source stringlengths 32 199 | text stringlengths 26 3k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diz%20Iz%20It%21 | Diz Iz It! is a 2010 Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally named as Todo Bigay, it premiered on February 8, 2010 replacing Kapuso Movie Festival. The show concluded on July 24, 2010 with a total of 127 episodes. It was replaced by Kapuso Movie Festival in its timeslot.
Hosts
Bayani Agbayani
Grace Lee
Sam Y.G. a.k.a. Shivaker
Ehra Madrigal
Format
Hosted by Bayani Agbayani, Ehra Madrigal, Grace Lee and Sam Y.G. (a.k.a. Shivaker), Diz Iz It! comprises five contestants who compete for 50,000 PHP daily cash prize by displaying their entertaining production numbers. The contestants are subjected into a dance competition. Aside from the major prize in the Best in Talent segment, an additional 30,000 PHP in the game show proper awaits the participating contestant.
Segments
Diz Iz Ur Moment: Studio audience get a chance to showcase their talent in 30 seconds.
Mic Mo 'To!: Studio audience members get a chance to greet their loved ones.
Diz Iz Aktingan: Contestants act scenes with a celebrity judge and/or Shivaker.
Diz Iz Kantahan: Challenge the Champion: Contestants sing to win the vied prize.
Diz Iz Zayawan Remix: Dancing contestants dance to remixed songs with the songs' original elements as well as the group's signature moves.
Lam Ko, Lam Mo: A studio audience member is chosen and has to pick someone they have never met. If they, the new "friend" as the Diz Iz It! hosts phrase it, get it right they both win over PhP 1,000!
Criteria of judging was both 50% for performance level and entertainment value.
Judges
Michelle Obomshell has been a mainstay judge ever since he first appeared on this show. He was requested by popular demand because of his comedic styles.
Sita & Tera were the original judges that appeared for a month. Because they always criticize and look on the bad side, due to audience reaction and avoidance of prevention by MTRCB, these judges were removed as of the later part of March 2010.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Diz Iz It! earned a 13.6% rating.
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine variety television shows
Television series by TAPE Inc. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20power%20stations%20in%20Vietnam | The following page lists some of the power stations in Vietnam.
Coal
Source : Initial query Coal Tracker, updated with data from MOIT 2019 Report 58/BC-CBT, updated using press releases, updated from PDP 7A
Gas turbines
Source : updated with data from Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) 2019 Report 58/BC-CBT, updated with Decision 125/QD-DTDL, updated using press releases.
Updated with data from Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) 2019 Report 58/BC-CBT, updated with Decision 125/QD-DTDL, updated using press releases.
Solar power plants
Source: Initial query from DEVI Renewable Energies, updated using press releases
Note: Construction start + COD Date form: day/month/year
Wind power plants
Source: Initial query from DEVI Renewable Energies, 795/TTG-CN
Note: Construction start + COD Date form: day/month/year
Biomass
This section mentions both plants using Biomass products (bagasse,...) and Municipal solid waste (MSW).
Source : updated using press releases.
Hydroelectricity
This section mentions only medium and large hydro power plants (capacity >= 30 MW).
Source : updated with data from Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) 2019 Report 58/BC-CBT, updated using press releases.
Notes
For solar, wind power plants
For gas, coal-fired power plants
Announced: Projects that are in the planning decision of the government or companies but have not yet obtained a permit or permission for land use rights, coal supply rights...
Pre-permit development: Projects have started to implement one of the following items: environmental licenses, land and water use rights, financial security, transmission contract guarantees, etc.
Permitted: Projects that have been licensed for environmental licenses but have not yet begun to break ground.
Construction: Projects are being built after the groundbreaking ceremony.
Shelved: Projects do not have specific information on the project's progress but do not have enough information to declare the project canceled.
Cancelled: Projects are not progressing after a very long time with no information about the project; Projects converted to natural gas are considered to have not used coal anymore; projects have appeared in government documents but then disappeared.
Operating: Projects with an official date of Commercial Operation Date (COD).
See also
List of power stations in Asia
List of largest power stations in the world
Energy in Vietnam
Renewable energy in Vietnam
References
External links
Vietnam
Power stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Wadelton | David Wadelton (born 1955) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Melbourne. He is best known for his cyber-pop paintings, almost photorealist in style.
Career
Since 1984 he has had nearly 20 solo exhibitions in galleries in Melbourne and Sydney, including Pinacotheca, Melbourne and Annandale Galleries Sydney. The most recent exhibitions include Pop Life at Rex Irwin Gallery, 1998; Brand Power, Robert Lindsay Gallery Melbourne 1998; Techno Pop at Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, 2000; Brand New Release, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 2003 and a solo show at Tolarno Galleries during the 2004 Melbourne Art Fair. He has also been the subject of a major survey exhibition, "Pictorial Knowledge", at Geelong Art Gallery in 1998.
In addition to his painting career Wadelton has played in bands Ad Hoc and Signals with Dave Brown, Philip Thomson, Chris Knowles and James Clayden.
Exhibitions
1982 Biennale of Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria- 2004 Australian Culture Now
Australian National Gallery
Art Gallery of New South Wales
MOCA Sydney
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
Linden Art Gallery
Museum of Modern Art at Heide
Monash University Gallery
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
200 Gertrude Street Gallery
City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Noosa Regional Gallery
Collections
National Gallery of Victoria
Australian National Gallery
Monash University Art Gallery
La Trobe University Art Collection
Artbank
University of Queensland Art Museum
McClelland Art Gallery
City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
State Library of Victoria
Australian Opera
References
Bibliography
"Australian Painting Now", published by Craftsman House Press in Australia, and by Thames and Hudson in the U.K, 2000, with an essay by Charles Green; and an interview with the artist,
"From Red Rattlers to Lara Croft" conducted by Robert Rooney in Art & Australia, vol 38, no.2, Spring 2000.
"Awesome"! By Laura Murray Cree, Craftsman House Press, 2002.
Australian painters
Artists from Melbourne
1955 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Hoang | Crystal Hoang (born March 8, 1988) is an American actress and producer. She has appeared in several films including The Untitled Kris Black Project and The Social Network. She plays Gina in ABC's The Deep End. She also appears on Comedy Central's Tosh.0.
Childhood
Hoang was born in Dallas, Texas. She has lived in Paris, France and other areas of Europe. During Hoang's childhood, she won several state sponsored academic competitions. She was a published author by age twelve, with two poems in Anthologies for Young Americas. Later she went on to publish several articles for newspapers.
In high school, Hoang was president of The National Honor Society, Lieutenant Governor of Key Club, and a member of SADD. She volunteered over 1000 hours of her time by the time she graduated high school. She was a Varsity Cheerleader and was an avid Gymnast. She also competed in Academic Decathlon.
Career
Hoang began acting in college. She starred in the musical Sizzle her freshman year. She has also performed the Nation Anthem live at several events.
She worked on a Television Show in Spain called IB3. She also works as a model on the Island of Ibiza and appears on several Billboards. In 2009, she appeared alongside Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network, Directed by David Fincher.
Hoang speaks four languages including English, Vietnamese, French, and Spanish and is currently learning Mandarin.
References
External links
Model Mayhem Website
1988 births
Actresses from Dallas
Living people
21st-century American actresses
American expatriates in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Devour | The Motorola Devour is an Internet and multimedia enabled smartphone designed by Motorola, which runs Google's Android operating system. In the United States, the handset is distributed exclusively by Verizon Wireless. The Devour has a Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) rating of M4/T4. Although it runs Android, the Devour was not branded or marketed as part of Verizon's "DROID" series of Android smartphones.
MOTOBLUR
The Devour marks the second smartphone from Motorola to feature MOTOBLUR. MOTOBLUR provides contact sync from email services like gmail and social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook etc. MOTOBLUR is a re-branded interface developed by Motorola for the Android OS. It replaces both the Google Experience skin and application stack.
MOTOBLUR's primary function is to enable the user to receive various updates from a variety of sources such as Twitter, Facebook, and Email clients directly on their phone's main screen.
See also
List of Android devices
Droid (disambiguation)
Galaxy Nexus
References
External links
Motorola Devour (official site)
Motorola Devour specs (official site)
Devour from Verizon Wireless
Motorola Devour Forum
Motorola smartphones
Mobile phones with an integrated hardware keyboard
Android (operating system) devices
Verizon Wireless
Mobile phones introduced in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RLE | RLE may refer to:
Science and technology
Run-length encoding, a form of lossless data compression
Radical life extension, a study to extend human lifespan
Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT
Right-to-left embedding, in bi-directional text
Medicine
Refractive lens exchange, a surgical procedure to correct refractive errors
Other uses
Real-life experience (transgender), a period of time in which transgender individuals live full-time in their preferred gender role |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20concurrent%20thinking%20aloud | Partial concurrent thinking aloud (or partial concurrent think-aloud, or PCTA) is a method used to gather data in usability testing with screen reader users. It is a particular kind of think aloud protocol (or TAP) created by Stefano Federici and Simone Borsci at the Interuniversity Center for Research on Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems of University of Rome "La Sapienza". The partial concurrent thinking aloud is built up in order to create a specific usability assessment technique for blind users, eligible to maintain the advantages of concurrent and retrospective thinking aloud while overcoming their limits. Using PCTA blind users' verbalizations of problems could be more pertinent and comparable to those given by sighted people who use a concurrent protocol. In the usability evaluation with blind people, the retrospective thinking aloud is often adopted as a functional solution to overcome the structural interference due to thinking aloud and hearing the screen reader imposed by the classic thinking aloud technique; such a solution has yet a relapse in the evaluation method, because the concurrent and the retrospective protocols measure usability from different points of view, one mediated by navigation experience (retrospective) one more direct and pertinent (concurrent). The use of PCTA could be widened to both summative and formative usability evaluations with mixed panels of users, thus extending the number of problems' verbalizations according to disabled users' divergent navigation processes and problem solving strategies.
Cognitive assumptions
In general, in the usability evaluation both retrospective and concurrent TAP could be used according to the aims and goals of the study. Nevertheless, when a usability evaluation is carried out with blind people several studies propose to use the retrospective TAP: indeed, using a screen reader and talking about the way of interacting with the computer implies a structural interference between action and verbalization. Undoubtedly, cognitive studies provided a lot of evidence supporting the idea that individuals can listen, verbalize, or manipulate, and rescue information in multiple task condition. As Colin Cherry showed, subjects, when listening to two different messages from a single loudspeaker, can separate sounds from background noise, recognize the gender of the speaker, the direction, and the pitch (cocktail party effect). At the same time, subjects that must verbalize the content of a message (attended message) listening to two different message simultaneously (attended and unattended message) have a reduced ability to report the content of the attended massage, while they are unable to report the content of the unattended message. Moreover, K. Anders Ericsson and Walter Kintsch showed that, in a multiple task condition, subjects' ability of rescuing information is not compromised by an interruption of the action flow (as it happens in the concurrent thinking alo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%20City%20Metro%20Line%209 | Mexico City Metro Line 9 is one of the 12 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico.
General information
Line 9 was the 8th metro line to be built in the network, built between 1985 and 1988. (Line 8 started operations until 1994). It is identified by the color dark brown, and runs from East to West in an almost straight fashion. It was built in order to support Line 1, providing a redistribution alternative for east–west commuters. It starts in the multi-line transfer station Pantitlán and ends at the western neighborhood of Tacubaya, both stations also served by Line 1. As a comparison, the section between Pantitlán and Tacubaya is served by 19 stations in Line 1, whereas Line 9 has only 12, which would translate in a faster alternative.
Line 9 is built in its easternmost section above the Rio Churubusco and Rio de la Piedad Avenues. Then it reaches an underground route near the Magdalena Mixiuhca Complex and it continues under the Eje 3 Sur until reaching the Tacubaya zone, where the last station is built under Jalisco avenue. As part of the first expansion plans in the 1980s the line is expected to turn west after Jalisco Avenue to reach Observatorio Station.
History
Due to the subsidence of the city, there have been problems with the elevated portion of the line (which runs from Pantitlán to Velódromo stations). Following the collapse of a Mexico City Metro overpass in 2021, these concerns increased when commuters reported plainly visible deformations in the bridge connecting the Pantitlán and Puebla stations. As of February 2023, authorities had reinforced Line 9's overpass with metallic supports. The city government informed that a small section between Pantitlán and Puebla stations will be rebuilt between November 2023 and April 2024 as a result of the problem's persistence.
Chronology
26 August 1987: from Pantitlán to Centro Médico.
29 August 1988: from Centro Médico to Tacubaya.
Rolling stock
Line 8 has had different types of rolling stock throughout the years.
Alstom MP-68: 1987–1996; 1996–2008
Concarril NM-73: 1987–2008
Concarril NM-79: 2008–present
Alstom MP-82: 1987–1994
Bombardier NC-82: 2008–present
Concarril NM-83: 2013–present
CAF NE-92 2018–present
As of 2020, out of the 390 trains in the Mexico City Metro network, 29 are in service in Line 9.
Station list
The stations from west to east:
{| class="wikitable" rules="all"
|-
!rowspan="2" | No.
!rowspan="2" | Station
!rowspan="2" | Date opened
!rowspan="2" | Level
!colspan="2" | Distance (km)
!rowspan="2" | Connection
!Pictogram
!rowspan="2" | Location
|-
!style="font-size: 65%;"|Betweenstations
!style="font-size: 65%;"|Total
!Description
|-
|style="background: #; color: white;"|01
|Pantitlán
| rowspan="9" |August 26, 1987
| rowspan="4" |Elevated, overground access
|style="text-align:right;"|-
|style="text-align:right;"|0.0
|
Line 1 (out of service)
Line 5
Line A
Pantitlán
Line 4 (Alameda Oriente branch): Pantitlán station
Line III: Pantitlán station (tempo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYNAMO%20%28programming%20language%29 | DYNAMO (DYNAmic MOdels) is a simulation language and accompanying graphical notation developed within the system dynamics analytical framework. It was originally for industrial dynamics but was soon extended to other applications, including population and resource studies
and urban planning.
DYNAMO was initially developed under the direction of Jay Wright Forrester in the late 1950s, by Dr. Phyllis Fox,
Alexander L. Pugh III, Grace Duren,
and others
at the M.I.T. Computation Center.
DYNAMO was used for the system dynamics simulations of global resource depletion reported in the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth, but has since fallen into disuse.
Beginnings
In 1958, Forrester unwittingly instigated DYNAMO's development when he asked an MIT staff programmer to compute needed solutions to some equations, for a Harvard Business Review paper he was writing about industrial dynamics.
The programmer, Richard Bennett, chose to implement a system (SIMPLE - "Simulation of Industrial Management Problems with Lots of Equations") that took coded equations as symbolic input and computed solutions. SIMPLE became the proof-of-concept for DYNAMO: rather than have a specialist programmer "hard-code" a special-purpose solver in a general purpose programming language, users could specify a system's equations in a special simulation language and get simulation output from one program execution.
Design goals
DYNAMO was designed to emphasize the following:
ease-of-use for the industrial dynamics modeling community (who were not assumed to be expert programmers);
immediate execution of the compiled model, without producing an intermediate object file; and
providing graphical output, with line printer and pen plotter graphics.
Among the ways in which DYNAMO was above the standard of the time, it featured units checking of numerical types and relatively clear error messages.
Implementation
The earliest versions were written in assembly language for the IBM 704, then for the IBM 709 and IBM 7090. DYNAMO II was written in AED-0, an extended version of Algol 60.
Dynamo II/F, in 1971, generated portable FORTRAN code
and both Dynamo II/F and Dynamo III improved the system's portability by being written in FORTRAN.
Originally designed for batch processing on mainframe computers, it was made available on minicomputers in the late 1970s,
and became available as "micro-Dynamo" on personal computers in the early 1980s.
The language went through several revisions from DYNAMO II up to DYNAMO IV in 1983,
Impact and issues
Apart from its (indirectly felt) public impact in environmental issues raised by the controversy over Limits to Growth, DYNAMO was influential in the history of discrete-event simulation even though it was essentially a package for continuous simulation specified through difference equations. It has been said by some to have opened opportunities for computer modelling even for users of relatively low mathematical sophistication. On the other hand, i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDRIVE%20%28specification%29 | OpenDRIVE is an open format specification to describe a road network's logic. Its objective is to standardize the logical road description between different driving simulators.
The initial release of OpenDRIVE was version 0.7 in 2005, as of August 2021 the current release is version 1.7.0.
Overview
OpenDRIVE files describe road networks with respect to the data belonging to the road environment. They do not describe the entities acting on or interacting with the road. The OpenDRIVE data is made available to e.g. Vehicle Dynamics and Traffic Simulation via a layer of routines for the evaluation of the information contained in the OpenDRIVE file.
OpenDRIVE is managed by VIRES Simulationstechnologie GmbH and the OpenDRIVE community. The OpenDRIVE standard is reviewed and released by a team of driving simulation experts. With the publication in 2006 members of BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH, Daimler AG, DLR e.V., Fraunhofer-Institut IVI, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG, Rheinmetal Defence Electronics GmbH and VIRES Simulationstechnologie GmbH joined the initiative.
OpenCRG, the microscopic brother, is available taking care of the provision and evaluation of road surface descriptions. An implementation of OpenCRG into the OpenDRIVE file format specification has already been established in January 2008.
History
Founders
OpenDRIVE was started in 2005 by Daimler Driving Simulator, Stuttgart and VIRES Simulationstechnologie GmbH. With the publication of the initiative in 2006, other companies joined OpenDRIVE. In September 2018 OpenDrive was transferred to ASAM
and is now continued under the name of ASAM OpenDRIVE.
Core Team
The OpenDRIVE standard is reviewed and released by a core team of driving simulation experts. The team members as of January 2010 are (alphabetical order by company):
Martin Strobl - BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH
Hans Grezlikowski - Daimler AG, Germany
Andreas Richter - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Germany
Dr. Günther Nirschl - Fraunhofer-Institut IVI, Germany
Ekkehard Klärner - Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Dr. Bernhard Bock - Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH, Germany
Ingmar Stel - TNO, the Netherlands
Marius Dupuis - VIRES Simulationstechnologie GmbH, Germany
Mats Lidström - VTI, Sweden
Features
The OpenDRIVE file format provides the following features:
XML format, hierarchical structure
analytical definition of road geometry (plane elements, elevation, crossfall, lane width etc.)
various types of lanes
junctions incl. priorities
logical inter-connection of lanes
signs and signals incl. dependencies
signal controllers (e.g. for junctions)
road surface properties
road and road-side objects
user-definable data beads
etc.
Tools
Evaluation of the logics data can be simplified by using a library, which serves as the standard interface between the OpenDRIVE data contained in the XML files and the evaluation of the road data within the application. Tools for OpenDRIVE are ava |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20V%20%28dwarf%20galaxy%29 | Leo V is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Leo constellation and discovered in 2007 in the data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy is located at a distance of about 180 kpc from the Sun and moves away from the Sun with the velocity of about 173 km/s. It is classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) meaning that it has an approximately spherical shape with the half-light radius of about 130 pc.
Leo V is one of the smallest and faintest satellites of the Milky Way—its integrated luminosity is about 10,000 times that of the Sun (absolute visible magnitude of about ), which is much lower than the luminosity of a typical globular cluster. However, its mass is about 330 thousand solar masses, which means that Leo's V mass to light ratio is around 75. A relatively high mass to light ratio implies that Leo V is dominated by dark matter. The stellar population of Leo V consists mainly of old stars formed more than 12 billion years ago. The metallicity of these stars is also very low at , which means that they contain 100 times less heavy elements than the Sun.
The galaxy is located only 3 degrees away from another Milky Way satellite, Leo IV. The latter is also closer to the Sun by 20 kpc. These two galaxies may be physically associated with each other. There is evidence that they are connected by a star bridge.
Notes
References
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies
4713563
Leo (constellation)
Local Group
Milky Way Subgroup
? |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20of%20Democratic%20Young%20Left | The European Network of Democratic Young Left (ENDYL) was an independent network of left-wing democratic socialist political youth organisations in Europe.
ENDYL was open to European youth organisations of the democratic left that neither follow a social democratic nor an uncritically orthodox communist course. Its agenda was based on democracy, individual freedom, solidarity, human rights, internationalism and ecological responsibility.
Founded in Copenhagen, 6 to 8 May 1994, ENDYL consisted of 17 socialist, green left and radical democratic youth organisations in 2012. It worked together with the Party of the European Left as well as with social movements and with organisations from the countries of the southern hemisphere.
In March 2016 ENDYL announced its dissolution. Some of its member are participating in the formation of the Young European Left as its successor.
Members
— Socialistisk UngdomsFront
— Estonian Left Party Youth
— Vasemmistonuoret
— Jeunes Communistes
— Linksjugend ['solid]
— JungdemokratInnen/Junge Linke
— SYRIZA Youth
— Sinn Féin Republican Youth
— Young Left Green
— Young Communists
— Young Socialists of Macedonia
— Union of the Communist Youth of Moldova (Komsomol)
— Sosialistisk Ungdom
— Młodzi Razem
— Bloco de Esquerda
— Izquierda Unida, Alternativa Jove
— Özgürlük ve Dayanışma Partisi
Board of ENDYL 2010-2011
Toivo Haimi — Vasemmistonuoret
Alexandr Roshko — Union of the Communist Youth of Moldova
Naum Stojcevski - Young Socialists of Macedonia
Nefeli Samiakou - Νεολαία Συνασπισμού / Neolaia Synaspismou
Daniel Kaszubowski — Młodzi Socjaliści
Board of ENDYL 2012
Alexandr Roshko — Union of the Communist Youth of Moldova
Naum Stojcevski - Young Socialists of Macedonia
Dimitris Karamanis - Νεολαία Συνασπισμού / Neolaia Synaspismou
Simone Oggionni — Young Communists
References
External links
Youth wings of pan-European political parties
Youth organizations established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf%20%28Unix%29 | In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, printf ("print formatted") is a shell builtin (and utility program) that formats and prints data.
The command accepts a printf format string, which specifies methods for formatting items, and a list of items to be formatted. Named historically after the intention of printing to a printer, it now actually outputs to stdout. Characters in the format string are copied to the output or, if a % is encountered, are used to format an item. In addition to the standard formats, %b causes printf to expand backslash escape sequences (for example \n for newline), and %q outputs an item that can be used as shell input. The format string is reused if there are more items than format specs. Unused format specs provide a zero value or null string.
History
is part of the X/Open Portability Guide since issue 4 of 1992. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX.1 and the Single Unix Specification. It first appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
The version of printf bundled in GNU coreutils was written by David MacKenzie. It has an extension for escaping strings in POSIX-shell format.
Examples
$ for NUMBER in 4 6 8 9 10
> do printf " >> %03d %d<< \n" $NUMBER $RANDOM
> done
>> 004 26305<<
>> 006 6687<<
>> 008 20170<<
>> 009 28322<<
>> 010 4400<<
This will print a directory listing, emulating 'ls':
printf "%s\n" *
See also
printf, the C function
References
External links
Standard Unix programs
IBM i Qshell commands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Network%20on%20Climate%20Change%20Assessment | The Indian Network on Climate Change Assessment (INCCA) is a proposed network of scientists in India to be set up to publish peer-reviewed findings on climate change in India.
It was announced on 7 October 2009 , saying:
It was re-announced on 25 January 2012 by an official of the climate change division in the Environment Ministry after a strategy meeting chaired by Joint Secretary (Climate) J.M. Mausker, which also dealt with the framing of India's National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). On 4 February 2010 India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced that it would bring together 250 scientists from 125 Indian research institutions and collaborate with international organisations.its first assessment of greenhouse gas emission was released on May 11, 2010 and Its second climate assessment to be published in November 2010 would include reports on the Himalayas, the coastline of India, the Western Ghat highlands and the north-eastern region of India. He said it would operate as a “sort of Indian IPCC", but will not rival the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Ramesh also announced the initiation of an Indian National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology. He said that although he respected the IPCC, it was unequal to the task and its weakness was that it did not conduct its own research. Ramesh also indicated its biases made it insensitive to regional realities, and instead relied on compiling assessments of other reports, which, led to "goof-ups" on the Amazon forests, Himalayan glaciers, and ice caps.
References
Environment of India
Climate change organizations
2010 establishments in India
Organizations established in 2010
Proposed organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20%28disambiguation%29 | Interactive is defined as:
Interactivity, acting with each other, two interactive systems
Interactive computing, responding to the user
Companies
IAC/InterActiveCorp, an Internet company
Interactive Systems Corporation (ISC), a defunct software company
Music
"Interactive", song by Prince Crystal Ball (box set)
Interactive (band), an electronic music group
See also
Interact (disambiguation)
Interaction (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya%20ERS%205600%20Series | Ethernet Routing Switch 5600 Series or (ERS 5600) in computer networking terms are stackable routers and switches designed and manufactured by Avaya. The ERS 5600 Switches can be stacked up to 8 units high to create a 1.152 Tbit/s backplane through the Flexible Advanced Stacking Technology (FAST) stacking technology configuration. The 5600 Series consists of five stackable models that can be mixed and matched together with other ERS 5600 models or other ERS 5500 models to meet configuration requirements. Additionally the ports on the switches incorporates the Avaya Energy Saver (AES) which can manage and dim down (reduce the wattage requirements of each port and/or the PoE wattage) the power requirements to save energy across all switches in the enterprise.
The switches have an integrated time-domain reflectometer (TDR) built into every copper port, providing the ability to accomplish diagnostic monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities of the connected cables. This allows the equipment manager the ability to test and troubleshoot the cables for defects (crimped, cut, shorted or damaged cables) without going out to the switch room to test the cables from the switch to the end equipment. The tests can be accomplished on a single port or on multiple ports at the same time. The test can be accomplished through the command line or through one of several Graphical user interfaces called Device Manager (DM), Java Device Manager (JDM) or Enterprise Device Manager (EDM).
History
In 2008 this Switch became available with the software release 6.0, which could be loaded on the newer 5600 models or the original 5500 models. The developmental history of this system extends back to the BayStack 5000 family shortly after the technology was bought from Bay Networks. Software version 6.0 added PIM-SM and Dual Agents. In June 2009 Software version 6.1 was released removing the licensing requirements for the IP Flow Information Export {IPFIX} feature, added force stack mode, and several security features. In July 2010 software version 6.2 became available adding Avaya Energy Saver, Bi-directional monitor port, and environmental commands.
In March 2011 the Australian Department of Defense began deploying these Switches as routing and switching platforms within the Wiring Closet, Data Center aggregation and network core. In December 2011 this system completed evaluation and certification by the U.S. Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) testing center for use in the United States Department of Defense as an Assured Services Local Area Network (ASLAN).
In July 2017 Extreme Networks acquired all of Avaya's core networking business, including the ERS 5600 series of switches.
System Scaling
Systems scaling is accomplished by stacking up to eight of the ERS 5632FD units to provide up to 64 ports of 10-gigabit ethernet through XFP transceivers and 192 ports of 1000BASE-X Small form-factor pluggable transceivers; or stacking four ERS 5698TFD units to provide u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%208280 | The Commodore 8280 is a dual 8" floppy disk drive for Commodore International computers. It uses a wide rectangular steel case form similar to that of the Commodore 4040, and uses the parallel IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBM computers.
The 8280 replaced the earlier 806x series 8" drives and switched to half-height drives. Like the 8061/62 units, the 8280 supports IBM 3740 disks. However, instead of 500k group code recording (GCR) format used by other Commodore drives, it uses MFM as its native disk recording format, the only 8-bit Commodore drive to do so apart from the 1581. Contrary to the 8061/62, the drive ROM has the capability for formatting disks and verifying them, eliminating the need for external utility disk for these operations. The manual contains also a simple BASIC listing of a program to read sectors from IBM 3470 disks.
References
CBM floppy disk drives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant%20Recall | Instant Recall is an American hidden camera game show hosted by Wink Martindale. It premiered on Game Show Network (GSN) on March 4, 2010, with a new episode airing each Thursday for eight weeks, concluding on April 23. The show features contestants who are placed in unusual situations and are filmed with a hidden camera. The contestants are then tested on what they just experienced to see how good their memories are. The more correct answers they provide, the more cash and prizes they win. While one writer was optimistic about the show's performance, another was skeptical, and poor television ratings led to only one season being produced. It was the last game show that Martindale hosted.
Gameplay
Hosted by Wink Martindale with Angela Daun, both of whom appear in every segment of the show, Instant Recall features several additional main cast members who serve as actors in the first segment of the game. Each episode is filmed in two segments, with the first being shot with hidden cameras. At this point, the contestant does not know he or she is being filmed or even on the show itself. The actors enter the scene to make the contestant a witness in an "outrageous situation."
At the end of the scenario, one of the actors asks the contestant, "Do you like game shows?", after which Martindale enters to inform the contestant that he or she is on a hidden camera game show. The second segment of the game is then played, in which the contestant must answer questions relating to what he or she just witnessed, testing his or her memory. The contestant begins with $500 and can earn up to an additional $3,000 depending on how many questions are answered correctly.
Production
Instant Recall was first announced on February 5, 2010. Adam Tyler, Ron Deutsch, Gary Dawson, and David Franzke (who had previously been involved with the hidden camera show Punk'd) served as executive producers. The series premiered on March 4, 2010, at 8:30 PM ET. The series aired a new episode in that time slot every week, concluding with its eighth and final episode on April 23, 2010.
Reception
Before the series premiered, About.com game show writer Carrie Grosvenor was optimistic about the show's potential success, arguing that it would likely be an improvement over GSN's previous hidden camera show, Hidden Agenda. She also applauded GSN for hiring Martindale to host, saying, "It'll be great to see him back on television." Instant Recalls ratings were below average for GSN, with CNN's James Dinan describing them as "ratings woes". The series' debut episode's ratings were lower than those of its lead-in, Carnie Wilson: Unstapled, though they picked up slightly in April.
References
Bibliography
External links
at the Wayback Machine
2010 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
2010s American reality television series
2010s American comedy game shows
American hidden camera television series
Game Show Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sacramento%20Regional%20Transit%20light%20rail%20stations | The Sacramento Regional Transit District, or Sacramento RT, operates a three-line urban light rail mass transit network, serving portions of greater Sacramento, California, United States. The network consists of three lines, the Blue and Gold Lines that both opened in 1987 and the Green Line that opened in 2012. The network serves over 56,800 passengers a day as of 2012, making it the 10th-largest light rail system in the United States in terms of ridership.
The stations along the network are open-air structures featuring passenger canopies for protection from adverse weather. Twenty-six stations offer bus transfer services and eighteen have free park-and-ride lots with a total of 7,379 available parking spaces. Works of public art included at several stations were developed as part of the RT Public Art Program, and represent an array of media including, mosaics, sculptures, metalwork and murals. Each was commissioned to incorporate an identity and sense of place unique to the neighborhood surrounding the station.
Light rail service began on March 12, 1987, with the opening of 13 stations between Watt/I-80 and 8th & O. The second phase of the initial line opened on September 5, 1987, with 13 stations between Archives Plaza and Butterfield. In 1994, a pair of infill stations opened at 39th Street and 48th Street. Included originally as part of the network, both stations were deferred resulting from neighborhood opposition only to be built later due to changing attitudes towards the rail project. In 1998, Mather Field / Mills opened at Rancho Cordova as the first extension to the original network. The District opened 17 stations as part of multiple expansion projects between 2003–2007, resulting in the construction of stations in Sacramento, Rancho Cordova, Gold River and Folsom. On June 15, 2012, 7th & Richards / Township 9 opened as the first new station constructed for the Green Line. Three additional stations were opened on the Blue Line on August 24, 2015, extending the line to Cosumnes River College; a fourth station on the extension, Morrison Creek, opened in August 2021.
Still in the conceptual phase of development, the Green Line will add approximately of track in connecting Downtown Sacramento with the Sacramento International Airport.
Stations
Planned stations
References
Sacramento Regional Transit
Sacramento Regional Transit
Sacramento-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paladins%20in%20Troubled%20Times | Paladins in Troubled Times is a 2008 Chinese television series adapted from Liang Yusheng's novel Datang Youxia Zhuan. The series was produced by Zhang Jizhong, and starred Victor Huang, Shen Xiaohai, Sattawat Sethakorn, He Zhuoyan, Liu Tianyue and Lu Chen. It was first broadcast on CCTV in 2008.
Plot
The story is set in the Tianbao era during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty. Dou Lingkan, the leader of the Flying Tiger Mountain Gang, and his godson Tie Mole are passing through a small town when they are attracted by a commotion. They realise that Wang Longke, a servant of the warlord An Lushan, is planning to steal a letter from Guo Ziyi's messenger. Apparently, Guo Ziyi discovered An Lushan's plans to rebel against the imperial court and he wants to warn the emperor. Tie Mole saves the messenger and becomes involved in the politics of that era. He is joined by several righteous martial artists as they attempt to undermine An Lushan's rebellion.
Cast
Victor Huang as Tie Mole
Shen Xiaohai as Wang Longke
Sattawat Sethakorn as Kongkong'er / Duan Keye
He Zhuoyan as Wang Yanyu / Shi Hongmei
Liu Tianyue as Xia Lingshuang
Lu Chen as Han Zhifen
Wang Jiusheng as Jingjing'er
Ba Yin as Yang Mulao / Tie Kunlun / Huangfu Song
Tong Chun-chung as Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
Wang Gang as Qin Xiang
Chen Jiming as Duan Guizhang
He Sirong as Dou Xianniang
Tu Men as An Lushan
Li Zefeng as An Qingxu
Rocky Hou as An Qingzong
Yang Niansheng as Han Zhan
Zhang Baijun as Dou Lingkan
Wang Jianguo as Guo Ziyi
Hu Qingshi as Gao Lishi
Liu Peizhong as Yang Guozhong
Gao Yuan as Imperial Concubine Yang
Jiang Hualin as Geshu Han
Wang Yuzhi as Wang Yanyu's wet nurse
Ren Baocheng as Du Qianyun
Zhao Qiang as Zhang Xun
Chen Panjing as Duan Fei
Xi Xianfeng as Liu Da
Zhang Hengping as Blacksmith
Shi Tongcui as Blacksmith's wife
Liu Bing as Liu'er
Li Yuchen as Gou'er
Zhang Xueying as Hua'er
Cheng Hongjun as Shi Yiru
Li Yuan as Mobei Heibao
Xu Hongzhou as Cui Qianyou
Song Songlin as Huobo Guiren
Zhao Shuijin as Li Heng
Gong Zhixi as Wang Botong
Tian Yu as Madam Wang
Tian Haipeng as Opera troupe master
External links
Paladins in Troubled Times on Sohu
Paladins in Troubled Times on Sina.com
Paladins in Troubled Times page on CNTV's website
Chinese wuxia television series
Television shows based on works by Liang Yusheng
2008 Chinese television series debuts
Television series set in the Tang dynasty
2008 Chinese television series endings
Mandarin-language television shows
China Central Television original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mejlbystenen | The Mejlbystenen, also known as runic inscription DR 117 from its Rundata catalog listing, is an approximately 1,000-year-old runestone originally located at Mejlby, near Randers in Denmark. According to a new interactive exhibit of the stone at the Randers Kulturhistoriske Museum, which differs slightly from the accepted Rundata translation, the stone reads:
The inscription has been classified as being carved in runestone style RAK.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
oni : risþ : stin : þansi : aft : o¶skl : sun : sin : ias : tauþr ¶ uarþ : maþ : þuri : i : ura:¶:suti :
Transcription into Old Norse
Áni reisti stein þenna ept Áskel, son sinn, er dauðr varð með Þóri í Eyrasundi.
Translation in English
Áni raised this stone in memory of Áskell, his son, who died with Þórir in The Sound.
References
External links
Photograph of runestone
Runestones in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision%20Suisse | The Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) is a Swiss public broadcasting organisation. Part of SRG SSR, RTS handles production and broadcasting of radio and television programming in French for Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2010 by a merger of Radio suisse romande and Télévision suisse romande.
History
The first evening programme to be broadcast in colour on Télévision suisse romande was broadcast in 1968.
The station has been accused of multiple cases of sexual harassment in recent years, including news personality Darius Rochebin.
Future
While keeping its headquarters in Geneva, Radio Télévision Suisse moved its Lausanne-based radio headquarters to a new building on the Lausanne campus in 2020.
Broadcasting
Radio
Radio Suisse Romande (RSR) is the area of RTS in charge of production and broadcasting of radio programming in French for Switzerland:
La 1ère — general programming
Espace 2 — cultural and intellectual programming; classical and jazz music
Couleur 3 — youth programming
Option Musique — music and variety programming
Television
Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) is the area of RTS in charge of production and distribution of television programming in French for Switzerland:
RTS 1
RTS 2
RTS Info
See also
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Public Francophone Radios
References
External links
2010 establishments in Switzerland
French-language mass media in Switzerland
Radio in Switzerland
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television in Switzerland
Swiss Broadcasting Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyadic%20distribution | A dyadic (or 2-adic) distribution is a specific type of discrete probability distribution that is of some theoretical importance in data compression.
Definition
A dyadic distribution is a probability distribution whose probability mass function is
where is some whole number.
It is possible to find a binary code defined on this distribution, which has an average code length that is equal to the entropy.
References
Cover, T.M., Joy A. Thomas, J.A. (2006) Elements of information theory, Wiley.
Types of probability distributions
Data compression
Discrete distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSOC | SSOC may stand for:
Southern Student Organizing Committee, an American student activist group
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, a computer game
Short Sleeve Open Collar, used frequently in the United States Armed Forces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI%20Conformance%20Testing%20and%20Testing%20Tool%20Requirement | iSCSI conformance testing is testing to determine whether an iSCSI Initiator/Target meets the iSCSI standard.
SCSI and iSCSI Protocol
The Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) is a family of protocols for communicating with I/O devices, especially storage devices. SCSI is based on client-server model. SCSI clients, called "initiators", issue SCSI commands to request services from components, logical units of a server known as a "target". A "SCSI transport" maps the client-server SCSI protocol to a specific interconnect. An Initiator is one endpoint of a SCSI transport and a target is the other endpoint.
Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocol uses TCP/IP as SCSI transport. By transporting SCSI packets over TCP/IP, iSCSI provides an interoperable solution which can take advantage of existing Internet infrastructure, Internet management facilities, and address distance limitations. Unlike traditional Fibre Channel, which requires special-purpose cabling, iSCSI can run on the existing network infrastructure. It has become a popular storage area network (SAN) protocol because of its scalability and economic benefits. The protocol is defined in RFC 3720 and updated in RFC 5048.
iSCSI Conformance Testing
With the moving of SCSI transport layer from the traditional reliable bus structure to the far more unreliable TCP/IP network, a fairly reasonable amount of complexity has been introduced into iSCSI:
Login/Logout processes are needed.
Security/Operational parameters need to be negotiated during login.
CHAP or other authentication method may be used during login.
Multiple sessions/connections may be required.
Multiple error recovery level may be implemented.
...
In one word, although the economic cost of iSCSI may be lower than others, the protocol itself is not that simple.
Since the approval of the protocol, iSCSI has been steadily gaining acceptance among end users and storage vendors. Nowadays, there exist a large number of iSCSI initiator/target implementations on the market, either commercial or free/open source. These implementations vary in functionalities and protocol conformance.
Conformance testing is testing to determine whether a system meets some specified standard. It is often performed by external organizations, sometimes the standards body itself, to give greater guarantees of compliance. Products tested in such a manner are then advertised as being certified by that external organization as complying with the standard. For iSCSI protocol (or other data networking and storage protocols), The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is one of the premier neutral, third-party laboratory who offers test suites for iSCSI conformance testing.
As the introduction part in these test suites says:
These tests are designed to determine if an iSCSI product conforms to specifications defined in both IETF RFC 3720 iSCSI (hereafter referred to as the “iSCSI Standard”) as well as updates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNSDL | TNSDL stands for TeleNokia Specification and Description Language. TNSDL is based on the ITU-T SDL-88 language. It is used exclusively at Nokia Networks, primarily for developing applications for telephone exchanges.
Purpose
TNSDL is a general-purpose procedural programming language. It is especially well-suited for developing highly concurrent, distributed systems.
It was originally designed for programming circuit switched exchanges. As the world shifted towards packet-switched and internet-based telecommunication, TNSDL turned out to be an excellent fit for developing internet servers, too.
Design
TNSDL is a very simple, easy-to-learn programming language.
Basics
TNSDL is a strongly typed procedural programming language. Its basic capabilities are comparable to the C and Pascal languages.
Multi-processing
In TNSDL processes are created by the CREATE command. (It is somewhat similar to the POSIX fork or pthread_create commands.) The CREATE command creates either an operating system process or a cooperative task.
The process model can be selected by configuration. The source code itself does not reflect which scheduling method is used. Still, to avoid certain race conditions, developers may need to be prepared for parallel execution. TNSDL explicitly supports critical sections to be marked in the code.
In case of cooperative multitasking a program is scheduled as one operating system process. When a cooperative thread enters the state of waiting for asynchronous input, another thread of the program may run.
Message passing
The feature of TNSDL is the actor model. Processes are meant to be designed as event-driven finite state machines. Inter-process communication is done by asynchronous message passing. The OUTPUT command sends a message, while INPUT statements define the expected messages.
Timers, from TNSDL perspective, are delayed messages. Just like ordinary messages, timer expiration is handled by the INPUT statement. The SET command starts and the RESET command cancels a timer.
State machines can be optionally used, for example, to prevent accepting certain input messages at some stage of the processing.
The following code piece demonstrates a server, which receives a query signal (message), contacts a database process to obtain the necessary data and finally sends an answer signal.
DCL WITHWARMING /* Data to be live-migrated (on platforms supporting "warming") */
query_process pid; /* PID of query_signal sender */
CONSTANT time_to_wait = 10; /* Timeout of database response */
TIMER db_timeout_timer; /* Timer of database response */
STATE idle; /* Idle state, wait for query signal */
INPUT query_signal(DCL input_data);
DCL
db_query db_query_type; /* Local variable, stored on stack. */
TASK query_process := SENDER; /* Sender address saved to specific memory area, which is preserved even on software update.*/
TASK db_query.field1 := some_procedure(input_data),
db_query.field2 := input_data.fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQANIE | EQANIE (European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education e.V.) is a non-profit association seeking to enhance evaluation and quality assurance of informatics study programmes and education in Europe. It was founded on January 9, 2009 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
EQANIE develops criteria and procedures for the evaluation and quality assurance in informatics study programmes and education. EQANIE awards the so-called Euro-Inf Quality Label to degree programmes that comply with the Euro-Inf Framework Standards and Accreditation Criteria. As of 2021, informatics study programmes from 21 different countries have been accredited.
Background
EQANIE’s founding is to be seen against the background of the Bologna Process, aiming at the creation of a European Higher Education Area. The association emanated from the informal network of stakeholders involved in the Euro-Inf Project co-financed by the European Union under the Socrates-Programme from 2006 until 2008.
The Euro-Inf consortium comprised the German Accreditation Agency ASIIN, Hamburg UAS, the University of Paderborn and the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS). The project consortium established and tested the so-called Euro-Inf Framework Standards and Accreditation Criteria for Informatics Programmes in Europe. The rights of ownership and copyright on the assessment tools developed by the Euro-Inf Project are held by EQANIE.
Main objectives of EQANIE in the area of accreditation and quality assessment are:
Improving the quality of educational programmes in informatics;
providing the Euro-Inf Quality Label for accredited educational programmes in informatics;
facilitating mutual transnational recognition by programme validation and certification;
facilitating recognition by the competent authorities, in accord with the EU directives and other agreements;
increasing mobility of graduates as recommended by the Lisbon Strategy
The key principle of Euro-Inf accreditation is that all graduates of a Euro-Inf accredited degree should have undertaken a defined set of learning activities and should have achieved a broadly defined set of learning outcomes. The Framework represents a quality threshold; those degree programmes that have demonstrated compliance are awarded the Euro-Inf Bachelor / Euro-Inf Master Label.
The Accreditation Process
An Institution wishing to have one or more of its degrees accredited has to select between two different paths:
The institution may submit an application to the General Secretary of EQANIE that includes a self-assessment report, compiled in accordance with the Euro-Inf guidelines, a matrix showing how the modules that make up each degree programme satisfy the Eur-Inf expected Learning Outcomes, and supporting documentation that includes the module descriptors, short CV's of academic staff, etc. An audit team studies the documentation and visits the institution. After the visit, the Secretariat prepares a report which is sent t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiSpeak | MultiSpeak is a specification that defines standardized interfaces among software applications commonly used by electric utilities, defining details of data that must be exchanged between software applications to support common utility processes. It is funded by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA).
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a Smart Grid Conceptual Reference Model as part of its Smart Grid Standards Framework and Roadmap, and has identified 42 standards to support this vision. NIST chose MultiSpeak as a key standard in the Operations area of the NIST Conceptual Model.
The MultiSpeak specification is the most widely applied integration standard in North American distribution utilities. It is currently used in the daily operations of more than 600 electric cooperatives, investor-owned utilities, municipals, and public power districts in at least 15 countries. Over 80 software vendors have joined the MultiSpeak initiative and contribute their experience to refining the standard.
The MultiSpeak standard utilizes three components:
Definitions of common data semantics: Details of data that is exchanged, documented in XML schema.
Definitions of message structure: Message structures supporting data interchanges. Web services calls with specific structures are used for real-time exchanges.
Definition of messages required to support specific business process steps: Details of the business process steps to accomplish the data.
Comparison between CIM and MultiSpeak
CIM covers transmission, generation and distribution whereas MultiSpeak is distribution focused.
MultiSpeak is focused to meet the needs of electric cooperatives in the US, while IEC 61968 / CIM is focused towards all utilities in the international marketplace.
IEC 61968 is transport independent while MultiSpeak is transport specific. SOAP messages using HTTP, TCP/IP sockets connections directly between applications, and file-based transfers are used for transferring data in MultiSpeak.
Both standards use XML Schema for definition of messages and focus on interfaces between applications, as opposed to data structures internal to applications.
Message headers can be readily mapped between MultiSpeak and IEC 61968 but mapping of message content between the two is more complex.
Harmonization between MultiSpeak and 61968
In June 2008 MultiSpeak and WG14 announced an initiative to establish two sets of standards that will lead towards harmonization of their respective specifications. After completion of the same, this will provide a mapping between MultiSpeak Version 4.0, IEC 61970 Version 13, and IEC 61968 Version 10. Two sets of standard work planned for the same are listed below:
IEC 61968-14-1-3 to 14-1-10 — Proposed IEC Standards to Map IEC61968 and MultiSpeak Standards.
IEC 61968-14-2-3 to 14-2-10 — Proposed IEC Standards to Create a CIM Profile to Implement MultiSpeak Functionality.
MultiSpeak Versions
MultiSp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20Development%20Forum | The Baltic Development Forum is an independent think-tank and non-profit high-level and agenda-setting networking organisation with strategic partners and sponsors from large companies, major cities, institutional investors, business associations and academia in the Baltic Sea Region. The network involves more than 8,000 decision-makers from all over the region and beyond.
History
March 2014 former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Lene Espersen replaced the interim Chairwoman, Mrs. Helle Bechgaard as chairwoman of Baltic Development Forum.
Until November 2011, Baltic Development Forum was chaired by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark 1982–1993. Mr. Ellemann-Jensen is co-founder of Baltic Development Forum (in 1998) and the Council of the Baltic Sea States (1992). Former CEO of Confederation of Danish Industry Hans Skov Christensen replaced Uffe Ellemann-Jensen as chairman. When Hans Skov Christensen died in autumn 2013 he was provisionally replaced by Member of the Board, Mrs. Helle Bechgaard.
The Baltic Development Forum Honorary Board and Advisory Board consist of high-level political dignitaries and prominent business executives and researchers representing the entire Baltic Sea Region.
Director of Baltic Development Forum is Hans Brask since August 2007. His background is in international affairs. He holds a MA in Political Science from the University of Aarhus (1990) and an MA in History and Philosophy from the University of Essex, UK (1990).
Mission
The mission of Baltic Development Forum is to promote the Baltic Sea Region as an integrated, prosperous and internationally competitive growth region, to position the Baltic Sea Region in the EU and on the global map. Baltic Development Forum has consolidated its position as internationally recognized think-tank and networking organization that wants to inspire and challenge national and international decision-makers within business and government in the Baltic Sea Region. The Region's potential and challenges are highlighted at the Summit as an important part of an increasingly globalised world. BDF offers a unique platform for innovative thinking, informal cross-sector/cross-border/cross-level encounters and concrete new business opportunities with a global perspective.
Main activities
The Annual Summit takes place in different capitals and metropolis in the Baltic Sea Region - 1999: Copenhagen; 2000: Malmö; 2001: Copenhagen; 2002: St. Petersburg; 2003: Riga; 2004: Hamburg; 2005: Stockholm; 2006: Helsinki; 2007: Tallinn; 2008: Copenhagen/Malmö; 2009: Stockholm; 2010: Vilnius; 2011: Gdańsk; 2012: Copenhagen/Malmö; 2013: Riga. 2014: Turku, Finland.
Baltic Development Forum's Baltic Sea Award has been established together with Swedbank as sponsor in 2007. Recipient of the Award is given to personalities that have made an extraordinary contribution to the future of the region.
Baltic Development Forum publishes different reports in order to support a common |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrini | The Bactrini are a tribe of tortrix moths.
Genera
Bactra
Henioloba
Parabactra
Syntozyga
References
, 2008: New data on Bactrini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) from Africa. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 55: 7-13. Abstract: .
, 2005: World catalogue of insects volume 5 Tortricidae.
2006. Olethreutinae moths of Australia
, 2012: Molecular data on the systematic position of Bactrini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Genus 23 (1): 153-162. Full article: .
Moth tribes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata%20Research%20Development%20and%20Design%20Centre | Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC) is a software research centre in Pune, India, established by Tata Group's TCS in 1981. TRDDC undertakes research in Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Process Engineering and Systems Research.
TRDDC Researchers developed TCS Code Generator Framework (formerly called MasterCraft), an artificial intelligence software that can automatically create code from a simple computer language and rewrite the code based on the user's needs.
Research at TRDDC has also resulted in the development of Swach (formerly known as Sujal), a low-cost water purifier that can be manufactured using locally available resources. TCS deployed thousands of these filters in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster of 2004 as part of its relief activities.
Innovation
In 2007, TCS launched its Co-Innovation Network, a network of TCS Innovation Labs, startup alliances, University Research Departments, and venture capitalists.
In addition to TRDDC, TCS has 19 Innovation Labs based in three countries.
TCS Innovation Lab, Convergence: Content management and delivery, convergence engines, networks such as 3G, WiMax, WiMesh, IP Testing for Quality of Service, IMS, OSS/BSS systems, and others.
TCS Innovation Lab, Delhi: Software Architectures, Software as a Service, natural language processing (NLP), text, data and process analytics, multimedia applications and graphics.
TCS Innovation Lab, Embedded Systems and Robotics, Kolkata and Bengaluru: Medical electronics, Machine Vision, Robotics, WiMAX, and WLAN technologies.
TCS Innovation Lab, Hyderabad: Computational methods in life sciences, meta-genomics, systems biology, e-security, smart card-based applications, digital media protection, nano-biotechnology, quantitative finance.
TCS Innovation Lab, Mumbai: Speech and natural language processing, wireless systems and wireless applications.
TCS Innovation Lab, Insurance - Chennai: IT Optimisation, Business Process Optimisation, Customer Centricity Enablers, Enterprise Mobility, Telematics, Innovation in Product Development and Management (Product lifecycle management) in Insurance.
TCS Innovation Lab, Chennai: Infrastructure innovation, green computing, Web 2.0 and next-generation user interfaces.
TCS Innovation Lab, Peterborough, England: New-wave communications for the enterprises, utility computing and RFID (chips, tags, labels, readers and middleware).
TCS Innovation Lab: Performance Engineering, Mumbai: Performance management, high performance technology components, and others.
TCS Innovation Lab, Cincinnati, United States: Engineering and Manufacturing IT solutions.
Some of the assets created by TCS Innovation Labs are DBProdem, Jensor Jensor released as Open Source, Wanem Wanem released as Open Source, Scrutinet.
In 2008, the TCS Innovation Lab-developed product, mKrishi, won the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in the Wireless category. mKrishi is a service that would enable India's farmers to receive useful |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Star%20BASIC | North Star BASIC was a dialect of the BASIC programming language for the Intel 8080 microprocessor used on the North Star Horizon and available for purchase on other S-100 bus machines of the late 1970s.
Overview
The BASIC interpreter was implemented by Dr. Charles A. Grant and Dr. Mark Greenberg, of North Star Computers, Inc.
One notable difference with other dialects of BASIC of the time was the way in which substrings were addressed using an array-like syntax, a concept sometimes referred to as "slicing". For example, in North Star BASIC corresponded to in Microsoft BASIC-derived dialects. This slicing technique is analogous to the one used in Fortran, and was introduced to BASIC with HP Time-Shared BASIC and later used on Atari BASIC and Sinclair BASIC, among others. Strings could be of any length, limited only by available memory, but had to be "ensioned" before use.
While the language was very similar to other BASICs overall, one interesting addition was the addition of an keyword to pop out of a loop. Different dialects of BASIC handled this in different ways, the equivalent in Integer BASIC and Atari BASIC was . could be used to fill a block of memory with a given value.
Most other differences were minor. was supported, but the alternate form was not. Computed-gotos, did not support . allowed a prompt; . worked identically to , but suppressed the following question-mark. became atch, became , and became . The language used the backslash (\) instead of a colon (:) to delimit statements on a single line.
The language also added a number of direct-mode commands like to exit BASIC and return to DOS, to renumber the lines in the program, and which defined how many nulls to print after pressing return, to use as fill characters.
Version 5 was assembled for 8-digit floating-point precision. North Star would re-assemble the interpreter for customers with a different precision, up to 14 digits.
Some other dialects of BASIC were created that were based on and inspired by North Star BASIC, such as BaZic (a rewrite of North Star BASIC, taking advantage of the faster Zilog Z80 instructions), Megabasic and S.A.I.L.B.O.A.T. (a basic optimized for Z80 and X86 MS-DOS). Some of these were available for other hardware and operating systems, including Unix, CP/M and DOS.
References
Citations
Bibliography
External links
North Star BASIC manual, Version 5
The User's Guide to North Star BASIC
BASIC programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stasko | John Thomas Stasko III (born August 28, 1961) is a Regents Professor in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, where he joined the faculty in 1989. He also is one of the founding members of the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center there. Stasko is best known for his extensive research in information visualization and visual analytics, including his earlier work in software visualization and algorithm animation.
Early life and education
John Stasko was born on August 28, 1961, in Miami, Florida. As a youngster, he lived in Pennsylvania (Lancaster and Reading) and south Florida (Miami, Boca Raton, and Deerfield Beach). Stasko attended Bucknell University and graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Mathematics in 1983. He went directly to graduate school and earned an Sc.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Brown University in 1985 and 1989, respectively. His doctoral thesis, "TANGO: A Framework and System for
Algorithm Animation," is a highly cited project in the area of Software Visualization. Stasko joined the faculty of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech in 1989. He and his wife Christine have three children, John IV (Tommy), Mitchell, and Audrey. Stasko is an avid golfer and was winner of the 1996 Bobby Jones Memorial Tournament
at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
Professional career
Upon joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, Stasko continued his research in algorithm animation and software visualization. He was the lead editor on the 1998 MIT Press book Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia Experience, generally considered the lead reference for that field. Stasko also was one of the founding faculty for the GVU Center at Georgia Tech.
In the late 1990s, his research broadened into other areas of human-computer interaction and he developed a specific focus on information visualization. He formed the Information Interfaces Research Group which he still directs. More recently, Stasko has been a pioneering researcher in the new field of visual analytics, and was
a contributor to the 2005 book, Illuminating the Path, that laid out a research agenda for this field.
Stasko has published extensively in these fields, including over 125 conference papers (two Best Papers Awards), journal articles, and book chapters. His research in information visualization spans a spectrum
from theoretical work on interaction, evaluation, and the conceptual foundations of visualization to more applied work creating new techniques and systems (such as TANGO, POLKA, SunBurst, InfoCanvas, Jigsaw) for people in a variety of domains. He was Papers Co-Chair for the IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) Symposium in 2005 and
2006 and for the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium in 2009. He is currently on Steering Committee of the IEEE InfoVis Conference, the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, and is an At Large member of the IEEE Visualization and Graphic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca%20orbicularis | Melaleuca orbicularis is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is similar to Melaleuca cordata with its pinkish "pom-pom" heads of flowers but its leaves are smaller, almost circular compared to the heart shaped leaves of the other species.
Description
Melaleuca orbicularis is an erect shrub growing to tall. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, heart-shaped to almost circular.
The flowers are a shade of pink to purple and are arranged in heads on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter with 2 to 8 groups of flowers in threes. The petals are long and fall off soon after the flower opens. The outer surface of the floral cup (the hypanthium) is hairy and there are five bundles of stamens around the flower, each with 5 to 12 stamens. Flowering occurs from July to January and is followed by fruit which are woody capsules, long, usually in tight, oval-shaped clusters along the stem.
Taxonomy and naming
Melaleuca orbicularis was first formally described in 1999 by Lyndley Craven in Australian Systematic Botany from a specimen collected near Bindi Bindi. The specific epithet (orbicularis) is a Latin word meaning "circular" referring to the circular leaves.
Distribution and habitat
Melaleuca orbicularis occurs in and between the Coorong, Wongan Hills and Cowcowing districts in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Warren biogeographic regions. It grows in a range of vegetation associations in sand over sandstone and laterite.
Conservation
Melaleuca orbicularis is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.
References
orbicularis
Plants described in 1999
Endemic flora of Western Australia
Taxa named by Lyndley Craven |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Longley | Paul A. Longley is a British geographer. He is Professor of Geographic Information Science (GISci) at University College London (UCL), UK, where he also directs the ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre. Prior to joining UCL in July 2000, he was the Professor of Geography at the University of Bristol.
His research interests are developed around socioeconomic applications of GIScience, and have included projects based on topics such as: geo-temporal demographics and social media usage, fractal analysis of cities, geo-genealogy of family names, retail geography analytics and the effectiveness of public service delivery (specifically health, education and policing). His publications include 18 books and over 150 contributions to refereed journal articles, edited collections and book chapters. He is past Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems and a past co-editor of Environment and Planning B.
He teaches Geographic Information Science and Systems and is a co-author of the best-selling book of that name. He has been involved in the postgraduate supervision of over 50 Ph.D. students. He is a regular contributor to internationally conferences and has held eleven externally funded visiting appointments, and has many extensive teaching commitments.
In 2013 he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society Victoria Medal.
Appointments
2000–Present - Professor of Geographic Information Science, University College London (2003-4 - seconded to ESRC Advanced Institute for Management Research Senior Fellowship)
1996-2000 - Professor of Geography, University of Bristol
1994-96 - Reader in Geography, University of Bristol (including a period as an ESRC Research Fellow, 1994–95)
1992-94 - Lecturer in Geography, University of Bristol
1984-92 - Lecturer in Planning, Cardiff University (UWIST prior to 1/9/88)
1983 84 Lecturer in Geography, University of Reading
Education & Qualifications
1997 - D.Sc., University of Bristol
1984 - Ph.D. (Urban Geography), University of Bristol
1980 - B.Sc. First Class Honours (Geography), University of Bristol
Special Awards, Honours & Distinctions
2013 - Royal Geographical Society Victoria Medal
2010 - Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo
2008 - Visiting Professor, University College Dublin
2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 - Visiting Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
2002 - Registered Practitioner, the Higher Education Academy (previously the ILTHE)
2002 - Elected Academician, Academy of Social Sciences (Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences prior to 2007)
1980 - University of Bristol Miller Barstow Prize for best undergraduate social science dissertation
1980 - Walter Scheel Scholarship
References
External links
Official website
1959 births
British geographers
Living people
Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Academics of the University of Bristol
Academics of University College London
Geographic information scie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20protection%20%28privacy%29%20laws%20in%20Russia | Data protection (privacy) laws in Russia are a rapidly developing branch in Russian legislation that have mostly been enacted in the 2005 and 2006. The Russian Federal Law on Personal Data (No. 152-FZ), implemented on July 27, 2006, constitutes the backbone of Russian privacy laws and requires data operators to take "all the necessary organizational and technical measures required for protecting personal data against unlawful or accidental access". Amendment was signed on December 20, 2020 and came into effect on March 1, 2021. The amendment requires "personal data made publicly available" needs to receive consent from the data subject. Russia's Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media is the government agency tasked with overseeing compliance.
Applicable laws
Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, signed and ratified by the Russian Federation on December 19, 2005;
the Law of the Russian Federation “On Personal Data” as of 27.07.2006 No. 152-FZ, regulating the processing of personal data by means of automation equipment. It is the operator who is required to comply with that Act;
the “Regulations on securing personal data being processed in personal data systems” enacted by the Russian Government Regulation as of 17.11.2007 No. 781. The Regulations contain mandatory security regulations to be complied with when processing and storing personal data;
the Federal law “On Advertisement” as of 13.03.2006 No. 38-FZ. This regulates marketing communications sent inter alia by electronic means including e-mail, SMS etc.;
the Russian Code on Administrative Infractions dated 30.12.2001 No.195-FZ. This regulates issues of responsibility for commission of administrative offences in connection with processing of personal data or distribution of marketing communications.
Definitions
personal data is any information related to identified or identifiable on the basis of such information individual (personal data subject), including last name, given name, patronymic, date, month, year and place of birth, address, family, social, property status, education, profession, income, other information;
sensitive personal data means personal data relating to:
Race or ethnic origin
Political opinions
Religious beliefs
Health condition
Sexual life
processing is anything that can be done to or with personal data, including obtaining, organizing, accumulating, holding, adjusting (updating, modifying), using, disclosing (including transfer), impersonating, blocking or destroying such data;
operator is an entity which organizes and/or performs data processing, as well as determines the purposes and manner of data processing. In most cases both mother company and an entity which manages the relevant facility or service offered will be operators;
personal data system is a data system which includes personal data recorded in the data base as well as information technol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRN%20%28magazine%29 | CRN is an American computer magazine. It was first launched as Computer Retail Week on June 7, 1982, as a magazine targeted to computer resellers. It soon after was renamed Computer Reseller News.
History and profile
Originally launched in 1982 and published by CMP Media of Manhasset, New York, United States, CRN was subsequently purchased by London-based United Business Media (UBM) as part of the $920 million acquisition of CMP. Computer Reseller News later changed its name to the acronym CRN and is still published today by franchise publishers in a number of other countries including Australia, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Poland, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The Australian CRN is published by nextmedia, the UK version of CRN was published by Incisive Media for some years after it acquired VNU Business Publications UK in 2007 and the U.S. version is published by The Channel Company which acquired UBM Channel under management buyout from UBM in 2013.
The headquarters of the magazine is in Westborough, Massachusetts. In 2009 CRN's U.S. version was recognized as a leading advertising medium for the IT industry by B2B's Media Power 50 ranking, which called it the "unrivaled leader in covering the channel".
In January 2012, the UK version of CRN launched the CRN Sales and Marketing Awards. These awards recognise and reward the achievements of high-achieving information and communications technology companies.
In April 2022, The Channel Company acquired CRN UK, Computing, and Channel Partner Insight from Incisive Media. This deal reunited the UK and US edition of CRN under common ownership.
References
External links
CRN US site
CRN UK site
CRN Australia site
CRN Poland site
1982 establishments in Massachusetts
Computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1982
Magazines published in Massachusetts
Professional and trade magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical%20scheduling%20software | Surgical scheduling software is computer software related to scheduling of tasks for a sequence of surgical cases in one surgery theatre and with one surgery staff using an operational model, a computer and a network. Another vital part of the surgery scheduling process is the communication between the Facility and the Vendor.
Applications may cover platforms that include the traditional (legacy) software-based system of operations or networked server systems. Other approaches are services as with cloud computing includes software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) systems.
Historical procedures and limitations of surgery scheduling
The integration of modern communications into the healthcare world has been strongly retarded by the reluctance of the surgeons to organise their work as a service in a production site. However all requirements to be fulfilled for proper performing and high efficiency recommend such approach.
Healthcare IT was focused solely on using and upgrading technology dedicated to research, treatment, and diagnostics.
In the old style schedulers would send paper schedules via fax machine (as often required by hospitals) or call participants using the telephone.
As long as schedulers depended on phones and fax machines to send and receive confirmations, vital time was often spent waiting for information. Unreliable systems and confirmation methods also led to cancelled surgeries and lost revenue.
Administrative tasks, which had long since been automated in other industries, did not utilize technology to the fullest.
Prerequisites to improve
A single surgery requires the participation and collaboration of multiple parties: patient, surgeon, support staff (such as anesthesiologist), and device representative. Coordinating and confirming these parties is the responsibility of the surgical administrator's office.
Surgery scheduling, therefore, may be implemented based on software resources that is readily available to schedulers and administrators from production and other service industry in a surgical practice. However the prerequisite is some standard in the applied surgery procedures, that provides time estimates for the operation in the surgery theatre and for the respective preparations before and after the invention in each patient's case.
US approaches to improve with healthcare administrators
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the Federal government set aside over $20 billion of stimulus money to promote healthcare IT solutions. These funds were for "meaningful use" situations that included electronic health records (EHR) and other means to make healthcare more efficient, competitive, and affordable.
The increased awareness of streamlined processes was one of the first steps to the introduction of new IT tools to the healthcare field that had previously been employed in other industries.
Classes of Solutions
The recommendations given with US NIH Nati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20interaction%20networks | Business interaction networks are networks that allow businesses and their communities of interest to collaborate and do business online securely via the Internet.
Mary Johnston Turner first discussed the concept in a Network World opinion piece in August 1995 and attributed the first advocacy for the concept to the now-defunct BBN Planet, the ISP division of BBN Technologies.
References
Business
Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri | Siri ( ) is the digital assistant that is part of Apple Inc.'s iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, audioOS, and visionOS operating systems. It uses voice queries, gesture based control, focus-tracking and a natural-language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Internet services. With continued use, it adapts to users' individual language usages, searches, and preferences, returning individualized results.
Siri is a spin-off from a project developed by the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center. Its speech recognition engine was provided by Nuance Communications, and it uses advanced machine learning technologies to function. Its original American, British, and Australian voice actors recorded their respective voices around 2005, unaware of the recordings' eventual usage. Siri was released as an app for iOS in February 2010. Two months later, Apple acquired it and integrated it into the iPhone 4S at its release on 4 October 2011, removing the separate app from the iOS App Store. Siri has since been an integral part of Apple's products, having been adapted into other hardware devices including newer iPhone models, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, AirPods, Apple TV, and HomePod.
Siri supports a wide range of user commands, including performing phone actions, checking basic information, scheduling events and reminders, handling device settings, searching the Internet, navigating areas, finding information on entertainment, and being able to engage with iOS-integrated apps. With the release of iOS 10 in 2016, Apple opened up limited third-party access to Siri, including third-party messaging apps, as well as payments, ride-sharing, and Internet calling apps. With the release of iOS 11, Apple updated Siri's voice and added support for follow-up questions, language translation, and additional third-party actions.
iOS 17 enabled users to activate Siri by simply saying “Siri”, while the previous command, “Hey Siri”, is still supported.
Siri's original release on iPhone 4S in 2011 received mixed reviews. It received praise for its voice recognition and contextual knowledge of user information, including calendar appointments, but was criticized for requiring stiff user commands and having a lack of flexibility. It was also criticized for lacking information on certain nearby places and for its inability to understand certain English accents. In 2016 and 2017, a number of media reports said that Siri lacked innovation, particularly against new competing voice assistants. The reports concerned Siri's limited set of features, "bad" voice recognition, and undeveloped service integrations as causing trouble for Apple in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud-based services; the basis for the complaints reportedly due to stifled development, as caused by Apple's prioritization of user privacy and executive power struggles within the company. Its launch was also overshadowed by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle%2C%20Inc. | Aristotle, Inc. is a U.S. company founded and led by brothers John Aristotle Phillips and Dean Aristotle Phillips in 1983, specializing in data mining voter data for political campaigns.
See also
Vocus
References
Public relations companies of the United States
Consulting firms established in 1983
1983 establishments in the United States
1983 establishments in Washington, D.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End%20node%20problem | The end node problem arises when individual computers are used for sensitive work and/or temporarily become part of a trusted, well-managed network/cloud and then are used for more risky activities and/or join untrusted networks. (Individual computers on the periphery of networks/clouds are called end nodes.) End nodes often are not managed to the trusted network‘s high computer security standards. End nodes often have weak/outdated software, weak security tools, excessive permissions, mis-configurations, questionable content and apps, and covert exploitations. Cross contamination and unauthorized release of data from within a computer system becomes the problem.
Within the vast cyber-ecosystem, these end nodes often attach transiently to one or more clouds/networks, some trustworthy and others not. A few examples: a corporate desktop browsing the Internet, a corporate laptop checking company webmail via a coffee shop's open Wi-Fi access point, a personal computer used to telecommute during the day and gaming at night, or app within a smartphone/tablet (or any of the previous use/device combinations). Even if fully updated and tightly locked down, these nodes may ferry malware from one network (e.g. a corrupted webpage or an infected email message) into another, sensitive network. Likewise, the end nodes may exfiltrate sensitive data (e.g. log keystrokes or screen-capture). Assuming the device is fully trustworthy, the end node must provide the means to properly authenticate the user. Other nodes may impersonate trusted computers, thus requiring device authentication. The device and user may be trusted but within an untrustworthy environment (as determined by inboard sensors' feedback). Collectively, these risks are called the end node problem. There are several remedies but all require instilling trust in the end node and conveying that trust to the network/cloud.
The cloud’s weakest link
Cloud computing may be characterized as a vast, seemingly endless, array of processing and storage that one can rent from his or her computer. Recent media attention has focused on the security within the cloud. Many believe the real risk does not lie within a well monitored, 24-7-365 managed, full redundancy cloud host but in the many questionable computers that access the cloud. Many such clouds are FISMA-certified whereas the end nodes connecting to them rarely are configured to any standard.
Ever growing risk
From 2005 to 2009, the greatest and growing threats to personal and corporate data derived from exploits of users' personal computers. Organized cyber-criminals have found it more profitable to internally exploit the many weak personal and work computers than to attack through heavily fortified perimeters. One common example is stealing small business's online banking account access.
Solutions
To eliminate the end node problem, only allow authenticated users on trusted remote computers in safe environments to connect to your network/cl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape%20label | Tape labels are identifiers given to volumes of magnetic tape.
There are two kinds of tape labels. The first is a label applied to the exterior of tape cartridge or reel. The second is data recorded on the tape itself.
Visual labels
Visual labels are human readable.
The labels have evolved to have barcodes that can be read by tape libraries. Reading the barcode label is often much faster than mounting the tape volume and reading the identification information written on the media. To read the bar code, the tape library need only position the volume in front of the bar code reader.
Magnetic labels
Originally, 7- and 9-track data tapes only had human readable labels on them (i.e. as far as the operating system was concerned they were unlabeled). Somebody wishing to use a particular tape would ask the operator to mount that tape; the operator would look at the human readable label, mount it on a tape drive, and then tell the operating system which drive contained the tape of interest. That had some drawbacks: the operator might mount the wrong tape by mistake, or he might type in the wrong identification.
A solution was to record some tape identification information on the tape itself in a standard format. This metadata allowed the operating system to quickly recognize a volume and assign it to the program that wanted to use it. The operating system would notice that a tape drive came online, so it would try to read the first block of information on the tape. If that was a volume label, then the operating system could determine what to do with it.
Some computer systems used similar labels on other serial media, for example punched card decks and sometimes line printer output.
IBM tape labels
IBM tape labels with VOL/HDR/EOV/EOF records. IBM tape labels on 9-track tapes use EBCDIC character encoding; 7-track tapes (now obsolete) used BCD encoding.
ANSI tape labels
ANSI/ISO/ECMA tape labels are similar to IBM tape labels but use the ASCII character set on 9-track tape. When originally defined in the mid-1960s, they used BCD on 7-track tape.
Burroughs tape labels
The Burroughs MCP running on the B5000 was one of the earliest systems to automatically read tape labels. When designed in 1961 it used a proprietary format coded in BCD (strictly, Burroughs Interchange Code or BIC), but was later able to read standard 7-track ANSI (then styled USASI) labels.
RFID tags
Some tapes (e.g., later versions of Linear Tape-Open and Advanced Intelligent Tape) are using RFID tags. Often these RFID tags include tape metadata such as data locations, number of tape errors encountered, number of times the entire tape was read or written, etc.
See also
Microsoft Tape Format
References
External links
ECMA-13, File Structure and Labelling of Magnetic Tapes for Information Interchange, 4th ed, December 1985.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/rzatb/vdefn.htm
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=linu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%E2%80%93Palermo%20railway%20axis | The Berlin–Palermo railway axis (, ) is project No. 1 of the Trans-European high-speed rail network (TEN-R), which involves the creation of a high-speed rail line between Berlin and Palermo. It is designated as one of the main transport links connecting Central and Southern Europe, tracking through Germany, Austria and Italy.
Alignment and sections
From Berlin the line will run to the Central German Metropolitan Region of Halle/Leipzig, to Erfurt and to Southern Germany at Nuremberg, Ingolstadt and Munich. Crossing the border with Austria, it will continue through the state of Tyrol along Kufstein, Wörgl and the capital Innsbruck. It will enter Italian South Tyrol, passing Franzensfeste and Bolzano, run through Northeast Italy via Verona and Bologna, through Central Italy along Florence and Rome, and reach Southern Italy at Naples and finally shall ferry over to Messina and Palermo on Sicily.
Germany
The corridor begins at Berlin Hauptbahnhof opened in 2006 and runs via the rebuilt Anhalt Railway (up to Bitterfeld) and Dessau–Leipzig railway to Leipzig Hauptbahnhof. The line shall continue to Erfurt Hauptbahnhof on the Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway, which opened in December 2015. Likewise, the southern continuation of this route along the Nuremberg–Erfurt high-speed railway opened in December 2017.
In the meantime, service is provided by tilting ICE T trains running on sections of the Leipzig–Großkorbetha railway, the Thuringian Railway, and the winding Saal Railway via Jena Paradies station, bypassing Erfurt on their way from Leipzig to Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof. From Saalfeld station they cross the Rennsteig ridge of the Franconian Forest via the Leipzig–Probstzella railway and the Franconian Forest Railway and continue along the Bamberg-Hof railway (from Hochstadt-Marktzeuln) and the Nuremberg–Bamberg railway
Further to the south, the corridor runs via the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt high-speed railway line opened to Ingolstadt Hauptbahnhof in 2006 and the Ingolstadt–Munich line to München Hauptbahnhof. The following section of the Munich–Rosenheim railway has already been upgraded to four-tracks up to Grafing station in order to separate mainline and suburban traffic. Finally the Rosenheim–Kufstein railway runs to the Austrian border and Kufstein station.
Austria
The heart of the Austrian section is the New Lower Inn Valley railway through the Tyrolean Unterland region. In particular the section between Wörgl and Baumkirchen is the most congested line of the whole TEN-network, a result of the Austrian national east-west traffic and the international north-south traffic sharing the same line. The largest section from Kundl to Baumkirchen is already completed and in operation since December 2012. The shorter section between Kundl and Kufstein (or Brannenburg in Bavaria), including a Wörgl bypass, is being planned. The Austrian section trains will be able to operate at up to .
At the Baumkirchen rail hub, new high-speed curves link with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake%20Vargas | Jhake Angelo Cunanan Vargas (born July 9, 1992), better known as Jake Vargas, is a Filipino actor and musician. He is known for his television roles in various hit GMA Network dramas such as Stairway to Heaven, Reel Love Presents Tween Hearts, Captain Barbell, Alice Bungisngis and Her Wonder Walis, Strawberry Lane, Buena Familia, and Ika-5 Utos. He is best known for his role as Chito Manaloto in the sitcom, Pepito Manaloto.
Vargas also starred in films, including Tween Academy: Class of 2012, My Kontrabida Girl, and Asintado. For his performance in Asintado, he won the rising star award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Actor at the 2015 FAMAS Awards, and Movie Supporting Actor of the Year at the 2015 PMPC Star Awards for Movies.
Filmography
Film
Television
Discography
Studio album
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Sparkle GMA Artist Center profile
1992 births
Living people
Filipino male television actors
Filipino male child actors
21st-century Filipino male singers
People from Olongapo
Male actors from Zambales
GMA Network personalities
GMA Music artists
Filipino television variety show hosts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20TV%20Brasil%20affiliates | TV Brasil is a publicly owned Brazilian television network made up of four owned-and-operated stations and over 35 affiliates. This is a list of TV Brasil's affiliates and broadcast relay stations, arranged alphabetically by state. Stations listed in bold are owned and operated by TV Brasil.
Affiliates
Amapá
Macapá - TV Tarumã (Channel 16.1)
Amazonas
Manaus - TV Encontro das Águas (Channel 2.1)
Bahia
Salvador - TVE Bahia (Channel 10.1)
Feira de Santana - TV Feira (Channel 2.1)
Vitória da Conquista - TV UESB (Channel 4.1)
Ceará
Fortaleza - TV Ceará (Channel 5.1)
Aracati - TV Aracati (Channel 7 VHF)
Distrito Federal
Brasília - TV Brasil Capital (Channel 2.1)
Espírito Santo
Vitória - TVE ES (Channel 2.1)
Guarapari - TV Guarapari (Channel 9.1)
Goiás
Caldas Novas - TV Caldas (34.1)
Goiânia - TV UFG (Channel 14.1)
Santa Helena de Goiás - TV Rios (14)
Maranhão
São Luís - TV Brasil São Luís (Channel 2.1)
Mato Grosso
Cuiabá - TV Universidade (Channel 2.1)
Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte - (Channel 9.1 and 9.2 (simulcast SD))
Poços de Caldas - TV Plan (Channel 47 UHF)
São Sebastião do Paraíso - TV Paraíso (Channel 10 VHF)
Paraíba
João Pessoa - TV Universitária (Channel 43.1)
Paraná
Curitiba - (Channel 9.1)
Francisco Beltrão - TV Beltrão (Channel 13 VHF)
Campo Mourão - TV Carajás (Channel 2 VHF and 59 Digital)
Pernambuco
Recife - TV Universitária (Channel 11.1)
Caruaru - TV Pernambuco (Channel 12 VHF)
Piauí
Parnaíba - TV Delta (Channel 2 VHF)
Picos - TV Picos (Channel 13 VHF)
Teresina - TV Antares (Channel 2.1)
Rio de Janeiro
Maricá - TV Barra Leste (Channel 46 UHF)
Rio de Janeiro - TV Brasil Rio de Janeiro (Channel 2.1)
Volta Redonda - TV Volta Redonda (Channel 3 VHF)
Rio Grande do Norte
Natal - TV Universitária (Channel 5.1)
Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre - TVE RS (Channel 30 Digital)
Caxias do Sul - UCS TV (Channel 27 UHF)
Roraima
Boa Vista - TV Universitária (Channel 2.1)
São Paulo
Americana - TV Todo Dia (Channel 46 UHF)
Barretos - TV Barretos (Channel 31 UHF)
Birigui - TV Birigui (Channel 19 UHF)
Cruzeiro - TV Cruzeiro (Channel 32 UHF)
Ibitinga - TV Cidade (Channel 42 UHF)
Jundiaí - Rede Paulista (Channel 14 UHF)
Matão - TV Matão (Channel 58 UHF)
Piracicaba - TV Beira Rio (Channel 32 UHF)
Ribeirão Preto - TV Thathi (Channel 33 UHF)
Santos - TV UniSantos (Channel 40 UHF)
São Bernardo do Campo - TV dos Trabalhadores (Canal 46 UHF)
São Carlos - TVE São Carlos (Channel 48 UHF)
São Paulo - TV Brasil São Paulo (Channel 68 UHF)
São Vicente - Santa Cecília TV (Channel 52 UHF)
Sertãozinho - STZ TV (Channel 59 UHF)
Sorocaba - TV Metropolitana (Channel 39 UHF)
Votuporanga - TV UNIFEV (Channel 55 UHF)
Santa Catarina
Florianópolis - TV USFC (Channel 63 Digital)
Araranguá - ARTV (Channel 5 VHF)
Tocantins
Araguaína - TV Arantins (Channel 13 VHF)
Broadcast relay stations
Amazonas
Tefé - Channel 12 VHF
Goiás
Goianésia - Channel 13 VHF
Maranhão
Arari - Channel 13 VHF
Cajari - Channel 42 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinemala | Cinemala () is a Malayalam television parody series that aired on Asianet.
Broadcast
The first episode aired on Asianet, a Malayalam news television network, on 20 August 1993. It was the first show aired on Asianet. The program was broadcast in thirty-minute episodes every Sunday at 1:30 pm (IST) until it stopped airing in 2013.
History
It started as a film-based satire, which later on began to delve into contemporary political and social issues. It focused on current events, often referencing figures such as politicians and media personalities in a satirical way. These public figures were played by mimicry artists from Malayalam television.
It was awarded a place in the Limca Book of Records as one of the longest-running TV shows. On 7 April 2013, it aired its 1,000th episode.
Cinemala 1000
To celebrate the broadcasting of the 1,000th episode of Cinemala, Asianet conducted a mega stage show on July 31, 2013 titled CINEMA LA 1000 at Gokulam Convention Centre, Kochi, Kerala. Leading actors Dileep and Salim Kumar were honored during the occasion. Mementos were presented to all actors who had been a part of the Cinemala. The show featured comedy skits by Cinemala actors as well as performances by other actors such as Suraj Venjaramoodu, Mamukkoya, Indrans, P. Jayachandran, Usha Uthup, Sithara (singer), Shamna Kasim, Subi, and Tesni Khan.
Cast
Subi Suresh
Thesni Khan
Saju Kodiyan
Manoj Guinness
Ramesh Pisharody
Dharmajan Bolgatty
Kottayam Nazeer
Kochu Preman
Dileep
Harisree Ashokan
Salim Kumar
Tini Tom
Guinness Pakru
Suraj
References
Malayalam-language television shows
Indian comedy television series
Asianet (TV channel) original programming
1993 Indian television series debuts
2000s Indian television series
2010s Indian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon%20mode%20service | The beacon mode service is a Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) telecommunications service aimed at spacecraft which are not communicated with (on a daily basis) via NASA's Deep Space Network. It is primarily designed to relay a spacecraft's "health" information, and secondarily its telecommunications status, using a simple signal that can be detected with a moderately-sized antenna. Beacon mode also enables spacecraft to communicate with one another on a daily basis, allowing for one spacecraft to act as a data proxy for another.
The CCSDS tone beacon mode configures the transceiver to transmit a CW tone. It can be used to signal other spacecraft to transmit their data to an orbiter; however, its primary function is to transmit spacecraft health information.
Addressing multiple spacecraft is accomplished by using four unique CW frequencies with 16 possible tones, used somewhat like DTMF signaling technology. In the outer solar system, UHF frequencies are not used; instead, the primary (or backup) transmitter is programmed to transmit the required tone (generally in the X or Ku band). Spacecraft may respond in any transmit configuration compatible with valid orbiter receive configurations, but outside the beacon mode service.
History
The beacon mode service is a new technological solution to the old problem of having to set up an active 2-way communication path with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit and more than 30 light-minutes away. It originated during the 1990s, when spacecraft transmitters became complex enough to support the service, and deep-space missions became too numerous for each to receive daily communications.
Current practice
NASA generally prefers that missions use eight or fewer tones, as the New Horizons mission uses. CCSDS specifications support 16 beacon-mode tones, but this is to future proof the protocol.
Typical operating parameters:
Tone #
Test tone;
Nothing to report;
Ready to report;
Need help with a minor onboard problem;
Need help with an onboard problem that is hindering operations;
In safe mode due to a severe onboard problem.
Craft using beacon mode
This list is incomplete, and does not cover geosynchronous craft:
Deep Space 1 was the first spacecraft to use the service.
New Horizons mission to Pluto, used for its 6-plus years of cruise-mode operation.
Mars Rovers, for daily data uplink notification to orbiters. Both(MER?)/all NASA Rovers are using the Proximity-1 Space Link Protocol to relay data to Earth and use beacon mode to signal that they have data to uplink.
Terminated missions which used the service:
Phoenix – The Phoenix lander descended to Mars on May 25, 2008, and operated for some months.
Civil and military use
There is no provision against civil telecommunications or military spacecraft using the beacon mode service; all CCSDS protocols are open to civilian and military use.
Some satellite telecom providers have used their own forms of beacon mode service on thei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutti%20i%20colori%20del%20silenzio | Tutti i colori del silenzio (in English: All the Colors of Silence) is a live studio album by Damo Suzuki's Network which was recorded in 2006. The live album is their unique performance recorded in Italy. This album is the first co-production of Palustre Records and Wallace records.
Track listing
1. "Tutti i colori del silenzio" - 46:50
Personnel
Damo Suzuki - Voice
Xabier Iriondo - Electric guitar and mahai metak
Mattia Coletti - Electric guitar
Diego Sapignoli - Drum, percussions
Andrea Belfi - Electronics
External links
Palustre Records catalog
Reviews from Wallace Records dot com (PDF 27Kb)
2006 live albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth%20Orthner | Helmuth F. "Helly" Orthner (March 27, 1941 – March 16, 2009) was a pioneering American scientist in the field of medical informatics. He was one of the founders of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC), which later grew into the American Medical Informatics Association. He was a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.
References
Medical Informatics Loses Pioneer. In Memoriam: Dr. Helmuth Orthner (1941-2009)
"You Have to Be There" - Twenty-five Years of SCAMC/AMIA Symposia
Obituary (including Biography) on Legacy.com
Health informaticians
American computer scientists
Technical University of Munich alumni
2009 deaths
1941 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopark%20Shetland | Geopark Shetland is the name used by the Geopark formally established in September 2009 on its entry into the European Geoparks Network. The Geopark extends across the entire Shetland archipelago off the north coast of mainland Scotland. It is administered by the Shetland Amenity Trust in partnership with organisations such as Scottish Natural Heritage, the Shetland Islands Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and various community and tourism associations.
Features
Shetland's natural attractions are focussed on its extensive and spectacular coastline, along which its complex geology is magnificently displayed. This includes most of the rock groups that make up the highlands of Scotland, including Lewisian gneiss, rocks of the Moine Supergroup, Dalradian and Old Red Sandstone, together with the most complete ophiolite section to be found in Britain. Of particular note are the cliff section through an extinct volcano at Esha Ness in Northmavine, the ocean floor rocks that underlie the eastern side of the island of Unst and much of Fetlar, and the sand tombolo at St Ninian's Isle off South Mainland.
References
Geography of Shetland
Protected areas of Shetland
Tourist attractions in Shetland
2009 establishments in Scotland
Geoparks in Scotland
Shetland
Parks in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan%20Calcul | Plan Calcul was a French governmental program to promote a national or European computer industry and associated research and education activities.
History
The plan was approved in July 1966 by President Charles de Gaulle, in the aftermath of two key events that made his government worry about French dependence on the US computer industry. In the mid-1960s, the United States denied export licenses for American-made IBM and CDC computers to the French Commissariat à l'énergie atomique in order to prevent it from perfecting its H bomb. Meanwhile, in 1964, General Electric had acquired a majority of Compagnie des Machines Bull, the largest French computer manufacturer, which had the second highest market share in France, after IBM, and was a leading IT equipment maker in Europe. Following this partial takeover, known as "Affaire Bull", GE-Bull dropped two Bull computers from its product line.
Responsibility for administering the plan was given to a newly created government agency, (Information Bureau), answering directly to the prime minister.
Compagnie Internationale d'Informatique
As part of the program, in December 1966, the Compagnie Internationale d'Informatique (CII) was established as a manufacturer of commercial and scientific computers, initially under licence from Scientific Data Systems. The new company was intended to compete not only in the process control and military market, where its staff was already seasoned, but also in the office computing sector of the French market, where IBM and Bull were dominant at the time. The plan enacted government subsidies for CII between 1967 and 1971, and was reconducted for another four years. A minor side of the plan was devoted to peripherals, while CII's main parent company, Thomson-CSF, received government support to develop its semiconductor plants and R & D. Overall, while CII mainframes benefitted from preferential procurement by the French government, the Plan Calcul left peripherals, components and small computers makers compete on the free market. The same went for software companies, which were already thriving in France.
On the research side, the program also led to the creation of L'Institut de recherche en informatique et en automatique (IRIA) in 1967, which later became INRIA. It was accompanied with a vast educational effort in programming and computer science.
In the late 1960s, CII announced its new, internally designed mainframes Iris 50 [1970] and Iris 80 [1971], and developed a mini-computer, Mitra 15 (1971), which became a commercial success in the following decade. The company also was a minority participant in the production of magnetic periphals thru part ownership of Magnetic Peripherals Inc.
IBM had more than 50% market share in almost every European country. Information Bureau head warned that international cooperation was necessary, however, as "something must happen or there won't be a European computer industry". The French government had spent more than $100 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canes%20Venatici%20II | Canes Venatici II or CVn II is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Canes Venatici constellation and discovered in 2006 in data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy is located at a distance of about 150 kpc from the Sun and moves towards the Sun with the velocity of about 130 km/s. It is classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) meaning that it has an elliptical (ratio of axes ~ 2:1) shape with a half-light radius of about .
CVn II is one of the smallest and faintest satellites of the Milky Way—its integrated luminosity is about 8,000 times that of the Sun (absolute visible magnitude of about −4.9), which is much lower than the luminosity of a typical globular cluster. However, its mass is about 2.5 million solar masses, which means that its mass to light ratio is around 340. A high mass to light ratio implies that CVn II is dominated by dark matter.
The stellar population of CVn II consists mainly of old stars formed more than 12 billion years ago. The metallicity of these old stars is also very low at , which means that they contain 150 times less heavy elements than the Sun. The stars of CVn II were probably among the first stars to form in the Universe. Currently there is no star formation in CVn II. Measurements have so far failed to detect neutral hydrogen in it—the upper limit is solar masses.
Notes
References
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Canes Venatici
Local Group
Milky Way Subgroup
4713558
? |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20Movie%20Database | The Korean Movie Database (KMDb) is a South Korean online database of information related to Korean movies, animation, actors, television shows, production crew personnel and other film-related information. KMDb launched in February 2006 by Korean Film Archive. While it was modeled after the American online commercial film archive, Internet Movie Database, the site is a public site.
See also
Cinema of Korea
Allmovie
Filmweb
FindAnyFilm.com
Rotten Tomatoes
References
External links
Official Website
Korean Movie Website
South Korean film websites
Internet properties established in 2006
Online film databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusteer | Trusteer is a Boston-based computer security division of IBM, responsible for a suite of security software. Founded by Mickey Boodaei and Rakesh K. Loonkar, in Israel in 2006, Trusteer was acquired in September 2013 by IBM for $1 billion.
Trusteer's products aim to block online threats from malware and phishing attacks and to support regulatory compliance requirements. Trusteer's malware research team aims to analyze information received from the installed base of 30,000,000 user endpoints and hundreds of organizations.
Trusteer has a presence in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Japan and China.
Products
Trusteer's products aim to prevent incidents at the point of attack while investigating their source to mitigate future attacks. In addition, Trusteer allows organizations to receive immediate alerts, and to report whenever a new threat is launched against them or their customers.
Trusteer Rapport
Trusteer Rapport is security software advertised as an additional layer of security to anti-virus software. It is designed to protect confidential data, such as account credentials, from being stolen by malicious software (malware) and via phishing. To achieve this goal, the software includes anti-phishing measures to protect against misdirection and attempts to prevent malicious screen scraping; it attempts to protect users against the following forms of attacks: man-in-the-browser, man-in-the-middle, session hijacking and screen capturing.
On installation, Rapport also tries to remove existing financial malware from end-user machines and to prevent future infections.
The client is available for multiple platforms in the form of a browser extension. As of March 2020, the Windows version supports Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows 7 and later; while the macOS version supports Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and later.
Financial institutions offer the software free of charge with a view to making online banking safer for customers. Banks which offer the software, or have offered it in the past, include Bank of America, Société Générale, Tangerine, INGDirect, HSBC, CIBC, BMO, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), Ecobank Davivienda and First Republic Bank.
Some banks which had offered the software discontinued offering it. For instance, NatWest and RBS withdrew use in January 2019, stating that "The security and fraud prevention technologies we now use provide you a higher and far broader level of protection."
Trusteer Pinpoint
Trusteer Pinpoint is a web-based service that allows financial institutions to detect and mitigate malware, phishing and account takeover attacks without installing any software on endpoint devices. It allows companies concerned about online fraud or data theft to scan their Web traffic to ensure that an outside laptop or desktop that is brought into a corporate network is not infected with malware before allowing the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20War | Internet War may refer to:
2007 cyberattacks on Estonia
Cyberattack
Cyberattacks during the 2008 South Ossetia war
Cyberterrorism
Cyberwarfare
Denial-of-service attack
Flamewar
First "Internet" War
iWar
2009 Macanese legislative election#Internet war
Scientology versus the Internet
War of Internet Addiction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s%20Greatest%20Athlete%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of Australia's Greatest Athlete was broadcast on the Nine Network and hosted by Andrew Voss and Michael Slater, with Ricky Ponting as a sideline commentator. It was sponsored by Rexona, which had naming rights to the show.
Participants
Joel Griffiths - Griffiths is an A-League soccer player, currently on loan to Chinese domestic football (soccer) side Beijing Guoan. He was 29 years old, 77 kilograms and 181 centimeters tall. The charity he supported is Ronald McDonald House.
Jamie Whincup - Whincup is one of Australia's leading Supercars drivers. He is considered an underdog due to the perception that he is involved in the least athletic sport. He was 25 years old, 78 kilograms and 178 centimeters tall. The charity he supported is the Surf Life Saving Foundation.
Steve Hooker - Hooker is a 2008 Beijing Olympic Games gold medalist in pole vaulting, the first male Australian track and field competitor to win gold since 1968. He was 26 years old, 85 kilograms and 188 centimeters tall.
Brett Deledio - Deledio plays in the AFL with the Richmond Tigers. Multi-skilled, Brett turned down a spot in the Victorian youth cricket team in his younger years to focus on Australian Rules Football. He was 21 years old, 87 kilograms and 189 centimeters tall. The charity he supported is the Marsh Foundation.
Lote Tuqiri - Tuquiri played for the Wallabies at the time of the show. Previously he had played for the Brisbane Broncos, making him the only contestant to play professionally in two football codes. He was 29 years old, 103 kilograms and 191 centimeters tall. The charity he supported is the RSPCA.
Ky Hurst - Hurst is one of Australia's greatest Ironmen. He is the only man to win seven Ironman titles. He was 27 years old, 87 kilograms and is 182 centimeters tall. The charity he supported is the Kids Help Line.
Billy Slater - Slater is a star of the NRL, playing with the Melbourne Storm, Queensland Maroons and Australia. He was 25 years of age, 87 kilograms and 179 centimeters tall. The charity he is supporting is the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Andrew Symonds - Symonds is one of Australia's more popular and controversial cricketers. Considered an all-rounder, Symonds was playing for both Australia's Test and One-Day teams. He was 33 years old, 94 kilograms and 187 centimeters tall. Symonds is also supporting the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Challenges and results
Episode 1
Golf Challenge (1st- Jamie Whincup, Equal 2nd- Billy Slater, Equal 2nd- Lote Tuqiri)
Cricket Challenge (1st- Andrew Symonds, 2nd- Brett Deledio, 3rd- Steve Hooker)
Episode 2
Basketball Challenge (1st- Steve Hooker, 2nd- Billy Slater, 3rd- Brett Deledio)
Mini Ironman Challenge (1st- Ky Hurst, 2nd- Billy Slater, 3rd- Jamie Whincup)
Episode 3
1-on-1 Try Challenge (1st- Billy Slater, 2nd- Steve Hooker, 3rd- Andrew Symonds)
Bench Press (1st- Brett Deledio, 2nd- Billy Slater, 3rd- Joel Griffiths)
Episode 4
40 meter beach sprint (1st- Steve Hooker, 2nd- Billy Sl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetical%20physics | Cybernetical physics is a scientific area on the border of cybernetics and physics which studies physical systems with cybernetical methods. Cybernetical methods are understood as methods developed within control theory, information theory, systems theory and related areas: control design, estimation, identification, optimization, pattern recognition, signal processing, image processing, etc. Physical systems are also understood in a broad sense; they may be either lifeless, living nature or of artificial (engineering) origin, and must have reasonably understood dynamics and models suitable for posing cybernetical problems. Research objectives in cybernetical physics are frequently formulated as analyses of a class of possible system state changes under external (controlling) actions of a certain class. An auxiliary goal is designing the controlling actions required to achieve a prespecified property change. Among typical control action classes are functions which are constant in time (bifurcation analysis, optimization), functions which depend only on time (vibration mechanics, spectroscopic studies, program control), and functions whose value depends on measurement made at the same time or on previous instances. The last class is of special interest since these functions correspond to system analysis by means of external feedback (feedback control).
Roots of cybernetical physics
Until recently no creative interaction of physics and control theory (cybernetics) had been seen and no control theory methods were directly used for discovering new physical effects and phenomena. The situation dramatically changed in the 1990s when two new areas emerged: control of chaos and quantum control.
Control of chaos
In 1990 a paper was published in Physical Review Letters by Edward Ott, Celso Grebogi and James Yorke from the University of Maryland reporting that even small feedback action can dramatically change the behavior of a nonlinear system, e.g., turn chaotic motions into periodic ones and vice versa. The idea almost immediately became popular in the physics community, and since 1990 hundreds of papers have been published demonstrating the ability of small control, with or without feedback, to significantly change the dynamics of real or model systems. By 2003, this paper by Ott, Grebogi and Yorke had been quoted over 1300 times whilst the total number of papers relating to control of chaos exceeded 4000 by the beginning of the 21st century, with 300-400 papers per year being published in peer-reviewed journals. The method proposed in is now called the OGY-method after the authors' initials.
Later, a number of other methods were proposed for transforming chaotic trajectories into periodic ones, for example delayed feedback (Pyragas method). Numerous nonlinear and adaptive control methods were also applied for the control of chaos, see surveys in.
It is important that the results obtained were interpreted as discovering new properties of phys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s%20Greatest%20Athlete%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Australia's Greatest Athlete was broadcast on the Seven Network and hosted by Mark Beretta and Tom Williams, with Ricky Ponting presenting occasional fitness tips and interviews with the competitors in video packages. It was once again sponsored by Rexona, which had naming rights to the show.
Filming took place on Couran Cove Island Resort on South Stradbroke Island off the Gold Coast, Queensland.
Billy Slater, who won the first season of the show, returned to defend his title. By the end of the series, Slater had successfully defended his title by just 5 points, winning the title, trophy and $10,000 for the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane.
The season began on 6 February 2010 and aired at 4:30 pm on both Saturdays and Sundays, and concluded on 28 February 2010.
Participants
Matthew Mitcham – Olympic diving gold medallist
Jason Culina – A-League soccer player
Cameron Ling – Australian rules footballer
James O'Connor – Rugby Union player
Wendell Sailor – Rugby league and Rugby Union player
Craig Lowndes – V8 Supercar driver
Shannon Eckstein – Two-time world Ironman champion
Billy Slater – NRL player and series defending champion
Episodes
Episode 1
Mini Iron-man Challenge
Poles Challenge
Episode 2
25 m Swimming Challenge
Soccer Challenge
Episode 3
Rugby Oztag Challenge
Jet Ski Challenge
Episode 4
40m Sprint
Rock Climbing Challenge
Episode 5
NRL Sled Push
Bench Press Challenge
Episode 6
Core Strength Challenge
Kayaking Challenge
Episode 7
V8 Buggy Challenge
AFL Kick For Goal
Episode 8
Pinguet Challenges
Results table
The following table shows how many points each competitor earned throughout the series.
† indicates this event was the 'sports specific challenge' for this athlete
The contestant won the challenge
The contestant came second in the challenge
The contestant came last in the challenge
The contestant won the series
The contestant came second overall in the series
The contestant came last overall in the series
Trivia
Matthew Mitcham and Cameron Ling were the only competitors not to have won an event.
References
External links
Official Website
2010 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor | DOR, Dor, or DoR may refer to:
Computer games and characters
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, a turn-based tactics video game for the Nintendo DS
Dor, a magician in the fictional Xanth universe; see Magicians of Xanth
WWE Day of Reckoning, a Nintendo Gamecube video game
Geography
Dör, a village in Hungary
Dor, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran
Dor, Israel, a moshav in northern Israel
Ein Dor, a kibbutz in northern Israel
Tel Dor, an archaeological site in Israel on the site of Dor or Dora, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites
Dori Airport, an airport in Burkina Faso with the IATA code DOR
Dorset, county in England, Chapman code
People
Given name
Dor Bahadur Bista (born ca. 1924–1926), Nepalese anthropologist, social scientist and activist
Dor Daniel (born 1982), Israeli singer songwriter
Dor Elo (born 1993), Israeli football player
D'or Fischer (born 1981), American-Israeli basketball player
Dor Guez (born ca. 1980), Israeli artist and scholar
Dor Hugi (born 1995), Israeli football player
Dor Malul (born 1989), Israeli football player
Dor Micha (born 1992), Israeli football player
Dor Peretz (born 1995), Israeli football player
Surname
Friðrik Dór (born 1988), Icelandic R&B and pop singer and songwriter
Georges Dor (1931–2001), Québécois author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator, theatrical producer and director
Gil Dor (born 1952), Israeli guitar player
Gisele Ben-Dor (born 1955), American Israeli orchestra conductor of Uruguayan origin
Henri Dor (1835–1912), Swiss ophthalmologist
Jacqueline Dor (1929–1972), French film actress
Karin Dor (1936–2017), German actress
Milo Dor (1923–2005), Serbian-Austrian author
Oren Ben-Dor (fl. 2000s– ), professor of law and philosophy
Rena Dor (1917–2000), Greek actress and a singer
Aliases
Rod McKuen (born 1933), who used Dor as a stage name on some 1950s recordings
Science
Deadly Orgone Radiation, a theory of Wilhelm Reich
Delta-DOR, (or Δ-DOR for short), Differential One-Way Ranging, an interplanetary radio-tracking and navigation technique
Diagnostic odds ratio, a statistical metric
Dorado (constellation), from its standard astronomical abbreviation
Dor procedure, a cardiac surgery treatment for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
Earth-boring dung beetle, or dor beetles, of the family Geotrupidae
Delta-opioid receptors, a receptor that has enkephalins as its endogenous ligand
Definition of Ready, a term in Scrum (software development)
, a cultivar of Karuka
Field biology acronym for Dead On the Road
Other
Day of Remembrance (disambiguation)
Department of Revenue (disambiguation)
Directly Operated Railways, a holding company of the UK Department of Transport to run rail franchises that require public ownership
Dor (political party), an Israeli pensioners' party
D. Or. used in legal citations for United States District Court for the District of Oregon
Dance-oriented rock or dance-rock, a genre dance-infused rock music
Dor (film), |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20tariff | A water tariff (often called water rate in the United States and Canada) is a price assigned to water supplied by a public utility through a piped network to its customers. The term is also often applied to wastewater tariffs. Water and wastewater tariffs are not charged for water itself, but to recover the costs of water treatment, water storage, transporting it to customers, collecting and treating wastewater, as well as billing and collection. Prices paid for water itself are different from water tariffs. They exist in a few countries and are called water abstraction charges or fees. Abstraction charges are not covered in this article, but in the article on water pricing). Water tariffs vary widely in their structure and level between countries, cities and sometimes between user categories (residential, commercial, industrial or public buildings). The mechanisms to adjust tariffs also vary widely.
Most water utilities in the world are publicly owned, but some are privately owned or managed (see water privatization). Utilities are network industries and natural monopolies. Economic theory predicts that unregulated private utilities set the price of their product at a level that allows to extract a monopoly profit. However, in reality tariffs charged by utilities are regulated. They can be set below costs, at the level of cost recovery without a return on capital, or at the level of cost recovery including a predetermined rate of return on capital. In many developing countries tariffs are set below the level of cost recovery, even without considering a rate of return on capital [ref]. This often leads to a lack of maintenance and requires significant subsidies for both investment and operation. In developed countries water and, to a lesser degree, wastewater tariffs, are typically set close to or at the level of cost recovery, sometimes including an allowance for profit[ref].
Criteria for tariff setting
Water tariffs are set based on a number of formal criteria defined by law, as well as informal criteria. Formal criteria typically include:
financial criteria (cost recovery),
economic criteria (efficiency pricing based on marginal cost) and sometimes
environmental criteria (incentives for water conservation).
Social and political considerations often are also important in setting tariffs. Tariff structure and levels are influenced in some cases by the desire to avoid an overly high burden for poor users. Political considerations in water pricing often lead to a delay in the approval of tariff increases in the run-up to elections. Another criterion for tariff setting is that water tariffs should be easy to understand for consumers. This is not always the case for the more complex types of tariffs, such as increasing-block tariffs and tariffs that differentiate between different categories of users.
Tariff structures
There are numerous different tariff structures. Their prevalence differs between countries, as shown by international tar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic%20Research%20Unit%20documents | Climatic Research Unit documents including thousands of e-mails and other computer files were stolen from a server at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in a hacking incident in November 2009. The documents were redistributed first through several blogs of global warming deniers, who alleged that the documents indicated misconduct by leading climate scientists. A series of investigations rejected these allegations, while concluding that CRU scientists should have been more open with distributing data and methods on request. Precisely six committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct. The scientific consensus that global warming is occurring as a result of human activity remained unchanged by the end of the investigations.
The incident occurred shortly before the opening December 2009 Copenhagen global climate summit. It has prompted general discussion about increasing the openness of scientific data (though the majority of climate data have always been freely available). Scientists, scientific organisations, and government officials have stated that the incident does not affect the overall scientific case for climate change. Andrew Revkin reported in The New York Times that "The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument."
Content of the documents
The material comprised more than 1,000 e-mails, 2,000 documents, as well as commented source code, pertaining to climate change research covering a period from 1996 until 2009. Some of the e-mails which have been widely publicised included discussions of how to combat the arguments of climate change sceptics, unflattering comments about sceptics, queries from journalists, and drafts of scientific papers. There have been assertions that these discussions indicated efforts to shut out dissenters and their points of view, and included discussions about destroying files in order to prevent them from being revealed under the UK Freedom of Information Act 2000.
A review by the Associated Press of all the e-mails found that they did not support claims of faking of science, but did show disdain for critics. Scientists had discussed avoiding sharing information with critics, but the documents showed no evidence that any data was destroyed. Researchers also discussed in e-mails how information they had released on request was used by critics to make personal attacks on researchers. In an interview with The Guardian, Phil Jones said "Some of the emails probably had poorly chosen words and were sent in the heat of the moment, when I was frustrated. I do regret sending some of them. We've not deleted any emails or data here at CRU." He confirmed that the e-mails that had sparked the most controversy appeared to be genuine.
E-mails
Most of the e-mails concerned technical and mundane aspects of climate resea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa%27ib%20Ahl%20al-Haq | Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH; Aṣaʾib ʾAhl al-Haqq, "League of the Righteous"), also known as the Khazali Network (), is a radical Iraqi Shi'a political party and paramilitary group active in the Iraqi insurgency and Syrian Civil War. During the Iraq War it was known as Iraq's largest "Special Group" (the American term for Iran-backed Shia paramilitaries in Iraq), and was since 2016 part of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in the 41st, 42nd, and 43rd Brigades, cooperating with the Iraqi government in its fight against ISIS.
AAH is funded, trained, equipped and guided by IRGC's Quds Force and Hezbollah. Members of AAH, as part of PMF, receive Iraqi government salaries after the PMF units were officially integrated into Iraqi security forces in 2018.
AAH has claimed responsibility for over 6,000 attacks on U.S.-led Coalition forces between 2006 and 2011 seeking to compel U.S. forces to withdraw completely from Iraq. The militia's main tactic was to plant IEDs along the roads used by U.S. forces. This lethal roadside bomb killed and wounded hundreds of Coalition troops. Other tactics include sniper attacks, kidnappings, rocket and RPG attacks. Since 2011, AAH has assassinated Iraqi political opponents, killed civilian protesters, and continued attacks on U.S. diplomatic and military presence. In 2017, AAH created a party with the same name.
On 3 January 2020, the U.S. Department of State announced its intent to designate AAH a terrorist organization along with two of its leaders, Qais al-Khazali and his brother Laith al-Khazali, who were designated Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT).
History
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq split from the Sadrist Movement in 2004. Qais al-Khazali split from Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army after the Shi'a uprising in 2004 to create his own Khazali network. When the Mahdi Army signed a cease-fire with the government and the Americans and the fighting stopped, Khazali continued fighting, and during the battle Khazali was already issuing his own orders to militiamen without Muqtada al-Sadr's approval. The group's leadership (which includes Khazali, Abd al-Hadi al-Darraji (a politician in Muqtada al-Sadr's Sadr Movement) and Akram al-Kaabi), however, reconciled with al-Sadr in mid-2005. In July 2006, Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq was founded and became one of the Special Groups which operated more independently from the rest of the Mahdi Army. It became a completely independent organisation after the Mahdi Army's disbanding after the 2008 Shi'a uprising. In July 2006, A part of AAH fought alongside Hezbollah in 2006 Lebanon War against Israel. In November 2008 when Sadr created the Promised Day Brigade to succeed the Mahdi Army, he asked AAH (and other Special Groups) to join, but they declined.
AAH has claimed responsibility for over 6,000 attacks in Iraq including the October 10, 2006 attack on Camp Falcon, the assassination of the American military commander in Najaf, the May 6, 2006 downing of a British Lynx helicopter and the Octo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma%20Berenices%20%28dwarf%20galaxy%29 | Coma Berenices or Com is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Coma Berenices constellation and discovered in 2006 in data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy is located at the distance of about 44 kpc from the Sun and moves away from the Sun with the velocity of about 98 km/s. It is classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) meaning that it has an elliptical (ratio of axes ~ 5:3) shape with the half-light radius of about 70 pc.
Com is one of the smallest and faintest satellites of the Milky Way—its integrated luminosity is about times that of the Sun (absolute visible magnitude of about −4.1), which is much lower than the luminosity of the majority of globular clusters. However, its mass is about 1.2 million solar masses, which means that galaxy's mass to light ratio is around 450. A high mass to light ratio implies that Com is dominated by the dark matter.
The stellar population of Com consists mainly of old stars formed more than 12 billion years ago. The metallicity of these old stars is also very low at , which means that they contain 350 times less heavy elements than the Sun. The stars of Com were probably among the first stars to form in the Universe and currently there is no star formation in Com. The measurements have so far failed to detect any neutral hydrogen in it—the upper limit is only 46 solar masses.
Coma Dwarf is located near the Sagittarius Stream, which is made of stars stripped from the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy. This association may indicate that Com is a former satellite of star cluster from that galaxy.
Notes
References
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Coma Berenices
Local Group
Milky Way Subgroup
4713557
? |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft%3A%20The%20Board%20Game | Warcraft: The Board Game is a board game adaptation of the Warcraft series of computer games, created by Kevin Wilson and released in 2003 by Fantasy Flight Games. It takes elements primarily from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, but also incorporates elements from Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
Up to four players may play this game, with each player taking on one of the four playable factions from Warcraft III: The Humans, Orcs, Night Elves, and Undead. Team play is also possible, with the Human and Night Elf players forming the Alliance while the Orc and Undead players forming the Horde. Though the game uses a standard setup, scenario-based gameplay is also possible, and sample scenarios and parts required for them are provided with the game.
Gameplay
The game board is a modular board, allowing players to freely design the shape and size of the game board. Depicted on each piece is a collection of hexes. Some hexes contain gold mines, some lumber, some mountains, and some are strategic locations that are worth victory points. Finally, each map contains a hex containing a player's town hall. At the town hall hex, each player begins with a small supply of workers, military units, and some gold and lumber. Gold and lumber are the two main resources of Warcraft: The Board Game, as with Warcraft III. Similarly, workers are used to harvest resources, which are used to build units and buildings, which are then used to raise an army and defeat opposing forces. Each player also begins the game with an Experience Card deck, which is unique to each player.
The game proceeds in turns, with each turn divided into four phases:
In the Move phase, players move the units on the board: flying units and workers may move up to two hexes while other units may only move one. Hexes with mountains, however, are impassible to all except flying units. Units must stop when they enter a hex containing enemy forces, in which case combat occurs. Up to three workers and three military units (from one side, in a team game) may occupy one hex at any time.
In the Harvest phase, workers present at a gold mine or lumber site produce gold and lumber. When harvesting, players must roll a special resource die for each worker to determine how many resources are produced. If a worker produces more than two of a resource, then the resource is depleted; if this occurs twice, then the hex ceases to produce resources for the rest of the game. Workers need not harvest resources when at a resource-producing site, as workers may be saved for building construction, which occurs later in the turn.
In the Deploy phase, players may place any units built in the previous turn on the board. Players also complete any buildings that began construction in a previous turn. Players are not obligated to place all their units or complete any of their buildings. Units are placed at either the player's town hex, or at an outpost, which are built by workers in the field.
In the Spen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosonic%20bonding | Thermosonic bonding is widely used to wire bond silicon integrated circuits into computers. Alexander Coucoulas was named "Father of Thermosonic Bonding" by George Harman, the world's foremost authority on wire bonding, where he referenced Coucoulas's leading edge publications in his book, Wire Bonding In Microelectronics. Owing to the well proven reliability of thermosonic bonds, it is extensively used to connect the central processing units (CPUs), which are encapsulated silicon integrated circuits that serve as the "brains" of today's computers.
Description
A thermosonic bond is formed using a set of parameters which include ultrasonic, thermal and mechanical (force) energies. A thermosonic bonding machine includes a magnetostrictive or piezoelectric-type transducer which is used to convert electrical energy into vibratory motion which is known as piezoelectricity. The vibratory motion travels along the coupler system, a portion which is tapered to serve as the velocity transformer. The velocity transformer amplifies the oscillatory motion and delivers it to a heated bonding tip. It is akin to a friction bond, since the introduction of ultrasonic energy (via a bonding tool vertically attached to an ultrasonic transformer or horn) simultaneously delivers a force and vibratory or scrubbing motion to the interfacial contact points between a pre-heated deforming lead-wire and the metallized pads of a silicon integrated circuit. In addition to the delivery of thermal energy, the transmission of ultrasonic vibratory energy creates an ultrasonic softening effect by interacting at the atomic lattice level of the preheated lead wire. These two softening effects dramatically facilitates the lead wire deformation by forming the desirable contact area using relatively low temperatures and forces. As a result of the frictional action and ultrasonic softening induced in the preheated lead wire during the bonding cycle, thermosonic bonding can be used to reliably bond high melting point lead wires (such as gold and lower cost aluminum and copper) using relatively low bonding parameters. This ensures that the fragile and costly silicon integrated circuit chip is not exposed to potentially damaging conditions by having to use higher bonding parameters (ultrasonic energy, temperatures or mechanical forces) to deform the lead wire in forming the required contact area during the bonding process.
Background
A thermosonic bond falls in the category of a solid state metallic bond which is formed by mating two metal surfaces well below their respective melting points. Coucoulas introduced Thermosonic bonding which significantly improved upon the bond-reliability produced by available commercial solid-state bonding machines where he pre-heated the lead wire (and/or metallized silicon chip) prior to introducing an ultrasonic energy cycle. In addition to thermal softening the lead wire, the subsequent delivery of ultrasonic energy produced further softening by inter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSeaMap | OpenSeaMap is a software project collecting freely usable nautical information and geospatial data to create a worldwide nautical chart. This chart is available on the OpenSeaMap website, and can also be downloaded for use as an electronic chart for offline applications.
The project is part of OpenStreetMap. OpenSeaMap is part of the OpenStreetMap database, and complements the spatial data with nautical information. Such data may be used in accordance with the Open Database License. This ensures integration into printed materials, websites and applications is possible, without being limited by restrictive licenses, or having to pay fees.
History
The idea for the project was born at an OpenStreetMap developer conference in autumn 2008 at the Linux Hotel in Essen, Germany. A group of boaters and programmers decided to extend the coverage of OpenStreetMap to the seas and fresh water bodies. From the start the project has been worldwide and multilingual. By the end of 2009, the design and architecture of the project had been created, and a sample harbor "Warnemünde" was created to serve as an example chart. Since autumn 2009, a dedicated server has been available and the project is engaged in several collaborations with other free projects and organizations. In January 2010, OpenSeaMap was given a booth at boot Düsseldorf, Europe's largest boat show, allowing volunteers to present the project to a large audience of specialists for the first time.
Contents of the chart
Charts will show lighthouses, lateral buoy, cardinal marks and other navigational aids. In the ports, facilities will be mapped (port wall, pier, walkways, docks, fueling stations, loading cranes, access roads, railway lines, ferry lines). Similarly, public authorities, shipbuilders and repairers, as well as sanitation and utility facilities will be displayed. The navigational attributes correspond to the international standard IHO S-57.
Water depths are not yet covered, because the database is not designed for three-dimensional coordinates. However, the plan is to eventually integrate a bathymetric model to describe the seabed.
The data are presented in multiple levels with OpenLayers on the base map of OpenStreetMap. The base map contains all the possible objects from OpenStreetMap. OpenSeaMap includes additional layers such as aids to navigation, ports and temporary racing events.
Applications
The chart is for planning sailing and boat trips. It will also be useful as a guide for tourists. It is not intended to replace official charts.
Online Map
The map is available to any computer with an internet connection from the website OpenSeaMap.org. This map is updated daily.
Offline Map
The map can also be loaded on local data storage and can be used on any PC without internet access. This map will also permit use on other devices, such as GPS devices from Garmin and Lowrance, phones, and PDAs. The off-map is regularly updated, usually every week.
App for iPad, iPhone, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNAerator | JNAerator is a computer programming tool for the Java programming language which automatically generates the Java Native Access (JNA) or BridJ code needed to call C, C++ and Objective-C libraries from Java code.
It reads in ANSI C header files and emits Java code. Some optional customization can be done through command line options, which can be saved in configuration files.
JNAerator does not need any native compiling beyond that of the targeted dynamic library (all of the glue code is in Java), which helps simplify the process of binding Java to C native libraries when compared to Java Native Interface (JNI)-based means.
Its output is typically larger and harder to use than hand-crafted JNA bindings, but it saves time and effort for bindings of large libraries with JNA.
JNAerator Studio
While JNAerator is mainly a command-line-based tool, it also contains a limited GUI that's ideal for simple quick generation experiments.
It can be launched from the Web using the direct WebStart link from the project's main page, or by double-clicking on JNAerator's JAR executable archive.
Uses
NativeLibs4Java gathers a few JNAerator-generated Java wrappers for native libraries:
JavaCL and OpenCL4Java, OpenCL library
Mono4Java : Mono/.NET embedding API
Mac OS X Frameworks, work being integrated to Rococoa
See also
Gluegen, a similar tool used by the Java OpenGL (JOGL) project but needs compiling of native code and provides added runtime features such as argument bounds checks (this Wikipedia page was copied over and adapted from there)
SWIG, another free computer software tool used to connect programs written in C/C++ with various scripting languages, and to C# and Java. It also needs native compiling.
External links
NativeLibs4Java site on Google Code Archive
BridJ site on googlecode.com
Java platform
Application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamim%20Shah | Jamim Shah () (1963–2010) was a Nepalese media entrepreneur and the chairman of Channel Nepal Pvt. Ltd. He was the pioneer of commercial cable television network in Nepal with over 1,000 kilometres of cable network. He also had two newspapers (now closed) and a television channel Channel Nepal, which was the first satellite television station in Nepal.
Career
Jamim Shah, a media tycoon, was the owner of two newspapers, a television station and had a virtual monopoly in the distribution of satellite television channel in Kathmandu through his large cable network. He worked for the first company in Nepal to uplink via satellite. Two days before the launch, the Ministry of Information and Communication told the Space and Time company it had an incomplete test of its equipment. Space and Time was trying to get the approval from the government to begin. They figured all paperwork was in order. However, the green light was yet to come. Space and Time was also beginning to have issues with India, China, and Pakistan. Space and Time suspended India's viewing for a week. The satellite license was important to Shah because with it, Channel Nepal would be beamed to 52 countries in Asia. Jamim received his license in 1993. However, his license was later revoked by the government on the grounds that the company had not paid its dues. The company was allowed to go ahead with transmission but wanted to expand further.
He was accused of being a henchman of Dawood Ibrahim and Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, which he denied, and was blamed for using his television channel to whip up anti-India violence. Channel Nepal was banned temporarily in 2000 after wrongly attributing anti-Nepal comments to Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan, sparking riots which left four people dead and 180 people injured in Nepal.
Death
Jamim Shah was gunned down by two assailants on motorcycles near the French embassy on 7 February 2010 in Kathmandu. The assailants were on a motorcycle with plate number Ba15Pa8733. Shah was accused of having ties to both a major Indian crime syndicate and to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Shah received two gun shots to the head and one shot to the chest after being shot in broad daylight. He later died of his injuries. Shah had received death threats prior to being gunned down. He was under a lot of stress in the days before the attack.
Investigation
The police linked Shah while alive to the Indian underworld including Dawood Ibrahim, India's most wanted. Shah had previously denied these allegations.
India's underworld don Bhagwant Singh, alias Bharat Nepali, confessed to Jamim Shah's death. He said, "We killed Jamim. This will be the fate of anyone who stands against India." Nepali was later killed by another henchman named don Chhotoa Rajan of Bangkok, Thailand.
The police say the same hit man that killed Shah also possibly killed Faizan Ahmad, the general secretary of the Islamic Association, and tried to kill Y |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20situ%20adaptive%20tabulation | In situ adaptive tabulation (ISAT) is an algorithm for the approximation of nonlinear relationships. ISAT is based on multiple linear regressions that are dynamically added as additional information is discovered. The technique is adaptive as it adds new linear regressions dynamically to a store of possible retrieval points. ISAT maintains error control by defining finer granularity in regions of increased nonlinearity. A binary tree search transverses cutting hyper-planes to locate a local linear approximation. ISAT is an alternative to artificial neural networks that is receiving increased attention for desirable characteristics, namely:
scales quadratically with increased dimension
approximates functions with discontinuities
maintains explicit bounds on approximation error
controls local derivatives of the approximating function
delivers new data training without re-optimization
ISAT was first proposed by Stephen B. Pope for computational reduction of turbulent combustion simulation and later extended to model predictive control. It has been generalized to an ISAT framework that operates based on any input and output data regardless of the application. An improved version of the algorithm was proposed just over a decade later of the original publication, including new features that allow you to improve the efficiency of the search for tabulated data, as well as error control.
See also
Predictive analytics
Radial basis function network
Recurrent neural networks
Support vector machine
Tensor product network
References
External links
In Situ Adaptive Tabulation (ISAT) in Turbulent Combustion
Tutorial Overview of ISAT
ISAT-CK7: an implementation in Fortran 90 developed by Turbulence and Combustion Group at Cornell
ISAT-CK7-Cantera: an adaptation of Cornell code to use with Cantera library
CRFlowLib: alternative implementation in C language
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese%20International%20Airways | Lebanese International Airways was a Lebanese airline based in Beirut. Formed with help from Pan Am, it began scheduled flights in January 1956, and by 1958 had expanded its network through agreements with Sabena of Belgium. By the mid-1960s, LIA's destinations included Tehran, Kuwait City, Baghdad, Bahrain, Paris, and Milan. Operations ceased in January 1969, after most of its fleet was destroyed by an Israeli military raid on Beirut International Airport. The airline was taken over by Middle East Airlines Air Liban.
Fleet
Aircraft operated by LIA included
Convair 990
Curtiss C-46 Commando
Douglas DC-3/C-47
Douglas DC-4
Douglas DC-6
Douglas DC-7
References
External links
Photo of LIA Convair Coronado
List of Lebanese airlines
Defunct airlines of Lebanon
Airlines established in 1956
Airlines disestablished in 1969
1956 establishments in Lebanon
1969 disestablishments in Lebanon
Companies based in Beirut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy%20Stone%20%28software%29 | Crazy Stone (Champion Go on iOS and Android platforms) is a Go playing engine, developed by Rémi Coulom, a French computer scientist. It is one of the first computer Go programs to utilize a modern variant of the Monte Carlo tree search. It is part of the Computer Go effort. In January 2012 Crazy Stone was rated as 5 dan on KGS, in March 2014 as 6 dan.
History
Coulom began writing Crazy Stone in July 2005, and at the outset incorporated the Monte Carlo algorithm in its design. Early versions were initially available to download as freeware from his website, albeit no longer. Pattern recognition and searching was added in 2006, and later that year Crazy Stone took part in its first tournament, winning a gold medal in the 9×9 competition at the 11th Computer Olympiad. Coulom subsequently entered the program into the 12th Computer Olympiad the following year, winning bronze in the 9x9 and silver in the 19×19 competitions.
However, Crazy Stone's most significant accomplishment was to defeat Kaori Aoba, a professional Japanese 4 dan, in an 8-stone handicap match in 2008. In doing so, the engine became the first to officially defeat an active professional in Japan with a handicap of less than nine stones. Three months later, on 12 December 2008, Crazy Stone defeated Aoba again in a 7-stone match.
In March 2013, Crazy Stone beat Yoshio Ishida, Japanese 9-dan former Honinbo Meijin, in a 19×19 game with four handicap stones.
On March 21, 2014, at the second annual Densei-sen competition, Crazy Stone defeated Norimoto Yoda, Japanese professional 9-dan, in a 19×19 game with four handicap stones by a margin of 2.5 points.
Performance
29/05/2006 - Gold medal in the 9x9 tournament at the 11th Computer Olympiad, Turin.
01/06/2006 - Finished 5th in the 19x19 tournament at the 11th Computer Olympiad, Turin.
13/06/2007 - Bronze medal in the 9x9 tournament at the 12th Computer Olympiad, Amsterdam.
17/06/2007 - Silver medal in the 19x19 tournament at the 12th Computer Olympiad, Amsterdam.
02/12/2007 - Won the first Computer Go UEC Cup.
04/09/2008 - Defeated Kaori Aoba in an 8-stone handicap match.
14/12/2008 - Won the second Computer Go UEC Cup.
14/12/2008 - Defeated Kaori Aoba in a 7-stone handicap match.
29/11/2009 - Finished 9th in the third Computer Go UEC Cup.
Notes
Further reading
External links
Crazy Stone website
Go engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RascalMPL | Rascal is a domain-specific language for metaprogramming and language oriented programming, such as static code analysis, program transformation, program generation and implementation of domain-specific languages. It is a general meta language in the sense that it does not have a bias for any particular software language. It includes primitives from relational calculus and term rewriting. Its syntax and semantics are based on procedural (imperative) and functional programming.
Generating Integrated development environments
Rascal derives Eclipse_(software) plugins for any Rascal-implemented software language
Rascal derives VScode extensions based on the Language_Server_Protocol for any Rascal-implemented software language
See also
ASF+SDF
Stratego/XT
DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit
ANTLR
Source-to-source compiler
Racket programming language
References
External links
http://www.rascal-mpl.org
Term-rewriting programming languages
Extensible syntax programming languages
Programming language implementation
Transformation languages
Language workbench |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Riggs%20%28radio%20personality%29 | Scott Riggs (born September 29, 1969) is an American radio personality. He is the Director of Radio Programming at Slacker, Inc. where he programs the Alternative and Indie Hits radio stations as well as oversees the programming for the entire station line-up.
Radio background
Riggs started his career in radio at KCR (SDSU's College Radio) in 1992 and worked as a DJ on every air shift offered at the station. After less than six months at KCR, Riggs became the Program Director and remained at that position for several years until he advanced to the position of Operations Manager. His tenure at KCR lasted over four years until he left in February 1997.
Riggs secured his first Broadcast radio job in San Diego, California, in 1995, taking the overnight shift at 102.9 KKBH-FM (The Beach). In 1996, he moved over to 92/5 XHRM-FM (The Flash/Independent Radio) co-hosting the local show (The Local Fix) with his younger brother Jason Riggs, producing the morning show and working weekends for Program Director Mike Halloran. He left 92/5 in 1998 when the programming rights of the station were sold to Jacor and the station flipped formats to "Old Skool R&B".
In 2001, Riggs was recruited by Halloran at another independent alternative station in San Diego, 92/1 KFSD-FM (Premium Radio). There he co-hosted the local show (Go Loco) with Rick Savage, a new music show, an interview show (Coup D'état) and work various air shifts throughout the week. In 2003, when 92/1 started negotiations to sell the signal to KSON-FM, Riggs was hired by the popular San Diego rocker, ROCK 105.3 KIOZ-FM where he hosted an alternative/indie rock show (The Inside Track) and a unique interview show (Guerilla Radio) on Sunday nights. In January 2007, Riggs left ROCK 105.3 to concentrate on his job as Director of Radio Programming at Slacker, Inc.
References
External links
Official Web Site
MySpace
Slacker
Articles and interviews
Chick Rawker
SignOnSanDiego - Scenemakers
SignOnSanDiego - Best of 2006
American radio DJs
American radio producers
1969 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna%205%20FM | Antenna 5 Radio Network () is a number 1 hits radio station in North Macedonia.
Antenna 5 Radio Network was founded in 1994 as a contemporary hits radio station. In 1999 it became the first private national radio station in the country. From its very beginning, Antenna 5 Radio Network was part of the European group radio stations that were part of the MTV Radio Network.
Antenna 5 covers more than 90% of the country. The audience of the radio station is the population mainly aged between 12 and 35 and living in urban areas.
According to research conducted in North Macedonia, Antenna 5 Radio Network has been the number one national radio station or the last 16 years.
Major events
Antenna 5 Radio Network is part of the MTV Europe Music Awards, Brit Awards, Party In The Park, Mandela Day, Hard Rock Calling, Concert for NY, Concert for Diana, World Aid, Net Aid, Live Earth, Miami Winter Music Conference, Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball, Capital FM Summertime Ball, Exit Festival, InMusic Festival, Eurovision Song Contest.
Antenna 5 also covers and supports music and culture events in North Macedonia: Taksirat Festival, Pivolend, Makfest, Basker Fest, Off Fest, Skopje Jazz Festival, Ohrid Summer Festival, Skopje Summer Festival, ICCF Manaki Brothers, May Opera Evenings, Skopje Biennial.
Starting in 2003, Antenna 5 Radio Network has been broadcasting every season live from the studios in Ohrid and Mavrovo.
Programming
Coverage
Antenna5 Radio Network covers 95% of the territory of North Macedonia with 20 transmitters with stereo RDS EON signal (that enables automatic change of the alternative frequencies while driving a car).
Skopje 95.5 FM Stereo with RDS, Veles 91.9, Bitola 92.9, Prilep 92.9; 106.3, Ohrid 103.3; 92.0, Gevgelija 89.2 FM; 106.3, Tetovo 106.9; 105.5, Struga 103.3 FM; 92.0, Strumica 100.5 FM; 91.9, Stip 104.8; 91.9, Kumanovo 106.3 FM; 106.9 FM; 104.8, Popova Sapka 106.9, Mavrovo 105.5; 95.5, Negotino 91.9 FM; 104.2 FM; 88.8, Kavadarci 104.2; 91.9, Demir Kapija 88.8; 91.9; 104.2, Sveti Nikole 91.9, Kriva Palanka 105.5; 95.5, Kratovo 105.5; 106.9, Gostivar 106.9; 105.5, Kocani 97.9; 104.8, Vinica 104.8; 97.9, Dojran 106.3, Valandovo 106.3, Bogdanci 106.3; 89.2, Radovis 91.9, Resen 92.9, Krusevo 106.3; 92.9, Galicnik 92.9, Kicevo 95.5, Berovo 97.9, Dusegubica
103.3, Pesocan 101.9, M.Radobil 97.9 & Stracin 105.5 FM Stereo with RDS.
References
External links
Antenna 5 Web Site
Radio stations in North Macedonia
Radio stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in the Republic of Macedonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chodavaram%2C%20Prakasam%20district | Chodavaram settlement's location code or village code is 591308 according to data from the Census of 2011. The village of Chodavaram is situated in Andhra Pradesh's Kondapi mandal in the Prakasam district. It is located 38 km from the district headquarters in Ongole and 7 km from the sub-district headquarters in Kondapi (tehsildar office). Chodavaram hamlet also has a gramme panchayat, according to 2009 statistics.
The village has a total size of 1042 hectares. There are 1,638 people living in Chodavaram in total, 821 of them are men and 817 of whom are women. The literacy rate in the village of Chodavaram is 60.01%, with 66.87% of men and 53.12% of women being literate. In the village of Chodavaram, there are roughly 404 homes. The locality code for Chodavaram village is 523279.
References
Villages in Prakasam district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4300 | 4300 may refer to:
IBM 4300 mainframe computer
NS 4300 steam locomotives
GWR 4300 Class steam locomotives
Autolite 4300 carburetor
The last year of the 43rd century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9700 | 9700 may refer to:
The year 9700, in the 10th millennium.
ATI Radeon 9700, a computer graphics card series
NVIDIA GeForce 9700, a computer graphics card series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacap | Datacap (an IBM Company), a privately owned company, manufactures and sells computer software, and services. Datacap's first product, Paper Keyboard, was a "forms processing" product and shipped in 1989. In August 2010, IBM announced that it had acquired Datacap for an undisclosed amount.
Datacap sells products through a value-added distribution network worldwide. The software is classified as "enterprise software", meaning that it requires trained professionals to install and configure. Although the Company has focused on providing solutions for scanning paper documents, most recently Company materials have emphasized customer requirements to handle electronic documents ("eDocs"), documents being received into an organization electronically (usually email).
Datacap claims that its software is unique because of the rules engine ("Rulerunner") used for processing inbound documents, including performing the image processing (deskew, noise removal, etc.), optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), validations, and export-release formatting of extracted data to target ERP and line of business application.
See also
List of mergers and acquisitions by IBM
References
Companies established in 1988
Software companies based in New York (state)
Optical character recognition
Document management systems
IBM acquisitions
2010 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational%20cryptanalysis | In cryptography, rotational cryptanalysis is a generic cryptanalytic attack against algorithms that rely on three operations: modular addition, rotation and XOR — ARX for short. Algorithms relying on these operations are popular because they are relatively cheap in both hardware and software and run in constant time, making them safe from timing attacks in common implementations.
The basic idea of rotational cryptanalysis is that both the bit rotation and XOR operations preserve correlations between bit-rotated pairs of inputs, and that addition of bit-rotated inputs also partially preserves bit rotation correlations. Rotational pairs of inputs can thus be used to "see through" the cipher's cascaded ARX operations to a greater degree than might be expected. This ability to "see" correlations through rounds of processing can then be exploited to break the cipher in a way that is similar to differential cryptanalysis.
The term "rotational cryptanalysis" was coined by Dmitry Khovratovich and Ivica Nikolić
in 2010 paper "Rotational Cryptanalysis of ARX", which presented the best cryptanalytic attacks at that time against a reduced-round Threefish cipher — part of the Skein hash function, a SHA-3 competition candidate. A follow-up attack from the same authors and Christian Rechberger breaks collision resistance of up to 53 of 72 rounds in Skein-256, and 57 of 72 rounds in Skein-512. It also affects the Threefish cipher.
References
Cryptographic attacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricut | Cricut is an American brand of cutting plotters, or computer-controlled cutting machines, designed for home crafters. The machines are used for cutting paper, felt, vinyl, fabric and other materials such as leather, matboard, and wood.
Models
The original Cricut machine has cutting mats of , the larger Cricut Explore allows mats of 12 × 12 and 12 × 24. The largest machine will produce letters from a half inch to 23 inches high. Both the Cricut and Cricut Explore Air 2 require mats and blades which can be adjusted to cut through various types of paper, vinyl and other sheet products. The Cricut operates as a paper cutter based upon cutting parameters programmed into the machine, and resembles a desktop printer.
Cartridges
Designs are made from components stored on cartridges. Each cartridge comes with a keyboard overlay and instruction booklet. The plastic keyboard overlay indicates key selections for that cartridge only. However recently Provo Craft has released a "Universal Overlay" that is compatible with all cartridges released after August 1, 2013. The purpose of the universal overlay is to simplify the process of cutting by only having to learn one keyboard overlay instead of having to learn the overlay for each individual cartridge. Designs can be cut out on a PC with the Cricut Design Studio software, on a USB connected Gypsy machine, or can be directly inputted on the Cricut machine using the keyboard overlay. There are two types of cartridges, shape and font. Each cartridge provides for hundreds of different cuts. Currently over 275 cartridges are available, with new ones regularly released. While some cartridges are generic in content, Cricut has licensing agreements with Disney, Pixar, Nickelodeon, Sesame Street, DC Comics and Hello Kitty. The cartridges are interchangeable, although not all options on a cartridge may be available with the smaller machines.
Software
Proprietary
To use Cricut cutters, users must use the company's own web-based design software, Design Space, which allows users to draw designs, select and combine designs from its own online library, or upload vector or bitmap files they have created in other software.
On 12 March 2021, Cricut announced it would be limiting users to 20 free uploads per month to Design Space at an unspecified date; the old unlimited uploads would remain available under a paid subscription. This announcement was criticized by users at the company's unofficial subreddit, and a petition was launched in protest. Following the backlash, its CEO apologized, and Cricut scrapped the plans a few days later.
Past software
Cricut's first software was Cricut design studio. Released November 15, 2005, it allowed users to combine images from different cartridges, merge images, and stretch/rotate images; it does not allow for the creation of arbitrary designs. Support was dropped sometime in 2013.
The Cricut Craft Room software enabled users to combine images from different cartridges, merge images |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Birth%20Defects%20Prevention%20Network | The National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN) was founded in 1997. It is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit volunteer organization whose members are involved in birth defects surveillance, prevention and research. It was created with help from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish and maintain a national network of state and population-based programs for birth defects surveillance and research. The NBDPN is committed to the primary prevention of birth defects and improvement of outcomes for children and families living with birth defects through the use of birth defects surveillance data for research, program planning, and program evaluation. NBDPN members include public health officials, epidemiologists, academics and parents.
Annual meeting
In early spring (late February or early March) of each year, NBDPN's members, partners and international colleagues gather together at NBDPN's annual meeting. Featured presentations and a variety of breakout sessions are scheduled to appeal to a diverse audience and cover birth defects surveillance, research, and prevention issues. Also on the annual meeting agenda are sessions designed to encourage information sharing and networking, such as poster presentations and exhibits.
Annual Report
The NBDPN publishes its annual report in December Issue of the Journal of Birth Defects Research Part A (BDRA). The annual report has two parts: 1) a series of articles relating to various issues in surveillance, epidemiology, and the application of surveillance data to birth defects prevention and public health programs, and 2) statistical data from population-based surveillance programs across the United States. Previous reports were published as Teratology in 1997 and 2000–2002 and in BDRA since 2003. Additionally, the Spring issue of the Journal of Registry Management publishes articles on birth defects surveillance from NBDPN members and others on an annual basis.
Collaborative Projects
The NBDPN helps facilitate collaborative projects that utilize data from state birth defects registries. Publications from some of these projects have been cited many times in the literature and during presentations. The list of publications resulting from the collaborative projects conducted by the NBDPN members can be found at NBDPN's website.
External links
NBDPN website
Surveillance Guidelines
Birth defects included in NBDPN list
Data elements included in NBDPN core list
Data elements included in NBDPN recommended list
National Birth Defects Prevention Month
National Birth Defect Registry
Medical and health organizations based in Texas
Pediatric organizations
Pediatrics in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-Gammon | TD-Gammon is a computer backgammon program developed in 1992 by Gerald Tesauro at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Its name comes from the fact that it is an artificial neural net trained by a form of temporal-difference learning, specifically TD-Lambda.
The final version of TD-Gammon (2.1) was trained with 1.5 million games of self-play, and achieved a level of play just slightly below that of the top human backgammon players of the time. It explored strategies that humans had not pursued and led to advances in the theory of correct backgammon play.
Algorithm for play and learning
During play, TD-Gammon examines on each turn all possible legal moves and all their possible responses (two-ply lookahead), feeds each resulting board position into its evaluation function, and chooses the move that leads to the board position that got the highest score. In this respect, TD-Gammon is no different than almost any other computer board-game program. TD-Gammon's innovation was in how it learned its evaluation function.
TD-Gammon's learning algorithm consists of updating the weights in its neural net after each turn to reduce the difference between its evaluation of previous turns' board positions and its evaluation of the present turn's board position—hence "temporal-difference learning". The score of any board position is a set of four numbers reflecting the program's estimate of the likelihood of each possible game result: White wins normally, Black wins normally, White wins a gammon, Black wins a gammon. For the final board position of the game, the algorithm compares with the actual result of the game rather than its own evaluation of the board position.
After each turn, the learning algorithm updates each weight in the neural net according to the following rule:
where:
{|
|- valign="top"
|
| is the amount to change the weight from its value on the previous turn.
|- valign="top"
|
| is the difference between the current and previous turn's board evaluations.
|- valign="top"
|
| is a "learning rate" parameter.
|- valign="top"
|
| is a parameter that affects how much the present difference in board evaluations should feed back to previous estimates. makes the program correct only the previous turn's estimate; makes the program attempt to correct the estimates on all previous turns; and values of between 0 and 1 specify different rates at which the importance of older estimates should "decay" with time.
|- valign="top"
|
| is the gradient of neural-network output with respect to weights: that is, how much changing the weight affects the output.
|}
Experiments and stages of training
Unlike previous neural-net backgammon programs such as Neurogammon (also written by Tesauro), where an expert trained the program by supplying the "correct" evaluation of each position, TD-Gammon was at first programmed "knowledge-free". In early experimentation, using only a raw board encoding with no human-designed features, TD-Gammon reached a le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haystack%20%28software%29 | Haystack was a never-completed program intended for network traffic obfuscation and encryption. It was promoted as a tool to circumvent internet censorship in Iran. Shortly after the release of the first test version, reviewers concluded the software did not live up to promises made about its functionality and security, and would leave its users' computers more vulnerable.
History
Haystack was announced in the context of the perceived wave of Internet activism during 2009 Iranian election protests. There was a great deal of hype surrounding the Haystack project. The BBC's Virtual Revolution television series featured the software in the context of attempts to bypass network blocking software in Iran. The project was composed of one programmer and a spokesperson. Early on in the project the CRC claims to have received a manual describing Iran's filtering software, written in Persian, from an Iranian official.
Amidst criticism from technologists, including Jacob Appelbaum and Danny O'Brien, on September 13, 2010, the Washington Post reported that security concerns had led to suspension of testing of Haystack. A message on the front page of the Haystack web site posted the same day confirmed the report, saying "We have halted ongoing testing of Haystack in Iran pending a security review. If you have a copy of the test program, please refrain from using it." The following day the BBC reported the same news and quoted the CRC as stating that source code to the application would be released.
Shutdown
The resignation of the only programmer on the project, Daniel Colascione, effectively ended development of the Haystack project. The project web site is now defunct.
References
Anonymity networks
Vaporware
Internet in Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashin%27%20Desperadoes | Dashin' Desperadoes is a platform game by Data East for the Sega Genesis released in 1993. In the game players control one of two cowboys, Will or Rick, who run and negotiate various obstacles to reach the maiden Jenny.
Playing the game on Japanese hardware yields an alternate title, Rumble Kids, despite being never released in Japan. In 1993, Data East also released a Neo-Geo exclusive game titled Spinmaster featuring main characters similar to the ones in Dashin' Desperadoes.
Gameplay
In the 1-player game, the cowboy hat wearing hero, Will, races to reach Jenny, the blond-haired maiden who waits at the end of each level. The hero is racing against his blond-haired nemesis, Rick, who also is trying to reach the girl. Through obstacles, hazards, and various creatures, Will and Rick race each other through six different worlds (three levels each) of beaches, jungles, and ancient ruins to reach Jenny. In the finale of each world, Jenny is kidnapped by Rick, who attempts to take her away. The player, as the hero Will, must use all of the weapons in his arsenal to damage Rick's vehicle as it attempts to escape.
In the 2-player game, the second player takes over as Rick, and they both race after Jenny in split screen mode. Whoever arrives first receives a kiss from her. Using bombs, barbells, electricity, and ice, each player must do whatever it takes to reach Jenny first.
External links
Sega-16
1993 video games
Data East video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
North America-exclusive video games
Platformers
Sega Genesis games
Sega Genesis-only games
Side-scrolling video games
Video games developed in Japan
Western (genre) video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20data%20processor | Financial data processors are the next layer in the service chain between users of financial data and financial data vendors. Most data is now delivered as bits and bytes and not in a physical format. Data is fed through web pages and as "raw" data files. Files are either processed by banks or by third-party companies – financial data processors who provide additional added value to those companies who choose to use them.
Services offered
Pricing validation
Price validation services enable users to streamline their operations and reduce the risks inherent in activities such as NAV production. Acting as a managed service provider, a financial data processor will take raw data from the clients' chosen data sources and subject it to the processor's validation routines before onward delivery.
Counterparty Price Collection and Validation
A Counterparty Collection service provides a unique collection, reconciliation and validation service for OTC derivatives and other illiquid instruments.
Corporate Actions/Dividends Validation
A corporate actions service enables users to streamline their operations and reduce the risks inherent in fund administration. The financial Data Processor will act as a managed service provider, and take raw data from the clients' chosen data sources and subject it to the processor's validation routines before onward delivery.
Added value
Working with an end user, a financial data processor can process raw data feeds or services to help a user achieve:
Reduction of operational risk.
Validation of hard to price instruments.
Reduced chance of a breach of Service Level Agreements.
Clearly defined audit trail.
List of processors
Adaptive Modeler
CQG
Esignal
MetaStock
Money.Net
MetaTrader 4
TradeStation
Financial services organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop%20%28disambiguation%29 | RoboCop is a 1987 American cyberpunk action film.
Robocop or RoboCop may also refer to:
Media
RoboCop (franchise), an American superhero cyberpunk media franchise
RoboCop (1988 video game), a beat 'em up/run and gun arcade game
RoboCop 2, a 1990 sequel to the 1987 film
RoboCop 3, a 1993 sequel to the 1990 film
RoboCop (2003 video game), a first-person shooter video game based on the RoboCop films
RoboCop (2014 film), an American cyberpunk superhero action film and a remake of the 1987 film
RoboCop: Rogue City, a 2023 video game based on the original film
RoboCop (character), a fictional robotically enhanced Detroit police officer
RoboCop (comics), a number of comic book series spun off from the feature film of the same name
RoboCop (American TV series), a 1988 animated television series
RoboCop (live action TV series), a 1994 live-action television series
RoboCop: Alpha Commando, a 1998 animated television series
RoboCop: Prime Directives, a 2001 live-action television series
"RoboCop" (song), a song by American hip hop artist Kanye West
Robo Cop, a fictional character from the 2018 Korean film Are You Human?
People
Ray Mallon (born 1955), British politician
Charles Robert "Gobotron" McDowell, U.S. musician
Ulf Samuelsson (born 1964), retired Swedish-American ice hockey defenceman
See also
"Robot Cop" (TV episode), an episode of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf; see List of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf episodes
Bomb disposal robot, a type of police robot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comtrade | COMTRADE (Common format for Transient Data Exchange for power systems) is a file format for storing oscillography and status data related to transient power system disturbances.
Applications
COMTRADE files are typically generated by Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), such as an electronic protective relay, in electrical substations during power systems disturbances. These IEDs monitor the electrical characteristics of the power system by digitally sampling measurements of the current, voltage, power, frequency, etc. at a high speed.
The IEDs then use digital signal processing algorithms on that data to detect abnormal conditions in the power system so that automated control actions can be taken to prevent damage to the power system. When faults are detected, the IEDs records the data that was used during processing into a COMTRADE file. Analysis tools can then process the COMTRADE file and calculate useful information related to the disturbance.
For instance, a COMTRADE recording of the fault current absorbed by a transformer prior to the circuit breaker opening can be used to calculate the total energy dissipated by the transformer. That helps the utility to more accurately estimate the impact of that fault on the lifetime of the transformer.
COMTRADE files from multiple devices can be used collectively to analyze large-scale power disturbance events (e.g. blackouts) to determine the root cause, improve system protection, and guide mitigation strategies.
Formats
The COMTRADE file format was standardized by the Power System Relaying & Controls Committee (PSRC) of the IEEE Power & Energy Society as C37.111. The original specification was published in 1991. The 1991 version specifies a file format that includes multiple file types designated by the assigned file extensions of *.CFG, *.HDR, and *.DAT. The .DAT file contains the digitized sample data in an ASCII text format. The .CFG file specifies what is in the .DAT file including information such as signal names, start time of the samples, number of samples, min/max values, and more. Only the .CFG and .DAT files were mandatory.
Although the values of the digitized samples in the .DAT file are viewable without the .CFG file, the value of the data is greatly diminished as it would then be difficult to fully analyze the data.
The most widely used version of the COMTRADE standard is C37.111-1999. The 1999 version added a 16-bit Binary .DAT file format and a .INF file. The .CFG file format was augmented to provide details of instrument transformers, allowing conversion between primary and secondary units.
The most recent version is C37.111-2013. The 2013 format added 32-bit Binary and IEEE 754 floating point .DAT formats as well as time zone information. A new, single-file format with extension .CFF was also introduced to combine C37.111-1999 files into a single file. Also known as IEC 60255-24 Ed.2, this standard defines a format for files containing transient waveform and event da |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik%20Turbo%20virtual%20machine | Dalvik Turbo is a proprietary alternative to Google's implementation of the Dalvik virtual machine that runs on the Android operating system and other platforms developed by French/Swiss firm Myriad Group.
The virtual machine runs the Java platform on compatible mobile devices, and it can also run applications which have been converted into a compact Dalvik Executable (.dex) bytecode format for lower end devices.
MIPS Technologies entered into a license agreement with Myriad to make their Dalvik Turbo Virtual Machine (VM) available to its licensees as part of its standard distribution of Android for its MIPS architecture.
Performance
Myriad claims applications run in Dalvik Turbo "up to three times" faster, while reducing battery drain and giving developers the power they need to create graphically intense games.
Dalvik Turbo has been shown on video to be 2.8 times faster while running a benchmark test.
References
External links
Myriad Alien Dalvik
MIPS Developers: What is Dalvik Turbo?
Register-based virtual machines
Java virtual machine
Android (operating system) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosaraju%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kosaraju (1905–1987) is Telugu poet and lyricist.
Kosaraju may also refer to:
S. Rao Kosaraju (or Kosaraju Sambasiva Rao), Indian-American professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University
Kosaraju's algorithm, an algorithm to find the strongly connected component of a directed graph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen%20Astrachan | Owen Astrachan is an American computer scientist and professor of the practice of computer science at Duke University, where he is also the department's director of undergraduate studies. He is known for his work in curriculum development and methods of teaching computer science. He was one of the first National Science Foundation CISE Distinguished Education Fellows, and is a recipient of the ACM Outstanding Educator Award. He was the principal investigator on the multi-year NSF/College Board project that led to the release of the AP Computer Science Principles course and exam.
Early life
Astrachan was born in New York City in 1956 to Gail Lovejoy and Anthony Astrachan. He has a younger brother, Joshua Astrachan.
Education and early career
Astrachan graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978 with an AB degree in mathematics. He received a Master of Arts in Teaching from Duke in 1979, doing his initial teaching at Camp Lejeune High School, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
From 1980 to 1985 he taught math and computer science at Durham Academy in Durham, North Carolina. During the summer of 1983 he attended a summer program for high school teachers at Carnegie Mellon University preparing to teach the new College Board AP Computer Science course. He joined the development team for the new exam.
In 1985 Astrachan began graduate studies in computer science at Duke. His thesis work was with Donald W. Loveland on automated theorem proving. His teaching responsibilities included curricular development for the first computer science course for majors and the introductory computer science course for non-majors. He spent the summer of 1991 as a research assistant at SRI International in Menlo Park, California working on automated theorem proving with Mark E. Stickel. He received his MS from Duke in 1989 and his PhD in 1992.
While a student in 1989 he became the Chief Reader for the AP Computer Science test with the Educational Testing Service, a position he held until 1994. For four years, from 1990 to 1993, he and other graduate students ran the first distributed, internet-based programming contest. It was inspired by the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest but open to a wider range of students and required no travel, only access to email.
Computer science education and curriculum development
In 1993 Astrachan joined the Duke faculty in the department of computer science as assistant professor of the practice of computer science. That fall he became the director of undergraduate studies. He changed the introductory computer science course to use C++ as the programming language and began writing an introductory textbook. The first edition of A Computer Science Tapestry: Exploring Programming and Computer Science with C++ was published in 1997 and was widely used. The second edition was published in 2000.
Astrachan continued his work with the AP Computer Science Development Committee. He was part of the team developing the AP Computer Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20file%20signatures | This is a list of file signatures, data used to identify or verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or Magic Bytes.
Many file formats are not intended to be read as text. If such a file is accidentally viewed as a text file, its contents will be unintelligible. However, sometimes the file signature can be recognizable when interpreted as text. The column ISO 8859-1 shows how the file signature appears when interpreted as text in the common ISO 8859-1 encoding, with unprintable characters represented as the control code abbreviation or symbol, or codepage 1252 character where available, or a box otherwise. In some cases the space character is shown as ␠ for clarity.
See also
List of file formats
Magic number (programming)
Substitute character (for the 1Ah (^Z) "end-of-file" marker used in many signatures)
file (command)
References
External links
Gary Kessler's list of file signatures
Online File Signature Database for Forensic Practitioners, a private compilation free to Law Enforcement
Man page for compress, uncompress, and zcat on SCO Open Server
Public Database of File Signatures
Complete list of magic numbers with sample files
the original libmagic data files with thousands of entries as used by file (command) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell%20features | This article describes the features in the programming language Haskell.
Examples
Factorial
A simple example that is often used to demonstrate the syntax of functional languages is the factorial function for non-negative integers, shown in Haskell:
factorial :: Integer -> Integer
factorial 0 = 1
factorial n = n * factorial (n-1)
Or in one line:
factorial n = if n > 1 then n * factorial (n-1) else 1
This describes the factorial as a recursive function, with one terminating base case. It is similar to the descriptions of factorials found in mathematics textbooks. Much of Haskell code is similar to standard mathematical notation in facility and syntax.
The first line of the factorial function describes the type of this function; while it is optional, it is considered to be good style to include it. It can be read as the function factorial (factorial) has type (::) from integer to integer (Integer -> Integer). That is, it takes an integer as an argument, and returns another integer. The type of a definition is inferred automatically if no type annotation is given.
The second line relies on pattern matching, an important feature of Haskell. Note that parameters of a function are not in parentheses but separated by spaces. When the function's argument is 0 (zero) it will return the integer 1 (one). For all other cases the third line is tried. This is the recursion, and executes the function again until the base case is reached.
Using the product function from the Prelude, a number of small functions analogous to C's standard library, and using the Haskell syntax for arithmetic sequences, the factorial function can be expressed in Haskell as follows:
factorial n = product [1..n]
Here [1..n] denotes the arithmetic sequence in list form. Using the Prelude function enumFromTo, the expression [1..n] can be written as enumFromTo 1 n, allowing the factorial function to be expressed as
factorial n = product (enumFromTo 1 n)
which, using the function composition operator (expressed as a dot in Haskell) to compose the product function with the curried enumeration function can be rewritten in point-free style:
factorial = product . enumFromTo 1
In the Hugs interpreter, one often needs to define the function and use it on the same line separated by a where or let..in. For example, to test the above examples and see the output 120:
let { factorial n | n > 0 = n * factorial (n-1); factorial _ = 1 } in factorial 5
or
factorial 5 where factorial = product . enumFromTo 1
The GHCi interpreter doesn't have this restriction and function definitions can be entered on one line (with the let syntax without the in part), and referenced later.
More complex examples
Calculator
In the Haskell source immediately below, :: can be read as "has type"; a -> b can be read as "is a function from a to b". (Thus the Haskell calc :: String -> [Float] can be read as "calc has type of a function from Strings to lists of Floats".)
In the second line calc = ... the e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocinho%20Bridge | The Road-rail bridge of Pocinho, commonly known as Pocinho Bridge, is a road-rail bridge in Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal. The structure was part of the now defunct rail network Sabor line, and is now closed to both types of transit.
Construction
In the turn of the 19th century, the necessity of a new bridge above the Douro connecting the Estrada Real number 9 between the parishes of Pocinho and Miranda, in the Bragança District, arose. The two public tenders opened by the Portuguese Government in July 1901 and May 1902 were not successful, so the Government authorized its railway department, , to negotiate the project with Empresa Industrial Portuguesa. Construction started in 1903 and the bridge was opened to the public on 4 July 1909. The upper board of the bridge was opened to exploration as part of the railway Sabor line on 1911.
Decline and closure
The railway line was closed in 1988. In 2001, car traffic was closed in the lower board of the bridge due to the existence of an alternative to the crossing using the Pocinho Dam, close to the centenary bridge.
See also
List of bridges in Portugal
References
Sources
Bridges in Bragança District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalcasting | Personalcasting, or personalized digital television (PDTV), is an application that uses news-on-demand algorithms to deliver tailored broadcast news (from radio or television) on a wide range of computing platforms including mobile phones and PDAs. Unlike podcasting, which is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are typically downloaded through web syndication, personalcasting automatically indexes, clusters and extracts information from news sources.
Application
With personalcasting technology, users can create complex queries combining keywords, named entities (e.g., people, organizations, and places), sources (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, ABC) or time intervals (e.g., specific days, weeks or years). These queries result in selected video stories specific to user interest . Conversely, there are companies that offer personalcasting services directly to news outlets - allowing the organizations to create customized, around-the-clock programs for listeners.
By personalizing the selection of stories and the platforms from which they are delivered, users are afforded a more individual and enhanced news experience based on their predilections. This is an especially beneficial application for people wanting to listen to personalized information during their commutes to and from work. According to a U.S. Census Bureau analysis, driving to work was the favored means of commute of nearly nine out of 10 American workers (87.7 percent), with most people (77 percent) driving alone.
In addition, algorithms can be created to follow a user’s personalcast sessions to capture user interest. The system can then automatically broaden a user’s queries and selections to include additional content based on preferences.
Personalcasting technology was developed by a community of scientists and individual technology companies during the late 1990s and early 2000s as a way to provide more convenient access to broadcast news. Earlier systems required content to be manually annotated. However, more recent systems automatically extract information from a variety of news sources.
History
The first known reference to personalcasting was in 1999 by a technology company named VoicePress. Shortly thereafter, Mark T. Maybury, editor of Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces and Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval used the term personalcasting at an international conference on user modeling in Germany and he also included the term in several research papers.
In Japan, Sony applied this concept to television programming in 2000, launching a site called PercasTV that provides live personal video distribution service on the Internet.
Building upon content based news understanding algorithms that simultaneously analyzed multiple media streams (e.g., audio, video, textual), a personalization system that automatically generated both content and media tailored to individual queries and preferences was invented to personalize broadcast news. A US Patent on person |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Buzz | Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that was developed by Google which replaced Google Wave and integrated into their web-based email program, Gmail. Users could share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox.
On October 14, 2011, Google announced that it would discontinue the service and that the existing content would be available in read-only mode. Buzz was discontinued on December 15, 2011, and superseded by Google+ (which was later discontinued on April 2, 2019).
Buzz enabled users to choose to share publicly with the world or privately to a group of friends each time they posted. Picasa, Flickr, Google Latitude, Google Reader, Google Sidewiki, YouTube, Blogger, FriendFeed, identi.ca and Twitter were integrated. The creation of Buzz was seen by industry analysts as an attempt by Google to compete with social networking websites like Facebook and microblogging services like Twitter. Buzz also included several user interface elements from other Google products (e.g., Google Reader), such as the ability to "like" a post.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that by offering social communications, Buzz would help bridge the gap between work and leisure, but the service was strongly criticized when it was introduced for insufficient attention to users' privacy.
Platform
In May 2010, Google revealed APIs for Buzz, expanding it to being a platform as well as a service. This allowed third-party developers to write software that would be able to both read and post content to Buzz. Several partners demonstrated integration via the new APIs, including Seesmic and Socialwok.
Mobile versions
When the service was accessed with a supported mobile device, Buzz tagged posts with the user's current location. Users were only permitted to use the actual physical location reported by the device for their Buzz posts; unlike the Google Latitude location-sharing service, Buzz did not allow users to manually specify an arbitrary location.
The mobile version of Buzz integrated with Google Maps so users could see who was around them. Buzz posts made through Google Maps were public and could be seen by anybody else who was using the software. In addition to text, mobile users' posts were able to include an uploaded photo. Platforms supported were limited to devices running Android 1.6+, iOS, Windows Mobile, Openwave and S60.
History
Google Buzz was announced on February 9, 2010, in a press conference at the company's Mountain View headquarters and launched on the same day, at 11 a.m. PT for the first set of users. The feature, available from the Gmail inbox, was rolled out to Gmail accounts in the following weeks. A mobile version of the site optimized for Android phones and Apple's iPhone was also launched, while a version for businesses and schools that use Google Apps was only planned. Within 56 hours of its release, 9 million posts were made on Google Buzz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Cerullo | Benjamin Cerullo (born July 12, 1976) is an American evangelist, Christian television show host and producer. He is also the son and first child born to The Inspiration Networks CEO and American televangelist David and his wife Barbara Cerullo. He is also the grandson of the controversial international televangelist and TV show host Morris Cerullo.
Early life and ministry
Cerullo was born in San Diego, California where he lived for 15 years. He grew up surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding. At the age of 15, Ben's parents, David and Barbara moved the family, Ben and his sister Becky (now Becky Cerullo-Henderson), from San Diego to Charlotte, North Carolina after purchasing Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker's former PTL cable network, The Inspirational Network, out of bankruptcy.
At the age of 18, Ben's love of action sports took him to Vail, Colorado to pursue his dream of becoming a professional snowboarder. Ben spent two seasons in Vail and one season in Mammoth Lakes, California before returning to Charlotte. Ben is a part of The Inspiration Ministries (INSP) where he works with his father David Cerullo. As part of The Inspiration Ministries, Ben is President and Founder of Steelroots, the youth outreach for INSP.
Steelroots ministry
Named by Charisma Magazine as one of the "30 Emerging Voices that will lead the church in the next decade," Cerullo used his action sports background to start the youth-culture ministry, Steelroots, in 2000. The ministry was one of the first to blend action sports and Christian music to reach youth and young adults.
Ben Cerullo Ministries
In 2007, Cerullo stepped out from behind the camera as the spokesperson and television personality of Steelroots to launch Ben Cerullo Ministries. Ben still oversees and manages the team and efforts of the Steelroots ministry while serving as the driving force as head of Ben Cerullo Ministries.
Family and personal
Cerullo currently lives in Charlotte with his wife, Jessica, and their daughter, Victoria, and sons, Joel and Josiah.
References
External links
Ben Cerullo's executive profile and bio at BizJournals website
1976 births
People from San Diego
Christians from California
Christians from North Carolina
American evangelists
Businesspeople from Charlotte, North Carolina
21st-century American businesspeople
Television personalities from California
American people of Italian descent
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20manager | System manager or System Manager may refer to:
Datapac System Manager, a derivative of Multiuser DOS, originally by Digital Research and Novell, in the 1990s
System Manager (HP LX), a DOS-based graphical user interface on the Hewlett-Packard LX series of palmtop PCs
IBM Flex System Manager, a component of the PureSystems line of server products in the 2010s
IBM Web-based System Manager, a management software for AIX 5L host administration on RS/6000 systems
System administrator, a practitioner of IT administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU%20%28disambiguation%29 | CPU is a computer's central processing unit.
CPU may also refer to:
Science and technology
Carboxypeptidase B2, a human enzyme
Critical Patch Update, software updates in Oracle products such as Oracle Database and Java
Organisations
Caribbean Postal Union, an association of postal (post office) administrators in the Caribbean region
Central Philippine University
Central Policy Unit, a head advisory unit to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong
Central Police University, a police academy in Taiwan
China Pharmaceutical University
Clark Public Utilities, a public electric and water utility located in Clark County, Washington
Columbia Pacific University, former unaccredited distance learning school in California
Commonwealth Press Union, an association of newspapers and news agencies
Communist Party of Ukraine
Computer Professionals' Union, an organization of information and technology professionals, practitioners, and workers in the Philippines
Contract postal unit, any contracted affiliate of the United States Postal Service
Conférence des Présidents d'Université, an organization of university presidents in France
Other uses
Console Patron Units, the goddesses in Hyperdimension Neptunia
China Pharmaceutical University station, one of the terminal stations of Nanjing Metro Line 1. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary%20Mason | Zachary Mason (born 1974) is a computer scientist and novelist. He wrote the New York Times bestselling The Lost Books of the Odyssey (2007; revised edition 2010), a variation on Homer, and Void Star (2017), a science fiction novel about artificial intelligence. In 2018, he published Metamorphica, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Mason grew up in Silicon Valley, attended Bard College at Simon's Rock, and received a doctorate from Brandeis University, publishing his thesis A computational, corpus-based metaphor extraction system in 2002. He works for a Silicon Valley startup.
References
External links
"The Machine Edda," by Zachary Mason in Guernica - April 26, 2008
A.I., the Simulated Annealing Search, and The Lost Books of the Odyssey: An Interview with Zachary Mason - Washington City Paper, Mar. 4, 2010
The Truth About AI: A Secular Ghost Story by Zachary Mason in The Paris Review - Dec. 20, 2018
Brandeis University alumni
1974 births
Living people
Bard College alumni
Writers from California
American male novelists
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American male writers
American computer scientists |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.