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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20bar%20chart | Composite bar charts are charts where each bar displays multiple data points stacked in a single row or column. This may, for instance, take the form of uniform height bars charting a time series with internal stacked colours indicating the percentage participation of a sub-type of data. Another example would be a time series displaying total numbers, with internal colors indicating participation in the total by sub-types.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20090919064218/http://www.tda.gov.uk/skillstests/numeracy/practicematerials/areascovered/barcharts.aspx
https://nrich.maths.org/5424
Statistical charts and diagrams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene%20Award | The Kleene Award
is awarded at the annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) to the author(s) of the best student paper(s). A paper qualifies as a student paper if each author is a student at the date of the submission. Also eligible are authors who have graduated only recently, provided the submitted paper is based on work carried out when he or she still was a student. The award decision is made by the Program Committee.
The award is named after Stephen Cole Kleene, who did pioneering work in the field of logic as related to computer science.
Past recipients
Past recipients of the Kleene award are tabulated below.
See also
List of computer science awards
Machtey Award
Notes
External links
Kleene award
Computer science awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfire%20II%3A%20The%20Dungeonmaster%27s%20Assistant | Dragonfire II: The Dungeonmaster's Assistant is a computer program published by Magicware for Apple, Commodore and IBM Personal Computers in 1985. The program, and its predecessor, were designed by Erik Brynjolfsson, who later became an MIT professor. Dragonfire II was written by Steven Bergstein, who worked for Magicware and Brynjolfsson at the time.
Use
The program is designed to assist a game master in managing table-top role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Tunnels & Trolls, allowing the user to enter material into the menu-driven program's tables for encounters, treasure, and for generating monsters and characters. The software allowed users to customize templates, permitting them to modify the system so that it would generate characters, encounters and other game requirements for a multiple role playing systems.
Ed Curtis reviewed the program for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "
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Reception
The software was reviewed in 1986 in Dragon #116 by Hartley and Pattie Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers concluded that "This program is highly recommended to all." Another 1986 review, in Computer Gaming World #33, praised the software's utility, and described it as being the most flexible and thorough of the products that were available on the market at the time.
See also
List of role-playing game software
References
1985 video games
Role-playing game software
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Healthcare%20Providers%20Network | The Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN), formerly known as the NHS Partners Network, is a representative body for independent sector healthcare providers in the United Kingdom.
The body was formed in 2005 to provide a voice for private health companies, and was initially made up of organisations involved in the government’s Independent Sector Treatment Centre programme. It is part of the NHS Confederation, an independent membership body for organisations in the National Health Service.
The members of the IHPN are independent healthcare providers including large hospital groups, diagnostics providers, third-sector organisations and providers of primary, community and dental care. They include not-for-profit providers.
Organisation
Following a vote at the 2007 NHS Confederation Annual Conference, the network became part of the NHS Confederation. Since Autumn 2008 its membership has expanded to include independent sector healthcare organisations providing NHS patient care in primary and community care, in addition to diagnostics and acute and elective surgery.
David Hare has been chief executive since November 2013, when he replaced David Worskett. The organisation has a strategic council which includes leaders of some of its largest members.
Response to 2020 pandemic
In March 2020, the IHPN brokered the block-booking by NHS England of almost all services and facilities at the country's private hospitals.
Members
Organisations that are or have been members of the Network include:
3Well Medical – run Botolph Bridge Community Health Centre in Peterborough
Alliance Medical – provide medical imaging services
Alliance Health Group
Assura Group Ltd – a property development company specialising in primary care
Barchester Healthcare
Baxter Healthcare
Bupa UK
Care UK
Circle Health Group – subsidiary of Centene Corporation
Connect Health – specialist community provider of musculoskeletal physiotherapy services to the NHS
General Healthcare Group, owner of BMI Healthcare
Harmoni CPO Ltd – now part of Care UK
Horder Healthcare
InHealth Group
Interhealth Canada
Oasis Dental Care Limited – now part of Bupa
Pfizer Health Solutions UK
Ramsay Health Care UK
UK Specialist Hospitals Ltd – now part of Care UK
UnitedHealth UK
Vanguard Healthcare
References
External links
Private providers of NHS services
Health care industry trade groups based in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/426th%20Network%20Warfare%20Squadron | The United States Air Force's 426th Network Warfare Squadron (426 NWS) is an Air Force Reserve unit previously located in Vogelweh, Germany.
Since March 8, 2014, the 426 NWS has been officially relocated to San Antonio, Texas at Lackland Air Force Base.
Lineage
Constituted as 26th Airdrome Squadron on 25 Jan 1943. Activated 1 Feb 1943.
Redesignated as 26th Airdrome Squadron (Special) on 16 Apr 1943.
Disbanded on 1 Apr 1944.
Reconstituted on 11 Sep 1946.
Activated on 15 Oct 1946.
Inactivated on 28 Jul 1948.
Disbanded on 8 Oct 1948.
Reconstituted, redesignated as 26th Operations Support Flight, and activated, on 1 Oct 1993.
Redesignated as 426th Intelligence Squadron on 31 Dec 1995.
Redesignated as 426th Information Operations Squadron on 1 Aug 2000.
Redesignated as 426th Network Warfare Squadron on 5 Jul 2008.
Inactivated on 7 Sep 2011.
Activated on 1 Mar 2013.
Assignments
Major Command
Air Force Intelligence Command (1 October 1991 – 1 October 1993)
Air Combat Command (2000–2009)
Air Force Space Command (2009–2018)
Air Force Reserve Command(2018–Present)
Wing/Group
24th Composite Wing (1946–1948)
688th Cyberspace Wing (2013-Present)
960th Cyber Operations Group (2013–Present)
Previous designations
26th Airdrome Squadron (25 January 1943 – 16 April 1943)
26th Airdrome Squadron (Special) (16 April 1943 – 1 April 1944; 11 September 1946 – 28 July 1948)
26th Operations Support Flight (1 October 1993 – 31 December 1995)
426th Intelligence Squadron (31 December 1995 – 1 August 2000)
426th Information Operations Squadron (1 August 2000 – 5 July 2008)
426th Network Warfare Squadron (5 July 2008–Present)
Bases stationed
Kearney Army Airfield, Nebraska (1 February 1943 – 1 April 1944)
Beane Field, St Lucia, British West Indies (15 October 1946 – 28 July 1948)
Vogelweh, Germany (1 October 1993 – 2014)
Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, United States of America (8 March 2014, 2014–Present)
Decorations
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 October 1993 – 30 September 1994
1 October 1994 – 30 September 1995
1 October 1999 – 30 September 2000
1 June 2001 – 31 May 2002
1 June 2002 – 31 May 2003 (with Combat "V" device)
1 June 2003 – 31 May 2005
1 June 2005 – 31 May 2007
See also
List of cyber warfare forces
References
Network Warfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycopodiella%20inundata | Lycopodiella inundata is a species of club moss known by the common names inundated club moss, marsh clubmoss and northern bog club moss. It has a circumpolar and circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout the northern Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic to montane temperate regions in Eurasia and North America. It grows in wet habitat, such as bogs, ponds, moist spots on the tundra, and long-standing borrow pits.
Description
It is a small plant forming patches on the ground, its leafy sterile stems branching and lying horizontal along the ground, rooting at intervals. The sporing cone-bearing stems stand erect in July and August, a few centimeters tall. The leaves are curving, green, narrow, and sharply pointed, measuring a few millimeters long.
Distribution and habitat
This club moss is an arctic-alpine species with a circumpolar boreal and montane distribution in the Northern Hemisphere. It mostly occurs in Europe, but is also present in East Asia and North America. In the British Isles it is classified as a UK Priority Species as it is rare and seems to be on the decline. It occurs in Scotland and the western fringes of England and Wales, and at scattered locations elsewhere. Nevertheless, it can increase rapidly when the conditions are right, as happened at Llyn Cwm-y-ffynnon in Wales on bare peat substrates uncolonised by other plants because of winter inundation, cattle poaching and peat cutting. It occurs at a few locations across Ireland and at one single location in Northern Ireland, at Peatlands Park in County Armagh, and because of its rarity, it is listed as a Northern Ireland Priority Species.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Rook Profile
Lycopodiaceae
Flora of England
Flora of the United States
Flora of Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupture%20%28social%20networking%29 | Rupture was a social networking site for gamers. Users were able to create profiles and interact with one another with the standard array of social networking tools.
History
Rupture was founded by Shawn Fanning and Jon Baudanza in June 2006. He did so because he wished to foster communication between players, find out what they're playing, and provide a showcase where they could display their accomplishments.
In June 2008 Electronic Arts, Inc. purchased ThreeSF, Inc., parent company of Rupture for $15 million.
The website is no longer accessible and redirects to EA.com.
References
External links
Official website
Internet properties established in 2006
American social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
Adobe Integrated Runtime platform software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVa%20Online%20Judge | UVa Online Judge is an online automated judge for programming problems hosted by University of Valladolid. Its problem archive has over 4300 problems and user registration is open to everyone. There are currently over 100000 registered users. A user may submit a solution in ANSI C (C89), C++ (C++98), Pascal, Java, C++11 or Python. Originally it began without the last three options, but the Java option was added in 2001, the C++11 option was added in 2014, then the Python option was added in 2016.
UVa OJ also hosts contests. In the contest environment the user has a limited time to solve a small set of problems
History
The UVa OJ was created in 1995 by Miguel Ángel Revilla, a mathematician teaching algorithms at the University of Valladolid in Spain. Ciriaco García de Celis, an informatics student at the University of Valladolid, implemented the first version of the judge using Bash, and then developed and maintained it for more than eight years.
In April 1997, the judge became open to the public (not just students of the university). In November 1999 and 2000 UVa hosted the ACM-ICPC SWERC programming contest. In July 2000, UVa Online Judge started to host training contests. By September 2007, 5.9 million programs were submitted by more than 63000 users.
In September 2007 a new system, developed by Miguel Revilla Rodríguez, was launched at a new server at the Baylor University, the headquarters of the ACM-ICPC contest.
See also
Competitive programming
References
External links
Official UVa website
Programming contests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20RedeTV%21 | This is a list of programs broadcast by RedeTV!, which has operated in Brazil since 1999. The programming of this network includes news, comedy, talk shows, music, reality shows, sports, series and variety shows.
The company also broadcasts on different channels, which also have specialized programs for different audiences. Most network programs are produced in the complex transmission network in the city of Osasco, São Paulo.
Current programs
Comedy
A Hora do Zap (2023–present)
João Kleber Show (2016-present)
News
É Notícia (2008–2013, 2023-present)
Hora de Ação (2023-present)
Leitura Dinâmica (1999–present)
RedeTV! News (2005–present)
Sports
NFL Show (2022-present)
Coverage
Bundesliga (2023-present)
Copa HB20 (2022-presente)
Fórmula Truck (2004-2005; 2023-present)
NFL (2022-present)
Reality shows
Game shows
Talk show
Sensacional (2015-present)
Varieties
A Tarde É Sua (2006–present)
Manhã do Ronnie (2022-present)
Superpop (1999-present)
Teste de Fidelidade (2013-2016, 2023-present)
TV Fama (1999; 2000–present)
Vou Te Contar (2020-present)
Dramaturgy
Sessão Dorama (2023-present)
Coverage
Love in Her Bag (2023-present)
Miscellaneous programming
Game/reality shows
Chega Mais/Conexão Models (2015-2019)
Sob Medida (2013-2015)
The Bachelor Brasil (The Bachelor) (2014)
Estação Teen (2012)
Sexo a 3 (2012)
O Último Passageiro (The Last Passenger) (2010-2013)
Taxi do Milão (Cash Cab) (2010)
Receita Pop (Ready Steady Cook) (2010)
The Amazing Race: A Corrida Milionária (The Amazing Race) (2007-2008)
Clube das Mulheres (2008)
GAS Sound (2007-2008)
Insomnia (2004-2007)
Apartamento das Modelos (2002)
Interligado (1999-2003; 2009-2011)
A Melhor Viagem (2019-2020)
O Desafiante (The Contender (TV series) (2006)
Dr. Hollywood (Dr. 90210) (2007-2012; 2017)
Shark Tank Brasil (Dragons' Den) (2022)
Sports Events
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Europa League
Primera División de México
Premier League
Serie A
Copa Sudamericana
Süper Lig
Copa do Brasil
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
Campeonato Paulista (A1 and A2)
Copa Paulista
Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior
Liga Nacional de Futsal
NBA
NBB
Campeonato Paulista de Basquete
Superliga Brasileira de Voleibol
Circuito Brasileiro de Vôlei de Praia
Rugby sevens
Futebol de 7
UFC
Boxing
XFC
AFC
ONE Fighting Championship
Showbol
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
Champ Car
A1 GP
Stock Series
Copa Montana
SuperBike Brasil Series
Super Bowl LVI
Liga Brasileira de Free Fire
Free Fire World Series
News/Sports
Aconteceu
Agora com Lacombe
A Hora do Kajuru
Alerta Nacional
Belas na Rede
Bola Dividida
Bola na Rede
Brasil TV!
Data Venia
Debate Brasil
Denúncia Urgente
Documento Verdade
Galera Esporte Clube
Jornal da TV!
Mariana Godoy Entrevista
NASCAR Show
Notícias de Minas
Notícias do Brasil
Notícias RJ (after, RJ Notícias)
Olha a Hora
Opinião no Ar
Papo de Bola
RedeTV! E-Games
RedeTV! Esporte
RedeTV! Extreme Fighting
Repórter Cidadão
RTV!
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiya%20Pujari | Amiya Kumar Pujari (19 June 1948 – 4 March 2003) was an Indian computer scientist and information technology pioneer and leader.
Early life
Pujari was born into an Oriya Brahmin family in Sambalpur, India. He took an interest in science, mathematics and engineering from very early on in his life. He derived inspiration from scientists, poets, writers and freedom fighters of India.
Career
Pujari was a leading information technology pioneer in the states of Kerala and Odisha where he made significant contributions in e-governance and other computer science research. He dedicated most of his life to spreading computer and technology education in Indian society and government.
List of positions held :
Accomplishments
As Director Computer Centre, University of Kerala (August 1990 - 1997)
Co-ordination of computer related activities in computer applications in all departments of the university including computerization of research projects, administrative applications and office automation,
Chairman of Board of Studies in Computer Science in the University of Kerala for the period 1992-Jan 1995.
Chairman/member of Doctoral Committee in Computer Science in the University of Kerala,
Member of the Board of studies in Electronics, University of Kerala - 1994,
Member of the Board of studies in Computer Science, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 1993,
Member of the Board of studies in Computer Applications, Institute of Management in Government, Government of Kerala, Trivandrum,
Guest Faculty member in the Institute of Management in Kerala. Department of Future Studies and Academic Staff College in the University of Kerala. Organized and taught self-financed courses in the Computer Centre,
Member/Chairman of Board of examiners for examinations in Computer Science, Future Studies and other engineering subjects in the University of Kerala and University of Calicut, University of Jodhpur and Utkal University,
Served as PhD and MTech, theses examiner of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,
Guided six PhD students (in Applied Science faculty and Engineering faculty) and two students for MSc (Eng) by research,
Served as expert member in the inspection commission of the Kerala University for granting affiliation to new course in college,
Served in expert committees for inspection of academic institutions in the country formed by the UGC and AICTE.
As General Manager, OCAC (August 1986 - July 1990)
Led the technical activities OCAC, in all aspects of computerization, including consultancy, hardware installation, software development, training in many government departments and public sector undertakings in Odisha,
Associated with several universities, educational institutions and academic centers including:
Member of Board of Studies in Electronics and Computer Applications, Sambalpur University,
Member of the advisory board for Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Technology, OUAT, Odisha
Member of Committee for voca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Cosm | Tom Cosm is an electronic musician and educator based in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is best known for his work within the computer music scene, especially for the creation and distribution of tutorials related to the use of Ableton Live.
Performing
He has performed extensively in both New Zealand (Aotearoa) and Australia, as well as many countries in Europe, Asia and South America. One of his more notable performances was at the Canaan Downs festival in New Zealand.
Teaching
Cosm has led workshops at the Boom Festival in 2008 and the Rainbow Serpent Festival. Along with Pitch Black, Tom led a workshop at Cargo in London on 24 July 2008.
Tom is New Zealand's only Ableton certified trainer and assisted Ableton with both the Australian (2009) and Israeli (2011) certification events.
Cosm makes and publishes online tutorials, providing the methods and techniques for performing live electronic music.
Cosm runs and moderates a teaching website, based on the business model of voluntary payment. Users are able to access a multitude of regularly updated tutorials for free in standard, YouTube-style format, or high-definition through a monthly subscription. All of Tom Cosm's knowledge is given openly. The only real difference between material given to those who voluntarily pay and those that don't, seems to be the quality of video, and the fact that a student can download a lesson in its entirety after subscribing.
Each year he travels to Europe and USA, giving public and private workshops.
Releases
Tom contributed a track to the Compilation Contact Lens on Cosmic Conspiracy Records, two tracks to the compilation Ultrapop 2 on Fabularecords in 2007, and the Earthbeatz compilation on Native Harmonix Records (2008). Tom has since decided not to commercially release any more music, as making it freely available helps build public recognition of his name.
Distribution
Tom makes his work freely available through his website. He has several live sets and tunes available for download. He also offers the component parts of his computer compositions so that others can download and see how they are created.
In his own words "I treat music as a form of communication that completely overpowers that of any other kind of human interaction, and I don't want money or middle men getting in between the link that we create when you listen to my music, or have its access restricted to people who can either afford it, or have the technical ability to steal it. Everyone can download my music free at anytime directly from the source where it was created."
Personal life and career
Tom was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he spent his formative years. He left Linwood College (New Zealand) in 2001. Growing up he was influenced by Happy Hardcore, Drum'n'bass and Breakcore/IDM. He also cites classical composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff and Franz Liszt as large influences. He studied towards a degree in music, specifically Jazz, at the Christchurch Polytechni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blossom%20algorithm | In graph theory, the blossom algorithm is an algorithm for constructing maximum matchings on graphs. The algorithm was developed by Jack Edmonds in 1961, and published in 1965. Given a general graph , the algorithm finds a matching such that each vertex in is incident with at most one edge in and is maximized. The matching is constructed by iteratively improving an initial empty matching along augmenting paths in the graph. Unlike bipartite matching, the key new idea is that an odd-length cycle in the graph (blossom) is contracted to a single vertex, with the search continuing iteratively in the contracted graph.
The algorithm runs in time , where is the number of edges of the graph and is its number of vertices. A better running time of for the same task can be achieved with the much more complex algorithm of Micali and Vazirani.
A major reason that the blossom algorithm is important is that it gave the first proof that a maximum-size matching could be found using a polynomial amount of computation time. Another reason is that it led to a linear programming polyhedral description of the matching polytope, yielding an algorithm for min-weight matching.
As elaborated by Alexander Schrijver, further significance of the result comes from the fact that this was the first polytope whose proof of integrality "does not simply follow just from total unimodularity, and its description was a breakthrough in polyhedral combinatorics."
Augmenting paths
Given and a matching of , a vertex is exposed if no edge of is incident with . A path in is an alternating path, if its edges are alternately not in and in (or in and not in ). An augmenting path is an alternating path that starts and ends at two distinct exposed vertices. Note that the number of unmatched edges in an augmenting path is greater by one than the number of matched edges, and hence the total number of edges in an augmenting path is odd. A matching augmentation along an augmenting path is the operation of replacing with a new matching
.
By Berge's lemma, matching is maximum if and only if there is no -augmenting path in . Hence, either a matching is maximum, or it can be augmented. Thus, starting from an initial matching, we can compute a maximum matching by augmenting the current matching with augmenting paths as long as we can find them, and return whenever no augmenting paths are left. We can formalize the algorithm as follows:
INPUT: Graph G, initial matching M on G
OUTPUT: maximum matching M* on G
A1 function find_maximum_matching(G, M) : M*
A2 P ← find_augmenting_path(G, M)
A3 if P is non-empty then
A4 return find_maximum_matching(G, augment M along P)
A5 else
A6 return M
A7 end if
A8 end function
We still have to describe how augmenting paths can be found efficiently. The subroutine to find them uses blossoms and contractions.
Blossoms and contractions
Given and a matching of , a blossom is a cycle in consisti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23rd%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 23rd Emmy Awards, later known as the 23rd Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 9, 1971. The ceremony was hosted by Johnny Carson. Winners are listed in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.
The top shows of the night were All in the Family and The Bold Ones: The Senator. The Mary Tyler Moore Show had the most major nominations (eight) and tied with The Bold Ones: The Senator for the most wins (four) of the night.
Actress Lee Grant set an Emmy milestone when she joined the exclusive club of actors who were nominated for two performances in the same acting category. She won the award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, for her performance in The Neon Ceiling, she was also nominated for an episode of Columbo.
Susan Hampshire became PBS' first win in the Lead Actress, Drama category, for The First Churchills, as well as being the network's first ever Acting win. (Hampshire also won in the same category, the previous year, again beating the Big Three television networks, but from the NET network, a network which dissolved within a year, but became the direct predecessor for PBS.)
David Burns became the second posthumous performance in Emmy history to win for ITV Sunday Night Theatre.
Winners and nominees
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Single performances
Directing
Writing
Most major nominations
Most major awards
Notes
References
External links
Emmys.com list of 1971 Nominees & Winners
023
Primetime Emmy Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 24th Emmy Awards, later known as the 24th Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 6, 1972. The ceremony was hosted by Johnny Carson. Winners are listed in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.
The top shows of the night were All in the Family and Elizabeth R. All in the Family set numerous records during the night, it became the first show to win six major awards, (although one came in a tie, this record would be broken by other shows that won six major awards outright). It also became the first non-anthology drama to receive at least ten major nominations.
A milestone was set when All in the Family and Columbo each received every nomination in a major category, both for writing. This feat has become extremely rare as the field of nominees expanded to five and later six.
Glenda Jackson also made history by receiving three acting nominations for the same performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth R. Rule changes have made this impossible in later ceremonies. In addition, by beating the Big Three TV networks, this was PBS' first win for Outstanding Drama. (Though the N.E.T. network was the first to win this award, against the Big Three, in 1969, NET would eventually dissolve, but would become the direct predecessor to PBS.) This show was also the first non-American made show to win this award.
Winners and nominees
Source:
Note: Winners are listed in bold type.
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Single performances
Directing
Writing
Most major nominations
Most major awards
Notes
References
External links
Emmys.com list of 1972 Nominees & Winners
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Primetime Emmy Awards
1972 in Los Angeles
May 1972 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edogawa%20Junior%20College | was a junior college in Nagareyama, Chiba, Japan, and is part of the Edogawa Gakuen network.
The institute was founded in 1985, and closed in 2007.
External links
Official website
Educational institutions established in 1985
Japanese junior colleges
1985 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven%20Koenig%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Sven Koenig is a full professor in computer science at the University of Southern California. He received an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997, advised by Reid Simmons.
Research
Koenig is an artificial intelligence and robotics researcher who develops techniques for planning and learning under uncertainty and time constraints, both for single agents and teams of agents. His research often combines ideas from artificial intelligence and robotics with ideas from other disciplines, such as decision theory, theoretical computer science, operations research and economics.
Scientific Achievements
In his pre-dissertation work, Koenig applied Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) to artificial intelligence planning. The standard textbook in artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (second edition), states "The connection between MDPs and AI planning problems was made first by Sven Koenig (1991), who showed how probabilistic STRIPS operators provide a compact representation for transition models."
Koenig's dissertation on "Goal-Directed Acting with Incomplete Information" describes a robust robot navigation architecture based on partially observable Markov decision process models. His papers on the subject are highly cited due to their pioneering nature and the subsequent wide adoption of probabilistic robot navigation approaches.
After his dissertation, Koenig laid a broad foundation for incremental heuristic search in artificial intelligence with the development of search algorithms such as Lifelong Planning A* (LPA*), D* Lite, Adaptive A* (AA*) and Fringe-Saving A* (FSA*). The ideas behind his incremental heuristic search algorithm D* Lite, for example, have been incorporated by others into a variety of path planning systems in robotics, including Carnegie Mellon University's winning entry in the DARPA Urban Challenge.
Koenig is also known for his work on real-time search, ant robots, probabilistic planning with nonlinear utility functions, development and analysis of robot-navigation methods (goal-directed navigation in unknown terrain, localization, coverage and mapping), agent coordination based on cooperative auctions, and any-angle path planning.
Professional Activities
Koenig was conference co-chair of the 2004 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, program co-chair of the 2005 International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems and program co-chair of the 2007 and 2008 AAAI Nectar programs. He served or serves on the editorial boards of several artificial intelligence and robotics journals, on the board of directors of the Robotics: Science and Systems Foundation, on the advisory boards of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and Americas School on Agents and Multiagent Systems, and on the steering committees of the International Confe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island%20Officials | Island Officials, located in Woodbury, New Jersey, is a computer game developer founded in 2007 by Ryan Morrison and Ryan Harbinson. The company is responsible for the Hands On! game franchise. Island Officials won the Atari Community Choice Award for their entry, Pong EVO, in Atari's Pong Indie Developer Challenge.
External links
Island Officials website
Video game companies of the United States
Video game development companies
American companies established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport%20%28automobile%20dealership%29 | Passport International Automobiles (PIA) was a Canadian car dealership network owned by General Motors. It sold vehicles from Isuzu and Saab as well as its own branded Passport Optima, a Korean (Daewoo) made badge engineered Opel Kadett E, starting in model year 1988. General Motors' Geo import brand was introduced in the United States at about the same time. Sales began in mid-1987, originally only in major metropolitan areas. Only 83 I-Marks and Optimas were sold in 1987.
The Optima was offered in either hatchback or sedan and achieved 52mpg on the highway. It was designed by European Opel and had a slew of standard features for a relatively low price. The Optima sedan represented a minority of the sales, while the hatchback remains more common. However, fewer than 500 Optimas were registered for road use in Canada as of 2012. Sales of the Optima were rather slow and with relatively low survival rates, the Optima is a rare sight today. Very few pictures document the existence of the Optima. Passport also distributed the Isuzu I-Mark, the Isuzu Trooper, and the Isuzu Pickup. Sales in 1988 were 2,006 Optima and I-Mark, 2,150 trucks. In 1989 sales more than doubled, to 5,087 cars and 4,204 trucks. GM's new, import-fighting Saturn division chose Passport to sell its new car beginning in mid-1992.
General Motors Canada, however, changed its branding strategy in 1991 and disbanded the Passport division. The Optima sedan and hatchbacks were rebadged as the Asüna SE and Asüna GT. Isuzu was grouped together with Saab and Saturn to form Saturn-Saab-Isuzu dealerships.
Passport's sibling, Geo, carried on until 1998 while another GM import brand, Asüna, debuted for model year 1992 but lasted only two model years.
Models
Passport Optima
Isuzu I-Mark
Isuzu Impulse
Isuzu Rodeo
Isuzu Stylus
Isuzu Trooper
References
Auto dealerships of Canada
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1988
Retail companies established in 1988
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1991
Retail companies disestablished in 1991
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Canada
General Motors marques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Transactions%20on%20Computational%20Logic | ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (ACM TOCL) is a scientific journal that aims to disseminate the latest findings of note in the field of logic in computer science. It is published by the Association for Computing Machinery, a premier scientific and educational society on computer science and computational technology in the United States.
The editor-in-chief is Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2020 impact factor of 0.625.
See also
ACM SIGLOG, ACM's Special Interest Group on Computational Logic
References
External links
Transactions on Computational Logic
Computer science journals
Logic in computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acantholipes%20circumdata | Acantholipes circumdata is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found from India and Pakistan through Afghanistan and Iran to the Arabian Peninsula and eastern Africa.
There are multiple generations per year.
The larvae feed on Taverniera spartea.
References
External links
circumdata
Moths of Africa
Moths of Asia
Moths of the Middle East
Moths described in 1858 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven%20Koenig | Sven Koenig is the name of:
Sven Koenig (computer scientist), computer scientist at the University of Southern California
Sven Koenig (cricketer) (born 1973), South African cricketer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExtremeXOS | ExtremeXOS is the software or the network operating system used in newer Extreme Networks network switches. It is Extreme Networks second generation operating system after the VxWorks based ExtremeWare operating system.
ExtremeXOS is based on the Linux kernel and BusyBox. In July 2008 legal action was taken against Extreme Networks due to alleged violation of the GNU General Public License. Three months later the lawsuit was settled out of court.
References
Linux-based devices
Embedded Linux
Network operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku%20Gakuin%20Junior%20College | was a junior college in Zentsūji, Kagawa, Japan, and was part of the Shikoku Gakuin network.
The institute was founded in 1950, became a junior college at 1959, and closed in 2006.
Universities and colleges established in 1959
Japanese junior colleges
1959 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYSE%20Technologies | NYSE Technologies was the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext. NYSE Technologies, Inc. provided comprehensive transaction, data, and infrastructure services and managed solutions for buy-side, sell-side, and exchange communities. The company also provided training, liquidity, infrastructure, and content solutions to broker dealers, institutional investors, market operators, and systematic traders in the United States and internationally. It also provided buy side solutions, including order routing, liquidity discovery, and access to broker-dealers and execution destinations; sell side solutions, including high performance, end-to-end messaging software, and market exchanges, including multi-asset exchange platform data products; and market venues and, managed, and consultancy services.
The company was incorporated in 2000 based in New York City, with sales offices in Chicago, Illinois; London, England; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Paris, France; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; Hong Kong; Sydney, Australia; and Makati, the Philippines. NYSE Technologies, Inc. operated as a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. until 2015.
History
NYSE Technologies was launched in January 2009, incorporating all the internal technology divisions of NYSE Euronext, NYSE Euronext’s Market Data division and a number of acquisitions including the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) in November 2006, Wombat Financial Software, and Atos Euronext Market Solutions in August 2008. In November 2009, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition of NYFIX, Inc.
References
NYSE Euronext
Intercontinental Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested%20word | In computer science, more specifically in automata and formal language theory, nested words are a concept proposed by Alur and Madhusudan as a joint generalization of words, as traditionally used for modelling linearly ordered structures, and of ordered unranked trees, as traditionally used for modelling hierarchical structures. Finite-state acceptors for nested words,
so-called nested word automata, then give a more expressive generalization of finite automata on words. The linear encodings of languages accepted by finite nested word automata gives the class of visibly pushdown languages. The latter language class lies properly between the regular languages and the deterministic context-free languages. Since their introduction in 2004, these concepts have triggered much research in that area.
Formal definition
To define nested words, first define matching relations. For a nonnegative integer , the notation denotes the set , with the special case .
A matching relation ↝ of length is a subset of such that:
all nesting edges are forward, that is, if then ;
nesting edges never have a finite position in common, that is, for , there is at most one position h such that , and there is at most one position j such that i ↝ j; and
nesting edges never cross, that is, there are no such that both and .
A position i is referred to as
a call position, if i ↝ j for some j,
a pending call if i ↝ ∞,
a return position, if h ↝ i for some h,
a pending return if −∞ ↝ i, and
an internal position in all remaining cases.
A nested word of length over an alphabet Σ is a pair (w,↝), where w is a word, or string, of length over Σ and ↝ is a matching relation of length .
Encoding nested words into ordinary words
Nested words over the alphabet can be encoded into "ordinary" words over the tagged alphabet , in which each symbol a from Σ has three tagged counterparts: the
symbol ⟨a for encoding a call position in a nested word labelled with a, the symbol a⟩ for encoding a return position labelled with a, and finally the symbol a itself for representing an internal position labelled with a. More precisely, let φ be the function mapping nested words over Σ to words over such that each nested word (,↝) is mapped to the word , where the letter equals ⟨a, a, and a⟩, if and i is a (possibly pending) call position, an internal position, and a (possibly pending) return position, respectively.
Example
For illustration, let be the nested word over a ternary alphabet with and matching relation }. Then its encoding as word reads as .
Automata
Nested word automaton
A nested word automaton has a finite number of states, and operates in almost the same way as a deterministic finite automaton on classical strings: a classical finite automaton reads the input word from left to right, and the state of the automaton after reading the jth letter depends on the state in which the automaton was before reading .
In a nested word automaton, the position in the nes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing%20Automation%20Protocol | Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP) was a computer network standard released in 1982 for interconnection of devices from multiple manufacturers. It was developed by General Motors to combat the proliferation of incompatible communications standards used by suppliers of automation products such as programmable controllers. By 1985 demonstrations of interoperability were carried out and 21 vendors offered MAP products. In 1986 the Boeing corporation merged its Technical Office Protocol with the MAP standard, and the combined standard was referred to as "MAP/TOP". The standard was revised several times between the first issue in 1982 and MAP 3.0 in 1987, with significant technical changes that made interoperation between different revisions of the standard difficult.
Although promoted and used by manufacturers such as General Motors, Boeing, and others, it lost market share to the contemporary Ethernet standard and was not widely adopted. Difficulties included changing protocol specifications, the expense of MAP interface links, and the speed penalty of a token-passing network. The token bus network protocol used by MAP became standardized as IEEE standard 802.4 but this committee disbanded in 2004 due to lack of industry attention.
References
Industrial automation
Computer networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA | The Łódź tram system is a tramway network located in Łódź, Poland that has been in operation since 1898.
The system is operated by MPK Łódź Sp. z.o.o. There are 24 tramlines with a total linelength of . The system operates on (narrow gauge) track.
History
By the 1890s, Łódź had over 300,000 inhabitants. Łódź was a large industrial city characterized by textile industry, and a lack of wide streets, ring roads and a reliable public transport system. All passenger and freight traffic was concentrated in the city center, especially on Piotrkowska Street. Up to one thousand cabs and carriages drove around the city centre. Both the city government and local industrialists wanted to provide a solution to this situation, and therefore took up the construction of a tram past the city centre. In 1883, the first attempt to build a horse tram was made, which in the end was abandoned. The project was tendered, but ultimately, never completed.
A project with electric trams was then started, which would carry passengers by day and cargo by night. The Electric Railway Consortium Lodz (KEL) won a tender for construction the line. Julius Kunitzer signed the contract in St. Petersburg in front of Nicholas II on behalf of the KEL. He was backed by the German company AEG, which then started construction in the summer of 1897.
Trams in Łódź made their first appearance on 23 December 1898. Łódź was the first city to have electric trams in what was then Congress Poland. Initially, there were two fairly short tram lines that both served the city centre area; by February 1899 their number was doubled. In 1901, the first suburban tram lines started – the Pabianice and Zgierz lines. Both of these initiatives were the result of the activities of private companies in which German manufacturers dominated.
The experiment with electric trams in Łódź fared even better than expected. Trams quickly paid off the cost of line construction, and the project brought considerable profits to its shareholders, whereas traffic in the center of the city decreased. Between 1910 and 1931, suburban tram lines connected many important places around the city. In the first half of the 1990s, some of those lines were closed down.
After World War II, the network of suburban and urban trams was nationalized and transferred to the (MPK Łódź), which, as the city expanded, expanded the number and length of both urban and suburban lines. Currently MPK operates 18 urban and 5 regional (or suburban) lines. The longest of these, and in fact the longest of all of Poland, is number 46, which has a length of .
While Łódź is acknowledged to be the first city in Poland to have a fully electrified tram system, it is less well known that unusually Łódź once boasted a small cemetery where tram drivers were buried. Sadly, nothing remains of this graveyard, which was situated on Lindley Street near the aptly named Tram Street (ul. Tramwajowa). Today, the cemetery plot where old tram drivers would have been |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Banks%20Canada | Food Banks Canada (formerly the Canadian Association of Food Banks) is a charitable organization representing the food bank community across Canada. Founded in 1987, Food Banks Canada's network is made up of 10 Provincial Associations and over 500 local food banks. The organization's mission is to "enable an effective food bank community that addresses the short term need for food and longer term solutions to reduce hunger in Canada". It operates a number of programs such as the Hunger Awareness Week, HungerCount, a research report on food bank use in Canada, and a Safe Food Handling program for food banks.
In 2008, the Canadian Association of Food Banks changed its name to "Food Banks Canada".
History
The first food bank in Canada opened its doors in 1981 in the city of Edmonton, Alberta. In 1987, the Canadian food bank community created the Canadian Association of Food Banks to represent food banks nationally.
There are now over 700 food banks and 3,000 food programs available in Canada.
In 2008, HungerCount reported that on average, 704,414 individuals used a food bank per month. Other HungerCount 2008 numbers include:
37% of those assisted are children under the age of 18
50% of assisted households have at least one child
For 20% of assisted households, primary source of income is current or recent employment
Approximately 13% are receiving provincial disability income support
50% are receiving social assistance
In March 2008, food banks served 3,091,777 meals in 4324234
In March 2008, volunteers gave 440,000 hours of their time to assist food banks
Activities
Some of Food Banks Canada's activities include food distribution through the National Food Sharing System, the annual HungerCount research report on national and provincial food bank use in Canada, and Hunger Awareness Week to promote the work of food banks and the individuals using their services.
Murray the Brave
In May 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada it partnered with Cheerios to do a tribute to food bank workers in a thirty-second commercial.
Members
Food Banks Canada's membership includes 10 Provincial Associations and over 500 local food banks. The 10 Provincial Associations are:
Food Banks British Columbia
Food Banks Alberta
Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporation
Manitoba Association of Food Banks
Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB)
Banques Alimentaires Québec
New Brunswick Association of Food Banks (NBAFB)
FEED NOVA SCOTIA
P.E.I. Association of Food Banks
Community Food Sharing Association of Newfoundland & Labrador
See also
List of food banks
References
External links
Food Banks Canada
Food Banks Alberta
Ontario Association of Food Banks
Banques Alimentaires Québec
FEED NOVA SCOTIA
Community Food Sharing Association
Food Banks of Saskatchewan
Organizations established in 1987
Charities based in Canada
Food banks in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20H.%20Frenkiel | Richard H. Frenkiel (born March 4, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American engineer, known for his significant role in the early development of cellular telephone networks.
Professional career
Frenkiel earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Tufts University and a master's degree at Rutgers University in 1965. Beginning in 1963, he worked for Bell Labs where he first designed recorded announcement machines. In late 1965, he was invited to get involved in the early planning of cellular telephone systems and was paired with Philip T. Porter, a cellular pioneer. They focused on cell geometry, vehicle locating and handoff, and overall system architecture, leading to an early system proposal. With Porter and Joel S. Engel, he was an author of the "High Capacity Mobile Telephone System Feasibility Studies and System Plan" which was filed with the FCC in 1971 and became an important cellular text.
From 1971 to 1973, Frenkiel worked at AT&T Corporate Headquarters, where he became a primary interface with the FCC on Cellular issues. In 1973, he returned to Bell Labs, where he managed a group of mobile phone system engineers. Their focus was on vehicle-locating techniques, maximizing channel efficiency, and methods of splitting cells to include additional towers for high volume areas. His "underlaid cell" concept greatly reduced the cost and logistic complexity of cell splitting and became AT&T's most sought-after patent in cross-licensing agreements.
For five years Frenkiel was head of the Mobile Systems Engineering Dept. at Bell Labs during the transition from experimental systems to commercial service. His department developed interface specifications for nationwide compatibility among cellular companies. He also served on the Electronic Industries Alliance Committee which proposed rules for cellular systems that were adopted by the FCC. After the FCC allocated new frequencies in 1968 for mobile phones, Frenkiel's engineering team developed specifications for cellular networks and its parametrization (1971). This was the basis for AMPS.
Frenkiel transferred to the AT&T Information Systems Labs in 1983, where he became head of cordless telephone development. He led the development of the 5000 series of cordless telephones, which achieved a much higher level of quality and performance than previous cordless telephones. He was also responsible for the early manufacture of those products in Singapore, pioneering the outsourcing of manufacturing within AT&T.
In 1994, Frenkiel was a co-recipient, along with Joel S. Engel, of the National Medal of Technology for their contributions to the creation of cellular systems. He has also received the Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1987) and the Achievement Award of the Industrial Research Institute (1992). He has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
In 1994 Frenkiel returned to Rutgers University where he became a Visiting Professor of Ele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artifact%20%28error%29 | In natural science and signal processing, an artifact or artefact is any error in the perception or representation of any information introduced by the involved equipment or technique(s).
Computer science
In computer science, digital artifacts are anomalies introduced into digital signals as a result of digital signal processing.
Microscopy
In microscopy, visual artifacts are sometimes introduced during the processing of samples into slide form.
Econometrics
In econometrics, which trades on computing relationships between related variables, an artifact is a spurious finding, such as one based on either a faulty choice of variables or an over-extension of the computed relationship. Such an artifact may be called a statistical artifact. For instance, imagine a hypothetical finding that presidential approval rating is approximately equal to twice the percentage of citizens making more than $50,000 annually; if 60% of citizens make more than $50,000 annually, this would predict that the approval rating will be 120%. This prediction is a statistical artifact, since it is spurious to use the model when the percentage of citizens making over $50,000 is so high, and gross error to predict an approval rating greater than 100%.
Remote sensing
Medical imaging
In medical imaging, artifacts are misrepresentations of tissue structures produced by imaging techniques such as ultrasound, X-ray, CT scan, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These artifacts may be caused by a variety of phenomena such as the underlying physics of the energy-tissue interaction as between ultrasound and air, susceptibility artifacts, data acquisition errors (such as patient motion), or a reconstruction algorithm's inability to represent the anatomy. Physicians typically learn to recognize some of these artifacts to avoid mistaking them for actual pathology.
In ultrasound imaging, several assumptions are made from the computer system to interpret the returning echoes. These are: echoes originate only from the main ultrasound beam (while there are side lobes and grating lobes apart from the main ultrasound beam); echoes returns to transducer after a single reflection (while an echo can be reflected several times before reaching the transducer); depth of an object relates directly to the amount of time for an echo to reach the transducer (while an echo may reflect several times, delaying the time for the echo return to the transducer); speed of ultrasound in human tissue is constant, echoes travel in a straight path. and acoustic energy of an echo is uniformly attenuated. When these assumptions are not maintained, artifacts occur.
Medical electrophysiological monitoring
In medical electrophysiological monitoring, artifacts are anomalous (interfering) signals that originate from some source other than the electrophysiological structure being studied. These artifact signals may stem from, but are not limited to: light sources; monitoring equipment issues; utility frequency (50 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahriar%20Manzoor | Shahriar Manzoor () is a Bangladeshi competitive programmer and computer scientist. He is currently the chairman of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Southeast University. He is a prominent problemsetter of UVa Online Judge. He is a judge of ACM-ICPC World Finals 2003–2018 and chief judge of National Programming Contest 2003 & 2004. He is also the judging director of ACM ICPC Dhaka Site 2004–2018 and chief judge of ACM ICPC Kuala lumpur Regional Contest 2010.
He took part in the ACM ICPC Dhaka Site in the year 1999 as a part of a team from BUET and his team stood third. He started the concept of arranging monthly contests in online judges. He has set around 400 problems in different online, national and international contests like ACM ICPC Asia Regional Contest in Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia and China.
Birth and Education
Shahriar Manzoor was born in 1976. His father name is ASM Manjur, an engineer. His mother name is Kazi Kamrunnahar, a teacher.
Manzoor graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering (BUET) with a bachelor's degree in computer science and technology.
References
Competitive programmers
1976 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Annerose | Daniel Annerose is the CEO and founder of Manobi, a Senegalese business, which gathers data on current prices for locally sold commodities in and around Dakar, and then provides pricing information to farmers and other producers in Senegal via cell phone.
Background
Annerose was born in Dakar. He earned a PhD in Biology from the University of Paris XI, and is a member of the l'Académie des Sciences et Techniques du Sénégal (Senegalese Academy of Sciences and Technology). Annerose trained and worked as a plant scientist for 18 years, specifically on agricultural yields in arid and semi-arid areas and on mathematical models for predicting yields and anticipating food crises.
References
Senegalese scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20Sports%20Network | Direct Sports Network or DSN (formerly DeskSite) is a digital media company based in Irvine, California. The company distributes sports programming with a focus on team-produced content. The network consists of individual team-specific apps (referred to as ‘DeskSites’), as well as a general 'Sports' app with individual teams aggregated together, in a Netflix-like ecosystem.
Business
DSN operates an Ad-supported Video on Demand system (AVOD) through a network of branded sports apps on many platforms. TV commercials from national advertisers are periodically inserted into premium sports content. The various apps (DeskSites) are both free to install and access.
Programming
DSN programming primarily consists of platform-exclusive content supplied by individual sports teams, complemented with original programming segments produced inhouse in cooperation with various content partners.
Content Partners
Major League Soccer
Colorado Rapids, Houston Dynamo, Los Angeles Galaxy, and Seattle Sounders.
NASCAR
Leaguewide NASCAR,
National Football League
Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts, Los Angeles Rams, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers, and San Francisco 49ers.
New York Jets,
Detroit Lions,
Cincinnati Bengals,
Jacksonville Jaguars,
New York Jets, New Orleans Saints,
Houston Texans,
National Hockey League
Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, New Jersey Devils, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks, Washington Capitals, New York Islanders.
Platforms
Available on Amazon’s Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, select Smart TVs, iPads, as well as Windows & Mac desktops, laptops, and tablets.
Corporate Affairs
Directors
Peter Farrelly, Sid Ganis, Mark Handler, Erwin Raphael, and Leigh Steinberg.
Management
Richard Gillam, CEO.
Offices
Irvine, California.
References
External links
Company Website
Online advertising methods
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20mathematics | Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical science and specialized knowledge. The term "applied mathematics" also describes the professional specialty in which mathematicians work on practical problems by formulating and studying mathematical models.
In the past, practical applications have motivated the development of mathematical theories, which then became the subject of study in pure mathematics where abstract concepts are studied for their own sake. The activity of applied mathematics is thus intimately connected with research in pure mathematics.
History
Historically, applied mathematics consisted principally of applied analysis, most notably differential equations; approximation theory (broadly construed, to include representations, asymptotic methods, variational methods, and numerical analysis); and applied probability. These areas of mathematics related directly to the development of Newtonian physics, and in fact, the distinction between mathematicians and physicists was not sharply drawn before the mid-19th century. This history left a pedagogical legacy in the United States: until the early 20th century, subjects such as classical mechanics were often taught in applied mathematics departments at American universities rather than in physics departments, and fluid mechanics may still be taught in applied mathematics departments. Engineering and computer science departments have traditionally made use of applied mathematics.
Divisions
Today, the term "applied mathematics" is used in a broader sense. It includes the classical areas noted above as well as other areas that have become increasingly important in applications. Even fields such as number theory that are part of pure mathematics are now important in applications (such as cryptography), though they are not generally considered to be part of the field of applied mathematics per se.
There is no consensus as to what the various branches of applied mathematics are. Such categorizations are made difficult by the way mathematics and science change over time, and also by the way universities organize departments, courses, and degrees.
Many mathematicians distinguish between "applied mathematics", which is concerned with mathematical methods, and the "applications of mathematics" within science and engineering. A biologist using a population model and applying known mathematics would not be doing applied mathematics, but rather using it; however, mathematical biologists have posed problems that have stimulated the growth of pure mathematics. Mathematicians such as Poincaré and Arnold deny the existence of "applied mathematics" and claim that there are only "applications of mathematics." Similarly, non-mathematicians blend applied mathematics and applications of mathematics. The use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Real-time%20Magnetic%20Observatory%20Network | The International Real-time Magnetic Observatory Network (INTERMAGNET) is a world-wide consortium of institutes operating ground-based magnetometers recording the absolute level of the Earth's time-varying magnetic field, to an agreed set of standards. INTERMAGNET has its roots in discussions held at the Workshop on Magnetic Observatory Instruments in Ottawa, Canada, in August 1986 and at the Nordic Comparison Meeting in Chambon La Foret, France, in May 1987. A pilot scheme between USGS and BGS was described in the sessions of Division V of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy at the 19th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in Vancouver, Canada, in August 1987. This scheme used the GOES East satellite to successfully transfer geomagnetic data between the two organisations. INTERMAGNET was founded soon after in order to extend the network of observatories communicating in this way. 62 different institutes are now members of the INTERMAGNET consortium, and, since 1991, data have been contributed to INTERMAGNET from approximately 150 observatories. INTERMAGNET is a member of the World Data System of the International Science Council, and it is closely associated with the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy.
INTERMAGNET is organised into an Executive Council, formed of representatives of its founding members (NRCan – Canada, IPGP – France, BGS – United Kingdom, USGS – United States of America), and an Operations Committee, formed of members from many institutes concerned with geomagnetism and with operating magnetic observatories. The Operations Committee handles applications for membership of INTERMAGNET, implements updates to the technical manual. and oversees the maintenance of standards and the annual publication of data. Intermagnet operational standards and other technical information are summarized in the technical manual.
Data
One-minute resolution data time series are available from all IMOs (INTERMAGNET Magnetic Observatories): these are described as "definitive data", as they are not subject to future reprocessing or re-calibration and therefore represent INTERMAGNET's "gold-standard" data product for scientific and other uses. Definitive data are therefore considered an accurate representation of the vector geomagnetic field and its time dependence at the location of each IMO. Reported or raw, unprocessed data are reported promptly from each observatory (for some stations, within an hour of acquisition). The one-minute resolution data are time-stamped to the start of each minute and are derived from faster sampled data according to digital filters that accord with the technical standards for one-minute data.
INTERMAGNET introduced (as of 2016) a new set of standards for the measuring, recording and reporting of 1-second sampled data by IMOs. INTERMAGNET also introduced (in 2013) a category of "quasi-definitive" 1-minute data to encourage the prompt reporting of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cup%20Soccer%3A%20Italia%20%2790 | World Cup Soccer: Italia '90 is a football video game released for various home computers in 1990 by Virgin Mastertronic. It is the officially licensed game of the tournament. It was known simply as Italia '90 for the Tronix budget reissues.
Different games were also released by Virgin Mastertronic for Sega consoles as World Cup Italia '90.
This is the second licensed game based on the FIFA World Cup featuring the official logo and the mascot, the first having been the ill-fated World Cup Carnival for the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Development
The game was based on the 1989 game World Trophy Soccer which was originally an arcade game for Mastertronic's Amiga-based Arcadia machines. Virgin Games had bought out Mastertronic in 1988 so the game was released for Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64 published by Virgin Mastertronic.
Virgin Mastertronic obtained the official licence for the World Cup from sponsor Olivetti. They adapted the World Trophy Soccer game, renaming it World Cup Soccer: Italia '90 while also porting it to Amstrad CPC, DOS and ZX Spectrum. No attempts were made to change the set up of the tournament or teams available to match the actual 1990 World Cup.
This videogame was also the last ever FIFA World Cup videogame to have West Germany and East Germany divided.
Gameplay
The game is presented in a bird's-eye view but when the player gets near the goal, it switches to a 3D view of the penalty area and the player must try to score before a defender arrives on screen.
The player can only choose to play as England, Belgium, Italy or Spain. The teams do not have the correct coloured strips and the tournament is not the same as the actual World Cup.
Reception
The game received mixed reviews. Amiga Action gave an overall score of 62% but their reviewers were split. Reviewer Alex said "The graphics are well implemented, and I was impressed by the use of first-person perspective when shooting or saving a goal" but reviewer Doug concluded "I've played my fair share of soccer games, and this World Cup tie-in is certainly not the best. The game is quite hard to get the hang of, but even when you do get used to the controls the game still doesn't play that well".
Zzap! gave scores of 44% for the Amiga version and 42% for the Commodore 64. While praise was given for the graphics, the review was overwhelmingly negative with complaints focusing on the 3D goalmouth section which they said "doesn't really work and is unfair anyway" but mostly that despite being the officially licensed game, it did not accurately reflect the tournament: "Can someone tell me what this has to do with the World Cup? It may be the official licence but it lacks the official fixtures and teams!".
The game became a best seller, being the number one selling Spectrum game in August and September 1990.
See also
There were also unofficial Italia '90 games including Italy 1990 (published by U.S. Gold who released the official games for both the 1986 and 1994 tournaments), Ita |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20Layer%20Convergence%20Protocol | Physical Layer Convergence Protocol is the physical layer protocol of several data transmission networks. It is used in the 802.11 standard.
References
External links
Standards for IEEE 802
Physical layer convergence protocol (plcp) packet structure for multiple-input-multiple-output (mimo) communication systems
IEEE 802
Physical layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang | Erlang may refer to:
Science and technology
Erlang (programming language), a programming language
Erlang (unit), a unit to measure traffic in telecommunications or other domains
Erlang distribution, a probability distribution describing the time between events
Transportation
Erlang station, metro station in Chongqing, China
Erlang railway station, on the Chinese Qinghai–Tibet Railway
Places
Mount Erlang, a mountain in China
Other uses
Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929), mathematician and engineer after whom several concepts are named
Erlang Shen, a Chinese deity
See also
Erlangen, Germany
Erlanger (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagawaken%20Meizen%20Junior%20College | was a junior college in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan, and was part of the Kagawa Meizen Gakuen network.
History
The institute was founded as Meizen Koutou Jogakkou in 1917, and became Kagawaken Meizen Junior College in 1956.
In 1969 a new campus was founded, but in 2000 this was discontinued.
In 2004 Kagawaken Meizen Junior College closed because of decrease in the number of students.
Universities and colleges established in 1956
Japanese junior colleges
Universities and colleges in Kagawa Prefecture
1956 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%20of%20Prisoners%20Europe | Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE) (formerly European Action Research Committee for Children of Imprisoned Parents or EUROCHIPS) is a pan-European network acting to support children with imprisoned parents.
History
Within the European Union, some 1 million children are separated from their parents each year due to parental incarceration. The organisation began in 1993 under the name European Action Research Committee on Children of Imprisoned Parents (EUROCHIPS) thanks to the combined efforts of Alain Bouregba of Relais Enfants-Parents and the Bernard van Leer Foundation. EUROCHIPS was set up as an exploratory body to develop a consensus on integrated good practice schemes, promote quality good practice norms, foster the exchange of ideas and information, enhance the competence of professionals working in the field of parental incarceration and raise awareness among decision-makers and the general public in Europe. Its work is firmly grounded in a child's rights perspective based on the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, in particular children's rights to maintain direct contact with a parent in prison when in their best interest.
EUROCHIPS was formalised as an association in 2000 by Relais Enfats-Parents, Save the Children and Relais Enfants-Parents Belgium under the name European Committee for Children of Imprisoned Parents. With continued funding from the Bernard van Leer Foundation, EUROCHIPS organised awareness-raising events and participated in research projects to promote the spread of knowledge relating to children with imprisoned parents.
In 2013, EUROCHIPS received an Operating Grant from the European Commission and its name changed to Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE). With the ongoing support of the European Commission and the Bernard van Leer Foundation, the organisation continues to work under its new name to protect the rights and needs of children with imprisoned parents in Europe and beyond, in tandem with its members and affiliates.
Mission
Children of Prisoners Europe’s mission is to safeguard the social, political and judicial inclusion of children with an imprisoned parent, while fostering the pursuit and exchange of knowledge which enhances good practices, and contributes to a better understanding of the psychological, emotional and social development of these children. It aims to put children at the heart of policy making.
COPE’s vision is that every child be guaranteed fair, unbiased treatment, protection of his or her rights, and equal opportunities regardless of social, economic or cultural heritage. This organisation is the only pan-European network working exclusively on behalf of these children.
Operations
Children of Prisoners Europe headquarters are in Montrouge, France. The executive director of Children of Prisoners Europe is Liz Ayre. COPE is a membership-based organisation with members and affiliates from 23 countries worldwide. Policy developments in 2015 included initiating a Written Question |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20data%20services | Web data services refers to service-oriented architecture (SOA) applied to data sourced from the World Wide Web and the Internet as a whole. Web data services enable maximal mashup, reuse, and sharing of structured data (such as relational tables), semi-structured information (such as Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents), and unstructured information (such as RSS feeds, content from Web applications, commercial data from online business sources).
In a Web data services environment, applications may subscribe to and consume information, provide and publish information for others to consume, or both. Applications that can serve as a consumer-subscriber and/or provider-publisher of Web data services include mobile computing, Web portals, enterprise portals, online business software, social media, and social networks. Web data services may support business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) information-sharing requirements. Increasingly, enterprises are including Web data services in their SOA implementations, as they integrate mashup-style user-driven information sharing into business intelligence, business process management, predictive analytics, content management, and other applications, according to industry analysts.
To speed development of Web data services, enterprises can deploy technologies that ease discovery, extraction, movement, transformation, cleansing, normalization, joining, consolidation, access, and presentation of disparate information types from diverse internal sources (such as data warehouses and customer relationship management (CRM) systems) and external sources (such as commercial market data aggregators). Web data services build on industry-standard protocols, interfaces, formats, and integration patterns, such as those used for SOA, Web 2.0, Web-Oriented Architecture, and Representational State Transfer (REST). In addition to operating over the public Internet, Web data services may run solely within corporate intranets, or across B2B supply chains, or even span hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) or Cloud computing environments.
See also
Data Integration
Data Virtualization
Web data integration
References
Web services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 26th Emmy Awards, later known as the 26th Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 28, 1974. Johnny Carson hosted the ceremony. Winners are listed in bold and networks are in parentheses.
The top shows of the night were M*A*S*H and Upstairs, Downstairs. M*A*S*H and The Waltons had the most major nominations with nine. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and The Carol Burnett Show led the night with four major wins apiece.
For this ceremony, individual awards dubbed "Super Emmys" were given out in addition to the traditional categories. The individual categories were dropped the following year and have yet to return since.
Winners and nominees
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Directing
Writing
Super Emmys
The Primetime Super Emmy Award was a set of 14 awards that were given in conjunction with the traditional Emmy Awards at the 1974 ceremony.
Winners of a traditional Emmy would then compete against their genre counterpart from the same category (comedy vs. drama for "Series", miniseries vs. telefilm for "Special"). This format would prove to be the Super Emmy's undoing. In order to vote on a Super Emmy winner, the traditional Emmy winners had to be announced well before the ceremony.
Several members of the Television Academy were against implementing the new awards. Super Emmy winners Alan Alda and Mary Tyler Moore were some of the loudest detractors. Both threatened to resign from the academy if they were installed. During their acceptance speeches, Moore said that comparing comedic and dramatic television was "apples to oranges". Alda went one step further in his speech "it's comparing apples to oranges to Volkswagens."
The Super Emmy was never awarded again.
Acting
Directing
Writing
Craft categories
Most major nominations
Most major awards
Notes
References
External links
Emmys.com list of 1974 Nominees & Winners
026
Primetime Emmy Awards
1974 in Los Angeles
May 1974 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVNN | KVNN (1340 AM, Victoria News Network) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Victoria, Texas, United States, the station serves the Victoria, TX area. The station is currently owned by Victoria Radio Works, Ltd. and features programming from Citadel Broadcasting, Premiere Radio Networks and USA Radio Network.
History
The station signed on the air in Victoria on December 28, 1961 as KVIC. It was assigned the call letters KCWM on January 12, 1981. On June 6, 1985, the station changed its call sign to KAMG, on March 9, 2001 to KRNX, and on March 9, 2004 to the current KVNN,
References
External links
VNN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVNS | KVNS (1700 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Brownsville, Texas, the station is currently owned by iHeartMedia and features programming from Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks and Westwood One. It shares studios with its sister stations, KHKZ, KQXX-FM, KTEX, and KBFM, located close to the KRGV-TV studios in Weslaco, Texas, while its transmitter is located near Brownsville, Texas.
History
KVNS originated as the expanded band "twin" of an existing station on the standard AM band.
In 1949 a license was issued for a new Brownsville radio station, KBOR on 1600 kHz, owned by Brownsville Broadcasting Company. On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that eighty-eight stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with KBOR authorized to move from 1600 kHz to 1700 kHz. A construction permit for the expanded band station was assigned the call letters KQXX on March 6, 1998.
On February 26, 2004, 1700 AM changed its call sign to KVNS, and the KQXX call letters were transferred to the former KBOR on 1600 AM. On February 3, 2004, KVNS was sold to Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, and on February 17, 2009, the station was sold to Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses.
The FCC's initial policy was that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could operate simultaneously for up to five years, after which owners would have to turn in one of the two licenses, depending on whether they preferred the new assignment or elected to remain on the original frequency, although this deadline was extended multiple times. It was ultimately decided to transfer full operations to the expanded band station, and on February 17, 2005, the license for original station on 1600 AM, KQXX, was cancelled.
On September 17, 2012, KVNS 1700 AM changed formats from classic hits to sports, with programming from Fox Sports Radio.
Previous logo
References
External links
FCC History Cards for 1600 AM (covering 1947-1981 as KBOR)
VNS
IHeartMedia radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPBE | KPBE (89.3 FM, La Radio Cristiananetwork) was a radio station broadcasting a religious broadcasting music format. Licensed to Brownwood, Texas, United States. The station was last owned by Paulino Bernal Evangelism. Bernal surrendered the license for KPBE and five other stations to the Federal Communications Commission on Nov. 7, 2013.
References
External links
PBE
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations disestablished in 2013
Defunct religious radio stations in the United States
2013 disestablishments in Texas
PBE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Com21 | Com21 was an early pioneer in developing cable modem networks in the era before the standard DOCSIS was introduced for Internet access via cable television networks. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2003.
The company
Com21 Inc. was an American public company. Com21 shares traded on Nasdaq using CMTO as symbol. The headquarters of the company was located in Milpitas, California. Com21 had offices in 13 countries. The European head office was located in Delft and had a development centre in Cork, Ireland.
In 2000 the company had over 260 employees.
Products
Com21 was quite successful with their cable modem line of products in the years before the new standard DOCSIS was available. The Com21 portfolio can be divided into three segments: the central or head end equipment, cable modems or CPE, and the management platform.
ComController
The central system, typically installed in the head end or CATV hub locations were called ComControllers. A ComController provided the same function as a CMTS in modern Docsis networks. A ComcCntroller was a 19" rack module that was built around an integrated ATM switch and needed several modules to become a functional cable modem head end system.
The main components or modules in a ComController were:
the management module (one per system)
the downstream HF controller (one per system)
upstream HF controllers, each providing two upstream channels (at least one per system)
network controllers, providing interconnection with the internet (or private IP network)
The management module provided the interface between each ComController system and the Com21 network management platform NMAPS. The management module offered a single Ethernet interface to an out of band management network.
Each ComController had one HF Downstream module. The downstream controller had two F-connector interfaces to connect a coax cable towards the distribution section of a hybrid fibre coax cable TV network. Below the primary interface a test interface connector was available, making it possible to connect test equipment without having to disconnect the main downstream signal from the network. The frequency of the downstream signal was configurable via the management interface.
A ComController needed at least one upstream receiver module. Each upstream receiver module offered two interfaces towards the HFC network.
To connect the cable modem network to the Internet, a ComController had one or more network modules. In the early models of the ComControllers, network modules offered two 10BASE-T interfaces. Each of these Ethernet interfaces could be linked to a VLAN within the Com21 network. After a while, the 10 Mbit Ethernet interfaces didn't offer sufficient bandwidth, as the offered speeds required faster network interconnection. The first successor was a network module with a fast Ethernet (100 Mbit/s) interface, but this interface lacked the option of VLANs.
As VLAN support was really needed to offer reliable services to the users o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Davidsohn | George Davidsohn (January 20, 1936, in Montevideo – October 16, 2015, in New York City) was the founder of Davidsohn Computer Services / BTSI and Davidsohn Global Technologies.
Early life and career
Davidsohn was born in Montevideo to a Jewish family originating from Transylvania; when he was ten, the family moved to New York City where his father worked as a diplomatic consul. At 14, Davidsohn started his career on Wall Street as an IBM punched-card clerk, while attending high school at night. He attended Brooklyn College and the New York Institute of Finance.
George Davidsohn & Son, Inc.
In 1956, Davidsohn left Dean Witter and founded Davidsohn Computer Services.
In 1973, Davidsohn himself left Control Data and formed The Davidsohn Group, a subsidiary of George Davidsohn & Son, Inc. As of January 2009, George Davidsohn & Son, Inc. is now Davidsohn Global Technologies and his son, Joseph has taken over as President and CEO.
Personal life
George Davidsohn attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and took part in several Off-Broadway productions. He was also an avid baseball fan and had a tryout, as a shortstop, for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He and his wife, Denise, had 6 children.
References
Businesspeople from New York (state)
Uruguayan people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Uruguayan Jews
Uruguayan emigrants to the United States
American people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Living people
1936 births
Brooklyn College alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad%20Bracha | Gilad Bracha is a software engineer at F5 Networks, and formerly at Google, where he was on the Dart programming language team. He is creator of the Newspeak language, and co-author of the second and third editions of the Java Language Specification, and a major contributor to the second edition of the Java Virtual Machine Specification.
Between 1994 and 1997, he worked on the Smalltalk system developed by Animorphic Systems, a company that was bought by Sun in 1997. From 1997 to 2006, he worked at Sun Microsystems as computational theologist and, as of 2005, distinguished engineer, on various aspects of the specification and implementation of Java. Following that, he was distinguished engineer at Cadence Design Systems from 2006 to 2009, where he led a team of developers designing and implementing Newspeak.
Bracha received his B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from Ben Gurion University in Israel and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah.
Bracha won the Senior Dahl–Nygaard Prize in 2017.
BGGA closures
In 2006, Bracha, with Neal Gafter, James Gosling, and Peter von der Ahé (collectively BGGA), drafted a specification for adding closures to the Java language, version 6. The proposal has been criticized by Joshua Bloch on terms of being needlessly complex (adding function types and non-local returns) while providing little benefit for the average Java programmer over other simpler proposals. Closures were added to Java 8, but based on a different proposal than the BGGA one.
Pluggable type systems
Bracha proposed that choice of type system be made independent of choice of language; that a type system should be a module that can be "plugged" into a language as needed. He believes this is advantageous, because what he calls mandatory type systems make languages less expressive and code more fragile. The requirement that types do not affect the semantics of the language is challenging to fulfill; for example, constructs like type-based overloading are disallowed.
In practice, pluggable type systems are variously called optional typing, type hinting, type annotations, or gradual type checking. They tend to be constructed by adding a static type system to an extant dynamically typed language without changing its semantics and usually its syntax. Examples include Smalltalk, Python 3, Ruby, Clojure, and PHP 5. For most of the languages there is only one implementation of the type system. The exception is Python 3 where the type system is truly pluggable, because there are several implementations and the programmer can use the one that is the best fit. The only language designed with a pluggable type system from the start is Newspeak. Java 8 provides the ability to extend the type system, but does not allow flexibility in the basics of the type system, such as choosing between static and dynamic typing.
References
External links
Bracha’s blog
Bracha’s old blog at Sun
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living peop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak%20%28programming%20language%29 | Newspeak is a programming language and platform in the tradition of Smalltalk and Self being developed by a team led by Gilad Bracha. The platform includes an integrated development environment (IDE), a graphical user interface (GUI) library, and standard libraries. Starting in 2006, Cadence Design Systems funded its development and employed the main contributors, but ended funding in January 2009.
Overview
Newspeak is a class-based and message-based language. Classes may be nested, as in BETA. This is one of the key differences between Newspeak and Smalltalk.
Newspeak is distinguished by its unusual approach to modularity. The language has no global namespace. Top level classes act as module declarations. Modularity in Newspeak is based exclusively on class nesting. Module declarations are first class values (i.e., they may be stored in variables, passed as parameters, returned from methods, etc.) and are stateless.
By design the newspeak lacks undeclared access to a global scope and therefore enforces dependency injection. As consequence it requires all class dependencies (instance variables referred as by "slots") to be explicitly referenced. This makes every class in Newspeak virtual. All names of dependencies in Newspeak are late-bound (dynamically bound), and are interpreted as message sends, as in Self.
Notable feature of the newspeak is impossibility to directly access instance variables. It's done via automatically generated getters or setters.
Development
While developed at Cadence Newspeak was used to write its own IDE (compiler, debugger, class browsers, object inspectors, unit testing framework, a mirror based reflection API etc.), a portable GUI tool kit, an object serializer/deserializer, a parser combinator library, a regular expression package, core libraries for collections, streams, strings and files, parts of foreign function interface and CAD application code. The Newspeak platform as a whole took approximately 8 person years of work.
Identity
The name Newspeak is inspired by the Newspeak language appearing in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The heading on the programming language's website says "It's doubleplusgood". The motive for the name is that Orwell's Newspeak language grew smaller with each revision; Bracha views this as a desirable goal for a programming language.
The language icon is supposed to be Big Brother's eye, as seen in page 3 of the documentation.
It should not be confused with the safety critical programming language of the same name designed by Ian Currie of RSRE in 1984, for use with the VIPER microprocessor. Its principal characteristic was that its compiler would ensure all potential exceptional behaviour is explicitly handled by the program.
Implementation
Primordial Soup is a virtual machine (VM) that runs Newspeak binary snapshopts of serialized Newspeak files. Internal Object Representation was inspired by the Dart VM and provides basic VM primitives for the langu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20forms%20automation | Enterprise forms automation is a company-wide computer system or set of systems for managing, distributing, completing, and processing paper-based forms, applications, surveys, contracts, and other documents. It plays a vital role in the concept of a paperless office.
JetForm Corporation first used the term "enterprise forms automation" in the mid 1990s to describe their solution to automating paperwork. This process was later acquired by Adobe Systems, and is now part of the Adobe LiveCycle suite of products. In 2004, Efficient Technology Inc, became the first company to apply this term to software as a service.
Enterprise forms automation refers to the automation of paper-based processes that specifically rely on documents (forms, applications, etc.) that retain a paper-based look and experience, even if not printed out for interaction. To be considered an ‘enterprise forms automation’ solution, a system must meet enterprise software requirements, and specifically focus on automating paperwork and paper-based forms.
Impact
Organizations implement enterprise software solutions to automate major functions and large processes, as these areas offer the greatest cost savings compared to smaller projects. Enterprise-level implementations often cost over $100,000 and therefore take many months to produce cost savings. As such, organizations ignore automating smaller functions, due to the lack of immediate financial benefit or cost savings. As functions become more automated while software costs for enterprise systems drop in price, organizations begin automating lower-level functions to become more efficient. In addition, through the advent of standards like Adobe's PDF model and service models like Quik!, companies seek to automate the filling out of forms via enterprise forms automation solutions.
Automating forms also has a positive ‘green’ impact on the environment. To reduce waste and carbon emissions, companies seek ways to eliminate paper. An enterprise forms automation system can eliminate paper entirely, or significantly reduce how much paper a company uses—also reducing shipping costs, and printing and storage costs of paper forms. In addition, automating paper-based processes greatly speeds up the time it takes to perform transactions, which results in fewer errors, rejections, and revisions—and frees up time spent by users on manual labor.
Implementation
DMS
Modern implementation of the paperless office concept has two main focuses: creating documents and managing documents. Since major systems have already displaced paper altogether (e.g., enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, accounting software, etc.), paper that remains in use is largely generated by processes that capture data, generate reports, and distribute communications. As software and computers have evolved, the first problem addressed has been management of existing and legacy documents through document management systems.
Document management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSN | Orbit Showtime Network commonly known as OSN, is a Dubai-based satellite TV company serving the Middle East and North Africa region. OSN mainly broadcasts programming from TV networks Paramount Global, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, DreamWorks and BBC; as well as regional, mostly Arabic, Turkish and Pinoy content.
OSN introduced several technologies and services to the region since 2012, like the DVR and an online TV platform, 3D HD, and internet-enabled satellite receivers. since it was founded in 2009 or 2010
History
OSN was formed in 2009 by the merger of the two largest subscription TV networks in the region, namely Orbit (a member of Riyadh-based Mawarid Holding which included the formerly separate ART network) and Showtime Arabia, a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Kuwait-based KIPCO. The merger of KIPCO and Mawared resulted in a new holding company; Panther Media Group, with its headquarters in the Dubai International Financial Centre.
Showtime Arabia continued its growth in the region by adding a range of new channels and new services, such as the Showbox DVR System in 2005, allowing subscribers to record different programmes. In August 2007, Showtime Arabia expanded its video-on-demand service.
On the other hand, Bahrain-based Orbit was the first pay TV service in the Middle East; due to the challenging environment, it was driven to consolidate with the larger Showtime to better compete with popular free-to-air satellite television.
The new network ended the satellite radio stations both services used to offer that were ad-free and specialized in different musical genres.
OSN TV
Started from the first of June 2023
OSN+ (OSN Plus)
In March 2022, OSN rebranded its subscription video-on-demand streaming service from 2020 to OSN+ (or OSN Plus). A more colourful logo accompanied the rebrand, as well as an update to the interface and search engine.
The platform continued to provide content from its partners, including HBO, Paramount, and NBCUniversal, deepening its exclusive partnerships. In January 2022, OSN announced the extension of its exclusive partnership with HBO, as well as an expansion of its NBCU relationship to include more premium television exclusives and box sets from Peacock and Sky Studios. Announcements of new deals for premium series from Endeavour Content and All3Media also followed, supplementing existing partnerships with Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery, Sony, MGM, and Lionsgate.
Furthermore, OSN+ provides regionally produced content, producing originals. For example, a local adaptation of the American series Suits, launched in April 2022.
Technology
OSN has launched 5 multi-function interactive decoders:
OSN Plus HD (Discontinued)
OSN HD (Discontinued)
OSN TV
OSN DVR HD (Discontinued)
OSN Showbox HD (Discontinued)
Channels
Movies:
OSN TV Movies Premiere
OSN TV Movies Premiere +2
OSN TV Movies Hollywood
OSN TV Movies Action
Star Movies HD
Kids & Family:
OSN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20%28Nordic%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Nordic was a pan-European cable television network launched on 5 June 1998. A 24-hour English-language network aimed at viewers in the Nordic countries and other European territories. Between 1998 and 2006 MTV Nordic served the majority of European territories (that did not have their own localized MTV channel) under the branding MTV Europe & Nordic. The majority of programming was hosted by presenters from the Nordic countries, mainly Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
Additional veejays came from Israel, United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The channel gradually began to localize in May 2005 with the launch of MTV Denmark and in September 2005 the launch of MTV Sweden, MTV Norway and MTV Finland, which resulted in the MTV Nordic ceasing as a brand.
On February 22, 2019, the local MTV channels for the Nordic region were replaced by the relaunch of MTV Nordic which features no advertising or sponsorships. Despite this, separate social media accounts and websites still exist for the local languages.
In early 2020, MTV Nordic as a branding began to reappear on MTV's social media sites within the Nordic region.
On February 1, 2021, MTV Nordic was replaced with MTV Europe.
Programming
16 and Pregnant
90's House
Amazingness
Are You the One?
Are You the One? Second Chances
Awkward
Car Crash Couples
Catfish: The TV Show
Catfish: Trolls
Celebrity Ex on the Beach
Double Shot at Love
Ex on the Beach
Ex on the Beach US
Ex on the Beach: Body SOS
Faking It
Families of the Mafia
Floribama Shore
How Far Is Tattoo Far?
Game of Clones
Geordie OGs
Geordie Shore
Geordie Shore: Their Story
Jersey Shore
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation
Just Tattoo of Us
Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club
Million Dollar Baby
MTV Breakfast Club
MTV Night Videos
MTV Push
My Super Sweet 16
Promposal
Revenge Prank
Ridiculousness
Siesta Key
Single AF
Spring Break with Grandad
Suspect
Teen Mom 2
Teen Mom 3
Teen Mom OG
Teen Mom UK
The Hills
The Hills: New Beginnings
Original version
Nordic Top 5
MTV Nordic Top 40
News Weekend Edition
Hitlist UK
Euro Top 20
US Top 20
Axl Meets
Spanking New
MTV at the Movies
Select MTV
Dance Floor Chart
Stylissimo
MTV News
Non-stop Hits
Don't Stop The Music
This is the new shit
This is our Music
mtv:new
Most Selected
MTV Amour
MTV Summer Festivals
Superock
MTV Hot
Top Selection
Total Request
3 from 1 on the Web
Bytesize
Data Videos
Up North
Alternative Nation
Chill Out Zone
Presenters
Original version
Eden Harel (1994–2002) European Top 20, Select MTV, Dancefloor Chart
Lars Beckung mtv:new
Axl Smith (2004-) Spanking New, Axl Meets, MTV News, MTV At The Festivals,
Thomas Madvig
Maria Guzenina
Vanessa Warwick Headbangers Ball
Rebecca De Ruvo Awake on the Wild Side, Dial MTV
Camila Raznovich (1995–1998) MTV Amour, Hangin' Out, MTV Summer Festivals, MTV Beach House
Cat Deeley (1997–2002) Hit List UK, Stylissimo, MTV News
Julia Valet Superock, MTV Hot
Trevor Nelson The Lic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib%C3%A9ration-Nord | ("Liberation-North") was one of the principal resistance movements in the northern occupied zone of France during the Second World War.
It was one of the eight great networks making up the National Council of the Resistance.
History
Initially an underground newspaper, from December 1940 to November 1941 Libération-Nord was transformed into a resistance movement. Aiming to express the secret movements of the non-communist unions among the Confédération générale du travail the Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens and the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO), Libération-Nord was formed around Christian Pineau and the team of the Manifeste des douze. The movement was not entirely socialist but the leadership was socialist.
In 1942, two resistance networks were created from within Libération-Nord under the command of the Bureau central de renseignements et d'action:
Phalanx in the zone Sud, created by Christian Pineau
Cohors-Asturies in the zone Nord.
In early 1943 Libération-Nord began to organise armed groups under the impetus of Jean Cavaillès and Colonel Zarapoff. Represented at the National Council of the Resistance, where he exerted the influence of the underground SFIO, the movement withheld its participation from the Mouvements unis de la Résistance in December 1943.
With the instar of the Organisation civile et militaire, Libération-Nord failed to create a great workers' party with its origins in the resistance.
Principal members
Pierre Boursicot
Jean Aimé Caillau
Jean Cavaillès
Michel Collinet
Jean-Baptiste Daviais
Paul Rassinier
Jean Gosset
René Iché
Marcel Mérigonde
Christian Pineau
Yves Rocard
Louis Saillant
François Tanguy-Prigent
Colonel Zarapoff
Bibliography
Alya Aglan, La Résistance sacrifiée. Le mouvement Libération-Nord, Flammarion, 1999 (), nouvelle édition, « Champs », 2006.
Christian Pineau, La Simple Vérité. Regard sur la période 1940-1945, Juillard, 1960
Marc Sadoun, Les Socialistes sous l'Occupation, Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1982 ()
See also
Libération-Sud
French Resistance networks and movements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Genome%20Browser | Integrated Genome Browser (IGB) (pronounced Ig-Bee) is an open-source genome browser, a visualization tool used to observe biologically-interesting patterns in genomic data sets, including sequence data, gene models, alignments, and data from DNA microarrays.
History
Integrated Genome Browser was first developed at Affymetrix for their scientists and public sector collaborators to visualize data from genome-wide tiling arrays. The first iterations of IGB were developed using funding from NIH awarded to company scientists Gregg Helt and Tom Gingeras. In 2004, Affymetrix released IGB as open source software, along with the Genoviz SDK, a graphics library for building genome browser applications. The first release of the code base was done as a compressed file archive. Soon after, the code was imported into a new repository at SourceForge. Since then, all development has proceeded in public under an open source model. In early 2008, a group led by former Affymetrix employee Ann Loraine began developing and maintaining IGB, supported by funding from the National Science Foundation and new investigator funds from UNC Charlotte. Since then, Loraine, her students, and collaborators have added many new features and capabilities, notably support for visualizing high-throughput sequencing data from Illumina and other platforms. In 2014, they migrated the source code to a git repository at Bitbucket.
In 2020, Oracle's Java Magazine named the Integrated Genome Browser as one of the 25 greatest Java apps ever written.
Description
IGB is built on top of the Genoviz SDK, a Java library that implements key visualization features such as dynamic, real-time zooming and scrolling through a genomic map, a feature of the IGB browser that sets it apart from many similar tools.
IGB is also distinguished by the ease with which individual labs can set up data source servers to share data, notably, via REST-style Web services (Distributed Annotation System) and a simple file-system based approach called QuickLoad.
Supported formats
IGB reads data in dozens of formats, including BAM, BED, Affymetrix CHP, FASTA, GFF, GTF, PSL, SGR, and WIG. The most up-to-date list is available at the BioViz Wiki.
IGB can output visualized data in dozens of formats via the FreeHEP library. These include EPS, PostScript, PDF, EMF, SVG, SWF, CGM, GIF, PNG, and PPM.
References
External links
Genoviz SDK at Bitbucket
IGB installer download site
Free bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecked%3A%20Revenge%20Revisited | Wrecked: Revenge Revisited (previously known as Gas: Fuel For Fun) is a vehicular combat racing video game developed by Supersonic Software and published by 505 Games for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, but the PS3 release is only available in the PAL region.
Reception
Wrecked: Revenge Revisited received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
See also
Mashed: Drive to Survive
References
External links
Supersonic Software Ltd Gas page
2012 video games
505 Games games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Racing video games
Vehicular combat games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Xbox 360 games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
Supersonic Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont%20Hospital | Dupont Hospital is a 131-bed acute care facility located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The hospital was opened in 2001 as a joint venture between the Lutheran Health Network and is staffed by more than 260 physicians.
The hospital includes the Dupont Resource Center, which offers lectures, screenings, counseling, and support groups.
Services
Dupont has 13 operating rooms, three endoscopy rooms, two C-section rooms, a special procedures room, a 10-bed ICU, and a Level III NICU. The hospital also has 64-slice and 16-slice CT scanners.
Dupont provides 24/7 emergency services by board-certified physicians. This hospital is rated #83 overall for hospitals in Indiana.
Centers within the hospital campus include the Ambulatory Surgery Center, the Dupont Center for Sleep Health, and Birthplace. The Ambulatory Surgery Center is a facility for scheduled surgeries. Emergency surgeries and outpatient surgeries are performed in the main hospital. The Sleep Health Center performs sleep studies. Birthplace includes 12 Labor, Delivery, and Recovery Rooms, 14 NICU Beds, 27 Postpartum Rooms, a 20 Bed Nursery, and a dedicated Maternity entrance and a private elevator that leads to the labor/Delivery Unit.
Notes
References
Dupont Hospital website
Dupont's page on the Lutheran Health Network website
Hospital buildings completed in 2001
Hospitals in Indiana
Buildings and structures in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Christian hospitals
Community Health Systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 27th Emmy Awards, later known as the 27th Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 19, 1975. There was no host this year. Winners are listed in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.
The top shows of the night were Mary Tyler Moore, and Upstairs, Downstairs which won its second straight Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series. M*A*S*H led all shows with nine major nominations heading into the ceremony, but only won one award. Mary Tyler Moore led all shows with five major wins. Upstairs, Downstairs became the first non-American drama to win the outstanding drama award twice and was the third win in five years for a British produced drama.
This is the 1st ceremony where one network received all the nominations in a Series category. It would not happen again until the
39th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Winners and nominees
Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Directing
Writing
Most major nominations
Most major awards
Notes
References
External links
Emmys.com list of 1975 Nominees & Winners
027
Primetime Emmy Awards
Primetime Emmy
May 1975 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showmance%20%28Glee%29 | "Showmance" is the second episode of the American television series Glee. The episode premiered on the Fox network on September 9, 2009. It was written by series co-creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan and directed by Murphy. The episode sees the glee club attempt to recruit new members by performing Salt-n-Pepa's "Push It" in a school assembly. It advances the love triangles between Rachel (Lea Michele), Finn (Cory Monteith) and Quinn (Dianna Agron) and Emma (Jayma Mays), Will (Matthew Morrison) and Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig), and sees antagonist Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) begin to conspire against the club.
The episode features covers of six songs. Studio recordings of three of the songs performed were released as singles, available for digital download. Three of the tracks also appear on the album Glee: The Music, Volume 1. "Showmance" introduces recurring cast members Jennifer Aspen, Kenneth Choi, and Heather Morris, and guest-stars Valorie Hubbard.
The episode was watched by 7.3 million US viewers, and was the best-received scripted premiere by Fox in three years. The performance of Kanye West's "Gold Digger" in particular drew positive reviews from critics, with Jarett Wieselman of the New York Post and Entertainment Weeklys Tim Stack comparing the episode favorably to the series' pilot episode. Brian Lowry for Variety, however, received the episode poorly, deeming the show a one-hit wonder, while Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times noted weaknesses in the adult characters.
Plot
Cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) informs glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) that New Directions must have twelve members to be eligible to compete at Regionals. Will decides to have New Directions perform in a school assembly, hoping to recruit new members. The group is opposed to his choice of song—"Le Freak" by Chic—so as a compromise, Will suggests they also learn "Gold Digger" by Kanye West. Rachel Berry's (Lea Michele) crush on Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) leads her to join the celibacy club, which he attends with his girlfriend, Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron), who is head of the Cheerios. Rachel soon realizes that the celibacy club is really a place where teens try to get as physically close to each other as possible without technically engaging in any kind of sexual activity, and she impresses Finn by saying celibacy club doesn't work because it is normal for teenagers to want to have sex.
Rachel also convinces the Glee club members to secretly change their performance to "Push It" by Salt-n-Pepa to give audience members what they want, "sex". The song is well received by the student body, however complaints from parents lead Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) to compile a list of pre-approved, sanitary songs which New Directions must choose from in future. Will is angry with Rachel for her actions, and when Quinn and fellow cheerleaders Santana (Naya Rivera) and Brittany (Heather Morris) audition for the club with a t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20%26%20Order%3A%20Criminal%20Intent%20%28season%209%29 | The ninth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered on the USA Network on March 30, 2010, and ended on July 6, 2010.
After the two-part season premiere, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, and Eric Bogosian left the show. Bogosian's character (Capt. Daniel Ross) was killed off in the first part of the premiere. Bogosian was replaced in the cast by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, playing Captain Zoe Callas. Saffron Burrows joined the cast (as Detective Serena Stevens), replacing Julianne Nicholson (who was pregnant and having a child during taping) who played Detective Megan Wheeler. Jeff Goldbum assumed the leading role.
The scene cards return in this season after three seasons.
Episodes from the ninth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent also aired on NBC beginning Sunday, June 20 at 10:00 PM (Eastern) with repeats of those episodes airing Saturdays starting June 26 at 8:00 PM (Eastern). The episodes aired on NBC until Sunday, September 5, 2010. Bravo began airing ninth-season episodes during early morning hours on Sundays starting November 21 at 2:00 AM until 4:00 AM.
Cast
Main cast
Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren (episodes 1-2)
Kathryn Erbe as Detective Alexandra Eames (episodes 1-2)
Jeff Goldblum as Detective Zack Nichols
Saffron Burrows as Detective Serena Stevens (episodes 2-16)
Eric Bogosian as Captain Daniel Ross (episode 1)
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Captain Zoe Callas (episodes 3-16)
Recurring cast
Leslie Hendrix as Chief M.E. Elizabeth Rodgers
Guest stars
Michael Gladis – "Love Sick".
Melissa Benoist- a struggling ballerina who is initially an understudy before a colleague's murder puts her in the top spot in "Delicate" .
Tracy Pollan – a successful and attractive magazine writer in "Traffic".
Lorraine Bracco – "Disciple"; a case where a body discovered at a construction site bears all the hallmarks of a serial killer who was executed more than six months earlier.
Dan Lauria, Ralph Macchio, Michael B. Jordan – "Inhumane Society" where a promising young boxer is derailed when authorities discover he's at the center of a dog fighting ring.
Dan Butler – "Lost Children of the Blood" where the body of a bright young college student is found completely drained of blood.
F. Murray Abraham – as Theodore Nichols (Nichols's father) in a case where the body of a successful real estate agent is discovered in a basement, bled out.
Episodes
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References
Law & Order: Criminal Intent episodes
2010 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Rokhlin%20Jr. | Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. (born August 4, 1952) is a mathematician and professor of computer science and mathematics at Yale University. He is the co-inventor with Leslie Greengard of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1985, recognised as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century.
In 2008, Rokhlin was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for the development of fast multipole algorithms and their application to electromagnetic and acoustic scattering.
Short biography
Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. was born on August 4, 1952, in Voronezh, USSR (now Russia). In 1973 he received a M.S. in mathematics from the University of Vilnius in Lithuania, and in 1983 a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Rice University located in Houston, Texas, United States. In 1985 Rokhlin started working at Yale University located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, where he is now professor of computer science and mathematics.
He is the son of Soviet mathematician Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin.
Awards and honors
Rokhlin has received several awards and honors, including:
the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research from the American Mathematical Society in 2001 (together with Leslie F. Greengard), for their paper describing a new algorithm: the fast multipole method (FMM)
the "Rice University Distinguished Alumni Award" in 2001
elected a member of both the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2008) and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1999)
the IEEE Honorary Membership in 2006.
elected to fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009
the ICIAM Maxwell Prize from the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2011
The William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics from the Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences in 2014
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016
References
External links
Russian mathematicians
Russian inventors
Soviet emigrants to the United States
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Rice University alumni
Vilnius University alumni
Yale University faculty
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Living people
1952 births
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifaw | Ifo is a town in south-western Nigeria near Lagos.
Transport
It is served by a junction station on the national railway network.
See also
Railway stations in Nigeria
References
Towns in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks%20%28C%20language%20extension%29 | Blocks are a non-standard extension added by Apple Inc. to Clang's implementations of the C, C++, and Objective-C programming languages that uses a lambda expression-like syntax to create closures within these languages. Blocks are supported for programs developed for Mac OS X 10.6+ and iOS 4.0+, although third-party runtimes allow use on Mac OS X 10.5 and iOS 2.2+ and non-Apple systems.
Apple designed blocks with the explicit goal of making it easier to write programs for the Grand Central Dispatch threading architecture, although it is independent of that architecture and can be used in much the same way as closures in other languages. Apple has implemented blocks both in their own branch of the GNU Compiler Collection and in the upstream Clang LLVM compiler front end. Language runtime library support for blocks is also available as part of the LLVM project. The Khronos group uses blocks syntax to enqueue kernels from within kernels as of version 2.0 of OpenCL.
Like function definitions, blocks can take arguments, and declare their own variables internally. Unlike ordinary C function definitions, their value can capture state from their surrounding context. A block definition produces an opaque value which contains both a reference to the code within the block and a snapshot of the current state of local stack variables at the time of its definition. The block may be later invoked in the same manner as a function pointer. The block may be assigned to variables, passed to functions, and otherwise treated like a normal function pointer, although the application programmer (or the API) must mark the block with a special operator (Block_copy) if it's to be used outside the scope in which it was defined.
Given a block value, the code within the block can be executed at any later time by calling it, using the same syntax that would be used for calling a function.
Examples
A simple example capturing mutable state in the surrounding scope is an integer range iterator:
/* blocks-test.c */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <Block.h>
/* Type of block taking nothing returning an int */
typedef int (^IntBlock)();
IntBlock MakeCounter(int start, int increment) {
__block int i = start;
return Block_copy( ^(void) {
int ret = i;
i += increment;
return ret;
});
}
int main(void) {
IntBlock mycounter = MakeCounter(5, 2);
printf("First call: %d\n", mycounter());
printf("Second call: %d\n", mycounter());
printf("Third call: %d\n", mycounter());
/* because it was copied, it must also be released */
Block_release(mycounter);
return 0;
}
Compile and execute
$ clang -fblocks blocks-test.c # Mac OS X
$ ./a.out
First call: 5
Second call: 7
Third call: 9
The blocks runtime is not part of the C library(s) linked by default on some systems. If this is the case, it is required to explicitly link to this library:
$ clang -fblocks blocks-test.c -lBlocksRuntime # Linux
The runtime is a part of clang's runtime, but is sometimes not installed with the c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Social%20Network | The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. It portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Max Minghella as Divya Narendra. Neither Zuckerberg nor any other Facebook staff were involved with the project, although Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's book.
Production began when Sorkin signed to write it. Principal photography began that same year in October in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and lasted until November. Additional scenes were shot in California, in the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails composed the film's award-winning score, which was released on September 28, 2010.
The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on September 24, 2010, and was released theatrically in the United States on October 1, by Sony Pictures Releasing. A major critical and commercial success, the film grossed $224 million on a $40 million budget and was widely acclaimed by critics. It was named one of the best films of the year by 78 critics, and named the best by 22 critics, the most of any film that year. It was also chosen by the National Board of Review as the best film of 2010. At the 83rd Academy Awards, it received eight nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Eisenberg, and won for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing. It also received awards for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score at the 68th Golden Globe Awards.
The Social Network has maintained a strong reputation since its initial release, and is commonly cited by critics as one of the best films of the 2010s and 21st century. The Writers Guild of America ranked Sorkin's screenplay the third greatest of the 21st century. While no official sequel has been announced, Sorkin has publicly expressed interest and willingness to write a screenplay for one should Fincher return to direct.
Plot
On October 28, 2003, 19-year-old Harvard University sophomore Mark Zuckerberg is dumped by his girlfriend, Erica Albright. Returning to his dorm, Zuckerberg writes an insulting post about Albright on his LiveJournal blog. He creates a campus website called Facemash by hacking into college databases to steal photos of female students, then allowing site visitors to rate their attractiveness. After traffic to the site crashes parts of Harvard's computer network, Zuckerberg is given six months of academic probation. However, Facemash's popularity attracts the attention of twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and their business partner Divya Narendra. The trio invites Zuckerberg to work on Harvard Connection, a social |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20White%20Collar%20episodes | White Collar is a crime/mystery television series that premiered on October 23, 2009, on the USA Network. The series stars Matt Bomer as Neal Caffrey, a former conman, forger and thief, and Tim DeKay as FBI Special Agent Peter Burke. The pair form an unlikely partnership as they work together to apprehend white collar criminals. The series also stars Willie Garson as Mozzie, an old friend of Neal's who occasionally aids the FBI in their investigations; Tiffani Thiessen as Elizabeth Burke, Peter's wife; and Marsha Thomason and Sharif Atkins as agents Diana Berrigan and Clinton Jones, respectively. Natalie Morales appeared in the first season as agent Lauren Cruz. Hilarie Burton was introduced in the second season as Sara Ellis, a love interest for Neal. She joined the main cast at the beginning of the third season.
White Collar aired its first season of 14 episodes in two parts, which premiered in 2009 and 2010. This was followed by a second season, comprising 16 episodes. The first group of nine episodes aired in summer 2010, while the remaining seven aired in spring 2011. The third season began airing in 2011 and ended in 2012. The first 10 episodes of the season aired in summer 2011, while the remaining six began airing in winter 2012. The series was renewed for a fourth season comprising 16 episodes, which began airing in July 2012. A fifth season which was renewed for 16 episodes, later reduced to 13, started airing in October 2013. In March 2014, the series was renewed for a sixth season, which was confirmed to be its final season the following September. The season premiered on November 6, 2014. On December 18, after the airing of the last episode of the sixth season, White Collar ended its run. The first three seasons are available on DVD in regions 1, 2, and 4, while the first season is also available on Blu-ray. In Australia, Region 4, Season 4 was released on 2 July 2014, Season 5 on 10 December 2014, Season 6 and The Complete Series on the 6 May 2015.
Series overview
Episode list
Season 1 (2009–10)
Season 2 (2010–11)
White Collar was renewed for a second season scheduled to begin July 13, 2010 on USA Network, with Marsha Thomason joining the cast as a series regular and Hilarie Burton appearing in a six-episode arc as insurance investigator Sara Ellis. The nine-episode summer season ran through September 7, 2010 and concluded with a seven-episode winter season that began on January 18, 2011.
Season 3 (2011–12)
On September 27, 2010, White Collar was renewed for a 16 episode third season, which began June 7, 2011. Hilarie Burton joined the cast as a series regular. Diahann Carroll appeared as June, and Denise Vasi, who appeared in the pilot episode as June's granddaughter Cindy, returned as well. The first half of the season also saw guest appearances by Dana Ashbrook, Beau Bridges, Eliza Dushku, Nathen Garson, Lena Headey, Ernie Hudson, Olek Krupa, Al Sapienza, and the return of Matthew Keller (Ross McCall). Series star T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TotalRock | TotalRock is a radio station based in London, England. The station first started in 1997 as Rock Radio Network (RRN), changing name to TotalRock in 2000. The station broadcasts rock and metal music internationally across the internet.
History
Rock Radio Network
Set up by radio and rock luminaries Tommy Vance, Tony Wilson, Andy King, David Clouter and Nigel Roberts, RRN started broadcasting in 1997 online from the front room of a DJ's house on Briarfield Avenue, Finchley, known as 'The Skullery'.
TotalRock
With a move to the function room of The Kings Head in Fulham, TotalRock began broadcasting on 1251AM in London with a Restricted Service Licence on 29 May 2000, with BBC Radio 1 Friday Rock Show creator Tony Wilson, the legendary ‘Voice Of Metal’ DJ Tommy Vance, CEO Boyd Steemson and the metal guru, journalist and author, Malcolm Dome.
The station produced a series of shows for Sanctuary Music's "Metal-Is" website and in early 2001 TotalRock launched free-to-air digital satellite service. Commercial pressures led to TotalRock losing its satellite licence in 2002, however, the station was already streaming all shows worldwide through its website. This later became the station's sole method of output, and it was voted the world's best online metal station in the Online Metal Awards in 2002.
In 2004, Soho's Denmark Place became the home of TotalRock until Crossrail developments forced a move to the parallel Denmark Street in 2010. With high business rates in the centre of the city, TotalRock looked elsewhere and found a home in Shoreditch, East London, in 2012.
Bloodstock Radio
On Halloween 2012, it was announced that TotalRock would merge with Bloodstock Open Air to become Bloodstock Radio from 1 December.
Shortly afterwards in 2013 came the move to the basement of The Cape of Good Hope in Euston. Under new management, the pub was converted to a rock bar and allowed TotalRock to flourish and broaden the brand with club nights and live acoustic gigs.
Return to TotalRock
In January 2014, the station reverted to the TotalRock name, however, only months later misfortune struck and the station was forced to vacate its studios due to the landlord returning the lease. Though currently minus a headquarters, the station continues through remote broadcasting.
Locations
1997–2000, Finchley, North London
RRN was broadcast from the front living room of rock DJ "Skull"; the location was nicknamed "The Skullery".
2000–2004, The Kings Head, Fulham, West London
A pub in South West London, with purpose built studios in the function room upstairs. This venue enabled the TotalFest gigs to be held
The first floor area which was the offices of Total Rock, was once where Robert Plant and Jimmy Page used to rehearse.
2004–2009, 1 Denmark Place, Soho, Central London
Initially the studio, library and office were located in one practice room on the first floor of Enterprise Studios, using a section of the studio wall from The Kings Head to sound proof the studio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General%20Corp.%20v.%20Digital%20Computer%20Controls%2C%20Inc. | Data General Corp. v. Digital Computer Controls, Inc. was a 1971 case in which the Delaware Court of Chancery determined that widespread, confidential disclosure of trade secrets does not necessarily compromise their secrecy. Data General Corporation distributed design documentation with its Nova 1200 minicomputer, notifying owners of the confidentiality of these design drawings through contractual agreements and explicit text on the drawings (essentially a shrinkwrap license). After acquiring drawings with a Nova 1200 purchase, Digital Computer Controls designed its own nearly identical minicomputer. Digital Computer Controls maintained that its use of the documentation was proper because Data General Corporation inadequately maintained the secrecy of the design drawings by distributing them to many customers. The court found that Data General Corporation had sufficiently protected the secrecy of the drawings and that Digital Computer Controls was thus in violation of trade secret law for improperly using confidential information.
Such a view of disclosure had been held by previous courts in non-information technology contexts and has become relevant to trade secrets embodied in widely distributed software commonly protected by clickwrap licenses.
Facts
In 1970 Data General Corporation released the Nova 1200, a minicomputer twice as fast as previous models. Upon purchaser's request, Data General Corporation would include with the computer design documentation intended to allow customers to maintain and repair their own computers. These design drawings were annotated as confidential, and customers received a contractual agreement of confidentiality with their purchase. In March 1971, the president of Digital Computer Controls purchased a secondhand Nova 1200 from a third party. Before receiving the computer, Digital Computer Controls requested the accompanying design documentation from the seller and subsequently photocopied the drawings. The drawings explicitly stated that they could not be used to manufacture similar items without the written permission of Data General Corp. Digital Computer Controls then used the design drawings to create the D-116 minicomputer, which the court determined was "substantially identical in design" to the Nova 1200.
Decision
Data General Corporation requested a preliminary injunction barring Digital Computer Controls from selling the D-116 based primarily on a claim of trade secret misappropriation. Digital Computer Controls consequently moved for summary judgment, claiming that Data General Corporation had not adequately protected the secrecy of its proprietary information. The court found that the adequacy of secrecy precautions was not a matter of law and must be determined at trial, thus denying summary judgment. The court also denied Data General Corporation a preliminary injunction, reasoning that even if Data General Corporation won at trial, the duration of injunctive relief should only |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLR | OpenLR is a royalty-free open standard for "procedures and formats for the encoding, transmission, and decoding of local data irrespective of the map" developed by TomTom.
The format allows locations localised on one map to be found on another map to which the data have been transferred.
OpenLR requires that the coordinates are specified in the WGS 84 format and that route links are given in metres. Also, all routes need to be assigned to a "functional road class".
The specification is described in a white paper licensed under a Creative Commons license. Additionally, TomTom has published an open-source library for the format under the Apache license.
See also
Traffic Message Channel
GPS
Point of Interest
References
External links
OpenLR - Open, Compact and Royalty-free Dynamic Location Referencing
Open formats
Geographic data and information
GIS vector file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MChess%20Pro | MChess Pro is the name given to a chess playing computer program written by Marty Hirsch which won the World Microcomputer Chess Championship in 1995. The program is no longer under development and is no longer commercially available and therefore has largely historical significance only.
History
The versions of MChess Pro which appear on the historical and current SSDF ratings lists include 3.12, 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.1, and 8.0.
Features
MChess Pro has its own DOS GUI and as well as playing chess is able to analyse EPD (Extended Position Description) files. The opening book for the software is written by Sandro Necchi.
Playing style
MChess Pro's style of play is designed to be particularly human, and, more specifically, particularly positional. MChess Pro uses 'complex pattern recognition', has an evaluation function designed to focus on positional factors, and uses aggressive variation pruning in its searches.
Playing strength
MChess Pro was one of the strongest chess programs of the 1990s. MChess Pro finished 8th and was the highest placed computer in the 1991 AEGON Man-Machine tournament. In the 10th AEGON event at the Hague in 1995, MChess Pro defeated three grandmasters and achieved a performance rating of 2652 Elo. MChess Pro has defeated a number of very strong players including Christiansen, Z. Polgar, Rohde, Shabalov, Cifuentes and Wolff. By the end of the 1990s MChess Pro was slipping further down the SSDF (Swedish Chess Computer Association) rating lists and by 2001 was already outside the top 30 programs.
Sample game
This game from 1995 sees MChess Pro defeating one of the strongest female players of the 20th Century - Grandmaster Zsuzsa Polgar. Black suffers damage to her pawn structure early on and in the endgame allows an exchange of dark-squared bishops which leaves her king placed too passively. MChess Pro handles this endgame fairly well.
White: MChess Pro
Black: Zsuzsa Polgar
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 O-O 8.Bb3 a5
9.f3 d5 10.Bxd5 Nxd5 11.Nxd5 f5 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.Nb6 Rb8 14.Qxd8 Rxd8 15.Rd1 Rxd1+
16.Kxd1 fxe4 17.Nxc8 Rxc8 18.b3 exf3 19.gxf3 a4 20.Re1 Ra8 21.Re2 Kf7 22.Bc5 e6
23.Rd2 Ke8 24.Ke2 Be5 25.Ke3 g5 26.Ke4 Bf4 27.Rg2 Kf7 28.h4 h6 29.Bb4 Rb8
30.Bc3 Ra8 31.Bd4 Ra5 32.hxg5 hxg5 33.Bc3 Ra8 34.Be5 axb3 35.cxb3 Bxe5 36.Kxe5 Ke7
37.a4 Rb8 38.Rxg5 Rxb3 39.Rg7+ Kd8 40.f4 Rb4 41.a5 Ra4 42.Kxe6 Re4+ 43.Kd6 Rd4+
44.Kxc6 Rxf4 45.a6 Rc4+ 46.Kb5 Rc7 47.Rg8+ Kd7 48.a7 1-0
See also
Chess engine
Computer chess
Human–computer chess matches
List of chess software
World Computer Chess Championship
References
Chess software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboys%20%28TV%20series%29 | Cowboys is a British television sitcom that aired on the ITV network during the early 1980s. The title refers to the British colloquial use of "cowboy" to describe a workman of doubtful professionalism e.g. a "cowboy builder".
Overview
Roy Kinnear starred as Joe Jones, the hapless owner of a small building firm. His inept employees include 'Wobbly' Ron (David Kelly), Geyser (Colin Welland) and Eric (James Wardroper). Debbie Linden appeared in Series 1 as Doreen, with Janine Duvitski taking over as Muriel in Series 2.
The show was created by Peter Learmouth who would go on to create Granada television sitcoms Surgical Spirit and Let Them Eat Cake.
Cast
Roy Kinnear – Joe Jones
David Kelly – Wobbly Ron
Colin Welland – Geyser
James Wardroper – Eric
Debbie Linden – Doreen (series 1)
Janine Duvitski – Muriel (series 2)
Episodes
Series One (1980)
1.1. Ripping Out
1.2. Perks
1.3. Remember Honky Stubbs
1.4. Black Day at Bad Rock
1.5. C.L.O.D.
1.6. Two Right Casanovas
Series Two (1980-1981)
2.1. Was It Eddie Croucher?
2.2. On Top of Old Smokey
2.3. Bell, Book and Candle
2.4. Hurricane Lesley
2.5. Pieces of Hate
2.6. Operation Douche
2.7. Middle for Diddle
DVD releases
See also
The Gaffer
External links
1980 British television series debuts
1981 British television series endings
1980s British sitcoms
ITV sitcoms
Television shows produced by Thames Television
Television series by Fremantle (company)
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20parascrofulaceum | Mycobacterium parascrofulaceum is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium parascrofulaceum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
parascrofulaceum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20thermoresistibile | Mycobacterium thermoresistibile is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium thermoresistibile at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli
thermoresistibile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20sphagni | Mycobacterium sphagni is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium sphagni at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli
sphagni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20parafortuitum | Mycobacterium parafortuitum is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium parafortuitum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli
parafortuitum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20pulveris | Mycobacterium pulveris is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium pulveris at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli
pulveris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Belgrade | The Belgrade tram system is a 1000 mm gauge network that in 2021 had 12 routes running on of (at least mostly double) track in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. It is operated with 231 trams, including ČKD Tatra KT4, CAF Urbos, and Duewag Be 4/6 trams. The first tram line was introduced on 14 October 1892. In the late 2000s, complete reconstruction of the system commenced.
Lines
There are (as of May 2022) 12 lines in operation every day until around 12:00 am. As of March 2023, lines 3 and 3L are out of operation. There are no tram services throughout the night. Throughout the night there were three tram lines: 7N, 9N and 11N (they are all abolished).
Line 2 (circle line): Pristanište – Vukov Spomenik – Slavija Square – Pristanište
Line 3: Kneževac – Rakovica – Main Railway Station – Omladinski Stadion
Line 3L: Tašmajdan - Železnička stanica „Topčider“
Line 5: Kalemegdan – Vukov Spomenik – Ustanička
Line 6: Tašmajdan – Vukov Spomenik – Ustanička
Line 7: Block 45 – New Belgrade – Main Railway Station – Tašmajdan – Vukov Spomenik – Ustanička
Line 9: Banjica – Slavija Square – Main Railway Station – New Belgrade – Block 45
Line 10: Kalemegdan – Dorćol – Slavija Square – Banjica
Line 11: Kalemegdan – Ada Bridge - New Belgrade – Block 45
Line 12: Banovo Brdo – Railway Station – Tašmajdan – Omladinski Stadion
Line 13: Banovo Brdo – Ada Bridge – New Belgrade - Block 45
Line 14: Ustanička – Vukov spomenik – Slavija Square – Banjica
Former lines on current infrastructure
These lines ran on the current tram network, all these services were discontinued in the early 1990s.
Line 1: Kalemegdan – Main Railway Station – Rakovica – Kneževac
Line 4: Kalemegdan – Dorćol – Omladinski Stadion
Line 8: Voždovac - Slavija - Omladinski Stadion
Another line was discontinued in 2012 after re-routing of the line 12 in Resavska street and extension of the line 3 to Omladinski Stadion through Slavija Square:
Line 7L: Tašmajdan – New Belgrade Block 45
Another 2 lines were discontinued in 2006 after moving on night buses:
Line 7N: Block 45 – New Belgrade – Railway Station – Slavija Square – Vukov Spomenik – Ustanička (discontinued 1 January 2017)
Line 9N: Block 45 – New Belgrade – Railway Station – Slavija Square – Banjica (discontinued 1 July 2009)
History
From 1892 to World War I
Belgrade administration signed a contract with Periklos Tziklos from Milan, Italy, in 1891, regarding construction of long tram grid ("city railway"). Tziklos headed the Serbian-French Society and was concurrently awarded with the concession on introduction of the electricity in Belgrade.
On 14 October 1892, the first tram line in Belgrade was opened. It went from Kalemegdan to Slavija and was horse-powered. A large festivity was organized in the city for this occasion and two cars were placed in front of the municipal building (Belgrade was organized as a municipality at the time). First passengers were municipal president (mayor) Milovan Marinković and members of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamebook | Lamebook is a blog that re-posts 'everything lame and funny' from the social networking site Facebook. Users send in screenshots of unusual or amusing Facebook posts, which are re-posted on the site every weekday.
History
Jonathan Standefer and Matthew Genitempo, graphic designers from Austin, Texas, launched the web site in April 2009 as a Facebook parody site.
The two were acquaintances at Baylor University, yet became friends after they graduated in 2005. "We started Lamebook a little [after meeting], and after a few months of doing that it got so popular that we were able to quit our jobs at the offices and do that full time," said Genitempo, who graduated in 2007 with a degree in graphic design. "That brought a lot of other different design opportunities for both of us."
Privacy
Last names and faces are usually blurred out or pixellated upon upload to avoid invasion of privacy, and content can be removed on request. Lamebook also discourages users from trying to contact people seen in posts.
Oversharing
Sites such as Lamebook would not be in existence without the concept of oversharing. "Overshare," the Word of the Year in 2008 at Webster's New World® College Dictionary, is defined as too much information that is either intentionally or accidentally revealed. The editors of Webster's New World explain that this is a new word for an old phenomenon that has been made much easier by the emergence of modern technology. This ease, combined with the wide reach that many social networking sites allow users to have, has made oversharing quite a common occurrence today. According to the Huffington Post, of online oversharers, 32% say that they have experienced "poster’s remorse" and regretted posting certain information about themselves. Lamebook cocreator Jonathan Standefer, was quoted saying "People overshare on the Internet. My favorite ones used to be the mushy ones, but the fights are the funniest. It's like fighting drunk with one of your friends, but everyone else is in the room." He views Lamebook as a forum where people can vent about the inappropriate and cringe-worthy things they have inevitably seen on Facebook. Glamour magazine described Facebook as, "a personal confession booth where we air our dirty laundry". While sitting behind a computer screen, people often forget that "everyone else is in the room," and that on Facebook, anything posted outside of a private message will be seen by many more people than just the one being communicated with. This leads to the kinds of content people submit to Lamebook: couple fights, inappropriate pictures, embarrassing statuses, etc.
Facebook legal action
In March 2010, Facebook contacted Lamebook alleging that the website infringed and diluted the Facebook trademark, and requested that Lamebook cease and desist using the lamebook mark and change the name and look of its website. On 4 November 2010 Lamebook filed legal action against Facebook, seeking a declaration that the website does not in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20septicum | Mycobacterium septicum is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium septicum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli
septicum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20porcinum | Mycobacterium porcinum is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium porcinum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli
porcinum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20peregrinum | Mycobacterium peregrinum is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium peregrinum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
peregrinum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20novocastrense | Mycobacterium novocastrense is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium novocastrense at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
novocastrense |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20rhodesiae | Mycobacterium rhodesiae is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium rhodesiae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
rhodesiae
Bacteria described in 1981 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20tokaiense | Mycobacterium tokaiense is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium tokaiense at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
tokaiense
Acid-fast bacilli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20poriferae | Mycobacterium poriferae is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium poriferae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli
porcinum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20phocaicum | Mycobacterium phocaicum is a species of Mycobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium phocaicum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli
phocaicum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K09YL-D | K09YL-D was a low-powered television station owned and operated by International Communications Network Inc. It broadcasts on channel 9 and licensed to San Diego, California. It was the digital test broadcast of K61GH (now KSDY-LD) and was broadcast from its offices at 4645 Ruffner Road suite C. The station would cease operations in mid-2011, after K61GH was converted to digital on channel 50, as K50LL-D; around this point, the station's owners turned in K09YL-D's license to the FCC for cancellation.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal was multiplexed:
External links
Query the FCC's TV station database for DK09YL
Rabbit Ears
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
09YL-D
2011 disestablishments in California
1998 establishments in California
09YL-D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen%20%28disambiguation%29 | The hyphen is a punctuation mark.
Hyphen may also refer to:
Hyphen-minus (-), one computer character encoding for the mark
Hyphen (magazine), an Asian-American magazine, URL hyphenmagazine.com; not to be confused with the UK website, hyphenonline.com
Hyphen (fanzine), a science fiction fanzine
Hyphen (architecture), an architectural element
Ryan Rowland-Smith, a pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball whose nickname is Hyphen
Sheldon-Primghar Hyphens, an Iowa minor league baseball team in the 1902 and 1903 seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rename%20%28computing%29 | In computing, rename refers to the altering of a name of a file. This can be done manually by using a shell command such as ren or mv, or by using batch renaming software that can automate the renaming process.
Implementations
The C standard library provides a function called rename which does this action. In POSIX, which is extended from the C standard, the rename function will fail if the old and new names are on different mounted file systems.
In SQL, renames are performed by using the CHANGE specification in ALTER TABLE statements.
Atomic rename
In POSIX, a successful call to rename is guaranteed to have been atomic from the point of view of the current host (i.e., another program would only see the file with the old name or the file with the new name, not both or neither of them). This aspect is often used during a file save operation to avoid any possibility of the file contents being lost if the save operation is interrupted.
The rename function from the C library in Windows does not implement the POSIX atomic behaviour; instead it fails if the destination file already exists. However, other calls in the Windows API do implement the atomic behaviour.
References
Computing terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Britain%20II | Great Britain II (also United Friendly, Norsk Data GB, With Integrity, Whitbread Heritage) is a Maxi racing yacht launched by Princess Anne on 21 May 1973 named after the , built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel which was the world's first "iron clad" steam ship and whose salvage from the Falklands was underwritten by Sir Jack Hayward, who also funded the building of GB II.
Background
She was designed to take part in the first "Whitbread Round the World Race", designed by Alan Gurney, and built for Chay Blyth and a group of paratroopers, who went on to be the crew for the race.
The 77 ft sloop is constructed of fibreglass and foam sandwich to give the lightest possible displacement.
Designed to be the fastest yacht in the world and finished in second place on handicap after the Mexican Swan 65 named Sayula II – the first Whitbread Round the World Race winner in 1973.
Great Britain II has taken part in all six Whitbread Round the World Races. Racing in the first five and "following" (not a registered participant) in the last, "transitional" Whitbread in 1993–94 under the name With Integrity, sailing with a shorthanded crew. In the following year, the race became known as the Volvo Ocean Race.
The boat is currently named the Whitbread Heritage and has been in private ownership since 1996.
References
Individual sailing vessels
1970s sailing yachts
Volvo Ocean Race yachts
Sailing yachts built in the United Kingdom
Sailing yachts of the United Kingdom
Sailboat type designs by Alan Gurney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM/Google%20Cloud%20Computing%20University%20Initiative | IBM was a 2009 project using the resources developed in 2007's IBM/Google Cloud Computing partnership. This initiative was to provide access to cloud computing for the universities of all countries.
This initiative was funded by the National Science Foundation awarding $5 million in grants to 14 universities, including Kyushu University, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The goal of this initiative was to enhance university curricula in parallel programming techniques and to promote cloud computing research and development.
With funding help from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the cloud computing initiative provided assistance to hundreds of university scientists working on research projects.
By 2011, Google and IBM were completing the program since high-performance cloud computing clusters had become widely available to researchers at reasonable costs.
References
Further reading
Cloud platforms
Google
IBM cloud services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mlir | Mlir may refer to:
MLIR (software), framework for compiler development
Multilingual information retrieval, a field of information retrieval
Modern Life Is Rubbish, studio album by Blur
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20Integration%20Architecture | In computing, Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is an integration framework produced by Oracle Corporation.
Standards-based, AIA has pre-built common object definitions and services. Oracle AIA is built on Oracle Fusion Middleware's SOA and Business Process-Management (BPM) products.
AIA provides a foundation on which to build business-process flows. AIA delivers Pre-built Integrations as either Direct Integrations (DIs) or Process Integration Packs (PIPs).
Direct Integrations (DIs): Pre-built integrations that manage data flows and data synchronizations between Applications.
Process Integration Packs (PIPs): Help optimize processes; they are pre-built composite business processes across enterprise Applications. They allow companies to get up and running with core processes quickly. AIA and PIPs decrease software development time. PIPs operate both horizontally and vertically. Vertical PIPs cater to industries like telecoms, retail, and banking/insurance.
Oracle AIA for Communications
Oracle AIA for Communications provide end-to-end, integrated business processes, applications, and technology for the Telecom industry. Oracle AIA for Communications provide three PIPs -
Order to Bill PIP - provides pre-built integration between Oracle Siebel CRM with Oracle BRM allowing for synchronization of customer, product and pricing data across these applications. Customer Service Reps (CSRs) can create accounts and submit Sales Orders which would synchronize automatically between the CRM and Billing systems in the Business support system (BSS) eco-system.
Order to Activate PIP - provide support for Lead to Cash and Concept to Market eTOM business processes by expediting the introduction of new product offerings, capturing and fulfilling orders efficiently and accurately, managing fallouts, and providing visibility across the entire order lifecycle. This is a part of the RODOD framework and typically spans across the following Oracle products - Siebel, BRM, AIA, OSM COM and OSM SOM. This PIP journeys the BSS as well as the OSS components.
Agent Assisted Billing Care PIP - provides pre-built integration for integration between Oracle Siebel CRM with Oracle BRM including usage and billing data maintained within Oracle BRM. This empowers CSRs to resolve billing queries faster, improving customer satisfaction.
References
External links
Oracle AIA webpage
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Stephens | William Weyman Stephens Jr., known professionally as Bill Stephens (born October 16, 1949) is an American network television host and commentator specializing in automotive and motorsports presentations. He is a nationally published author of several motorsports books and a columnist for a number of automotive periodicals. He is a television producer and writer for various automotive television programs and a communications consultant providing media training for motorsports personalities and vocal and listening skills training for business people at all levels of the corporate world.
Early life
Stephens, the youngest of three children and the only boy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts to William and Claire Stephens and raised in Somerville, Massachusetts, several miles west of Boston. Stephens' father was a long-distance truck driver and his mother worked in the restaurant business in the Boston area. Stephens frequently accompanied his father on various truck trips as a child which helped to fuel his interest in automobiles. According to family members, at the age of three, Stephens was able to identify every make of automobile on the road before he could even read. His parents permanently separated when he was 13 years old, and following graduation from Somerville High School in 1967, Stephens held several jobs including driving a truck, driving a taxi, making pizza, and working in local auto body shops as a body repairman and painter.
Career
Radio
As a teenager, Stephens developed a fascination with radio broadcasting after seeing several remote broadcasts presented by WBZ Radio in Boston during the rock and roll era of the 1960s. In 1972, at the age of 23, he enrolled in the Columbia School of Broadcasting, a correspondence course, and after completing the program, began his radio career at WRYT in Boston as a staff announcer and control board operator. Over the next 28 years, he served as an on-air personality at such stations as WDRC AM and FM and WCCC-FM in Hartford, CT, WRKO, WVBF-FM, WEEI-FM, WBOS-FM, and WMJX-FM in Boston, KIQQ-FM, KGIL-AM&FM, and KWST-FM in Los Angeles, California, and KMJJ-FM in Las Vegas, NV. Stephens was the last full-time air personality hired by WRKO in Boston before RKO General switched the format from Adult Contemporary to News/Talk in 1981. He was also the only music disc jockey on the airstaff to move to the new format, co-hosting WRKO's Morning Magazine program with Norm Nathan for two years.
In February 1973, Stephens was instrumental in one of the most ambitious promotional stunts in Connecticut radio history when he locked himself inside the WCCC AM&FM on-air studios in Hartford and played the Top 40 song "Bitter Bad" by Melanie for 35 consecutive hours to protest the station's reluctance to offer him a full-time job. During the promotional marathon, demonstrators assembled outside the Asylum St. facility, picketing the management of WCCC to hire Stephens. He was also interviewed on the phone dur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%20Support%20Network | The 'Doctors' Support Network' (DSN) is a confidential self-help group for physicians in the United Kingdom with mental health concerns. It was founded by Dr Soames Michelson and Dr Liz Miller in 1996. Registered Charity Number (England & Wales): 1103741
The DSN has approximately 500 members and has successfully campaigned for better treatment of doctors with mental health issues by the General Medical Council.
External links
http://www.dsn.org.uk/
References
Health charities in the United Kingdom
Mental health organisations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire%20Robinson | Claire Robinson is a television host, author and cook. She graduated from the French Culinary Institute in 2005 and was a television host of the Food Network series 5 Ingredient Fix. On April 4, 2010, she debuted as the new host of Food Network Challenge replacing Keegan Gerhard who hosted the program from 2005 to 2010. As of 2012, she is currently the co-host with Richard Corrigan of Chef Race: UK vs. US on BBC America.
Personal life
Robinson was born in Jacksonville, Florida to an ethnically diverse family. As a child her family moved frequently but eventually settled in Memphis, Tennessee. Her grandparents held PhDs in education and her grandfather was a former president of the University of Memphis. Robinson herself graduated from the University of Memphis with a degree in communications.
References
Further reading
Claire on the Food Network
International Culinary Center alumni
Living people
People from Jacksonville, Florida
1978 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytripia | Oxytripia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Species
Oxytripia orbiculosa (Esper, [1800])
Oxytripia stephania Sutton, 1964
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Oxytripia at funet
Noctuinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%20Simulator%20II | Flight Simulator II may refer to one of two flight simulation video games:
Flight Simulator II, released for the Apple II in 1983 and for the Commodore 64 Atari 8-bit computers in 1984
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.0 for IBM PC compatibles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Track%20Analysis%20Program | All Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC) have the capability to recall recorded radar data. The National Track Analysis Program (NTAP) can identify and track targets which are at a sufficient altitude to be tracked by radar whether or not they are being "controlled" by the ARTCC. NTAPs requested by the AFRCC have proven to be very helpful during an aircraft search by providing the route of flight and last radar position of an aircraft being searched for.
References
Air traffic control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoblur | Motoblur (often stylized as MOTOBLUR) is a discontinued Android user interface and push-based service focused on social networking, developed by Motorola.
It aimed at functional similarity to Palm's Synergy, including such features as Remote Wipe. Motoblur included a variety of widgets which combined various social networking portals such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter as well as other services (news or weather reports) all in one place. It also combined multiple email accounts and contact communication sources into singular notification views, being the first handset software to do so. Feeds and data were regularly pushed to these widgets. Motoblur in its final inception was on these devices: Electrify/Photon 4G, Atrix 4G, Atrix HD, CLIQ/DEXT, Backflip, Devour, Flipout, Charm, Spice, Droid Pro, Filpside, DEFY, DEFY+, Bravo, Droid X, Droid 3, Droid 2, Droid Bionic, and Droid RAZR. The version found on the Droid X, Droid Pro, Droid 2, Droid Bionic, Droid 3, Electrify/Photon 4G, and DEFY was intended to be less intrusive than previous versions.
First generation Motoblur-based phones required a new user to create a Motoblur account, denying access to the main screen until the account was established. User account information was stored on Motorola's redundant servers for access from web browsers and future phones. Newer devices allowed users to defer Blur services until a later registration and had more filtering options and better battery management to optimize the user experience.
In late 2010 Motorola announced that Motoblur would not be their development focus in the future, as Android made custom skins largely redundant. The Atrix, Droid 2 and Droid X do feature the UI skin.
Reception
In 2011 PC World criticised Motoblur for poor performance.
References
Mobile software
Android (operating system) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipdroid | Sipdroid is a voice over IP mobile app for the Android operating system using the Session Initiation Protocol.
Sipdroid is free and open source software released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.
History
The sipdroid open source project was started in svn on March 12, 2009 by the project author pmerle71. It reached version 1.0 on July 12 of the same year. More recent major releases are: 1.5 (May 29, 2010) with improved video quality, 2.0 (November 18, 2010) with the ability to link to a google voice account, 2.2 (March 25, 2011) with the ability to send video sms messages, 2.7 (May 21, 2012) with improved low-latency capability, and 3.0 (April 22, 2013) with support for TLS.
In 2010-2011 it gained popularity partially because of its ability to work with Google's Google Voice service, making calls to traditional telephone numbers while only using the data network. However, after Google Voice removed the ability to connect over SIP on March 8, 2011 this functionality was no longer available.
Since this time, sipdroid has been used with many different native SIP deployments and is given as the default android SIP client by some vendors.
As of January 5, 2014, it is listed on the google play store as having 1,000,000-5,000,000 installations and has been reviewed by nearly 10,000 people.
Fork
Lumicall is a fork of Sipdroid by Daniel Pocock that has undergone significant extensions, adding support for encryption (Transport Layer Security, SRTP, ZRTP), Push-to-talk, ENUM dialing and other enhancements.
First released on 5 February 2012, Lumicall is distributed via Google Play and F-droid.
In 2012, Lumicall's real-time monitoring service, based on gmetric4j, was featured in the book Monitoring with Ganglia. Lumicall was featured in the main track at FOSDEM 2013 during the event Free, Open, Secure and Convenient Communications where the lead developer, Daniel Pocock, was part of a panel discussion on this pressing topic for the free software community.
Lumicall supports Interactive Connectivity Establishment, the IETF proposed successor to STUN for users behind NAT.
Lumicall interfaces with Android's default dialer application and optionally prompts the user to make an outgoing call using VoIP or the GSM/3G network.
Features
Two SIP accounts can be used simultaneously
Supports STUN for users behind Network address translation (NAT)
Video calls (limited support)
Sipdroid interfaces with Android's default dialer application and optionally prompts the user to make an outgoing call using Sipdroid or the GSM/3G network.
See also
Comparison of VoIP software
List of SIP software
Mobile VoIP
References
External links
Lumicall at Google Play
OpenTelecoms (general information about federated VoIP and building infrastructure for Lumicall users)
Free and open-source Android software
Free VoIP software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E51 | European route E 51 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Berlin and ends in Nuremberg, Germany. It is long.
Route
Berlin - Leipzig - Gera - Hirschberg - Hof - Bayreuth - Nuremberg
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
51
E051 |
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