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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons%20Computer%20Labyrinth%20Game | The Dungeons & Dragons Computer Labyrinth Game was an electronic board game released by Mattel in 1980.
Description
The board appears as a plastic castle with a chess board sized grid in the middle. Underneath the superstructure is a drawer, in which can be found two metal warrior figures, a dragon, a treasure chest, plus a number of plastic pieces to be used as walls, and a couple of secret room markers. The castle is also a computer of sorts, and the gridded playing surface is a touch sensitive key board. Each time the game is turned on the computer randomly creates an invisible labyrinth wherein lies the imaginary treasure, and the dragon.
Gameplay
This was a simple electronic board game, with a dungeon and a dragon in it. The computer places 50 walls randomly across the board, and then two players can compete head to head. Each player tries to and hinder the other's advances, while searching each room for the treasure. If a player encounters the dragon, the player is injured and returns to his or her secret room.
The game can be played solitaire or with two players, each assuming the role of a warrior. The aim is for the player to find the treasure and get it back to the player's secret room. The game begins by selecting the basic level or advanced level (which includes doors, that may or may not be open the second time a warrior tries to go through them). Then the player selects a secret room. Each time the warrior enters a square (the warrior can move 8 squares a turn until the warrior walks into a door or wall or gets wounded) the castle emits various noises, which have different meanings. It could be a clear space or the warrior might bump into an invisible wall. There are electronic sounds to tell the players that the dragon (initially asleep) has woken (which happens three squares from the treasure), that the player has found the treasure, that the dragon is flying towards the warrior and that the invisible dragon is attacking. The warrior can sustain three such attacks before dying, and each attack also reduces the warrior's movement allowance in squares, which means the dragon can move that much more often, as he moves after the warrior's move is finished. As the dragon moves only 1 square a time, the player will need to find where he is, lure him to the other side of the board, and then rush back, grab the treasure and get back to the player's secret room. In the two player game warriors can attack each other, each warrior having a variable computer moderated strength.
A player moves his figurine from square to square; depending on what is in the square, an electronic sound would be triggered, allowing a player to figure out where walls were located. Another sound would indicate that the dragon's treasure hoard had been located, and between player turns, the "Dragon" sound would indicate that the dragon had moved one square. When the dragon first wakes, it is not possible to know exactly where the dragon is on the board (althou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Hot%20100%20singles%20of%202008 | Billboard publishes annual lists of songs based on chart performance over the course of a year based on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and SoundScan information. This is a list of the magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 2008.
The #1 song on the list was "Low" by Flo Rida and T-Pain, after having released the song in 2007 and spent 10 weeks at number-one. The song that came in at number two was "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis and at #3 was Alicia Keys' song "No One", after spending 5 weeks at #1 in December 2007.
T-Pain achieved a rare distinction of appearing on both the number-one and number one-hundred positions on a Billboard Hot 100 Year-End list.
See also
2008 in music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2008
List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2008
References
United States Hot 100 Year-End
Lists of Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegatron | Pegatron Corporation (stylised as PEGATRON; ) is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company that mainly develops computing, communications and consumer electronics for branded vendors. It also develops, designs and manufactures computer peripherals and components. Pegatron's primary products include notebooks, netbook computers, desktop computers, game consoles, handheld devices, motherboards, video cards and LCD TVs, as well as broadband communication products such as smartphones, set-top boxes and cable modems.
History
In January 2008, ASUS began a major restructuring of its operations, splitting into three independent companies: ASUS (focused on applied first-party branded computers and electronics); Pegatron (focused on OEM manufacturing of motherboards and components); and Unihan Corporation (focused on non-PC manufacturing such as cases and moulding). In the process of the restructuring, a highly criticised pension plan restructuring effectively zeroed out the existing pension balances. The company paid out all contributions previously made by employees. On 1 June 2010, ASUS spun off Pegatron.
Pegatron has in recent years become a significant components supplier for Tesla Inc. During the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, Pegatron had to halt their production when some employees tested positive for the virus. Pegatron's India plant took over some production of Apple iPhones due to the pandemic affecting its Shenzhen operations.
Corporate profile
Operations
Pegatron's principal executive offices and many assets are located in Taiwan. As of March 2010, Pegatron had approximately 5,646 employees stationed in Taiwan, 89,521 in China, 2,400 in the Czech Republic and 200 in the United States, Mexico, and Japan. Pegatron has manufacturing plants in Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Indonesia, and China, and customer service centers in the United States and Japan.
Subsidiaries
Unihan Corporation
As part of the corporate restructuring of ASUS in 2007, Pegatron acquired Unihan Corporation from ASUS in January 2008. Since 2008, the Unihan Corporation has been a subsidiary of Pegatron Corporation that designs and manufactures computers, computer peripherals and audio-video products.
Corporate social responsibility
In June 2008, with its PUreCSR corporate responsibility system, Pegatron became a member of the EICC (Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition), a group of companies in the electronics industry that supports the implementation of the Code of Conduct throughout the electronics and information and communications technology supply chain, ensuring safe working conditions, respect and dignity to employees, and environmentally responsible manufacturing processes. Pegatron's corporate responsibility system, PUreCSR (which stands for Pegatron & Unihan reduce, reuse, recycle, recovery, replace & repair Corporate Social Responsibility), meets the international standards: the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System, the OHSAS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada%20gaming%20area | Since 1971, the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) publishes an annual Abstract summarizing gaming and non-gaming revenue for the entire state. The document is roughly 250 pages long. Detailed data is provided for different groups of casinos, organized by geography, size (according to gaming revenue), and public corporations vs. privately owned. Nevada State Gaming law NRS 463.120. requires that financial information for individual casinos be kept in confidence.
The names of the resorts in any category are often speculated on but a definitive list is not revealed by the NGCB in accordance with state law. A category is known as casinos with gaming revenue above $72 million per year has been in use for over 20 years. However, independent analysis conducted by Frank Martin has revealed the names of the resorts for the Fiscal Year 2008.
By the end of the decade, Nevada had become the fastest-growing state in the nation and increased gaming revenues by 150 percent.
Gaming Revenue Depression
Monthly revenue from October 2007 represents the highest yearly moving average (i.e. 12 months ending October 2007). The 12 months moving average ending October 2009 is the same as the 12 months ending October 2004 (so gaming is now down to what it was five years ago). The pit revenue for the state is shown in the graph. Slot revenue also dropped a billion and a half dollars since October 2007. Blackjack gaming revenue is down to the 1997 levels.
Large Revenue Casino Resorts
One statewide category is Statewide Casinos with Room Facilities with Gaming Revenue of over $72 million a year. The document indicates that there are 45 locations that qualify for this category in the fiscal year 2009 (1 July 2008 - 30 June 2009). Five of the locations are Not Publicly Owned which means they also have no public debt. There are 23 properties located on the strip, 13 more in urban Las Vegas, 3 in Laughlin, and the final 6 in Lake Tahoe and Reno area.
The aggregate of the 45 casinos earned about 71% of the gaming revenue for the state, and over 70% of the non-gaming revenue. These properties averaged $190 million in gaming revenue and $227 million in non-gaming revenue.
Top 6 Revenue Casino Resorts
The NGCB abstract gives the total revenue (gaming and non-gaming) for the strip resort ranked #6, but it does not give the names of the top casinos. It can be presumed that they are the following resorts in the table below
Number of Properties in Other Revenue Groups
The names of the individual properties in lower revenue groups is more of interest to a potential investor as a top level analysis of the property revenue.
Smaller Publicly Owned Casinos
This table is restricted to casinos that earn more than $12 million in gaming revenue in FY08. The previous table for gaming revenue greater than $72 million lists 47 casinos (42 of which are publicly owned). The additional list is 36 casinos (for a total of 78 publicly-owned casinos in the state). Properties may or may not have ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RockYou | RockYou was a company that developed widgets for MySpace and implemented applications for various social networks and Facebook. Since 2014, it has engaged primarily in the purchases of rights to classic video games; it incorporates in-game ads and re-distributes the games.
History
Based in San Francisco, California, RockYou was founded in 2005 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen. The company's first product, a slideshow service, was designed to work as an application widget. Later applications included various forms of voice mail, text and photo stylization, and games. As of December 2007, it was the most successful widget maker for the Facebook platform in terms of total installations.
In May 2007, RockYou was one of the companies invited to participate in F8, the event at which Facebook announced an open platform allowing third parties to develop and operate their own software applications on the Facebook website. Applications made for Facebook include Super Wall, "Hug Me", Likeness, Vampires, Slideshows, Birthdays, MyGifts, and Emote, among others.
In December 2009, RockYou experienced a data breach resulting in the exposure of over 32 million user accounts. This resulted from storing user data in an unencrypted database (including user passwords in plain text instead of using a cryptographic hash) and not patching a ten-year-old SQL vulnerability. RockYou failed to provide a notification of the breach to users and miscommunicated the extent of the breach.
In October 2010, the company completed major layoffs. In November 2010, the company's founder and CEO, Lance Tokuda, stepped down from his position as CEO and was later replaced by Lisa Marino in April 2011.
In 2010, RockYou announced the acquisitions of two game development studios, TirNua and Playdemic, as well as development agreements for two new games from John Romero's social game studio Loot Drop. Playdemic's first game, Gourmet Ranch, was nominated in February 2011 for a Mochi Award for Best Social Game. RockYou's investors include SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech International, and DCM.
In 2011, the company agreed to undergo two independent security audits to settle a proposed class action in California over a 2009 data breach that exposed millions of passwords and email addresses.
In 2012, the company settled Federal Trade Commission charges. The settlement barred future deceptive claims by the company regarding privacy and data security, required it to implement and maintain a data security program, barred future violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, and required it to pay a $250,000 civil penalty to settle the COPPA charges.
On June 13, 2012, RockYou acquired Bingo developer Ryzing and relocated its headquarters to San Francisco, California. In August 2012, RockYou launched The Walking Dead Social Game based on AMC's hit series of the same name. In April 2014, RockYou purchased three Playdom social games from Disn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranyctycia | Paranyctycia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Species
Paranyctycia orbiculosa Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Paranyctycia at funet
Xyleninae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindernet | Kindernet (as Nickelodeon Kindernet from 2011 to 2013) was a Dutch television network that aired classic and modern children's television series from the 1980s onward.
Two iterations of the network have been broadcast; the original lasted from 1988 to 2003, while a Nickelodeon-branded return that launched in 2011 and ended in 2013 for two years.
History
Original (1988–2003)
Kindernet began as an idea by Dennis Livson, a Finnish producer and distributor of animated programmes in the 1970s. He believed that, at the time, children's programmes made for television were too violent for young viewers. He therefore started a network with so called "violence-free" cartoons. Its first logo reflected the childish aesthetic. The network is finally launched through satellite (Intelsat V 27.5 degrees West) and some cable networks on 1 March 1988. It was founded and owned by Livson's production company Telecable Benelux B.V. with financing by British retailer W H Smith and Japanese company Fuji Eight of the Fujisankei Communications Group. Because of most days, commercial television was not allowed by Dutch law, the Dutch network was broadcast via Luxembourg and England, and is considered to be the first commercial television network in the Netherlands.
From 1988 to 2003, Kindernet aired between 7.00 and 10.00 AM, timesharing with other networks such as the Flemish BRT. In 1995, the director of Kindernet launched VTV, which was aimed at female audiences. Both networks timeshared, though VTV was rather unsuccessful. Later, Kindernet would go on to timeshare with Discovery Channel and Net 5 (from 2000 to 2002). The network then went through a rebranding, during which the name was changed to Kindernet 5 (corresponding to Net 5).
By the end of the year 2001, Kindernet was acquired by MTV Networks Europe, and switched from Net 5 to Veronica in September 2002. This takeover was expressed in the new logo for the network, which heavily resembled the pre-2009 Nickelodeon logo in terms of style and other variations. The last new show to come to Kindernet before this rebrand happened was Thomas & Friends, which had moved from the closed Dutch feed of Cartoon Network. One year later, Kindernet was rebranded as Nickelodeon and ceased broadcast.
Return (2011–13)
On 4 April 2011, Kindernet was relaunched as part of the Nickelodeon family of networks, replacing TMF. It initially aired between 6.00 AM and 3.00 PM, sharing network space with Comedy Central.
On 1 October 2012, Kindernet's airtime was decreased from 9 hours to 3 hours, now airing from 6.00 to 9.00 AM.
Kindernet officially shut down on 1 November 2013, allowing Comedy Central to expand in its place.
Programming
Albert the Fifth Musketeer
Bassie & Adriaan
Colargol
Batfink
Alfred J. Kwak
Barbapapa
Calimero
The World of David the Gnome
Inspector Gadget
The Smurfs
Doctor Snuggles
Boes
Dommel
Mrs. Pepperpot
Swiss Family Robinson
Nils Holgersson
Pinocchio
Sinbad
Rupert
Teddy Ruxpin
Vicky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Sex%20Offender%20Registry | The National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) is a Canadian legal data base designed to monitor convicted sex offenders living in the country. It came into force on December 15, 2004, with the passing of the Sex Offender Information Registration Act (SOIR Act)
Significant amendments to the original legislation came into force in September 2008, and on April 15, 2011. Access is limited to law officials and not available to the general public.
Any offender who is convicted of a primary designated sexual offence (e.g. sexual assault, sexual interference, possession of child pornography, etc.) will be ordered by the court, at the time of sentencing or within 90 days thereafter, to register with the registration site that serves the area of their main residence. A person so ordered must register within 7 days, or if they are incarcerated for their crime, within 7 days from their release date. The information that is collected from the offender is confidential, and is not available to the public.
The main purpose of Canada's NSOR is to assist a police officer who is investigating, or to help prevent, a crime of a sexual nature. NSOR analysts can provide the most current information available about a suspect who is already a registered sex offender, or can search the NSOR database for possible suspects in sexual offence cases where the offender is unknown.
The NSOR database also contains details concerning many sex offenders who were convicted and sentenced prior to December 15, 2004, referred to as "retrospective" offenders. The criteria for this group was that they must have still been serving an active portion of their sentence on the date that the SOIR Act came into force (i.e. still incarcerated) on probation, or on parole. These retrospective offenders were tracked down by various law enforcement authorities, and were served with a Notice that they were required to register for the NSOR after a one-year grace period. The last day of that grace period was December 15th, 2005.
Anyone required to register with Canada's National Sex Offender Registry is required to comply with the following obligations:
to register with their registration site once a year. The registration site is usually the police agency that serves the area where the offender's main residence is located, although this description varies somewhat by province or territory;
to advise their registration site, within 7 days, of any change of name;
to advise their registration site, within 7 days, of any change of address or change of employment;
to advise their registration site, within 7 days, of any absence from their main address that will be for at least 7 consecutive days. They must advise of their date of departure, their actual or estimated date of return, and of the address(es) where they will be while absent. In addition, the offender is required to advise the registration site, within 7 days of their return to their residence, of their actual date of return.
An Order or No |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECIF%20Protocol | The MECIF Protocol (Medical Computer Interface Protocol), is a rare communications protocol originally developed by Hewlett-Packard to allow external devices (e.g. computers) to communicate with certain Hewlett-Packard patient monitors. It is a client–server based protocol that uses a modified RS-232 cable to allow a client (e.g. a computer) to send commands to a server (e.g. patient monitor). The protocol can be used to retrieve vital data from patient monitors, such as ECG, blood pressure and heart-rate signals.
Ownership of the protocol has changed hands many times and was most recently supported by Philips.
Due to the complexity of the protocol, very few software applications currently support it.
References
External links
MECIFView - Software application for acquiring data from patient monitors using the MECIF protocol
MediCollector - Software application for collecting data from patient monitors
record - Software tools for communicating using the MECIF protocol
Health standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMAT | SEMAT (Software Engineering Method and Theory) is an initiative to reshape software engineering such that software engineering qualifies as a rigorous discipline. The initiative was launched in December 2009 by Ivar Jacobson, Bertrand Meyer, and Richard Soley with a call for action statement and a vision statement. The initiative was envisioned as a multi-year effort for bridging the gap between the developer community and the academic community and for creating a community giving value to the whole software community.
The work is now structured in four different but strongly related areas: Practice, Education, Theory, and Community. The Practice area primarily addresses practices. The Education area is concerned with all issues related to training for both the developers and the academics including students. The Theory area is primarily addressing the search for a General Theory in Software Engineering. Finally, the Community area works with setting up legal entities, creating websites and community growth. It was expected that the Practice area, the Education area and the Theory area would at some point in time integrate in a way of value to all of them: the Practice area would be a "customer" of the Theory area, and direct the research to useful results for the developer community. The Theory area would give a solid and practical platform for the Practice area. And, the Education area would communicate the results in proper ways.
Practice area
The first step was here to develop a common ground or a kernel including the essence of software engineering – things we always have, always do, always produce when developing software. The second step was envisioned to add value on top of this kernel in the form of a library of practices to be composed to become specific methods, specific for all kinds of reasons such as the preferences of the team using it, kind of software being built, etc.
The first step is as of this writing just about to be concluded. The results are a kernel including universal elements for software development – called the Essence Kernel, and a language – called the Essence Language - to describe these elements (and elements built on top of the kernel (practices, methods, and more). Essence, including both the kernel and language, has been published as an OMG standard in beta status in July 2013 and is expected to become a formally adopted standard in early 2014.
The second step has just started, and the Practice area will be divided into a number of separate but interconnected tracks: the practice (library track), the tool track are so far identified and work has started or is about to get started. The practice track is currently working on a Users Guide.
Education area
The area focuses on leveraging the work of SEMAT in software engineering education, both within academia and industry. It promotes global education based on a common ground called Essence. The area's target groups are instructors such as university p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20Smith%20%28minister%29 | Joshua Smith (1760–1795) was an early American hymn compiler and Baptist minister in New Hampshire, USA.
Smith was born in 1760 and was a Baptist lay minister in New Hampshire. Smith authored Divine Hymns, or Spiritual Songs, a book of hymns first published in either 1784 or 1791 featuring and popularizing well-known folk songs such as "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree". The book was published in Norwich and Exeter, New Hampshire. By 1803 at least eleven more editions were published. Many of his pieces were set to music by Jeremiah Ingalls, another New England composer. Smith lived in Canaan and Brentwood, New Hampshire, where he was active in the local Baptist congregations. Smith died of consumption in 1795.
References
External links
American male composers
American composers
American Christian hymnwriters
1760 births
1795 deaths
People from Canaan, New Hampshire
People from Brentwood, New Hampshire
18th-century Baptist ministers from the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playdom | Playdom was an online social network game developer popular on Facebook, Google+ and Myspace. The company was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area by University of California, Berkeley graduates Ling Xiao and Chris Wang and Swarthmore College graduate Dan Yue. In 2009, the market for games played on social networking sites was valued at $300 million, consisting mostly of online sales of virtual goods.
It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney Interactive, itself a division of The Walt Disney Company. On September 1, 2016, Disney announced the closure of the remaining Playdom games, Marvel: Avengers Alliance and its mobile sequel at the end of the month, effectively shuttering the studio.
History
On November 12, 2009, Playdom acquired Green Patch and Trippert Labs. In September 2009, competitor Zynga initiated a trade secrets lawsuits against Playdom and 22 other rivals, including Green Patch. These lawsuits were finally settled in November 2010, less than 4 months after Disney's acquisition of Playdom in July 2010.
On March 31, 2010, Playdom announced the acquisition of Argentina-based online game developer Three Melons for an undisclosed amount. In April 2010, Playdom closed all but one of the games from the Green Patch studio six months post-acquisition. On April 26, 2010, Playdom announced the acquisition of Merscom, a North Carolina-based social game developer. On May 19, 2010, they acquired Acclaim Games. On June 7, 2010, Playdom announced the acquisition of gaming developer Hive7 after a $33 million funding round. This marked Playdom's sixth acquisition over the prior year. On July 8, 2010, Playdom announced it acquired Metaplace, Inc. The pricing of the deal was not disclosed.
On July 27, 2010, The Walt Disney Company acquired Playdom in a $763 million deal. Disney initially paid $563 million for Playdom, which was the No. 3 social game company with about 42 million monthly players at the time of the acquisition. The deal also included a further $200 million in additional payments if Playdom achieves certain growth thresholds.
In May 2011, Playdom has been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to pay $3 million in fines for collecting and disclosing children's information without parental approval.
In April 2014, Playdom announced the closure of all online games on the Playdom site, including Gardens of Time, Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Kitchen Scramble, Pirates of the Caribbean: Isles of War, Ghosts of Mistwood, Disney City Girl, and Disney Words of Wonder. The games closed on April 25, 2014. RockYou acquired the Facebook games Gardens of Time, Words of Wonder, and Disney City Girl (renamed to City Girl Life).
On September 1, 2016, Disney Interactive Media Group announced the end of Marvel: Avengers Alliance and its mobile-only sequel, Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2, bringing a close to the studio.
Games
Gardens of Time was the most successful Facebook game created by Playdom, with a peak of 17 million monthly active users and 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot%3A%20The%20Video%20Game | Spot: The Video Game is a video game developed and produced by Virgin Mastertronic in 1990/1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS computers, Game Boy and NES. It is the first video game to feature the then-current 7 Up mascot "Spot", and was later followed up by platformers Cool Spot and Spot Goes To Hollywood.
Gameplay
Gameplay is based on a strategy table game called Othello or Reversi, which originates from 1883, but it takes place on a 7×7 board, though in some variations, certain locations on that board would be unavailable.
Two to four players alternated turns, with each player controlling pieces of a specific color. On each turn, a player selects an existing piece of his color, and then an empty position one or two squares away. If the selected location is one square away, a new piece is created in that location; otherwise, the chosen piece moves from its original location to the new location. In either case, all adjacent pieces are then changed to that player's color.
Spot: The Video Game offered an animated approach to moving the pieces. Depending on the proximity and direction of the move, the Spot character would appear as the moving piece and do a dance, roller skate, cart wheel, dive, fall backwards, etc. to the destination location.
The NES and DOS versions allowed up to four players, each designated by a specific color. Human players would hand off controllers so all members could make their moves when their turn arose.
The current world record, for the NES version, is held by Chad Brevik.
History
Originally called Infection, the game was invented by Dave Crummack and Craig Galley in 1988 for Wise Owl Software, which then sold the rights to Virgin Mastertronic UK. Although versions of Infection were programmed for Amiga, Commodore 64, and Atari ST, none saw a commercial release. Eventually, the game was picked up by Virgin Mastertronic US, which licensed it to the Leland corporation, who then released it as the arcade game Ataxx in 1990. Around the same time, Virgin released its own version of the game, Spot: The Video Game. Infection was initially intended to be a budget release, and when the 7-up branding was added, Spot was sold as a full-price title. Infection, while never seeing a commercial release, was released by developer Gary Dunne into the public domain in 1994. Infection also appeared on the cover disk of issue 49 of Amiga Power.
Designer Graeme Devine stated in a retrospective interview that the NES version of Spot was created "over six weeks with no development hardware or software".
For a limited time, a mail-in promotion was offered to purchase the NES version for $24.99, along with four labels from specially marked 7up bottles.
Reception
Wyatt Lee reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "SPOT: The Computer Game offers a simple concept with cute graphics and stimulating game play. It offers fast play, multi-player interaction, a long shelf life and much delight."
Reviews
Amiga Power (J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeHAL | FreeHAL was a volunteer computing project to build a self-learning chatbot. This project is no longer active.
Originally, the program was called JEliza referring to the chatbot ELIZA by Joseph Weizenbaum. The J stood for Java because JEliza has first been programmed in Java. In May 2008, the program has been renamed to FreeHAL because the programming language has changed. The name is related to the computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
FreeHAL uses a semantic network and technologies like pattern recognition, stemming, part of speech databases and Hidden Markov Models in order to imitate a human behaviour. FreeHAL learns autonomously. While communicating by keyboard, the program extends its database. Currently, English and German are supported.
By using the BOINC platform, new semantic networks for the program are built. FreeHAL@home appears to have terminated operations.
Awards
In 2008, the program won the first prize in the category "Most Popular" at the Chatterbox Challenge, a yearly competition between different similar chatbots.
Publications
There was an article about FreeHAL in the Linux Magazine, Issue 97 from December 2008. In the German magazine com!, the program was on the CD/DVD and in the list of the Top-10-Open-Source programs of the month.
References
External links
Website archive
Linux-Magazine Issue 97, p. 94f
com! Magazine, Issues 4/08 and 5/08
Science in society
Free science software
Volunteer computing projects
Free simulation software
History of artificial intelligence
Chatbots
Software using the GPL license
Free artificial intelligence applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IExpress | IExpress, a component of Windows 2000 and later versions of the operating system, is used to create self-extracting packages from a set of files. Such packages can be used to install software.
Overview
IExpress (IEXPRESS.EXE) can be used for distributing self-contained installation packages (INF-based setup executables) to multiple local or remote Windows computers. It creates a self-extracting executable (.EXE) or a compressed Cabinet (.CAB) file using either the provided front end interface (IExpress Wizard), or a custom Self Extraction Directive (SED) file.
SED files can be modified with any plain text/ASCII editor, like Notepad. All self-extracting files created by IExpress use CAB compression algorithms, are compressed using the Cabinet Maker (MAKECAB.EXE) tool, and are extracted using the WExtract (WEXTRACT.EXE) tool.
IEXPRESS.EXE is located in the SYSTEM32 folder of both 32 and 64-bit installations of Windows. The front end interface (IExpress Wizard) can be started by manually navigating to the respective directory and opening the executable (IExpress.exe), or by typing IExpress into the Run window of the Start Menu. It can also be used from the command line (Windows Command Prompt or batch file) to create custom installation packages, eventually unattended. (automated operation):
IEXPRESS /N drive_letter:\directory_name\file_name.SED
IExpress Wizard interface guides the user through the process of creating a self-extracting package. It asks what the package should do: extract files and then run a program, or just extract files. It then allows the user to specify a title for the package, add a confirmation prompt, add a license agreement that the end-user must accept in order to allow extraction, select files to be archived, set display options for the progress window, and finally, specify a message to display upon completion.
If the option to create an archive and run a program is selected, then there will be an additional step, prompting the user to select the program that will be run upon extraction.
Security
The self-extracting packages created with IExpress have (inherent) vulnerabilities which allow arbitrary code execution because of the way they handle their installation command and their command line processing. Additionally, because of the way Windows User Account Control handles installers, these vulnerabilities allow a privilege escalation.
More specifically, the vulnerability comes in two versions: the most obvious one is that a switch tells the package to run an arbitrary command in the extracted directory; the other is that the directory is predictable and writable by any ordinary user, so that the usual command can be replaced by an attack payload. The latter has been fixed by Microsoft in MS14-049, but the former is only addressed by a policy to deprecate IExpress. There is also a DLL hijacking exploit possible with IExpress.
See also
List of installation software
References
External links
MSDN: Using IExpres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL%20%28web%20series%29 | LOL is a web series exploring teen relationships, drug use and social networks. It premiered on Blip on 29 November 2008. There are 20 webisodes in total, ranging between 2 and 5 minutes in length with the last webisode being 10 minutes long. The series was self-funded, with initial help in kind from a local production company. It was shot on a Red One digital cinema camera in 4K.
Storyline
Fueled by peer pressure, 15-year-old Keely Cooper experiments with drugs and physical relationships. The series features a non-linear structure and contains flash forwards, showing scenes set 6 months later.
Characters
Keely Cooper (Nicola Mahoney) – a bright, introspective 15-year-old who is overly self-critical.
Jaz Nerini (Bryony Seth) – a headstrong, feisty 16-year-old who is experienced and just wants to have fun.
Cam Spencer (Nico Mirallegro) – smart and witty, an easy-going guy who continually finds himself an outsider.
Scott 'Dawber' (Dannie Pye) – a sixth form dropout whose main occupation is getting stoned.
Milo Peet (Chris Holding) – Cam's scheming friend, who enjoys causing misery for others.
Tom 'Mase' Mason (Joe Hughes) – Kind and friendly, he tries to see the best in everything.
Oliver Skellhorn (Micheal Lawrence) – Mase's mate, fling of Jaz's.
Helen Cooper (Toni Cummings) – Keely's stressed-out single mother.
PC Kane (Dane Brookes) – new to the job, PC Kane obeys the letter of the law. He hopes to impress DC Wells by helping find out what happened to Keely Cooper.
James 'Jay' Garner (Andrew Sykes) – Keely, Cam and Jaz's teacher.
Beth (Victoria Hamnett) – a new friend of Keely's.
Hollyoaks connection
The first three webisodes were filmed on the sets of British soap Hollyoaks at Lime Pictures in Liverpool. In addition, the series stars Nico Mirallegro as Cam Spencer, who is best known for playing Newt in Hollyoaks. Bryony Seth also appeared as series regular Debbie in Hollyoaks spin off Hollyoaks: In the city.
References
External links
Official site
Show page on blip.tv
YouTube page
2008 web series debuts
British drama web series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20MTA | The Cray MTA, formerly known as the Tera MTA, is a supercomputer architecture based on thousands of independent threads, fine-grain communication and synchronization between threads, and latency tolerance for irregular computations.
Each MTA processor (CPU) has a high-performance ALU with many independent register sets, each running an independent thread. For example, the Cray MTA-2 uses 128 register sets and thus 128 threads per CPU/ALU. All MTAs to date use a barrel processor arrangement, with a thread switch on every cycle, with blocked (stalled) threads skipped to avoid wasting ALU cycles. When a thread performs a memory read, execution blocks until data returns; meanwhile, other threads continue executing. With enough threads (concurrency), there are nearly always runnable threads to "cover" for blocked threads, and the ALUs stay busy. The memory system uses full/empty bits to ensure correct ordering. For example, an array is initially written with "empty" bits, and any thread reading a value from blocks until another thread writes a value. This ensures correct ordering, but allows fine-grained interleaving and provides a simple programming model. The memory system is also "randomized", with adjacent physical addresses going to different memory banks. Thus, when two threads access memory simultaneously, they rarely conflict unless they are accessing the same location.
A goal of the MTA is that porting codes from other machines is straightforward, but gives good performance. A parallelizing FORTRAN compiler can produce high performance for some codes with little manual intervention. Where manual porting is required, the simple and fine-grained synchronization model often allows programmers to write code the "obvious" way yet achieve good performance. A further goal is that programs for the MTA will be scalable that is, when run on an MTA with twice as many CPUs, the same program will have nearly twice the performance. Both of these are challenges for many other high-performance computer systems.
An uncommon feature of the MTA is several workloads can be interleaved with good performance. Typically, supercomputers are dedicated to a task at a time. The MTA allows idle threads to be allocated to other tasks with very little effect on the main calculations.
Implementations
There have been three MTA implementations and as of 2009 a fourth is planned. The implementations are:
MTA-1 The MTA-1 uses a GaAs processor and was installed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. It used four processors (512 threads)
MTA-2 The MTA-2 uses a CMOS processor and was installed at the Naval Research Laboratory. It was reportedly unstable, but being inside a secure facility was not available for debugging or repair.
MTA-3 The MTA-3 uses the same CPU as the MTA-2 but a dramatically cheaper and slower network interface. About six Cray XMT systems have been sold (2009) using the MTA-3.
MTA-4 The MTA-4 is a planned system (2009) that is arch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Pine | Green Pine may refer to:
EL/M-2080 Green Pine, electronically scanned radar used by the Israeli military for anti-ballistic missiles
Green Pine (communications), network of low frequency radio transmission sites, used by the Strategic Air Command
Ching Chung Koon (青松觀, "Green Pine Temple"), prominent Taoist temple in Tuen Mun district, Hong Kong. Also have several branch temples with similar name in oversea
Cinema of Turkey (Green Pine)
See also
Pine green, a color |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GJ%201214 | Extrasolar PlanetsEncyclopaediadata
GJ 1214 (sometimes Gliese 1214) is a dim M4.5 red dwarf star in the constellation Ophiuchus with an apparent magnitude of 14.7. It is located at a distance of from Earth. GJ 1214 hosts one known exoplanet.
Nomenclature
The designation GJ 1214 comes from the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars. This star was first included in the second edition of the catalogue, published in 1979 by Gliese and Jahreiß, hence the GJ prefix usually used for this star.
In August 2022, this planetary system was included among 20 systems to be named by the third NameExoWorlds project. The approved names, proposed by a team from Kenya, were announced in June 2023. GJ 1214 is named Orkaria and its planet is named Enaiposha, after the Maa words for red ochre and for a large body of water, alluding to the color of the star and likely composition of the planet.
Properties
GJ 1214 is about one-fifth the radius of the Sun with a surface temperature estimated to be . Its luminosity is only 0.35% that of the Sun.
The estimate for the stellar radius is 15% larger than predicted by theoretical models. It also shows a 1% intrinsic variability in the near-infrared probably caused by stellar spots. The star is rotating slowly, with a period that is most likely an integer multiple of 53 days. It is probably at least three billion years old and a member of the old thin disk of the Milky Way. Although GJ 1214 has a low to moderate level of magnetic activity, it does undergo flares and is a source of X-ray emission with a base luminosity of . The temperature of the stellar corona is estimated to be about .
In 2021–2022, the star is suspected to be in the low-activity phase of its magnetic starspot cycle.
Planetary system
In mid-December 2009, a team of Harvard-Smithsonian astronomers announced the discovery of a companion extrasolar planet, GJ 1214 b, potentially composed largely of water and having the mass and diameter of a super-Earth, though now more often described as a mini-Neptune based on its composition.
Discovered by the MEarth Project and investigated further by the HARPS spectrograph on ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla, GJ 1214 b was the second super-Earth exoplanet for which astronomers determined the mass and radius, giving vital clues about its structure. It was also the first super-Earth around which an atmosphere was found. A search for additional planets using transit timing variations was negative.
No transit-time variations have yet been found for this transit. As of 2012, "the given data does not allow us to conclude that there is a [second] planet in the mass range 0.1–5 Earth-masses and the period range 0.76–1.23 or 1.91–3.18 days." The X-ray flux from the host star is estimated to have stripped from the planet over the lifetime of the system.
See also
CoRoT-7
Gliese 581
Gliese 876
List of extrasolar planets
References
External links
Astronomers Find World with Thick, Inhospitable Atmosphere and an Icy Heart
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Movies%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the animated sitcom Home Movies aired in the United States on Cartoon Network’s programming block Adult Swim from January 6 to March 31, 2002.Every Sunday and Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. Central time and 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Co-creators Brendon Small and Loren Bouchard, along with Tom Snyder, served as the executive producers for the season. Small and Bill Braudis acted as writers for the season, while Bouchard was director for each episode.
The season follows 8-year-old Brendon Small, who writes, directs, and stars in homemade film productions that he creates with his friends Melissa and Jason, as he gets to know his father, who is remarrying. His mother Paula struggles with finding a new job after being fired from her position as a creative writing teacher at a local college. Meanwhile, Brendon and Melissa's soccer coach, John McGuirk, is a short-tempered, selfish alcoholic who constantly gives the two morally bankrupt advice.
The main cast for the season consisted of Small, Janine Ditullio, H. Jon Benjamin, and Melissa Bardin Galsky. Louis C.K. also served as a recurring guest star throughout the season as Brendon's father. Though the first season of the series utilized producer Snyder's "squigglevision" animation style, season 2 was redesigned to a more "conventional" Flash animation style. Viewers felt that the new look was more attractive and easily accessible in comparison to the previous season.
The complete season DVD was released by Shout! Factory on May 31, 2005, a few months after the release of the first season DVD. It contained all thirteen episodes along with an assortment of bonus features, including optional episode commentary and animatics.
Episodes
Home release
The DVD boxset for season two was released by Shout! Factory on May 31, 2005. Small originally announced that it would come out on June 10 on his official website, but Shout! Factory later unconfirmed this and released the official date. Other than all thirteen episodes of the season, the DVD included several bonus features, including interviews with the cast and crew, animatics, an animation gallery, commentary tracks selected episodes, and extended musical numbers from the series.
See also
Home Movies
List of Home Movies episodes
"Get Away From My Mom"
"The Art of the Sucker Punch"
References
External links
2002 American television seasons
Home Movies (TV series) seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Japanese%20Input | is an input method published by Google for the entry of Japanese text on a computer. Since its dictionaries are generated automatically from the Internet, it supports typing of personal names, Internet slang, neologisms and related terms. Google Japanese Input can be used on Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS.
Google also releases an open-source version under the name mozc. It can be used on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and ChromeOS. It does not use Google's closed-source algorithms for generating dictionary data from online sources.
See also
Google IME
Google Pinyin
References
External links
Japanese Input
Input methods
Japanese-language computing
2009 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charre%2C%20Mozambique | Charre is a town in northern Mozambique, near the border with Malawi.
Transport
It is served by a station on the branchline of the national railway network that leads into Malawi.
See also
Railway stations in Mozambique
Railway stations in Malawi
References
Populated places in Mozambique |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair%20plexus | A hair plexus or root hair plexus is a special group of nerve fiber endings and serves as a very sensitive mechanoreceptor for touch sensation. Each hair plexus forms a network around a hair follicle and is a receptor, which means it sends and receives nerve impulses to and from the brain when the hair moves.
sensory nerve fiber ends that, in skin with hair, create a plexus around a hair follicle. They are mechanoreceptors conveying touch sensation. Specifically, crude touch and pressure sensation conveyed through the spinocervical tract, which is located in the posterior part of the lateral funiculus and terminates in the lateral cervical nucleus. The plexus acts as a receptor.
References
Neurophysiology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2010–11 network television schedule for the five major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers prime time hours from September 2010 through August 2011. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2009–10 season. As in previous years, the schedule omits the Public Broadcasting Service (whose programming is listed here).
NBC was the first to announce its fall schedule on May 16, 2010, followed by Fox on May 17, ABC on May 18, CBS on May 19, and The CW on May 20, 2010.
PBS is not included; member stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. The CW is not included on weekends, since it does not offer network programming. Beginning this season, MyNetworkTV is completely excluded; with the loss of WWE Friday Night SmackDown to Syfy, it has a schedule of all archived and rerun programming.
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times are U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (except for some live sports or events). Subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.
Legend
Sunday
Monday
Note: In February 2011, CBS and Warner Bros. stop producing Two and a Half Men for the rest of the season because of the firing of Charlie Sheen. So it aired reruns of the show.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
20/20
ABC Saturday Movie of the Week
America's Funniest Home Videos
The Bachelor
Bachelor Pad
The Bachelorette
Brothers & Sisters
Castle
Cougar Town
Dancing with the Stars
Desperate Housewives
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Grey's Anatomy
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
The Middle
Modern Family
Primetime
Primetime: What Would You Do?
Private Practice
Rookie Blue
Saturday Night Football
Secret Millionaire (moved from Fox)
Shark Tank
Supernanny
V
Wipeout
New series
101 Ways to Leave a Game Show *
Better with You
Body of Proof *
Combat Hospital *
Detroit 1-8-7
Expedition Impossible *
Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition *
Happy Endings *
Mr. Sunshine *
My Generation
No Ordinary Family
Off the Map *
Skating with the Stars
Take the Money and Run *
The Whole Truth
Not returning from 2009–10:
Better Off Ted
Dating in the Dark
The Deep End
Defying Gravity
Downfall
Eastwick
Find My Family
FlashForward
The Forgotten
The Gates
Hank
Happy Town
Lost
Romantically Challenged
Scoundrels
Scrubs
Shaq Vs.
True Beauty
Ugly Betty
Wife Swap
CBS
Returning series
48 Hours Mystery
60 Minutes
The Amazing Race
The Big Bang Theory
Criminal Minds
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Flashpoint
The Good Wife
How I Met Your Mother
Medium
The Mentalist
NCIS
NCIS: Los Angeles
Rules of Engagement
Survivor
Two and a Half Men
Undercover Boss
New series
$#*! My Dad Says
Blue Bloods
CHAOS *
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior *
The Def |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula%20%28computing%20platform%29 | Nebula is a federal cloud computing platform that originated at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California. The Nebula project was run under the ACITS 2 contract originally held by Perot Systems. Nebula hosted many advanced research projects. One application Open Sourced by NASA and developed by the Nebula project, 'nova' became one of the two founding projects of the OpenStack project.
History
The Ames Internet Exchange (AIX), was formerly MAE-West, one of the original nodes of the Internet, and is a major peering location for Tier 1 ISPs, as well as being the home of the "E" root name servers. The AIX provides connectivity to the Nebula Cloud, enabling 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections to NISN.
The Nebula-Project uses a variety of free and open-source software.
See also
OpenNebula
OpenStack
Eucalyptus (computing)
Ganeti
References
External links
Interview with Chris C. Kemp about NASA Nebula on Federal News Radio
Chris C. Kemp participation in Meritalk/AFFIRM Luncheon CIO/CFO Panel: The New IT Economics May 21, 2009
Cloud platforms
Cloud computing providers
NASA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation%20diagram | Terms such as correlation diagram(s), diagram(s) of correlation, and the like may refer to:
Data visualization, the general process of presenting information visually
Statistical graphics, images depicting statistical information
In chemistry, there are several types of correlation diagrams:
Orgel diagrams, images depicting energies of electronic terms in transition metal complexes
Tanabe–Sugano diagrams, images depicting energies of spectroscopic states
Walsh diagrams, images depicting orbital energies as a function of bond angle
Woodward–Hoffmann rules#Correlation diagrams, images correlating reactant orbitals to product orbitals
See also
Correlation and dependence
Covariance and correlation
Diagram
Infographics
Molecular structures
Statistical charts and diagrams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S68%20%28Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn%29 | Line S 68 is an S-Bahn line on the Rhine-Ruhr network. It is operated by DB Regio. It was established on 13 December 2009. It is a relief service operating during peak hours on weekdays between and via Düsseldorf Hbf. It is operated using a double set of class 420.
Line S 68 runs:
from Wuppertal-Vohwinkel to Düsseldorf over the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway opened by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company between 1838 and 1841,
from Düsseldorf to Langenfeld over the Cologne–Duisburg railway, opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company in 1845.
References
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
2009 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni%C3%B3n%20C%C3%ADvica%20Democr%C3%A1tica | Unión Cívica Democrática (UCD, English: Civic Democratic Union) is a network of forty Honduran activist organizations, which took an active part during the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, promoting several demonstrations against the former ousted president Manuel Zelaya.
Mission
Its supporters claim the organization defends democracy and the constitution of Honduras, while its opponents claim it rather defends the interests of the local elite.
The organization's official mission is:
To contribute to strengthening civil society.
Promote institutional mechanisms for dialogue between different sectors of civil society and political parties and the state.
Promote actions to strengthen public awareness and mobilize civil society to support universally accepted principles of collective welfare.
Events
June 26, 2009 - Demonstration for democracy and the constitution. Other organizations included the Peace and Democracy Movement.
June 30, 2009 - Demonstrations. In an emotional speech, Armeda Lopez said "Chávez ate Venezuela first, then Bolivia, but in Honduras that didn't happen". Signboards included "Enough to illegality", "I love my Constitution".
July 3, 2009–70,000 people demonstrated for the constitution and against Zelaya.
July 7, 2009 - Demonstrations in six cities. The demonstrations were called El Plantón del Millón.
July 22, 2009 - A hundred thousand demonstrators dressed in blue and white.
August 20, 2009 - UCD files a complaint to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concerning Zelaya's and his followers' alleged violence and hate campaigns in Honduras.
August 24, 2009 - Thousands of people dressed in white demonstrate outside OAS building.
September 4, 2009 - UCD participated in marches expressing opposition to Hugo Chávez. The demonstrations were part of the worldwide No Más Chávez (No More Chávez) day.
September 24, 2009 - Thousands demonstrating outside the United Nations building in Tegucigalpa.
September 28, 2009 - A march supporting the oncoming general elections on November 29.
October 1, 2009 - UCD supported decree PCM-M-016-2009 issued by interim government, suspending for 45 days five constitutional rights: personal liberty (Article 69), freedom of expression (Article 72), freedom of movement (Article 81), habeas corpus (Article 84) and freedom of association. Its spokesperson, Luz Ernestina Mejia, endorsed the closing during this period of critical media, namely Radio Globo and Canal 36, stating "We are against the repeated crimes of these journalists".
See also
2009 Honduran constitutional crisis
2009 Honduran coup d'état
References
External links
Unión Cívica Democrática's official site
Political organizations based in Honduras
International Republican Institute
2009 establishments in Honduras |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Book | Le Book is a global network and resource that offers exposure to companies and members of the creative community. The company operates three offices in three countries producing five sets of books annually (New York City, Paris, London, Berlin and Los Angeles) that are internationally distributed. The brand is well recognized for connecting the creative community for more than thirty-five years.
The president of Le Book is Véronique Kolasa, who founded the agency in 1982.
Overview
Le Book printed edition is published annually in New York, Paris, London, Berlin and Los Angeles. It is considered an international reference for photography, design, production and events by many. The resource for the creative industry covers all needs related to photography, illustration, production, art direction, public relations, advertising, music and fashion. Le Book's collectable editions through the years, have been "dressed" by: Karl Lagerfeld (2002), Yves Saint Laurent (2003), Christian Lacroix (2004), Emilio Pucci (2004–05), Hermès (2005), Yohji Yamamoto (2006), Vogue (2006), Azzedine Alaia (2007), Narciso Rodriguez (2008), Vivienne Westwood (2008), Dries Van Noten (2008), Stephen Sprouse (2009), Gareth Pugh (2010), Martine Sitbon and Robert Mapplethorpe (2010).
Le Book’s website connects top industry professionals in the fashion, beauty, design, entertainment, advertising, and luxury worlds. The online database is open to all for accessing talent.
La Creative is Le Book’s online magazine which showcases influential print advertising campaigns, editorials and events in the world.
Connections is Le Book’s custom-made tradeshow for the creative community. The annual event in New York, Paris and London brings thousands of participants and attendees together for networking, portfolio-viewing, trend-spotting and idea-sharing.
Quotations
"You can't book without Le Book", Karl Lagerfeld.
"Le Book is to style what a dictionary is to a writer, a tool that helps transform the ordinary into the extraordinary...", Christian Lacroix.
References
External links
Publishing companies of the United States
Publishing companies of France
Publishing companies based in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Pollard | Dan Pollard is a Canadian broadcaster from Uxbridge, Ontario.
He first worked for CKLY, and later for TSN, CBC Sports, NHL Network, Sportsnet, and CILQ-FM in Toronto. In 2015, Pollard became an on-air personality for Uxbridge's newly established CIUX-FM.
References
People from Uxbridge, Ontario
Living people
Canadian television sportscasters
Canadian radio sportscasters
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Book%20of%20Ruth%3A%20Journey%20of%20Faith | The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith is a 2009 Christian film directed by Stephen Patrick Walker. It is based on the Book of Ruth, and was aired January 8, 2010 on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The film stars Dan Haggerty, Lana Wood, Eleese Lester, Carman, and Sherry Morris as Ruth.
Plot
The Book of Ruth is about a Moabite woman who loses her Israelite husband, her father-in-law, and her brother-in-law. With no men to provide for her and the rest of her family, her mother-in-law decides to set her daughters-in-law free for them to be able to remarry. But Ruth instead opts to stay with her mother-in-law out of the great love that she has for her. They both travel to Israel in hopes of a better harvest and probably even a better life. There Ruth meets Boaz, a man of noble character. He takes care of Ruth by letting her glean on his property and making sure she is safe in his field. Naomi and Ruth then decided to take the situation in their own hands by making Ruth do an certain noble act – laying down near his feet when he was sleeping at the threshing floor. She then asks Boaz to redeem her family and so he does. But, before he gets to do so, he must be able to receive the permission of a closer relative Naomi's family has. In the end, Boaz and Ruth was able to get married and after a while they gave birth to a son whom they named Obed. From Obed's grandson came the line of King David and the royal house.
Cast
Sherry Morris as Ruth
Carman as Boaz
Eleese Lester as Naomi
Fred Griffith as Mahlon
DJ Perry as Benjamin
Rebecca Holden as Beth
Release
The DVD, which includes bonus featurettes including "The Making Of", "Trailers", and "Commentary", was released December 15.
References
External links
Official website
The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith at Pure Flix Entertainment
2009 films
2009 drama films
American drama films
Book of Ruth
Films about Christianity
Films based on the Hebrew Bible
Films set in Israel
Films set in Jordan
Pure Flix Entertainment films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20open-source%20bioinformatics%20software | This is a list of computer software which is made for bioinformatics and released under open-source software licenses with articles in Wikipedia.
See also
List of sequence alignment software
List of open-source healthcare software
List of biomedical cybernetics software
List of freeware health software
List of genetic engineering software
List of molecular graphics systems
List of systems biology modelling software
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
List of proprietary bioinformatics software
References
External links
Free Biology Software – Free Software Directory – Free Software Foundation
Lists of bioinformatics software
Bioinformatics
Open |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Information%20Sharing%20Systems | Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) is an information-sharing program funded by the U.S. Federal government whose purpose is to connect databases from local and regional law enforcement so that they can use each other's data for criminal investigations.
In 1997, RISS created RISSNET, a network to interconnect many local, state, regional, and tribal law enforcement databases.
In 2002, RISSNET was connected with the FBI's Law Enforcement Online system.
In 2003, the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP) declared that RISSNET would be the official "backbone" for all unclassified, but sensitive criminal intelligence data traffic. Later that year, members were also given access to the Automated Trusted Information Exchange (ATIX) database, which contains information on homeland security and terrorist threats.
See also
Automated Trusted Information Exchange
Joint Regional Information Exchange System
Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange
References
External links
Surveillance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20Trusted%20Information%20Exchange | Automated Trusted Information Exchange (ATIX) is a computer database containing homeland security and terrorist threat information, which is part of the U.S. government's Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) program.
See also
Homeland Security Information Network
Joint Regional Information Exchange System
Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange
National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan
Regional Information Sharing Systems
Surveillance
References
United States Department of Homeland Security
Government databases in the United States
Terrorism databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Criminal%20Intelligence%20Sharing%20Plan | The National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP) is an intelligence-sharing initiative that links the computer databases of local, state, regional, tribal law enforcement agencies with those of the U.S. federal government.
See also
Automated Trusted Information Exchange
Homeland Security Information Network
Joint Regional Information Exchange System
Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange
Regional Information Sharing Systems
Surveillance
References
Surveillance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland%20Security%20Information%20Network | The Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) is a web-based platform, run by the Department of Homeland Security, which is designed to allow local, state, tribal, and federal government agencies to share "Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU)" information with each other over a secure channel.
The HSIN provides three main functional categories. First, it provides a SharePoint web portal system which allows agencies and events to have a basic workspace for collaboration. Second, it provides a Jabber chat system, with user managed rooms. Third, it provides the Common Operational Picture, a custom executive situational awareness web application based on Oracle HTML DB.
The Department of Homeland Security has publicly announced that the network has so far been hacked at least twice in 2009—once in March and once in April.
See also
Automated Trusted Information Exchange
Joint Regional Information Exchange System
Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange
National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan
Regional Information Sharing Systems
Surveillance
References
Surveillance
United States Department of Homeland Security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20v.%20Allen | State v. Allen was a 1996 decision of the Kansas Supreme Court regarding what constitutes the unlawful access of a computer system. The court upheld the decision of the trial court, finding that the state had failed to show probable cause that the defendant, Anthony A. Allen, had unlawfully accessed the computer systems of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.
Background
Eighteen-year-old Anthony Allen had programmed his computer to wardial phone numbers to determine which were simply voice lines and which had modems attached to them. Some of the numbers he dialed, and subsequently disconnected from, included computers owned by Southwestern Bell. These were numbers which were thought to be known only to Bell employees and their associates. However, although Allen succeeded in identifying numbers with attached modems, no evidence was provided that he attempted to make any attempt to get past the system's login screens which required a username and password.
A Kansas trial court found that a preliminary hearing had failed to show probable cause that Allen had unlawfully accessed Southwestern Bell's computer systems. Because probable cause was not established the defendant was released without going to trial. The state then appealed the trial court's decision to the Kansas Supreme Court, asking them to rule on "the question of whether a person's telephonic connections that prompt a computer owner to change its security systems constitute felony computer crime in violation of K.S.A. 21-3755(b)."
Decision
The Kansas Supreme Court's decision answered two separate questions. The first was in regard to whether the trial court erred in ruling there was not sufficient evidence that Allen had gained "access" to Southwestern Bell's computers. The second question was whether the trial court had erred in ruling that there was no evidence to show that Allen had damaged any computer, or any other property.
On the question of access
The first question that the State Supreme Court set out to answer regarded the question of "access", and how it is defined in Kansas state law. Specifically, from the ruling, "Did the trial court err in ruling there was insufficient evidence to show Allen gained "access" to Southwestern Bell's computers?" This question came about because of the trial court's decision that there was not probable cause to believe Allen had committed the crime he was charged with.
The prosecution had alleged that since K.S.A. 21-3755(a)(1), defined access as "to approach, instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any resources of a computer, computer system or computer network", by dialing the Bell's number and connecting to it Allen had "approached" Bell's computer system, thereby committing a crime. The Supreme Court rejected this idea, stating that the intent of the statute was to criminalize the misuse of a computer system by "gaining or attempting to gain access" to it. Since Allen had disconnect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz%20%28disambiguation%29 | Fizz usually refers to effervescence.
"Fizz" may also refer to:
Fizz (app), an American college networking app
Fizz (cider), a brand of cider
Fizz (cocktail), a mixed drink
Fizz, nickname of cricketer Mustafizur Rahman
Fizz (novel), a 2011 novel by Zvi Schreiber
The Fizz, a British pop music group
The FIZZ, a 2006–2007 TV program
Fizz, a character in the video game League of Legends
Fizz, a character in the children's TV show Tweenies
Fizz, a Canadian mobile virtual network operator on Videotron
See also
Fiz (disambiguation)
Bucks Fizz (disambiguation)
Ffizz, a British television sitcom
Fiz Brown, a character in TV soap opera Coronation Street |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Need%20to%20Know%20%28TV%20series%29 | I Need to Know was a Nigerian family-oriented television series aired on the Nigerian Television Authority network (NTA) that ran from 1997 to 2002. It starred Funke Akindele as Bisi, Uche Ejiogu as Ngozi, Taiwo Lesh as Hauwa and Amaka Egwuatu as Essien and was sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) country office in Nigeria supported the production of a television series on adolescent reproductive health. This boosted the Federal Government’s effort to provide information, education and advocacy on adolescent health issues.
Concept overview
The title of the series was gotten from a sound track that was produced in Kenya by the music group Kalamashaka and other local artistes with the support of the Kenyan Field Office of UNPFA. Originally conceived as part of the Composite Adolescent Reproductive Health in Nigeria (CARHIN) project, the television series revolves around the lives, adventures and misadventures of seven secondary school students who encounter the normal challenges of teenagers growing up in a fast changing world, the realities of HIV/AIDS, the tragedy of interrupted education. I Need to Know depicts young people actively grappling with these matters, sometimes getting the right information in time and sometimes suffering the consequences of ignorance or misinformation.
The series was conceptualized with the objective of encouraging parent-child communication and open dialogue on adolescent sexual health issues. It aims through the many topics the series dealt with, to arm young people with the information they need to make informed and responsible choices. This in turn with help reduce their susceptibility to irresponsible and uninformed behavior that often results in teenage pregnancies, illegal and unsafe abortions, and contraction of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS.
It has been demonstrated by research that these incidents generally result from a lack of knowledge on reproductive health issues. Primarily targeting young adults (aged 10–24 years), the television series the promoters of the series also hoped that families would use I Need to Know as an ice-breaker to encourage young people to seek counseling from parents and guardians, and also encourage the parents and guardians to equip themselves with appropriate listening and counseling skills. It also targeted policy makers who have the ability to provide a favorable environment for adolescents to have access to reproductive health information and services that give them the power of knowledge. I Need to Know attempted to de-mystify the discussion of sexuality issues between Parents and Children, thus encouraging Parent-child communication during this important process of growing up. The Programme also illustrated vividly the consequences of poor or ignorant choices made by young persons and the disadvantage of yielding to peer pressure.
A total of 91 episodes (7 quarters) of Television and 104 ep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20skeleton | In computing, algorithmic skeletons, or parallelism patterns, are a high-level parallel programming model for parallel and distributed computing.
Algorithmic skeletons take advantage of common programming patterns to hide the complexity of parallel and distributed applications. Starting from a basic set of patterns (skeletons), more complex patterns can be built by combining the basic ones.
Overview
The most outstanding feature of algorithmic skeletons, which differentiates them from other high-level parallel programming models, is that orchestration and synchronization of the parallel activities is implicitly defined by the skeleton patterns. Programmers do not have to specify the synchronizations between the application's sequential parts. This yields two implications. First, as the communication/data access patterns are known in advance, cost models can be applied to schedule skeletons programs. Second, that algorithmic skeleton programming reduces the number of errors when compared to traditional lower-level parallel programming models (Threads, MPI).
Example program
The following example is based on the Java Skandium library for parallel programming.
The objective is to implement an Algorithmic Skeleton-based parallel version of the QuickSort algorithm using the Divide and Conquer pattern. Notice that the high-level approach hides Thread management from the programmer.
// 1. Define the skeleton program
Skeleton<Range, Range> sort = new DaC<Range, Range>(
new ShouldSplit(threshold, maxTimes),
new SplitList(),
new Sort(),
new MergeList());
// 2. Input parameters
Future<Range> future = sort.input(new Range(generate(...)));
// 3. Do something else here.
// ...
// 4. Block for the results
Range result = future.get();
The first thing is to define a new instance of the skeleton with the functional code that fills the pattern (ShouldSplit, SplitList, Sort, MergeList). The functional code is written by the programmer without parallelism concerns.
The second step is the input of data which triggers the computation. In this case Range is a class holding an array and two indexes which allow the representation of a subarray. For every data entered into the framework a new Future object is created. More than one Future can be entered into a skeleton simultaneously.
The Future allows for asynchronous computation, as other tasks can be performed while the results are computed.
We can retrieve the result of the computation, blocking if necessary (i.e. results not yet available).
The functional codes in this example correspond to four types Condition, Split, Execute, and Merge.
public class ShouldSplit implements Condition<Range>{
int threshold, maxTimes, times;
public ShouldSplit(int threshold, int maxTimes){
this.threshold = threshold;
this.maxTimes = maxTimes;
this.times = 0;
}
@Override
public synchronized boolean condition(Range r){
return r.right - r.left > threshold &&
t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exascale%20computing | Exascale computing refers to computing systems capable of calculating at least "1018 IEEE 754 Double Precision (64-bit) operations (multiplications and/or additions) per second (exaFLOPS)"; it is a measure of supercomputer performance.
Exascale computing is a significant achievement in computer engineering: primarily, it allows improved scientific applications and better prediction accuracy in domains such as weather forecasting, climate modeling and personalised medicine. Exascale also reaches the estimated processing power of the human brain at the neural level, a target of the now defunct Human Brain Project. There has been a race to be the first country to build an exascale computer, typically ranked in the TOP500 list.
In 2022, the world's first public exascale computer, Frontier, was announced. , it is the world's fastest supercomputer.
Definitions
Floating point operations per second (FLOPS) are one measure of computer performance. FLOPS can be recorded in different measures of precision, however the standard measure (used by the TOP500 supercomputer list) uses 64 bit (double-precision floating-point format) operations per second using the High Performance LINPACK (HPLinpack) benchmark.
Whilst a distributed computing system had broken the 1 exaFLOPS barrier before Frontier, the metric typically refers to single computing systems. Supercomputers had also previously broken the 1 exaFLOPS barrier using alternative precision measures; again these do not meet the criteria for exascale computing using the standard metric. It has been recognised that HPLinpack may not be a good general measure of supercomputer utility in real world application, however it is the common standard for performance measurement.
Technological challenges
It has been recognized that enabling applications to fully exploit capabilities of exascale computing systems is not straightforward. Developing data-intensive applications over exascale platforms requires the availability of new and effective programming paradigms and runtime systems. The Folding@home project, the first to break this barrier, relied on a network of servers sending pieces of work to hundreds of thousands of clients using a client–server model network architecture.
History
The first petascale (1015 FLOPS) computer entered operation in 2008. At a supercomputing conference in 2009, Computerworld projected exascale implementation by 2018. In June 2014, the stagnation of the Top500 supercomputer list had observers question the possibility of exascale systems by 2020.
Although exascale computing was not achieved by 2018, in the same year the Summit OLCF-4 supercomputer performed 1.8 calculations per second using an alternative metric whilst analysing genomic information. The team performing this won the Gordon Bell Prize at the 2018 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference.
The exaFLOPS barrier was first broken in March 2020 by the distributed computing network Folding@home coronavirus research project.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto%20Shippuden%3A%20Ultimate%20Ninja%20Storm%202 | Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, known in Japan as is a fighting game developed by CyberConnect2. It is the second installment in the Ultimate Ninja Storm series, and the sequel to Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm published by Namco Bandai Games. It is based on the anime and manga series Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto, and was released in late-2010 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. As a sequel to Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, the story and cast are based on their Part II manga appearances, known in the anime as Naruto Shippuden. The game mainly stars title character Naruto Uzumaki, a teenage ninja, and his fights against the Akatsuki terrorist organization.
The game began development following the completion of Ultimate Ninja Storm, and took into account fans' comments about the first game. The team wanted to include more drama in this game to appeal to more gamers. As well as Naruto characters, the game features Tekken character Lars Alexandersson as a guest character. His inclusion was the result of CyberConnect2 CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama seeing his alternate design by Kishimoto for Tekken 6. The audio was composed by Chikayo Fukuda.
Critical response to the game has ranged from average to positive. Reviewers praised the visuals and boss fights comparing them positively to the anime series, but criticized the lack of events in the world map after completing the game's story mode. Storm 2 has achieved strong sales, becoming one of Bandai's bestselling games for 2010. A sequel, called Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, was released in 2013. All the Storm games were re-released in 2017 as part of a compilation.
Gameplay
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2s gameplay retains many of the elements of the first game and has 23 fighting stages. It has nine chapters including the prologue and an extra chapter. Each character can gain new combos and jutsu by activating the Awakening Mode. Lars Alexandersson, a guest character from Tekken 6, is also playable in the game. As the story progresses, players will unlock new Jutsu and Ultimate Jutsu for certain characters.
Support characters return with two new features. The first feature is Support Types — Guard, Attack, and Balanced. These can be unlocked for each support character and decide its actions during Support Drive level one. The second new feature is the Support Drive, which has two levels. Level one is activated once a player's support characters are summoned enough times. When Support Drive level one is activated, a player's support characters will summon themselves automatically depending on their support type, and on what actions the player is executing. When a support character automatically summons itself, it will not reset the support character charge gauge, and can even be summoned when the gauge is not full. A support character cannot be manually summoned by a player if it has already summoned itself automatically. If a support character is set to Defense, it will automati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20capture | Time capture is the concept of making sense of time-related data based on timestamps generated by system software. Software that run on PCs and other digital devices rely on internal software clocks to generate timestamps. In turn, these timestamps serve as the basis for representing when an event has occurred (i.e. when an outgoing call was made), and for how long that event lasted (i.e. the duration of a phone call).
Time capture software use data mining techniques to index, cleanse and make sense of this data. Applications include automated time tracking, where software can track the time a user spends on various PC-based tasks, such as time in applications, files/documents, web pages (via browser), and emails.
This is a comparison of notable time capture software packages.
Microcomputer software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmar%20R.%20Zaiane | Osmar R. Zaiane (born April 11, 1965, in Bad Kissingen, Germany) is a researcher, computer scientist, professor at the University of Alberta specializing in data mining and machine learning. He was the secretary treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) from 2009 to 2012 and treasurer of the ACM Special Interest Group on Health Informatics. He served as the editor-in-chief of the SIGKDD Explorations publication from 2008 to 2010. He was also the associate editor of the same publication from 2004 to 2007.
A former PhD student of Professor Jiawei Han, he did his PhD on knowledge discovery from data at Simon Fraser University.
Since 1999 he has been a professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta in Canada, and is the scientific director of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), formerly known as Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning (AICML), since 2009.
He held visiting positions at Chung-Ang University in Korea, the University of Sydney in Australia, and Jean Monnet University in France.
In 2009 he obtained the IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, as well as the 2010 ACM SIGKDD Service Award the following year.
He is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair holder with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.
References
External links
Osmar Zaiane's academic website
Academic Genealogy
German computer scientists
People from Bad Kissingen
Academic staff of the University of Alberta
1965 births
Living people
Data miners
Université Laval alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20in%20British%20radio | This is a list of events in British radio during 2002.
Events
January
8 January – Scot FM becomes part of the Real Radio network when it is purchased by GMG Radio and is renamed accordingly.
January – Atlantic 252 closes after more than twelve years on air.
February
mid February – 107.7 Chelmer FM is renamed Dream 107.7.
9 February – Following the announcement of the death of Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Elizabeth II, some radio and television schedules are changed to make room for tribute programmes. Among the tributes paid to her is an edition of The Archers aired on 10 February, a programme on which the Princess made a personal appearance in 1984.
28 February–1 March – The first three community radio stations – Bradford Community Broadcasting, Cross Rhythms in Stoke and Angel Community Radio (Havant) – start broadcasting as part of a trial of community radio which sees 15 stations go on air during 2002. The trial, under the title of “Access Radio”, saw each station originally licensed for one year. All three stations are still on air today.
March
11 March – TEAMtalk 252 begins broadcasting on Atlantic 252's former frequency. It is launched as a rival for talkSPORT and BBC Radio 5 Live.
April
No events
May
No events
June
No events
July
July-August – BBC North West operates BBC 2002, a temporary radio station set up to provide a bespoke service for Greater Manchester of the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
31 July –
TeamTalk 252 closes after four months on air. The 252 kHz long wave frequency is re-subsumed by Irish broadcaster RTÉ to provide a version of RTÉ Radio 1 to the expatriate community in Britain.
Radio 1 presenter Chris Moyles is criticised by the Broadcasting Standards Commission for remarks he made to Charlotte Church during an edition of his afternoon show.
August
No events
September
27 September – Les Ross presents his final BRMB Breakfast show, live from Birmingham International station. As 9 o'clock approached, he hopped on a train (hauled by electric locomotive 86259 especially named 'Les Ross' by Virgin Trains West Coast) to symbolise the end. He has since preserved this locomotive following its retirement from passenger service.
September – the KM Group rebrands its newly acquired Mercury FM stations as KMFM West Kent and KMFM Medway.
October
28 October – The BBC Asian Network is broadcast nationally for the first time after being launched on DAB.
November
11 November – BBC Radio Swindon launches as an opt-out service from Wiltshire Sound which is renamed BBC Radio Wiltshire.
12 November – The Radio Authority announces that London station Liberty Radio has lost its licence to Club Asia, which had previously been broadcasting for several hours each day on Spectrum Radio. This had been the first time in several years that the incumbent broadcaster's licence had not been renewed. The station had repeatedly only obtained a 0.1% share of listening.
17 November – Mark Goodier presents the Top 40 on BBC Radio 1 fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sezmi | Sezmi was a cloud based video delivery platform for television providers to deliver services over several IP devices like tablet and mobile computing devices.
Sezmi, originally named Building B, was founded by Phil Wiser and Buno Pati in 2007 and based in Belmont, California.
Previously, Sezmi was a subscription video service in 36 metropolitan areas of the United States. It provided a DVR which recorded free over-the-air broadcasts plus brought in video from Internet sources. The system used a smart antenna to improve reception in fringe areas. On September 23, 2011, Sezmi informed customers that they would be discontinuing their service on September 26, 2011.
Sezmi was acquired by KIT Digital in January 2012 for $27 million, $16 million in cash and $11 million in KIT Digital stock. The acquisition included 18 patents from Sezmi related to OTT platforms.
Later in 2012, Totalmovie acquired Sezmi from Kit Digital.
Service areas
The 36 metro areas in which Sezmi previously served:
References
Streaming television
Digital television
American companies established in 2007
Companies disestablished in 2012
Companies based in San Mateo County, California
Technology companies established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Rights | Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age is a non-fiction book about cyberlaw, written by free speech lawyer Mike Godwin. It was first published in 1998 by Times Books. It was republished in 2003 as a revised edition by The MIT Press. Godwin graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in 1990 and was the first staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Written with a first-person perspective, Cyber Rights offers a background in the legal issues and history pertaining to free speech on the Internet. It documents the author's experiences in defending free speech online, and puts forth the thesis that "the remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech". Godwin emphasizes that decisions made about the expression of ideas on the Internet affect freedom of speech in other media as well, as granted by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The book was received favorably by Library Journal, where it was "Recommended for anyone concerned about expression on the Internet and democratic society." Publishers Weekly noted Godwin's "unusually broad view of free speech", and criticized the author for viewing issues "filtered through rose-colored screens". The Philadelphia Inquirer highlighted Cyber Rights among "1998's Best Reading".
Author
Godwin is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. At the time of the book's first publication, Godwin was employed as a staff counsel at EFF. He had been hired as EFF's first staff counsel after graduating from law school in 1990. Law Library Journal noted, "In this position, he worked on the frontlines of the fight to make sure that freedom of expression is more than tolerated, that in fact it is able to flourish in cyberspace."
Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age is Godwin's first book. Godwin described himself as a civil libertarian. From 1997 to 1998, Godwin was a fellow of the Media Studies Center. In 2007, he took a research fellowship at Yale University. Godwin became general counsel for Wikimedia Foundation in July 2007.
Contents
Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age analyzes the legal issues involved with communicating on the Internet, including those relating to Internet privacy and government involvement. The book is written with a first-person perspective: the reader learns of the author's morning ritual, the fact that his cat is named Francie and that he married a woman he met through a Bulletin Board System. Godwin's motivation was to keep the Internet safe from government actions that restrict freedom of speech. He asserts that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution should apply equally to the Internet as it does to other media.
The book's early chapters ground the reader in principles involving cyberspace and the law. The author provides enough background that a layperson can understand the relevant legal history, including explaining libel and the extent to which copyrighted text may |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODROID | The ODROID is a series of single-board computers and tablet computers created by Hardkernel Co., Ltd., located in South Korea. Even though the name ODROID is a portmanteau of open + Android, the hardware is not actually open source because some parts of the design are retained by the company. Many ODROID systems are capable of running not only Android, but also regular Linux distributions.
Hardware
Several models of ODROID's have been released by Hardkernel. The first generation was released in 2009, followed by higher specification models.
C models feature an Amlogic system on a chip (SoC), while XU models feature a Samsung Exynos SoC. Both include an ARM central processing unit (CPU) and an on chip graphics processing unit (GPU). CPU architectures include ARMv7-A and ARMv8-A, on board memory range from 1 GB RAM to 4 GiB RAM. Secure Digital SD cards are used to store the operating system and program memory in either the SDHC or MicroSDHC sizes. Most boards have between three and five mixed USB 2.0 or 3.0 slots, HDMI output, and a 3.5 mm jack. Lower level output is provided by a number of general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins which support common protocols like I²C. Current models have an Gigabit Ethernet (8P8C) port and eMMC module socket.
Specifications
Software
Operating systems
References
External links
Official Hardkernel website
ODROID official forum
ODROID Wiki
ODROID Magazine
Single-board computers
Android (operating system) devices
Handheld game consoles
Linux-based devices
Products introduced in 2009
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Movies%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of the animated sitcom Home Movies originally began airing in the United States on the Adult Swim programming block for the television network Cartoon Network from August 4, 2002 to May 25, 2003. Co-creators Brendon Small and Loren Bouchard, along with Tom Sydner, served as executive producers for the season. Small and Bill Braudis acted as writers for the season, while Bouchard was director for each episode.
The series follows the life and adventures of 8-year-old aspiring filmmaker, Brendon Small, who writes, directs, and stars in homemade film productions that he creates with his friends Melissa Robbins and Jason Penopolis. Brendon and Melissa's soccer coach, John McGuirk, is a short-tempered and selfish alcoholic who gives the two morally bankrupt advice. Brendon's mother, Paula, meanwhile, is divorced and juggling her children, her job as a creative writing teacher, and her romantic life.
The main cast for the season consisted of Small, Janine Ditullio, H. Jon Benjamin, and Melissa Bardin Galsky. Among the guest stars during the season were Todd Barry and Mitch Hedberg, along with Louis C.K., who portrayed Brendon's father Andrew. A lot of the season featured "retroscripting," with the voice actors improvising much of their dialogue.
The episode "Shore Leave" won the Pulcinella award for "Best TV Series for Young Adults & Adults," while the season itself won in the category for "Best Group of Characters of the Year" at the same ceremony.
The complete season DVD was released by Shout! Factory on November 15, 2005, a few months after the release of the second season DVD. It contained all thirteen episodes along with an assortment of bonus features, including optional episode commentary and animatics.
Episodes
Home release
The DVD boxset for season three was released by Shout! Factory on November 15, 2005. Other than all thirteen episodes of the season, the DVD included several bonus features, including interviews with the cast and crew, animatics, an animation gallery, commentary tracks on seven episodes, and a radio interview with Bouchard and Benjamin.
See also
Home Movies
List of Home Movies episodes
References
External links
2002 American television seasons
2003 American television seasons
Home Movies (TV series) seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer%20Space%20Astronauts | Outer Space Astronauts is a comedy television series which aired on Syfy, created by Russell Barrett.
The main characters have live-action "real" heads connected to computer-generated and animated bodies in a completely digital environment.
The crew travel through space on a ship named the O.S.S. Oklahoma.
Characters
Commander Richard Amos (played by Adam Clinton) is the second in command, and is portrayed as the smartest and only competent member of the crew. He is constantly stymied by the crew in his efforts to complete the mission or save the ship.
Captain Bruce Ripley (played by Russell Barrett) the ship's captain is portrayed as being lazy, obese and the dumbest of the crew who mainly occupies his time sleeping. When he is in doubt he mainly tries suicidal actions like self destructing his own ship.
Lieutenant Sunny Hunkle (played by Stephanie Clinton) is the ship's always cheerful communications officer.
Pilot Johnny Boothe (played by Benjamin Nurick) is the ship's leather jacket and sunglasses-wearing pilot.
Chief Security Officer Andy Matheson (played by Laura Valdivia) is the ship's burly, violent and short-fused security officer.
Chief Mechanic Burt Pinto (played by Stephen Millunzi) is the ship's often-angry frantic mechanic.
Operations Officer Donna Kennedy (played by Dana Kirk (actress)) is the ship's technophobe operations officer, who frequently breaks or misuses electronic equipment.
Ka'ak (played by Jacey Margolis) is a red bodied alien who volunteered to be a crew member. The character is portrayed as being extremely naive, using broken English and constantly breaking things aboard ship due to her superior strength.
Weapons Officer Chad Brimley (played by Anthony Bravo) is the ship's sarcastic weapons officer.
Intern Jimmy Peck (played by Pete Burns (writer and actor)) is the cheerful but moronic ship's intern.
Kyle 14 (played by Jay Wendorff) is the ship's android and one of the few crew members that is completely animated from head to toe.
Commander Cake (played by Rob Delaney) was the ship's commander before Richard Amos. Diagnosed with Deep Space Psychosis.
Dr. Swank (played by Trent Lewis) is the sweaty and excitable head of the Science Department on the O.S.S. Oklahoma.
Animation style
Outer Space Astronauts uses an animation technique similar to Cutout animation, which combines live-action greenscreen footage of the actors' heads with computer generated bodies. The backgrounds are 2D and sometimes 3D animation.
External links
Syfy original programming
2009 American television series debuts
2000s American adult animated television series
2000s American comic science fiction television series
2000s American sitcoms
American adult animated comedy television series
American adult animated science fiction television series
American adult computer-animated television series
American animated sitcoms
American television series with live action and animation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Whitney%20%28computing%29 | Thomas M. (Tom) Whitney (January 7, 1939 - November 1986) is best known as an inventor of the pocket calculator and an early employee of Apple Computer.
He joined Hewlett-Packard in 1967, where he helped develop the HP-35, the world's first handheld scientific electronic calculator. During the HP years, he was also a lecturer at Santa Clara University.
He later joined Apple as employee 15 and in 1978 became executive vice president of engineering, working directly with Steve Jobs and Jef Raskin on the Macintosh project.
Whitney completed BS (1961), MS (1962) and PhD (1964) degrees in electrical engineering at Iowa State University, where he was a member of Acacia fraternity. He graduated from Aurelia High School in Aurelia, Iowa in 1957.
Whitney died in 1986 at age 47.
References
External links
Stories about the Macintosh
American computer businesspeople
1986 deaths
1939 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20in%20British%20radio | This is a list of events in British radio during 1995.
Events
January
January – As part of major changes on the network, old music (typically anything recorded before 1990) is banned from the Radio 1 daytime playlist.
February
14 February – Talk Radio UK becomes the last of three national commercial radio stations to go on air. It broadcasts on the mediumwave frequencies previously occupied by Radio 1.
March
No events.
April
10 April – Virgin Radio starts broadcasting on FM in London. The station is a full simulcast of the national service apart from a 45-minute weekday early evening program. Consequently, at around this time, the national station is rebranded from Virgin 1215 to Virgin Radio.
15 April – BBC Radio 3 launches a weekly music discussion programme called Private Passions.
21 April – Steve Wright and Bruno Brookes present their final shows for BBC Radio 1. Both had been at the station for more than ten years. Steve leaves the following differences with the station's new management over restructuring.
23 April – Following Bruno Brookes’s departure, Mark Goodier begins his second stint as presenter of the Sunday afternoon Top 40 show.
24 April – Chris Evans takes over the Radio 1 Breakfast Show from Steve Wright.
May
May – BBC CWR closes as a stand-alone station and becomes an opt-out of BBC Radio WM.
June
No events.
July
No events.
August
Rather than merely broadcasting the usual mix of non-stop music and promos, Heart 106.2's test transmissions include live broadcasts of New York station WPLJ. The station launches on 5 September.
September
27 September – The BBC begins regular Digital Audio Broadcasting, from the Crystal Palace transmitting station.
October
9 October –
BBC Radio 3 begins broadcasting an hour earlier on weekdays with breakfast show On Air extended from two hours to three hours.
Paul Gambaccini joins Radio 3 to present a new morning program called Morning Collection. Consequently, This Week's Composer moves to the later time of 12noon.
21 October – Johnnie Walker ends his third and final stint at BBC Radio 1.
November
No events.
December
No events.
Unknown
The roll-out of BBC Radio 1’s FM network is completed and the station now has the same coverage on FM as the other BBC national stations and having been known on-air as Radio 1 FM, or even simply as 1FM, since the start of the decade to promote the station's move to FM, the on-air name reverts to Radio 1.
Radio Harmony is rebranded as Kix 96 and changes frequency.
The BBC last uses the Paris Theatre in central London as a venue for recording radio comedy and music with a live audience.
Station debuts
1 January –
Gemini FM and Gemini AM
Choice FM Birmingham
9 January – Tay AM
9 January – Tay FM
9 January – Northsound One
9 January – Northsound Two
14 February – Talk Radio UK
10 April – Virgin Radio 105.8
30 May – Radio XL
10 June – Premier Christian Radio
25 June – Vale FM
3 July – Viva 963
8 July – KMFM
17 August – London Turkish Radio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdemon | The Cyberdemon is a fictional character in the Doom video game franchise by id Software, where it was introduced in the first-person shooter game Doom in 1993. It has appeared in several other id games, including all main-line Doom sequels, Doom RPG, and Wolfenstein RPG as the Harbinger of Doom, along with other related media. The Cyberdemon became one of the most iconic characters of the Doom series along with its protagonist, the "Doomguy", and is often described as one of the most memorable bosses in video gaming history.
Appearances
The Cyberdemon is not mentioned in the manual for the original PC version, possibly so as to make its appearance a surprise for the player. The manual for the console versions describes it as a "half unfeeling machine, half raging horned devil. This walking nightmare has a rocket launcher for an arm and will definitely reach out and touch you." In the first Doom, the Cyberdemon is the toughest character, with 4,000 hit points (an equivalent of 40 direct rocket hits), receiving no splash damage from explosions. The Cyberdemons return in Doom II: Hell on Earth, where one is depicted on the cover art and the title screen.
A redesigned Cyberdemon is the final boss in the reboot game Doom 3, where it is described as "Hell's mightiest warrior" and can be killed only with the Soul Cube. Another incarnation of the Cyberdemon appears as a boss in the 2016 reboot of Doom, this time depicted as an ancient demon lord reanimated and upgraded with advanced technology by the UAC, though retaining the original's susceptibility to the player's arsenal.
It serves as the final boss of the 2016 reboot's virtual pinball adaptation (instead of Olivia Pierce, that game's main antagonist), whom the player can fight after fulfilling certain conditions, or by triggering wizard mode by completing five main missions. Also, at the start of each ball, the player is challenged to launch the ball past the Cyberdemon's arm cannon attacks to pull off a skill shot.
In Doom Eternal an iteration of the Cyberdemon appears as a mini-boss under the name Tyrant. As with many of the returning demons in Doom Eternal, the Tyrant has been redesigned from its Doom (2016) incarnation to more closely resemble its design from the original Doom games.
In the action role-playing game Doom RPG, the Cyberdemon is created by an occultist scientist Kronos. The cyberdemon's first chronological appearance (in-universe) is in Wolfenstein RPG, where it appears fully organic as the Harbinger of Doom, summoned by the Nazis at Castle Wolfenstein during World War II. American commando William "B.J." Blazkowicz defeats it using the Spear of Destiny, destroying its right leg and left arm, and the Harbinger vows that it would have a rematch with Blazkowicz's descendant in the future, which happens when Stan Blazkowicz faces it in Doom II RPG.
An entire plot of the Doom comic is based on the Doomguy's frantic search for the BFG 9000 that he can use to destroy the Cyberd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH | OpenSSH (also known as OpenBSD Secure Shell) is a suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which provides a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client–server architecture.
OpenSSH started as a fork of the free SSH program developed by Tatu Ylönen; later versions of Ylönen's SSH were proprietary software offered by SSH Communications Security. OpenSSH was first released in 1999 and is currently developed as part of the OpenBSD operating system.
OpenSSH is not a single computer program, but rather a suite of programs that serve as alternatives to unencrypted protocols like Telnet and FTP. OpenSSH is integrated into several operating systems, namely Microsoft Windows, macOS and most Linux operating systems, while the portable version is available as a package in other systems.
History
OpenBSD Secure Shell was created by OpenBSD developers as an alternative to the original SSH software by Tatu Ylönen, which is now proprietary software. Although source code is available for the original SSH, various restrictions are imposed on its use and distribution. OpenSSH was created as a fork of Björn Grönvall's OSSH that itself was a fork of Tatu Ylönen's original free SSH 1.2.12 release, which was the last one having a license suitable for forking. The OpenSSH developers claim that their application is more secure than the original, due to their policy of producing clean and audited code and because it is released under the BSD license, the open-source license to which the word open in the name refers.
OpenSSH first appeared in OpenBSD 2.6. The first portable release was made in October 1999. Developments since then have included the addition of ciphers (e.g., ChaCha20-Poly1305 in 6.5 of January 2014), cutting the dependency on OpenSSL (6.7, October 2014) and an extension to facilitate public-key discovery and rotation for trusted hosts (for transition from DSA to Ed25519 public host keys, version 6.8 of March 2015).
On 19 October 2015, Microsoft announced that OpenSSH will be natively supported on Microsoft Windows and accessible through PowerShell, releasing an early implementation and making the code publicly available. OpenSSH-based client and server programs have been included in Windows 10 since version 1803. The SSH client and key agent are enabled and available by default, and the SSH server is an optional Feature-on-Demand.
In October 2019 protection for private keys at rest in RAM against speculation and memory side-channel attacks were added in OpenSSH 8.1.
Development
OpenSSH is developed as part of the OpenBSD operating system. Rather than including changes for other operating systems directly into OpenSSH, a separate portability infrastructure is maintained by the OpenSSH Portability Team, and "portable releases" are made periodically. This infrastructure is substantial, partly because OpenSSH is required to perform authentication, a capability that has many varying implementations. This |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Jung | Mark A. Jung was the founder and former CEO of IGN Entertainment and the networks of Snowball.com, running the company from January 1999 to November 2006. Previously, he was CEO of Worldtalk Corporation and also served as VP and General Manager at Retix. He is the younger brother of Andrea Jung.
Jung graduated with a B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1981 after completing a 51-page long senior thesis titled "Measurement of the Contact Resistance of Screen-Printed Silver Metallization of N+ Silicon."
Career
As CEO of IGN Entertainment (formerly Snowball.com), a leading Internet media and services company for video gaming and other forms of digital entertainment, Jung took the company public in March 2000 and then private in August 2003. Jung led IGN's sale to NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox Interactive Media in October 2005. When the company was acquired by NewsCorp, Jung served as chief operating officer of Fox Interactive Media (FIM), where he was responsible for all of its internet properties, including MySpace, IGN Entertainment, FoxSports.com, AmericanIdol.com, and Scout Media.
Prior to joining IGN, Jung was the co-founder and CEO of Worldtalk Corporation, an Internet security company that he took public in 1996. He also served as VP and General Manager at Retix.
Jung has served as board chairman for Clearspring Technologies and as CEO of Vudu. He has also been a board member of the San Francisco Symphony, beginning in 2006. In May 2012 he became one of the Board Member and advisor for HackerRank.
In March 2014 Jung became the CEO of OnLive which subsequently ceased operations after selling its patents to Sony in April 2015.
References
IGN
American technology chief executives
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American chief operating officers
Princeton University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliandra%20chilensis | Calliandra chilensis is a species of flowering plants of the genus Calliandra in the family Fabaceae.
References
Germplasm Resources Information Network: Calliandra
chilensis
Endemic flora of Chile
Taxa named by George Bentham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INFORM | INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) is an independent registered charity located in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College, London; from 1988-2018 it was based at the London School of Economics. It was founded by the sociologist of religion, Eileen Barker, with start-up funding from the British Home Office and Britain's mainstream churches. Its stated aims are to "prevent harm based on misinformation about minority religions and sects by bringing the insights and methods of academic research into the public domain" and to provide "information about minority religions and sects which is as accurate, up-to-date and as evidence-based as possible."
History
The founding of INFORM was motivated by a shared impression among clergy and academics that groups hostile to cults often aimed to feed rather than alleviate enquirers' fears. During the 1980s, the British Home Office received many complaints related to cults and NRMs from concerned parents, but did not feel that any of the existing counter-cult and anti-cult groups deserved state funding. Answering the need for a body that would disseminate well-researched, impartial, and easily understood information, Eileen Barker, a leading sociologist of religion based at the London School of Economics and Political Science, established INFORM in 1988 with the support of the Home Office, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Hume and other mainstream churches. Eileen Barker argued that the media have an interest in attracting and keeping readers, most of whom are likely to be attracted by sensational stories. Suppliers of information may well have an agenda that leads them to adjust their product to meet a perceived demand.
Its founding aim was to provide neutral, objective and up-to-date information on new religious movements (NRMs) to government officials, scholars, the media, and members of the general public, in particular to relatives of people who have joined a new religious movement, as well as religious or spiritual seekers. Founder Eileen Barker retired from directing Inform in 2020 and from its Board of Governors in 2022 (although she is still active as an Observer).
Activities
INFORM, based in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London, researches and collects information on new religious movements and makes this data available to all interested parties – government officials, researchers and the media as well as relatives of people who have joined a new religious movement. Seeking to dispel the often inaccurate and distorted information disseminated about new religious movements in the media, INFORM aims to provide reliable information, based on in-depth research, about the character, policy and origins of new religious movements, as well as information about what motivates converts, and how movement membership tends to affect members' subsequent lives and careers. INFORM does not itself perform counselling, but re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliandra%20conferta | Calliandra conferta is a species of flowering plants of the genus Calliandra in the family Fabaceae.
References
External links
Germplasm Resources Information Network: Calliandra
United States Department of Agriculture
conferta
Taxa named by George Bentham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliandra%20cruegeri | Calliandra cruegeri is a species of flowering plants of the genus Calliandra in the family Fabaceae.
References
Germplasm Resources Information Network: Calliandra
cruegeri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliandra%20dysantha | Calliandra dysantha is a species of flowering plants of the genus Calliandra in the family Fabaceae. Is native to Brazil.
References
Germplasm Resources Information Network: Calliandra
dysantha
Taxa named by George Bentham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliandra%20erubescens | Calliandra erubescens is a species of flowering plants of the genus Calliandra in the family Fabaceae.
References
Germplasm Resources Information Network: Calliandra
erubescens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliandra%20foliolosa | Calliandra foliolosa is a species of flowering plants of the genus Calliandra in the family Fabaceae.
References
Germplasm Resources Information Network: Calliandra
foliolosa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awaz%20Television%20Network | Awaz Television Network is a Sindhi-language television channel with headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. It was launched in 2009 and broadcasts entertainment and infotainment programs in Sindhi.
Awaz TV is available via satellite on Paksat as well as on cable operators all around the country.
CEO of Awaz Television is Mr.Faiz Brohi.
Awaz TV hosts many drama, talk shows, morning shows, comedy shows and entertainment shows.
The most popular current affair programs are Sindh Desk, Aakhir Cha Kajey, Jawab Khapey, Crime Watch, Awami Adalat, Hee Aahey Sindh.
Famous entertainment shows are:
Subah Jo Awaz, Awaz Studio, Awaz Gehfil, Hi tea with Iqra Qureshi, Night Cafe, A 2 Z, Lok geet ain lada and Awaz Comedy Club,
Soomar Sureloo, Hard Line With Shoukat Zardari, Death Line, Subh Jo Awaz, Lok Geet aen Lada, Sonan Khushboo aen Rabeel, and Awaz Night With Yasir Shoroo.
Current talk shows
Daily talkshows
Hard Line With Shoukat Zardari
Awaz Today With Mohsin Baarybbar
Weekly talkshows
Date Line Sindh
Sindh Desk
Current morning shows
Daily morning show
Subh Jo Awaz
Weekly morning show
Lok Geet Ayn Lada
Current entertainment shows
Cinema Classic
Awaz night show
A2Z
Evening shows
A2Z
Colors Of Life
Evening With Stars
Andar Jo Awaz
Chef In Kitchen
Shaksiyat
Drama
Aanja Aas Baki
Amar
Chring
Jeevan Jo Imtehaan
Pinjroo
Unjjaroo
Kari Pag
Comedy
Dado Lesoro
Mazedaar Mehfil
Full Comedy
Previous hit shows
Shaan e Mustafa
Awaz Ramzan
Iftaar with Awaz
Election Special by Awaz
See also
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television stations in Pakistan
Mass media in Karachi
2009 establishments in Pakistan
Television stations in Karachi
Sindhi-language mass media
Mass media companies of Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform%20%28disambiguation%29 | Inform is a programming language for interactive fiction.
Inform may also refer to:
INFORM, Inc., an environmental organization
INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements), UK
INFORM, predecessor of CorVision
What an informant or informer does |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20%28video%20game%29 | Sodium was a massively multiplayer online game that was based in and exclusive to the PlayStation 3's online community-based social gaming network PlayStation Home. Sodium was a planned four-part series of games, only two of which were released by the time of Home's closure. It was developed by Outso, a company that developed spaces and content for Home, and it was published by Lockwood Publishing, who had published other content for Home. The first part, Sodium One, was released on December 17, 2009, to the European and North American versions of Home. It was later released in the Japanese and Asian versions on June 17, 2010, and July 29, 2010, respectively. The second part, Sodium 2: Project Velocity, was released on June 16, 2011, to the European and North American versions of Home.
Due to the nature of Home, the game continued to grow and expand as Home did. New games, virtual items, and community events were continually added until November 2014 when new content ceased to be published for Home, and Home closed on March 31, 2015.
Sodium Hub
The Sodium Hub was the main Home space for Sodium. Here, users had different mini-games in which they could earn Sodium Credits. Sodium Credits could be used to redeem Sodium related content throughout the Sodium universe. The first thing users had to do was talk to VICKIE. VICKIE was the Sodium A.I. Information Android that tracked all of the users information such as completed Objectives. This was where users could find out what Objectives they needed to complete and redeem their Sodium Credits. Users needed to select "Connect" when accessing VICKIE for the first time and register with the unique twelve character code on the Sodium website in order to play the "Sodium One - Salt Shooter Game". The Objectives rewarded the Sodium Credits. Other Objectives, not on the initial list, could be unlocked through playing the mini-games. A couple of the initial Objectives from VICKIE unlocked Home reward items. For a time, the Sodium Hub could be accessed through a teleport located in North America's central hub space, the Central Plaza, or through the World Map. After which, it could only be accessed via the Navigator (formerly World Map) which was accessed through the users Menu Pad in both Europe and North America.
The Objectives were completed through mini-games including [Salt Shooter] Tank Training, Scorpion Stomp, Desert Quench, and the Salt Shooter Game. [Salt Shooter] Tank Training was a training mission of the full game where users could train and try to improve their rankings. Scorpion Stomp was a mini-game where users stomped robotic scorpions. There were three kinds of robotic scorpions: yellow, red, and blue. The yellow robotic scorpions were the easiest to stomp and were mid-sized. The red robotic scorpions, which were the largest scorpions, required special scorpion stomping shoes which could be purchased at the Commerce Point. The blue robotic scorpions were the smallest scorpions and required |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million%20Dollar%20Maybe | "Million Dollar Maybe" is the eleventh episode in the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 31, 2010. In this episode, Homer wins $1 million in the lottery. Later fearing that Marge will discover that he missed a wedding reception while buying the winning ticket, Homer uses his windfall to buy the family anonymous gifts. Meanwhile, Lisa uses a Funtendo Zii to make life more interesting for Grampa Simpson and his friends at the retirement home.
"Million Dollar Maybe" was written by Bill Odenkirk and directed by Chris Clements. The episode was well received by most television critics, who praised its humor and storyline. Upon its initial airing, the episode attained 5.11 million viewers and garnered a 2.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic. "Million Dollar Maybe" featured a guest appearance from Chris Martin of Coldplay, as well as appearances from recurring voice actors and actresses for the series.
Plot
Homer and Marge are scheduled to do a singing toast at Marge's cousin Valerie's wedding, causing Marge to become nervous, due to her fear of embarrassment. Homer tells her not to worry, saying that he will make sure they do not mess up. Homer gets a fortune cookie stating that today will be his lucky day, but he does not believe so. However, he starts to believe this occurs when he crashes into a vending machine causing all of the snacks to fall out on him, and finds an Emerson, Lake & Palmer CD in the parking lot. He sings along to "Lucky Man", driving recklessly to the synthesizer solo. He then goes to the Kwik-E-Mart for a lottery ticket, even though he's running late for the wedding. After a long wait, Homer gets his lottery ticket, only to find out the wedding has ended. When he takes his eyes off the road for a second, he crashes. Homer wakes up in the hospital, and realizes he won a million dollars in the lottery. Homer does not want Marge to know he missed the wedding to get a lottery ticket, and has Barney pose as the winner. So that Marge does not know he won the money, he secretly leaves gifts for his family members. When Bart discovers Homer's scheme, he threatens to tell Marge unless Homer publicly embarrasses himself. Eventually, Homer decides to tell Marge himself and get it over with. Taking Marge on a hot-air balloon, he reveals he won the lottery, causing Marge to become very glad; he then tells her he spent it all, leaving them poor as usual. However, Marge does not care, saying at least they have each other. Homer then reveals he spent the last of the money on a giant cherry blossom grove in the shape of Marge's face with the words "Love of my Life". They then sing the song they were supposed to sing at the wedding together, off in the sunset.
In the sub-plot, Lisa discovers that the senior citizens at Grampa's nursing home do not have any entertainment, and decides to buy them a digital TV converter. However, while at the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HadCRUT | HadCRUT is the dataset of worldwide monthly instrumental temperature records formed by combining the sea surface temperature records compiled by the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office and the land surface air temperature records compiled by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia.
"HadCRUT" stands for Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit Temperature.
The data is provided on a grid of boxes covering the globe, with values provided for only those boxes containing temperature observations in a particular month and year. Interpolation is not applied to infill missing values. The first version of HadCRUT initially spanned the period 1881–1993, and this was later extended to begin in 1850 and to be regularly updated to the current year/month in near real-time.
HadCRUT4
HadCRUT4 was introduced in March 2012. It "includes the addition of newly digitised measurement data, both over land and sea, new sea-surface temperature bias adjustments and a more comprehensive error model for describing uncertainties in sea-surface temperature measurements". Overall, the net effect of HadCRUT4 versus HadCRUT3 is an increase in the average temperature anomaly, especially around 1950 and 1855, and less significantly around 1925 and 2005.
HadCRUT3
HadCRUT3 is the third major revision of this dataset, combining the CRUTEM3 land surface air temperature dataset with the HadSST2 sea surface temperature dataset. First published in 2006, this initially spanned the period 1850–2005, but has since been regularly updated to 2012. Its spatial grid boxes are 5° of latitude and longitude. A more complete statistical model of uncertainty was introduced with this revision, including estimates of measurements errors, biases due to changing exposure and urbanisation, and uncertainty due to incomplete coverage of the globe by observations of temperature.
HadCRUT2
HadCRUT2 was the second major version of this dataset, combining the CRUTEM2 land surface air temperature dataset with the HadSST sea surface temperature dataset. First published in 2003, this initially spanned the period 1856–2001, but was subsequently updated to end in 2005. Its spatial grid boxes are 5° of latitude and longitude. An estimate of uncertainty due to incomplete coverage of the globe by observations of temperature was included, as was a version with the variance adjusted to remove artificial changes arising from changing numbers of observations.
HadCRUT1
HadCRUT1 was the first version of this dataset. Although not initially referred to as HadCRUT1, this name was introduced later to distinguish it from subsequent versions. First published in 1994, this initially spanned the period 1881–1993, but was subsequently extended to span 1856–2002. HadCRUT1 at first combined two sea surface temperature datasets (MOHSST for 1881–1981 and GISST for 1981–1993) with an earlier land surface air temperature dataset from the Climatic Research Unit. The land surface air temperature datas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motti%20Malka | Motti Malka () is the mayor of the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malakhi. Malka is a member of the Mayors For Peace Network, an organization that aims to promote peace at a local, and civil society level across the world.
Malka was first elected in the 2003 municipal elections, beating the Likud incumbent by a comfortable margin. In the 2007 elections, he was re-elected on the Kadima list with 84% of the vote.
On 10 May 2012, Ynet news reported that Malka is a suspect in a rape in an apartment for a demonstration project. Malka denied the allegations and stated that sexual relations were held "consensually".
References
Living people
Jewish Israeli politicians
Kadima politicians
Mayors of places in Israel
People from Kiryat Malakhi
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20technology%20in%20Morocco | The information technology sector in Morocco has been witnessing significant expansion. Morocco is the first country in North Africa to install a 3G network. The number of Internet subscribers in the country jumped 73% in 2006 over the previous year. Further, a new offshore site at Casablanca, with state-of-the-art technologies and other incentives, has grabbed the attention of many global multinationals. Setting up offshore service centers in the nation has become tempting. Such is the rate of growth, that off-shoring and IT activities are estimated to contribute $500 million to the country's GDP and employ 30,000 people by 2015. The communications sector already accounts for half of all foreign direct investments Morocco received over the past five years.
IT sector
The IT sector generated a turnover of Dh7bn ($910,000m) in 2007, which represented an 11% increase compared to 2006. The number of Moroccan internet subscribers in 2007 amounted to 526,080, representing an increase of 31.6% compared to the previous year and a 100% increase compared to 2005. The national penetration for internet subscription remains low, even though it increased from 0.38% in 2004 to 1.72% in 2007. Yet over 90% of subscribers have a broadband ADSL connection, which is one of the highest ratios in the world. While the telecoms sector remains the big earner, with Dh33bn ($4.3bn), the IT and off shore industries should generate Dh21bn ($2.7bn) each by 2012. In addition, the number of employees should increase from 40,000 to 125,000. The government hopes that adding more local content to the internet will increase usage. There have also been efforts to add more computers to schools and universities. E-commerce is likely to take off in the next few years, especially as the use of credit cards is gaining more ground in Morocco. Although computer and internet use have made a great leap forward in the past five years, the IT market still finds itself in infancy and offers great potential for further development.
Telecommunications
The mobile telephony segment comprises three operators: Maroc Telecom, the former state-owned company, with a market share of 58.2 per cent in 2008. Méditel (31.5 per cent) and, since April 2007, Wana (10.4 per cent). Maroc Telecom is expected to lose 12 per cent of the mobile market share. The mobile telephony market is growing rapidly, the number of subscribers reached 22.3 million in September 2008. In 2008, over 64 per cent of the population had more than one mobile phone in their households, compared to 48 per cent in 2005. The introduction of customer loyalty plans, the downward trend in prices and the enhancement of service offerings over the last two years have further boosted mobile telephony. As of June 2008, the mobile penetration rate had risen to 69.4 per cent, as against 57.8 per cent in June 2007.
In the fixed-line telephony segment, 3G telecommunications licences have been granted to two operators, Méditel and Wana. The data o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearOS | ClearOS (also known as the ClearOS System, formerly ClarkConnect) is a Linux distribution by ClearFoundation, with network gateway, file, print, mail, and messaging services.
History
ClearOS is based on CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, designed for use in small and medium enterprises as a network gateway and network server with a web-based administration interface. It is positioned as an alternative to Windows Small Business Server. ClearOS is the successor to ClarkConnect. The software is built by ClearFoundation, and support services can be purchased from ClearCenter. ClearOS 5.1 removes previous limitations to mail, DMZ, and MultiWAN functions.
As of the ClearOS 6.1 release, the distribution is a full-featured operating system for gateway, network and servers built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
ClearOS aims to replace, as a small business server, Windows SBS.
Features
Features include:
Stateful firewall (iptables), networking and security
Intrusion detection and prevention system (SNORT)
Virtual private networking (IPsec, PPTP, OpenVPN)
Web proxy, with content filtering and antivirus (Squid, DansGuardian)
E-mail services (Webmail, Postfix, SMTP, POP3/s, IMAP/s)
Groupware (Kolab)
Database and web server (easy to deploy LAMP stack)
File and print services (Samba and CUPS)
Flexshares (unified multi-protocol storage which currently employs SMB, HTTP/S, FTP/S, and SMTP)
MultiWAN (Internet fault tolerant design)
Built-in reports for system statistics and services (MRTG and others)
Awards and recognition
August 2009: CompTIA Breakaway — ClearCenter's ClearOS wins 'Best New Product' at CompTIA Breakaway.
August 2010: CompTIA Breakaway — ClearCenter's ClearOS repeats win for 'Best New Product' at CompTIA Breakaway.
July 2012: Softpedia — An Open Source, free and powerful network and gateway Linux server operating system
February 2014: IDG Security Firewall Distributions Review
June 2015: Small Business Computing — The 5 Best Linux Servers for Small Business
September 2015: LinuxVoice Service Distro — Group Test (see pages 58-63)
See also
Windows SBS
ClarkConnect
SmoothWall
m0n0wall
SME Server
Zentyal
ClearFoundation
References
External links
Clark Connect at DistroWatch
clarkconnect.com
clarkconnect.org recycle a tired old computer into an Internet gateway
PointClark Networks
ClarkConnect becomes ClearOS
ClearFoundation
ClearCenter
Enterprise Linux distributions
Firewall software
Free routing software
Gateway/routing/firewall distribution
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZ%20Groeninge | AZ Groeninge is a large teaching hospital, affiliated with the Flemish KU Leuven Hospital network, in Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium. The hospital is the result of a merger of four hospitals in Kortrijk and is in number of beds, in its current form, the fifth largest hospital system in Belgium. The new 1000+ hospital bed facility at the Kennedylaan, opened in 2017, is one of the largest hospital sites in Belgium.
History
In 2003, four hospitals in the Belgian city of Kortrijk merged: Kliniek Maria's Voorzienigheid (founded in 1937), Onze-Lieve-Vrouwehospitaal (1211), Sint-Niklaasziekenhuis (1958) and Sint-Maartenziekenhuis (1955). This resulted in a single hospital with a non-profit status as it is a public–private partnership between the City of Kortrijk and the Boards of the former Christian hospitals. With the merger all specialties were effectively centralized at one campus. In 2005 the construction of one large hospital facility in the neighbourhood of "het Ei in Kortrijk" started. Between 2010 and 2016 the campuses of Sint-Niklaas, Sint-Maarten and Maria's Voorzienigheid moved into the new hospital. The historic campus of the Medieval Our Lady Hospital will remain open longer, to accommodate administrative services and prolonged-care units such as the palliative care unit, but the ultimate aim is to also relocate these services to the Kennedylaan.
Facts
AZ Groeninge has a history that dates back to the beginning of the 13th century and is one of the oldest hospitals in Belgium. It is a pluralistic hospital resulting from the merger of one public hospital and 3 private Catholic hospitals. AZ Groeninge is in number of beds (1100 acute beds; 57 obstetric beds) the fifth largest hospital in the country (only the UZ of the KU Leuven, the Grand Hôpital de Charleroi, the ZiekenhuisNetwerk Antwerpen and AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende AV are larger). However, the latter three are in fact hospital systems (most services are not centralised at one campus). AZ Groeninge is a teaching hospital that accommodates training of medical and nursing students and residents and clinical fellows in various specialties.
AZ Groeninge is a large private employer in the Arrondissement of Kortrijk and Eurodistrict Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai metropolitan area. As of 2009, it employed 1038 full-time en 1642 part-time people, 200+ of which are physicians. It is a non-profit organisation (VZW/ASBL). In 2009 AZ Groeninge was responsible for the education of 30 residents and fellows. It had 1,094 beds, 33,920 inpatient admissions a year, 2,020 births and had 38,838 emergency department visits in 2009.
Facilities and current operations
Before 2017 the hospital consisted of 4 hospital sites: Kennedylaan, Loofstraat, Burgemeester Vercruysselaan and Reepkaai. Since 2017 all acute operations were centralised in a single hospital site. This hospital site is one of the largest in the country. The Kennedylaan site is located close to the campuses of the Catholic University of Leuv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20Umizoomi | Team Umizoomi is an American preschool live-action/computer-animated musical children's television series created by Soo Kim, Michael T. Smith and Jennifer Twomey for Nickelodeon and the Nick Jr. Channel. The series places an emphasis on mathematical concepts, such as counting, sequences, shapes, patterns, measurements, and equalities. Team Umizoomi ran from January 25, 2010 to April 24, 2015, having released 80 episodes over 4 seasons.
Overview
Using the live actors and props with animated characters, vehicles and environments, the series follows the adventures of the titular Team Umizoomi, a trio of tiny superheroes who use mathematics to solve whatever problems occur in and around their home of Umi City in every episode.
Characters
Main
Milli (voiced by Sophia Fox in episodes 1-13 and Madeleine Rose Yen in episodes 14-80) is a 6-year-old girl with abilities related to patterns and measuring. By singing certain phrases, she can use patterns to solve problems. She is also Geo's older sister, and is often the one to lead the team in many of their missions. In addition to being able to change the pattern of her dress, Milli can also alter the appearance of another object or person to match whatever pattern she is projecting on it, and her ponytails can extend to serve as measuring tools, such as a ruler, a weighing scale, and a thermometer. Later seasons would make Milli extra proficient at martial arts, primarily when it comes to jumps and karate chops.
Geo (voiced by Ethan Kempner in Seasons 1-3 and Juan Mirt in Season 4) is a 5-year-old boy and Milli's younger brother. He mainly solves problems based on shapes and can use them to make different kinds of objects, ranging from food, tools, and clothing to animals, vehicles, and buildings. For these purposes, he always has usage of his shape belt, which grants him the ability to summon any shape he needs, but later episodes would give him two more tools; the shape splitter, a longsword that can cut a shape into any form needed, and the shape magnet, a horseshoe magnet that can function as a grappling hook by attaching to any specific shape. Geo always wears a pair of roller skates, and rarely takes them off on dry land.
Bot (voiced by Donovan Patton in all seasons) is a green robot who can extend his limbs to reach things or use the screen on his belly (referred to as his "belly screen") to make calls and do math. He is Milli and Geo's primary caretaker, and as a robot features many retractable tools.
UmiCar (voiced by P.T. Walkley) is the team's anthropomorphic orange car that drives the team wherever their help is needed. The character primarily communicates via engine noises that sound like a cat purring through an electronic filter, though he can pronounce his name with a clear and deep voice on rare occasions. He lacks a face in the early-Season 1 episodes, but he gained one in mid-Season 1 episodes.
Recurring
Dump Truck is a living dump truck who doesn't speak real words and doesn't play |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-controlled%20Vehicle%20System | The Computer-controlled Vehicle System, almost universally referred to as CVS, was a personal rapid transit (PRT) system developed by a Japanese industrial consortium during the 1970s. Like most PRT systems under design at the same time, CVS was based around a small four-person electric vehicle similar to a small minivan that could be requested on demand and drive directly to the user's destination. Unlike other PRT systems, however, CVS also offered cargo vehicles, included "dual-use" designs that could be manually driven off the PRT network, and included the ability to stop at intersections in a conventional road-like network.
Work on CVS started in the late 1960s as a demonstration system for a "traffic game" at Expo '70. This demonstration was successful and led to a further development project in 1970, which expanded several times and eventually produced a large test track outside of Tokyo. However, in 1978, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport declined to grant CVS a license under existing safety regulations, citing issues with the short headway distances. As other proposed CVS deployments also dried up, work on the project ended some time that year.
History
Background
The concept of personal rapid transit (PRT) developed in the 1950s as a solution to the problem of providing mass transit in smaller urban areas and the suburbs of larger cities. Existing systems, heavy rail and subways, required major infrastructure and had high capital costs that limited their use to only the densest urban areas. Buses could run on existing roadways, but were thus subject to traffic problems and could not offer the high-speed services that made subways so attractive to riders. Modern PRT really began around 1953 when Donn Fichter, a city transportation planner, began research on PRT and alternative transportation methods. In 1964, Fichter published a book, which proposed an automated public transit system for areas of medium to low population density.
The solution appeared to be a "mini-subway", one that was small enough that the routes did not require the same sort of capital costs as a conventional system. However, using traditional technology to implement such a system would not work, as the required distance between vehicles on a subway system, known as headway, was often several minutes. This would mean a low vehicle density, and, if this was combined with a small number of passengers per vehicle, a very low overall passenger capacity. If such a system was to be practical, the distance between the vehicles had to be reduced, something that the emerging computer market appeared able to address.
During the 1950s the United States underwent a period of intense urban decay. Planners pointed to the construction of the interstate highway system as the culprit; people were able to buy houses at low prices farther and farther from their jobs in the downtown cores, leading to a flight of capital out of the cities. Only those cities with we |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carputer | A carputer, or car-puter, is a computer with specializations to run in a car, such as compact size, low power requirement, and some customized components. The computing hardware is typically based on standard PCs or mobile devices. They normally have standard interfaces such as Bluetooth, USB, and WiFi. The first carputer was introduced by Clarion on December 4, 1998, although on-board diagnostics have been employed since the 1980s to precisely measure the amount of fuel entering the engine as the carburetors got too complex.
A challenge to installing a computer in a car is the power supply. Energy is supplied as a nominal 12 VDC in cars or 24 VDC in some trucks. The voltage varies according to whether the engine is on or off since the battery generally delivers 12V, while the generator supplies more. There can be peaks, and at ignition time the supply current drops. External DC/DC converters can help to regulate voltages.
Police cars often have Mobile data terminals in the form of a laptop swivel mounted where the driver's armrest would be. This can be used to log data and to query networked databases.
Microsoft developed Windows Embedded Automotive and used it with the AutoPC, a brand of carputer jointly developed with Clarion. The system was released in 1998, and referred to the operating system itself as "Auto PC". It was based on Windows CE 2.0. It evolved into "Windows CE for Automotive". The platform was used for the first two generations of MyFord Touch while the third generation runs QNX from BlackBerry Limited.
Tablet computers such as the Nexus 7 can be installed either permanently (in-dash) or removably (a dock). It can be used for watching movies or listening to music, as well as for GPS navigation. It also has Bluetooth for hands-free calls.
Computers can be used to decode on-board diagnostics (OBD) data to a visual display. Many interfaces are based on the ELM327 OBD Interpreter ICs. STN1110 is also known to be used.
See also
Vehicular communication systems
References
In-car entertainment
Mobile computers
Windows Embedded Automotive devices
Auto parts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip%20%28software%29 | Gossip is an instant messaging client for Unix-like operating systems. It uses XMPP protocol and adheres to GNOME's published human interface guidelines. It is written in the C programming language, and its main developer is Mikael Hallendal, founder of Imendio.
Features
Among its features are:
Presence of your contacts
Send and receive messages
Group chatting
Keeping all of your conversations logged
Sound notification
Compliance with GNOME's Human Interface Guidelines
See also
List of XMPP client software
References
External links
Free XMPP clients
GNOME Applications
Applications using D-Bus
Instant messaging clients that use GTK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo4j | Neo4j is a graph database management system developed by Neo4j, Inc.
The data elements Neo4j stores are nodes, edges connecting them, and attributes of nodes and edges. Described by its developers as an ACID-compliant transactional database with native graph storage and processing, Neo4j is available in a non-open-source "community edition" licensed with a modification of the GNU General Public License, with online backup and high availability extensions licensed under a closed-source commercial license. Neo also licenses Neo4j with these extensions under closed-source commercial terms.
Neo4j is implemented in Java and accessible from software written in other languages using the Cypher query language through a transactional HTTP endpoint, or through the binary "Bolt" protocol. The "4j" in Neo4j is a reference to its being built in Java, however is now largely viewed as an anachronism.
History
Version 1.0 was released in February 2010.
Neo4j version 2.0 was released in December 2013.
Neo4j version 3.0 was released in April 2016.
In November 2016, Neo4j successfully secured $36M in Series D Funding led by Greenbridge Partners Ltd.
In November 2018, Neo4j successfully secured $80M in Series E Funding led by One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, with participation from other investors including Creandum, Eight Roads and Greenbridge Partners.
In June 2021, Neo4j announced another round of funding, $325M in Series F.
Release history
Licensing and editions
Neo4j comes in five editions. Two are on-premises editions, Community (free) and Enterprise, and three are cloud-only editions: AuraDB Free, AuraDB Professional, and AuraDB Enterprise.
It is dual-licensed: GPL v3 (with parts of the code under AGPLv3 with Commons Clause), and a proprietary license. The Community Edition is free but is limited to running on one node only due to the lack of clustering and is without hot backups.
The Enterprise Edition unlocks these limitations, allowing for clustering, hot backups, and monitoring. The Enterprise Edition is available under a closed-source Commercial license.
Data structure
The data elements are nodes, edges which connect nodes to one another, and attributes of nodes and edges. Nodes and edges can be labelled. Labels can be used to narrow searches. As of version 2.0, indexing was added to Cypher with the introduction of schemas. Previously, indexes were supported separately from Cypher.
Neo4j, Inc.
Neo4j is developed by Neo4j, Inc., based in San Mateo, California, United States, and also in Malmö, Sweden.
See also
CODASYL
Cypher (query language)
Gremlin (query language)
References
External links
Graph databases
Structured storage
Free database management systems
Software companies of Sweden
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
2007 software
NoSQL
Software using the GNU AGPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRipples | JRipples is a change impact analysis tool for the Java programming language. It helps a developer calculate the impact of software change. It is an open source Eclipse plug-in. The tool not only give relevant program analysis, but it also organizes the steps of change propagation.
When a change is made to software, the change will quite often have an undesirable or unintended impact on the software as a whole. During a change, JRipples can be run to assist the developer in identifying the impact of the change. This tool analyzes a program and marks classes which need attention from the developer. The developer will then visit each marked class and decide if the impact requires refactoring or not. This frees the developer from trivial duties, so they can be more effective.
History
JRipples was developed by Maksym Petrenko starting 2005. Petrenko was a member of SEVERE group of the Wayne State University Department of Computer Science in Detroit, Michigan. The research and implementation was done during his doctoral studies. It is maintained by Laurentiu Radu Vanciu
Simple example
JRipples integrates into the Eclipse menu toolbar. To start an analysis the user selects JRipples -> Start Analysis.
This will provide a popup window for the developer to select a project. The tool will then analyze the project and present a menu with classes to be inspected. After the analysis a JRipples Hierarchical View will appear. For this example there is only a single class "Main" to be analyzed, which is mark "next" in green.
After the developer visits the Main class, three options are presented by right clicking on the green "Next". They are "Located", "Propagating" and "Unchanged". For this example we shall assume the change propagated to other classes.
After selecting "Propagating" from the right click menu, JRipples identified four more classes which the change may have propagated to, and marked them "Next". The developer will then visit each of those classes to determine if the change has propagated into those classes or not. If the change does not require the class to be modified the class will be marked "Unchanged" and the developer will move on to another class marked "Next".
After the developer has iterated through all marked classes and identified if change is necessary, they are then able to organize their actions to most effectively complete the change request.
Additional features
JRipples includes two features to make a developer's search more direct: Lucene and GREP analysis. To use these tools, the developer only has to right-click in the JRipples Hierarchical View and select either tool in the pop-up menu.
The GREP tool may be used like a customary GREP tool, however JRipples will rank each class based on the number of hits from the GREP. This information should help developers; they are able to start with the most or fewest hits, depending on their strategy.
The Lucene tool is more intelligent. The first tim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFEL-LP | WFEL-LP is a Full Service formatted broadcast radio station licensed to and serving Antioch, Illinois. WFEL-LP is owned and operated by Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Programming
The station plays a mix of informational, religious, and entertainment programs along with a healthy dose of music from all genres, all family friendly in nature.
WFEL broadcasts two live shows during the weekdays. America's Gold Top 40 and Modern Mix are aired in the afternoons and evenings respectively. These shows are broadcast from the studios of WFEL.
WFEL plays a wide variety of Old-time radio programs each evening such as Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, Casey, Crime Photographer, and The Whistler.
WFEL also broadcasts services, sermons and devotions of Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church live to the Antioch area.
External links
Faith 99 Online
FEL-LP
Radio stations established in 2003
Full service radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manis%20FM | Manis FM is a Malay language-radio station operated by Husa Network Sdn Bhd. Its headquarters are located in Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu.
History
Manis FM began its operation on 20 June 1998. In the early years, Manis FM first transmitted to the city of Kota Bharu only. Its original frequency was 88.7 FM and aired for only 18 hours a day. Its headquarters were at first located at Jalan Kebun Sultan in front of the Kelantan state Chinese business hall.
In 2003, Manis FM started broadcasting 24 hours a day after moving to its new headquarters at Wisma Manis. The frequency of Manis FM in Kota Bharu was changed to 90.6 FM. The station also expanded to several states, especially in the east coast states of Terengganu and Pahang. Manis FM also launched a website with a new user interface look. Manis FM can be also tuned in Southern Thailand, Redang Island & Perhentian Islands.
Since 2011, Manis FM is a unit of Husa Network Sdn Bhd. Manis FM subsequently relocated its broadcasting facilities to Kuala Terengganu while its frequencies remained unchanged.
Notable announcers
Mat Dan (moved to Molek FM)
Frequency
Television
References
External links
1998 establishments in Malaysia
Radio stations established in 1998
Radio stations in Malaysia
Malay-language radio stations
Contemporary hit radio stations
Kuala Terengganu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advances%20in%20Adaptive%20Data%20Analysis | Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis (AADA) is an interdisciplinary scientific journal published by World Scientific. It reports developments in data analysis methodology and their practical applications, with special emphasis on adaptive approaches.
The journal seeks to transform data analysis into a competent tool for scientific research and engineering applications, and to distinguish it from mere data processing. Unlike data processing, which relies on established procedures and parameters, data analysis encompasses in-depth study in order to extract physical understanding. A further distinction the journal makes is the need to modify data analysis methodology (thus, "adaptive") to accommodate the complexity of scientific phenomena.
The journal mainly features original research, but occasionally publishes surveys, reviews, and proceedings for special conferences. It is indexed by Inspec.
References
Academic journals established in 2009
World Scientific academic journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20door%20operation | Local door operation refers to a procedure and system in place on railway rolling stock on the United Kingdom railway network. It is where a single door on a train is operated by its train crew from a crew operated switch, often on a train door control panel operated by the train's guard. This differs from the Emergency Door Release or Egress that can be used by the general public in case of an emergency, this usually requires a cover to be removed or broken to operate and would never usually be used in the normal course of a journey.
Location and operation
The location of the local door varies and is usual in multiple locations on the train, and sometimes does not require a switch to operate in the case of outside doors to Brake Vans or Driving Van Trailers for example.
It is used to allow train crew to access the train without the use of the general passenger doors or for use in the Guards dispatch duties leaving a station. The public are not permitted to use this device and it should be impossible for a member of the public to access it. Brake Van doors and control panel covers for instance require keys to open, and in the case of door control panels require another key to prime them for use. Local door switches in the open position while disarmed usually activate the train's emergency braking systems; this prevents a door from opening by accident when a crew member arms the control while in motion.
Onboard trains
On coaching stock trains fitted with central door locking (slam door), there is no ‘local door’ except on the train's Guard's van. Local instructions allow the Guard to operate train doors from any location it is safe to do so, or where regulations require them to do so. Once it is required, the Guard can lock all doors without requiring to close their door, as the locking bolt does not activate until the door is closed. Coaching stock trains with power doors, like the Mark 4 used on the East Coast Main Line, have local door switches at all door control panel locations.
All multiple unit trains have local door switches, located in various locations. These are always located on cab doors which can be locked for security. Most of the rest are located on door control panels and require the Guard open their local door and step onto the platform before opening the remaining passenger doors, thus making sure their train is accommodated correctly on the platform. In some cases, where the driver releases the doors, the Guard uses a switch to isolate their door from the rest to prevent it closing when the other passenger doors are closed. The Guard will observe the doors closing, and is required to remain on the platform until all doors are closed and it is safe to proceed. They will then will close their door before starting the train.
See also
Selective door operation
Passenger rail transport in the United Kingdom
Passenger rail rolling stock |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congonhal | Congonhal is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil. Its population in 2017 was of 11.706 inhabitants according to estimated data from IBGE.
History
The beginning of historic occupation of the region where today is Congonhal and neighbor municipalities, goes back to the mid-eighteenth century, strongly driven by the discovery of gold in the mines of Alto Sapucaí. The city's settlement began in 1756 by paulistas and portugueses, when a bridge was constructed across a river. In 1880 the parish of San Jose was canonically instituted.
See also
List of municipalities in Minas Gerais
References
Municipalities in Minas Gerais |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurocomputing%20%28journal%29 | Neurocomputing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and neural computation. It was established in 1989 and is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Zidong Wang (Brunel University London). Independent scientometric studies noted that despite being one of the most productive journals in the field, it has kept its reputation across the years intact and plays an important role in leading the research in the area. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2022 impact factor is 6.0.
References
External links
Neuroscience journals
Elsevier academic journals
Academic journals established in 1989
Computer science journals
Artificial intelligence publications
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-code%20modulation | Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a method used to digitally represent sampled analog signals. It is the standard form of digital audio in computers, compact discs, digital telephony and other digital audio applications. In a PCM stream, the amplitude of the analog signal is sampled at uniform intervals, and each sample is quantized to the nearest value within a range of digital steps.
Linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) is a specific type of PCM in which the quantization levels are linearly uniform. This is in contrast to PCM encodings in which quantization levels vary as a function of amplitude (as with the A-law algorithm or the μ-law algorithm). Though PCM is a more general term, it is often used to describe data encoded as LPCM.
A PCM stream has two basic properties that determine the stream's fidelity to the original analog signal: the sampling rate, which is the number of times per second that samples are taken; and the bit depth, which determines the number of possible digital values that can be used to represent each sample.
History
Early electrical communications started to sample signals in order to multiplex samples from multiple telegraphy sources and to convey them over a single telegraph cable. The American inventor Moses G. Farmer conceived telegraph time-division multiplexing (TDM) as early as 1853. Electrical engineer W. M. Miner, in 1903, used an electro-mechanical commutator for time-division multiplexing multiple telegraph signals; he also applied this technology to telephony. He obtained intelligible speech from channels sampled at a rate above 3500–4300 Hz; lower rates proved unsatisfactory.
In 1920, the Bartlane cable picture transmission system used telegraph signaling of characters punched in paper tape to send samples of images quantized to 5 levels. In 1926, Paul M. Rainey of Western Electric patented a facsimile machine that transmitted its signal using 5-bit PCM, encoded by an opto-mechanical analog-to-digital converter. The machine did not go into production.
British engineer Alec Reeves, unaware of previous work, conceived the use of PCM for voice communication in 1937 while working for International Telephone and Telegraph in France. He described the theory and its advantages, but no practical application resulted. Reeves filed for a French patent in 1938, and his US patent was granted in 1943. By this time Reeves had started working at the Telecommunications Research Establishment.
The first transmission of speech by digital techniques, the SIGSALY encryption equipment, conveyed high-level Allied communications during World War II. In 1943 the Bell Labs researchers who designed the SIGSALY system became aware of the use of PCM binary coding as already proposed by Reeves. In 1949, for the Canadian Navy's DATAR system, Ferranti Canada built a working PCM radio system that was able to transmit digitized radar data over long distances.
PCM in the late 1940s and early 1950s used a cathode-ray coding tube with a pl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avax | Avax may refer to:
Avax Technologies, an American bio-tech company
AVAX is the native token of Avalanche blockchain
Gradient Avax, a Czech paraglider design
J&P-AVAX, a Greek construction company and subsidiary of Joannou & Paraskevaides |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Norfolk%20and%20Suffolk%20Yacht%20Club | The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club is a private yacht club based in Lowestoft in Suffolk. It was founded on 9 April 1859.
External links
Official Website
History at SailingNetworks.com
Royal yacht clubs
1859 establishments in England
Yacht clubs in England
George Skipper buildings
Grade II* listed buildings in Suffolk
Lowestoft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyetech | Eyetech Group Ltd is a company founded in 1983, in order to provide commercial companies with automatical data collection systems. They had already been involved in the provision of the automatic toll collection systems used at the Dartford River Crossing, as well as many of the bar code based tracking systems used by UK national parcel service.
History
Eyetech Group Ltd was founded as a subsidiary of an international UK plc, before trading as its own, standalone plc following a management buyout in 1985. The company has mostly been involved in producing bespoke software systems for commercial use in the transport and distribution sector under Unix/AIX, track and trace systems involving the use of barcodes, which have been used by the majority of UK parcel carriers and bar code decoders and industrial (networked) shop floor data capture and access control systems.
Interest in Amiga
Eyetech took an interest in Amiga, as well as being a registered Amiga developer, in 1993 and developed their Amiga related commercial systems to cover three main areas: as an integrated multimedia development/mass delivery platform for its existing customer base with custom systems built around Amiga architecture, using rehoused Amiga hardware as a low cost multitasking platform for shop floor data collection/control applications in smaller industrial companies and as a karaoke platform harnessing cdrom technology.
During years on the Amiga market, Eyetech manufactured several accessories for Amiga computers including CD-ROM/IDE solution for A1200, custom tower cases based on off the shelf pc towers with replacement backplane metal work to match A1200 ports riveted on. scan doubler/flicker fixer and even attempted to introduce extension to Zorro bus standard.
In 2000 Eyetech and Amiga, Inc. formed partnership to produce hardware for new AmigaOne platform. AmigaOne computers were introduced in 2002, first AmigaOne SE followed by AmigaOne XE and Micro-A1 models. Eyetech retired from the Amiga market in 2005 and subsequently sold their remaining Amiga business to Amiga Kit who claims to have continued manufacturing and distributing Eyetech products to the Amiga market to present day.
References
Further reading
Amiga companies
Companies established in 1983
Home computer hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh%20Penguins%20Radio%20Network | The Pittsburgh Penguins Radio Network is a radio network operated by the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League that provides broadcasts for all the team's games. Josh Getzoff assumed play-by-play duties at the start of the 2021-22 season after the retirement of hall of fame announcer Mike Lange. Former Penguin Phil Bourque is the color commentator. The flagship station since 2006 is WXDX-FM in Pittsburgh.
Mike Lange began doing team radio broadcasts in 1974, and after not working for the team during the 1975–76 year, rejoined the network for the 1976–77 season. He provided play-by-play for radio as well as television when the team began simulcast broadcasts. When the two broadcasts separated in the mid-1990s, Lange worked exclusively on television for FSN Pittsburgh. In 2006, FSN did not renew Lange's contract, and he rejoined the radio network.
Paul Steigerwald worked with the team network from 1980 to 1999. He began with the team in 1980 performing interviews during intermissions. In 1984 he joined Lange as color analyst. When Lange moved to the television broadcast, Steigerwald became the play-by-play announcer. In 2006, Steigerwald replaced Lange at FSN, while Lange replaced Steigerwald on the radio network. Former Penguins Bob Errey served as color commentator following his retirement from playing in 1999. In 2003 when television broadcaster and former player Ed Olczyk became the team's head coach, Errey moved to television. Another former Penguin, Phil Bourque replaced Errey.
In October 2009 the team launched "Pittsburgh Penguins Radio" with WXDX-FM at 105.9 HD2. The station was the first exclusive HD station offered by an NHL team, and only the second among major league teams of any sport ("All Rams Radio" on KLOU-HD2 being the first however being disbanded in 2009). During the first season, content included "Penguins Live" with Steve Mears, a former New York Islanders play-by-play announcer, and Tom Grimm, a former WXDX host; a two-hour simulcast of XM Radio's "NHL Live"; and a one-hour show with WXDX host Mark Madden. The six hours of content was looped continuously, and the station also broadcasts all games. In addition to being available via an HD receiver, the station is also available at the Penguins website. The Stream ended in September 2015 and replaced on HD Radio by iHeart2000s
Affiliate stations
References
Pittsburgh Penguins
National Hockey League on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20Islamicus | Index Islamicus (, ) is a bibliography database of publications about Islam and the Muslim world, first compiled in 1956 by James Douglas Pearson. It is compiled by C.H. Bleaney & S. Sinclair and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and published by Brill Publishers.
References
External links
About II , Brill
Index Islamicus, CSA
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeke%27s%20Pad | Zeke's Pad is a Canadian-Australian computer-animated television series co-produced by Bardel Entertainment, Flying Bark Productions, Star Farm Productions, and Leaping Lizard Productions in association with Seven Network and YTV. The show was produced with the participation of The Canadian Television Fund, The Province of British Columbia Film Incentive BC, The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, The Shaw Rocket Fund, The Independent Production Fund, Cogeco Program Development Fund, Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, and British Columbia Film. It aired on YTV in Canada on Saturdays at 7 PM. The show is about the adventures of a 14-year-old skateboarder and artist named Zeke who owns a magic electronic pad that brings life to anything he draws on it.
Synopsis
Zeke Palmer is a 14-year-old imaginative artist and skateboarder who lives with a weird and wacky family. His Pad is an electronic gadget that functions as a mobile phone, PDA, GPS, MP3 player, and drawing tablet, all rolled into one. Anything he draws in the all-in-one pad comes to life. Being a creative artist, Zeke is constantly drawing and making his drawings come to life, making decisions without thinking about their consequences. He learns that for every action there is a reaction, and things do not turn out the way he imagines.
Characters
Ezekiel "Zeke" Palmer (voiced by Michael Adamthwaite): Zeke Palmer is a talented and creative 14-year-old artist and skateboarder. He is a risk taker and often acts without thinking of the consequences.
Jayden "Jay" Fritter (voiced by Tim Hamaguchi): Jay is Zeke's best friend. Jay's computer knowledge and technical wizardry often help Zeke solve his problems. Jay is the only person who knows about the special power of Zeke's Pad.
Rachel Palmer (voiced by Chiara Zanni): She is Zeke's twelve-year-old sister and a theater performer.
Issac "Ike" Palmer (voiced by Trevor Devall): Zeke's 17-year-old brother and an athlete.
Ida Palmer (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain): Zeke's mother who is very strict about organization and order in the house.
Alvin Palmer (voiced by Trevor Devall): Zeke's father, a concert musician.
Maxine Marx (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain): She is Zeke's secret crush, even though their personalities are almost complete opposites.
Episodes
Broadcast history
Before its Canadian premiere on YTV, the show had been broadcast more than a dozen countries: Australia (Seven Network), Germany (ZDF), France on (Canal+ Family), Poland (ZigZap), India and Sri Lanka (Sun TV), Spain (Televiso de Catalunya), Latin America (Cartoon Network), and the Middle East (Spacetoon). Zeke's Pad was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Children's Television Animation in 2010. At the 2010 Elan Awards, which honours achievements in video games, animation and visual effects, Zeke's Pad took home Best Animation TV Production and Best Art Direction awards.
References
External links
Zeke's Pad @ Flying Bark Productions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%202010 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' weekly physical sales. In 2010 25 singles reached number-one.
Chart history
References
2010 in Japanese music
Japan
Lists of number-one songs in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon%20File | The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers. The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical cultures such as the MIT AI Lab, the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) and others of the old ARPANET AI/LISP/PDP-10 communities, including Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Carnegie Mellon University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It was published in paperback form in 1983 as The Hacker's Dictionary (edited by Guy Steele), revised in 1991 as The New Hacker's Dictionary (ed. Eric S. Raymond; third edition published 1996).
The concept of the file began with the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) that came out of early TX-0 and PDP-1 hackers in the 1950s, where the term hacker emerged and the ethic, philosophies and some of the nomenclature emerged.
1975 to 1983
The Jargon File (referred to here as "Jargon-1" or "the File") was made by Raphael Finkel at Stanford in 1975. From that time until the plug was finally pulled on the SAIL computer in 1991, the File was named "AIWORD.RF[UP,DOC]" ("[UP,DOC]" was a system directory for "User Program DOCumentation" on the WAITS operating system). Some terms, such as frob, foo and mung are believed to date back to the early 1950s from the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT and documented in the 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language compiled by Peter Samson. The revisions of Jargon-1 were all unnumbered and may be collectively considered "version 1". Note that it was always called "AIWORD" or "the Jargon file", never "the File"; the last term was coined by Eric Raymond.
In 1976, Mark Crispin, having seen an announcement about the File on the SAIL computer, FTPed a copy of the File to the MIT AI Lab. He noticed that it was hardly restricted to "AI words" and so stored the file on his directory, named as "AI:MRC;SAIL JARGON" ("AI" lab computer, directory "MRC", file "SAIL JARGON").
Raphael Finkel dropped out of active participation shortly thereafter and Don Woods became the SAIL contact for the File (which was subsequently kept in duplicate at SAIL and MIT, with periodic resynchronizations).
The File expanded by fits and starts until 1983. Richard Stallman was prominent among the contributors, adding many MIT and ITS-related coinages. The Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS) was named to distinguish it from another early MIT computer operating system, Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS).
In 1981, a hacker named Charles Spurgeon got a large chunk of the File published in Stewart Brand's CoEvolution Quarterly (issue 29, pages 26–35) with illustrations by Phil Wadler and Guy Steele (including a couple of Steele's Crunchly cartoons). This appears to have been the File's first paper publication.
A late version of Jargon-1, expanded with commentary for the mass market, was edited by Guy Steele into a book published in 1983 as The Hacker's Dictionary (Harper & Row CN 1082, ). It included all of Steele's Crunchly cartoons. The other Jargon-1 editors (Raphael Finkel, Don Woods, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership%20for%20European%20Environmental%20Research | Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER) is a network of seven European environmental research centres, created in 2001.
One of the aims of PEER is to foster innovative interdisciplinary research and cross-cutting approaches in support of national and EU policy-makers, industry and society. Member institutes employ about 5,000 persons and have a combined annual budget of 340 Million Euro.
Member institutes have for example training and research co-operation. Through its METIER courses, PEER centres have trained young researchers.
Joint projects
In recent climate change projects, PEER studied climate policy integration and compared adaptation strategies in European countries. The final reports of these projects deal with several aspects of implementing climate policy in Europe. The first report analyses the adaptation strategies of the EU member states, identifying a number of common strengths and weaknesses of the current strategies in the countries studied. The second report assesses the degree of climate policy integration in six different European countries, at national and local levels, as well as within key policy sectors such as energy and transport. It analyses measures and means to enhance climate policy integration and improve policy coherence.
The reports show that communication and awareness raising is going to be important to get public support for adaptation measures, and to help stakeholders to adapt. Since adaptation is very different from mitigation, communication should be designed specifically for that purpose, including exchange of experiences on adaptation practices. Although the inclusion of climate change mitigation and adaptation in general governmental programmes and strategies has substantially increased in recent years, much more is needed in terms of integrating climate issues into specific policy measures. Annual budgets, environmental impact assessments and spatial planning procedures are three examples of existing measures which we believe have significant potential to be climate policy instruments.
PEER Research on EcoSystem Services (PRESS) initiative addresses the existing knowledge gaps in land-use information to perform a spatially-explicit, biophysical, monetary and policy assessment of ecosystem services in Europe. Also, it aims to reflect the social and economic values of ecosystem services. The third PEER report demonstrates methodologies to map at different spatial scales the role of ecosystems as providers of recreation to citizens and the function of river networks in providing clean water. The report investigates how ecosystem services can be mainstreamed into agriculture, fisheries or forestry policies. It includes an analysis of policy options and shows that the perception of what services are provided by ecosystems varies according to the respondents, the region and the scales of decision-making.
A fourth report summarizes the final results of the PRESS projects for policy makers. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualCron | VisualCron is a job scheduler and automation tool for Windows.
Overview
VisualCron is a replacement for the Windows Task Scheduler and a similar cron job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems. The software is split into client and server parts, with the former being invoked by the user on demand and the latter always running as a process in the background. Due to the client-server architecture of the program, the administrator can use a single client to manage several servers over the network.
The client side of VisualCron is a graphical program that allows the administrator to manage jobs and view logs of the software's activities. The log viewer also allows searching for events based on queries, defining event type, time of execution, message content and other parameters.
Jobs
A VisualCron job consists of six elements: triggers, tasks, notifications, time exceptions, conditions, and timeouts. Like the Windows Task Scheduler, VisualCron allows user to bind several options for each job. The program provides the set of triggers and task types that the administrator can choose among; after the job is run, the user-configured notification is issued. The built-in tasks include file operations, SQL queries, system restart, and executing user-defined macros.
Reception
Reviewing the program, Joshua Hoskins of TechRepublic praised the flexibility of the program while noting the difficulties of setting up the jobs: "The setup of the VisualCron monitors was slightly more difficult that expected. This was understandable though due to the massive power difference I was using. It was very quickly apparent that this tool was magnitude[s] of power greater than the solution I was currently using." Codrut Nistor of Softpedia also noted the high quality of the program's documentation, though he said that "Beginners may not find this program useful and easy to learn, while people who don't need to enable advanced scheduled tasks may find the [$47] price tag a bit high."
See also
AutoIt
AutoKey (for Linux)
AutoHotkey
Automator (for Macintosh)
Automise
Keyboard Maestro (for Macintosh)
References
External links
Change log
Job scheduling
Windows administration
Windows services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dru%20Lavigne | Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, technical writer and director at FreeBSD Foundation.
She has been using FreeBSD since 1996, has authored several BSD books, and spent over 10 years developing training materials and providing training on the administration of FreeBSD systems.
She has written for O'Reilly, TechRepublic, DNSStuff, and OpenLogic, contributed to Linux Hacks and Hacking Linux Exposed, and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics. Her third and latest book, The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD, was released in March 2010. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux and BSD systems.
She is founder and current Chair of the BSD Certification Group Inc., a non-profit organization with a mission to create the standard for certifying BSD system administrators. She is also Community Manager for both the PC-BSD and FreeNAS projects, making her responsible for dealing with issues relating to community relations and the administration of various Forums. She is also the principal author / executive editor of most of the documentation for both projects.
Since 22 January 2013 she is a committer in the category "doc" at the FreeBSD Project.
References
External links
Dru Lavigne's Blog
Interview: The BSD Certification Group's Dru Lavigne
Q&A : Networking Expert Dru Lavigne (Circuit Cellar 2014-02-24)
FreeBSD people
Free software people
Living people
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At%20the%20Movies%20%28Rugrats%29 | "At the Movies" is the first segment of the third episode of the animated television series Rugrats. It originally aired on the television network Nickelodeon on August 25, 1991, during the series' first season. In the episode, The Rugrats go to a movie theatre to see The Dummi Bears and the Land Without Smiles, but Tommy is infatuated with seeing a monster movie, Reptar!. He and the babies sneak out of the theater room to catch a showing of Reptar! while leaving a wake of accidental mayhem and destruction as they do.
"At the Movies" was written by Craig Bartlett and series co-creator Paul Germain and directed by Dan Thompson. The episode introduced the characters of the Dummi Bears and Reptar. The Dummi Bears were inspired by non-violent children's characters such as the Care Bears and Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, whereas Reptar was heavily inspired by the Japanese monster Godzilla and satirized the ever growing domination of Japanese culture into children's society. The character appeared in countless media tie-ins for the series, including a cereal brand, t-shirts, and video games, and would be reused in several other episodes of the series throughout its run.
Author Jan Susina gave a generally positive review of "At the Movies" in the book, The Japanification of Children's Popular Culture: From Godzilla to Miyazaki. In 1997, it became available on the VHS Rugrats: Return of Reptar, which was nominated for Video Software Dealers Association's Home Entertainment Award in the "Outstanding Marketing Campaign for a Major Direct-to-Video Release" category in 2000.
Plot
Tommy wants to see Reptar, but his parents take him to see The Dummi Bears and the Land Without Smiles at Westside Octoplex. They decide it would be perfect as Tommy's first movie, and also invite their friends so they can all see the movie together.
At the movie theater, Tommy tells his friends about Reptar. This causes them to want to see the movie about Reptar instead. As the film starts, they walk out of the Dummi Bears movie (which Grandpa Lou derisively refers to as The Land Without Brains) and try to find Reptar.
While searching they walk into a theater featuring a romantic film. As they watch a couple kissing on the big screen, their silhouettes block some of the screen, as a man shouts at them "Hey! Down in front!" An usher comes in as the Rugrats hide around the seats to avoid being caught, inadvertently interrupting a couple having a date in the process. They leave with Lil stating that she doesn't like kissing movies, because "Nothing ever happens."
They then wander to the concessions stand. There the babies find popcorn, orange and grape sodas, lids, napkins, cups, candy bars, ketchup, mustard and straws (the two teenage employees in charge, Larry and Steve, don't notice the babies because they're arguing over comic books). Tommy checks the popcorn booth for Reptar, while Phil and Lil take interest in the soda dispensers, pushing the buttons and spilling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Sharing | Air Sharing was a file sharing and document viewing application for the operating system iOS. The application let users mount the device hard drive over wireless internet to a computer and drag and drop files. Users could also view files and manage files on the iPhone in many popular formats. On loading the application on the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, a view showed files saved in the software. An icon on the bottom showed an IP Address and Apple Bonjour address. On entering one of these into the address bar of a Web browser a simple HTML based interface was shown, where files could be downloaded and uploaded. Air Sharing could also be mapped as a network drive using WebDAV.
In 2008, Air Sharing received the "Editor's Choice Award" from PCMag.com and the "Most Useful App" award from Macworld.com.
References
External links
2009 software
IOS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight%20Kernel%20Operating%20System | A lightweight kernel (LWK) operating system is one used in a large computer with many processor cores, termed a parallel computer.
A massively parallel high-performance computing (HPC) system is particularly sensitive to operating system overhead. Traditional multi-purpose operating systems are designed to support a wide range of usage models and requirements. To support the range of needs, a large number of system processes are provided and are often inter-dependent on each other. The computing overhead of these processes leads to an unpredictable amount of processor time available to a parallel application. A very common parallel programming model is referred to as the bulk synchronous parallel model which often employs Message Passing Interface (MPI) for communication. The synchronization events are made at specific points in the application code. If one processor takes longer to reach that point than all the other processors, everyone must wait. The overall finish time is increased. Unpredictable operating system overhead is one significant reason a processor might take longer to reach the synchronization point than the others.
Examples
Custom lightweight kernel operating systems, used on some of the fastest computers in the world, help alleviate this problem. The IBM Blue Gene line of supercomputers runs various versions of CNK operating system.
The Cray XT4 and Cray XT5 supercomputers run Compute Node Linux while the earlier XT3 ran the lightweight kernel Catamount which was based on SUNMOS.
Sandia National Laboratories has an almost two-decade commitment to lightweight kernels on its high-end HPC systems.
Sandia and University of New Mexico researchers began work on SUNMOS for the Intel Paragon in the early 1990s. This operating system evolved into the Puma, Cougar - which achieved the first teraflop on ASCI Red - and Catamount on Red Storm. Sandia continues its work in LWKs with a new R&D effort, called kitten.
Characteristics
Although it is surprisingly difficult to exactly define what a lightweight kernel is, there are some common design goals:
Targeted at massively parallel environments composed of thousands of processors with distributed memory and a tightly coupled network.
Provide necessary support for scalable, performance-oriented scientific applications.
Offer a suitable development environment for parallel applications and libraries.
Emphasize efficiency over functionality.
Maximize the amount of resources (e.g., CPU, memory, and network bandwidth) allocated to the application.
Seek to minimize time to completion for the application.
Implementation
LWK implementations vary, but all strive to provide applications with predictable and maximum access to the central processing unit (CPU) and other system resources. To achieve this, simplified algorithms for scheduling and memory management are usually included. System services (e.g., daemons), are limited to the absolute minimum. Available services, such as job launch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNDIS | The Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) is a Microsoft proprietary protocol used mostly on top of USB. It provides a virtual Ethernet link to most versions of the Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Multiple revisions of a partial RNDIS specification are available from Microsoft, but Windows implementations have been observed to issue requests not included in that specification, and to have undocumented constraints.
The protocol is tightly coupled to Microsoft's programming interfaces and models, most notably the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), which are alien to operating systems other than Windows. This complicates implementing RNDIS on non-Microsoft operating systems, but Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD implement RNDIS natively.
The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) defines at least three non-proprietary USB communications device class (USB CDC) protocols with comparable "virtual Ethernet" functionality; one of them (CDC-ECM) predates RNDIS and is widely used for interoperability with non-Microsoft operating systems, but does not work with Windows.
Most versions of Android include RNDIS USB functionality. For example, Samsung smartphones have the capability and use RNDIS over USB to operate as a virtual Ethernet card that will connect the host PC to the mobile or Wi-Fi network in use by the phone, effectively working as a mobile broadband modem or a wireless card, for mobile hotspot tethering.
Controversy
In 2022 it was suggested that support for RNDIS should be removed from Linux, claiming that is inherently and uncorrectably insecure in the presence of untrusted USB devices.
See also
Ethernet over USB
Qualcomm MSM Interface - A Qualcomm proprietary alternative
References
External links
Overview of Remote NDIS (RNDIS)
Microsoft application programming interfaces
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars%20on%20Ice%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29 | Stars on Ice was a weekly television ice show, broadcast from 1976 to 1981 on the CTV Television Network in Canada. The series was hosted by Alex Trebek (1976–1980) and later, Doug Crosley (1980–1981), and featured skaters such as Toller Cranston. The program was produced on an ice rink set up at Studio 6 of CFTO-TV in Toronto.
The series was produced and directed by Michael Steele, had a regular cast of 14 world-class ice professionals, most of whom lived and taught skating locally in and around Toronto. The variety show format on ice consisted of a glitzy "show opener" by the regular cast of skaters and a bigger budget production number (usually tributes to Hollywood musicals) with elaborate set pieces in the middle of the half-hour.
Rounding out the half-hour were famous and novelty-act figure skaters, vaudeville-type acts, and "affordable" (on the series' modest budget) non-skating celebrities at the B-list phase of their careers, such as Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz formerly of The Monkees, Eddie Mekka of Laverne & Shirley, and 1960s recording artist Donovan.
Due to being only minimally dependent on language, and its unusual ice/variety show format, the series went on to be widely syndicated throughout the world.
This television series is unrelated to the later traveling ice show tour, Stars on Ice.
References
External links
CTV Television Network original programming
1970s Canadian variety television series
1980s Canadian variety television series
1976 Canadian television series debuts
1981 Canadian television series endings
Ice shows
Figure skating on television
Alex Trebek |
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