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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneers%2C%20a%20Volunteer%20Network | Pioneers, a Volunteer Network, founded and more commonly known as the Telephone Pioneers of America, is a non-profit charitable organization based in Denver, Colorado in the United States. The association was organized in Boston in November 1911 by 246 pioneers active in the early days of telephony, including Alexander Graham Bell who received membership card No. 1. The first elected president was Theodore N. Vail, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T).
As of 2009 the organization has grown to about 620,000 members, consisting primarily of actively employed and retired employees in the telecommunications industry, making it one of the world's largest corporate volunteer organizations. Pioneers volunteer more than ten million hours annually responding to the individual needs of their communities throughout the United States and Canada. It is funded through company sponsors and public charitable donations. In the United States, the organization is registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
History and mission
Pioneers is a network of volunteers who effect immediate, tangible change in local communities, in partnership with their sponsors. The history of the Pioneers is tied closely to the science and technology of telephones. The need to communicate gave impetus to Alexander Graham Bell, whose fascination was bolstered by his concern for those whose hearing was impaired or non-existent. With the able assistance of Thomas Watson and the support of several others, the rest became telephone history. And for the men and women who took part as Bell's invention and enterprise blossomed and grew, it was the foundation of a new industry and the beginning of many careers.
In 1910, AT&T's Henry W. Pope suggested the industry's success warranted more than paychecks and job satisfaction. Many of the people who pioneered the industry and who had spent 20 or 30 years together indicated they would like to stay in touch. However, Pope wondered, where were all those who had started out in the industry? The question sent both Pope and his office mate, Charles R. Truex, to their desks to compile lists of old friends and co-workers. Thomas Doolittle, already retired, was quick to join the effort, and the notion of the Telephone Pioneers of America was born. Once completed, the list was presented to Theodore N. Vail, then president of AT&T, who concurred in the plans and suggested an annual gathering of the group.
The first meeting of the fledgling Telephone Pioneers of America convened on November 1 and 2, 1911, at the Hotel Somerset in Boston, where Bell signed as the first charter member and Vail, who would serve for nine years, was elected the organization's first president. Membership was initially limited to those with 21 years of industry service, a standard that stood for 53 years, In the beginning, friendship and fellowship were its primary goal, recalling the facts, traditions, and memories of the early history of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix%20Universal%20Server | The Helix Universal Media Server was a product developed by RealNetworks and originates from the first streaming media server originally developed by Progressive Networks in 1994. It supported a variety of streaming media delivery transports including MPEG-DASH (Standards based HTTP streaming) RTMP (flash), RTSP (standard), HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Microsoft Silverlight and HTTP Progressive Download enabling mobile phone OS (Android, Blackberry, iOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile) and PC OS media client (Flash Media Player, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player) delivery.
Helix Universal Media Server supported multiple streaming media codecs including H.264, MPEG-4, Flash Media, RealMedia, QuickTime, Windows Media and audio codecs including AAC/AAC+, MP4, MP3, WAV, RealAudio. It ingested encoder formats including RTP, MPEG2-TS, RTMP (Flash) and Windows Media Push/Pull MMS.
Development of the product was discontinued in 2014, and licensing ended in October 2014.
History
27 July 2002 - Helix Universal Server version 9 launched - the first universal multi-format streaming server - supporting RealMedia, Windows Media, QuickTime and MPEG-4 from a single streaming media platform operating on Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Compaq Tru64, FreeBSD, IBM AIX, Windows NT and Windows 2000 OS
16 November 2005 - Helix Universal Server version 11 launched adding mobile support for 3GPP.
13 May 2008 - Helix Universal Server version 12 launched adding Fast Channel Switching for mobile devices.
30 September 2009 - Helix Universal Server version 13 launched as part of Helix Media Delivery Platform. This version added support for HTTP Progressive Download, HTTP iPhone delivery, Server Side Playlists, Advertising insertion, and Live Rate Adaptation for mobile devices.
14 April 2010 - Helix Universal Server version 14 launched supporting universal streaming media delivery transports including RTMP, RTSP, HTTP Live Streaming, Microsoft Silverlight and HTTP Progressive Download enabling mobile phone OS (Android, Blackberry, iPhone OS 3.0, Symbian, Windows Mobile) and PC OS media client (Flash Media Player, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player) delivery. Helix Universal Server continues to support 3GPP, RealMedia, Windows Media, QuickTime and MPEG-4 from a single streaming media platform operating on Linux (RHEL5), Solaris SPARC, Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 Server OS
30 September 2011 - Helix Universal Media Server version 14.2 launched enhancements include 64 bit OS support (Windows 2008, RHEL5 and Solaris SPARC) and Multi-Track streaming capability enabling multi-lingual and multi-camera applications. Helix Multi-Track reduces the amount of encoders and bandwidth required by separating audio and video into individual streams and combining them within the Helix Multi-Track Server. The web application or media player then selects the most appropriate video and audio track related to their chosen language or video camera angle.
14 April 2012 - Helix Universal Med |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagstorp%20Runestone | The Dagstorp Runestone, designated as DR 325 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone that was discovered at Dagstorp, which is about two kilometers northwest of Kävlinge, Scania, Sweden.
Description
This granite runestone, which is 1.58 meters in height, was discovered in 1910 by a farmer broken into 104 pieces in a mound in Dagstorp. The Dagstorp Runestone was reconstructed in 1929 and is currently located at the Kulturen in Lund where it is known as the Dagstorpsten. The inscription consists of runic text within a band that forms an arch. This inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK. This is the classification for those inscriptions where the ends of the runic bands are straight and do not have any attached serpent or beast heads. RAK is considered to be the oldest style. The runic text is carved in the younger futhark and indicates that the stone is a memorial placed by a man named Sigmundr in memory of his father Klakkr. The runemaster, who did not sign the inscription, used a punctuation mark × between each word in the text.
This inscription is dated as having been carved after the Jelling stones.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
× si(k)mtr × sati × stin × þansi × iftiʀ × klakʀ × faþur × sin ×
Transcription into Old Norse
Sigmundr satti sten þænsi æftiʀ Klakkʀ(?), faþur sin.
Translation in English
Sigmundr placed this stone in memory of Klakkr(?), his father.
References
Runestones in Scania
Culture in Lund
History of Lund |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana%20Phone | A Nirvana Phone was a marketing phrase coined by Citrix for a smartphone that could be docked with external displays and keyboards to create an alternative desktop or laptop computer system. It was to define a new category of mobile device with a capability beyond a conventional smartphone computer.
The NirvanaPhone provides the processor, storage media, display adapter, communication channels, and operating system. The docking station provides power, and connectivity. To be useful the NirvanaPhone differs from a simple smartphone by having significant processing power, video output at high resolution, plus keyboard and mouse input. A smartphone is generally accepted as a device that has both mobile phone capability as well as an operating system that can run applications such as email, web browser, media player and personal organizers. The NirvanaPhone adds external monitor capability which could be a computer monitor, an HDTV, or a video projector. The dock could be a cradle, cable or a wireless connection. This allows the NirvanaPhone to run applications that can utilize a full-sized display for better readability or collaboration. Or in combination with a keyboard and mouse, perhaps using Bluetooth, the NirvanaPhone could act as a thin client connected to a virtual desktop for business use.
History
The concept of using a smartphone as a PC has been around for a number of years.
As early as 2002, the Treo 180 running Palm OS could be docked with a keyboard but lacked data communications. By 2007, the Nokia N93/N95 smartphone running Symbian OS included a TV-out feature, but the NTSC video was only adequate for photo and low resolution video viewing and the phone did not support many applications. The newer Nokia phones have HD video-out capability and their application set and connectivity options have grown. The i-Mate 8501/8502, also released in 2007, was perhaps the first smartphone that provided a full 1024×768 XVGA resolution which could support a full desktop user interface. While short-lived, the i-Mate with a receiver application installed and network linked to a remote server with desktop virtualization software could provide a full PC experience.
As early as 2008,
Citrix Systems coined the phrase Nirvana Phone and articulated the benefits. To minimize the processing, memory, and storage requirements on the phone, Citrix and Open Kernel Labs developed a thin client - virtual server software suite that was first demonstrated in 2010.
In 2010 a new generation of smartphones appeared including many that have the required video-out capability to qualify as a NirvanaPhone. The HTC EVO phone includes HDMI capability which can output 720p resolution, high enough for virtual desktop usage. The Dell Streak also includes HDMI through a docking station. The iPhone 4 provide an optional VGA connector that can support up to 1024×768 resolution, also potentially capable of a desktop experience when connected to an external monitor. This mov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoreloop | Scoreloop, a subsidiary of BlackBerry, was a cross-platform social gaming network for the operating systems including BlackBerry (Tablet OS and BlackBerry 10), Android, Bada, iOS and Windows Phone 7.
History
The company, based in Munich, Germany, raised US$2.8 million to help create the service that they founded in 2008. Early Investors included Earlybird Venture Capital and Target Partners. In March 2010, Scoreloop gave developers that used its service the ability to monetize their apps using the company's services. The network was among the first to add support for Android apps.
During August 2010, Scoreloop revealed that its user base was growing by over 100,000 new users per day.
On June 7, 2011, Scoreloop was acquired by BlackBerry for US$71 million.
On July 8, 2014, BlackBerry announced that the Scoreloop service is to be discontinued starting December 1, 2014 and encouraged all developers to remove all Scoreloop features and integrations from their developed games.
References
External links
2008 software
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
Bada software
Windows Phone software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20intelligence | Virtual intelligence (VI) is the term given to artificial intelligence that exists within a virtual world. Many virtual worlds have options for persistent avatars that provide information, training, role-playing, and social interactions.
The immersion of virtual worlds provides a platform for VI beyond the traditional paradigm of past user interfaces (UIs). What Alan Turing established as the benchmark for telling the difference between human and computerized intelligence was done void of visual influences. With today's VI bots, virtual intelligence has evolved past the constraints of past testing into a new level of the machine's ability to demonstrate intelligence. The immersive features of these environments provide nonverbal elements that affect the realism provided by virtually intelligent agents.
Virtual intelligence is the intersection of these two technologies:
Virtual environments: Immersive 3D spaces provide for collaboration, simulations, and role-playing interactions for training. Many of these virtual environments are currently being used for government and academic projects, including Second Life, VastPark, Olive, OpenSim, Outerra, Oracle's Open Wonderland, Duke University's Open Cobalt, and many others. Some of the commercial virtual worlds are also taking this technology into new directions, including the high-definition virtual world Blue Mars.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence. AI technology seeks to mimic human behavior and intelligence through computational algorithms and data analysis. Within the realm of AI, there is a specialized area known as Virtual Intelligence (VI), which operates within virtual environments to simulate human-like interactions and responses.
Examples of use
Cutlass Bomb Disposal Robot: Northrop Grumman developed a virtual training opportunity because of the prohibitive real world cost and dangers associated with bomb disposal. By replicating a complicated system without having to learn advanced code, the virtual robot has no risk of damage, trainee safety hazards, or accessibility constraints.
MyCyber Twin: NASA is among the companies that have used the MyCyber Twin AI technologies. They used it for the Phoenix rover in the virtual world Second Life. Their MyCyber Twin used a programmed profile to relay information about the Phoenix rover to tell people what it was doing and its purpose.
Second China: The University of Florida developed the "Second China" project as an immersive training experience for learning how to interact with culture and language in a foreign country. Students are immersed in an environment that provides roleplaying challenges coupled with language and cultural sensitivities magnified during country-level diplomatic missions or during times of potential conflict or regional destabilization. The virtual trai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewad%20TV | About Hewad Group
Hewad is an independent Afghan public media group made of an international TV network, radio, and production, established by Qayoom Karzai in 2006 in Kandahar. Hewad was first established as a local TV network, meanwhile catching the attention of many viewers for its demo broadcasts. Then, Hewad became a satellite TV and radio broadcaster in 2015. Today it is holding the satellite status with a broadcasting program all over Afghanistan, as well as 43 Asian countries.
Hewad TV features various programs (news bulletins, social and political programs, and movies dubbed in Pashto). Its transmission is top ranked in Kandahar and in Afghanistan, as well as for Afghan audiences in neighboring countries.
Hewad claimed the top spot in every key rating measure in the southern zone. According to Altai national Survey, 68% of viewers in this region are watching Hewad international Television, which means Hewad TV is first in audience ranking compared to other media broadcasters.
Hewad's stated mission is to enhance public access to critical information, to promote civic media and democracy under the rules of Islamic and Afghan culture, freedom of speech and open discourse, to protect the rights of women and children, to educate young talents, to advance Afghan culture and to raise public awareness of Islamic culture through its extensive network of TV, radio, and production. Hewad is largely self-sustainable through public communication contracts and advertising sales, which go back into project development and capacity building.
Editorial policy
The group's editorial policy embraces one main concept: Afghan ownership of Afghanistan's process, respecting Islamic and Afghan cultural values, and it is committed to one principle: what it describes as "people's right to be informed and to be heard". To fulfill the concept and the principle, it focuses on high quality, without any discrimination, in-depth, timely, accurate and balanced reporting, together with a creative selection of story-ideas.
Broadcasting programs
Hewad Radio and TV operate the unique blend of public service-oriented programming (cultural, political, economic, developmental and educational programs including VOX POP, Peoples' comments), news "News Bulletin each hour and Three News Hours Daily", entertainment and music reaches millions of viewers and listeners 24/7.
Team structure
Hewad Radio and TV staff (reporters and producers) structure is designed based on the following fundamental rules.
· Hewad Radio and TV manager, reporters and producers must have Afghan nationality.
· The staff members must have a BA Degree in Journalism or at least two years of experience in the relevant field.
· Hewad Radio and TV staff (male and female) should have the ability to speak and write the two official languages (Pashto and Dari) fluently.
Hewad Radio (88 FM)
Hewad Radio is the first independent radio channel in the southern region, which was established 13 years ago under t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted%20Metal%20%282012%20video%20game%29 | Twisted Metal is a vehicular combat video game developed by Eat Sleep Play and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is the second reboot (following Twisted Metal: Black) of the Twisted Metal series. The game was originally planned to be released in October 2011 but was delayed to early 2012.
Gameplay
The game focuses heavily on multiplayer vehicular combat, including various online game modes with up to 4 player split-screen and 16-players online (the online gameplay was discontinued in early 2019).
For example, the Nuke Mode is a new online game mode where the players choose a faction to play against an opposing faction. In this mode, each faction has a giant metal statue that is being held in the air by a helicopter, which the opposing team must try to destroy. In order to destroy these statues, the player must abduct the enemy team's leader, then sacrifice the leader to a missile launcher that will, in turn, launch a nuclear missile. The person who sacrifices the leader and launches the missile has to control it to hit the opposing teams statue in the air. In order to win the opposing team has to repeat the process 3 times before the statue is destroyed for a team to win.
There are four factions: the Clowns, the Dolls, the Skulls, and the Holy Men. The former having been announced as being inspired by Sweet Tooth and Dollface. The latter are led by Mr. Grimm and the Preacher respectively.
Plot
The Twisted Fate of Sweet Tooth the Clown
The first arc features Sweet Tooth, also known as "Needles Kane", a demented clown-themed serial killer. Formerly known as Marcus Kane, a family man working out of an ice cream truck, he developed dissociative identity disorder and became possessed by his dark side, embodied in his clown mask. After slaughtering his own family, Sweet Tooth became obsessed with finding "the one that got away", revealed to be his daughter Sophie, to finish the job he started years ago. The mid-story cinematic reveals that he came close to finding her in the psychiatric ward of a hospital (having slaughtered his way through the building to reach it), only to find she had checked out only moments before. Frustrated, Sweet Tooth decides to enter the Twisted Metal contest, intent on having Calypso send him to wherever his daughter is hiding. After destroying the Brothers Grimm (who drive oversized monster trucks), Sweet Tooth confronts Calypso in his massive skyscraper headquarters, the Calypso Industries tower. He demands that Calypso send him to his daughter, only to be transported to a long-buried coffin; Calypso reveals that Sophie has been dead for ten years, as the trauma of Sweet Tooth's massacre drove her to suicide. Swearing revenge on Calypso's treachery (even though he himself specifically wished to be "taken to where Sophie was"), Sweet Tooth futilely pounds on the lid of Sophie's coffin; above ground, his alias has been spray-painted on Sophie's tombstone.
Mr. Grimm's Dark Trip Back
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilumina%20%28TV%20series%29 | Ilumina () is a 2010 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark A. Reyes and Topel Lee, it stars Rhian Ramos, Aljur Abrenica and Jackie Rice. It premiered on August 2, 2010 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Diva. The series concluded on November 19, 2010 with a total of 80 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Rhian Ramos as Romana Sebastian
Aljur Abrenica as Iñigo Salcedo
Jackie Rice as Krisanta Sebastian
Supporting cast
Cesar Montano as Romano Sebastian
Jean Garcia as Elvira Montero Azardon de Salcedo and Melina Montero Azardon de Sebastian
Ara Mina as Elsa Sebastian
Christopher de Leon as Frederico Salcedo
Paulo Avelino as Antonio Martinez
Jake Vargas as Eliseo
Bea Binene as Evelina Abella
Sef Cadayona as Renato
Lexi Fernandez as Stephanie Martinez
Guest cast
Daniella Amable as young Romana Sebastian
Franchezka Lunar as young Krisanta Sebastian
Rochelle Pangilinan as Elena
Mia Pangyarihan as Micah
Yassi Pressman as Ayra
Izzy Trazona as Shanti
Sam Pinto as Elizaria
Carlene Aguilar as Salve
Precinaida Lopez as Lupe
Deborah Sun as Pilar
Cara Eriguel as Sasha
Ella Cruz as Czarina
Mika dela Cruz as Sinukuan
Pen Medina as Francisco
Arthur Solinap as Carpio
Kiel Rodriguez as Chiron
Mara Lopez as Ester
Shyr Valdez
Carla Abellana as Hannah
Bianca King as Raina
Jillian Ward as Shina
Edwin Reyes as a mayor
Jen Rosendahl as Carmen
Nicole Dulalia as Tina
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of Ilumina earned a 14.9% rating. While the final episode scored a 15% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television about magic
Television shows set in the Philippines
Witchcraft in television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echochrome%20II | is a 2010 puzzle action game developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 utilizing the PlayStation Move. The game is the sequel to the 2008 video game, Echochrome, and was released on December 21, 2010. The game's soundtrack holds the record for the longest piece of music ever composed for a video game, at one hour, fifteen minutes, and seven seconds.
Gameplay
The main character is a mannequin made of shadows, which players must lead across a path made of shadows in each level. Players use the PlayStation Move motion controller and the PlayStation Eye camera to rotate levels and control light and shadows. The PlayStation Move controller functions as a light source in the game, and by pointing the light source at different angles to the objects in each level, players can manipulate the shadows of the objects to give the mannequin a path to the goal.
See also
Echoshift
References
Notes
Citation
External links
Official Site @ PlayStation.com
2010 video games
Japan Studio games
Perspective video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Move-compatible games
PlayStation Move-only games
PlayStation Network games
Puzzle video games
Single-player video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Hideki Sakamoto
Video games with user-generated gameplay content |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcery%20%28video%20game%29 | Sorcery (known as Lord of Sorcery in Japan) is an action-adventure video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and The Workshop and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3. It utilizes the PlayStation Move.
Plot
Players take the role of a young sorcerer's apprentice, named Finn, and must master the arcane arts in order to protect his homeland. The Nightmare Queen has broken the ancient pact with mankind and threatens to cover the land in eternal night, sending her foul minions across the land. Finn, together with the magical cat Erline, must travel through the dark Faerie Kingdoms to save the land from the darkness that has enshrouded it. The world is based on Irish mythology.
Gameplay
The game features 5 elemental spells (Earth, Ice, Fire, Wind and Lightning), as well as Finn's standard Arcane Bolt attack and context-sensitive spells such as Telekinesis. Also included are dozens of potions and numerous other items to collect. Players must defeat various enemies, solve puzzles and craft new potions as they progress through the game. Players must use the PlayStation Move to cast magic spells to attack enemies and brew elixirs. Players must journey throughout the Faerie Kingdom, recover ancient knowledge from the City of the Drowned and aid the local townsfolk.
Reception
Sorcery received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Most reviews praise it for its great use of the PlayStation Move, and nice visual style. A common complaint is that the game has a length of 8 hours and lack of replay value.
References
External links
Sorcery at PlayStation.com
2012 video games
Action-adventure games
Fantasy video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Move-compatible games
PlayStation Move-only games
Santa Monica Studio games
Single-player video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Unreal Engine games
Video games about cats
Video games about magic
Video games based on Celtic mythology
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Mark Mancina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalam%20TV | Kalam Tv is a social networking website, based primarily on video sharing. Initially launched on February, 2008 to meet the needs and the preferences of the people in the Middle East in terms of sharing and creating original videos, but it expanded services to Iran and Pakistan in mid-2009. It is a part of Tower Media Middle East located in Dubai Media City.
Features
Videos are uploaded at Kalam by registered users only where they can create, customize their channels and profile with avatar, background and header images. The website has features like Video embedding, downloading, sharing publicly or privately, user-commenting, rating, play lists. Users can make friends, chat and can watch videos in low or high quality.
Content
Video content is categorized such as Drama, Film, Poetry, Jokes, Fashion, Sports, Music, Cooking, Talk shows, News Content, Citizen Journalism. The website does not allow any copyrighted material to be shared.
Arabic
The Arabic section include various TV shows from Al Aan TV including Al Layla Shellatna go live on web via Kalam TV as soon as they are aired on TV.
Persian
Kalam Farsi gives voice to Iranian and Persian-speaking community around the world. It is compliant with Iran's Internet regulatory authority, Telecommunication Company of Iran. Kalam Farsi was the first online resource for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's exclusive interview on Al Aan TV
Urdu
The Urdu section focuses on citizen journalists from Pakistan and is the only video sharing website for Urdu speakers. Major content comes from ordinary citizen reporters as well as media partners which include Geo Tv, Punjab Tv. A weekly 20 minute infomercial named Kalam Hum Kalam is aired every Saturday on Geo TV.
Merger
As of December 2011, Kalam TV content was completely merged with Al Aan TV.
References
External links
Official Website Kalam.tv
Official Website of Al Aan TV
Video hosting
Emirati social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey%20%282012%20video%20game%29 | Journey is an indie adventure game developed by Thatgamecompany, published by Sony Computer Entertainment, and directed by Jenova Chen. It was released for the PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network in March 2012 and ported to PlayStation 4 in July 2015. It was later ported to Windows in June 2019 and iOS in August 2019.
In Journey, the player controls a robed figure in a vast desert, traveling towards a mountain in the distance. Other players on the same journey can be discovered, and two players can meet and assist each other, but they cannot communicate via speech or text and cannot see each other's names until after the game's credits. The only form of communication between the two is a musical chime, which transforms dull pieces of cloth found throughout the levels into vibrant red, affecting the game world and allowing the player to progress through the levels. The developers sought to evoke in the player a sense of smallness and wonder and to forge an emotional connection between them and the anonymous players they meet along the way. The music, composed by Austin Wintory, dynamically responds to the player's actions, building a single theme to represent the game's emotional arc throughout the story.
Reviewers of the game praised the visual and auditory art as well as the sense of companionship created by playing with a stranger, calling it a moving and emotional experience, and have since listed it as one of the greatest video games of all time. Journey won several "game of the year" awards and received several other awards and nominations, including a Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media nomination for the 2013 Grammy Awards. A retail "Collector's Edition", including Journey, Thatgamecompany's two previous titles, and additional media, was released in August 2012.
Gameplay
In Journey, the player takes the role of a robed figure in a desert. After an introductory sequence, the player is shown the robed figure sitting in the sand, with a large mountain in the distance. The path towards this mountain, the ultimate destination of the game, is subdivided into several sections traveled through linearly. The player can walk in the levels, as well as control the camera, which typically follows behind the figure, either with the analog stick or by tilting the motion-sensitive controller. The player can jump with one button, or emit a wordless shout or musical note with another; the length and volume of the shout depends on how the button is pressed, and the note stays in tune with the background music. These controls are presented pictorially at the beginning of the game; at no point outside of the credits and title screen are any words shown or spoken.
The robed figure wears a trailing magical scarf which allows the player to briefly fly; doing so uses up the scarf's magical charge, represented visually by glowing runes on the scarf. The scarf's runes are recharged by being near floating pieces of red cloth, or a variety of other means. To |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LanSlide%20Gaming%20PCs | LanSlide Gaming PCs was a privately owned, internet-based, gaming computer company located in Schenectady, New York. Specializing in high end portable gaming desktops, all of the company's computers were based around portable designs and marketed towards LAN party enthusiasts.
History
LanSlide Gaming PCs, LLC was founded in 2005 by a group of gamers tired of moving large gaming desktops to LAN parties. The company focused on computers designed to be portable and sells a wide range of desktop gaming computers, all of which are built into cases with carrying handles for ease of transport. Each computer came with a special backpack to hold everything needed to run a desktop computer with the exception of the computer case. In addition to portable computers, LanSlide Gaming PCs also sold a line of computers designed for 3D gaming.
Products
Small Form Factor Computers:
Earthquake - Entry level gaming desktop
Avalanche - Mid-range gaming desktop
Armageddon - High-end gaming desktop
Mid-Tower Computers:
Monsoon - Entry level gaming desktop
Cyclone - Mid-range gaming desktop
Hurricane - High-end gaming desktop
3D Gaming Computers:
Sandstorm - Mid-range 3D gaming system
Whirlwind - High-end 3D gaming system
Free, Public Computer Support Service
In August, 2010 LaSlide Gaming PCs launched the "Absolutely Free Computer Help Page", which provided free computer support to the general public, regardless of their status as a customer of the company. The service allowed users to submit gaming computer related questions and get answers from live people within approximately 48 hours. While the service was focused on questions about building, buying, and fixing gaming computers, it was completely open-ended, allowing users to ask any computer related question and get an answer.
PC Pack
LaSlide Gaming PCs holds patent pending status on a special backpack intended to make it easier to move a gaming set-up in one trip and avoid dropping or damaging desktop components during transit. The backpack is designed to hold and protect up to a 22″ widescreen monitor, extra-long gaming keyboard, mouse, headphones, surge protector, cables, and other miscellaneous paraphernalia need to run a desktop computer.
Noteworthy Public Appearances
PaxEast 2010: Mitchell Shuster, one of the founders of the company, appeared on a panel called "The Future of PC Gaming" at the first annual PAX-East convention, alongside John Abercrombie, lead programmer of Irrational Games and Joe Kreiner of Terminal Reality, where he spoke on the future prospects of the gaming PC industry.
See also
List of Computer System Manufacturers
References
External links
Official LanSlide Gaming PCs Website
2005 establishments in New York (state)
2010s disestablishments in New York (state)
2010s disestablishments in the United States
American companies established in 2005
Computer companies established in 2005
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer companies based in New York (st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepako%20Corporation | Nepako is a Finnish company that produce "open innovation" social networks in order to help people to share, review and develop business ideas. In June 2010, the company announced that it will open an innovative network in Malta for the Q3 2010.
The innovation social network, which also includes an online marketplace, introduces online collaborative technologies and focuses on helping businessmen get in touch with other like-minded people creating business growth opportunities.
The 01.10.2010, the Malta's Parliament Secretary Jason Azzorpardi opened in an Open-Innovation seminar the kupoma platform to the public.
Transfer
Nepako Corporation is not anymore managing the kupoma social network for innovators, students and entrepreneurs.
From the begin of July 2011, the activities are transferred to the kupoma Group, a separate operating management buy-out of social networking operations of Nepako.
See also
Business network
Reputation systems
Social network
List of social networking websites
References
External links
Nepako's website
Finnish social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2010
Social networking services
Finnish companies established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stwnsh | , ) is a strand of Welsh-language children's television programming, aimed at children between the ages of seven and thirteen.
was launched on Monday 26 April 2010, replacing the former Welsh-language children's strand, . is broadcast on the Welsh-language television channel S4C every weekday, from 5:00pm to 6:00pm, and on Saturdays (as ) from 8:00am to 10:00am.
Programmes
The programmes shown as part of this service include both brand-new programmes and programmes that were previously shown as part of .
Other programmes
The long-running programme was scrapped by S4C to make way for service, although the final episode of , was not broadcast until Sunday 30 May 2010, just over a month after the launch of the service.
See also
Hacio, Welsh language current affairs programme, for young people.
Cyw, strand of Welsh language programming, for younger children.
Cúla 4, strand of Irish language programming for children.
Notes
References
Television programming blocks in Europe
British children's television series
S4C original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonesoft%20Corporation | Stonesoft Corporation was a public company that developed and sold network security solutions based in Helsinki, Finland. It was publicly owned until 2013 when it was acquired by Intel's subsidiary McAfee.
Stonesoft does business globally, with a regional headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and sales offices throughout Europe, the Middle East, and China.
In July, 2013 McAfee, a part of Intel Security, completed a tender offer to acquire all Stonesoft products and technologies. Stonesoft became a part of the McAfee Network Security Business Unit. Stonesoft firewall products were renamed McAfee Next Generation Firewall. McAfee sold Stonesoft to Forcepoint in January 2016.
History
Founded in 1990, Stonesoft started as a systems integrator in the Nordic regions of Europe. In 1994 it introduced StoneBeat, a technology for creating a high availability pair of firewalls in an active-passive configuration. In 1999, the company extended StoneBeat with a patented load balancing clustering technology, launching StoneBeat FullCluster. It was one of the first technologies certified in Check Point's OPSEC program.
In 2001, Stonesoft expanded its product set into the firewall/VPN space, becoming a direct competitor to Check Point. The StoneGate Firewall/VPN was launched on March 19, 2001. In January 2003, the company introduced the first virtual firewall/VPN solution, for IBM mainframes.
In 2010, the company released information via CERT-FI on Advanced Evasion technique (AETs) that met with skepticism in the community. Further AETs were released in 2011, and eventually verified by independent labs and researchers.
In 2012 “Stonesoft” replaced the “StoneGate” product name. From now on, Stonesoft is used both as the company and product name.
Stonesoft Corporation's product sales for Q3 2012 were circa 5.6 million euros. The product sales grew by approximately 18%. The Q3 net sales were approximately 9.2–9.3 million euros, which equals a growth by14-16%. The growth was lower than expected.
Products
Its product portfolio includes firewall/VPN devices, IPS (intrusion detection and prevention systems), and SSL VPN systems, each available as hardware appliances, software, and VMware-certified virtual appliances.
Each of the components, as well as third-party devices, can be managed from the Stonesoft Management Center. The product portfolio differentiates through unique clustering and load balancing technologies based on the company's older StoneBeat technology, originally developed for Check Point FireWall-1.
Stonesoft's current product portfolio can be divided into five major categories:
Stonesoft Firewall/VPN
Stonesoft IDS/IPS
Stonesoft SSL VPN
Stonesoft Management Center (SMC)
Stonesoft Virtualization Solutions
The Stonesoft Firewall/VPN has placed in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls for several years, and is currently placed in the niche quadrant. Gartner notes that Stonesoft "serves a set of placements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20complexity%20attack | An algorithmic complexity attack (ACA) is a form of attack in which an attacker sends a pattern of requests to a computer system that triggers the worst-case performance of the algorithms it uses. In turn, this may exhaust the resources the system uses. Examples of such attacks include ReDOS, zip bombs and exponential entity expansion attacks.
References
Related works
Vahidi, Ardalan. “Crowdsourcing Phase and Timing of Pre-Timed Traffic Signals in the Presence of Queues: Algorithms and Back-End System Architecture.” Ieeexplore, 1 Nov. 2019, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7323843.
Kiner, Emil, and Satya Konduru. “How Google Cloud Blocked the Largest Layer 7 DDoS Attack yet, 46 Million Rps.” Google Cloud Blog, 18 Aug. 2022, cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-google-cloud-blocked-largest-layer-7-ddos-attack-at-46-million-rps.
Algorithmic complexity attacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verne%20Global | Verne Global is a UK-headquartered company that provides data center solutions for enterprise and hyperscalers. It provides colocation and cloud services to a variety of enterprises and hyperscalers across financial services, earth sciences, life sciences, engineering, scientific research and AI including BMW, Volkswagen, Earlham Institute, DeepL, Peptone, Threatmetrix, Datto
Verne Global operates a 40-acre data center campus near Keflavik in Iceland commissioned in 2012. The company provides an environment for high performance computing (HPC), supercomputing and other high intensity computing workloads, as well as complete life-cycle support. The Iceland datacenter is powered with 100% renewable energy.
Location
Verne Global is located on the site of the former Naval Air Station Keflavik, which more recently served as a NATO airbase. Iceland was regarded as the lowest risk data center location globally by Cushman and Wakefield in 2016.
Iceland is connected via different subsea cables to North America (via Greenland Connect), Europe (via DANICE) and the UK (via FARICE). A further connection called IRIS will connect Iceland to the technology hub of Dublin, Ireland, expected to be completed in 2022.
Sustainability
Iceland's power grid is fuelled by 100% renewable energy in the form of hydro-electric and geothermal power. Verne Global capitalises on Iceland's natural supply of renewable energy to fuel its energy-intensive operations, and mitigate the environmental effects of running artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads.
Iceland's temperate climate also means the data center campus utilises free air cooling to keep its hardware cool all year round.
Funding
The company is owned by Digital 9 Infrastructure plc since September 2021 who bought it from a consortium including Novator Partners, General Catalyst Partners, The Wellcome Trust and Iceland-based Stefnir.
Technology Partners
Dell Technologies Inc.
Verne Global is a Dell Technologies Platinum Partner.
NVIDIA Corporation
Verne Global is an NVIDIA Preferred Partner and its data center campus is certified as NVIDIA DGX-Ready.
Compliance
The company is ISO 27001 certified, PCI compliant and HIPAA compliant.
References
[Cushman & Wakefield Data Center Risk Index 2016
Companies based in Virginia
Keflavík |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASL%20Elite | CASL Elite is an American amateur soccer team based in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 2009, the team plays in Region III of the United States Adult Soccer Association, a network of amateur leagues at the fifth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.
The team plays its home games at WakeMed Soccer Park in nearby Cary, North Carolina. The team's colors are red, white, and black.
History
CASL Elite was founded in 2009 by members of the Raleigh-based Capital Area Soccer League, and was originally intended to be a loose group which would train with and play against the upper level Capital Area Soccer League youth teams, including the club’s CASL Chelsea teams that play in the US Soccer Federation Development Academy. However, when it became apparent that the wealth of talent playing for the team could compete on a more professional level, the team decided to enter the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in 2010
CASL Elite qualified for the 2010 tournament at the first attempt, winning their regional qualification group (which also featured NPSL teams FC Tulsa and Atlanta FC) before falling 4–2 to USL Second Division pro side Charleston Battery in the first round of tournament proper.
CASL Elite is closely associated with, but is not the same team as, the Raleigh CASL Elite amateur team which competed in the USL Premier Development League for many years, and was known as the Cary Clarets in its final competitive season in 2009.
Players
2010 USOC roster
Year-by-year
Head coaches
Scott McGuinn (2009–present)
Stadia
WakeMed Soccer Park; Cary, North Carolina (2009–present)
References
External links
Official site
Soccer clubs in North Carolina
2009 establishments in North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends%20FC | Legends FC is an American semi-professional soccer team based in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1992, the team plays in Region III of the United States Adult Soccer Association, a network of amateur leagues at the fifth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.
The team plays its home games in the stadium at Richland College. The team's colors are white and red.
History
Legends FC was founded in 1992 by Kanish Ali, an immigrant from Afghanistan, and several friends who played together at the high school, college and club levels.
The team plays in the North Texas Premier Soccer Association, a successful league which is a member of the United States Adult Soccer Association Region III group of leagues. The Legends won the USASA U-23 Cup in 2009, in addition to numerous other local and regional trophies.
The Legends have a long and successful history in competing in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. They first qualified for the tournament in 2004, but lost 3-1 to state rivals DFW Tornados in the first round, despite fielding a team that included future MLS players such as Ugo Ihemelu.
They qualified again in 2006 (playing as the Dallas Mustang Legends), but lost again in the first round, this time to USL Premier Development League side Des Moines Menace. After narrowly missing out in qualification in 2008 and 2009 they returned to the competition again in 2010, but lost in the first round for a third time, 3-0 to USSF Division 2 Professional League side FC Tampa Bay.
Players
2014 USASA Region III National Cup roster
2014 Fall NTPSA Division 1A Squad
Notable players
Bobby Rhine
Ugo Ihemelu
T.J. Tomasso
Esteban Mariel
Manuel Mariel
Steven McCarthy
Dillon Powers
Year-by-year
Managers
Kanishka Ali (1992–present)
Stadium
Richland Stadium; Dallas, Texas (????-present)
References
External links
Soccer clubs in Texas
1992 establishments in Texas
Association football clubs established in 1992
Soccer clubs in Dallas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC%20Athletics | KC Athletics is an American amateur soccer team based in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Founded in 2001, the team plays in Region II of the United States Adult Soccer Association, a network of amateur leagues at the fifth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.
The team's colors are white and sky blue.
History
Founded in 2001 as a merger of the Kansas Legends Soccer Club and the Kansas City Football Club, the KC Athletics won regionals in its first year competing in the Snickers Nationals, and ended up finishing third nationally in the competition. The following year, their Under-20 team won a national championship, but then the club went on hiatus with many of the players joining nearby PDL clubs like the Des Moines Menace and the Kansas City Brass. In 2004, the KC Athletics were reborn.
The Athletics entered the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup for the first time in 2010, and qualified for the tournament at the first attempt, beating USOC mainstays AAC Eagles 5-3 on penalties in their final qualification game. They lost in the first round of the tournament proper, 4-2 to USSF Division 2 Professional League side NSC Minnesota Stars. The Athletics' goals were scored by Stephen Hoffman and Kyle Perkins.
On April 14, 2012, the Athletics traveled to Chicago to play in the "Win and You're In" Region II Qualification match to earn a berth in the 2012 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. The Athletics defeated the Cincy Saints 10-2 to qualify for their second U.S. Open Cup berth since 2010.
Players
2012 USASA roster
Year-by-year
Head coaches
Kyle Perkins (2009–present)
Stadia
References
External links
2001 establishments in Missouri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20A-List%3A%20New%20York | The A-List: New York is an American reality television series from the LGBT-interest network Logo which ran from October 4, 2010, to October 17, 2011.
History and description
Frequently described as a Real Housewives-style show, the series followed the lives of six gay and bisexual men in New York City. It was originally announced under the title Kept, but the title was changed in pre-production. The series debuted on October 4, 2010.
On January 18, 2011, Logo announced a second season for the series. Season two began airing on July 25, 2011, and consists of 12 one-hour episodes. The entire original cast returned along with one new cast member. The season picked up several months after where the first season left off.
The A-List: New York was canceled in June 2012.
Cast
Reichen Lehmkuhl: known for winning the 4th season of The Amazing Race with former husband Chip Arndt and for his relationship with singer Lance Bass, Lehmkuhl is a model, author, actor, activist, jewelry designer and former Air Force pilot.
Rodiney Santiago: a model from Brazil, Santiago is, at the beginning of the series, Lehmkuhl's boyfriend. Santiago is bisexual and his relationship with Lehmkuhl is his second with a man.
Mike Ruiz: Ruiz is a film director and fashion photographer whose work has appeared in Interview and Vanity Fair. He had previously appeared on other reality series including America's Next Top Model and RuPaul's Drag Race.
Austin Armacost: a model, Armacost dated designer Marc Jacobs for a short time.
Derek Lloyd Saathoff: a former model turned casting agent.
Ryan Nickulas: hair stylist and owner of Ryan Darius salon.
Critical reception
Reviews for The A-List: New York were mixed. The New York Daily News found that the cast could be "tiresome" but held out hope for some quality drama. The A.V. Club was sharply critical, calling the cast "vapid and materialistic" and characterizing the series as being "about stupid people doing stupid things". Entertainment Weekly and Salon.com touched upon the possible cultural significance of the series. EW reflected on the outrage that some in the LGBT community have expressed about the image of gay men the series projects, answering that criticism by noting that other reality series including The Real Housewives franchise are not viewed with the expectation that its participants are representative of the class as a whole. Salon, while suggesting that the series is a source of "constant indignation" to viewers, nonetheless finds The A-List: New York to be "riveting" television and "a surprisingly thought-provoking reminder of how much representations of gay men on TV have changed and how gay identity is turning into a kind of consumer bracket rather than an act of self-expression".
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2010)
Season 2 (2011)
DVD release
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2010 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
Logo TV ori |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference-based%20planning | In artificial intelligence, preference-based planning is a form of automated planning and scheduling which focuses on producing plans that additionally satisfy as many user-specified preferences as possible. In many problem domains, a task can be accomplished by various sequences of actions (also known as plans). These plans can vary in quality: there can be many ways to solve a problem but one generally prefers a way that is, e.g., cost-effective, quick and safe.
Preference-based planners take these preferences into account when producing a plan for a given problem. Examples of preference-based planning software include PPLAN and HTNPlan-P (preference-based HTN planning).
Overview
Preferences can be regarded as soft constraints on a plan. The quality of a plan increases when more preferences are satisfied but it may not be possible to satisfy all preferences in a single plan. This differs from hard constraints which must be satisfied in all plans produced by the planning software. These hard constraints are part of the domain knowledge while the soft constraints (or preferences) are separately specified by the user. This allows the same domain knowledge to be reused for various users who may have different preferences.
The use of preferences may also increase the length of a plan in order to satisfy more preferences. For example, when planning a journey from home to school, the user may prefer to buy a cup of coffee along the way. The planning software could now plan to visit Starbucks first and then continue to school. This increases the length of the plan but the user's preference is satisfied.
Planning Domain Definition Language
The Planning Domain Definition Language (as of version 3.0) supports the specification of preferences through preference statements. For example, the statement
(preference (always (clean room1)))
indicates that the user prefers that room1 should be clean at each state of the plan. In other words, the planner should not schedule an action that causes room1 to become dirty. As this example shows, a preference is evaluated with regard to all states of a plan (if semantically required).
In addition to always, other constructs based on linear temporal logic are also supported, such as sometime (at least once during the plan), sometime-after (to be planned after a particular state) and at-most-once (the preference holds during at most one sequence of states in the plan).
Plan quality
In addition to determining whether a preference is satisfied, we also need to compute the quality of a plan based on how many preferences are satisfied. For this purpose, PDDL 3.0 includes an expression called is-violated <name> which is equal to "the number of distinct preferences with the given name that are not satisfied in the plan". For a plan, a value can now be computed using a metric function, which is specified with :metric:
(:metric minimize (+ (* 5 (is-violated pref1)) (* 7 (is-violated pref2))))
This example metric f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANalyzer | CANalyzer is an analysis software tool from Vector Informatik GmbH. This development software is primarily used by automotive and electronic control unit suppliers to analyze the data traffic in serial bus systems. The most relevant bus systems to CANalyzer are CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Ethernet and MOST, as well as CAN-based protocols such as J1939, CANopen, and ARINC 825.
History
Vector first offered CANalyzer on the market in 1992, and has been continually updating it since then. Today it is a widely used analysis tool for CAN buses. Besides its primary field of application, which is in-vehicle electronic networking in the automotive industry, CANalyzer is also used in many other industries such as rail transportation, heavy-duty vehicles, special-purpose vehicles, avionics, and medical technology. New technologies based on IP architectures in the automotive industry are supported by CANalyzer.
CANalyzer offers bus monitoring, stimulation, and analysis functions for message traffic and data content. It allows users to configure and expand its functionality using an integrated programming language. CANalyzer displays and evaluates data in both raw and symbolic formats, providing a versatile measurement setup.
Back in 1992, Vector had already developed the DBC data format, which has become the de facto standard in the automotive industry for exchanging CAN descriptions. Relevant standards are supported for other bus systems as well, such as FIBEX for FlexRay, LDF for LIN and EDS/DCF/XDD for CANopen.
Versions
CANalyzer version 1.0 was released in 1992. CANalyzer was previously available in three different variants: Professional (PRO), which includes CAPL programming ability, Expert (EXP) which includes panels, and Fundamental (FUN), with basic features. The Fundamental variant has been discontinued as of April 2023.
See also
CANoe
CANape
References
External links
CANalyzer website
Additional resources
Pfeiffer, Ayre, Keydel: Embedded Networking with CAN and CANopen, RTC Books San Clemente, USA, 2003 (eng)
Pfeiffer, Ayre, Keydel: Embedded Networking with CAN and CANopen, RTC Books, Japan, 2006 (jap)
CAN-Show-Premiere, Report about the CiA booth on the fair Interkama 1992, in Markt&Technik Nr.45, November 6, 1992 (German)
Develop CAN applications faster - CAN tools: News at a glance, in Markt&Technik Nr.45, November 6, 1992 (German)
Computer-aided engineering software
Data analysis software
Networking with CAN and CANopen, RTC Books San Clemente, USA, 2003 (eng)
Pfeiffer, Ayre, Keydel: Embedded Networking with CAN and CANopen'', RTC Books, Japan, 2006 (jap) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Rouen | There have been two separate generations of trams in Rouen. The first generation tramway was a tram network built in Rouen, Normandy, northern France, that started service in 1877, and finally closed in 1953. There were no trams at all in Rouen between 1953 and 1994, when the modern Rouen tramway opened.
Horse-drawn carriages and omnibuses had started at the end of the 18th century and progressively improved, but were no longer enough to provide urban services in an age of industrial and demographic growth. Local officials therefore adopted the tramway as a new mode of transport. At first they were horse-drawn, and later steam-powered; the tramway was electrified in 1896.
The network spread quickly through various city-centre districts on the right bank of the Seine, to reach the suburbs of the northern plateau, the hills of Bonsecours in the east, skirting around the textile valley of the River Cailly in the west, crossing the river and serving, in the south, the suburbs and industrial districts of the left bank.
At its largest it covered of route, the longest network in France during the Belle Époque, and contributed to the success of events in the town's history, such as the Colonial Exhibition of 1896 and the Norman Millennium Festival of 1911.
Although the 1920s saw a slight growth in traffic, the network's expansion slowed to a halt. Private motoring had arrived to put an end to its monopoly. The rising power of buses and trolleybuses, the Great Depression in France, and above all the Second World War that ravaged Rouen and Normandy, condemned the tramway to death. The last trams stopped running in 1953, after seventy-six years of service. However, in 1994, a new Rouen tramway came to the Norman capital.
The first tramways
Horse and steam
Rouen was integrated into the French Kingdom after Philip II of France annexed Normandy in 1204, and it continued as one of the largest cities in the kingdom under the Ancien Régime. It prospered during the 19th century, with the traditional trades of textiles and Rouen manufactory (faïence) alongside the newer chemical and papermaking industries. The navigable Seine, emptying at Rouen, had been Parisians' route to the sea ever since the Middle Ages. Napoleon Bonaparte said "" ("Rouen and Le Havre form a single town of which the Seine is the High Street"). Rouen and Orléans were the first large cities to be connected by rail to Paris, on 3 May 1843. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871, the economy of the First Industrial Revolution under the Second Empire, and the ever-growing population, obliged the Rouen city authorities to rethink the travel facilities both within the city centre and between it and the expanding suburbs.
Urban services — always horse-drawn, either carriages or omnibuses on the most profitable routes — were not enough to satisfy the needs of a town that already numbered, with its suburbs, more than people. From 1873 to 1875 the city fathers commissioned a study into b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe%20%281997%20TV%20series%29 | Ivanhoe is a 1997 American/British television mini-series based on the 1819 novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. It was produced by the BBC and A&E Network and consisted of six 50 minute episodes.
Plot
This adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's novel is set in 1192 AD and depicts a disinherited knight who is accused of treachery. He returns anonymously to his home in England, to clear his name and win his lady love. King Richard had been a prisoner in an Austrian dungeon, but is now returning to an England ruled by Prince John. The production claims realism, mainly through a depiction of a very rough and poverty stricken time; the producers claim this is in contrast to earlier, "sanitized" versions. People wear layers of often old, sometimes ragged clothing to keep the cold out, are sometimes dirty, and have long shaggy hair and beards.
TV episodes
Episode 1:
The knight and crusader Ivanhoe is released from an Austrian prison after refusing to betray King Richard. He returns to England, where it is rumored that he did betray the King. Ivanhoe must clear his name and save his beloved Rowena from a loveless marriage to Prince Athelstane. Disguised as a pilgrim, he comes to the aid of a stranger, Isaac of York, who offers Ivanhoe a chance to compete in Prince John's tournament.
Episode 2:
At the tournament, Ivanhoe defeats the Norman knights and earns the enmity of Prince John. In the second day of tournament, the Prince champions a group of his Norman henchmen, including the former crusader Bois-Guilbert, against Ivanhoe and the Saxons. Ivanhoe is joined by the mysterious Black Knight, and Bois-Guilbert and the Normans are defeated.
Episode 3:
Wounded in the tournament against the Normans, Ivanhoe is tended to by the beautiful healer Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York. Meanwhile, Bois-Guilbert schemes to steal Rowena for one of his cohorts. Disguised as outlaws, the Normans storm the Saxon camp, kidnapping Rowena, Ivanhoe, his father, Rebecca and Isaac.
Episode 4:
Robin Hood and his allies, along with the Black Knight, prepare to attack the castle where Ivanhoe and his companions are held. Inside, Rebecca and Ivanhoe discover their love for one another. When the castle is stormed, the Saxons save Rowena from Bois-Guilbert. He then kidnaps Rebecca, whom he secretly loves, and they flee as the castle burns.
Episode 5:
An attempt is made on the Black Knight's life, and he reveals himself as King Richard to his outlaw comrades. Meanwhile, John sentences Rebecca to burn as a witch, and her only chance for survival is to demand a trial by combat. Bois-Guilbert will act as the court's champion—but who will defend the honor of Rebecca?
Episode 6:
King Richard assures his supporters that Ivanhoe never betrayed him, clearing the way for Ivanhoe's marriage to Rowena. Ivanhoe then learns of Rebecca's fate, and a devastated Rowena begs him not to ride to her defense. But Ivanhoe will not miss the chance to fight Bois-Guilbert—and finally right old wrongs.
Ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer%20One | Pioneer One is a 2010 American web series produced by Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith. It was funded purely through donations, and is the first series created for and released on BitTorrent networks.
Background
Pioneer One is a serialized drama produced and distributed online through VODO and the DISCO network. Downloaded more than 3,730,000 times since May 2012 and winner for Best Drama Pilot at the 2010 New York Television Festival, the show was independently produced and financed by viewer donations. The pilot episode was filmed on a budget of $6,000, raised in advance using Kickstarter. The series itself was released under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license and is distributed for free in collaboration with VODO, as with Bernhard's previous independent film The Lionshare, over the Internet including peer-to-peer networks. Six episodes were produced. Production of the rest of the season was funded through direct donations from the fanbase.
Pilot plot
A mysterious spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere, triggering a massive response from the American government. Since the ship has spread radiation over hundreds of miles of rural Montana, officials are quick to bring up the possibility of a terrorist attack, specifically the detonation of a dirty bomb, however, that idea is discarded subtly by the leading investigator, asking the rhetorical question "Who would launch an attack on Montana?". Debris is found in Canada, where an investigation of the crash discovers a live human being in a Soviet space suit. Federal agents working for the American Department of Homeland Security get involved, receiving permission from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to operate in Canada. The man is in an unstable condition and his initial blood work shows signs of severe cancer, with his doctors proclaiming him too badly injured to transport. A note handwritten in Russian found at the crash site says that the man is the child of cosmonauts living at a base on Mars. Not believing the note and wanting to announce a Department of Homeland Security success to the press, the American DHS orders Agent Taylor to bring the man back to the United States as a suspected terrorist, despite his severe condition. Believing the note could be true, Taylor ignores his orders and destroys the permission from the RCMP, forcing his team to stay on site. He also brings in Dr. Walzer, an expert who has written several books about the possibility of human survival on Mars, to discuss the incident. At the end of the episode, a radio signal is heard and the screen display of a computer at Baikonur Cosmodrome is shown.
Episodes
Season 1 (2010 - 2011)
Cast
James Rich as Tom Taylor
Alexandra Blatt as Sofie Larson
Aleksandr Evtushenko as Yuri
Jack Haley as Dr. Zachary Walzer (a character based on Robert Zubrin)
Matthew Foster played Walzer in the original pilot
Guy Wegener as Vernon
E. James Ford as Dileo
Laurence Cantor as Norton
Einar Gunn as McClellan
Laura Gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory%20Alec | Rory Alec Stephen, better known as Rory Alec, is a South African Christian broadcaster and media executive. He co-founded the GOD TV network in 1995, and was Chief Executive Officer from 1994 to 2014. Alec is now pursuing other projects in film, television, staging and music through a new company called The Internationals.
Early life
Born in Rustenburg in 1968, Alec grew up in South Africa and was an avid musician as a child, playing the drums and piano. After leaving school, he spent two years in the South African military and moved to Johannesburg where he started working in the advertising industry.
Alec married Wendy Alec in 1987, and separated in 2014, established the TV commercial production house Alec-Gene Productions. In 1991 they moved to the UK where they launched Europe's first daily faith-based TV network in 1995. The couple divorced in 2015.
GOD TV
Alec’s grew GOD TV into a global television network with markets in locations such as Hong Kong, opening new transmitters in Africa; visiting GOD TV's regional offices (Chennai, India) and filming reports of how Christianity is affecting specific communities, from South America (Bogota, Colombia) to the Middle East (Baghdad, Iraq)
During his travels Alec met with heads of state, such as Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa during a trip to Colombo in 2013. Alec has led several mass tours to Israel, with 1,800 pilgrims in 2008.<ref>Gold, Jenifer Christian Today Reporter. - "GOD TV to Gather Thousands in Israel for Anniversary Tour, Prayer." - "The re-gathering of the Jewish people to their Promised Land and the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948 were a major fulfillment of Bible prophecy,” GOD TV chief executive Rory Alec said. “This shows how faithful God is to keep His promises to us as believers today, as well as to His ancient people. Now 60 years on, we are privileged to be able to celebrate this monumental milestone with the Jewish people.", Christian Post', 5 November 2007.</ref>
According to Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Alec's vision for GOD TV was "for every household in the world to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ through media."
Alec hosted regular series on GOD TV. He was the co-host of Behind the Screens; and Apocalypse & the End Times''.
Alec resigned from GOD TV on 2 October 2014. "After 20 years of service, I have had a moral failure this year. For this reason, I am stepping down," he said. "Please forgive me for the disappointment I’ve caused. It is with a heavy heart that I confirm my season with GOD TV is over for now.”
Charitable work
During his time at GOD TV Alec supported many community development projects, particularly in his home continent of Africa, including a children's feeding programme in his home town of Rustenburg. He led mission trips to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi and South Africa, delivering aid to areas that face extreme poverty.
In July 2010, Alec visited East Africa with Pat Boone to open a community deve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D55%20road | D55 state road in the eastern part of Croatia connects the cities and towns of Vukovar, Vinkovci, Županja to the state road network of Croatia, and most notably to the A3 motorway. The road is long. The route comprises some urban intersections, mostly in the city of Vinkovci.
The D55 state road intersects the Vukovar-Srijem County exactly through an area that connects the regions of Slavonia and Syrmia.
The road, as well as all other state roads in Croatia, is managed and maintained by Hrvatske ceste, state-owned company.
Traffic volume
Traffic is regularly counted and reported by Hrvatske ceste, operator of the road.
Road junctions and populated areas
Maps
Sources
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guess%20What%20%28American%20game%20show%29 | Guess What? is an American game show broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network in 1952.
Broadcast history
Guess What? aired from July 8, 1952, to August 26, 1952. The show was hosted by Richard Kollmar (1910-1971), husband of columnist Dorothy Kilgallen from 1940 to her death in 1965, and featured guest stars such as Mark Hanna, Audrey Christie, and Quentin Reynolds. Kollmar and Kilgallen also co-hosted the WOR-AM morning radio show Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick from 1945 to 1963.
Episode status
As with most DuMont network series, no episodes are known to exist. In an era when most game shows were owned by their sponsors instead of by networks that broadcast them, such might have been the case with Guess What. The decision to cancel the series after a short run could have been made by a sponsor, and the decision to avoid saving kinescopes could have been, too. But the show's sponsor cannot be determined because not a single kinescope can be viewed, therefore nobody has been motivated to look for paper documents related to the series.
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
Guess What? at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1950s American game shows
1952 American television series debuts
1952 American television series endings
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutch%20%28Sri%20Lanka%29 | Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, d.b.a. Hutch (, ) is a Sri Lankan telecommunication service provider and the country's third largest mobile network operator, with approximately 5.3 million subscribers of the Sri Lankan mobile market as of May 2023.
Hutch is a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings Limited which owns an 85% controlling stake in the company while the rest is held by Emirates Telecommunication Group Company PJSC. Initially it was called as "CallLink" and was the second mobile operator in Sri Lanka. Hutchison acquired its services in 1998 with the aim of being a nationwide operator in Sri Lanka. , Hutch has network coverage of approximately 90% of the entire island. Hutch announced that they acquired Etisalat on 30 November 2018.
Hutchison Telecom Lanka is a member of Hutchison Asia Telecom which comprises mobile telecommunications operations in the emerging markets of Indonesia, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka. Hutchison Asia Telecom is a key part of CK Hutchison Holdings which includes the 3 Group comprising 3G operations in Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Indonesia] Ireland, Italy, Macau, Sweden. and the UK.
Competition
Hutch Sri Lanka competes with operators like Dialog, SLTMobitel and Airtel.
Technology
Hutch Sri Lanka operates a GSM/EDGE/HSPA+/4G / 5G supported network using 900 / 1800 MHz.
In 2012 the company launched HSPA+ services using 2100 MHz The company testing 5G network and launched 4G via 1800 MHz B3 from 2018 and 900 MHz B8 from 2019. Hutch demonstrated the fastest 5G experience in Sri Lanka on 17 March 2021 with the cooperation of ZTE technologies. Now they are expanding 1800 MHz 4G coverage in rural areas.
References
External links
Official Website
Merge with Etisalat Lanka
Hutch+Etisalat Combination
Telecommunications companies of Sri Lanka
Telecommunications companies established in 2004
Organisations based in Colombo
Sri Lankan companies established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaRAC | The MegaRAC from American Megatrends is a product line of Service Processors providing complete Out-of-band, or Lights-out remote management of computer systems independently of the Operating System status or location to troubleshoot computers and assure continuity of service. MegaRAC Service Processors come in various formats - PCI cards, embedded modules and software-only.
History
The MegaRAC remote management controller was introduced in 1998 for Dell, that later developed the DRAC. The second generation card, MegaRACG2 (2002), provided console, KVM graphical redirection, firewall, and battery backup.
MegaRAC SP Firmware
The MegaRAC SP firmware is composed of four major functionality groups:
Complete IPMI 2.0 implementation, providing sensor and health monitoring, alerting, event logging Serial over LAN, et cetera. This firmware utilizes Linux 2.6.
Virtual KVM for redirection of Video, Keyboard and Mouse signals. This uses AMI's proprietary compression technology.
Virtual Media for redirection of CD/DVD. This is used to utilize a local CD/DVD to install an Operating system or software on a remote host.
DMTF compliant management infrastructure, implementing CIM, SMASH and WS-MAN.
The MegaRAC SP firmware is marketed to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), not end-users.
References
Out-of-band management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality%20in%20society | Homosexuality, as a phenomenon and as a behavior, has existed throughout all eras in human societies.
Demographics
Reliable data as to the size of the gay and lesbian population is of value in informing public policy. For example, demographics would help in calculating the costs and benefits of domestic partnership benefits, of the impact of legalizing gay adoption, and of the impact of the U.S. military's Don't ask, don't tell policy. Further, knowledge of the size of the "gay and lesbian population holds promise for helping social scientists understand a wide array of important questions—questions about the general nature of labor market choices, accumulation of human capital, specialization within households, discrimination, and decisions about geographic location."
Measuring the prevalence of homosexuality may present difficulties. The research must measure some characteristic that may or may not be defining of sexual orientation. The class of people with same-sex desires may be larger than the class of people who act on those desires, which in turn may be larger than the class of people who self-identify as gay/lesbian/bisexual.
In 1948 and 1953, Alfred Kinsey reported that nearly 46% of the male subjects had "reacted" sexually to persons of both sexes in the course of their adult lives, and 37% had had at least one homosexual experience. Kinsey's methodology was criticized.
A later study tried to eliminate the sample bias, but still reached similar conclusions.
Estimates of the occurrence of exclusive homosexuality range from one to twenty percent of the population, usually finding there are slightly more gay men than lesbians.
Estimates of the frequency of homosexual activity also vary from one country to another. A 1992 study reported that 6.1% of males in Britain had had a homosexual experience, while in France the number was 4.1%. According to a 2003 survey, 12% of Norwegians have had homosexual sex. In New Zealand, a 2006 study suggested that 20% of the population anonymously reported some homosexual feelings, few of them identifying as homosexual. Percentage of persons identifying homosexual was 2–3%. According to a 2008 poll, while only 6% of Britons define their sexual orientation as homosexual or bisexual, more than twice that number (13%) of Britons have had some form of sexual contact with someone of the same sex.
In the United States, according to exit polling on 2008 Election Day for the 2008 Presidential elections, 4% of electorate self-identified as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, the same percentage as in 2004." An estimated 34,000 homosexuals who are in a relationship are employed by the federal government.
Law
Most nations do not impede consensual sex between unrelated persons above the local age of consent. Some jurisdictions further recognize identical rights, protections, and privileges for the family structures of same-sex couples, including marriage. Some nations mandate that all individuals restrict themselves to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti%20Elea | The Elea was a series of mainframe computers Olivetti developed starting in the late 1950s. The system, made entirely with transistors for high performance, was conceived, designed and developed by a small group of researchers led by Mario Tchou (1924–1961), with industrial design by Ettore Sottsass. The ELEA 9001 was the first solid-state computer designed and manufactured in Italy. The acronym ELEA stood for Elaboratore Elettronico Aritmetico (Arithmetical Electronic Computer, then changed to Elaboratore Elettronico Automatico for marketing reasons) and was chosen with reference to the ancient Greek colony of Elea, home of the Eleatic school of philosophy. About forty units were placed with customers. In August 1964, only a few years after releasing the 9003, Olivetti's mainframe business was sold to GE.
Generations
ELEA 9001: (Macchina Zero - Machine Zero) prototype was made with vacuum tubes, but used germanium transistors for the tape drive system. The system was completed in spring 1957 and was later sent to Ivrea where for six years it controlled the Olivetti production warehouses. The machine was a prototype.
ELEA 9002: (Macchina 1V - Machine 1V), 1958, was a prototype with printed circuits and optimized design, much faster than its predecessor and utilizing silicon transistors for the management of tape drives. The machine was used as a test for the transistors, to establish if they were more reliable and economic than vacuum tubes. This model was installed at the Olivetti headquarters in Via Clerici in Milan and presented at the Milan Trade Fair in April 1959. It was also awarded the Compasso d'Oro in 1959.
ELEA 9003: (Macchina 1T - Machine 1T), prototype in 1958, announced in 1959, designed entirely in discrete (diode–transistor logic), and following the previous year's announcement of the IBM 7070 transistorized computer, was one of the first fully transistorized commercial computers. It was leased to about 40 individual customers, of which the first (Elea 9003/01) was installed at the textile company Marzotto and second (Elea 9003/02) to Monte dei Paschi di Siena. Later this unit was donated for educational purposes to the "Enrico Fermi" Technical High School in Bibbiena, where it is still in use today. Other mainframes were leased to insurance companies and energy companies.
The Olivetti computers competed directly with foreign manufacturers such as IBM and Ferranti, but received no special consideration from the Italian government. Typical applications were payroll, inventory and accounting.
ELEA 6001: A smaller version of the 9003 with the intent of either scientific or commercial use - two separate versions (6001/S and 6001/C) being created respectively for these purposes. Presented at the Milan Trade Fair in 1961. Around 150 units were produced. Unlike previous models, third party programming languages including COBOL and Fortran were used, in addition to a specific program created by mathematician Mauro Pacelli.
ELEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NextPage%2C%20Inc. | NextPage, Inc. is a direct marketing and variable data printing company located in Kansas City, Missouri. The company's customers include national franchises and organizations, and include more than 14,000 users of their "Marketing Communications Portal" product.
In February 2013, Mail Print merged with Graphic Services Printing and L&L Manufacturing to form NextPage.
Company history
NextPage was originally established in 1988 under the name Mail & More by Haver Danner. Children Eric, Gina and Kyle Danner later joined the business and transitioned it to a personalized direct marketing and commercial printing provider, under the name of Mail Print. NextPage was born in 2013 when three strong regional print providers, Mail Print, L & L Manufacturing and Graphic Services, merged to form one company. The ownership of NextPage is Eric Danner, Gina Danner and Larry Wittmeyer, Jr. The three had worked on projects together for over twenty years and decided that the printing landscape in the region was primed for something new. NextPage's offices and operational facility are located in the Hunt Midwest Subtropolis, an underground business complex.
Revenue & Company Growth
As of January 2009, NextPage was listed as the 5th largest commercial printing company in the Kansas City area. Archives of the Kansas City Business Journal's yearly "Top Area Commercial Printing Companies" lists detail the following growth:
Innovations
In 2001, NextPage publicly launched their "Marketing Communications Portal," an online marketing asset management and ordering system used by organizations and franchises to create and execute direct marketing materials. Early users of the system include Reece & Nichols Realtors, a real estate brokerage with more than 60 locations and 2,000 sales agents.
NextPage began using the Hewlett-Packard line of Indigo digital presses in 2002, which allowed for variable data print personalization by integrating database information during the digital printing process. As an early adopter of the technology, NextPage served as a HP test site.
In 2007, NextPage introduced a marketing automation tool that delivered a stream of automatic sales touches on a salesperson's behalf. The automated campaigns could be initiated to a single prospect or mailing list.
Other proprietary marketing systems include "Oyster," a user interface and database for creating and producing Personalized URLs.
Customers
NextPage's customer base is made up of medium and large-size businesses and franchises, including:
Keller Williams Realty
Harrah's Entertainment
Ferrellgas
HomeServices of America companies, including Edina Realty, Reece & Nichols Realtors, and Long Realty
Argosy Casino
International Association of Administrative Professionals
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Saint Luke's Health System
References
External links
NextPage company website
Digital press
Companies based in Kansas City, Missouri
Printing companies of the United States
Publishing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaridiscus%20engonatus | Canaridiscus engonatus is an extinct species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Discidae, the disk snails.
Canaridiscus engonatus was listed as Data deficient in the 1996 IUCN Red List, and was later considered to be extinct. The present IUCN status is Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct).
Distribution
This species was endemic to Tenerife, Canary Islands.
References
Discidae
Invertebrates of the Canary Islands
Gastropods described in 1852
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyckia%20milagrensis | Dyckia milagrensis is a plant species of the genus Dyckia, native to Bahia, Brazil.
References
GBIF entry
Encyclopedia of Life entry
FCBS Bromeliad Species Online Database entry
Harvard Pap. Bot. 4(1): 164–5. 1999.
milagrensis
Endemic flora of Brazil
Flora of Bahia
Garden plants of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyckia%20tobatiensis | Dyckia tobatiensis is a plant species of the genus Dyckia, native to Paraguay.
References
GBIF entry
Encyclopedia of Life entry
FCBS Bromeliad Species Online Database entry
tobatiensis
Flora of Paraguay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Cluster%20Switching | Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) fabric technology is a Layer 2 proprietary Ethernet technology from Brocade Communications Systems, later acquired by Extreme Networks. It is designed to improve network utilization, maximize application availability, increase scalability, and simplify the network architecture in virtualized data centers.
Ethernet Fabrics
Ethernet fabrics encompasses Data Center Bridging (DCB) technologies, IEEE 802.1aq and the emerging IETF standard, Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL), to provide a more efficient way of moving data throughout the network. An Ethernet fabric is promoted for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI storage traffic.
Ethernet fabrics have the following characteristics:
Flatter: Ethernet fabrics are self-aggregating, enabling a flatter network.
Intelligent: Switches in the fabric know about each other and all connected devices.
Scalable: All paths are available for high performance and high reliability.
Efficient: Traffic automatically travels along the shortest path.
Simple: The fabric is managed as a single logical entity.
Brocade markets using the term "Ethernet fabric".
Brocade SAN fabric technology is currently deployed in over 90 percent of the Global 1000 data centers. With VCS Fabric technology, Brocade will be bringing the same level of innovation to the data center LAN environment.
Distributed intelligence
With VCS Fabric technology, all configuration and destination information is distributed to each member switch in the fabric. For example, when a server connects to the fabric for the first time, all switches in the fabric learn about that server. Also, when two VCS-enabled switches are connected, the fabric is automatically created, and the switches discover the common fabric configuration. This fabric configuration is shared amongst all of the switches in the fabric, making it masterless, so no single switch stores configuration information or controls fabric operations.
Distributed intelligence enables the automatic migration of port profiles (AMPP) which ensures that the source and destination network ports have the same configuration when virtual machines migrate.
Logical chassis
All switches in an Ethernet fabric are managed as if they were a single logical chassis. To the rest of the network, the fabric looks no different than any other single Layer 2 switch. Each physical switch in the fabric is managed as if it were a port module in a chassis. This enables fabric scalability without manual configuration. The logical chassis capability significantly reduces management of small-form-factor edge switches. Instead of managing each top-of-rack switch (or switches in blade server chassis) individually, organizations can manage them as one logical chassis, which further optimizes the network in the virtualized data center and will further enable a cloud computing model.
Dynamic services
Dynamic services extend the VCS Fabric technology to incrementally |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Citations%20Database | The Energy Citations Database (ECD) was created in 2001 in order to make scientific literature citations, and electronic documents, publicly accessible from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and its predecessor agencies, at no cost to the user. This database also contains all the unclassified materials from Energy Research Abstracts. Classified materials are not available to the public. ECD does include the unclassified, unlimited distribution scientific and technical reports from the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Energy Research and Development Administration. The database is usually updated twice per week.
ECD provides free access to over 2.6 million science research citations with continued growth through regular updates. There are over 221,000 electronic documents, primarily from 1943 forward, available via the database. Citations and documents are made publicly available by the Regional Federal Depository Libraries. These institutions maintain and make available DOE research literature, providing access to non‑electronic documents prior to 1994, and electronic access to more recent documents.
ECD was created and developed by DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information with the science-attentive citizen in mind. It contains energy and energy‑related scientific and technical information collected by the DOE and its predecessor agencies.
Scope
Topics, or subjects, and Department of Energy disciplines of interest in Energy Citations Database (ECD) are wide-ranging. Scientific and technical research encompass chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science, and related disciplines. It includes bibliographic citations to report scientific literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
Stated capabilities
Bibliographic citations for scientific and technical information dating from 1943 to the present day. Search capabilities include full text, bibliographic citation, title, creator/author, subject, identifier numbers, publication date, system entry date, resource/document type, research organization, sponsoring organization, and/or any combination of these.
Commensurate with the above search capabilities is sorting results by various means.
Results can be sorted by relevance, publication date, system entry date, resource/document type, title, research organization, sponsoring organization, or the unique Office of Scientific Information (OSTI) Identifier. Furthermore, acquiring a count of search results, combined with a link to the actual results is available.
ability to receive weekly Alerts in topics of interest;
information about acquiring a non-electronic document
Research and database in predecessor agencies
Since the late 1940s, the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) and its predecessor organizations have been responsible f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Playhouse | International Playhouse is the name of an American television series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network during 1951.
Broadcast history
International Playhouse is a Monday night filmed series, but the exact dates of broadcast are unclear. Brooks and Marsh (2007) state the program aired from April to May 1951. McNeil (1996) and the Clarke Ingram historic website on DuMont both give the broadcast dates as May 30, 1951, to November 14, 1951. Little information about the series has been preserved. McNeil states the content consisted of "short foreign films and other foreign-made dramatic stories". A TV listing from December 10, 1952, suggests the series continued on WABD after the network run ended; in the listing the show is listed at 10:00PM, with the guide to films on TV for that day suggesting the presentation consisted of 1934 British film Freedom of the Seas.
Episode status
The UCLA Film and Television Archive lists 12 episodes in their collection, some of which are incomplete.
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
1951 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
American motion picture television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20to%20the%20Ages | Key to the Ages was the name of an American television series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network between February and May 1955.
Hosted by Dr. Theodore Low, the program aired from February 27 to May 22, 1955. This literary series originated from WAAM-TV in Baltimore, and may have also aired on ABC stations. The series should not be confused with the similarly titled Key to the Missing, a documentary series which aired on DuMont from 1948-1949.
Key to the Ages lasted only a few months on the air; just a little over one month after the program debuted, in April 1955, the DuMont Television Network began shutting down network operations. This made Key to the Ages one of the last DuMont Network programs. Key aired until May 22, 1955; DuMont itself ceased network operations in August 1956. None of the episodes are known to still exist.
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
Key to the Ages at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1955 American television series debuts
1955 American television series endings
1950s American television series
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20L.%20Nelson | Harry Lewis Nelson (born January 8, 1932) is an American mathematician and computer programmer. He was a member of the team that won the World Computer Chess Championship in 1983 and 1986, and was a co-discoverer of the 27th Mersenne prime in 1979 (at the time, the largest known prime number). He also served as editor of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics for five years. Most of his professional career was spent at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked with some of the earliest supercomputers. He was particularly noted as one of the world's foremost experts in writing optimized assembly language routines for the Cray-1 and Cray X-MP computers. Nelson has had a lifelong interest in puzzles of all types, and since his retirement in 1991 he has devoted his time to his own MiniMax Game Company, a small venture that helps puzzle inventors to develop and market their products.
In 1994, Nelson donated his correspondence from his days as editor of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics to the University of Calgary Library as part of the Eugène Strens Recreational Mathematics Special Collection.
Biography
Early years
Nelson was born on January 8, 1932, in Topeka, Kansas, the third of four children. He attended local schools and was active in the Boy Scouts, earning the rank of Eagle Scout. Nelson attended Harvard University as a freshman, but then had to drop out for financial reasons. He attended the University of Kansas as a sophomore, but was able to return to Harvard for his junior and senior years, receiving a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard in 1953. In 1952, just before the start of his senior year, he married his high school sweetheart, Claire (née Rachael Claire Ensign). After graduating, he was inducted into the U.S. Army, but was never deployed overseas. He was honorably discharged in 1955, having attained the rank of sergeant. He enrolled in graduate studies at the University of Kansas, earning a master's degree in mathematics in 1957. It was during this period that he became fascinated by the then-new programmable digital computer. Nelson worked towards a Ph.D. until 1959, but the combination of his GI Bill educational benefits running out, needing to support a wife and three children, and the mathematics department rejecting his proposal to do his thesis on computers convinced him to leave the university without completing his Ph.D., and to get a job.
Initially, Nelson worked for Autonetics, an aerospace company in southern California. In 1960 he went to work for the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (later renamed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory or LLNL), in Livermore, California. He remained working there until his retirement in 1991. Nelson worked on a variety of computers at LLNL, beginning with the IBM 7030 (nicknamed Stretch). In the 1960s, early units of a new computer were typically delivered as "bare metal," i.e. no software of any kind, including no compiler and no operating system. Progra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor%27s%20Drive | The Juanito R. Remulla Sr. Road, formerly and still commonly referred to as Governor's Drive, is a two-to-nine lane, network of primary, secondary and tertiary highways and bridges traversing through the central cities and municipalities of the province of Cavite, Philippines. It is the widest among the three major highways located in the province, the others being the Aguinaldo and Antero Soriano Highways.
The road forms part of National Route 65 (N65), National Route 651 (N651), National Route 403 (N403), and National Route 405 (N405) of the Philippine highway network. A part of the road between the N403 and N405 section is a tertiary road and is unnumbered.
History
The origin of the highway could be traced back to three separate roads: Dasmariñas-Carmona-Biñang Road from Dasmariñas to Carmona, Naic-Quintana-Junction Dasmariñas-Silang from Naic to Dasmariñas, and an old provincial road linking the municipal centers of Naic, Maragondon, and Ternate. The first two were classified as secondary roads in the 1950s. The provincial road's segment from Naic to Maragondon was designated as Route 301, while its segment from Maragondon to Ternate was designated as Route 332. Additional sections were later added to form the present-day Governor's Drive.
By virtue of Republic Act No. 11047, enacted on June 29, 2018, the entire highway was renamed as Governor Juanito R. Remulla Sr. Road, after the former governor of Cavite.
Route description
The eastern terminus of the highway is at the Carmona Bridge at the Carmona–Biñan boundary. It traverses Carmona, General Mariano Alvarez, Silang, Dasmariñas, General Trias, Trece Martires, Tanza, Naic, Maragondon, and Ternate.
The highway is mostly concrete paved, while some other parts are currently being rehabilitated and being overlaid with asphalt.
Dasmariñas to Carmona
Governor's Drive towards the provincial boundary with Laguna starts near SM City Dasmariñas at the Pala-pala intersection with Aguinaldo Highway. It then winds eastward, as it nears Manila Memorial Park, just on the side of the highway. It intersects Paliparan Road and then enters General Mariano Alvarez through a bridge on the Dasmariñas–GMA boundary. It passes through GMA's town center and its boundary with Silang before curving northeast at the GMA–Carmona boundary. At Carmona, it mostly runs through the town's industrial areas and bypasses the town proper on the north as the segment that is officially known as Carmona Diversion Road. It soon crosses the South Luzon Expressway and enters Biñan, where it continues as General Malvar Street.
Dasmariñas to Ternate
Governor's Drive toward Ternate starts also at the intersection with Aguinaldo Highway at Pala-Pala, near Robinsons Place Dasmariñas. It is mostly a 6-lane highway when it runs westward towards General Trias. The highway passes through the western barangays of Dasmariñas, and then enters General Trias. It soon intersects Arnaldo Highway near the San Miguel and Purefoods-Hormel fac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguinaldo%20Highway | The Emilio Aguinaldo Highway, (often shortened as Aguinaldo Highway), alternatively known as Cavite–Batangas Road and Cavite-Manila South Road, is a four-to-six lane, , network of primary and secondary highways passing through the busiest towns and cities of Cavite, Philippines. It is the busiest and most congested of the three major highways located in the province, the others are Governor's Drive and Antero Soriano Highway.
The highway is named in the honor of General Emilio Aguinaldo, the country's first president and a native of Cavite.
The northern terminus of the highway is located at the Zapote Bridge at the province's boundary with Las Piñas in Metro Manila. It then traverses Bacoor, Imus, Dasmariñas, Silang, and ends at Tagaytay in Cavite. The highway forms part of National Routes 62, 419, and 410 of the Philippine highway network. The highway has several official names, like Manila–Cavite South Road, Cavite–Batangas Road, and Tagaytay-Manila via Silang Road. The west alignment of the poblacion area of Silang, is unnumbered as a newer bypass named Silang Bypass Road (or Silang Diversion Road) and is designated as a tertiary road. The section that connects with Manila–Cavite Expressway (then Coastal Road), called the Aguinaldo Boulevard, is also designated as National Route 62 (N62) of the Philippine highway network.
Route description
Aguinaldo Highway passes through many establishments such as malls, shops, and government offices. Various high voltage power lines, most notably the Dasmariñas-Las Piñas transmission line of National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), utilize the highway right of way from its intersection with Aguinaldo Boulevard and Bacoor Boulevard to Barangay San Agustin II, Dasmariñas for accessibility to work vehicles and also due to scarcity of land for the acquisition of right of way and lands where the steel poles stand.
Originally with four lanes, it starts as a continuation of Diego Cera Avenue at Zapote Bridge. It crosses and becomes a six-lane road past Bacoor Boulevard which leads to Molino, Bacoor, and Aguinaldo Boulevard, which connects with Manila–Cavite Expressway. It then intersects with Tirona Highway that leads to Kawit and Cavite City. It then passes Imus and enters Dasmariñas, where it reduces to a four-lane road and becoming a divided highway in most portions. Afterwards, it then intersects with Governor's Drive and Pala-Pala Road in Dasmariñas.
Past Pala-Pala Road, it begins its climb to Tagaytay, passing Silang and ends at Tagaytay Rotonda. The highway continues as Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway as it passes the rest of Tagaytay and Alfonso in Cavite before entering the province of Batangas.
History
The present road originated from an old road that enters Cavite from Las Piñas. The old roads that predated the Aguinaldo Highway used a different alignment on Bacoor and Imus, that exist until today as a mixture of city-maintained roads and national roads. Portions of the road have been site |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefuturo | Telefuturo, sometimes known as Canal 4, is a Paraguayan television network. The station operates between 66 and 72 MHz in Asunción, and reaches almost the entire population of Paraguay. Telefuturo's coverage reaches almost all the Región Oriental, where approximately 97% of the population of Paraguay lives. Since its inception it maintained a steady growth and currently has 14 repeaters.
Programming
News
Día a Día
Meridiano Informativo
Telediario
La Lupa
AAM
Sports
Telefútbol
Coche a la Vista
El Deportivo
Fútbol a lo Grande TV
Variety
Vive la Vida
Vive la Tarde
Entertainment
Baila Conmigo Paraguay
El Conejo
MasterChef Paraguay
Polémica en el Bar Paraguay
Telembopi
Yo me Llamo
Upcoming programs
La Voz... Paraguay (reality show)
Got Talent Paraguay (reality show)
References
External links
Official site
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Television stations in Paraguay
Spanish-language television stations
1967 establishments in Paraguay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20%28computer%20science%29 | In theoretical computer science, a circuit is a model of computation in which input values proceed through a sequence of gates, each of which computes a function. Circuits of this kind provide a generalization of Boolean circuits and a mathematical model for digital logic circuits. Circuits are defined by the gates they contain and the values the gates can produce. For example, the values in a Boolean circuit are boolean values, and the circuit includes conjunction, disjunction, and negation gates. The values in an integer circuit are sets of integers and the gates compute set union, set intersection, and set complement, as well as the arithmetic operations addition and multiplication.
Formal definition
A circuit is a triple , where
is a set of values,
is a set of gate labels, each of which is a function from to for some non-negative integer (where represents the number of inputs to the gate), and
is a labelled directed acyclic graph with labels from .
The vertices of the graph are called gates. For each gate of in-degree , the gate can be labeled by an element of if and only if is defined on
Terminology
The gates of in-degree 0 are called inputs or leaves. The gates of out-degree 0 are called outputs. If there is an edge from gate to gate in the graph then is called a child of . We suppose there is an order on the vertices of the graph, so we can speak of the th child of a gate when is less than the out-degree of the gate.
The size of a circuit is the number of nodes of a circuit. The depth of a gate is the length of the longest path in beginning at up to an output gate. In particular, the gates of out-degree 0 are the only gates of depth 1. The depth of a circuit is the maximum depth of any gate.
Level is the set of all gates of depth . A levelled circuit is a circuit in which the edges to gates of depth comes only from gates of depth or from the inputs. In other words, edges only exist between adjacent levels of the circuit. The width of a levelled circuit is the maximum size of any level.
Evaluation
The exact value of a gate with in-degree and label is defined recursively for all gates .
where each is a parent of .
The value of the circuit is the value of each of the output gates.
Circuits as functions
The labels of the leaves can also be variables which take values in . If there are leaves, then the circuit can be seen as a function from to . It is then usual to consider a family of circuits , a sequence of circuits indexed by the integers where the circuit has variables. Families of circuits can thus be seen as functions from to .
The notions of size, depth and width can be naturally extended to families of functions, becoming functions from to ; for example, is the size of the th circuit of the family.
Complexity and algorithmic problems
Computing the output of a given Boolean circuit on a specific input is a P-complete problem. If the input is an integer circuit, however, it is u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moj%20mikro | Moj mikro was a monthly Slovene-language computer magazine published in Slovenia. It was in circulation between 1984 and 2015. Moj mikro was one of the most popular IT magazines in Yugoslavia during the 80's, spanning a large variety of technology topics and was published in Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian (until 1991).
Profile
Moj mikro was established in 1984. The founding editor was Žiga Turk. Delo Revije, d. d. was the publisher. The magazine was published monthly. It targeted men between 14 and 64 years of age.
In 2008 the magazine had a circulation of 10,000 copies.
See also
List of magazines in Slovenia
References
External links
Official website (defunct)
Farewell message (in Slovenian)
Scanned old magazine issues
1984 establishments in Slovenia
2015 disestablishments in Slovenia
Computer magazines published in Slovenia
Defunct computer magazines
Defunct magazines published in Slovenia
Magazines established in 1984
Magazines disestablished in 2015
Magazines published in Yugoslavia
Mass media in Ljubljana
Monthly magazines
Slovene-language magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro%20RSCG%20London | Havas London (formerly known as Euro RSCG London) is a London-based integrated advertising agency. It is part of the Havas Worldwide network (formerly known as Euro RSCG Worldwide) network which has 316 offices located in 75 countries throughout Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
In September 2012 the Euro RSCG Worldwide network rebranded to Havas Worldwide.
History
Euro RSCG London was first created by merging Colman RSCG and Horner Collis Kirvan.
In 1994, Euro RSCG's London office was relaunched as Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper by Mark Wnek and Brett Gosper who had been approached by the Euro RSCG network to turn the agency around. Brett Gosper left for New York in 2003. Mark Wnek also left in January 2004, whereafter the names of the founders were dropped and the agency was renamed Euro RSCG London.
Renaming
Euro RSCG itself was renamed Havas Worldwide in 2012, and the London office was then renamed Havas Worldwide London. The name was later shortened to Havas London.
Key clients
The agency works for global brands including Chivas Regal, Birds Eye, Reckitt Benckiser, Evian, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Unilever, Ideal Standard, Credit Suisse, Maggie's Centres, Mothercare and Mondelēz International.
Former clients include Abbey National, Iomega, Argos and Cadbury.
Notable campaigns
Listed chronically.
"Not at the Table", ad for Häagen Dazs. Won a D&AD Wood Pencil in 2000.
"Megabytes" ad for Microsoft. Won a D&AD Wood Pencil in 2001.
"Pageant", spot for VO5. Won a D&AD Yellow Pencil Award in 2012.
"Metamorphosis", film for Credit Suisse. Won a "One Merit" award at The One Club in 2013.
"Explore", campaign for Durex's e-commerce site in 2014. One spot used synchronous dual-screen technology to allow an phone or tablet app to show an alternative view when the main ad plays on TV.
"Cut the Cliché", Valentine's Day spot for Durex.
"The Heathrow Bears", a series of Christmas ads for Heathrow Airport started in 2016.
References
External links
Official Website
Havas
Advertising agencies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20from%20the%201980s | The Billboard Regional Mexican Albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States. The data for this chart was published every two weeks, unlike most Billboard charts.
The Regional Mexican Albums chart was first of the three Latin-related albums (along with Latin Pop Albums and Tropical Albums) published on June 29, 1985, eight years before the Top Latin Album survey which began on July 10, 1993. Billboard published a biweekly chart throughout the 1980s.
Los Tigres del Norte were the first artists to reach number-one with their album, Jaula de Oro'''. Three other albums by the group: El Otro Mexico, Los Idolos del Pueblo, and Los Corridos Prohibidos reached number-one on the Regional Mexican charts. Each album by the group received a Grammy Award-nomination for Best Mexican-American Performance.
Los Bukis, led by Marco Antonio Solís, were the second artists to reach number-one with their album, A Donde Vas.
Joan Sebastian was the first solo performer of Regional Mexican music to reach number-one with his album Rumores. Another album by Joan Sebastian, Con Tambora was the longest number-one Regional Mexican album which spent 23 consecutive weeks.
Los Bondadosos reach number-one in the chart for the first time with their album, Porque me haces sufrir. In addition, a compilation album related to group reached number-one on the chart.
Two albums by Los Yonic's reached number-one on the chart: Petalo y Espinas and Siempre Te Amaré. The former received a Grammy Award-nomination for Best Mexican-American Performance.
Near the end of the decade, Vicente Fernández's album, Por Tu Maldito'' spent 11 consecutive weeks number-one on the chart.
Number-one albums
References
Regional Mexican 1980s
United States Regional Mexican
1980s in Latin music
Regional Mexican music albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaudouin | Beaudouin is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Patrick Beaudouin (born 1953), French politician
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (born 1961), French computer scientist
Sophie Beaudouin-Hubière (born 1972), French politician
See also
Beaudouin's snake-eagle, a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae
Bourg-Beaudouin, a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France
French-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanfare%20%28company%29 | Fanfare was a U.S. technology company located in Mountain View, California, which developed automated testing software that enables telecom service providers, network equipment manufacturers, and enterprises to automate quality testing of their products and services. Fanfare's flagship test automation product, iTest is built for testers, developers, and automation specialists. iTest automates feature, black box, and regression testing to accelerate system and device testing throughout the quality process. Fanfare was bought by Spirent Communications in early 2011.
History
Fanfare was founded in 2004 by Kingston Duffie, Denise Savoie, and Carl Hubbard. A serial entrepreneur by nature, Duffie also founded Turnstone Systems, which went public in 2000; and Whitetree Inc., a network switch maker that was acquired in 1997 by Ascend Communications. Fanfare was the first company to commercialize an automated testing product that addressed the testing challenges around increasingly complex network devices. To get the job done, feature testers and device testers tend to rely on traditional script-based automation, a time-intensive approach that requires highly trained manual testers to accomplish. With this approach, it can take hours or days to set up devices, configure test beds, and communicate basic test reports. Language barriers from geographically dispersed QA teams exacerbate the problem, resulting in duplicated efforts and reduced productivity.
Additionally, scripting skills were phased out of college engineering programs, resulting in a shortage of skilled scripters. Testers without a wide range of scripting abilities are often unable to contribute to the testing process, resulting in further automation backlog. At the same time, telecom service providers are struggling to keep up with the demand for more bandwidth, wireless and services. The increasing popularity of video, and need for wireless connectivity and broadband speed, is taxing existing networks, and network testing to verify the continuous stream of software updates to network applications can't keep up with volume. The testing requirements are growing exponentially but the resources and techniques cannot keep pace.
As a result, products and services can be released to market without undergoing the proper testing. Quality suffers, as do companies’ bottom lines as time to market is dependent on how quickly testing can be completed.
Duffie identified this critical void in the market, recognizing the need for software that simplified device and network testing. Fanfare released its first product to market in July 2005, and continues to enhance its product offerings to solve these ongoing challenges.
Alliances and Industry Groups
NTAF (Network Test Automation Forum)
TesLA Alliance (Test Lab Automation Alliance)
References
The New Testing Frontier: Providing Quality Video for Mobile Devices, Wireless Week
Automated Testing Tool Outfit Fanfare Adds More Virtualization with iT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20of%20Music%20Information%20Centres | The International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC) is a worldwide network of organisations that document and promote contemporary music.
History
In 1958, a number of representatives of national music information centres formed a group under the UN's International Music Council. The members of this group became a branch of the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) in 1962.
In 1986 the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC) was founded, with its own board of directors. In 1991, IAMIC became fully independent and broke away from the IAML.
Description and functions
The IAMIC is based in Belgium.
Each member music information centre promotes and documents the music of its own country of region over a variety of musical genres including contemporary classical music, world music, jazz, and popular music. Its member organisations manage extensive resources (large libraries of sheet music, recordings, biographical and research materials) and deliver promotional and artistic projects (festivals, concerts, competitions, conferences) to the public.
While each member organisation focuses on the promotion of musical activities in their country or region, IAMIC works to promote international exchange on issues of common concern and brings these organisations together for collective projects.
References
External links
International music organizations
Organizations established in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyby%20Runestones | The Hyby Runestones, designated as DR 264 and DR 265 in the Rundata catalog, are two Viking Age memorial runestones located at Hyby near Vissmarlöv, which is about two kilometers southeast of Klågerup, Scania, Sweden. The former stone, DR 265, is considered lost.
DR 264
Runic inscription DR 264, also known as the Hyby 1 Runestone, is carved on a granite stone that is 0.9 meters in height. It was discovered in 1624 in a field near Vissmarlöv, and was moved to its current location in the 1940s. The inscription consists of runic text in the younger futhark on both sides of the stone, and a Christian cross and a deer on side A. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK, which is the classification for the oldest style. This is the classification for runic bands that have straight ends which do not have any attached serpent or beast heads. The inscription is dated as being carved after that of the Jelling stones.
The runic text states that Þórðr carved the inscription and asserts that a man named either Folkvé or Fullugi owned Haugbýr, the present location Hyby.
The stone is locally known as the Hybystenen and sometimes as the Vissmarlövstenen.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
A: þurþr * hu * runaʀ * þasi * ...r... * ---
B: fulukui : a : huk*-... ...
Transcription into Old Norse
A: Þorþr hio runaʀ þæssi ... ...
B: Folkwi/Fullugi a Høg[by] ...
Translation in English
A: Þórðr cut these runes ... ...
B: Folkvé/Fullugi owns Haugbýr ...
DR 265
Runic inscription DR 265 or the Hyby 2 Runestone is known from a drawing made by Nils Wessman (1710 - 1763) during a survey of runestones in Scania conducted around 1757. The stone has been missing since about 1850.
Based upon the drawing, the runic text in the younger futhark starts at the bottom of the stone. The first word ranuiþi was spelled using a bind rune that combines an n-rune and u-rune.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
[ran=uiþi * huas * raisþi * stin þisi * ifti * þanfuþ *]
Transcription into Old Norse
<ranuiþi> <huas> resþi sten þæssi æftiʀ <þanfuþ>.
Translation in English
<ranuiþi> <huas> raised this stone in memory of <þanfuþ>.
See also
List of runestones
References
External links
Photograph of DR 264 showing cross and deer - Swedish National Heritage Board.
Runestones in Scania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Weissman | Steve Weissman is an American sportscaster who joined ESPN in January 2010. He came to ESPN from Comcast Sportsnet (CSN) in California, where he served as the network's lead anchor. Before CSN, he worked at WNEM in Saginaw, Michigan, winning multiple Michigan Association of Broadcasters Awards.
Weissman also served as the sports anchor/reporter at WMTV in Madison, Wisconsin, and began his career as a sports anchor/reporter at WBKB in Alpena, Michigan. He hosted SportsCenter and other shows at ESPN from 2010 to 2015. He currently works at NFL Network and Tennis Channel.
Personal
Weissman is a D.C. native, a graduate of Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American sports journalists
American television sports announcers
Jewish American sportspeople
Olympic Games broadcasters
People from Silver Spring, Maryland
Tennis commentators
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patapon%203 | is a rhythm game for the PlayStation Portable and sequel to Patapon 2. It was developed by Pyramid and Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Gameplay is similar to previous titles, but has a greater focus on multiplayer than Patapon 2. Like its predecessors, Patapon 3 is presented in a cartoonish, silhouetted two-dimensional environment designed by french artist Rolito, now with more detailed backgrounds.
Plot
Patapon 3 begins where the previous game ended. The Patapons finish the Rainbow Bridge and have crossed the river to a new land, where they find a large mysterious box. Despite Meden's warnings, the Patapons opened the box, then the Seven Evil Archfiends came out and petrified everyone, except the flag carrier, Hatapon. A new tribe, the Bonedeth Brigade, are determined to defeat the Patapons. Even the Akumapons from the previous game are encountered later in the game. However, hope is far from lost, for inside the box was not just the Seven Archfiends, but also Silver Hoshipon, which found the Almighty and offered to help restore some of the Patapons back to life. The first Patapon Silver Hoshipon restored was the Hero, fusing him with the Almighty and thus transforming him into the Uberhero (essentially, a stronger version of Hero), augmenting his powers.
Together, they found Hatapon and, after using the Pon drum along with Hatapon, the Uberhero learns how to use them. They also restored three other Patapons, Ton Yarida, Chin Taterazay and Kan Yumiyacha, forming the Trifecta and brought the petrified Meden along with them to their new Hideout, where they (and the player) are then introduced to the new shops, barracks, the Herogate, and the rest of the new features. The Uberhero and the Trifecta traverse the lairs of the Seven Archfiends, namely, Valor, Purity, Justice, Earnestness, Restraint, Adamance and Tolerance, with bosses Accursed Dodonga, Gaeen, Kanogias, Shookle, Cioking, Dettankarmen and Arch Pandara. After defeating Arch Pandara, the Trifecta with Hatapon march through Earthend, while Uberhero sleeps soundly. All in all, the Patapons, at last, finally, have found Earthend, and gazed at IT.
Gameplay
The PSP face buttons (△ ○ × □) each represent a drum, which must be struck in accordance with an established rhythm in order to give instructions to an army of Patapons. The main new addition being the "Uberhero" who acts as the player's avatar and is the character that physically beats the drums rather than the omnipresent god previously.
The multiplayer gameplay has been expanded and will feature more heavily. A competitive mode with four-way battles has been added, complementing the co-op system. Every level will be playable in multiplayer mode and can be played by a single player or with a total of eight players. It can be played over the internet or locally with another PlayStation Portable. Progression of characters is based on a new experience point system.
Communication in the multiplayer mode is done |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pioneer%20Trail | The Pioneer Trail, formerly known as FrontierVille is a defunct simulation, role-playing video game available for play on social networking sites such as Facebook. Developed by Zynga, and launched on June 9, 2010, it was a freemium game, i.e. free to play, but with the option of purchasing premium content. The game was shut down on April 30, 2015.
FrontierVille was the first game developed at Zynga East, Zynga's Baltimore studio led by Brian Reynolds. Reynolds was deeply involved in the project and has been credited as its lead designer.
The game reached 20 million monthly active users and 6 million daily active users within five weeks of launch.
Gameplay
In art treatment and gameplay, The Pioneer Trail was very similar to one of Zynga's most popular games, FarmVille. Instead of a farm, however, the player played the role of a pioneer in the "American Old West."
The player created an avatar which resembled an American pioneer. The player then may have completed a total of innumerable collections which could be traded for coins, "experience points" (XP), decorations, livestock, trees, craftable items, energy and horseshoes (rare money that can be bought with real money). The player could also finish goals which included tasks such as gathering money, buying energy, clearing land, chopping down trees, raising livestock and trees, creating items such as beds, furniture, and clobbering unwanted pests such as bears, snakes, foxes and/or groundhogs. Eventually, the player would have acquired a spouse and up to four children. The player could have the other family members perform tasks. They could perform tasks simultaneously with their spouses and children, but the player risked being "kicked off" the game.
Other tasks included collecting from buildings, building inns, wagons, general stores, log cabin, schools, chicken coops, barns, trading posts, barber shops, churches, and sawmills as well as seeding, growing and harvesting crops. Completing goals yielded rewards for the player. One early source of game points, which was changed by Zynga, was for the player to build as many chicken coops as possible. One noted player managed to build 28 upgraded chicken coops. The chickens became ready to feed every 30 minutes, but the chicken coops could only allow the stored chickens to be fed only once in a 24-hour period. Having more than 24 allowed the player to feed all of their chickens for free every 30 minutes, which gave the player added coins, collection items and game points. Feeding coops as often as possible did elevate the player's game level in a shorter time. Sometimes, players could set their own goals, such as surpassing a billion coins, or saving over a million food points, or growing over 1300 horses on their land. One player of note, had passed over 1.2 billion coins, 13 million food points and over 1300 grown horses on his land, when the game was removed by Zynga. Horses were fed for free and gave between zero points to four |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies%20Before%20Gentlemen | Ladies Before Gentlemen is an American television series that aired on the DuMont Television Network from February 28 to May 2, 1951. It was a panel show which featured discussions of male and female perspectives on a variety of topics. Moderated by Ken Roberts, the program aired from February 28 to May 2, 1951. The series was produced by Henry Misrock.
Format
The program's game show structure pitted a female guest against a six-man panel, with the guest defending the woman's point of view on a topical issue. Panelists included Harvey Stone, Dick Joseph, Fred Robbins, Robert Sylvester, and John Kullers.
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
Ladies Before Gentlemen at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1950s American game shows
1951 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies%27%20Date | Ladies' Date is a 1952-1953 American daytime television series that was broadcast on the DuMont Television Network. The program was an afternoon variety/audience participation show, hosted by Bruce Mayer, who had been the host of a similar series locally in Detroit.
Broadcast history
Ladies' Date was broadcast from New York's WABD-TV. The program aired Monday through Friday from 1pm to 1:30pm ET from October 13, 1952, to July 31, 1953.
Preservation status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1952–53 United States network television schedule (weekday)
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
Ladies' Date at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1952 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio%2057 | Studio 57 (also known as Heinz Studio 57) is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to July 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1958.
"It's a Small World", the pilot episode of the series Leave It to Beaver, was broadcast on the show on April 23, 1957.
Overview
The program was a filmed anthology television series sponsored by Heinz 57 and produced by Revue Studios. The program aired on the DuMont network from September 21, 1954, to July 26, 1955, making it "one of the last regularly-scheduled series ever carried on the crumbling DuMont network". (Only What's the Story and boxing matches aired on DuMont afterwards). Studio 57 aired in first-run syndication from September 1955 to 1958.
The series was exported to Australia during the late 1950s under the title Whitehall Playhouse. Since some of the episodes shown there were DuMont-aired episodes, this makes Studio 57 the only DuMont show to be broadcast outside of North America. The series began airing in Australia in late 1956, during the first few months of television in that country, continuing for several years, and eventually including episodes of other American anthology series such as The Star and the Story.
Writers whose work was featured on the program included Ray Bradbury.
Personnel
The series featured many established actors, including Carolyn Jones, Hugh O'Brian, Keye Luke, Natalie Wood, Craig Stevens, Marguerite Chapman, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Keith, Rod Taylor, K. T. Stevens, Hugh Beaumont, Peter Graves, Robert Armstrong, Jean Byron, Lon Chaney Jr., Andy Clyde, Charles Coburn, Olive Sturgess, Peter Lawford, Mike Connors, Jane Darwell, Joanne Dru, Vivi Janiss, Keenan Wynn, and DeForest Kelley.
Herschel Daugherty was the director, and Lawrence Kimble was the writer.
Partial list of episodes
September 26, 1954 - "No Great Hero" - Craig Stevens, Betty Lou Gerson
January 29, 1956 - "The Finishers" - Peter Lorre, Carmen Mathews, Gordon Mills.
Critical response
Television historians Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh describe the scripts for Studio 57 as bland. Ailing DuMont lacked the budgets of CBS or NBC, and hence relied on cost-cutting measures, including hiring then-unknown actors to star in their series such as Hugh O'Brian and Natalie Wood.
A review of the premiere episode in the trade publication Variety said that the episode "wasn't particularly well-written or too smoothly directed, and hence failed to conjure up suspense." It also said that unnatural parts caused actors to struggle, and the "unperceptive histrionics promoted a cheapness that became connected with the entire show."
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)
External links
DuMont historical websi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Hart | Pete Hart may refer to:
Parker T. Hart (1910–1997), U.S. diplomat
Peter D. Hart, American pollster
Peter E. Hart (born c. 1940s), computer scientist and pioneer in artificial intelligence
Peter Hart (historian) (1963–2010), Canadian historian, specialising in modern Irish history
Peter Hart, media analyst at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Peter Hart (footballer) (born 1957), English footballer
Pete Hart (American football) (born 1933), American football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Katona | Robert Katona is known for developing the flow painting technique and creating a form of computer art, Techism.
Biography
Katona was born in Ohio in 1947. His father, a sociology professor, moved his family to Colorado shortly after Robert was born. Both of his parents were teachers and provided the intellectual stimulus for him to develop quickly as an artist. He began to draw at age 2 and turned to art as a full time profession after attending the University of Colorado.
He is a falconer and has trained and flown many species of raptors including the peregrine falcon.His knowledge of birds of prey has led to illustration contributions to the Raptor Research Foundation and the North American Falconers Association.
Career
Katona first developed a realist technique by working from old masters and depicting still lives. While experimenting with abstract art, he created a unique combination of abstract expressionism and figurative art, calling the technique flow painting.
His method uses liquid acrylic poured onto canvas, creating a dynamic expanding composition. When the paint is dry, Katona studies the color field and looks for shapes and images that suggest a theme. He then paints these visions into the background with startling precision. Deliberate distortion of the image blends with the flowing colors to create a painting of surprising contrast.
In New York he invented a form of computer art, Techism, with colored plexiglass and electronics. He achieved an artificial look: slick, hard-edge, high tech; a computer art that goes beyond printouts or photographs. For him plexiglass is an excellent material in the way it mimics the computer screen, and the colors are electric and fluorescent.
Based on computer generated images, executed on a large scale in plastic, Katona's compositions give material form to the cosmos of the computer screen. He merges technology and imagination to make an illusory world actual, a cunning reversal of computerized dematerialization.
Angus Cameron of Alfred Knopf Publishing described the pencil drawings for the book, Golden Eagle Country, as “stunning and sensationally beautiful”.
Barbara Haddad of the Denver Post wrote of his “remarkable drawing” done “with an incredibly sensitive hand.”
Elizabeth Exler of Manhattan Arts reviewed Computerworks as an “incredibly thought-provoking exhibition, and each work is as fascinating as the next.” Ed MaCormack of New York Artspeak described Techism: Art of the 21st Century:
“In these and other pieces in this dazzling, highly entertaining solo exhibition, Robert Katona creates powerful metaphors for the technological dilemma of computerized civilization.”
His versatility as an artist has gained Katona a worldwide reputation, including an award from the Society of Illustrators in New York for his work in Golden Eagle Country. His art appears in collections: Willie Nelson, John Denver, former U.S. Senator Gary Hart, the Air Force Academy, and the Royal Family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting%20Cyberspace%20as%20a%20National%20Asset%20Act | The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 () is a bill introduced in the United States Senate by Joe Lieberman (Independent Democrat, Connecticut), Susan Collins (Republican Party, Maine), and Tom Carper (Democratic Party, Delaware) on June 10, 2010. The stated purpose of the bill was to increase security in cyberspace and prevent attacks which could disable infrastructure such as telecommunications or disrupt the nation's economy. The legislation would have created an Office of Cyberspace Policy and a National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications.
Provisions
On June 19, 2010, Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) introduced the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, which he co-wrote with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE). If signed into law, this controversial bill, which the American media dubbed the kill switch bill, would have granted the President emergency powers over the Internet. Other parts of the bill focused on the establishment of an Office of Cyberspace Policy and on its missions, as well as on the coordination of cyberspace policy at the federal level.
If national security were to be severely threatened by a cyber attack, broadband providers, search engines, software firms and other major players in the Telecommunications/Computer/Internet industry could have been be required to immediately comply and implement any emergency measure taken; for most of the month of June, media coverage of the bill insisted on this so-called 'kill switch' provision, said to be included in the bill.
Section 249 of the bill stated that "the President may issue a declaration of a national cyber emergency to covered critical infrastructure", in which case a response plan is implemented. This plan would consist of "measures or actions necessary to preserve the reliable operation, and mitigate or remediate the consequences of the potential disruption, of covered critical infrastructure". Said measures should "represent the least disruptive means feasible to the operations of the covered critical infrastructure" and "shall cease to have effect not later than 30 days after the date on which the President issued the declaration of a national cyber emergency" unless the President seeks to extend them, with the approval of the Director of the Office of Cyberspace Policy established by the bill.
Criticisms
Senator Lieberman has been criticized for giving the President the power to use a "kill switch" which would shut off the Internet. He has called these accusations "total misinformation" and said that "the government should never take over the Internet". Lieberman further inflamed skeptics when he cited China's similar policy in a backfired attempt to show the policy's normalcy. However, the bill would allow the President to enact "emergency measures" in the case of a large scale cyber attack. The original bill granted the US President the authority to shut down part of the internet indefinitely, but in a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVNTelecom | EVNTelecom was a Vietnamese telecommunications company. It was set up as a 100% state-owned and self-financed subsidiary of Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN).
It was one of five mobile network providers in Vietnam, and the fourth to launch its service.
EVNTelecom has been merged into Viettel following a decision in December 2011.
References
External links
Telecommunications companies of Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCBT-LD | KCBT-LD (channel 34) is a low-power television station in Bakersfield, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Estrella TV network. It is owned by Cocola Broadcasting.
History
In the 1990s and early 2000s, KCBT was originally KJBC-LP, a Christian religious station originally on channel 55, then moved to analog channels 33 and 35 in the southern San Joaquin Valley. In the late 2000s, KJBC became a home shopping-based station. As of 2019, the channel combined virtual channels with other Cocola owned station KBFK-LP, Both stations are now located on channel 34.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
CBT-LD
CBT
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Movies! affiliates
Antenna TV affiliates
CBT-CD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%20National%20Supercomputing%20Centre | The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (; CSCS) is the national high-performance computing centre of Switzerland. It was founded in Manno, canton Ticino, in 1991. In March 2012, the CSCS moved to its new location in Lugano-Cornaredo.
The main function of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is a so-called National User Lab. It is open to all Swiss researchers and their assistants, who can get free access to CSCS' supercomputers in a competitive scientific evaluation process.
In addition, the centre operates dedicated computing facilities for specific research projects and national mandates, e.g. weather forecasting. It is the national competence centre for high-performance computing and serves as a technology platform for Swiss research in computational science.
CSCS is an autonomous unit of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and closely collaborates with the local University of Lugano (USI).
Building
The building at the new location Lugano-Cornaredo has a pillar-free machine hall of 2,000 m and can be powered with up to 20 MW electricity. Water for cooling the supercomputers is taken from Lake Lugano in 45m depth and pumped over a distance of 2.8 km to the centre. Thus, little energy is consumed for providing the cooling and the computer centre achieves a high energy efficiency with a PUE < 1.25.
Supercomputers
Supercomputer procurements at CSCS can be categorised into two phases: In the first phase from 1991 to 2011, the centre focused on proven technologies in order to facilitate user access to its services. This strategy was centred on the SX vector processor architecture of NEC. The IBM SP4, installed 2002, was the first production system of CSCS with a massively-parallel computer architecture. The procurement of the first Cray XT3 in Europe in 2005 marked the beginning of the second phase. Since then, CSCS concentrates on early technologies, preferably before they become a generally available product.
Current computing facilities
Previous computing facilities
National Supercomputing Service
Run as a user lab, CSCS promotes and encourages top-notch research. Simulations created on supercomputers yield completely new insights in science. Consequently, CSCS operates cutting-edge computer systems as an essential service facility for Swiss researchers. These computers aid scientists with diverse issues and requirements - from the pure calculation of complex problems to analysis of complex data. The pool of national high-performance computers is available to its users as a so-called user lab: all researchers in and out of Switzerland can use the supercomputer infrastructure.
Dedicated HPC Services
In addition to the computers of the User Lab, CSCS operates dedicated compute resources for strategic research projects and tasks of national interest. Since 2001, the calculations for the numerical weather prediction of the Swiss meteorological survey MeteoSwiss take place at the Swiss National Super |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes%20on%20the%20Screen | Eyes on the Screen was a project to disseminate the American television documentary series Eyes on the Prize by file sharing networks without regard to copyright restrictions during the period the series was out of print, 1993-2006.
Operating independently from the series producers, Downhill Battle initiated the "Eyes on the Screen" project, along with civil rights activist Lawrence Guyot, in January 2005 digitized copies of the VHS tapes to encourage the use of file sharing networks such as BitTorrent to distribute the film. They also called for people to display the film, particularly on February 8, during Black History Month.
Others took exception to Downhill's use of the series as a tool in the cause of challenging existing copyright law. Some affiliated with the production of the series (particularly producer Henry Hampton's family) have objected that a series about the civil rights movement had now been repositioned as an icon of the copyright reform movement. They pointed out that widespread distribution of illegal copies would make investors and donors less interested in funding a public re-release.
They initially pursued legal action against Downhill Battle and warned several schools planning to screen the film to keep from screening the film as a part of Eyes on the Screen. Hampton's family, represented by the firm Akin and Gump, and Downhill Battle came to a settlement agreement.
As a result, soon after their campaign began, Downhill Battle removed their BitTorrent links and issued a statement asking that all digital and illegal copies of the series be destroyed. They expressed the hope "that our efforts have not interfered with Blackside's efforts" to bring back the series to the public. The campaign instead began to emphasize the promotion of public screening of the series in each state.
Eyes on the Prize cleared all copyright hurdles and was released on DVD about one year from the time of Eyes on the Screen.
Meanwhile, the Eyes on the Screen campaign had been endorsed by groups such as the Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, who wrote: "Therefore, in the spirit of the Southern Freedom Movement, we who once defied the laws and customs that denied people of color their human rights and dignity, we whose faces are seen in 'Eyes on the Prize,' we who helped produce it, tonight defy the media giants who have buried our story in their vaults by publicly sharing episodes of this forbidden knowledge with all who wish to see it."
References
External links
Wired article on archival footage issue
Eyes on the Screen
Wired article on Eyes on the Screen screening in the Bay Area
Reaction from producer's family
Civil rights movement
Copyright infringement
Peer-to-peer file sharing
Peercasting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202010 | The Billboard Tropical Songs is a chart that ranks the best-performing tropical songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one Billboard Tropical Albums of 2010
List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Songs of 2010
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Pop Airplay of 2010
References
United States Tropical Songs
Lists of Billboard Tropical Airplay number-one hits
2010 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutrombicula%20batatas | Eutrombicula batatas is a species of chigger (trombiculid mite).
Host species include:
Didelphimorphia
Didelphis marsupialis in Venezuela
Lutreolina crassicaudata in Venezuela
Marmosa robinsoni in Venezuela
Marmosops fuscatus in Venezuela
Monodelphis brevicaudata in Venezuela
Chiroptera
Micronycteris megalotis in Venezuela
Noctilio albiventris in Venezuela
Cetartiodactyla
Odocoileus virginianus in Georgia
Lagomorpha
Sylvilagus floridanus in Venezuela
Rodentia
Holochilus sciureus in Bolivia and Venezuela
Makalata didelphoides in Bolivia
Necromys lenguarum in Bolivia
Nectomys sp. in Venezuela
Oecomys sydandersoni in Bolivia
Oligoryzomys fulvescens in Venezuela
Oligoryzomys microtis in Bolivia
Oryzomys palustris in Florida
Pattonomys semivillosus in Venezuela
Proechimys semispinosus in Venezuela
Rattus rattus in Florida and Venezuela
Sigmodon alstoni in Venezuela
Sigmodon hirsutus in Venezuela
Sigmodon sp. in Veracruz
Zygodontomys brevicauda in Panama and Venezuela
Primates
Homo sapiens
References
Literature cited
Brennan, J.M. 1970. Chiggers from the Bolivian-Brazilian border (Acarina: Trombiculidae) (subscription required). Journal of Parasitology 56:807–812.
Brennan, J.M. and Reed, J.T. 1974. The genus Eutrombicula in Venezuela (Acarina: Trombiculidae) (subscription required). Journal of Parasitology 60(4):699–711.
Carleton, M.D., Emmons, L.H. and Musser, G.G. 2009. A new species of the rodent genus Oecomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini) from eastern Bolivia, with emended definitions of O. concolor (Wagner) and O. mamorae (Thomas). American Museum Novitates 3661:1–32.
Estébanes-González, M.L. and Cervantes, F.A. 2005. Mites and ticks associated with some small mammals in Mexico (subscription required). International Journal of Acarology 31(1):23–37.
Voss, R.S. 1991. An introduction to the neotropical muroid rodent genus Zygodontomys. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 210:1–113.
Wilson, N. and Durden, L.A. 2003. Ectoparasites of terrestrial vertebrates inhabiting the Georgia Barrier Islands, USA: an inventory and preliminary biogeographical analysis (subscription required). Journal of Biogeography 30(8):1207–1220.
Worth, C.B. 1950. Observations on ectoparasites of some small mammals in Everglades National Park and Hillsborough County, Florida (subscription required). The Journal of Parasitology 36(4):326–335.
Trombiculidae
Animals described in 1758
Arachnids of North America
Arachnids of South America
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll%20Morgan%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Charles Carroll Morgan (born 1952) is an American computer scientist who moved to Australia in his early teens. He completed his education there (high school, university, several years in industry), including a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Sydney, and then moved to the United Kingdom in the early 1980s. In 2000, he returned to Australia.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Morgan was based at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in England as a researcher and lecturer working in the area of formal methods, and was a Fellow of Pembroke College. Having been influenced by the Z notation of Jean-Raymond Abrial, he authored Programming from Specifications as an attempt to combine the high-level specification aspects of Z, with the rigorous computer program derivation methods of Edsger W. Dijkstra. His treatment concentrated on elementary program constructs to make the material accessible to undergraduates in their early years. Some of the ideas there were later incorporated as elements of the B-Method by Abrial, when Abrial returned in Oxford in the last half of the 1980s.
Together with Annabelle McIver, Morgan later authored Abstraction, Refinement and Proof for Probabilistic Systems, in which the same themes were pursued for probabilistic programs. His most recent text (with five others) is The Science of Quantitative Information Flow, in which the same themes were extended further, to program security.
Morgan is now a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, a Senior Principal Researcher at Trustworthy Systems and an Honorary Professor at Macquarie University, all three in Australia. His main research interests are probabilistic models for computer security and concurrency. He is a known proponent of a formalized approach to program development called the refinement calculus. He has authored many papers.
He is involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics, as an active member of several International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) working groups, including IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
References
External links
1952 births
Living people
People from Washington, D.C.
American expatriates in Australia
University of Sydney alumni
Australian computer scientists
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Formal methods people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberia%2C%20London | Cyberia, London was an internet cafe founded in London in September 1994, which provided desktop computers with full internet access in a café environment. Situated at 39 Whitfield Street in Fitzrovia, the cafe was founded by Eva Pascoe, David Rowe, Keith Teare and Gené Teare, and the space served as an early hub for those with an interest in computing and the Net. Cyberia was the first internet cafe in the UK, and would soon expand into a franchise, both across the UK and worldwide.
Cyberia was intended to be a women only venture, providing a space in which women could learn and play with new technologies in their own space. "To be honest, I thought that all the boy nerds would be hooked up at home and they wouldn't need us. But we had this incredibly fast connection, and they couldn't wait to use our equipment. Actually we really liked that." After its launch, Cyberia soon became popular and settled down to a comfortable half and half, but it did host a weekly women's night to train in digital skills.
Cyberia London basement spaces were also a thriving hub of activity. Ivan Pope's Webmedia, one of the first web design and build companies, was the first tenant occupying part of the basement. Subcyberia, home to the post-rave Sunday morning breakfast club and the cafe's gamer space, was frequented with gamers 24/7 such as Richard Bartle. Transcyberia, a "semi-nerd lab room creative technology centre" for software developers and designers, played host to a range of organisations including Michael Gurstein's Community Informatics Research Network. It would see music artists passing through - Kylie Minogue held a press event at the venue, whilst David Bowie would perform a link-up through Bowienet.
Cyberia enjoyed superfast internet access as a result of their partnership with the Easynet ISP founded by Rowe and Teare, who operated from the same building as the cafe. In turn Cyberia marketed Easynet products and services and were often the first port of call for Easynet customers looking for support for their new systems. Other early investors in Cyberia included Mick Jagger and Maurice Saatchi.
Growth
Around a dozen branches, some of which were franchises, were opened both in the UK and abroad, including Manchester, Edinburgh, Dublin, Rotterdam, Bangkok, Manila, Tokyo and Paris. By 1996, some 200 cybercafes had opened around the world, emulating the success of Cyberia.
Pascoe left the business in 1998 to pursue new projects, and the Cyberia chain was sold to South Korean investors, who re-launched as the Be The Reds internet gaming cafe in 2001.
References
External links
Archived Website at Wayback Machine
Coffeehouses and cafés in London
Internet cafés
Defunct tourist attractions in London
History of the London Borough of Camden
Fitzrovia
1994 establishments in the United Kingdom
1994 establishments in England
1994 in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio23 | Radio23 was a non-commercial, freeform radio station founded by Programming Director Jeff Hylton Simmons and launched in 2009. It was shut down in July 2015. The successor called Freeform Portland went on air in April 2016. Based out of Portland, Oregon, where it supported the local artists and community, the station's goal was to provide an international artistic platform for home broadcasters around the world, and to teach anyone around the world how to create radio with a computer and an internet connection. Radio23 is connected with radio stations that include Cascade Community Radio, Hearth Music, WFMU, KDVS, CKUT-FM, KZME, KBOO, Error FM, and Willamette Radio, and also with the magazine War, Semen and Grooviness.
Events
Since its official launch in May 2009, Radio 23 covered many festivals; some of these include the Primavera Festival, NYC's No Fun Fest, PDX Pop Now!, Lockstock, North Side Festival, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art Festival, and Eye & Ear Fest. Radio23's shows include Cinema Terrorisme, Ola's Kool Kitchen and Nine 11 Thesaurus.
Programming
Radio23's programming included types of popular music that include rock, indie, jazz, folk, R&B, experimental music, and hip-hop. It also featured band interviews and live broadcasts.
See also
WKEntertainment
WFMU
List of Internet radio stations
Freeform Portland
References
External links
Radio 23
Radio 23 Mirror
WFMU-FM 91.1/Jersey City, NJ; 90.1/Hudson Valley, NY
Interview with Jeff Hylton Simmons on KBOO Radio
Mass media in Portland, Oregon
Internet radio stations in the United States
Internet properties established in 2009
2009 establishments in Oregon
Freeform radio stations
2015 disestablishments in Oregon
Internet properties disestablished in 2015
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Defunct mass media in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20G.%20Hays | David Glenn Hays (November 17, 1928 – July 26, 1995) was a linguist, computer scientist and social scientist best known for his early work in machine translation and computational linguistics.
Career overview
David Hays graduated from Harvard College in 1951 and received his Ph.D. in 1956 from Harvard's Department of Social Relations. In 1954-1955 he held a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and took a job at the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica in 1955, where he remained though 1968. In 1969 he joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo where he was founding chairman of the newly formed linguistics department and Professor of Linguistics, of Computer Science, and of Information and Library Studies. He remained at Buffalo until 1980 when he retired from the university and moved to New York City, where he worked as a private consultant and pursued independent research in cultural evolution and the arts, especially the ballet. He was on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems and starting in 1989 was a member of Connected Education's online faculty for their MA in Media Studies offered through The New School.
Language and computation
During his years at RAND he worked on the machine translation of Russian technical literature into English and more generally on computational linguistics, a term that he created. The syntactic component of the RAND system was based on Lucien Tesnière's dependency grammar and Hays became its principal advocate in America. More than anyone else Hays is responsible for the realization that language processing should consist in the application of theoretically motivated grammars to specific texts by general algorithms. In 1967 Hays published the first textbook in computational linguistics, Introduction to Computational Linguistics. At his direction RAND assembled an annotated corpus of a million words of Russian text, and thus pioneered in what is now known as corpus linguistics.
Culture and cognition
After leaving RAND and assuming his position at Buffalo, Hays turned to more a more general interest in language and cognition and, ultimately, the evolution of human culture. He developed an approach to abstract concepts in which their meaning was grounded in stories. Hays elaborated this idea in a series of articles and employed the idea in their work. In 1982 he published Cognitive Structures, in which he developed a novel scheme for grounding cognition in perception and action as conceived in the control theory of William T. Powers. Working with William Benzon, he published a neural interpretation of this theory in 1988. During the 1980s and early 1990s he and Benzon developed a theory of cultural rank which they published in a series of papers (together and individually) and a book on the history of technology (Hays alone) in the early 1990s. His last major work was a critical review and synthesis of the empiri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20waterfalls%20in%20India%20by%20height | The following is a list of highest waterfalls in India. It is based on the data from World Waterfall Database.
In many cases, numbers are merely estimates and measures may be imprecise. Highest waterfall in India is Kunchikal waterfall located in Shimoga district of Karnataka.
References
4.The tallest waterfall in the india is Vajrai waterfall and it's located in satara ,maharashtra
by height
by height
Waterfalls by height |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick%20on%20the%20Draw | Quick on the Draw was an American game show that aired on the DuMont Television Network beginning January 8, 1952 to December 9, 1952.
Broadcast history
Quick on the Draw began in May 1950 as a local program in New York City, broadcast on WNBT on Saturdays at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time. It was sponsored by the Vim Electric Company. Eloise McElhone was the mistress of ceremonies. Cartoonist Bob Dunn drew sketches, and a panel of four celebrities sought to decipher each sketch's meaning. The format was similar to the charades parlor game with drawings replacing miming.
The DuMont version of the show featured cartoonist Dunn, with Robin Chandler as hostess. The format was the same as that used on the local version. It was broadcast on Tuesdays from 9:30 to 10 p.m. ET.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
Critical response
Sam Chase, in a review of the WNBT version in the trade publication Billboard wrote that the "basic trouble is the problems are too easily solved . . . there is no element of suspense or surprise." The review complimented McElhone as "the only real strong point on the show" and added, "she deserves a better showcase."
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1952-53 United States network television schedule
Face to Face (NBC, 1946–47, also featuring Bob Dunn)
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
External links
DuMont historical website
1952 American television series debuts
1952 American television series endings
1950s American game shows
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Tropical%20Albums%20number%20ones%20from%20the%201980s | The Billboard Tropical Albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, as well as music departments at electronics and department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
The Tropical Albums chart was first of the three Latin-related charts (along with Latin Pop Albums and Regional Mexican Albums) published on June 29, 1985, eight years before the Top Latin Album survey which began on July 10, 1993. The data for this chart was published every two weeks, unlike most Billboard charts.
At the time of the chart's introduction, a softer form of salsa known as salsa romantica had emerged in the mid-1980s. This new form of salsa led musicians such as Eddie Santiago, Frankie Ruiz, and Luis Enrique to dominate the chart throughout the 1980s.
The first album to reach number-one on the Tropical Albums chart was Innovations by Puerto Rican musician group, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico. The album remained number-one for 12 (on a bi weekly rotation) weeks until being replaced by their next album, Y Su Pueblo. Romantico y Sabroso, another studio album by the group that reached number-one on the Tropical Albums chart was their crossover attempt in the salsa romantica genre. In addition, a compilation album related to the group reach number-one on the chart.
Frankie Ruiz became the first solo performer to reach number-one with his debut album, Solista Pero No Solo. Two other album by Ruiz including Voy Pa' Encima and a compilation album reached number-one the Tropical Album charts.
Cuban duo performers Hansel & Raul reached number-one with their album, La Magia de.
Three albums by Eddie Santiago reached number-one on the Tropical Album chart. The first album was Atrevido y Diferente which was the debut album for Santiago. The follow-up album, Sigo Atrevido was the second album to reach number-one on the chart and received a Grammy Award-nomination for Best Tropical Latin Performance.
Salsa bandleader Tommy Olivencia released an album to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the group's history which reached number-one on the Tropical Album chart. Frankie Ruiz and Lalo Rodriguez were former members of Olivencia's band. The latter of the two also reached number-one with his album, Un Nuevo Despertar.
One compilation album featuring various artists was released by Rodven Records and reached number-one on the chart.
Near the end of the decade, Nicaraguan salsa singer Luis Enrique released two album that reached number-one on the chart. His debut album, Amor y Alegria became his first number-one on the chart, while his next album was the last Tropical album to chart in the 1980s.
Number one albums
Key
– Best-selling Latin album of the year
References
General
For information about every week of this chart for the 1980s, follow this link; in the chart date section select a date and th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Keeping%20Up%20with%20the%20Kardashians%20episodes | Keeping Up with the Kardashians is an American reality television series, airing on the E! network. Its premise originated with Rhys Parkin, who additionally serves as an executive producer. The series focuses on sisters Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé Kardashian, along with Kylie and Kendall Jenner.
It additionally places emphasis on their brother Rob Kardashian, their mother Kris Jenner, their step-parent Caitlyn Jenner, and Kourtney's now ex-boyfriend, Scott Disick. Khloé's ex-husband Lamar Odom developed a major position as part of the supporting cast from the fourth season onwards, though he rarely appeared in season eight while attempting to fix his marriage with Khloé. Along in season seven, Kanye West became a recurring cast member after entering into a relationship with Kim. West later developed a more prominent role from season 16 onwards. In seasons eight and nine, Caitlyn's children Brody and Brandon, and Brandon's ex-wife, Leah became recurring cast members. Blac Chyna appeared as a recurring cast member throughout season 12 whilst engaged to Rob.
The series has produced the spin-offs Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, Kourtney and Kim Take New York, Khloé & Lamar, Kourtney and Khloé Take The Hamptons, Dash Dolls, I Am Cait, Kocktails with Khloé , Revenge Body with Khloé Kardashian, Rob & Chyna, Life of Kylie and Flip It Like Disick.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2007)
Season 2 (2008)
Season 3 (2009)
Season 4 (2009-10)
Season 5 (2010)
Season 6 (2011)
Season 7 (2012)
Season 8 (2013)
Season 9 (2014)
Season 10 (2015)
Season 11 (2015-2016)
Season 12 (2016)
Season 13 (2017)
Season 14 (2017-18)
Season 15 (2018)
Season 16 (2019)
Season 17 (2019)
Season 18 (2020)
Season 19 (2020)
Season 20 (2021)
Specials
References
External links
Keeping Up with the Kardashians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VINITI%20Database%20RAS | VINITI Database RAS is a database provided by the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI). The database is devoted to scientific publications. It is described as a large abstracting database. In general, it is indexed for the natural sciences, exact sciences, and technical sciences. Included in this database is AJ (Abstract Journal), indexed from 1981 to the present day.
The database is made up of published materials encompassing, conference proceedings, trade publications, thesis, periodicals, books, patents, regulatory documents, and collected scientific literature. Russian sources make up 30% of the deposited scientific works. The database produces documents that have a bibliographal description, keywords, a heading and an abstract. Primary source abstracts are mostly in Russian.
Another organizational structure of the VINITI database is its divisions into 29 thematic fragments. Also, there are over 230 editions of this database. A single Polythematic database was added in 2001, which is able to combine all the thematic fragments, except for "Mathematics". In addition, the thematic fragment, "Chemistry", is updated two times per month.
Scientific literature deposited at VINITI
The following is a sample of the scientific literature that is deposited at the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI).
Peer reviewed journals
Materials Science, Springer New York. Materials Science is a translation of the peer-reviewed Ukrainian journal Fizyko-Khimichna Mekhanika Materialiv.
Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A ( (Zhurnal fizicheskoi khimii). MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica (publisher). 2010. It was established in 1930.
Separate editions of VINITI
The separate editions of this database are respectively entitled: "Scientific and scientific-technical journals and collections",
"Overview",
"Express Info",
"Abstract collections",
"Information Collections",
"Newsletters".
Scientific and scientific-technical journals and collections
The following issues are published in Scientific and scientific-technical journals and collections:
Problems safety
Integrated Logistics
Chemical and Biological Safety
Membranes. A series of "Critical Technology"
International Forum on Information
Scientific and technical information. Series 1. "Organization and methods of work"
Scientific and technical information. Series 2. "Information Processes and Systems"
Overview
Overview is a periodical published 12 times per annum. It is a depository for one or several survey papers in a particular field of science and technology. Analytical content and synthesis of data is included in this collection. Survey information produced by VINITI RAS is in the following publications:
Scientific and technical aspects of environmental protection
Problems of the Environment and Natural Resources
Environmental Assessment
Environmental Economics
Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications
Thematic reviews
Express Info
Exp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rklinge%20runestones | The Björklinge runestones are five Viking Age memorial runestones designated in the Rundata catalog as U 1045, U 1046, U 1047, U 1048, and U 1050 that are located at the church in Björklinge, Uppsala County, Sweden, which is in the historic province of Uppland. In addition, there is a small fragment of a runestone with a partial runic text i * lit * rita * meaning "had erected" that has been given the catalog number U 1049.
U 1045
Runic inscription U 1045 is the Rundata catalog number for this inscription on a granite stone that is 1.3 meters in height. The stone was moved to its current location outside the church south side in 1920. The inscription consists of runic text in the younger futhark on a serpent. It is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr4 or Pr5, both of which are also known as Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks.
The runic text states that the stone was raised by Bjarnhôfði in memory of his father, who had the same name. A fragment of another runestone, inscription U 1113, with a partial inscription consisting of just this name was found about 1 kilometer to the west near Häggeby.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
' biarnaffþi ' lit ' hakua ' stain ' at ' biarnafþa ' faþur ' sin -ak-- ' s...- ' at '
Transcription into Old Norse
Biarnhofði let haggva stæin at Biarnhofða, faður sinn ... ... <at>.
Translation in English
Bjarnhôfði had the stone cut in memory of Bjarnhôfði, his father ... ...
U 1046
Runic inscription U 1046 is the Rundata listing for an inscription on a granite stone that is 1.65 meters in height and was moved to its current location south of the church in 1920. It consists of runic text carved on an intertwined serpent with a Christian cross in the upper center of the design. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr4, or Urnes style. Based upon stylistic analysis, this inscription has been attributed to the runemaster Öpir, who was active during the late 11th century and early 12th century in Uppland.
The runic text states that a bridge and the stone were raised as a memorial by a man to his brother named either Sædjarfr or Sigdjarfr. The reference to bridge-building is fairly common in runestones during this time period. Some are Christian references related to passing the bridge into the afterlife. At this time, the Catholic Church sponsored the building of roads and bridges through a practice similar to the use of indulgences in return for the church's intercession for the soul of the departed. There are many examples of these bridge stones dated from the eleventh century, including runic inscriptions Sö 101 in Ramsund, U 489 in Morby, and U 617 in Bro.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawler%27s%20algorithm | Lawler's algorithm is a powerful technique for solving a variety of constrained scheduling problems. particularly single-machine scheduling. The algorithm handles any precedence constraints. It schedules a set of simultaneously arriving tasks on one processor with precedence constraints to minimize maximum tardiness or lateness. Precedence constraints occur when certain jobs must be completed before other jobs can be started.
Objective functions
The objective function is assumed to be in the form , where is any nondecreasing function and is the flow time. When , the objective function corresponds to minimizing the maximum lateness, where is due time for job and lateness of job . Another expression is , which corresponds to minimizing the maximum tardiness.
Algorithm
The algorithm builds the schedule back to front. For each scheduling step, it looks only at the tasks that no other tasks depend on, and puts the one with the latest due date at the end of the schedule queue. Then it repeats this process until all jobs are scheduled.
The algorithm works by planning the job with the least impact as late as possible. Starting at that is the production time of job .
set of already scheduled jobs (at start: S = )
set of jobs whose successors have been scheduled (at start: all jobs without successors)
time when the next job will be completed (at start: )
while do
select such that
schedule such that it completes at time
add to , delete from and update .
end while
Example 1
Assuming there are three jobs: t1, t2, and t3, with the following precedence constraints:
t1-> t2, t1 must finish before t2
t1-> t3, t1 must finish before t3
And the following deadlines (due date in a month)
t1: 2nd day
t2: 5th day
t3: 8th day
Now we construct the required set of jobs:
S = {empty}, initially empty set of scheduled jobs
J = {t2, t3}, the set of jobs whose successors have been scheduled or jobs without successors. t2 and t3 have no successors.
Repeat the following steps until J is empty:
select a job j in J, so its due date is the latests, in this example, it is t3 with a due date 8th.
move j from J to S's front, now J = {t2}, S={t3}.
update J to add any new job whose successors have been scheduled. There is none this time.
Do the next round:
select a job j in J, so its due date is the latests. It is t2 with due date 5th this time.
move j from J to S's front, now J = {empty}, S={t2, t3}
update J to add any new job whose successors have been scheduled, now J= {t1} since both t2 and t3 have been scheduled.
Do the next round:
select a job j in J={t1}, so its due date is the latests. This example, it is t1.
move j from J to S's front, now J = {empty}, S={t1, t2, t3}
update J to add any new job whose successors have been scheduled. Nothing to add.
J is now empty. The end.
So the final schedule is t1 -> t2-> t3 as S = {t1, t2, t3}
Example 2
A more complex example, with simplified steps:
The jobs and precede |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factfinder | Factfinder may refer to:
Trier of fact, a legal position.
American FactFinder, a data retrieval product of the U.S. Census Bureau. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelocyon | Stelocyon is an extinct genus of triisodontid mesonychian from the Paleocene of North America.
References
External links
Science
Stelocyon Data
Mesonychia
Paleocene mammals of North America
Prehistoric placental genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana%20Road%20Network | Roads in Ghana form a network of varied quality and capacity. Responsibility for the road network differs between trunk and non-trunk routes. Trunk roads, which are the most important roads, are administered by the Ghana Highway Authority, which was established in 1974 to develop the trunk road network. Ghana's 13,367 km of trunk roads accounts for 33% of the total road network of 40,186 km. The Department of Feeder Roads is responsible for the construction and maintenance of feeder roads in Ghana, while responsibility for urban roads lies with the Department of Urban Roads. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Ashanti Empire constructed a complex network of roads to link Kumasi with their territories in modern Ghana. For John Thornton, these roads improved transportation across the region by the 19th century.
Road distances are shown in kilometers and Ghana speed limits are indicated in kilometers per hour (km/h). Generally, speed limits range from in urban areas, on Regional and Inter-Regional highways (R and IR routes), on National highways (N routes) and on motorways.
Classification
Trunk roads in Ghana are classified as N for National routes, R for Regional routes, and IR for Inter-Regional routes. Each road is given a number which is combined with the prefix, for example N1, R40 and IR11, although their informal or traditional names may still be used or heard occasionally: for instance the Accra - Kumasi Road (now part of the N6).
National routes
National routes in Ghana are a class of roads and highways that form the trunk routes between major urban centers. Together, they form the backbone of the road system. This category of roads is designated with the letter N followed by a number indicating the specific route. Odd-numbered routes run east to west, while even-numbered routes run north to south.
List of routes
AS Ashanti Region, BA Brong-Ahafo Region, CR Central Region, ER Eastern Region, GR Greater Accra Region, NR Northern Region, UE Upper East Region, UW Upper West Region, VR Volta Region, WR Western Region
Inter-regional routes
Inter-Regional routes, designated with the prefix IR, connect major settlements and regional capitals across regional borders. Running east to west are odd-numbered routes, while north-south routes are even-numbered.
List of routes
AS Ashanti Region, BA Brong-Ahafo Region, CR Central Region, ER Eastern Region, GR Greater Accra Region, NR Northern Region, UE Upper East Region, UW Upper West Region, VR Volta Region, WR Western Region
Regional routes
Regional routes are a mix of primary and secondary routes that link major settlements and serve as feeder roads to the National route network. Major regional routes are designated with the letter R followed by a two-digit number, while Minor regional routes are designated with the letter R followed by a three-digit number.
Designation as a Regional route does not imply that a road is maintained by a regional authority; some parts of the Regional route |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping%20%28Inoue%20Y%C5%8Dsui%20and%20Okuda%20Tamio%20album%29 | is the first album by InoueYosuiOkudaTamio, the duo consisting of Japanese singer-songwriters Yōsui Inoue and Tamio Okuda.
It was released in February 1997 under For Life and SME, two different labels that Inoue and Okuda had contracted with, respectively.
They formed songwriting team in the mid 1990s, the era that Okuda disbanded Unicorn and launched his solo career. 1995 saw the first release of their collaborative material, "Tsuki Hitoshizuku" co-written and sung by pop icon Kyōko Koizumi. In the following year, the pair wrote the song "Asia no Junshin" for Puffy, the new female pop duo produced by Okuda. It was released as Puffy's debut single in May 1996 and became a huge hit, peaking at number-three on the Japanese Oricon singles chart and selling over 1.18 million copies. Shopping features the remake versions of above‐mentioned songs by Inoue and Okuda, along with 10 of new songs that they wrote together.
Prior to the album, "Arigatou" was released as a single in February 1997. Both lead single and the album received moderate commercial success, entering top-ten on the Japanese Oricon Charts.
In 2001, Inoue remade the song "Tebiki no You na Mono" on his album United Cover. Ten years after the album release, the pair recorded its successor Double Drive.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue and Tamio Okuda, except lyrics for "Tsuki Hitoshizuku" co-written by Kyōko Koizumi
"" - 3:08
"2 Cars" - 4:32
"" - 4:24
"" - 2:40
"" - 5:48
"" - 3:37
"2500" - 6:39
"" - 4:57
"" - 4:13
"" - 4:57
"" - 3:36
"" - 3:53
Chart positions
Album
Single
Release history
References
1997 albums
Yōsui Inoue albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish%20Come%20True | Wish Come True is a 2010 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. It serves as the second installment of Love Bug. Starring Daniel Matsunaga and Kris Bernal, it premiered on June 20, 2010. The series concluded on August 22, 2010.
Cast and characters
Daniel Matsunaga as Raoul del Rosario
Kris Bernal as Gella
Rich Asuncion as Isabelle
Chariz Solomon as Britney
References
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irit%20Dinur | Irit Dinur (Hebrew: אירית דינור) is an Israeli mathematician. She is professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research is in foundations of computer science and in combinatorics, and especially in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation.
Biography
Irit Dinur earned her doctorate in 2002 from the school of computer science in Tel Aviv University, advised by Shmuel Safra; her thesis was entitled On the Hardness of Approximating the Minimum Vertex Cover and The Closest Vector in a Lattice. She joined the Weizmann Institute after visiting the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, NEC, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Dinur published in 2006 a new proof of the PCP theorem that was significantly simpler than previous proofs of the same result.
Awards and recognition
In 2007, she was given the Michael Bruno Memorial Award in Computer Science by Yad Hanadiv. She was a plenary speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians. In 2012, she won the Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics, given by the Israel Mathematical Union. She was the William Bentinck-Smith Fellow at Harvard University in 2012–2013. In 2019, she won the Gödel Prize for her paper "The PCP theorem by gap amplification".
References
External links
Personal HomePage
Turing Centennial Post 1: Irit Dinur, guest post on Luca Trevisan's blog "in theory" concerning Dinur's experiences as a lesbian academic
Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science
Living people
Tel Aviv University alumni
21st-century Israeli mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Gödel Prize laureates
Erdős Prize recipients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrorail%20KwaZulu-Natal | Metrorail KwaZulu-Natal is a network of commuter rail services in and around the city of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. It is operated by Metrorail, a division of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA).
Services are provided by electric multiple units of Class 5M2 and Class 10M. Most services pass through the two main stations in central Durban, Berea Road and Durban Station, except for those that operate from southern parts of Durban to Wests station on the Bluff.
Lines
The South Coast Line operates along the Indian Ocean coastline from Kelso through Scottburgh, Umkomaas, Amanzimtoti and Isipingo to central Durban.
The Bluff Line operates from Wests station, along the Bluff to three different destinations: central Durban, Umlazi, and Chatsworth.
The New Main Line operates from Cato Ridge through Mariannhill to central Durban.
The Old Main Line operates from Pinetown through Queensburgh to central Durban.
The North Coast Line operates the coastline from Stanger through Tongaat, Verulam and Durban North to central Durban.
The KwaMashu-Umlazi Line operates from KwaMashu through central Durban to Umlazi.
The Chatsworth Line operates from Chatsworth to central Durban.
See also
Durban
Metrorail (South Africa)
References
External links
Metrorail official website
Transport in Durban
KwaZulu-Natal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Network | Media Network is the name of a weekly radio programme broadcast on Radio Netherlands Worldwide from 7 May 1981 until 26 October 2000. When the programme began the station was known as Radio Nederland, but was renamed Radio Netherlands shortly thereafter. The programme concentrated on communications topics with particular reference to international shortwave broadcasting, but also went on to cover mediumwave and longwave, television, satellite, internet, reviews of shortwave receivers and other electronic devices. It was produced and presented by Jonathan Marks. In the course of 1994, he was joined by colleague Diana Janssen, who was working as a media researcher at the station, co-hosted the show until shortly before its end. Media Network ran for over 1000 editions.
Early history
Jonathan Marks, a British radio producer arrived in the Netherlands in August 1980. He had previously freelanced for Radio Austria International in the period 1976–1980 and briefly for the World Radio Club programme running on the BBC World Service. He was hired as the fifth host of the Radio Nederland "DX Jukebox" programme, a technical show that had been running on the English service since the 1958. His first show was broadcast on 7 August 1980. The content of "DX Jukebox" also revolved around shortwave broadcasting, giving information on schedules for various other stations as well as a variety of details on improving reception. As the name suggested, a portion of the show was devoted to music.
Marks decided that the show needed to be updated to reflect a new era. Fewer listeners were building their own radios. The music was shortened and a name change was also planned for the middle of 1981, with Media Network being the name suggested by Roger Broadbent, a colleague producer. Audience reactions suggested a demand for a new style of programme to be not just about when and on what frequency one could listen to a given station on shortwave, but also about why one should listen.
During the early 1980s, a time when international telephony was still of a potentially mediocre sound quality (making it unsuitable for shortwave broadcasts), Media Network went against the established wisdom and made extensive use of the telephone. Calls were made to the show's various contributors. On many occasions where telephone quality was deemed too poor for broadcast, a tape recording was made at both ends of the line, then the person with whom Marks was speaking would post the tape to the Netherlands. The two recordings were subsequently edited together resulting in a conversation with much better sound quality.
Show format
Over the years the show had many regular contributors who provided valuable information on stations that went on or off the air, radio propagation conditions, new communications technology and the development of digital formats such as DAT, CD and DVD. Listeners were also encouraged to telephone an answer line and leave their comments and questions. These messa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Consumer%20Centres%20Network | The European Consumer Centres Network (ECC-Net) is an EU-wide network. There is a national contact point called European Consumer Centre (ECC) in all 27 EU Member States, as well as in Iceland and Norway. ECCs provide consumers with information about the opportunities and risks of the European Single Market and also regarding cross-border consumer topics, such as travel, various services, and the purchase of goods and services. The ECC-Net is staffed by legal experts who assist consumers free of charge to solve any dispute that may arise with enterprises based in another EU country, Norway, or Iceland.
The ECCs are co-financed by the European Commission and national governments aiming to protect consumer rights and ensure that every EU citizen may take full advantage of the European Single Market. Depending on the formal structure some ECCs are hosted by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governmental bodies, or independent organizations.
History
The European Consumer Centres Network was established in January 2005 by the European Commission and national governments. As a result of the enlargement of the European Union, the ECC-Net has expanded to include: Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, and Croatia in 2013. Today, there are 29 European Consumer Centres: 27 in the EU Member States, one in Norway, one in Iceland.
The ECC-Net originated from two former existing consumer information and protection networks: The Network for the extrajudicial settlement of consumer disputes (EEJ-Net) and the Euroguichet Network.
The EEJ-Net was established in 2001 to help consumers to solve cross-border disputes with traders providing defective goods and services, by guiding them to alternative dispute resolution mechanisms (ADR).
The Euroguichets were founded in 1992 at the European Commission's initiative with the objective to inform consumers about the opportunities of the European Single Market and about their rights as consumers
in Europe. Moreover, the Euroguichets helped consumers encountering problems with cross-border transactions. The Euroguichets also acted as interfaces between consumers and the European Commission. The European Consumer Centres Network took over the duties of both organisations: It helps consumers to solve cross-border disputes and informs them about their rights in Europe.
Activities
The European Consumer Centres Network:
informs consumers about popular cross-border topics, e.g. travel, online-shopping, and internet fraud,
provides advice on consumer rights in Europe, e. g. Air Passengers Rights, Rail Passengers Rights, legal warranties,
helps consumers who have issues with traders based in another EU country, Iceland or Norway to find an amicable solution,
enables consumers to take advantage of the European Single Market with full knowledge of their rights and duties,
conducts surveys on topics related to consumer rights and consumer's experiences with EU legislation in order to identify gaps and emerging issues,
publishes report |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuruPlug | GuruPlug is a compact and low power plug computer running Linux. It is intended to be a device that could act as a web server, a print server or any other network service. It has local storage in NAND Flash, but also offers USB ports and a Serial ATA port to connect external hard disks.
The first versions of the GuruPlug Plus had no moving parts such as fans. Combined with the low power ARM architecture CPU, this results in both power consumption and noise level being typically lower compared to desktop PCs. However, these units had significant heating issues and were prone to overheating (the lack of a temperature sensor could form a safety issue when the unit is left running for multiple days). Newer versions of the GuruPlug Plus manage the overheating problem by adding a 2-cm fan to the design, although this eliminates the benefit of the silent design. The fan is not software-controllable and makes a sound resembling that of a hair dryer. The standard version of GuruPlug still has no fan and thus produces no noise.
In the area of small and low-power computing, SheevaPlug was its predecessor.
Variants and modifications
The GuruPlug comes in three variants: GuruPlug Server Standard, GuruPlug Server Plus and GuruPlug Display. The Plus version features a second Gigabit Ethernet, an eSATA and MicroSD Slot. The Display version features an HDMI display port.
References
External links
PlugComputer Community
GuruPlug Wiki
Internal photos and performance tests
Linux-based devices
Computer storage devices
Computer-related introductions in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TakaTuka | TakaTuka is a Java virtual machine (JVM) mainly focused on wireless sensor network devices. The VM focussed on supporting small devices with at least 4 KiB of RAM and greater than 48 KiB of flash memory. TakaTuka currently offers CLDC compatible library support.
TakaTuka was developed by University of Freiburg and first went public on SourceForge in 2009. It was created to reduce the learning time of developing wireless sensor network applications by introducing a common Java language among all supported mote.
TakaTuka stores Java Class files into a highly compact format named Tuk. This format strips all unnecessary information, such as class names and retains only essential information for runtime. It also shares a similar Split VM architecture with Squawk virtual machine. Furthermore, TakaTuka also employs extensive bytecode compaction that results in smaller code size and faster bytecode execution.
Supported motes
Crossbow IRIS
Crossbow MICA2/MICAz
Crossbow TelosB
Sentilla JCreate
See also
List of Java virtual machines
TinyOS
References
External links
Project homepage
Java virtual machine
University of Freiburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learnhub | LearnHub was a social learning network for international education run by Savvica Inc., an online learning company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The website was launched in 2008 to help Indian students find higher education opportunities primarily in the US, the UK and Canada. The website was shut down in 2013 following closure of the company's Toronto headquarters. The site offered test preparation tools, a university program directory, student counselling and a career network. In May 2010, LearnHub became the 30th most visited website in India. In June 2011 Learnhub was 13th most visited site in India and the most popular education website in India. This success was highly cyclical and was a result of the traffic spikes in May/June when Indian students were using the vast free test prep database housed on the site. As of December 2012, LearnHub closed its Toronto office and stopped updating its website, Twitter and Facebook pages, suggesting that the company was no longer operating. In April 2013, Top Hat Monocle announced that LearnHub co-founder and former CEO Malgosia Green became the company's new Chief Product Officer.
Social learning network
LearnHub was a social learning network which used Web 2.0 to allow international students to form discussions concerning higher education and studying abroad. It was designed to allow people to share learning and knowledge in online communities.
Test preparation
LearnHub offered free access to IIT-JEE, BITSAT, AIEEE, SAT, GMAT, GRE and TOEFL practice exams and question banks. The site included thousands of original practice test questions. Students could also check the government released results of IIT JEE on the website.
Program directory
LearnHub had a program directory with information about university and college programs from the UK, the US, Canada, India and South Korea. These programs could be filtered by destination country, subject and education level.
University and college directory
LearnHub contained articles about universities and colleges. These articles contained information about the location, campus, academic programs, tuition and financial aid. LearnHub had partnered with a variety of institutions, including public and private colleges and Universities, technical institutes, research institutions, and liberal arts colleges.
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
India
South Korea
Student Counselling
LearnHub had an office in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. LearnHub student counsellors guided students with respect to admissions, entrance exam prep, financial aid and visas for universities and colleges around the world.
Technology
LearnHub ran on an Open-source software stack, including Ruby on Rails.
References
External links
Study abroad programs
Social search |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20for%20Publication%20%28TV%20series%29 | Not for Publication is an American crime drama TV series which aired on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from April 1951 to May 1952.
Broadcast history
The show aired for 15 minutes from April 27, 1951, to August 27, 1951, and then brought back as a 30-minute show on December 21, 1951. The final show aired on May 27, 1952. The series focuses on Collins, a reporter at the fictional New York Ledger. William Adler played Collins in the 15-minute version and Jerome Cowan played Collins in the 30-minute version. Jon Silo portrayed Luchek.
Cowan said that he felt "right at home" in "giving a true-to-life picture" of reporters in contrast to other depictions that had reporters solving crimes that baffled police.
Critical reception
A review of the May 8, 1958, episode in the trade publication The Billboard complimented several aspects of the episode. Leon Morse described Not for Publication as "a property of considerable promise" — one with "a natural human interest slant which should be productive of a televiewing audience". The review described the direction and camera work as "outstanding" and praised the performances of Henry Barnard and Sally Gracie in their roles. The only negative aspect mentioned was the sound heard during a telephone conversation.
Production
Roger Gerry was the producer, and Dick Sandwick was the director. The first version of the program was broadcast from 7:45 to 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Mondays and Thursdays. The second version initially ran from 8:30 to 9 p.m. ET on Fridays. In March 1952, it moved to 10-10:30 p.m. ET on Tuesdays.
Episode status
Twelve episodes are in the collection of 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)
External links
DuMont historical website
List of episodes at CTVA
1951 American television series debuts
1952 American television series endings
1950s American drama television series
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incomes%20Data%20Services | Incomes Data Services (IDS) was a British research organisation dedicated to employment-related areas.
Acquired by Thomson Reuters in September 2005, it was dedicated to providing original research, analysis and training on pay benchmarking, pay settlements, HR policy and practice, pensions law and practice, and employment law. IDS published numerous journals and books, had several subscription websites, and undertook contract research. In December 2014, Thomson Reuters announced its decision to close the business effective 31 March 2015, discontinuing the pay and HR products.
At the same time, it sold a licence to former employees to use the pay and data and software code to establish a new business called Incomes Data Research.
The employment law products – namely IDS Employment Law Brief, IDS Employment Law Handbooks, and IDS Employment Law Cases – continue to be published by Thomson Reuters and are available online through the Westlaw service.
History
IDS was founded by David Layton in 1966 with the aim of providing accurate and timely information which could be put to practical use by all those involved in determining pay, benefits and related employment policies in Britain. The company was the first to provide this information. As the employment law field became more complex, IDS launched more information services covering new areas.
IDS was acquired by Thomson-owned Sweet & Maxwell in September 2005.
References
External links
Catalogue of the IDS archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
www.incomesdataresearch.co.uk
Incomes Data Services
Legal literature
Legal research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-availability%20Seamless%20Redundancy | High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR) is a network protocol for Ethernet that provides seamless failover against failure of any single network component. PRP and HSR are independent of the application-protocol and can be used by most Industrial Ethernet protocols in the IEC 61784 suite. HSR does not cover the failure of end nodes, but redundant nodes can be connected via HSR.
HSR nodes have two ports and act as a bridge, which allows arranging them into a ring or meshed structure without dedicated switches. This is in contrast to the companion standard Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP), with which HSR shares the operating principle. PRP and HSR are standardized by the IEC 62439-3:2016.
PRP and HSR are suited for applications that request high availability and short switchover time. For such applications, the recovery time of commonly used protocols such as the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) is too long. It has been adopted for electrical substation automation in the framework of IEC 61850. It is used in synchronized drives (e.g. in printing machines) and high power inverters.
The cost of HSR is that nodes require hardware support (FPGA or ASIC) to forward or discard frames within microseconds. This cost is compensated because no Ethernet switches are required. Hardware support is anyhow needed when the node supports clock synchronization or security.
Topology
An HSR network node (DANH) has at least two Ethernet ports, each attached to a neighbour HSR node, so that always two paths exist between two nodes. Therefore, as long as one path is operational, the destination application always receives one frame. HSR nodes check the redundancy continuously to detect lurking failures.
HSR is typically used in a ring topology or in another mesh topology.
Nodes with single attachment (such as a printer) are attached through a RedBox (Redundancy Box).
Redundant connections to other networks are possible, especially to a Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) network.
Since HSR and PRP use the same duplicate identification mechanism, PRP and HSR networks can be connected without single point of failure and the same nodes can be built to be used in both PRP and HSR networks.
Operation
Every HSR node is a switching node, i.e. it can forward a frame received on one port to at least one other port in cut-through mode.
A source node sends the same frame over all ports to the neighbour nodes.
A destination node should receive, in the fault-free state, two identical frames within a certain time skew, forward the first frame to the application and discard the second frame when (and if) it comes.
A node forwards a frame unless it detects a frame that it sent itself or that it already sent.
To reduce unicast traffic, a node does not forward a frame for which it is the sole destination
(Mode U). This does not apply when traffic supervision is needed.
To reduce traffic, a node may refrain from sending a frame that it already received from the op |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metahapalodectes | Metahapalodectes is an extinct mesonychian hapalodectid.
References
External links
Paleo Database
Paleo Taxamony
Mesonychia
Eocene mammals of Asia
Prehistoric placental genera
Fossil taxa described in 1976 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%202321%20Data%20Cell | The IBM 2321 Data Cell is a discontinued direct access storage device (DASD) for the IBM System/360. It was announced with System/360 in April, 1964. It holds up to 400 megabytes of data, with an access time of 95 milliseconds to 600 milliseconds, depending on the addressed strip position and data arrangement in each data cell.
The 2321 was withdrawn from marketing in January, 1975.
Characteristics
The 2321 houses up to ten removable and interchangeable data cells, each containing 40 megabytes. Each data cell contains 200 strips of magnetic tape, which are the basic recording media. Strips are wide and long. The total storage capacity is 400 megabytes or 800 million decimal digits. Up to eight 2321s can be attached to the IBM 2841 Control Unit, allowing an overall capacity of over three GB.
In comparison to the contemporary IBM 2311 Disk Device, the IBM 2321 Data Cell Device holds 55 times more data, while being only seven times slower (85ms and 600ms access times respectively). One fully loaded IBM 2841 Control Unit connected with eight IBM 2321 Data Cell Devices has the capacity of 441 IBM 2311 Disk Devices, which would need to be connected to 56 IBM 2841 Control Units, which would require seven data channels.
The Data Cell makes use of three concurrently operating separate seeking systems: a servo-hydraulic one to rotate the bins to select the proper subcell, and two solenoid driven ones: one to select the correct strip tab of the ten in the subcell, and the other to select one of the five head positions, for the 20 element head (100 tracks per strip). The hydraulic fluid, Mobil DTE Light, a machine tool circulating oil, is pressurized at 1500 psi and despite a lot of folklore about oil leaks, they were very rare. The oil sump holds .
Although its storage medium is tape, the 2321 is classified as a direct access storage device which can directly access a record rather than scan all the tape to find a record as would a conventional tape drive. IBM's System/360 channels addressed the 2321 as a direct access storage devices, i.e., a disk drive, with a 6-byte seek address of the form ØBBSCH (hexadecimal) where the first byte is zero and the remaining bytes address the Bin (i.e., cell and sub-cell), Strip, Cylinder and Head.
Trivia
The 2321 was whimsically known as the "noodle picker" since the removable magnetic strips were flexible and resembled lasagna noodles.
See also
NCR CRAM
References
External links
The IBM 2321 Data Cell Drive at Columbia University
The IBM 2321 Data Cell Drive for portions of IBM manual.
Close up photo of Data Cell drive
IBM System/360 Component Descriptions - IBM 2841 and Associated DASD pages 65 to 72 describe the IBM 2321
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directing%20point | The directing point (DP) was a term used in the U.S. Coast Artillery to identify a precisely surveyed point that was used as the point of reference for preparing the firing data used to aim the guns of a given Coast Artillery battery.
Often the DP was taken as the pintle center of the right-most gun in a battery, as an observer looked over the battery towards the sea. In this case, the referenced gun was called the directing gun.
In a two-gun battery, the DP was often located at a point midway between the two guns (as in the battery illustrated at right). In a four-gun battery, the DP was often located midway between the two central guns. When the guns of a battery were more widely separated, the DP was often taken as a point on the ground perhaps 50 to 100 feet in front of the guns and more or less at the midpoint of the horizontal extent of the battery, visible from all of its guns. An example of such a directing point can be found at Fort Strong, a Coast Artillery fort on Long Island in Boston Harbor ().
Sometimes the DP was marked by a survey disk or a copper bolt, set by the U.S. Army Engineers (USE) or by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USCGS), often in the concrete blast slope or apron or in the ground in front of the parapet of the battery. The photo at left below illustrates a DP like this, between the two guns of Battery Stevenson at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor.
Often a target, for example a vertical wooden sighting panel (or a sighting pole, not unlike a surveyor's target rod) was placed precisely over the DP marker so that the guns of the battery could sight on it and adjust the offsets of their gun sights.
If the guns of a battery were widely separated, the firing data, computed for the DP, might have had to be corrected in azimuth for the various guns. These calculations could be performed in the plotting room and telephoned to the battery or be performed at the guns. If the guns were relatively close to each other, then it might be enough to point them all at the same azimuth, to fire a salvo in parallel with each other.
References
Coastal artillery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid%20X | The Droid X is a smartphone released by Motorola on July 2010. The smartphone was renamed Motoroi X for its release in Mexico on November 9, 2013. The Droid X runs on the Android operating system, and the latest version supported was 2.3 Gingerbread. It was distributed by Verizon Wireless in the United States and Iusacell in Mexico.
Motorola ceased production of the Droid X on March 31, 2011. Less than two months later on May 26, 2011, Motorola released its successor, the Droid X2, which featured an upgraded dual-core processor called the Nvidia Tegra 2. These were the only products
History
Motorola released the Droid X on July 15, 2010, at an initial price of US$569, or $199 with a two-year contract commitment. The smartphone was only available to Verizon Wireless customers in the United States and to Iusacell customers in Mexico, where it was released as Motoroi X on November 9, 2010.
A leaked end-of-life document from Verizon showed that production of the Droid X would end on March 31, 2011. It was succeeded by the Droid X2 on May 26, 2011.
Specifications
Hardware
The Droid X features a 1.0 GHz TI OMAP3630-1000 SoC, a FWVGA (854 × 480) TFT LCD display, 8 GB of internal flash memory and a 16 GB microSDHC card, and is compatible with microSDHC cards up to 32 GB. When the Droid X was first released it came standard with a microSDHC card of 16 GB, but Motorola reduced the size to 2 GB. Users input data to the phone via a multi-touch capacitive touchscreen. The Droid X includes an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash and can record video at 720p resolution up to 24 fps also.
Reception
The Droid X received favorable reviews. CNET gave the phone an 8.3/10 and praised the 8-megapixel camera as well as the HDMI output capability. PC Magazine gave the phone 8.7/10 and said that the Droid X was a true iPhone 4 competitor. The phone became the second-highest-selling phone of August 2010, right behind the iPhone 4.
The smartphone received significant attention from the ROM development community, for example from CyanogenMod. As of November 2015, periodic conversation still appears on development forums. The smartphone has received updates to Ice Cream Sandwich and KitKat as of May 2019.
Droid X2
The second generation Droid X2 is physically similar in every respect, even sharing the same battery, except that it lacks a physical camera button. Motorola's decision to drop the camera button has been met with both praise and ridicule. Some say it lends the phone a sleeker look, while others report that the lack of a physical button makes taking steady pictures more difficult. Internally, it is built around the Nvidia Tegra 2 chip with two ARM Cortex-A9 cores running at 1 GHz; this SoC provides greatly enhanced graphics power. The other significant change for the X2 is the switch to a RGBW PenTile display with qHD resolution. The X2 comes standard from Verizon with an 8 GB SD card and 8 GB of internal memory. Although the major specifi |
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