL Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Live
Cow Television
Riding Uphill ガチ★星
Other TV stations in Fukuoka
NHK Fukuoka and Kitakyushu
Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting (KBC, , affiliated with TV Asahi and ANN) - 1
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting (RK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZAI | KZAI (103.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian Worship format through the nationally programmed Air1 network. The station is licensed to Balcones Heights, Texas, United States, and serves the San Antonio area. The transmitter is located in San Antonio proper, due north of downtown and adjacent to Interstate 10. KZAI is owned by the Educational Media Foundation.
Originally a station in the Corpus Christi area, the station moved in 2021 as part of a facilities shuffle that moved a third EMF signal into San Antonio (alongside existing K-Love outlet KZLV and rimshot Air1 outlet KZAR). The former 103.7 facilities and KXAI call sign were moved to another license, leaving Air1 programming seamlessly available to Corpus Christi-area listeners.
History
The KZAI license went on the air as KCTA-FM 103.3, a 100,000-watt FM station licensed to Sinton, on May 20, 1968. Owned by the Broadcasting Company of the Southwest alongside its Corpus Christi station KCTA (1030 AM), the station broke from simulcasting its daytime-only AM partner and became country outlet KOUL on October 2, 1970. An agreement was reached to sell KOUL to J. W. Brauer in 1975, but the two parties mutually agreed to dismiss the sale attempt on February 12, 1976. KOUL moved to 103.7 MHz in the early 1980s as part of a multi-city allocation shuffle to resolve a conflict involving allocations in Freeport, and in 2005, it was approved to change its city of license from Sinton to Refugio in a move designed to allowed KTKY to upgrade its own facility.
In 1997, Broadcast Corporation of the Southwest sold its three Corpus Christi FM stations and one AM to Harpole Broadcast Holdings of Texas in a $5.2 million transaction. Harpole sold the three FMs to Texrock Radio the next year for $7 million. 2001 saw another sale of the FMs, this time to Rodriguez Communications for $6.5 million.
Sale to EMF and 2020 move to San Antonio
On April 5, 2013, Tejas Broadcasting, which had become the owner of KOUL and other stations in 2004, announced it would sell KOUL to the Educational Media Foundation for $1.25 million; the deal included a $500,000 loan to Tejas that allowed it to build out two construction permits on its other stations in the market and perform deferred maintenance on the KOUL facility. On May 3, 2013, KOUL dropped its longtime country format and began broadcasting Air1 programming, with new KXAI call letters instituted. Tejas would later exit broadcasting by selling one of those stations, KMJR (licensed to Odem), to EMF in 2019 for $432,000.
With EMF in control of KMJR and KXAI, the company saw an opportunity. In partnership with Emmis Communications, owner of KBPA in the Austin market, a series of applications were filed. KXAI would move from Refugio to a new city of license, Balcones Heights, and broadcast with 4,300 watts of power—a relocation into the heart of the San Antonio metropolitan area, giving EMF a city-grade signal in San Antonio. To make the move possible, Emmis' KB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Aczel | Peter Henry George Aczel (; 31 October 1941 – 1 August 2023) was a British mathematician, logician and Emeritus joint Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He is known for his work in non-well-founded set theory, constructive set theory, and Frege structures.
Education
Aczel completed his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1963 followed by a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 1966 under the supervision of John Crossley.
Career and research
After two years of visiting positions at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Rutgers University Aczel took a position at the University of Manchester. He has also held visiting positions at the University of Oslo, California Institute of Technology, Utrecht University, Stanford University and Indiana University Bloomington. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2012.
Aczel was on the editorial board of the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic and the Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science, having previously served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Symbolic Logic and the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic.
References
External links
1941 births
2023 deaths
British logicians
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
Set theorists
British philosophers
Alumni of the University of Oxford |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%20Stereo%20Wars | Car Stereo Wars are a pop band formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2000.
History
Car Stereo Wars were formed in Melbourne in 2000 by Jason White and Matt Gillman after meeting at a computer animation course. They were joined soon after by Alyssa Doe on vocals and went on to release their first EP "Project A." The song "Broken" was then picked up for Ministry of Sounds Chillout Sessions and subsequently signed to Ministry of Sound Australia and released "They Asked me to be in a Movie" EP in 2003. The single "Come to Nothing" was then added to the playlist of a subsequent Ministry of Sound chillout compilation.
The band released their debut album in 2008 "For Your Comfort and Safety" and has enjoyed recent commercial success with the track "Come to Nothing" being used in a Tic Tac television commercial in the United States and available as a free download from the Tic Tac USA website. The track has also been used in an advertisement for DELL Computers.
Live Shows
It is rare to see the band play live however they have made several trips to the United States for music festivals. In 2001 Car Stereo Wars travelled to Austin, Texas to play at the annual SXSW festival, then in 2003 traveled again to the U.S to play at legendary CBGB's in New York as part of the CMJ Music Marathon The band has also played some shows in their hometown Melbourne, usually only to support an album or E.P launch.
Members
The current members are:
Alyssa Doe: 2002–present (vocals, keyboards, tuba)
Jason White: 2000–present (bass, guitar, and vocals)
Matt Gillman: 2000–present (guitar, bass, keyboards)
Sean Ashbrooke: 2003–present (guitar)
Graeme Luther: 2003–present (drums)
David Meagher 2007–2011 (guitar/keyboards)
Discography
Albums
For your Comfort and Safety (2008)
Compilations
Ministry of Sound - Chillout Sessions - Summer (2003)
Ministry of Sound - Chillout Sessions - Volume 5 (2004)
Brave New Day - Oxfam Tsunami Aid Compilation (2005)
EPs
Project A (2000)
They Asked Me to Be in a Movie (2003)
References
External links
Official site
Car Stereo Wars on MySpace
Musical collectives
Musical groups established in 2000
Musical groups from Melbourne
Australian pop music groups
Australian electronic music groups
Electronica music groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDEI | KDEI "Radio Maria" is an AM broadcasting station airing Catholic programming at 1250 kHz in Port Arthur, Texas. It is a repeater station of KJMJ 580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana.
History
In Brownsville
KDEI's history begins not in Port Arthur but in Brownsville, on the Mexican border, where KWWG was authorized on 1080 kHz in 1925. The next year, it moved to 1260 kHz in a time-share with KRGV, which broadcast from Weslaco. The station was owned by the Chamber of Commerce and the City of Brownsville and by the Brownsville Herald newspaper after 1930.
Violent storms hit south Texas in August 1933, leaving KWWG out of commission. When the station applied for renewal of its license, it also sought to be sold to Port Arthur College, which planned to move the station to Port Arthur. The Federal Radio Commission approved the move, which also allowed KRGV to go full time in Weslaco. Two petitioners, involved in the operation of KFDM radio in Beaumont, sought to deny the move of KWWG to Port Arthur, but were refused, and KWWG left the Valley for Port Arthur with a new callsign, KPAC.
In Port Arthur
In 1938, KPAC moved from 1260 to 1220 kHz, only to be relocated to 1250 in 1941 as a result of NARBA reallocation.
KPAC had a middle of the road radio format, switching to Top 40 music in the late 1950s. It is believed locally that blues/rock artist (and Port Arthur native) Janis Joplin frequently visited KPAC's studio during her recording career. During this period, KPAC founded a sister FM at 98.5 MHz, at first as a simulcast of KPAC in 1963, which is now Spanish-language KTJM. KPAC switched back to the previous MOR format in 1966.
In 1974, Port Arthur College was absorbed by Lamar University. In 1977, KPAC-AM-FM were sold to Clear Channel Communications, which changed the callsign to KTXC in 1981 and KALO (K-Low) in 1984.
K-Low carried an R&B format which competed with Beaumont's former 1380 KJET ("K-Jet") with a similar soul music format. KTXC/KALO's studios were located at the transmitter site at 7700 Gulfway Drive in Port Arthur from the Clear Channel sale until its sale to Radio Maria Inc. in 2000. KDEI (in November 2000) along with originator KJMJ (in May 2000) and sisters KOJO and KNIR (in September 2000) were the first stations forming Radio Maria's USA network and the first to broadcast in English. KDEI can also be heard during daytime hours (at 5,000 watts) in portions of the Houston and Pasadena areas and just outside the Lake Charles, Louisiana area where KOJO at 91.1 FM can be heard outside of KDEI's signal. In September 2005, Hurricane Rita destroyed KDEI's 500-foot tower and briefly knocked the station off the air. It returned to the air under special temporary authority for over a year at 250 watts on its shorter daytime tower while an emergency fundraiser and on-air pleas were made by program director Father Duane Stenzel O.F.M. The fundraiser succeeded meeting and beating its goal, a new tower was erected and KDEI was officially back |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecule%20Man%20%28disambiguation%29 | Molecule Man may refer to
Molecule Man, a Marvel Comics character
Molecule Man (sculpture), a sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky
Molecule Man (video game), a computer game released by Mastertronic in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVQ%20Kyushu%20Broadcasting | is a television station affiliated with the TX Network, broadcasting in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
History
During the time of its establishment, the company was named as "TXN Kyushu" because the name "TV Kyushu", which the owner intended to use, was already registered as the company name of a cable TV station in Saga Prefecture. Since then, nickname of the company is . In April 2001, the name of the company was changed to the current one, though retaining its nickname.
Transmitters
Rival TV stations in Fukuoka
Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting (KBC, , affiliated with TV Asahi and ANN) - 1
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting (RKB, , affiliated with TBS TV, Inc. and JNN) - 4
Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation (FBS, , affiliated with NTV and NNN / NNS) - 5
Television Nishinippon Corporation (TNC, , affiliated with CX and FNN / FNS) - 8
External links
TVQ official website (Japanese)
Television stations in Japan
TX Network
Television channels and stations established in 1991
Mass media in Fukuoka
1991 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20complexity%20theory | Quantum complexity theory is the subfield of computational complexity theory that deals with complexity classes defined using quantum computers, a computational model based on quantum mechanics. It studies the hardness of computational problems in relation to these complexity classes, as well as the relationship between quantum complexity classes and classical (i.e., non-quantum) complexity classes.
Two important quantum complexity classes are BQP and QMA.
Background
A complexity class is a collection of computational problems that can be solved by a computational model under certain resource constraints. For instance, the complexity class P is defined as the set of problems solvable by a Turing machine in polynomial time. Similarly, quantum complexity classes may be defined using quantum models of computation, such as the quantum circuit model or the equivalent quantum Turing machine. One of the main aims of quantum complexity theory is to find out how these classes relate to classical complexity classes such as P, NP, BPP, and PSPACE.
One of the reasons quantum complexity theory is studied are the implications of quantum computing for the modern Church-Turing thesis. In short the modern Church-Turing thesis states that any computational model can be simulated in polynomial time with a probabilistic Turing machine. However, questions around the Church-Turing thesis arise in the context of quantum computing. It is unclear whether the Church-Turing thesis holds for the quantum computation model. There is much evidence that the thesis does not hold. It may not be possible for a probabilistic Turing machine to simulate quantum computation models in polynomial time.
Both quantum computational complexity of functions and classical computational complexity of functions are often expressed with asymptotic notation. Some common forms of asymptotic notion of functions are , , and . expresses that something is bounded above by where is a constant such that and is a function of , expresses that something is bounded below by where is a constant such that and is a function of , and expresses both and . These notations also have their own names. is called Big O notation, is called Big Omega notation, and is called Big Theta notation.
Overview of complexity classes
The important complexity classes P, BPP, BQP, PP, and PSPACE can be compared based on promise problems. A promise problem is a decision problem which has an input assumed to be selected from the set of all possible input strings. A promise problem is a pair , where is the set of yes instances and is the set of no instances, and the intersection of these sets is empty: . All of the previous complexity classes contain promise problems.
BQP
The class of problems that can be efficiently solved by a quantum computer with bounded error is called BQP ("bounded error, quantum, polynomial time"). More formally, BQP is the class of problems that can be solved by a polynomial-time qua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyrunners | Skyrunners is an American-Canadian science fiction action thriller film that premiered on Disney XD on November 27, 2009. It was the first original film that premiered on the network.
Plot
Teenage brothers 18-year-old Nick and 14-year-old Tyler come across a small UFO when it lands right in front of their truck on an empty road near their town. Soon after evading government agents, mainly agent Armstrong, and keeping the UFO in seclusion, Tyler undergoes dramatic physical changes and gains superhuman powers due to his dramatic trip into space via the UFO, including enhanced strength and telepathy. The situation becomes even more difficult to cover up considering Tyler is being constantly blown off by Nick, due to Nick's efforts at chasing Julie Gunn, as well as Nick having to make a science project to graduate high school and reptile-like aliens that have begun to appear and pursue Tyler. After having literally no one left to turn to, Tyler decides to tell agent Armstrong about the UFO. After agent Armstrong explains to Tyler about the effects that his trip into space had on his body, he shoots the ship with a laser gun, thereby critically damaging it, before he reveals himself to Tyler as one of the aliens in disguise and captures him.
Nick, feeling guilty for constantly doubting and ignoring Tyler, goes to the UFO hideout to apologize, but upon finding Tyler missing and the UFO damaged, he begins an attempt to repair the UFO, which has biological parts. After trying all night, he is successful and the UFO takes him to the hidden caves the aliens have made into their fortress, realizing the entrance is actually an impact crater from the aliens' crash-landing on Earth. Nick locates Tyler and helps him escape his holding cell. The brothers uncover that the aliens are planning to take over Earth by polluting the atmosphere. Tyler uses an alien explosive from the UFO to destroy the aliens and their pollution equipment, and he and Nick escape in the UFO. However, they do not succeed in destroying all the aliens, and they are chased by a surviving one (possibly Armstrong) in a more powerful version of their UFO.
After destroying the alien fighter and its pilot in a high speed, fast-paced dogfight, the UFO crashes at Nick's high school graduation. Nick then uses his fixing of the UFO as his science project, and is allowed to graduate. Nick wins Julie over and they kiss, Tyler gets a date with Katie Wallace and they get to keep the UFO. Assuming that all of the aliens were destroyed, the boys go on with their lives. However, at the end of the movie while taking the UFO for a joy-ride (with its new stereo system that Nick installed which is notably blasting the theme song of the movie, Low Day by Capra), four agent Armstrongs are seen watching them, revealing at least four of the aliens survived and are plotting another attack on them and the human race, thus leaving the possibility of a sequel.
Cast
Kelly Blatz as Nick Burns
Joey Pollari as Tyler |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaseng%20Hospital%20of%20Oriental%20Medicine | Jaseng Hospital of Korean Medicine (Hangul: 자생한방병원) is a network of hospitals for non-invasive treatment of spine and joint disorders in South Korea. It was designated as a 'Spine Specialized Oriental Medical Hospital' by the Korea Ministry of Health and also designated as a 'Health Tour' hospital for foreigners by the Korean Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI).
Jaseng opened in 1988, specializing in Integrative Medicine. With non-invasive treatment methods unique to Jaseng such as Motion Style Acupuncture Treatment (MSAT) and Western therapies, the hospital treats over 250,000 patients a year, equaling a total of 1.6 million treatment sessions. Jaseng is home to 30 specialized clinics with 379 physicians. Over 1,300 inpatient beds are available.
The hospital employs diagnostic equipment, including MRI and CT scanners, in addition to Korean medicine therapies. Physical manual therapy is implemented concurrently to promote healing and to prevent recurrence.
Jaseng has conducted collaborative research with the University of California-Irvine School of Medicine and other US institutions. The honorary chairman of the Jaseng Medical Foundation, Dr. Shin, was invited to lecture at the Osteopathic Medical Education Conference (OMED) 2018, the largest osteopathic medical event attended by more than 20,000 US DOs. Michigan State University has incorporated Jaseng’s treatment modalities as a CME curriculum since 2015.
The hospital’s International Clinic treats more than 2,600 foreign patients annually (including more than 20 ambassadors). The clinic has staff members who speak English, German, Japanese, Mongolian, Arabic, Russian, and Chinese, and language interpretation services are provided. International services include airport transport, assistance with medical documents, online consultations, second opinions, travel and accommodations, insurance claims and local travel.
In 1999, through the hospital accreditation, the educational opportunities expanded to include medical specialty training programs. Continuing medical education at Jaseng serves the purpose of providing accurate diagnosis and standardized treatment for musculoskeletal and degenerative diseases so that each patient can receive safe, least invasive and optimal treatment results.
History
In 1990, Shin Joon-shik founded the Jaseng Oriental Medicine Clinic in Seoul, Korea. The Jaseng Research Institute and the Jaseng Biotechnology Research Institute were established in 1998 and 1999. The clinic was renamed as the Jaseng Hospital of Oriental Medicine and was designated as a 'Health Tour' hospital for foreigners by the Korean Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI).
In 2001, a nerve regenerating substance called Shinbarometin was found in Jaseng’s medicine. Patents for Shinbarometin were acquired in Korea and America, and Green Cross R&D is currently developing it as a natural pharmaceutical so that it can be brought to the global market. The UC Irvine's School of Med |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision-making%20software | Decision-making software (DM software) is software for computer applications that help individuals and organisations make choices and take decisions, typically by ranking, prioritizing or choosing from a number of options.
An early example of DM software was described in 1973. Before the advent of the World Wide Web, most DM software was spreadsheet-based, with the first web-based DM software appearing in the mid-1990s. Nowadays, many DM software products (mostly web-based) are available – e.g. see the comparison table below.
Most DM software focuses on ranking, prioritizing or choosing from among alternatives characterized on multiple criteria or attributes. Thus most DM software is based on decision analysis, usually multi-criteria decision-making, and so is often referred to as "decision analysis" or "multi-criteria decision-making" software – commonly shortened to "decision-making software". Some decision support systems include a DM software component.
Purpose
DM software can assist decision-makers "at various stages of the decision-making process, including problem exploration and formulation, identification of decision alternatives and solution constraints, structuring of preferences, and tradeoff judgements."
The purpose of DM software is to support the analysis involved at these various stages of the decision-making process, not to replace it. DM software "should be used to support the process, not as the driving or dominating force."
DM software frees users "from the technical implementation details [of the decision-making method employed], allowing them to focus on the fundamental value judgements". Nonetheless, DM software should not be employed blindly. "Before using a software, it is necessary to have a sound knowledge of the adopted methodology and of the decision problem at hand."
Methods and features
Decision-making methods
As mentioned earlier, most DM software is based on multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). MCDM involves evaluating and combining alternatives' characteristics on two or more criteria or attributes in order to rank, prioritize or choose from among the alternatives.
There is currently a great deal of interest in quantitative methods for decision making. Many decision analysts argue for multi-attribute decision analysis as the gold standard to which other methods should be compared, based on its rigorous axiomatic basis. Some other MCDM methods include:
Aggregated Indices Randomization Method (AIRM)
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Analytic network process (ANP, an extension of AHP)
DEX (Decision EXpert)
Elimination and Choice Expressing Reality (ELECTRE)
Measuring Attractiveness by a Categorical Based Evaluation Technique (MACBETH)
Multi-attribute global inference of quality (MAGIQ)
Potentially All Pairwise RanKings of all possible Alternatives (PAPRIKA)
Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE)
Evidential reasoning approach for MCDM under hybrid uncertainty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeptics%20in%20the%20Pub | Skeptics in the Pub (abbreviated SITP) is an informal social event designed to promote fellowship and social networking among skeptics, critical thinkers, freethinkers, rationalists and other like-minded individuals. It provides an opportunity for skeptics to talk, share ideas and have fun in a casual atmosphere, and discuss whatever topical issues come to mind, while promoting skepticism, science, and rationality.
Format
"Skeptics in the Pub" is not a protected term, anyone can set one up. There also is no formal procedure to organising an event; organisers can fill in activities as they see fit. There are, however, some common approaches across the world in hosting such events that make them more successful.
The usual format of meetings includes an invited speaker who gives a talk on a specific topic, followed by a question-and-answer session. Other meet-ups are informal socials, with no fixed agenda. The groups usually meet once a month at a public venue, most often a local pub. By 2012 there were more than 100 different "SitP" groups running around the world.
History
London
The earliest and longest-running event is the award-winning London meeting, established by Australian philosophy professor Scott Campbell in 1999. Campbell based the idea around Philosophy in the Pub and Science in the Pub, two groups which had been running in Australia for some time.
The inaugural speaker was Wendy M. Grossman, the editor and founder of The Skeptic magazine, in February 1999; this first talk attracted 30 attendees. The London group claims to be the "World's largest regular pub meeting," with 200 to 400 people in attendance at each meeting.
Campbell ran the London group for three years while there on a teaching sabbatical, and was succeeded after his return to Australia by two sci-fi fans and skeptics, Robert Newman and Marc LaChappelle. Nick Pullar, who made a television appearance as "Convener of Skeptics in the Pub" on the BBC spoof show Shirley Ghostman, then led the group from 2003 to 2008.
As of 2011, the London group was co-convened by Sid Rodrigues, who has co-organised events in several other cities around the world. This group has conducted experiments on the paranormal as part of James Randi's One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge and co-organised An Evening with James Randi & Friends.
Some of the speakers at London Skeptics in the Pub have been Simon Singh, Victor Stenger, Jon Ronson, Phil Plait, David Colquhoun, Richard J. Evans, S. Fred Singer, Ben Goldacre, David Nutt, and Mark Stevenson.
Around the world
The ease of use of the internet, via social networking sites and content management systems, has led to more than 100 active chapters around the world, including more than 30 in the US and more than 40 in the UK. In 2009, D. J. Grothe described the rise of Skeptics in the Pub across cities in North America and elsewhere as a prominent example of "Skepticism 2.0". SITPs were often founded outside the realm of existing skeptical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangu%20utility | The PANGU (Planet and Asteroid Natural scene Generation Utility) is a computer graphics utility of which the development was funded by ESA and performed by University of Dundee. It generates scenes of planets, moons, asteroids, spacecraft and rovers. The main purpose of the tool is to test and validate navigation techniques based on the processing of images coming from on-board sensors, such as a camera or imaging LIDAR on a planetary lander.
References
External links
http://spacetech.dundee.ac.uk/research/planetary-lander-technology/pangu/pangu-planet-and-asteroid-natural-scene-generation-utilit
PANGU User Resources
Graphics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor%20registry | A "survivor registry" is a database or list of individuals who have survived a particular event or situation, such as a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, or a war. The purpose of a survivor registry is to identify and track individuals who have survived the event and to provide information about their status, whereabouts and needs. Individuals, organizations and agencies use survivor registries to provide support and assistance to survivors, o reunite families and acquaintances re-establish contact after they have been separated by the disruption caused by the disaster, and to track and respond to any long-term needs or effects of the event.
Examples of survivor registries include those compiled after a natural disaster such as an earthquake, hurricane, or flood, of individuals who have survived and have been located and accounted for; lists of individuals who have survived an infectious disease outbreak, such as the Ebola virus, and have been cleared of the infection; war survivor registries, including Holocaust survivor registries, listing individuals who have survived a war or genocide and have been verified as alive and registries following mass attacks such the 9/11 survivor registry listing individuals who survived the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and have been accounted for.
Holocaust
There are several databases of survivors of the Nazi genocide of Jewish people during World War II.
One of the most well-known and comprehensive archives of Holocaust-era records, including lists of survivors, is the Arolsen Archives-International Center on Nazi Persecution founded by the Allies in 1948 as the International Tracing Service (ITS). For decades after the war, in response to inquiries, the main tasks of ITS were determining the fates of victims of Nazi persecution and searching for missing people.
The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors, created in 1981 by the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors to document the experiences of survivors and assist survivors and their families trying to trace missing relatives and friends, includes over 200,000 records related to survivors and their families from around the world. It is now part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The Holocaust Global Registry is an online collection of databases maintained by the Jewish genealogical website JewishGen, an affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust; it contains thousands of names of both survivors trying to find family and family searching for survivors.
The Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, maintained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, contains millions of names of people persecuted under the Nazi regime, including concentration camp or displaced persons camp lists that can be searched by place name or keywords.
The Holocaust Survivor Children: Missing Identity website addresses the issue of child |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe%20FreeHand | Adobe FreeHand (formerly Macromedia FreeHand and Aldus FreeHand) is a discontinued computer application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics oriented primarily to professional illustration, desktop publishing and content creation for the Web. FreeHand was similar in scope, intended market, and functionality to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Xara Designer Pro. Because of FreeHand's dedicated page layout and text control features, it also compares to Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress. Professions using FreeHand include graphic design, illustration, cartography, fashion and textile design, product design, architects, scientific research, and multimedia production.
FreeHand was created by Altsys Corporation in 1988 and licensed to Aldus Corporation, which released versions 1 through 4. In 1994, Aldus merged with Adobe Systems and because of the overlapping market with Adobe Illustrator, FreeHand was returned to Altsys by order of the Federal Trade Commission. Altsys was later bought by Macromedia, which released FreeHand versions 5 through 11 (FreeHand MX). In 2005, Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia and its product line which included FreeHand MX, under whose ownership it presently resides.
Since 2003, FreeHand development has been discontinued; in the Adobe Systems catalog, FreeHand has been replaced by Adobe Illustrator.
FreeHand MX continues to run under Windows 7 using compatibility mode and under Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) within Rosetta, a PowerPC code emulator, and requires a registration patch supplied by Adobe . Freehand 10 runs without problems on Mac OS X 10.6 with Rosetta enabled, and does not require a registration patch. Someone using a later version of Mac OS X than 10.6 might be able to use VMware Fusion, VirtualBox or Parallels to virtualize Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server and run Freehand using this emulator.
History
Altsys and Aldus FreeHand
In 1984, James R. Von Ehr founded Altsys Corporation to develop graphics applications for personal computers. Based in Plano, Texas, the company initially produced font editing and conversion software; Fontastic Plus, Metamorphosis, and the Art Importer. Their premier PostScript font-design package, Fontographer, was released in 1986 and was the first such program on the market. With the PostScript background having been established by Fontographer, Altsys also developed FreeHand (originally called Masterpiece) as a Macintosh Postscript-based illustration program that used Bézier curves for drawing and was similar to Adobe Illustrator. FreeHand was announced as "... a Macintosh graphics program described as having all the features of Adobe's Illustrator plus drawing tools such as those in Mac Paint and Mac Draft and special effects similar to those in Cricket Draw." Seattle's Aldus Corporation acquired a licensing agreement with Altsys Corporation to release FreeHand along with their flagship product, Pagemaker, and Aldus FreeHand 1.0 was released in 1988. FreeHand's product name use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over%20the%20Reich | Over the Reich is a 1996 computer wargame for personal computers operating the Microsoft Windows operating system. The game was released in North America and Europe. A prequel, Achtung Spitfire!, was released in 1997.
Gameplay
Players can play as Nazi Germany, the United States of America, or Great Britain. This game combines turn-based dogfighting with strategic manoeuvers as the player must position airplanes to destroy enemies. Authentic clips from World War II help to improve the realism of this video game.
A mostly classical music soundtrack (with some wartime radio music) provides ambiance for the aerial settings. Missions range from trying to liberate Nazi-occupied France by air power to attacking the German military power in the heart of Germany itself. The main menu resembles a vintage World War II hangar with difficulty levels ranging from Cadet (allowing new players to dive directly into the game) to Flight Commander (where incidentals like altitude, speed and attitude have to be manually controlled).
Creating results that are worse than expected will result in somber music. However, achieving results that are better expected will result in swing music being played. Music played during combat is the "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner.
Development
Over the Reich was designed by Charles Moylan of Big Time Software. It is an adaptation of the board wargame Over the Reich. Moylan had previously developed Flight Commander 2 for the publisher.
Reception
Over the Reich sold fewer than 50,000 units globally. This was part of a trend for Avalon Hill games during the period; Terry Coleman of Computer Gaming World wrote in late 1998 that "no AH game in the past five years" had reached the mark.
Over the Reich was a runner-up for Computer Gaming Worlds 1996 "Wargame of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Battleground: Shiloh. The editors wrote of Over the Reich, "Dogfights are fun, particularly over the Internet, but the real appeal of this game lies in the campaigns, where developing your individual pilots is almost a role-playing game in itself."
References
External links
Over the Reich at GameFAQs
Over the Reich at GameSpot
Over the Reich at IGN
1996 video games
Avalon Hill video games
Classic Mac OS games
Computer wargames
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games developed in the United States
World War II video games
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd%20Cyberspace%20Operations%20Squadron | The United States Air Force (USAF)'s 33rd Cyberspace Operations Squadron is a network warfare unit located at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
The squadron was established as the 70th Reconnaissance Squadron during World War II and saw combat in the European Theater of Operations as the 31st Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, where it earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for its efforts in preparing for the Normandy Invasion. After briefly serving as part of the occupation forces in Germany it was inactivated in late 1945.
The squadron was activated again in the reserves as the 31st Reconnaissance Squadron in 1947. It was redesignated the 33d Reconnaissance Squadron (apparently to avoid confusion with the regular USAF 31st Reconnaissance Squadron). The squadron never reached full strength or received aircraft before inactivation when Continental Air Command reorganized its reserve units under the wing base organization plan.
In 1985 Electronic Security Command established the 6933d Electronic Security Squadron in Panama. The squadron participated in Operation Just Cause. In 1993, as the United States Air Force (USAF) eliminated Major Command controlled (MAJCON) four digit organizations, the 6933d was consolidated with the 33rd as a single unit, the 33rd Intelligence Squadron. The squadron was inactivated as the USAF departed Panama, but was activated once again as an information operations and network warfare unit.
Mission
The 33rd's mission, as the USAF’s lone network warfare squadron dedicated to Air Force network defense, is to execute all aspects of AF network defense as an element of the distributed AF Network Operations Center. The squadron monitors, secures, and protects Air Force and Central Command global networks, ensures network integrity, reliability, availability, and confidentiality and responds to hostile network threats and attacks.
History
World War II
The squadron was established in mid-1943 as the 70th Reconnaissance Squadron, a tactical reconnaissance squadron. Shortly afterwards the squadron converted to a photographic reconnaissance unit and was redesignated the 31st Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron. It trained in the southeast United States as an element of Third Air Force.
The squadron deployed to the European Theater of Operations in the spring of 1944. It was initially engaged in aerial photography of the French English Channel coastline and Low Countries. The squadron flew Lockheed F-4 and F-5 Lightnings, and North American F-6 Mustang reconnaissance aircraft supporting Allied buildup for the Normandy Invasion. It furnished vitally important photographs of the beaches and defenses on the Continent for briefing and training of assault troops. The unit's low-level missions under difficult weather and combat conditions led to the awarding of the Distinguished Unit Citation for the period of 6 through 20 May 1944. After D-Day, the squadron moved to France and performed battlefield tactical recon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMX | RMX may refer to
RMX (operating system), a real-time operating system designed for use with Intel 8080 and 8086 processors
Fast RMX, a Nintendo Switch racing video game
Reverse MX, a computer protocol related to email transfer
Risk Management Exchange, a financial market in Germany
Remix, an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ll%20Meet%20Again%20%28TV%20series%29 | We'll Meet Again is a British television drama set in the Second World War. It was produced by London Weekend Television (LWT) for the ITV network and was broadcast in early 1982 in the Friday primetime slot of 9 pm.
Plot
The show, based in a fictional village in East Anglia, was set around the clandestine and illicit love affair between civilian doctor Helen Dereham (played by Susannah York) whose husband was away fighting in Africa and the commanding officer of the nearby USAAF base, Major Jim Kiley (Michael J. Shannon).
Cast
Susannah York as Helen Dereham
Michael J Shannon as Major Jim Kiley
Lou Hirsch as Sergeant Hymie Stutz
Patrick O'Connell as Jack Blair
Lynne Pearson as Rosie Blair
Carolyn Pickles as Sally Bilton
James Saxon as Sergeant Elmer Jones
Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain 'Red' Berwash
June Barry as Vera Mundy
Ray Smith as Albert Mundy
Ronald Hines as Ronald Dereham
Ed Devereaux as Colonel Rufus Krasnowici
Christopher Malcolm as MSgt. Joe 'Mac' McGraw
Natalie Ogle as Letty Mundy
Patrick Pearson as Peter Mundy
Kathryn Pogson as Vi Blair
Lise Ann McLaughlin as Patricia Dereham
Joris Stuyck as MSgt. Chuck Ericson
Holly Watson as Betty Bilton
David Baxt as Sgt. Mario Bottone
Stuart Wilson as Sid Davis
Production
Although a major commission for LWT, the programme was planned for just one series of thirteen hour-long episodes. Production commenced in 1981 with studio scenes filmed at the South Bank Television Centre and location filming in the villages of Lenham and West Malling in the county of Kent. As was standard practice at the time, studio scenes were recorded on 2-inch quadruplex videotape with location scenes shot on 16 mm film and converted to broadcast master tape via telecine. The show was transmitted between February and May 1982. LWT had previously produced Enemy at the Door, a series about the German occupation of Guernsey during the same war, and the two series have a common theme of tension between the locals and the 'intruding' soldiers whose presence affects their ways of life, something which can become obvious when actors play similar roles in similar storylines in both series (most obviously: Ray Smith, as the father of a girl who disapproves of his daughter associating with foreign servicemen).
The show's title was based on the popular wartime song "We'll Meet Again" performed by Dame Vera Lynn. The theme for the show was composed by Denis King. A vocal version was released as a single by Stutz Bear Cats.
Other media
Writer David Butler produced a novel called We'll Meet Again: The End of an Era that continued the story beyond the TV series.
References
External links
1982 British television series debuts
1982 British television series endings
1980s British drama television series
1980s British television miniseries
English-language television shows
ITV television dramas
London Weekend Television shows
Television series by ITV Studios
World War II television dram |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20Computing | Liquid Computing was an information technology business that sold components like servers, storage, and networking systems. It was founded in 2003, and ceased operations in 2010.
The company had customers in North America and established partnerships with companies such as Intel, Microsoft, VMware, Oracle, Red Hat, NetApp and AMD.
Corporate information
Office locations
The Liquid Computing Corporation was headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with U.S. offices.
Investors
The following Investors have funded Liquid Computing:
VenGrowth
ATA Ventures
BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada)
EDC (Export Development Canada)
Axis Capital
Newbury Ventures
History
2003 – Liquid Computing is founded by Brian Hurley (who later went on to founding Purple Forge) and Mike Kemp, two Canadian engineers from telecom equipment maker Nortel with experience building supercomputers for the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).
2006 – LiquidIQ 1.0 is introduced for High-Performance Computing using its own interconnect scheme coupled with AMD's HyperTransport architecture and running a modified version of Red Hat Linux.
2008 – LiquidIQ 2.0 is released; a unified computing system that combines standard physical data center resources, such as servers, switching, operating systems, network interfaces, and storage, with management and control software.
2009 – The company announces LiquidIQ 3.0 unified computing system powered by Intel Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) Series Processors.
Q4 2009 – The company introduces Liquid Elements, a unified computing solution that extends the power of unified computing across datacenter hardware from leading vendors. The current solution configuration combines with Intel Server System SR1680MV and NetApp storage.
February 2010 – The company shuts down.
References
Links
If the Data Center Is the Computer the Fight Is on to Control the Ecosystem – GigaOM
A True Datacenter In A Box – Network Computing
Liquid to float slushy Intel servers – The Register
Fast-growing Liquid Computing at a 'watershed moment' – Ottawa Citizen
Can Liquid Computing ride Cisco's California coattails? – The Register
The Liquid Approach To Unified Computing – ITBusinessEdge
Liquid Computing – fast out of the starting gate – Network World
451 Group Impact Report
External links
Archived Liquid Computing Videos and Information
Software companies of Canada
Servers (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingex | Ingex is an open-source (GPL) suite of software for the digital capture of audio and video data, without the need for traditional audio or video tape or cassettes. Serial digital interface (SDI) capture is supported, as well as real-time transcoding (with MXF). Portions of the software suite also act as a network file server for media files, as well as archiving to LTO-3 data tape. Audio and video media files can also be stored on USB hard drives or Network Attached Storage. The software is heavily used by the BBC, and was developed by the BBC Research Laboratory.
Some of the early production projects which have used Ingex include a Foo Fighters music video, and the BBC television series Dragons' Den.
Features
The different software products in the suite support:
Multi-camera video capture in a studio environment
Video tape archive preservation
Acting as a server to Avid editing clients
Media Harmony is a module for Samba Virtual file system (VFS). This allows editing clients, such as Avid, to use low-cost commodity storage for video and media files.
Ingex Studio provides studio-style recoding, capture, transcode, and MXF wrapping for multiple cameras, also known as multi-camera tapeless recording. The software runs on commodity PC hardware and SDI IO cards. The media can then be edited by MXF-based editors, for example, Avid Media Composer.
Supported formats
Currently supported standard-definition (SD) codecs are:
Avid-compatible JPEG codec resolutions known as 2:1, 3:1, 10:1, 20:1, 15:1s, 10:1m, 4:1m
DVCPRO50 (50Mbit/s) and DV (25Mbit/s)
IMX 50/40/30 (50/40/30Mbit/s)
Uncompressed standard-definition video at 8 bits-per-sample and 10 bits-per-sample
Supported high-definition (HD) codecs are:
DNxHD (VC-3) at 120Mbit/s and 185Mbit/s
DVCPRO HD
Uncompressed high-definition video at 8 bits-per-sample
libMXF supports:
MXF
uncompressed video or audio, DV25/50, IMX, JPEG, DNxHD and DVCProHD files
writes MXF OP-Atom files which can be used directly in Avid Media Composer and related editors
MediaHarmony supports:
media_harmony - per-client .pmr and .mdb database files so there are no conflicts between Avid editors
mxf_harmony - on-the-fly unwrapping of MXF-wrapped DV essence so that a Final Cut Pro client can share the same DV media files as an Avid client
Ingex archive supports:
MXF OP-1A file container, containing audio, video, and timecode data (also known as OP-1A MXF)
LTO-3 data tape
Video SMPTE 384M uncompressed 4:2:2 video at 8 bits per sample in UYVY format
Audio SMPTE 382M uncompressed PCM audio at 48 kHz and 20 bits per sample
LTO barcode information
POSIX.1-2001 archive format (also known as pax Interchange format), a superset of the tar format which overcomes the 8 GiB limitation of tar format, to ensure future access to programmes
Metadata:
Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) is used for storing edition metadata.
Supported operating systems
libMXF: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Ingex Studio: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2 | Modula-2 is a structured, procedural programming language developed between 1977 and 1985/8 by Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zurich. It was created as the language for the operating system and application software of the Lilith personal workstation. It was later used for programming outside the context of the Lilith.
Wirth viewed Modula-2 as a successor to his earlier programming languages Pascal and Modula. The main concepts are:
The module as a compiling unit for separate compiling
The coroutine as the basic building block for concurrent processes
Types and procedures that allow access to machine-specific data
The language design was influenced by the Mesa language and the Xerox Alto, both from Xerox PARC, that Wirth saw during his 1976 sabbatical year there. The computer magazine Byte devoted the August 1984 issue to the language and its surrounding environment.
Modula-2 was followed by Modula-3, and later by the Oberon series of languages.
Description
Modula-2 is a general purpose procedural language suitable for both systems programming and applications programming. The syntax is based on Wirth's earlier language, Pascal, with some elements and syntactic ambiguities removed. The module concept, designed to support separate compilation and data abstraction; and direct language support for multiprogramming were added.
The language allows the use of one-pass compilers. Such a compiler by Gutknecht and Wirth was about four times faster than earlier multi-pass compilers.
Here is an example of the source code for the "Hello world" program:
MODULE Hello;
FROM STextIO IMPORT WriteString;
BEGIN
WriteString("Hello World!")
END Hello.
A Modula-2 module may be used to encapsulate a set of related subprograms and data structures, and restrict their visibility from other parts of the program. Modula-2 programs are composed of modules, each of which is made up of two parts: a definition module, the interface portion, which contains only those parts of the subsystem that are exported (visible to other modules), and an implementation module, which contains the working code that is internal to the module.
The language has strict scope control. Except for standard identifiers, no object from the outside is visible inside a module unless explicitly imported; no internal module object is visible from the outside unless explicitly exported.
Suppose module M1 exports objects a, b, c, and P by enumerating its identifiers in an explicit export list
DEFINITION MODULE M1;
EXPORT QUALIFIED a, b, c, P;
...
Then the objects a, b,c, and P from module M1 are known outside module M1 as M1.a, M1.b, M1.c, and M1.P. They are exported in a qualified manner to the outside (assuming module M1 is global). The exporting module's name, i.e. M1, is used as a qualifier followed by the object's name.
Suppose module M2 contains the following IMPORT declaration
MODULE M2;
IMPORT M1;
...
Then this means that the objects exported by module M1 to the outside |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLaDOS | GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is a fictional character from the video game series Portal. The character was created by Erik Wolpaw and Kim Swift and voiced by Ellen McLain. GLaDOS is depicted in the series as an artificially superintelligent computer system responsible for testing and maintenance in the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center in all titles. While GLaDOS initially appears in the first game to simply be a voice that guides the player, her words and actions become increasingly malicious as she makes her intentions clear. The second game, as well as the Valve-created comic Lab Rat, reveals that she was mistreated by the scientists and used a neurotoxin to kill the scientists in the laboratory before the events of the first Portal. She is apparently destroyed at the end of the first game but returns in the sequel, in which she is supplanted by her former intelligence dampener and temporarily stuck on a potato battery, while her past as the human Caroline is also explored.
The inspiration for the character's creation extends from Wolpaw's use of a text-to-speech program while writing lines for the video game Psychonauts. Other game developers working on Psychonauts found the lines funnier as a result of the synthesized voice. GLaDOS was originally intended to be present solely in the first area of Portal; she was well received by other designers and her role was expanded as a result. Play testers were motivated to complete tests in the game due to her guidance. While the game was initially designed with other characters, they were later removed, leaving GLaDOS as the only character players encounter. The physical appearance of GLaDOS went through several designs, one of which featured a large disk below her. McLain imitated dialog read aloud by a speech synthesizer with her own voice, which was then processed to sound more robotic, and performed songs in character during the closing credits of both entries in the series. "Still Alive" became hugely successful, notably appearing in the Rock Band game series, and has been a popular song for YouTube users to cover. GLaDOS later appeared in The Lab and Lego Dimensions.
GLaDOS received critical acclaim from critics and gamers alike, some of whom called her narcissistic, passive-aggressive, sinister, and witty. IGN considered her one of the greatest video game characters, particularly among those created in the 2000s. Universally praised for her contributions to the caliber of Portals narrative, GLaDOS received multiple awards for being the best new game character in 2007 from GameSpy, GamePro, and X-Play. A number of publications listed her as one of the all-time greatest video game villains, including IGN and Game Informer, both of which ranked her first. She has been the subject of significant critical analysis from both journalists and game developers, who have compared her to other villainous computer systems in fiction, including HAL 9000 from 2001: A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gree | Gree may refer to:
GREE, a social networking service in Japan
GREE, Inc., the company that operates GREE
Gree Electric, Chinese appliance manufacturer
Gree Group, Chinese state-owned enterprise, former owner of GREE Electric
Alain Grée (born 1936), French illustrator and author
MC Gree (born 1998), South Korean rapper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction%20principle | Abstraction principle may refer to:
Abstraction principle (law)
Abstraction principle (computer programming) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagi%20Women%27s%20Junior%20College | was a junior college in Hagi, Yamaguchi, Japan and was part of the Hagi Gakuen network.
The institute was founded in 1960 as a professional school. In 1967, the professional school became a junior college. It closed in 2000.
External links
Hagi Women's Junior College
Educational institutions established in 1967
Japanese junior colleges |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haysden%20Country%20Park | Haysden Country Park is a country park and Local Nature Reserve on the outskirts of Tonbridge in Kent. It is owned by Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council, the Highways Agency, Network Rail and the Environment Agency, and managed by the council.
Geography
The park comprises of countryside to the west of Tonbridge. The park has two lakes, Barden Lake and Haysden Water, and has a stretch of the River Medway running through it, with various branches and streams. Consequently there are a large number of bridges, many of which are named. The park is home to a variety of wildlife including waterfowl, wild flowers, and insect life. It is designated as a Site of Nature Conservation Interest, and as of it has been designated a Local Nature Reserve.
The A21 passes on a viaduct near Haysden Water. Immediately to the east of this viaduct, and roughly parallel to it, is the Medway flood barrier. The railway line from Tonbridge towards Redhill, Surrey also passes through the park.
History
The park was opened as a Country Park in 1988, but the land had been partly owned by the Tonbridge Council and had been used by the public long before then. It is still managed by Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council.
Leading off the River Medway is the Straight Mile, which was dug in 1830. James Christie intended this to be a canal leading to Tonbridge Water Mill, but it was never filled with water. The Stone Lock, built in 1829 (also by James Christie) at Haysden, remains largely intact. It leads towards Haysden Water (and continues on the other side of Haysden Water, outside the park). The lock was intended for transferring barges between the level of the Straight Mile and the higher level of the River Medway.
Another section of the park is The Shallows, a winding stream leading off the River Medway, with various gravel beds for crossing the river. It was at one stage part of the River Medway, with meanders which were sometimes shallow and therefore difficult to navigate with large boats. Since the river was used by canal craft, a navigable diversion was constructed around this section. The Shallows then became a quiet backwater stream which is gradually developing into marshland.
Barden Lake was created when sand and gravel were extracted from the land between 1974 and 1980. Dragline excavators were used to dig the material out. The Lake is approximately 3.6 metres (12 feet) deep.
A World War II pillbox can be found in the hedgerow along the riverbank. This pillbox and others along the River Medway formed part of the Ironside Line. On 27 May 1944, Prime Minister Winston Churchill put General Sir Edmund Ironside in charge of creating a first line of defence against German invasion forces.
A project to name the 14 bridges that are included in the park was announced on at the Tonbridge Forum; names had been decided. As at 2015, this work appears to be complete.
How to get there
From Tonbridge, the Lower Haysden Road leads towards Lower Haysden and Upper Ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/318th%20Cyberspace%20Operations%20Group | The 318th Cyberspace Operations Group is a United States Air Force information operations unit located at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. The group was first activated during World War II as the 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. After training in the United States, the unit moved to the China-Burma-India Theater and engaged in hostilities until the end of the war. It returned to the United States in November 1945, and was inactivated at the port of embarkation.
The group was disbanded in 1947, but was reestablished in 1985 as the 318th Electronic Warfare Group, being renumbered to fit the Air Force's policy of numbering its operational groups and wings in a single series. It was activated in 2000 as the 318th Information Operations Group and received its current name in 2013.
Mission
The mission of the 318th Group is to be an information warfare group, training and integrating advanced tactics, technologies, and tools arming America's warfighters with decisive information warfare combat power.
Units
39th Information Operations Squadron
The squadron conducts training on cyberspace operations, including operational security and deception at both the initial and advanced level.
90th Cyberspace Operations Squadron
The squadron produces government of the shelf (GOTS) software in support of cyber operations.
318th Range Squadron
The squadron designs, builds, and provides cyber ranges for test, training, mission rehearsal, and exercise.
346th Test Squadron
The squadron tests, evaluates and assesses cyberspace capabilities for operational forces, national agencies, the acquisition community and Department of Defense agencies.
History
World War II
The group was first activated at Peterson Field, Colorado as the 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group on 1 October 1943, but was redesignated the 8th Photographic Group little more than a week later. Before the end of the month, group headquarters had moved to Gainesville Army Air Field, Texas. The group had no flying squadrons assigned, and its personnel were trained to provide photographic intelligence for air and ground forces. In February 1944, the group headquarters left the United States for the China-Burma-India Theater.
Group headquarters arrived in India at the end of March 1944, and in April established itself at Bally Seaplane Base. There it was assigned operational squadrons for the first time on 25 April:
The 9th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron at Barrackpore Airfield, India and primarily equipped with Lockheed F-5 Lightnings
The 20th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron at Kisselbari, India, but operating from Dinjan Airfield, India and primarily equipped with Curtiss P-40 Warhawks
The 24th Combat Mapping Squadron at Guskhara Airfield, India and primarily equipped with Consolidated F-7 Liberators.
Each of these squadrons maintained detachments of various sizes in India, Burma, and China and did not operate in squadron strength from a single base.
In July 1944, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell%27s%20method | Powell's method, strictly Powell's conjugate direction method, is an algorithm proposed by Michael J. D. Powell for finding a local minimum of a function. The function need not be differentiable, and no derivatives are taken.
The function must be a real-valued function of a fixed number of real-valued inputs. The caller passes in the initial point. The caller also passes in a set of initial search vectors. Typically N search vectors (say) are passed in which are simply the normals aligned to each axis.
The method minimises the function by a bi-directional search along each search vector, in turn. The bi-directional line search along each search vector can be done by Golden-section search or Brent's method. Let the minima found during each bi-directional line search be , where is the initial starting point and is the scalar determined during bi-directional search along . The new position () can then be expressed as a linear combination of the search vectors i.e. . The new displacement vector () becomes a new search vector, and is added to the end of the search vector list. Meanwhile, the search vector which contributed most to the new direction, i.e. the one which was most successful (), is deleted from the search vector list. The new set of N search vectors is . The algorithm iterates an arbitrary number of times until no significant improvement is made.
The method is useful for calculating the local minimum of a continuous but complex function, especially one without an underlying mathematical definition, because it is not necessary to take derivatives. The basic algorithm is simple; the complexity is in the linear searches along the search vectors, which can be achieved via Brent's method.
References
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20complexity%20of%20matrix%20multiplication | In theoretical computer science, the computational complexity of matrix multiplication dictates how quickly the operation of matrix multiplication can be performed. Matrix multiplication algorithms are a central subroutine in theoretical and numerical algorithms for numerical linear algebra and optimization, so finding the right amount of time it should take is of major practical relevance.
Directly applying the mathematical definition of matrix multiplication gives an algorithm that requires field operations to multiply two matrices over that field ( in big O notation). Surprisingly, algorithms exist that provide better running times than this straightforward "schoolbook algorithm". The first to be discovered was Strassen's algorithm, devised by Volker Strassen in 1969 and often referred to as "fast matrix multiplication". The optimal number of field operations needed to multiply two square matrices up to constant factors is still unknown. This is a major open question in theoretical computer science.
, the best announced bound on the asymptotic complexity of a matrix multiplication algorithm is time, given by Williams, Xu, Xu, and Zhou, announced in a preprint. This improves on the bound of given by a preprint of Duan, Wu and Zhou. However, this and similar improvements to Strassen are not used in practice, because they are galactic algorithms: the constant coefficient hidden by the Big O notation is so large that they are only worthwhile for matrices that are too large to handle on present-day computers.
The best time-bound confirmed by peer review is .
Simple algorithms
If A, B are matrices over a field, then their product AB is also an matrix over that field, defined entrywise as
Schoolbook algorithm
The simplest approach to computing the product of two matrices A and B is to compute the arithmetic expressions coming from the definition of matrix multiplication. In pseudocode:
input A and B, both n by n matrices
initialize C to be an n by n matrix of all zeros
for i from 1 to n:
for j from 1 to n:
for k from 1 to n:
C[i][j] = C[i][j] + A[i][k]*B[k][j]
output C (as A*B)
This algorithm requires, in the worst case, multiplications of scalars and additions for computing the product of two square matrices. Its computational complexity is therefore , in a model of computation where field operations (addition and multiplication) take constant time (in practice, this is the case for floating point numbers, but not necessarily for integers).
Strassen's algorithm
Strassen's algorithm improves on naive matrix multiplication through a divide-and-conquer approach. The key observation is that multiplying two matrices can be done with only 7 multiplications, instead of the usual 8 (at the expense of 11 additional addition and subtraction operations). This means that, treating the input matrices as block matrices, the task of multiplying matrices can be reduced to 7 subproblems of multiplying matri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction%20principle%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In software engineering and programming language theory, the abstraction principle (or the principle of abstraction) is a basic dictum that aims to reduce duplication of information in a program (usually with emphasis on code duplication) whenever practical by making use of abstractions provided by the programming language or software libraries. The principle is sometimes stated as a recommendation to the programmer, but sometimes stated as a requirement of the programming language, assuming it is self-understood why abstractions are desirable to use. The origins of the principle are uncertain; it has been reinvented a number of times, sometimes under a different name, with slight variations.
When read as recommendations to the programmer, the abstraction principle can be generalized as the "don't repeat yourself" (DRY) principle, which recommends avoiding the duplication of information in general, and also avoiding the duplication of human effort involved in the software development process.
The principle
As a recommendation to the programmer, in its formulation by Benjamin C. Pierce in Types and Programming Languages (2002), the abstraction principle reads (emphasis in original):
As a requirement of the programming language, in its formulation by David A. Schmidt in The structure of typed programming languages (1994), the abstraction principle reads:.
History and variations
The abstraction principle is mentioned in several books. Some of these, together with the formulation if it is succinct, are listed below.
Alfred John Cole, Ronald Morrison (1982) An introduction to programming with S-algol: "[Abstraction] when applied to language design is to define all the semantically meaningful syntactic categories in the language and allow an abstraction over them".
Bruce J. MacLennan (1983) Principles of programming languages: design, evaluation, and implementation: "Avoid requiring something to be stated more than once; factor out the recurring pattern".
Jon Pearce (1998) Programming and Meta-Programming in Scheme: "Structure and function should be independent".
The principle plays a central role in design patterns in object-oriented programming, although most writings on that topic do not give a name to the principle. The Design Patterns book by the Gang of Four, states: "The focus here is encapsulating the concept that varies, a theme of many design patterns." This statement has been rephrased by other authors as "Find what varies and encapsulate it."
In this century, the principle has been reinvented in extreme programming under the slogan "Once and Only Once". The definition of this principle was rather succinct in its first appearance: "no duplicate code". It has later been elaborated as applicable to other issues in software development: "Automate every process that's worth automating. If you find yourself performing a task many times, script it."
Implications
The abstraction principle is often stated in the context of some mechan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COOL-ER | The COOL-ER is a discontinued e-book reader from UK company Interead. The device is compatible with both Mac and Windows computers, comes in a variety of colors, and supports e-books in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Dutch, Russian, Korean, Ukrainian, Mandarin and Japanese. The device is commonly compared with the Amazon Kindle. Reviewers cite the lower price, MP3 support, and lighter weight as advantages; but complain of the COOL-ER's lack of wireless connectivity and button insensitivity. On 8 June 2010, Interead went into liquidation after failing to secure funding.
Specifications
Dimensions
Height (mm): 183
Width (mm): 117.74
Depth (mm): 10.89
Volume (litres): 0.23
Weight (g): 178
Screen
Size: 6"
DPI: 170 pixels per inch
Levels of Greyscale: 8
Type: E Ink Vizplex
Manufacturer: PVI (E Ink)
Hardware
Storage: 1 GB
Memory: 128 MB
Processor: Samsung S3C2440 ARM 400 MHz
Battery: Li-Polymer battery (1000 mAh)
Battery Life: 8000 page turns
Memory Expansion: SD (up to 4GB)
Wireless: No
Compatibility
PC: Yes
Mac: Yes
Supported formats: PDF, EPUB, FB2, RTF, TXT, HTML, PRC, JPG, MP3
References
External links
Adobe Digital Editions, Supported ebook devices
PVI (E Ink)
Dedicated ebook devices
Electronic paper technology
Linux-based devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20Memo | The AI Memos are a series of influential memorandums and technical reports published by the MIT AI Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. They cover Artificial Intelligence, a field of computer science.
Noteworthy memos in the series include:
AI Memo 39, "The New Compiler", describing the first implementation of a self-hosting compiler (for LISP 1.5)
AI Memo 41, "A Chess Playing Program", describing Kotok-McCarthy, the first computer program to play chess convincingly
AI Memo 239 (1972), also known as HAKMEM, a compendium of hacks and algorithms
Sussman and Steele's Lambda Papers:
AI Memo 349 (1975), "Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus"
AI Memo 353 (1976), "Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative"
AI Memo 379 (1976), "Lambda: The Ultimate Declarative"
AI Memo 443 (1977), "Debunking the 'Expensive Procedure Call' Myth, or, Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful, or, Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO"
AI Memo 453 (1978), "The Art of the Interpreter of, the Modularity Complex (Parts Zero, One, and Two)"
AI Technical Report 474 (1978), "RABBIT: A Compiler for SCHEME"
AI Memo 514 (1979), "Design of LISP-based Processors, or SCHEME: A Dielectric LISP, or Finite Memories Considered Harmful, or LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode"
References
External links
AI Memos (1959–2004) collection at DSpace at MIT
AI Series historical archive at the CSAIL Publications and Digital Archive
Computer science papers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Artificial intelligence publications
History of artificial intelligence
Memoranda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20graph | In the study of graph algorithms, an implicit graph representation (or more simply implicit graph) is a graph whose vertices or edges are not represented as explicit objects in a computer's memory, but rather are determined algorithmically from some other input, for example a computable function.
Neighborhood representations
The notion of an implicit graph is common in various search algorithms which are described in terms of graphs. In this context, an implicit graph may be defined as a set of rules to define all neighbors for any specified vertex. This type of implicit graph representation is analogous to an adjacency list, in that it provides easy access to the neighbors of each vertex. For instance, in searching for a solution to a puzzle such as Rubik's Cube, one may define an implicit graph in which each vertex represents one of the possible states of the cube, and each edge represents a move from one state to another. It is straightforward to generate the neighbors of any vertex by trying all possible moves in the puzzle and determining the states reached by each of these moves; however, an implicit representation is necessary, as the state space of Rubik's Cube is too large to allow an algorithm to list all of its states.
In computational complexity theory, several complexity classes have been defined in connection with implicit graphs, defined as above by a rule or algorithm for listing the neighbors of a vertex. For instance, PPA is the class of problems in which one is given as input an undirected implicit graph (in which vertices are -bit binary strings, with a polynomial time algorithm for listing the neighbors of any vertex) and a vertex of odd degree in the graph, and must find a second vertex of odd degree. By the handshaking lemma, such a vertex exists; finding one is a problem in NP, but the problems that can be defined in this way may not necessarily be NP-complete, as it is unknown whether PPA = NP. PPAD is an analogous class defined on implicit directed graphs that has attracted attention in algorithmic game theory because it contains the problem of computing a Nash equilibrium. The problem of testing reachability of one vertex to another in an implicit graph may also be used to characterize space-bounded nondeterministic complexity classes including NL (the class of problems that may be characterized by reachability in implicit directed graphs whose vertices are -bit bitstrings), SL (the analogous class for undirected graphs), and PSPACE (the class of problems that may be characterized by reachability in implicit graphs with polynomial-length bitstrings). In this complexity-theoretic context, the vertices of an implicit graph may represent the states of a nondeterministic Turing machine, and the edges may represent possible state transitions, but implicit graphs may also be used to represent many other types of combinatorial structure. PLS, another complexity class, captures the complexity of finding local optima in an im |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exinda | Exinda is a company that provides computer networking hardware for improving the performance of wide area networks (WANs), known as WAN optimization.
In 2017, the company was acquired by GFI Software.
Services
As of 2008, Exinda provided wide area network (WAN) bandwidth management products to small and medium-sized enterprises.
The Exinda WAN optimization appliance provided network management functions covering network optimization, application visibility, traffic control and application acceleration. Policy-based throttling and packet compression prioritized bandwidth usage and controlled peer-to-peer (P2P) and recreational internet traffic.
Exinda provided its products through commercial value-added resellers (VARs).
History
The company was originally formed in Melbourne, Australia, by Con Nikolouzakis, Chris Siakos and Anthony Bodin in 2002 as Exinda Networks. Its technology was based on research at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
OpenView Venture Partners of Boston, Massachusetts, invested $6 million (US) in the company in 2007.
Nikolouzakis was chief executive at the time, and expected to add a Boston sales office to focus on the US market.
Previously sales were reported to be mostly in Europe and Asia.
In October 2007, the company announced a $1.1 million contract with the government of Malaysia.
In August 2008 Michael Sharma (previously of PlateSpin) became CEO and Nikolouzakis was named chief product officer.
By 2010, the company reported being based in Toronto, but keeping its official headquarters in the US.
In addition to Exinda's presence in Canada, it also maintained small sales offices in a handful of other countries.
In March 2012, another $12 million investment round included investor Greenspring Associates.
The city of Richmond, California used Exinda products to filter out video traffic from sites such as YouTube.
In November 2014, Exinda released updates to its Network Orchestrator product. The updates included integrated captive portal policies, adaptive response quotas, and HTTP caching.
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2017 disestablishments in Massachusetts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abellio%20Deutschland | Abellio Deutschland is a public transit operator in Germany operating bus and rail networks. Headquartered in Berlin, it is a subsidiary of the Dutch state-owned Abellio.
History
Abellio Deutschland was formed by the Essen public transit company (EVAG, today part of Ruhrbahn) in 2004. In 2005, British investment company Star Capital Partners purchased a 75% share in Abellio from the City of Essen. In December 2008, both sold their shares to NedRailways. The Abellio brand was later rolled out to replace the NedRailways brand internationally.
Operations
Rail
As of December 2016, Abellio Deutschland operated 18 lines over 978 kilometres with a fleet of 86 trains.
Abellio Rail NRW
Abellio Rail NRW was founded in September 2005. It operated several regional railway lines in North Rhine-Westphalia. The NRW network stretched from Gelsenkirchen to Bochum, from Essen to Siegen and Iserlohn via Hagen as well as from Wuppertal to Solingen via Remscheid (line S7).
In December 2016, it commenced operating along the Lower Rhine network between Arnhem in the Netherlands and Düsseldorf / Mönchengladbach and Bocholt. From December 2018, it has operated the Rhine-Ruhr-Express with the Rhein-Hellweg-Express (RE11) and since June 2020, it has operated the NRW-Express (RE1). Both were supposed to run until December 2033.
In December 2016, Abellio NRW commenced operating a 12-year concession to operate Niederrhein-Netz services using the Oberhausen–Arnhem railway covering the Rhein-IJssel-Express (RE19), Arnhem – Zevenaar – Emmerich – Wesel – Oberhausen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf and the Emscher-Niederrhein-Bahn (RB35), Mönchengladbach – Krefeld – Wesel. In April 2017 the former was extended into the Netherlands to Arnhem.
In December 2019, it commenced operating lines S2, S3 and S9 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn network with 29 Stadler Flirts.
On 31 January 2022, Abellio Rail NRW ended its operations. The different contracts were awarded in emergency tenders to other rail companies:
Rhein-Ruhr-Express (RE1, RE11): National Express
Ruhr-Sieg-Netz (RE16, RB46, RB91): DB Regio NRW
S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr (S2, S3, S9, RB32, RB40, RE49): DB Regio NRW
Der Müngstener (S7): VIAS Rail
Niederrhein-Netz (RE19, RB35): VIAS Rail
Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland
Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland commenced operating the Saale-Thuringia-Südharz (STS) electric network since December 2015 on a 15-year contract, over ten lines with a route length of 575 kilometres. The network extends from Halle to Erfurt, Eisenach and Kassel as well as from Leipzig to Erfurt and Saalfeld. In December 2018, Abellio Deutschland commenced operating 12 routes in Saxony-Anhalt. These are being operated by 52 Alstom Coradia Lints.
Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg
From June 2019 Abellio took over some regional train lines in Baden Württemberg under a 13-year contract. Initially a fleet of 43 Bombardier Talent 2s were ordered. This was later increased by five.
Abellio operated the following r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina%20Bosi | Marina Bosi is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Originally a flutist and flute teacher, she is known for her work on digital audio coding formats.
Education
Marina Bosi was born near Milan and raised in Florence. She studied the flute with Severino Gazzelloni, and earned a diploma in the flute at the Conservatory of Music in Florence. She then taught flute at the Conservatory of Music in Venice. She later went back to school at the University of Florence where she graduated with a doctorate in physics. Her dissertation (developed and implemented through research at IRCAM in Paris) was “Design of a High-Speed Computer System for the Processing of Musical Sound".
Career
She served as chief technology officer at MPEG LA and as a vice president at Digital Theater Systems (DTS). At Dolby Laboratories she helped to develop the AC-2, AC-3, and MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding technologies. She has also worked on devising standards for audio and video technology and digital content. Bosi was also a part of the research team that created the 5.1 channel Dolby Digital format.
Bosi came to the United States to be a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). In the early 1990s, she developed Stanford's first course in digital audio coding, which eventually led to the publication of a textbook in the area. She is a founding member of the Digital Media Project and serves on its board of directors.
She is a past president of the Audio Engineering Society and has received the AES Board of Governors and Fellowship awards. In 2019, Marina Bosi was presented with the AES Silver Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding achievements in the development and standardization of audio and video coding and of secure digital rights management."
Selected publications
Marina Bosi and Richard E. Goldberg, Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards, 2002.
Marina Bosi et al., “ISO/IEC MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding”', Journal of the Audio Eng. Soc, October 1997
References
Additional sources
Audio Engineering Society: Oral History Project
Course website for Music 422 "Perceptual Audio Coding" at Stanford
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Fiorenzuola d'Arda
Italian audio engineers
MPEG
Stanford University Department of Music faculty
Women audio engineers
Italian music educators
Italian women music educators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive%20and%20Cooking | Alive and Cooking was an Australian television cooking show hosted by celebrity chef James Reeson. The program was produced by WIN Television, airing five days a week on the WIN Network.
History
In 2007, WIN Television announced a new cooking show to replace Fresh with the Australian Women's Weekly, a similar show provided by the Nine Network. At the time, WIN were in the middle of intense negotiations with Nine, which resulted in the removal of some Nine-produced programs from the schedule.
Alive and Cooking aired its first episode on Monday 2 June 2008 at 11.30am on most of WIN's regional stations.
It remained in that time slot for the duration of the entire first season. In 2009, the Nine Network axed Fresh with the Australian Women's Weekly and replaced it with Alive and Cooking. In late 2009, the Nine Network expanded Nine Morning News to one hour as part of an expansion of Nine News content across their daytime schedule which resulted in Alive and Cooking being dropped from the Nine daytime schedule. WIN, Nine Adelaide and Nine Perth (both owned by WIN), and NBN Television moved the show to 3pm weekdays. In July 2010, WIN & NBN moved the show back to its original 11:30am weekday timeslot in place of Nine Morning News. Nine restarted showing the program again from 24 September 2010 with the launch of their new digital sub-channel 9Gem.
Availability
Alive and Cooking is broadcast across Australia on GEM. The program has not aired on WIN since 30 June 2016 due to becoming a Channel Ten show. The show returned later that year, airing at 2:30pm as it was previously.
From 31 July 2017, the 8th season will be broadcast at 3.30pm weekdays on Network Ten, with 70 episodes to be screened until early November.
Merchandise
Some "Food For All Seasons" DVDs have been released, plus a number of cooking books featuring recipes from the show.
James Reeson
James Reeson is a British celebrity chef who is famous in Australia. He is renowned for his television cooking shows James Can Cook and The Occasional Cook. He was also a chef in various hotels and on cruise ships around Europe and the Mediterranean. He first travelled to Australia to indulge his love of longboard surfing in Victoria, then began a catering enterprise. When a friend undertaking media studies needed a subject for a course project, James agreed and this led to him coming to the attention of a producer then at the ABC. After several series each of shorts and episodes on that network, James was commissioned by WIN to host Alive and Cooking.
See also
Huey's Cooking Adventures
WIN Television
References
WIN Television original programming
Australian cooking television series
2008 Australian television series debuts
2016 Australian television series endings
2017 Australian television series debuts
2017 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
2000s cooking television series
2010s cooking television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral%20subtyping | In object-oriented programming, behavioral subtyping is the principle that subclasses should satisfy the expectations of clients accessing subclass objects through references of superclass type, not just as regards syntactic safety (such as the absence of "method-not-found" errors) but also as regards behavioral correctness. Specifically, properties that clients can prove using the specification of an object's presumed type should hold even though the object is actually a member of a subtype of that type.
For example, consider a type Stack and a type Queue, which both have a put method to add an element and a get method to remove one. Suppose the documentation associated with these types specifies that type Stack's methods shall behave as expected for stacks (i.e. they shall exhibit LIFO behavior), and that type Queue's methods shall behave as expected for queues (i.e. they shall exhibit FIFO behavior). Suppose, now, that type Stack was declared as a subclass of type Queue. Most programming language compilers ignore documentation and perform only the checks that are necessary to preserve type safety. Since, for each method of type Queue, type Stack provides a method with a matching name and signature, this check would succeed. However, clients accessing a Stack object through a reference of type Queue would, based on Queue's documentation, expect FIFO behavior but observe LIFO behavior, invalidating these clients' correctness proofs and potentially leading to incorrect behavior of the program as a whole.
This example violates behavioral subtyping because type Stack is not a behavioral subtype of type Queue: it is not the case that the behavior described by the documentation of type Stack (i.e. LIFO behavior) complies with the documentation of type Queue (which requires FIFO behavior).
In contrast, a program where both Stack and Queue are subclasses of a type Bag, whose specification for get is merely that it removes some element, does satisfy behavioral subtyping and allows clients to safely reason about correctness based on the presumed types of the objects they interact with. Indeed, any object that satisfies the Stack or Queue specification also satisfies the Bag specification.
It is important to stress that whether a type S is a behavioral subtype of a type T depends only on the specification (i.e. the documentation) of type T; the implementation of type T, if it has any, is completely irrelevant to this question. Indeed, type T need not even have an implementation; it might be a purely abstract class. As another case in point, type Stack above is a behavioral subtype of type Bag even if type Bag's implementation exhibits FIFO behavior: what matters is that type Bag's specification does not specify which element is removed by method get. This also means that behavioral subtyping can be discussed only with respect to a particular (behavioral) specification for each type involved and that if the types involved have no well-defined behaviora |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTC%20Punjabi | PTC Punjabi is a Punjabi television network from India. Indian politician and the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal Sukhbir Singh Badal holds a majority stake in PTC. It features general interest programming including news, dramas, comedies, music and talk shows. PTC Punjabi commenced operations on 6 August 2008 and in a year, became the most popular television network in Punjab.
In 2009, PTC Punjabi expanded its reach internationally. It launched in the United States on DirecTV on 23 August 2009. In September 2009, a Canadian version launched. In early 2010, PTC Punjabi was removed from DirecTV for unknown reasons. On 25 August 2010, PTC Punjabi launched on Dish Network, making the channel available in the United States once again. PTC hosts the annual PTC Punjabi Music Awards and PTC Punjabi Film Awards.
Channels
Sexual abuse allegations
A contestant for the PTC Miss Punjaban pageant alleged that she had been kept in custody against her will and was pressured for sexual favors. PTC managing director Rabindra Narayan denied these allegations. The allegations led to calls for withdrawal of Gurbani telecast rights from PTC. The managing director of PTC network, Rabindra Narayan, was taken into custody on charges of sexual harassment, using criminal force on woman with intention of disrobing her, wrongful restraint, and confinement.
See also
PTC News
References
External links
Mass media in Punjab, India
Punjabi-language television channels in India
Television networks in India
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television broadcasting companies of India
Mass media companies of India
Television companies of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20Punjabi | Channel Punjabi is a Canadian exempt Category B Punjabi language specialty channel owned by Channel Punjabi Television Inc. Channel Punjabi broadcasts a variety of programming including news, music series, talk shows, religious programs, and sitcoms.
History
In September 2006, Surjit S. Gill (owner of Channel Punjabi Television Inc.) was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch Channel Punjabi, described as "a national, general interest third-language ethnic Category 2 specialty programming service devoted primarily to the Punjabi-speaking community."
The channel launched in September 2009 as PTC Punjabi, a Canadian-branded affiliate of the Indian channel of the same name, on Rogers Cable. Programming on the channel was primarily sourced from PTC Punjabi in India and included news, variety shows, music series, and more.
The channel was rebranded as Channel Punjabi on January 26, Punjabi cinema Dish TV network on solar2011; while at that time, programming sourced from PTC Punjabi in India was removed from the channel. On a related note, the PTC Punjabi brand emerged in Canada once again in early 2011 when an unrelated company, Punjabi Maple Media Inc., launched their own PTC Punjabi-affiliated channel with the same name.
In March 2012, the channel made its first inroads in Western Canada by being launched on Shaw Cable, the country's largest cable television service provider in Western Canada; days later, the channel launched a second feed on a 3-hour time delay for viewers in Western Canada.
On July 24, 2012 the CRTC approved Channel Punjabi's request to convert from a licensed Category B specialty service to an exempted Cat. B third language service.
On October 2, 2012, Channel Punjabi started broadcasting live from Guru Nanak Gurdwara located in Surrey, BC, Canada. The daily live broadcast airs between 6pm - 7:30pm and is only available on the west coast feed for Shaw customers.
On January 26, 2013, Channel Punjabi Television signed a 3-year deal with Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara (Surrey, BC) which will give Channel Punjabi exclusive rights to broadcast the live daily feed from 6pm – 7:30pm daily and also broadcast events that will happen throughout the year at the Gurdwara.
On February 27, 2013, Channel Punjabi Television launched the "Ravinder Gill show" which is being filmed at Channel Punjabi's downtown studio. The host, Ravinder Gill, will be a hard hitting show that will feature news stories happening in Vancouver and across Canada affecting Punjabis, he will also have exclusive interviews. Channel Punjabi Television posted the first episode on their YouTube page.
On April 11, 2013, Channel Punjabi Television announced that they would be launching on Telus Optik TV on May 10 and will be on channel no. 557.
References
External links
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Punjabi-language television channels
Pu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1880%E2%80%9381%20Welsh%20Cup |
First round
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Chirk receive a bye to the next round.
First match was protested by Newtown WS regarding referee eligibility. Shrewsbury Engineers had won the first match 1-0.One goal for Wrexham was disputed
Second round
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Ruthin withdrew before replay.
Semi-final
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Final
References
Welsh Football Data Archive
1880-81
1880–81 in Welsh football
1880–81 domestic association football cups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Arthur%20Bloom | George Arthur Bloom (born 1945) is a US-born Canadian screenwriter and producer known for his work on Nelvana television titles such as The Magic School Bus and Cyberchase. He also wrote the pilots for The Transformers and My Little Pony, as well as a number of installments of the My Little Pony series such as My Little Pony 'n Friends and My Little Pony Tales. For over four decades, Bloom has written television and film scripts for children and adults alike.
Television credits
series head writer denoted in bold
Live-action series
The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971)
All in the Family (1972)
The Julie Andrews Hour (1972)
Carter Country (1977)
Chico and the Man (1977)
Phyllis (1977)
Welcome Back, Kotter (1977)
Starsky & Hutch (1979)
The Incredible Hulk (1980)
Alice (1981)
Too Close for Comfort (1982)
Love, Sidney (1982-1983)
Condo (1983)
9 to 5 (1983)
Throb (1987)
Animated series
The Transformers (1984)
My Little Pony (1986-1987)
Potato Head Kids (1986)
The Glo Friends (1986-1987)
Jem (1987)
Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars (1991)
Conan the Adventurer (1992-1993)
My Little Pony Tales (1992)
Transformers: Generation 2 (1993)
Street Sharks (1994)
Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic (1995)
The Magic School Bus (1995-1997)
G.I. Joe Extreme (1996)
Street Fighter (1996)
Salty’s Lighthouse (1997)
Cyberchase (2002–present)
Space Racers (2017)
Film credits
Live-action
Knife for the Ladies (1974)
The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark (1980)
Shades of Love: Moonlight Flight (1988)
Shades of Love: Sunset Court (1988)
Shades of Love: The Man Who Guards the Greenhouse (1988)
Shades of Love: The Emerald Tear (1988)
Any Day Now (2012)
Animated
The Charmkins (1983)
My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)
Cinderella (1994)
Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle (1994)
Alice in Wonderland (1995)
External links
1945 births
Canadian male television writers
Canadian male screenwriters
Canadian television producers
American emigrants to Canada
Living people
20th-century Canadian screenwriters
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
21st-century Canadian male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Chiu | Benjamin "Ben" Chiu (; born December 27, 1970) is a Taiwanese-American and Canadian computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is the founder of killerapp.com, a popular comparison shopping site for computers and consumer electronics that was acquired by CNET Networks Inc. in 1999 for $50 million.
Early life
Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Ben who is an only child, moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina at eight months of age with his mother (Hsiu Lan) and father (Sheng Dien) where they lived for six years before moving to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He attended high-school at Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario and graduated with honors and awards in Computer Science and Visual Arts. In 1993 he received his bachelor's degree in applied science, industrial engineering from the University of Toronto.
When he was 11, Ben began to take an interest in programming. One summer, Ben's father assigned him to write a database system (using DBASE) for their family business. With help from his father, Ben started Linguasoft Corp. and sold his system to bookstores and libraries. To this day, the Royal Ontario Museum is still using his software.
Barely a teenager, Ben Chiu played table-tennis for the provincial (Ontario) team. Under the relentless training of renowned Yugoslavian coach Zoran Kosanovic, Ben won the Canadian National Championships (junior singles), Formosa Cup (men's singles) and took 2nd place at the 1984 U.S. Open (junior doubles).
In addition to high school, Ben also attended school for the gifted in visual arts. His art teacher once offered to buy one of his oil paintings but Ben declined. Some of his wildlife paintings have been displayed at the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario. At the time, his style was inspired by Robert Bateman, Glen Loates and Andrew Wyeth.
Career
In 1994 while the Internet was still in its infancy, Ben moved to Fremont, California
to help manage his father's publishing business--Pan Asian Publications. While buying computer hardware for the company, he discovered it was tedious to browse through thousands of magazine listings for the best deals.
Instead, he cut the spines off publications like Computer Shopper and PC Magazine and keyed all the specs and prices into a database, page after page, one page at a time. After e-commerce sites began to appear on the Internet, Ben developed a web crawler that would automatically gather and update prices around the clock. This was to form the foundation for his new company.
Ben formally incorporated KillerApp, Corp. in 1995 and went on to pioneer the concept of online comparison shopping (also known as the price engine). This paradigm shift proved devastating to the computer publication industry. "Print" simply could not compete with the timely content and convenience of these specialized search engines.
The web crawlers at KillerApp ran 24/7, updating 1.5 million prices daily. Within two years, killerapp.com was receiving 14 million pag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMLC | The Gateway Mobile Location Centre (GMLC) contains functionality required to support location-based service (LBS). In one public land mobile network (PLMN), there may be more than one GMLC. The GMLC is the first node an external LBS client accesses in a GSM, UMTS or LTE network. The GMLC may request routing information from the home location register (HLR) or home subscriber server HSS). After performing registration authorization, it sends positioning requests to either the visited mobile switching centre (VMSC), SGSN serving GPRS support node (SGSN) or mobile switching centre (MSC) server and receives final location estimates from the corresponding entity.
Mobile technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort%20%28software%29 | MICROMORT is a computer program (by Heisey and Fuller, 1985) used to estimate mortality rates, commonly used in ecological studies.
References
Further reading
Williams, B. K.; J. D. Nichols, M. J. Conroy. (2002). Analysis and management of animal populations. Academic Press
Population ecology
1985 software |
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