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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor%20Vianu%20National%20College%20of%20Computer%20Science | The Tudor Vianu National High School of Computer Science (), often referred to as "CNITV" of Bucharest can trace its roots back to 1928 and enjoys nowadays a very good reputation in Romania and even in the world, due to its students who won many international competitions in physics, mathematics, computer science, and chemistry.
History
The history of the Tudor Vianu National College of Computer Science begins with its building situated at 10, Architect Ion Mincu Street in Bucharest. During World War II, the building was the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement headquarters. In 1928, the building began to be used as a high school and was first known as the "Academical High School for Girls". Due to the changes that followed after World War II, the institution decided to focus on a prospective domain: computer science. Founded in 1928, the institution received the name of "Theoretical High School for Girls".
Being placed in a high-end residential area, many nomenklatura children attended its classes, especially at the "Dr. Petru Groza", theoretical high school among others.
In September 1970, by the decision of the council of ministers, the "High School of Informatics" was established, also known as Industrial High-School for Systems of Automatic Data processing "SPAD". It started with 4 classes, 109 students, 27 per class, in parallel with the "Peter Groza High School", which continued until the termination in 1974 of the theoretical section under the name of the "High School Informatics Dr. Petru Groza ".
The computer science classes were completed after September 15, based on the transfer from other high schools in Bucharest, provided that the average admission to that high school is over 9.00. Starting from 1971 the High School organized its own admission exams, where the minimum grade was usually above 9.00, due to high demand as being among the best High schools in the Country. The first promotion from the High School of Informatics graduated in 1975, bringing to the high school the first prizes at the Physics and Mathematics Olympiads by municipality and country (Valeriu Beiu, Andrei Cioara, and Liviu Popa-Simil in Physics; Daniel Mihalcea and Constantin Manoil in Mathematics). The admission rate in higher education was over 90%, qualifying the high school as one of the first high schools in Bucharest at that time. Students' life was good, learning program was intensive but relaxed, students having enough time to do extra-curriculum activities and do good with home-works. Teachers were special, well prepared, nice with students, objective with grading. The purpose of the founding was to produce the mid-level staff specialized in informatics necessary for the development of the Bucharest Computer Factory, which produced the French IRIS-50 license, the CDC-3700 computer, and the implementation of computing techniques in the country. The first generation graduated in 1975, obtaining a Baccalaureate Diploma and a Certificate o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alguien%20te%20mira%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Alguien Te Mira (Someone's Watching You) is an American Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo. This thriller/mystery film is a remake of Chilean telenovela Alguien te mira produced by TVN in 2007.
Telemundo aired this series during the 2010–2011 season, from Monday to Friday over about 26 weeks. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. The series was filmed and set in Chicago, although some scenes were filmed in studios in Miami.
This show's jazzy, English-language recurring theme is You Still Love Me, performed by Ray Chang.
Plot
Chicago 2005—Rodrigo Quintana, Piedad Estévez, Julián García and Benjamín Morandé are inseparable friends. Full of ideals and projects for the future, they study medicine and dream of working together to help those most in need. Rodrigo (Christian Meier) is the most intelligent and natural leader of the group. His personality conquered Piedad (Danna García) with whom he lives an intense and stormy love, while Julián (Rafael Amaya) loves her in silence. But the intensity of Quintana added to its addiction to drugs and alcohol ended up deteriorating its relationship with Piedad. To the point that disappears of their lives after a confused incident that leaves a dead person and to Piedad hospitalized. Rodrigo left his friends and his studies to go to a rehabilitation clinic outside the country.
Chicago 2010–5 years later and when Benjamín (David Chocarro) married Tatiana Wood (Géraldine Bazán), Julián and Piedad have forgotten that time, Rodrigo returns to their lives. Members of the Clinic, Chicago Advanced Clinic, the three doctors discover that the return of Rodrigo Quintana, after years of residence in Europe, continues to disturb them. Friends have changed. While Quintana opted for an austere lifestyle in a rural office, his friends have accumulated a small fortune by operating the eyes of high society. His return also causes a break in the routine of Piedad, who will discover that, despite everything, Rodrigo is still the great love of his life.
Shortly afterwards a series of murders began to occur to women and all agreed that the murdered woman was single mother and of good economic position. Some begin to suspect others. Only one of them is the real killer.
Cast
Main
Danna García as Piedad Estévez
Christian Meier as Rodrigo Quintana
Rafael Amaya as Julián García Correa
David Chocarro as Benjamín Morandé
Géraldine Bazán as Tatiana Wood
Karla Monroig as Matilde Larraín
Angélica Celaya as Eva Zanetti
Rodrigo de la Rosa as Pedro Pablo Peñafiel
Ximena Duque as Camila Wood
Yul Bürkle as Mauricio Ostos
Evelin Santos as Luisa Carvajal
Diana Franco as Dolores "Lola" Morandé
Carlos Garín as Fiscal Ángel Maldonado
Alba Raquel Barros as Yolanda Montoya / Yoyita
Iván Hernández as Jiménez
Andrés Mistage as Amador Sánchez
Cynthia Olavarria as Lucía "Lucy" Saldaña
Roberto Gatica as Nicol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20public%20transport%20authorities%20in%20Manchester | The history of public transport authorities in Manchester details the various organisations that have been responsible for the public transport network in and around Manchester, England, since 1824.
Timeline
On 1 January 1824, the first horse bus service started by John Greenwood, the proprietor of the Pendleton Toll Gates
On 1 March 1865, the Manchester Carriage Company was formed which brought together a number of horse-bus operators in the Manchester area.
In 1880 this became the Manchester Carriage and Tramways Company with some further consolidation, including the Manchester Suburban Tramways Company.
On 7 June 1901, Manchester Corporation Tramways Department started electric tram operations, as the public operation. The former Carriage Company was wound up in 1903
In 1929 the name was changed to Manchester Corporation Transport Department to reflect the changing to motor buses
In mid-1966 the name of this public operation was changed to Manchester City Transport. The 24 hour clock was adopted in 1967.
On 1 November 1969, control of Manchester City Transport and other surrounding council transport departments were transferred to South East Lancashire North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Executive (SELNEC PTE).
On 1 April 1974, SELNEC'S operating name became Greater Manchester Transport, and its coverage was expanded. Its operations were directed from three divisional offices (central east, central north west and central south); and eight district offices: Bolton, Bury, Leigh, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside and Wigan.
During 1974 Greater Manchester Transport was rebranded as the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE). This lasted until 2011.
On 27 February 1986, Greater Manchester Transport's bus operation was transferred to a separate entity, Greater Manchester Buses Limited, to comply with the Transport Act 1985, adopting the GM Buses trading name.
On 13 December 1993, GM Buses was further split into GMB North and GMB South on an approximate geographic basis. Just under four months later they were sold to employee buy out teams.
In February 1996, GMB South was sold to Stagecoach Group, becoming Stagecoach Manchester.
In March 1996, GMB North was sold to First Bus, eventually becoming First Greater Manchester.
In April 2011. GMPTE became Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).
References
Political timelines
Transport in Manchester
Public transport authorities
History of transport in Greater Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECA%20International | ECA International provides data, software services, consultancy and training to help companies manage compensation and benefits for international workers moving around the world on a short-term, long-term or permanent basis.
The company offers data on cost of living, salary, accommodation, tax, labour law, benefits and quality of life for international assignees in over 480 locations worldwide. Clients can subscribe to services including country reports and allowance calculators, or they can request ad hoc consultancy projects including global mobility policy design and review.
The company runs surveys throughout the year to enable clients to benchmark their management policy for expatriate employees. It also provides regular global mobility events and training sessions including online courses and its two-day classroom course The International HR Practitioner (Asia only).
As a software provider, ECA also provides various calculators and tools. ECAEnterprise is their assignment management system enabling companies to optimise their global mobility programme (GM), providing greater clarity, control and efficiency to GM teams.
History
ECA International was founded by a group of international companies in 1971, in order to simplify the exchange of information for the management of expatriates. ECA, which stands for Employment Conditions Abroad International, has offices in London, New York City, Sydney and Hong Kong.
References
External links
Expatica HR
Le Monde article on most expensive locations for expatriates
International business organizations
Companies based in the London Borough of Camden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreeLine%20%28outliner%29 | TreeLine is a free and simple outliner with advanced data element definition and export abilities. It uses a basic tree structure to organize information, and allows the user to define different types of nodes and leaves.
File formats
Export
TreeLine outlines can be exported as HTML, per-data type user defined formatting. In addition, it supports exporting outlines as an OpenDocument ODT file, OPML, various delimited text file formats, and as "plain" XML.
Import
TreeLine can open "plain" XML files, displaying the contents as an outline. It can import browser bookmarks.
File format
TreeLine uses a simple XML syntax to store data, with a .trl extension.
Similar programs
Zim
Wixi
KeepNote
KJots
Tomboy
Notecase
Gnudiary
Basket
GNote
Tiddlywiki
External links
Official website
Outliners
2001 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAB%20Direct | CAB Direct is a source of references for the applied life sciences It incorporates two bibliographic databases: CAB Abstracts and Global Health. CAB Direct is an access point for multiple bibliographic databases produced by CABI. This database contains over 11 million bibliographic records, which includes 746,000 full text articles. It also includes noteworthy literature reviews. News articles and reports are also part of this combined database. CAB Direct has now migrated to CABI's new platform CABI Digital Library - the new home of CABI's research content. https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/
In the U.K., in 1947, the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux became the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux or CAB. In 1986 the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux became CAB International or CABI.
CAB Abstracts
CAB Abstracts is an applied life sciences bibliographic database emphasizing agricultural literature, which is international in scope. It contains over 11 million records, with coverage from 1973 to present day, adding around 360,000 abstracts per year. Subject coverage includes agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, applied economics, food science and nutrition. Database covers international issues in agriculture, forestry, and allied disciplines in the life sciences. Indexed publications are from 120 countries in 50 languages, including English abstracts for most articles. Literature coverage includes journals, proceedings, books, and a large collection of agricultural serials. Other non-journal formats are also indexed.
CAB Abstracts Archive
CAB Abstracts Archive is a searchable database produced by CABI. It is created from 600 volumes of printed abstracts, which are the collected and published scientific research from 1910 to 1972, and then digitized to form the archive. This archive database contains more than 1.8 million records which covers agriculture, veterinary science, nutrition and the environment. Subject coverage also includes biodiversity, pest control, environmental pollution, animal disease (including zoonotic diseases), nutrition, and food production. Natural resource management includes plant and animal breeding. CAB Abstracts Archive is also indexed in other databases, which also serve as access points. These other databases are CAB Direct, Web of Knowledge, EBSCOhost, OvidSP, and Dialog.
The following print journals (digitized) comprise CAB Abstracts Archive:
Animal Breeding Abstracts, Dairy Science Abstracts, Field Crop Abstracts,
Forestry Abstracts, Horticultural Science Abstracts, Nematological Abstracts,
Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series A: Human and Experimental,
Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series B: Livestock Feeds and Feeding,
Plant Breeding Abstracts, Review of Agricultural Entomology,
Review of Medical and Veterinary Mycology, Review of Plant Pathology,
Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Review of Plant Pathology,
Soils and Fertilizers, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eneida%20A.%20Mendon%C3%A7a | Eneida A. Mendonça, is a Brazilian-born physician-scientist and biomedical informatician. She pioneered the use of natural language processing in both the biomedical literature and in electronic medical record narratives in order to identify knowledge relevant to medical decision making in the context of the patient care. In addition, she has devoted many years to develop innovative clinical information systems that have been integrated in the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, the Columbia University Medical Center, and the Cornell Medical Center.
She holds a medical degree from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil and a Ph.D. in biomedical informatics from Columbia University, New York.
Currently, Mendonça is the Inaugural VP for Research Development of the Regenstrief Institute at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Mendonça has contributed over 100 publications to the fields of biomedical informatics and medicine.
Publications
Medline Publications
Google Scholar Citations
References
External links
Eneida A. Mendonça’s former homepage as Faculty at Columbia University
Eneida A. Mendonça’s at The University of Chicago
Living people
Brazilian scientists
Federal University of Pelotas alumni
University of Chicago faculty
Health informaticians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Natural language processing researchers
Data miners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Diosa%20Coronada | La Diosa Coronada (The Crowned Goddess) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia.
Telemundo is airing the serial from Monday to Friday about 10 weeks. As with most of its other soap operas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. It will air 10:30 p.m. on Telemundo, sharing 1 hour slot with Donde Esta Elisa. It will occupy the whole slot after Elisa ended. From August 28, 2012 the series aired on Zone Romantica in Central & Eastern Europe.
Background
The story is based on Angie Sanclemente Valencia's involvement in the transportation of cocaine from Argentina to Europe.
Cast
Main
Carolina Guerra as Raquel Santamaria Cruz
Arap Bethke as Genaro Castilblanco
Jonathan Islas as Kevin Avarado
Carolina Gaitán as Valeria
Rodolfo Valdés as Darío
Margarita Reyes as Katya
Carlos Camacho as Roger
Luces Velásquez as Doña Matilde Cruz
Alberto Palacio as Don Neron
Valentina Lizcano as Adelaida Páez
John Mario Rivera as Guzmán
Angeline Moncayo as Zulma
Katherine Porto as Norida Beltrán
Giovanni Galindo as Ernesto / Siniestro
Pedro Falla as Capitán Castro
Recurring
Lincoln Palomeque as Lucas
Diego Narváez Rincón as Kathya's client
Adriana López as Priscila
Mafe Barreto as Sofía
References
External links
2010 telenovelas
2010 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
American television series based on telenovelas
RTI Producciones telenovelas
Telemundo telenovelas
2010 Colombian television series debuts
2010 Colombian television series endings
Spanish-language American telenovelas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKDC | KKDC (93.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Dolores, Colorado. Currently, the station carries an album-oriented rock (AOR) format and is owned by Four Corners Broadcasting LLC.
Programming
Aside from rock music, the station carries local Dolores High School football from September through November and basketball from January through March.
References
External links
KDC
Radio stations established in 2003
Album-oriented rock radio stations in the United States
2003 establishments in Colorado |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybuster | Dybuster creates multi-sensory, computer based therapy systems for people with dyslexia and dyscalculia. These systems were developed at ETH Zurich and evaluated in scientific user studies together with neuropsychologists at the University of Zurich.
Dybuster was founded by Christian Vögeli in 2007, as a spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and has its headquarters in Zürich.
Dyslexia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko%20allocation | In machine learning and natural language processing, the pachinko allocation model (PAM) is a topic model. Topic models are a suite of algorithms to uncover the hidden thematic structure of a collection of documents. The algorithm improves upon earlier topic models such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) by modeling correlations between topics in addition to the word correlations which constitute topics. PAM provides more flexibility and greater expressive power
than latent Dirichlet allocation. While first described and implemented in the context of natural language processing, the algorithm may have applications in other fields such as bioinformatics. The
model is named for pachinko machines—a game popular in Japan, in which metal balls bounce down around
a complex collection of pins until they land in various
bins at the bottom.
History
Pachinko allocation was first described by Wei Li and Andrew McCallum in 2006.
The idea was extended with hierarchical Pachinko allocation by Li, McCallum, and David Mimno in 2007. In 2007, McCallum and his colleagues proposed a nonparametric Bayesian prior for PAM based
on a variant of the hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP). The algorithm has been implemented in the MALLET software package published by McCallum's group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Model
PAM connects words in V and topics in T with an arbitrary directed acyclic graph (DAG), where topic nodes occupy the interior levels and the leaves are words.
The probability of generating a whole corpus is the product of the probabilities for every document:
See also
Probabilistic latent semantic indexing (PLSI), an early topic model from Thomas Hofmann in 1999.
Latent Dirichlet allocation, a generalization of PLSI developed by David Blei, Andrew Ng, and Michael Jordan in 2002, allowing documents to have a mixture of topics.
MALLET, an open-source Java library that implements Pachinko allocation.
References
External links
Mixtures of Hierarchical Topics with Pachinko Allocation, a video recording of David Mimno presenting HPAM in 2007.
Statistical natural language processing
Latent variable models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20Indiana | Bally Sports Indiana (BSIN) is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts local professional and high school sports coverage throughout the state of Indiana, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Indianapolis, namely the NBA's Indiana Pacers.
The channel is available on cable providers throughout Central Indiana, and is also available nationwide on DirecTV.
History
Bally Sports Indiana was launched as FSN Indiana was launched on November 1, 2006, as a spin-off channel of Fox Sports Midwest, after the regional sports network obtained the exclusive regional cable television rights to broadcast games from the Indiana Pacers NBA franchise. The first live sporting event broadcast on FSN Indiana featured the Pacers at the Charlotte Bobcats on the day of launch at 7PM. The game was preceded by the special Beyond the Glory:Reggie Miller and a one hour pregame show.
A high definition simulcast feed of Fox Sports Indiana, launched on December 17, 2007, which broadcasts in the 720p format. Originally, the channel broadcast most of its Pacers game telecasts as well as Cincinnati Reds games from Fox Sports Ohio, and games and events broadcast nationally by Fox Sports Networks in HD. Today, nearly all programming is in HD.
On October 16, 2009, Dish Network removed Fox Sports Indiana and sister networks Fox Sports Midwest and Fox Sports Kansas City in a carriage dispute over a proposed increase in retransmission consent revenue paid by the satellite provider. The dispute lasted for one year, with all three channels being restored on October 29, 2010, through the signing of a new carriage agreement.
On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire all 22 regional Fox Sports networks from 21st Century Fox, including Fox Sports Indiana. However, on June 27, 2018, the Justice Department ordered their divestment under antitrust grounds, citing Disney's ownership of ESPN. On May 3, 2019, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios (through their joint venture, Diamond Holdings) bought Fox Sports Networks from The Walt Disney Company for $10.6 billion. The deal closed on August 22, 2019. On November 17, 2020, Sinclair announced an agreement with casino operator Bally's Corporation to serve as a new naming rights partner for the FSN channels. Sinclair announced the new Bally Sports branding for the channels on January 27, 2021. On March 31, 2021, coinciding with the start of the 2021 Major League Baseball season, Fox Sports Indiana was rebranded as Bally Sports Indiana, resulting in 18 other Regional Sports Networks renamed Bally Sports in their respective regions. The first live sporting event shown on Bally Sports Indiana was the Pacers-Heat game at 7 PM on that day. It was preceded by the "Pacers Live" pregame show at 6:30 PM.
On March 14, 2023, Diamond Sports filed for Chapter 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Kennedy%20Award | The Ken Kennedy Award, established in 2009 by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society in memory of Ken Kennedy, is awarded annually and recognizes substantial contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and substantial community service or mentoring contributions. The award includes a $5,000 honorarium and the award recipient will be announced at the ACM - IEEE Supercomputing Conference.
Ken Kennedy Award Past Recipients
Source: IEEE
2022 Ian Foster. "For contributions to programmability and productivity in computing via the establishment of new programming models and foundational science services."
2021 David Abramson. "For innovation in parallel and distributed computing tools with broad applications, as well as leadership contributions to professional service, creating international technical communities, and mentoring."
2020 Vivek Sarkar. "For foundational technical contributions to the area of programmability and productivity in parallel computing, as well as leadership contributions to professional service, mentoring, and teaching."
2019 Geoffrey Charles Fox. "For foundational contributions to parallel computing methodology, algorithms and software, data analysis, and their interface with broad classes of applications, and mentoring students at minority-serving institutions".
2018 Sarita Adve. "For research contributions and leadership in the development of memory consistency models for C++ and Java, for service to numerous computer science organizations, and for exceptional mentoring".
2017 Jesus Labarta. "For his contributions to programming models and performance analysis tools for High Performance Computing".
2016 William Gropp. "For highly influential contributions to the programmability of high performance parallel and distributed computers."
2015 Katherine Yelick. "For advancing the programmability of HPC systems, strategic national leadership, and mentorship in academia and government labs."
2014 Charles E. Leiserson. "For enduring influence on parallel computing systems and their adoption into mainstream use through scholarly research and development and for distinguished mentoring of computer science leaders and students."
2013 Jack Dongarra. "For influential contributions to mathematical software, performance measurement, and parallel programming, and significant leadership and service within the HPC community."
2012 Mary Lou Soffa. "For contributions to compiler technology and software engineering, exemplary service to the profession, and life-long dedication to mentoring and improving diversity in computing."
2011 Susan L. Graham. "For foundational compilation algorithms and programming tools; research and discipline leadership; and exceptional mentoring."
2010 David Kuck. "For his pioneering contributions to compiler technology and parallel computing, the profound impact of his research on industry, and the widespread and long-lasting influence of his teaching and mentor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restore%20America%27s%20Estuaries | Restore America's Estuaries (RAE) is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit conservation organization dedicated to preserving the nation's network of estuaries through coastal protection and restoration projects which promote the richness and diversity of coastal life. Based in Arlington, VA with staff in Seattle, Colorado, and Florida, Restore America's Estuaries is an alliance of eleven community-based coastal conservation organizations that includes the American Littoral Society (ALS), Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL), Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF), North Carolina Coastal Federation (NCCF), Save The Bay – San Francisco (STB-SF), EarthCorps, Save The Bay – Narragansett Bay (STB-NB), Save the Sound (STS) - a program of Connecticut Fund for the Environment, and Tampa Bay Watch (TBW).
Restore America's Estuaries works with community, private, and governmental organizations at the national, state, and local level to build partnerships and secure resources to restore and preserve estuarine habitats. Its sphere of work includes supporting on-the-ground community-based restoration projects, creating tools and resources to guide the restoration process, and, engaging and uniting key stakeholders in a biennial national conference and through outreach efforts.
Since its creation in 1994, RAE and its members have restored more than of coastal habitat, yielding countless benefits to vital food supplies, human health, job creation, and quality of life. This work has been accomplished by raising and leveraging more than $25 million in funding for habitat restoration, resulting in the completion of more than 800 local restoration projects throughout the U.S. In addition, over 300,000 volunteers have contributed toward the restoration effort.
History
In 1994, Pew Charitable Trusts conceived an initiative that would link coastal organizations across the United States and work on the national level to further empower them at the local level. Eight existing coastal organizations (ALS, CLF, CBF, CRCL, NCCF, PFPS, STB-SF, STB-NB) were invited to attend a meeting in Philadelphia. The group decided that on-the-ground habitat restoration of coasts and estuaries would be the most effective focus on which to work together. Soon after, these eight non-profit organizations, along with GBF, created Restore America's Estuaries. In 1997, two more organizations, TBW and STS, joined.
Restore America's Estuaries operated from the American Littoral Society offices until December 14, 1999, when it became incorporated. In June 2000, the IRS granted Restore America's Estuaries 501(c)(3) status.
Timeline of RAE history
Member organizations
Eleven coastal conservation organizations located across America's coastlines make up Restore America's Estuaries. They are the primary partners and recipients of support from the organization. The Executive Director, President, or a Vice President from each organ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack | OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users. The software platform consists of interrelated components that control diverse, multi-vendor hardware pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. Users manage it either through a web-based dashboard, through command-line tools, or through RESTful web services.
OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and NASA. , it was managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012 to promote OpenStack software and its community. By 2018, more than 500 companies had joined the project. In 2020 the foundation announced it would be renamed the Open Infrastructure Foundation in 2021.
History
In July 2010, Rackspace Hosting and NASA announced an open-source cloud-software initiative known as OpenStack. The mission statement was "to produce the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private clouds regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable".
The project intended to help organizations offer cloud-computing services running on standard hardware. The community's first official release, code-named Austin, appeared three months later on , with plans to release regular updates of the software every few months. The early code came from NASA's Nebula platform as well as from Rackspace's Cloud Files platform. The cloud stack and open stack modules were merged and released as open source by the NASA Nebula team in concert with Rackspace.
In 2011, developers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution adopted OpenStack with an unsupported technology preview of the OpenStack "Bexar" release for Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal". Ubuntu's sponsor Canonical then introduced full support for OpenStack clouds, starting with OpenStack's Cactus release.
OpenStack became available in Debian Sid from the Openstack "Cactus" release in 2011, and the first release of Debian including OpenStack was Debian 7.0 (code name "Wheezy"), including OpenStack 2012.1 (code name: "Essex").
In October 2011, SUSE announced the public preview of the industry's first fully configured OpenStack powered appliance based on the "Diablo" OpenStack release. In August 2012, SUSE announced its commercially supported enterprise OpenStack distribution based on the "Essex" release.
In 2012, Red Hat announced a preview of their OpenStack distribution, beginning with the "Essex" release. After another preview release, Red Hat introduced commercial support for OpenStack with the "Grizzly" release, in July 2013.
The OpenStack organization has grown rapidly and is supported by more than 540 companies.
In 2012 NASA withdrew from OpenStack as an active contributor, and instead made the strategic decision to use Amazon Web Se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submission%20software | Submission software is a category of computer software that allows its users to publish their products or websites over the Internet. This software is typically used by marketing professionals who work in online marketing. It represents an electronic solution for online marketing as opposed to offline (newspapers, street banners) or media (radio, television) marketing.
Usually these packages allow three types of submissions: automatic, semi-automatic and manual.
Types of submission software
Software submission - allows to submit software products either through the use of PAD files or by filling the websites submission forms
Article submission - submits articles to article directories or online magazines
Website submission - submits website addresses to all kind of directories
Press release submission - applications that allow users to submit press releases to PR websites
RSS submission - submits RSS feeds to RSS publishing sites
References
See also
Portable Application Description
Search engine submission
Publishing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20League%20Super%20Top%20Players | is a soccer game for the Family Computer, utilizing the Datach Joint ROM System, which was the barcode reader accessory sold separately.
Gameplay
General gameplay
The game itself is interesting, with ten teams to choose from, and multiple game modes including an actual tournament or penalty kick practicing.
For the PK Battle modes, each player must select a different team. He must then scan a player card (not a team card), and then that player will have a chance to kick a penalty kick (if it is his turn). For all other modes, the player must scan a team card and that will be the team that he will play as for the game(s). The main mode of play is the J.LEAGUE mode, of course. It is set up in a season/tournament setting, with 18 games per team. There are ten teams total in this version of J.League, and they are randomly sorted to play against a different team each day. The games are split into two periods with three minutes (3:00) apiece. Prior to starting a game, the player can choose the formation of his eleven active players, from one of three layouts that he can see on the small screen (4-4-2, 4-3-3, or 3-5-2).
Teams
Gamba Osaka (ガンバ大阪)
JEF United Ichihara (ジェフ市原)
Kashima Antlers (鹿島アントラーズ)
Nagoya Grampus (名古屋グランパス)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima (サンフレッチェ広島)
Shimizu S-Pulse (清水エスパルス)
Urawa Red Diamonds (浦和レッズ)
Verdy Kawasaki (ベルディ川崎)
Yokohama Flügels (横浜フリューゲルス)
Yokohama Marinos (横浜マリノス)
References
1994 video games
Association football video games
Bandai games
Tose (company) games
Japan-exclusive video games
J.League licensed video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govindraj%20Ethiraj | Govindraj Ethiraj is a journalist and entrepreneur. He started India's first data journalism initiative, IndiaSpend. He also co-founded two other media organisations, FactChecker and BOOM.
He is the co-founder of Ping Digital Broadcast, an online multi-channel network. He also founded BOOM, a general purpose news and fact-checking channel in January 2015. He was founder editor for the television channel, Bloomberg UTV. He stepped down as editor-in-chief to volunteer with UIDAI.
Early life
He studied at the Elphinstone College, University of Mumbai.
Career
Ethiraj worked as a journalist with the Economic Times and Business Standard before working with CNBC TV18. He later joined Bloomberg UTV as its Editor in Chief. He quit Bloomberg UTV in September 2010 to join the UIDAI's Aadhar project.
In 2011, he co-founded the Spending and Policy Research Foundation. This trust runs IndiaSpend. In 2014, he founded an extension of the website called FactChecker. In the same year, he co-founded two for-profit companies, Ping Digital Broadcast and BOOM.
He is a Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellow at The Aspen Institute, Colorado. He received the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Award in 2014 for his work with IndiaSpend.
References
Living people
Indian business and financial journalists
University of Mumbai alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate%20Based%20Satellite%20Control%20Protocol | In computer networking, Rate Based Satellite Control Protocol (RBSCP) is a tunneling method proposed by Cisco to improve the performance of satellite network links with high latency and error rates.
The problem RBSCP addresses is that the long RTT on the link keeps TCP virtual circuits in slow start for a long time. This, in addition to the high loss give a very low amount of bandwidth on the channel. Since satellite links may be high-throughput, the overall link utilized may be below what is optimal from a technical and economic view.
Means of operation
RBSCP works by tunneling the usual IP packets within IP packets. The transport protocol
identifier is 199. On each end of the tunnel, routers buffer packets to utilize the link
better. In addition to this, RBSCP tunnel routers:
modify TCP options at connection setup.
implement a Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) that resends lost packets on behalf of the client, so loss is not interpreted as congestion.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110706144353/http://cisco.biz/en/US/docs/ios/12_3t/12_3t7/feature/guide/gt_rbscp.html
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun%27ichi%20Tsujii | is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and text mining, particularly in the field of biology and bioinformatics.
Education
Tsujii received his Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Engineering and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University in 1971, 1973, and 1978 respectively. He was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Kyoto University, before accepting a position as Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1988. He was President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 2006, and has been a permanent member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) since 1992, and the chair of the committee since 2014.
Research
Since May 2015, Tsujii has been the director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Center at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan. Tsujii was previously a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). Before joining MSRA, he was a professor at the University of Tokyo, where he belonged to both the School of Inter-faculty Initiative on Informatics and the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. Tsujii is also a Visiting Professor and Scientific Advisor at the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
Awards
On 14 May 2010, Tsujii was awarded the Medals of Honor with Purple Ribbon, one of Japan's highest awards, presented to influential contributors in the fields of art, academics or sports.
In September 2014, Tsujii was awarded the FUNAI Achievement Award at the Forum on Information Technology (FIT), which took place at the University of Tsukuba. The award is presented to distinguished individuals engaged in research or related business activities in the field of Information Technology who have produced excellent achievements in the field, are still active in leading positions and have strong impact on young students and researchers.
In December 2014, Tsujii was named as an ACL Fellow, in recognition of his significant contributions to MT, parsing by unification-based grammar and text mining for biology.
In March 2016, Tsujii was awarded Okawa Prize for his contribution to the filed of Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation and Text Mining, together with Professor Jaime Carbonnel of CMU.
In August 2021, Tsujii received ACL Lifetime Achievement Award, which is considered the most prestigious award in the filed of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.
In May 2022, Tsujii received the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon, from the Japanese government.
Selected publications
References
1949 births
Living people
Japanese computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Academic staff of Kyoto University
Kyoto University alumni
Computational |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Politics | New Politics can refer to:
Politics
New Politics (1950s), the ideology of the U.S. Democratic Party during the 1950s
New Politics Initiative in Canada
New Politics Network in the UK
New Politics Party in Thailand
New Politics (Ukraine), a political party in Ukraine
New Politics (political non-profit) in U.S., Bi-partisan 527 organization
Publications
New Politics (magazine), a longstanding socialist journal published in the United States
Music
New Politics (band), a rock band from Denmark
New Politics (album), the first studio album by New Politics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trek%202000%20International | Trek 2000 International Limited is a Singaporean technology company that is listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX:TREK). The company claims to be the inventor of the ThumbDrive, a USB data storage device. The company owns a library of more than 600 patents, with 360 granted patents. It has also developed numerous other products in the same consumer electronics market segments including the Ai-Ball and offers products such as SSDs and Flash Drives. The ThumbDrive trademark is registered by Trek 2000 International in international markets, although the original inventors of the USB flash drive and the related patents are the subjects of multiple disputes.
History
In 1995, Trek’s current chief executive officer and chairman Henn Tan bought over the company, then a family-owned electronic components trading business, for S$1 million with a plan to provide customised engineering to companies. Tan and his engineers subsequently began to explore ways to utilise the USB interface to create a device that could replace the floppy disk, and this led to the eventual development of the ThumbDrive.
In 2000, Trek launched the ThumbDrive at the CeBIT international trade fair for information technology and telecommunications in Germany. Response to the product was overwhelming even though the booth was only modestly decorated. The success of the ThumbDrive propelled Trek into the global arena. The company grew from a five-man outfit to a global enterprise with offices in more than ten countries including the United States, Netherlands, Japan, India, China and the Philippines.
Products
Trek’s products include the ThumbDrive, Flucard, and Ai-Ball. The Flucard, a Wi-Fi enabled SD card, is hoped to eventually replace the standard SD card. Trek also provides customised engineering design.
References
See also
Companies listed on the Singapore Exchange
Technology companies of Singapore
Singaporean brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8nder%20Kirkeby%20Runestone | The Sønder Kirkeby Runestone, listed as runic inscription DR 220 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone that was discovered in Sønder Kirkeby, which is located about 5 kilometers east of Nykøbing Falster, Denmark.
Description
The Sønder Kirkeby Runestone has been known to Danish antiquarians since 1802 when it was discovered in the northwest wall of the church in Sønder Kirkeby. Before the historical significance of runestones was understood, they were often reused as building materials in the construction of roads, bridges, and buildings. The stone was removed by the Danish Antiquarian Commission in 1811, and it is currently on display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. The runestone, which is 0.79 meters in height, is known locally as the Sønder Kirkeby-stenen.
The inscription consists of four lines of runic text in the younger futhark that are below the image of a ship. Portions of the inscription and the ship image are damaged, which probably occurred when the stone was sized for use in the church wall. The Sønder Kirkeby Runestone is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK. This is considered to be the classification for the oldest style and is used for inscriptions where the ends of the runic text bands are straight and do not have any attached dragon or serpent heads. The inscription is dated as being carved after the Jelling stones.
The runic text states that the stone was raised by Sassur as a memorial for his brother Ásgautr, with the damaged text reconstructed as stating that the brother died in Gotland, Sweden. Other runestones which mention Gotland include Sö 174 in Aspö, the now-lost U 414 in Norrsunda, U 527 in Frötuna, U 614 in Torsätra, DR 259 in Fuglie, possibly Sö 47 in Vålsta, where the text has been damaged, and with U 375 in Vidbo referring to a location on Gotland.
The inscription also has an invocation to the Norse pagan god Thor to "hallow these runes" that is hidden using three bind runes located in the waves below the image of the ship. A bind rune is a ligature that combines one or more runes into a single rune. In this case, one bind rune combines the runes þ=u=r for the name Thor, another the runes u=i=k=i for the word wigi or "hallow," and a third the runes (r)=u=n=a=ʀ for the word runaʀ or "runes." Because the runes are vertically separated along a common stave, runologists further classify these bind runes as being same-stave runes. Another example of an inscription using same-stave runes is the Swedish runestone Sö 158 at Ärsta.
The reason for hiding the invocation to Thor is unknown, but it is clearly intended to be hidden. There are two other runestones that have similar invocations to Thor located in Denmark, DR 110 from Virring and DR 209 from Glavendrup, and three other stones in Sweden, Ög 136 in Rök, Vg 150 from Velanda, and possibly Sö 140 at Korpbron. The wording of the invocation on the Sønder Kirkeby Runestone is most similar to that used on the Glavendr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datamatics | Datamatics is a Digital Technologies, Operations, and Experiences company that enables enterprises to go Deep in Digital to boost their productivity, customer experience and competitive advantage. Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has a presence across America, Australia, Asia and Europe.
The company was incorporated in 1987, offering computer and electronic data processing linked services, and later added information technology enabled services with robotic process automation.
History
On 3 November 1987, the company was incorporated as Interface Software Resources Private Ltd. The name of the company was then changed to Datamatics Technologies Private Ltd. on 18 December 1992.
It then changed its name to Datamatics Technologies Ltd. when it got listed as a public company under the provisions of section 43A of the Companies Act on 13 January 2000.
Mumbai, Nashik, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune and Puducherry
Asia (excluding India): Philippines and UAE
Australia: Australia
Europe: United Kingdom
United States: Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Missouri
Present
In February 2019, Datamatics Global Services and AEP Ticketing solutions SRL, Italy (AEP) were granted the letter of acceptance (LOA) by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) for implementing an automatic fare collection system for 52 stations of the Mumbai Metro Rail project for belongs to Muralidharan don puducherry ₹ 160 crore.
In May 2019, the company's shares rose as much as 19.99% to Rs 107.75, marking the biggest intraday percentage gain for Datamatics since December 2010.
See also
List of IT consulting firms
List of Indian IT companies
List of companies of India
References
Software companies based in Mumbai
Software companies established in 1987
Technology companies established in 1987
Information technology companies of India
Indian companies established in 1987
1987 establishments in Maharashtra
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JejeMom | JejeMom is a 2010 Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Eugene Domingo in the title role. It premiered on August 14, 2010 replacing Claudine. The series concluded on November 13, 2010 with a total of 14 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Eugene Domingo as Gigi dela Cruz / Stephanie Jones
Supporting cast
Jennica Garcia as Lovely dela Cruz / Pamela Jones
Chariz Solomon as Yasmin Villafuerte
Wendell Ramos as Dindo Arañes / Dindo Jones
Robert "Buboy" Villar as G-Boy dela Cruz / Sander Jones
Gelli de Belen as Bunny Wilson
Ricky Davao as Winston Wilson / Lady Gangstah
Carl Guevarra as Jhong Jilaro
Bayani Agbayani as Hepe D. Marangya
Barbie Forteza as Angelene "Angel" Arevalo
Sandy Talag as Tweety Wilson
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of JejeMom earned a 9% rating. While the final episode scored an 8% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine comedy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manayunk/Norristown%20Line | The Manayunk/Norristown Line is a commuter rail service in Southeastern Pennsylvania between Center City Philadelphia and Norristown, and one of the 13 lines in SEPTA's Regional Rail network. It has the fourth highest ridership and the highest operating ratio (58%) on the SEPTA Regional Rail network.
Route
Manayunk/Norristown Line trains originate at and take the West Chester Branch to reach 30th Street Station. From there, they use the Center City Commuter Connection of the SEPTA Main Line, making all stops between 30th Street Station and North Broad station. From North Broad, trains use the Norristown Branch, traveling through Philadelphia's East Falls and Manayunk neighborhoods and Conshohocken before reaching Norristown. At the Norristown Transportation Center, commuters can transfer to SEPTA surface buses or the SEPTA Norristown High Speed Line to 69th Street Transportation Center. From the Norristown Transportation Center, trains continue to and . Until 1981, additional passenger service continued from Norristown over the former Reading main line to , , and .
, most weekday Manayunk/Norristown Line trains terminate at 30th Street Station or continue to Wawa on the Media/Wawa Line. Most weekend Manayunk/Norristown Line trains continue to Wilmington on the Wilmington/Newark Line.
History
The Manayunk/Norristown Line is a continuation of the Reading Company's suburban services on the Norristown Branch from Philadelphia to Norristown, Pennsylvania. Electrified service to Norristown and Chestnut Hill East began on February 5, 1933. Steam (and later diesel)-operated intercity services continued to operate beyond Norristown. By the 1960s Budd Rail Diesel Cars handled most of the Reading's diesel services, although the Reading's EMD FP7 locomotives, displaced from the Crusader, saw regular use on the Philadelphia–Reading run. SEPTA discontinued services beyond Norristown on July 26, 1981.
Between 1984–2010 the route was designated R6 Norristown as part of SEPTA's diametrical reorganization of its lines. Manayunk/Norristown Line trains operated through the city center to the Ivy Ridge Line (later Cynwyd) on the ex-Pennsylvania side of the system. The R-number naming system was dropped on July 25, 2010. SEPTA undertook a series of operational and physical improvements of the Norristown Branch beginning in 2013, culminating in the activation of positive train control on August 15, 2016.
On April 9, 2020, service on the line was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, though and stations were still being served by other rail services. Service resumed on June 28, 2020. On September 1–2, 2021, the remnants of Hurricane Ida caused severe flooding along the Schuylkill River, with the Manayunk/Norristown Line between Miquon and Norristown flooded and damaged. As a result, service along the line was suspended. Service between Center City Philadelphia and Spring Mill resumed on September 7 while service along the entire length of the line to Norri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbase%20%28disambiguation%29 | A starbase, in science fiction, is a facility in space.
Starbase or variation, may also refer to:
STARBASE, a math and science educational program for students
StarBase, a StarOffice database application
StarBase (biological database), an RNA database
Starbase 12, a starbase in the video game Star Trek: Bridge Commander
SpaceX Starbase, a spaceport located at Boca Chica, Texas, United States
Starbase (video game), a space themed multiplayer video game
Starbase, a proprietary graphics API for HP-UX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Client%20List | The Client List is an American television film that premiered on the Lifetime Network on July 19, 2010. It starred Jennifer Love Hewitt and was directed by Eric Laneuville. The film is a fictionalized dramatization of a 2004 prostitution scandal in Odessa, Texas. It follows Sam Horton, a mother of three who becomes a prostitute to meet her financial obligations.
Plot
Samantha and Rex Horton are unemployed and struggling to provide for their three children and keep their home. Desperate to stave off foreclosure, Samantha takes a job at a massage parlor, but quickly learns it is a house of prostitution, with the internal motto "beats the hell out of waitressing". As the Hortons are down to their last dollar, Samantha stays, and quickly becomes one of the most popular employees, being very personable with her clients.
While her earnings increase, she hides the true nature of her job from her family and friends, even while lavishing them with expensive gifts. Rex later finds work again himself. Sam's popularity causes another problem: exhaustion, affecting her relationships. One of her clients gives her cocaine to keep her going.
Meanwhile, a very young masseuse has revealed the true nature of the parlor to a church group, and public pressure on the mayor, who is up for re-election, leads to a police raid, even though many on the force are also clients. Sam's arrest is shown live on television at the bar Rex frequents. Her drug supply is also found, leading to an additional charge for possession.
Sam is bailed out of jail by her close friend Dee, the only one she confided in about her real job. She berates her for not having the courage to drop the job after her needs were met. Rex and Sam separate. Another friend, Laura, a lawyer, convinces Sam to form a "client list" of the more prominent "johns". Their cooperation gets Sam and co-workers light jail sentences.
After her release from jail, Samantha is confronted by several of the clients' wives—who are looking for advice on how to improve their marriages. Attempting to move on, she becomes a waitress and goes back to college, hoping to patch things up with Rex.
Cast
Jennifer Love Hewitt as Samantha "Sam" Horton
Teddy Sears as Rex Horton
Sonja Bennett as Dee
Lynda Boyd as Jackie
Chelah Horsdal as Doreen
Heather Doerksen as Tanya
Kacey Rohl as Emma
Kandyse McClure as Laura
Cybill Shepherd as Cassie
Reception
Ratings
The Client List drew in an audience of 3.9 million viewers and was the highest rated program for the evening amongst female viewers between the ages of 18 and 49.
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 83% based on reviews from 6 critics.
Entertainment Weeklys Ken Tucker considered it a typical Lifetime film that "offer[ed] cheap thrills … while offering moral uplift." Calling it "malarkey," he felt that Hewitt was able to sell the film to the audiences due to her "talent for communicating sincerity and charm."
Awards and nominations
The fil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Disability%20Studies | The Society for Disability Studies is an international academic network of disability studies practitioners. It often abbreviates its name to SDS, though that abbreviation continues to be used by academics and political scientists to describe the Students for a Democratic Society organization in the United States. The society's overall goal is to promote disability studies as a serious academic discipline on par with philosophy, the social sciences, and similar fields.
Definition of disability studies
In 1993 the society adopted an official definition of "Disability Studies":
Founding and history
The organization was founded in 1982 first as the Section for the Study of Chronic Illness, Impairment, and Disability (SSCIID), and renamed Society for Disability Studies in 1986. Its founders are Daryl Evans, Nora Groce, Steve Hey, Gary Kiger, John Seidel, Jessica Scheer and Irving Kenneth Zola (1935–1994). The Society for Disability Studies is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
The Society maintains affiliation status with the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) through its Chronic Disease and Disability section. Currently, the SDS has hundreds of members both nationally and internationally who continue to make disability studies a part of academic conversations.
Activities and publications
The Society for Disability Studies holds an annual conference in June and publishes a quarterly peer-reviewed journal, the Disability Studies Quarterly. The journal is published exclusively online. SDS has created a good model to follow when approaching publishers about their accessibility.
In 2015, Adam Newman organized the "Digital Access Facilitation Team" (DAFT) to make the 2015 annual conference of the Society for Disability Studies more accessible for a wider range of attendees. DAFT is coordinated by the Society's Student Caucus, whose members are a group of 25–30 students of SDS. Working in teams of two, members of DAFT were live-tweeting every session, contingent upon the consent of presenters. Live-tweeting all sessions and following standards for that emerging media, allowed a new way of producing accessibility for the disability community. In the Society for Disability Studies, there are a number of caucuses which "designate groups that are under-represented within society or SDS as an organization." DAFT is composed entirely of students (undergraduate, graduate, professional) who work on behalf of the interest and needs of students.
Membership
There are several options for membership opportunities, even if someone is unable to pay the membership fees they will not be turned away; "No one is denied membership in SDS due to an inability to pay an established membership fee."
Awards
Two awards have been established by the society "to honor individuals who have shown dedication to Disability studies": the Senior Scholar Award and the Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies. The Senior Scholar Award is awarded |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Stac | Lempel–Ziv–Stac (LZS, or Stac compression or Stacker compression) is a lossless data compression algorithm that uses a combination of the LZ77 sliding-window compression algorithm and fixed Huffman coding. It was originally developed by Stac Electronics for tape compression, and subsequently adapted for hard disk compression and sold as the Stacker disk compression software. It was later specified as a compression algorithm for various network protocols. LZS is specified in the Cisco IOS stack.
Standards
LZS compression is standardized as an INCITS (previously ANSI) standard.
LZS compression is specified for various Internet protocols:
– PPP LZS-DCP Compression Protocol (LZS-DCP)
– PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol
– IP Payload Compression Using LZS
– Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Compression Using Lempel-Ziv-Stac (LZS)
Algorithm
LZS compression and decompression uses an LZ77 type algorithm. It uses the last 2 KB of uncompressed data as a sliding-window dictionary.
An LZS compressor looks for matches between the data to be compressed and the last 2 KB of data. If it finds a match, it encodes an offset/length reference to the dictionary. If no match is found, the next data byte is encoded as a "literal" byte. The compressed data stream ends with an end-marker.
Compressed data format
Data is encoded into a stream of variable-bit-width tokens.
Literal byte
A literal byte is encoded as a '0' bit followed by the 8 bits of the byte.
Offset/length reference
An offset/length reference is encoded as a '1' bit followed by the encoded offset, followed by the encoded length. One exceptional encoding is an end marker, described below.
An offset can have a minimum value of 1 and a maximum value of 2047. A value of 1 refers to the most recent byte in the history buffer, immediately preceding the next data byte to be processed. An offset is encoded as:
If the offset is less than 128: a '1' bit followed by a 7-bit offset value.
If the offset is greater than or equal to 128: a '0' bit followed by an 11-bit offset value.
A length is encoded as:
End marker
An end marker is encoded as the 9-bit token 110000000. Following the end marker, 0 to 7 extra '0' bits are appended as needed, to pad the stream to the next byte boundary.
Patents
Stac Electronics' spin-off Hifn has held several patents for LZS compression. These patents lapsed due to non-payment of fees and attempts to reinstate them in 2007 failed.
In 1993–94, Stac Electronics successfully sued Microsoft for infringement of LZS patents in the DoubleSpace disk compression program included with MS-DOS 6.0.
See also
LZ77
MPPC
References
Lossless compression algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoag%20%28health%20network%29 | Hoag is a not-for-profit regional health care delivery network in Orange County, California, that treats nearly 30,000 inpatients and 350,000 outpatients annually. Hoag consists of two acute-care hospitals, seven health centers and four urgent care centers. Hoag Hospital Newport Beach, which has served Orange County since 1952, and Hoag Hospital Irvine, which opened in 2010, are Magnet designated hospitals by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Hoag offers a blend of health care services that include five institutes providing specialized services in the following areas: cancer, heart and vascular, neurosciences, women’s health and orthopedics through Hoag’s affiliate Hoag Orthopedic Institute.
Hospitals
Hoag Hospital Newport Beach and Hoag Hospital Irvine are community hospitals in California.
Hoag Hospital Newport Beach is an acute care, not-for-profit hospital located on California's Orange County coastline between Los Angeles and San Diego in the city of Newport Beach.
Hoag Hospital Irvine opened in 2010 and is a 154-bed, acute-care general hospital offering the residents of Irvine and surrounding communities a variety of inpatient and outpatient services as well as a fully staffed emergency room.
Facilities
Hoag Family Cancer Institute
Hoag Family Cancer Institute provides care through site-specific programs based on cancer/tumor type. Programs include diagnostics, progressive treatments and support services care.
In the media:
The hospital's Axxent FlexiShield Mini study-treatment adjunct to the Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy breast cancer treatment has been recalled. The F.D.A., which had approved the Mini on an expedited basis, is looking into the unexpected deposit of tungsten particles in patients' tissue which the device seems to have caused. The Mini, developed by Xoft and now owned by iCAD Inc., was found to have left study patients—including 27 from Hoag -- "riddled ... with hundreds of tiny particles of the heavy metal tungsten in their breast tissue and chest muscles" after surgery. Long-term implications of the particles have not yet been established, but they trigger false positives in mammograms and concern patients and observers. The Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy has not been recalled.
Hoag Heart & Vascular Institute
Hoag Heart & Vascular Institute offers surgical techniques including minimally invasive heart surgery, angioplasty, cardiac stent placement, intraoperative ablation for treatment of arrhythmia, beating heart surgery, and heart bypass with endoscopic vein harvesting.
Hoag Neurosciences Institute
Hoag Neurosciences Institute incorporates diagnostic technologies, treatment modalities and integration of medical specialists to deliver the care for all complex neurological disorders, including: Alzheimer’s/dementia, brain tumors, brain aneurysms/vascular malformations, epilepsy, headache/pain syndromes, movement disorders/Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, sleep disorders, spinal disorders/t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNBC%20%28disambiguation%29 | TNBC was an American teen-oriented programming block.
TNBC may also refer to:
Triple-negative breast cancer, any breast cancer that does not express the genes for estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER2/neu
The Nightmare Before Christmas, a 1993 stop-motion musical film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankeena%20Networks | Ankeena Networks was a US-based new media infrastructure technology company that was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2010 for US$100 million.
See also
List of acquisitions by Juniper Networks
References
Juniper Networks
Mass media companies established in 2008
Mass media companies disestablished in 2010
Software companies established in 2008
Software companies disestablished in 2010
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea%20%28Seneca%29 | Medea is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of about 1027 lines of verse written by Seneca the Younger. It is generally considered to be the strongest of his earlier plays. It was written around 50 CE. The play is about the vengeance of Medea against her betraying husband Jason and King Creon. The leading role, Medea, delivers over half of the play's lines. Medea addresses many themes, one being that the title character represents "payment" for humans' transgression of natural laws. She was sent by the gods to punish Jason for his sins. Another theme is her powerful voice that cannot be silenced, not even by King Creon.
Characters
Medea: daughter of King Aeëtes (King of Colchis), wife of Jason
Chorus: Corinthians, hostile to Medea and not Jason
Nutrix (nurse): nurse of Medea
Creon: King of Corinth, father of Princess Creusa
Jason: son of Aeson and husband of Medea who leaves her for the princess
Nuntius (messenger)
Two sons of Medea and Jason: mute characters
Background
Medea falls in love with Jason when he arrives at her homeland of Colchis on his quest for the Golden Fleece and uses her supernatural powers to aid him in completing the tasks that King Aeëtes, her father, had set. The three tasks were: yoke the fiery bulls, compete with the giants, and slay the dragon that was guarding the fleece. After Jason is successful, Medea kills her own brother to distract her father and enable their escape. After their return to Iolcus, they were again forced to flee when Medea uses her powers to have Jason's uncle Pelias killed by his own daughters. Jason and Medea next settle in Corinth where they had two sons.
Plot
In order to climb the political ladder, Jason (the leader of the Argonauts) leaves Medea for Creusa, the daughter of King Creon. Medea opens up the play by cursing Creusa and King Creon (1-44). King Creon gives Medea one day before she is exiled and she does not take Jason's advice to leave peacefully (192-557). Instead, she sends a poisoned robe as a gift for Creusa on her wedding day. The chorus describe the rage, scorn, and anger that Medea felt as she plotted her revenge. The chorus prays to the gods that Jason will be spared from Medea's vengeance (579-652). Medea's curse contains poisons, snake blood, herbs, and the invocations to all the underworld gods. The cursed robe catches fire when Creusa puts it on. Creon tries to extinguish the fire but is unsuccessful, and he catches on fire as well (817-843). Their death does not satisfy Medea but only awakens her vengeful spirit more. Jason's betrayal blinds Medea so much that she wishes to harm him even at the expense of her own children. Medea sacrifices her children from the roof of her house in order to hurt Jason (982-1025). Medea escapes in a dragon chariot while she throws the bodies of the boys down. Jason ends the play by shouting after her that she should testify that there are no gods in heaven, where she is flying. (1026-1027).
Euripides vs. Seneca
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Serfaty | Dan Serfaty (born February 5, 1966 in Strasbourg, France) is a French entrepreneur and businessman.
He is best known as the former co-founder and CEO of the professional social network Viadeo.
Biography
After graduating from HEC Paris Entrepreneurship program in 1987, Serfaty spent 2 years abroad before starting his entrepreneurial life. In 1989, he acquired a company in the tourism sector, which he turned profitable before selling it in 1991.
At the same time, he co-founded a company specializing in the distribution of imported clothing products from Asia, which he sold 10 years later.
In 2000, he founded Agregator, a club dedicated to entrepreneurs, helping them share their experiences, ideas, and contacts with other club members. Uniquely, most of Agregator's members were the CEOs of small companies, financed by venture capital, bringing them liquidity and private equity returns.
The Agregator experience was the context where Dan developed the idea for a business-oriented social network, while working originally on some software that would allow club members to access each other's contacts.
In 2004, with Thierry Lunati, he co-founded Viaduc–the original name of Viadeo–investing part of the first 5 million euros raised for Agregator. In 2006, Viaduc became Viadeo, as the company was aiming toward worldwide development, including launching its English and Italian versions. With over 60 million users worldwide, Viadeo is the second largest professional social network.
In 2007, Viadeo expanded to China with the acquisition of Tianji.com, a local social networking site counting 1.3 million users at that time. Tianji.com rapidly grew its user base, reaching 8 million in 2011.
In January 2016, after a failed attempt to conquer international markets, Dan Serfaty left the company which was taken over by Le Figaro.
In the same year, he founded Artur'In.
Beginning 2020, Dan became the Co-President of Keren Hayessod France, a charity aiming at reducing the social fracture in Israel. A few months later, Dan also joined the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel
References
External links
Dan Serfaty on Viadeo
Businesspeople from Strasbourg
1966 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20SQL%20Database | Web SQL Database is a deprecated web browser API specification for storing data in databases that can be queried using SQL variant. The technology was ever implemented in Blink-based and WebKit-based browsers like Google Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge. , WebSQL is being phased out in favor of WebStorage and IndexedDB and OPFS, but still available in some contexts.
Support
The API is supported by Google Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Edge, and the Android Browser, albeit support is slowly being phased out. Web SQL was deprecated and removed for third-party contexts in Chromium 97. Web SQL access in insecure contexts is deprecated as of Chrome/Chromium 105 at which time a warning message will be shown in the Chrome DevTools Issue panel. It will be removed from Chrome 123.
Timeline
In January 2010, Google announced availability of WebSQL Database API in Google Chrome.
Mozilla Corporation was one of the major voices behind the break-up of negotiations and deprecation of the standard, while at the same time being the main proponents behind an 'alternative storage' standard, IndexedDB. Mozilla argued that ratification of WebSQL as a standard would codify the quirks of SQLite implementation.
In November 2010, the W3C Web Applications Working Group ceased working on the specification, citing a lack of independent implementations (i.e. using database system other than SQLite as the backend) as the reason the specification could not move forward to become a W3C Recommendation.
In September 2019, Apple released Safari 13 which removed WebSQL entirely.
In November 2021, Chrome 97 removed WebSQL support in third-party contexts.
In February 2023, Chrome 110 removed WebSQL support in insecure contexts but allowed exceptions set with an enterprise policy.
As of September 2023, Chrome 119 is expected to ship with WebSQL disabled in all contexts with an ability to re-enable it via an enterprise policy in some contexts.
See also
HTML5
Indexed Database API
Web Storage
References
External links
W3C Web SQL Database Working Draft
Web SQL database at Info-Q
SQL storage at Can-I-Use
Database APIs
World Wide Web Consortium standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Bove | Tony Bove (born in 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an author, publisher, and musician. He has authored or coauthored more than two dozen computer-related books and multimedia CD-ROMs, and has served as author and editor of various magazine articles.
Career
Tony Bove wrote the book The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam Books, 1986).
He is the cofounder, editor and publisher of Desktop Publishing Magazine, User's Guide to CP/M, and Bove and Rhodes Inside Report (with Cheryl Rhodes).
In 1991, Bove started doing multimedia development on personal computers. His Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties CD-ROM was produced with poet and San Francisco Oracle underground newspaper editor Allen Cohen, featuring music from the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane.
Bove wrote iPod and iTunes For Dummies and coauthored iPad Application Development For Dummies with Neal Goldstein. Bove coauthored The iLife '04 Book with Andy Ihnatko. He wrote The GarageBand Book, and The Well-Connected Macintosh with Cheryl Rhodes. He wrote Official Macromedia Director Studio and Adobe Illustrator: The Official Handbook for Designers.
Bove was the editor of Desktop Publishing Magazine, User's Guide to CP/M, Portable Companion (for Osborne Computer Corporation), and Jim Warren's DataCast, as well as a columnist in Computer Currents, Macintosh Today, NewMedia, Publish!, The WELL, The Chicago Tribune, and the Prodigy (online service), and a contributor to magazines including NeXTWorld, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and Whole Earth Software Catalog and Review.
In 2005, Bove wrote the book Just Say No to Microsoft (No Starch Press, 2005), to which John C. Dvorak added a foreword.
Tony Bove is a band member (harmonica, vocals, and songwriting) of the Flying Other Brothers rock band (which included Roger McNamee, Pete Sears, Barry Sless, and G. E. Smith).
Discography
Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties (1991)
Bibliography
The Art of Desktop Publishing (1986)
Just Say No to Microsoft (2005)
iPod and iTunes For Dummies
iPad Application Development For Dummies
The iLife '04 Book
The GarageBand Book
The Well-Connected Macintosh
Official Macromedia Director Studio
Adobe Illustrator: The Official Handbook for Designers
Reception
Bove's Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties CD-ROM was previewed in Wired.
Robert Scoble reviewed Bove's book Just Say No to Microsoft, to which John C. Dvorak added a foreword.
Bove's book The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam Books, 1986) was reviewed by Erik Sandberg-Diment in The New York Times.
References
External links
Living people
Computer magazine publishing companies
No Starch Press books
History of Microsoft
1955 births
Writers from Philadelphia
American harmonica players
Flying Other Brothers members |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian%20Sports%20Network | The Appalachian Sports Network is a group of 17 radio stations that carry Appalachian State University sports. The flagship station is WKBC-FM 97.3 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. The network had previously been known as the Appalachian ISP Sports Network; when ISP Sports was bought by IMG Worldwide subsidiary, IMG College, in 2010, the network became the Appalachian IMG Sports Network. The IMG was dropped when IMG and Learfield Sports merged to form Learfield IMG College in 2018.
Announcers
This is the current announcer list.
David Jackson – Football, Men's Basketball, Baseball Lead Announcer
Steve Brown – Football Color Analyst
Randy Jackson – Football Sideline Reporter, Men's Basketball Color Analyst
Tim Sparks – Football Pregame Host, On-Site Engineer
Phil Brame – Studio Host
Josh Campbell – Women's Basketball Lead Announcer
Tige Darner – Men's and Women's Basketball Color Analyst
Jim Morris – Baseball Color Analyst
Affiliates
The following stations are 2012–13 network affiliates.
References
External list
2019–20 football affiliates
Sports radio networks in the United States
Appalachian State Mountaineers
College football on the radio
Learfield IMG College sports radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchmont%20Observatory | The Marchmont Observatory conducts academic research in support of local government policy formation concerning skills, employment and education for adults through networking, the development of learning programmes and research.
Organizational history
Established by the University of Exeter in 1998, following a £3m bid to the ADAPT Programme of the European Union, the Observatory was established initially as a partnership between the University of Exeter, the Open University, the BBC, TUC, IBM, NETg and FT Management. The early focus of the Observatory centered around the field of ICT and a collaboration with the University.
Programmes
As part of its commitment to develop regional expertise, the Observatory has established the Skills and Learning Intelligence Module of the Regional Observatory, on behalf of partners in the region. Through this, intelligence and statistics on the labour and skills markets are provided to stakeholders in the South West.
Because of its presence within the University the Observatory staff are able to work with other parts of the University and work closely with the similar Research Centres often developing joint projects.
Core activities
The aim of the Marchmont Observatory is to improve evidence-based practice in the field of lifelong learning. This occurs through:
Supporting communication of ideas and practice between practitioners, policy makers and researchers, through networking arrangements;
Providing online knowledge management systems;
Stimulating action-based research into key themes emerging from user networks, including production of toolkits and learning programmes;
Collecting information on existing practice and research, analysing and processing it for users;
Disseminating research and practice to practitioners and policy makers through media; and
Educating practitioners about the benefits of new technologies for knowledge creation and management.
Skills and Learning Intelligence Module
The Skills and Learning Intelligence Module (SLIM) provides information on the skills and learning needs of individuals and businesses in the South West for policy decisions, funding programmes, organisational and partnership strategies and individual projects.
References
External links
South West Observatory Limited
trainingzone
South West England
Educational research
Economic geography
Government research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarComplaints.com | CarComplaints.com is an online automotive complaint resource that uses graphs to show automotive defect patterns, based on complaint data submitted by visitors to the site. The complaints are organized into logical groups with data published by vehicle, vehicle component, and specific problem. The average cost to fix, average mileage at failure, common solutions and individual owner comments are shown for each problem group. There is no charge or user signup required to access the complaint data, although user registration is required in order to submit a car complaint.
Recognition
CarComplaints.com was featured in a December 2014 Lifehacker article, Five Best Car Comparison Sites, and also mentioned in several New York Times articles from 2013 to 2015: Ford Windstar Minivans Recalled for a Second Time, Chrysler Owners Sound Off on a Power Defect and Ram Dashboards Cracking.
CarComplaints.com was recommended in a June 2010 report from the Consumer Federation of America titled Consumer Complaint Websites: An Assessment. The CFA's report compared six generic complaint websites but singled out CarComplaints.com as a specialized resource for "consumers interested in automobiles, who should begin with carcomplaints.com." The CFA's recommendation of CarComplaints.com was repeated in media coverage by The New York Times, MSNBC, The Early Show & other news outlets.
CarComplaints.com was also named a "Top 100 Website of 2009" by PC Magazine.
According to CarComplaints.com, the 2002 Ford Explorer is ranked as the "Worst Vehicle on Record", largely due to widespread transmission failure at under 100,000 miles of drive time. It also ranked the 2004 model at #3, the 2003 at #6 and the 2005 at #18.
See also
Consumer Reports
TrueDelta
Epinions.com
References
External links
CarComplaints.com
Online automotive companies of the United States
American review websites
Internet properties established in 2000
Privately held companies based in Vermont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20of%20the%20day | Many computer systems display a message of the day or welcome message when a user first connects to them, logs in to them, or starts them. It is a way of sending a common message to all users, and may include information about system changes, system availability, and so on. More recently, systems have displayed personalized messages of the day.
On many time-sharing systems, the contents of the message of the day are fetched from a system file:
Compatible Time-Sharing System;
Multics: the motd info segment;
TOPS-10
Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS)
Unix-like systems: the /etc/motd file, though most modern Linux distributions do not support the file.
Univac VS/9
CP/CMS
Usage
The contents of the special file are displayed after the user logs in successfully, typically before the login shell is started.
Newer Unix-like systems may generate the message dynamically when the host boots or a user logs in.
Various server-based PC games display messages of the day, including Half-Life, Call of Duty, Minecraft, and Battlefield. They may be personalized, encouraging users to try new features or make in-game purchases.
Some IRC servers also display a message of the day on login.
See also
System console
Fortune_(Unix)
References
Unix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20Neiman | Seth Neiman (born June 27, 1954) is an American computer industry businessperson and venture capitalist in California, and a professional racing driver.
He is the team principal of Flying Lizard Motorsports, which participates in the United SportsCar Championship He currently resides in San Francisco, California.
Youth
Neiman was born in East Liverpool, Ohio and grew up in Dayton, Ohio. His mother was Judith Klapper Neiman and father was Ralph Bernard Neiman. The second child of four, he had two sisters and a younger brother.
He graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor's degree in philosophy and did graduate work in computer science.
Business career
Neiman was a system architect at Maxitron Corporation in Marin County during the mid-1980s, and then Vice President of Product Development at Dahlgren Control Systems in San Francisco. In 1988, he became Vice President of Product Development for the TOPS Division of Sun Microsystems, that was developing the TOPS network file server system.
In 1994, he joined the venture capital firm Crosspoint Venture Partners, and becoming a general partner before departing. In 1995, he founded Brocade Communications Systems.
Neiman served as a lead investor and board member of various broadband computer networking companies, including Foundry Networks, Avanex, iPass, Shoreline, Juniper Networks, and NexPrise.
He has been Chairman of the Board of eSilicon Corporation since 2011, and a Director at AlephCloud Systems Inc. since 2013. He is also a Director at the facial expression recognition system company Emotient, Inc.
Racing career
Neiman formed Flying Lizard Motorsports team in 2003. In 2005, he competed in the ALMS GT2 class for the Porsche team as well as finishing third in GT2 class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He finished 4th at Le Mans the following year and finished 9th in ALMS GT2 points for the same team in 2006. He also drove in four SCCA World Challenge races in the Touring Car class.
In 2007, he finished 10th in ALMS and the car failed to finish at Le Mans. In 2008, he captured a career best 5th place in ALMS GT2 points and finished 6th at Le Mans. In 2009, he again failed to finish at Le Mans and finished 7th in ALMS points.
He returned to the Flying Lizards team he owns in 2010, and competed in his first 24 Hours of Daytona, finishing 9th overall and 2nd in GT.
24 Hours of Le Mans results
IMSA SportsCar Championship results
(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)
References
1954 births
Living people
24 Hours of Daytona drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
American computer businesspeople
American Le Mans Series drivers
American venture capitalists
Businesspeople from Ohio
Businesspeople from San Francisco
Racing drivers from Dayton, Ohio
Racing drivers from San Francisco
Rolex Sports Car Series drivers
Sun Microsystems people
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers
People from East Liverpool, Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN%20%28cable%20system%29 | SPIN (or South Pacific Island Network) was a submarine communications cable system that would connect the New Zealand to Tahiti and would connect several South Pacific islands along the way. The SPIN cable would be long and will have a 64x10 Gbit/s capacity. It was planned to be in service late 2010. It would have cable landing points at:
American Samoa
Fiji
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Norfolk Island
Samoa
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Wallis and Futuna
Project Cancellation
The SPIN project failed to materialize due to a lack of funding.
Related networks
Gondwana-1 cable connects Australia to New Caledonia.
Honotua cable connects Tahiti to Hawaii.
Notes
Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Include%20directive | Many programming languages and other computer files have a directive, often called include, import, or copy, that causes the contents of the specified file to be inserted into the original file. These included files are called s or copybooks. They are often used to define the physical layout of program data, pieces of procedural code, and/or forward declarations while promoting encapsulation and the reuse of code or data.
Header files
In computer programming, a header file is a file that allows programmers to separate certain elements of a program's source code into reusable files. Header files commonly contain forward declarations of classes, subroutines, variables, and other identifiers. Programmers who wish to declare standardized identifiers in more than one source file can place such identifiers in a single header file, which other code can then include whenever the header contents are required. This is to keep the interface in the header separate from the implementation.
The C standard library and the C++ standard library traditionally declare their standard functions in header files.
Some recently created compiled languages (such as Java and C#) do not use forward declarations; identifiers are recognized automatically from source files and read directly from dynamic library symbols. This means header files are not needed.
Purpose
The include directive allows libraries of code to be developed which help to:
ensure that everyone uses the same version of a data layout definition or procedural code throughout a program,
easily cross-reference where components are used in a system,
easily change programs when needed (only one file must be edited), and
save time by reusing data layouts.
Example
An example situation which benefits from the use of an include directive is when referring to functions in a different file. Suppose there is some C source file containing a function add, which is referred to in a second file by first declaring its external existence and type (with a function prototype) as follows:
int add(int, int);
int triple(int x)
{
return add(x, add(x, x));
}
One drawback of this approach is that the function prototype must be present in all files that use the function. Another drawback is that if the return type or arguments of the function are changed, all of these prototypes would need to be updated. Putting the prototype in a single, separate file avoids these issues. Assuming the prototype is moved to the file add.h, the second source file can then become:
#include "add.h"
int triple(int x)
{
return add(x, add(x,x));
}
Now, every time the code is compiled, the latest function prototypes in add.h will be included in the files using them, avoiding potential errors.
Language support
C/C++
In the C and C++ programming languages, the #include preprocessor directive causes the compiler to replace that line with the entire text of the contents of the named source file (if included in quotes: "") or nam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllVid | AllVid was a proposal to develop technology enabling smart broadband-connected video devices to access the content on the managed networks of cable operators, telcos, and satellite-TV operators. It was initially proposed in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) National Broadband Plan in 2010. The AllVid hardware would act as a universal adapter for all types of pay TV content such as video-on-demand and pay-per-view, as well as interactive programming guides, delivered through a wide variety of means, including cable TV, satellite TV, VDSL, IPTV, and Internet TV.
AllVid was intended to replace CableCARD. Unlike CableCARD rules which only applied to cable operators, AllVid would apply to all Multichannel Video Programming Distributor’s (MVPDs) including satellite and telco companies.
As of January 2017, AllVid was never adopted or developed.
Design
The FCC has proposed several design aspects to AllVid while soliciting feedback from interested parties on a final specification before going forward for rulemaking. Major elements of the FCC's AllVid proposal include:
Gateway device capable of decoding six video streams and feeding through a home network to various devices.
Adapter device capable of decoding two video streams and feeding directly to a television or consumer electronics device.
Physical connection using 100BASE-TX Ethernet.
Internet Protocol as a communications protocol between the AllVid gateway and end devices.
Encryption and authentication using the DTCP-IP standard used by the Digital Living Network Alliance.
Content ordering and billing for VOD and PPV services may be handled via gateway generated screens but additional options are requested.
Service discovery may use Universal Plug and Play, as suggested by TiVo, but other proposals are invited.
Content encoding is proposed to support multiple codecs to allow devices flexibility in choice of video formats without requiring transcoding by the gateway.
Responses
Google has supported the AllVid proposal, stating that "Google supports an all-video (“AllVid”) solution like the one put forth in the NOI.
Consumers would be well-served by having such an inexpensive universal adapter available at retail, which would feature an easy-to-use, common interface, and employ nationwide interoperability standards to connect to televisions, digital video recording devices (“DVRs”), and other smart video devices. These navigation devices effectively would separate the network interface from the device functionality, making video more “portable” across platforms and devices."
The AllVid proposal has been criticized by the Motion Picture Association of America for providing insufficient protection against copyright infringement by unauthorized multichannel video programming distributors and by AT&T for preempting market forces already underway.
Industry alliance
On February 16, 2011 several companies announced the creation of the AllVid Tech Company Alliance. This group work |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Autism%20Network | Interactive Autism Network (IAN) is a research registry which matches researchers and their studies to families who qualify to participate in and benefit from the research. The network closed to new participants in 2019. IAN facilitates ongoing research in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The goal is to accomplish research that advances understanding and treatment of ASDs. IAN was established in 2006 at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, and is funded by Autism Speaks and the Simons Foundation.
IAN is an online (research registry) database that connects family members of autistic people with researchers in an effort to help solve the many problems associated with autism. Today there are over 30,000 individuals registered on IAN. On April 2, 2007, the Interactive Autism Network was founded by Drs. Paul and Kiely Law at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. The IAN project is supported by grant money from a non-profit organization called Autism Speaks.
References
Autism-related organizations in the United States
Mental health organizations in Maryland
2006 establishments in Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Minnesota%20Supercomputing%20Institute | The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota is a core research facility of the University of Minnesota that provides hardware and software resources, as well as technical user support, to faculty and researchers at the university and at other institutions of higher education in Minnesota. MSI is located in Walter Library, on the university's Twin Cities campus.
History
In 1981, the University of Minnesota became the first U.S. university to acquire a supercomputer, a Cray-1. The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute was created in 1984 to provide high-performance computing resources to the University of Minnesota's research community. MSI currently has three HPC systems available for use.
MSI is part of Research Computing in the Office of the Vice President for Research. Research Computing is an umbrella organization that comprises the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute, and U-Spatial.
Memberships
MSI is a member of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation, the Minnesota High Tech Association, the Great Lakes Consortium, and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE).
Supercomputing capabilities
HPC resources
Agate - HPE cluster with HPE and AMD CPU nodes and NVidia GPU nodes
Mangi - Heterogeneous HPE cluster; AMD processors tightly integrated via high-speed Infiniband network
Mesabi - HPE Linux distributed cluster; Intel processor tightly integrated via very high-speed communication network
References
Moore, Rick. "Blade Runner : UMNews." University of Minnesota. Web. 29 July 2010. http://www1.umn.edu/news/features/2009/UR_CONTENT_148391.html
Vance, Ashlee. "Minnesota’s Enormous Apples Computer - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com." Technology - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com. Web. 29 July 2010. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/minnesotas-enormous-apples-computer/?smid=pl-share
University of Minnesota
Supercomputers
University and college laboratories in the United States
Computer science institutes in the United States
Research institutes in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBF | OBF may refer to:
OBF (band), 2012 rename of The Original Bucks Fizz
Open Bioinformatics Foundation, non-profit organization supporting open source programming in bioinformatics.
Oregon Bach Festival, an annual midsummer J. S. Bach festival in Eugene, Oregon
Oregon Brewers Festival, an annual craft beer festival
Out of Box Failure, computer hardware term
Ordovician Bellefonte Formation, a rock formation in central Pennsylvania
Oberpfaffenhofen Airport's IATA code
Orthonormal Basis Function as in Hilbert space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant%20array%20of%20independent%20memory | A redundant array of independent memory (RAIM) is a design feature found in certain computers' main random access memory. RAIM utilizes additional memory modules and striping algorithms to protect against the failure of any particular module and keep the memory system operating continuously. RAIM is similar in concept to a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), which protects against the failure of a disk drive, but in the case of memory it supports several DRAM device chipkills and entire memory channel failures. RAIM is much more robust than parity checking and ECC memory technologies which cannot protect against many varieties of memory failures.
On July 22, 2010, IBM introduced the first high end computer server featuring RAIM, the zEnterprise 196. Each z196 machine contains up to 3 TB (usable) of RAIM-protected main memory. In 2011 the business class model z114 was introduced also supporting RAIM. The formal announcement letter offered some additional information regarding the implementation:
See also
IBM mainframe
References
Computer memory
Error detection and correction
Fault-tolerant computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TranslateCAD | TranslateCAD is a tool for computer-aided translation software, designed to extract translatable text from CAD drawings saved in the industry-standard DXF format - regardless of the CAD software used to create such drawings - so that professional translators are able to translate in plain text using a number of CAT tools available.
The translatable text is saved in a Unicode Text file that can be translated using any CAT tool available. The advantages of translating out of the drawing CAD software environment are:
It is faster to translate in plain-text format than using the native MTEXT or TEXT command in AutoCAD.
The translator is able to re-utilize translation memories, glossaries, dictionaries and other features of the CAT tool being used.
The special Unicode fonts can be visualized better using the CAT software than the drawing software.
The disadvantages of doing so are:
Some visibility is lost during the process. Users may need to go back to the drawing to see more context.
Not 100% of the drawings are not subject to be converted to DXF (See Limitations section).
Once the translator has created the target-language equivalent, TranslateCAD re-creates a DXF drawing that merges the extracted translatable text with the rest of the elements in the DXF file, such as lines, circles, dimensions, page properties, etc.
TranslateCAD is not a CAT tool itself, but a tagger software, that serves as a bridge between the target format and the CAT software.
The translator would need to check (and edit if needed) the target-language drawing in order to accommodate the different lengths of words/phrases into the original layout; applicable specifically when translating between European and Asian/Far East languages, due to the differences found in lengths among ideograms/glyphs and alphabet-based languages.
File Format Support
TranslateCAD reads and writes DXF files, supporting AutoCAD versions from r14 through 2010.
DWG files are not supported directly, although the user may use the Save-as menu within AutoCAD in order to export the drawings to be translated into DXF format. Alternatively, there are a number of shareware or freeware tools that perform this task.
Known Limitations
TranslateCAD handles only DXF files outside of AutoCAD or compatible software; it is not integrated with the drawing software itself.
Most legacy drawings were created using the outdated DTEXT (or simply TEXT) object that supports only one line of text, instead of the current MTEXT that handles several lines of text into one single object. The result of using DTEXT is that the translator frequently founds isolated words that sometimes don't make sense without the appropriate context/order. DTEXT object don't support Unicode, so if the drawing is to be translated into a Unicode-based language, the DTEXT objects need to be converted into MTEXT with a lisp macro in AutoCAD.
If translating from/to a Unicode-based language, the user needs to install an AutoCAD-compatibl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonet | Elonet is a website run by the Finnish National Audiovisual Archive which provides a database of about 150,000 films created or screened in Finland. It was launched in 2006.
References
External links
Finnish film websites
Online film databases
2006 establishments in Finland
Government-owned websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligado%20Networks | Ligado Networks, formerly known as LightSquared, is an American satellite communications company.
After restructuring, emerging from bankruptcy and modifying its network plan, the new company, Ligado Networks, launched in 2016. It operates the SkyTerra 1 satellite.
Operations
Ligado Networks is based in Reston, Virginia. The company is governed by a seven-member board of directors with Ivan Seidenberg as Chairman and Doug Smith as president and CEO. Fortress Investment Group, LLC, Centerbridge Partners LP and JPMorgan Chase & Co. own controlling stakes in Ligado Networks; Harbinger Capital Partners maintains a minority stake.
Ligado Networks has 40 MHz of spectrum licenses in the nationwide block of 1500 MHz to 1700 MHz spectrum in the L-Band. With it, the company is developing a satellite-terrestrial network to support the emerging 5G market and Internet of Things applications.
Network and spectrum
The company (as LightSquared) reached a cooperation agreement in 2007 with Inmarsat, a British satellite telecommunications company, that rearranged the L-Band spectrum so the company could use a larger, contiguous stretch of spectrum. Potential interference issues at the time prevented LightSquared from deploying the network.
In 2010, the company acquired licenses to mid-band spectrum when it bought SkyTerra Communications. LightSquared's plans, which did not come to fruition, were to use the spectrum to create a 4G wireless mobile network covering North America.
5G/GPS spectrum
Ligado received FCC's unanimous approval for use of spectrum near the L-bands used by GPS signals for their 5G networks in April 2020. The decision came after letters from the Department of Defense and members of congress suggested that the company using spectrum would interfere with military capabilities. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper warned of the risks, and a spokesman for the Pentagon argued that the request should be denied. The request was also opposed by Iridium Communications and the Federal Aviation Administration.
After the FCC approval, Bradford Parkinson, lead architect of the Global Positioning System and member of the National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing, said that the FCC had made a "grave error" in their approval. An advisory committee agreed that the approval was a risk. Major aviation associations including the Air Line Pilots Association, International, Aerospace Industries Association, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), and others all filed statements in opposition to the order. Other major GPS users, including Lockheed, Garmin, Trimble, and others also filed statements in opposition. Additionally, after the ruling, the Department of Defense and Department of Transportation issued a joint statement of opposition; the latter noted safety losses from impacts to E-911 service. The HASC committee chairman, Rep. Adam Smith called it a security risk.
In early May, the SASC held a hearing on the eff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZNC | DZNC (801 AM) Bombo Radyo is a radio station owned and operated by Bombo Radyo Philippines through its licensee Newsounds Broadcasting Network. Its studio and transmitter are located at the Bombo Radyo Broadcast Center, National Highway, Brgy. Minante II, Cauayan, Isabela.
References
Radio stations in Isabela (province)
Radio stations established in 1968
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Dyer | Martin Edward Dyer (born 16 July 1946 in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England) is a professor in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds, Leeds, England. He graduated from the University of Leeds in 1967, obtained his MSc from Imperial College London in 1968 and his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1979. His research interests lie in theoretical computer science, discrete optimization and combinatorics. Currently, he focuses on the complexity of counting and the efficiency of Markov chain algorithms for approximate counting.
Key contributions
Four key contributions made by Martin Dyer are:
polynomial time algorithm for approximating the volume of convex bodies (with Alan Frieze and Ravindran Kannan)
linear programming in fixed dimensions
the path coupling method for proving mixing of Markov chains (with Russ Bubley)
complexity of counting constraint satisfaction problems
Awards and honours
In 1991, Professor Dyer received the Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Mathematics (Jointly with Alan Frieze and Ravi Kannan for the paper "A random polynomial time algorithm for approximating the volume of convex bodies" in the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery) awarded by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Programming Society. In 2021 he was awarded the Godel Prize for the paper "An Effective Dichotomy for the Counting Constraint Satisfaction Problem." SIAM J. Computing. 42(3): 1245-1274 (2013) (Jointly with David Richerby) which is sponsored jointly by the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science and ACM SIGACT. (Other contemporaneous recipients were Andrei Bulatov, Jin-Yi Cai, Xi Chen.)
In 2013, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Awards Committee, consisting of Leslie Ann Goldberg, Vladimiro Sassone and Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (chair), unanimously decided to give the EATCS Award to Professor Martin Dyer.
Personal
Martin Dyer is married to Alison. They have two adult children.
References
External links
Martin Dyer's webpage
Fulkerson prize-winning paper
English computer scientists
Living people
Academics of the University of Leeds
Theoretical computer scientists
1946 births
Alumni of Imperial College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Film%20Database | The Swedish Film Database () is an Internet database about Swedish films, published by the Swedish Film Institute. It contains information about all Swedish films from 1897 onwards and foreign films that had cinema premiere in Sweden. It also provides many biographies of actors, directors, producers etc. who participated in Swedish films over the years. It is created with the support of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. The database comprises about 62,000 films (17,000 Swedish films) and 265,000 people.
References
External links
Swedish Film Database
Swedish film websites
Online film databases
Databases in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimap | Digimap is a web mapping and online data delivery service developed by the EDINA national data centre for UK academia. It offers a range of on-line mapping and data download facilities which provide maps and spatial data from Ordnance Survey, British Geological Survey, Landmark Information Group and OceanWise Ltd Ltd., (marine mapping data and charts from the UK Hydrographic Office), Getmapping Ltd, the Environment Agency, OpenStreetMap, CollinsBartholomew Ltd, and various other sources.
Digimap is available to members of subscribing higher and further education institutions in the UK. The service is free at the point of use but requires individual registration. Institutional subscription fees are based on an institutional banding system devised by JISC Collections .
History
Digimap started as a project under the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme in 1996 offering Ordnance Survey maps to 6 trial universities: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Oxford and Reading. The full service was launched in 2000 and won the AGI Award for Technological Progress in 2000.
In mid-2010 Digimap for Schools was launched, providing on-line maps to the schools sector. The service won a Gold Certificate for the best overall resource in the Geographical Association’s 2011 Publishers’ Awards.
Structure
The Digimap service has four collections for higher and further education; Ordnance Survey, Historic, Geology and Marine. There is also the Digimap for Schools service, which is available to primary and secondary education institutions.
Digimap: Ordnance Survey Collection
When Digimap was first launched this was the only collection of data available. Originally, the service consisted of a simple mapping client, first known as Lite then re-launched as Classic; an advanced mapping facility, Digimap Carto, which is a Java Applet; and a data download facility. Additional facilities for downloading boundary and postcode data, as well as postcode and gazetteer querying tools, were included later.
In 2007 a separate download facility was developed to allow the download of OS MasterMap data.
In 2009 the simple mapping client (Classic) was replaced with a new interface, Roam, which makes use of OpenLayers "slippy map" technology.
Historic Digimap
The scanned and georeferenced images of old Ordnance Survey maps were added as a new collection to Digimap in April 2005. The collection was scanned by Landmark Information Group and comprises the Ordnance Survey County Series maps and the National Grid maps covering the period up to the release of the digital Land-Line product in 1996. Along with the scanned maps Landmark also created a mosaic for each map series and each of its revisions, these mosaics have then been cut up into the current Ordnance Survey national grid squares.
The service originally consisted of a single interface for viewing maps and downloading either the national grid squares or the original scanned sheets as GeoTIFF images.
In 2010 a new facili |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter%20Shooter | Scooter Shooter is a horizontally scrolling shooter released in arcade by Konami on 1985. It includes competitive play against either a computer opponent or another player.
Legacy
Scooter Shooter was made available by Microsoft for its Game Room service for the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows – Live in July 2010.
References
External links
Scooter Shooter at Arcade History
1985 video games
Arcade video games
Konami games
Shooter games
Konami arcade games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmigrante%20TV | Inmigrante TV is an American television network featuring political news and commentary aimed at Hispanic immigrants.
The station was founded in 2010 by immigration attorney Manuel Solis. Much of the programming consists of advertising for Solis' law firm.
It was broadcast on the following digital subchannels:
KAZD 55.3 Dallas – Azteca (Una Vez Mas Holdings, LLC)
KGBT 4.3 Harlingen, Texas – CBS (Sinclair Broadcast Group)
KMPX 29.2 Dallas – Estrella TV (Liberman Broadcasting)
KRCA 62.4 Los Angeles – Estrella TV (Liberman Broadcasting)
KTAZ 39.2 Phoenix – Telemundo (NBC Universal)
KTDO 47.3 El Paso – Telemundo (ZGS Communications)
KZJL 61.2 Houston – Estrella TV (Liberman Broadcasting)
WESV-LD 40.2 Chicago – Independent
References
Nation's First Immigration TV Network Launches in Houston
Spanish-language television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MODS%20Disc | The MODS (Multiplexed Optical Data Storage) Disc is an optical storage medium that is currently being developed by a group of researchers from Imperial College London. The new disc could have a capacity of 1 Terabyte per single disc.
External links
One-Terabyte Optical Disc Technology Unveiled
1TB Multiplexed Optical Data Storage - 100 DVDs on a single disc
Rotating disc computer storage media
Upcoming products
Optical discs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il%20feudatario | Il feudatario is a comedy play by Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni. It was published in 1752.
Plays by Carlo Goldoni
1752 plays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fried%20Chicken%20Flu | "The Fried Chicken Flu" is the 12th episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Boondocks. It first aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's programming block Adult Swim on August 1, 2010. and Centric on November 15 2010 In the episode, the Freemans must survive in a post-apocalyptic world after a virus originating from fried chicken erupts across the country.
The episode was written by Aaron McGruder and directed by Sung Dae Kang. The episode's plot makes references to the 2009 flu pandemic, as well as a controversial Kentucky Fried Chicken-Oprah Winfrey promotion for the former's then-new Kentucky Grilled Chicken products. The episode features Marion Ross guest-starring as Ms. Von Hausen, a resident of Woodcrest. The episode received mixed reviews from critics, who compared its overall quality to an episode from the show's first season.
Plot
Robert and Riley are eagerly watching TV coverage about the latest special at Kernel's Fried Chicken, a new type of chicken with 13 herbs and spices, as Huey and Jazmine Dubois are busy testing out a generator in the Freemans' garage. The generator malfunctions and cuts the power, causing an infuriated Robert and Riley to leave for KFC to buy chicken. Huey explains that he has been testing the generator as a part of his survival plan for his family in the event that a pandemic sweeps the nation. Jazmine asks if she can be included in the plan as well, and eventually convinces a reluctant Huey to do so.
At KFC, Robert and Riley wait for hours in the drive-thru line, only to discover that the restaurant has run out of chicken. The customers are enraged by this and a driver then drives a car into the restaurant. Robert and Riley return home and watch the news, learning that KFC's nationwide have been running out of chicken, resulting in mass civil unrest and causing food, water and power shortages. At the same time, cases of a new, unknown virus have been reported affecting KFC customers by the thousands, which the media dubs the "fried chicken flu.” Huey puts his plan in effect, but his instructions are ignored by his family, who fear the worst.
The next day, Huey's survival plans quickly fall apart. Thugnificent and his roommate Leonard (who bring Wendy's), Robert's friend Tina, and Jazmine's parents Tom and Sarah all take refuge in the house, though the food and water supply can only support four. Further news reports reveal the virus to originate from various other chicken franchises and predict apocalyptic casualty rates. Huey finally gets his generator to work and restores power to the house, but this does not last long, as the group quickly burns through it. Uncle Ruckus tips off the residents of Woodcrest (who have formed a vigilante militia) on the Freemans' supplies, and they demand access before being driven off with homemade tear gas.
Things turn worse when Tom contracts the flu after eating buffalo wings given to him by Leonard, who misunderstood the nam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20T.%20Goodrich | Michael T. Goodrich is a mathematician and computer scientist. He is a distinguished professor of computer science and the former chair of the department of computer science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
University career
He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Calvin College in 1983 and his PhD in Computer Sciences from Purdue University in 1987 under the supervision of Mikhail Atallah. He then served as a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University until 2001 and has since been a Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Irvine in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences.
Awards and honors
Goodrich is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2018 he was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
He is also a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in 2006,
the DARPA Spirit of Technology Transfer Award,
and the ACM Recognition of Service Award.
References
External links
Michael T. Goodrich
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Graph drawing people
Computer security academics
Calvin University alumni
Purdue University alumni
University of California, Irvine faculty
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GADDAG | A GADDAG is a data structure presented by Steven Gordon in 1994, for use in generating moves for Scrabble and other word-generation games where such moves require words that "hook into" existing words. It is often in contrast to move-generation algorithms using a directed acyclic word graph (DAWG) such as the one used by Maven. It is generally twice as fast as the traditional DAWG algorithms, but take about 5 times as much space for regulation Scrabble dictionaries.
Quackle, an open-source Scrabble program, uses a GADDAG to generate moves.
Description
The name GADDAG comes from DAG for directed acyclic graph, prefixed by its own reverse.
A GADDAG is a specialization of a Trie, containing states and branches to other GADDAGs. It is distinct for its storage of every reversed prefix of every word in a dictionary. This means every word has as many representations as it does letters; since the average word in most Scrabble regulation dictionaries is 5 letters long, this makes the GADDAG about 5 times as big as a simple DAWG.
Definition
For any word in a dictionary that is formed by a non-empty prefix x and a suffix y, a GADDAG contains a direct, deterministic path for any string REV(x)+y, where + is a concatenation operator.
For example, for the word "explain," a GADDAG will contain direct paths to the strings
e+xplain
xe+plain
pxe+lain
lpxe+ain
alpxe+in
ialpxe+n
nialpxe
This setup enables searching for a word given any letter that occurs in it.
Use in move generation
Any move-generation algorithm must adhere to three types of constraints:
Board constraints: one may only build by 'hooking' onto existing letters of the board, and one may only place tiles on empty squares.
Rack constraints: one may only place tiles with letters on one's rack.
Dictionary constraint: all words resulting from the placement of tiles exist in the game's dictionary.
DAWG-based algorithms take advantage of the second and third constraint: the DAWG is built around the dictionary, and is traversed using tiles in the rack. It fails, however, to address the first constraint: supposing one want to 'hook into' the letter P in HARPY, and the board has 2 spaces before the P, one must search the dictionary for all words containing letters from the rack where the third letter is P. This is inefficient when searching through the DAWG, as many searches through the trie will be fruitless.
This is addressed by the GADDAG's storage of prefixes: by traversing the P branch of a GADDAG, one sees all words that have a P somewhere in their composition, and can "travel up" the prefix to form the word with tiles in the rack. To use the example from the section, searching for P turns up "pxe+lain". The letters between P and the + can be placed above the P on the board, and the rest below it (if space on the board permits).
See also
Suffix Tree
Trie
Scrabble
Prefix Hash Tree
References
Scrabble software
Graph data structures
String data structures
Game artifi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20tech%20%28disambiguation%29 | High tech refers to "high technology". It may also refer to:
High-tech architecture, an architectural style that emerged in the 1970s
HiTech, a computer chess program
Hi-Tech Automotive, a car builder and automotive design house
Hi-Tech (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
Hi-Tech (DC Comics) an enemy of Superman in the DC Universe
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act)
See also
High Tech Academy, an academy in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
High Technology High School, a high school in Lincroft, New Jersey, USA
Hi-Tek (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spenser%20%28film%20series%29 | Joe Mantegna portrayed Robert B. Parker's detective "Spenser" in three TV films on the A&E cable network between 1999 and 2001.
Production
Robert B. Parker had a significant role in the development of the TV movies (all three films were adapted by Parker, with his wife co-authoring Walking Shadow) as opposed to the earlier Spenser: For Hire. Nonetheless, he felt that the movies didn't get it right, not because of the performances but because of the limited budget. Parker had a small role in the first film, and cameos in the later two. His son, Daniel, and wife, Joan, appear in Thin Air. Spenser's ally, Hawk, was played by Sheik Mahmud-Bey in "Small Vices", and returns in "Walking Shadow" portrayed by Ernie Hudson.
All three movies were filmed in locations in Canada.
Films
Spenser: Small Vices
In this movie Spenser tries to solve the murder of a college student.
It was broadcast in 1999, and is based on the 1997 novel of the same name.
Joe Mantegna as Spenser
Marcia Gay Harden as Susan Silverman
Joanna Miles as Evans
R.D. Reid as Quirk
Scott Wickware as Captain Healy
Sheik Mahmud-Bey as Hawk
Robert B. Parker as Ives
Thin Air
In this movie, Spenser searches for the wife of his longtime associate, Sgt. Belson.
It was broadcast in 2000, and is based on the 1995 novel of the same name.
Joe Mantegna as Spenser
Marcia Gay Harden as Susan Silverman
Joanna Miles as Evans
R.D. Reid as Quirk
Jon Seda as Luis DeLeon
David Ferry as Frank Belson
Walking Shadow
In this movie, Spenser tries to solve the on-stage murder of an actor.
It was broadcast in 2001, and is based on the 1994 novel of the same name.
It is directed by Po-Chih Leong.
Joe Mantegna as Spenser
Marcia Gay Harden as Susan Silverman
Scott Wickware as Captain Healy
Ernie Hudson as Hawk
Eric Roberts as Police Chief DeSpain
Christopher Lawford as Jimmy Christopholous
Tamlyn Tomita as Rikki Wu
Audiobooks
Joe Mantegna has also narrated a number of Spenser novels;
References
External links
Small Vices at the Internet Archive
1999 American television series debuts
1990s American crime drama television series
2000s American crime drama television series
American mystery television series
Television shows set in Boston
Television shows based on American novels
A&E (TV network) original films |
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The Kuomintang Islamic insurgency () was a continuation of the Chinese Civil War by Chinese Muslim Kuomintang Republic of China Army forces mainly in Northwest China, in the provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang, and another insurgency in Yunnan.
Origin
The majority of the insurgents were formal members of Ma Bufang's Republic of China Army (Ma clique). Several of them were prominent generals, such as Ma Hushan, who had earlier fought against the Soviet Union in Xinjiang. Others had fought against the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War, including Muslim General Ma Yuanxiang, who fought under the command of General Ma Biao and was wounded in action at the Battle of Huaiyang where the Japanese were defeated.
Ma Bufang, Ma Hushan, and the other leaders who led the revolt were all former National Revolutionary Army soldiers and Kuomintang members. Many of the Chinese Muslim insurgents were veterans of the Soviet invasion of Xinjiang, Sino-Tibetan War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ili Rebellion, and the Chinese Civil War. The Muslim insurgents were all Hui people, Salar people, or Dongxiang people.
When Ma Bufang fled after the Ningxia Campaign, he took over $50,000 in military funds and fled to Hong Kong.
Some Hui Muslim Generals and units from Ningxia, like Ma Hongbin, his son Ma Dunjing, and the 81st Muslim Corps, defected to the Communist People's Liberation Army and joined them. Many Muslim units in Xinjiang also defected to the Communists.
Han Youwen, an ethnic Salar Muslim, defected to the Communists in Xinjiang and joined the People's Liberation Army. Han Youwen served in the Chinese government until his death in 1998.
The Muslim General Ma Lin's eldest son Ma Burong defected to the Communists after 1949 and donated 10,000 yuan to support Chinese troops in the Korean War. Ma Lin was the uncle of Ma Bufang and Ma Burong was Ma Bufang's cousin. One of Ma Chengxiang's Hui Muslim officers, (), defected to the Communists.
Most former Kuomintang Muslim Generals, like Ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui, his son Ma Dunjing, Bai Chongxi, Ma Jiyuan, Ma Chengxiang and their families fled to Taiwan along with the Republic of China government or to other places like Egypt and the United States when the Communists defeated them. However Ma Bufang's subordinate officers who remained behind in Qinghai province were instructed to revolt against the PLA.
Ma Bufang and Ma Chengxiang's forces were stationed across Qinghai and Xinjiang along with Ospan Batyr's men, which were originally battling Sovet backed Uyghur rebels in the Ili Rebellion and the Mongols and Russians at the Battle of Baitag Bogd before the Communist victory in the Civil War and subsequent incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China. The anti-separatist, pro-Kuomintang Uy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24%20Hour%20Restaurant%20Battle | 24 Hour Restaurant Battle is a Food Network reality based cooking television series hosted by Scott Conant that features two teams competing against each other for a shot at their own restaurant.
Series overview
Opening: "It's the ultimate dream for master chefs and home cooks alike to open your own restaurant. Now two teams will compete to transform an empty space into the restaurant they've always wanted. But they'll have to do this in 24 hours. Once the doors open, they'll be judged by their customers, a panel of experts, and me, Scott Conant, chef and restaurateur. It's an all out war of culinary skill, business savvy, and pure determination. This is 24 Hour Restaurant Battle...It's two teams one dream and 24 hours to make it happen".
Criteria: 24 Hours until the doors open: 1. Create a concept. 2. Plan Menu. 3. Design and shop for front of the house. 4. Manage kitchen and waitstaff.
In each episode, two teams of two or three people compete. Each team must turn a blank space into a restaurant in 24 hours. The teams are responsible for a concept, decor, and food. Each team's menu must include at least one Appetizer, Entrée and Dessert, but there is no maximum limit for any course as long as it fits within their budget. Both teams get a $4,000 budget for food and decor. Each team also gets painters to color the walls, one sous chef to help assist the cooking, and waiters to seat people at tables and deliver food. After 24 hours, the restaurant's doors are open to diners who get to choose the restaurant they would like to attend based on the menu and decor. Four judges eat at both restaurants and Conant determines a winner based on the "concept, execution and viability" of the restaurant. The winning team gets $10,000 to invest into creating their own restaurant.
Note: For episodes starting on September 15, 2010, the teams received $5,000 instead of $4,000 and Geoffrey Zakarian was designated as the head judge.
Judges
The judges change each episode (except for Scott Conant), though they are from a selection of 9 restaurateurs and critics:
Karine Bakhoum - Food critic
Alison Brod - Restaurant trend expert, restaurant publicist (Alison Brod PR)
Jason Denton - Chef
Gabriella Gershenson - Food writer/editor for Saveur magazine
Ben Leventhal - Food blogger
Drew Nieporent -
Marcus Samuelsson - Chef/Restaurateur
Steve Schussler -
David Sax - Author of Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen
Geoffrey Zakarian - Chef/NYC Restaurateur
Episodes
Season 1 (2010)
Season 2 (2011)
References
External links
Official Site
2010 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
2010s American cooking television series
Food Network original programming
Reality cooking competition television series
2010s American reality television series
Television series by CBS Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Enix%20home%20computer%20games | Enix was a Japanese video game publishing company founded in September 1975 by Yasuhiro Fukushima. Initially a tabloid publisher named Eidansha Boshu Service Center, in 1982 it ventured into video game publishing for Japanese home computers such as the PC-8800 series, the X1 series, and the FM-7. Fukushima had no programming knowledge and did not employ internal programmers or game designers. Instead, he held a contest for programming hobbyists in order to pool talents and publish selected games, with a ¥1 million award for the top prize (US$5,000). Few entries were received in the first month, but after a marketing campaign on television and in appliance stores, hobby clubs, computer and manga magazines, three hundred entries were received by the end of the "First Game Hobby Program Contest".
This contest allowed Enix to release numerous games with a wide variety of genres early on, as thirteen winning entries were polished and chosen for release in February 1983. Among these were Morita no Battle Field by Kazurou Morita; Door Door by Koichi Nakamura; and Love Match Tennis by Yuji Horii, a young columnist for Weekly Shōnen Jump. In addition to two more contests, Enix began recruiting developers on a project basis. For each project, Enix outsourced development and handled production and promotion duties, which made cost control more efficient. Unlike software houses of the time, Fukushima tried to instill a commercial mindset in his developers, as he thought games should be treated as books or movies in terms of copyright. He employed a royalty payment system between the company and the developers so that the latter would be compensated proportionally to the direct sales of their games. Each of Enix's home computer release featured a photo and resume of the developer on the back cover of the package.
Enix's home computer games were commercially successful; on their release, the first batch of February 1983 ranked first, second, third, fifth and seventh in the top ten Japanese best-selling games, leading to other game releases and a profit of ¥300 million (US$1.5 million) by the end of the year. Enix moved into traditional game publishing in 1985, beginning by porting its most successful home computer games to the Famicom console: Door Door, which sold 200,000 copies, and The Portopia Serial Murder Case, which sold 700,000. Enix soon focused primarily on publishing titles for consoles, though it continued to sell home computer games through to 1993. With the exception of the character designer Akira Toriyama, the development team of Enix's future flagship series Dragon Quest was recruited, thanks to the company's programming contests: Horii and Nakamura had won the first contest, and Koichi Sugiyama was contacted after sending in a questionnaire postcard for Morita Kazurou no Shogi.
List by year
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1993
References
Video game lists by company
Video game lists by platform
Video games develope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20Environment%20Block | In computing the Process Environment Block (abbreviated PEB) is a data structure in the Windows NT operating system family. It is an opaque data structure that is used by the operating system internally, most of whose fields are not intended for use by anything other than the operating system. Microsoft notes, in its MSDN Library documentation — which documents only a few of the fields — that the structure "may be altered in future versions of Windows". The PEB contains data structures that apply across a whole process, including global context, startup parameters, data structures for the program image loader, the program image base address, and synchronization objects used to provide mutual exclusion for process-wide data structures.
The PEB is closely associated with the kernel mode EPROCESS data structure, as well as with per-process data structures managed within the address space of the Client-Server Runtime Sub-System process. However, (like the CSRSS data structures) the PEB is not a kernel mode data structure itself. It resides in the application mode address space of the process that it relates to. This is because it is designed to be used by the application-mode code in the operating system libraries, such as NTDLL, that executes outside of kernel mode, such as the code for the program image loader and the heap manager.
In WinDbg, the command that dumps the contents of a PEB is the !peb command, which is passed the address of the PEB within a process' application address space. That information, in turn, is obtained by the !process command, which displays the information from the EPROCESS data structure, one of whose fields is the address of the PEB.
The contents of the PEB are initialized by the NtCreateUserProcess() system call, the Native API function that implements part of, and underpins, the Win32 CreateProcess(), CreateProcessAsUser(), CreateProcessWithTokenW(), and CreateProcessWithLogonW() library functions that are in the kernel32.dll and advapi32.dll libraries as well as underpinning the fork() function in the Windows NT POSIX library, posix.dll.
For Windows NT POSIX processes, the contents of a new process' PEB are initialized by NtCreateUserProcess() as simply a direct copy of the parent process' PEB, in line with how the fork() function operates. For Win32 processes, the initial contents of a new process' PEB are mainly taken from global variables maintained within the kernel. However, several fields may instead be taken from information provided within the process' image file, in particular information provided in the IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER32 data structure within the PE file format (PE+ or PE32+ in 64 bit executable images).
The WineHQ project provides a fuller PEB definition in its version of winternl.h. Later versions of Windows have adjusted the number and purpose of some fields.
References
External links
PEB definitions for various Windows versions
Windows NT architecture
Data structures by computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20z196 | The z196 microprocessor is a chip made by IBM for their zEnterprise 196 and zEnterprise 114 mainframe computers, announced on July 22, 2010. The processor was developed over a three-year time span by IBM engineers from Poughkeepsie, New York; Austin, Texas; and Böblingen, Germany at a cost of US$1.5 billion. Manufactured at IBM's Fishkill, New York fabrication plant, the processor began shipping on September 10, 2010. IBM stated that it was the world's fastest microprocessor at the time.
Description
The chip measures 512.3 mm2 and consists of 1.4 billion transistors fabricated in IBM's 45 nm CMOS silicon on insulator fabrication process, supporting speeds of 5.2 GHz: at the time, the highest clock speed CPU ever produced for commercial sale.
The processor implements the CISC z/Architecture with a new superscalar, out-of-order pipeline and 100 new instructions. The instruction pipeline has 15 to 17 stages; the instruction queue can hold 40 instructions; and up to 72 instructions can be "in flight". It has four cores, each with a private 64 KB L1 instruction cache, a private 128 KB L1 data cache and a private 1.5 MB L2 cache. In addition, there is a 24 MB shared L3 cache implemented in eDRAM and controlled by two on-chip L3 cache controllers. There's also an additional shared L1 cache used for compression and cryptography operations.
Each core has six RISC-like execution units, including two integer units, two load-store units, one binary floating point unit and one decimal floating point unit. The z196 chip can decode three instructions and execute five operations in a single clock cycle.
The z196 chip has on board DDR3 RAM memory controller supporting a RAID like configuration to recover from memory faults. The z196 also includes a GX bus controller for accessing host channel adapters and peripherals. Additionally, each chip includes co-processors for cryptographic and compression functionality.
Shared Cache
Even though the z196 processor has on-die facilities for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), there are 2 dedicated companion chips called the Shared Cache (SC) that each adds 96 MB off-die L4 cache for a total of 192 MB L4 cache. L4 cache is shared by all processors in the book. The SC chip consists of 1.5 billion transistors and measures 478.8 mm2, manufactured with the same 45 nm process as the z196 chip.
Each chip also has 24 MB L3 cache shared by the 4 cores on the chip.
Multi-chip module
The zEnterprise System z196 uses multi-chip modules (MCMs) which allows for six z196 chips to be on a single module. Each MCM has two shared cache chips allowing processors on the MCM to be connected with 40 GB/s links.
The different models of the zEnterprise System have a different number of active cores. To accomplish this, some processors in each MCM may have its fourth core disabled.
z114
The zEnterprise System z114 does use z196 processors but does not use MCMs so the processors are packaged on single chip modules (SCM) instead. Two SC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pillars%20of%20the%20Earth%20%28miniseries%29 | The Pillars of the Earth is an eight-part 2010 television miniseries, adapted from Ken Follett's 1989 novel of the same name. It debuted in the U.S. on Starz and in Canada on The Movie Network/Movie Central on 23 July 2010. Its UK premiere was on Channel 4 in October 2010. The series was nominated for three awards at the 68th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Miniseries or Television Film, while Ian McShane and Hayley Atwell received acting nominations.
Overview
Like the novel on which it is based, the miniseries centres on the construction of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge during a tumultuous period of English history known as The Anarchy in the 12th century.
Differences from the novel
A number of character changes were made for the series. For example, Waleran is older and Remigius is younger in the series than the novel. Similarly the actors playing Alfred, Jack, Richard, and Aliena are initially older than those portrayed in the novel. Also, the characters of Henry of Blois, Andrew Sacrist, Milius the kitchener, and Thomas Becket are not introduced in the series. The incestuous fixation of Regan to her son William is not introduced in the novel. The story of young Philip and Francis' rescue by Abbot Peter after the death of their parents during a war in Wales is omitted and Prior James is said to be the one who brought the boy Philip to the priory. Further, the thief character who attacks Martha and steals their pig is merged to become the monk Johnny Eightpence. Jack and Aliena only have one child in the series.
Character events were also modified on occasion. Shareburg, Ellen's lover and the father of Jack, is not hanged but burnt at the stake, and does not sing the minstrel song seen in the novel. In the TV series, Ellen is not pregnant at that time (but holds a baby) and does not use a cockerel during her curse. The romantic tryst between Ellen and Tom in the woods after the death of Agnes as per the novel does not occur, rather they become closer after Ellen states that Jack needs a master builder to whom to apprentice. Similarly, Alfred is also not seen physically bullying Martha or Jack in the series. The execution scene of Bartholomew (and Aliena's appeal to Stephen for mercy, and Stephen's offer of a knighthood to Richard) in episode 3 does not occur in the novel, where he simply languishes and dies alone in prison. Also, Jack does not duel Walter for the rights to the quarry as shown in episode 3, nor have his hand broken. In the novel, Percy Hamleigh dies of unknown causes, whereas in episode 4, he is bled to death by his ambitious wife Regan. The poisoning of Jack in episode 6 was added by the series.
Several plot changes also happened. For example, the body of the saint in the burning church is not saved as per the novel, but the body-less skull is lost in the inferno. Also, in the series, Tom tells Jack to sculpt a stone statue of St. Adolphus. In the novel Henry of Blois (and not Stephen) visits the cat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setonaikai%20Broadcasting | is a TV station broadcasting in Kagawa and Okayama Prefectures. It is a member station of the All-Nippon News Network (ANN).
History
November 22, 1967: Established as Shin-nihon Broadcasting
April 1, 1969: Analog TV Broadcasting started
December 1, 2006: Digital TV Broadcasting started
July 24, 2011: Analog TV Broadcasting ended
January 18, 2021: Moved to its new headquarters in Kaminocho, Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture from its former headquarters in Saihōchō Itchōme, Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture.
Offices
Headquarters: 2-1-43 Kaminocho, Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture
Okayama Office: 1–18, Daiku San-chōme, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan
Tokyo Branch Office: 6–7, Ginza Roku-chōme, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Osaka Branch Office: 2–4, Nakanoshima San-chōme, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Hiroshima Branch Office: 15–6, Hatchōbori, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan
Network
ANN and TV Asahi Network
Stations
Analog
Okayama JOVH-TV 25CH 20 kW
Kagawa
Takamatsu 33CH 5 kW
Nishisanuki 42CH 3 kW
Shōdoshima 57CH 300W
Shionoe V4CH 3W
Sakaidenishi 38CH 10W
Shirotori 42CH 10W
Nio 54CH 3W
Sakaidehigashi 56CH 10W
Kokubunji 57CH 3W
Takuma 57CH 1W
Shido 58CH 10W etc...
Okayama
Kasaoka V55CH 300W
Tsuyama 62CH 500W
Mizushima V16CH 10W
Okayamakita 16CH 10W
Takahashi 26CH 10W
Niimi 26CH 30W
Kuse 26CH 10W
Mimasaka 26CH 3W
Tamashima 33CH 3W
Tsuyamaminami 33CH 3W
Okayamahigashi 37CH 3W
Digital (virtual channel:5)
Okayama JOVH-DTV 30CH 2 kW
Kagawa
Takamatsu 17CH 500W
Nishisanuki 17CH 100W
Shōdoshima 30CH 30W
Shirotori 30CH 1W
Nio 30CH 1W
Sakaidehigashi 31CH 1W
Tonoshō 34CH 1W
Kokubunji 26CH 0.3W
Ayakami 36CH 0.3W
Takuma 31CH 0.1W
Takuma-Nabuto 30CH 0.05W
Takuma-Namari 31CH 0.01W
Okayama
Tsuyama 17CH 50W
Kasaoka V30CH 30W
Niimi 17CH 3W
Hiruzen 30CH 3W
Kojima 49CH 3W
Kuse 17CH 1W
Takahashi 17CH 1W
Wake 17CH 1W
Hokubou 31CH 1W
San'yō 36CH 1W
Bizen-Seto 42CH 1W
Ibara 17CH 0.3W etc...
Programs
Nikomaru Wide
KSB Super J Channel
KSB News
KSB News view
Saikyō! Dream Hyakkaten
Jiyūjin Kaisyajin - Top no Yokogao
References
External links
All-Nippon News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1969
Mass media in Takamatsu, Kagawa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Edge | Charles Edge may refer to:
Charles Edge (basketball) (born 1950), American basketball player
Charles Edge (architect) (1800–1867), British architect
Charles Edge (computer scientist), American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeptia | Adeptia is a Chicago, Illinois based software company. It provides an application to exchange business data with other companies using a self-service integration approach. This business software helps organizations create automated data connections to their customers and partners, and automate pre-processing and post-processing steps such as data validation, exception handling and back-end data integration.
Adeptia's products are designed to help on-board customer data, implement real-time interfaces between systems, connecting with cloud applications, automate business processes, publishing APIs, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) integration and to enable Service-oriented architecture (SOA). Adeptia is being used by organizations in various industries including Insurance, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Logistics, Government, Health care and retail. Adeptia technology provides Data Integration, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), and Business-to-business (B2B) Integration software capabilities.
Adeptia technology has been developed using Java, XML and Web Services technologies. They are available in both traditional on-premises and cloud-delivery models. For cloud deployments, Adeptia utilizes the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Adeptia is notable for being one of the most comprehensive "all-in-one" business integration software on the market that combines Data Integration, Enterprise Application Integration, and Business-to-Business EDI capability on a core SOA architecture.
History
Adeptia was founded in 2000 and its headquarters are situated in Chicago, IL. It has a wholly owned Research and Development Center in New Delhi, India.
In November 2014, Lou Ennuso, CEO of Adeptia, was inducted as a member of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.
Gartner included Adeptia in the Data Integration Magic Quadrant in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.
Gartner also included Adeptia in the Application Integration Magic Quadrant in 2013 and 2014.
Forrester Research included Adeptia in the Hybrid Integration Wave in 2014.
See also
Enterprise Application Integration
Enterprise service bus
Comparison of business integration software
References
External links
Adeptia website
Software companies established in 2000
Software companies based in Illinois
Companies based in Chicago
EDI software companies
Software companies of the United States
2000 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Vohwinkel | Franz Vohwinkel (born 1964 in Munich, West Germany) is a German artist and illustrator whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Works
Vohwinkel drew the cover art for the book Dataware (1998) for TSR's Alternity game, and illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game. He also worked for the German company Fantasy Productions on their version of the BattleTech game, producing art for the Field Manual: Mercenaries, Revised (2003), Handbook: House Steiner (2004), and Classic Battletech Master Rules, Revised Ed. (2004). Vohwinkel has done interior illustrations on a number of Dungeons & Dragons books for Wizards of the Coast, including Races of Stone (2004), Monster Manual III (2004), Complete Arcane (2004), Stormwrack (2005), Races of Eberron (2005), Complete Adventurer (2005), Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and Truename Magic (2006), Power of Faerûn (2006), Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss (2006), Player's Handbook II, and Drow of the Underdark (2007). Other RPG work includes Realms of Sorcery (2005) and Old World Armoury (2005) for the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game by Black Industries, and The Four Winds (2005) for Legend of the Five Rings by Alderac Entertainment Group.
Vohwinkel also illustrated board games, including 1991's Drunter und Drüber, and 1994's Kingdoms.
References
External links
An interview with Franz Vohwinkel
1964 births
Artists from Munich
German illustrators
Living people
Role-playing game artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D30%20road%20%28Croatia%29 | D30 is a state road in central Croatia connecting Velika Gorica, Petrinja and Hrvatska Kostajnica to Croatian motorway network at the A3 motorway Kosnica interchange and to the City of Zagreb via Radnička Road. The road is long.
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. Sections of the road running through Velika Gorica and Petrinja are not covered by the traffic counting sites, but the section is assumed to carry a substantial volume of urban traffic in addition to the regular D30 traffic.
Road junctions and populated areas
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| Kosnica interchange A3 to Slavonski Brod and Varaždin (via the A4 motorway) (to the east) and to Karlovac (via the A1 motorway) and Krapina (via the A2 motorway) (to the west).To Zagreb via Radnička Road.Both the D31 to the south of the interchange and Radnička Road to the north are double carriage roadsThe northern terminus of the road.
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| D408 to Velika Gorica and Zagreb Airport.
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| D31 to Pokupsko and Glina (D6).To Velika Gorica via Sisačka street.The southern terminus of the suburban double carriage road.
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| PeščenicaŽ3151 to Brežane Lekeničke and Cerje.Ž3292 to Peščenica railway station.
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| Ž3230 to Poljana Lekenička
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| DužicaŽ3157 to Greda.
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| D36 to Pokupsko and Karlovac (to the west).The D30 and D36 roads are concurrent to the south of the junction.
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| Ž3156 to Žažina
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| D36 to Sisak and A3 motorway Popovača interchange (to the east).The D30 and D36 roads are concurrent to the north of the junction.
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| Ž3156 to Mala Gorica
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| Brest PokupskiŽ3242 to Vurot, Stara Drenčina and Staro Pračno.
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| D37 to Glina.The D30 and D37 roads are concurrent to the east of the junction.
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| Petrinja D37 to Sisak .The D30 and D37 roads are concurrent to the west of the junction.Ž3200 to D37 state road.
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| Donja Budičina
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| Ž3201 to Donja Mlinoga
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| BlinjaŽ3208 to Mađari.
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| Ž3240 to Gornja Mlinoga
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| Ž3244 to Mala Gradusa and Drljača.
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| Umetić
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| Ž3241 to Mečenčani and Borojevići.
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| Donji Kukuruzari
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| Panjani D224 to Sunja and Mošćenica (D37).
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| Hrvatska Kostajnica D47 to Dvor, Hrvatska Dubica and the A3 motorway Novska interchange.
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| Hrvatska Kostajnica border crossing to Bosnia and Herzegovina.The road extends to Bosanska Kostajnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.The southern terminus of the road.
Maps
Sources
D030
D030
D030
D030 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20O%27Neill | Mark O'Neill may refer to:
Mark O'Neill (rugby league) (born 1975), Australian rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s
Mark A. O'Neill (born 1959), British entomologist and computer scientist
Mark O'Neill (TV personality) (born 1984), Irish television personality and producer
Mark O'Neill (cricketer) (born 1959), Australian cricketer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirondatal%20Gold%20Mine | The Kirondatal Gold Mine (, "Kironda Valley") was a gold mine in the Singida Region of Tanzania.
The mine closed in 1950 and exploration rights in the area of the old mine now lay with Barrick Gold, through its subsidiary, Sekenke Exploration Limited, while the wider area around the mine is under exploration by Currie Rose Resources Inc.
History
Gold mining in Tanzania in modern times dates back to the German colonial period, beginning with gold discoveries near Lake Victoria in 1894. Gold mining at Kirondatal however is said to predate this era, having been carried out by Arab traders in pre-colonial times.
The nearby Sekenke Gold Mine became the first gold mine in Tanganyika, when it began operation in 1909, after gold having been discovered there in 1907. Kirondatal was opened considerably later, in 1930. While Sekenke became the largest single producer of gold when gold mining in the country experienced a boom between 1930 and the Second World War, the Kirondatal mine, active from 1934 to 1950, produced just 7,267 ounces of gold. The Kirondatal mine closed in 1950, having produced an average grade of 9.0 g/t of gold in its 16 years of operation.
By 1967, gold production in Tanzania had dropped to insignificance but was revived in the mid-1970s, when the gold price rose once more. In the late 1990s, foreign mining companies started investing in the exploration and development of gold deposits in Tanzania, leading to the opening of a number of new mines. Kirondatal however was not reopened.
References
External links
Sekenke claim map
Kirondatal mine (TZA-00189) Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States website
Gold mines in Tanzania
Buildings and structures in the Shinyanga Region
Barrick Gold
Tanganyika (territory) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offspring%20%28TV%20series%29 | Offspring is an Australian television comedy-drama program that aired Network Ten from 2010 to 2017. Offspring is centred on 30-something obstetrician Nina Proudman and her family and friends as they navigate the chaos of modern life. Filmed in Melbourne's inner north, the series mixes conventional narrative drama and comedy with flashbacks, graphic animation, and fantasy sequences.
Series overview
Cast
Main
Supporting cast
Adrienne Pickering as Kirsty Crewe (Series 7)
Neil Melville as Drew Crewe (Series 7)
Dan Wyllie as Angus Freeman (Series 6)
Sarah Peirse as Marjorie Van Dyke (Series 6–7)
Shannon Berry as Brody Jordan (Series 6–7)
Ash Ricardo as Kerry Green (Series 6–7)
Cate Wolfe as Jess (Series 5–7)
Isabella Monaghan as Zoe Proudman-Reid (Series 5–7)
Maude Davey as Dr. Nadine Samir-Noonan (Series 2, 4–5)
Celia Pacquola as Ange Navarro (Series 4–5)
Garry McDonald as Phillip Noonan (Series 3–5)
Clare Bowditch as Rosanna Harding (Series 3–5)
Kate Jenkinson as Kate Reid (Series 2–4, 5)
Christopher Morris as Brendan Wright (Series 1, 5)
Lawrence Leung as Elvis Kwan (Series 4–7)
Caren Pistorius as Eloise Ward (Series 4)
Kevin Hofbauer as Joseph Green (Series 4)
David Roberts as Phil D'Arabont (Series 2, 4, 5, 6)
Kate Atkinson as Renee (Series 1–3)
Kick Gurry as Adam (Series 3)
Dan Spielman as Andrew Holland (Series 2–3)
Emma Griffin as Tammy (Series 2)
Jay Ryan as Fraser King (Series 2)
Tina Bursill as Marilyn Holland (Series 2)
Leah de Niese as Odile (Series 1–2)
Marta Kaczmarek as Sonja (Series 1)
Kate Box as Alice Havel (Series 1)
John Wood as Gareth (Series 1)
Damon Herriman as Boyd Carlisle (Series 1)
Matilda Brown
Production
Debra Oswald wrote the series with John Edwards and Imogen Banks producing with Southern Star Entertainment. Offspring was originally conceived as a two-hour telemovie for Ten, but was spun off into a 13-episode series after television executives were impressed by the quality of the telemovie. The second season began on 16 May 2011 with a double episode premiere.
On 3 October 2014, shortly after the fifth series finale aired, John Edwards confirmed that Offspring would not return for a sixth series due to Ten's cost-cutting measures in its production division. In 2015, the series was picked up for another series, with production commencing on 25 April 2016 and running through to June 2016. Most of the original cast returned alongside new cast members.
The seventh series filmed in Melbourne from March 2017 and premiered on 28 June 2017.
In November 2017, Network Ten chose not to renew the show as part of its 2018 season, although did not officially cancel the program.
The series was filmed in Melbourne's inner-north around the suburb of Fitzroy and was produced by John Edwards and Imogen Banks, who also co-produced Tangle. John Edwards was responsible for such successes as Police Rescue, The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way, and Dangerous - also produced with Imogen Banks - and Rush f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%20for%20Independent%20Higher%20Education | The Foundation for Independent Higher Education (FIHE) is the national office for a network of state-based private college fundraising associations in the United States. It was founded in 1958 as the Independent College Funds of America (ICFA). In 2010 it merged into the Council of Independent Colleges. FIHE was created to support the work of the regional fundraising consortia to secure additional financial resources in support of America's independent colleges and universities and their students. FIHE today supports 38 state consortia through member services programs, professional development workshops, collaborative initiatives, and grant programs made possible by gifts from corporations as well as from its own endowment. Based in Washington, DC, FIHE has provided nearly $100 million in grants to and through its member state consortia, and has had a tangible impact on the growth and development of the private college sector in America.
National impact
For over 50 years, FIHE's efforts have been focused on:
Securing philanthropic support for private colleges and universities, primarily from the corporate sector;
Developing collaborative programs of mutual interest to donors and institutions in the private college sector;
Celebrating the unique characteristics and contributions to our nation of our private colleges and universities;
Strategically linking the corporate and philanthropic objectives of business and industry with the strengths and opportunities provided by a national network of 32 state funds and their nearly 600 member colleges and universities.
Including all state-generated support, direct FIHE grants and its challenge grant components, more than $1.6 billion has been secured for the private college sector for such purposes as budget support, scholarship programs, faculty development, the enhancement of science and mathematics education (see STEM fields), career services program, curriculum development, and minority student educational achievement.
Programs
Among FIHE's current signature programs are:
National Venture Fund grants, supporting states in innovative collaborative projects benefitting their private colleges;
FIHE/UPS Scholarship Program, providing over $1.5 million a year in scholarship support for private college students with demonstrated need and academic promise.
First Opportunity Partners program, enhancing private college access and opportunity for low-income, minority, first generation, and new American students. Its three-fold purpose is to broaden the accessibility to higher education, to strengthen student retention and academic experiences, and to prepare students for the future world of work.
State Fund Members
To help strengthen the nation's private college sector, FIHE works through, and provides financial support for, state-based associations of private colleges and universities.
FIHE's State Partners are:
Alabama Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (AAICU)
Arkansas Indep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D408%20road | D408 is a four lane state road branching off from the D30 state road connecting Zagreb Airport to Croatian motorway network via A3 motorway Kosnica interchange and to the cities of Zagreb and Velika Gorica. The road is long.
The road, as well as all other state roads in Croatia, is managed and maintained by Hrvatske ceste, state owned company.
Road junctions and populated areas
Maps
Sources
See also
Zagreb Airport
State roads in Croatia
Zagreb County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Tokyo%20Underground%20episodes | This is a list of episodes of the Japanese anime Tokyo Underground. The anime premiered on the TV Tokyo television network on April 2, 2002 and ended on September 24, 2002, containing twenty-six episodes. It was animated by Studio Pierrot. The TV series was released on DVD by Geneon Entertainment in the US and Canada, released as a boxset by Manga Entertainment in the UK and by Tokyo Night Train in Australia. Cartoon Network Adult Swim it also aired in Canada on the digital channel G4techTV Canada, starting on July 22, 2007 at 8:30 pm ET/PT. English Airdates listed below are from the Canadian TV Broadcast.
Episode list
References
Tokyo Underground |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Elastic%20Block%20Store | Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances and is used by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). It is one of the two block-storage options offered by AWS, with the other being the EC2 Instance Store.
Amazon EBS provides a range of options for storage performance and cost. These options are divided into two major categories: SSD-backed storage for transactional workloads, such as databases and boot volumes (performance depends primarily on IOPS), and disk-backed storage for throughput intensive workloads, such as MapReduce and log processing (performance depends primarily on MB/s).
Use case
In a typical use case, using EBS would include formatting the device with a filesystem and mounting it. EBS supports advanced storage features, including snapshotting and cloning. As of September 2020, EBS volumes can be up to 2 TiB in size using the MBR partitioning scheme, and up to 16 TiB using the GPT partitioning scheme.
EBS volumes are built on replicated back end storage, so that the failure of a single component will not cause data loss.
History
EBS was introduced by Amazon in August 2008. As of March 2018 30 GB of free space was included in the free tier of Amazon Web Services 2017.
Volume types
The following table shows use cases and performance characteristics of current generation EBS volumes:
Features
Amazon EBS provides several features that assist with data management, backups, and performance tuning:
The Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is an automated mechanism that can back up data from EBS volumes, creating and deleting EBS snapshots on a predefined schedule.
Elastic Volumes makes it possible to adapt volume size to an application's current needs, using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda to automate volume changes.
Amazon EBS Encryption encrypts data at rest for EBS volumes and snapshots, without having to manage a separate secure key infrastructure.
EBS volume tagging makes it possible to find and filter EBS resources on the Amazon Console and CLI.
Software-level RAID arrays make it possible to create groups of EBS volumes with high performance network throughput between them, using the standard RAID protocol.
See also
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Amazon S3
References
External links
Amazon Elastic Block Store main page
EBS
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud storage
Web services
de:Amazon Web Services#Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmella%20hisaii | Stigmella hisaii is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Japan.
The larvae feed on Castanopsis cuspidata. They probably mine the leaves of their host.
External links
Japanese Moths
Nepticulidae
Moths of Japan
Moths described in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartmontools |
Smartmontools (S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools) is a set of utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor computer storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into most modern (P)ATA, Serial ATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe hard drives.
Smartmontools displays early warning signs of hard drive problems detected by S.M.A.R.T., often giving notice of impending failure while it is still possible to back data up.
From late 2010 ATA Error Recovery Control configuration has been supported by Smartmontools, allowing it to configure many desktop-and laptop-class hard drives for use in a RAID array and vice versa.
Most Linux distributions provide the smartmontools package.
User interface
Native
smartctl and smartd have a command-line interface. By default the output of smartctl is in human readable form; to aid logic trying to parse this output, JSON output is also available.
Third-party GUI
GSmartControl is an open-source multi-platform graphical user interface (GUI) for smartctl developed by Alexander Shaduri.
SMART Utility is a program for Mac OS X with a GUI based on smartmontools.
HDD Guardian was an open-source Windows-only GUI for smartctl, discontinued on 28 April 2017. The author said that the program could still be downloaded from various sites, but that the entire HDD Guardian project (source code, builds and documentation) had been retired.
See also
System monitor
Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools
References
External links
Official website The domain has expired
Smartmontools on Ubuntu Wiki
Large collection of smartctl reports for various hard drives
Free software programmed in C
Hard disk software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide%20spectral%20library | A peptide spectral library is a curated, annotated and non-redundant collection/database of LC-MS/MS peptide spectra. One essential utility of a peptide spectral library is to serve as consensus templates supporting the identification of peptide/proteins based on the correlation between the templates with experimental spectra.
One potential application of peptide spectral libraries is the identification of new, currently unknown mass spectra. Here, the spectra from the library are compared to the new spectra and if a match is found, the unknown spectra can be assigned the identity of the known peptide in the library.
Spectral libraries have been used in the small molecules mass spectra identification since the 1980s. In the early years of shotgun proteomics, pioneer investigations suggested that a similar approach might be applicable in shotgun proteomics for peptide/protein identification.
Shotgun proteomics
Modern tandem MS instruments combine features of fast duty cycle, exquisite sensitivity, and unprecedented mass accuracy. Tandem mass spectrometry, which is an ideal match for the large-scale protein identification and quantification in complex biological systems. In a shotgun proteomics approach, proteins in a complex mixture are digested by proteolytic enzymes such as trypsin. Subsequently, one or more chromatographic separations are applied to resolve resulting peptides, which are then ionized and analyzed in a mass spectrometer. To acquire tandem mass spectra, a particular peptide precursor is isolated, and fragmented in a mass spectrometer; the mass spectra corresponding to the fragments of peptide precursor is recorded. Tandem mass spectra contains specific information regarding the sequence of the peptide precursor, which can aid the identification of peptide/protein.
Protein identification via sequence database searching
Sequence database searching is widely used currently for mass spectra based protein identification. In this approach, a protein sequence database is used to calculate all putative peptide candidates in the given setting (proteolytic enzymes, miscleavages, post-translational modifications). The sequence search engines use various heuristics to predict the fragmentation pattern of each peptide candidate. Such derivative patterns are used as templates to find a sufficiently close match within experimental mass spectra, which serves as the basis for peptide/protein identification. Many tools have been developed for this practice, which have enabled many past discoveries, e.g. SEQUEST, Mascot.
Shortcomings of the sequence database searching workflow
Due to the complex nature of peptide fragmentation in a mass spectrometer, derivative fragmentation patterns fall short of reproducing experimental mass spectra, especially relative intensities among distinct fragments. Thus, sequence database searching faces a bottleneck of limited specificity. Sequence database searching also demands vast search space, which still could |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Quantum%20Technologies | The Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) in Singapore is a Research Centre of Excellence hosted by the National University of Singapore. The Centre brings together physicists, computer scientists and engineers to do basic research on quantum physics and to build devices based on quantum phenomena. Experts in quantum technologies are applying their discoveries in computing, communications and sensing.
Mission statement
The mission of CQT is to conduct interdisciplinary theoretical and experimental research in quantum theory and its application to information processing. The discovery that quantum physics allows fundamentally new modes of information processing has required that classical theories of computation, information and cryptography be superseded by their quantum generalizations. These hold out the promise of faster computation and more secure communication than is possible classically. A key focus of CQT is the development of quantum technologies for the coherent control of individual photons and atoms, exploring both the theory and the practical possibilities of constructing quantum-mechanical devices for cryptography and computation.
History
Research in quantum information science in Singapore began in 1998. It was initiated by Kwek Leong Chuan, Lai Choy Heng, Oh Choo Hiap and Kuldip Singh as a series of informal seminars at the National University of Singapore. The seminars attracted local researchers and as a result, the Quantum Information Technology Group (informally referred to in Singlish as "quantum lah") was formed.
In February 2002, with support from Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), research efforts in the field were consolidated. This led to a number of faculty appointments.
In 2007 the Quantum Information Technology Group was selected as the core of Singapore's first Research Centre of Excellence. The Centre for Quantum Technologies was founded in December 2007 with $158 million to spend over ten years.
The Centre for Quantum Technologies is funded by the Singapore National Research Foundation and the Ministry of Education. It is hosted by the National University of Singapore, but has significant autonomy both in pursuing its research goals and in governance. The centre has its own Governing Board, a Scientific Advisory Board and is headed by the centre director.
Research
The Centre for Quantum Technologies conducts research across a wide range of areas in quantum information science, from theoretical to applied. Research results from CQT are published in major journals, including Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters. The centre has more than 20 research groups active across a range of topics:
Computer Science
Research areas include:
Quantum algorithm, Quantum network
Communication complexity, Query complexity
Interactive proofs, Zero-knowledge proofs, and Quantum games
Interdisciplinary Theory
Research areas include:
Entanglement
Quantum computation and cryptography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTAS | RTAS may refer to:
Real Time AudioSuite, an audio plug-in format developed by Digidesign
Run-Time Abstraction Services, a firmware abstraction layer used on some computers
Rayman: The Animated Series, a 1999 kid's show
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20Essex%20%28regional%29 | Heart Essex was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcast to Essex and East Hertfordshire from studios in Chelmsford.
The station launched on Monday 26 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Essex (Chelmsford & Southend) (formerly Essex FM), Heart Colchester (formerly SGR Colchester) and Ten 17.
History
The regional station originally broadcast as three separate stations - Essex Radio began broadcasting to the Southend-on-Sea area in September 1981 and to Chelmsford three months later. Harlow's Ten 17 launched in May 1993 as a part-time opt out from Essex FM and later expanded to become a fully separate service. Meanwhile, SGR Colchester began broadcasting as an offshoot of Ipswich's SGR FM in October 1993.
Essex FM and Ten 17 originally came under the ownership of the Essex Radio Group while SGR Colchester was owned by East Anglian Radio, which was brought up in 1996 by GWR Group - within four years, the two other ILR stations in Essex came under GWR ownership.
SGR Colchester was among the first stations to be rebranded under the Heart moniker in January 2009 and followed six months later by Essex FM. As a Hit Music Network station, Ten 17 retained its local identity - but as with the Heart stations in Chelmsford and Colchester, local output had been restricted to breakfast and weekday drivetime shows.
On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced plans to merge all three stations as part of plans to restructuring plans for Heart. The new station, Heart Essex, began broadcasting from Chelmsford on Monday 26 July 2010, leading to the closure of studios in Colchester and Harlow.
Station merger
On 26 February 2019, Global announced Heart Essex would be merged with three sister stations - Heart Cambridgeshire, Heart East Anglia and Heart Four Counties.
From 3 June 2019, local output will consist of a three-hour regional Drivetime show on weekdays, alongside localised news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising.
Heart Essex's studios in Chelmsford closed with operations moving to Milton Keynes - the station ceased local programming on 31 May 2019. Local breakfast and weekend shows were replaced with network programming from London.
Heart East began broadcasting regional programming on 3 June 2019.
References
External links
Heart Essex
Radio stations in Essex
Essex
Radio stations established in 2010
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHSH%20blob | In computing, a SHSH blob is a digital signature that Apple generates and uses to personalize IPSW firmware files for each iOS device. SHSH blobs are part of Apple's protocol designed to ensure that only trusted software is installed on the device, generally only allowing the newest iOS version to be installable. Apple's public name for this process is System Software Authorization (before iOS 7, System Software Personalization). The term “SHSH blob” is unofficial and based on abbreviations for signed hash and binary large object. An alternative term, ECID SHSH, refers to the device's ECID, a unique identification number embedded in its hardware)
This process is controlled by the TATSU ("TSS") Signing Server (gs.apple.com) where updates and restores can only be completed by iTunes if the version of iOS is being signed. Developers interested in iOS jailbreaking have made tools for working around this signature system in order to install jailbreakable older iOS versions that are no longer being signed by Apple.
Technical details
SHSH blobs are created by a hashing formula that has multiple keys, including the device type, the iOS version being signed, and the device's ECID. When Apple wishes to restrict users' ability to restore their devices to a particular iOS version, Apple can refuse to generate this hash during the restore attempt, and the restore will not be successful (or at least will require bypassing the intended function of the system).
This protocol is part of iPhone 3GS and later devices.
TATSU Signing Server
When iTunes restores or updates an iOS firmware, Apple has added many checkpoints before the iOS version is installed and on-device consolidation begins. At the first "Verifying iPhone software" iTunes communicates with "gs.apple.com" to verify that the IPSW file provided is still being signed. The TATSU server will give back a list of versions being signed. If the version is not being signed, then iBEC and iBoot will decline the image, giving an error of "error 3194" or "declined to authorize the image"
iTunes will communicate with iBoot throughout the process of an update or restore ensuring the firmware has not been modified to a Custom Firmware ("CFW"). iTunes will not update or restore a device when it suspects the file has been modified.
This is a chain process, before installing the firmware, the installed iBoot has to verify the to-be-installed iBoot, and so on. You cannot install unsigned iOS versions, unless 1) you possess SHSH2 blobs and have set nonces (requiring exploits) or 2) you exploit the chain process.
Exploits and countermeasures
The requirement of SHSH Blobs in order to install to unsigned iOS versions can be bypassed using a replay attack, by saving blobs while an iOS firmware is still signed and later using them when installing the firmware. Newer iOS versions require more elements, such as a valid nonce, when saving SHSH blobs. Saving blobs for devices using the A12 SoC or newer also requires get |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20Sussex%20and%20Surrey | Heart Sussex and Surrey was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcast to Sussex and Surrey from studios in the Portslade area of Brighton.
The station launched on Monday 26 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Sussex (formerly Southern FM) and Mercury FM.
History
The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations - Southern Sound began broadcasting to Brighton and parts of West Sussex in August 1983 and Mercury FM broadcast to the Reigate and Crawley areas from October 1984 onwards. In addition, Southern Sound ran a separate broadcasting service for East Sussex from February 1989 until the Radio Authority merged the two licences for East and West Sussex to form one station.
Under the ownership of Global Radio, Southern FM was rebranded as Heart Sussex on 22 June 2009 while Mercury FM retained its local identity and became part of The Hit Music Network. By this time, both stations' local output had become restricted to breakfast and weekday drivetime programming only.
On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced it would merge the two stations as part of plans to restructure the Heart Network. The new station began broadcasting from Brighton on Monday 26 July 2010, with a sales office and newsroom retained in Crawley.
Station merger
On 26 February 2019, Global announced Heart Sussex and Surrey would be merged with three sister stations in Hampshire and Dorset, Kent and the Thames Valley.
From 3 June 2019, local output consisted of a three-hour regional drivetime show on weekdays, alongside localised news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising.
Heart Sussex and Surrey's studios in Brighton closed with operations moving to Fareham, Hampshire - the station ceased local programming on 31 May 2019. Local breakfast and weekend shows were replaced with network programming from London.
Heart South began broadcasting regional programming on 3 June 2019.
References
External links
Heart Sussex
Heart Crawley & Surrey
Sussex and Surrey
Radio stations in Sussex
Radio stations in Surrey
Radio stations established in 2010
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D31%20road%20%28Croatia%29 | D31 is a state road in central Croatia connecting Velika Gorica and Glina to Croatian motorway network at the A11 motorway Velika Gorica - jug (south) interchange. The road also serves as a connection to the A3 motorway via D30 state road. The road is long.
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
Footnotes
Sources
D031
D031
D031 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Crime%20Agency | The National Crime Agency (NCA) is a national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom. It is the UK's lead agency against organised crime; human, weapon and drug trafficking; cybercrime; and economic crime that goes across regional and international borders; but it can be tasked to investigate any crime. The NCA has a strategic role as part of which it looks at serious crime in aggregate across the UK, especially analysing how organised criminals are operating and how they can be disrupted. To do this, it works closely with regional organised crime units (ROCUs), local police forces, and other government departments and agencies.
It is the UK's point of contact for foreign agencies such as Interpol, Europol and other international law enforcement agencies. On a day-to-day basis, the NCA assists police forces and other law enforcement agencies (and vice versa) under voluntary assistance arrangements. In extremis, the NCA Director General has the power to direct a chief officer of a police force to give directed assistance with NCA tasks where necessary (but only with consent of the relevant Secretary of State). The NCA itself can also be directed by the Secretary of State to give directed assistance to a police force or other law enforcement agency.
It was established in 2013 as a non-ministerial government department, replacing the Serious Organised Crime Agency and absorbed the previously separate Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) as one of its commands. It also assumed a number of responsibilities from other law enforcement agencies.
The NCA has also assumed a range of functions from the National Policing Improvement Agency, which has been scrapped as part of the government's changes to policing. These include a specialist database relating to injuries and unusual weapons, expert research on potential serial killers, and the National Missing Persons Bureau. The agencies going into the NCA had a combined budget of £812m, yet the new agency only had £464m in its first year—a decrease of 43%. Some of the responsibilities of the former UK Border Agency (now Immigration Enforcement and Border Force) relating to border policing also became part of the NCA. Like its predecessor SOCA, the NCA has been dubbed the "British FBI" by the media.
History
The proposed agency was first publicly announced in a statement to the House of Commons by Theresa May, the then Home Secretary, on 26 July 2010. On 8 June 2011, she declared that the NCA would comprise a number of distinct operational commands: Organised Crime, Border Policing, Economic Crime and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, and that it would house the National Cyber Crime Unit. She added that capabilities, expertise, assets and intelligence would be shared across the new agency; that each command would operate as part of one single organisation; and that the NCA would be a powerful body of operational crime fighters, led by a senior chief constable and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2BH | 2BH is an Australian radio station owned by the Super Radio Network. The station serves Broken Hill, New South Wales and parts of the Far West region.
The station has been broadcasting on the AM band for over 80 years, its first transmission being in July 1934. The current format is "News, Sport and Talk", but they also play Gold music from the 60s, 70s and 80s and Australian Country music.
Its building (shown) is shaped as an old radio and is a tourist attraction on Broken Hill; some tour buses and companies include it in their tours.
Upstairs in the station is a "Museum" of different radios and transmitters, tape reels and speakers. These range from the 1940s Gulbransen Super-Heterodyne to the 1948 Kriesler Radio through to old radio broadcasting equipment. Most of the equipment on display is Australian made. Unfortunately almost all of this equipment is thought to be out of order.
2BH 567AM has a local program for 3 hours a day, from 5:30am CST to 8:30am CST with the "Bigger Brighter Brekkie Show".
References
Radio stations in New South Wales
Radio stations established in 1934
News and talk radio stations in Australia
Classic hits radio stations in Australia
Broadcast Operations Group
1934 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMST | RMST may refer to:
Rectilinear minimum spanning tree, an algorithm in graph theory
RMS Titanic Inc, a former U.S. company
RMST (gene), a long non-coding RNA gene |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Channel%20%28Asian%20TV%20channel%29 | Universal Channel was a television channel specializing in movies and television series in the thriller, drama, comedy, crime and investigation genres. It was owned by Universal Networks International. This channel was launched in Singapore on 1 July 2008 along with Sci Fi Channel, then Syfy Universal (Asia).
On the first on-air broadcast launch saw the official slogan was It's the People Who Make Us. On July 24, 2010, the second on-air look with colorful visual ident theme and the official slogan was Characters Welcome as well as the channel converting from 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 widescreen picture format since February 8, 2011. It brought the latest of new series, including two Asian TV premiere series, as well as returning to first seasons of almost all programs already aired.
On January 28, 2014, the Universal Channel refreshed itself alongside other transformations. Among the changes under the rebrand included the channel aligning itself with the international logo and slogan 100% Characters. The channel brought the Same Day or Express from the U. S. telecast with selected programs.
After nine years of broadcasting, Universal Channel along with Syfy ceased broadcasting at midnight, July 1, 2017, in the rest of the Asia. In Malaysia and Sri Lanka the channel discontinued a day earlier. The channel programmed with a finale episode of Shades of Blue on that day, an ending with the season one finale "One Last Lie" before going off-the-air. Most of the programs of Universal Channel were moved to DIVA, but on 1 January 2020, DIVA and E! discontinued after twenty-two years of broadcast.
Operating channels
Universal Channel Asia HD - SG/HK/MY/PHP/JKT feed; available on HD format in selected Asian countries
Universal Channel Asia - same as the Asian feed; available on SD format in Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka
Universal Channel Philippines - same as the Asian feed but with local advertisements.
Universal Channel Taiwan - same as the Asian feed with Chinese subtitles; available on HD format
Programming
Final Shows
Bullseye
Caught on Camera
Chicago Fire
Chicago P.D.
Criminal Minds
Grimm
Law & Order
Minute to Win It
Motive
Ninja Warrior UK
Shades of Blue
Tricked
Former Shows
Shows
American Gladiators
Animals Unleashed
Australian Gladiators
Bad Robots
Bates Motel
Bent
Cold Case
Crusoe
The Dead Zone
The Event
Flashpoint
Greek
House
I Survived a Japanese Game Show
Ironside (2013)
Just for Laughs: Gags
Keith Barry: Brain Hacker
Law and Order Franchise
Law & Order
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Los Angeles
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: UK
The Librarians
Life
Magic Man
Million Dollar Money Drop
Monk
The Office
Outsourced
Penn & Teller: Fool Us
Prank Science
The Pretender
Profiler
Psych
Quarterlife
Royal Pains
Same Name
Sea Patrol
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Shattered
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Whitney
Wizard Wars
Specials
AFI Life |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Brasil%2011 | Big Brother Brasil 11 is the eleventh season of Big Brother Brasil, which premiered January 11, 2011 with the season finale airing March 29, 2011 on the Rede Globo television network.
The show is produced by Endemol Globo and presented by news reporter Pedro Bial. The season was officially confirmed since 2008 as part of a millionaire contract between international Endemol and Rede Globo. The prize award will be R$1,500,000 without tax allowances.
Actress Maria Melillo won the competition and the grand prize of R$1,500,000, while runner-up Wesley Schunk and third-place finisher Daniel Rolim walked away with R$150,000 and R$50,000 respectively.
Production
Cast
Applications were due by September 10, 2010 until October 31, 2010. Initially, the process was set to start September 1, 2010 but was postponed to avoid an eventual confusion with the premiere of the second season of Hipertensão, another Rede Globo reality television show.
Semi-finalist interviews were held in November 2010 and the final casting interviews took place in early December 2010. There were nineteen housemates competing for the grand prize: ten women and nine men.
The first housemate, a woman, was officially chosen on October 10, 2010, but did not have their identity revealed. Producers reported that she was chosen in virtual chat, which happened at the show's official website. VH1's alumni Marcia Brazil from Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels, Charm School with Ricki Lake and I Love Money has also applied to be on the show.
The House
According to the producers, the Big Brother House passed by the biggest reform in history, with the entire structure being redesigned for the new season.
Big Brother divided the housemates into four teams. Two of them (the Orange team and the Green team) enjoyed the luxury and comfort of the new mansion, which had two floors. The other two teams (the Red team and the Blue team) stayed in the other side, which lack beds, food and structure for any activity.
At the end of the week five, the teams dissolved, and the remaining twelve housemates were divided into two groups, one would live at the Rich House and the other would have to live at the Poor House.
The Game
Saboteur
Each week, one of the housemates is chosen by internet poll to be the Big Brother Saboteur. The saboteur had the goal to disrupt life in the House and cause as much havoc as possible. The production crew chooses the mission, and if the saboteur does it successfully, he/she would win R$10,000.
Results
: Diogo managed to lock the Poor House's door with a padlock but his identity was uncovered after he dropped its key in front of Cristiano.
Glass House
On day 23, Big Brother brought back the Glass House (BBB Bubble), which first appeared in the ninth season of the show. This time, the house confined the first five evicted housemates (Ariadna, Mauricio, Rodrigo, Michelly and Igor) for a new shot to win the game. The public had to choose just one of the contestant to re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFCI%20%28Pawtucket%2C%20Rhode%20Island%29 | WFCI was one of four radio stations in the pre-World War II Providence market (the others being WPRO, WEAN and WJAR). WFCI was an affiliate of the NBC Blue network, which in 1943 became simply the Blue Network, and finally changed to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1945. WFCI added FM service on 101.5 MHz in about 1950; on that frequency today is WWBB.
The first WFCI (1927-1933)
A listing for WFCI Pawtucket dates from at least 1927, owned by Frank Crook. WFCI was on 1330 kHz on or before June 30, 1927, with 50 watts, then moving to 1240 kHz (not yet a Class IV frequency as it would become under NARBA) a year later. WFCI's first studio/office location was at 450 Main Street in Pawtucket. The original WFCI became WPAW which shared time with WPRO, and was merged into WPRO in May 1933.
The second WFCI (1941-1954)
WFCI was then restarted on March 29, 1941. W. Paul Oury was general manager, and George Sutherland was program director. The station became a Mutual affiliate as of June 1, 1942 (prior to that it had served as WEAN's overflow station). WFCI moved to the Biltmore Hotel in Providence in 1949 and took WEAN's ABC affiliation. WFCI was relicensed to Providence in 1950.
WFCI was sold to the Providence Journal-Bulletin in 1952; the newspaper changed the callsign to WPJB, matching their radio station on 105.1 MHz (now WWLI). When the Journal-Bulletin bought WEAN in 1954, it surrendered WPJB's license back to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1420 was not silent long, as WBSM in New Bedford, Massachusetts, was given permission to move to 1420 in 1956 where it remains to this day.
Programming
Buddy & The Gang.
Cavaliere Antonio Pace hosted an Italian program which had originated at WPRO & was also heard at one time on WRIB.
Personnel
T.F. Allen: Advertising & Commercial head (1941)
Frank Crook: Founder.
W. Paul Oury: general manager (1941)
Arthur Paquette: Host of the "1420 Club" (1942)
Anita Ramos: Supervisor of foreign broadcasts.
Mark Sheeler: Disc jockey (1948)
George Sutherland: program director (1941).
Howard W. Thornley: chief engineer (1941).
Wallace A. Walker: General Manager (1946)
References
Defunct radio stations in the United States
FCI (defunct)
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Radio stations established in 1926
1933 disestablishments in Rhode Island
Radio stations established in 1941
1954 disestablishments in Rhode Island
Radio stations disestablished in 1954
1926 establishments in Rhode Island
1941 establishments in Rhode Island
Radio stations disestablished in 1933
FCI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20simulator | A mobile simulator is a software application for a personal computer which creates a virtual machine version of a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, iPhone, other smartphone, or calculator, on the computer. This may sometimes also be termed an emulator.
The mobile simulator allows the user to use features and run applications on the virtual mobile on their computer as though it was the actual mobile device.
A mobile simulator lets you test a website and determine how well it performs on various types of mobile devices. A good simulator tests mobile content quickly on multiple browsers and emulates several device profiles simultaneously. This allows analysis of mobile content in real-time, locate errors in code, view rendering in an environment that simulates the mobile browser, and optimize the site for performance.
Mobile simulators may be developed using programming languages such as Java, .NET and JavaScript.
See also
Mobile application development
Simulation for general information on simulation
Web-based emulation
Motion simulator - a mobile simulator in the entertainment world
References
External links
Nokia Mobile Browser Simulator
Mobile computers
Emulation software
Programming tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroWorld%20Sport | EuroWorld Sport is a Canadian specialty channel owned by TLN Media Group. EuroWorld Sport primarily features programming related to association football (soccer).
History
In April 2006, TLN Media Group. was granted permission by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch RCS Television, a channel described as "a national, English-language Category 2 specialty programming service devoted to rugby, cricket and soccer."
The channel was launched in July 2010 as EuroWorld Sport featuring primarily programming related to association football including coverage of Ligue 1 from France, Serie A from Italy and coverage of top FIFA tournaments through 2014 including the Men's & Women's World Cup.
Programming
Since 2015, EuroWorld Sport has carried live sports programming on a very occasional basis in the event of programming conflicts on parent channel TLN. For the vast majority of its schedule, EuroWorld Sport features classic games, football documentaries, and paid programming.
Previously the channel also held partial rights to live game broadcasts from France's Ligue 1, Italy's Serie A, the UEFA Europa League, and various FIFA events between 2010 and 2014 (as part of parent company TLN's sublicence from CBC Sports), including the FIFA Confederations Cup and FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, and multilingual coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Since August 2012, North American broadcast rights to Ligue 1 and Serie A have been owned by beIN Sports, which did not launch a Canadian channel until 2014, while Europa League rights were acquired by Sportsnet. Bell Media acquired Canadian rights to FIFA events beginning in 2015.
Rival channels
GolTV Canada
Sportsnet World
See also
Telelatino
Soccer on Canadian television
References
External links
Sports television networks in Canada
Soccer on Canadian television
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Digital cable television networks in Canada
English-language television stations in Canada
2010 establishments in Canada |
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