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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/Output%20Control%20System | Input/Output Control System (IOCS) is any of several packages on early IBM entry-level and mainframe computers that provided low level access to records on peripheral equipment. IOCS provides functionality similar to 1960s packages from other vendors, e.g., File Control Processor (FCP) in RCA 3301 Realcom Operating System, GEFRC in GECOS, and to the later Record Management Services (RMS) in DEC VAX/VMS (later OpenVMS.)
Computers in the 1950s and 1960s typically dealt with data that were organized into records either by the nature of the media, e.g., lines of print, or by application requirements. IOCS was intended to allow Assembler language programmers to read and write records without having to worry about the details of the various devices or the blocking of logical records into physical records. IOCS provided the run time I/O support for several compilers.
Computers of this era often did not have operating systems in the modern sense. Application programs called IOCS routines in a resident monitor, or included macro instructions that expanded to IOCS routines.
In some cases IOCS was designed to coexist with Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-line (SPOOL) software.
The level of access is at a higher level than that provided by BIOS and BDOS in the PC world; in fact, IOCS has no support for character-oriented I/O, primarily because the systems for which it was designed didn't support it. Versions of IOCS existed for the IBM 705 III, 1401/1440/1460, 1410/7010, 7070/7072/7074, 7080 and 7040/7044/7090/7094. These systems heavily influenced the data management components of the operating systems for the System/360; the name IOCS was carried through in DOS/360 through z/VSE, with a distinction between Logical IOCS (LIOCS) and Physical IOCS (PIOCS).
Although some technical details and nomenclature are different among the various IOCS packages, the fundamental concepts are the same. For concreteness, the discussion and examples in this article will mostly be in terms of 7070 IOCS. Also, multiple continuation lines will be shown as ellipses (...) when they don't serve to illustrate the narrative.
Structure
An IOCS program must do three things, each discussed in a subsection below.
Identify required IOCS services
Create control blocks for individual files
Process files
For the 7070 these are done using 7070 Autocoder declarative statements and macro instructions.
Identify required IOCS services
IOCS supported several classes of I/O equipment
Disk drives
Tape drives
Unit record equipment. The record length was dictated by the physical media, which were
Lines of print on paper
Punched 80-column cards
Some services offered by IOCS were not needed by all applications, e.g., checkpoints, label processing. An IOCS program must identify the particular devices types and services it uses. A 7070 IOCS program must specify one or more DIOCS statements:
These declarative statements identify index registers reserved for the use of IOCS, indica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Cartoon%20Network%20%28India%29 | This is a list of television programs currently and formerly broadcast by Cartoon Network in India. The network was launched on 1 May 1995 and airs mainly animated programmings.
Current programming
Ben 10 (2005)
Ben 10: Alien Force
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Ben 10: Omniverse
Batman: The Animated Series
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Digimon Adventure
Dragon Ball Super
Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball Z Kai
Lamput
My Hero Academia
Teen Titans Go!
The Amazing World of Gumball
The Tom and Jerry Show
Tom and Jerry Tales
We Bare Bears
Former programming
Animated series
2 Stupid Dogs
50/50 Heroes
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Adventure Time
Akbar and Birbal
The All New Popeye Hour
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Amar Chitra Katha
Andy Pandy
Angelina Ballerina
Angelo Rules
Angry Birds Toons
Animalia
Animal Control
Anpanman
Apple & Onion
Astro Boy
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Archie's Weird Mysteries
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Baby Looney Tunes
The Backyardigans
Bandbudh Aur Budbak
Bakugan Battle Brawlers
Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia
Battle B-Daman
Beyblade series
Blue Dragon
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
Capeta
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman Beyond
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Batwheels
Beast Machines: Transformers
Beat Monsters
Ben 10 (2005)
Ben 10: Alien Force
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Ben 10: Omniverse
Ben 10 (2016)
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
Beware the Batman
Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
Bob the Builder
Bob the Builder: Project Build It
Boo!
Camp Lazlo
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Captor Sakura
Chowder
Clarence
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Codename: Kids Next Door
Code Lyoko
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Cow and Chicken
Craig of the Creek
Crime Time
Dabangg
DC Super Hero Girls
DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High
Dexter's Laboratory
Digimon
Digimon Adventure (2020 TV series)
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball GT
Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball Kai
Dragon Ball Super
Duel Masters
Dragon Tales
DreamWorks Dragons
Duck Dodgers
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Ekans - Snakes Awake
Exchange Student Zero
Fantastic Max
Firehouse Tales
Fish Police
The Flintstone Comedy Show
The Flintstone Funnies
The Flintstone Kids
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Franklin
Fred Flintstone and Friends
The Flintstones
Fukrey Boyzzz
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1985 TV series)
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1989 TV series)
Galtar and the Golden Lance
Garfield and Friends
Generator Rex
Gon
Green Lantern: The Animated Series
Grizzy and the Lemmings
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Grim & Evil
Hagemaru
Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Heidi
The Herculoids
Hero: 108
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
Hikari Sentai Maskman
Home Movies
Hong Kong Phooey
Horrid Henry
Hot Wheels AcceleRacers
Hot Wheels Battle Force 5
I Am Weasel
Inazuma Eleven
Iron Man: Armored Adventures
Jackie Chan Adventures
Jellystone!
The Jetsons
Johnny Bravo
Johnn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability%20database | A vulnerability database (VDB) is a platform aimed at collecting, maintaining, and disseminating information about discovered computer security vulnerabilities. The database will customarily describe the identified vulnerability, assess the potential impact on affected systems, and any workarounds or updates to mitigate the issue. A VDB will assign a unique identifier to each vulnerability cataloged such as a number (e.g. 123456) or alphanumeric designation (e.g. VDB-2020-12345). Information in the database can be made available via web pages, exports, or API. A VDB can provide the information for free, for pay, or a combination thereof.
History
The first vulnerability database was the "Repaired Security Bugs in Multics", published by February 7, 1973 by Jerome H. Saltzer. He described the list as "a list of all known ways in which a user may break down or circumvent the protection mechanisms of Multics". The list was initially kept somewhat private with the intent of keeping vulnerability details until solutions could be made available. The published list contained two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities and three local denial of service attacks.
Types of vulnerability databases
Major vulnerability databases such as the ISS X-Force database, Symantec / SecurityFocus BID database, and the Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) aggregate a broad range of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, including Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). The primary purpose of CVE, run by MITRE, is to attempt to aggregate public vulnerabilities and give them a standardized format unique identifier. Many vulnerability databases develop the received intelligence from CVE and investigate further providing vulnerability risk scores, impact ratings, and the requisite workaround. In the past, CVE was paramount for linking vulnerability databases so critical patches and debugs can be shared to inhibit hackers from accessing sensitive information on private systems. The National Vulnerability Database (NVD), run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is operated separately from the MITRE-run CVE database, but only includes vulnerability information from CVE. NVD serves as an enhancement to that data by providing Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) risk scoring and Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data.
The Open Source Vulnerability Database provides an accurate, technical and unbiased index on vulnerability security. The comprehensive database cataloged over 121,000 vulnerabilities. The OSVDB was founded in August 2002 and was launched in March 2004. In its primitive beginning, newly identified vulnerabilities were investigated by site members and explanations were detailed on the website. However, as the necessity for the service thrived, the need for dedicated staff resulted in the inception of the Open Security Foundation (OSF) which was founded as a non-profit organisation in 2005 to provide funding for security pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island%20ECN | Island ECN was one of the first electronic communication networks established for the trading equities in the United States. Founded in 1996 by Datek Securities veterans Jeff Citron and Joshua Levine, Island executed its first trades in 1997.
History
Prior to Island, Citron and Levine worked together at Datek Securities (now TD Ameritrade). Citron's background was in trading and Levine had experience with software development. While at Datek, they worked together to develop a software program called Watcher. Watcher was one of the first programs to provide real-time quote and electronic order capabilities for trading Nasdaq stocks through the Small Order Execution System (SOES). In 1995, Watcher was augmented with a system called "Jump Trades" that let users of Watcher skip the Nasdaq intermediary and trade directly with each other.
On February 9, 1996, Levine announced the launch of Island. Unlike the existing Instinet system, which still used human traders to match buy and sell orders, matching on Island was fully automated. Island published an electronic feed called "ITCH" of all trades in the system, and used a protocol called "OUCH" to place orders. The data feed was accessible for free, an innovation over the tightly controlled data for traditional exchanges, and trading fees were significantly lower than on Nasdaq.
One of its first customers was South Carolina-based Automated Trading Desk, an early algorithmic trading firm. Island grew quickly, accounting for almost half of all trades on Nasdaq's SelectNet system by late 1996, and handling $22.1 billion of transactions between July and September of that year. By 1998, it had become the second-largest ECN, after Instinet, with 20% of the market.
In October 1999, Citron was forced out at the behest of president Ed Nicoll, who was worried that Citron's connections to Datek—then under investigation by the Justice Department—could cause the firm legal issues. In December 2000, Island became a separate company from Datek, with Matt Andresen as CEO. Island was an early hub for high-frequency trading firms like Getco and Tradebot in the early 2000s.
Instinet acquired Island Exchange in 2002 and renamed the trading platform to Inet.
References
Electronic trading platforms
2002 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Africans%20in%20the%20United%20Arab%20Emirates | There is a large population of South Africans in the United Arab Emirates. While the UAE National Bureau of Statistics does not publish any demographic data in relation to nationality, estimates reveal the number of South African immigrants in the country to be about 100,000 as of 2014. Time Out magazine estimated that 50,000 South Africans resided in Dubai alone . The influx of South Africans has been so large as to lead South African newspaper Independent Online to unofficially dub the United Arab Emirates "South Africa's 10th province".
Demographic characteristics
Half of the South Africans in the UAE hold higher educational qualifications, and only 15% work in entry-level positions. They are motivated to emigrate from South Africa to escape the country's high crime levels and gain international experience. Additional attractions include the high quality of health care, low cost of cars compared to South Africa, and attractive salaries; conversely, South African employees are attractive to UAE firms because they are accustomed to lower salaries than their European peers. Some also describe "reverse discrimination" as a motivation for their departure from South Africa. They tend to be white, male, under 35, and English- rather than Afrikaans-speaking. Roughly 15% intend to remain in the UAE for 10 years or longer. However, most do not to see the UAE as a long-term home, and stay in the country for shorter times than other expatriates in traditional emigration destinations such as London. Nevertheless, there are worries that South African migration to the UAE could become a permanent "brain drain" for the country.
Organisations
Scholars International Academy has offered courses in Afrikaans to South African children in Dubai since 2007. There is also an Afrikaans-speaking church, and a South African Women's Association.
References
External links
Gulfnews: South Africans in Dubai celebrate Freedom Day
United Arab Emirates
Ethnic groups in the United Arab Emirates
Emirati people of South African descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layout%20%28computing%29 | In computing, layout is the process of calculating the position of objects in space subject to various constraints. This functionality can be part of an application or packaged as a reusable component or library.
Examples
Page layout is the computation of the position of the paragraphs, tabs, sentences, words and letters of a text. This is done by desktop publishing software, typesetting software, and web browsers. These programs typically have dedicated layout routines to calculate the correct position of glyphs and embedded images.
Some widget toolkits include a layout manager. This component automatically calculates a widget's position based on alignment constraints without the need for the programmer to specify absolute coordinates.
Graph drawing software automatically determine the position of the vertexes and edges of a graph with various goals like minimization of the number of edge intersections, minimization of total area or production of an aesthetically pleasing result.
Electronic design automation tools for the place and route step.
See also
Document layout analysis
Layout engine (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Apache%20modules | In computing, the Apache HTTP Server, an open-source HTTP server, comprises a small core for HTTP request/response processing and for Multi-Processing Modules (MPM) which dispatches data processing to threads or processes. Many additional modules (or "mods") are available to extend the core functionality for special purposes.
The following is a list of all the first- and third-party modules available for the most recent stable release of Apache web server:
The following is a list of historical first- and third-party modules available for prior versions of the Apache web server:
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented%20programming | Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain data and code: data in the form of fields (often known as attributes or properties), and code in the form of procedures (often known as methods).
A common feature of objects is that methods are attached to them and can access and modify the object's data fields. In this brand of OOP, there is usually a special name such as or used to refer to the current object. In OOP, computer programs are designed by making them out of objects that interact with one another. OOP languages are diverse, but the most popular ones are class-based, meaning that objects are instances of classes, which also determine their types.
Many of the most widely used programming languages (such as C++, Java, Python, etc.) are multi-paradigm and they support object-oriented programming to a greater or lesser degree, typically in combination with imperative, procedural programming.
Significant object-oriented languages include: Ada, ActionScript, C++, Common Lisp, C#, Dart, Eiffel, Fortran 2003, Haxe, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Logo, MATLAB, Objective-C, Object Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Raku, Ruby, Scala, SIMSCRIPT, Simula, Smalltalk, Swift, Vala and Visual Basic.NET.
History
Terminology invoking "objects" in the modern sense of object-oriented programming made its first appearance at MIT in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the environment of the artificial intelligence group, as early as 1960, "object" could refer to identified items (LISP atoms) with properties (attributes);
Alan Kay later cited a detailed understanding of LISP internals as a strong influence on his thinking in 1966, and that he used the term "object-oriented programming" in conversation as early as 1967. Although sometimes called "the father of object-oriented programming", Alan Kay has differentiated his notion of OO from the more conventional abstract data type notion of object, and has implied that the computer science establishment did not adopt his notion. A 1976 MIT memo co-authored by Barbara Liskov lists Simula 67, CLU, and Alphard as object-oriented languages, but does not mention Smalltalk.
Another early MIT example was Sketchpad created by Ivan Sutherland in 1960–1961; in the glossary of the 1963 technical report based on his dissertation about Sketchpad, Sutherland defined notions of "object" and "instance" (with the class concept covered by "master" or "definition"), albeit specialized to graphical interaction.
Also, an MIT ALGOL version, AED-0, established a direct link between data structures ("plexes", in that dialect) and procedures, prefiguring what were later termed "messages", "methods", and "member functions".
Simula introduced important concepts that are today an essential part of object-oriented programming, such as class and object, inheritance, and dynamic binding.
The object-oriented Simula programming language was used mainly by researchers involved with p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20D.%20Brooks | Ahmad Drushane Brooks (born March 13, 1980) is a retired National Football League player and sports broadcaster for ESPNU, the Longhorn Network and KTXX-FM. He is also co-founder and president of Helping Adolescents/Athletes Lead Others (HALO). Brooks is a graduate of the University of Texas, where he served as captain of the football team in 2001. He played in the NFL for three years before retiring in 2005.
Early life
Ahmad excelled in both the classroom and on the field at an early age. By the age of five, he became a Grand Champion in karate where he was given the nickname "Tank" for his exceptional karate skills and abilities. Not only was Ahmad an upcoming karate champion, but he also was a standout in soccer, baseball, and football.
Prior to graduating from Abilene High School, he was a member of the U-16 US National Soccer Pool and led the Abilene Eagles football squad to their best record in decades. In addition, Ahmad became Abilene High’s first Division I football signee in 11 years and the school’s first player to earn a spot in the Texas HS Coaches Association All-Star Game since 1964.
He was voted class president of his high school all four years, while also serving as a four-year student council representative, a member of Youth City Council and a prep scholar and mentor.
Career
College
In 1998, Ahmad signed and became a valuable member of the University of Texas football team for Coach Mack Brown’s inaugural recruiting class at UT. By the conclusion of his senior year, he and his teammates were deemed as the winningest class in UT history.
Brooks' personal accomplishments include receiving action in 51 games and starting 27 contests while recording 182 tackles, four sacks, four interceptions, 27 pass breakups, seven forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries in four years at UT. In addition, he secured a team-high 88 tackles for the #1 ranked defense in the country during 2001 season, including a career-high 22 stops in the Big 12 Championship Game against Colorado. Brooks led the Longhorns with 16 pass breakups and two interceptions in 1999.
Brooks served as Team Captain in 2001 to his teammates and school along with Major Applewhite and Deandre Lewis. The honors he received included an All-Big 12 mention as well as receiving the University of Texas Outstanding Senior Award for accomplishments on and off the football field. He was a member of the Athletics Dean’s Honor Roll while also serving on the Student-Athlete Advisory Council as the Longhorn football team representative.
NFL
Following his tenure at Texas, Brooks entered the National Football League as an undrafted free agent. He was signed to the Buffalo Bills off the practice squad October 20, 2002. He played for the Bills for one season, recording 11 tackles and no sacks. Brooks retired from the NFL in 2005.
After football
Brooks received a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Studies from UT in the fall of 2005.
Brooks calls football games for ESPNU an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout%20Kings | Breakout Kings is an American drama television series that aired on the A&E network. It is a production of Fox 21. The series was created, written, and executive-produced by Nick Santora and Matt Olmstead, who previously worked together on Prison Break. Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope, and Gavin Hood also served as executive producers.
Though the guest appearance of Prison Break character Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell confirms a shared continuity between the two series, it is not a direct spin-off. Frank Grillo, who recurred in Prison Breaks first season as Nick Savrinn, appears in the episode "Queen of Hearts" as a different character named Agent Stoltz.
The series premiered on March 6, 2011, and was the most-watched original drama series in A&E's history among adults 25–54 and adults 18–49, delivering 1.6 million adults 25–54 and 1.5 million adults 18–49.
The series follows a task force assembled by the U.S. Marshals to capture prison escapees. Several current convicts are offered a chance to aid in this effort, with the promise of a transfer to a minimum-security prison and a reduction in their sentences for every fugitive they catch. However, if any of them tries to escape, they will all be returned to their original prisons and their sentences will be doubled.
The series was picked up for a second season which premiered on March 4, 2012. The second-season finale aired on April 29, 2012, at 9 p.m. ET/PT and featured two back-to-back episodes, "Freakshow" and "Served Cold", instead of the usual one-hour installment at 10 p.m.
A&E cancelled Breakout Kings on May 17, 2012, after two seasons.
Cast
The team
Laz Alonso portrays Charlie Duchamp, a Deputy U.S. Marshal and head of the task force. He comes from the Department of Criminal Program Analysis and was assigned to a desk job for six years because of a congenital heart defect. He is under a great deal of pressure to produce results, since any failures in the task force would have led to his being permanently placed on desk work. In the season two premiere episode "An Unjust Death", Chief Inspector Craig Renner offers Charlie a promotion, but he turns it down for the sake of the team. He is killed by fugitive Damian Fontleroy near the end of the episode.
Domenick Lombardozzi portrays Ray Zancanelli, a former Deputy U.S. Marshal who lost his job after he was convicted of stealing money from a crime scene to buy his daughter a car. This information is originally kept a secret from the other convicts until Shea (see below) overhears Charlie discussing it with Ray. He appears to be able to relate better with the convicts than Charlie because he has been in a position similar to theirs. Ray is on parole throughout season one, living at a halfway house, and has been appointed a Special Deputy U.S. Marshal. As such, he is allowed to carry a firearm, unlike the convicts. Ray is divorced, but maintains a good relationship with his daughter. Prior to his conviction, he came up with the idea for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullard%20SAA5050 | The Mullard SAA5050 was a character generator chip for implementing the Teletext character set.
The SAA5050 was used in teletext-equipped television sets, viewdata terminals, and microcomputers, most notably on computers like the Philips P2000 (1980), Acorn System 2 (1980), BBC Micro (1982), Malzak and the Poly-1, and Prestel adapters like the AlphaTantel.
This chip was also manufactured by Mullard for Philips.
Operation
The chip generated appropriate video output for a 7-bit input character code representing the current character on the text line, while keeping track of the effect of any of the various control characters defined by the teletext standard that had previously occurred in that text line, which could be used to change the foreground and background colour, switch to or from the alternate block graphics character set, or various other effects.
Full-screen resolution generated by the SAA5050 was 480 × 500 pixels, corresponding to 40 × 25 characters. Each character position therefore corresponded to a 12 × 20 pixel space.
Internally each character shape was defined on a 5 × 9 pixel grid that was loosely based on the Signetics 2513 character ROM chip. This was then interpolated by smoothing diagonals to give a 10×18 pixel character, with a characteristically angular shape, surrounded to the top and to the left by two pixels of blank space. This gave a particularly stable and flicker-free arrangement on interlaced displays.
The alternate set of 2 × 3 block graphic characters were created on the same 12 × 20 pixel grid, so that the top two blocks were each 6 × 6 pixels, the middle two blocks each 6×8 pixels, and the bottom two blocks again 6 × 6 pixels (or two fewer in each direction, if the "separated graphics" control character had been sent).
The pixels were usually displayed with a 1.33:1 or 1.2:1 aspect ratio to give a full display close to the standard 4:3 TV aspect ratio, effectively a 400 × 300 or 480 × 400 display.
Versions
Compared to other alternative chips, the SAA5050 implemented the original World System Teletext teletext standard (Level 1), which had no provision to set black for the foreground text colour. Some alternative chips at the time did allow this, as became formalized in the 1981 CEPT videotex standard.
In addition to the UK version, several variants of the chip existed with slightly different character sets for particular localizations and/or languages. These had part numbers SAA5051 (German), SAA5052 (Swedish), SAA5053 (Italian), SAA5054 (Belgian), SAA5055 (U.S. ASCII), SAA5056 (Hebrew) and SAA5057 (Cyrillic).
The SAA5050 was later superseded by the SAA5243 CCT chip, integrating a similar teletext character generator with all previously separately implemented functions such as decoding, timing and video generation. It was controlled through I2C.
See also
Teletext character set
Viewdata
Character generator
AlphaTantel
Philips P2000
Acorn System 2
BBC Micro
Poly-1
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled%20K.%20El-Hamedi | Khaled El-Khweldi El-Hamedi is a Libyan humanitarian peace activist and the founder of the Tripoli-based International Organisation for Peace, Care and Relief (IOPCR). He also has a degree in Computer Engineering. He is the son of Major General Khweldi Hameidi.
Early life and education
• El-Hamedi was born on 31 December 1973 in Tripoli, Libya. He grew up in the city and received his Bachelor of Engineering Science with a major in Computing in 1996 from the Faculty of Engineering at Tripoli's AlFatah University. In 2001 he obtained a master's degree in Business Administration in Telecommunications from the International University in Geneva, Switzerland, having passed with high distinction.
• El-Hamedi has established the National Consulting and Inspection Bureau in the year 1997, and developed the National Bureau to become a holding company
Humanitarian Activities
As President of IOPCR, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with special consultative status on the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN),[2] El-Hamedi stimulated the activities of the organization in many humanitarian fields around the globe. In March 2002, he went to Kuwait to help handle the issue of Kuwaiti prisoners of war and those reported missing in action during the Iraq War, as well as heading the 'No to war, Yes to peace' Campaign to deliver aid to the children of Iraq. He also raised a tent at the Rafah Border Crossing on the Egyptian – Palestine border under the slogan 'Stop The Bleeding' as a protest over Israel's January 2009 invasion of the Gaza Strip.[6] IOPCR has engaged in various forms of aid work in Algeria, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan, Bosnia as well as made local contributions to different care centers throughout Libya such as orphanages and homes for the elderly. During recent years El-Hamedi has achieved agreements with a number of International Organizations working in the field of humanitarian relief such as The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), The Italian Council for Refugees (CIR),[9] The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC),[10] – Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), The International Islamic Relief Organization (IR), and The International Organization for Migration (IOM).[11] In cooperation with the UNHCR he has made illegal migration among the top priorities of the organization[12][13][14] along with handling refugees cases in partnership with (UNRWA).[15] The intervention in Libya on 17 March 2011.
Libyan issue
the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1973, spearheaded by the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, authorizing military intervention in Libya. On 19 March 2011, a multi-state NATO-led coalition began a military intervention in Libya. The military operations began, with American and British naval forces firing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabnabbing | Tabnabbing is a computer exploit and phishing attack, which persuades users to submit their login details and passwords to popular websites by impersonating those sites and convincing the user that the site is genuine. The attack's name was coined in early 2010 by Aza Raskin, a security researcher and design expert. The attack takes advantage of user trust and inattention to detail in regard to tabs, and the ability of browsers to navigate across a page's origin in inactive tabs a long time after the page is loaded. Tabnabbing is different from most phishing attacks in that the user no longer remembers that a certain tab was the result of a link unrelated to the login page, because the fake login page is loaded in one of the long-lived open tabs in their browser.
The attack causes the browser to navigate to the impersonated page after the page has been left unattended for some time. A user who returns after a while and sees the login page may be induced to believe the page is legitimate and enter their login, password and other details that will be used for improper purposes. The attack can be made more likely to succeed if the attacker is able to check for well known websites the user has loaded in the past or in other tabs, and loads a simulation of the same sites. This attack can be done even if JavaScript is disabled, using the "meta refresh" meta element, an HTML attribute used for page redirection that causes a reload of a specified new page after a given time interval.
The NoScript extension for Mozilla Firefox defends both from the JavaScript-based and from the scriptless attack, based on meta refresh, by preventing inactive tabs from changing the location of the page. Because there are legitimate purposes for inactive tab redirects, it cannot be disabled in all browsers by default without breaking some applications. The attack is also not very common, giving browser vendors little incentive to implement a breaking change.
See also
Phishing
Hacker (computer security)
References
External links
Social engineering (computer security)
Cybercrime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit%20machine%20%28disambiguation%29 | Fruit machine is a British term for a gambling machine that creates a game of chance.
Fruit machine may also refer to:
An analog computer used with the Chain Home radar system during World War II
Fruit machine (homosexuality test), a device developed in Canada that could purportedly identify homosexual people
"Fruit Machine" (song), a 2007 single by the Ting Tings
The Fruit Machine, a theatrical play by Brian Drader
The Fruit Machine (1988 film), a 1988 British film thriller released as Wonderland in the US
The Fruit Machine (2018 film), a Canadian documentary film directed by Sarah Fodey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20enablement | Application enablement is an approach which brings telecommunications network providers and developers together to combine their network and web abilities in creating and delivering high demand advanced services and new intelligent applications.
Network providers, in addition to bandwidth, provide abilities such as billing, location, presence, and security, which have allowed them to establish long-term relationships with end-users. By offering these select abilities as application programming interfaces (APIs), providers give developers access to a set of tools to create (mashup) new applications and services to run on provider networks. Unifying the strengths of providers and developers facilitates the creation of mash-up applications, and in turn, a better end user quality of experience (QoE) for improved profit margins.
Apple’s iOS with App Store, and Google's Android with Android Market exemplify this approach. Both have introduced mobile platforms that are supported by a comprehensive ecosystem in order to perpetuate innovation in product design, content and service offerings, and overall consumer behavior. By the end of April 2010, downloadable applications numbered over 200,000 for iPhone and over 50,000 for Android.
Background
Historically, telecommunication network providers have focused on the network in their business approach, relying almost exclusively on their network abilities for connectivity, availability and quality of service (QoS) to generate revenue and establish customer value. With the evolution of network and web abilities, consumer demand for bandwidth intensive data and video applications has exploded, requiring significant investment by network providers if they are to maintain current levels of service continuity. To fully leverage such investments, and offset rising operating costs and declining average revenue per user (ARPU) levels, providers must deliver a customer-focused experience and adopt new business models that will broaden revenue opportunities and expand their position in the Telecommunications value chain.
Application enablement supports providers in making this transition by providing an environment, or ecosystem, where providers and developers can collaborate to build, test, manage, and distribute applications across networks including television, broadband, Internet, and mobile. This cooperative effort produces mutually beneficial results for all parties, opening up new revenue streams while enhancing value and rate of return (ROI).
The following are some examples of key network abilities which function as application enablers in the telecommunications market:
Billing systems
Security for private transactions
Network-based storage of digital content
End-to-end bandwidth for high-quality transmissions
Scoring abilities to identify end-user preferences and behaviors
Subscriber data to customize the end-user experience
Context information, such as location and presence, to localize services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-tree | In computer science, M-trees are tree data structures that are similar to R-trees and B-trees. It is constructed using a metric and relies on the triangle inequality for efficient range and k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) queries.
While M-trees can perform well in many conditions, the tree can also have large overlap and there is no clear strategy on how to best avoid overlap. In addition, it can only be used for distance functions that satisfy the triangle inequality, while many advanced dissimilarity functions used in information retrieval do not satisfy this.
Overview
As in any tree-based data structure, the M-tree is composed of nodes and leaves. In each node there is a data object that identifies it uniquely and a pointer to a sub-tree where its children reside. Every leaf has several data objects. For each node there is a radius that defines a Ball in the desired metric space. Thus, every node and leaf residing in a particular node is at most distance from , and every node and leaf with node parent keep the distance from it.
M-tree construction
Components
An M-tree has these components and sub-components:
Non-leaf nodes
A set of routing objects NRO.
Pointer to Node's parent object Op.
Leaf nodes
A set of objects NO.
Pointer to Node's parent object Op.
Routing Object
(Feature value of) routing object Or.
Covering radius r(Or).
Pointer to covering tree T(Or).
Distance of Or from its parent object d(Or,P(Or))
Object
(Feature value of the) object Oj.
Object identifier oid(Oj).
Distance of Oj from its parent object d(Oj,P(Oj))
Insert
The main idea is first to find a leaf node where the new object belongs. If is not full then just attach it to . If is full then invoke a method to split . The algorithm is as follows:
Input: Node of M-Tree ,
Output: A new instance of containing all entries in original
's routing objects or objects
if is not a leaf then
{
/* Look for entries that the new object fits into */
{
/* If there are one or more entry, then look for an entry such that is closer to the new object */
}
else
{
/* If there are no such entry, then look for an object with minimal distance from */
/* its covering radius's edge to the new object */
/* Upgrade the new radii of the entry */
}
/* Continue inserting in the next level */
else
{
/* If the node has capacity then just insert the new object */
if is not full then
{ }
/* The node is at full capacity, then it is needed to do a new split in this level */
else
{ }
}
Split
If the split method arrives to the root of the tree, then it choose two routing objects from , and creates two new nodes containing all the objects in original , and store them into the new root. If split methods arrives to a node that is not the roo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6zen | Közen is a Turkish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dexter Kozen, American theoretical computer scientist
Ömer Közen, Turkish footballer
Turkish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiappa | Chiappa is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Imelda Chiappa, Italian cyclist
Noel Chiappa, computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Roberto Chiappa, Italian cyclist
See also
Chiappa Firearms, Italian firearms manufacturing company
Italian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR%20%28amateur%20radio%20software%29 | WSPR (pronounced "whisper") is an acronym for Weak Signal Propagation Reporter. It is a protocol, implemented in a computer program, used for weak-signal radio communication between amateur radio operators. The protocol was designed, and a program written initially, by Joe Taylor, K1JT. The software code is now open source and is developed by a small team. The program is designed for sending and receiving low-power transmissions to test propagation paths on the MF and HF bands.
WSPR implements a protocol designed for probing potential propagation paths with low-power transmissions. Transmissions carry a station's callsign, Maidenhead grid locator, and transmitter power in dBm. The program can decode signals with a signal-to-noise ratio as low as −28 dB in a 2500 Hz bandwidth. Stations with internet access can automatically upload their reception reports to a central database called WSPRnet, which includes a mapping facility.
The WSPR Protocol
The type of radio emission is “F1D”, frequency-shift keying.
A message contains a station's callsign, Maidenhead grid locator, and transmitter power in dBm.
The WSPR protocol compresses the information in the message into 50 bits (binary digits). These are encoded using a convolutional code with constraint length K = 32 and a rate of r = .
The long constraint length makes undetected decoding errors less probable, at the cost that the highly efficient Viterbi algorithm must be replaced by a simple sequential algorithm for the decoding process.
Protocol specification
The standard message is <callsign> + <4 character locator> + <dBm transmit power>; for example “K1ABC FN20 37” is a signal from station K1ABC in Maidenhead grid cell “FN20”, sending 37 dBm, or about 5.0 W (legal limit for 630 m).
Messages with a compound callsign and/or 6 digit locator use a two-transmission sequence. The first transmission carries compound callsign and power level, or standard callsign, 4 digit locator, and power level; the second transmission carries a hashed callsign, 6 digit locator, and power level. Add-on prefixes can be up to three alphanumeric characters; add-on suffixes can be a single letter or one or two digits.
Standard message components after lossless compression:
28 bits for callsign,
15 bits for locator,
7 bits for power level,
total: 50 bits.
Forward error correction (FEC):
non-recursive convolutional code with constraint length K = 32, rate r = .
Number of binary channel symbols:
nsym = (50 + K − 1) × 2 = 162.
Keying rate is = 1.4648 baud.
Modulation is continuous phase 4 FSK, with 1.4648 Hz tone separation.
Occupied bandwidth is about 6 Hz
Synchronization is via a 162 bit pseudo-random sync vector.
Each channel symbol conveys one sync bit (LSB) and one data bit (MSB).
Duration of transmission is 162 × = 110.6 s.
Transmissions nominally start one second into an even UTC minute: e.g., at hh:00:01, hh:02:01, etc.
Minimum S/N for reception is around –34 dB on the WSJT scale (2500 Hz reference ban |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matariki%20Network%20of%20Universities | The Matariki Network of Universities (MNU) is an international group of universities that focuses on strong links between research and undergraduate teaching. Each member is leading international best practice in research and education based on long academic traditions. The MNU was established in 2010 to enable universities to enhance diversity, to share ideas and expertise, and to learn international best practice from each other, recognising the shared commitment to an ethos of excellence in research, scholarship and rounded education.
Name and research activities
Matariki in the Māori language designates the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. It reflects seven founding member universities in the MNU.
Potential activities for the newly formed network include:
enhanced student exchange
joint postgraduate programmes
social-responsibility projects
research collaboration
conferences and workshops on topics of mutual interest
visiting fellowships
faculty and staff exchange and secondments
benchmarking and sharing of best practice
cultural and sporting activities
Universities
As of September 2010 the founding members of the Matariki Network of Universities are:
References
External links
Official website
Dartmouth College
Durham University
University of Otago
University of Tübingen
University of Western Australia
Uppsala University
International college and university associations and consortia
Queen's University at Kingston |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20network%20game | A social network game (sometimes simply referred to as a social media game, social gaming, social video game or online social game) is a type of online game that is played through social networks or social media. They typically feature gamification systems with multiplayer gameplay mechanics. Social network games were originally implemented as browser games. As mobile gaming took off, the games moved to mobile as well. While they share many aspects of traditional video games, social network games often employ additional ones that make them distinct. Traditionally they are oriented to be social games and casual games.
The first cross-platform "Facebook-to-Mobile" social network game was developed in 2011 by a Finnish company Star Arcade. Social network games are amongst the most popular games played in the world, with several products with tens of millions of players. (Lil) Green Patch, Happy Farm, and Mob Wars were some of the first successful games of this genre. FarmVille, Mafia Wars, Kantai Collection and The Sims Social are more recent examples of popular social network game.
Major companies that made or published social network games include Zynga, Wooga and Bigpoint Games.
Demographics
As of 2010, it was reported that 55 percent of the social network gaming demographic in the United States consisted of women while in the United Kingdom, women made up nearly 60 percent of the demographic. In addition, most social gamers were around the 30 to 59 age range, with the average social gamer being 43 years old.
Social gaming may appeal more to the older demographic because it is free, easier to advance through in a short period of time, does not involve as much violence as traditional video games, and is easier to grasp.
Other games target certain demographics that use social media, such as Pot Farm creating a community by involving elements of cannabis subculture in its gameplay.
Technology and platforms
A social network video game is a client-server application.
The client in the web era was implemented with a mix of web technologies like Flash, HTML5, PHP and JavaScript. When mobile games moved to mobile, social game front ends were developed using mobile platform technologies like Java, Objective-C, Swift and C++.
The back-end was a mix of programming languages and systems including PHP, Ruby, C++ and go.
Where social network video games diverged from traditional game development was the combination of real-time analytics, to continuously optimize game mechanics to drive growth, revenue and engagement.
Distinct features
The following table outlines common characteristics of social games, mentioned by Björk at the 2010 GCO Games Convention Online:
A social video game may employ any of the following features:
asynchronous gameplay, which allows rules to be resolved without needing players to play at the same time.
community, as one of the most distinct features of social video games is in leveraging the player's social network. Qu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20project | A community project is a term applied to any community-based project. This covers a wide variety of different areas within a community or a group of networking entities. Projects can cover almost anything, including the most obvious section of concern to any community, the welfare element. Welfare community projects would for example be, a locally run and locally funded orphanage; a Christmas dinner kitchen for the homeless. Another important sector of importance to the community would be charity. Charitable projects in the community can include, but are not limited to, ecological charities concerned with either the maintenance of green spaces, or in some cases, the prevention of the reduction/removal of green spaces. An old clothes collection service would also be a community-based charity project. One important subdivision of community projects, and at times overlooked, is those of an economic nature such as LETS. The highlight of economic community projects is what is known as Transition Towns. Most economic community projects are designed at creating some sort of economic autonomy.
It begins when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of peak oil and climate change?
Scope and size
All community projects are different in some way; the size and scope of these projects is determined firstly by the community they cater to.
According to the definition of a community, a community could be the entire human race or parts of it anywhere on the planet. However, because of phenomena like distance decay or demographic factors such as age group, gender and income that determine social identity of groups, the extent of community-based projects is usually much more limited.
See also
Community service
References
Community organizing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Computer%20Paper | The Computer Paper (sometimes referred to as TCP, for a time HUB, and then HUB-The Computer Paper) was a monthly computer magazine that was published in Canada (both in print and online) from February 1988 until November 2008. The magazine was originally published by Canada Computer Paper Inc. It was purchased in 1997 by Hebdo Mag International of Paris, France, and then to Piccolo Publishing Ltd of Toronto in 2003. Publication ceased in November 2008 due to declining ad revenues.
Overview
The Computer Paper which billed itself as "Canada's Computer Information Source", and "Canada's Largest Computer Monthly", provided reviews, previews of computer hardware and software for home users and information technology professionals. The intention was to provide a Canadian view of the rapidly changing computer marketplace. Articles were written by journalists and technology specialists in a wide range of fields. As the computer market changed, the publication was broadened to include coverage of printers, PDAs, digital cameras, video cameras, smart phones, personal music players and other consumer electronics. Each issue would have a focus article, usually featured on the cover of the magazine. Examples included Canadian accounting software, payroll programs, desktop publishing and telecommunications. Regular columns were devoted to specific topics such as shareware software. The Computer Paper also included wire stories from the Newsbytes News Network.
Similar in style to American regional magazines such as Computer Currents, Micro Times and Computer User, The Computer Paper was printed on newsprint on a monthly basis and was distributed free to readers as it was entirely advertising supported. At its peak The Computer Paper was distributed from six offices across Canada: Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal with a circulation of 365,000 copies a month in five separate, regional editions. Distribution was done largely through computer retail outlets, free street boxes and other high volume locations.
Commencing in January 1995, The Computer Paper launched TCP Labs, to provide benchmarking of computers, printers and other hardware. The goal was to provide Canadian purchasers with an unbiased overview of products available in the Canadian market. Winners of the hardware survey each month would be selected for an "Editor's Choice Award". The testing Lab was located in the Toronto offices of The Computer Paper. The first lab tests featured benchmark testing on a number of Canadian and internationally manufactured Pentium and 486 computers. The second lab featured laptops and color inkjet printers.
Competitors
Throughout the 1990s, The Computer Paper had competitors in most regional markets, including Our Computer Player in Vancouver, The Computer Post in Winnipeg, Toronto Computes! and later We Compute in Toronto and Monitor & M2 in Ottawa. The national distribution of The Computer Paper meant that most national level advertisers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra%20Nova%20%28TV%20series%29 | Terra Nova is an American science fiction drama television series. It aired on the Fox Network for one season from September 26 to December 19, 2011. The series documents the Shannon family's experiences as they establish themselves as members of a colony, set up 85 million years in the Earth's past, fleeing the dystopian overpopulated and hyperpolluted present of the mid-22nd century. The series is based on an idea by British writer Kelly Marcel with Steven Spielberg as executive producer. On March 5, 2012, Fox announced that the show had been cancelled.
Plot
The series is initially set in 2149, when overpopulation and declining air quality threaten all life on Earth. When scientists discover a temporal rift permitting (one-way) human transmission, they initiate a series of "pilgrimages" to a parallel "time stream" resembling Earth's Cretaceous Period. The series focuses primarily on police officer James "Jim" Shannon, his wife Elisabeth, and their three children Josh, Maddy, and Zoe, as they join the colony there, named "Terra Nova", Latin for "New Earth" or "New World".
Elisabeth Shannon is chosen to join Terra Nova for her medical expertise, and her two older children with her. Her husband, imprisoned for violating population control by harboring a third child and assaulting an official agent to protect his young daughter, stows away to join them and eventually convinces the colony's leader, Commander Nathaniel Taylor, that his own police expertise is of use to the administration.
Opposing the colony (and its leader Taylor) is a group of separatists known as the "Sixers", so-called because they arrived in the "Sixth Pilgrimage," working in concert with corporate industrialists to strip the Cretaceous Earth of its resources and transmit them to 2149, allowing for massive profits at the cost of environmental destruction. It is later revealed that Commander Taylor's estranged grown son, Lucas, is working with the Sixers as well. Toward the end of the series, Lucas perfects travel to and from the future, thus enabling the industrialists, with a private army called "The Phoenix Group," to invade Terra Nova. At the end of the series, Jim Shannon returns to 2149 to destroy the gateway permitting travel to the Cretaceous, whereupon the Phoenix Group retreats to the nearby "Badlands," leaving behind a wooden ship's figurehead apparently located there by another temporal rift.
Cast
Main
Jason O'Mara as James "Jim" Shannon, a former Chicago Police narcotics detective. He is married to Elisabeth and is the father of their three children. After a lengthy imprisonment for breaking population-control laws in 2149, he escaped and rejoined his family in the Terra Nova colony, where he worked on the gardening division. After saving Commander Taylor from an assassination attempt, he joined Terra Nova's security forces, eventually becoming third-in-command of the colony.
Shelley Conn as Dr. Elisabeth Shannon, a trauma surgeon who works at Terra Nova's med |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tridactyle%20bicaudata | Tridactyle bicaudata is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae. This species can be found throughout most of Africa, from the Cape Province to Kenya and Ghana. It also can be found in a wide variety of different habitats, which makes it very amenable to cultivation. It has a monopodial growth habit, and can typically be found growing in clumps on rocks or on low lying tree branches. The flowers are canary yellow, 2 cm wide, and have a lip lobed into three sections. Two of the outlying lobes are fimbriated. Usually 8-16 flowers are born on an inflorescence, with multiple racemes possible resulting in a flower count in the thousands. The flowers form two rows on the single inflorescence. The species contains one subspecies, namely Tridactyle bicaudata subsp. rupestris.
References
Angraecinae
Orchids of Kenya
Orchids of South Africa
Flora of Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Junior | Disney Junior is an American pay television network owned by the Disney Entertainment unit of The Walt Disney Company through Disney Branded Television. Aimed mainly at children two to seven years old, its programming consists of original first-run television series, films, and select other third-party programming.
As of January 2016, the channel is available to 74 million households in the U.S.
History
Origins
The Walt Disney Company first attempted to launch a 24-hour subscription channel for preschoolers in the United States, when the company announced plans to launch Playhouse Disney, a television offshoot of Disney Channel's daytime programming block of the same name, which launched on the channel on May 8, 1997 (airing during the morning hours seven days a week, with the weekday blocks lasting until the early afternoon). Plans for the United States network were ultimately shelved. However, channels using the Playhouse Disney moniker were launched in other countries internationally.
The development of Disney Junior began on May 26, 2010, when Disney-ABC Television Group announced the launch of the channel as a pay television service, which would compete with other subscription channels targeted primarily at preschool-aged children in addition to the Playhouse Disney branded blocks and channels being rebranded under Disney Junior.
The flagship channel in the United States intended to replace Soapnet, a Disney-owned channel featuring daytime soap operas seen on the major broadcast networks (including sister network ABC) and reruns of former primetime drama series, due to the continued decline in popularity and quantity of soap operas on broadcast television, along with the growth of video on demand services (including the online streaming availability for soap operas) and digital video recorders that negated the need for a linear channel devoted to the genre.
Network and block launches
Disney Junior first launched as a programming block on Disney Channel on February 14, 2011. The Disney Junior channel was originally scheduled to launch in January 2012, but on July 28, 2011, the Disney-ABC Television Group pushed back the channel's launch date to an unspecified date in early 2012, then on January 9, 2012, the Disney-ABC Television Group announced that Soapnet's closing date for most cable providers was scheduled for March 22, 2012. Disney Junior's 24-hour subscription channel counterpart officially launched the following day on March 23, at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time with the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Mickey's Big Surprise" as the first program to air on the channel. Programming featured on the channel's initial lineup included Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and freshman original series Doc McStuffins; the channel also had new episodes of the short-form series A Poem Is. as well as the weekend movie block, the Magical World of Disney Junior.
Though it in effect took over the channel space held by Soapnet, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipione%20Lacorcia | Scipione Lacorcia (fl. 1590–1620) was a Neapolitan composer of madrigals.
Biographical data for Lacorcia is almost non-existent. Apart from his activity from 1590 to 1620, culminating in his third book of madrigals for 5 voices, little is known.
Book II is dedicated to Alessandro Miroballo, marchese di Bracigliano. Book III, dated 1 October 1620 is prefaced with a humble plebeian dedication to his lordship Francesco Filomarino (1600–1678), principe della Rocca. Book III also features two "guest" madrigals by the nobleman Ettore de la Marra (ca. 1570–1634) signore di Baiano e Castelfranco, who like Filomarino and the amateur madrigalist Scipione Dentice was a member of the five family seggio Capuana who participated in the city government. Ettore de la Marra was also a lutenist and guitarist in Carlo Gesualdo's Accademia and has two other surviving madrigals in the collection Teatro de Madrigali (Gargano and Nucci, Naples 1609). The poems in Lacorcia's Book III are mainly anonymous, perhaps indicating that they may be from local aristocratic poets.
Lacorcia is considered one of the madrigalists most influenced by Carlo Gesualdo, along with Francesco Genuino, Crescenzio Salzilli, Agostino Agresta, Giuseppe Palazzotto-Tagliavia, Antonio de Metrio, and Giacomo Tropea.
Lacorcia's name appears in a list of madrigalists in print, on the envelope of a letter from Heinrich Schütz in Venice, 23 April 1632, to Philip Hainhofer in Dresden, but not in Schütz's handwriting.
Works
Madrigali Libro I a 5, - lost
Madrigali Libro II a 5, Carlino, Naples 1616, survives complete.
Madrigali Libro III a 5, Vitale, Naples 1620, survives complete.
Recordings
Musica Vulcanica Complete recording of Book III, together with the 4 surviving madrigals by Ettore de la Marra, with instrumental pieces played on a reconstructed chromatic cembalo universale by Ascanio Mayone, Giovanni de Macque, and Gesualdo . Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, dir. Harry van der Kamp. Sony Vivarte. 2006
References
External links
Italian classical composers
Italian male classical composers
Madrigal composers
Renaissance composers
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20enhancement | Speech enhancement aims to improve speech quality by using various algorithms. The objective of enhancement is improvement in intelligibility and/or overall perceptual quality of degraded speech signal using audio signal processing techniques.
Enhancing of speech degraded by noise, or noise reduction, is the most important field of speech enhancement, and used for many applications such as mobile phones, VoIP, teleconferencing systems, speech recognition, speaker diarization, and hearing aids.
Algorithms
The algorithms of speech enhancement for noise reduction can be categorized into three fundamental classes: filtering techniques, spectral restoration, and model-based methods.
Filtering Techniques
Spectral Subtraction Method
Wiener Filtering
Signal subspace approach (SSA)
Spectral Restoration
Minimum Mean-Square-Error Short-Time Spectral Amplitude Estimator (MMSE-STSA)
Speech-Model-Based
See also
Audio noise reduction
Speech coding
Speech interface guideline
Speech processing
Speech recognition
Voice analysis
References
J. Benesty, M. M. Sondhi, Y. Huang (ed). Springer Handbook of Speech Processing. Springer, 2007. .
J. Benesty, S. Makino, J. Chen (ed). Speech Enhancement. Springer, 2005. .
P. C. Loizou. Speech Enhancement: Theory and Practice. CRC Press, 2013. .
Speech processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Style%20Originator | Wafū Sōhonke (和風総本家) is a TV program which was produced by TV Osaka and aired on the TV Tokyo network. An edited version was shown on the Netflix streaming service, using the title "Japanese Style Originator". The show also aired with English subtitles on Nippon Golden Network.
The format of the show was initially a quiz show with one presenter or MC and five panelists. Panelists had to answer questions about Japanese etiquette, food, tradition, culture, and conventions to score points. The program often included meibutsu or tokusanhin in its final segment. In 2018, the name was changed to Japanese Style Originator - 2nd Generation and the format was updated to the panelists simply giving commentary on the aired segments.
History
The show was originally broadcast as a "Japanese style test", shown in the "Sunday Big Variety" time slot. On November 4, 2007, the production station was changed from TV Tokyo to affiliate TV Osaka. Once transferred, the program title was changed to "Japanese Style Originator", broadcasting from February 18, 2008 (Monday) 19:00–20:48 (JST). From April 14 of the same year, regular broadcasting started every Monday at 20:00–20:54 (JST), and from October 2009, the time slot was changed to every Thursday at 21:00–21:54 (JST). The program ran for 10 and a half years (until March 2020), the second longest-running program after "Thursday Western Painting Theater".
Since around 2011, remote segments focusing on specific themes and topics are mainly held, especially many times about Japanese craftsmen, and several introductions of Japanese etiquette and tradition. In most episodes, a final narration is performed at the end of the segment to finalize the theme.
Since the October 8th “Thursday 8 o'clock concert ~ Masterpiece! Nippon no Uta” broadcast, the show became extremely popular in Japan.
On June 29, 2012, the message of condolences was written on the official website in response to the death of Takeo Chii, who appeared regularly on the program since the program's inception until his last appearance on February 16, 2012. On February 8, 2018, the first collaboration with "a clinic where a doctor can be found" was performed, featuring Takahiro Azuma, Hisako Manda, and Kazuya Masuda (TV Tokyo announcer at the time).
A two-hour special was broadcast on September 20, 2018, representing the end of Season 1. The host, Kazuya Masuda, did not return for Season 2.
From October 11, 2018, the name of the show was changed to Japanese Style Originator - 2nd Generation and the set was updated. With the new season, Suzuki Fuku (child actor) joins as a new regular performer. Suzuki, Manda and Azuma would remain in the studio, commenting, while watching the remote segments with the other casts and craftsmen in the studio recording. The quiz segment of the show was abolished, but quizzes such as "Let's spot Nippon!" continued to be held in the form of mini corners.
The program officially ended its broadcast on March 19, 2020.
Cast
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StormGeo | Established in 1997 as Storm Weather Center AS, StormGeo AS has transformed from its modest roots in Bergen into a global leader in weather intelligence and sophisticated data science. Today, it stands as one of the world's preeminent private weather service providers, offering specialised meteorological services to diverse sectors including offshore industries, renewable energy, shipping, corporate enterprises, and media.
Under the leadership of its CEO, Søren Andersen, StormGeo boasts a rich legacy spanning over two decades. This duration has allowed the company to cultivate an intricate understanding of the unique challenges and nuances faced by its diverse clientele. As a result, StormGeo is positioned to offer finely calibrated solutions that cater to specific business needs.
StormGeo's operations interestingly intersect with two pressing global narratives: the evolving discourse on climate change and the burgeoning potential of digital transformation. The company's platform adeptly integrates specialized industry knowledge with advanced data analytics, providing clients the tools to navigate weather-sensitive operational decisions.
Reflecting its commitment to consistent and reliable service, StormGeo operates seven forecast centers across the globe, offering round-the-clock support. Its adherence to quality and standards is further affirmed by its ISO 9001:2015 certification. Core values such as integrity, innovation, and commitment underpin the company's operations.
Behind StormGeo's endeavors is a robust team of over 500 professionals, working diligently to serve its global clientele. Presently, the company operates as a subsidiary of Alfa Laval, continuing its trajectory as a trusted name in the domain of weather intelligence.
History
Foundation
StormGeo started in 1997 as Storm Weather Center, a spin-off of Norway’s largest commercial broadcaster, TV2. Meteorologist Siri Kalvig saw an opportunity to offer customized weather services to other industries, and it began a venture in collaboration with TV2. In 1998, StormGeo created their first weather service for the growing hydroelectric power industry. In August 2018, StormGeo was selected as a participant in the UN Global Compact, committing to ocean sustainability as a contributor to the Action Platform for Sustainable Ocean Business.
StormGeo is headquartered in Bergen, Norway, with 27 offices that are present across the globe including US, UK, UAE, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Azerbaijan, Germany, Hong Kong, Oman, Brazil, Denmark, South Korea, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Lithuania and 550 employees. Its seven global weather support centers operate every time across the globe.
Acquisitions
In 2011, StormGeo expanded its operation into the Middle East with the acquisition of the Dubai-based weather forecasting company Met Consultancy FZ LLC, which is the largest commercial weather technology company in the Middle East and was founded in 2004 by Daniel Mathew. In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Georgian%20films%20of%20the%201920s | A list of the films produced in the cinema of Georgia in the 1920s, ordered by year of release:
References
External links
Library of National filmography
Georgian film at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.babaduli.de
1920s
Georgia
Films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Georgian%20films%20of%20the%201930s | A list of the films produced in the cinema of Georgia in the 1930s, ordered by year of release:
External links
Library of National filmography
Georgian film at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.babaduli.de
1930s
Films
Lists of 1930s films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Georgian%20films%20of%20the%201940s | A list of the films produced in the cinema of Georgia in the 1940s, ordered by year of release:
External links
Library of National filmography
Georgian film at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.babaduli.de
1940s
Films
Lists of 1940s films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Georgian%20films%20of%20the%201950s | A list of the films produced in the cinema of Georgia in the 1950s, ordered by year of release:
External links
Library of National filmography
Georgian film at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.babaduli.de
1950s
Films
Lists of 1950s films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Georgian%20films%20of%20the%201960s | A list of the films produced in the cinema of Georgia in the 1960s, ordered by year of release:
External links
Library of National filmography
Georgian film at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.babaduli.de
1960s
Films
Lists of 1960s films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Georgian%20films%20of%20the%201970s | A list of the films produced in the cinema of Georgia in the 1970s, ordered by year of release:
External links
Library of National filmography
Georgian film at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.babaduli.de
1970s
Films
Lists of 1970s films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Georgian%20films%20of%20the%201980s | A list of the films produced in the cinema of Georgia in the 1980s, ordered by year of release:
External links
Library of National filmography
Georgian film at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.babaduli.de
1980s
Films
Lists of 1980s films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Georgian%20films%20of%20the%201990s | A list of the films produced in the cinema of Georgia in the 1990s, ordered by year of release:
External links
Library of National filmography
Georgian film at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.babaduli.de
1990s
Films
Lists of 1990s films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Georgian%20films%20of%20the%202000s | A list of the films produced in the cinema of Georgia in the 2000s, ordered by year of release:
External links
Library of National filmography
Georgian film at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.babaduli.de
2000s
Films
Lists of 2000s films
2000s in Georgia (country) television
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumination%20Software%20Creator | Illumination Software Creator (Illumination) is a tool for visually designing and developing software, and a corresponding Visual programming language that is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Software developed with Illumination runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, Maemo, and Adobe Flash-powered websites. Illumination is developed and sold by Bryan Lunduke. Source code is also available to buy under three levels of licensing.
History
Illumination was created by Bryan Lunduke, and first released in May 2010. The earliest known public mention of Illumination was on the April 11, 2010 episode of The Linux Action Show!.
On June 6, 2012 the Illumination was released as open source software, as attempt to innovate a donation-driven Business model for open-source software. After initially achieving the requested amount of money, on July 12, 2012 deficit of target sums from donations resulted in the source closing, and a fee being attached for download of binaries.
On November 28, 2012 the source code for current versions became available for purchase, under a Personal Proprietary License, the GNU General Public License, and a BSD license.
On November 28, 2012 the business model was changed, allowing download of all premium lunduke.com content, including this software, for a minimum donation of $2.
Features
Illumination works by arranging "building blocks" in order to visually describe the functionality of a software application. Like many other Visual programming languages, Illumination does not require any code to be written by hand in order to develop software.
Within Illumination each "Block" is a self-contained piece of functionality. Blocks are tied together via "inputs" and "outputs" which pass no data, and only serve to structure the flow of the application. Illumination also contains a "Window Editor" to allow for the building of applications with simple user interfaces.
As of 2.0, Illumination Software Creator supports creating Python (PyGTK) applications as two distinct targets: Desktop and Maemo Tablet. And also supports creating Adobe Flex based rich Internet applications that run on the Adobe Flash platform.
At version 2.1 support for building Android applications was added.
In version 2.2 support for building what are called "Custom Blocks" was added to allow developers to expand the functionality of their projects as needed using traditional programming languages (such as Java, Python and ActionScript).
For version 3.0 support for building iOS applications was added.
For version 4.0, released on September 7, 2011, support for building HTML5 applications and including graphics was added.
For version 4.2, released on February 6, 2012, Portal Blocks have been added.
Illumination Software Creation Station
The Illumination Software Creation Station is an Opensuse based Linux distribution, built with Susestudio, that provides a pre-setup system for testing and using Illumination Software Crea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2011%29 | Season eleven of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 20, 2010, on the ABC network.
Several changes were introduced this season, including an "Acoustic Week," in which couples performed either the rumba or the Argentine tango while the audience was brought closer to the dance floor which was elevated and made circular. Contestants from previous seasons also came back as guest judges when the current contestants attempted re-created memorable routines in the 200th episode. These guest judges were Hélio Castroneves, Kelly Osbourne, Emmitt Smith, Drew Lachey, Gilles Marini, and Mel B. Kristi Yamaguchi and Apolo Ohno also served as team captains for team dances. There was also a week dubbed "Instant Choreography," in which the couples practiced their routines for a week, but only received the music for their Latin dances 45 minutes before their live performances.
Actress Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough were crowned the champions, while actor Kyle Massey and Lacey Schwimmer finished second, and Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas finished third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured twelve celebrity contestants. The cast was announced during the August 30 episode of Bachelor Pad during a live press conference that included a Q&A session with host Tom Bergeron and co-host Brooke Burke and the new cast. The pairs were announced on September 1; however, Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas had been announced the day before by way of a Good Morning America interview.
Future appearances
Bristol Palin returned for the All-Stars season, where she was again paired with Mark Ballas.
Host and judges
Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke returned as co-hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Len Goodman returned as judges.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
Each couple performed either the cha-cha-cha or the Viennese waltz. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2: Top 11
Each couple performed either the jive or the quickstep. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3: Story Week
Each couple performed either the samba or the waltz. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4: Acoustic Week
Each couple performed either the Argentine tango or the rumba. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5: TV Week
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 6: Rock Week
Each couple performed either the paso doble or the tango, plus a rock and roll dance marathon for extra points. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 7: 200th Episode Week
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Individual judges' scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) are listed in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoltDB | Volt Active Data (formerly VoltDB) is an in-memory database designed by Michael Stonebraker, Sam Madden, and Daniel Abadi.
It is an ACID-compliant RDBMS that uses a shared-nothing architecture, and is derived from work done by Stonebraker on OLTP system performance and optimization.
It is available in both enterprise and community editions. The community edition is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License.
Architecture
VoltDB is a NewSQL OLTP relational database that supports SQL access from within pre-compiled Java stored procedures.
While direct SQL access is supported, the most efficient form of interaction is using stored procedure calls, as it involves fewer network trips. Stored procedures are written in Java by extending a class called VoltProcedure' and implementing a ‘run()’ method that includes both SQL statements and supporting Java logic. Internally data is managed by a C++ core to avoid garbage collection issues.
VoltDB relies on horizontal partitioning down to the individual hardware thread to scale, k-safety (synchronous replication) to provide high availability, and a combination of continuous snapshots and command logging for durability (crash recovery).
VoltDB is based on H-Store. It uses a shared-nothing architecture to scale. Data and the processing associated with it are distributed across the CPU cores within the servers composing a single VoltDB cluster. By extending its shared-nothing foundation to the per-core level, VoltDB scales with the increasing core-per-CPU counts on multi-core servers.
By making stored procedures the unit of transaction and executing them at the partition containing the necessary data, it is possible to eliminate round trip messaging between SQL statements. Stored procedures are executed serially and to completion in a single thread without locking or latching, similar to the LMAX architecture. Because data is in memory and local to the partition, a stored procedure can execute in microseconds. VoltDB's stored procedure initiation scheme allows all nodes to initiate stored procedures while avoiding a single serializable global order.
VoltDB is ACID compliant. Data is written to durable storage. Durability is ensured by continuous snapshots; asynchronous command logging, which creates both snapshots and a log of transactions between snapshots; and synchronous command logging, which logs transactions after the transaction completes and before it is committed to the database. This ensures that no transactions are committed that are not logged and that no transactions are lost.
History
VoltDB v5.0 introduced a database monitoring and management tool, the VoltDB Management Center (VMC for short). VMC provides browser-based one-stop monitoring and configuration management of the VoltDB database, including graphs for cluster throughput and latency as well as CPU and memory usage for the current server.
VoltDB version 5.1, released in March 2015, introduced database replication (DR) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayme%20Luiz%20Szwarcfiter | Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter (born July 5, 1942, in Rio de Janeiro) is a computer scientist in Brazil.
Biography
Szwarcfiter graduated in 1967 in electronic engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He received his MA in 1971 from COPPE. In 1975 he obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, under supervision of Leslie Blackett Wilson. He is currently a professor emeritus at UFRJ. The Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society dedicated a special edition in 2001 to Szwarcfiter's major publications. Among others, he has written joint articles with Donald E. Knuth and Christos Papadimitriou.
Awards
He received the Award of Scientific Merit from the Brazilian Computer Society in 2005. In April 2006 he won the Almirante Álvaro Alberto prize in computer science, one of the most important academic recognitions in Brazil. Szwarcfiter is also one of the recipients of the Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (National Order of Scientific Merit).
In 2011, Prof. Szwarcfiter was elected a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
Books
References
Brazilian computer scientists
Brazilian Jews
Living people
Graph theorists
People from Rio de Janeiro (city)
1942 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20the%20Brazilian%20Computer%20Society | The Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS) is the flagship scientific journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). It is a quarterly journal. Its aim is to publish original research papers, serving as a forum for disseminating innovative research in all aspects of computer science. The priorities of the journal are quality and timeliness.
The first edition of the newspaper appeared in July 1994. For purposes of citation, the abbreviation 'J. Braz. Comp. Soc.' is often used.
JBCS is supported by the:
Programa de Apoio a Publicações Científicas of the Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia.
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).
Conselho de Aperfeiçoamento do Ensino Superior (CAPES).
Ministério da Educação (MEC).
References
External links
Academic journals established in 1994
Computer science journals
Academic journals published by learned and professional societies of Brazil
Open access journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Heffernan | Neil T. Heffernan (born June 1970 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is a professor of computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is known for his role in the development of the ASSISTments online learning tool and app, which assists students with homework and classwork while helping teachers assess where to focus instructional time in mathematics, and is used by over 50,000 students a year in the US. His work gained prominence when a New York Times Magazine story by Annie Murphy Paul featured ASSISTments and Heffernan's research with the tool.
Early life and education
Heffernan obtained a bachelor's degree in History and Computer Science at Amherst College, and a doctorate in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. His doctoral advisers were Kenneth Koedinger and John Robert Anderson.
Career
Following his doctoral studies, Heffernan worked as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, establishing the Learning Sciences research group in the Computer Science Department at WPI and the Learning Sciences and Technology graduate program at WPI.
See also
Learning Sciences
Kenneth Koedinger
John Robert Anderson
References
External links
Heffernan's personal page at Worcester Polytechnic
ASSISTments app
1970 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty
Human-Computer Interaction Institute faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrian%20%28software%29 | Mondrian is a general-purpose statistical data-visualization system, for interactive data visualization.
All plots in Mondrian are fully linked, and offer various interactions and queries. Any case selected in a plot in Mondrian is highlighted in all other plots.
Currently implemented plots comprise Mosaic Plot, Scatterplots and SPLOM, Maps, Barcharts, Histograms, Missing Value Plot, Parallel Coordinates/Boxplots and Boxplots y by x.
Mondrian works with data in standard tab-delimited or comma-separated ASCII files and can load data from R workspaces. There is basic support for working directly on data in databases.
Mondrian links to R and offers statistical procedures like interactive density estimation, scatterplot smoothers, multidimensional scaling (MDS) and principal component analysis (PCA).
Overview
Starting in 1997, Mondrian was first developed with a focus on visualization techniques for categorical data and enhanced selection techniques. Over the years, a complete suite of visualizations for univariate and multivariate data measured on any scale were added. The link to R offers well tested statistical procedures, which integrate seamlessly into the interactive graphics. Today, even geographical data is supported with highly interactive maps.
Mondrian details
Last stable and beta versions, help and documentations are available on the developer web site, Martin Theus
Supported data sources
Mondrian works on plain text files with tab-separated columns with variable header, as exported from Microsoft Excel as ".txt". If the Rserve link and R are present, Mondrian also reads data directly from R workspace files (.RData files).
Visualizations
1-d: Barchart, Spineplot, Histogram, Spinogram, Boxplot
2-d: Scatterplot, Boxplot y by x
High-D:
Multivariate continuous: Scatterplot matrix, Parallel coordinates
Multivariate categorical: Mosaic plot (see also Treemapping)
Geographical: Map
Special: missing value plot
Interaction techniques
Mondrian supports Query, Select, and Modify.
See also
Data visualization
GGobi
References
Further reading
Theus, M. (2002). Interactive Data Visualization using Mondrian, in Journal of Statistical Software 7 (11): 1–9.
Theus, M. and Urbanek, S. (2008). Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis: Principles and Examples (Computer Science and Data Analysis), Chapman & Hall / CRC.
External links
Mondrian: Graphical Data Analysis Software
Homepage for the book “Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis – Principles and Examples” - the book is heavily based on Mondrian
theusrus - the homepage of Martin Theus
Free plotting software
Free statistical software
Piet Mondrian
Plotting software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMiner%20%28database%29 | AMiner (formerly ArnetMiner) is a free online service used to index, search, and mine big scientific data.
Overview
AMiner (ArnetMiner) is designed to search and perform data mining operations against academic publications on the Internet, using social network analysis to identify connections between researchers, conferences, and publications. This allows it to provide services such as expert finding, geographic search, trend analysis, reviewer recommendation, association search, course search, academic performance evaluation, and topic modeling.
AMiner was created as a research project in social influence analysis, social network ranking, and social network extraction. A number of peer-reviewed papers have been published arising from the development of the system. It has been in operation for more than three years, and has indexed 130,000,000 researchers and more than 265 million publications. The research was funded by the Chinese National High-tech R&D Program and the National Science Foundation of China.
AMiner is commonly used in academia to identify relationships between and draw statistical correlations about research and researchers. It has attracted more than 10 million independent IP accesses from 220 countries and regions. The product has been used in Elsevier's SciVerse platform, and academic conferences such as SIGKDD, ICDM, PKDD, WSDM.
Operation
AMiner automatically extracts the researcher profile from the web. It collects and identifies the relevant pages, then uses a unified approach to extract data from the identified documents. It also extracts publications from online digital libraries using heuristic rules.
It integrates the extracted researchers’ profiles and the extracted publications. It employs the researcher name as the identifier. A probabilistic framework has been proposed to deal with the name ambiguity problem in the integration. The integrated data is stored into a researcher network knowledge base (RNKB).
The principal other product in the area are Google Scholar, Elsevier's Scirus, and the open source project CiteSeer.
History
It was initiated and created by professor Jie Tang from Tsinghua University, China. It was first launched in March 2006. The following provide a list of updates in the past years:
March 2006, Version 0.1, Functions include researcher profiling, expert search, conference search, and publication search. The system was developed in Perl;
August 2006, Version 1.0, The system was re-implemented in Java;
July 2007, Version 2.0, New functions include researcher interest mining, association search, survey paper finding (unavailable now);
April 2008, Version 3.0, New functions include query understanding, new GUI, and search log analysis;
November 2008, Version 4.0, New functions include graph search, topic modeling, NSF/NSFC funding information extraction;
April 2009, Version 5.0, New functions include Profile edition, open API service, Bole search, course search (unavailable now);
De |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus%2B | Plus+ was a social networking, game discovery and multiplayer platform launched by Ngmoco in June 2009. The network was similar to Xbox Network (formerly Xbox Live) and allowed users to interact with other players while playing.
In October 2010, the Plus+ Network had approximately 14 million users registered.
On March 31, 2013, Plus+ servers were shut down along the games that were supported.
Games that support the Plus+ Network
The following is a list of games that have been published by Ngmoco and therefore support Plus+:
Charadium (2010) - A Pictionary style game.
Dr. Awesome (2008)
Dropship (2009)
Eliminate Pro (2009) - A free online-multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) Quake-style death match game by Ngmoco. Also includes various add-ons which give free power cells.
Eliminate CO-OP (2010) - A free extension to Eliminate Pro which enables to play co-operative 2-player matches against AI Robots in any Eliminate Pro version.
GodFinger (2010)
MazeFinger (2008)
Rolando (2008) - A game similar to Loco Roco for the PSP which involves using the iPhone's accelerometer to move your "Rolandos" around to beat missions.
Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid (2009) - The second installation in the Rolando series.
Star Defense (2009) - A three-dimensional tower defense game by Ngmoco.
Topple (2008)
Topple 2 (2009)
Touch Pets: Dogs (2009)
We Rule (2010) - A FarmVille style game by newtoy and Ngmoco that involves you building a kingdom.
We Farm, We City - sequels to We Rule
Word-Fu (2009)
Word-Fu Plus (2009)
Word-Fu Plus French (2009)
Word-Fu Plus Japanese (2009)
References
External links
Website
2009 software
IOS games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/VS2%20%28SVS%29 | Single Virtual Storage (SVS) refers to Release 1 of Operating System/Virtual Storage 2 (OS/VS2); it is the successor system to the MVT option of Operating System/360. OS/VS2 (SVS) was a stopgap measure pending the availability of MVS, although IBM provided support and enhancements to SVS long after shipping MVS.
SVS provides a single 16MiB address space which is shared by all tasks in the system, regardless of the size of physical memory.
Differences from MVT
OS/360 used the Interval Timer feature for providing time of day and for triggering time-dependent events. The support for S/370 made limited use of new timing facilities, but retained a dependency on the Interval Timer. SVS uses the TOD Clock, Clock Comparator and CPU Timer exclusively.
OS/360 loads error recovery and transient SVC routines from SYS1.SVCLIB into small transient areas. SVS loads these routine from SYS1.LPALIB into the Pageable Link Pack Area (PLPA) during an IPL with the Create LPA (CLPA) option; there are no transient areas.
In the wake of the Applied Data Research lawsuit IBM decided to develop chargeable versions of several applications, mostly language processors, although it's not clear whether the lawsuit was actually the deciding factor. As a result, SVS does not include a sort/merge program or any language processor other than the new Assembler (XF) (replacing Assembler (F)) which is required for the system generation process.
Authorized Program Facility (APF) is a new facility that limited use of certain dangerous services to programs that are authorized, that is link edited with AC(1) and were loaded from the link list, LPA, or SYS1.SVCLIB. In MVS IBM enhanced the facility to allow the installation to designate additional data sets as authorized.
Because the Reader/Interpreter in SVS runs in pageable storage, there is much less benefit to the Automatic SYSIN Batching (ASB) Reader, and SVS does not include it. OS/360 has a facility called Direct SYSOUT (DSO) whereby specific output classes can be diverted to data sets on tape instead of normal SPOOL datasets. As DASD prices dropped, the facility dropped from use, and SVS does not provide it.
OS/360 provides limited interactive facilities in Conversational Remote Job Entry (CRJE), Graphic Job Processing (GJP), Interactive Terminal Facility (ITF) and Satellite Graphic Job Processing (SGJP) prior to the Time Sharing Option (TSO), but IBM did not carry those forward to SVS. TSO continues to provide equivalent facilities, except that it does not support use of a 2250 as a terminal. Use of 2250 from a batch job using Graphics Access Method (GAM) and Graphics Subroutine Package (GSP) remains supported. OS/360 includes a batch debugging facility named TESTRAN; it is clumsier than the equivalent facility in IBSYS/IBJOB, and was not used much. With the advent of TSO TESTRAN became even less relevant, and SVS does not include it.
Dynamic Support System (DSS) was a new OS/VS debugging facility for system software. It re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s%20programming%20on%20NBC | Children's programming has played a part in NBC's programming since its initial roots in television. This article outlines the history of children's television programming on NBC including the various blocks and notable programs that have aired throughout the television network's history on weekends.
History
1947–1956
In 1947, NBC's first major children's program was Howdy Doody, one of the era's first breakthrough television programs. The series, which ran for 13 years until it ended in 1960, featured a myriad of characters led by a freckle-faced marionette voiced by the show's host, "Buffalo" Bob Smith. Howdy Doody spent the first nine years of its run airing on weekday afternoons.
1956–1992
In 1956, NBC stopped airing children's programming within its weekday afternoon schedule, relegating the network's children's shows to Saturdays only with Howdy Doody serving as its marquee franchise for the remaining four years of that series' run. From the mid-1960s until 1992, the bulk of the children's programs broadcast by NBC were derived from theatrical shorts like The Pink Panther Show and classic Woody Woodpecker and Looney Tunes shorts; reruns of popular television series such as The Flintstones and The Jetsons; and foreign acquisitions such as Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion.
During this period, the network also aired original animated series – most notably, the 1980s series The Smurfs and Alvin and the Chipmunks. It also carried animated series adapted from certain live-action NBC series such as It's Punky Brewster (based on the sitcom Punky Brewster), Emergency +4 (based on the medical drama Emergency!) ALF: The Animated Series (based on the sitcom ALF) and Star Trek: The Animated Series (based on the science fiction drama Star Trek), as well as animated series vehicles for certain NBC prime time stars including Gary Coleman (The Gary Coleman Show) and Mr. T (Mister T), and original live-action series including the Sid & Marty Krofft-produced The Banana Splits, The Bugaloos and H.R. Pufnstuf.
The Metric Marvels, a short-form series produced by the creators of rival ABC's Schoolhouse Rock! as part of a failed attempt to encourage metrication in the United States, aired on NBC during the late 1970s.
In September 1985, NBC was the first network to broadcast Saturday morning cartoons in stereo.
One series that made up to the NBC Saturday morning lineup was Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series. NBC aired the program on Saturday mornings at 10:00 AM (later moved to 11:00 AM) for one season during 1987.
Final years with animated programming (1989–1992)
In September 1989, NBC premiered Saved by the Bell, a sitcom centered on the fictional Bayside High School in Pacific Palisades, California, which originated on The Disney Channel the year prior as Good Morning, Miss Bliss (the predecessor series, set in an Indianapolis, Indiana middle school, served as a starring vehicle for Hayley Mills, who did not return for the retooled series; four cast me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical%20model | A canonical model is a design pattern used to communicate between different data formats. Essentially: create a data model which is a superset of all the others ("canonical"), and create a "translator" module or layer to/from which all existing modules exchange data with other modules. The canonical model acts as a middleman. Each model now only needs to know how to communicate with the canonical model and dont need to know the implementation details of the other modules.
A form of enterprise application integration, it is intended to reduce costs and standardize on agreed data definitions associated with integrating business systems. A canonical model is any model that is canonical in nature, i.e. a model which is in the simplest form possible based on a standard, application integration (EAI) solution. Most organizations also adopt a set of standards for message structure and content (message payload). The desire for consistent message payload results in the construction of an enterprise or business domain canonical model common view within a given context. Often the term canonical model is used interchangeably with integration strategy and often entails a move to a message-based integration methodology. A typical migration from point-to-point canonical data model, an enterprise design pattern which provides common data naming, definition and values within a generalized data framework. Advantages of using a canonical data model are reducing the number of data translations and reducing the maintenance effort.
Adoption of a comprehensive enterprise interfacing to message-based integration begins with a decision on the middleware to be used to transport messages between endpoints. Often this decision results in the adoption of an enterprise service bus (ESB) or enterprise application integration (EAI) solution. Most organizations also adopt a set of standards for message structure and content (message payload). The desire for consistent message payload results in the construction of an enterprise form of XML schema built from the common model objects thus providing the desired consistency and re-usability while ensuring data integrity.
See also
Canonical schema pattern
Common data model
Enterprise information integration
Enterprise integration
Information architecture
List of XML schemas
Service-oriented architecture
Web service
XML schema
References
External links
Forrester Research, Canonical Model Management Forum
Canonical Model, Canonical Schema, and Event Driven SOA
Forrester Research, Canonical Information Modeling
Enterprise Integration Patterns: Canonical Data Model
Metadata Hub and Spokes (Canonical Data Domain)
Enterprise application integration
Enterprise architecture
Enterprise modelling
Software design patterns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s%20programming%20on%20CBS | In regard to children's television programming, CBS has aired mostly animated series, such as the original versions of Scooby-Doo, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, Garfield and Friends and the 1987 incarnation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This article outlines the history of children's television programming on CBS including the various blocks and notable programs that have aired throughout the television network's history.
History
Early years with Captain Kangaroo
From 1955 to 1984, live-action series Captain Kangaroo served as CBS' flagship children's program. For its first three months, the program aired only on weekday mornings; a Saturday morning edition was added in December 1955. During the 1964-65 season, the Saturday broadcast was temporarily replaced by Mr. Mayor, a children's program that served as a vehicle for Captain Kangaroo star Bob Keeshan; after returning in the fall of 1965, the Saturday edition of Captain Kangaroo was discontinued again in 1968, relegating it to weekdays only. Except for pre-emptions due to breaking news coverage, notably the network's three-day-long continuous coverage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, and a few episodes that ran for 45 minutes, the program aired as an hour-long broadcast on weekday mornings until 1981. On September 9, 1968, the program began broadcasting in color.
Its audience of predominately children could never help the program compete in the ratings with entertainment/news shows such as NBC's Today, although Captain Kangaroo would become a three-time Emmy Award winner for "Outstanding Children's Entertainment Series" in 1979, 1983 and 1984. In the fall of 1981, as part of an expansion of the CBS Morning News, Captain Kangaroo was moved to the earlier time slot of 7:00 a.m. and reduced to half-hour – at which time, the program was retitled Wake Up with the Captain.
In the fall of 1982, Captain was relegated to a Saturday morning 7:00 a.m. (Eastern) time slot. The network offered a package of reruns to CBS-affiliated stations to air on Sunday mornings in place of the previous block of animated series reruns. Most CBS affiliates only cleared the Saturday morning broadcast of program afterward. Still a third of CBS' affiliated stations had stopped airing Captain Kangaroo entirely after 1982. The program was finally canceled altogether in late 1984, citing a lack of affiliate clearances. Alongside Captain Kangaroo, CBS aired various animated series aimed at children during the 1960s and 1970s, such as the original version of Scooby-Doo and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
The In the News era (1971–1986)
From 1971 to 1986, CBS News produced a series of one-minute segments titled In the News, which aired between other Saturday morning programs. The "micro-series" (as it would be labelled today) had its genesis in a series of animated interstitials produced by CBS and Hanna-Barbera Productions called In the Know, featuring the title characters from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitantei%20Holmes%3A%20M-Kara%20no%20Chousenjou | is a modern first-person adventure video game for the Family Computer that is based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the sequel to and , the latter having been released on May 13, 1988. In Kiri no London Satsujin Jiken, the player takes control of Holmes and Watson in the streets of London. The player can collect clues and also shillings in order to pay for things such as a coach fare, which allows them to travel London faster. All of these video games were released exclusively in Japan.
Gameplay
As the fictional detective, the player must go through places like France, Austria, and Germany to solve the mystery. Players can choose to start a new adventure or continue an old one by using a password of Japanese characters.
Players can expect challenges from Professor Moriarty; the classic nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. There are also ten other characters to interact with.
References
1989 video games
Detective video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Towa Chiki games
Video games based on Sherlock Holmes
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in the 19th century
Video games set in London
Video games set in Austria
Video games set in Europe
Video games set in Germany
Video games set in Paris
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Prokaryotic%20names%20with%20Standing%20in%20Nomenclature | List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) is an online database that maintains information on the naming and taxonomy of prokaryotes, following the taxonomy requirements and rulings of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. The database was curated from 1997 to June 2013 by Jean P. Euzéby. From July 2013 to January 2020, LPSN was curated by Aidan C. Parte.
In February 2020, a new version of LPSN was published as a service of the Leibniz Institute DSMZ, thereby also integrating the Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date service.
References
External links
List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM)
Home Pages of Culture Collection in the World
Online taxonomy databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Yuba%20Canal%20Office | The South Yuba Canal Office was the headquarters for the largest network of water flumes and ditches in California. It is located at 134 Main Street, Nevada City, California, USA.
Structure
Built in 1855, it was originally known as the Potter Building. A two story brick structure, it was fitted with iron doors and shutters, plus a filigree balcony railing.
The space was first used as a drug store. From 1857 to 1880, it functioned as the South Yuba Canal Office. The Nevada City Chamber of Commerce is the building's current occupant. It is the oldest business building in Nevada City.
South Yuba Canal Water Company
The South Yuba Canal Water Company that was run from this office was the first incorporated to supply water for hydraulic mining. Originally named in 1854 as the Rock Creek, Deer Creek, and South Yuba Canal Company as a consolidation of three rival ditch companies, the name was shortened in 1870 to the South Yuba Canal Company. Charles Marsh was the chief engineer and, it seems, one of the principals of the Rock Creek, Deer Creek, and South Yuba Canal Company (and was known as the "Father of Ditches"). The company built and operated flumes, reservoirs, and water ditches that carried water to connecting water systems that supplied hundreds of hydraulic mines in the area. In 1882, the company built a dam at Lake Fordyce to trap snowmelt and runoff for release in the dry season. The company later entered the utility business, and in 1905, its holdings went on to become a part of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's hydroelectric system.
South Yuba Canal
The company's original ditch was put into use in 1850. The South Yuba Canal is now part of the public lands of the Tahoe National Forest. The South Yuba Canal System is used for delivering domestic and agricultural water to Nevada City and its neighbor Grass Valley. The water also generates electricity in Northern California. It is approximately in length. Crossing private and National Forest lands, the canal is bordered by conifers and hardwoods.
California Historical Landmark
The building is honored as the California Historical Landmark No. 832. The plaque's inscription reads:
SOUTH YUBA CANAL OFFICE
Headquarters for the largest network of water flumes and ditches in the state. The South Yuba Canal Water Company was the first incorporated to supply water for hydraulic mining. The original ditch was in use in May 1850, and this company office was in use from 1857 to 1880. The holdings later became part of the vast PG&E hydroelectric system...California Registered Historical Landmark No. 832..Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission and the California Heritage Council, May 16, 1970.
See also
California Historical Landmarks in Nevada County
References
External links
Photo
Commercial buildings completed in 1855
California Historical Landmarks
Buildings and structures in Nevada City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Next%20Food%20Network%20Star%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of the American reality television series The Next Food Network Star premiered on Sunday, June 6, 2010. Food Network executives, Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson, were joined again by Bobby Flay as the judges for this season. In addition, Giada De Laurentiis will serve as an on-set mentor. The series was filmed in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York. Winner Aarti Sequeira went on to host her show Aarti Party, which premiered on August 22, 2010. Runner-up Tom Pizzica was also hired to host a travel food show Outrageous Food, which began airing in November 2010.
Contestants
Eliminated
(In order of elimination)
Alexis Hernandez – Union City, New Jersey
Doreen Fang – Los Angeles, California
Dzintra Dzenis – Austin, Texas
Darrell (DAS) Smith – Los Angeles, California
Paul Young – Chicago, Illinois
Brianna Jenkins – Atlanta, Georgia
Serena Palumbo – New York, New York
Brad Sorenson – Austin, Texas
Aria Kagan – Hollywood, Florida
Runners-up
Tom Pizzica – San Francisco, California
Herb Mesa – Atlanta, Georgia
Winner
Aarti Sequeira – Los Angeles, California
Contestant Progress
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition and became "The Next Food Network Star".
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(WIN) The contestant won that episode's Star Challenge.
(HIGH) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's favorites for that week, but did not win the Star Challenge.
(IN) The contestant was not one of the Selection Committee's favorites nor their least favorites. They were not up for elimination.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's three or four least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's two least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the Selection Committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
Episodes
Week 1: Welcome to Los Angeles!
Camera Challenge: The finalists must present themselves on a plate, using chicken and potatoes, then do a 30-second camera demo.
Winners: Aria and Herb
Star Challenge: The finalists are divided into two teams with Aria (Grey Team) and Herb (Black Team) as captains. Each team must cater a six-course lunch for celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck in the style of California cooking. Before the cooking, they film a 15-second promo for their show, to be presented at the lunch.
Winners: Grey Team (Aria, Aarti, Brianna, Paul, Tom, Dzintra) [Dzintra did not compete; she was taken to the emergency room with a shard in her eye, and ordered to stay out of the kitchen.]
Winner: Aria (Santa Barbara Olive Focaccia with Baked Goat Cheese)
Eliminated: Alexis (Beignets with Rosemary Caramel and Local Honey)
Original Air Date: June 6, 2010
Week 2: Sweet to Savory Carnival
Camera Challenge: Using Giada's recipe for vegetable lasagne, each contestant had one minute to demo a step to camera.
Winner: None
Star Challenge: Using a carn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20cassette%20tape | The original IBM Personal Computer and IBM PCjr included support for storing data and programs on compact cassette tape.
It was common for home computers of the time, such as the Apple II, Commodore 64 and BBC Micro, to use cassette tapes for storage due to the lower cost of hardware and media compared to floppy disks. A wide range of commercial home computer software was available on tape throughout the 80s.
The IBM PC cassette format did not experience the same popularity however, since very few were shipped without at least one floppy disk drive, and apart from one diagnostic tape available from IBM, there seems never to have been any software sold on tape, and the interface was not included on the followup PC XT. Despite this lack of popularity, up until the original PC's discontinuation in 1987, IBM continued to offer a Model 104 which shipped without a floppy disk drive.
The IBM PCjr was also seldom sold without a floppy disk drive, but it also had two ROM cartridge slots for loading commercial software, which offered better convenience and reliability.
Use
An IBM PC with just an external cassette recorder for storage could only use the built-in ROM BASIC as its operating system, which supported cassette operations. IBM PC DOS had no support for cassette tape, though software could have been written by the user to provide support.
BIOS interrupt call 15h routines were documented in the technical reference manual that would turn the cassette motor on and off, and read or write data. Data was written with a lead-in section, and formatted in 256-byte blocks with a 2-byte CRC. Programmers could also operate the cassette relay by writing to its I/O address. The cassette, disk, advanced, and cartridge versions of IBM BASIC included statements for cassette operations, but these features only worked if the machine had a cassette port.
The data transfer speed was from 1-2 kilobits per second, compared to the disk drive's 250 kilobits per second.
In 2020, the cassette interfaces of the IBM PC and PCjr were utilized to boot FreeDOS off a custom vinyl disc.
Data format
The technical reference for the specifies that the WRITE-BLOCK routine turns on the cassette drive motor and transforms each byte into bits. A (1) bit corresponds to a timer period, (0) bit corresponds to , which results in a recording speed of .
First of "11111111" is written. One synchronization bit "0". A synchronization byte of 0x16. 256-byte blocks of data and a 2-byte CRC is written until all data is transferred.
Connector pinout
The IBM PC used a female 5-pin DIN connector (the same as the keyboard connector) for the cassette port:
Pinout:
Pin 1: MOTOR CONTROL COMMON
Pin 2: GND
Pin 3: MOTOR CONTROL (6 V/1 A) RELAY
Pin 4: DATA-IN (500 nA with 13 V at 1000-2000 Baud)
Pin 5: DATA-OUT (250 µA jumperable either at 0.68 V ("AUX") or 75 mV ("MIC"))
Motor control: 8255A port , bit 3: 0 = on, 1 = off.
See also
Commodore Datasette
IBM Cassette BASIC
Kansas City st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerli | Yerli may refer to:
Yerli, İskilip, Turkey
Cevat Yerli (born 1978), Turkish computer game developer
See also
Turkish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAUR%20%28AM%29 | WAUR (1550 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Somonauk, Illinois. The station is owned and operated by Nelson Multimedia Inc., and currently airs a country music format. Additional programming includes local news, high school sports, a weekly fishing and outdoor program, and NASCAR racing.
The studios are located on Washington Street in downtown Morris, the station's original community of license. Previous studio locations include above the old downtown Hornsby's Five and Dime store on Liberty St. In 1977, the studios moved to the 3rd floor of the Baum Building and later to the Business and Technology Center on North Rt. 47 in Morris. WAUR's current sister station is WJDK-FM (95.7) with studios in the same building and a transmitter located between Kinsman and Seneca, Illinois.
Prior to adopting its previous classic hits programming, the then-WCSJ had carried Timeless network programming from Citadel Broadcasting until the network's shutdown in February 2010.
External links
AUR (AM)
Grundy County, Illinois
Radio stations established in 1964
1964 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s%20programming%20on%20the%20American%20Broadcasting%20Company | In regard to children's programming, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) has aired mostly programming from Walt Disney Television or other producers (most notably, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Nelvana and DIC Entertainment). This article outlines the history of children's television programming on ABC including the various blocks and notable programs that have aired throughout the television network's history.
History
The Schoolhouse Rock! era (1973–1996)
The crown jewel of the network's children's programming lineup was the award-winning Schoolhouse Rock! series of educational shorts, which mixed original songs and animation with lessons on basic school subjects such as mathematics, science, and history. The series aired from 1973 to 1985, before going on what turned out to be a temporary hiatus prior to its return to ABC's Saturday morning schedule in 1992. New episodes concerning money were released from 1994 to 1996. Schoolhouse Rock! was one of several animated interstitials that aired during this era, others included Time for Timer and The Bod Squad, both of which were discontinued in the 1980s.
At the start of the 1991–92 season, around the same time that ABC launched I Love Saturday Night – a block that was inspired by the success of ABC's Friday night TGIF sitcom block (the former of which ultimately ended after several weeks due to low ratings), executive producer Jim Janicek also brought the hosted programming block concept to Saturday mornings, under the brand More Cool TV. Stars from live-action series aired as part of the Saturday morning lineup, most notably including the cast of ABC's Land of the Lost revival, hosted interstitials every half-hour during the block. The MCTV segments at times were several seconds shorter than those shot for TGIF and I Love Saturday Night. While an opening sequence and custom last-segment show bumpers were included, the theme music used was the instrumental version of ABC's 1991 America's Watching campaign. The MCTV concept was soon abandoned, although not as quickly as I Love Saturday Night.
From 1992 to 1995 (during the latter half of the show's run, and for at most until a year after it was canceled), short 30-second segments from America's Funniest People (a spin-off of the long-running America's Funniest Home Videos), which were branded as America's Funniest Kids, ran within commercial breaks during the ABC Saturday morning lineup. These would usually consist of excerpts from longer segments, usually featuring young children telling jokes or engaging in stunts.
Disney programming era (1996–2011)
The merger of Capital Cities Communications (which purchased ABC in 1986) into The Walt Disney Company in 1996 marked a shift in the network's Saturday morning cartoon output. The merger resulted in Disney increasing the amount of programming content it produced for the network, including in regards to children's programming (prior to this, most of Disney's animated pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-oriented%20programming | Agent-oriented programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm where the construction of the software is centered on the concept of software agents. In contrast to object-oriented programming which has objects (providing methods with variable parameters) at its core, AOP has externally specified agents (with interfaces and messaging capabilities) at its core. They can be thought of as abstractions of objects. Exchanged messages are interpreted by receiving "agents", in a way specific to its class of agents.
History
Historically, the concept of agent-oriented programming and the idea of centering software around the concept of an Agent was introduced by Yoav Shoham within his artificial intelligence studies in 1990. His agents are specific to his own paradigm as they have only one method, with one parameter. To quote Yoav Shoham from his paper in 1990 for a basic difference between AOP and OOP:
Frameworks
There are multiple AOP 'frameworks', also called agent platforms, that implement Shoham's programming paradigm. The following examples illustrate how a basic agent is programmed as a hello-world program.
JADE
For the Java-platform one of the frameworks is JADE.
Here is a very basic example of an agent that runs code.
package helloworld;
import jade.core.Agent;
public class Hello extends Agent {
protected void setup() {
System.out.println("Hello World. ");
System.out.println("My name is "+ getLocalName());
}
public Hello() {
System.out.println("Constructor called");
}
}
At the core of JADE's AOP model is that its API supports the standard FIPA Agent Communication Language
Agent Speak (Jason)
For a literal translation of agent-oriented concepts into a scheme unobfuscated as is JADE, behind Java and Object Orientedness, Agent Speak (Jason) provides a "natural" language for agents.
started.
+started <- .print("Hello World. ").
GOAL
GOAL is an agent programming language for programming cognitive agents. GOAL agents derive their choice of action from their beliefs and goals. The language provides the basic building blocks to design and implement cognitive agents by programming constructs that allow and facilitate the manipulation of an agent's beliefs and goals and to structure its decision-making. The language provides an intuitive programming framework based on common sense or practical reasoning.
SARL Language
SARL provides the fundamental abstractions for coding multiagent systems. It uses a script-like syntax (inspired by Scala and Ruby).
package helloworld
import io.sarl.core.Initialize
agent HelloWorldAgent {
on Initialize {
println("Hello World.")
}
}
PADE (Python Agent DEvelopment framework)
PADE is a python package to develop intelligent agents in python language. This framework complies to FIPA and ACL standards.
class AgenteHelloWorld(Agent):
def __init__(self, aid):
super(AgenteHelloWorld, self).__init__(aid=aid)
display_message(self.aid.localname, 'Hello Wor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGLIB | ALGLIB is a cross-platform open source numerical analysis and data processing library. It can be used from several programming languages (C++, C#, VB.NET, Python, Delphi, Java).
ALGLIB started in 1999 and has a long history of steady development with roughly 1-3 releases per year. It is used by several open source projects, commercial libraries, and applications (e.g. TOL project, Math.NET Numerics, SpaceClaim).
Features
Distinctive features of the library are:
Support for several programming languages with identical APIs (as of 2023, it supports C++, C#, FreePascal/Delphi, VB.NET, Python, and Java)
Self-contained code with no mandatory external dependencies and easy installation
Portability (it was tested under x86/x86-64/ARM, Windows and Linux)
Two independent backends (pure C# implementation, native C implementation) with automatically generated APIs (C++, C#, ...)
Same functionality of commercial and GPL versions, with enhancements for speed and parallelism provided in the commercial version
ALGLIB provides functions for:
Linear algebra (direct algorithms, solvers, EVD/SVD)
Fast Fourier transforms
Numerical integration
Interpolation
Linear and nonlinear least-squares fitting
Optimization (linear and non-linear, both convex and non-convex)
Ordinary differential equations
Special functions
Statistics (descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing)
Data analysis (classification/regression, including neural networks)
Multiple precision versions of linear algebra, interpolation and optimization algorithms (using MPFR for floating point computations)
See also
List of numerical analysis software
List of numerical libraries
References
External links
Official ALGLIB website
Numerical libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loan-a%20Lisa | "Loan-a Lisa" is the second episode of the twenty-second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 3, 2010. In the episode, Lisa helps fund Nelson's bicycle company with money Grampa Simpson gives her as part of his inheritance, but after Nelson meets Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and is convinced he can be successful by dropping out of school, Lisa tries to convince Nelson to stay in school. Meanwhile, Homer gets addicted to buying expensive items and returning them.
The episode was written by Valentina L. Garza and directed by Matthew Faughnan, after Yeardley Smith suggested writing one centered around microfinancing. It guest starred Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hansen and Muhammad Yunus.
The episode received positive reviews from critics. According to the Nielsen Media Research receiving a 4.1/11 in the 18-49 demographic going up from the previous episode both in the demographic and in total viewers.
Plot
Grampa decides to give his family their inheritance now, rather than make them wait until after his death. Each person's share turns out to be $50, and they decide to spend it at Costington's. Bart pays Gil Gunderson to walk up the down escalator, while Marge picks out a purse but mis-reads its $500 price tag as $50. Pressure from other shoppers leads her to charge it to her credit card; though she cannot afford it, Homer suggests that she use it until the store's return period is about to expire, then take it back. During dinner at a fancy restaurant, Marge tries her best to keep the purse clean, but Homer ruins it by dropping shrimp sauce on it. She is still able to return the purse despite this damage, and Homer begins buying expensive items on credit and returning them in time for a refund. Homer is eventually caught doing so on camera by Chris Hansen in a special entitled To Catch a Credit Whore, forcing Homer to flee in shame (but not before signing a contract authorizing use of his image for TV).
Meanwhile, Lisa decides to donate her $50 to charity, but an online introduction to microfinance and a video from Muhammad Yunus prompt her to use the money to support a local business instead. She gives Nelson Muntz a loan for his fledgling bicycle company, which rapidly begins to flourish. He decides to drop out of school in order to invest all his time in the business; Lisa is upset by the news, but Principal Skinner thinks it would pay nicely as a part-time job. At a meeting of entrepreneurs, Lisa tries to persuade Nelson to stay in school, but she fails when she discovers that the attendees all left college (including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson), and that the janitor is the only person present who did not drop out. Grampa comforts her, saying that money cannot change people, and she accepts Nelson's decision to drop out. The business soon fails due to Nelson's unknowing use of defective materials to build his bicycles, such |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie%20Fatso | "Donnie Fatso" is the ninth episode in the twenty-second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 2, 2011. The plot revolves around an FBI agent, who helps Homer go undercover to infiltrate Fat Tony's mob. Homer agrees to help the FBI in order to reduce his prison sentence on a bribery conviction. This episode is a reference to Goodfellas as well as real-life FBI agent Donnie Brasco.
"Donnie Fatso" was written by Chris Cluess and directed by Ralph Sosa. Critics were polarized with the episode, with criticism stemming from its main plot and cultural references.
Upon its initial airing, the episode received 7.32 million viewers and attained a 3.2/8 rating in the 18-49 demographic, according to Nielsen ratings. "Donnie Fatso" featured guest appearances from Jon Hamm and Joe Mantegna.
Plot
Homer and Marge wake on New Year's Day with hangovers after the family's New Year's Eve celebration. As Homer takes out the garbage, Chief Wiggum, Eddie, and Lou arrive and issue him multiple citations and fines - the result of recently passed, frivolous laws intended to bring in revenue for the city when broken. Taking Moe's suggestion that he bribe a city official to clear up the fines, Homer leaves a sack full of cash on the official's desk but is promptly arrested, convicted, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Wiggum takes pity on Homer and tells him to meet with an FBI agent, who offers to reduce the sentence if Homer will go undercover in the prison as Nicholas "Nicky" Blue pants Altosaxophony to investigate Fat Tony, who is also serving time along as his top henchmen.
Homer quickly gains favor with Fat Tony, due to a confrontation engineered by the FBI agent, and Fat Tony breaks him and the entire group out of prison and offers him a chance to join the syndicate. Homer's first task is to burn down Moe's Tavern in revenge for Moe's rudeness toward Fat Tony on the phone, but Homer finds that Moe has already done the deed himself. Fat Tony accepts Homer into the syndicate and the two develop a special bond; however, complications over a scheme to import weapons put the syndicate under severe stress. Eventually Fat Tony discovers Homer's undercover status and, emotionally devastated by his betrayal, dies of a fatal heart attack.
Meanwhile, Marge has begun to panic over being unable to communicate with Homer, as she knows nothing of his undercover work and cannot get any information on his whereabouts. She is surprised and thrilled when he returns home with his prison sentence lifted, but Homer feels guilt for Fat Tony's death and bitterness toward the government over being used to bring him down. Homer visits Fat Tony's grave to apologize, but is kidnapped by his cousin Fit Tony, who plans to kill him for revenge. However, Fit Tony spares his life after Homer tells of the time he and Fat Tony spent together, seeing that Fat Tony lives on in Homer's memories. Fit Tony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Veit | Stan Veit (25 December 1919 - 29 July 2010) was an entrepreneur and publisher. He ran "Computer Mart", the first computer store in New York City, was the personal computer editor of Popular Electronics magazine, and then Editor-in-Chief of Computer Shopper. He published his reminiscences about the early history of the personal computer industry in a 1993 book called Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer.
Biography
Early life
Veit studied at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, RCA Institutes, Hofstra College, and received a bachelor's degree in education from New School University. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. He then worked as a technical writer for a number of defense contractors.
Career
In 1976 he opened Computer Mart of New York. This was one of the first computer stores in the world. It sold computers from Imsai, Sphere Computers, South West Technical Products, and Apple Computer, among others. It was the third Apple dealer appointed by Steve Jobs. Between 1976 and 1979, he was involved with Steve Jobs, Charles Tandy, and Les Solomon, with whom he co-authored the book Getting Involved With Your Own Computer.
Veit became a writer and editor, publishing Using Microcomputers In Business, The Peripherals Book, and articles for Personal Computing and Byte magazines. In 1980, he became the computer editor of Popular Electronics magazine and later technical editor of Computers & Electronics magazine for Ziff Davis. He also became sysop of Ziff Davis' first online magazine on CompuServe.
In 1983, he became the founding editor-in-chief of Computer Shopper magazine and later editor-in-chief and publisher.
References
External links
After retiring, he ran a website about the early history of personal computers at http://www.pc-history.org/.
American technology writers
American businesspeople
2010 deaths
1919 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DatabaseSpy | DatabaseSpy is a multi-database query, design, and database comparison tool from Altova, the creator of XMLSpy. DatabaseSpy connects to many major relational databases, facilitating SQL querying, database structure design, database content editing, and database comparison and conversion.
DatabaseSpy is a database client application for Windows 7, 8, and 10, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 and 2008 that allows database administrators, database developers, and other database-oriented IT professionals to interact with multiple relational databases that may have been created by different developers.
DatabaseSpy features include a quick connection wizard for multiple relational databases, SQL editor with auto-completion, graphical database design tool, database content and schema comparison, and data import and export in multiple formats. DatabaseSpy also includes special support for XML in databases and is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Supported databases
DatabaseSpy can connect to multiple databases simultaneously, including databases of different types. DatabaseSpy automatically adjusts to variations in SQL dialects and data type definitions of supported relational databases. DatabaseSpy connects to the following major database types:
Microsoft SQL Server
PostgreSQL
Oracle
MySQL
IBM Db2
IBM Db2 for i
Informix
Sybase ASE
Microsoft Access
MicroSoft Azure SQL
MariaDB
SQLite
Firebird
Progress OpenEdge
Teradata
And others
User comments
From its initial release in September 2006, users have recognized the benefits of using a single tool with a consistent user interface to multiple databases to perform routine tasks such as querying or modifying tables.
The use of a common graphical interface to connect to multiple databases, possibly across different platforms, is cited as a valuable feature.
Licensing
DatabaseSpy is a licensed software product that uses key protection to prevent unlicensed usage. DatabaseSpy is free to try with a no-cost 30-day trial license.
See also
Comparison of database tools
References
External links
Altova website
Database administration tools
PL/SQL editors
Sybase |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irtysh%20Air | Irtysh-Air () was an airline headquartered in Ekibastuz, Pavlodar Province, Kazakhstan. Despite the airline being based at Pavlodar Airport, it operates a domestic network within that country from its hub in Almaty International Airport. , the company is banned from operating within the European Union.
History
Irtysh–Air started operations on 22 April 2009 with a Pavlodar–Moscow-Domodedovo service.
On 11 May 2010, the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Government of Kazakhstan authorised the carrier to operate on several domestic routes radiating from Almaty.
In , following the Ministry of Transport and Communications revoking the operator certificate to airlines, it was informed that Irtysh Air could also lose its license.
On 18 October 2013, the AOC of Irtysh Air was suspended for a further unspecified period.
Its certificate expired on 4 April 2014. As of 31 January 2018, Irtysh Air does not exist in the "List of operating airlines and operators of the Republic of Kazakhstan."
Destinations
, the airline served the following destinations:
Kazakhstan
Almaty – Almaty International Airport
Karaganda – Karaganda Airport
Kostanay – Narimanovka Airport
Kyzylorda – Kyzylorda Airport
Oskemen – Oskemen Airport
Pavlodar – Pavlodar Airport
Terminated destinations
Russia
MoscowDomodedovo International Airport
Fleet
The Irtysh-Air fleet comprises the following aircraft:
See also
List of airlines of Kazakhstan
Transport in Kazakhstan
References
External links
Airlines of Kazakhstan
Airlines established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Peradeniya%20library | The University of Peradeniya library is a centrally administered network of libraries in the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. It is considered the oldest academic library in Sri Lanka and one of the largest libraries in Sri Lanka today.
History
It was founded as the University College Library in 1921. With the amalgamation of the Ceylon University College and the Ceylon Medical College in 1942 to form the first university in Sri Lanka, the University of Ceylon, University College library became the University of Ceylon library. At the time this transformation occurred, the library contained nearly 30,000 items. The entire facility was moved to Peradeniya in 1952, with the establishment of a new seven-story building in the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya campus. The first donation to the library was the valuable and extensive collection on history, literature and oriental studies of late Arunachalam Padmanabha donated by his father Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam. The Vol. 1 of the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica was given the accession number 1.
The University of Peradeniya library has changed its name from time to time as follows:
Library, Ceylon University College (1921 to 1942)
Library, University of Ceylon (1942 to 1952)
Library, University of Ceylon, Peradeniya (1952 to 1972)
Library, Peradeniya Campus, University of Sri Lanka (1972 to 1978)
Library, University of Peradeniya (since 1979)
The scholar H. A. I. Goonetilleke served the library as chief librarian from 1971 to 1979 and is largely responsible for its growth.
Main Library
The Main Library is located in a seven-story building at the angle of the Senate Building and the Arts Block of the University of Peradeniya. This library contains nearly 300,000 books as of 2009. It serves primarily the faculty of Arts. The electronic database of the main library was created in 1992.
Branches
The Agriculture Library was created in the 1960s and was amalgamated with the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture in 1980.
The Allied Health Science Library was created for the youngest faculty in the university – the faculty of Allied Health Sciences – in January 2007.
The Dental Library was created in 2008 and is the 9th and the youngest member in the university library network.
The Engineering Library was created in 1964. A new two-story building was granted to the library in 2000.
The Medical Library was established in 1973. It served all three Medical, Veterinary Science and Dental faculties by the 1980s, before they got independent libraries.
The Science Library was established in a new building in 1993.
Veterinary science students were served by the Agriculture Library up to 1973. Thereafter the Vet students were served by the Medical Library up to 1994 till the Veterinary Science library was established in that year.
Mahailuppallama Library
Library statistics
Special collections
As part of its collection of more than 430 000 volumes, the library contains printed and manuscri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend%20of%20the%20Cybermen | Legend of the Cybermen is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It takes place after The Mind Robber and The Wreck of the Titan.
Plot
The Doctor and Jamie are reunited with Zoe, as the Cybermen attempt to conquer The Land of Fiction.
Cast
The Doctor – Colin Baker
Jamie McCrimmon – Frazer Hines
Zoe Heriot – Wendy Padbury
Artful Dodger/Little Lord Fauntleroy – Steve Kynman
Alice Liddell – Abigail Hollick
Count Dracula/Long John Silver – Ian Gelder
Rob Roy MacGregor – Charlie Ross
Captain Nemo – Alexander Siddig
The Cybermen/The Karkus/Himself – Nicholas Briggs
Notes
Colin Baker and Wendy Padbury were previously heard together in the audio story Davros. Although Colin played the Sixth Doctor, Wendy did not play Zoe.
The Laird Of McCrimmon was proposed as Jamie's final TV story, but was never made.
Trolls exist within the Land of Fiction and can be turned into Cybermen.
References
External links
Legend of the Cybermen at bigfinish.com
2010 audio plays
Sixth Doctor audio plays
Cybermen audio plays
Works based on Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Works based on Alice in Wonderland
Works based on Dracula
Works based on Oliver Twist
Treasure Island |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Power | Western Power may represent:
Western Power (networks corporation), a crown corporation of Western Australia, founded in 2006 from part of Western Power Corporation.
Western Power Corporation, a crown corporation of Western Australia, founded in 1995 and reorganized in 2006 into Western Power and several other companies.
Western Power Distribution, an American-owned UK-based energy distributor.
the economic, military or political power of Western Civilization
See also
Western alliance
Western bloc
Western world |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20Working%20Group | The Metadata Working Group was formed in 2006 by Adobe Systems, Apple, Canon, Microsoft and Nokia. Sony joined later in 2008.
The focus of the group is to advance the interoperability of metadata stored in digital media. Its specification, Guidelines for Handling Image Metadata, defined the interoperability among Exif, IIM (old IPTC), and XMP with consumer digital images. The following properties were selected for interoperability:
keywords
description
date and time
orientation
rating
copyright
creator
location created
location shown
Test files for verification were added in 2008 and are available for download.
External links
Metadata
Metadata standards
Information technology organizations
Standards organizations in the United States
International organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20downloadable%20songpacks%20for%20the%20SingStar%20series | SingStar is a series of music video games developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Gameplay in the SingStar games requires players to sing along to music in order to score points, using SingStar-specific USB microphones which ship with the game. Over 70 different SingStar SKUs have been released worldwide, featuring over 1,500 disc-based songs.
Editions of SingStar for the PlayStation 3 support downloadable content in the form of additional songs for the game. Almost all songs are able to be purchased individually, although some songs can only be purchased in themed packs of five. Over 1600 songs have been made available as downloadable content, including a total of 569 English-language songs. Songs are made available worldwide where possible, although regional differences exist due to licensing and censorship restrictions. The success of the SingStore exceeded the expectations of the game's developers, with over 2.2 million songs purchased from the online service as of August 2008.
Songpacks
References
External links
SingStore catalogues:
Australia
Denmark
Germany
Spain
Finland
France
Italy
Norway
Portugal
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
Lists of songs in music video games
Lists of video games by franchise
Lists of video game downloadable content
SingStar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20fantasma%20de%20Elena | El Fantasma de Elena (Elena's Ghost) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the American television network Telemundo. It is a remake of the 1983 Venezuelan telenovela Julia. The telenovela ran for 117 episodes from July 20, 2010 to January 7, 2011. It was broadcast with English translation subtitles in CC3.
It stars Elizabeth Gutiérrez and Segundo Cernadas as protagonists and Ana Layevska as the main antagonist in a double role (Elena and Daniela).
Plot
Elena Lafé (Elizabeth Gutiérrez) is a young, beautiful, and talented horse rider. She and her widowed father, Tomás (Braulio Castillo), manage a small but excellent hotel on the Key West ocean shore. Raised in her father’s shadow and kept away from the maternal side of her family, Elena has never known true love. That is until she finds Eduardo Girón (Segundo Cernadas), a widower, unconscious in the middle of the forest. She takes him to her father's hotel and falls hopelessly in love with Eduardo as she nurses him back to health.
The rich, young businessman reciprocates her love and they marry in an impromptu ceremony on the beach. Elena Lafé and her best friend Laura (Wanda D'Isidoro) move into Eduardo’s mansion, where he lives with several family members and household staff. The new bride is not given the warmest of welcomes by Eduardo's relatives. Her unease turns to terror when she keeps hearing screams and moans from the mansion’s tower.
Elena Lafé sees a photograph of Eduardo’s deceased wife, also named Elena. Elena Lafé learns from Corina (Maritza Bustamante) about the relationship Eduardo had with Elena Calcaño (Ana Layevska), who committed suicide. Elena Calcaño had a twin sister, Daniela (also played by Ana Layevska), who went mad after Elena Calcaño's death. Elena Lafé also discovers that her husband and his brothers belong to a mythical race that hides many secrets and conspiracies.
Elena Lafé will have to confront a vengeful ghost, a spellcasting witch, Eduardo’s strange half brother, a deranged twin sister bent on killing her, and hundreds of secrets that will change her life forever. The twists and turns of the oceanfront locale mirror a storyline intertwined with secret loves, unusual characters, and a mysterious aura. A web of mystery and chance is spun until we discover the secret behind Elena’s Ghost.
Cast
Main
Recurring
United States broadcast
Release dates, episode name & length, and U.S. viewers based on Telemundo's broadcast.
References
2010 telenovelas
2011 telenovelas
2010 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
American television series based on telenovelas
Spanish-language American telenovelas
Telemundo telenovelas
American television series based on Venezuelan television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitman%20Analytics | Heitman Analytics is a mortgage loan data reporting and consulting firm based in Eugene, Oregon, USA. The company provides North American brokers, correspondent, wholesale and retail lenders with analytic services and up-to-date mortgage pricing and volume data, including pricing reports, mortgage volume analytics, risk-based pricing information, volume reports, market movement/trend reports, HELOC and home equity loan reports, lender-based loan fee reports, mystery shopping surveys, and construction-to-permanent analysis. Heitman Analytics also offers its clients an interactive website to create custom reports and analysis from its pricing and volume data.
Heitman Analytics receives daily interest rate data from a variety of mortgage lenders, which it uses to produce rate estimates based on what banks across North America are charging borrowers. The company then provides a nationwide survey of rates to banks, brokers and consumer-facing companies like TrueCredit, which provides potential borrowers with estimates of interest rates for which they might qualify.
History
The Heitman Group, Inc. (HGI) was founded in 1985 by Sharon Heitman in Stockton, California. Heitman has been a guest speaker and industry panelist at Mortgage Bankers Association annual meetings. The company changed its name to Heitman Analytics in 2010.
See also
List of companies based in Oregon
References
External links
The Heitman Group company profile at Hoover's
Companies based in Eugene, Oregon
Companies established in 1985
1985 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera%20100 | Tera 100 is a supercomputer built by Bull SA for the French Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique.
On May 26, 2010, Tera 100 was turned on. The computer, which is located in Essonne is able to sustain around 1 petaFLOPs maximum performance and a peak at 1.25 petaFLOPs. It has 4300 Bullx Series S servers ('Mesca'), 140,000 Intel Xeon 7500 processor cores, and 300 TB of memory. The Interconnect is QDR InfiniBand. The file system has a throughput of 500 GB/s and total storage of 20 PB. It uses the SLURM resource manager for scheduling batch jobs.
Tera 100 uses Bull XBAS Linux, a partly Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivative.
In June 2011, TOP500 deemed it the ninth fastest supercomputer in the world, and in 2020, it had dropped off the list.
See also
Computer science
Computing
Tera-10
References
External links
CEA HPC site
Petascale computers
Supercomputing in Europe
X86 supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyas%20%28disambiguation%29 | Hyas is an archer in Greek mythology.
Hyas may also refer to:
Hyas (genus), a genus of crabs
Hyas, Saskatchewan, a village in Canada
HYAS (company), a cybersecurity threat intelligence company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNET | FNET (Frequency monitoring Network; a.k.a. FNET/GridEye, GridEye) is a wide-area power system frequency measurement system. Using a type of phasor measurement unit (PMU) known as a frequency disturbance recorder (FDR), FNET/GridEye is able to measure the power system frequency, voltage, and angle very accurately. These measurements can then be used to study various power system phenomena, and may play an important role in the development of future smart grid technologies. The FNET/GridEye system is currently operated by the Power Information Technology Laboratory at the University of Tennessee (UTK) in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
History
A phasor measurement unit is an important tool that is used to monitor and study electric power systems. The first PMUs were developed at Virginia Tech in the late 1980s. These devices measure the voltage, frequency and phase angle at buses within the power system. By utilizing the Global Positioning System, a PMU can provide a timestamp for each measurement. This allows measurements taken from different PMUs to be accurately compared.
A PMU is typically installed at an electrical substation. This process can be quite expensive and time-consuming, costing tens of thousands of dollars per device and requiring several months of effort. The high cost of installing PMUs has limited their use in the electric power industry.
In 2000, researchers led by Virginia Tech faculty member Yilu Liu began the development of a low-cost phasor measurement network that could be installed at the low-voltage distribution level of the power grid. Researchers at Virginia Tech received a NSF MRI grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the system, which became known as FNET. The first frequency disturbance recorder was developed in 2003 with support from TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) and ABB. The FNET system went online in 2004.
Since 2010, in partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE), FNET/GridEye has been developed into a wide-area grid monitoring network that covers the three major North American power grids and 16 of the largest grids around the world.
Frequency disturbance recorder
The frequency disturbance recorder, or FDR, is a GPS-synchronized single-phase PMU that is installed at ordinary 120 V outlets. Because the voltages involved are much lower than those of a typical three-phase PMU, the device is relatively inexpensive and simple to install.
The FDR works by rapidly sampling (1,440 times per second) a scaled-down version of the outlet’s voltage signal using an analog-to-digital converter. These samples are then processed via an onboard digital signal processor, which computes the instantaneous phase angle of the voltage signal for each sample. The device then computes the voltage angle, frequency and voltage magnitude at 100 ms intervals. Each measurement is time stamped using the information provided by the GPS system and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Colombo%20library | University of Colombo library is a centrally administered network of libraries in University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is home to one of the largest and oldest collections in Sri Lanka, with its roots dating back to 1870 with the establishment of the library of the Ceylon Medical College.
History
In 1870 the medial library of the Ceylon Medical College was established at its premises. After the establishment of the Ceylon University College in 1921 a new library was founded for the university college supporting its two departments of Arts and Science. It began in a room of College House with a collection of books belonging to Arunachalam Padmanabha, donated by his father Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam. The first volume of the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica was given the accession number 1.
With the establishment of the University of Ceylon, the Ceylon University College and the Ceylon Medical College were amalgamated, forming the new university. Therefore the libraries of the University College and Medical College were amalgamated yet were based separate. University College library that became the University of Ceylon library was housed at the former residence of Sir Marcus Fernando, the Villa Venezia in Queens Road by this time; the Medical College library which became the Medical Faculty Library was housed at the Ceylon Medical College building in Kynsey Road.
Following completion of buildings at Peradeniya Arts and Oriental Studies faculties were moved in the early 1950s. With this move, collections of the library used by these faculties were shifted to the new seven-story library building in Peradeniya along with much of its administrators. The Medical Faculty Library remained at its original location and collections of the library used by the Science Faculty moved to the facility premises at the Old Royal College Building. This led to the formation of two semi-independent branches of libraries that continue to this day under the University of Colombo library system.
Following re-transfer of the departments of Law and Education, as well as the re-establishment of the Arts faculty, a new collection began to support these faculties as well as other centers and institutions that began emerging in the Colombo Campus of the University of Ceylon from 1952 to 1972, thereafter the University of Sri Lanka from 1972 to 1978. In 1979 with the formal establishment of the University of Colombo, the University of Colombo library system was born. Due to a lack of a permanent building the units of the library kept moving until the Central Library Building was built in the late 1990s at Reed Avenue. The Law library collection was moved here to the second floor as collections of Humanities, Education, Management and Social Sciences. Two semi-independent branches of libraries faction at the Medical Faculty and the Science Faculty. All other faculties, departments and institutes maintain their own libraries for reference purposes with collections len |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Hughes%2C%20Rookie%20Cop | Jimmy Hughes, Rookie Cop is an American crime show that aired on the DuMont Television Network from May 8 to July 3, 1953. The show starred William Redfield, later Conrad Janis, in the title role of Jimmy Hughes. The series was written by Bruce Geller, later famous as the creator of the TV series Mission: Impossible.
Episode status
Only one episode of the series survives, the network premiere on May 8, 1953, which is held at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1953 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
1950s American crime drama television series
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buses%20in%20Milton%20Keynes | Buses in Milton Keynes are run by a mixture of operators on a network of urban and rural routes in and around the Milton Keynes urban area. These services have a varied history involving five different companies. At the foundation of the 'New City' in 1967 and for some years afterwards, Milton Keynes was served by a rural bus service between and to the pre-existing towns. Apart from a small-scale experimental service, urban buses arrived on the scene with deregulation in 1986. Since April 2010 the core local services have been provided by Arriva Shires & Essex. Long-distance coach services also serve MK, often via the Milton Keynes Coachway located near junction 14 of the M1 motorway.
Urban Services
Urban services in Milton Keynes have been operated by several companies under a wide range of names since the city's creation in 1967. Since 2010, the principal operator has been Arriva Shires & Essex, who acquired the independent MK Metro in 2006. The operation was initially branded as Arriva MK Star. The Arriva urban network has continually reduced in size since then and now consists of only the busiest key urban routes, with other areas being covered by Council contract routes or by other operators such as Uno and Stagecoach. A number of independent operators have begun providing services within the urban area where the Arriva network has contracted; principal among these are Aylesbury-based Red Rose Travel. Some of the longer distance routes detailed below also provide journeys within the urban area, such as Britannia Bus route 89, 40 and 52 and Z&S Transport route 50. Uno currently operates services C1, C10, C11 & CX to Cranfield with the C1, C10 & C11 continuing to Bedford. Stagecoach also operate service 41 through Olney and Lavendon from Northampton to Bedford.
(Bus services within Milton Keynes are complemented by a frequent train service between the major centres of Wolverton, Central Milton Keynes and Bletchley, operated by West Midlands Trains. A less frequent hourly train service on the Marston Vale Line also links Bletchley railway station to , , and railway stations between Mondays and Saturdays.)
Long-distance services
A few long-distance services to Milton Keynes are operated by Arriva Shires & Essex, with others provided by and Stagecoach: these services interchange at the shopping centre and railway station. Other long-distance services run by National Express call at the Milton Keynes Coachway (where passengers may also interchange with East/West and London airports services).
Arriva Beds & Bucks
Arriva Beds & Bucks run route 150 to Aylesbury at a frequency of hourly Monday to Saturday.
Arriva Shires & Essex also operate the hourly (each) routes F70 & F77, which links Milton Keynes to Luton via Leighton Buzzard and Dunstable. Service X60 runs via Buckingham to Winslow and Aylesbury. Arriva also operate local service 33 to Northampton.
Stagecoach
Stagecoach operate four express routes, four local services and one school |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3%3A%20Malay%20Mo%20Ma-develop | M3: Malay Mo Ma-develop is a Philippine romantic comedy-drama series on ABS-CBN premiered on July 3, 2010, starring Aga Muhlach and Ai-Ai delas Alas. On November 6, 2010, the ABS-CBN network confirmed that the show has been canceled due to the low ratings compared to their other sitcoms. The final episode aired on November 27, airing a total of 22 episodes.
Synopsis
JM Benicio III is every woman's ideal man - good-looking, hardworking and successful in his structured corporate life. Yet he remains unmarried at 38. Behind JM's seemingly contented façade is actually a complicated character - perfectionist, cold, cautious and elusive of commitment. JM is bound to meet the jologs Kringkring, a single mother who'd practically grab any job in order to feed and give her son, Marcus, a better life. The odd friendship will usher Kringkring into JM's mysterious past including his unfinished business with the woman he truly loves. JM's soft spot surfaces when he starts playing a reluctant daddy to Kringkring's son. The impossible and indifferent JM will eventually break free from his past hurts and will finally realize the value of love and commitment.
Cast
Main cast
Ai-Ai delas Alas as Kristina Marie "Kring Kring" Dimasupil - Kringkring grew up not knowing who her father is. She was able to study but only up to 2nd year high school. She's a 'Miss Congeniality', smart ass, strong willed who knows how to get her way. She has a devil-may care attitude but has a caring heart. She will do anything for her son, Marcus.
Aga Muhlach as Jose Maria "JM" Benicio III - JM is an only son to the rich couple and he's his Grandfather's favorite. He grew up to be well-mannered and with proper breeding. He's perceptive to details. He dreams of becoming a good architect like his father. A family-oriented guy but this all changed when at a young age he witnessed his parents always in heated arguments for reasons he did not understand.
Supporting cast
Megan Young as Bea Cornejo
Tom Rodriguez as Ted Salazar
Niña Jose as Meg
Jojo Alejar as Mon
Nico Antonio as Rain
Mika dela Cruz as Ara
Jairus Aquino as Marcus
Noel Trinidad as Lolo Jong
Tess Antonio as Karen
See also
List of programs broadcast by ABS-CBN
References
External links
M3: Malay Mo Ma-develop Teaser
ABS-CBN original programming
Philippine romantic comedy television series
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Television series by Star Creatives
Filipino-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai%20Sport%202 | Rai Sport 2 was an Italian sports TV channel, launched on 18 May 2010 by the State-owned RAI television network. It broadcast Italian and international sports events in Italy on DTT channel 58 on Mux Rai 2. It was also available on Sky Italia and on IPTV.
Programming
When the channel was not broadcasting events, it transmitted the same programming of Rai Sport 1 delayed an hour, including the daily editions of the Tg Sport.
A few programmes include:
Tour de France
Milan–San Remo
Paris–Nice
Tirreno–Adriatico
Giro di Sardegna
Giro del Trentino
Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
Tour of the Basque Country
Three Days of De Panne
Tour of Flanders
Brabantse Pijl
UCI Road World Championships
References
External links
Official website
Defunct RAI television channels
Sports television in Italy
Italian-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
2010 establishments in Italy
2017 disestablishments in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Generation%20%28TV%20series%29 | My Generation is an American mockumentary television series that aired on the ABC network in the fall of 2010. The one-hour comedy drama, produced by ABC Studios, follows a group of high school classmates in Austin, Texas in 2000, then revisits them ten years after graduation. The series premiered on September 23, 2010, and was canceled by ABC on October 1 due to the first two episodes' poor ratings.
Premise
The series follows a group of young adults whose lives were being filmed for a documentary just before their graduation from fictional Greenbelt High School in Austin, Texas in 2000. The group includes the Overachiever, the Beauty Queen, the Nerd, the Punk, the Jock, the Brain, the Rich Kid, the Rock Star, and the Wallflower. Their hopes and dreams for the future were recorded, and as they meet up ten years later, they find that things do not always go as planned. Several of the characters' lives after high school are affected by or tied to real-world events such as the September 11 attacks, the Enron scandal, and the War in Afghanistan. The series is set in the present with flashbacks to the past.
Development and production
My Generation is based on the Swedish series God's Highway (Blomstertid). The pilot script, originally titled Generation Y, was written by Noah Hawley. ABC gave a production order for the pilot in January 2010.
In early February, Keir O'Donnell and Michael Stahl-David became the first actors cast in the pilot. Julian Morris, Daniella Alonso, and Kelli Garner then joined the ensemble cast in late February, followed by Anne Son. Jaime King and Mehcad Brooks came on board in early March, followed quickly by Sebastian Sozzi, who booked the final principal role a few days later.
Filming began in mid-March. Craig Gillespie directed the pilot. In May 2010, ABC announced it had added the series to the 2010-11 schedule with a fall 2010 premiere planned.
Amid low ratings, ABC canceled the show on October 1 after airing only two episodes. In early November, ABC made the remaining 6 unaired episodes available online.
Cast and characters
Michael Stahl-David as Steven Foster, "The Overachiever". He was the class valedictorian and as such great things were said and predicted about him. Steven was best friends with Kenneth in high school, and after high school went on to attend Yale University. His father was a high-ranking executive at Enron who was sent to prison as a result of the Enron scandal. The scandal also resulted in his family assets being frozen, and as a result Steven was forced to drop out of Yale. He subsequently moved to Hawaii to work as a bartender. He is now viewed as somewhat of a slacker compared to the thriving high school student that he was. On prom night he slept with Caroline Chung, getting her pregnant unbeknownst to him at the time.
Daniella Alonso as Brenda Serrano, "The Brain". In high school, Brenda wanted to be a scientist and was in love with Anders. After the controversial 2000 presidential electi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Usage%20Company | Computer Usage Company (CUC) (1955–1986), sometimes called Computer Usage Corporation, was the first independent company to market computer software.
History
CUC is generally considered the first company to develop software independently and to have pioneered the field of programming services.
Before this time, software was developed either by the users of the computers, or by the few commercial computer vendors.
Computer Usage Company (CUC) was founded in March 1955 by Elmer C. Kubie (1926–2004) and John W. Sheldon. They had formerly worked together at IBM, and planned to offer services to help develop computer programs. The initial investment of US$40,000 supported the founders and a staff of five. The first offices were located in New York City.
CUC's first project was a program written for California Research Corporation to simulate the flow of oil.
On October 3, 1955, Computer Usage Company, Inc., was incorporated in Delaware. George R. Trimble Jr. became Corporate Technical Director in February 1956 after work on the IBM 650. Trimble headed a project to computerize the air traffic control system of the Federal Aviation Administration. This work was done at the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center in New Jersey.
In 1959 an office in Washington, DC was opened, since CUC had business with the US Navy.
In April 1960 the company had an initial public offering of stock shares, and grew to three managers, 37 mathematicians, 6 physicists, and 3 engineers.
Later in 1960 CUC established a division to sell computer time and in Spring 1961 opened an office in Los Angeles.
Cuthbert Hurd joined the company as chairman in 1962, a former division director from IBM.
The FAA was planning to use the IBM 9020 model of the new IBM System/360, so contracted with CUC to develop a compiler for the JOVIAL computer language. The compiler was first developed on a simulator using the IBM 7030 before actual hardware was available.
In early 1964, CUC developed software used by CBS Television to track the election results. Sheldon left later in 1964.
Another major contract was to implement part of IBM's first time-sharing system, TSS/360. CUC was asked to manage the TSS project, as it was seen as losing ground to competitors in time-sharing. Realizing that performance would never meet expectations, CUC declined.
In 1965 the Computer Usage Education subsidiary was formed, headed by Ascher Opler, which published software books and offered courses. One of its best sellers was on Programming the IBM system/360.
Carl H. Reynolds joined as President of the new Computer Usage Development Company subsidiary in 1966. Reynolds had been director of programming for the Data Systems Division of IBM during the development of the System/360.
By 1967 CUC had a staff of over 700 people in 12 offices and revenues over $13 million. An office in Dallas, Texas was established to work on a contract with Texas Instruments to develop software including an operating system a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra%20stripe | Zebra stripes describe the stripes of a zebra.
Zebra stripe or zebra striping may also refer to:
Zebra striping (computer graphics), a diagnostic shading technique used in computer graphics
Zebra stripe (videography), a feature on some video cameras to aid in correct exposure
Zebra stripes, a characteristic of some immersion burns
One of the possible Primitive markings of horses and other equids
Zebra print, an animal print that resembles the pattern of the skin and fur of a zebra
Zebra crossing, a type of pedestrian crossing involving black-and-white stripes
Zebra strip, an elastomeric connector with an alternating black-and-white stripe pattern
See also
Stripe (disambiguation)
Zebra (disambiguation)
The Zebra-Striped Hearse, a 1962 mystery novel by Ross McDonald |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96sterg%C3%B6tland%20Runic%20Inscription%2043 | Östergötland Runic Inscription 43 or Ög 43 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age runic inscription carved on a rockface in Ingelstad, just north of Norrköping, Östergötland, Sweden.
Description
Ög 43 is carved on a granite rockface consisting of two lines of text within runic text bars that are approximately 0.4 meters in length. Above it is carved a sword, and a cross and nordic sun symbol are also carved nearby. The runic text is in the younger futhark except for the first rune in the second line, which uses the form of the d-rune, , from the elder futhark.
The Rök runestone, dated to this same period, also mixes runes from both futharks in its inscription. Because of this, it has been dated to approximately 850 C.E. The association of the carving of a sun with the word sól along with the use of an anachronistic d-rune may suggest it is a ritualistic comparison of the dim winter sun and the bright summer sun, and represents a runic magic call for the sun to shine.
The d-rune of the second line has been transcribed into Old Norse as an ideogram that uses the name for this rune, which means "day," as the personal name Dagr. This name also appears spelled out in the runic texts on inscriptions Vg 101 in Bragnum and Vg 113 in Lärkegapet, and Dagr is also the personification of day in Norse mythology.
Inscription
Latin transliteration
÷ salsi karþi sul ÷ D ÷ skut- - þ--a hiu ×
Old Norse transcription
Sôlsi gerði sól. Dagr(?) skút[a(?) í(?)] þ[ett]a(?) hjó.
English translation
Sôlsi(?) made(?) the sun(?). Dagr(?) cut(?) this(?) on the cliff-face.
Gallery
References
Runestones in Östergötland
9th-century inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagleheart%20%28TV%20series%29 | Eagleheart is an American action comedy TV series that aired on the programming block Adult Swim. Eagleheart was produced by Conan O'Brien's production company, Conaco, and stars Chris Elliott as Chris Monsanto. The series aired from 2011 to 2014.
Premise
Eagleheart follows US Marshal Chris Monsanto as he fights crime with his two partners: the slow-witted Brett and by-the-book Susie. They take on drug smugglers, art thieves, kidnappers, and con artists with bloody violence and gruesome deaths ensuing. The Marshals report to The Chief, who gives them their assignments. There is little continuity between episodes in the first two seasons. The third season features an extended season-long storyline titled Paradise Rising.
Eagleheart parodies many cop shows, most notably Walker, Texas Ranger. It portrays a great deal of graphic violence.
Cast
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2013–14)
Season three's linked story arc is called Paradise Rising. The first, fourth, and final episode run 22 minutes each.
International broadcast
In Canada, Eagleheart previously aired on G4's Adult Digital Distraction block, and currently airs on the Canadian version of Adult Swim.
References
External links
2010s American parody television series
2010s American police comedy television series
2011 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
Adult Swim original programming
American action comedy television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Conaco
Television series by Williams Street
United States Marshals Service in fiction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Grand%20Journal%20%28Canadian%20TV%20program%29 | Le Grand Journal was a Canadian news television program, which aired on the TQS network in Quebec from 1986 to 2008. The program was anchored by Jean-Luc Mongrain. The program was cancelled in 2008, prior to the network's rebranding as V in 2009.
References
1980s Canadian television news shows
1990s Canadian television news shows
2000s Canadian television news shows
1986 Canadian television series debuts
2008 Canadian television series endings
Television shows filmed in Montreal
Noovo original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20map | Movie map may refer to:
A guide to filming locations and/or settings for a particular movie.
An interactive computer video representation of a particular building, site, or town, which allows a virtual tour of the location (see Aspen Movie Map). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyMFB | MyMFB (previously MillatFacebook) was a Muslim-oriented social networking website. It was launched in May 2010 in response to a controversial group on Facebook entitled Everybody Draw Mohammed Day and Pakistan's block of Facebook in response.
History
On May 19, 2010, Lahore High Court banned Facebook from being accessed in Pakistan, after a user of the website created a page for Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, and Facebook did not remove the page despite complaints from users. The site attracted over 4,300 users, most of them Pakistani, in the first few days. This number was expected to grow further because of Pakistani Facebook users being unable to access Facebook as a result of the national ban on the site. On 30 May 2010, however, a Pakistani court ruled that the Pakistani government should restore access to Facebook.
The Urdu word "Millat" is used by Muslims to refer to their nation.
MyMFB has criticized Facebook for ignoring complaints from Muslim users, who MyMFB says provide almost 50% of Facebook's revenue. Chief Operating Officer Usman Zaheer said of Facebook that "We want to tell [the] Facebook people 'if they mess with us they have to face the consequences'. If someone commits blasphemy against our Prophet Mohammed then we will become his competitor and give him immense business loss[es]. [We dream of making] the largest Muslim social networking website."
Chief Executive Officer Omer Zaheer said that the site is open to "nice and decent people of all faiths", and that it encourages freedom of expression so long as users respect one another's sensitivities and faiths. Zaheer has said that Facebook "seems to allow mockery of religions it has an issue with… The caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed were uploaded, and instead of taking any consideration and action, they came out and said they were supporting it."
On 1 January 2013, The Express Tribune reported that the site had elicited funding requests to pay its server bills and may close down. The site later rebranded itself as MyMFB.
Development
The web site describes itself as helping users to "connect and share with more than 1.57 billion Muslims and sweet people from other Religions." The site aims to become "the largest Muslim social networking website."
While additional features are under the works to make it similar to those of Facebook, it currently offers such similar features as a "Wall" and the ability to connect to "Friends."
The person involved in created the site was Azhar Siddique, an advocate. In 2012, the company's About page listed Omer Zaheer Meer as CEO and Founder and Arslan Ch as Design Lead. The founder said its employees are "working around the clock to offer features similar to those pioneered by the wildly popular California-based prototype." Usman Zaheer, the chief operating officer said "We want to tell [the] Facebook people [that] 'if they mess with us they have to face the consequences'. If someone commits blasphemy against our Prophet Mohammed then w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Soccer | Amiga Soccer/ST Soccer is a soccer video game developed by Microdeal in 1988.
Game play
With the optional Microdeal 4 player adaptor, the game allowed 4 players to play (3 against the computer, or 2 against 2).
Reception
References
External links
Game at ClassicAmiga
1988 video games
Amiga games
Amiga-only games
Association football video games
Microdeal games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner%20with%20the%20Band | Dinner With The Band is an American food reality show hosted by chef Sam Mason. It began as an ON Networks web series in March 2007 but was later acquired by the Independent Film Channel and premiered as a full-length 30-min television show on November 24, 2009.
The premise
In each episode, Mason invites a band into a Brooklyn loft doubling as a kitchen/small concert studio space. The band joins him in the kitchen as he creates an original meal in their honor such as Sharon Steaks and The Dap Rings for Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings or Les Savy Pheasant for Les Savy Fav. In addition to the meal, Mason also prepares cocktails inspired by the band during the show. Typically, the featured band will perform two songs in between kitchen sessions and banter with Mason about their music and experience with food throughout the show.
The host
Sam Mason is a Brooklyn-based chef who attended culinary school at Johnson & Wales University. Before becoming the host of Dinner With The Band, Mason worked under such famous chefs as Wylie Dufresne and Jean Louis Palladin. He has appeared in an episode of Iron Chef America, losing in a skirt steak battle against Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. His latest restaurant gig before Dinner With The Band was as chef/owner at Tailor in New York City, a position he left in late 2009.
Mason does not play an instrument himself though he has moonlighted as a country music DJ for East Village Radio. In an interview with The New York Times, Mason said that he was originally asked by the show's creators (Darin and Greg Bresnitz) to host despite the fact that they didn't know who he was. "No joke: they Googled ‘tattooed hipster chef’, and I came up."
Guest bands
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Les Savy Fav
Rufus Wainwright
MEN
The Mountain Goats
YACHT
Kid Sister and Flosstradamus
The Devil Makes Three
The Murder City Devils
VEGA
My Brightest Diamond
Au Revoir Simone
Andrew WK
Lightspeed Champion
Final Fantasy
References
External links
Trailer for Season Two posted by Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Sam Mason interview with Food & Wine Magazine
Music Mix playlist by Sam Mason for Entertainment Weekly
2009 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
IFC (American TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape%20%281973%20TV%20series%29 | Escape is an American anthology series that aired on the NBC network from February 11 to April 1, 1973. The show was a production of Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited for Universal Television. It aired on Sunday evenings at 10 p.m. Eastern, following the NBC Mystery Movie.
Synopsis
Webb, best known for portraying Joe Friday on the long-running Dragnet, narrated this half-hour anthology series about people who found themselves in dangerous situations and who had to muster enough ingenuity and rely upon luck to save themselves from otherwise certain death. Like several of the other shows Webb packaged through the years, the format was that of a semi-documentary, with the narration punctuating the scenes.
Intended as a trial run for a permanent slot during the 1973–74 season, the show did not do well in the ratings and ended after only four episodes. Reruns were broadcast that summer.
Episodes
References
Sources
External links
Escape at CVTA with episode list
1973 American television series debuts
1973 American television series endings
1970s American drama television series
1970s American anthology television series
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
Television series by Mark VII Limited
Television series by Universal Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redoubt%20Four%20%28West%20Point%29 | Redoubt Four was a supporting defensive position of Fort Putnam during the Revolutionary War defensive network at West Point. It was constructed under the command of Tadeusz Kosciuszko in 1778-1779. During the war, it was a key defensive overwatch position for Fort Putnam 300 feet below, which was in turn the key overwatch position for Fort Clinton. According to Benedict Arnold, the fort required approximately 100 soldiers to man it. The redoubt was partially restored in 1975-1976 as part of the bicentennial celebration. It can be accessed by foot year round from Patrick Trail (road) approximately .5 miles from the West Point Post Exchange complex.
Construction
"The possession of the Hill appears to me essential to the preservation of the whole post and our main effort ought to be directed to keeping the enemy off of it...", George Washington wrote in July 1779, vindicating Tadeusz Kościuszko's decision to place a redoubt on Rocky Hill.
See also
Constitution Island
Kosciuszko's Garden
References
Redoubts
United States Military Academy
1778 establishments in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen%20Mock | Owen R. Mock was a computer software designer and programmer who pioneered computer operating systems in the 1950s. In 1954 Mock was part of a group of programmers at the Los Angeles division of North American Aviation (NAA) who developed the PACT series of compilers for the IBM 701 computer. In December 1955, Mock's group installed in the IBM 701 the "North American 701 Monitor" which was the first operating system to be in operation.
General Motors Research (GMR) also had an IBM 701 and used the compilers developed by Mock's group. When Robert L. Patrick at GMR designed a non-stop multi-user batch processing operating system for use on the next generation computer (IBM 704), Mock's group at NAA and George Ryckman's group at GMR joined forces to develop Robert Patrick's design for the IBM 704. This GM-NAA I/O software was the first operating system for the 704 and began production in 1956.
Publications
Owen R. Mock, Logical Organization of the PACT I Compiler, J. ACM, vol. 3, No. 4, pages 279-287 (October, 1956).
Owen R. Mock, The Share 709 System: Input-Output Buffering, J. ACM, vol. 6, No. 2, pages 145-151, (April, 1959).
References
North American 701 Monitor by Owen R. Mock
American computer programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSA | MUSA may refer to:
Manufacturing USA, a network of research institutes in the United States
Museum of the University of St Andrews
Cancún Underwater Museum, known as MUSA from its Spanish name, El Museo subaquático de Arte
San Antonio de los Baños Airfield
Musa (Ilkhanid dynasty), a Mongol ruler of the 14th century
Musa (robot), robot that can fight using Kendo
MUSA (MUltichannel Speaking Automaton), an early computer machine aimed to speech synthesis, built at CSELT starting from 1975
See also
Musa (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30%20Rock%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of 30 Rock, an American television comedy series on the NBC network in the United States, began airing on September 23, 2010. NBC announced on March 5, 2010, that 30 Rock would be returning for a fifth season in the 2010–2011 television season. Beginning with episode 11, 30 Rock was moved to the 10:00 PM timeslot, but, as a consolation, was renewed earlier than the other NBC sitcoms. During this time, Tracy Morgan underwent an emergency operation, causing his character to be written out for several episodes.
On July 31, 2010, NBC announced that an [[Live Show|episode of 30 Rock'''s fifth season]] would be filmed and broadcast live, twice, on the evening of October 14, 2010. The two separate recordings resulted in a live telecast of the episode to American viewers in both the West and East Coast. The episode was a ratings success and was met with very positive reviews. The season also featured the show's 100th episode, which aired as a one-hour episode.
Synopsis
Season 5 continues with Liz in a relationship with Carol (Matt Damon), a man she met in the episode "I Do Do", and Jack practicing to be and then being a father. Jack finally marries the woman he chose in "I Do Do", but an error in the wedding certificate leads to shocking results. Jack meets with Kabletown's boss, Hank Hooper (Ken Howard), who acts rather like Kenneth, and meets his competition in his granddaughter, Kaylee Hooper (Chloë Grace Moretz). Meanwhile, Tracy also becomes a father and finally gets an EGOT ("E" standing for "Emmy", "G" for "Grammy", "O" Oscar", and "T" for "Tony" ). However, the pressure of being an award-winning celebrity leads Tracy to nearly bring TGS to cancellation. With the help of Jenna, Kenneth tries to get back into the NBC Page Program. Tracy's wife, Angie, is given a reality show of her own, "Queen of Jordan", which was aired as an episode of 30 Rock. In the middle of the season, Jack and Avery's daughter is born, but a few episodes later, something happens in their relationship that separates them, possibly forever. Jenna continues her relationship with Paul. The Girlie Show with Tracy Jordan (TGS) celebrates its 100th episode.
Cast
Tina Fey portrays Liz Lemon, the head writer of a fictitious live sketch-comedy television series TGS. The TGS cast consists of two main actors. The lead actor is the loose cannon movie star Tracy Jordan, portrayed by Tracy Morgan. His co-star is the extremely narcissistic Jenna Maroney, portrayed by Jane Krakowski. Jack "Danny" Baker (Cheyenne Jackson) is the newest TGS cast member. Jack McBrayer plays the naïve NBC page Kenneth Parcell. Scott Adsit acts as the witty and wise TGS producer, Pete Hornberger. Judah Friedlander portrays trucker hat-wearing staff writer Frank Rossitano. Alec Baldwin plays the NBC network executive Jack Donaghy. Donaghy's full corporate title for the majority of the season is "Head of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming". Keith Powell plays the Harvard Univ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Radio | Love Radio is a broadcast FM radio network in the Philippines owned by Manila Broadcasting Company. Its headquarters are located at Cultural Center of the Philippine Complex, Pasay, Manila. The network's original format is easy-listening from 1975 until 2000 when Love Radio shifted to Contemporary MOR or more popularly known as the masa format.
Its flagship station is DZMB in Metro Manila (licensed to Cebu Broadcasting Company), which has been rated as #1 in the FM radio ratings for 15 years (from 2002 to 2017), according to the KBP's Radio Research Council Surveys and AC Nielsen Car Survey.
History
Love Radio was previously known by its call letters DZMB (Previously broadcasting under call letters KZRH back in 1949) when it began broadcasts on the FM band in 1975 from its first broadcast days on the AM band. Back then, it played mainstream pop, later relegating to easy listening music. As DZMB, it also introduced and institutionalized the deep-voiced radio announcers. In the 1980s, Manuelito F. Luzon, then station manager of DZMB, conceptualized the station's branding identity.
In the 2000s, Love Radio was reformatted to a contemporary masa, a format that was trending on the landscape of FM radio in the country which was started by rival stations since the dawn of the new millennium.
Roster
DJs
As of October 2, 2023:
Tanya Chinita
Angkol Dagol
Chris Tsuper
Nicole Hyala
Robin Sienna
Conyo Bicolano
Raqi Terra
Diego Bandido
Totoy Bato
Former DJs
Lala Banderas
Papa Jack (2007-2016; now with 106.7 Energy FM as Papa Jackson)
Kara Karinyosa (now with 106.7 Energy FM as DJ Kara)
Robin Sienna 1
Lyka Barista (assigned to 101.1 Yes The Best)
Kristine Dera (2008-2018; now with Win Radio as Mama Colleen)
Lloyd Cadena† (deceased)
Laboching (2019-2022; now with ABS-CBN and TV5)
Rico Panyero (assigned to 101.1 Yes The Best)
Rica Herra (assigned to DZRH)
Missy Hista
Emma Harot (now with Barangay LS 97.1 as Mama Emma)
Malaya Macaraeg
DJ Aira
DJ Caren (assigned to 101.1 Yes The Best)
Shai Tisai (assigned to 96.3 Easy Rock as Shai)
Sexy Terry
Rey Porter
Matthew Dancer
Monsour Betero
Tommy Tambay
Bobby Guard
Love Radio stations
See also
Manila Broadcasting Company
References
Philippine radio networks
Mass media companies established in 1975
Radio stations established in 1975
1975 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%20Pacific%20Forum | The Asia Pacific Forum (APF) is one of four regional networks of national human rights institutions (NHRIs) within the International Co-ordinating Committee of NHRIs. The APF formerly accredited NHRIs for compliance with the United Nations' Paris Principles, but now acknowledges the accreditation decisions of an ICC sub-committee on which the APF has one of the four (regional) seats.
The APF is unique among the four regional networks in having close working relations with non-governmental organisations in its region.
Members
The full members of the APF (as of December 2011) are the following national institutions deemed to be fully compliant with the Paris Principles, and holding A status ICC accreditation:
Afghanistan
Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
Australia
Australian Human Rights Commission
India
National Human Rights Commission
Indonesia
National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM)
Jordan
National Centre for Human Rights
Korea, Republic of
National Human Rights Commission of Korea
Malaysia
Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM)
Mongolia
National Human Rights Commission
Nepal
National Human Rights Commission
New Zealand
Human Rights Commission
Palestine
The Independent Commission for Human Rights
Philippines
Commission on Human Rights (Philippines)
Qatar
National Committee for Human Rights
Thailand
National Human Rights Commission
Timor Leste
Office of the Provedor for Human Rights and Justice
The following B status NHRIs are eligible for full membership when they demonstrate compliance with the Paris Principles:
Bangladesh
National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh
Maldives
Human Rights Commission of the Maldives
Sri Lanka
National Human Rights Commission
The following C status NHRIs are in the APF region but are not compliant with the Principles and are thus ineligible for membership:
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission
Iran
Islamic Human Rights Commission
In addition:
Fiji
The Fiji Human Rights Commission was suspended from the ICC (hence the APF) in 2007 over its attitude to the previous year's military coup, and scheduled for special review of its then A-status accreditation; in April 2007 it resigned from the ICC.
See also
International human rights law
International human rights instruments
References
External links
APF website
National human rights institutions
Human rights organisations based in Australia
Supranational unions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20African%20National%20Human%20Rights%20Institutions | The Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI) is one of four regional groupings within the global network, the Global Alliance for National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI). NANHRI promotes the establishment of national human rights institutions throughout Africa, and supports co-operation and training to strengthen and develop the monitoring, promotion, protection and advocacy work of African NHRIs.
Members
The following NANHRI members are (as of 30 May 2010) accredited with full "A status" by the ICC, hence deemed to be fully compliant with the Paris Principles:
Egypt
National Council for Human Rights (Egypt)
Ghana
Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)
Kenya
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR)
Malawi
Malawi Human Rights Commission
Mauritius
National Human Rights Commission (Mauritius)
Morocco
Human Rights Advisory Council (Morocco)
Namibia
Office of the Ombudsman (Namibia)
Niger
Nigerien National Commission on Human Rights and Fundamental Liberties
Rwanda
National Commission for Human Rights (Rwanda)
Senegal
Senegalese Committee for Human Rights
South Africa
South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC)
Tanzania
Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (Tanzania)
Togo
National Human Rights Commission (Togo)
Uganda
Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC)
Zambia
Permanent Human Rights Commission (Zambia)
The following NANHRI members are (as of 30 May 2010) do not have full "A status":
Algeria
National Human Rights Commission of Algeria
Angola
Provedor de Justiça e de direitos (Angola)
Bénin
Bénin Human Rights Commission
Burkina Faso
National Human Rights Commission of Burkina Faso
Cameroon
National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms
Chad
Chad National Human Rights Commission
Democratic Republic of the Congo
National Human Rights Observatory (DR Congo)
Republic of the Congo
National Human Rights Commission (Republic of the Congo)
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Human Rights Commission
Gabon
National Human Rights Commission (Gabon)
Madagascar
National Human Rights Commission (Madagascar)
Mali
Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme (Mali)
Mauritania
Commissariat aux Droits de l’Homme, a la Lutte contre la Pauvreté et l’Insertion (Mauritania)
Nigeria
National Human Rights Commission (Nigeria)
Sierra Leone
Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone
Sudan
Southern Sudan Human Rights Commission
Tunisia
Higher Committee on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Tunisia)
See also
Human rights in Africa
Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF)
European Group of National Human Rights Institutions
Network of National Institutions in the Americas
List of human rights articles by country
Human Rights Commissions
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
External links
NANHRI website
Human rights in Africa |
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