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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEXA%20Center%20for%20Internet%20and%20Society | The NEXA Center for Internet & Society is a research center founded at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering of Polytechnic University of Turin.
It is an academic research center which studies the Internet with a multidisciplinary approach: technical, legal and economic.
History, mission and projects
The Nexa Center for Internet & Society was founded on 26 November 2006 by professors Juan Carlos De Martin and Marco Ricolfi. Based in Turin (Italy), it coordinated, among other projects, COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the digital public domain (2007-2011), LAPSI, the European Thematic Network on legal aspects of public sector information (2010-2012) and represents Creative Commons in Italy. The Nexa Center also coordinates SeLiLi (Servizio Licenze Libere), a service offering advice on free licenses. A notable software project of the Center is Neubot (the network neutrality bot): a free software Internet botthat gathers network performance data useful to investigatenetwork neutrality.
In April 2012, the Nexa Center has launched the “Digital Revolution” undergraduate course at the Politecnico di Torino, the first full-scale teaching activity entirely planned by a member of the Nexa Center (Nexa co-director Juan Carlos De Martin), focused on Internet & Society, and involving several members of the staff of the Center, as well as prestigious guest lecturers.
The Nexa Center is part of a global network of Internet and Society centers with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, the Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore, the Center for Technology & Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, the Internet and Society Laboratory at KEIO University SFC, the MIT Media Lab and The MIT Center for Civic Media. In 2013 the Nexa Center has become part of the Global Network Initiative (GNI), a multi-stakeholder international group devoted to protect and advance freedom of expression and privacy in the ICT sector. In October 2014, the Nexa Center took the role of coordinator of the Global Network of Internet & Society Research Centers. From November 2015, the Nexa Center for Internet & Society is a partner of Lumen, the project of the Berkman Center at Harvard on network transparency.
The Nexa Center works with the European Commission, national and local governments, companies and other institutions. The aim of the center is to broaden the understanding of the main factors characterizing the Internet, their dynamics and their impact on society.
Members
The Nexa Center is run by two co-directors, a board of trustees, staff members and several fellows. Professor Charles Nesson is a member of the NEXA Board of Trustees together with another Berkman Center for Internet and Society co-director, Prof. Yochai Benkler, and also with other well known Italian and foreign personalities as Raffaele Meo and Michelangelo Pistoletto.
See also
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ancient%20Art%20of%20War%20at%20Sea | The Ancient Art of War at Sea is a computer game developed by Broderbund and released for Macintosh and DOS in 1987 as a sequel to The Ancient Art of War.
Plot
The player commands a fleet of ships in this naval-combat simulation which takes place in the late 18th century.
Controllable ship types include the 44-gun frigate with 250 crew, 74-gun (including 10 carronades) ship-of-the-line with over 600 crew, and the 130-gun (including 22 carronades) flagship with 875 crew.
The player faces one of six opponents, each of which employs a different strategy against the player. Five are historic: the Duke of Medina Sidonia (1588); Martin [sic] Tromp (1639); Blackbeard (1718); John Paul Jones (1779); Horatio Nelson (1805); and a fictitious opponent Thor Foote.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in 1987 stated that The Ancient Art of War at Sea "offers a powerful editing system and an enjoyable, playable game" that was superior to its predecessor, with excellent documentation. In 1990 the magazine gave the game three out of five stars, warning that gameplay favored single ships as opposed to fleet actions when fighting enemy fleets. In 1992 the magazine gave the game two stars, stating that it "plays wells as a game, but not as a serious study" and regretting that it was the only Age of Sail game for DOS. Compute! in 1988 also praised the documentation and editor. The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in their "The Role of Computers" column. They agreed that War at Sea was better than its predecessor and called it a "must have", giving the game five out of five stars. They particularly enjoyed the ship-to-ship combat.
The game sold more than 100,000 copies.
Reviews
Jeux & Stratégie #52
References
External links
The Ancient Art of War at Sea at IGN
The Ancient Art of War at Sea at GameSpy
Review in PC World
Review in Family Computing
1987 video games
Apple II games
Broderbund games
Classic Mac OS games
DOS games
Evryware games
Naval video games
NEC PC-9801 games
Real-time strategy video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Asianet | Asianet is a general entertainment private broadcast television network owned by The Walt Disney Company India. This is a list of programmes broadcast by the Malayalam GEC Asianet.
Current broadcast
Drama series
Dubbed series
Reality shows
Former broadcast
Soap operas
Dubbed soap operas
Reality shows
5 Star Kitchen Season 1 & 2 (2020)
5 Star Thattukada (2005–2008)
Adukkala (2009–2011)
Akathalam (1999–2002)
Anantham Ajnatham (1996–2020)
American Jalakam (2006–2011)
Anweshanam (1994–2001)
Auto Show (1996)
Autograph (2004)
Auto Graph - The motorshow (2015)
Badai Bungalow Season 1, 2 (2013–2020)
Bharthakkanmarude Shradhakku (2013)
Bigg Boss Malayalam Season 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (2018–2023)
Chill Bowl
Cinema Diary (1998–2020)
Cinemala (1993–2013)
City Girls (2012)
Comedy Nagar Second Street (2005)
Comedy Show (2002–2004)
Comedy Stars Season 1, 2 and 3 (2009–2022)
Comic Cola (1993–2000)
Cook With Comedy (2023)
Dare the Fear: Aarkundu ee Chankootam? (2017–2018)
Dancing Stars (2022–2023)
Dream Merchant (2012–2013)
Ente Keralam (1993–2001)
Family Tele Quiz (1998–2000)
Fastest Family First – Adi Mone Buzzer (2015–2016)
Fastest Family First – Adi Mone Buzzer Season- 2 (2022)
Filmy Thamasha (2002–2004)(2008)
Gulf Round Up (2004–2010)
Jagadish TV (2000–2001)
Joke Pot (2004)
Kannadi (1993–2016)
Kerala Cafe
Kerala Kitchen (2021–2023)
Little Champion
Little Stars (2013)
Lunars Comedy Express (2012–2014)
Mail Box (2003–2010)
Mammootty – The Best Actor Award Season 1–3 (2009–2012)
Manaporutham (2003–2005)
Manyamahajanangale (2004)
Minnum Tharam (2006–2007)
Minnum Tharam Season 2 (2021)
Miss Kerala (2010–2011)
Mukhyamanthriyodu Chodhikkaam (1996–2001)
Munch Dance Dance (2011–2012)
Munch Stars (2013)
Munshi (2000–2010)
Music Beats (2008)
Music India (2014)
Mylanchy Season 1–7 (2011–2023)
Naattarangu (1997–2002)
Nadhamadhuri (1995–2003)
Narmmalahari (2007–2008)
Nammal Thammil (1994–2015) (2019, 2020)
Ningalkkum Aakaam Kodeeshwaran Season 1–4 (2012–2017)
Nithyaharitham (2006–2009)
Paatupetty (1995–2012)
Pathravishesham
Pathrangaliloode (1997–2008)
Poomarakkombu (1993–1996)
Playback (1995)
Pulse (1999–2004)
Quizy Time (2003–2004)
Raree Rareeram Raro Season 1
Sakalakalavallabhan (2019)
Salam Saleem (2000)
Sancharam (2000–2013)
Sangeetha Sagaram (2003)
Sapthaswarangal (2003–2004)
Satyameva Jayate (2012–2014)
Sa.Ri.Ga.Ma, also known as Sa.Ri.Ga.Ma.Pa.Da.Ni.Sa from 2002–2008 (2001–2013)
Sell Me the Answer Season 1–3 (2015–2019)
Sona Khazana (2006)
Sports Week (1998–2002)
Start Music Aaradhyam Paadum Season 1, 2, 3, 4 (2019–2022)
Star Singer Season 1–8 (2006–2022)
Star Singer Junior Season 1, 2, 3 (2008–2023)
Sundari Neeyum Sundaran Njanum (2012–2013)
Suprabhatham (1996–2012)
Tang Quiz the Whiz (2006–2008)
Thakadhimi (2007–2008)
The People's Choice (2017)
Top 10 (1998–2000) (2008–2011)
Urvashi Theatres (2017–2018)
Vaayanashaala (1998–2005)
Valkannadi (2002–2014)
Valkannadi: The ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Computer%20Edition%20of%20Scrabble | The Computer Edition of Scrabble is a computer game developed by Leisure Genius for the Macintosh in 1988, and was an official computerized version of the board game Scrabble.
Gameplay
The Computer Edition of Scrabble reproduced the game board, tiles, and game pieces onscreen. A clock is included to promote rapid thinking to spell and place words within a user-defined time limit. The game also has lightning- and tournament-timing alternatives. The player's letter rack is visible at the bottom of the screen. The player types a word composed of letters from the rack, and if the word is acceptable by the game, the player moves the cursor to the game board to position the word onscreen and score the move. The player may also pass a turn, request a hint of one playable word, and see the tile values at any time through the use of a pull-down menu.
Reception
In 1988, Dragon gave the Macintosh version of the game 3 out of 5 stars. Macworld reviewed the Macintosh version of Computer Scrabble, praising its faithfulness to the original board game, and challenging AI opponent. They also praise Scrabble's graphics, stating that the "game board is well designed, with premium-word and -letter squares that are easy to distinguish." Macworld criticizes its incompatibility with older keyboards, stating that "pressing any key on the bottom row produces the letter to its left", and a glitch where the game refuses any valid words entered, requiring the game to be rebooted.
M. Evan Brooks reviewed the computer editions of Risk, Monopoly, Scrabble, and Clue for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "In this reviewer's opinion, Scrabble is the weakest product (given cumbersome play and graphics), while Risk and Clue: Master Detective are the strongest."
References
External links
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
Review in Info
Review in Your Sinclair
1988 video games
Apple II games
Classic Mac OS games
DOS games
Leisure Genius games
Scrabble software
Single-player video games
Video games based on board games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Virgin Interactive games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug%20port | A debug port is a diagnostic interface (akin to a computer port) included in an electronic system or integrated circuit to aid design, fabrication, development, bootstrapping, configuration, debugging, and post-sale in-system programming. In general terms, a debug port is not necessary for end-use function and is often hidden or disabled in finished products.
When constituted in a high availability or safety critical system, a debug port may continue to operate as a system monitor for integrity validation in the finished product. In low-cost or high-volume electronics, debug ports are sometimes left enabled to avoid costs of design changes, and can be used by modders and hackers to gain control of the device or access to extra functionality.
Hardware debug ports
UART
Ubiquitous JTAG ports on ICs
Low Pin Count debug port on the original Xbox, used by modders
Serial Wire Debug (SWD), ubiquitous on Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers
Background Debug Mode interface (BDM)
Program and Debug Interface
Nexus debug
Debug ports on microprocessors
Microprocessors are exceptionally complex devices which commonly contain more than a billion transistors internally and sometimes exceed more than one trillion.
Debug ports on microcontrollers
Microcontrollers are generally smaller than mainstream CPUs, but have now evolved so far into system on a chip (SoC) territory, that an MCU can be nearly the only complex chip remaining on an end-use application board (with additional chips devoted to specialized electrical functions such as level shifting and enhanced ESD protection).
SoC MCUs usually use internal flash memory as a program store and may also contain internal EEPROM-based configuration fuses whose correct configuration is essential to the MCU powering up in the correct operating mode; the debug port may be the only way to initially configure the clock tree or to load the first software program post-manufacture.
USB Device Firmware Upgrade
Since around 2010, a broad class of MCUs now have integrated USB peripherals with device firmware upgrade (DFU) in factory ROM. This class of MCUs appeals to hobbyists who do not wish to invest in the hardware tools needed to access specialized debug ports such as JTAG.
These devices are designed to be resistant to being bricked. A bad firmware load is easily recovered by holding a special pin in the active state, which caused the chip to boot up using its internal factory ROM, which makes a programming interface available through its build-in USB controller. DFU can be viewed as a form of debug port implemented in software rather than hardware. However, this largely defeats the debug functionality of a dedicated hardware debug port, as it is inherently fragile to debug software which also implements your debug interface—but only when functioning correctly.
See also
Board support package
Electronic design automation
In-circuit emulation
In-system programming
In-target probe
Microcontroller
Microprocess |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Court%20Tennis | On-Court Tennis is a computer game developed by Activision's Gamestar division and published in 1984 for the Commodore 64.
Gameplay
On-Court Tennis is a tennis simulation in which the player can challenge either the computer or another player. The game automatically moves the avatar to the ball; the player controls the swing and timing.
Reception
In 1985, Ahoy! stated that the Commodore 64 version of On-Court Tennis "features fluid animation, highly sophisticated computerized opponents in the solitaire mode, and true-to-life strategy". It concluded that the game was "truly a landmark computer entertainment program. It takes a fresh look at a subject, video tennis, which many considered totally washed out. This outstanding disk proves them wrong". In 1988, Dragon gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.
Reviews
Zzap! - Jun, 1985
Zzap! - Dec, 1987
Games #70
References
External links
Review in Ahoy!
Review in Computer Gamer
Review in Family Computing
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
1984 video games
Activision games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore 64-only games
Tennis video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Lineker%27s%20Superstar%20Soccer | Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer is a computer game released in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, published by Gremlin Interactive in Europe, and by Mindscape as Superstar Soccer in the USA.
Gameplay
Superstar Soccer is an arcade action soccer simulation game. The player controls one player at a time. In addition to taking the role of the centre forward, the player is also the manager of the team, responsible for hiring players and setting training regimes.
Reception
The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #132 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 3 out of 5 stars.
Zzap!64 magazine awarded the game 74%, describing it as "a pleasant and well-produced football game that is very playable, even if it isn't that true-to-life."
Reviews
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) – February 1988, 739 out of 1,000 (74)
Tilt – February 1988, 13 out of 20 (65)
Your Sinclair – February 1988, 6 out of 10 (60)
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) – December 1987
See also
Gary Lineker
References
External links
Superstar Soccer at GameFAQs
Superstar Soccer at GameSpot
1987 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Association football management video games
Association football video games
Commodore 64 games
Lineker
Lineker
Gremlin Interactive games
Mindscape games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games based on real people
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD%20TV | The WD TV is a consumer device that was produced by Western Digital which plays videos, images, and music from USB drives or network locations. The device was introduced in 2008 and played high-definition video through an HDMI port, and standard video through composite video cables. The device had support for most common video and audio formats. The WD TV was discontinued as of August 2016.
Models
WD TV (1st Gen)
In November 2008 Western Digital introduced the WD TV. with full HD 1080p multimedia player with DTS pass-through only. The hardware starts with a 300 MHz TangoX MIPS 4KEc from Sigma Designs, which has 100 MB of memory.
WD TV (2nd Gen)
Updated device with 2-channel DTS support. Uses the same Sigma SMP8655 Secure Media Processor as the Live.
WD TV Mini
Released in Fall 2009, it was a Media Player with DVD quality, upscales to 1080i, Plays back RealVideo and many other popular file formats with no need for transcoding, but lacks the ability to play H.264 encoded video. It is the only WD TV device without HDMI, providing only analog video output.
WD TV Live
Released in Fall 2009 with Full HD 1080p resolution. An updated device with 2-channel DTS, streaming and network support, which comes in the form of an Ethernet port on the back. Also compatible with certain wireless USB adapters. Connects to Internet sites: YouTube (until 2017), Flickr, Live365, myTV, Pandora, Mediafly, Flingo, AccuWeather, Facebook or stream content from a home network. Supports a wide variety of the most popular file formats. No need for transcoding. Mediafly and DVD menu support added in firmware update.
The device supports three playlist formats.
The Sigma Designs SMP8655 SoC inside the WD TV Live features a 500 MHz CPU, a 333 MHz coprocessor, a 333 MHz DSP, 512 MB of DRAM, and 256 MB of NAND flash memory. Western Digital has tweaked the original Sigma SMP8600 Family design slightly by including 6 video Digital to Analog Converters (DACs) which should give it the ability to handle high-def content with ease. (Model number WDBAAN0000NBK).
WD TV Live Plus (WD TV Live 2nd Gen)
Released early in 2010 and having all the features of the WD TV Live along with Netflix streaming support. In order to support Netflix, a macrovision enabled SoC was required (Sigma Designs SMP8654) and the Linux system is also now encrypted. However, actual user experience has lagged for some. As of April 12, 2011, Netflix Canada works on a WD Live TV Plus as long as the firmware has been upgraded to version 1.04.31_B or newer. It is also known as WDTV Live Plus (Model number WDBABX0000NBK, WDBREC0000NBK, WDBG3A0000NBK).
Reviews: WD TV Live Plus was met with generally positive reviews. Review Horizon names it a worthy successor of WD TV Live.
WD TV Live Hub
Released in fall 2010, this is a WD TV Live device with an internal 1 TB storage disk. It uses the same Sigma Designs SMP8654 found in the WD TV Live Plus with four 64 MB Nanya NT5TU64M16GG DDR2 667/800 MHz modules (256 MB total), |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfox%20II%3A%20The%20Cygnus%20Conflict | Skyfox II: The Cygnus Conflict is a space combat computer game developed by Dynamix and published by Electronic Arts in 1987 for the Commodore 64 as a sequel to the original Skyfox for the Apple II. It was ported to the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. The creator of Skyfox, Ray Tobey, was not involved in this game.
Gameplay
Reception
Computer Gaming World stated that Skyfox II had good graphics, much action, and diverse and interesting weapons for fans of space-combat games. In a 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave the title one-plus stars out of five. The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #133 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.
Reviews
The Games Machine - Mar, 1988
The Games Machine - Aug, 1988
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Feb, 1988
The Games Machine - Aug, 1989
ST Format - Aug, 1989
Computer Gaming World - Jun, 1991
Jeux & Stratégie #53
References
External links
Skyfox II at Atari Mania
Skyfox II at Amiga Hall of Light
Review in Family Computing
Review in Info
1987 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Dynamix games
Electronic Arts games
Single-player video games
Space combat simulators
Video game sequels
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decisive%20Battles%20of%20the%20American%20Civil%20War%20Volume%201%3A%20Bull%20Run%20to%20Chancellorsville | Decisive Battles of the American Civil War Volume 1: Bull Run to Chancellorsville is a computer wargame developed by Roger Keating and Ian Trout and published by Strategic Studies Group in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and Apple II. Two sequels were released in 1988: Volume 2: Gaines Mill to Chattanooga and Volume 3: Wilderness to Nashville.
Plot
Bull Run to Chancellorsville is a tactical wargame that offers the player the opportunity to command the first battles of the American Civil War. Six Civil War battles are included in Volume I. Two players may manage either the Confederate or Union army, with play also governed by applying one of three handicap levels to each side, or a single player can request that the computer manage either army.
Gameplay
Bull Run to Chancellorsville is completely menu-driven, broken down into command subsets. The developers also include with the software two Game and Design Menus plus full-color maps of the various battlefields. Also included with each SSG game are Warpaint and Warplan, programs that allow the player to design tactical wargames.
Development
Roger Keating and Ian Trout of Strategic Studies Group developed this game as the first release in their Decisive Battles series.
Reception
The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #135 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars. Regan Carey and Mike Salata reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Decisive Battles of the Civil War is a step up the ladder in the evolution of SSG game systems. Features like Warplan and Warpaint set it apart from most competitors."
In 1990 Computer Gaming World gave the game three-plus out of five stars, and in 1993 three stars.
Reviews
Commodore Computing International - Feb, 1989
References
External links
American Civil War: Volume One at GameSpot
Review in Compute!
1988 video games
American Civil War video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Strategic Studies Group games
Video games developed in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball%20Challenge | Basketball Challenge is a computer game developed by the XOR Corporation in 1987 for the IBM PC and compatibles.
Gameplay
Basketball Challenge is a game in which the player is the coach of a basketball team, and determines how the team uses plays and sets, as well as what they do for offense and defense. The basketball players are represented by numbers on the court shown on screen, and the coach must utilize the team's star players effectively and get the best performance out of the other team members. Basketball Challenge is designed for one or two players, although a human opponent can play against the computer or let the computer run as both players. At the beginning of the game the player is given the option to choose offensive and defensive plays including lineup and tempo. During the game you have the ability to communicate with team players. You also have the ability to coach a player and this can lead to changing tactics or even substituting players during deadball.
Reception
In 1988, Dragon gave the game 3½ out of 5 stars. Computer Gaming World recommended Basketball Challenge to "those who have always wanted to be college coaches", with its strategic depth compensating for the lack of graphics.
Reviews
PC Games
References
1987 video games
Basketball video games
Video games developed in the United States
XOR Corporation games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison%27s%20Birthday | Alison's Birthday is a 1981 Australian horror film, written and directed by Ian Coughlan, produced by the Australian Film Commission, Fontana Films and the Seven Network, and starring Joanne Samuel, Lou Brown, Bunney Brooke, John Bluthal, and Vincent Ball. It follows a teenage girl who finds herself the subject of a sinister ritual planned to take place on her 19th birthday.
Plot
Sixteen-year-old Alison Findlay, along with two of her female classmates, Chrissie and Maureen, play with a ouija board. During the session, Chrissie apparently becomes possessed by an entity claiming to be Alison's father, warning her that something bad will occur on her 19th birthday. Moments later, a bookcase collapses on Chrissie, killing her.
Nearly three years later, Alison has her boyfriend Pete accompany her to their hometown for her 19th birthday. Alison returns to the home of her Aunt Jenny and Uncle Dean, both of whom raised Alison from infancy after her parents died in a car accident. Near their home, Alison discovers a large stone construct in the woods resembling Stonehenge. Uncle Dean tells Alison the construct was built by the home's previous owner, who was an enthusiast of ancient history. Later that night, Alison is awoken in bed by a strange elderly woman whom she does not know. Her Aunt Jenny informs Alison that the woman is Alison's 103-year-old Grandmother Thorne, whom she has never met.
Dean and Jenny take an immediate dislike to Pete, and make numerous attempts to keep him away from Alison. However, Pete remains persistent in visiting her. To prevent him from returning, Dean and Jenny drug Alison, causing her to fall ill, and summon a false doctor to diagnose her. The imposter physician prescribes that she stay home and avoid visitors. That night, Pete breaks into the home to rescue Alison, but is stopped by the doctor and Dean who subdue and drug them both. Jenny and Dean manage to coach the inebriated Alison into telling the police that Pete has been stalking her, causing him to be arrested.
After Pete is freed on bail the following day, he begins researching the details of Alison's birthparents at the library. Along with the help of his friend Sally, a freelancing astrologer with some education on the occult, he determines that Alison's aunt and uncle are in fact not her aunt and uncle at all, but members of a Celtic cult who kidnapped her from the hospital as a child based on her birth time, which was exactly 19:00 (7:00 p.m.). Pete surmises that Dean and Jenny plan to sacrifice Alison to a Celtic demon named Mirna, who is commonly associated with the number 19. Pete and Sally suspect that Mirna inhabits the body of Grandmother Thorne.
Pete is accosted by members of the cult who attempt to kill him in an abandoned cemetery, but he manages to escape. Armed with a pistol and a crucifix, Pete returns to Dean and Jenny's home that night to stop the ritual, and finds Alison at the stone monolith in the woods along with Jenny, Dean, and other s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20East%20USA%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Epyx%2C%20Inc. | Data East USA, Inc. v. Epyx, Inc. 862 F.2d 204, 9 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1322 (9th Cir. 1988) was a court case between two video game manufacturers, where Data East claimed that their copyright in Karate Champ was infringed by World Karate Championship, a game created by Epyx. Data East released Karate Champ in arcades in 1984, and the game became a best-seller and pioneered the fighting game genre. The next year, Epyx published World Karate Championship for home computers, which sold 1.5 million copies. Data East sued Epyx, alleging that the game infringed on their copyright and trademark.
The district court found that Epyx had infringed on Data East's copyright, but not their trademark, and ordered an injunction against distributing World Karate Championship. However, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit court reversed the decision on appeal, finding that the lower court erred in finding that the works were substantially similar. As a principle, there is no substantial similarity between the expression of two works if the expression is inseparable from the idea. The court also applied the scènes à faire doctrine that no one can own a generic scene, and the merger doctrine that no one can own the expression to an idea if there is only one way to express it. Although the games shared fifteen similarities, the court determined these were inherent to making a video game about karate, and lifted the injunction against Epyx.
In the 1994 case Capcom U.S.A. Inc. v. Data East Corp., Data East used the same principle to defend its game Fighter's History from Capcom's accusations that they infringed Street Fighter II. This led most lawsuits about alleged video game clones to be settled between the mid-1990s through to the mid-2000s. This approach began to shift in 2012 with Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc. and Spry Fox, LLC v. Lolapps, Inc., as graphical improvements have made it harder to dismiss similarities as a coincidence of technological limitation.
Background
Facts
In 1984, Data East released an arcade fighting game called Karate Champ. The game was a commercial success in arcades, becoming the top grossing cabinet in both Japan and America. The game once again became a best-seller when it was re-released for home computers, becoming the first game to receive a "Diamond Award" from the Software Publishers Association for sales above 500,000 units. Karate Champ is considered the first fighting game, and the player versus player version is the first fighting game to allow two players to fight each other.
In 1985, System 3 began producing a karate game of their own, when their programmer and artist walked off the project. They approached game developer Archer Maclean to salvage the project, who decided re-start development by emulating other popular arcade martial arts games, such as The Way of the Exploding Fist. The final product was International Karate, which was published as World Karate Championship by Epyx in No |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FXU | FXU may refer to:
FilmXtra Uncut, a film review television show
Fox (UK and Ireland), a European television network
St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada
Fixed-point unit, part of the POWER1 CPU
FXU, the student union of Falmouth University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20agent%20%28infrastructure%29 | An e-mail agent is a program that is part of the e-mail infrastructure, from composition by sender, to transfer across the network, to viewing by recipient. The best-known are message user agents (MUAs, aka, e-mail clients) and message transfer agents (MTAs, programs that transfer e-mail between clients), but finer divisions exist.
More precisely, this is a technical way of referring to functions performed by various programs, considering them as software agents: a given program may perform several functions, but while it is performing a given function (such as message transfer), it is referred to as a message transfer agent. These terms are most often used within internet standards, and technical discussions of e-mail infrastructure, not by end-users.
While the individual terms are widely used in internet standards and RFCs, there is no widely used umbrella term for these programs, though such a program may informally be referred to generically as an MxA, 'x' being a wildcard, as the programs are referred to by acronyms of this form, such as MUA and MTA, with 'x' depending on role.
E-mail servers are built from one or more software packages, each of which carries out the functions of one or more MxA.
Classification
The finest and most expansive classification in current use is into five functions in addition to the mail exchanger (MX):
Message user agent (MUA)
Message submission agent (MSA)
Message transfer agent (MTA)
Message delivery agent (MDA)
Mail retrieval agent (MRA) (Unlike the above terms, this term is not supported by IETF documents, in which it is considered an MUA.)
The traditional division is into client-side (MUA) and server-side (MTA, notably sendmail), with the flow given as:
MUA → MTA → … → MTA → MUA,
Other divisions have been made to draw distinctions that some have found useful, which are detailed as follows.
A detailed flow of a message through these various agents is given at , and may be summarized as
MUA → MSA → MTA → … → MTA → MDA →→ MRA →→ MUA,
with the arrow styles changing to distinguish between push steps (→) and pull steps (→→).
Another source gives the flow as:
MUA → (MSA) → MTA → … → MX → MDA →→ MRA/MUA,
Programs such as fetchmail which retrieve mail from a server but do not provide a human interface for viewing or other client tasks are referred to as MRAs – they provide retrieval but no other client functions. Traditionally and in internet standards (such as the recent RFC 5598) these are referred to as a type of MUA, because they are client-side and hence outside the scope of internet standards, and indeed many MUAs perform MRA functions. However, traditional Unix mail readers such as elm, Pine, or mutt would often not include MRA functions (or only optionally), reading mail that had already been delivered to a mailbox file (formally, delivered by an MDA).
Broadly and traditionally, any program that transfers mail between the ends (all server-side functions) is an MTA. More finely and more recently |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanner%20%28software%29 | Scanner is a disk space analyzing and management tool for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It displays the disk space usage of any drive or directory in the form of a multilevel pie chart which can be navigated up and down through the directory tree. When the mouse cursor is placed above a pie the program displays which directory the pie represents, how many files it contains and the overall disk space occupied by it. A context menu allows users to open the directory inside the Windows Explorer, hide and un-hide it from the diagram as well as deleting the pie from the disk either via the Recycle Bin or permanently.
Initially released in 1999, it is an early example of the sunburst method of visualising disk usage and inspired the KDE package Filelight.
References
External links
Disk usage analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Society%20of%20Sri%20Lanka | The Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) is a professional body and learned society that represents those working in information technology (IT) and computer science in Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1976 and incorporated in 1986 under the Companies Act, No. 17 of 1982.
Governance
The CSSL is governed by an executive council that consists of a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary, Assistant Treasurer, Student Counselor, Publication Secretary and several committee members. The executive council is elected at the annual general meeting of the society.
Grades of membership
CSSL has different grades of membership:
Honorary Fellow Members
Members (MCS)
Associate Members
Student Members
Affiliate Members
Projects organised by the CSSL
The CSSL organises regular events for the benefit of the ICT community of Sri Lanka, and key among them are the following projects;
National IT Conference (NITC)
National Schools' Software Competition (NSSC)
IT MasterMind National Schools' Quiz Competition
IT Blast / Membership Night, a Dinner Dance for the ICT Fraternity
CSSL Awards - An Annual Award Ceremony where key individuals and contributors are awarded and recognised.
Affiliations
Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA)
International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL)
South East Asian Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC)
Organisation for Professional Associations of Sri Lanka (OPA)
Australian Computer Society
References
External links
Official web site of Computer Society of Sri Lank
Professional associations based in Sri Lanka
Learned societies of Sri Lanka
Information technology in Sri Lanka
Computer science organizations
Organizations established in 1976 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustino%20%28platform%29 | Faustino is a physical computing platform geared towards process monitoring and control. The faustino platform consists of a single-board microcontroller with embedded analog and digital I/O support, an input module with LCD, sensors and actuators in form of solid state relays. The development software is based on Eclipse and WinAVR, a variant of GCC for AVR microcontrollers. For visual presentation of measurements, a XML-configured Windows status monitor application is available.
Hardware
The hardware is based on an Atmel AVR microcontroller which can be connected to a PC via a FTDI-USB-serial converter. An ATMega644 is used. The boards are powered by 6 V - 9 V AC and use an 18.4 MHz crystal oscillator.
Use of an AC power source permits zero cross detection on the secondary side of the power supply and therefore phase control (PFC) for connected solid state relays. The microcontroller is pre-programmed with a boot loader. It is programmed by its USB port and does not require an external programmer.
The faustino platform is geared towards measurement and control engineering by the hobby enthusiast. For that purpose, it is equipped with vibration resistant connectors, a wide temperature range (for example, silicone insulated leads are used), galvanic isolation of the PC interface and support for typical sensors such as ratiometric pressure sensors, thermocouples and a flow meter. Unlike other development platforms such as Arduino, only a few I/O pins of the microcontroller are unassigned and available for use with or by other circuits.
External links
faustino project main page
PID controller for espresso machines
Communication software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Apprentice%20Australia | The Apprentice Australia was an Australian reality television series which aired on the Nine Network. It was based on NBC's The Apprentice. It first aired on 28 September 2009 and last aired on 23 November 2009, and features Mark Bouris, the founder and chairman of Wizard Home Loans and Yellow Brick Road, as the chief executive officer (CEO). It is narrated by Andrew Daddo, and the series' winner received a one-year employment contract worth $200,000 at a job managing Bouris' newest business venture, Yellow Brick Road.
Candidates
Weekly results
The candidate was on the winning team.
The candidate was on the losing team.
The candidate was hired and won the competition.
The candidate won as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate lost as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate was brought to the final boardroom.
The candidate was fired.
The candidate lost as project manager and was fired.
Challenges
Week 1
Project managers: Carmen ('Eventus') and Morello ('Pinnacle')
Task: Operate a premier gardening service and secure commercial and residential contracts.
Result: Pinnacle made a $1700 profit against Eventus's $1100. While Pinnacle had problems with their time management and was forced to cancel their residential bookings, Eventus undersold several of their contracts and were warned that an attempt to reneg on the tasks they had agreed to do at one booking was unprofessional.
Winner: Pinnacle
Reward: Spa day at The Observatory Hotel
Brought into the boardroom: Carmen, Sabrina, Jane
Fired: Jane, for failing to defend herself against criticism brought by her teammates in the Boardroom, and for not speaking up against what she saw as errors in Carmen's leadership.
Week 2
Project managers: Sabrina ('Eventus') and Lynton ('Pinnacle')
Task: Create a brand for a children's cereal (including tagline, logo, product box, costumed mascot and advertising jingle) and present a successful pitch to marketing executives at Ogilvy Advertising.
Result: While both teams created successful brands, Eventus won due to presenting a pitch with greater energy and team involvement, while Pinnacle's pitch was seen as flat and unengaging.
Winner: Eventus
Reward: Cocktails and dinner at the Ivy Hotel with a corporate public speaker.
Brought into the boardroom: Lynton, John, Sam
Fired: Lynton, for being too controlling and delivering a poor quality presentation, in which he forgot the name of a key panellist. Bouris considered Lynton was 'Machiavellian' and 'manipulative' in his boardroom selections.
Week 3
Team changes: Amy moved to Pinnacle. Gavin moved to Eventus
Project managers: Gavin ('Eventus') and Amy ('Pinnacle')
Task: Create an original flavour of pie and sell at a market stall and from a portable van, with an aim to accrue the highest profit margin.
Result: Eventus won, finishing with a $567.60 profit against Pinnacle's $194.70. Eventus gained an advantage by producing their pies (vegetable curry) for less than Pinnacle (roast lamb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20P2P%20networks | Semantic P2P networks are a new type of P2P network. It combines the advantages of unstructured P2P networks and structural P2P networks, and avoids their disadvantages.
In Semantic P2P networks, nodes are classified as DNS-like domain names with semantic meanings such as Alice @Brittney.popular.music. Semantic P2P networks contains prerequisite virtual tree topology and net-like topology formed by cached nodes. Semantic P2P networks keep the semantic meanings of nodes and their contents. The nodes within semantic P2P networks can communicate each other by various languages. Semantic P2P network can execute complicated queries by SQL-like language.
There are similarities between semantic P2P systems and software agents. P2P means that entities exchange information directly without a mediator. Semantic is a concept to add meaning to information. Peer are usually autonomous systems as well as agents. Agents follow a goal, though. Such goal attainment requires a knowledge base and rules and strategies. That's the major difference between software agents and semantic peers. The latter lacks that kind of intelligence.
See also
Semantic desktop
Semantic network
Semantic Web
References
http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/personal/pg/S.Stafrace/ServP2P09/keynote.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20110626161639/http://www.gip.hk/bife2009/Keynote-licanhuang.pdf
Lican Huang A P2P service discovery strategy based on content catalogues, Data Science Journal Vol(6), 2007, pp S492-S499
Lican Huang, “VIRGO: Virtual Hierarchical Overlay Network for Scalable Grid Computing”, Proc. European Grid Conference (EGC2005), in LNCS 3470, pp911–921, February 14–16, 2005, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Lican Huang, “LARGE SCALE COOPERATIVE MULTIAGENT SYSTEM BASED ON SEMANTIC P2P NETWORK”, Proc. 2010 First International Conference on Networking and Distributed Computing (ICNDC2010), in LNCS 3470, pp381–386, Oct. 20–24, 2010, Hangzhou, China.
* Shark is an open source non-commercial academic project that supports building semantic P2P systems
DSCloud Platform is a network operating system based on semantic P2P networks that is free for academic use. https://www.yvsou.com
Peer-to-peer computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoyaltyOne | LoyaltyOne, Co. provides loyalty marketing services to enterprises in retail, financial services, grocery, petroleum retail, travel, and hospitality sectors globally. Under the Alliance Data umbrella, it offer services in coalition loyalty programs, analytics and retail solutions, loyalty consulting and customer analytics.
On March 10, 2023, LoyaltyOne filed for bankruptcy.
History
In 1991, entrepreneurs Craig Underwood, Sam Duboc, and Rob Gierkink began planning a coalition loyalty program, involving partners drawn from retail and financial services sectors. This resulted in the March 1992 launch of the Air Miles reward program. In 1998, Alliance Data acquired Loyalty Management Group Canada Inc., parent company of the AIR MILES program, and in 2008 renamed it LoyaltyOne.
Businesses
Air Miles
Air Miles is a Canadian rewards program, with over 11 million active collector accounts within approximately two-thirds of all Canadian households. Cash Rewards or Dream Rewards are redeemable with hundreds of rewards partners across Canada.
2016 points expiry issue
In 2011 Air Miles Canada announced that all points would expire with no compensation to its members after 5 years of being issued. In 2016 with months before the January 1st 2017 deadline was about to be enacted, Canadian news media began to heavily report on the impending deadline with stories of Canadian's struggling to redeem their long collected points. Members who redeemed the points fearing their loss were then outraged about having used up their collected points needlessly. Customers complained that they 'wasted' points on things they didn't want in fear of losing all the points that had been collected.
On December 1, 2016 Air Miles reversed their decision to expire members points, and cited that legislation that is about to be passed in Ontario that forbids the expiration of points would create problems in managing the program with various rules in each Province. In a statement release announcing the about face changes LoyaltyOne promised to ensure that they will still find a way to keep the rewards program profitable: "Going forward, LoyaltyOne will adjust the value proposition to collectors to offset the lost economics … and to maintain, as closely as possible, the economics of the Air Miles reward program prior to cancellation of the expiry policy"
A proposed Class Action lawsuit was launched in Alberta.
On October 31, 2017, BrandSpark announces Air Miles as the most trusted brand in Loyalty Program category.
Precima
Precima is the LoyaltyOne data analytics arm specializing in applying data insights to sales strategies, and customer loyalty. Services include assortment optimization, price optimization, promotional optimization, targeted marketing, and supplier collaboration for Fortune 1000 brands in grocery retail.
BrandLoyalty
Founded in 1995 and acquired by Alliance Data in 2013, BrandLoyalty provides services in transactional and emotional loyalty, impacting consum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E52 | European route E 52 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Strasbourg, France and ends in Salzburg, Austria.
Route
The road follows: Strasbourg - Kehl - Baden-Baden - Karlsruhe - Pforzheim - Stuttgart - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich - Rosenheim - Salzburg.
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
52
E052
E052
E052 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E53 | European route E53 forms part of the International E-road network. It begins in Plzeň, Czech Republic, and ends in Munich, Germany.
Its route is: Plzeň – Deggendorf – Landshut – Munich.
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
53
E053
053 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E54 | European route E 54 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Paris, France and ends in Munich, Germany.
Route
Paris → Sens → Troyes (A5) — same route as E60
Troyes → Langres (A5) — same route as E17
Langres → Vesoul → Lure → Belfort (N19)
Belfort → Mulhouse (A36)
(following the Rhine and the German/Swiss border)
Lörrach → Rheinfelden → Bad Säckingen → Albbruck → Waldshut-Tiengen → Klettgau (partly (A98))
Schaffhausen
Singen → Überlingen → Friedrichshafen → Lindau (partly A98)
Lindau → Memmingen → Landsberg am Lech → Munich (A96)
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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E054
E54
E54 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E56 | European route E 56 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Nuremberg, Germany and ends in Sattledt, Austria.
The road follows: Nuremberg - Regensburg - Deggendorf - Passau - Ried - Wels - Sattledt.
56
056
E056 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E76 | European route E76 forms part of the United Nations International E-road network. Its course lies entirely within Italy, where it connects Migliarino Pisano, near Pisa, to Florence, by way of Lucca, Pistoia, and Prato.
Earlier E-road numbering
Prior to the revision of E-road numbering in 1992, the number E76 referred to a road in Norway, now numbered E134.
Route
: Pisa - Lucca - Capannori - Pistoia - Prato - Sesto Fiorentino - Florence
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
76
E076 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E78 | European route E 78 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Grosseto, Italy and ends in Fano, Italy. It links the Tyrrhenean and Adriatic coasts.
The road follows: Grosseto - Siena - Arezzo - Città di Castello/Selci Lama - Fano. It intersects with the E80 at Grosseto, with the E35 at Bettolle, with the E45 at Città di Castello/ Selci Lama and terminates at the E55 at Fano.
At present, not a single part of the E78 is constructed at motorway standard. Even though sections are dual carriageway, the Apennine section is not at the standard laid down for E-roads in the European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries (which applies to E-routes). Plans to upgrade the entire route have existed since the late 1960s. This project is significant, because the completed E78 would be the only fully grade-separated and fully dual carriageway route between the Tyrrhenean and Adriatic coasts in an area that runs from Rimini to Pescara. There are plans to create other similar links in the area.
In the first phase of the project, the E78 expressway will consist of an upgrade of the existing Grosseto - Siena road, then run to the A1 at Bettolle. The duplex with the A1 stops near Arezzo. From there, the E78 is intended to run directly east to Fano. Plans to shortcut the A1 duplex by creating a direct link from Rigomagno on the Siena - Bettolle route to the new Arezzo - Fano route are in study. The Siena - Bettolle link was completed in 2008 and sections of road at the Eastern and Western terminus expressways. For the rest, the E78 currently (May 2010) consists of a patchwork of sections of upgraded road, sections in the process of being upgraded and sections still to be upgraded.
The Apennine crossing will run via the Galleria della Guinza tunnel between Mercatello sul Metauro and Lama di San Giustino. While a first tube of this tunnel was constructed between 1990 and 2004, construction of the second tube was interrupted as a result of a lack of funds. The first tube is currently unused, because it lacks connecting roads on its western end; only grading northeast of Cantone gives any indication that the tunnel has a western end. As at May 2010, studies as to the construction of this link are still pending. In 2016 there's the agreement for the total construction of the E78. It'll cost 680 millions € for the Tuscan part and 520 millions € for the Umbrian part.
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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E078 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E82 | European route E 82 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Matosinhos, Portugal and ends in Tordesillas, Spain.
The road follows: Matosinhos - Vila Real - Bragança - Zamora - Tordesillas.
History
In the older E-roads system, used before 1985, the E82 was entirely in Poland (then Polish People's Republic) and ran from Warsaw to Piotrków Trybunalski. During that time, E-roads in Poland did not have a national numbering, therefore it was signed as E82.
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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E082
E082 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E83 | European route E 83 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Byala, Bulgaria and ends in Botevgrad, Bulgaria.
The road follows: Byala - Pleven - Yablanitsa - Botevgrad.
See also
Roads in Bulgaria
Highways in Bulgaria
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
83
E083 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E84 | European route E 84 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in İpsala border gate (to/from Greece) in Turkey and run through Keşan, Malkara, Tekirdağ and Marmaraereğlisi and ends in Silivri, Turkey.
The road follows: Keşan - Tekirdağ - Silivri. It is a part of the D-110.
Route
: Keşan () - Tekirdağ - Silivri ()
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
84
E084 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E86 | European route E86 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Krystallopigi, Greece and ends in Gefyra, Greece.
The road follows: Krystallopigi - Florina - Edessa - Giannitsa - Gefyra.
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
86
E086 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20Christmas%20television%20specials | The following is a list of Christmas television specials partly or completely originating in the U.S.
Christmas-related films and specials
Dates and networks shown correspond to the special's first telecast.
5 More Sleeps ’til Christmas (November 27, 2021, NBC)
12 Days of Christmas (1993, NBC)
12 Tiny Christmas Tales (December 7, 2001, Cartoon Network)
Aliens First Christmas (1991, Disney Channel)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951, NBC) (most of the 1951 cast members stayed with this production until 1963)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (1963, NBC) (all-new production)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (1978, NBC) (all-new production)
Babes in Toyland (1950)
Babes in Toyland (1954)
Babes in Toyland (1960)
Babes in Toyland (1986, NBC)
The Balloonatiks: Christmas Without a Claus (December 14, 1996, FOX)
B.C.: A Special Christmas (1981, HBO)
The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas (1973, NBC)
The Bears Who Saved Christmas (1994, syndication)
Beebo Saves Christmas (December 1, 2021, The CW)
The Bell Telephone Hour Christmas specials (1959–1968, NBC)
Benji's Very Own Christmas Story (1978, ABC)
The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree (1979, NBC)
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (December 5, 1983, HBO)
Bluetoes The Christmas Elf (1988)
Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol (1992)
The Cabbage Patch Kids' First Christmas (1984, ABC)
Charlie's Christmas Secret (December 20, 1984, syndication)
A Chipmunk Christmas (December 14, 1981, NBC)
Christopher the Christmas Tree (December 24, 1993, FOX)
A Christmas Adventure (1991, syndication)
A Christmas Calendar (1987, PBS)
A Christmas Carol (1954, CBS)
A Christmas Carol (1971, ABC)
A Christmas Carol (1984, CBS)
A Christmas Carol (1999, TNT)
Christmas Every Day (1996, The Family Channel)
Christmas In Rockefeller Center (1998, NBC)
Christmas in Tattertown (1988, Nickelodeon)
Christmas Is (1970, syndication)
The Christmas Raccoons (1980)
The Christmas Tree (1991, USA Network)
The City That Forgot About Christmas (1974, syndication)
A Claymation Christmas Celebration (1987, CBS)
CMA Country Christmas (2009–present, ABC)
A Cool Like That Christmas (December 23, 1993, FOX)
Deck the Halls (1994, syndication)
Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls (1983, NBC)
Donner (2001, ABC Family)
Edith Ann's Christmas (Just Say Noël) (December 14, 1996, ABC)
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (December 16, 2014, NBC)
The Enchanted Nutcracker (1961, ABC)
A Family Circus Christmas (1979, NBC)
Father Christmas and the Missing Reindeer (1998)
Felix The Cat Saves Christmas (2004)
A Garfield Christmas (1987, CBS)
The Ghosts of Christmas Eve (1999, Fox Family)
The Glo-Friends Save Christmas (1985, syndication)
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (2000, The WB)
The Great Christmas Light Fight (a recurring reality series) (2013–present, ABC)
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022, Disney+)
Gwen Stefani's You Make It Feel Like Christmas (2017, NBC)
The Happy Elf (2005, NBC)
A Hollywood Hounds Christma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Engineering%20Society | The Women's Engineering Society is a United Kingdom professional learned society and networking body for women engineers, scientists and technologists. It was the first professional body set up for women working in all areas of engineering, predating the Society of Women Engineers by around 30 years.
History
The society was formed on 23 June 1919, after the First World War, during which many women had taken up roles in engineering to replace men who were involved in the military effort. While it had been seen as necessary to bring women into engineering to fill the gap left by men joining the armed forces, the government, employers, and trades unions were against the continuing employment of women after the war. The Restoration of Pre-War Practices Act 1919 gave soldiers returning from World War I their pre-war jobs back and meant many women could no longer work in roles they were employed to fill during the war.
This led a group of seven women, including Lady Katharine Parsons, her daughter Rachel Parsons, Lady Margaret Moir, Laura Annie Willson, Eleanor Shelley-Rolls, Janetta Mary Ornsby, and Margaret Rowbotham to form the Women's Engineering Society, with the aim of enabling women to gain training, jobs and acceptance in engineering fields. The Society's first Secretary was Caroline Haslett.
Early members in the 1920s and 1930s included Verena Holmes, Hilda Lyon and Margaret Partridge. Pilot and engineer, Amy Johnson, who was the first woman to fly solo from the United Kingdom to Australia, was a member of WES and served as president between 1935 and 1937. A registry of members from 1935 shows there were members from across the world, such as the United States of America, including sociologist and industrial engineer Lillian Gilbreth, and Germany, including Asta Hampe and Ilse Knot-ter Meer.
The Society celebrated its 95th year in 2014 with the launch of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) on 23 June 2014. To this day the Society continues to organise INWED and set the annual theme. The Society celebrated its centenary in 2019 with the launch of the WES Centenary Trail, a project to highlight the historic stories of women engineers.
Work and campaigns
Society members have advised the UK government on evolving employment practices for women. Constituted as a professional society with membership grades based on qualification and experience, the society promotes the study and practice of engineering and allied sciences among women.
WES is represented by groups. The work of the groups focuses on:
support to members and women engineers in general,
encouragement of women to study engineering and take up engineering careers,
promotion of corporate gender diversity,
speaking as the collective voice of women engineers.
The society produces the journal The Woman Engineer which was edited by Caroline Haslett in its early years. The journal contained technical articles in its early years but now gives a view of work in engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6%20address | An Internet Protocol Version 6 address (IPv6 address) is a numeric label that is used to identify and locate a network interface of a computer or a network node participating in a computer network using IPv6. IP addresses are included in the packet header to indicate the source and the destination of each packet. The IP address of the destination is used to make decisions about routing IP packets to other networks.
IPv6 is the successor to the first addressing infrastructure of the Internet, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). In contrast to IPv4, which defined an IP address as a 32-bit value, IPv6 addresses have a size of 128 bits. Therefore, in comparison, IPv6 has a vastly enlarged address space.
Addressing methods
IPv6 addresses are classified by the primary addressing and routing methodologies common in networking: unicast addressing, anycast addressing, and multicast addressing.
A unicast address identifies a single network interface. The Internet Protocol delivers packets sent to a unicast address to that specific interface.
An anycast address is assigned to a group of interfaces, usually belonging to different nodes. A packet sent to an anycast address is delivered to just one of the member interfaces, typically the nearest host, according to the routing protocol's definition of distance. Anycast addresses cannot be identified easily, they have the same format as unicast addresses, and differ only by their presence in the network at multiple points. Almost any unicast address can be employed as an anycast address.
A multicast address is also used by multiple hosts that acquire the multicast address destination by participating in the multicast distribution protocol among the network routers. A packet that is sent to a multicast address is delivered to all interfaces that have joined the corresponding multicast group. IPv6 does not implement broadcast addressing. Broadcast's traditional role is subsumed by multicast addressing to the all-nodes link-local multicast group . However, the use of the all-nodes group is not recommended, and most IPv6 protocols use a dedicated link-local multicast group to avoid disturbing every interface in the network.
Address formats
An IPv6 address consists of 128 bits. For each of the major addressing and routing methodologies, various address formats are recognized by dividing the 128 address bits into bit groups and using established rules for associating the values of these bit groups with special addressing features.
Unicast and anycast address format
Unicast and anycast addresses are typically composed of two logical parts: a 64-bit network prefix used for routing, and a 64-bit interface identifier used to identify a host's network interface.
The network prefix (the routing prefix combined with the subnet id) is contained in the most significant 64 bits of the address. The size of the routing prefix may vary; a larger prefix size means a smaller subnet id size. The bits of the subnet id field a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defunctionalization | In programming languages, defunctionalization is a compile-time transformation which eliminates higher-order functions, replacing them by a single first-order apply function. The technique was first described by John C. Reynolds in his 1972 paper, "Definitional Interpreters for Higher-Order Programming Languages". Reynolds' observation was that a given program contains only finitely many function abstractions, so that each can be assigned and replaced by a unique identifier. Every function application within the program is then replaced by a call to the apply function with the function identifier as the first argument. The apply function's only job is to dispatch on this first argument, and then perform the instructions denoted by the function identifier on the remaining arguments.
One complication to this basic idea is that function abstractions may reference free variables. In such situations, defunctionalization must be preceded by closure conversion (lambda lifting), so that any free variables of a function abstraction are passed as extra arguments to apply. In addition, if closures are supported as first-class values, it becomes necessary to represent these captured bindings by creating data structures.
Instead of having a single apply function dispatch on all function abstractions in a program, various kinds of control flow analysis (including simple distinctions based on arity or type signature) can be employed to determine which function(s) may be called at each function application site, and a specialized apply function may be referenced instead. Alternatively, the target language may support indirect calls through function pointers, which may be more efficient and extensible than a dispatch-based approach.
Besides its use as a compilation technique for higher-order functional languages, defunctionalization has been studied (particularly by Olivier Danvy and collaborators) as a way of mechanically transforming interpreters into abstract machines. Defunctionalization is also related to the technique from object-oriented programming of representing functions by function objects (as an alternative to closures).
Example
This is an example given by Olivier Danvy, translated to Haskell:
Given the Tree datatype:
data Tree a = Leaf a
| Node (Tree a) (Tree a)
We will defunctionalize the following program:
cons :: a -> [a] -> [a]
cons x xs = x : xs
o :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> c
o f g x = f (g x)
flatten :: Tree t -> [t]
flatten t = walk t []
walk :: Tree t -> [t] -> [t]
walk (Leaf x) = cons x
walk (Node t1 t2) = o (walk t1) (walk t2)
We defunctionalize by replacing all higher-order functions (in this case, o is the only higher-order function) with a value of the Lam datatype, and instead of calling them directly, we introduce an apply function that interprets the datatype:
data Lam a = LamCons a
| LamO (Lam a) (Lam a)
apply :: Lam a -> [a] -> [a]
apply (LamCons x) xs = x : xs
apply (LamO f1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | Nickelodeon is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel based on the American cable network of the same name owned by Corus Entertainment under a brand licensing agreement with Paramount Media Networks.
As with all of its sister networks throughout the world, Nickelodeon airs programs aimed at children and young teenagers. Prior to the channel's launch, YTV and Treehouse TV served as the main outlets for both Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. Channel programs under output agreements with Viacom. Both channels continue to premiere new original series from the U.S. networks as they are more widely distributed than the Canadian Nickelodeon channel, owing to their status as analog channels.
Nickelodeon is one of two Paramount-branded networks owned by Corus; CMT is jointly owned by the two companies.
History
In September 2008, Corus Entertainment was given approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a specialty channel named "YTV OneWorld", described as featuring "programming from around the world targeting children aged 6 to 17 and their families. The schedule would include programs devoted to entertainment, humour, travel, games and science and technology."
In September 2009, Corus announced it had reached an agreement with MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom, to launch Nickelodeon in Canada as a domestic channel. The channel was launched as Nickelodeon on November 2, 2009, at 6 a.m. using the "YTV OneWorld" license. Jacob Two-Two was the first show to broadcast. On the day of the channel's launch, Discovery Kids (which Corus also owned) was shut down and replaced by Nickelodeon on most pay-TV providers after the last episode of Aquateam ended. Because it is legally a distinct service, subscription television companies had to reach new agreements with Corus in order to carry Nickelodeon, as Discovery Kids operated under a different license.
On April 9, 2013, Telus Optik TV launched Nickelodeon HD, a high-definition simulcast of the standard-definition feed. It was later launched on June 25, 2013, for Rogers Cable and added to Bell Fibe TV's service on October 25, 2013.
On September 22, 2015, Corus Entertainment announced the launch of Nickelodeon GO, an app that allows viewers to watch the channel live, as well as stream shows from its U.S. counterpart. The app is currently available for iOS and Android platforms, but requires a subscription to Nickelodeon from a pay-TV provider.
In June 2019, as part of the launch of Amazon Prime Video Channels in Canada, Corus launched a standalone subscription video on demand channel featuring Nickelodeon content, later branded as Nick+. On August 30, 2022, it was announced that Nick+ would be discontinued and replaced on September 1 by Teletoon+, which focuses on programming from Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network.
Programming
Nickelodeon primarily airs a mix of both contemporary and older original programming seen on its U.S. counterp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preggers | "Preggers" is the fourth episode of the American television series Glee. The episode premiered on the Fox network on September 23, 2009, and was written and directed by executive producer Brad Falchuk. "Preggers" sees glee club member Kurt (Chris Colfer) join the football team and admit his homosexuality to his father, Burt (Mike O'Malley). Cheerleader Quinn (Dianna Agron) discovers she is pregnant and tells her boyfriend Finn (Cory Monteith) the baby is his, when in fact the father is his best friend Puck (Mark Salling). Faculty members Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) and Sandy Ryerson (Stephen Tobolowsky) team up in an effort to bring down the glee club, luring away a disillusioned Rachel (Lea Michele), who quits when club director Will (Matthew Morrison) refuses to award her a solo song. This episode features the first appearance of O'Malley as Burt Hummel.
"Preggers" features covers of two songs, and several dance performances of Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)". A studio recording of Michele's cover of "Taking Chances" was released as a single, available for digital download and features on the album Glee: The Music, Volume 1. The scene in which Kurt comes out to his father was based on the personal experience of series creator Ryan Murphy. Murphy's intention was to move away from previous shows he has worked on in which gay characters have not been given happy endings, by allowing Kurt to succeed and be accepted.
The episode was watched by 6.64 million United States viewers and received mixed reviews from critics. Shawna Malcom of the Los Angeles Times praised the show's fast pacing; however, The New York Times Mike Hale felt that key characters were not given enough screen time. The football team's performance of "Single Ladies" and Kurt's coming out to his father were generally well received; however, Rachel's actions garnered little sympathy, and several reviewers commented negatively on Quinn's pregnancy, with Eric Goldman of IGN deeming it "a very soap opera plotline". However, the episode has grown in stature in later years, with many recognizing it as a key episode in building the major plotlines for the show's first season. In 2020, it was included on The Ringer's list of the 100 best television episodes of the 21st century.
Plot
Glee club member Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) is caught dancing to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" by his father Burt (Mike O'Malley), and claims that it is a football exercise, and that he is now part of the team. Fellow glee club member and football quarterback Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) helps Kurt to practice, and finds him to be a skilled kicker. Finn convinces coach Ken Tanaka (Patrick Gallagher) to let Kurt try out for the team. Ken is delighted to find such an asset for the team and adds Kurt as the kicker.
Finn's girlfriend Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) tells him she is pregnant, claiming her pregnancy as a result of Finn's premature ejaculation when they made out in Quinn's hot tub. Finn worries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinecanal%20Classics | Cinecanal Classics is a Latin American panregional premium movie channel operated by LAPTV, an American company. Its programming is entirely dedicated to classic Hollywood movies.
External links
Cinecanal Classics
Movie channels
Television channels and stations established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Waldman | Steve Waldman may refer to:
Steven Waldman, editor-in-chief, president, and co-founder of Beliefnet
Steve Randy Waldman (born 1970), computer programmer and writer
Steven D. Waldman (born 1951), pain management specialist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rje%20Langefors | Börje Langefors (; 21 May 1915 – 13 December 2009) was a Swedish engineer and computer scientist, Emeritus Professor of Business Information Systems at the Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and "one of those who made systems development a science."
Children: Eva Langefors and Ola Langefors.
Grandchildren: Charlotte Rosenmuller, Philip Krensler, Victor Krensler, Anna Langefors Bräutigam, Per Langefors.
Biography
Langefors was born in Ystad, Sweden, in 1915, and received his training from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He started his career in Nordic Armature Factories (NAF) industries, and in 1949 he got recruited for the SAAB aircraft company. In 1965 he went to Stockholm and was stationed at the University at the Department of Mathematical Statistics. From 1967 to 1980 he was Professor of Business Information Systems at the Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
In 1974/75 he has been a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, the Netherlands, where he completed the writing of a book "Information and Control in Organizations" on Information Systems Architecture. Furthermore, Langefors was one of the key players in founding the IFIP TC8 Technical Committee of Information Systems in 1976.
Among his former students and later colleagues in Stockholm were Janis Bubenko, Göran Goldkuhl, John Impagliazzo, Kristo Ivanov & Arne Sølvberg. In 1999 he received the LEO Award of the Association for Information Systems for his lifetime achievement.
In commemoration of his contribution in the field of IS, a book was published with the title The Infological Equation: Essays in Honor of Börje Langefors. An annual award titled Börje Langeforspriset has been announced by the Swedish Information Systems Academy since 2011 for the best doctoral dissertation in Sweden.
Work
A major achievement of his work is the formulation of the 'infological equation' describing the difference between data and information as follows:
I = i(D, S, t)
This is a mathematical expression for the observation, that the information "I" communicated by a set of data to humans in an information system is a function "i" of the data "D", the semantic background "S", and the time interval "t" of the communication.
Publications
Langefors published numerous papers in journals, books, and archival proceedings since the 1970s. Books, a selection:
1966. Theoretical analysis of information systems. Studentlitteratur, Lund.
1975. Information systems architecture. With Bo Sundgren. Petrocelli/Charter.
1977. Information and Data in Systems. With Kjell Samuelson.
1986. Trends in information systems: an anthology of papers from conferences of the IFIP Technical Committee 8 "Information Systems" to commemorate their tenth anniversary. With A. A. Verrijn Stuart and Giampio Bracchi. International Federati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politicker%20Network | The Politicker Network, or Politicker.com, was a national network of fifty state-based political websites operated by the New York Observer.
Origins
The network had its origins in journalist Ben Smith's New York Observer blog, "The Politicker," which focused on New York state politics. Launched in 2005, the original blog became "the most widely read" blog among political circles. It was called the "Best Local Politics Blog" by The Village Voice, who noted the lively comment section. In 2005, failed candidate for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York City, Christopher X. Brodeur, was arrested for leaving death threats on Smith's New York Observer voice mail, in retaliation for unflattering coverage in the Politicker blog.
Growth and decline
James Pindell, formerly of The Boston Globe, was hired as National Managing Editor in January 2008.
In December 2008, the network was reduced from 17 to 6 sites, with a focus on the northeast region. By January 2009, the New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania websites were closed, leaving the network with sites remaining in New York and New Jersey. Those closings effectively ended the national aspirations of the "Politicker" brand.
State bureaus
The Pennsylvania bureau, called PolitickerPA.com, was cited as a source by the other news media, including the Philadelphia Daily News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Pittsburgh City Paper, The Beaver County Times, The Citizens' Voice, and the Lancaster New Era.
Journalist Dan Hirschhorn worked as the Philadelphia-based correspondent for PolitickerPA. PolitickerPA was closed in January 2009, causing one journalist to exclaim "Damn. One less source to do our work for us." The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Lancaster Sunday News'' reported on local connections in PolitickerPA's "Power List 2008."
PolitickerPA is not to be confused with another Pennsylvania politics website, PoliticsPA.
References
American political websites
Internet properties established in 2008
Politics of New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Wegner | Peter A. Wegner (August 20, 1932 – July 27, 2017) was a professor of computer science at Brown University from 1969 to 1999. He made significant contributions to both the theory of object-oriented programming during the 1980s and to the relevance of the Church–Turing thesis for empirical aspects of computer science during the 1990s and present. In 2016, Wegner wrote a brief autobiography for Conduit, the annual Brown University Computer Science department magazine.
Education
Wegner was educated at University of Cambridge and received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing in 1954, at a time when there were no PhD programs in computer science. He was awarded a PhD from the University of London in 1968 for his book Programming Languages, Information Structures, and Machine Organization, with Maurice Wilkes listed as his supervisor.
Research
The seminal work in the area of object-oriented programming is On Understanding Types, which was co-authored with Luca Cardelli. On relevance of the Church–Turing thesis, he co-authored several papers and co-edited a book Interactive Computation: the New Paradigm, which was published in 2006.
Awards
Wegner was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1995 and received the ACM Distinguished Service Award in 2000. In 1999, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class ("Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft u. Kunst I. Klasse"), but was hit by a bus and sustained serious brain injuries when on a trip to London to receive his award. He recovered after a lengthy coma.
He was the editor-in-chief of ACM Computing Surveys and of The Brown Faculty Bulletin.
References
1932 births
2017 deaths
Alumni of the University of London
American computer scientists
Austrian computer scientists
Programming language researchers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
Brown University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonstar | Ebonstar is a computer game developed by MicroIllusions in 1988 for the Amiga.
Gameplay
The player controls a fleet of 31st century spacecraft which can use their weaponry to knock the ships of their opponents into a moving black hole, while more opponents to continue to come out of the black hole. As many as four players can compete simultaneously.
Reception
In 1988, Dragon gave the game 5 out of 5 stars.
Reviews
Power Play
Amiga User International
References
External links
Review in Info
1988 video games
Amiga games
Amiga-only games
MicroIllusions games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Science fiction video games
Scrolling shooters
The Dreamers Guild games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Universal%20Military%20Simulator | The Universal Military Simulator is a computer game developed by Rainbird Software in 1987 for the Macintosh, Tandy 4000, and IBM PC compatibles. In 1988, both Atari ST, Amiga versions were released. The game was created by Ezra Sidran. The PC and Amiga versions were ported by Ed Isenberg. The game spawned two sequels: UMS II: Nations at War and The War College: Universal Military Simulator 3.
Gameplay
This computer wargame allows players to create armies and battlefields, using three-dimensional terrain to place features such as towns and hills. Players can explore historical confrontations such as Hastings, Gettysburg, Waterloo, Arbela, and Marston Moor. The player can zoom in on specific units confronting one another to plan strategy. The player has the option to play against another human opponent.
Reception
According to designer Ezra Sidran, The Universal Military Simulator was a commercial success, with sales of "about 128,000 units".
M. Evan Brooks reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Overall, UMS is impressive, but its flaws are apparent. If you are interested in creating your own battles, then UMS is highly recommended. On the other hand, if you desire to learn accurate lessons from military history, then UMS may be a shade too general."
The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #137 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars. In 1990 Computer Gaming World gave the game two-plus stars out of five, stating "A visual feast, but a playable desert, U.M.S. is incorrect on two counts—it is neither universal nor a simulator". The magazine cited as weaknesses the lack of navies, awkward user interface, and a Battle of Waterloo scenario that completely omitted the Prussians. In 1993 two surveys of wargames in the magazine gave it one-plus stars and two stars, respectively. A 1994 survey of wargames with modern settings gave the game two stars, reporting that the game designer offered "superb customer support" when the publisher did not.
In 1993 a bundle called "The Complete Universal Military Simulator" was released that included the original game, the "Nations at War" sequel, and a "Planet Editor" that let users design planets, weather systems, nations, AIs, event effects, and scenarios as well as unit types and armies. Reviewing the package in Amiga Format, Richard Jones gave it a rating of 74%, writing that it wasn't recommended for "frivolous gamers after a quick thrill", but "is a must for the serious war gamer."
Reviews
The Games Machine - Feb, 1988
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Feb, 1988
Atari ST User - Mar, 1988
Computer Gaming World - Oct, 1990
Computer and Video Games - Dec, 1991
Casus Belli #45 (June 1988)
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine v12 n12 (1988 12)
Jeux & Stratégie #51
References
External links
The Universal Military Simulator at MobyGames
The Universal Military Simulator at GameSpot
The Universal Military Simul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGL | FGL may refer to:
FGL Productions, a French record company
Fidelity & Guaranty Life, an American insurer
Fifth-generation programming language
Flagler Global Logistics, an American logistics company
Florida Georgia Line, an American country music duo
Florida Greyhound Lines, a defunct American bus operator
FGL Sports Ltd., a Canadian sporting goods retailer
Foster's Group, an Australian brewer
Fulmar Gas Line, in the United Kingdom
Futura Gael, a defunct Irish airline
Federico García Lorca, a Spanish poet and playwright |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubenko | Bubenko is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Adalberts Bubenko (1910–1983), Latvian athlete
Janis Bubenko (1935–2022), Latvian born Swedish computer scientist
Jozef Bubenko (born 1951), Slovak football coach
See also
Babenko
Butenko |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShareScope | ShareScope is a data analysis, portfolio management and charting software package developed by Ionic Information for private investors. March 2015 saw the launch of SharePad, a web-based alternative that can be used on tablets, Macs or Windows PC.
All products supply news from Alliance news.
All versions of ShareScope/SharePad allow users to analyse the data using both fundamental analysis and technical analysis.
Data sources
SharePad and ShareScope provide data for:
Shares
Exchange-traded funds
Unit trusts
Investment trusts
Gilt-edged securities, European Central Bank and US Treasuries bonds
Stock market indices - all major and many minor indices
Corporate bonds
Selected Commodities
Foreign exchange market
Warrants
Market sector Price–earnings ratios and yields
Other instruments used to trade on various markets such as Permanent interest bearing shares, American Depositary Receipts and Global Depository Receipts.
Data is received from:
London stock exchange
Nasdaq
New York stock exchange
CME (Chicago)
European exchanges
Add-ons
Alpesh Patel Special Edition is an add-on to all versions of ShareScope, which includes Alpesh's own stock-screening filters, chart set-ups, stock commentary and a monthly newsletter delivered via ShareScope.
Level 2 data from the London Stock Exchange is also available as an add-on for ShareScope Gold and ShareScope Plus. It is included free in ShareScope Pro and SharePad Pro.
Scripting language
ShareScope customers can also make use of ShareScript, a scripting language based on JavaScript, that forms part of the functionality of ShareScope Plus and ShareScope Pro.
Users can share ShareScripts via an online library and ask for help from each other and ShareScope Support staff on ShareScope's dedicated forums.
Awards
ShareScope has been the recipient of 47 awards in 19 years, including the UK's Best Investment Software for the last 12 years running. Awards include:
Investors Chronicle
Best Investment Software: every year 2002 to 2019 excluding 2007
Best Level 2 Data Provider: 2008
Services to Private investors: Martin Stamp 2017
Shares magazine Best Investment Software, 2002-2015 and 2017
MoneyWeek Best Investment Software Provider, 2014.
External links
ShareScope Official website
Alpha Terminal - Professional data terminal from Ionic Information
References
Technical analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filtered-popping%20recursive%20transition%20network | A filtered-popping recursive transition network (FPRTN), or simply filtered-popping network (FPN), is a recursive transition network (RTN) extended with a map of states to keys where returning from a subroutine jump requires the acceptor and return states to be mapped to the same key. RTNs are finite-state machines that can be seen as finite-state automata extended with a stack of return states; as well as consuming transitions and -transitions, RTNs may define call transitions. These transitions perform a subroutine jump by pushing the transition's target state onto the stack and bringing the machine to the called state. Each time an acceptor state is reached, the return state at the top of the stack is popped out, provided that the stack is not empty, and the machine is brought to this state.
Throughout this article we refer to filtered-popping recursive transition networks as FPNs, though this acronym is ambiguous (e.g.: fuzzy Petri nets). Filtered-popping networks and FPRTNs are unambiguous alternatives.
Formal Definition
A FPN is a structure where
is a finite set of states,
is a finite set of keys,
is a finite input alphabet,
is a partial transition function, being the empty symbol,
is a map of states to keys,
is the set of initial states, and
is the set of acceptance states.
Transitions
Transitions represent the possibility of bringing the FPN from a source state to a target state by possibly performing an additional action. Depending on this action, we distinguish the following types of explicitly-defined transitions:
-transitions are transitions of the form and perform no additional action,
consuming transitions are transitions of the form and consume an input symbol , and
call transitions are transitions of the form and perform a subroutine jump to called state before reaching .
The behaviour of call transitions is governed by two kinds of implicitly-defined transitions:
for each call transition the FPN implicitly defines a push transition that brings the machine from to by pushing onto the stack, and
for each pair of states the FPN implicitly defines a pop transition that brings the machine from to by popping from the stack iff is the state at the top of the stack and .
Push transitions initialize subroutine jumps and pop transitions are equivalent to return statements.
Purpose
A (natural language) text can be enriched with meta-information by the application of a RTN with output; for instance, a RTN inserting XML tags can be used for transforming a plain text into a structured XML document. A RTN with output representing a natural language grammar would delimit and add the syntactic structure of each text sentence (see parsing). Other RTNs with output could simply mark text segments containing relevant information (see information extraction). The application of a RTN with output representing an ambiguous grammar results in a set of possible translations or interpretations of the input. Computing this s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report%20%28TV%20series%29 | Report is an independent investigative journalistic TV program in Italy, aired on Rai 3, a channel of the Italian national network RAI for the first time in 1997. The first season were transmitted late in the night, but its increasing success made it possible to move it to prime time.
It was inspired by a similar program, Professione Reporter (Profession: Reporter), aired from 1994 to 1996.
Each episode is structured to touch a different topic: corporate crime, political corruption, criminal schemes, nutrition, health, science, economy, society or environment.
The author and anchorwoman was, since the beginning, the freelance journalist Milena Gabanelli. The other journalists and episode editors are: Giovanna Boursier, Michele Buono, Giovanna Corsetti, Giorgio Fornoni, Sabrina Giannini, Bernardo Iovene, Giuliano Marrucci, Paolo Mondani, Piero Riccardi e Stefania Rimini. Sigfrido Ranucci co-authored the show for ten years and in March 2017 he became Milena Gabanelli's successor. Chiara Baldassari was also part of the Report team until her death in 2005. Paolo Barnard, author of some of the most critical episodes about globalisation, Israel and economical organisations, decided to leave Report after internal disputes.
In 2016 the program won the Television Direction Award for Best Program of the Year. In 2021 the Flaiano awards for television, radio and journalism, for the Best TV Program.
Episode list
1997-1998
First Season
TROPPO BELLO PER ESSERE VERO (Science)
MOBILITA' (Transports)
GLI EFFETTI DELL' ELETTROSMOG (Environment)
L'AFFARE AIDS (Health)
TV E AUDITEL (Society)
1998-1999
Second Season
ENTI INUTILI, aired 10/12/98 (society - useless and costly organisations)
LO STATO CHIESA, aired 10/12/98 (society - Italian church)
BENEFICENZA aired 3/12/1998 (society - charity issues)
ACQUA PAGATA ACQUA REGALATA aired 12/11/1998 (society - water)
IDEE, INVENZIONI, BREVETTI aired 5/11/1998 (society - patents)
LA FOLLIA, aired 29/10/1998 (society - folly)
IL VIRUS DELL'OBBLIGO, aired 15/10/1998 (health - vaccinations)
NON SOLO IL DENTE E' AVVELENATO, aired 08/10/1998 (health - dentistry)
CARISSIMA SALMA, aired 01/10/1998 (society - business on the dead)
IL GENE SFIGURATO, aired 24/09/1998 (society - genetics and agriculture)
2008-2009
Season 12
L'INTESA (Economy) - survey on Alitalia case
IL PRIMARIO (Health)
GLI SCOPPIATI (Economy)
IL SINDACALISTA (Society)
L'EREDITA' (Environment) - about nuclear energy and pollution in Italy
MARE NOSTRUM (Environment)
L’ORO DI ROMA (Environment) - about waste crisis on Rome\Italy
IL PIATTO E' SERVITO (Health\Food)
I VICERE’ (Society)
MODULAZIONE DI FREQUENZE (Society)
L'INGANNO (Environment)
POVERI NOI! (Economy)
COME TU M'INSEGNI (Society)
LA CURA (Health)
PORTE GIREVOLI (Health)
IL RE E' NERO (Society)
CARNE (Health\Food)
COM'È ANDATA A FINIRE? (Society)
IL MALE COMUNE (Society)
LA RICADUTA (Environment) - about Niger oil and Italian oil company
Trials
Due to its wor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luidia%2C%20Inc. | Luidia, Inc. produces portable interactive whiteboard technology for classrooms and conference rooms. Its eBeam hardware and software products work with computers and digital projectors to use existing whiteboard or writing surface as interactive whiteboards.
The company’s eBeam products allow text, images and video to be projected onto display surfaces, where an interactive stylus or marker can be used to add notes, access menus, manipulate images and create diagrams and drawings.
Technology
Luidia’s eBeam technology uses infrared and ultrasound receivers to track the location of a transmitter-equipped pen, called a stylus, or a standard dry-erase marker in a transmitter-equipped sleeve.
Company history
Luidia’s eBeam technology was originally developed and patented by engineers at Electronics for Imaging Inc. (Nasdaq: EFII), a Foster City, California developer of digital print server technology. Luidia was spun off from EFI in July 2003 with venture funding from Globespan Capital Partners and Silicom Ventures.
In 2007, Luidia was selected by the Mexican government to install eBeam-enabled interactive boards in public seventh-grade classrooms in Mexico as part of the government’s Enciclomedia program.
In 2007 and 2008, Luidia was accredited by Deloitte LLP in the accounting firm’s Silicon Valley “Technology Fast 50” program, which accredits fast-growing companies in the San Francisco Bay area.
In January 2021 their main sites and web documentation started returning 404 errors, however their shop is still up. This issue is still present in December of 2022. As of August 2023, Luidia appears to have lost ownership of their domains. ludia.com now redirects to a gambling site, and e-beam.com now contains information about an unrelated industrial technology of the same name.
References
External links
Luidia's Interactive WhiteBoard website
Luidia's Corporate website
Display technology
Educational technology companies of the United States
Companies established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSC%20Genome%20Browser | The UCSC Genome Browser is an online and downloadable genome browser hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). It is an interactive website offering access to genome sequence data from a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate species and major model organisms, integrated with a large collection of aligned annotations. The Browser is a graphical viewer optimized to support fast interactive performance and is an open-source, web-based tool suite built on top of a MySQL database for rapid visualization, examination, and querying of the data at many levels. The Genome Browser Database, browsing tools, downloadable data files, and documentation can all be found on the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics website.
History
Initially built and still managed by Jim Kent, then a graduate student, and David Haussler, professor of Computer Science (now Biomolecular Engineering) at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2000, the UCSC Genome Browser began as a resource for the distribution of the initial fruits of the Human Genome Project. Funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute, NHGRI (one of the US National Institutes of Health), the browser offered a graphical display of the first full-chromosome draft assembly of human genome sequence. Today the browser is used by geneticists, molecular biologists and physicians as well as students and teachers of evolution for access to genomic information.
Genomes
In the years since its inception, the UCSC Browser has expanded to accommodate genome sequences of all vertebrate species and selected invertebrates for which high-coverage genomic sequences is available, now including 108 species. High coverage is necessary to allow overlap to guide the construction of larger contiguous regions. Genomic sequences with less coverage are included in multiple-alignment tracks on some browsers, but the fragmented nature of these assemblies does not make them suitable for building full featured browsers. (more below on multiple-alignment tracks). The species hosted with full-featured genome browsers are shown in the table.
Apart from these 108 species and their assemblies, the UCSC Genome Browser also offers Assembly Hubs, web-accessible directories of genomic data that can be viewed on the browser and include assemblies that are not hosted natively on it. There, users can load and annotate unique assemblies for which UCSC does not provide an annotation database. A full list of species and their assemblies can be viewed in the GenArk Portal, including 2,589 assemblies hosted by both UCSC Genome Browser database and Assembly Hubs. An example can be seen in the Vertebrate Genomes Project assembly hub.
Browser functionality
The large amount of data about biological systems that is accumulating in the literature makes it necessary to collect and digest information using the tools of bioinformatics. The UCSC Genome Browser presents a diverse collection of annotat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2O%20Networks | H2O Networks, sometimes called the Water Networks, was a British telecommunications company founded in 2003 by Elfed Thomas. It was supposed to be rolling out Fibrecity around the UK. They were formally part of the i3 Group.
H2O networks in their Fibrecity (Bournemouth) and Fibrecity (Dundee) guises ceased their builds in October 2010 stating that there would be a short delay due to company restructuring. Their installation contractors in both cities were laid off.
In January 2011 it was announced that there had been a management buy-out of the H2O Networks part of the i3 business, including Fibrecity, by the ex i3 Group CCO Greg Mesch, the new company is to be called City Fibre Holdings.
Revelations about the financial backing behind H2O Networks were released in February 2011. H2O was one of ten companies used by Stephen Dartnell and his co-conspirators to fraudulently obtain over £250m, with H2O the biggest victim, with an amount of over £160m.
Total Asset Finance, the backers, were subject to an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and, allegedly owed a Belgian bank over £130 million. Over £90 Million of this is apparently related to loans being used to finance H2O Networks. Four individuals were convicted in 2017 of conspiracy to commit fraud, and two acquitted.
The crown court case started in September 2016, with the final sentencing handed down in February 2017.
George Alexander and Stephen Dartnell, of Total Asset Limited, were sentenced to 12 and 15 years respectively at Southwark Crown Court. Simon Mundy, who worked for KBC Lease was sentenced to 7 years. Carl Cumiskey of H2O Networks Limited was sentenced to 10 year's imprisonment. Elfed Thomas was found not guilty and exonerated from all charges.
In January 2018, Elfed Thomas announced the launch of his first business venture since the court case, British Fibre Networks, which aims to build pure fibre connections to more than 35% of new homes by 2021.
References
External links
UK homes to get super-fast fibre
Telecommunications in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multikernel | A multikernel operating system treats a multi-core machine as a network of independent cores, as if it were a distributed system. It does not assume shared memory but rather implements inter-process communications as message-passing. Barrelfish was the first operating system to be described as a multikernel.
See also
Amoeba distributed operating system
Barrelfish
Distributed operating system
eMCOS
HarmonyOS
References
Distributed operating systems
Operating system kernels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechOperators | TechOperators is an early stage venture capital firm focused on cybersecurity and B2B software. It is based in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., and was founded in 2008.
Company overview
TechOperators was established in 2008 to focus on funding "early-stage firms too small and risky to attract traditional VC dollars and too big for angel investors" and is now investing out of its third fund. Led by veteran technology entrepreneurs and executives David Gould, Glenn McGonnigle, Said Mohammadioun, and Tom Noonan, the firm provides early stage capital financing from under $1m to $5 million. TechOperators takes an active role in their investments providing not only investment capital, but also applying their operational knowledge.
Team
Dave Gould — Former chairman and CEO of Atlanta-based software maker Witness Systems Inc., which was acquired by Verint Systems Inc. in 2007.
Glenn McGonnigle — Former chairman and CEO of Atlanta-based VistaScape Security Systems Corp., which was acquired by Siemens Building Technologies Inc. in 2006.
Said Mohammadioun — Founded Atlanta software firm Samna Corp., which Lotus Development Corp. bought in 1990 for $65 million. Former CEO and chairman of Synchrologic Inc., which was sold to Intellisync Corp. in 2003 for about $85 million. Nokia Corp. bought Intellisync in 2006.
Tom Noonan — Co-founded Internet Security Systems Inc., which IBM Corp. acquired for $1.5 billion in 2006.
Bill Jones — Former CEO of Orderly and former product management executive at Air2Web and Synchrologic, Inc.
Daniel Ingevaldson — Co-Founder of Endgame, Inc., acquired by Elastic NV in 2019. Previous CTO of Easy Solutions, Inc., acquired by Cyxtera in 2019.
Funds and Investments
TechOperators raised $100m for its third and current fund. Notable investments include Automox, Polarity, Tala Security, Todyl, Scytale (acquired by HPE) and Kyck Global.
TechOperators Fund II includes investments in Springbot, Phantom Cyber (acquired by Splunk), Flashpoint and Ionic Security (acquired by Twilio).
TechOperators raised $30 million for its inaugural fund in 2008. In their first fund, TechOperators invested in Vocalocity, a VoIP company providing hosted pbx for small businesses, Immunet (acquired by Sourcefire) and JouleX (acquired by Cisco).
References
External links
TechOperators
Financial services companies established in 2008
Venture capital firms of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sescoi | Sescoi is a developer of industrial software for computer-aided manufacturing, enterprise resource planning and extended enterprise productivity. Its WorkNC software is one of the market leaders in the CAD/CAM field and is used by more than 25% of companies in demanding countries such as Japan. Sescoi also develops WorkPLAN, a range of ERP software products for custom manufacturers and project based companies. As of 2011 Sescoi had more than 5000 customers and 11000 licenses sold worldwide. Sescoi and its products were acquired by Vero Software in January 2013.
History
Sescoi was created by Bruno Marko in 1987. The company name comes from the French acronym "Société Européenne Spécialisée en Communication Organisation et Informatique". Sescoi was an early pioneer in the development of 3D CAM software with the launch of WorkNC in 1988. WorkNC is well known for its focus on automation and ease of use.
In 1992 the company launched WorkPLAN, its first ERP software for custom manufacturing and project management.
Sescoi acquired Xitron in 2001 and Mecasoft Industrie, developer of the Solid Concept, a 3D parametric MCAD software, in 2002.
The company launched WorkNC-CAD in 2002, WorkNC 5-axis in 2003 and WorkNC G3 in 2007.
A new generation of WorkPLAN ERP was developed and launched as two complementary products. The first one is MyWorkPLAN, a modular ERP for project management, launched in 2006. The second is WorkPLAN Enterprise, a full ERP software for custom manufacturers, mold and die makers and engineering departments, launched in 2008. Both of these products use MySQL as a database engine, and feature a redesigned user interface, with a navigation tree similar to that used in CAD systems.
In 2008 Sescoi launched WorkXPlore 3D, a high-speed collaborative viewer for analyzing and sharing 3D CAD files without requiring the original CAD application.
In year 2009 Sescoi launched WorkNC Dental, CAD/CAM software for automatic machining of prosthetic appliances, implants or dental structures, and also launched WorkNC Wire EDM, a software for wire EDM.
As of 2011, Sescoi had offices in the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, India, China and Korea, and more than 50 distributors around the world serving customers in industries such as Automotive, Aerospace and Defense, Engineering, General Mechanical, Medical & Dental, Tooling and Mold & Die.
Sescoi was acquired by the Vero Software Group in January 2013.
Main products
WorkNC - Automatic CAD/CAM software for machining complex parts from 2 to 5 axis.
WorkPLAN Enterprise - Custom manufacturing ERP software
MyWorkPLAN - Project management ERP software
WorkXPlore 3D - High-speed collaborative viewer for analyzing and sharing 3D CAD files
WorkNC Dental - CAD/CAM software for automatic machining of prosthetic appliances, implants or dental structures
Sponsorship activity
Sescoi was involved in sport sponsorship, and was primarily known for having sponsored the Formula 1 team Prost Grand Prix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang%20G.%20Shin | Kang Geun Shin is a South Korean-born computer scientist and the Kevin and Nancy O'Connor Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan. He is also the founding director of the Real-Time Computing Laboratory (RTCL). He is known for his contributions to the field of real-time fault-tolerant systems. Shin is a recipient of the Korean Ho-Am Prize in Engineering. This prize is awarded for the "outstanding contributions to the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind".
In 1992, Kang G. Shin was elevated to the grade of IEEE fellow for his contributions to the theory of dynamic failure in real-time computing systems.
Education
Shin received a BS (1970) in electronic engineering from Seoul National University and an MS (1976) and a PhD (1978) in electrical engineering from Cornell University.
Research interests
Wireless real-time networking
Computation and network security
Cyber-physical systems
Virtualization-based server consolidation and resource management
Real-Time Computing Laboratory (RTCL)
RTCL is a research group in the EECS dept. at University of Michigan. The research topics at RTCL include:
Quality-of-Service (QoS) sensitive computation and networking, especially focusing on Internet services and applications
Real-time operating systems and middleware services
Distributed system architectures for timeliness and dependability QoS
Fault-tolerant system design, analysis, and validation
Open controller software architectures and real time databases for embedded systems like automobiles, automated homes and factories.
RTCL Alumni Tree
References
External links
University of Michigan faculty
Living people
1946 births
Cornell University alumni
Seoul National University alumni
South Korean computer scientists
Recipients of the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterSystems | InterSystems Corporation is a privately held vendor of software systems and technology for high-performance database management, rapid application development, integration, and healthcare information systems. The vendor's products include InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, Caché Database Management System, the InterSystems Ensemble integration platform, the HealthShare healthcare informatics platform and TrakCare healthcare information system, which is sold outside the United States.
InterSystems is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company's revenue was $727 million in 2019.
History
InterSystems was founded in 1978 by Phillip T. (Terry) Ragon, its current CEO. The firm was one of the vendors of M-technology (aka MUMPS) systems, with a product called ISM-11 (an DSM-11 clone) for the DEC PDP-11 . Over the years, it acquired several other MUMPS implementations: DTM from Data Tree (1993); DSM from Digital (1995); and MSM from Micronetics (1998); making InterSystems the dominant M technology vendor.
The firm eventually started combining features from these products into one they called OpenM, then consolidated the technologies into a product, Caché, in 1997. At that time they stopped new development for all of their legacy M-based products (although the company still supports existing customers). They launched Ensemble, an integration platform, in 2003 and HealthShare, a scalable health informatics platform, in 2006. In 2007, InterSystems purchased TrakHealth, an Australian vendor of TrakCare, a modular healthcare information system based on InterSystems technology. In May 2011, the firm launched Globals as a free database based on the multi-dimensional array storage technology used in Caché. In September 2011, InterSystems purchased Siemens Health Services (SHS) France from its parent company, Siemens. In September 2017, InterSystems announced InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, which, the company said, combines database management capabilities together with interoperability and analytics, as well as technologies such as sharding for performance.
Products
The company's products include the following:
InterSystems IRIS data platform, a hybrid multi-model database management system for real-time transactions and analytics that is available as a private or public fully managed cloud platform.
InterSystems IRIS for Health, a data platform that supports healthcare messaging protocols such as FHIR, HL7, and IHE.
HealthShare, a healthcare informatics platform that supports the creation of and secure access to unified care records.
TrakCare, a web-based healthcare information system, available outside the U.S.
InterSystems Caché, a multi-model database management systems and application server. A MUMPS Server with SQL-Overlay and featured developer tools
InterSystems Ensemble, a rapid integration and application development platform.
In 2020, InterSystems was named a Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for cloud database management syste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Network%20for%20Research%20and%20Education | The Danish Research Network, "Forskningsnettet", is a joint high-speed network for universities and the research community in Denmark.
Today, the Danish Research Network has approximately 100 subscribers and more than 100,000 users every day. The network was originally established in 1987.
The Danish Research Network is run by Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation (DeiC). It is a virtual organization under the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education. Both Universities, research institutions, other public institutions and Danish companies with a considerable element of research may subscribe to the Danish Research Network.
References
External links
The Danish Research Network Website
National research and education networks
Telecommunications in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber%20Security%20Awareness%20Month | National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) is observed in October in the United States of America. Started by the National Cyber Security Division within the Department of Homeland Security and the nonprofit National Cyber Security Alliance, the month raises awareness about the importance of cybersecurity.
History
In 2004, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance launched National Cyber Security Awareness Month as a broad effort to help Americans stay safe and secure online. Initial efforts included advice like keeping antivirus programs up to date. Since 2009, the month has included an overall theme, "Our Shared Responsibility," and weekly themes throughout the month were introduced in 2011
References
External links
National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Homeland Security
National Cyber Security Awareness Month, National Cyber Security Alliance
Cyber Security Awareness Month 2020 Champions
United States Department of Homeland Security
Month-long observances
October observances
Computer security
Observances in the United States
Awareness months |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane%20Torloni | Christiane Maria dos Santos Torloni (born 18 February 1957) is a Brazilian actress.
Biography and career
Her first appearance was on the Brazilian TV network Rede Globo. Among the many characters she has played are Jô Penteado in A Gata Comeu (1985), and Fernanda in Selva de Pedra. In 1981, Torloni played first daughter Helena, a character created by Manoel Carlos in the telenovela Baila Comigo. Torloni also starred in the popular Brazilian telenovela Mulheres Apaixonadas. and appears in the role of Rebeca Bianchi on the telenovela Ti Ti Ti. In addition to her television and film career, Torloni has performed on most Brazilian theater stages, and in 1990 she hosted the re-opening of the Teatro Amazonas in Brazil. Outside her acting career, Torloni is also a member of the Amazon Forever Movement (Movimento Amazônia Para Sempre). She is of Italian, Native Brazilian, and Spanish descent.
Filmography
Television
Film
Theater
1979 – As Preciosas Ridículas
1980 – Bodas de Papel
1981 – The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1984 – Uncle Vanya
1988 – O Lobo de Rayban... Julia Ferraz
1989– Orlando
1993 – 10 Elevado a menos 43 – Extasis (in Portugal)
1994 – Hamlet
1997 – Salome... Salomé
2000 – Joana D'Arc – A revolta ... Joana D'arc
2002 – The Blue Room
2004 – Paixão de Cristo: O Auto de Deus – Virgin Mary
2005 – Mulheres por um Fio... Elise
Awards
References
External links
1957 births
Living people
Actresses from São Paulo
Brazilian people of Portuguese descent
Brazilian people of Italian descent
Brazilian people of Spanish descent
Brazilian telenovela actresses
Brazilian stage actresses
Brazilian film actresses
Dancing with the Stars winners
20th-century Brazilian actresses
21st-century Brazilian actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneDOJ | OneDOJ is a central database that allows local law enforcement in the United States to search and read federal criminal cases. This database holds records on cases, criminal investigations, criminal history, and personal details of other persons.
Software
The software took about 18 months to develop. In 2006 it had about 1,000,000 entries, and was expected to triple by 2009. The software was inspired by the September 11th terrorist attack on the United States of America. A memo that came out December 21, 2006 urged officials to put an aggressive plan into action to bring this database alive and current. In addition a committee was created to speed up the development of this database. since the development, local agencies can request access to this database, which will allow them to view federal, and other state police files. Many federal agencies contribute to this database which include the Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Prisons, ATF, and various other local agencies. This database also allows agencies to keep ownership of their files.
Criticism
The OneDOJ has run into some criticism. One person from the Civil Liberties Union said, "Raw police files or FBI reports can never be verified and can never be corrected." Another concern is files and reports entered may have information on a person who hasn't been accused, arrested or charged.
Security concerns
Many civil liberty organizations are concerned that the database is a privacy threat. The database includes information about suspects in federal cases, that local agencies get full access to. Another security concern was brought up, because false information could be entered into the database, possibly diminishing the person's record, or giving the police a false lead. Officials say that all the information that is in the OneDOJ is already in another database that has a chance of being leaked, and the database is just making it easier for local agencies to come together to solve a crime. Part of the fear may come from a congressional committee giving the Department of Justice a "D" on computer security in 2007.
References
United States Department of Justice
Law enforcement databases in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbler | Newbler is a software package for de novo DNA sequence assembly. It is designed specifically for assembling sequence data generated by the 454 GS-series of pyrosequencing platforms sold by 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Diagnostics company.
Usage
Newbler can run via a Java GUI (gsAssembler) or the command line (runAssembly). It works natively with the .SFF data output by the sequencer, but is also able to accept FASTA files, containing nucleotide sequences, with or without quality information, and FASTQ files. It will use older Sanger sequence data if appropriately formatted to aid in assembly and scaffolding.
See also
Sequencing
Sequence assembly
References
External links
454 Sequencing home page
Bioinformatics software
Computational science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MovAlyzeR | MovAlyzeR is a software package for handwriting movement analysis for research and professional applications. Handwriting movements are recorded using a digitizing tablet connected to a computer. MovAlyzeR is used in many different fields ranging from research in kinesiology, psychology, education, geriatrics, neurology, psychiatry, occupational therapy, forensic document examination or questioned document examination, computer science, to educational demonstrations or student projects in these fields.
Features
MovAlyzeR can be customized for many different pen-movement tests, including goal-directed movements, drawing and handwriting up to a full page of text. It can also process scanned handwriting images for use in, e.g., forensic document examination. Immediately after each trial, consistency with the required pen-movement task is verified so that the user can decide to correct or redo a trial. MovAlyzeR can generate animated audiovisual stimuli which can be edited using its Stimulus Editor.
MovAlyzeRx has the same capability as MovAlyzeR except altering a test. It is designed for medical professionals (hence Rx). The user interface is as simple as possible. No left-clicks are required. The screen layout can be customized. To start testing, just type the patient or participant code.
ScriptAlyzeR handwriting analysis software, is a sub-package of MovAlyzeR excluding visual stimuli and sub-movement analysis.
GripAlyzeR is another flavor of MovAlyzeR for bi-manual force coordination using dedicated hardware: Two grip-force units connected via a magnet of programmable force.
History
The original code of the software was the result of many years of research in handwriting movements. At the core of the software, the signal analysis algorithms that are used have been developed since 1976 when Dr. Hans-Leo Teulings conducted research into the development of handwriting motor control in children in comparison to children with developmental disorders at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Nijmegen (KUN), in The Netherlands. The department became part of the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI) and eventually the Centre for Cognition at the Radboud University Nijmegen (RU).
These signal analysis algorithms were originally coded in Fortran on Digital's PDP11/34 laboratory computers with 54kB of memory. The algorithms use a complex Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to transform both the x and y signals into frequency domain. This allows low-pass filtering and differentiation with zero-phase and ripple free filtering of both x and y signals simultaneously (Teulings & Maarse, 1984).
The software was expanded and transcribed into plain C during the European ESPRIT projects: P419 "Image and Movement Understanding -- IMU" on Cursive-script recognition (1985–1988) and ESPRIT project P5204 "Pen And Paper Input Recognition Using Script – PAPYRUS (1991–1992).
The software was developed further at the Motor Control L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden%20Ships%20and%20Iron%20Men%20%281987%20video%20game%29 | Wooden Ships and Iron Men is a computer wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1987 for the Commodore 64.
Gameplay
This game is based on the naval board wargame, Wooden Ships and Iron Men. In the combat phase, the outcome of a battle is revealed when the winner is declared.
Reception
In 1988, Dragon gave the game 2 out of 5 stars. Computer Gaming World stated that "many of the good qualities of the boardgame have been nicely translated", but criticized the computer opponent that was both weak and unable to fight in scenarios with land. It concluded with the hope that the game would presage the conversion of other large, classic boardgames to the computer. In 1990, the magazine gave the game two-plus stars out of five, and in 1993 gave it one-plus stars, calling it "A board game classic and a computer game disaster ... poor graphics and play value".
See also
Wooden Ships and Iron Men (1996)
References
External links
1987 video games
Avalon Hill video games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore 64-only games
Computer wargames
Video games based on board games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rhodes%20Not%20Taken | "The Rhodes Not Taken" is the fifth episode of the American television series Glee. It premiered on the Fox network on September 30, 2009 and was written by series co-creator Ian Brennan and directed by John Scott. The episode features glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) recruiting former star April Rhodes (Kristin Chenoweth), hoping to improve the club's chances in the wake of Rachel’s (Lea Michele) defection to the school musical. Finn (Cory Monteith) flirts with Rachel in an attempt to convince her to return, and although Rachel is angry when she discovers Finn's girlfriend is pregnant, she ultimately rejoins the club.
Special guest star Kristin Chenoweth played April, and performed on three of the episode's six musical tracks. Studio recordings of four of the songs performed in the episode were released as singles, available for digital download, and two appear on the album Glee: The Music, Volume 1.
The episode was watched by 7.32 million U.S. viewers. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, with Chenoweth's appearance and the performance of Queen cover "Somebody to Love" in particular receiving praise. Raymund Flandez for The Wall Street Journal, Mike Hale of the New York Times and Denise Martin for the Los Angeles Times all deemed "Somebody to Love" the show's best musical number since the staging of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin' in the pilot episode.
Plot
With lead singer Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) no longer part of New Directions, the McKinley High glee club, director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) grows concerned about the club's forthcoming performance at Invitationals. He discovers that April Rhodes (Kristin Chenoweth), a member of the club during his own high school days, never actually graduated, and convinces her to return to school in order to get her diploma and join the glee club. Having failed to achieve her Broadway dreams, April is now an alcoholic, and goes about winning the favor of the existing club members by unconventional means, including getting Kurt (Chris Colfer) drunk and teaching Mercedes (Amber Riley) and Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) to shoplift. After guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) warns Will that April is corrupting the students, Will asks April to become sober, and she vows to do so.
Club member Finn (Cory Monteith) is concerned for his future, having been told by his girlfriend Quinn (Dianna Agron) that she is pregnant with his child. Emma suggests that instead of aiming to attend college on a football scholarship, Finn should utilize his musical talent. Believing Rachel's participation to be the glee club's only chance at success at Invitationals, Finn feigns romantic interest in Rachel and takes her on a date. Rachel, realizing she is unhappy performing in the school musical and excited over Finn's interest in her, returns to the glee club. Meanwhile, Kurt, Mercedes and Tina are informed of Quinn's pregnancy by Puck (Mark Salling), who pretends Finn fathered the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZSP | DZSP (864 AM) Sonshine Radio is a radio station owned and operated by Sonshine Media Network International. The station's studio and transmitter are located at 9001 St. Francis Ave., Farconville Subd. Phase 1, Brgy. San Francisco, San Pablo, Laguna.
References
Christian radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1966
Sonshine Media Network International
Radio stations in Laguna (province) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-adapco | CD-adapco was a multinational computer software company that authored and distributed applications used for computer-aided engineering, best known for its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) products. In 2016 the company was acquired by Siemens Digital Industries Software.
Origins
Analysis and Design Application Company (stylized "adapco") was founded in New York in 1980 as an engineering consultancy company focusing on finite element method analysis. In 1987, Adapco invested in and began to collaborate with Computational Dynamics, a startup company formed by members of a CFD research group at Imperial College London. Eventually the two companies began to jointly trade under the name CD-adapco.
In their 2009 annual user conference, CD-adapco announced that the company had grown 22% in 2008, and they expected similar results in 2009. Professional Engineering Magazine described this as "recession-proof performance" and went on to point out that this success is especially noteworthy considering that many of the company's customers are in the automotive industry, a sector of the economy that was, at the time, suffering record low sales levels. During the financial downturn of 2009, CD-adapco launched their "No Engineer Left Behind" program, which provided free STAR-CCM+ licenses and training for displaced and unemployed engineers.
In April 2016, Siemens acquired CD-adapco for US$970 million.
Products
STAR-CD
CD-adapco's legacy CFD package, STAR-CD, was praised by Renault automotive design engineers as a "world class design package". Nearly 75% of the points won during the 2005 Formula One season were awarded to drivers of cars that were designed with STAR-CD.
STAR-CCM+
In 2004, CD-adapco opted to shift their attention from improving STAR-CD to completely rewriting their computational fluid dynamics (CFD) algorithms and tools. The company gambled that in the end, starting from a "blank slate" with a group of experts would produce a better result than continuing to work improvements into their old products In early 2004, the company introduced this new product, STAR-CCM+, the "CCM" standing for "computational continuum mechanics". The application employs a client-server architecture, to allow users to solve problems from a lightweight computer, such as a laptop, while the computationally expensive math is done on a remote machine. This substantially reduces the need for expensive desktop computers—a requirement of some other similar packages
Even in periods of major economic downturn, few customers cut back on annual licenses. CD-adapco has speculated that their product's success has been partially because their application was designed from the start to simultaneously solve fluid flow and heat transfer problems. Competing products often consist of separate solvers coupled together, which requires that both be kept in agreement; a time-consuming complication that degrades accuracy.
STAR-CAD
STAR-CAD is a range of product lifecycle management]]-e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Commander | Global Commander (known as The Armageddon Man in Europe) is a computer game developed by Martech in 1987 for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum.
Gameplay
The player's goal is to become the successful Global Commander by preventing conflict between the 16 member countries of the U.N.N. These nations possess varying levels of technological capabilities, natural resources, and missile technology. The player's nation has laser-defense satellites to knock down missile attacks from one nation to another, as well as three "Big Bird" Reconnaissance Satellites that can detect military activity. When one nation requests or demands something from another nation, the player receives a warning; the player can also scan radio frequencies for coded messages.
Reception
Computer Gaming World criticized Global Commanders music and lack of a save option. It concluded "the game can be entertaining, but overall, the inconveniences may outweigh the advantages". A 1992 survey in the magazine of wargames with modern settings gave the game two stars out of five, stating that "it bears little resemblance to reality and has limited entertainment value", and a 1994 survey gave it one star. The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #140 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.
Reviews
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) - Nov, 1987
Your Sinclair - Oct, 1987
Commodore User - Oct, 1987
Zzap! - Nov, 1987
Computer and Video Games - Oct, 1987
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Oct, 1987
The Games Machine - Jul, 1988
Computer Gaming World - Jun, 1991
References
External links
Global Commander at Atari Mania
Global Commander at Amiga Hall of Light
Global Commander at Spectrum Computing
Review in Info
1987 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Datasoft games
Martech games
Real-time strategy video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games scored by David Whittaker
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXRJ-FM | DXRJ (88.5 FM) is a relay station of RJFM Manila, owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network through its licensee Free Air Broadcasting Network, Inc. The station's transmitter is located at Pryce Plaza Hotel, Carmen Hill, Cagayan de Oro.
References
External links
RJFM FB Page
Radio stations in Cagayan de Oro
Oldies radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T%20Corporation | AT&T Corporation (with "AT&T" being an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company) is the subsidiary of AT&T Inc. that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.
During the Bell System's long history, AT&T was at times the world's largest telephone company, the world's largest cable television operator, and a regulated monopoly. At its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, it employed one million people and its revenue ranged between US$3 billion in 1950 ($ in present-day terms) and $12 billion in 1966 ($ in present-day terms).
In 2005, AT&T was purchased by Baby Bell and former subsidiary SBC Communications for more than $16 billion ($ in present-day terms). SBC then changed its name to AT&T Inc. Today, AT&T Corporation continues to exist as the long distance subsidiary of AT&T Inc., and its name occasionally shows up in AT&T press releases.
History
Origins
AT&T started with Bell Patent Association, a legal entity established in 1874 to protect the patent rights of Alexander Graham Bell after he invented the telephone system. Originally a verbal agreement, it was formalized in writing in 1875 as Bell Telephone Company.
In 1880 the management of American Bell had created what would become AT&T Long Lines. The project was the first of its kind to create a nationwide long-distance network with a commercially viable cost-structure. The project was formally incorporated in New York as a separate company named American Telephone and Telegraph Company on March 3, 1885. Originating in New York City, its long-distance telephone network reached Chicago, Illinois, in 1892, with its multitudes of local exchanges continuing to stretch further and further yearly, eventually creating a continent-wide telephone system. On December 30, 1899, the assets of American Bell were transferred into its subsidiary American Telephone and Telegraph Company (formerly AT&T Long Lines); this was because Massachusetts corporate laws were very restrictive, and limited capitalization to ten million dollars, forestalling American Bell's further growth. With this assets transfer at the very end of the 19th century, AT&T became the parent of both American Bell and the Bell System.
AT&T was involved mainly in the telephone business and, although it was a partner with RCA, was reluctant to see radio grow because such growth might diminish the demand for wired services. It established station WEAF in New York as what was termed a toll station. AT&T could provide no programming, but anyone who wished to broadcast a message could pay a "toll" to AT&T and then air the message publicly. The original studio was the size of a telephone booth. The idea, however, did not take hold, because people would pay to broadcast messages only if they were sure that someone was listening. As a result, WEAF began broadcasting entertainment material, drawing amateur talent found |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citysocializer | citysocializer (formerly known as CitySocialising) was a subscription-based social networking website based in London and serving the United Kingdom as a paid service and the United States as a free service. The website focused on what it calls "Online2Offline", providing users a place to connect through common interests and events which lead to meeting new people offline.
History & company
citysocializer was founded in January 2007 by ex-BBC producer Sanchita Saha. The company was initially funded through with R&D support from The Prince's Trust. In 2009 the company raised £260,000 in investments through the London Business Angels group. These funds went towards city expansions, marketing and platform developments. By 2010 they had brought in £300,000 in revenue. In December 2010 citysocializer secured £1 million in a Series A round which was led by PROfounders Capital. This investment would be used for product development, expansion, and staff recruitment development and product management.
In August 2013 their first iPhone app was released and in July they announced they made a deal with OK! magazine and Gay Times.
The parent company entered liquidation in September 2023.
Localism & membership
Unlike some social networking websites, citysocializer follows the same paradigm as services such as MeetUp and OkCupid, by focusing on "Online2Offline". The concept promotes common interests and local event that will allow users to meet new people offline. As of 2010, citysocializer reached 40 cities within the United Kingdom. The website hosts monthly group socials, hosted by community members, in order to drive local expansion. Events vary, but mostly revolve around drinking.
The website is based around a user subscription model. It celebrates the full rollout of its new credits-based system across all platforms, making users pay to read messages or participate in socials. Citysocializer's premium service starts at £12.99 per month via the Web, or £3.99/week through an in-app purchase.
Membership demographics vary from ages 18 to 50. Members are described as recent graduates, recently relocated individuals, empty nesters or newly single.
References
British companies established in 2007
British social networking websites
Technology companies based in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExoCarta | ExoCarta is a manually curated database of exosomal proteins, RNA and lipids.
Exosomes are cell-derived vesicles that are present in many and perhaps all biological fluids, including blood, urine, and cultured medium of cell cultures. The reported diameter of exosomes is between 30 and 100 nm, which is larger than LDL, but much smaller than for example, red blood cells. Exosomes are either released from the cell when multivesicular bodies fuse with the plasma membrane or they are released directly from the plasma membrane. It is becoming increasingly clear that exosomes have specialized functions and play a key role in, for example, coagulation, intercellular signaling, and waste management. Consequently, there is a growing interest in the clinical applications of exosomes. Exosomes can potentially be used for prognosis, therapy, and biomarkers for health and disease.
Bioinformatics analysis of exosomes
Exosomes contain RNA, proteins, lipids and metabolites that is reflective of the cell type of origin. As exosomes contain numerous bioactive molecules, including proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, sugars, and related conjugates, large scale analysis including proteomics and transcriptomics is often performed. Currently, to analyse these data, non-commercial tools such as FunRich can be used to identify over-represented groups of molecules.
References
External links
Official site
Biological databases
Organelles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoonschip | Schoonschip was one of the first computer algebra systems, developed in 1963 by Martinus J. G. Veltman, for use in particle physics.
"Schoonschip" refers to the Dutch expression "schoon schip maken": to make a clean sweep, to clean/clear things up (literally: to make the ship clean). The name was chosen "among others to annoy everybody, who could not speak Dutch".
Veltman initially developed the program to compute the quadrupole moment of the W boson, the computation of which involved "a monstrous expression involving in the order of 50,000 terms in intermediate stages"
The initial version, dating to December 1963, ran on an IBM 7094 mainframe. In 1966 it was ported to the CDC 6600 mainframe, and later to most of the rest of Control Data's CDC line. In 1983 it was ported to the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, allowing its use on a number of 68000-based systems running variants of Unix.
FORM can be regarded, in a sense, as the successor to Schoonschip.
Contacts with Veltman about Schoonschip have been important for Stephen Wolfram in building Mathematica.
See also
Comparison of computer algebra systems
References
External links
Documentation
Schoonschip program files, documentation, and examples
Further reading
Close, Frank (2011) The Infinity Puzzle. Oxford University Press. Describes the historical context of and rationale for 'Schoonschip' (Chapter 11: "And Now I Introduce Mr 't Hooft")
Computer algebra systems
Computer science in the Netherlands
Information technology in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealityXtra | RealityXtra (formerly CBS Drama) is a British free-to-air television channel that centres its programming on American television shows produced by CBS. It is the sister channel of CBS Reality and is owned in partnership by AMC Networks and Paramount Networks.
History
CBS Drama
On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm of CBS, CBS Studios International, struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009. The new channels would replace Zone Romantica, Zone Thriller, Zone Horror and CBS Reality, plus timeshift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1. On 1 October 2009, it was announced that CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, CBS Drama and CBS Justice (replacing CBS Action in 2018) would launch on 16 November 2009 replacing Zone Reality, Zone Reality +1, Zone Romantica and Zone Thriller. On 5 April 2010, Zone Horror and Zone Horror +1 were rebranded by Horror Channel and Horror Channel +1, following the rebrand of the portfolio's other three channels in November 2009.
On 1 August 2012 Chellomedia revealed that all European versions of the Zone Channels would be rebranded into CBS Channels. CBS Drama replaced Zone Romantica on 3 December 2012 (in Poland replaced Zone Club).
CBS Reality launched on Freeview on 1 April 2014 followed by CBS Action on 1 October 2014 and as of July 2014, CBS Reality +1, CBS Action, CBS Drama & Horror Channel are available on the YouView platform as part of TalkTalk TV's Entertainment Boost, but were removed from the EPG on 2 June 2015.
CBS Drama closed in Poland on 31 December 2016. It had broadcast UK shows such as Bad Girls, Waterloo Road and Footballers Wives, American shows such as Dallas, Beverly Hills, 90210, CSI and Knots Landing, as well as Australian shows such as Return To Eden and Bondi Rescue.
RealityXtra
On 30 June 2022, the British arm of the AMC-Paramount partnership revised their channel line-up with all CBS branding, with the exception of CBS Reality, being dropped and new channel Legend taking CBS Justice's slot and Horror's programming. In the reshuffle, CBS Drama was renamed Reality Xtra, becoming a sister channel to the current (CBS) Reality channel.
With the rebrand and reshuffle of channels, RealityXtra changed frequencies on Freeview and became a limited-reach channel for viewers who could receive the range of Local channels on channel 7 or 8.
On 22 November 2023, RealityXtra will rebrand as True Crime Xtra to be more in-line with the True Crime brand.
Current programming on RealityXtra
Bonanza (Also shown on Spotlight TV)
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Dynasty
ER
JAG
Judge Judy
The Love Boat
Medium
Touched by an Angel
Bad Girls
Beauty and the Beast
Beverly Hills, 90210
Bondi Rescue
Boston Legal
Charmed
Cheers (Seasons 1–4 only) (Now on Channel 4)
The Colbys
Cutting It
Dallas
Days of Our Lives
The Division
Diagnosis: Murder
Ed
Falcon Crest
Footballer's Wives
Guiding Light
Hack
The Jerry Springer Show
Judg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocoRoco%20Midnight%20Carnival | LocoRoco Midnight Carnival is a platform game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable. The game was released in 2009 as a PlayStation Network exclusive, and is a spin-off that continues the story of LocoRoco 2.
An emulated version of the game was released digitally for PS4/PS5 in July 2022 and got added to the PlayStation Plus Premium catalog of classics.
Plot
LocoRoco Midnight Carnival is based on a secret carnival-like base, created by the BuiBui, a red, mischievous version of the MuiMui. The title shows that the LocoRoco were quietly sleeping, while in the background, a BuiBui pulls on a nearby lever (cleverly designed to just look like a star), opening a trapdoor under the LocoRoco, sending them into a chute, taking them into a cannon, which shows the LocoRoco "Boing!" power. The cannon sends the LocoRoco into the BuiBui's secret base, the midnight carnival.
LocoRoco Midnight Carnival MC
This is the PSP ported version of Locoroco Midnight Carnival for the Xperia Play. It was available via PSN store for Japanese Customers whom had purchased the NTT DoCoMo variant of Xperia Play. Code was sent to email after registering through the Campaign Navi application.
Legacy
In PlayStation Home, an apartment space was released based on LocoRoco. The apartment space is called "Loco Island" and features different LocoRocos on the island and a shop where users can purchase different LocoRoco themed virtual items such as crowns and glasses. There's also a video screen advertising LocoRoco. It is one of the download-only PSP titles no longer available for purchase on PSP as a result of the PSP PlayStation Store closing on July 2, 2021. The game is currently available to download on the PSVita PlayStation Store. It was later re-released on PS4.
Reception
LocoRoco Midnight Carnival received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
References
2009 video games
Halloween video games
Platformers
PlayStation Portable games
Puzzle video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in Japan
PlayStation Portable-only games
PlayStation Network games
Single-player video games
Japan Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog%20syntax%20and%20semantics | The syntax and semantics of Prolog, a programming language, are the sets of rules that define how a Prolog program is written and how it is interpreted, respectively. The rules are laid out in ISO standard ISO/IEC 13211 although there are differences in the Prolog implementations.
Data types
Prolog is dynamically typed. It has a single data type, the term, which has several subtypes: atoms, numbers, variables and compound terms.
An atom is a general-purpose name with no inherent meaning. It is composed of a sequence of characters that is parsed by the Prolog reader as a single unit. Atoms are usually bare words in Prolog code, written with no special syntax. However, atoms containing spaces or certain other special characters must be surrounded by single quotes. Atoms beginning with a capital letter must also be quoted, to distinguish them from variables. The empty list, written [], is also an atom. Other examples of atoms include x, blue, 'Taco', and 'some atom'.
Numbers can be floats or integers. Many Prolog implementations also provide unbounded integers and rational numbers.
Variables are denoted by a string consisting of letters, numbers and underscore characters, and beginning with an upper-case letter or underscore. Variables closely resemble variables in logic in that they are placeholders for arbitrary terms. A variable can become instantiated (bound to equal a specific term) via unification. A single underscore (_) denotes an anonymous variable and means "any term". Unlike other variables, the underscore does not represent the same value everywhere it occurs within a predicate definition.
A compound term is composed of an atom called a "functor" and a number of "arguments", which are again terms. Compound terms are ordinarily written as a functor followed by a comma-separated list of argument terms, which is contained in parentheses. The number of arguments is called the term's arity. An atom can be regarded as a compound term with arity zero.
Examples of compound terms are truck_year('Mazda', 1986) and 'Person_Friends'(zelda,[tom,jim]). Compound terms with functors that are declared as operators can be written in prefix or infix notation. For example, the terms -(z), +(a,b) and =(X,Y) can also be written as -z, a+b and X=Y, respectively. Users can declare arbitrary functors as operators with different precedences to allow for domain-specific notations. The notation f/n is commonly used to denote a term with functor f and arity n.
Special cases of compound terms:
Lists are defined inductively: The atom [] is a list. A compound term with functor . (dot) and arity 2, whose second argument is a list, is itself a list. There exists special syntax for denoting lists: .(A, B) is equivalent to [A|B]. For example, the list .(1, .(2, .(3, []))) can also be written as [1 | [2 | [3 | []]]], or even more compactly as [1,2,3].
Strings: A sequence of characters surrounded by quotes is equivalent to a list of (numeric) charact |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20Futures%20Council | The Design Futures Council is an interdisciplinary network of design, product, and construction leaders exploring global trends, challenges, and opportunities to advance innovation and shape the future of the industry and environment. Members include architecture and design firms, building product manufacturers, service providers, and forward-thinking AEC firms of all sizes that take an active interest in their future.
History
In 1993-94, at the Smithsonian Castle on the East Coast and at the Salk Institute on the West Coast, a network of regional and national design firms began sharing ideas, benchmarks, and proprietary financial analysis with each another. They brought successful practice strategies into dialogue with the world of client demands, budgets, innovation, technology, and communications. These architects, designers, and thought leaders were seeking to build better futures for their firms in their roles as partners, leaders, and futurists.
James P. Cramer, Hon. AIA, Hon. IIDA, Chairman & CEO of Greenway Group, a Washington, D.C.-based management consulting firm, facilitated the sharing of ideas and experiences within this network. A newsletter with information about profitability, tax considerations, business measures, and capital expenditure decisions was circulated as a result.
In the beginning, the group had no name but talked about in industry circles, with references to “that design futures network.”
During this time, Greenway Consulting was working with other clients allied to the design professions who became enthusiastic about supporting the network. Those clients included Cecil Steward of the University of Nebraska, Doug Parker of Steelcase, Jonas Salk of the Salk Institute, Jerry Hobbs and Paul Curran of BPI/VNU Communications, and Arol Wolford of CMD. In addition, principal leaders from Gensler; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; Hammel, Green and Abrahamson; Perkins and Will; CommArts; and two dozen other firms provided leadership vision and energy.
The network held meetings in La Jolla, Calif., Washington, D.C., and New York City, solidifying the concept of expanding the group and making the proprietary information available to a broader audience. Greenway Consulting proposed to BPI/VNU Communications that this information-sharing bulletin be published for a subscription fee and be named DesignIntelligence. The first issue was published on May 15, 1995.
Shortly thereafter, this leadership network officially became the Design Futures Council. They met in the offices of Greenway Consulting in Washington, D.C., and in meeting rooms at the Smithsonian Institution’s Castle. Invitations for programs and sharing of ideas came from the American Institute of Architects, the American Consulting Engineers Council, the Industrial Designers Society of America, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the World Future Society, the International Interior Design Association, the American Society of Interior Designers, the Design-Build Institute, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Core | Intel Core is a line of streamlined midrange consumer, workstation and enthusiast computer central processing units (CPUs) marketed by Intel Corporation. These processors displaced the existing mid- to high-end Pentium processors at the time of their introduction, moving the Pentium to the entry level. Identical or more capable versions of Core processors are also sold as Xeon processors for the server and workstation markets.
The lineup of Core processors includes the Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7, and Intel Core i9.
In 2023, Intel announced that it would drop the "i" moniker from their processor branding, making it "Core 3/5/7/9". The company would introduce the "Ultra" branding for high-end processors as well.
Overview
Although Intel Core is a brand that promises no internal consistency or continuity, the processors within this family have been, for the most part, broadly similar.
The first products receiving this designation were the Core Solo and Core Duo Yonah processors for mobile from the Pentium M design tree, fabricated at 65 nm and brought to market in January 2006. These are substantially different in design than the rest of the Intel Core product group, having derived from the Pentium Pro lineage that predated Pentium 4.
The first Intel Core desktop processor—and typical family member—came from the Conroe iteration, a 65 nm dual-core design brought to market in July 2006, based on the Intel Core microarchitecture with substantial enhancements in micro-architectural efficiency and performance, outperforming Pentium 4 across the board (or near to it), while operating at drastically lower clock rates. Maintaining high instructions per cycle (IPC) on a deeply pipelined and resourced out-of-order execution engine has remained a constant fixture of the Intel Core product group ever since.
The new substantial bump in microarchitecture came with the introduction of the 45 nm Bloomfield desktop processor in November 2008 on the Nehalem architecture, whose main advantage came from redesigned I/O and memory systems featuring the new Intel QuickPath Interconnect and an integrated memory controller supporting up to three channels of DDR3 memory.
Subsequent performance improvements have tended toward making additions rather than profound changes, such as adding the Advanced Vector Extensions instruction set extensions to Sandy Bridge, first released on 32 nm in January 2011. Time has also brought improved support for virtualization and a trend toward higher levels of system integration and management functionality (and along with that, increased performance) through the ongoing evolution of facilities such as Intel Active Management Technology.
Since 2019, the Core brand has been based on four product lines, consisting of the entry level i3, the mainstream i5, the high-end i7, and the "enthusiast" i9. In 2023, Intel announced that it would drop the "i" moniker from their processor branding, making it "Core 3/5/7/9". The comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iframe%20virus | An Iframe virus is malicious computer code, being considered as form of malware, that infects web pages on websites, most of them using iframe HTML code, to cause damage by injecting tags into the website. Code may be injected into HTML, PHP or ASP source files. The virus may make its presence known by scanning for home page files such as index.php, index.html or default.html and inject the iframe code in them. The iframe code is usually found near the beginning on the web page. They may also infect through themes or templates of content management systems. The virus will also modify .htaccess and hosts files, and create images.php files in directories named 'images'. The infection is not a server-wide exploit, it will only infect sites on the server that it has passwords to.
This recent surge in compromised web servers has generated discussions in online forums and blogs. Web malware infections hurt businesses; Google,
Firefox, Internet Explorer and anti-virus companies blacklist infected sites, businesses lose revenue and sites suffer damage to their brand and reputation.
An iframe virus is a type of badware. "Badware producers are constantly developing new, creative ways to install badware onto your computer". Badware distribution has been expanded beyond traditional channels like email viruses to harder-to-avoid methods like automated “drive-by downloads” that are launched by compromised web pages.
Iframe variants
Sometimes iframe virus variants come in the form of JavaScript. iframe tags may not be seen in plain text in the source because it is encoded. If the encoded script code is decoded, it will contain code to invoke iframe via JavaScript.
References
Computer viruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuboid%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cuboid may refer to:
Cuboid, in geometry a convex polyhedron bounded by six quadrilateral faces, whose polyhedral graph is the same as that of a cube
Cuboid (computer vision), a feature used for behavior recognition in video
Cuboid (video game), a puzzle game for the PlayStation Network
Cuboid bone, one of seven tarsal bones in the human foot
Cuboid syndrome, a medical condition of the human foot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20conditioning | Data conditioning is the use of data management and optimization techniques which result in the intelligent routing, optimization and protection of data for storage or data movement in a computer system. Data conditioning features enable enterprise and cloud data centers to dramatically improve system utilization and increase application performance lowering both capital expenditures and operating costs.
Data conditioning technologies delivered through a Data Conditioning Platform optimize data as it moves through a computer’s I/O (Input/Output) path or I/O bus—the data path between the main processor complex and storage subsystems. The functions of a Data Conditioning Platform typically reside on a storage controller add-in card inserted into the PCI-e slots of a server. This enables easy integration of new features in a server or a whole data center.
Data conditioning features delivered via a Data Conditioning Platform are designed to simplify system integration, and minimize implementation risks associated with deploying new technologies by ensuring seamless compatibility with all leading server and storage hardware, operating systems and applications, and meeting all current commercial/off-the-shelf (COTS) standards. By delivering optimization features via a Data Conditioning Platform, data center managers can improve system efficiency and reduce cost with minimal disruption and avoid the need to modify existing applications or operating systems, and leverage existing hardware systems.
Summary
Data conditioning builds on existing data storage functionality delivered in the I/O path including RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks), intelligent I/O-based power management, and SSD (Solid-State Drive) performance caching techniques. Data conditioning is enabled both by advanced ASIC controller technology and intelligent software. New data conditioning capabilities can be designed into and delivered via storage controllers in the I/O path or to achieve the data center’s technical and business goals.
Data Conditioning strategies can also be applied to improving server and storage utilization and for better managing a wide range of hardware and system-level capabilities.
Background and Purpose
Data conditioning principles can be applied to any demanding computing environment to create significant cost, performance and system utilization efficiencies, and are typically deployed by data center managers, system integrators, and storage and server OEMs seeking to optimize hardware and software utilization, simplified, non-intrusive technology integration, and minimal risks and performance hits traditionally associated with incorporating new data center technologies.
References
Adaptec MaxIQ
Data management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20Telecine | Telecine is a Brazilian premium television network owned by Globo, a division of Grupo Globo, jointly with Hollywood studios Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Walt Disney Studios.
The network consists of six channels, airing primarily theatrically released motion pictures from its studio owners and other Brazilian distributors, such as Globo Filmes, Paris Filmes, Califórnia Filmes, and Europa Filmes, as well as having the premium second-run content rights to Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures (first-run rights are held by its competitor HBO, both part of Warner Bros. Discovery).
Telecine Channels
Telecine Premium
The flagship channel, one of the first four Globosat channels (as Telecine, with Multishow, GNT and TopSport – now SporTV), focused on recent film releases of many genres. Renamed Telecine 1 in 1997, with the launch of the other four channels, and several years later, was renamed once again to its current name.
Telecine Action
Originally Telecine 2, dedicated to action, adventure, thriller, horror and some adult films, also featured series such as Numb3rs. Starting in February 2011, the channel started offering dual-audio (original audio by default and dubbed in Portuguese as an option) and electronic subtitles. Later that year, the channel changed its language options to Portuguese audio and subtitles turned off by default (can be turned on by the user) and original audio with subtitles as an option.
Telecine Touch
Originally Telecine 3 and later Telecine Emotion, was dedicated to dramatic and romantic films, until it was renamed Telecine Light, when the channel started featuring some comedy films, previously featured on Telecine 4/Happy. On October 22, 2010, the channel was once again renamed to Telecine Touch, featuring films that "touch" the channel's audience. Basically, the channel reverted to Telecine 3/Emotion's format of drama and romance.
Telecine Pipoca
Originally Telecine 4 and later Telecine Happy, was dedicated to family and comedy films. Its current incarnation, Telecine Pipoca ("pipoca" is Portuguese for "popcorn"), is based on recent releases, dubbed in Portuguese.
Telecine Cult
On its original incarnation, Telecine 5 and later Telecine Classic, it was dedicated to classic film. Currently, the channel features independent, alternative and "cult" films, also running some classic films.
Telecine Fun
The sixth standard-definition Telecine network, Telecine Fun was launched on October 22, 2010, featuring comedy films, romantic comedies and animated films, previously featured on Telecine 4/Happy (now Telecine Pipoca) and Telecine Light (now Telecine Touch).
Language options
Five of the networks feature dual-audio and electronic subtitles.
Telecine Premium has original audio and Portuguese subtitles turned on by default (can be turned off by the user), with the dubbed version as an option.
Telecine Pipoca, Action, Touch and Fun have audio dubbed in Portuguese with subtitles turned o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E265 | {
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European route E265 is a B-class E-road, part of the inter-European road system. It runs through Estonia, connecting Tallinn to Paldiski, and from Paldiski has ferry access to the port of Kapellskär, Sweden. In Estonia, E265 follows the Estonian National Road 11 (Tallinn Ring Road) and part of Estonian National Road 8 (from Keila to Paldiski).
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
265
E265 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portals%20network%20programming%20application%20programming%20interface | Portals is a low-level network API for high-performance networking on high-performance computing systems developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico. Portals is currently the lowest-level network programming interface on the commercially successful XT line of supercomputers from Cray.
Overview
Portals is based on the concept of elementary building blocks that can be combined to support a wide variety of upper-level network transport semantics. Portals provides one-sided data movement operations, but unlike other one-sided programming interfaces, the target of a remote operation is not a virtual address. Instead, the ultimate destination in memory of an incoming message is determined at the receiver by comparing contents of the message header with the contents of structures at the destination. This flexibility allows for efficient implementations of both one-sided and two-sided communications. In particular, Portals is aimed at providing the fundamental operations necessary to support a high-performance and scalable implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. It was also used as the initial network transport layer for the Lustre file system.
Early years
Portals began in the early 1990s as an extension to the nX message passing system used in the SUNMOS and Puma operating system. It was first implemented for the Intel Paragon at Sandia, and later ported to the Intel TeraFLOPS machine named ASCI Red.
There were four building blocks in the first version of Portals: the single block, the dynamic block, the independent block and the combined block. All incoming messages would first pass through a match-list that allowed individual portals to respond to specific groups, ranks, and a set of user specified match-bits.
Portals 3
The Portals concept continued to evolve over successive generations of lightweight kernels and massively parallel systems. In 1999, an operational programming interface was given to Portals so that it could be implemented for intelligent or programmable network interfaces outside of a lightweight kernel environment. This standard was designed for systems where the work required to prepare, transmit, and deliver messages is longer than the round-trip to the Portals data structures. For example, in modern systems, this work is dominated by the round-trip through the IO bus to the network interface. The standard has been revised since the initial release to make it more suited for modern high performance, massively parallel computers.
The MPI library was ported from the retronymed Portals 2 to the new Portals 3.0.
The Portals 3 specification has been implemented several times, first on ASCI Red, then on CPlant over Myrinet, Linux and the Cray XT family.
Portals 4
In light of emerging partitioned global address space (PGAS) languages, several new features have been added to the Portals API as part of Portals 4. Portals 4 also made several changes to improve the interact |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%20corner%20parser | In computer science, a left corner parser is a type of chart parser used for parsing context-free grammars. It combines the top-down and bottom-up approaches of parsing. The name derives from the use of the left corner of the grammar's production rules.
An early description of a left corner parser is "A Syntax-Oriented Translator" by Peter Zilahy Ingerman.
References
Specific
Parsing algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Rhino | Super Rhino is a 2009 American computer-animated comedy direct-to-video short film, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and starring the characters from feature film Bolt. Directed by Nathan Greno, the short film picks up sometime after the conclusion of Bolt. The excitable and TV obsessed hamster Rhino finds out his friends Penny and Bolt have been kidnapped. Rhino has to save them from the evil Dr. Calico. The short inspires Bolt: The Video Game and is a spin-off to the fictional TV show featuring Bolt.
Super Rhino was included in the 2009 DVD and Blu-Ray release of Bolt.
Plot
Penny and Bolt have been captured by the evil Dr. Calico, suspended above a pool of lava, inside a heavily guarded warehouse on an island in the middle of nowhere - a base which is impenetrable to both people and dogs. Penny's father watches the events from his lab through a secret camera imbedded in Bolt's collar and worries that he cannot save her. Discovering that no man or dog can break into Dr. Calico's base, he turns to Rhino, who is watching TV in the background. In order to save Penny and Bolt, Rhino is put through the same procedure as Bolt to give him super-powers.
Rhino uses his newly found powers to fly across the sea and crash land outside the armed base encased in his ball. Rhino's battle with the guard is witnessed by Penny, Bolt and Dr. Calico from the inside, with helicopters and cars crashing into the side of the building. Rhino uses his heat-vision to create an opening in the wall.
Once inside, Rhino uses his eye-beams to defeat the armed guards and commandeers a flying missile, riding it like a surfboard to aim at Dr. Calico, though the missile misses. Instead, Rhino uses his "super squeak" (similar to Bolt’s "super bark") ability to finish the villain off. With Penny and Bolt saved, Rhino walks away.
Rhino is next seen on stage performing "The Best of Both Worlds"; the theme song from Hannah Montana (by co-star Miley Cyrus), where it is revealed that Rhino has been dreaming his adventures all along. Mittens wakes him up, telling him that she's not a fan of his singing. The short ends with another dream sequence, this time about Rhino being selected by the President to defeat Calico once again.
Cast
Mark Walton as Rhino
Miley Cyrus as Penny
Susie Essman as Mittens
Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Calico
Sean Donnellan as Penny's TV Dad
Randy Savage as Thug
See also
List of Disney Animated Shorts and Featurettes
Walt Disney Animation Studios
References
External links
2009 short films
Bolt (franchise)
American animated comedy films
Computer-animated short films
2009 computer-animated films
American animated short films
2000s Disney animated short films
Films directed by Nathan Greno
Films scored by John Powell
Films about rodents
2000s English-language films
Animated films about mammals
Films produced by Clark Spencer
Films about dreams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20engineering | Service engineering may refer to:
Building services engineering
Service-oriented software engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodall%20focus | The Goodall focus was a Hopewellian culture from the Middle Woodland period peoples that occupied Western Michigan and northern Indiana from around 200 BCE to 500 CE. Extensive trade networks existed at this time, particularly among the many local cultural expressions of the Hopewell communities. The Goodall pattern stretched from the southern tip of Lake Michigan, east across northern Indiana, to the Ohio border, then northward, covering central Michigan, almost reaching to Saginaw Bay on the east and Grand Traverse Bay to the north. The culture is named for the Goodall site in northwest Indiana.
Defining artifact
Glacial Kame is a widespread of the northern late archaic cultural manifestations. Cemeteries were customarily made in sand and gravel ridges formed by glacial outwash called "kames". Not all human burials in a kame are necessarily from the same time period, those which reflect similar methods and are associated with similar materials are related to some degree.
Glacial Kame cemeteries contain from only a few to several dozen burials. The tightly flexed human remains, usually singly but sometimes paired, were placed in circular pits barely large enough to permit placement of the body.
If a stratum of hard silt overlay the more easily removed sands and gravels, only the narrowest possible disturbance was created through the former.
Males and females representing all age groups were placed in these cemeteries.
Powdered ocher, contains iron oxides and ranges in color from bright yellow to a rich orange-red.
Large drilled sandal-sole-shaped and circular gorgets were cut from wall sections of marine molluscans.
A distinctive artifact is the so-called "birdstone." Commonly carved from slate, it has a profile resembling the head, body, and tail of a stylized bird.
A symbolic spear-thrower weight comparable to that of the bannerstone. There is no clear associations to confirm this idea.
Other artifacts include copper and shell beads, some made from the columella of marine shells, long bone pins, and bone awls.
Ceramics
Ceramics tend to come from middens and contain expanding and contracting stemmed projectile points and obsidian flakes. Research has been on-going through the 1990s at sites in northwest Indiana, the Galien River Basin, the Kalamazoo River Basin and the Grand River basin.
See also
Hopewell tradition
Norton Mound group
List of Hopewell sites
References
Further reading
Cunningham, Wilbur M. A Study of the Glacial Kame Culture in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. Occasional Contributions from the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan 12. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1948, 12.
Greenman, E.F. "Ohio". The Indianapolis Archaeological Conference: A Symposium Upon the Archaeological Problems of the North Central United States Area. 1935-12, Indianapolis. Washington, D.C.: National Research Council, [1937?], 17.
Drennen, Bert C., III. National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Zimmerman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela%20%282002%20TV%20series%29 | Daniela is a Spanish-language telenovela television series produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and the Mexican production company Argos Comunicacion. This limited-run series ran for 120 episodes from May 6 to October 18, 2002. Daniela was aired in eleven countries around the world.
Cast
Litzy as Daniela Gamboa
Rodrigo de la Rosa as Mauricio Lavalle
Osvaldo Benavides as Andres Miranda
Ximena Rubio as Paola Arango
Marta Zamora as Enriqueta Montijo De Gamboa
Rene Gatica as Poncho Gamboa
Pilar Mata as Laura Arango
Marco Treviño as Osvaldo
Elizabeth Guindi as Regina Lavalle
Luis Cardenas as Federico Arango
Socorro de la Campa
Teresa Tuccio as Gabriela Arango
Magali Boysselle as Maria Elena 'La Nena'
Masha Kostiurina as Marylin Gamboa
Alexandra de la Mora as Roger Gamboa / Renata Vogel
Gustavo Navarro as Larry Campbell
Alma Frether as Camila Lavalle
Tara Parra as Chelito Gamboa
Lucha Moreno
Claudia Irobo
Armando Pascual
Roberto Escobar as Armando Lavalle
Elvira Monsell as Isabel Miranda
International release
ABS-CBN aired between 2002–2003 in Philippines.
Tedi Tv passed in 2002–2003 in Angola.
TV Markíza started to air this telenovela on January 28, 2004 and the rerun was aired in 2006, in Slovakia. The telenovela is dubbed in Slovak.
Indosiar aired the show during mornings in 2004, and the rerun was aired in the mid of 2008 as midnight show, in Indonesia.
RTV Pink started to air this telenovela on October 7, 2009 and MHC on October 17, 2011 in Serbia.
Telemetro started to air this telenovela on May 10, 2011 in Panama.
Al Sumaria started to air this telenovela in October, 2011 in Iraq. The telenovela is dubbed in Iraqi Arabic.
OTV began to air it in December 2013 in Lebanon, dubbed in Lebanese Arabic.
Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation aired this telenovela in 2014 on MBC 2 and rebroadcast on Cine 12 in Mauritius. The telenovela is dubbed in French.
References
External links
2002 telenovelas
2002 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
2002 Mexican television series debuts
2002 Mexican television series endings
Spanish-language American telenovelas
Argos Comunicación telenovelas
Telemundo telenovelas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial%20Real%20Estate%20Women | Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network is a professional association for women in the real estate profession. There are various chapters of CREW throughout the United States which create programming focused on business networking, social and educational programs and the advancement of women in commercial real estate.
About
Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network works to educate women about opportunities in commercial real estate. The organization was founded in 1989. CREW has over 11,000 members worldwide, and the organization has four main initiatives: Business Development, Industry Research, Leadership Development, and Career Outreach.
Various chapters of CREW exist throughout the United States. Most chapters focus on networking, social and educational activities for members. By 2007, there were 61 individual chapters in various states.
In 1998, CREW created a fund-raising and philanthropic program called CREW Foundation. CREW also has a national conference.
See also
Real estate
List of real estate topics
Commercial real estate
References
Real estate industry trade groups
Non-profit organizations based in Kansas
Women's organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1989
Lawrence, Kansas
Organizations for women in business |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20informatics | Computational informatics is a subfield of informatics that emphasizes issues in the design of computing solutions rather than its underlying infrastructure. Computational informatics can also be interpreted as the use of computational methods in the information sciences.
Development
From a historical viewpoint, medical informatics scientists (also known as medical informaticians) started to use artificial intelligence and Bayesian statistical methods in diagnosis and medical decision making, as early as in the 1970s. An example is the MYCIN system developed at Stanford University. The field has since evolved to use a wide range of computational methods and to interact with all possible scientific and other disciplinary domains. Later, the field integrated the following:
Computational techniques: artificial intelligence, algorithms (for architectures ranging from single CPU to massively parallel machines), programming, object-oriented system design, databases, information retrieval, computer graphics and visualization, data mining, information extraction.
Probability, statistics and decision science: Theory of probability, statistical inference, cost/risk-benefit analysis, probabilistic analysis, stochastic modeling, decision theory, statistical data analysis, probabilistic networks, pattern classification, statistical learning and modeling, statistical data mining.
Applied mathematics: graph theory, differential equations, optimization theory, wavelets, group theory.
Electrical engineering methods: signal and image processing.
Domain knowledge: art and cultural heritage, biology, chemistry, engineering, medicine, the World Wide Web.
User sciences: design, human-computer interaction, evaluation.
Cyberinfrastructure for informatics: search engines, digital repositories, storage.
Scientometrics, bibliometrics and economics: science and policy evaluation, data mining and information extraction, knowledge discovery.
Social sciences: social network analysis and metrics.
Education
Several universities offer graduate programs in this area. One example is the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. Another example is the Hamburg University of Technology which offers a consecutive Bachelor and Master program with emphasis on computational techniques. Some programs are targeted at specific domains. For instance, the Biomedical Informatics Program at Stanford University focuses on technologies and methods for understanding biomedical data and to improve health care.
In Tunisia, University of Manouba offers a Master program called Intelligent and Decisional Informatics which tries to cover all aspect of computational informatics.
References
Information science by discipline |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Plekhanov | Vladimir Plekhanov (born 20 October 1920) was a noted Russian firearms designer of the 20th century, not to be confused with the Vladimir G. Plekhanov the computer scientist specializing in isotope behavior.
Plekhanov worked closely with Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the famed AK-47 (Avtomat Kalashnikova 47), throughout the 1940s. Although Kalashnikov denies that the AK-47 design is based on the German Sturmgewehr 44, it is believed that Plekhanov procured a Sturmgewehr 44 and may have introduced it to Kalashnikov in the early 1940s.
References
Soviet inventors
1920 births
Possibly living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsch%20operator | The Kirsch operator or Kirsch compass kernel is a non-linear edge detector that finds the maximum edge strength in a few predetermined directions. It is named after the computer scientist Russell Kirsch.
Mathematical description
The operator takes a single kernel mask and rotates it in 45 degree increments through all 8 compass directions: N, NW, W, SW, S, SE, E, and NE. The edge magnitude of the Kirsch operator is calculated as the maximum magnitude across all directions:
where z enumerates the compass direction kernels g:
and so on.
The edge direction is defined by the mask that produces the maximum edge magnitude.
Example images
References
Edge detection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madurankuli | Madurankuli (, ), also abbreviated MDK, is a city that is located between Puttalam and Chilaw in North Western Province, Sri Lanka. The city is connected by roads and a railway network, . It is located from the centre of the commercial capital Colombo. It is one of the oldest residential parts of the city, containing over 3,000 people.
Madurankuli is a growing commercial and agricultural area that is known for trading activities, agriculture and exports of coconuts, copra, salts, oil, prawns and vegetables.
Climate
The climate of Madurankuli is tropical with a marked dry season and temperatures averaging between 26 °C in January to 30 °C in April and May. Rainfall averages around 2,000 mm per year.
Businesses
The major businesses in Madurankuli are coconuts, fibres, charcoal, agriculture, shrimp farms, oil and copra. Many businesses here are traded and marketed in international markets so the export rate is higher than other cities.
Businesses on the coast specialise in fishing, and is where hotels and restaurants are located.
Religion
Madurankuli is populated by Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus. Most of the Buddhist temples (Viharayas) were built by ancient kings and they identified as "Raja Maha Viharayas" and are under the custody of the Department of Archaeology, Sri Lanka.
Festivals and specials
The people in Madurankuli celebrate many traditional festivals. All Buddhist temples celebrate Vesak, Poson and Esela festivals. In May and June, temples organise offering campaigns known as "Dansala" for visitors and residents with the support of locals in the area. These festivals feature colorful decorations, lanterns, illuminations and pageants where traditional dancing, drumming, costumed dignitaries and elephants are paraded.
St Anne's Roman Catholic church is located near the beach in Talawila in Puttalam district. Thousands of pilgrims attend the church for its main festivals in March and July.
Ramazan, Haj and Mawlid are celebrated by the majority of Muslims in Madurankuliya.
The Munneswaram and Hindu temples are pilgrim centres of many devotees. The main temple of god Shiva at Munneswaram comprises the shrines. Munneswaram celebrates its major festival in August where fire walking is practiced.
Culture and traditions
Culture in Madurankuliya is similar to other cities in North Western Province. Cultural aspects are mostly derived from the Muslim tradition.
Transport
The nearest airport is Bandaranaike International Airport.
Trains are serviced by the Muthu Kumari (Pearl Princess) train.
The region is served by an extensive rail and road transport system providing linkages to the major cities and ports in Sri Lanka. It has an extensive public transport system based on buses operated both by private operators and the government owned Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB).
Towns in Puttalam District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20Show | Regular Show (known as Regular Show in Space during its eighth and final season) is an American animated sitcom created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network. It ran from September 6, 2010, to January 16, 2017, over the course of eight seasons and 261 episodes. The series follows the lives of two 23-year old friends, Mordecai (a bluejay) and Rigby (a raccoon), who work at a local park as groundskeepers. Their coworkers are Skips (a yeti), Muscle Man and Hi-Five Ghost. Other characters include Pops (a lollipop-shaped man and the park's manager) and the duo's boss Benson (a gumball machine). The duo spend their days slacking off and avoiding work to entertain themselves by any means, which leads to surrealistic, extreme, and supernatural misconduct.<ref name="wired">{{cite magazine|date=April 3, 2012|title=Regular Shows J.G. Quintel Is Just a Regular Guy|url=https://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/j-gquintel/|magazine=Wired|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101173441/https://www.wired.com/2012/04/j-g-quintel/|archive-date=January 1, 2017|access-date=July 15, 2012}}</ref>
Many of Regular Show characters were loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naïve Man from Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM. The former was one of the winners of the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival and received international attention after being broadcast on Nicktoons Network. Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed young artists to create pilots with no notes, which would possibly be optioned as shows. The series premiered on September 6, 2010, on Cartoon Network.
The series has received acclaim from critics and has developed a following of all ages, although it has garnered controversy for its dark humor, sexual innuendos, violence, and mature themes. Regular Show was a ratings success for Cartoon Network, and was nominated for several awards, including seven Annie Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards – one of which it won for the episode "Eggscellent" (season 3, episode 18) – and three British Academy Children's Awards. A film based on the series, titled Regular Show: The Movie, premiered in 2015.
After eight seasons and 261 episodes, the series concluded on January 16, 2017, with the 33-minute finale "A Regular Epic Final Battle".
Premise
The series revolves around the daily lives of two 23-year-old friends – Mordecai and Rigby – who work as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days avoiding work to entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson, and their coworker Skips, but to the delight of park manager Pops. Their other coworkers include an overweight green male named Muscle Man, and a ghost named Hi-Five Ghost, who serve as their rivals.
Creation
Regular Show largely grew out of creator J. G. Quintel's life and experiences in college. Quintel attended the California Institute of the Arts, and many of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onefour%2C%20Alberta | Onefour was a research substation of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada that focused on forage and cattle data. This locality is located in the extreme Southeast of southern Alberta within Cypress County, located west of Highway 41, southeast of Medicine Hat.
Originally located at (SW15 T1 R4) Township 1, Range 4 the original ranch was given the name "Onefour" as the Onefour grew the headquarters were moved to (SW15 T2 R4) and the name Onefour remained. Onefour once had a store, school and assembly hall and residences for staff. Today only a few staff homes, two duplexes, a cookhouse and offices remain of the locality.
See also
List of communities in Alberta
Agriculture Canada
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
Minister of State – Agriculture
References
Localities in Cypress County
Agriculture in Alberta
Federal departments and agencies of Canada
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadwars | Roadwars is the first arcade game developed by Arcadia, the short-lived arcade game division of Mastertronic. The home computer versions were developed by Binary Design and published by Melbourne House, who had recently been acquired by Mastertronic. Versions of the game released in the US were distributed by Electronic Arts.
Plot
The player drives a Battlesphere, an ovoid mobile weapon armed with a laser cannon and a protective shield. Battlespheres ensure the stability of the spaceways between the moons of the planet Armageddon by removing destructive debris. The magnetic side panels which keep the vehicles on the spaceways are malfunctioning and can not only delay but completely destroy a Battlesphere.
Gameplay
Roadwars is an arcade-like game which can be played with one or two players, and uses a joystick.
Reception
In 1989, Dragon gave the game 3½ out of 5 stars.
References
External links
Roadwars at GameSpot
Roadwars at GameFAQs
Roadwars review
Review in Info
1987 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Binary Design games
Commodore 64 games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockford%20%28video%20game%29 | Rockford is a 1988 arcade game developed by Mastertronic's Arcadia Systems as an arcade spin-off of the home computer series Boulder Dash. The original arcade version of Rockford ran on the "Arcadia Multi Select system", an Amiga 500-based system that supported multiple games.
Mastertronic ported the game to home computers, with the 16-bit versions on their Melbourne House label and the 8-bit versions released on the Mad X budget label.
Plot
Rockford is a game in which the player is on a treasure hunt involving five different worlds, and needs to collect treasures while avoiding getting crushed by giant rocks, boxing himself in, getting caught by enemies or running out of time. Once the required amount of treasure is collected, the player must locate the exit door to finish the level.
The Explorer
Gold coins must be collected. Enemies here are bats and evil monkeys. Killing a bat will give 9 coins. One level features a giant snake, which can turn evil monkeys to stones and stones to gold coins.
The Cook
This food-themed world consists oranges (or rolls) as stones, and apples as treasures. The enemies are sandwiches and fried eggs. Killing a sandwich gives 9 apples. This world features two types of sausages - a good sausage, which turns fried eggs into oranges and oranges into apples, and an evil rotten sausage which does the polar opposite. One level features a clock collectible, which gives additional time.
The Cowboy
Stones are cacti here, and red rubys are collectibles. Enemies include geologic hammers and Colt Woodsman revolvers. Hammers give 9 rubys when killed. The final level has a colonist wagon which turns cacti into rubys and cold woodsman revolvers into cacti. This worlds' clock powerups are bugged and will not increase overall time.
The Cosmonaut
Cosmonaut players must collect suns, and Earth globes function as stones. Enemies are mainly evil black holes, but at one level, strange dinosaur-like space-doves appear, which give out 9 suns when killed. This particular level is also notable for a boiling and expanding plasma-like substance which kills enemies when they are in its close proximity, while growing even bigger. At the end, the whole mass may eventually turn into suns or Earth globes.
The Doctor
Hearts must be collected here, eyeballs serve as stones. Enemies include skulls, and palette-swapped butterflies (these give out hearts when killed). Two worm-like characters will also appear here: a bony one, which turns hearts to eyeballs and eyeballs to skulls, and a healthy meaty one which turns skulls back to eyeballs and eyeballs to hearts.
Gameplay
Rockford is an action arcade game counterpart to Boulder Dash. The game has four difficulty levels, 80 screens, and digitized sound effects.
The player must collect the designated amount of treasure items before he could leave the area and proceed to the next level. Every world features 4 levels, making it 20 levels altogether. The player dies if a stone or a treasure item fall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle-Ear | Miracle-Ear, Inc. is a hearing aid and hearing care company consisting of a network of franchised and corporately-owned retail locations. The company is a subsidiary of Amplifon, the worldwide leader in hearing care and hearing aid retail based in Milan, Italy. Miracle-Ear's U.S. headquarters are located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As of 2023 it has more than 1,500 locations in the United States, and it is the best-known hearing aid brand in the U.S.
History
The origin of Miracle-Ear
Miracle-Ear, Inc. began as a hearing aid manufactured by Dahlberg Electronics, an electronics company founded in 1948. Highly decorated WWII veteran, Kenneth Dahlberg started Dahlberg Electronics after he left a position as assistant to the president of Telex Communications, another manufacturer of hearing aids. Prior to manufacturing hearing aids, Dahlberg's company produced pillow radios for hospitals and motels.
In the early 1950s, Dahlberg Electronics began producing hearing aids that utilized the newly invented transistor technology – beginning with "hybrid" hearing aids that used transistors and vacuum tubes, and then releasing an all-transistor model in 1953. In 1955, they introduced the first so-called "in-the-ear" hearing aid, the D-10 Magic Ear – which concealed all electronic components in a shell snapped onto an earmold and weighed 1/2 ounce, including battery, three-transistor amplifier, microphone, and receiver. Other innovations included the D-14 "Solar Ear" eyeglasses hearing aid, which used a solar cell for power.
Further product innovations
In 1962, the Miracle-Ear IV was the first hearing aid that used integrated circuitry, and in 1971, the company introduced the Dahlberg SHARP circuit, an ultra-low power circuit utilizing in-house hybrid production. In 1988, the company debuted the Miracle-Ear Dolphin, the first programmable hearing aid on the market. Following university testing in 1997, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved claims on Miracle-Ear's Sharp Plus circuitry that the Miracle-Ear devices improved hearing in the presence of background noise.
In 1998 the Miracle-Ear Messenger was introduced, which featured proprietary technology that enabled the aid to be customized by the wearer. In 2003 the company's entire line of hearing aids went digital, and in 2005 Miracle-Ear brought out the innovative Open Fit design. In early 2011 the company announced the Miracle-Ear Mirage, an invisible completely in the canal hearing aid that fits deep in the ear canal.
Also in 2011, Miracle-Ear debuted a waterproof hearing aid, the Aquavi, which is also dustproof and virtually shockproof to accommodate active lifestyles. It can be completely submerged in water up to three feet deep for up to 30 minutes without damage to the instrument and has an IP rating of 68. In 2013, Miracle-Ear launched a new technology platform called ClearVation, which learns the wearer's individual preferences and delivers appropriate amplification levels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napkin%20PC | The Napkin PC is a concept for a next-generation computer entered into the 2009 Next-Gen PC Design Competition by Avery Holleman. The concept won first prize, the Chairman's Award. The award was personally presented to Holleman by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Holleman received $20,000 in prize money for the accolade.
There is currently no plan to build the device; it remains a concept. The technology is based on current technologies, like e-paper and radio frequency.
Design
A "napkin" holder functions as a base-station for the technology. The base-station is filled with e-paper "napkins", as well as a place for some coloured pens. The user can simply pick up a pen and interact with the napkin using the pen. The napkin and pen communicate using short-range RF technology, while both connect with the base-station using long-range RF waves.
Holleman has also stated that the napkins can easily be shared. The napkins are also modular. The pen wirelessly powers the napkin when it comes into close range.
Production
Images of the concept released by Holleman show the device running a variant of Windows.
Holleman hopes that the Napkin PC will encourage creative groups to collaborate better because of the conference abilities of the concept.
The device will require very little power. It will rely on not a battery, but a single-layer flexible circuit board for inductive power. Holleman also hopes that the device will help cut down on paper waste and reduce the need for printers in modern society.
References
Personal computers |
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