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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipnms | sipnms is a web-based network management tool which uses SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) to monitor remote nodes.
Concept
It employs synthetic monitoring to emulate client transactions and these transactions can be implemented using message scripts as per the nodes requirement.
This method is useful to monitor VOIP systems performance in the perspective of the customers. Most important part of this concept is that SIP messages can be passed beyond the node directly connected to the Internet. These messages can be converted to by the node behind to required protocols (H.323, SS7, etc.), so that they traverse to destination nodes.
Nodes on a telecommunication network uses different criteria such as number level and message types to route cal control messages. Using message scripts it is possible to send different messages (to and from different numbers or message types) destined to different nodes inside depending upon the response type and time for the response sipnms can generate performance and operations level of the systems under the monitor.
Features
Built in and custom definable message scripts
Easy to understand message scripts, define simple command message and time format to define message scripts. Commands are “waittosend” and “waittoreceive” and message is the message to be sent or wait for. Time define how long to wait in case of “waittoreceive” or how long to wait before sending the message.
Alert (Email and SNMP)
SNMP or email alerts as configuration in system will send alerts when nodes change their status in case of detection of system change
Message Trace
Message trace can be enabled to easily diagnose and view the types of messages received from the node under the monitoring.
Performance Statistics
Users can view how the response time is varied with the time and message sequence are differed from the defined sequence, giving many insights to network in the perspective of the customer
See also
Website monitoring
Passive monitoring
Synthetic monitoring
Web 2.0
External links
Official site
Network management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20Ball%20Z%20Side%20Story%3A%20Plan%20to%20Eradicate%20the%20Saiyans | is a 1993 card battle role-playing game developed by Tose and published by Bandai for the Family Computer game console. Based on the Dragon Ball franchise, the player's movement and battle choices are dictated by randomly generated playing cards.
The game sold 300,000 copies, and was adapted into a 1993 original video animation (OVA) series that was released in two parts as strategy guides. Footage from the OVA was reused in a 1994 Playdia video game, and the OVA was completely remade in 2010.
Gameplay
Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans is a card battle role-playing game, where the player's movement and battle choices are dictated by the randomly generated playing cards. The multiplayer mode is a six player tournament using difficulty levels of computer players that are in the save file. Players can choose between Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Trunks and Vegeta. Winner records are kept in the game data, as well as any moves the player might learn.
Plot
Dr. Raichi is the lone survivor of the Tuffles, a race that once lived on Planet Plant before the invasion of the Saiyans. The Saiyans not only massacred the entire Tuffle race, but also stole their technology and conquered the planet; renaming it Planet Vegeta in honor of their king. Raichi managed to escape and found refuge on the Dark Planet and prepared to eradicate the last remaining Saiyans.
On Earth, he sends devices that emit a substance called Destron Gas that can destroy all life. When Mr. Popo finds out that only a few hours remain until the planet's destruction, Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Trunks, and Piccolo rush to destroy the devices located around the planet. They manage to destroy all but one that is protected by an impenetrable energy barrier. However, Frieza, Cooler, Turles and Lord Slug appear and engage the heroes. It is revealed by King Kai that the villains are ghost warriors and will continually come back to life when killed unless defeated in the same way their lives were originally ended.
The heroes track Dr. Raichi down to the Dark Planet and engage him, discovering that his ghost warriors are generated by a machine called Hatchihyack, a device powered by the hate of the Tuffles. It is also revealed that Dr. Raichi is a ghost warrior himself, generated by Hatchihyack. When Vegeta vaporizes Raichi, preventing him from re-materializing, the hate Dr. Raichi had causes Hatchihyack to exceed its limit. Hatchihyack appears in a powerful android body. Hatchiyack devastates the heroes until the Saiyans, after having transformed into their Super Saiyan forms, combine their powers together into one massive wave of energy, ending the threat.
Reception
Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans sold 300,000 units in Japan. Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu gave the game a score of 22 out of 40.
Original video animation
The video game was adapted into an original video animation (OVA) series of the same name directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi and released on VHS i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maseru%20branch%20line | The Maseru branch line is a railway line that connects Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, to the railway network of South Africa.
Overview
It branches from the Bloemfontein–Bethlehem line at Marseilles, Free State, and runs in a south-easterly direction for to the Caledon River. After crossing the river, which serves as the border with Lesotho, the line runs for through an industrial area of Maseru, serving the city's station and various factories and depots. The line is owned by Transnet Freight Rail of South Africa; it has freight service but no regular passenger trains.
Construction on the Bloemfontein–Bethlehem railway line, intended to link the Orange River Colony (as it was then known) with the port of Durban, began in 1902 under the direction of the Central South African Railways. By June 1904 it was open from Bloemfontein as far as Modderpoort. In order to make the line viable, it was desired that it should serve Maseru, but for the sake of economy it was decided to build the main line along a shorter route and connect Maseru by a branch line. The line from Marseilles to Maseru, including a new bridge over the Caledon River, was opened on 18 December 1905.
See also
History of rail transport in Lesotho
Rail transport in Lesotho
References
Railway lines in South Africa
Rail transport in Lesotho
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20path%20method | The Graphical Path Method (GPM) is a mathematically based algorithm used in project management for planning, scheduling and resource control. GPM represents logical relationships of dated objects – such as activities, milestones, and benchmarks – in a time-scaled network diagram.
History
The Graphical Path Method (GPM) (formerly known as the ‘Graphical Planning Method’) was originally developed from 2004 to 2006 by Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon, current Chairman of the Project Management Institute College of Scheduling (PMICOS), and was first presented at the PMICOS 2008 annual conference. It was created as an alternative to the Critical Path Method (CPM) and was designed as a graphical tool to encourage an engaging, planning-centric experience for project stakeholders.
Technique
To create a GPM schedule, users draw and place objects – such as activities, milestones, and benchmarks – on a time-scaled canvas. Objects are linked together to establish logical, precedence relationships. These relationships are governed by the Logic Diagramming Method (LDM), a blend of the Arrow Diagramming Method (ADM) and the Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM). In total, LDM permits 12 relationship types to account for all possible dependencies between objects. The resulting web of logically related, dated objects and their relationships forms a network diagram.
Object relationships form the backbone of a GPM network. They are used to calculate a number of object attributes, including link gap and object buffer, drift, and float. As objects and their relationships are added to or modified in the schedule, GPM continuously re-calculates and updates gap for all links and float for all dated objects. Link gaps are calculated from the dates of two related activities and floats are algorithmically calculated from gaps.
Differences between GPM and CPM
The Critical Path Method (CPM) is the traditional mathematical algorithm used for schedule logic computation. GPM utilizes a different algorithm than CPM and thus produces its own distinct schedule attributes.
Planned dates vs. early dates
In a GPM network, objects not residing on the critical path, and thus having float, are permitted to be scheduled anywhere within their float range and are not forced to their early or late dates. This action in a GPM network is referred to as scheduling objects on planned dates. This is contrary to CPM logic, where a forward and backward pass algorithm defaults objects to their early dates, unless additional logic is introduced to constrain an object to a later date. GPM logic permits the as-planned scheduling framework because logic links retain their own attributes, namely gap.
Schedule Attributes
Gap
GPM allows users to place an object anywhere in between its early and late dates; consequently, link gap emerges between objects. Link gap permits object scheduling on planned dates while retaining the Total Float value of the network. The link gap values become the basis for calculatin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20diffusion%20machine | Data diffusion machine is a historical virtual shared memory architecture where data is free to migrate through the machine.
Shared memory machines are convenient for programming but do not scale beyond tens of processors. The Data Diffusion Machine (DDM) overcomes this problem by providing a virtual memory abstraction on top of a distributed memory machine. A DDM appears to the user as a conventional shared memory machine but is implemented using a distributed memory architecture.
Data diffusion machines were under active research in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but the research has ceased since then.
References
External links
Data Diffusion Machine (University of Bristol)
Distributed computing architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20C5-03 | The Nokia C5-03 is a budget resistive touchscreen smartphone with WLAN from the Cseries that was released in December 2010. The phone has Shazam music identification software and social networking software included or available for download.
It has Assisted GPS, and Ovi Maps 3.0 integrated.
Hardware
References
Nokia C5-03 刷机说明
Nokia smartphones
Portable media players
S60 (software platform)
Digital audio players
Personal digital assistants
Devices capable of speech recognition
Mobile phones introduced in 2010
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Automation | Network Automation was a Los Angeles-based software company that developed business process automation software designed to simplify repetitive information technology processes on desktop computers and servers. The company was acquired by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based HelpSystems, and is now operated as a standalone division.
History
In July 2004, Dustin Snell launched Network Automation, Inc. in Los Angeles, California. In September 2012, after two years as Chief Software Architect, Snell resumed his role as CEO.
In April 2014, the company was acquired by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based HelpSystems, an IT software company offering solutions in the areas of systems and network management, business intelligence, security and compliance, for IBM i, Unix, Linux and Windows environments.
Products
The company’s main products were AutoMate and AutoMate BPA Server, which ran on Windows operating systems. The products were designed to simplify repetitive IT tasks via a drag and drop GUI interface, without requiring end user coding. Functions included job scheduling, automated FTP, batch processing, automated backups, scripting, automated testing, event log monitoring and automated reporting.
AutoMate – AutoMate software presented a GUI-based interface for automating IT processes. The base version was called AutoMate Professional, and an enhanced version was called AutoMate Premium.
AutoMate BPA Server - AutoMate BPA Server software provided centralized management of process management across the entire enterprise. The base version was called AutoMate BPA Server Standard Edition, and an enhanced version supporting more than 10 machines was known as AutoMate BPA Server Enterprise Edition.
2012 enhancements included support for Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services. Third party applications such as Microsoft CRM could also be integrated.
Landmark legal ruling
Network Automation, Inc. v. Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. was a California court case decided in favor of Network Automation on March 8, 2011. The Ninth Circuit Court verdict protected the rights of companies to use strategic keywords in Internet search advertising.
Awards
AutoMate won awards from Windows IT Pro, CNET and NetworkWorld and was named as the "Best Scripting Tool" by Redmondmag.
The company was named to the 2009, 2011 and 2012 Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest growing software companies in the US.
Notes
External links
Software companies based in California
Companies based in Los Angeles
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20system%20security | Control system security, or industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity, is the prevention of (intentional or unintentional) interference with the proper operation of industrial automation and control systems. These control systems manage essential services including electricity, petroleum production, water, transportation, manufacturing, and communications. They rely on computers, networks, operating systems, applications, and programmable controllers, each of which could contain security vulnerabilities. The 2010 discovery of the Stuxnet worm demonstrated the vulnerability of these systems to cyber incidents. The United States and other governments have passed cyber-security regulations requiring enhanced protection for control systems operating critical infrastructure.
Control system security is known by several other names such as SCADA security, PCN security, Industrial network security, Industrial control system (ICS) Cybersecurity, Operational Technology (OT) Security, Industrial automation and control systems and Control System Cyber Security.
Risks
Insecurity of, or vulnerabilities inherent in industrial automation and control systems (IACS) can lead to severe consequences in categories such as safety, loss of life, personal injury, environmental impact, lost production, equipment damage, information theft, and company image.
Guidance to assess, evaluate and mitigate these potential risks is provided through the application of many Governmental, regulatory, industry documents and Global Standards, addressed below.
Vulnerability of control systems
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have become far more vulnerable to security incidents due to the following trends that have occurred over the last 10 to 15 years.
Heavy use of Commercial Off-the Shelf Technology (COTS) and protocols. Integration of technology such as MS Windows, SQL, and Ethernet means that process control systems are now vulnerable to the same malware (viruses, worms and trojans) that affect common IT systems
Enterprise integration (using plant, corporate and even public networks) means that process control systems (legacy) are now being subjected to stresses that they were not designed for
Demand for Remote Access - 24x7 access for engineering, operations or technical support means more insecure or rogue connections to control system
Security Through Obscurity - Using non-standard, private or proprietary protocols or standards is detrimental to system security
The cyber threats and attack strategies on automation systems are changing rapidly. Regulation of industrial control systems for security is rare and is a slow moving process. The United States, for example, only does so for the nuclear power and the chemical industries.
Government efforts
The U.S. Government Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) originally instituted a control systems security program (CSSP) now the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) Industrial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Undercover%20Boss%20Australia%20episodes | Undercover Boss Australia is the Australian incarnation of the Undercover Boss franchise. The first series features 6 episodes and premiered on Network Ten on 18 October 2010. A second series consisting of 8 episodes began airing on 12 September 2011.
Series overview
Episodes
Series 1: 2010
Series 2: 2011
Ratings
Series 1: 2010
Series 2: 2011
Metro Cities - Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth
References
Episodes (Australia)
Lists of reality television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20virtualization | Mobile virtualization is hardware virtualization on a mobile phone or connected wireless device. It enables multiple operating systems or virtual machines to run simultaneously on a mobile phone or connected wireless device. It uses a hypervisor to create secure separation between the underlying hardware and the software that runs on top of it; this can be considered a form of an embedded hypervisor, or a close analogue. Virtualization technology has been used widely for many years in other fields such as data servers (storage virtualization) and personal computers (desktop virtualization).
Applications
Low cost platform
In 2008, the mobile industry became interested in using the benefits of virtualization technology for cell phones and other devices like tablets, netbooks and machine-to-machine (M2M) modules. With mobile virtualization, mobile devices can be manufactured more cheaply through the re-use of software and hardware, which shortens development time. One such example is using mobile virtualization to create low-cost Android smartphones without a separate baseband processor by running the applications and the baseband processor code in separate virtual machines on a single processor. Semiconductor vendors such as ST-Ericsson have adopted mobile virtualization as part of their low-cost Android platform strategy.
Enterprise
Another use case for mobile virtualization is in the enterprise market. Today, many consumers carry two mobile phones: one for business use and another for personal use. With mobile virtualization, mobile phones can support multiple domains/operating systems on the same hardware, so that the enterprise IT department can securely manage one domain (in a virtual machine), and the mobile operator can separately manage the other domain (in a virtual machine).
In September 2010, ARM announced that it would support a virtualization extension in its ARM Cortex-A15 processor.
Platforms
Every mobile platform does virtualization differently.
Android
In Android there are many ways to do virtualization, however due to limitations and operating system security restrictions some types of virtualization software will not be able to do all the tasks or run all types of applications.
See also
Embedded hypervisor
References
Mobile software
Virtualization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteOS | Huawei Lite OS was a lightweight real-time operating system (RTOS) developed by Huawei. It is an open source, POSIX compliant operating system for Internet of things (IoT) devices, released under a three-clause BSD license. Microcontrollers of different architectures such as ARM (M0/3/4/7, A7/17/53, ARM9/11), x86, and RISC-V are supported by the project. Huawei LiteOS is part of Huawei's '1+8+N' Internet of Things solution, and has been featured in a number of open source development kits and industry offerings.
Smartwatches by Huawei and its former Honor brand run LiteOS. LiteOS has since been incorporated into the IoT-oriented HarmonyOS with open source OpenHarmony.
History
On 20 May 2015, at the Huawei Network Conference, Huawei proposed the '1+2+1' Internet of Things solution and release the IoT operating system named Huawei LiteOS.
Key features
Lightweight, small kernel; <10 kilobytes (kB)
Energy efficient
Fast startup within milliseconds
Support NB-IoT, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, BLE, Zigbee, and other different IoT protocols
Support access to different cloud platforms
Supported architectures
ADI
ADuCM4050
Atmel
Atmel SAM D21 Xplained Pro
ATSAM4S-XPRO
ARDUINO ZERO PRO
GigaDevice
GD32F450I-EVAL
GD32F190R-EVAL
GD32F103C-EVAL
GD32F150R-EVAL
GD32F207C-EVAL
GD32VF103
Huawei
Hi3518
Kirin A1
MediaTek
LINKIT7687HDK
Microchip
ATSAME70Q21
MindMotion
MM32F103_MINI
MM32L373
MM32L073PF
Nuvoton
Nordic Semi
NRF52840-PDK
NRF52-DK
NXP
LPC824_LITE
LPC54110_BOARD
FRDM-KW41Z
FRDM-KL25Z
Silicon Labs
EFM32 GIANT GECKO STARTER KIT EFM32GG-STK3700
EFM32 PEARL GECKO STARTER KIT SLSTK3401A
EFM32 HAPPY GECKO STARTER KIT SLSTK3400A
STMicroelectronics
STM32F411RE-NUCLEO
STM32F412ZG-NUCLEO
STM32F429I_DISCO
STM32L476RG_NUCLEO
STM32F746ZG_NUCLEO
STM32F103RB-NUCLEO
TI
LAUNCHXL-CC3220SF
See also
Embedded operating system
HarmonyOS
OpenHarmony
WearOS
References
External links
2015 software
Embedded operating systems
Free software operating systems
Lightweight Unix-like systems
Real-time operating systems
Software using the BSD license
Wireless sensor network
Unix variants
Tablet operating systems
Wearable computers
Smartwatches |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Computer%20Science | The International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science (online: , print: ) is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal which was established in 2006 and publishes original papers in the broad subjects of mathematics and computer science. It is abstracted and indexed by Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters previously), Scopus, Zentralblatt Math, and Mathematical Reviews. The editor-in-chief is Professor Badih Ghusayni.
External links
Mathematics journals
Academic journals established in 2006
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentaro%20Toyama | Kentaro Toyama is a computer scientist and international development researcher, who works on the relationship of technology and global development. He is the W. K. Kellogg Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology.
Toyama was founding assistant director of Microsoft Research India, a Bangalore-based computer science laboratory, where he established the Technology for Emerging Markets group which conducts interdisciplinary research in the field of "information and communication technologies for development" (ICT4D). Together with AnnaLee Saxenian and Raj Reddy, he co-founded the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, a global platform for rigorous, academic, interdisciplinary research in ICT4D.
Education
Toyama received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University, and an A.B. in Physics from Harvard University.
Research and career
Toyama's research spans several disparate areas, including ICT4D, development studies, computer vision, human-computer interaction, geographic information systems, and multimedia.
He is best known for his research in ICT4D, which includes technology projects such as MultiPoint, Text-Free User Interfaces, Warana Unwired, and Digital Green, as well as observational studies of rural telecenters, mobile phones in developing countries, and the limits of technology for international development.
He is an outspoken critic of the "technological utopianism" that he sees in initiatives such as One Laptop Per Child, and argues that technology only magnifies existing human intent and capacity. A two-part essay making this point appears in a Boston Review forum. The argument is expanded upon and extended further in Geek Heresy. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Toyama's research in computer vision involves automated tracking of objects in video. In 2002, he taught calculus at Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana.
Awards and honors
Toyama was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to the innovation and critique of digital technology for socio-economic development and social justice".
A paper he co-authored with Andrew Blake was awarded the Marr Prize at the 2001 International Conference on Computer Vision. That work was a precursor to some of the technology in Microsoft's Kinect product.
References
External links
Personal website
American computer scientists
Science and technology studies scholars
Computer vision researchers
Living people
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Harvard University alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Academic staff of Ashesi University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Beaudouin-Lafon | Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (born 20 July 1961) is a French computer scientist working in the field of human–computer interaction. He received his PhD from the Paris-Sud 11 University (which is now Paris-Saclay University) in 1985. He is currently professor of computer science at Paris-Sud 11 University since 1992 (in the in Situ group) and was director of LRI, the laboratory for computer science, from 2002 to 2009.
He has worked in Human-Computer Interaction for over 20 years and was elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2006. His research interests include fundamental aspects of interaction, engineering of interactive systems, computer-supported cooperative work and novel interaction techniques. In 2004, his paper "Designing interaction, not interfaces" has been one of the most heavily downloaded papers in the ACM Digital Library. He has been featured in Ben Shneiderman's HCI Pioneers.
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon was one of the founders, and first president, of AFIHM, the French national equivalent of Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI. In recent years he has played major roles in CHI and UIST conferences, serving as program chair or program committee member. From 2002 to 2008, he was a member-at-large of the ACM Council and member of the ACM Publications Board. He was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to human-computer interaction, instrumental interaction and generative theory, and community leadership".
References
External links
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon's website
Living people
French computer scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
1961 births
Paris-Saclay University people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch%20Hunt%20%281999%20film%29 | Witch Hunt is a 1999 Australian crime drama, directed by Scott Hartford-Davis and written by NCIS: Los Angeles creator, Shane Brennan. It premiered on Australia's Network Ten on 2 May 1999.
Plot
A young girl goes missing and her father (Daddo) accuses his mother-in-law, Barbara (Bisset) of abducting her. He speculates about Barbara's deep involvement in the occult with the accusation that she is a witch. Barbara responds by accusing her son-in-law of abusing her granddaughter.
Cast
Jacqueline Bisset as Barbara Thomas
Cameron Daddo as David Overton
Jerome Ehlers as Detective Jack Maitland
Grant Piro
References
External links
1999 television films
1999 films
Australian television films
Films shot in Australia
Films about witchcraft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Action%20Network | The American Action Network (AAN) is a nonprofit, conservative issue advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., aligned to the Republican Party. It was established in 2010 by Fred Malek and Norm Coleman as a 501(c)(4) organization.
The AAN's sister organization, the American Action Forum, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focusing on policy research. The American Action Forum is run by former Congressional Budget Office director Doug Holtz-Eakin. AAN officials also run the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC (independent expenditure PAC) focused on electing a House Republican majority.
History and organization
The American Action Network is an advocacy group, incorporated on July 23, 2009, and founded by Fred Malek, founder of Thayer Capital and former Republican National Committee deputy chairman. The organization says that it was founded to promote and support center right issues, conceived in part to counterbalance the liberal Center for American Progress. The organization calls itself an "action tank" or a "think-and-do-tank" and is classified as a 501(c)(4).
Former Minnesota senator Norm Coleman was hired in 2010 as its chief executive officer. He now serves as chairman of the board of directors and also serves on the board of directors of the American Action Forum, a sister organization. In 2011, Brian Walsh, a former political director at the National Republican Congressional Committee, was hired as the group's president, replacing Rob Collins, the former chief of staff to Eric Cantor. Walsh would serve as President of American Action Network until January 2015. The organization's board members include Fred Malek, Vin Weber, Mel Martinez and Thomas M. Reynolds. In January 2015, then Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Mike Shields stepped down in his role with the Republican National Committee to become President of American Action Network. In December 2016, Corwin Albert "Corry" Bliss was announced as the new executive director of American Action Network.
Funding and tax status
Donations to the American Action Network are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions due to its 501(c)(4) status, and the organization is not required to disclose the source of donations. Tax records show the group raised nearly $27.5 million between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011, including one $7 million donation. Critics of the American Action Network have argued that the organization's advertisements contravene its requirements under its 501(c)(4) status. Malek has stated in response that such claims are "baseless".
Related organizations
The American Action Forum is a partner organization with the American Action Network, operating as a separate 501(c)(3) organization. The focus of the Action Forum is policy research. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the former director of the Congressional Budget Office, serves as its president.
Members of the American Action Network also run the Congressional Leadership Fund Super PAC which was formed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TouchWiz | TouchWiz is a discontinued user interface developed by Samsung Electronics with partners, featuring a full touch user interface. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as an operating system. TouchWiz was used internally by Samsung for smartphones, feature phones and tablet computers, and was not available for licensing by external parties. The Android version of TouchWiz also comes with the Samsung-made app store Samsung Galaxy Store. It was replaced by Samsung Experience in 2017 with the release of Android 7.1.1 “Nougat”*.
History
Overview
The first, original, edition of TouchWiz (version 1.0) was released in 2009; although TouchWiz did first appear on the Samsung F480 Tocco in 2008. This 1.0 version was officially launched with the original Samsung Solstice in 2009. The latest version of TouchWiz is TouchWiz 6.0, which is on the Samsung Galaxy J1 mini prime and TouchWiz 5.0 on the Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016) feature a more refined user interface as compared to the previous versions found on Samsung's older phones released prior to Galaxy S5's release. The status bar is now transparent during home screen mode in TouchWiz Nature UX 2.0 and TouchWiz Nature UX 2.5. In TouchWiz 4.0 on Samsung Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Note (both later updated to Nature UX), some of the features added include panning and tilt, which makes use of the accelerometer and gyroscope in the phone to detect motion.
TouchWiz is used by Samsung's own proprietary operating systems, Bada and REX, as well as by phones based on the Android operating system prior to Android Nougat. It is also present in phones running the Tizen operating system.
TouchWiz was abandoned by Samsung in late 2016 in favor of Samsung Experience.
TouchWiz was a central issue in the Lawsuit Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics.
TouchWiz 1.0
This was the original edition of TouchWiz, released in 2008, with pre-introduction (trial) on the SGH-F480 (Tocco) phone. It was an evolution of the Croix user interface seen on the SGH-P520 (Armani) and SGH-F700 (Ultra Smart). TouchWiz version 1.0 was officially launched with the original Samsung A887 Solstice, a phone released on AT&T in the United States in 2009. Various versions of TouchWiz 1.0, with different features, were used on Solstice's siblings such as the Samsung Eternity, Impression, Impact and Highlight.
TouchWiz 2.0
This was the original second edition of TouchWiz, released in 2009. This version premiered with the Samsung Solstice 2 in 2010.
TouchWiz 3.0
Released in 2010, to support Android Eclair (2.1) and Android Froyo (2.2). This version premiered with the Samsung Galaxy S. A lite version of TouchWiz 3.0, with reduced features, was used on the Samsung Galaxy Proclaim.
TouchWiz 4.0
The second version of TouchWiz was released in 2011, to support Android Gingerbread and Android Honeycomb (2.3 - 3.2.6). The Galaxy S II was the first device preloaded with TouchWiz 4.0. This version includes better hardware acceleration than 3.0, as well multiple |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Army%20%28film%29 | Standing Army is a 2010 documentary film about the global network of U.S. military bases, the impact that these have on local populations, and the military–industrial complex that lies behind it. The film was directed by Enrico Parenti and Thomas Fazi.
Synopsis
The United States has 250,000 soldiers stationed on more than 700 military bases in at least 40 countries across the globe. This deployment has continued to increase.
The film explores historical displacement of native populations, including Italy, on Diego Garcia (an Indian Ocean island) and the Middle East. The film posits that while the traditional definition of the term empire means possession of colonies, the foundation of an "American empire" is based on a worldwide network of military bases. While they used to serve as simple supply facilities in war-like conflicts, they are often formed in the aftermath of armed US interventions, raising the question if this is an intentional strategy. The film presents various data and concludes with Chalmers Johnson, former CIA advisor, who claims this is a new type of imperialism containing a self-destructive recoil force that will lead to a medium-term decline and the ruin of the American position of power in the world.
Festival screenings and awards
SiciliAmbiente Film Festival (winner "Best Documentary), Tekfestival (special mention "Best Photography), São Paulo International Film Festival, BAFICI, Espoo Ciné International Film Festival, DOCSDF, Istanbul International 1001 Documentary Film Festival, Festival des Libertés, DOK Leipzig, IDFA Docs for Sale, Ronda Intl Film Festival, Romania International Film Festival, Tama Cinema Forum, MEDIMED, Cine’Eco, Iasi Intl Film Festival, TUR Ostrava Film Festival, Euganea Film Festival, Est Film Festival, NoemArt Film Festival.
TV broadcasts
Italy (Fox Channels), Finland (YLE), Germany (ZDFinfo), Poland (TVP Kultura), Slovenia (RTV), Russia TV, Al Jazeera.
References
External links
http://www.standingarmy.it
http://www.effendemfilm.com/
http://www.enricoparenti.com
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/08/09/italian-film-captures-anger-at-us-bases/
http://www.mymovies.it/film/2010/standingarmy/
Italian documentary films
2010 films
2010 documentary films
Documentary films about the United States
Military installations of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenians%20Project | Athenians Project is a multi-year, ongoing project of compiling, computerizing and studying data about the persons of ancient Athens. By applying modern technology to ancient data, over a 100,000 entries have been digitized and maintained in an Empress Embedded Database for over 30 years. The project is headed by Professor John S. Traill of the University of Toronto in the Classics Department.
The Athenians Project began back in the 1970s to preserve and make searchable the age-faded, handwritten card-files of Dr. Benjamin Dean Meritt. Meritt had written information about the persons of ancient Athens and accumulated the card files over the preceding 40 years. This included data collected by Johannes Kirchner who also lent his work to the field of epigraphy and prosopography of ancient Athens in his book Prosopographia Attica. Published back in 1901, Kirchner's Prosopographia Attica had 15,588 entries, was limited to the pre-Augustan period, and contained only registered Athenian citizens.
Athenians Project data is available in two main parts. The first is a set of hardbound printed volumes titled "Persons of Ancient Athens" of more than 100,000 entries and typeset in ancient Greek. The second is a relational database of Athenians data which is used to search data using a computer in a variety of ways for further study. The Athenians prosopography Project includes Athenian citizens at home and abroad, slaves, resident aliens, and foreigners honored at Athens—all the known men and women of Athens from the beginning of alphabetic writing to the Byzantine period.
Part of the data is made available to anyone via the Website Attica. Website Attica is designed to be complementary to the published volumes of "Persons of Ancient Athens" (PAA). There are currently 21 published volumes of PAA and at least one more was scheduled to be published within the next two years. The Athenians Project is Toronto's designedly complete database of all "Persons of Ancient Athens".
Searches in the Website Attica may be made on about 10,000 names, all within half of volume four, the entirety of volume five, and the first third of volume six of "Persons of Ancient Athens", i.e. names beginning with the letters beta through delta. The possible searches range from selecting every person in a particular Deme or of a specified profession to more sophisticated searches, e.g. to find all Athenians who lived between specified years and/or are related to a certain person and/or are attested in a class of document, etc.
History
The Athenians Project is the lifeblood of Professor Emeritus John Traill, a world-renowned expert and instructor in "Latin and Greek Scientific Terminology" at the University of Toronto. He has published 24 books and edited an additional 5 books on Greek inscriptions, the topography of Athens and Attica, and on the people of ancient Athens. For the last 3 decades he has directed the Athenians Project. At the beginning of the 1980s, Traill, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio%208H | Studio 8H is a television studio located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. The studio is a part of NBC Studios, the home of the NBC television network, located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It is most notable for housing the live broadcast of Saturday Night Live (SNL), which has been broadcast from the studio since the show's inception in 1975.
Construction
Studio 8H was originally built in 1933, at the time of Rockefeller Center's initial construction. It was intended not only for orchestral performances but also for radio variety programs with large studio audiences. It became the home of Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1937. At the time of construction, Studio 8H was the world's largest radio studio, feet with a height of three stories, which could house a full orchestra. It was converted for television use in 1950, primarily for the live broadcast of Kraft Television Theatre.
History
Studio 8H is now most prominent for housing the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, which is broadcast live. It was revamped just before the 1975 premiere of SNL at a cost of $250,000. Two episodes of NBC sitcom 30 Rock, "Live Show" and "Live from Studio 6H" were also broadcast live from the studio, a departure from the show's usual film format.
The first season finale of The Apprentice and the fifth anniversary special of Late Night with Conan O'Brien both used the studio for one night each. Likewise, Later with Bob Costas, Love, Sidney, the 50th anniversary television episode of Today in 1990, House Party with Steve Doocy, and the fifth anniversary special of Late Night with David Letterman were broadcast from Studio 8H. Last Call with Carson Daly used the studio until 2005, when the show moved to Studio 9 at the NBC Studios in Burbank, California.
The show Your Hit Parade filmed in 8H, where Fred Rogers worked writing music for the program. Years later, Eddie Murphy performed a parody of Mr. Rogers' children’s show character named "Mr. Robinson" on Saturday Night Live in Studio 8H.
In January 1975, a special one-hour episode of the daytime drama The Doctors was taped in Studio 8H. It was usually taped in Studio 3B.
During the Summer of 1990, Today relocated its set from Studio 3B to Studio 8H, to allow for construction of a new set that debuted in Studio 3B on September 10, 1990.
In May 2002, NBC celebrated its 75th anniversary and used 8H to shoot the live broadcast of the event. Lorne Michaels (executive producer of 8H mainstay Saturday Night Live) executive produced the event. The studio was also used for the live parts of the season finale of The Celebrity Apprentice on March 27, 2008.
MSNBC's Morning Joe news program celebrated its tenth anniversary with a show before a live audience at the studio on September 19, 2017. The studio was also used for the show's post-election coverage on November 7, 2018 as well as November 10, 2016 and November 7, 2012.
References
Television studios in the United States
Rockef |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PandaBoard | The PandaBoard was a low-power single-board computer development platform based on the Texas Instruments OMAP4430 system on a chip (SoC). The board has been available to the public at the subsidized price of US$174 since 27 October 2010. It is a community supported development platform.
The PandaBoard ES is a newer version based on the OMAP4460 SoC, with the CPU and GPU running at higher clock rates. Like its predecessor, it is a community supported development platform.
Features
The OMAP4430 SoC on the PandaBoard features a dual-core 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU, a 304 MHz PowerVR SGX540 GPU, IVA3 multimedia hardware accelerator with a programmable DSP, and 1 GiB of DDR2 SDRAM. The PandaBoard ES uses a newer SoC, with a dual-core 1.2 GHz CPU and 384 MHz GPU. Primary persistent storage is via an SD Card slot allowing SDHC cards up to 32 GB to be used. The board includes wired 10/100 Ethernet as well as wireless Ethernet and Bluetooth connectivity. Its size is slightly larger than the ETX/XTX Computer form factor at . The board can output video signals via DVI and HDMI interfaces. It also has 3.5 mm audio connectors. It has two USB host ports and one USB On-The-Go port, supporting USB 2.0.
Operating systems
The device runs the Linux kernel, with either traditional distributions or the Android or Mozilla Firefox OS user environment. Optimised versions of Android and Ubuntu are available from the Linaro Foundation. Linaro has selected the PandaBoard to be one of the hardware platforms they support with monthly build images.
OpenBSD supports PandaBoard.
FreeBSD added PandaBoard support in August 2012.
The Genode Operating System Framework added support in release 12.05 (May 2012).
A version of is actively developed.
QNX Neutrino 6.5.0 SP1 and 6.6.0 have Board Support Packages for the PandaBoard and PandaBoard ES.
Graphics
The PandaBoard has an integrated SGX540 graphics processor and provides 1080p HDMI output. This GPU supports OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 1.1, OpenVG 1.1 and EGL 1.3.
The situation for Linux - x11 utilizing hardware floating point libraries is PowerVR's SGX540 GPU hardware is unusable without a GPU driver. Furthermore, PowerVR will not release documentation so that an open source driver could be produced. This all adds up to the GPU hardware being unavailable, so the above-mentioned features of course will not function. To be perfectly clear, a Pandaboard es will not play any low quality video, so 1080p output via the HDMI is certainly and proven not possible.
Due to PowerVR making the driver unavailable, and withholding the documentation on the GPU hardware, the only alternative is the difficult and inefficient reverse engineering method to develop a GPU driver. An effort was started in July 2012, but as of June 2013 there is no visible progress.
The Linaro Linux project had a Linux x11 software floating point GPU driver available, but all current efforts with ARM Linux seem to be utilizing the hardware floating point l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullies%20on%20Mars | Martian gullies are small, incised networks of narrow channels and their associated downslope sediment deposits, found on the planet of Mars. They are named for their resemblance to terrestrial gullies. First discovered on images from Mars Global Surveyor, they occur on steep slopes, especially on the walls of craters. Usually, each gully has a dendritic alcove at its head, a fan-shaped apron at its base, and a single thread of incised channel linking the two, giving the whole gully an hourglass shape. They are estimated to be relatively young because they have few, if any craters. A subclass of gullies is also found cut into the faces of sand dunes, that are themselves considered to be quite young. Linear dune gullies are now considered recurrent seasonal features.
Most gullies occur 30 degrees poleward in each hemisphere, with greater numbers in the southern hemisphere. Some studies have found that gullies occur on slopes that face all directions; others have found that the greater number of gullies are found on poleward facing slopes, especially from 30° to 44° S. Although thousands have been found, they appear to be restricted to only certain areas of the planet. In the northern hemisphere, they have been found in Arcadia Planitia, Tempe Terra, Acidalia Planitia, and Utopia Planitia. In the south, high concentrations are found on the northern edge of Argyre basin, in northern Noachis Terra, and along the walls of the Hellas outflow channels. A recent study examined 54,040 CTX images that covered 85% of the Martian surface found 4861 separate gullied landforms (e.g., individual craters, mounds, valleys, etc.), which totaled tens of thousands of individual gullies. It is estimated that CTX can resolve 95% of gullies.
This article gives a history of the discovery and research on gullies. As research progresses, the cause of Martian gullies has shifted from recent liquid water to pieces of dry ice moving down steep slopes, but research continues. On the basis of their form, aspects, positions, and location amongst and apparent interaction with features thought to be rich in water ice, many researchers think that the processes carving the gullies involve liquid water. When the volumes of the aprons are compared to the rest of the gully, it appears that there is much less volume in the apron; hence, much of the material may have contained water and ice that disappeared. However, this remains a topic of active research. Because the gullies are so young, this would suggest that liquid water has been present on Mars in its very recent geological past, with consequences for the potential habitability of the modern surface.
On July 10, 2014, NASA reported that gullies on the surface of Mars were mostly formed by the seasonal freezing of carbon dioxide (CO2), and not by that of liquid water as considered earlier.
Formation
After being discovered, many hypotheses were put forward to explain the gullies. However, as in the usual progression of sci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Life%20in%20Food | My Life in Food is a television show aired on the Food Network. Each episode chronicles how food affects a famous personality. Guests have included Al Roker and Jeff Henderson.
References
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20books | List of computer-related books which have articles on Wikipedia for themselves or their writers.
Programming
Bjarne Stroustrup - The C++ Programming Language
Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike - The Practice of Programming
Donald Knuth - The Art of Computer Programming
Ellen Ullman - Close to the Machine
Ellis Horowitz - Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms
Eric Raymond - The Art of Unix Programming
Gerald M. Weinberg - The Psychology of Computer Programming
James Gosling - The Java Programming Language
Joel Spolsky - The Best Software Writing I
Keith Curtis - After the Software Wars
Richard M. Stallman - Free Software, Free Society
Richard P. Gabriel - Patterns of Software
Richard P. Gabriel - Innovation Happens Elsewhere
Hackers and hacker culture
Steven Levy - Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Douglas Thomas - Hacker Culture
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Suelette Dreyfus - Underground: Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
Eric S. Raymond - The New Hacker's Dictionary
Sam Williams - Free as in Freedom
Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown
Kevin Mitnick - Ghost in the Wires
Malcolm Nance - The Plot to Hack America
Internet
Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu - Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of Borderless World
Douglas Rushkoff - Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace
Books
Computer
Computer books
Books about computer hacking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzis%C5%82aw%20Bubnicki | Zdzisław Bubnicki (born 17 June 1938 in Lwów, died 12 March 2006 in Wrocław) was a Polish scientist, a specialist in the fields of automation and computer science. His main scientific interests concerned: decision theory, control theory, system identification, pattern recognition, expert systems, and knowledge-based systems, complexes of operations, and methodology of computer systems.
He obtained a degree of Master of Science in 1960 at Faculty of Electronics at Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. Since 1962 he moved to Wroclaw where he worked at Wroclaw University of Technology. In 1964 he achieved a Ph.D. degree, and in 1967 - a Doctor of Sciences degree. Several years later, in 1973 he became an assistant professor and in 1979 - a professor.
For many years he was a chief of Institute of Control and Systems Techniques at Wroclaw University of Technology.
Since 1986 he became a correspondent member of Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), and since 1994 - a real member of PAS.
Prof. Bubnicki was a supervisor of 44 Ph.D. dissertations, and now 16 of them are professors. Results of his work had a big influence on the control and decision theory. Especially so called uncertain variables, that are extensions of fuzzy sets, was one of his biggest contributions to the field of computer science.
He was honoured with many Polish and international rewards, e.g. Krzyż Kawalerski i Krzyż Oficerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski, IFIP medal. He is a doctor of honoris causa of following universities: West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poznan University of Technology, Military University of Technology.
Books written by Zdzisław Bubnicki
"Identyfikacja obiektów sterowania", PWN, Warszawa, 1974
"Identification of Control Plants", Elsevier, Amsterdam-Oxford-New York, 1980
"Wstęp do systemów ekspertowych", PWN, Warszawa, 1990
"Podstawy informatycznych systemów zarządzania", Wydawnictwo Politechniki Wrocławskiej, Wrocław, 1993
"Uncertain Logics, Variables and Systems", Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002
"Analysis and Decision Making in Uncertain Systems", Springer-Verlag, London, 2004
"Teoria i algorytmy sterowania", PWN, Warszawa 2002, 2005
"Modern Control Theory", Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005
References
, http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/cc/cc35/cc3521.pdf
1938 births
2006 deaths
Polish computer scientists
Control theorists
Scientists from Lviv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%20%28operating%20system%29 | Nova is a Cuban state-sponsored Linux distribution launched in February 2009. It was developed in Havana at the University of Information Science (UCI) by students and professors to provide free and open-source software (FOSS) to inexperienced users and Cuban institutions. While the initial version was Gentoo-based, the developers switched to Ubuntu beginning with Version 2.1.
In May 2016, discussions about a new version 6.0 were underway. However, by 2016, Distrowatch had marked Nova as discontinued. and its website, www.nova.cu had been taken down. Nova re-entered development later, and version 8.0 was released in January-March 2022.
In early 2018, its repositories and download server (repo.nova.cu) was shut down temporarily, with users being told to switch to CentOS, after which Nova resumed development a couple months later. By early 2019, the distribution website was again active and DistroWatch listed it as under active development.
Goal and adoption
The goal of Nova was to achieve "sovereignty and technological independence" and to have it installed on all computers in Cuba where Microsoft Windows is still the most widely used operating system. The system was central to the Cuban government's desire to replace Windows. Hector Rodriguez, Director of UCI, said that "[t]he free software movement is closer to the ideology of the Cuban people, above all for the independence and sovereignty." Other cited reasons to develop the system include the United States embargo against Cuba which made it hard for Cubans to buy and update Windows, as well as potential security issues feared by the Cuban government because of the U.S. government's access to Microsoft's source code.
Cuba was planning to convert to Nova as its main operating system; once the migration is complete it was intended to be installed in 90% of all work places. In early 2011, the UCI announced that they would migrate more than 8,000 computers to the new operating system. Beginning in 2011, new computers were intended to come installed with both Windows and Nova.
Software
The first version of Nova, called Baire, was based on Gentoo Linux, while Nova 2.1 Desktop Edition was based on Ubuntu. Nova Escritorio is UCI's office suite meant to replace Microsoft Office.
Versions History
Nova 1.1.2 (Baire)
It uses GNOME, version 2.22.
Entropy as package manager
Compatible with Gentoo and Portage.
Integrated with Windows Active Directory.
Nova 2.1 Desktop Edition
General Features
Main applications:
Web browser Mozilla Firefox.
Instant messaging client Empathy.
E-mail client Mozilla Thunderbird.
Multimedia player Totem.
Music player Rhythmbox.
Video editing software Pitivi.
Images editing program F-Spot.
Torrent client Transmission.
Disk burning program Brasero.
OpenOffice as office suite.
System Requirements
The minimal system requirements are recommended to allow you to install and run Nova Linux with good performances, even if it is possible to install it on worse ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Multishow | This is a list of television programs broadcast by the Brazilian cable television channel Multishow.
Current programming
Original programming
220 volts
Adorável Psicose
Amoral da História
Até Que Faz Sentido
Bastidores
Bicicleta e Melancia
BBB: A Eliminação (on hiatus)
Casa Bonita (on hiatus)
Cilada
Conexões Urbanas
De Cabelo em Pé
De Cara Limpa
Desenrola Aí
Dois Elementos
Experimente
Extremos
Fábrica De Estrelas
Geleia do Rock
I Love My Nerd
Intercâmbio
Kaiak
Lu Alone
Lugar Incomum
Mais X Favela
Minha Praia
Morando Sozinho
Muito Giro
Na Fama e Na Lama
Nalu pelo Mundo
Não Conta Lá em Casa
No Caminho
Nós 3
Olívias na TV
Operação S2
Osso Duro
Outros Lugares
Papo Calcinha
Pé no Chão
As Pegadoras
Por Trás da Fama
Qual é a Boa?
Quase Anônimos
Que Rock é Esse?
Reclame
Rock Estrada
Se Joga!
Sensacionalista
TVZ
Clássicos Multishow
Top TVZ
TVneja
TVZ Experimente
Urbano
Vai pra Onde?
Viagem Sem Fim
Ferdinando Show
A Grande Farsa
Tudo Pela Audiência
Ceará Fora Da Casinha
Lugar Incomum
Humor Multishow
O Estranho Show De Renatinho
Sexy Car Wash
30 Antes dos 30
Ai eu vi Vantagem
Papo de Polícia
Non-original programming
100 Coisas Para Fazer Antes de Morrer (The Buried Life)
Altas Horas (repeat of the previous night's episode on Globo)
Big Brother Brasil (extended coverage)
Chapolin (El Chapulín Colorado)
Chaves (El Chavo del Ocho)
The City
O Clube das Bad Girls (The Bad Girls Club)
Cybernet
Degrassi: Nova Geração (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
Desajustados (Misfits)
Dr. Drew: Rehab (Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew)
Dr. Drew: Sexo Papai e Mamãe (Sex...with Mom and Dad)
Efeito Ex (The X Effect)
Fight Girls
As Gostosas e os Geeks (Beauty and the Geek)
The Hills
Jackass
Life on Mars
My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé
Paris Hilton's British Best Friend
Ser Humano (Being Human)
Sex and the City
Sexcetera
Sexytime
Skins
Sound
Chamado Central
Multishow Music live
Partoba
TVZ Classicos
Treme Treme
E ai Comeu?
Anota Ai
Tá rindo do Quê?
Specials
Multishow Ao Vivo
Multishow Registro
Prêmio Multishow De Humor
Vai Que Cola
Xilindro
Musica Boa
Batalha De Pegadinhas
Quer Dinheiro?
Só Rindo Com Betty White
Ai Eu Vim Vantagem
Foursome
Meu Passado Me Condena
Bagulho Louco com Mr.Catra
Toc`s de Dalila
Past programming
Agente 86 (Get Smart, currently seen on TCM Classic Entertainment)
Balada em Revista
Batom e Parafina
Beijo, me liga!
Born to Be
A Casa Animada (Drawn Together)
Circo do Edgard
Code Monkeys
Dead Set
Diddy Monta Sua Banda (Making His Band)
Edgard no Ar
Fundo do Poço (Rock Bottom)
Havaí 5-0 (Hawaii Five-O, 1968–1980 series)
Inside the Actors Studio (currently seen on Film & Arts)
Instant Star (currently seen on Boomerang)
The Kids in the Hall
Laguna Beach (Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County)
MOB Brasil
Na Trilha Certa (Redemption Song)
Newport Harbor (Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County)
O Mundo Secreto de Alex Mack (The Secret World of Alex Mack)
Quero Ser Um Cineasta
Será que Faz Sentido?
Só Rindo (Just for Laughs)
South Park (currently seen on VH1)
Stargame
Tribo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters%20vs.%20Aliens%20%28TV%20series%29 | Monsters vs. Aliens is an American computer-animated television series based on the 2009 DreamWorks Animation film of the same name. First announced in 2009, the series premiered on Nickelodeon on March 23, 2013, after the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, then began airing in its regular timeslot on April 6, 2013. A total of 26 episodes consisting of 50 segments were released, with the last episode airing on February 8, 2014. It was the third and final Nicktoon produced by DreamWorks Animation after Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and The Penguins of Madagascar. Following this, the series was not renewed for a second season. Executive producer Bob Schooley said its cancellation was due to low ratings, as well as the network's plans to refocus on "the more Nickish shows".
Synopsis
After the events of the film, B.O.B., Link, Dr. Cockroach and Susan/Ginormica learn to adapt to a new world as they work alongside a bizarre group of aliens at Area Fifty-Something, a secret underground base.
Cast
Main
Riki Lindhome as Susan Murphy/Ginormica
Eric Edelstein as B.O.B.
Chris O'Dowd as Dr. Cockroach
Diedrich Bader as the Missing Link
James Patrick Stuart as President Hathaway
Jeff Bennett as Coverton
Gillian Jacobs as Sta'abi
Additional voices
Dee Bradley Baker as Zombie Moon Ape
Jane Carr as Miss Klangpopper
Lucas Cruikshank as Smarty
Robin Atkin Downes as Academic Dr. Cockroach, Party Dr. Cockroach
Will Friedle as Man-Beast
Josh Gad as Internet
Nolan North as Derek Dietl
Kevin Michael Richardson as General Warren Monger
Joey Richter as Jace Lovins
Amy Sedaris as Dr. Cutter
Fred Tatasciore as Vornicarn
Haley Tju as Sqweep
James Urbaniak as Rule-Bot
Kari Wahlgren as Baby President
Production
In 2009, Jeffrey Katzenberg announced that Nickelodeon had ordered a pilot for a Monsters vs. Aliens cartoon series. Eventually, the series was announced at the 2012 annual Nickelodeon upfront, being green-lit for 26 episodes. The cast features new voice actors for the characters of Dr. Cockroach (Chris O'Dowd), Ginormica (Riki Lindhome), Link (Diedrich Bader), and B.O.B. (Eric Edelstein). The series was partly produced by New Zealand CG animation studio Oktobor Animation, similar to the other DreamWorks-based series The Penguins of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. The executive producers of Monsters vs. Aliens (Bob Schooley, Mark McCorkle, and Brett Haaland) all previously worked on Penguins.
Cancellation
In November 2013, executive producer Bob Schooley announced on Twitter that Monsters vs. Aliens would not be renewed for a second season due to low ratings and the network's desire to "get back to the more Nickish shows".
Episodes
Home media
Region 1 DVDs
Despite the show being distributed by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Paramount Global), all the DVDs were distributed solely by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (as the show was also distributed by 20th Century Fox Television). The first two titles w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeview%20Regional%20Medical%20Center | Lakeview Regional Medical Center, a campus of Tulane Medical Center is an affiliate of HCA- a leading national healthcare network with more than 250 hospitals and freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and the United Kingdom. Lakeview Regional is located in Covington, Louisiana and offers advanced medical care to residents of St. Tammany parish, including Lacombe, Covington, Madisonville, Abita Springs and Mandeville. As a campus of Tulane Medical Center, the hospital and emergency room serves Louisiana's Northshore region. Since 1977, the hospital has been a transforming and healing presence in the community as a full-service, acute care hospital providing inpatient and outpatient healthcare services. With its 167 beds, more than 240 physicians and specialists and 800 employees, Lakeview Regional Medical Center offers a full spectrum of services, including a 24/7 Emergency Room, a Heart Center, a Surgical Institute, a Rehabilitation Center and a Behavioral Health Center. Other services provided at this campus include bone and joint care, imaging, pediatric services, spine care services; stroke care, surgical and vascular care; robotic surgeries; and women's and infant services, among others. Lakeview Regional Medical Center continues to reinvest in its facilities and staff to better meet the needs of the growing community, as well as provide the latest in medical innovations in diagnostic and treatment services and state-of-the-art medical equipment.
Tulane University and LCMC announced on October 10, 2022, that LCMC would purchase Tulane Medical Center (along with Lakeview Regional Medical Center, and Tulane Lakeside Hospital) from HCA for $150 Million.
References
External links
Hospitals in Louisiana
Buildings and structures in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Trauma centers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Adventure%20Team | Super Adventure Team is an American comedy series shown on the cable television network MTV in 1998. The show is a superhero satire series using puppetry, in the style of Thunderbirds (TV series) and Team America: World Police.
History
The show's co-creators, Rob Cohen and Dana Gould, met when writing for The Ben Stiller Show. The show debuted in July 1998 with a six-episode run.
The marionettes were voiced by comedians popular at the time – using aliases:
Talia Criswell was played by Karen Kilgariff – stage name Barbara St. Bill
Benton Criswell was played by Paul F. Tompkins – stage name Francis Mt. Pleasant
Chief Engineer Head was played by creator Dana Gould – stage name Benjamin Venom
Major Landon West was played by Daran Norris – stage name James Penrod
Colonel Buck Murdock was played by Wally Wingert – stage name Grant W. Wyllie
The plot centered around an allegedly effective disaster Incident response team bogged down with their own internal squabbles.
Keith Marder of the Los Angeles Daily News gave the show a positive review, saying that the use of puppetry gave the show an original look. He also thought that the show's comedy had the potential to make it a cult classic.
References
External links
1990s American satirical television series
1990s American superhero comedy television series
1998 American television series debuts
1998 American television series endings
American action television series
American adventure television series
American television shows featuring puppetry
MTV original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20security%20operations%20center | An information security operations center (ISOC or SOC) is a facility where enterprise information systems (web sites, applications, databases, data centers and servers, networks, desktops and other endpoints) are monitored, assessed, and defended.
Objective
A SOC is related to the people, processes and technologies that provide situational awareness through the detection, containment, and remediation of IT threats in order to manage and enhance an organization's security posture. A SOC will handle, on behalf of an institution or company, any threatening IT incident, and will ensure that it is properly identified, analyzed, communicated, investigated and reported. The SOC also monitors applications to identify a possible cyber-attack or intrusion (event), and determines if it is a genuine malicious threat (incident), and if it could affect business.
Regulatory requirements
Establishing and operating a SOC is expensive and difficult; organisations should need a good reason to do it. This may include:
Protecting sensitive data
Complying with industry rules such as PCI DSS.
Complying with government rules, such as CESG GPG53.
Alternative names
A security operations center (SOC) can also be called a security defense center (SDC), security analytics center (SAC), network security operations center (NSOC), security intelligence center, cyber security center, threat defense center, security intelligence and operations center (SIOC). In the Canadian Federal Government the term, infrastructure protection center (IPC), is used to describe a SOC.
Technology
SOCs typically are based around a security information and event management (SIEM) system which aggregates and correlates data from security feeds such as network discovery and vulnerability assessment systems; governance, risk and compliance (GRC) systems; web site assessment and monitoring systems, application and database scanners; penetration testing tools; intrusion detection systems (IDS); intrusion prevention system (IPS); log management systems; network behavior analysis and Cyber threat intelligence; wireless intrusion prevention system; firewalls, enterprise antivirus and unified threat management (UTM). The SIEM technology creates a "single pane of glass" for the security analysts to monitor the enterprise.
People
SOC staff includes analysts, security engineers, and SOC managers who should be seasoned IT and networking professionals. They are usually trained in computer engineering, cryptography, network engineering, or computer science and may have credentials such as CISSP or GIAC.
SOC staffing plans range from eight hours a day, five days a week (8x5) to twenty four hours a day, seven days a week (24x7). Shifts should include at least two analysts and the responsibilities should be clearly defined.
Organization
Large organizations and governments may operate more than one SOC to manage different groups of information and communication technology or to provide redundancy in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadikerianda%20Chinnappa | Nadikerianda Chinnappa (1875–1931) was an Indian compiler, poet, translator, army man, police officer, cricket player, singer and philanthropist from Kodagu.
Origins
Ancestry
The Nadikerianda clan name originated from the words Nadu keri ('Central village') and the suffix anda which means 'belonging to'. Incidentally, Nadikeri is the name of a village in South Kodagu as well. According to a family tree drawn by Nadikerianda Chinnappa himself the earliest remembered ancestors of the clan were Nadikerianda Aiyanna and his wife Mayamma who lived around 1600 CE. This family tree was drawn up in 1918. The most notable legendary members of this clan were Nadikerianda Devayya and Kaaruvanna, the first was a folk ballad hero whose clan was responsible for the Malethirike shrine on top of the Somagiri peak, near the Nadikerianda ancestral house in Karada village. He was cursed by a powerful tantric. Kaaruvanna was his heroic brother who redeemed his spirit. They are considered to be the Kaarana or Kaarona (revered ancestors) of the clan. (Ramachandrachar 4:1994)
Birth
Nadikerianda Chinnappa was born in 1875 in the village of Karada, Napoklu naad in Coorg (now Kodagu) to Kodava parents Nadikerianda Aiyanna (not to be mistaken for the early ancestor who had the same name) and Pattamada Ponnavva. They had eight children, four daughters and four sons; Chinnappa was the fifth-eldest, he had two elder sisters, two elder brothers (Subbayya and Kaalappa), two younger sisters and one younger brother. His mother was a lady of the Pattamada clan who knew horse-riding. (Ramachandrachar 5:1994)
Early life
Education
After matriculating in Mercara from the Central High School he did his F.A.(First Year Arts) from Mangalore. In college he was good at sports, especially in Hockey and Cricket, and in studies. He married his deceased brother Subbayya's widow, Nanjavva, in accordance to tradition, in Coorg and worked as a teacher in Mercara Central High School.
Career
In 1899 he joined the revenue department and became a Senebaayi (Shanbhog or Accountant). That year in September he wrote an English poem, 'My Position as Shanbog', voicing his frustration with his job. The following year he became a Revenue Inspector and in 1902 he joined the Coorg Regiment of the army and rose to become a Subedar-Major. When the regiment was disbanded in 1904 he joined the Police Department, underwent training in Vellore and became a sub-Inspector in Kushalnagar. Thereafter he served in Napoklu, Srimangala and Virajpet for some five or six years each until he was made Prosecuting sub-Inspector and posted in Madikeri. Later he became a Prosecuting Inspector in Coorg.
His job in the Police Force required him to travel on horseback to the villages nestled in the valleys and hills of Kodagu. While he went about his duties, he witnessed local festivals and listened to folk-songs that were a part of his culture and was fascinated by them. He feared that these traditions and songs that were h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensto | Ensto is a Finnish international technology company and a family business, that designs and offers electrical solutions for electricity distribution networks, buildings, marine and electric traffic. Ensto manufactures for example solutions for overhead line- and underground cable networks, luminaires, electric vehicle charging systems, electric heaters, control systems, and enclosing systems.
History
1958–1999
In 1958, 28-year-old Ensio Miettinen established an engineering office by the name “Insinööritoimisto Ensio Miettinen” in Porvoo, Finland. The company started by lathing small metal parts. He studied carefully the market, selecting products that did not suit large competitors, and was able to target, without exceptions, some particular market niche with his products. His father had wished that he should be an entrepreneur: “Set up a hotdog stand if you like, but don’t go working for someone else!” Already during his student days starting at the age of 22, Miettinen had managed things at his father’s engineering firm, Puristustuote Oy. There he had noticed that strong demand existed in Finland for the manufacture of small electrical supplies in particular. He also understood that, instead of individual products, he needed to concentrate on electrical systems. In seven years, Ensto grew larger than Miettinen's father’s enterprise.
Miettinen led his company by observing the environment – particularly the German market – as well as by reading a lot and taking conscious risks. At best times there were a couple of hundred active patents in his name. He also wrote work-related books together with Esa Saarinen and .
During the 1970s, the enterprise began its internationalization and expanded its product range: in 1972 Sähkövaruste Ab was acquired; in 1973, subsidiary Ensto Elektriska AB was founded in Sweden; and in 1974, a factory making distribution boards was completed in Mikkeli and a large industrial hall was built in Porvoo. Ensio Miettinen worked as Managing Director of Ensto Group until 1978, when he hired his successor, Esko Kahela.
In the 1980s, Ensto extended its operations particularly in the Nordic countries, but also in the Far East. It widened its production into, among other things, airport landing lighting systems, electric heating systems, and industrial ceramics. A new plant was constructed in Porvoo, and industrial robots were taken into use. The heaviest and most monotonous work were automated, while the employees were not dismissed. Ensto carried out electrification projects in, for instance, Iraq, Peru and Malesia. In 1988, Ensto Group comprised 21 electricity companies, and employed over 1,200 people.
During the early 1990s depression in Finland, Ensto reacted strongly: they sold the stock exchange shares they owned, froze all investments, cancelled machinery orders but continued with business acquisitions. In 1993, marketing work was carried out particularly in Russia and the Baltic countries. Assembly work was trans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10G-PON | 10G-PON (also known as XG-PON or G.987) is a 2010 computer networking standard for data links, capable of delivering shared Internet access rates up to 10 Gbit/s (gigabits per second) over existing dark fiber. This is the ITU-T's next generation standard following on from GPON or Gigabit-capable PON. Optical fibre is shared by many subscribers in a network known as FTTx in a way that centralises most of the telecommunications equipment, often displacing copper phone lines that connect premises to the phone exchange. Passive optical network (PON) architecture has become a cost-effective way to meet performance demands in access networks, and sometimes also in large optical local networks for "Fibre-to-the-desk".
Passive optical networks are used for the "Fibre-to-the-home" or "Fibre-to-the-premises" last mile with splitters that connect each central transmitter to many subscribers. The 10 Gbit/s shared capacity is the downstream speed broadcast to all users connected to the same PON, and the 2.5 Gbit/s upstream speed uses multiplexing techniques to prevent data frames from interfering with each other. Users have a network device that converts optical signals to the signals used in building wiring, such as Ethernet and wired analogue plain old telephone service. XGS-PON is a related technology that can deliver upstream and downstream (symmetrical) speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s (gigabits per second), first approved in 2016 as G.9807.1.
Standards
ITU-T G.987 is the standard for 10G-PON.
Asymmetric 10G-PON is specified as XG-PON1: 10 Gbit/s downstream and 2.5 Gbit/s upstream (nominal line rate of 9.95328 Gbit/s downstream and 2.48832 Gbit/s upstream).
Symmetric 10G-PON is also proposed as XG-PON2 with 10 Gbit/s upstream, but would require more expensive burst-mode lasers on optical network terminals (ONTs) to deliver the upstream transmission speed. Another symmetric 10G-PON standard is XGS-PON (ITU-T G.9807.1, approved 2016-06-22).
Framing is "G-PON like" but uses different wavelengths from G-PON (using a WDM to separate them) so that G-PON subscribers can be upgraded to 10G-PON incrementally while GPON users continue on the original Optical Line Terminal (OLT). The G-PON standard is G.984. This compares to the IEEE 802.3av standard for 10G-EPON based on Ethernet, which has standardised upstream rates of both 1Gbit/s and 10Gbit/s. The 10 Gigabit PON wavelengths (1577 nm down / 1270 nm up) differ from GPON and EPON (1490 nm down /1310 nm up), allowing it to coexist on the same fibre with either of the Gigabit PONs.
G.987
ITU-T Recommendation G.987 is a family that defines this access network standard (referred to as XG-PON). It comprises four recommendations:
G.987: 10-Gigabit-capable passive optical network (XG-PON) systems: Definitions, Abbreviations, and Acronyms, 2010.
G.987.1: General requirements of 10G-PON systems (approved 2010-01-13). Includes examples of services, user network interfaces (UNIs) and service node interfaces (SNIs), as well |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken%20egg%20sizes | Chicken eggs are graded by size, for the purpose of sales. The egg shell constitutes 8–9% of the weight of the egg (calculated from data in Table 2, F. H. Harms).
Animal welfare
According to Tom Vasey, chair of the British Free Range Producers' Association, laying larger eggs is painful for the hen. He recommends shoppers only to buy eggs of medium or smaller sizes. Professor Christine Nicol of the University of Bristol has stated 'There is no strong evidence of pain in egg-laying hens but it's not unreasonable to think there may be a mismatch in the size of birds and the eggs they produce. We do often spot bloodstains on large eggs.'
United States
The United States Department of Agriculture sizing is based by weight per dozen. The most common U.S. size of chicken egg is 'Large' and is the egg size commonly referred to for recipes.
The following egg masses including shell have been calculated on the basis of the USDA sizing per dozen:
Canada
In Canada, modern egg sizes are defined as follows:
Europe
In Europe, modern egg sizes are defined as follows.
Post-Soviet countries
In countries which are members of Interstate Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification: Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia, and Turkmenistan eggs are sorted into five categories by mass:
Australia
In Australia, the Australian Egg Corporation defines the following sizes in its labeling guide.
New Zealand
In New Zealand, sizes are based on the minimum mass per egg. Current sizing introduced in 1973; prior to 1973, sizes were based on the minimum mass per dozen eggs in ounces: 15 (now 4), 18 (now 5), 22 (now 6) and 26 (now 7).
Brazil
In Brazil sizes are based on the mass:
Thailand
In Thailand sizes are based on minimum mass per egg.
Japan
In Japan, the Japan Egg Association lists the following sizes:
South Africa
In South Africa sizes are based on the mass. :
References
Chicken egg sizes
Mechanical standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Elkins | Michael Elkins (22 January 1917, in New York, United States – 10 March 2001, in Jerusalem) was an American broadcaster and journalist who worked for the American network, CBS, for the magazine Newsweek and then for 17 years with the BBC. He was the first to report Israel's destruction of Arab air forces on the opening day of the Six-Day War in 1967.
CBS did not trust his report and he left.
Origins
Elkins was the youngest of three sons of East European Jewish immigrants who made clothes in the sweatshops of the Lower East Side. He was embarrassed that his parents spoke Yiddish and that his father walked ahead of his mother in the street.
He excelled at school and educated himself in libraries. He fell in with hoodlums in New York, then moved to the American West Coast as a union organiser before joining his brother Saul to write scripts in Hollywood. He worked in Europe in the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA during the second world war.
In 1947 Elkins met Teddy Kollek in New York. Kollek was later mayor of Jerusalem. In 1947 he was organising illegal shipments of arms to the Jewish Haganah in Palestine. Elkins joined in. The FBI discovered his involvement and he and his wife, Martha, fled to Israel. They lived on a kibbutz, then moved a year later to Jerusalem.
Career
Elkins began broadcasting with CBS in the US in September 1956. He became the network's correspondent in Israel. The previous correspondent said he was returning to the United States because "nothing ever happens in Israel". A month later Britain and France invaded Suez as Israeli tanks moved into Sinai.
Elkins was the first to report Israel's destruction of Arab air forces on the first day of the Six Day War. He telephoned CBS
but it hesitated to broadcast his story. The BBC ran it.
Elkins had come across a politician he knew. The politician directed him to the war-room. Elkins wrote the story but Israeli military censors delayed it. Elkins proposed a deal. He would hold back the story if the censors gave him permission to be the first to broadcast when it was cleared. They agreed. CBS sent him a one-liner: "You alone with Israeli victory. You'd better be right."
Elkins visited New York in the autumn and called on CBS. He was congratulated for his scoop. "Get lost," he said. "I resign." He said he didn't want the job if they didn't trust him. The journalist David Sells said:
He told me once that CBS had then 'offered him the earth' to stay as their correspondent, but he had refused. 'Well done,' I enthused, praising his probity. Elkins looked at me. 'I have to tell you something, David,' he said. 'If Newsweek had not already given me the earth, I would have been sorely tempted.' That was Elkins – tough-minded, but never stupid.
Broadcasting style
Elkins never modified his New York accent and growl, making him unusual among the BBC's correspondents. He spoke in a dated, epic, 1940s American radio style. His obituary in The Independent in Britain descr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20Cooperative | History Cooperative was an online database of scholarly history articles from leading journals. It provided online access to library users to recent articles from 20 major journals and other online sources. It closed operations in May, 2010. It was originally created by the University of Illinois Press, and was also sponsored by JSTOR and the Organization of American Historians. It was a not-for-profit venture that was open to libraries and to paid subscribers of the individual journals.
Some of the journals available included:
American Historical Review
The History Teacher
Journal of American Ethnic History
Journal of American History
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Journal of World History
Labour History
Western Historical Quarterly
William and Mary Quarterly
See also
Project MUSE
References
Bibliography
Rosenzweig, Roy. "The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History Web," Journal of American History vol 88 #2 (2001): 78 pars. 17 Oct. 2010 online.
External links
The present "historycooperative.org" blogging platform/website has no relationship to the original website and its previous sponsors and partners.
Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Bibliographic databases and indexes
2010 disestablishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greengauge%2021 | Greengauge 21 is a non-for-profit registered company that aims to investigate and develop the concepts associated with a UK high-speed rail network.
Research
Previous research into High Speed Rail (HSR) has tended to focus on the international spatial level. Greengauge is one of a number of groups now using a multilevel (regional, national and international) analysis to satisfactorily understand HSR’s territorial implications. Greengauge 21 has shown that while capacity on the new line (HS2) is expected to be fully used soon enough (certainly within 20 years of opening), there is plenty of scope and a good business case for a second north–south high-speed line.
In February 2010, Greengauge 21 contracted KPMG, one of the big four auditing firms, to conduct a study into the economic benefits of a high-speed rail network. The findings of this research were published in the report "Consequences for employment and economic growth".
Greengauge 21 research has found that the price of travel on a future domestic High Speed network will be comparable with fares on conventional trains. A new report says that many passengers could be paying no more than £20 and dismisses claims that high-speed rail will be the preserve of a wealthy elite.
Many of Greengauge 21's recommendations have been incorporated into the planning of High Speed 2, a high-speed rail line, which will link London to Birmingham, with possible future phases extending the line to the North of England and Scotland.
Publications
Capturing the benefits of HS2 on existing lines
HS2 - Why the critics are wrong
High-Speed Rail: Fair and Affordable
Fast Forward: A High-Speed Rail Strategy for Britain
The Next Steps for High Speed Rail in Britain
See also
High Speed 2
High Speed 1
High-speed rail in the United Kingdom
Channel Tunnel
Department for Transport
References
External links
Greengauge 21
Non-profit organisations based in London
Organizations established in 2006
New Urbanism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle | A dongle is a small piece of computer hardware that connects to a port on another device to provide it with additional functionality, or enable a pass-through to such a device that adds functionality.
In computing, the term was initially synonymous with software protection dongles—a form of hardware digital rights management where a piece of software will only operate if a specified dongle—which typically contains a license key or some other cryptographic protection mechanism—is plugged into the computer while it is running.
The term has since been applied to other forms of devices with a similar form factor, such as:
adapters that convert ports to handle different types of connectors (such as DVI to VGA for displays, USB-to-serial data communication, and in modern computing, USB-C to other types of ports, and Mobile High-Definition Link),
USB wireless adapters for standards such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
USB flash drives (more commonly described as "USB stick" or "USB key")
small form-factor digital media players that plug into HDMI ports (most commonly described as a "media player dongle" or "media player stick")
Etymology
There are varying accounts on the etymology of the word "dongle"; in a 1999 paper, P. B. Schneck stated that the origin was unclear, but that it was possibly a corruption of the word "dangle" (since these devices "dangle" from a port on a PC).
A 1992 Byte magazine advertisement by Rainbow Technologies claimed that dongles were invented by and named after a person named "Don Gall", which spawned an urban legend. Linguist Ben Zimmer noted that the claim was likely a by-product of their "tongue-in-cheek" marketing style, and "was so egregiously false that the company happily owned up to it as a marketing ploy when pressed by Eric S. Raymond, who maintains the Jargon File, an online lexicon of hacker slang."
Examples
Copy protection
Security dongles are typically used to help prevent unauthorized use and copying of certain forms of software. Initially using ports such as the serial port or parallel port, most are now in USB format.
Small peripheral appliances
In the mid-to-late 2010s, the dongle form factor was extended to digital media players with a small, stick-like form factor—such as Chromecast and Fire TV Stick—that are designed to plug directly into an HDMI port on a television or AV receiver (powered via Micro USB connection to the television itself or an AC adapter), in contrast to a larger set-top box-style device. Single-board computers, such as the Intel Compute Stick, have also been produced in a similar means.
Adapters
Very short cables that connect relatively large jacks to smaller plugs allow cables to be easily installed and removed from equipment with limited space available for connectors. The Chromecast devit negates the need for a short adapter cable.
Other
Cassette adapters enable cassette-radios to allow AUX in, as with iPod/MP3 player/smartphone/portable CD player.
Personal FM transmitters al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloor/Gladstone%20Library | The Bloor/Gladstone Library is a branch of Toronto Public Library, located at 1101 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario.
Services
Information and reference services
Access to full text databases
Community information
Internet access
Reader's advisory services
Programs for children, youth and adults
Delivery to homebound individuals
Interlibrary loan
Free downloadable audiobooks
Architecture
It was designed by Chapman and McGiffin Architects. Its construction started in 1912, ended in 1913 and the library opened for business on October 25, 1913. The original building was inspired by the classical architectural tradition and incorporates many elements of the Italian Renaissance architecture, such as round arches, supported by pilasters with extruding head stones on the façade; decorative pediments that echoed Ancient Greek Temples; ornamentation, which included non-structural brackets on the interior, two fireplaces with sculpted angel faces on both sides of each fireplace, natural motifs, etc.; a slightly hipped roof with what seems like an entablature, created with the use of brick ornamentation and terra cotta veneer; the attempt to create a "perfect" square-shaped plan of the library with barrel-vaulted ceilings and a courtyard. The library has undergone two major renovations. The first was done in 1975-1976 by architects Howard V. Walker and Howard D. Chapman, which mainly affected the plan of the library since the facade remained virtually intact. The second renovation was from 2006 to 2009. The architects involved in this project were Rounthwaite, Dick and Hadley Architects inc, Shoalts and Zaback, and ERA. As a result of this renovation, the library now has a "glass box" addition, its main entrance has been lowered by approximately half a metre and some of the interior features, such as the staircase, have been altered for functional reasons.
References
External links
Toronto Public Library: Bloor-Gladstone branch
Library buildings completed in 1913
Beaux-Arts architecture in Canada
Public libraries in Toronto
1913 establishments in Ontario
Libraries established in 1913 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-ended%20priority%20queue | In computer science, a double-ended priority queue (DEPQ) or double-ended heap is a data structure similar to a priority queue or heap, but allows for efficient removal of both the maximum and minimum, according to some ordering on the keys (items) stored in the structure. Every element in a DEPQ has a priority or value. In a DEPQ, it is possible to remove the elements in both ascending as well as descending order.
Operations
A double-ended priority queue features the following operations:
isEmpty() Checks if DEPQ is empty and returns true if empty.
size() Returns the total number of elements present in the DEPQ.
getMin() Returns the element having least priority.
getMax() Returns the element having highest priority.
put(x) Inserts the element x in the DEPQ.
removeMin() Removes an element with minimum priority and returns this element.
removeMax() Removes an element with maximum priority and returns this element.
If an operation is to be performed on two elements having the same priority, then the element inserted first is chosen. Also, the priority of any element can be changed once it has been inserted in the DEPQ.
Implementation
Double-ended priority queues can be built from balanced binary search trees (where the minimum and maximum elements are the leftmost and rightmost leaves, respectively), or using specialized data structures like min-max heap and pairing heap.
Generic methods of arriving at double-ended priority queues from normal priority queues are:
Dual structure method
In this method two different priority queues for min and max are maintained. The same elements in both the PQs are shown with the help of correspondence pointers.
Here, the minimum and maximum elements are values contained in the root nodes of min heap and max heap respectively.
Removing the min element: Perform removemin() on the min heap and remove(node value) on the max heap, where node value is the value in the corresponding node in the max heap.
Removing the max element: Perform removemax() on the max heap and remove(node value) on the min heap, where node value is the value in the corresponding node in the min heap.
Total correspondence
Half the elements are in the min PQ and the other half in the max PQ. Each element in the min PQ has a one-to-one correspondence with an element in max PQ. If the number of elements in the DEPQ is odd, one of the elements is retained in a buffer. Priority of every element in the min PQ will be less than or equal to the corresponding element in the max PQ.
Leaf correspondence
In contrast to a total correspondence, in this method only the leaf elements of the min and max PQ form corresponding one-to-one pairs. It is not necessary for non-leaf elements to be in a one-to-one correspondence pair.
If the number of elements in the DEPQ is odd, one of the elements is retained in a buffer.
Interval heaps
Apart from the above-mentioned correspondence methods, DEPQ's can be obtained efficiently using interval heaps. An inter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20of%20Science | Community of Science was a collection of online databases, providing research information to both the public and subscribers, and services for the research community. It is owned by ProQuest.
History
Community of Science was founded in 1988 by Johns Hopkins University.
The Community of Science databases were originally hosted online at http://cos.gdb.org/, on the webserver of the GDB Human Genome Database. Community of Science was also accessible via U.S. Department of Agriculture CRIS, National Science Foundation, and Department of Health and Human Services.
the CEO and president was Huntington Williams, and the organisation was located in Baltimore, Maryland.
Databases
Community of Science Expertise
Community of Science Funding Opportunities – categorised according to a standardised list of keywords
Canadian editions of these databases also existed.
Services
Community of Science Funding Alert
Community of Science Funding News – published biweekly
Access
The following organisations are subscribed:
Association of Commonwealth Universities
See also
List of funding opportunity databases
References
Research
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20%28Darkstar%20album%29 | North is the debut album of Darkstar. The album was released on October 18, 2010
Track listing
"In the Wings" – 2:53
"Gold" – 4:20
"Deadness" – 4:39
"Aidys Girl Is a Computer" – 5:11
"Under One Roof" – 4:31
"Two Chords" – 3:58
"North" – 3:53
"Ostkreuz" – 2:30
"Dear Heartbeat" - 3:43
"When It's Gone" - 3:58
References
Darkstar (band) albums
2010 debut albums
Hyperdub albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Rutishauser | Heinz Rutishauser (30 January 1918 – 10 November 1970) was a Swiss mathematician and a pioneer of modern numerical mathematics and computer science.
Life
Rutishauser's father died when he was 13 years old and his mother died three years later, so together with his younger brother and sister he went to live in their uncle's home. From 1936, Rutishauser studied mathematics at the ETH Zürich where he graduated in 1942. From 1942 to 1945, he was assistant of Walter Saxer at the ETH, and from 1945 to 1948, a mathematics teacher in Glarisegg and Trogen. In 1948, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from ETH with a well-received thesis on complex analysis.
From 1948 to 1949, Rutishauser was in the United States at the Universities of Harvard and Princeton to study the state of the art in computing. From 1949 to 1955, he was a research associate at the Institute for Applied Mathematics at ETH Zürich recently founded by Eduard Stiefel, where he worked together with Ambros Speiser on developing the first Swiss computer ERMETH, and developed the programming language Superplan (1949–1951), the name being a reference to Rechenplan (English: computation plan), in Konrad Zuse's terminology, designating a single Plankalkül program. He contributed especially in the field of compiler pioneering work and was eventually involved in defining the languages ALGOL 58 and ALGOL 60. He was a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
Among other contributions, he introduced several basic syntactic features to computer programming, notably the reserved word (keyword) for for a for loop, first as the German für in Superplan, next via its English translation for in ALGOL 58.
In 1951, Rutishauser became a lecturer; in German, a Privatdozent. In 1955, he was appointed extraordinary professor, and 1962, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at the ETH. In 1968, he became the head of the Group for Computer Science which later became the Computer Science Institute and ultimately in 1981, The Division of Computer Science at ETH Zürich.
At least since the 1950s Rutishauser suffered from heart problems. In 1964, he suffered a heart attack from which he recovered. On 10 November 1970, he died in his office from acute heart failure. After his untimely death, his wife Margaret shepherded the publication of his posthumous works.
In the preface to his text Systematic Programming: An Introduction, Niklaus Wirth referred to Rutishauser as "... the originator of the idea of programming languages, and the co-author of ALGOL-60".
Papers
Automatische Rechenplanfertigung. Habilitationsschrift ETHZ, 1951. (i.e. Automatic construction of computation plans, habilitation thesis)
Automatische Rechenplanfertigung bei programmgesteuerten Rechenmaschinen. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1952.
Some programming techniques for the ERMETH, JACM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz%21%3A%20The%20Ultimate%20Music%20Quiz | Buzz!: The Ultimate Music Quiz is a party video game developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released in 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and 2011 for the PlayStation Portable. An installment of the Buzz! game series, it was only released in Europe.
Gameplay
The Ultimate Music Quiz is the first Buzz! game to feature support for PlayStation Move. The move section of the game allows users to take part in a different style of quiz where they use the Move controller to select the correct answer. During this section the player is shown on screen and the Move controller is shown as a giant dart or a hammer or other object which the user uses to pop balloons or break block that represent the correct answer.
Four players can participate at a time, with a choice of game lengths or specific rounds to be played. There is a new mini-game named Twisted Tunes. It makes slight changes to each song given, with a goal to guess them as fast as possible.
The game also includes a feature called Paperface where players with a PlayStation Eye camera can use it to add their own faces, for use on the in-game characters.
References
External links
Developer Relentless Software website
Buzz!
2010 video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Move-compatible games
PlayStation Portable games
EyeToy games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Europe-exclusive video games
Relentless Software games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systoloneura | Systoloneura is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Systoloneura geometropis (Meyrick, 1936)
Systoloneura randiae Vári, 1961
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protolithocolletis | Protolithocolletis is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Protolithocolletis lathyri Braun, 1929
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Lithocolletinae
Gracillarioidea genera
Taxa named by Annette Frances Braun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/123people | Initially, 123people was developed as a real time people search service, which gathered information from the deep web and over 200 external data sources, to present it in a structured search result dashboard view. 123people only gathers publicly available information from an extensive list of international as well as regional sources. Later additional services were Webcleaner which was designed to delete web content (such as pictures, comments, or articles) from the Internet, and also the Social Network Monitor which checked the user's Facebook profile towards privacy and reputation threats. 123people stopped trading in 2014 and is defunct.
History
123people was a product of the 123people Internetservices GmbH. 123people Internetservices GmbH was founded in 2007 by European IT incubator with initial funding from Austrian venture capital company Gamma Capital Partners. The company was based in Vienna, Austria. Since March 2010, 123people was part of the French Solocal Group. At the beginning of 2012 the 123people Internetservices GmbH renamed itself into Yelster Digital GMBH.
This was also the starting point for the development of new activities by digital: In January 2012 the company had announced the launch of 123pages in France, an online search service for businesses and services; in April 2012 123pages was launched in Austria. In January 2013, the company also gave a face lift and a product extension to the people search engine, 123people. Webcleaner and Social Network Monitor were the two new paid products that aimed to help web-users to monitor and protect their online reputation and personal safety.
The service was taken down permanently March 31, 2014.
Business model
123people had a multi-tier business model offering standard and customized banner campaigns in all of its 12 top-level domains, applying traditional CPC and CPM pricing models. Affiliate partnerships were also a main focus to 123people. 123people integrated over 200 local and international partners providing content such as directory services, premium public records and social networks, as well as products such as wish lists and books. Partners were integrated via teasers or text links within each of its sections. 123people's pricing models for partners included CPC, CPM and CPA.
References
Defunct internet search engines
Online person databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%3A%20War%20for%20Cybertron%20%28Nintendo%20DS%29 | Transformers: War for Cybertron - Autobots and Transformers: War for Cybertron - Decepticons are two action-adventure video games based on the Transformers franchise, published by Activision in June 2010. A port of High Moon Studios' Transformers: War for Cybertron for the Nintendo DS, they were developed by Vicarious Visions, who also worked on Transformers Autobots and Transformers Decepticons in 2007, and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Decepticons in 2009. Although they share some basic similarities, the two games follow different storylines (one from the Autobots' perspective, and the other from the Decepticons' perspective), and feature different characters, missions, and locations.
Gameplay
Like the console version, the central focus of the two DS games is a linear campaign of missions, following basically the same story, split in two parts. Additionally, there is an Arena mode with five "arenas", each with six missions available, four bonus levels from the opposing game, and seven multiplayer levels.
Before each mission, you pick two Transformers from your available troops. During the mission, you switch between the two chosen characters using the A button. If a character is knocked out, they can be revived by defeating a certain number of enemies with the remaining character. New characters can be unlocked by completing campaign and arena missions, locating "data disks" which appear as floating golden discs, or using unlock codes. There are 24 unlockable characters in total, 14 through the campaign and 10 in the arenas. Other data disks can be selected at the start of a mission to boost character stats.
Characters are classed as "Heavy", "Light" or "Air". While "Air" has the obvious advantage of flight, missions contain areas which only certain classes can go: marked walls can be bashed down by heavy vehicles, and there are small spaces where only light vehicles can go. There are also three weapon types: "plasma" represented by a red circle, "laser" represented by a yellow triangle, and "solid" represented by a blue square. Each character has a ranged weapon (typically plasma or laser) and a melee weapon (typically solid). Enemies are particularly vulnerable to a certain type of damage, which is visible as the symbol representing that damage type above the enemy's head. Advanced enemies can change which damage type they're vulnerable to.
While the foes have health bars that appear over their heads, the player has three bars on their HUD — a health bar, an energy bar, which represents energy they can use to fire, and a boost bar which appears while in vehicle mode, which they can use to boost their speed. All three bars will regenerate in time, though for "Air" characters, the energy bar will not regenerate while they're in vehicle mode.
The game also incorporates a leveling system. Characters begin at level 1 and gain experience by killing enemies and finding Energon cubes. Each l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazon%20Yeshaya%20Humanitarian%20Network | Hazon Yeshaya Humanitarian Network was an Israeli charity organization, based in Jerusalem, that provided a number of services for impoverished Israelis, regardless of religious affiliation. The organization was founded by Abraham Israel in 1997.
In April 2012, the Israel Police arrested 10 employees of Hazon, including the head, "on suspicion of pocketing millions of dollars from donors abroad for poor people, including Holocaust victims."
All information on this page regarding Hazon Yeshaya's charity work are claims made by the organization that were later proved to be untrue.
Leadership
In 1956, after the Suez War, Abraham Israel's family fled Egypt to escape growing anti-Semitism. They spent three years in Paris, France before immigrating to the United States of America. Abraham Israel received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Baruch College in New York City and worked as a shoe importer. In 1997, Abraham Israel moved to Israel with his family and founded Hazon Yeshaya.
Soup kitchens
Hazon Yeshaya soup kitchens served more than 400,000 meals each month at more than 60 distribution points around Israel and is the only organization that provided soup kitchens facilities 365 days of the year in Israel. Beneficiaries included over 10,000 school children whose teachers have identified them to be in need of better nutrition. In 2008, expenditures on soup kitchens, including holiday packages, amounted to $9.9 million.
Dental services
Hazon Yeshaya Dental Clinics offered free services to an average of 2,000 patients each year. Services offered include implants, endodontics, crowns and bridges, periodontal therapy and surgery, dentures and orthodontic treatment. In 2008, expenditures on free dental clinics amounted to about $204,000.
Vocational training
Hazon Yeshaya offered a free vocational training for battered, divorced and single women, new immigrants, and discharged soldiers. Programs taught include hairdressing and barbering, cosmetics, computer skills, secretarial skills and office management. In 2008, more than 700 students participated and expenditures on vocational training amounted to about $591,000.
Programs for children
School Lunches
More than 10,000 school children whose teachers have identified as in need of better nutrition received free school lunches prepared in the Hazon Yeshaya Soup Kitchens.
Bar and Bat Mitzvah Celebrations
Hazon Yeshaya organized bar and bat mitzvah services for orphans and children from abusive and broken homes. Approximately 600 children participated in 2008.
After-School Programs
Hazon Yeshaya provided structured after-school programs for children in math, reading, computer activities and sports. The program served about 5,000 children per year.
Day Care
Hazon Yeshaya Day Care Centers provided day care for underprivileged preschooler students whose parents cannot afford tuition. In 2008, there were 250 children enrolled in the program and expenditures amounted to about $942,000. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast%20Studios | Vast Studios is a casual video game company founded in 2008 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are the developer of 3Tones, a match 3 game nominated for RealNetworks' Great Game Awards as well as the Nightfall Mysteries series. The studio also partnered with National Geographic to make a point-and-click style game based around the Salem Witch Trials called “Lost Chronicles: Salem” which was released December 4th, 2010. The first publicly released game by Vast was "Hard Hittin’ Hockey" in 2007. Vast Studios has since gone out of business, and in 2014, they were acquired by ISIS Lab Corporation, now known as Tangelo Games Corp.
Games
The company produced primarily puzzle and time management games; however, recent titles involved hidden object games. Their games are distributed via digital download portals such as Big Fish Games. Their games have been reviewed at Gamezebo.
References
External links
Official Site
Vast Studios at MobyGames
Vast Studios at IGN
Video game companies of Canada
Companies based in Toronto
2008 establishments in Ontario
Video game companies established in 2008
Video game development companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigod | Antigod is an EP by Swiss heavy metal band Samael.
Track listing
Personnel
Samael
Vorph – guitar, vocals, production
Mak – guitar, production
Mas – bass, production
Xy – keyboards, programming, percussion, production
Technical personnel
Russ Russell – mixing, mastering
Patrix Pidoux – cover artwork
References
2010 EPs
Samael (band) albums
Nuclear Blast EPs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton%20%28talk%20show%29 | Denton is an Australian hour-long live late night talk show and interview program hosted by the eponymous Andrew Denton. It aired on the Seven Network between 1994 and 1995. Regular guests included Amanda Keller and Bobcat Goldthwaite. Anthony Morgan had a recurring role as the roving Melbourne correspondent. Andrew won the 'Most Popular Comedy Personality' Logie Award in 1996, for his role in Denton
References
Rolling Stone interview with Andrew Denton regarding the upcoming show
Review of Andrew's career, with notes regarding Denton
External links
1994 Australian television series debuts
1995 Australian television series endings
Australian television talk shows
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iligan%20Computer%20Institute | Iligan Computer Institute is a technical school in the Philippines. It has 3 campuses: ICI - Iligan, ICI - CDO, and ICI - Kapatagan. ICI - Iligan is located at Diocesan Centrum Bldg., Brgy. Poblacion, Iligan City. ICI - CDO is located at Del Monte Coop Building, Bugo, Cagayan de Oro. ICI - Kapatagan is located at Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte.
Iligan Computer Institute is founded on April 15, 1997, by its president, Mr. Ladislao C. Tabanao Jr.
External links
Iligan Computer Institute official website
Vocational education in the Philippines
Schools in Iligan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophyllocnistis | Prophyllocnistis is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Prophyllocnistis epidrimys Davis, 1994
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Phyllocnistinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyptila | Amblyptila is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Amblyptila cynanchi Vári, 1961
Amblyptila strophanthina Vári, 1961
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Acrocercopinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apistoneura | Apistoneura is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Apistoneura psarochroma Vári, 1961
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophthisis | Apophthisis is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Apophthisis congregata Braun, 1923
Apophthisis pullata Braun, 1915
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilocampyla | Chilocampyla is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Chilocampyla dyariella Busck, 1900
Chilocampyla psidiella Busck, 1934
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Acrocercopinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupedia | Cupedia is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Cupedia cupediella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogonocephala | Pogonocephala is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Pogonocephala heteropsis (Lower, 1894)
Pogonocephala veneranda (Meyrick, 1909)
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydema | Polydema is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Polydema hormophora (Meyrick, 1912)
Polydema vansoni Vári, 1961
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymitia | Polymitia is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Polymitia eximipalpella (Gerasimov, 1930)
Polymitia laristana Triberti, 1986
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psydrocercops | Psydrocercops is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Psydrocercops wisteriae (Kuroko, 1982)
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Acrocercopinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauterina | Sauterina is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Sauterina hofmanniella (Schleich, 1867)
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Acrocercopinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedocercops | Schedocercops is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Schedocercops maeruae Vári, 1961
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Acrocercopinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semnocera | Semnocera is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Semnocera procellaris (Meyrick, 1914)
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synnympha | Synnympha is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Synnympha diluviata Meyrick, 1915
Synnympha perfrenis Meyrick, 1920
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penica | Penica is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Penica peritheta Walsingham, 1914
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrorycter | Dendrorycter is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Dendrorycter marmaroides Kumata, 1978
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextellia | Dextellia is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Dextellia dorsilineella (Amsel, 1935)
References
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera
Monotypic moth genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysectopa | Dysectopa is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Dysectopa scalifera Vári, 1961
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicnistis | Epicnistis is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Epicnistis euryscia Meyrick, 1906
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalybites | Eucalybites is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Eucalybites aureola Kumata, 1982
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euprophantis | Euprophantis is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Euprophantis autoglypta Meyrick, 1921
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurytyla | Eurytyla is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Eurytyla automacha Meyrick, 1893
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euspilapteryx | Euspilapteryx is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Euspilapteryx auroguttella Stephens, 1835
Euspilapteryx crypta Vári, 1961
References
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypectopa | Hypectopa is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Hypectopa ornithograpta Diakonoff, 1955
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Acrocercopinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketapangia | Ketapangia is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Ketapangia leucochorda (Meyrick, 1908)
Ketapangia regulifera (Meyrick, 1933)
References
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprolectica | Lamprolectica is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Lamprolectica apicistrigata (Walsingham, 1891)
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Acrocercopinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocercops | Leucocercops is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Leucocercops dasmophora (Meyrick, 1908)
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Acrocercopinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurolipa | Neurolipa is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Neurolipa randiella (Busck, 1900)
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligoneurina | Oligoneurina is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Oligoneurina ficicola Vári, 1961
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornixola | Ornixola is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Ornixola caudulatella (Zeller, 1839)
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated%20conditional%20modes | In statistics, iterated conditional modes is a deterministic algorithm for obtaining a configuration of a local maximum of the joint probability of a Markov random field. It does this by iteratively maximizing the probability of each variable conditioned on the rest.
See also
Belief propagation
Graph cuts in computer vision
Optimization problem
References
Optimization algorithms and methods
Computational statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LatencyTOP | LatencyTOP is a Linux application for identifying operating system latency within the kernel and find out the operations/actions which cause the latency. LatencyTOP is a tool for software developers to visualize system latencies. Based on these observations, the source code of the application or kernel can be modified to reduce latency. It was released by Intel in 2008 under the GPLv2 license. It works for Intel, AMD and ARM processors.
As of 2021, the project appears inactive with the last commit to the source code in October 2009.
See also
Green computing
PowerTOP
top (software)
References
External links
Linux process- and task-management-related software
Computers and the environment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiRBase | In bioinformatics, miRBase is a biological database that acts as an archive of microRNA sequences and annotations. As of September 2010 it contained information about 15,172 microRNAs. This number has risen to 38,589 by March 2018. The miRBase registry provides a centralised system for assigning new names to microRNA genes.
miRBase grew from the microRNA registry resource set up by Sam Griffiths-Jones in 2003.
According to Ana Kozomara and Sam Griffiths-Jones miRBase has five aims:
To provide a consistent naming system for microRNAs
To provide a central place collecting all known microRNA sequences
To provide human and computer readable information for each microRNA
To provide primary evidence for each microRNA
To aggregate and link to microRNA target information
MiRBase contains miRNAs belonging of various species belonging to Alveolata, Chromalveolata, Metazoa, Mycetozoa, Viridiplantae and Viruses. For the Viridiplantae, in release 21 (2014) data is available for 73 species. This includes 4800 unique mature miRNAs and 8480 precursor sequences.
The current version of MiRBase is release 22 (March 2018).
References
External links
miRBase
MicroRNA
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChEMBL | ChEMBL or ChEMBLdb is a manually curated chemical database of bioactive molecules with drug inducing properties.
It is maintained by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), based at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
The database, originally known as StARlite, was developed by a biotechnology company called Inpharmatica Ltd. later acquired by Galapagos NV. The data was acquired for EMBL in 2008 with an award from The Wellcome Trust, resulting in the creation of the ChEMBL chemogenomics group at EMBL-EBI, led by John Overington.
Scope and access
The ChEMBL database contains compound bioactivity data against drug targets. Bioactivity is reported in Ki, Kd, IC50, and EC50. Data can be filtered and analyzed to develop compound screening libraries for lead identification during drug discovery.
ChEMBL version 2 (ChEMBL_02) was launched in January 2010, including 2.4 million bioassay measurements covering 622,824 compounds, including 24,000 natural products. This was obtained from curating over 34,000 publications across twelve medicinal chemistry journals. ChEMBL's coverage of available bioactivity data has grown to become "the most comprehensive ever seen in a public database.". In October 2010 ChEMBL version 8 (ChEMBL_08) was launched, with over 2.97 million bioassay measurements covering 636,269 compounds.
ChEMBL_10 saw the addition of the PubChem confirmatory assays, in order to integrate data that is comparable to the type and class of data contained within ChEMBL.
ChEMBLdb can be accessed via a web interface or downloaded by File Transfer Protocol. It is formatted in a manner amenable to computerized data mining, and attempts to standardize activities between different publications, to enable comparative analysis. ChEMBL is also integrated into other large-scale chemistry resources, including PubChem and the ChemSpider system of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Associated resources
In addition to the database, the ChEMBL group have developed tools and resources for data mining. These include Kinase SARfari, an integrated chemogenomics workbench focussed on kinases. The system incorporates and links sequence, structure, compounds and screening data.
GPCR SARfari is a similar workbench focused on GPCRs, and ChEMBL-Neglected Tropical Diseases (ChEMBL-NTD) is a repository for Open Access primary screening and medicinal chemistry data directed at endemic tropical diseases of the developing regions of the Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The primary purpose of ChEMBL-NTD is to provide a freely accessible and permanent archive and distribution centre for deposited data.
July 2012 saw the release of a new malaria data service , sponsored by the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), aimed at researchers around the globe. The data in this service includes compounds from the Malaria Box screening set, as well as the other donated malaria data found in ChEMBL-NTD.
myChEMBL, the ChE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20islands%20of%20Maine | This list primarily derives from the Maine Coastal Island Registry, a database of the 3166 coastal islands from the largest (Mount Desert Island) to the smallest islets and ledges exposed above mean high tide. Some notable inland freshwater islands, like Frye Island in Sebago Lake, have been included.
Description of columns
Registry # refers to the Maine Coastal Island Registry ("MCIR") assigning each island an identifying number. Many islands have the same Island Name (there are over 20 "Bar Islands," for instance; more than 30 named "Little"), but each has a unique number. Some islands comprising more than one landmass have several registry numbers under one name.
The table lists Cities, Towns, and Counties primarily as a finding aid, since governmental jurisdiction over Maine islands is rife with confusing historical anomalies. For instance, of Maine's 15 island communities inhabited year-round, eight are independent towns, two are part of one town, three belong to mainland municipalities, and two govern themselves as island plantations. Some Maine islands never belonged to any township or once belonged to plantations now defunct; several islands recently seceded from mainland cities, and the sovereignty of two islands remains disputed between the US and Canada.
The Code column refers to Maine Island Registry status. All islands coded as "R" are registered and privately owned. Those listed as "U" are unregistered and held in trust by the State of Maine (some of these may be privately owned but the owners did not register the islands). Islands listed as "E" are exempt from the registry requirements because they are either owned by the state or federal government or have four or more structures on them and were presumed to be privately owned. Islands listed as "T" are held in trust by the state and management transferred to a particular state agency or organization, such as the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife ("ME IF&W").
The Description column is from secondary sources as noted. The description and Acreage are not always available, nor constant since construction, quarrying, farming, logging, fire, or even a single storm can alter the features of an island.
Table
See also
Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge
Maine Island Trail
Notes
References
Lists of landforms of Maine
Maine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Clo | Ülo is an Estonian masculine given name. The feminine form of Ülo is Ülle.
People named Ülo include:
Ülo Jaaksoo (born 1939), computer scientist
Ülo Jõgi (1921–2007), war historian, nationalist and activist
Ülo Kaevats (born 1947), statesman, academic, and philosopher
Ülo Kesker (1934–2019), draughts player and sports journalist
Ülo Krigul (born 1978), composer
Ülo Lumiste (born 1929), mathematician
Ülo Mander (born 1954), ecologist, geographer and educator
(born 1942), philosopher
Ülo Mattheus (born 1956), writer and journalist
Ülo Nugis (born 1944), politician and economist
Ülo Õun (1940–1988), sculptor
Ülo Pikkov (born 1976), animator, film director and producer
Ülo Raudmäe (1923–1990), conductor, composer and trombonist
Ülo Seppa (1933–2015), lawyer and agronomist
Ülo Sooster (1924–1970), painter
Ülo Tärno (born 1936), Estonian politician
Ülo Tedre (1928–2015), folklorist
Ülo Tootsen (1933–2006), journalist and politician
Ülo Torpats (1920–1988), philologist and translator
Ülo Tulik (born 1957), politician
Ülo Tuulik (born 1940), writer
Ülo Uluots (1930–1997), politician, mining engineer and military historian
Ülo Varul (1952– 2016), basketball player
Ülo Vilimaa (born 1941), dancer, choreographer, theatre director and painter
Ülo Vinter (1924–2000), composer
Ülo Voitka (born 1968), freedom fighter, forest brother, and pro-anarchist
Ülo Vooglaid (born 1935), social scientist and politician
Estonian masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Courtyard | The Courtyard is a 1995 made-for-television thriller film that premiered on the Showtime network. Directed by Fred Walton, the movies uses a screenplay by Wendy Biller and Christopher Hawthorne. The work centers around a yuppie architect who suspects his neighbor is a murderer. The film stars Andrew McCarthy as Jonathan, Mädchen Amick as Lauren, Cheech Marin as Angel Steiner, David Packer as Jack Morgan, Bonnie Bartlett as Cathleen Fitzgerald, and Vincent Schiavelli as Ivan. Judith Dolan designed costumes for the production.
References
External links
1995 television films
1995 films
1995 thriller films
American thriller films
Showtime (TV network) films
American thriller television films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harborside%20Press | Harborside Press is a medical publisher located in Huntington, New York. They publish JNCCN--Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, The ASCO Post, and the Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology.
References
Publishing companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JustGarciaHill.org | JustGarciaHill.org was a social networking website for minority groups in the biological sciences. It was a membership-only site and featured elements such as common interest groups for summer undergraduate researchers and a forum for discussing science policy. The website was first launched in the late 1990s and originally grew out of a database that was created for the Coalition for the Advancement of Blacks in Biomedical Sciences, but had grown to encompass all minorities that are considered to be underrepresented in biological sciences. JustGarciaHill.org was run through ScienceJobs.com and was funded by the Clinical and Translational Science Center with additional support from The Center for Study of Gene Structure and Function. The website was quietly shut down at the beginning of 2020 for an unspecified reason.
References
External links
American social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
1990s establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socolar | Socolar is a free searchable database of open access journals, and repositories hosted by the China Educational Publications Import and Export Corporation (CEPIEC), one of the largest state-owned companies that was established in 1987 to meet the demands of foreign academic publications from universities and colleges in China. It links to more than 11,739 journals and more than 1048 repositories with about 23,795,416 articles in total in many languages.
References
External links
Socolar
China Educational Publications Import and Export Corporation Ltd.
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1%20Classic%20%28European%20TV%20channel%29 | VH1 Classic Europe was a European music television channel from ViacomCBS Networks EMEAA. The channel primarily featured music videos from the 1970s through to the 2000s (decade), although rare live performances from the 1950s and 1960s could be seen as well.
History
VH1 Classic was first launched in the United Kingdom on 1 July 1999 and made available from the beginning to the whole of Europe. However, the pan-European service was launched on 30 November 2004, when it became a separate feed from VH1 Classic UK. Like VH1 European, it broadcast from MTV Networks Europe's premises in Camden Town (London, UK). It was officially available to viewers all over Europe (except the UK & Ireland and Italy). Unlike VH1 Classic UK, the pan-European version of the channel was entirely devoid of advertisements, with round-the-clock music videos played out from MTV Networks Europe's comprehensive library in London.
Attempts to transition VH1 Classic to widescreen
Like the now-defunct Italian feed of MTV Classic, VH1 Classic aired in 4:3 standard definition aspect ratio. There were a few attempts to transition this channel to widescreen, but they failed due to several technical issues.
The first widescreen transition attempt happened on 19 August 2015 at 6:00 CET, which caused VH1 Classic to have severe technical issues for a minute, then it went widescreen temporarily until 6:45 CET, which the music video was abruptly changed to "The Sweet Escape" by Gwen Stefani and reverted to 4:3. The last widescreen transition attempt happened on 9 February 2016 at 7:00 CET, when a fragment of the music video of the song "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith played, but it abruptly shifted to the on-air ident instead, which also failed.
Closure
On 1 June 2020, VH1 Classic Europe cancelled Non-Stop Classics, Welcome To The Weekend, and (on Sunday morning) Keep It Classic, Instead, We Are The 80's showtimes significantly expanded. The program begun at midnight, and it ended at midday on every day of the week. On 30 June 2020 the channel cancelled We Are The 80s, and started MTV 80s Takeover. It was later announced that the channel along with the European version of MTV Rocks, would close in October 2020, and would be replaced by MTV 80s.
On 19 September 2020, VH1 Classic Europe broadcast the final episodes of Smells Like The 90s and Nothing But The 00s, and on September 18 of this year, Keep It Classic (the last music video (from not the 80's) on the channel on 19 September 2020 at 23:57 CET was the 'Thunder In My Heart' by Meck and Leo Sayer). On the night of 19–20 September 2020, VH1 Classic Europe stopped broadcasting these programs, and the showtime of MTV 80s Takeover became 24 Hours In Every Single Day (except on 5 October 2020 between midnight and 6:00 CET, whenever the Channel broadcast Non-Stop 80s Hits).
The channel closed on 5 October 2020, with Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen being the last video played on the channel before being replaced with MT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fool%20Monty | "The Fool Monty" is the sixth episode of the twenty-second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 21, 2010. In the episode, Bart finds Mr. Burns lying in the forest and takes him home, while Homer decides to get revenge. It was directed by Steven Dean Moore and written by Michael Price.
Plot
A group of TV representatives plan to cause mass panic to increase ratings by fabricating a faux disease caused by household cats and state, among other things, that there is a vaccine available in limited supply. At the Springfield hospital, Mr. Burns steals a significant portion of the vaccine for himself, claiming that he needs to give a good example to his hounds (even though dogs are immune to the disease) and running over the rest of the vaccine with his car in the process, causing immense anger to Springfield.
After Burns learns from his doctor that he is suffering from multiple fatal illnesses and has only six weeks to live, he becomes distraught at his fate; when he tells the news to the rest of the town, however, they celebrate and proceed to melt his ice sculpture. Realizing that no one in Springfield (aside from Smithers) likes him, Burns attempts suicide by leaping from a cliff, but ends up surviving, albeit with some amnesia and delusional behavior. Bart finds a helpless Burns in the wilderness and secretly takes him into the Simpsons' home. When Homer and Marge learn about their new house guest, they, along with the rest of Springfield, decide to get some payback for all the misery he has caused them over the years. However, they eventually get tired of tormenting him and cast him aside.
When Lisa takes Burns back to his mansion, he regains his memory. Once again a cruel, heartless miser, he decides to put a dome over the town to get revenge on everyone who had treated him badly (inspired by Stephen King's novel Under the Dome), only to be informed that something similar was already done and it would not work again because they could simply cave their way out. Marge tries to convince Burns that he should treat people with more respect after this experience, but her argument fails when Burns realizes that his cruelty is the only thing that has kept him alive for some time, as he has survived the past six weeks.
In the end, Burns flies away in his helicopter piloted by Smithers, who spent a brief time working for former Vice President Dick Cheney during Burns' assumed demise. The two are immediately greeted by Nelson, who threatens to crash the helicopter unless Burns agrees to attend a school version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? posing as Nelson's father. Despite his disgust at being forced to watch the play, Burns actually enjoys Nelson's performance.
Cultural references
The episode's couch gag serves as a parody of the 2009 film Avatar. Mr Burns is inspired by Stephen King's Under the Dome to place a large dome over Springfield before be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate%20zone%20rating | Ultimate zone rating (UZR) is a sabermetric statistic used to measure fielding. It compares the event that actually happened (hit/out/error) to data on similarly hit balls in the past to determine how much better or worse the fielder did than the "average" player. UZR divides a baseball field into multiple zones and assigns individual fielders responsibility for those zones.
UZR calculations are provided at FanGraphs by Mitchel Lichtman.
Proponents of the statistic advise that defense is best judged over three-year spans, as a given year contains a relatively small sample and can result in large statistical swings. Former Major League Baseball shortstop David Eckstein says "a lot of defense is putting yourself in the right position to make plays." Josh Stein, San Diego Padres director of baseball operations, said UZR "can be skewed if the player is not starting from the exact middle of [UZR's zone] chart."
References
External links
The Fangraphs UZR primer
Fielding statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS%20X%20Lion | OS X Lion, also known as Mac OS X Lion, (version 10.7) is the eighth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers.
A preview of OS X 10.7 Lion was publicly shown at the "Back to the Mac" Apple Special Event on October 20, 2010. It brought many developments made in Apple's iOS, such as an easily navigable display of installed applications, to the Mac, and includes support for the Mac App Store, as introduced in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard version 10.6.6.
On February 24, 2011, the first developer's preview of Lion (11A390) was released to subscribers to the Apple Developer program. Other developer previews were subsequently released, with Lion Preview 4 (11A480b) being released at WWDC 2011.
Lion was released to manufacturing on July 1, 2011, followed by its final release via the Mac App Store on July 20, 2011. Apple reported over one million Lion sales on the first day of its release. , OS X Lion had sold over six million copies worldwide.
Lion is the first version of macOS that did not support 32-bit processors and is also the final release whose development was overseen by Bertrand Serlet, considered to be the "founding father of Mac OS X".
Although originally paid, Apple later allowed free downloads of the OS, especially for customers of older and no longer officially supported Mac computers, starting on June 30, 2021. The same practice was applied to its successor, OS X Mountain Lion.
Release and distribution
On June 6, 2011, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, it was announced that the official release for Lion would be in July 2011. The specific release date of July 20 was not confirmed until the day before, July 19, by Apple CFO, Peter Oppenheimer, as part of Apple's 2011 third-quarter earnings announcement.
Apple did not initially announce any physical media distribution for Lion, such as a set of CD-ROMs or a DVD-ROM as used for past releases. Instead, the operating system was said to be available exclusively as a download from the Mac App Store for US$29.99. The only prior version of OS X that supports the Mac App Store is Snow Leopard, which implied that any machines that support Lion currently running Tiger or Leopard would first have to be upgraded to Snow Leopard, as opposed to allowing a direct upgrade to Lion.
Apple later announced two alternative distribution mechanisms for the benefit of users without broadband Internet access: in-store downloads at retail Apple Stores, and a USB flash drive containing the OS, priced at US$69, available through the online Apple Store beginning in August. On August 4, 2011, Apple started to take orders for OS X Lion's USB installation flash drives for $69.99.
The Server portion of Lion is available as a separate download from the Mac App Store for US$49.99, which is in addition to the purchase price of Lion itself.
In July 2012, Lion was removed from the Mac App Store and retail Apple stores following the release of OS X Mountain Lion. F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datamonitor | Datamonitor is an international company providing market intelligence, data analysis, and opinion via a worldwide network of in-house analysts. The company tracks Automotive, Consumer Markets, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Logistics & Express, Pharmaceutical & Healthcare, Retail, Technology, Sourcing and Telecommunications markets. Its website claims to have over 6,000 clients, which it helps make strategic and operational decisions. Datamonitor was acquired in 2007 by Informa for £513 million in cash.
History
The company was founded in 1989 by Mike Danson and Doug Wilson, with its first report covering the UK Frozen Food Industry. The company then expanded its coverage to include a number of markets and industries, having secured further business intelligence companies. In 1995, it expanded into the U.S. market by opening an office in New York. In 1999, it opened an office in Frankfurt, Germany, and Hong Kong. In November 2000 Datamonitor went public on the London Stock Exchange.
In 2007, Datamonitor was acquired by Informa (FTSE: INF) in 2007 for £513 million in cash, a surprisingly large amount considering it was "a multiple of more than seven times Datamonitor’s revenue". In 2011, Informa closed down Datamonitor offices in Hyderabad, India, and Dubai, which had been opened in 2006 and 2007, respectively. In February 2015, parent company Informa wrote down Datamonitor's value of by almost 40%, and Informa CEO Stephen Carter said that it was considering selling "some of the 'consumer forecasting' businesses that were part of the Datamonitor deal".
On July 27, 2015, Progressive Digital Media, a business chaired by Datamonitor founder Mike Danson, announced that it had agreed to acquire Datamonitor Financial, Datamonitor Consumer, MarketLine and Verdict businesses from Informa for a combined cash price of £25m. Datamonitor Healthcare and Datamonitor Energy remained businesses of Informa plc.
In 2022, Informa sold its Pharma Intelligence division, including Datamonitor Healthcare, to Warburg Pincus. The business was renamed Citeline. Later in 2022, Citeline was acquired by Norstella.
Acquired companies
Computerwire (2002)
Productscan Online (2004)
eBenchmarkers (2004)
Butler Research Group (2005)
Verdict Research (2005)
Ovum Ltd. (2006)
Life Science Analytics (2006)
Brown Wilson Group (2009)
Packtrack (2010)
Many of the acquired companies continue to have an independent brand presence within Datamonitor.
References
External links
Company website
Companies established in 1989
Companies based in London
Research and analysis firms of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPSS%20%28disambiguation%29 | SPSS may refer to:
SPSS, SPSS Statistics (formerly known as Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), computer software
SPSS Inc., company
Narco sub, self-propelled semi-submersible
Science Planning and Scheduling System, module of the Hubble Space Telescope
Special State Protection Service of Georgia, the state protection agency of Georgia
Organizations
Sree Pushpakabrahmana Seva Sangham, Kerala, India
Schools
St. Paul's Secondary School, Hong Kong
St. Peter's Secondary School (disambiguation)
South Peace Secondary School, Dawson Creek, British Columbia |
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