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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBI%20Knowledgebase | NBI is short for the Nanomaterial-Biological Interactions Knowledgebase at Oregon State University, a repository for annotated data on nanomaterials characterization (purity, size, shape, charge, composition, functionalization, agglomeration state), synthesis methods, and nanomaterial-biological interactions (beneficial, benign or deleterious) defined at multiple levels of biological organization (molecular, cellular, organismal). Computational and data mining tools are being developed and incorporated into the NBI to provide a logical framework for species, route, dose, and scenario extrapolations and to identify key data required to predict the biological interactions of nanomaterials.
Information currently being gained in the emerging field of nanotechnology is extremely diverse, including a multitude of widely varying nanomaterials that are being or will be tested in a broad array of animal systems and in vitro assays. Knowledge of nanomaterial-biological interactions will likely require inclusion and consideration of the entire body of data produced from global research efforts, which will allow the definition of nanomaterial structure-activity relationships. Such mathematical representations can be used to predict nanomaterial properties in the absence of empirical data.
References
Nanotechnology institutions
Oregon State University
2010 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7mate | 7mate is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 25 September 2010. The channel contains sport and regular programs aimed primarily to a male audience, with programming drawn from a combination of new shows, American network shows and other shows previously aired on its sister channels Seven, 7two and 7flix.
Due to the rebroadcast of 7HD on 10 May 2016, 7mate was reduced to a standard definition broadcast in Melbourne and Adelaide. Sydney, Brisbane and Perth instead received a HD simulcast of 7mate until December 2016, with breakaway programming used from that point to broadcast AFL matches in HD while keeping 7HD as the primary channel simulcast.
History
The channel began airing as a separate channel on 25 September 2010, replacing 7HD as the Seven Network's only high-definition channel. The channel's first program was the 2010 AFL Grand Final, which was simulcast with an SD broadcast on the Seven Network. Following AFL coverage, the channel began airing breakaway programming, with a promotional sneak peek of upcoming programming on 7mate. The first full program to air was an episode of That '70s Show.
Upon the revival of 7HD on 10 May 2016, 7mate was reduced to standard definition. 7HD became a HD simulcast of Seven's main channel in Melbourne and Adelaide, while it simulcast 7mate in Seven's other metropolitan markets. This configuration allowed upcoming AFL matches to be broadcast in HD in all markets.
7HD was temporarily changed to a simulcast of Seven's primary channel in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth on 5 August 2016 to allow the 2016 Summer Olympics to be broadcast in high definition in all capital cities; leaving 7mate in standard definition only. However, 7HD was reverted to its former state as a 7mate simulcast in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth on 22 August 2016 after the conclusion of the Olympics. On 16 December 2016, 7HD was shifted to a simulcast of Seven's primary channel in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth to allow the Summer of Tennis to be telecast in high definition in all capital cities; leaving 7mate in SD. This change was not reverted, with Seven instead using breakaway programming on 7HD to broadcast AFL matches on 7mate in HD.
In October 2019, Seven promised 7mate would switch to HD by 2020. On 29 December 2019, it was later revealed that a HD simulcast of 7mate would replace 7food network from 16 January 2020.
On 10 July 2020, 7mate unveiled their new logo for the first time since its launch in 2010, effectively making it in line with Seven and 7two, which only used one colour in both of their logos. The outlining from the logo was removed and the word "mate" is now in a different font.
On 6 July 2022, 7mate HD relaunched in Seven Regional areas.
On 30 November 2022, 7mate SD (Channel 73) went off the air. Going to this version of 7mate would show a message to watch on Channel 74 (7mate HD), also mentioning people might need to re-scan their TV. Two weeks later on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20Mashreq%20International%20Railway | The Arab Mashreq International Railway is a proposed railway network in the Mashriq, which is located in Western Asia and eastern North Africa in the eastern part of the Arab world. The planned network has north–south and east–west axes, and 16 different routes covering 19500 route-km. The plan is ambitious; 60% of the routes have not yet been built, and parts of existing railway infrastructure are weak or have gauge differences; some states may be unable to make large investments in infrastructure. Like the European Trans-European Transport Network, the Agreement specifies a family of high-priority international routes, rather than setting service details or awarding contracts to operators.
International agreement
The Agreement on International Railways in the Arab Mashreq was adopted on 17 April 2003. It entered into force on 23 May 2005 after it had been ratified by Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. As of July 2016, it has been ratified by 12 states: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the State of Palestine, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Routes
R05: Iraq - Kuwait - Saudi Arabia
R15: Jordan - Saudi Arabia
R25: Syria - Jordan - Saudi Arabia - Yemen
R27: Syria
R35: Syria - Lebanon
R45: Egypt
R10: Iraq - Syria
R20: Syria
R30: Syria - Lebanon
R40: Iraq - Jordan
R50: Gaza - Egypt
R60: Egypt
R70: Egypt
R80: Saudi Arabia
R82: Qatar
R90: Oman - Yemen
Jordan
Jordan joined OTIF in August 2010, and plans to become a hub for international rail transport. In 2011-2014, Jordan's Ministry of Transport plans to invest €2·6bn in rail infrastructure connected to the Arab Mashreq International Railway Network.
Technical standards
The railway network will be built to , and UIC/B loading gauge.
See also
Gulf Railway
References
Proposed public transport in Asia
Proposed rail infrastructure in Saudi Arabia
International railway lines
International railway lines in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20King%20%28TV%20series%29 | Star King () is a South Korean television show which first aired on January 13, 2007 on the SBS network. Star King was the first TV show in Korea to run both online and on television simultaneously. The last episode of "Star King" aired on August 9, 2016.
Format
The show is composed of four segments:
Only This (딸랑 이거): featuring people with a humorous or unusual skill.
Train Me! (키워주세요): for contestants seeking to be famous.
Diet King (다이어트 킹): focusing on people attempting to lose weight. Shawn Lee, a previous winner, lost approximately 40 kg in 60 days.
Viewers upload videos of unusual events and stories to the official website. People and animals with unusual talents are then invited onto the program after being selected from these videos. The audience votes for their favorite person, video or story, and prize money is awarded to the contestant who receives the most votes.
Episodes typically feature people from a variety of countries, including Brazil, Mongolia and Kenya. Participants are of all ages.
Critical reception
At one point, Star King held the top spot in audience ratings of any prime time TV show on Saturday. It suffered a drop in ratings after a "fabrication" scandal.
Star King was originally hosted by Kang Ho Dong, a well-known MC, who left the show due to a tax payment controversy.
Episode listing
Winners and guests
Season 1: Grandpa Rain
Season 2: 11-year-old BoA (now Seunghee of Oh My Girl)
Seasons 3 and 4: 40-year-old Dong Bang Shin Ki
Season 6: 10-year-old Ballad Genius Baek Ye-rin
Seasons 8 and 9: 5-year-old Mozart
Season 16: Magic Rainbow dance
Season 18 and 19: Dangerous boy
Season 21, 22, and 23: Gugak boy
Season 24 and 25: Spider man
Season 26: Fire breathing human
Season 33: One legged B-boy
Season 34: Treasure of Mongo
Season 38: Blind orchestra
Season 39: B-boy T.I.P.
Season 52: MoM B-boy
Season 57: Super Junior Band
Season 62, 64, and 65: Shadow Show
Season 68, 69, and 70: 11-year-old drummer
Season 79, 80, and 81: Two-handed guitar
Season 84, 85, and 86: Bubble Artist
Season 93, 95, and 96: OIDO Family Band
Season 140: Bucheon Bicycle F4
Season 142: 7-year-old B-boy
References
External links
Star King Official Homepage
2007 South Korean television series debuts
2016 South Korean television series endings
Seoul Broadcasting System original programming
South Korean variety television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%20middleware | RT-middleware (Robotics Technology Middleware) is a common computing platform technical standard for robots based on distributed object technology. RT-middleware supports the construction of various networked robotic systems by integrating various network-enabled robotic elements named RT-Components, which specification standard is discussed and defined by the Object Management Group (OMG).
Properties
In the RT-middleware, robotics elements, such as actuators, are regarded as RT-components, and the whole robotic system is constructed by connecting such components. This distributed architecture helps developers reuse the robotic elements and boosts the reliability of a system.
Each RT-component has a port as an endpoint for communicating to other RT-components. Every port has its type and the ports which have the same type can be connected each other.
RT-components also have state, so they behave as finite-state machines. The states they can have are: CREATED, INACTIVE, ACTIVE, and ERROR. States and behaviors are controlled by the execution-context. If component behavior must be changed, the execution-context can be replaced at runtime.
Implementations
RT-middleware is only a standard of the Robotics platform software. Implementations include:
OpenRTM-aist is based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) platform developed by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. Using CORBA properties, OpenRTM-aist is available for environments with multiple platforms and programming languages.
OpenRTM.NET is for the .NET Framework.
RTM on Android is being implemented on Android (operating system).
RTC Lite is a future modified RT-middleware for embedded or small-resource systems.
RTM Safety to pass the IEC 61508 standard.
Related projects
Robot Operating System (ROS) – C++ software framework developed by Willow Garage.
Open Robot Control Software (Orocos) – C++ software framework for component-based robot control software
OPRoS developed by Korea Association of Robot Industry (KAR)
See also
Robot
Open-source robotics
Middleware
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Object Management Group
Japan Robot Association
References
External links
RT-middleware Project (Japanese)
OpenRTM-aist
OpenRT Platform
VirCA - Virtual Collaboration Arena framework powered by RT-Middleware
Robotics software
Robotics suites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inerter%20%28mechanical%20networks%29 | In the study of mechanical networks in control theory, an inerter is a two-terminal device in which the forces applied at the terminals are equal, opposite, and proportional to relative acceleration between the nodes. Under the name of J-damper the concept has been used in Formula 1 racing car suspension systems.
It can be constructed with a flywheel mounted on a rack and pinion. It has a similar effect to increasing the inertia of the sprung object.
Discovery
Malcolm C. Smith, a control engineering professor at the University of Cambridge, first introduced inerters in a 2002 paper. Smith extended the analogy between electrical and mechanical networks (the mobility analogy). He observed that the analogy was incomplete, since it was missing a mechanical device playing the same role as an electrical capacitor. The analogy makes mass the analogy of capacitance, but the capacitor representing a mass always has one terminal connected to ground potential. In a real electrical network, capacitors can be connected between any two arbitrary potentials, they are not limited to ground. Noticing this, Smith set about finding a mechanical device that was a true analog of a capacitor. He found that he could construct such a device using gears and flywheels, one of several possible methods.
The constitutive equation is,
,
where the constant b is the inertance and has units of mass.
Construction
A linear inerter can be constructed by meshing a flywheel with a rack gear. The pivot of the flywheel forms one terminal of the device, and the rack gear forms the other.
A rotational inerter can be constructed by meshing a flywheel with the ring gear of a differential. The side gears of the differential form the two terminals.
Applications
Shortly after its discovery, the inerter principle was used under the name of J-damper in the suspension systems of Formula 1 racing cars. When tuned to the natural oscillation frequencies of the tires, the inerter reduced the mechanical load on the suspension. McLaren Mercedes began using a J-damper in early 2005, and Renault shortly thereafter. J-dampers were at the center of the 2007 Formula One espionage controversy which arose when Phil Mackereth left McLaren for Renault.
Researchers are developing new vibration-control devices based on inerters to build high-rise skyscrapers which can withstand high winds.
References
External links
The Inerter Concept and Its Applications, lecture notes
J-dampers in Formula 1
Control theory
Automotive suspension technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELSA%20Technology | Elsa Technology is a computer hardware company. It was founded in 1980 as ELSA Technology AG, a German company manufacturing video cards and other peripherals for Personal Computers. In 2002, the German company filed for bankruptcy while its Taiwanese subsidiary was founded in 2003 as ELSA Technology Inc. Other companies founded when the original ELSA Technology went into bankruptcy were devolo and LANCOM Systems. The ELSA name also continues under the ELSA Japan Inc., which had been founded as a joint venture in 1997, and runs independently since 2002.
See also
List of networking hardware vendors
References
External links
Graphics hardware companies
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Computer companies established in 1980
Electronics companies established in 1980
Companies disestablished in 2002
Computer companies established in 2003
Electronics companies established in 2003
Electronics companies established in 1997
Companies based in Taipei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Paramount | United Paramount may refer to:
United Paramount Network
United Paramount Theatres, Inc. later American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. then ABC Television, Inc. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rxqual | RxQual is used in GSM and is a part of the Network Measurement Reports (NMR).
This is an integer value which can be between 0 and 7 and reflects the quality of voice.
0 is the best quality, 7 is the worst.
Each RxQual value corresponds to an estimated number of bit errors in a number of bursts.
There are two types of RxQual values, FULL and SUB.
We use RxQual SUB when we have DTX DL activated because RxQual FULL values will not be reliable, because they will use Bit error rate (BER) measurements when nothing has been sent, what leads to a very high BER and a poor RxQual.
If DTX DL is deactivated, is better to use RxQual FULL values, they are more precise, because it uses all frames on the SACCH multiframe, whether they have been transmitted from the base station or not.
The official definition of RxQual is given in Chapter 8.2.4 of GSM TS 05.08 (ETSI TS 100 911), later superseded by 3GPP TS 45.008.
See also
Cellular network
GSM
References
External links
Mobile technology
Radio resource management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Next%20Top%20Model%20%28season%2015%29 | The fifteenth cycle of America's Next Top Model premiered on September 8, 2010 and was the ninth cycle to be aired on The CW network.
Several changes were made to the show in a bid to place greater emphasis on high fashion, including a lineup of prominent fashion industry guest judges as well as a change in prizes.
All three permanent judges from the previous cycle, Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley, photographer Nigel Barker and Tyra Banks, remained in place.
The prizes for this cycle included a modeling contract with IMG Models, a fashion spread in Vogue Italia, and both the cover and a spread in Beauty In Vogue, along with an editorial feature on Vogue.it, and a 100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics. The international destinations for this cycle are Venice, Milan and Como, all in Italy.
The winner of the competition was 19-year-old Ann Ward from Dallas, Texas with Chelsey Hersley placing as the runner up.
Cast
Contestants
(Ages stated are at start of contest)
Judges
Tyra Banks
Nigel Barker
André Leon Talley
Other cast members
J. Alexander – runway coach
Jay Manuel – creative director
Episodes
Summaries
Call-out order
The contestant was eliminated
The contestant was eliminated outside of the judging panel
The contestant won the competition
Bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their first time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their second time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their third time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated in the final judging and placed as the runner-up
Average call-out order
Casting call-out order and final two are not included.
Photo shoots
Episode 1 photo shoot: Paired up wearing Cynthia Rowley designs (casting)
Episode 2 photo shoot: Teen bullying
Episode 3 photo shoot: Fallen angels
Episode 4 photo shoot: Underwater beauty shots
Episode 5 photo shoot: Lucha Va Voom
Episode 6 photo shoot: Walking down Rodeo Drive
Episode 7 photo shoot: Portraying iconic fashion designers
Episode 8 commercial: H2T water on roller skates
Episode 9 photo shoot: Gondola group shoot with a casanova
Episode 10 photo shoot: Marble statues coming to life
Episode 11 motion editorial: Modelli folli ("Model Madness")
Episode 13 photo shoot and commercial: CoverGirl Lash Blast Fusion print ad and commercial; beauty In Vogue spreads
Makeovers
Terra – Cut short and dyed black
Sara – Cut to shoulder length and dyed chocolate brown with bleached eyebrows
Rhianna – Long wavy brown extensions with blonde highlights
Lexie – Dyed light brown
Kacey – Long black weave and contacts instead of glasses
Kendal – Long, straight middle-part black weave
Esther – Dyed black
Liz – Pixie cut
Chris – Long wavy dark brown weave
Kayla – Cut to shoulder length with bangs and dyed bright red with bleached eyebrows
Jane – Dyed light brown with blonde highlights
Chelsey – Trimmed, dyed ice blonde and tooth gap accentuated
Ann – Long copper brow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction%20of%20summands | Reduction of summands is an algorithm for fast binary multiplication of non-signed binary integers. It is performed in three steps: production of summands, reduction of summands, and summation.
Steps
Production of summands
In binary multiplication, each row of the summands will be either zero or one of the numbers to be multiplied. Consider the following:
1001
x1010
-----
0000
1001
0000
1001
The second and fourth row of the summands are equivalent to the first term. Production of the summands requires a simple AND gate for each summand. Given enough AND gates, the time to produce the summands will be one cycle of the arithmetic logic unit.
Reduction of summands
The summands are reduced using a common 1-bit full adder that accepts two 1-bit terms and a carry-in bit. It produces a sum and a carry-out. The full adders are arranged such that the sum remains in the same column of summands, but the carry-out is shifted left. In each round of reduction, three bits in a single column are used as the two terms and carry-in for the full adder, producing a single sum bit for the column. This reduces the bits in the column by a factor of 3. However, the column to the right will shift over carry-out bits, increasing the bits in the column by a third of the number of rows of summands. At worst, the reduction will be 2/3 the number of rows per round of reduction.
The following shows how the first round of reduction is performed. Note that all "empty" positions of the summands are considered to be zero (a . is used here as indicator of the "assumed zero values"). In each row, the top three bits are the three inputs to the full adder (two terms and carry-in). The sum is placed in the top bit of the column. The carry-out is placed in the second row of the column to the left. The bottom bit is a single feed into an adder. The sum of this adder is placed in the third row of the column. Carry-out is ignored as it will always be zero, but by design it would be placed in the fourth row of the column to the left. For design, it is important to note that rows 1, 3, 5, ... (counting from the top) are filled with sums from the column itself. Rows 2, 4, 6, ... are filled with carry-out values from the column to the right.
1011
x0110
-----
...0000
..1011.
.1011..
0000...
-------
0111010
000100.
00000..
Reduction is performed again in exactly the same way. This time, only the top three rows of summands are of interest because all other summands must be zero.
0111010
000100.
00000..
-------
0110010
001000.
When there are only two significant rows of summands, the reduction cycles end. A basic full adder normally requires three cycles of the arithmetic logic unit. Therefore, each cycle of reduction is commonly 3 cycles long.
Summation
When there are only two rows of summands remaining, they are added using a fast adder. There are many designs of fast adders, any of which may be used to complete this algorith |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Paul%20Vergara | John Paul C. Vergara is a professor at the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University. He is currently the Vice President for the Loyola Schools of the University, succeeding Ma. Assunta Caoile-Cuyegkeng, Ph.D.
Education
Vergara graduated from Philippine Science High School in 1982. He then attended the Ateneo de Manila University as National Science and Technology Agency scholar, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in Computer Science and in Mathematics in 1986. In 1990, he completed his Master of Science studies in computer science and applications at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). In 1997, he completed his doctorate in the same field at the same institution, where he was recognized for Scholarly Performance in Graduate Study.
As a scientist and educator
Vergara became a member of the Ateneo de Manila University faculty in 1986. He became professor and chair of the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, and also became head of the Information Technology department of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business as well as Assistant Director of the Ateneo Information Technology Institute. In 2008, he was a visiting adjunct professor at Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science. Vergara has also held numerous consulting positions, is a member of numerous scientific organizations, and has refereed various academic journals.
As Ateneo administrator
Vergara was appointed Vice President for Administration and Planning by the Ateneo's Board of Trustees, a position he held from April 2009 to March 2010. Subsequently, he was chosen as the next Vice President for the Loyola Schools.
Awards and recognition
Vergara's awards include recognition for Scholarly Performance in Graduate Study by Virginia Tech in 1997. He was also awarded the DuPont Miracles of Science Award by DuPont Far East in July 2001. Vergara was likewise named one of the Outstanding Young Scientists by the Philippines' National Academy of Science and Technology.
References
Living people
Filipino educators
Filipino chemists
Ateneo de Manila University alumni
Academic staff of Ateneo de Manila University
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda%20%28disambiguation%29 | Brenda, a feminine given name
Brenda may also refer to:
Brenda, a children's author
BRENDA, an enzyme database
Brenda & the Tabulations, an American R&B group
Rural Municipality of Brenda, municipality in Manitoba, Canada
Kolbjørn Brenda, a Norwegian actor
1609 Brenda, a stony asteroid of the asteroid belt
Brenda (album), a 1973 album by Brenda Lee
See also
Brenta (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roncesvalles%20Carhouse | The Roncesvalles Carhouse is a storage and maintenance facility for the streetcar network of the Toronto Transit Commission. Located at the northwest corner of the Queensway and Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, west of its downtown core, it is the oldest of the TTC's three active carhouses. The carhouse serves vehicles on routes 501 Queen, 504 King, 505 Dundas, 506 Carlton, 511 Bathurst, and 512 St. Clair.
Description
The yard has 28 tracks numbered from east (track 1) to west (track 29). (One track was eliminated when the LFLRV repair bay was built at the location of tracks 16 and 17 in 2013.) Exterior tracks 1 to 15 and the LFLRV repair bay track all face north while the other tracks face south. The carhouse has four "barns" which are from east to west: the LFLRV repair bay, Inspection Bay 2 (tracks 18-20), Inspection Bay 1 (tracks 21-23), Repair Bay (tracks 24-25). Tracks 24 and 25 are the only stub-end tracks within the shop buildings. Track 20 has a carwash. A boiler room is near the south-west corner of the carhouse building. A sub-station is located near the north-east corner of the yard between track 1 and Roncesvalles Avenue. The traffic office is at the south-east corner beside track 5.
Yard entrances/exits are on the Queensway and Roncesvalles Avenue. The Roncesvalles Avenue entrance in conjunction with the special work at the intersection of Queen Street, King Street, the Queensway and Roncesvalles Avenue can serve streetcars from and to any street at that intersection. The Queensway entrance cannot serve streetcars to or from Humber Loop.
History
The Toronto Railway Company opened the Roncesvalles Carhouse on January 22, 1895. It was located facing Roncesvalles Avenue on the west side of the street just north of Queen Street. Like most other TRC facilities maintenance had been deferred as its contract with the city came up for renewal. When the City took over streetcar operations in 1921, its new transit agency, the Toronto Transportation Commission, determined the existing facilities should be torn down and replaced. The replacement carhouse opened in 1923, with the tracks realigned north-south.
In 1927, the TTC took over operation of the Port Credit radial line which at that time ran west from Humber Loop. After converting the line from standard gauge to the streetcar system's broader gauge, the TTC closed the old Toronto and York Radial Railway carhouse near Grenadier Pond, and housed the Port Credit radial cars at the Roncesvalles Carhouse. This arrangement continued until February 9, 1935 when the Port Credit radial (then running west from the Long Branch Loop) was permanently replaced by bus service.
By 2013, of new maintenance capabilities were added to the carhouse to handle the new low floor Flexity streetcars introduced in 2014. Unlike the TTC's legacy streetcar fleet, where the vehicle's serviceable parts were under the floor, the low-floor vehicle house the serviceable parts above the ceiling. This requir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Navy%20Cyber%20Forces | The Navy Cyber Forces (CYBERFOR) was the type command for the U.S. Navy's global cyber workforce. The headquarters was located at 115 Lake View Parkway in Suffolk, Virginia. CYBERFOR provided forces and equipment in cryptology/signals intelligence, cyber, electronic warfare, information operations, intelligence, networks, and space. Navy Cyber Forces was an operational component of the U.S. Navy Information Dominance Corps. CYBERFOR has been absorbed into the Naval Information Forces command.
Mission
To organize and prioritize, training, modernization, and maintenance, requirements, and capabilities of command and control architecture/networks, cryptologic and space-related systems and intelligence and information operations activities, and to coordinate with Type Commanders, to deliver interoperable, relevant and ready forces at the right time at the best cost, today and in the future.
Organization
CYBERFOR was the U.S. Navy C5I Type Commander responsible to man, train and equip all C5I forces afloat and ashore. They reported to Fleet Forces Command.
Reporting Commands
Navy and Marine Corps Spectrum Center
Navy Communications Security Material System Command
Fleet Intelligence Adaptive Force (FIAFs)
Fleet Intelligence Detachments (FIDs)
See also
U.S. Navy Information Forces
Fleet Cyber Command/Tenth Fleet
Information Warfare Corps
United States Cyber Command
References
External links
U.S. Navy Cyber Forces
Commands of the United States Navy
Military units and formations of the United States Navy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20H.%20Press | William Henry Press (born May 23, 1948) is an astrophysicist, theoretical physicist, computer scientist, and computational biologist. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1989 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "in recognition of important theoretical contributions to relativistic astrophysics and to cosmology"
Other honors include the 1981 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy. Press has been a member of the JASON defense advisory group since 1977 and is a past chair.
From 2009 through 2016, Press served as vice-chair of President Obama's President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). In 2012–2013, he served as the 165th President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In July, 2016, he became the elected Treasurer of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a member of its Council and Governing Board.
The son of geophysicist Frank Press, Press attended public schools in Pasadena, California, graduating from Pasadena High School in 1965. His undergraduate education was at Harvard, where he received an A.B. in physics in 1969. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics, from Caltech, in 1973, a student of Kip Thorne. Press was briefly an assistant professor at Caltech, then was an assistant professor at Princeton University (1974–1976) before returning to Harvard as a professor in 1976. At the age of 28, he was the university's then-youngest tenured faculty member (a distinction earlier held by Alan Dershowitz and later by Lawrence Summers and—at age 26—Noam Elkies).
Press was for more than 20 years a professor of astronomy and physics at Harvard University, and a member of the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. He was department chair in Astronomy in 1982–1985. In 1998, Press left Harvard to become deputy laboratory director at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), serving under Directors John C. Browne and George Peter Nanos. He oversaw LANL's participation in the Joint Genome Institute and in the construction of the Spallation Neutron Source. Press moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and, changing his area of research, became the Warren J. and Viola M. Raymer Professor, jointly in the computer science and integrative biology departments.
In the field of general relativity, Press is best known for his work with Saul Teukolsky, establishing the dynamic stability of rotating black holes. In astrophysics, Press is best known for his discovery, with Paul Schechter, of the Press–Schechter formalism, which predicts the distribution of masses of galaxies in the Universe; and for his work with Adam Riess and Robert Kirshner on the calibration of distant supernovas as "standard candles". This latter work enabled the discovery of the accelerating universe by Riess, Brian Schmidt, and Saul Perlmutter, for which they received the 2011 Nobel Prize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFilm%20%28TV%20channel%29 | iFilm (Persian: , Arabic: ), also known as iFilm TV, is an Iranian entertainment network which consists of three channels in English, Arabic and Persian. The network was launched on September 9, 2010. The original purpose of the channel is to present Iranian films and series to the global audience. The network was managed by Mohammad-Reza Khatami from its inauguration until he was replaced by Mehdi Mojtahed, son of Ayatollah Mojtahed Shabestari in June 2016.
In 2013, iFilm started an additional channel, broadcasting all content dubbed in English.
Programs
The iFilm Network is a 24-hour TV channel, broadcasting an 8-hour block which is repeated twice, starting at 6:30PM Tehran Time. Programming includes TV series, movies, live quizzes on arts, backstage documentaries on films and ongoing productions, movie and film reviews, short films and documentaries about Iran. It usually shows series that already aired from various IRIB channels, but it has had a successful series production, Yadavari (Remembrance) (2013).
In 2015, iFilm was shortlisted by an international jury for a prestigious Eutelsat TV Award.
References
External links
IRIB IFilm Live streaming
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Arabic-language television stations
Television stations in Iran
Persian-language television stations
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
English-language television stations
Shia media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsa%20%28disambiguation%29 | Capsa means “box” in Latin. It may also refer to:
Capsa (Roman colonia), an ancient Roman city
Gafsa, the modern city in Tunisia
Capsa (software), a network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer) for Windows
Capsa (see), a Roman Catholic titular see.
Cap Sa/Capsa, another name for the card game Big Two.
Casa Capșa, a restaurant and hotel in Bucharest, Romania
See also
Capsian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20Football%20Data%20Warehouse | College Football Data Warehouse was an American college football statistics website that was established in 2000. The site compiled the yearly team records, game-by-game results, championships, and statistics of college football teams, conferences, and head coaches at the NCAA Division I FBS and Division I FCS levels, as well as those of some NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA, NJCAA, and discontinued programs. The site listed as its references annual editions of Spalding's Official Football Guide, Street and Smith's Football Yearbooks, NCAA, NAIA, and NJCAA record books and guides, and historical college football texts.
College Football Data Warehouse was administered by Gary "Tex" Noel and David DeLassus. Noel lived in Bedford, Indiana and, prior to his death, in Fresno, California, and was the executive director of Intercollegiate Football Researchers Association, a college football historian, statistician, and author.
The website has been cited as a source by The New York Sun, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, The State, and The Lawrentian. It has also widely cited in books on college football history, and in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Sports Economics, the Utah Law Review, the Tulsa Law Review, the Oklahoma Law Review, and Sports Law.
The website was shut down sometime after February 19, 2017, but in September 2017 it was relaunched, although complete only through the 2015 season. The site yet again shutdown in 2020.
College Football Data Warehouse recognized national champions (1869–2015)
College Football Data Warehouse (CFBDW) is an online resource and database that has collected and researched information on college football and national championship selections. It provides a comprehensive list of national championship selectors and has itself recognized selectors that it has deemed to be the most acceptable throughout history. These include the National Championship Foundation (1869–1882), the Helms Athletic Foundation (1883–1935), the College Football Researchers Association (1919–1935), the Associated Press Poll (1936–2015), and the Coaches Poll (1950–2015). From its research, it has compiled a list of Recognized National Championships for each season. Some years include recognition of multiple teams for a particular season. Some universities claim championships not recognized by CFBDW or do not claim championships that are recognized by CFBDW. The table of National championship claims by school or individual team articles and websites may include additional or alternative national championship claims.
Below is a list of all of the CFBDW recognized national championships from 1869 to 2015.
References
External links
American football websites
Internet properties established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Issues%20Network%20of%20Belize | The Women's Issues Network of Belize is the only network of organizations in Belize whose focus is on the empowerment of women. The network currently has 11 member agencies countrywide.
As a network WIN's purpose is to provide leadership by empowering and strengthening its member agencies. It develops linkages among organizations that promotes the development of women, facilitates the sharing of knowledge, skills and resources, and advocates for improving the quality of life of women and their families in Belize.
Background
WIN-Belize was established in 1993 when several Belizean organizations came together as a steering committee with the goal of speaking with a common voice on women's issues, and improving the situation of women in Belize. Since that time, WIN-Belize has gone through several stages in its institutional life. After working on some advocacy and information sharing activities in its early years, the initiative experienced some growing pains and institutional challenges that led to a re-organization in 1997, resulting in a revitalized steering committee and the opening of a small office with a part-time coordinator. By 1998 WIN-Belize became legally registered, with its stated purpose to be a membership network working towards women's equality and gender equity. Key WIN-Belize activities during this period were the follow-up on the minimum wage campaign and the “Women at Work” conference.
Between 2000 and 2004, comprehensive evaluations and planning processes took place within WIN-Belize. A strategic plan for 2002-2004 was developed in 2001 and in 2004 an external evaluation was conducted as a condition of the 2002-2004 HIVOS project. Members supported the planning efforts by collectively analyzing the national and gender context, identifying issues of concern and developing the actions needed to address the causes of the internal problems. In particular, four focus group sessions with members were held between 2003 and 2004 to help identify issues for WIN-Belize's efforts. The sessions focused on four different subjects: violence, health, women in economy, and social and economic development. The Gender Budget Campaign was developed in 2006 as a follow-up to the women in the economy issue. In 2004, WIN also became officially registered under the Non-Governmental Organizations Act of Belize.
The national context in which WIN-Belize operates
Belize's population is between 260,000 and 270,000 people, with approximately half being women. More than thirty-three percent are estimated to live below the poverty line; more women than men fall in this category. The female-headed household is still a significant feature on the household organization landscape.
In March 2003, the fifth general elections were held since Belize's Independence in 1981; the ruling People's United Party Government was returned to power with a 22 to 7 majority. That majority now stands at 21 to 8 as a result of a by-election in one constituency in October |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Lamirande | Todd Lamirande is a Canadian video journalist. He is a member of the Métis Nation, and was formerly a co-host of APTN National News, aired by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) and a host and co-producer of APTN Investigates.
Career
He currently hosts APTN: Nation to Nation, a half hour show focused on the politics of how Metis, Inuit and First Nations are rebuilding their relationship with Canada.
Lamirande first joined APTN in July 2000, working as a video journalist in APTN's Vancouver Bureau for four years before transferring to the Winnipeg Bureau and assuming the position of co-host.
2001 seizure of video equipment
Lamirande became mired in a controversy on June 24, 2001, when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) seized his vehicle and videotapes containing footage of members of the Native Youth Movement as they protested the development of Sun Peaks Resort, a ski resort in Sun Peaks, British Columbia, 55 kilometers northeast of Kamloops. Lamirande had videotaped part of the confrontation, which later turned violent as protestors clashed with supporters of the project.
The actions of the RCMP outraged the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE). CJFE Executive Director, Sharmini Peries, called the incident "an affront" to the integrity of journalists' materials, adding:
Lamirande commented that he felt racism was at play in the incident, noting that he doubted that the RCMP would have tried to seize the videotapes if he worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) or CTV Television Network.
APTN sought a court injunction to prevent the RCMP from using the videotapes as evidence.
References
External links
Canadian television journalists
Canadian Métis people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
First Nations journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAP%20of%20the%20Americas | Network Access Point (NAP) of the Americas (also called MI1) is a massive, six-story, 750,000 square foot data center and Internet exchange point in Miami, Florida, operated by Equinix. It is one of the world's largest data centers and among the 10 most interconnected data centers in the United States. It is located at 50 NE 9th Street in downtown Miami.
The facility is home to 160 network carriers and is a pathway for data traffic from the Caribbean and South and Central America to more than 150 countries. It is also home to one of the K-roots of the Domain Name System.
The NAP of the Americas is built 32 feet above sea level and is designed to withstand Category 5 hurricane-level winds. It provides access to 15 subsea cable landings and serves as a relay for the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Telecommunications Service.
History
The NAP of the Americas was built to serve as a major hub for network traffic between the United States and Latin America. It was also known as Verizon Terremark and was operated by Terremark Worldwide (TRMK), a subsidiary of Verizon Communications. In 2016, the building was purchased by Equinix Inc. for $3.6 billion.
Tenants
The center is Equinix Miami International Business Exchange (IBX) data facility (Equinix MI1 IBX), offering direct peering access to more than 600 Equinix business and enterprise customers, including more than 160 enterprises and 135 networks, cloud and IT services. Peering networks include AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, Oracle, Voxility, INAP.
See also
List of Internet exchange points
References
External links
NAP of the Americas
Data centers
Internet exchange points in the United States
Buildings and structures in Miami
Buildings and structures completed in 2001
Telecommunications buildings in the United States
Verizon Communications
2001 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneebergbahn | Schneebergbahn may refer to:
Schneeberg Railway a railway network in Austria that includes the:
Schneeberg Railway (cog railway), a rack railway up the Schneeberg mountain near Vienna, Austria. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlternativeTo | AlternativeTo is a website which lists alternatives to web-based software, desktop computer software, and mobile apps, and sorts the alternatives by various criteria, including the number of registered users who have clicked the "Like" button for each of them on AlternativeTo.
Users can search the site to find better alternatives to an application they are using or previously have used, including free alternatives such as a free web application (cloud computing) which does not require any installation and can be accessed from any browser.
Differences to other software directory websites
Unlike a number of other software directory websites, the software is not arranged into categories, but each individual piece of software has its own list of alternatives, permitting a more tailored listing approach. However, users can also search by tag to find software, which offers an alternative way of finding related software. Users can also narrow their search by focusing on particular platforms and license types (such as "free for non-commercial use").
AlternativeTo lists basic information such as platform and license type at the top of each entry, but does not have comparison tables listing software features side by side.
AlternativeTo allows anyone to register and suggest new alternatives, or to update the information held about existing entries. Suggestions and alterations are reviewed before being made publicly visible. Registration can be done via Facebook Connect or OpenID, both of which make it unnecessary to create a new password for the site.
As AlternativeTo is itself a web application, it even has a page for alternatives to itself.
Social web features
Tweets from anyone mentioning particular pieces of software are also pulled in dynamically from Twitter. Each application has an RSS feed for notifying users of newly listed alternatives to that application. After a user has clicked the Like button next to an application, they are offered the opportunity to tell their friends on Facebook or their followers on Twitter that they liked it, and the tweet or post can be customised.
The site also has a forum. For software developers, a JSON API used to be available, but has been taken down indefinitely.
See also
Open Hub
Open Directory Project
ProgrammableWeb
Product Hunt
Free Software Directory
References
External links
Computing websites
Review websites
Web applications
Internet properties established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Latin%20Pop%20Airplay%20songs%20of%202010 | The Billboard Latin Pop Airplay chart ranks the best-performing Spanish-language pop music singles in the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
References
United States Latin Pop Airplay
2010
2010 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCA%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20New%20Program | The TCA Award for Outstanding New Program is an award given by the Television Critics Association.
Winners and nominees
Total awards by network
NBC – 5
Fox – 4
HBO – 4
ABC – 2
AMC – 2
FX – 2
Netflix – 2
Apple TV+ – 1
BBC America – 1
Showtime – 1
USA – 1
The WB – 1
Total nominations by network
HBO – 19
ABC – 15
Fox – 15
NBC – 15
FX – 13
Netflix – 12
CBS – 8
AMC – 6
Apple TV+ – 5
Showtime – 4
The WB – 4
Comedy Central – 3
The CW – 3
Disney+ – 3
Hulu – 3
Amazon – 2
BBC America – 2
HBO Max – 2
Peacock - 2
Starz – 2
UPN – 2
Amazon Freevee - 1
Lifetime – 1
MTV – 1
USA – 1
WGN America – 1
References
External links
Official website
New Program
Awards established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Morris%20%28blogger%29 | Hinton Ashley Morris (October 20, 1963 – April 2, 2008) was an American cultural and political blogger and a professor of computer science at DePaul University in Chicago. He was a prolific blogger, commenting on New Orleans culture and politics, often critical of the status quo. He became popular through a series of post-Katrina blog posts that dealt with the destruction caused by the hurricane and the efforts to rebuild New Orleans. One post in particular, entitled "Fuck You You Fucking Fucks" earned Morris a great deal of notoriety and inspired an "FYYFF" T-shirt.
Morris was an accomplished musician, playing guitar, bass, keyboards, and percussion. He was a member of the Sky Ryders Drum & Bugle Corps. As a melodic percussionist in the University of Southern Mississippi's "Pride of Mississippi" marching band in the early 1980s, he earned the nickname "Knife" by attaching some of his homemade fiberglass tom-toms to his xylophone and periodically striking them with his wooden mallets. Band director Kelley Love quickly called a halt to practice and demanded to know "what that noise was." Love said it sounded "like a knife in the night."
In the 1990s, Morris contacted musician Warren Zevon and volunteered to develop a website for him. Zevon accepted the offer. Morris' version of the website was Zevon's first, and remained up for several years. Morris was also known for being a fan of Billy Idol and The Smithereens.
Morris was a very big fan of David Simon and The Wire and wrote a blog, along with Ray Shea, devoted to the show. Simon learned of Morris' writings on The Wire and of his writings on New Orleans while Morris was still alive, and has called Morris "a very passionate, very blunt, very funny, but very honest voice about the anger and the isolation that the people in New Orleans felt." Simon later used Morris as the inspiration for the character Creighton Bernette, an English professor and blogger played by John Goodman, in his series Treme, even quoting Morris' blog for some of Goodman's dialogue.
Morris, a native of DeFuniak Springs, Florida, died of a heart attack on April 2, 2008 while in Florida settling some minor legal issues.
References
External links
Ashley Morris: the blog (currently maintained by his wife).
Got That New Package! (Morris' blog on The Wire)
1963 births
2008 deaths
American bloggers
Writers from New Orleans
DePaul University faculty
American computer scientists
21st-century American non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo%20Wrestling%20Alliance | Mongo Wrestling Alliance is an adult animated comedy series which aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim. Produced by Metalocalypse co-creator Tommy Blacha, the show is set in the world of professional wrestling and features the voices of Pamela Adlon, Tommy Blacha, Will Sasso, Billy West, and Harry Dean Stanton. The series premiered on January 23, 2011, with character designs by Ed Piskor. The series combines flash animation with CGI.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American adult animated television series
2010s American animated comedy television series
2011 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
Adult Swim original programming
American adult computer-animated television series
American adult animated comedy television series
American adult animated sports television series
American flash adult animated television series
American professional wrestling television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Williams Street |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB2%20%28disambiguation%29 | DB2 may refer to:
Software
IBM Db2, a family of relational databases for various platforms
A series of PC-based software packages existed (II, III, IV), starting in the 1980s: The first was named dBase II, a database program for the CP/M and MS-DOS operating systems
Other
Aston Martin DB2, a model from the English sport car brand Aston Martin.
DB2 (bike), a motorcycle build from Bimota. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E371 | The E 371 is part of the United Nations international E-road network. Approximately long, it runs from Radom, Poland south to Prešov, Slovakia.
Route
: Radom – Iłża – Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski – Opatów – Tarnobrzeg – Rzeszów ()
: Rzeszów ()
: Rzeszów
: Rzeszów – Miejsce Piastowe – Barwinek
: Vyšný Komárnik – Svidník – Giraltovce – Lipníky
: Lipníky – Prešov
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
Roads in Poland
Roads in Slovakia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport1%20%28Lithuanian%20TV%20channel%29 | Sport1 is a Lithuanian sport channel founded on 16 August 2008. It became the first sport channel in Lithuania founded by the Lithuanian television network and broadcasts all programs only in Lithuanian language.
References
External links
Television channels in Lithuania
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Sports television networks
2008 establishments in Lithuania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STD%20Bus | The STD Bus is a computer bus that was used primarily for industrial control systems, but has also found applications in computing. The STD Bus has also been designated as STD-80, referring to its relation to the Zilog Z80 series microprocessors. The term STD is in reference to "standard", but several marketing terms were also promulgated, including simple to design, simple to debug, and swift to deliver.
Description
The STD Bus uses 6.5" by 4.5" expansion card with an edge connector with 56 pins. Many different types of cards have been available for the STD Bus, from processing cards, RAM cards, I/O cards, and specialized cards for various applications.
The use of the STD bus has declined. From the over one hundred manufacturers of components during its peak, vendor numbers have dwindled to under a dozen, but it is still used by hobbyists, manufacturers and in industrial applications.
Connector pin assignments
The STD Bus has a card edge connector with 56 contacts. The pin configuration is as follows. Flow is relative using a STD Bus processor card.
Applications
A focus of the STD bus was its ability to build a system using the exact bus cards required for an application. The compact size of a card made the STD bus system more adaptable to various applications than the contemporary computer buses of the mid-1980s such as the S-100 and the SS-50, because it could use servo control cards along with a fully programmable computer for mathematical operations.
In applications for running an astronomical observatory, the large industrial base of cards, and the system's expandability, made the system desirable for use in a photometry lab to control the telescope as well as do the data logging and computations required.
In typical university laboratory settings of the mid - late 80's, STD bus data acquisition systems were commonplace using Z80 or similar processor cards for the data capture, processing and control, parallel I/O cards for experiment control as well as analogue to digital conversion cards for reading experiment analogue parameters. Such systems would only occupy minimal rack space, while providing full CP/M processing features.
STD-32
The STD-32 is a pin compatible STD interface that allows the co-existence of both 8-bit and 32-bit systems on a single bus. This is accomplished by the addition of pins between the normal pins that do not connect, nor do they interfere with the original specification. This allows with the proper STD-32 backplane the ability to run legacy cards used for specific applications on the same bus without having to upgrade the complete system.
References
Computer buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Restoration%20Game | The Restoration Game is a 2010 science fiction/techno-thriller novel by Ken MacLeod.
The novel's main character and narrator, Lucy Stone, a computer programmer, grew up in the fictional Caucasian Soviet republic of Krassnia and in 2008 works for a videogame company in Edinburgh. After Stone's mother, who once worked for the CIA, commissions her company to create an MMORPG based on Krassnian mythology, Stone becomes entangled in the region's politics and her own family history.
The story is set in the year 2008. MacLeod has said that he originally intended to set it in the near future, but the 2008 South Ossetia war made this impossible.
Reviews of the novel have generally been positive. Financial Times reviewer James Lovegrove writes that "Where his novel excels is in its depiction of the machinations used both by governments and families to coerce others into doing their bidding, and in its inquiry into the nature of reality."
The novel was nominated for the Prometheus Award.
See also
Simulated reality
Notes
External links
Novels by Ken MacLeod
2010 British novels
2010 science fiction novels
Fiction set in 2008
Novels set in fictional countries
Libertarian science fiction books
British science fiction novels
Orbit Books books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Railways%20DFH%20shunting%20locomotives | The China Railways "Dongfang Hong" diesel-hydraulic locomotive classes DFH2, DFH5, DFH6, and DFH7, built from the 1970s to 1990s, were all used as shunters on the Chinese railway network.
The use of diesel-hydraulic shunters has fallen out of favour on the Chinese rail network, with diesel-electric locomotives being used. However, diesel-hydraulic machines continued to be produced for industrial railways – mainly the China Railways GK classes.
The DFH21 class is a meter gauge version of the DFH2, and was used on the Yunnan–Vietnam Railway for both passenger and freight services; the same machines are used on the Vietnam Railways where they are known as the D10H.
China Railways standard gauge
DFH2
The DFH2 was originally designed by Sifang locomotive works in 1966 as a passenger locomotive of rated power . The design did not enter mass production, but in 1973, the design was changed at Ziyang locomotive works to a power locomotive with a top speed of .
The mass was and the starting tractive effort was . The locomotive used a 12V180ZL engine and SF2010 transmission.
DFH5
In comparison to the DFH2 type, a number of changes were made for the DFH5: a twin-speed transmission allowing a higher top speed when running without a heavy load was included, and the mass was increased to improve traction.
The DFH5 class was produced in large quantities. The engine was a 12V180ZJ and transmission ZJ2011, producing of tractive effort with a mass of and with a top speed of . A higher speed was available with a limit of and tractive effort reduced to approximately half.
Variants, the DFH5B and DFH5C, were introduced in 1985, with modifications to improve reliability and performance – in both where the rated power was increased to , and the mass by . DFH5C was produced for operations in metalworks.
DFH6
One example was produced for shunting in the Chinese port of Huangpu District, Shanghai.
DFH7
Four units were produced for shunting in mines and industrial environments.
Metre gauge
DFH21
Locomotives similar in design to the DFH2 type but built to meter gauge and used as universal locomotives. The locomotives were used on the Kunming metre gauge railway, including passenger services.
As of 2012, Kunming rail fans report that DFH21 locomotives are still used to haul a few passenger trains a day along the metre gauge tracks from Kunming North Railway Station to several nearby stations. , these trains were still in operation.
30 of the locomotives are also used by Vietnam Railways, where they are known as the D10H. In 2005, Vietnam railways had 20 units operational. In 2009, ten of the engines had Caterpillar Inc. 3512B engines fitted as replacements.
Preserved locomotives
DFH2 0008 and DFH5 0001 are both preserved at the Beijing China Railway Museum.
References
Images
External links
☆中国鉄道博物館 車両図録☆ Railway museum Beijing, diesel hydraulic gallery, www.geocities.jp
DFH
B-B locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of China
Metre gauge diesel loc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20same-page%20merging | In computing, kernel same-page merging (KSM), also known as kernel shared memory, memory merging, memory deduplication, and page deduplication is a kernel feature that makes it possible for a hypervisor system to share memory pages that have identical contents between multiple processes or virtualized guests. While not directly linked, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) can use KSM to merge memory pages occupied by virtual machines.
Deduplication
KSM performs memory deduplication by scanning through main memory for physical pages that have identical content, and identifies the virtual pages that are mapped to those physical pages. It leaves one page unchanged, and re-maps each duplicate page to point to the same physical page, after which it releases the extra physical pages for re-use. It also marks both virtual pages as "copy-on-write" (COW), so that kernel will automatically remap a virtual page back to having its own separate physical page as soon as any process begins to write to it.
KSM was originally intended to run more virtual machines on one host by sharing memory between processes as well as virtual machines. An experimental implementation of KSM by Red Hat found that 52 virtual instances of Windows XP with 1 GB of memory, could run on a host computer that had only 16 GB of RAM. Upon its implementation, users found KSM to also be useful for non-virtualized environments in which memory is at a premium.
KSM was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in version 2.6.32, which was released on December 3, 2009. To be effective, the operating system kernel must find identical memory pages held by different processes. The kernel also needs to predict whether the pages are likely to update infrequently enough that the merging would be an efficient use of processor resources. A concern is that although memory usage is reduced, CPU usage is increased, thus negating potential increases in performance.
Security risks
Security is also a concern:
Allows circumvention of address space layout randomization (ASLR)
Exposes information via timing attacks
Allows contamination of cryptographic resources in other virtualized guests via the memory row hammer attack
See also
Data deduplication – Reduction of storage requirement by sharing duplicate files
Single-instance storage
References
External links
Linux kernel documentation
Fedora KSM page
Kernel-based virtual machine site - KSM
Computer memory
Linux kernel features |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%20Dances | America Dances was a radio program that presented various orchestras on the NBC Red Network on Saturday evenings beginning in 1935. It was promoted with the line, "Swing from coast to coast."
Orchestras and musicians featured included the Frank Hodek Orchestra, Fats Waller and Gene Krupa.
1930s American radio programs
American music radio programs
NBC radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard%20controller%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a keyboard controller is a device that interfaces a keyboard to a computer. Its main function is to inform the computer when a key is pressed or released. When data from the keyboard arrives, the controller raises an interrupt (a keyboard interrupt) to allow the CPU to handle the input.
If a keyboard is a separate peripheral system unit (such as in most modern desktop computers), the keyboard controller is not directly attached to the keys but receives scancodes from a microcontroller embedded in the keyboard via some kind of serial interface. In this case, the controller usually also controls the keyboard's LEDs by sending data back to the keyboard through the wire.
In the 80s the IBM PC AT used an Intel 8042 chip to interface to the keyboard. This computer also controlled access to the A20 line in order to implement a workaround for a chip bug in the Intel 80286. The keyboard controller was also used to initiate a software CPU reset in order to allow the CPU to transition from protected mode to real mode because the 286 did not allow the CPU to go from protected mode to real mode unless the CPU is reset. This was a problem because the BIOS and the operating system services could only be called by programs in real mode. These behaviors have been used by plenty of software that expects this behavior, and therefore keyboard controllers have continued controlling the A20 line and performing software CPU interrupts even when the need for a reset via the keyboard controller was obviated by the Intel 80386's ability to switch to real mode from protected mode without a CPU reset. The keyboard controller also handles PS/2 mouse input if a PS/2 mouse port is present.
Today the keyboard controller is either a unit inside a super I/O device or is missing, having the keyboard controller integrated in the USB keyboard itself, and its role in controlling the A20 line handled by the chipset.
IBM
IBM plays a small role in the creation of the keyboard controller. With the IBM compatible computers, the keyboard controller or Intel 8042 keyboard controller is found on the motherboard. The controller handles input received from the computer keyboard, A20 lines, reset, deciphering scan codes, as well as the PS/2 mouse. With later models of keyboards, the 8042 was replaced with the 8742 micro-controller, which had a microprocessor, RAM, and I/O ports.
Anyone trying to use the classic 8042-style keyboard controller (KBC) found in the IBM PC/AT and nearly all later PCs typically runs into a problem with a lack of accurate documentation. The 8042 (or 8742, or any number of compatible parts built into later Super I/O chips) is actually quite well documented. The catch is that the 8042 is a programmable micro-controller with its own control software in (usually) ROM. Until recently, no one outside a few companies (IBM, AMI, Phoenix) knew exactly what the control software did.
IBM documented a number of commands the host can send to the KBC. It shou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tripods%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Tripods is a television adaptation of John Christopher's The Tripods series of novels. It was jointly produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom and the Seven Network in Australia. The music soundtrack was written by Ken Freeman.
Series one of The Tripods, broadcast in 1984, had 13 half-hour episodes written by Alick Rowe, the author of many radio plays, and covers the first book, The White Mountains; the 12-episode second series (1985) written by Christopher Penfold covers The City of Gold and Lead. Although a television script had been written for the third series, it was cancelled by BBC executives Michael Grade and Jonathan Powell due to the adaptation failing in the ratings.
The first series was released on both VHS and DVD. The BBC released Tripods — The Complete Series 1 & 2 on DVD in March 2009.
Production
The series introduced several minor changes from the book, notably the shape of the Masters and Tripods, which have tentacles (although the Tripods do have a mechanical claw-arm that they sometimes use) in the book; the Black Guard was introduced to serve as a tangible human antagonist as overuse of the Tripods themselves would be expensive to film and undermine their dramatic presence; gravity inside the Golden City was increased artificially, which is not mentioned in the TV series; the introduction of "cognoscs", spiritual life-forms vastly superior to the Masters themselves; and more other main characters, including love interests for both Will and Beanpole. The original texts have few female characters. John Christopher was asked about this for an interview on Wordcandy, replying that at the time of writing the series, it was generally accepted that girls would read books with boy main characters, but not vice versa. He also stated that he felt the addition of an entire family of girls to the TV series was somewhat "over the top". The series is also notable for featuring non-humanoid aliens, which was uncommon at the time.
Charlotte Long, who played Will's love interest Eloise, died in a car crash shortly after the start of transmission of the first series. For the second series, the role was briefly recast, with Cindy Shelley appearing as Eloise during a dream sequence.
The models of the Tripods used throughout the two series were built by Martin Bower from designs by Steve Drewett.
Filming locations
The following is a list of fictional locations in the show, the series, the episode in which the location appeared, and the actual location (all in the UK except where shown):
Reception
In the book The Classic British Telefantasy Guide, Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping wrote "The Tripods could have been one of the most impressive of all BBC Telefantasy productions but sadly, due to a mixture of lacklustre scripts, the inexperience of several of the young cast, some cheap special effects and a plodding snail's pace, it fell flat on its face. On a brighter note, the performances of John Shackley, Roderick Horn, Joh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMS%20Architecture | The MMS Architecture is the set of standards used by the Multimedia Messaging Service in mobile networks. The standards are prepared by 3GPP.
Overview
The standard consists of a number of interfaces between components found in the mobile network:
MM1: the interface between MMS User Agent and MMS Center (MMSC, the combination of the MMS Relay & Server). Delivered as HTTP over a packet switched data session.
MM2: the interface between MMS Relay and MMS Server.
MM3: the interface between MMSC and other messaging systems. Using SMTP.
MM4: the interface between MMSC and foreign network providers. Using SMTP.
MM5: the interface between MMSC and HLR.
MM6: the interface between MMSC and user databases.
MM7: the interface between MMS Value-added service applications and MMSC. Typically Content Providers using HTTP / SOAP for delivery.
MM8: the interface between MMSC and the billing systems.
MM9: the interface between MMSC and an online charging system.
MM10: the interface between MMSC and a message service control function.
MM11: the interface between MMSC and an external transcoder.
MM1
MM1 is the interface between a Mobile Station (MS) and an MMSC.
MM1 is used in the following actions:
The sender subscriber sends an MMS to the MMSC
The MMSC notifies the recipient subscriber that they have an MMS waiting for retrieval
The recipient subscriber retrieves the MMS from the MMSC
The MMSC notifies the sender that the recipient has retrieved the message
The recipient subscriber manages their mailbox in the MMSC (uploads MMS, deletes MMS, ...)
The MM1 interface is based on the WAP protocol. It includes the PAP notifications that are transformed to SMS's by the WAP gateway for the notifications.
MM2
MM2 is an interface between a MMS Relay (MMS-R) and an MMS storage database, two components of an MMSC platform.
MM3
MM3 is the interface between MMSC and external servers such as Email server or SMS Centers SMSC. This interface typically uses TCP/IP based protocols for e.g. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMTP )
Generally, it is the responsibility of MMSC to do the transformation of MMS multi-part binary data to MIME format of email in both the direction
MM3 is used in the following actions:
To exchange messages with external servers such as Email Server or SMS Centers
MM4
MM4 is the interface used to exchange messages between two different MMSCs. These MMSCs are generally located in two distinct Mobile Networks
This interface is also known as the MMSR interface in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standards.
MM5
MM5 is the interface between MMSC and other network elements like HLR or Domain Name Server. The communication over MM5 Interface is generally to fetch the routing information. MM5 has been defined by the 3GPP in TS 23.140 as a simple reference to Mobile Application Part.
MM7
MM7 is the interface between MMSC and a value-added service provider (VASP).
The MM7 interface is used to send M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20G.%20Quintel | James Garland Quintel is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, writer, producer, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the Cartoon Network series Regular Show (2010–2017), in which he voiced Mordecai and High Five Ghost, and the HBO Max series Close Enough (2020–2022), in which he voiced Josh.
Quintel was formerly the creative director for The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008–2010), which aired on Cartoon Network, and a writer and storyboard artist on Camp Lazlo (2006–2008). In 2009, he was nominated for the Annie Award for Directing in a Television Production for directing an episode of Flapjack. In 2011, he was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animated Program category for Regular Show.
Early life and education
James Garland Quintel was born in Hanford, California the son of Terri (née Morris) and James Allen Quintel. According to Quintel, Hanford's geography is "kind of flat" and there "was not a ton to do" when he was growing up, so he and his friends were always looking for ways to entertain themselves; he later incorporated these kinds of misadventures into Regular Show. He was inspired by animators Matt Groening, Mike Judge, and Joe Murray, later working for the latter. Into his teenage years, he loved drawing and watching cartoons such as The Simpsons, Beavis and Butt-Head, Rocko's Modern Life, and The Ren & Stimpy Show, as well as British surreal comedy shows such as The League of Gentlemen, The Office, and The Mighty Boosh, which would later inspire Quintel's work.
Quintel often played the video game ToeJam & Earl, the influence of which he later described as "the perfect platform" for Regular Show protagonists Mordecai and Rigby. He also became influenced by rock music from the 1980s and later added 1980s music into Regular Show. He attended Hanford High School. In 1998, when he was 16, his father gave him a video camera which he used (along with Lego men and crude paper cutouts) to create a few minutes of stop motion film for several short film projects at Hanford High School. To expand his artistry, he took an AP literature class and a pottery class at Hanford High, as well as a summer class where he learned how to animate films and make flip books. He also worked at a movie theater and at "a lot of minimum wage jobs", just as Mordecai and Rigby work for minimum wage at a park in Regular Show. In May 2000, he was nominated as a 12th grade California academic all-star from Hanford High.
After high school, Quintel attended the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, California. At CalArts, Quintel and about 20 fellow students, including now-voice artist Sam Marin, developed their short films by throwing title names (such as "lollypop" or "candy") into a hat, drawing them out, and reading them aloud at midnight as a warm-up, where they would each then rush back to their desks in a marathon effort to make a film in 48 hours based on the one word drawn. In the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebljusi | Nebljusi () is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D218 highway.
Population
According to the 2011 census, Nebljusi had 208 inhabitants.
Note: From 1857-1880 include data for the settlement of Gornji Štrbci, in 1890 part of data for that settlement, and from 1857-1880 part of data for the settlement of Kruge. In 1931 include data for the settlements of Donji Štrbci and Kestenovac. It also include data for the formerly independent settlement of Seoce.
1991 census
According to the 1991 census, settlement of Nebljusi had 303 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as this:
Austro-hungarian 1910 census
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Nebljusi had 1,165 inhabitants in 4 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
Note: In 1910 census hamlet of Seoce was in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Literature
Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine.
Knjiga: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880-1991: po naseljima, autor: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
References
Populated places in Lika-Senj County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruge%2C%20Lika-Senj%20County | Kruge () is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D218 highway.
Population
According to the 2011 census, Kruge had 54 inhabitants.
Note: From 1857-1880 include part of data for the settlements of Gornji Štrbci and Mišljenovac. From 1857-1880 part of data is include in the settlement of Nebljusi.
1991 census
According to the 1991 census, settlement of Kruge had 126 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as this:
Austro-hungarian 1910 census
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Kruge had 737 inhabitants in 3 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
Literature
Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine.
Knjiga: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880-1991: po naseljima, autor: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
References
Populated places in Lika-Senj County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnopolje | Dnopolje () is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D218 highway.
Population
According to the 2011 census, Dnopolje had 112 inhabitants.
Note: From 1857-1880 include data for the settlement of Birovača, and also part of data for the settlement of Mišljenovac.
1991 census
According to the 1991 census, settlement of Dnopolje had 249 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as this:
Austro-hungarian 1910 census
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Dnopolje had 809 inhabitants in 2 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
Literature
Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine.
Knjiga: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880-1991: po naseljima, autor: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
References
Populated places in Lika-Senj County
Serb communities in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupirovo | Kupirovo () is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D218 highway.
Population
According to the 2011 census, Kupirovo had 46 inhabitants.
Note: In census years 1857-1880 it include data for the settlement of Kunovac Kupirovački.
1991 census
According to the 1991 census, settlement of Kupirovo had 130 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as this:
Austro-hungarian 1910 census
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Kupirovo had 469 inhabitants in 2 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
Literature
Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine.
Book: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880-1991: po naseljima, author: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
References
Populated places in Zadar County
Lika
Serb communities in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobroselo | Dobroselo () is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D218 highway.
Population
According to the 2011 census, Dobroselo had 117 inhabitants.
Note: From 1857-1880 include part of data for the settlement of Doljani.
1991 census
According to the 1991 census, settlement of Dobroselo had 234 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as this:
Austro-hungarian 1910 census
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Dobroselo had 811 inhabitants in 4 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
Literature
Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine.
Knjiga: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880-1991: po naseljima, autor: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
References
Populated places in Lika-Senj County
Serb communities in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%20Dust | From Dust is a god video game, designed by Éric Chahi and developed by Ubisoft Montpellier. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade in 2011. Described as a spiritual successor to Populous, the game revolves around The Breath, which was summoned by a tribe to help them seek and recover their lost knowledge. In the game, players, controlling a cursor, can manipulate matter such as lava, soil, and water. Players can help the tribespeople to overcome challenges including finding different totems and overcoming natural disasters. In addition to the story mode, the game features a Challenge mode which offers a shorter, but harder experience.
Originally starting its life as a strategy game, From Dust marked the return of Éric Chahi to the video game industry following an extended sabbatical after the completion of his last game, Heart of Darkness. The project was created as a result of his fascination with volcanoes, and his desire to combine the ambivalence and violent characteristics of their nature in a new video game. The team was further inspired by African and New Guinean tribes, Conway's Game of Life, works of Polish painter Zdzisław Beksiński, and Koyaanisqatsi. Some features, such as the biological life cycle of the tribespeople, were left out of the game because of the huge amount of work they would require. Ubisoft was originally doubtful about the project but was later convinced by Chahi. The game was made by a small team within the Montpellier studio, so was considered an independent game produced by a large publisher. The game was announced at E3 2010 as Project Dust.
The game received a generally positive reception on release, with critics praising the game's physics, simulation, openness and graphics, while criticizing the game's artificial intelligence and camera angles. Opinions on the game's Challenge mode and mission design were polarized. The PC version of the game fared worse than other platforms for its technical issues and digital rights management. The game was a commercial success for Ubisoft, selling over half a million copies and became Ubisoft's fastest-selling digital game. Despite its success, Chahi confirmed that he will not return to develop a sequel.
Gameplay
In From Dust, players assume a god-like, first-person perspective from which they manipulate an archipelago environment in an effort to save and enlighten a nomadic tribe and help them to seek their lost knowledge. With a spherical cursor, the user controls certain types of matter in real time. Lava cools to form solid rock, vegetation propagates in soil and spreads naturally once a village is built, and moving water quickly erodes the terrain. Physical changes to the world occur extremely rapidly, allowing players to restructure islands within minutes.
Campaigns in From Dust are structured as a sequence of missions, whereby completing certain objectives expedites the tribe's progress and bestows additional powers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groombridge%20Transit%20Circle | Groombridge Transit Circle was a meridian transit circle made by Edward Troughton for the English astronomer Stephen Groombridge in 1806, which Groombridge used to compile data for the star catalogue, Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars. The advantage of a transit circle over a mural circle (which can measure polar distances) is that it allows measuring right ascension and declination at the same time.
It had an aperture of 3.5 inches and a 5-foot focal length, mounted inside two 4 foot circles on stone piers. Groombridge used the instrument to determine the positions of over 4000 circumpolar stars.
It was eventually bought by James South, and it remained at his observatory at Kensington until 1870.
See also
Groombridge 1830
References
Further reading
Astronomical instruments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoghan%20Casey | Eoghan Casey is a digital forensics professional, researcher, and author. Casey has conducted a wide range of digital investigations, including data breaches, fraud, violent crimes, identity theft, and on-line criminal activity. He is also a member of the Digital/Multimedia Scientific Area Committee of the Organization for Scientific Area Committees. He helps organize the digital forensic research DFRWS.org conferences each year, and is on the DFRWS Board of Directors. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in Educational Communication and Technology from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College Dublin.
Career
Casey has worked as Lead Cyber Security Engineer at The MITRE Corporation, and as R&D Team Lead in the Defense Cyber Crime Institute (DCCI) at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3). He was Director of Digital Forensics and Investigations at the DC office of Stroz Friedberg, and he later co-founded cmdLabs with Christopher Daywalt and Terrance Maguire.
In 2012, he founded the company CASEITE and co-managed the Risk Prevention and Response business unit at DFLabs. Eoghan has helped organizations investigate and manage security breaches, including network intrusions with international scope. He has delivered expert testimony in civil and criminal cases, and has submitted expert reports and prepared trial exhibits for computer forensic and cyber-crime cases.
He has authored a number of books in the field of digital forensics including Digital Evidence and Computer Crime now in its third edition, the Handbook of Digital Forensics and Investigation, and Malware Forensics.
Casey taught digital forensic to graduate students at Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute. He also created Smartphone Forensics courses taught worldwide. He has delivered keynotes and taught workshops around the globe on various topics related to data breach investigation, digital forensics and cyber security.
Casey is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Digital Investigation: The International Journal of Digital Forensics and Incident Response.
Books
References
External links
DFRWS
OSAC
CASEITE
DFLabs
Elsevier
Amazon
American non-fiction writers
Digital forensics people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%20in%20a%20Cage | Bird in a Cage is a 1986 American comedic drama film written and directed by Antonio Zarro while he was attending the Christian Broadcasting Network University (now Regent University).
Production
Zarro's original script for the film had the two leads dying, but this was changed when CBN University associate professor and executive producer of the film Terry Lindvall felt "so many deaths would make the movie too much like a Shakespearean tragedy." He also recounted how a "blue tint applied at the film lab to turn a swimming scene from day to night made the heroine's pink bathing suit seem to disappear", which compelled Lindvall to censor most of the swimming shot." Lead actor Timothy Wright also noted that the unexpected outcome resulting from the main character's ambiguous prayer added a powerful and deeply moving experience to the story.
Premise
The film follows a thief into the countryside where he is mistaken as preacher, which is transformational.
Reception
Hal Erickson of All Movie Guide remarked that the director was a college student when he "lovingly assembled" the film, writing "The material is simple (and sometimes simplistic), but demands artistry. Novice filmmaker Antonio Zarro delivered that artistry."
Accolades
1987, won Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Student Academy Award in 1987
References
External links
1986 films
American student films
American drama films
1980s English-language films
1980s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHI-TDT | XHI-TDT is a television station in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. Broadcasting on virtual channel 10, XHI is part of the regional network of Televisoras del Pacífico (Formerly Televisoras Grupo Pacífico).
History
XHI came to air on analog channel 2 on August 30, 1965; the final concession had been awarded just four days prior, on August 26. The original transmitter was located next to the studios on a tower. The antenna was destroyed in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Kirsten on September 28, 1966; fortunately, there were no technical damages, which allowed the resumption of broadcasting days later with a temporary antenna.
In 1968, XHI relocated its transmitter to Cerro Yucuribampo; four years later, the station relocated to its present studios on Miguel Alemán Avenue in Ciudad Obregón. A power hike raised the station's effective radiated power from 75 to 86 kW in the 1980s and again to the maximum 100 kW in the 1990s.
In 1988, XHI built a repeater on Cerro de la Memoria in Los Mochis, more than away in the neighboring state of Sinaloa. The Los Mochis repeater, while still licensed as such, soon turned into a full-fledged local station with its own programming.
The late 2000s saw XHI expand north to the town of Guaymas. An analog repeater was built on Cerro del Vigía, broadcasting on channel 34, and limited local production began, primarily of newscasts.
Programming
XHI's stations in Obregón and Mochis produce substantial local programming; while the latter is licensed as a repeater, it is treated by Televisoras Grupo Pacífico as a separate station, with its own local news. The local programming includes news, lifestyle shows and sports programming.
In October 2016, XHI, including all its repeaters, switched to virtual channel 10 as a result of new guidelines harmonizing television virtual channels nationwide. Channel 2 was used for the Las Estrellas network nationwide, requiring XHI to move; similarly, other national networks prompted other TVP stations to move to virtual channel 10.
Televisa output was present until 2018 on the TVP network in the form of Gala TV and FOROtv national programs and selected Major League Baseball games, as well as telenovelas.
Digital television
XHI was the first commercial station in Sonora to broadcast in digital and the first in Obregón after receiving Cofetel approval to build digital facilities in 2010; Los Mochis also built digital facilities. Televisoras Grupo Pacífico was an early builder of digital facilities for its stations; Guaymas was converted in 2015, only because it was a flash-cut on the same channel as its analog predecessor.
Repeaters
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Subchannels
In 2015, XHI in Obregón began multiplexing its signal:
The Los Mochis station airs its main programs on 2.1 and a -1 hour feed on 2.2.
References
External links
Televisoras Grupo Pacífico website
Televisa Regional
Television stations in Sonora
Television channels and stations established in 1965
Spanish-language television stations i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%20Yaman%20ni%20Lola | () is a Philippine television comedy reality show broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Nanette Inventor, it premiered on August 23, 2010 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up. The show concluded on January 21, 2011 with a total of 100 episodes. It was replaced by Alakdana in its timeslot.
Every week, new challenges will be given by Lola Barbie and the most efficient worker of the week will receive P100,000.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Nanette Inventor as Barbara "Barbie" Benitez
Supporting cast
Sheryl Cruz as Kimberly Hechanova Cabagnot
Benjie Paras as Benjo Cabagnot
Fabio Ide as Boggart
Patricia Ismael as Mayordoma
Joyce Ching as Cheska Hechanova Cabagnot
Aaron Novilla as Agapito Hechanova Cabagnot
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 5.5% rating.
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic%20map | Elastic maps provide a tool for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. By their construction, they are a system of elastic springs embedded in the data
space. This system approximates a low-dimensional manifold. The elastic coefficients of this system allow the switch from completely unstructured k-means clustering (zero elasticity) to the estimators located closely to linear PCA manifolds (for high bending and low stretching modules). With some intermediate values of the elasticity coefficients, this system effectively approximates non-linear principal manifolds. This approach is based on a mechanical analogy between principal manifolds, that are passing through "the middle" of the data distribution, and elastic membranes and plates. The method was developed by A.N. Gorban, A.Y. Zinovyev and A.A. Pitenko in 1996–1998.
Energy of elastic map
Let be a data set in a finite-dimensional Euclidean space. Elastic map is represented by a set of nodes in the same space. Each datapoint has a host node, namely the closest node (if there are several closest nodes then one takes the node with the smallest number). The data set is divided into classes .
The approximation energy D is the distortion
,
which is the energy of the springs with unit elasticity which connect each data point with its host node. It is possible to apply weighting factors to the terms of this sum, for example to reflect the standard deviation of the probability density function of any subset of data points .
On the set of nodes an additional structure is defined. Some pairs of nodes, , are connected by elastic edges. Call this set of pairs . Some triplets of nodes, , form bending ribs. Call this set of triplets .
The stretching energy is ,
The bending energy is ,
where and are the stretching and bending moduli respectively. The stretching energy is sometimes referred to as the membrane, while the bending energy is referred to as the thin plate term.
For example, on the 2D rectangular grid the elastic edges are just vertical and horizontal edges (pairs of closest vertices) and the bending ribs are the vertical or horizontal triplets of consecutive (closest) vertices.
The total energy of the elastic map is thus
The position of the nodes is determined by the mechanical equilibrium of the elastic map, i.e. its location is such that it minimizes the total energy .
Expectation-maximization algorithm
For a given splitting of dataset in classes , minimization of the quadratic functional is a linear problem with the sparse matrix of coefficients. Therefore, similar to principal component analysis or k-means, a splitting method is used:
For given find ;
For given minimize and find ;
If no change, terminate.
This expectation-maximization algorithm guarantees a local minimum of . For improving the approximation various additional methods are proposed. For example, the softening strategy is used. This strategy
starts with a rigid grids (small length, small bending and la |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20%28disambiguation%29 | Guido is a male given name. It may also refer to:
Guido may also refer to:
Guido (slang), slang term for Italian-American
Guido (surname)
GUIDO music notation, a computer music notation format
Guido Island, Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica
120361 Guido, an asteroid
GUIDO, a Guidance Officer or flight controller in Apollo space missions
Guido, a character in Disney and Pixar's Cars franchise.
See also
Big Guido (born 1964), ring name of Italian-American professional wrestler Michael Santoni Jr.
Little Guido (born 1972), another ring name of American professional wrestler Nunzio (wrestler) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Media%20Corps | The Public Media Corps is a national public service initiative started by The National Black Programming Consortium, a national public media organization, in 2011. This initiative was started to bridge the digital divide in disadvantaged communities, with a particular focus on urban and rural areas.
Taking inspiration from programs like Teach For America, AmeriCorps, and the Peace Corps, the central idea is to bring news media and digital creatives into underserved communities to provide help encourage more digital participation and digital citizens.
References
Digital divide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon%20Cape%20Initiative | The Cape Silicon Initiative or Silicon Cape is a regional ICT business networking NPO and community in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Background and launch
The Silicon Cape Initiative is a private sector community movement that was founded by two South African high-tech entrepreneurs, Vinny Lingham and Justin Stanford. Both being entrepreneurs and angel investors in the information and communication technologies start-up sector in South Africa, they observed the unique confluence of circumstances emerging in their home country and in particular in the province of the Western Cape. The name Silicon Cape is based on the technological hub Silicon Valley in the United States San Francisco Bay Area. Whilst the Western Cape cannot be compared directly to Silicon Valley, it does possess some core organic elements which in its infancy, could be likened to that of Silicon Valley in California, USA.
Silicon Cape as a concept was officially launched to the public on October 8, 2009. Attendance at the event was greater than anticipated and a new, larger venue had to be sourced. At the event there were representatives from schools, universities, start-ups, big business, local and national government, NGOs, and the venture capital industry. Over a third of the audience was expected to be young IT entrepreneurs. The launch was circulated through social media platforms Facebook and Twitter. Speakers included Dr. Johann Rupert (chairman of luxury goods company Richemont), Dr. Mamphela Ramphele (chairperson of the Technology Innovation Agency), Helen Zille (premier of the Western Cape) and Matthew Buckland (internet entrepreneur, founder of Creative Spark and Memeburn) who was the event's MC. At the launch, The Silicon Cape Foundation non-profit entity was formed by a 10-seat community.
Structure
Silicon Cape is overseen by a 12-person steering committee.
The Silicon Cape Initiative
The vision of the Silicon Cape is to be an organic ecosystem that functions in the Western Cape of South Africa. Its goal is to look to attract top technical talent and entrepreneurs to the Western Cape and to assist these parties in creating "world class" IP start-up companies in an environment that competes with other similar hubs around the world. Its ultimate goal is to help foster a high-technology district in the Western Cape.
The concept of the Silicon Cape is not owned or controlled by any single entity, and is a living concept of its participants. Any person globally is able to take advantage of the Silicon Cape network through the social networking platform of Silicon Cape.
ICT Ideas and Entrepreneurs
Silicon Cape aims at assisting people with ICT ideas and entrepreneurs to avoid the many pitfalls associated with ICT start-ups in South Africa. Entrepreneurs in South Africa face many obstacles including access to finance, punishment for previous failure, lack of global experience, no liquidity events and others. The potential of entrepreneurs and I.T. visionaries for t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Occult%20Academy%20episodes | is a Japanese anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures and Aniplex and directed by Tomohiko Ito. The 13-episode anime premiered in Japan on the TV Tokyo television network on July 6, 2010 and the final episode aired on September 27, 2010. Occult Academy is the third project of Anime no Chikara. It was simulcasted by Crunchyroll an hour after the Japanese broadcast. A series of DVD/Blu-ray releases are made over six volumes. Volumes one through five each contain two episodes from the series and comes with extras, such as bonus songs sung by various voice actors for the characters. The final volume covers the last three episodes There are also four spinoff episodes, the first of which is included with the second volume.
The series' opening theme is the song sung by Shoko Nakagawa, and its ending theme is sung by Ayahi Takagaki.
Synopsis
Set in the year of 1999, the story revolves around the mysteries of the Waldstein Academy also known as the "Occult Academy" due to its unorthodox researches involving myths, legends and paranormal activity. The main protagonists are Maya Kumashiro, daughter of the late principal of the Academy who assumes his position and Fumiaki Uchida, a time traveler sent from the year 2012 with the mission of finding and destroying the "Nostradamus Key", an unknown item that the Nostradamus Prophecies foretold to be the cause of an alien invasion that will devastate Earth.
List of episodes
References
Lists of anime episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20analytics | Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs.
The growth of online learning since the 1990s, particularly in higher education, has contributed to the advancement of Learning Analytics as student data can be captured and made available for analysis. When learners use an LMS, social media, or similar online tools, their clicks, navigation patterns, time on task, social networks, information flow, and concept development through discussions can be tracked. The rapid development of massive open online courses (MOOCs) offers additional data for researchers to evaluate teaching and learning in online environments.
Definition
Although a majority of Learning Analytics literature has started to adopt the aforementioned definition, the definition and aims of Learning Analytics are still contested.
Learning Analytics as a prediction model
One earlier definition discussed by the community suggested that Learning Analytics is the use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections for predicting and advising people's learning. But this definition has been criticised by George Siemens and Mike Sharkey.
Learning Analytics as a generic design framework
Dr. Wolfgang Greller and Dr. Hendrik Drachsler defined learning analytics holistically as a framework. They proposed that it is a generic design framework that can act as a useful guide for setting up analytics services in support of educational practice and learner guidance, in quality assurance, curriculum development, and in improving teacher effectiveness and efficiency. It uses a general morphological analysis (GMA) to divide the domain into six "critical dimensions".
Learning Analytics as data-driven decision making
The broader term "Analytics" has been defined as the science of examining data to draw conclusions and, when used in decision-making, to present paths or courses of action. From this perspective, Learning Analytics has been defined as a particular case of Analytics, in which decision-making aims to improve learning and education. During the 2010s, this definition of analytics has gone further to incorporate elements of operations research such as decision trees and strategy maps to establish predictive models and to determine probabilities for certain courses of action.
Learning Analytics as an application of analytics
Another approach for defining Learning Analytics is based on the concept of Analytics interpreted as the process of developing actionable insights through problem definition and the application of statistical models and analysis against existing and/or simulated future data. From this point of view, Learning Analytics emerges as a type of Analytics (as a process), in which the data, the problem definition and the insights are learning-related.
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20Speed%20World%20Challenge | The 2005 Speed World Challenge season was the 16th season of the Sports Car Club of America's World Challenge series. The series' title sponsor was television network Speed Channel, who broadcast all the races. Championships were awarded for grand touring and touring cars. The season began on March 18 and ran for eleven rounds. Andy Pilgrim and Cadillac won the championships in GT, and Peter Cunningham and Acura won in Touring Car.
Schedule
References
GT World Challenge America
Speed World Challenge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACSI%20College | ACSI (Associated Computer Systems Institute) College or ACSI is a network of private computer and business colleges. It has two colleges: ACSI College Iloilo and ACSI Caregiver School
History
It was founded as Associated Computer Systems Institute in 1984 with its first campus at Luna, La Paz, Iloilo City. At first it offered diploma courses in computer. It changed its name to ACSI Business and Computer School, Inc, and moved to a new location at the City Proper of Iloilo.
In 2008 the college offered two CHED programs: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems. Following that, it changed its name to ACSI College. It caters both courses accredited by Technical Education and Skills Development Authority and Commission on Higher Education of the Philippines in information technology, hospitality management, health sciences, business and short term courses.
As of 2016 there are three CHED recognized programs.
In 2018, the college moved to its present location in Gaisano Capital Iloilo (La Paz) in La Paz, Iloilo City.
Academic programs
ACSI College offers programs senior high school, bachelor and non-bachelor's degrees under the supervision and accreditation of Department Education for basic education, CHED (Commission on Higher Education (Philippines)) for undergraduate degrees, and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) for associate or 2 years and tech-voc courses. The college also offers short term certificate courses. ACSI is a CHED Certified Higher Education Institution- (Institutional Code: 06009)
Select academic courses are both offered in regular and night classes.
Senior High School
HUMMS Track
ABM Track
Associate or TESDA courses
Associate in Computer Technology (ACT)
Hotel and Restaurant Service NCIV (HRS NCIV)
Computer Programming NC IV
Computer Hardware Servicing NC IV
Caregiver NC IV
Baccalaureate or undergraduate courses
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) [Regular and Night Modular Classe)
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems (BSIS) [Regular and Night Modular Classes]
Short term certificate courses
* Adobe Photoshop CS6/CC, Computer Operation, Animation and Computer Servicing.
References
External links
Universities and colleges in Iloilo City
1984 establishments in the Philippines
Universities and colleges established in 1984 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDG%20%28disambiguation%29 | IDG or IdG may refer to:
Organisations
IDG Ventures, a family of venture funds originally funded by International Data Group
Apple Industrial Design Group, part of Apple Inc.
Indigo Books and Music, a Canadian retail bookstore chain
Industrial Development Group, a South African mining company headed by Makaziwe Mandela
International Deployment Group, a department of the Australian Federal Police
International Data Group, an American technology, media, research, event management, and venture capital organization.
Other
Integrated Drive Generator, an aircraft electrical generation unit
Indo-Germanic
The IATA code for Ida Grove Municipal Airport, an airport in Iowa, USA
Infinite derivative gravity, a theory of modified gravity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEAN%20Wildlife%20Enforcement%20Network | The ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN) was officially launched on 1 December 2005, as a regional inter-agency and inter-governmental initiative to counter the illegal cross-border trade in endangered flora and fauna. It helps countries share information on and tackle cross-border wildlife crime and facilitates the exchange of regional best practices in combating those crimes. As the world's largest wildlife law enforcement network, it comprises the law enforcement agencies of the 10 ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand) forming a regional intergovernmental law-enforcement network.
Overview
The establishment of ASEAN-WEN was a response by the governments of Southeast Asia to the illegal wildlife trade. ASEAN-WEN addresses illegal exploitation and trade in CITES-listed endangered species within the ASEAN region. ASEAN-WEN promotes implementation of national wildlife protection laws and international species protection treaties, with the goal of reducing illegal wildlife trade in Southeast Asia through the dismantlement of the region's major wildlife trafficking networks. ASEAN-WEN works closely with the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Partners
ASEAN-WEN is supported by USAID, the US Agency for International Development. Non-governmental organization partners include FREELAND Foundation, and TRAFFIC, the international wildlife trade monitoring network. ASEAN-WEN has developed links with partner countries and intergovernmental organizations such as the CITES Secretariat (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), the United States, Interpol, the United Nations Office on for Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), The World Bank, Global Tiger Initiative, and the World Customs Organization (WCO). The network is building partnerships with China, South Asia, the European Community, Africa (through the Lusaka Agreement Task Force) Australia and New Zealand.
History and background
In October 2004, ASEAN Ministers expressed their support for cooperation to improve CITES implementation. In May 2005, the ASEAN Regional Action Plan on Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora (2005–2010) was developed. The plan, which includes the ASEAN-WEN, was adopted the following August in Phnom Penh during the meeting of the ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry (ASOF).
ASEAN-WEN is mentioned under Objective Two of the Action Plan to encourage networking among law enforcement authorities in ASEAN countries to counter the illegal trade in wild fauna and flora.
The ASEAN-WEN was established on 1 December 2005 in Bangkok.
The Law Enforcement Extension Office (LEEO) of the ASEAN WEN PCU was created in 2008 through an agreement with the Royal Thai Government, the ASEAN-WEN Support Program (2005-2010), the ASEAN Secretariat, and the US State Department. The LEEO is tasked with the support and coor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20Superstars | Football Superstars was a free-to-play massively multiplayer online football game originally developed by Monumental Games and published by Cybersports until the company went into administration. From late 2014 until its closure in February 2020, the game had been developed and published by Coli Games UK.
After a server crash, the decision was subsequently taken to not restore its servers, thus resulting in the game's closure on February 19, 2020. The reasons cited were low player activity as well as server problems.
A new project titled 'The Final Third' has purportedly been under development since September 2020; however, the release date is unknown and no updates have been given.
Development
The BETA version of Football Superstars was released in November 2008, with community members providing feedback on the overall gameplay elements; the official release launched on December 31, 2008. Several updates and patches were made throughout the game's lifespan, improving stability and gameplay.
In 2012, the team suspended any development of the game, focusing on a Unity-based project called Striker Superstars. In late 2014, Football Superstars game development resumed under its new developer and publisher Coli Games UK until its closure in 2020.
Features
Football Superstars allowed players to team up with other players globally and play in a PvP environment. The outfield team were human-operated whilst goalkeepers were controlled by the AI. Players could train their “Superstars” to become better players by visiting the gyms or purchasing upgraded boots and skills. Players could also increase their fame levels by visiting bars and restaurants and buying drinks. A higher fame level is attributed to greater match rewards.
Virtual Currency
There were two currencies in Football Superstars; 'Dollars' and 'Credits'. Players earned 'Dollars' by playing competitive games, and could purchase 'Credits' from the official website. Players could also spend `Credits` on Superstar Management. Briefly, players could exchange 'Dollars' for 'Credits'.
Subscription
Football Superstars adopted a free-to-play model with a micro-transaction type monetisation.
Player Managed Clubs (PMC)
Player Managed Clubs (PMC) were the equivalent of guilds, allowing players to create their own teams, recruit their own players and compete in online events and tournaments against other user-generated PMCs. Within the PMC hierarchy, the manager could nominate Captain, Scouts, Coach, Members and recruits. Each of these roles had a varied level of responsibility in-game.
Superstar Management
Released in August 2010, Superstar Management allowed players to improve their player's stats through the official website.
Fame
'Fame' was a reward earned by playing competitive matches and making in-game store purchases. 'Fame Points' (FP) were used to upgrade your fame level. There were 28 fame levels; commencing from Local Newcomers to International Superstars. Once you had enough FP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Zimmerman%20%28producer%29 | Carl Zimmerman (born November 15, 1939) is an American producer and talent agent. He is a current advisor and project scout for leading television and cable networks, mainly HBO and CBS.
Early life
Zimmerman was born in Brooklyn, the son of Esther Schwartz, a school teacher, and Julius Zimmerman, a talent agent. At age 17 he went to work for his father as an assistant before opening his own agency in 1961.
Career
Zimmerman was known for representing clients such as Academy Award winners Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Gene Kelly, Paul Muni, and Claudette Colbert. In an interview with The Washington Post, Zimmerman stated, "The entertainment industry is one of the greatest in the world, it has given me my life and education, I have always worshiped and adored talent, it's been a huge privilege".
He became a theater producer in 1960 while still
working as an agent. Zimmerman began producing smaller-scale theatre before creating the acclaimed Oscar Wilde Trilogy for a national tour of the United States. It was the first of its kind to reach capacity in the box office.
In the summer of 1972 Zimmerman launched Shakespeare's Loves, beginning a successful, large-scale tour of Shakespearean plays in classic repertory style. Afterwards, in 1975, he took the tour to Australia. After producing large-scale productions around the world for 13 years, Zimmerman returned to being a full-time agent while working as a co-producer on Broadway. He produced some classics such as The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, and The Bear, all of which won the Critics' Drama Desk Award.
He is a recipient of a number of international prizes for his work and dedication to theater, film, and the television industry. In 2008 he received the Lifetime Merit Award at Radio City Music Hall.
References
1929 births
American talent agents
American theatre managers and producers
Living people
People from Brooklyn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E271 | European route E271 is a Class B road part of the International E-road network. It runs only through Belarus, begins in Minsk and ends in Homieĺ.
Route: Minsk - Asipovičy - Babrujsk - Žlobin - Homieĺ.
On entire length, E271 follows the route of Belarusian national highway .
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
271
Roads in Belarus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20Scientology%20editing%20on%20Wikipedia | A series of incidents in 2009 led to Church of Scientologyowned networks being blocked from making edits to Wikipedia articles relating to Scientology. The Church of Scientology has long had a controversial history on the Internet and had initiated campaigns to manipulate material and remove information critical of itself from the web. From early in Wikipedia's history, conflict arose regarding the website's coverage of Scientology. Disputes began in earnest in 2005, with users disagreeing about whether or not to describe Scientology as an abusive cult or religion, and continued through the decade.
WikiScanner, a publicly searchable database that linked anonymous edits on Wikipedia to the organizations where those edits apparently originated, made public the nature of edits on Wikipedia which were able to be traced directly back to Church of Scientology-controlled computers. News organizations reported that edits linked to the Church of Scientology were made to remove criticism from the main Scientology article, to downplay connections between Scientology and the New Cult Awareness Network, and to add links to Scientology-affiliated groups such as the Citizens Commission on Human Rights.
In January 2009, a case involving Scientology was brought before Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. Wikipedia administrators presented evidence during the case that Church of Scientology-controlled computers were used to promote the organization, using multiple user accounts. One user, going by the pseudonym "COFS", admitted this pattern of editing and stated the edits from Scientology computers would continue. In May 2009, the Arbitration Committee decided to restrict editing from IP addresses belonging to the Church of Scientology to prevent biased edits. The decision meant that Church of Scientology-controlled IP addresses received the same blockable status as open proxies on the site. Many Scientology critics were also banned; the committee concluded that both sides had "gamed policy" and resorted to "battlefield tactics", with articles on living persons being the "worst casualties" of edits. On 7 January 2022, the rule of IP addresses owned by Scientology being blocked as if they were open proxies was lifted.
Arbitration Committee member Roger Davies wrote the majority of the decision, and commented to The New York Times that due to the controversial nature of the case, the decision was crafted so as not to focus directly upon any particular individual. Statements from Church of Scientology spokeswoman Karin Pouw labelled the arbitration ruling as a routine matter and maintained there were still "gross inaccuracies" on the Scientology article. In a statement to CNN, Pouw denied the presence of an organized campaign by the Church of Scientology to manipulate Wikipedia. Scientology representative Tommy Davis emphasized to the St. Petersburg Times that users critical of the organization were also banned, and similarly denied that Church of Scientology leader |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostly%20Encounters | Ghostly Encounters is a Canadian paranormal documentary television series that premiered on to January 19, 2011. on Viva/W Network. The program also aired on A&E's The Biography Channel, and currently airs on Discovery's Destination America, both in the United States. The show was created by executive producer Phyllis Platt, is produced by Brian Dennis, and is hosted by Lawrence Chau.
The program uses a combination of interviews and dramatic recreations, examining the events that led its subjects to accept or reject occurrences as supernatural, and how the experience has helped or hindered them.
Ghostly Encounters won a Gemini Award for best original score in 2007.
Format
Each episode usually tells stories from two individuals who believe they have had paranormal experiences. When warranted, however, the show will break from this format and instead use the full episode for one story. Each episode is created using a direct-to-camera interview with the storyteller, dramatic re-enactments, and host segments and commentary. An abandoned ballroom on the top floor of the King Edward Hotel in Toronto provides the location for the portion of the program featuring host Lawrence Chau.
The episodes begin with a tease, briefly describing the two stories. The tease is followed by the opening credits, which are accompanied by the theme music. After the credits, the first story is introduced using a clip of the subject's interview. The first host segment follows and introduces the theme of the episode, as well as the first story, to the viewers. The first subject's story is then told using a combination of his or her interview and dramatic re-enactment footage. Occasionally, b-roll and stock footage are also used in telling the story. At the end of the first story, a brief host segment wraps up the first subject and introduces the second subject of the episode. The second story follows the same format as the first and ends again with a wrap-up from the host. At the same time, the host also wraps up the show and includes final comments on the stories and theme of the episode based on the commentary from the experts. The show ends with a final comment from each subject, usually reflecting on the lesson their encounter has given them, followed by the closing credits.
Episodes
Season 1 (2005)
Season 2 (2006)
Season 3 (2009)
Season 4 (2010)
See also
List of ghost films
References
External links
by Viva
Ghostly Encounters at The Biography Channel
2005 Canadian television series debuts
The Biography Channel shows
Canadian television docudramas
Paranormal television
Television series about ghosts
2000s Canadian documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s%20Kitchen%20%28American%20season%208%29 | The eighth season of Hell's Kitchen, an American reality competition television series starring Gordon Ramsay, premiered on the Fox Network on September 22, 2010, and continued until December 15, 2010. Sous Chef Nona Sivley won the competition, earning a head chef position at the L.A. Market restaurant at the JW Marriott Hotel at L.A. Live in Los Angeles, as well as an opportunity to be a spokesperson for Rosemount Estate Wines. This would be the last season to feature 16 contestants, until season 17.
Sabrina Brimhall is the second person after Virginia Dalbeck (from season 2) to hold the distinction of being nominated at every opportunity she was not on the winning team or granted immunity by Chef Ramsay. She is also the second person after Autumn Lewis (from season 7) to be nominated a total of seven times.
Format
The first half of each episode consists of a team challenge, in which the winning side gets a reward of some sort of leisure activity, while the losing side has to clean up and prepare both kitchens, as well as some activity that is not so pleasant. Afterwards, the teams compete in executing a dinner service, during which Ramsay can impose additional punishments or kick chefs out of the kitchen. The losing team(s) nominates chefs to be considered for elimination. Ramsay can also nominate chefs, and ultimately sends a chef home. At six chefs left, the teams merge to one, and the chefs compete as individuals.
Staff
Gordon Ramsay returned to the series as the head chef, as well as sous chefs Scott Leibfried and Andi van Willigan. James Lukanik served as the maître d', replacing Jean-Philippe Susilovic, who had been serving as a restaurant director at Ramsay's restaurant in London, Petrus. Seasons 7 and 8 were taped a year apart, resulting in other staff changes.
Contestants
16 chefs competed in season eight. Ages shown are at the start of competition.
Notes
Contestant progress
Episodes
Notes
References
Recaps
Other references
External links
Hell's Kitchen official Fox.com website by Fox Broadcasting Company
Hell's Kitchen (American TV series)
2010 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrocable%20%28Caracas%29 | The Metrocable de Caracas is a gondola lift system integrated with the city's public transport network, which provides quick and safe transportation for those who live in the neighbourhoods situated on Caracas's mountainous regions. The system was built as a tool for social reform with stations set up to accommodate a variety of services such as daycares, libraries, police stations, markets and theatres.
This Metrocable system is part of the growing number of gondola lifts that are now being used for urban transportation purposes (others include the Metrocable (Medellin), Mi Teleférico (La Paz), Portland Aerial Tram, Emirates Air Line and Roosevelt Island Tramway).
History
In 2006, the interdisciplinary design firm Urban-Think Tank, working with local community leaders and the state government, came up with the idea to build a network of cable cars into the poorest areas of the capital, known as Barrio San Agustín. These plans eventually led to the laying of the foundation stone on 29 November 2006.
On 20 April 2007, construction began on the first line, which starts at San Agustín and reaches towards Central Park (Parque Central) station, where it is linked to the subway network. The Ministry of Infrastructure, Austrian aerial lift manufacturer Doppelmayr, and the Brazilian company Odebrecht were all responsible for the construction of the system. The lighting design project and domotic system was developed and installed by the German-Venezuelan lighting design house Dierck Sistemas de Iluminación CA, located in Caracas.
In December 2009, Caracas Metro Cable entered into the testing phase, and in January 2010, the first users of the system were carried: several community leaders from Hornos de Cal to Parque Central.
The line was officially opened on 20 January 2010.
Description
This gondola lift system is fully integrated with the local Metro and has a capacity of 3,000 pphpd (persons per hour per direction). Since its opening in 2010, the system moved on average 1,200 passengers per hour. Each gondola cabin can accommodate up to eight sitters and two standees.
Acting as another pioneer in Cable Propelled Transit (second only to the Metrocable (Medellin)), the Caracas Metrocable was the first cable system to implement 90-degree turns. A passive deflection bullwheel was used at two 90-degree turning stations. As such, the system is essentially made of two separate lines where the gondola cabins switch from one line to a second line at the middle station. The system also has a built in mechanism that allows vehicles to divert – allowing the cabins to return to where they came from instead of switching onto the new line. This provides a major advantage: in the event of a mechanical failure on one line, the second line can still operate .
While the entire Metrocable system had a total cost of $300 million USD, the transit infrastructure cost was only 6% (or $18 million) of that figure.
Lines and stations
Currently studies are underway on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SendThisFile | SendThisFile is a file transfer service operated by SendThisFile, Inc., which uses cloud computing and 128-bit TLS encryption to enable users to securely send and receive large data files through the Internet. The company was co-founded in 2003 by CEO Aaron Freeman and his father CFO Michael Freeman.
SendThisFile has around 1.5 million users and has transferred over 40 million files.
The service is an alternative to e-mailing large e-mail attachments and in 2016 received recognition in the press as one of the best services available to do so.
See also
Cloud storage
Comparison of file hosting services
DropSend
Pando (application)
WeTransfer
References
External links
Email attachment replacements
One-click hosting
Software companies based in Kansas
Networking companies of the United States
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20tree | A radial tree, or radial map, is a method of displaying a tree structure (e.g., a tree data structure) in a way that expands outwards, radially. It is one of many ways to visually display a tree, with examples extending back to the early 20th century. In use, it is a type of information graphic.
Basic layout
The overall distance "d" is the distance between levels of the graph. It is chosen so that the overall layout will fit within a screen. Layouts are generated by working outward from the center, root. The first level is a special case because all the nodes have the same parent. The nodes for level 1 can be distributed evenly, or weighted depending on the number of children they have. For subsequent levels, the children are positioned within sectors of the remaining space, so that child nodes of one parent do not overlap with others.
There are many extensions to this algorithm to create more visually balanced layouts, to allow a user to navigate from node to node (changing the center), or accommodate node labels and mix force-directed layouts with radial layouts.
The layout has some similarities to a hyperbolic tree, though a key difference is that hyperbolic trees are based on hyperbolic geometry, whereas in a radial tree the distance between orbits is relatively linear.
Comparison to other layouts
In a simple case, the first node is at the top, and the linked nodes are beneath. As each node typically has more than one child, the resulting shape is relatively triangular. In a radial layout, instead of each successive generation being displayed a row below, each generation is displayed in a new, outer orbit.
Since the length of each orbit increases with the radius, there tends to be more room for the nodes. A radial tree will spread the larger number of nodes over a larger area as the levels increase. We use the terms level and depth interchangeably. Nevertheless, the number of nodes increases exponentially with the distance from the first node, whereas the circumference of each orbit increases linearly, so, by the outer orbits, the nodes tend to be packed together.
Examples
MindManager and MindMapper are mindmapping systems, which can make radial-like layouts, though are not radial beyond the 2nd level.
SpicyNodes was an approach to visualizing hierarchies, which allows moving from node to node.
See also
Radar chart
References
External links
Comprehensive survey and bibliography of Tree Visualization techniques
WikiViz: Visualizing Wikipedia by Chris Harrison
Radial maps at "Visual Complexity" site
Trees (data structures)
Graph drawing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQX | MQX (Message Queue eXecutive) is a real-time operating system (RTOS) developed by Precise Software Technologies, Inc., and currently sold by Synopsys, Embedded Access, Inc., and NXP Semiconductors.
Like most RTOSs, MQX includes a multitasking kernel with pre-emptive scheduling and fast interrupt response, extensive inter-process communication and synchronization facilities, and a file system.
Its configurable size conserves computer memory space using a minimum of 6 KB of read-only memory (ROM), including its kernel, interrupts, semaphores, queues, and a memory manager.
MQX includes an Internet protocol suite TCP/IP stack (RTCS), embedded File Allocation Table based DOS file system (MFS), Universal Serial Bus (USB) host/device stack, and design, debugging (task-aware (TAD), and remote), and performance analysis tools. It is supported by popular libraries for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) such as wolfSSL for increased security measures.
MQX is generally used in embedded systems. MQX development occurs on a host machine running Unix or Windows, and cross-compiles target software to run on various target central processing unit (CPU) architectures.
MQX has been ported to many platforms and now runs on most modern CPUs used in the embedded market, including Kinetis, ColdFire, PowerPC, ARC, ARM, StrongARM, xScale.
All new Kinetis (ARM Cortex-M4), i.MX RT (ARM Cortex-M7), and ColdFire devices will be enabled with complimentary Freescale MQX RTOS. Freescale plans to expand the availability of this complimentary integrated enablement software to include many embedded processors in its broad portfolio.
History
MQX had its origins at , a company based in Ottawa, Canada. In 1984, a small team of software engineers there, consisting of Jeremy James, Mati Sauks, and Craig Honegger started researching novel applications for embedded multiprocessors. This work led to the use of a real-time operating system in writing firmware for Dy4 single board computers. In 1989, James and Sauks commercialized the Harmony RTOS, with the name MPX, which was developed for portable multiprocessor real-time computing systems by the National Research Council Canada, and created a company named Precise Software Technologies, Inc.
This effort led to developing the Precise Real-Time Executive technology that was the basis of a product named MQX and MQX+m, which were real-time executives for single processor and multiprocessor applications. The unique asynchronous message passing paradigm delivered by MQX when it was introduced in 1991 and the royalty-free licensing model were accepted immediately in the embedded real-time market. Since the introduction of MQX, Precise continually added functions to the MQX RTOS69 through its various iterations and versions.
Precise Software Technologies was acquired by ARC International in March, 2000 and continued to develop, license and sell MQX on many new processor architectures including Freescale Cold |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protatlanta%20rotundata | Protatlanta rotundata is an extinct species of sea snail, a holoplanktonic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Atlantidae.
Description
The width of the shell can reach up to 10 mm. In the largest specimen there are almost two teleoconch whorls that initially attach very high onto the protoconch, with the result that the larval shell seems to be embedded rather obliquely within the younger whorls. The diameter of the teleoconch increases rapidly, the result being a shell that strongly resembles Planorbarius (but, of course, dextral). The surface of these younger whorls bears flexuous growth lines, and a dense and very fine, somewhat irregular spiral striation, only visible where light reflects on the shell. On the body whorl a distinct peripheral belt is present on which the growth lines are strongly bent backward, indicating a deep sinus in the apertural margin.
The larval shell is globular, about as wide as high and has approximately five whorls which attach very high onto the preceding whorl. In apical view, therefore, the second and third whorls are very narrow, even much narrower than the nucleus and first whorl of the protoconch. The fifth whorl gradually attaches somewhat lower on the penultimate whorl. All protoconch whorls have a number of very narrow, distant and thread-like spiral lirae with a zigzag structure, just one of which remains visible between the upper and lower sutures. One spiral at the place of the suture and a further one on the base of the protoconch are somewhat stronger developed, but do not or only faintly show the zigzag structure. The boundary with the teleoconch is indicated by a rather sudden disappearance of the ornament.
Protatlanta rotundata differs considerably from the type of the genus, Protatlanta souleyeti. Not only does the adult shell in Protatlanta rotundata reach a diameter that is roughly five times that of Protatlanta souleyeti, but the morphology of its protoconch and the shape of the fully grown shell are utterly different. Also, as both species occur together in the Pangasinan samples, Protatlanta rotundata can certainly not be considered to be the ancestor species. The presence of a subperipheral belt much the same as in Protatlanta souleyeti, on the other hand, demonstrates that a conchiolin keel has been present in this species.
Distribution
Protatlanta rotundata was originally described from the (Late?) Miocene of the Dominican Republic and has a wide horizontal and vertical distribution; Langhian-Serravallian (Italy, Malta, Cyprus; RGM collections), Tortonian (Sicily), Piacenzian (Spain, Jamaica, Philippines), Pliocene of Anda, Pangasinan, Luzon, Philippines and ‘Middle Pliocene-Early Pleistocene’ (Japan).
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.
Atlantidae
Prehistoric gastropods
Langhian first appearances
Pleistocene extinctions
Neogene animals of Oceania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock%20market%20data%20systems | Stock market data systems communicate market data—information about securities and stock trades—from stock exchanges to stockbrokers and stock traders.
History
The earliest stock exchanges were in France in the 12th century and in Bruges and Italy in the 13th. Presumably data about trades in those times was written down by scribes and traveled by courier. In the early 19th century Reuters sent data by carrier pigeons between Germany and Belgium In London early exchanges were located near coffee houses which may have played a part in trading.
Chalk boards
In the late 1860s, in New York, young men called "runners" prices between the exchange and broker’s offices, and often these prices were posted by hand on large chalk boards in the offices. Updating a chalk board was an entry point for many traders getting into financial markets and as mentioned in the book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator those updating the boards would wear fur sleeves so they wouldn't accidentally erase prices.
The New York Stock Exchange is known as the "Big Board", perhaps because of these large chalk boards. Until recently, in some countries such chalkboards continued in use. Morse code was used in Chicago until 1967 for traders to send data to clerks called "board markers".
Newspapers
From 1797 to 1811 in the United States, the New York Price Current was first published. It was apparently the first newspaper to publish stock prices, and also showed prices of various commodities.
In 1884 the Dow Jones company published the first stock market averages, and in 1889 the first issue of the Wall Street Journal appeared. As time passed, other newspapers added market pages. The New York Times was first published in 1851, and added stock market tables at a later date.
Electronic systems
Ticker tape
In 1863 Edward A. Calahan of the American Telegraph Company invented a stock telegraph printing instrument which allowed data on stocks, bonds, and commodities to be sent directly from exchanges to broker offices around the country. It printed the data on wide paper tape wound on large reels. The sound it made while printing earned it the name "stock ticker". Other inventors improved on this device, and ultimately Thomas Edison patented a "universal stock ticker", selling over 5,000 in the late 19th century.
In the early 20th century Western Union acquired rights to an improved ticker which could deal with the increasing volume of stocks sold per day.
At the time of the stock market crash in October, 1929, trading volumes were so high that the tickers fell behind, contributing to the panic. In the 1930s the New York Quotation Stock Ticker became widely used. A further improvement was in place in 1960.
In 1923 Trans Lux Corporation delivered a rear projection system which projected the moving ticker onto a screen where all in a brokerage office could see it. It was a great success, and by 1949 there were more than 1400 stock-ticker projectors in the U.S. and another 200 in C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpicyNodes | SpicyNodes was a system for displaying hierarchical data, in which a focus node displays detailed information, and the surrounding nodes represent related information (Focus + Context), with a layout based on radial maps. It has web (Flash) and mobile (iOS) implementations. It has ended operation as of 1 January 2018
Overview
SpicyNodes displays a central node, orbited by related (child) nodes. Each child node can be linked to other child nodes. As the user navigates (changes focus) from node to node, a root path traces the path back to the home node. In a typical implementation, only child and ancestor nodes are displayed. When the user browses, nodes appear and disappear, and the layout rearranges to fit. It is a generic method, with uses ranging from dynamic poetry, to mind mapping and concept mapping.
Advantages
Visual browsing – Similar to other concept mapping tools, SpicyNodes allows authors to display visual thoughts and links between information, and publish an information map for users to browse.
Non-linear – Users can jump from node to node, or descend into a tree to find specific information. Since the number of nodes increases exponentially with the number of orbits, a user can find a piece of information in only N clicks/taps, while navigating a space of XN nodes, where X=average nodes per orbit. Conversely, node layouts are inefficient for reading contiguous pieces of content in a linear manner.
Disadvantages
Displays a subset – Only a limited number of nodes can fit on a typical screen at once, which requires a large enough screen to fit the nodes, and means it is usually not possible to display all the nodes simultaneously.
Balanced branches – Layouts only make sense if there are balanced branches with fewer than two dozen child nodes. A typical implementation requires an average of 2-10 linked/child nodes per node. Too few, and the layout becomes a string of pearls. Too many, and the nodes do not fit.
Background
SpicyNodes is a radial tree layout engine, modified using force-based algorithms, bias controls, and variable pivot point. It also uses an approach similar to hyperbolic trees to reduce sizes far from the focus node. Key aspects of the method are publicly described. The layout is adaptive, changing as the user clicks from node to node, to minimize cluttering. Nodes can contain any content (formatted text, images, videos, etc.) or links to other nodes or content. There is a "focus" node, and users change focus from node to node.
The algorithm was developed by Michael Douma and colleagues at IDEA.org, starting in 2005. The layout algorithm is based on the work of Yee and his associates, and the underlying mechanics have been further described in papers and talks at conferences on Information visualization, on Museums and the Web, and on distance education.
Early implementations include:
(a) Genealogical browser of the Greek Gods released in March 2006 in the WebExhibits online museum. Also used a teaching |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS%20%28Nortel%29 | TOPS - Traffic Operator Position System is a computerized operator telephone switchboard designed by Bell-Northern Research Labs for the SP-1 4 Wire Switch in the early 1970s and still widely used today by toll and directory-assistance operators. The terminals known as 'TOPS Positions' are usually connected to Nortel DMS-100 and DMS-200 telephone switches.
Systems
Below are some of the different TOPS systems developed:
TOPS MP
TOPS Multipurpose Position. An earlier-generation operator position for toll and assistance and directory assistance.
TOPS - MPX
A previous-generation operator position based on industry-standard personal computer customized with Nortel Networks components and interfaces to provide connectivity with IBM directory databases.
TOPS
Traffic Operator Position System. Nortel Networks' operator services system is based on the DMS TOPS switch.
TPC
TOPS Position Controller. (Previous generation equipment required for TOPS MP positions) The processing unit provides intelligence and interfaces to the switch for up to four TOPS MP operator positions.
Technical details
The Class 5 switch system for Traffic Operator Position System (TOPS) enables the definition of up to 255 unique queues of calls to operators—and up to 255 unique profiles defining the responsibilities of operators and teams, that is, the queues from which they can draw calls. This technology was first introduced in the DMS 200/300. Previously, only four queues were available, all straight-line models, forecasted with Erlang distribution algorithms and table look-ups. Now, a vast array of queues were available, with variable grades of service, served by multiple queues of operators in both primary and secondary capacity. The lookup tables were no longer capable of forecasting for this complex queueing environment.
Above: A picture of a keyboard from the Nortel TOPS position (terminal)
See also
Digital Multiplex System
References
Telephone exchanges |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNI | NNI may refer to:
Network-to-network interface, used to interconnect signalling networks in telecommunications
Net national income, a term in economics
National Nanotechnology Initiative, a U.S. government cross-agency coordinating program
Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, a monastic college for Buddhist studies & research
Numéro national d'identification, the national identification number used in France
Neural Network Intelligence, an open source AutoML toolkit for neural architecture search and hyper-parameter tuning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workwriter | Workwriter was a word processor software written in C, in 1983 and 1984, by Peter P. Vekinis, similar in features and operation to dedicated word processors marketed by AES Data Inc.
The software was sold to TANDY Europe, subsidiary of Tandy Corporation (more than 4000 copies were shipped in French, English and German) for the Amstrad CPC 6128 personal computer under the CP/M operating system. Britain's PC World magazine published an article on Workwriter It was in the November 1984 issue. It was also made available for the IBM PC under MS-DOS and PC DOS operating systems and other similar computers.
Workwriter had a simple user interface and was a video based word processor, in other words, a user could type text wherever he wanted on the screen. This was unlike other word processors who displayed structured text on a screen (the user could not move his cursor outside the text and type). The ability made Workwriter easy to use since the user was presented with a physical page metaphor. Pages were 80 characters by 99 lines long. Pages were strung together to create chapters and documents. The software offered columns, character based graphics, justifications and multiple character sets. It supported many printers including those with Daisy wheels.
The software was further improved with additional features (such as built-in serial communications, pagination and index creation) and was finally sold and became the word processing part of legal software in Belgium. You can download a copy and see how it works here.
References
External links
Vekinis.com/VintageDosSoftware.html
Vekinis.com
Word processors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2085%20%28Poland%29 | Droga krajowa nr 85 (translates from Polish as national road 85) is route belonging to Polish national roads network. It runs through Masovian Voivodeships, leading from crossing with national road 62 in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki to junction with expressway S7 near Kazuń Polski. With its entire length, national road 85 was the shortest of all Polish national roads until 1 January 2014 (now the shortest is national road 96).
Major towns along the route
Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki (national road 62)
Kazuń (S7)
Route plan
85 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20League%20Baseball%20on%20TSN | The MLB on TSN is a television presentation of Major League Baseball games on Canada's TSN (The Sports Network). TSN has broadcast Major League Baseball games since they went on the air in 1984. Their current MLB schedule consists of simulcasting ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts on TSN2. TSN had previously broadcast Sunday Night Baseball from 1990 to 2000. TSN has also broadcast Toronto Blue Jays (1984-2009) and Montreal Expos (1985-1999; 2001) games.
Toronto Blue Jays
Toronto Blue Jays baseball aired on TSN from September 1, 1984 until September 23, 2009. When The Sports Network launched in 1984, the second live sporting event to air (following a Canada Cup hockey game) was a Minnesota Twins - Toronto Blue Jays game. In 1985, TSN became the majority broadcaster of Toronto Blue Jays games, a position which they would hold until the 2002 season. From 1993-2000, Baseball Tonight, a pregame show hosted by former Blue Jay Pat Tabler preceded the game, with TSN Sportsdesk following it. The last game aired on September 23, 2009, as Rogers Sportsnet acquired the complete rights for the 2010 season.
Blue Jays broadcasts were sponsored by Labatt from 1984-2000 and by Rogers from 2001-2009. Labatt also sponsored TSN's Expos broadcasts for a number of years.
Commentators
Toronto Blue Jays
Fergie Olver (play-by-play, 1984–1989)
Jim Hughson (play-by-play, 1990–1994)
Dan Shulman (play-by-play, 1995–2001)
Rod Black (play-by-play, 2002–2009)
Ken Singleton (analyst, 1984–1986)
Tony Kubek (analyst, 1985–1986)
Buck Martinez (analyst, 1987–2000)
Paul Romanuk (studio host, 1992–1995, 1998)
Vic Rauter (studio host, 1996–1997)
Mike Toth (studio host, 1997)
Rod Smith (studio host, 1998)
Dave Hodge (studio host, 1999–2000)
Pat Tabler (studio analyst, 1993–2000) (analyst, 2001–2009)
Montreal Expos
Tommy Hutton (play-by-play, 1985–1986)
Jim Hughson (play-by-play, 1987–1989)
Dave Van Horne (play-by-play, 1990–1999)
Vic Rauter (studio host, 1996–1997, play-by-play, 2001)
Ken Singleton (analyst, 1986–1997)
Gary Carter (analyst, 1998–1999)
Warren Sawkiw (analyst, 2001)
Paul Romanuk (studio host, 1992–1995, 1998)
Mike Toth (studio host, 1997)
Rod Smith (studio host, 1998)
Dave Hodge (studio host, 1999)
References
The Sports Network original programming
TSN
1984 Canadian television series debuts
1990s Canadian sports television series
2000s Canadian sports television series
2010s Canadian sports television series
1980s Canadian sports television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalight | Datalight was a privately held software company specializing in power failsafe and high performance software for preserving data integrity in embedded systems. The company was founded in 1983 by Roy Sherrill, and is headquartered in Bothell, Washington. As of 2019 the company is a subsidiary of Tuxera under the name of Tuxera US Inc.
Overview and history
Datalight was founded in 1983 by Roy Sherrill, a former Boeing engineer. Datalight's initial products were two DOS applications: the Datalight Small-C compiler and the Datalight C-Bug debugger. A full C compiler named Datalight C was available from Datalight between 1987 and 1993; Datalight C, developed by Walter Bright, evolved into Zortech C and is now Digital Mars C. Datalight C was also developed into an optimizing compiler called Datalight Optimum-C, which later became Zortech C++, the first native C++ compiler. In 1988, Datalight released C_thru_ROM, which provided embeddedable C functions and C start-up code, allowing programs developed on DOS to run as standalone applications without DOS dependence. In 1989, ROM-DOS 1.0 was released.
CardTrick was announced in 1993 to support the flash memory being built into PCMCIA cards. Card Trick later evolved into the embedded flash memory manager FlashFX in 1995, moving Datalight into the raw flash memory market. The company grew rapidly in the late 1990s, receiving the WA Fast 50 award for the fastest growing companies in Washington state in 1997 and 1998.
The first of four patents to eventually be assigned to Datalight, "Method and apparatus for allocating storage in a flash memory", was awarded in 1999, followed up with an additional FlashFX-related patent, "Method and system for managing bad areas in flash memory", in 2001.
In 2003, Reliance, a reliable transactional embedded file system, was released; a related patent, "Reliable file system and method of providing the same", was awarded in 2007.
In 2009, Datalight released FlashFX Tera to support the growing size and complexity of NAND flash arrays. That same year, Reliance Nitro was released, building upon Reliance and adding a tree-based architecture to improve performance for large files (>100 MB) and large numbers of files.
In 2013, another file system related patent, "Method and Apparatus for Fault-tolerant Memory Management" was issued.
In June 2019, the Finnish storage software and networking technology company Tuxera signed an agreement to acquire Datalight.
Products
Reliance family
Reliance
First released in 2003, Reliance is an embedded file system designed for applications with high reliability requirements. Key features:
Provides immunity to file corruption, including after unexpected system interruption (e.g., power loss), via atomic transaction points.
Does not need to check disk integrity at start-up, meaning a shorter boot time.
Dynamic file system configuration for performance optimization.
Full data-exchangeability with Microsoft Windows, via the Reliance Wind |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM%20DOS | ROM DOS may refer to:
Datalight ROM-DOS, a ROMed version of DOS by Datalight since 1989
General Software Embedded DOS-ROM, a ROMed version of Embedded DOS by General Software since 1990
MS-ROMDOS, a ROMed version of MS-DOS by Microsoft
See also
ROM Operating System (ROS), a ROMed version of Digital Research's DR DOS since 1988
DOS Plus, a ROMable DOS
DR DOS, a ROMable DOS
PalmDOS, a ROMable DOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%205250 | The Nokia 5250 is a budget Nokia resistive touchscreen smartphone running on Symbian v9.4 operating system with a S60 5th Edition user interface. Its price before tax and subsidies is €115. It was announced in August 2010. It was available in China, Eurasia, Europe, India, Latin America, Middle East, and South-East Asia and the Pacific Region. It is very small and compact. It comes preloaded with Guitar Hero Mobile series 5.
Reception
CNET Asia praised the resolution for the budget price, but criticized the lack of 3G capabilities, relying only on GSM and EDGE.
References
External links
Nokia 5250 Complete Device Specifications
CNET
Mobile phones introduced in 2010
Nokia smartphones
Portable media players
S60 (software platform)
Digital audio players
Personal digital assistants
Devices capable of speech recognition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togetherville | Togetherville was a social networking site geared toward youngsters under age 13 years and their family and friends who use the more popular social networking site Facebook.
Founded in 2008 by Mandeep Dhillon and Rajveer Tut, Togetherville was released in public beta on May 19, 2010. Through online neighborhoods built around each child, the site provides children the experience of an adult social networking site like Facebook.
On February 25, 2011, The Walt Disney Company purchased Togetherville. Mandeep Dhillon became Vice President of TogetherVille and Vice President of Strategy at Disney Interactive.
Togetherville was discontinued on March 11, 2012.
References
External links
Official Site
Togetherville Blog
Disney Official Site
Mandeep Dhillon
Internet properties established in 2008
American children's websites
American social networking websites
Defunct websites
Internet properties disestablished in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E93 | European route E 93 is an obsolete route of the United Nations international E-road network. It was reclassified as the route E95.
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
List of E-routes
93 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dermanland%20Runic%20Inscription%20158 | Södermanland Runic Inscription 158 or Sö 158 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone located in Österberga, which is one kilometer southwest of Ärsta and three kilometers southwest of Runtuna, Södermanland County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Södermanland. The inscription includes an image of a ship and uses same-stave bind runes to commemorate a man described as being a thegn.
Description
This runestone was initially noted during the Swedish surveys of runestones in the late 17th century, and a drawing of the inscription made by Johan Göransson was published under the name Bautil in 1750. The runestone was then lost, but was rediscovered in 1951 near a farmhouse by Claes Widén and moved to its current location in 1984. The stone is made of granite and is 1.6 meters in height. The runic inscription consists of runic text carved on a serpent which arches over the image of a ship. Other runic inscriptions from the Viking Age which depict ships include DR 77 in Hjermind, DR 119 in Spentrup, DR 220 in Sønder Kirkeby, DR 258 in Bösarp, DR 271 in Tullstorp, DR 328 in Holmby, DR EM85;523 in Farsø, Ög 181 in Ledberg, Ög 224 in Stratomta, Ög MÖLM1960;230 in Törnevalla, Sö 122 in Skresta, Sö 154 in Skarpåker, Sö 164 in Spånga, Sö 351 in Överjärna, Sö 352 in Linga, Vg 51 in Husaby, U 370 in Herresta, U 979 in Gamla Uppsala, U 1052 in Axlunda, U 1161 in Altuna, and Vs 17 in Råby. Three stones, the Hørdum and Långtora kyrka stones and U 1001 in Rasbo, depict ships but currently do not have any runes on them and may never have had any. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Fp, which is the classification for runic bands that end in serpent heads depicted as seen from above.
The runic text is in the younger futhark and indicates that the stone was raised by two sons in memory of their father Ketilhôfði, who is described as being þróttar þegn or a thegn of strength, using bind runes carved along the mast of the ship. A thegn was a class of retainer in Scandinavia. A bind rune is a ligature that combines one or more runes into a single rune. Because the runes are vertically separated along a common stave, runologists further classify these bind runes as being same-stave runes. The runes for the phrase þróttar þegn, which supplement the main runic text, þ=r=u=t=a=ʀ= =þ=i=a=k=n, are carved along the mast, and alternate on each side of the mast reading from the bottom. A similar design with same-stave bindrunes along the base of a cross that forms the mast of a ship which is surrounded by a serpent is on inscription Sö 352 in Linga. It is believed that the same runemaster carved both Sö 158 and Sö 352. The phrase þróttar þegn is used on six other runestones, Sö 90 in Lövhulta, Sö 112 in Kolunda, Sö 151 in Lövsund, and Sö 170 in Nälberga, and, in its plural form on Sö 367 in Släbro and Sö Fv1948;295 in Prästgården. To the right of the mast are three runes uit whose interpretation is unknown, but it has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative%20Drug%20Discovery | Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) is a software company founded in 2004 as a spin-out of Eli Lilly by Barry Bunin, PhD. CDD utilizes a web-based database solution for managing drug discovery data, primarily through the CDD Vault product which is focused around small molecules and associated bio-assay data. In 2021, CDD launched its first commercial data offering, PharmaKB, formerly BioHarmony, as The Pharma KnowledgeBase, which is centered around pharma company, drug, and disease information for research, business intelligence, and investors.
Products
1. CDD Vault is a research informatics web platform by Collaborative Drug Discovery. It contains several modules for collaborative project teams to manage, analyze, and share both private & public data. It is used by biotech companies, CROs, academic labs, research hospitals, agrochemical and consumer goods companies. CDD Vault is a modern web application for chemical registration, assay data management, and SAR analysis. It is designed to be simple to use and extremely secure.
2. PharmaKB is a knowledgebase for pharma-related information. Available data spans (preclinical, clinical, financial, patents, and post-approval) information about companies, drugs, and diseases. It is designed to be used by researchers, those practicing business intelligence, and investors. PharmaKB also offers real-time updates with a subscription model instead of static reports. As a throwback to CDD Vault's slogan of "Complexity Simplified", PharmaKB uses the slogan of "Data Simplified" and promotes a data trilogy of Company, Drug, and Disease. The product is meant to expand the company's scope from working with mostly preclinical researchers to being relevant for clinical and post-approval stages of drug development, including: Pharmacovigilance or Drug Safety, Regulatory Affairs, Competitive Intelligence - also referred to as Pharma Intelligence within its industry, and Pharmacoeconomics as well as investors and publishers of medical content.
Collaborations
The capability for inter-group collaboration attracted attention from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who in 2008 awarded CDD with a two million dollar grant being used to support researchers combating tuberculosis.
In 2010, GlaxoSmithKline released 13,471 molecules screened for activity against malaria to the public. These molecules and their associated screening data are available via CDD Public, as well in as the National Library of Medicine's PubChem and the European Bioinformatics Institute's ChEMBL database. This data has served as the basis for several cheminformatics analyses.
In February 2011 CDD began participating in the collaborative MM4TB project led by Stewart Cole and including participants from AstraZeneca and Sanofi Aventis.
See also
Collaborative software
List of electronic laboratory notebook software packages
Cheminformatics toolkits
References
External links
CDD's official homepage for CDD Vault
PharmaKB's homepage
CDD's offi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YBN | YBN may refer to:
YBN (collective), an American rap collective
YBN University, a private school in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Yardbarker Network (YBN), an American sports blog network
Young British Naturists (YBN), the under-30 wing of the nudist organization
ISO 639:ybn, ISO code for the Yabaâna language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist%20Convention%20of%20Pennsylvania/South%20Jersey | The Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania/South Jersey (BSCM), doing business as Baptist Resource Network of Pennsylvania/South Jersey, is a group of churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention located in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the convention is made up of around 315 churches as of 2020.
Affiliated organizations
Penn-Jersey Baptist - the state newspaper
References
External links
Baptist Resource Network of Pennsylvania/South Jersey
Protestantism in Pennsylvania
Baptist Christianity in New Jersey
Conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist%20Convention%20of%20New%20England | The Baptist Churches of New England (BCNE) is a network of churches located in New England and affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Headquartered in Northborough, Massachusetts, the convention is made up of around 370 churches as of 2018. The Baptist Churches of New England was founded in 1983 and subscribes to the theological beliefs expressed in The Baptist Faith and Message (2000).
Affiliated organizations
Baptist Foundation of New England
References
External links
Baptist Convention of New England
The Baptist Faith and Message (2000)
New England
Baptist Christianity in Massachusetts
Religion in New England
Baptist Christianity in New Hampshire
Baptist Christianity in Rhode Island
Protestantism in Connecticut
Baptist Christianity in Vermont
Baptist Christianity in Maine
Christian organizations established in 1983
Baptist Christianity in Connecticut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPMC | RPMC may refer to:
Computers and mathematics
Read-only memory, a type of storage media that is used in computers and other electronic devices
ICAO airport code
Naval Air Station Cubi Point
Cotabato Airport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Computer%20Symbiosis | "Man-Computer Symbiosis" is the title of a work by J. C. R. Licklider, which was published in 1960. The paper represented what we would today consider a fundamental, or key text of the modern computing revolution.
The work describes something of Licklider's vision for a complementary ("symbiotic") relationship between humans and computers at a potential time in the future. According to Bardini, Licklider envisioned a future time when machine cognition ("cerebration") would surpass and become independent of human direction, as a basic stage of development within human evolution. Jacucci et al. describe Licklider's vision as being the very tight coupling of human brains and computing machines.
As a necessary pre-requisite of human-computer symbiosis, Licklider conceived of a "thinking center", incorporating the functions of libraries with new developments in information technology, and connected to other such centers through computer networks.
Streeter identifies the main empirical element of the work as the time and motion analysis, which is shown under Part 3 of the work. In addition he identified two reasons for Licklider to have considered such a symbiotic human computer relationship to be beneficial: firstly, that it might bring about an advantage emerging from the use of a computer, such that there are similarities with the necessary methodology of such a use (i.e. trial and error), to the methodology of problem solving through play, and secondarily, because of the advantage which results from using computers in battle situations. Foster states Licklider sought to promote computer use in order to "augment human intellect by freeing it from mundane tasks".
Streeter considers Licklider to be positing an escape from the limitations of the mode of computer use during his time, which was batch processing. Russell thinks Licklider was stimulated by an encounter with the newly developed PDP-1.
Parts of the work
The work shows the following contents:
Part 1
Part 1 is titled Introduction and has 2 sub-headings, "Symbiosis" (part 1.1) and "Between 'Mechanically Extended Man' and 'Artificial Intelligence'" (part 1.2).
Part 1.1 begins by showing a definition of the term symbiosis using the illustration of the relationship between two organisms, a fig-tree, and its pollinator, a type of fig-wasp. The article continues to sub-classify the concept of a symbiotic relationship between humans and computers within the larger defined thing which is the relationship between men and machines generally (man-machine systems), and outlines the intentions of its author in the possibility within the future of a relationship for the benefit of human thinking.
Part 1.2 references J. D. North's "The rational behavior of mechanically extended man" to begin a brief discussion on "mechanically extended man" and proceeds to include developments and future developments within artificial intelligence.
Part 2
Part 2 is titled "Aims of Man-Computer Symbiosis".
Part 3
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20Eastern%20Geodatabase%20for%20Antiquities | The Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities (MEGA) is a web based geographic information system or GIS developed by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), with matching funds from the World Monuments Fund (WMF) and in partnership with the Jordanian Department of Antiquities (DoA). The GIS will serve as the primary tool for the Jordanian DoA in its ongoing work to inventory, monitor, and manage Jordan's vast number of archaeological sites.
The system
MEGA–Jordan is, at its core, an electronic inventory capable of maintaining information on site location and extent, site characteristics, and site condition in an easy-to-use manner. Ultimately it will help standardize and centralize information on archaeological sites throughout the country in a single system focused primarily on the aims of heritage management and research. MEGA–Jordan will become the DoA's preeminent planning and decision-making tool, addressing its needs and demands related to the legal protection of sites, site management, infrastructure and development control, World Heritage requirements, and development of national and regional research strategies. Infrastructure and development planning are especially crucial, and the GIS will permit the DoA to assess the potential impact of development projects (e.g., construction of buildings, roadways, pipelines) on or near archaeological sites. MEGA–Jordan is also seen as a tool for coordinating archaeological site data with Jordanian government ministries (e.g., Tourism and Antiquities, Planning, Agriculture) and for academic research.
The system offers various levels of user access based on user roles—i.e., some users will have full access to all data and the ability to add and edit sites and their attributes, approve new sites, run administrative reports, and export data, while others may only have access to search and view the data.
Awards
The MEGA system was selected as "one of the 100 most significant innovations of 2010" by Netexplorateur:
See also
Architectural conservation
Cultural heritage management
GIS in archaeology
Historic preservation
References
External links
Access megajordan.org for viewing only.
Watch a video overview of the system.
Archaeology of the Near East
Geographic information systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuResist | EuResist is an international project designed to improve the treatment of HIV patients by developing a computerized system that can recommend optimal treatment based on the patient's clinical and genomic data.
The project is part of the Virtual Physiological Human framework, funded by the European Commission. It started in 2006 with the formation of a consortium of several research institutes and hospitals in Europe and Israel. The consortium completed its commitment to the European Commission near the end of 2008, at which time the system became available online. A non-profit organization was consequently established by the main partners to maintain and improve the system.
In 2009, the EuResist project was named as a Computerworld honors program laureate.
Background
AIDS is a disease caused by the HIV retrovirus, which progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system, leading to infections and ultimately death.
More than 30 different drugs exist for treating HIV patients. Antiretroviral drugs can disrupt the virus's replication process causing its numbers to decrease dramatically. While the virus cannot be eradicated completely, in small numbers it is harmless. Usually a patient is given a combination of three or four drugs, a treatment known as highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART. The main reason such a treatment might fail is the development of mutated strands of the virus, resistant to one or more of the prescribed drugs.
Thus an important consideration when choosing treatment for a patient is to prescribe those drugs to which the particular patient's virus strands are most susceptible. One way to achieve that is to extract virus samples from the patient's blood and test them against all possible drugs. Since this process is lengthy and costly, computerized systems have been developed to predict virus resistance based on its genotype. The treating physician samples virus genotype sequences from the patient's blood and provides this data to a computerized system. The system then responds with drug recommendations.
Such systems are limited in accuracy, depending on the amount of data used for their creation, its quality and the richness of mathematical models used for the actual prediction. Prior to EuResist, such systems had several common characteristics that negatively impacted their accuracy:
The amount of data used for creating the system was relatively small
This data was in vitro data: laboratory measures of the resistance of various strands of HIV to individual drugs. Such data is known to be inaccurate because laboratory tests do not simulate exactly the processes of a living organism, and since resistance to individual drugs does not accurately predict the resistance to a combination of drugs.
They used a relatively simple mathematical prediction model
EuResist overview
EuResist sought to create a more accurate HIV treatment prediction system by collecting a large database of in vivo data (clinical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPiDCOM | SPiDCOM Technologies was a France-based company that specialized in integrated circuits and Linux-based software bundles for Multimedia Home Networking and other wire based applications .
MStar Semiconductor acquired SPiDCOM in November 2011.
Products
Radomir Jovanovic founded SPiDCOM in September 2002 as subsidiary to a group that included ELSYS Design in Paris, where the initial project started.
Known as a fabless semiconductor company, SPiDCOM designed system-on-a-chip integrated circuits and Linux based firmware for computer network communications over wires such as electrical power, coaxial cables, and telephone lines. Applications included audio and video home networking, Internet access (often called "broadband"), and energy conservation.
Its first product was the SPC200 launched in 2005, and the SPC300, announced in 2009.
A reference design was announced in 2010.
Standards
SPiDCOM participated in standardization efforts inside international regulatory and standards bodies, such as the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, the Home Gateway Initiative and IEEE 1901.
SPiDCOM had a board member of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance.
OMEGA was a project, funded from 2008 through 2011 by the European Union, to develop a 1 Gbit/s home network over power lines, radio wireless and optical wireless.
SPiDCOM participated with the OMEGA Project, leading the powerline communication work package.
References
External links
SPiDCOM Technologies website
Fabless semiconductor companies
Semiconductor companies of France
Power-line communication Internet access |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Leadership%20Education%20Network | Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. Its focus is to introduce college women and marginalized gender groups to role models, career paths, and skills trainings before they enter the workforce, to help prepare them for leadership roles in public service. PLEN's current executive director is Nancy Stalowski.
History
PLEN was founded in 1978 by Frances Farenthold, President of Wells College. Farenthold brought her experiences as a Texas state legislator and candidate for governor to her new role as president of a women's college, proposing that women's colleges work together to educate women for public leadership.
With national recognition because her name was placed in nomination for the Vice Presidency at the Democratic National Convention in 1972, and her election as the founding president of the bi-partisan National Women's Political Caucus, Farenthold gained key support for her vision from Ruth Mandel who directed the Center for American Women and Politics and Betsey Wright who headed the National Women's Education Fund. Ruth and Betsey worked with Farenthold to turn her idea into a successful proposal to the Carnegie Corporation of New York. With this major foundation support, PLEN was established in 1978. Programs aimed at preparing women students for leadership in the public arena were initially campus-based.
PLEN created its first Washington-based seminar in 1983, and moved its headquarters to Washington, DC in 1989 to expand its program offerings that bring women students to the Nation's Capital to learn from women leaders about the public policy process.
Programs
PLEN offers six annual seminars and a summer public policy internship program.
Global Policy
Law and Legal Advocacy
STEM Policy
Public Policy
Women of Color Influencing Washington
Looking Forward to the Future
Past programming
Women & Congress: Students meet with female members of the House and Senate, members of their staff, advocates, and other leaders in government relations. Notable speakers include Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Senator Mary Landrieu, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx and Congresswoman Judy Biggert.
Women in Business Policy: Students meet with female members of the House and Senate, members of their staff, advocates, and other leaders in government relations. Notable speakers include Laura Lane President of Global Affairs at UPS, Director of Federal Government Affairs at the American Express Company Ellie Shaw, and others
Women Unlocking Nonprofits: Students meet with female leaders from nonprofit organizations and advocates doing policy work in and around DC. Notable speakers include Director of Diversity & Inclusion at the Human Rights Campaign Nicole Cozier, Director of Advocacy and Legislative Affairs at Goodwill Laura Walling, and others.
Membership
PLEN membership is open to all colleges, universities, and subsets within them such as political science departments, women's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDC-I | DDC-I, Inc. is a privately held company providing software development of real-time operating systems, software development tools, and software services for safety-critical embedded applications, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. It was first created in 1985 as the Danish firm DDC International A/S (also known as DDC-I A/S), a commercial outgrowth of Dansk Datamatik Center, a Danish software research and development organization of the 1980s. The American subsidiary was created in 1986. For many years, the firm specialized in language compilers for the programming language Ada.
In 2003, the Danish office was closed and all operations moved to the Phoenix location.
Origins
The origins of DDC International A/S lay in Dansk Datamatik Center, a Danish software research and development organization that was formed in 1979 to demonstrate the value of using modern techniques, especially those involving formal methods, in software design and development. Among its several projects was the creation of a compiler system for the programming language Ada. Ada was a difficult language to implement and early compiler projects for it often proved disappointments. But the DDC compiler design was sound and it first passed the United States Department of Defense-sponsored Ada Compiler Validation Capability (ACVC) standardized suite of language and runtime tests on a VAX/VMS system in September 1984. As such, it was the first European Ada compiler to meet this standard.
Success of the Ada project led to a separate company being formed in 1985, called DDC International A/S, with the purpose of commercializing the Ada compiler system product. Like its originator, it was based in Lyngby, Denmark. Ole N. Oest was named the managing director of DDC International. In 1986, DDC-I, Inc. was founded as the American subsidiary company. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, it focused on sales, customer support, and engineering consulting activities in the United States.
Ada compiler
DDC-I established a business in selling the Ada compiler system product, named DACS, directly to firms, both as software to develop projects in Ada with, and as source code to computer makers and others, who would rehost or retarget it to other processors and operating systems.
The first business sold both native compilers and cross compilers, with the latter more common since Ada was primarily used in the embedded systems realm. One of the first cross compilers that DDC-I developed was from VAX/VMS to the Intel 8086 and Intel 80286; the effort was already underway by early 1985. It began as a joint venture with the Italian defense electronics company Selenia that would target both their MARA-860 and MARA-286 multi-microprocessor computers, based on the 8086 and 80286 architectures, and generic embedded and OS-hosting 8086 and 80286 systems. This work was the start of what would become the largest-selling product line for the firm. DDC-I developed a reputation for quality Ada cross c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeball%20Chat | Eyeball Chat is a proprietary freeware VoIP, video telephony soft phone with multiple-protocol instant messaging for Windows PCs, developed by Chris Piche and Eyeball Networks in Vancouver, and first released in 2000. The software is free for personal use.
Features
Eyeball Chat allows text message exchanges with individuals or conferences, and with AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger buddies, drag-and-drop file and photo sharing, free voice calls between PCs and (via SIP gateway) from PCs to phones, video chat and video conferencing with up to 5 people, picture-in-picture, still snapshots during video calls, custom avatars, and chat rooms with privacy options. Call management includes call blocking, call hold/un-hold, call transfer, and call forwarding, and standards-based communication protocols SIP and STUN, TURN, and ICE support traversal of NAT routers as well as HTTP tunneling and UPnP. Presence is supported with XMPP and SIMPLE.
History
At its introduction in October 2000, features of the software included "proprietary media delivery technology", a contact list to monitor online and offline status and to enable a one-click video chat session, control of picture size, frame rate, and audio performance, and other "media quality attributes". Services available for a paid subscription were to include "multi-party video conferencing -- up to six people, video messaging -- record, send, and play video messages, and web-based access -- initiate video chat session and view video messages from any browser." At the time, Eyeball Networks stated that it intended "to charge fees for certain types of use of the Eyeball Chat System, and for the use of some of the features of the system" but in 2009, this was replaced by a requirement that large institutional users should buy one of the company's "enterprise products and/or solutions."
Upon its release, the software was described in The Washington Post as "the first Web video chat service I've tested that seems easy to use" and "similar to videoconferencing programs from Microsoft and other companies, but simpler, and it provides high-quality images."
Beta version 0.9 of Eyeball Chat LE was reviewed in Internet Telephony Magazine, which stated, "the video and audio quality can be very good, especially with a first-rate camera. The settings are very customizable, and its floating interface has its pluses. For these reasons, and especially for the multi-party conferencing abilities", the software received the Editor's Choice award. It received a Communications ASP Magazine 2000 "Product of the Year" award, and a variety of other accolades.
Version 1.1 incorporated text messaging and window docking; version 1.21 (April 2001) incorporated better video capture and firewall support, call blocking, improved text messaging and web integration. The PC Magazine May 2001 review of Eyeball Chat LE v1.21 approved of the product's "breadth of control", including image resizing, automatic or m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIsoft | OSIsoft, LLC is a manufacturer of application software for real-time data management, called the PI System. Founded in 1980, OSIsoft was privately held and headquartered in San Leandro, California. In August 2020, it was announced that the UK-based production company AVEVA agreed to buy OSIsoft in a deal worth $5 billion; the purchase was subsequently completed on 19 March 2021 for a final consideration of £3,831.4 million.
Products
OSIsoft develops and supports software used to capture, process, analyze, and store any form of real-time data. OSIsoft's target markets include oil and gas; chemicals and petrochemicals; materials, mines, metals, and metallurgy; power and utilities; pulp and paper; pharmaceuticals, food, and life sciences; critical facilities, data centers and IT; and federal.
The PI System is a suite of software products that are used for data collection, historicizing, finding, analyzing, delivering, and visualizing. It is marketed as an enterprise infrastructure for management of real-time data and events. The term PI System is often used to refer to the PI Server but the two are not the same. The PI System refers to all OSIsoft software products whereas the PI Server is the core product of the PI System.
Data can be automatically collected from many sources (control systems, lab equipment, calculations, manual entry or custom software). Most information is gathered using one of the many OSIsoft and third-party PI Interfaces. Users can then access this information using a common set of tools (such as Microsoft Excel, web browser, or PI ProcessBook) and look for correlations. Some examples include:
Analyzing seasonal trends
Determining if utilities are meeting the demands of production
Comparing the performance of different lots of raw material
Determining when maintenance is required on equipment
Optimizing the utilization or performance of a production line
On January 5, 2011, OSIsoft announced a $135 million minority investment by Technology Crossover Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers .
Lit San Leandro, a business associated with OSIsoft, has built a fiber-optic network in the city of San Leandro, linking high tech and other businesses. They have also proposed providing a high-speed fiber-optic network for the industrial corridor in nearby Hayward.
PI Data Archive
The PI Data Archive collects, stores, and organizes data from data sources, providing an information infrastructure. The PI Server also includes tools for analytics, alerts, and auditing. The PI Server may be connected to almost any existing automation, lab, or information system. Operators, engineers, managers, and other plant personnel can use client applications to connect to the PI Server to view data stored in the PI Server or in external data archive systems.
PI Asset Framework (AF)
PI AF allows the definition of consistent representations of organizational assets and/or equipment and uses these representations in analyses that yiel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Sea%20Transmission%20Network | The Black Sea Transmission Network is a project for electric power transmission from Georgia to Turkey.
Technical description
The project foresees a rehabilitation and expansion of the existing transmission system. An overhead transmission line with a total length of will be built from the existing Gardabani and Zestafoni substations to the new Akhaltsikhe substation situated at . The line between Gardabani and Akhaltsikhe will be , of which is a rehabilitation of the existing line and will be a new line. The line between Zestafoni and Akhaltsikhe is long, of which is a rehabilitation of the existing line and will be a new line. The 500 kV overhead line will be a single-circuit transmission line.
At Akhaltsikhe substation two back-to-back high-voltage direct current stations, each with a capacity of 350 MW will be installed. A 400 kV AC overhead line will connect it with Borçka substation in Turkey. About of it will run in the territory of Georgia. The first HVDC back-to-back station would be operational in May 2012 and the second one in May 2013. This link will be built by Siemens.
Financing
The project is financed by several European finance institutions. The European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development lend €80 million both while the German development bank KfW provides €100 million in the form of a grant (€25 million) and a long-term loan (€75 million, €20 million Development Bank of Austria, w:de:Oesterreichische Entwicklungsbank (OeEB) risk participation). The project is developed by the Georgian state-owned transmission system operator Energotrans.
See also
List of HVDC Projects
Energy in Georgia (country)
References
Weblinks
http://www.gse.com.ge/M9Ltvi2EQCCNYg7LvHW0JQ.html
http://www.energy.siemens.com/us/pool/hq/power-transmission/HVDC/HVDC-Classic/pm-pdf/EPT201008116e.pdf
Electric power infrastructure in Georgia (country)
Electric power infrastructure in Turkey
Proposed electric power infrastructure in Georgia (country)
Proposed electric power infrastructure in Turkey
Proposed electric power transmission systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower%20Prep | Tower Prep is a live-action teen science-fiction television series created for Cartoon Network by Paul Dini, who is known for previously writing and producing series in the DC Animated Universe. From October 16 to December 28, 2010, the series aired one thirteen-episode season, before being canceled by Cartoon Network.
Premise
The series centers around "Tower Prep", an isolated boarding school for teenagers with supernatural abilities. The protagonist (Ian Archer) and a group of friends (Gabe Forrest, Suki Sato, and CJ Ward) are unwilling students at the institution, with no memory of how they got there. Throughout the series, they explore the mysteries of Tower Prep in the hope of escaping and returning to their normal lives.
Characters
Main
Ian Archer (Drew Van Acker) – Ian, the rebel, has the ability of "Preflex", seeing and reacting to events before they occur, which lets him excel in martial arts.
Candice "CJ" Ward (Elise Gatien) – CJ, the popular girl, has the ability of "Perception", which lets her read people's intentions from their body language.
Gabriel "Gabe" Lexington Forrest (Ryan Pinkston) – Gabe, the class clown, has the ability of "Hypersuasion", which let him talk people into doing whatever he wants.
Suki Sato (Dyana Liu) – Suki, the quiet one, has the ability of "Mimicry", which lets her perfectly imitate any sound she has ever heard.
Tower Prep staff
Headmaster (Ted Whittall) – The mysterious head of Tower Prep, eventually revealed to be CJ's father.
Coach (Dan Payne) – A former student of Tower Prep and a test subject for Corvus H-40, a performance-enhancing substance.
Dr. Specs (Alek Diakun) – Responsible for wiping the memories of new students.
Coach History (Richard Steinmetz)
Nurse (Karin Konoval)
Supporting
Whisper 119 (voiced by Peggy Jo Jacobs) – The AI responsible for managing the school and contacting new students. Later upgraded to Whisper 120.
Ray Snider (Richard Harmon) – A student with the ability of "Hyper-strength".
Calvin "Cal" Rice (Izaak Smith) – A jock with the ability of enhanced hearing who bullies Ian.
Conner Owens (Andrew Dunbar) – A member of a secret group who assists Ian and his friends.
Cornelius Augustus Tower (David Smith, Matthew Thiessen) – A former magician, WWI fighter pilot, and jazz artist, who founded Tower Prep.
Fenton Capwell (Charlie Carrick) – An opera-loving student.
Emily Wright (Jodi Balfour) – The former class president of Tower Prep.
Minor
Don Finch (Calum Worthy) – Ray Snider's best friend.
Shinji Sato (Terry Chen) – Suki Sato's older brother.
Emerson Poencet (Jeffrey Ballard) – A student with the ability of microscopic vision.
Howard Gilmore (Jarod Joseph) – A student with the ability to see in the dark.
Ross Anderson (Kacey Rohl) – Emily's ruthless campaign manager.
Production
Paul Dini wrote the first episode of Tower Prep, drawing on his own experiences of "strangeness" and "alienation" at prep school. Cartoon Network picked up the series as part of |
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