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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500%20Keys | "500 Keys" is the twenty-first and penultimate episode of the twenty-second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 15, 2011. It was written by John Frink and directed by Bob Anderson.
Plot
After returning from a shop that sells returned wedding cakes, Maggie gets locked in the car with the key inside. While searching for the spare keys (which soon proves unnecessary, as Maggie is able to free herself), the Simpsons discover a collection of keys to every door in Springfield. Lisa uses a key and finds a hidden classroom full of theater props underneath the school. She is intrigued by the discovery, and shares it with Principal Skinner, but when she brings along the school newspaper, they only find shelves full of "Banned Band Books." It becomes apparent that Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers are hiding something when they snatch the key from Lisa. She has the key replicated and returns to the door on her own, and finds the classroom has been hidden behind a shoddy set of bookshelves. She then sees a mysterious figure writing "The children are on Bus 23" on the chalkboard. Lisa is determined to solve the mystery of the hidden room.
Meanwhile, Bart tries causing mayhem with the keys but accidentally does good deeds with them, and ends up with the key to the city. Marge and Maggie find a key for a wind-up toy train called "The Pooter Toot Express," which makes farting noises when it moves. The toy gets away from them and they chase it throughout the city. Homer uses a key to get into the Duff brewery with Barney and goes joyriding in the Duff blimp.
To get more information about Bus 23, Lisa and Bart ask Nelson. Nelson explains Bus 23 was a bus full of children that was supposed to drive over a dangerous ice bridge but was never heard from again, as Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers covered up the loss of the children. Lisa tells Bart about the room, and the two ask Homer to fly them to the lake where the ice bridge would be. Lisa falls out of the blimp and into the water, where she sees the submerged Bus 23, and Homer dives in to save her. However, they find that all the "children" inside it are actually mannequins. Homer and Lisa are saved by the Pooter Toot Express, which knocks over a tree for them to grab onto just before it falls apart. The mysterious figure is revealed to be Otto, who is relieved to discover he is not responsible for the death of the children, as he was the driver of Bus 23.
Chalmers and Skinner try to flee to Bolivia, but are stopped by Bart, who has Skinner's car key and forces them to explain everything. Years earlier, the school had received a large grant for the purpose of improving its classrooms. Skinner cashed the check but accidentally left the money in his pants pocket, and his mother inadvertently destroyed it when she washed his laundry. With the help of Groundskeeper Willie, Chalmers and Skinner built a fake classroom and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary%20repository | A disciplinary repository (or subject repository) is an online archive containing works or data associated with these works of scholars in a particular subject area. Disciplinary repositories can accept work from scholars from any institution. A disciplinary repository shares the roles of collecting, disseminating, and archiving work with other repositories, but is focused on a particular subject area. These collections can include academic and research papers.
Disciplinary repositories can acquire their content in many ways. Many rely on author or organization submissions, such as SSRN. Others such as CiteSeerX crawl the web for scholar and researcher websites and download publicly available academic papers from those sites. AgEcon, established in 1995, grew as a result of active involvement of academia and societies.
A disciplinary repository generally covers one broad based discipline, with contributors from many different institutions supported by a variety of funders; the repositories themselves are likely to be funded from one or more sources within the subject community. Deposit of material in a disciplinary repository is sometimes mandated by research funders.
Disciplinary repositories can also act as stores of data related to a particular subject, allowing documents along with data associated with that work to be stored in the repository.
What was believed to be the first public Workshop on Disciplinary Repositories was held on June 16 and 17, 2011, at the ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Examples
Open Access Directory, "Disciplinary repositories"
References
Discipline-oriented digital libraries
Archival science
Open access (publishing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Graphics%3A%20Principles%20and%20Practice | Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice is a textbook written by James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John Hughes, Morgan McGuire, David F. Sklar, and Kurt Akeley and published by Addison–Wesley. First published in 1982 as Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, it is widely considered a classic standard reference book on the topic of computer graphics. It is sometimes known as the bible of computer graphics (due to its size).
Editions
First Edition
The first edition, published in 1982 and titled Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, discussed the SGP library, which was based on ACM's SIGGRAPH CORE 1979 graphics standard, and focused on 2D vector graphics.
Second Edition
The second edition, published 1990, was completely rewritten and covered 2D and 3D raster and vector graphics, user interfaces, geometric modeling, anti-aliasing, advanced rendering algorithms and an introduction to animation. The SGP library was replaced by SRGP (Simple Raster Graphics Package), a library for 2D raster primitives and interaction handling, and SPHIGS (Simple PHIGS), a library for 3D primitives, which were specifically written for the book.
Second Edition in C
In the second edition in C, all examples were converted from Pascal to C. New implementations for the SRGP and SPHIGS graphics packages in C were also provided.
Third Edition
A third edition covering modern GPU architecture was released in July 2013. Examples in the third edition are written in C++, C#, WPF, GLSL, OpenGL, G3D, or pseudocode.
Awards
The book has won a Front Line Award (Hall of Fame) in 1998.
References
1990 non-fiction books
1995 non-fiction books
Engineering textbooks
Computer books
Computer science books
Addison-Wesley books
Computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Supercomputing%20Center%20of%20Tianjin | The National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin () is a supercomputing facility located at the National Defense Science and Technology University in Tianjin, China. One of the fastest supercomputers in the world (see "The TOP500 Project" list of supercomputers), Tianhe-1A, is located at the facility.
History
The Tianjin Computer Institute had been active as far back as 1984 and had developed the 16-bit TQ-0671 microcomputer system. As the National Supercomputing Center, the facilities came under the direction (purview) of the National Supercomputing Center council, consisting of members of the National Defense Science and Technology University, the various departments of the Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone, and the Tianjin Binhai New Area Administrative Committee. The facilities have been used by various people through the Beijing and Tianjin area. The center was built with the purpose of encouraging and initiating technological development and scientific innovation in the Tianjin Binhai New Area. Plans include both commercial and military interests. It was built to fulfill three primary objectives:
A commercial affiliate of the Tianjin center had previously made the PHPC100 "personal supercomputer" in 2008 which was about twice the size of a normal desktop computer, but had 40 times the speed. In 2010 a second generation model was released.
On August 12, 2015, the center was forced to shut down for a time (it was still offline as of August 14) due to widespread infrastructural damage, along with related security concerns, incurred as a result of the 2015 Tianjin port disaster.
Tianhe-1A
In October 2010, Tianhe-1A, a separate supercomputer, was unveiled at HPC 2010 China. It is now equipped with 14,336 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 general purpose GPUs. 2,048 NUDT FT1000 heterogeneous processors are also installed in the system, but their computing power was not counted into the machine's official Linpack statistics as of October 2010. Tianhe-1A has a theoretical peak performance of 4.701 petaflops.
It is used to carry out computations for petroleum exploration and aircraft simulation. It is an "open access" computer meaning it provides services for other countries.
Tianhe-2
See also
Supercomputer centers in China
References
External links
National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin
Official Website
Supercomputer sites
Computer science institutes in China
Buildings and structures in Tianjin
Science and technology in China
1984 establishments in China
Supercomputing in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szyma%C5%84ski%27s%20algorithm | Szymański's Mutual Exclusion Algorithm is a mutual exclusion algorithm devised by computer scientist Dr. Bolesław Szymański, which has many favorable properties including linear wait, and which extension solved the open problem posted by Leslie Lamport whether there is an algorithm with a constant number of communication bits per process that satisfies every reasonable fairness and failure-tolerance requirement that Lamport conceived of (Lamport's solution used n factorial communication variables vs. Szymański's 5).
The algorithm
The algorithm is modeled on a waiting room with an entry and exit doorway. Initially the entry door is open and the exit door is closed. All processes which request entry into the critical section at roughly the same time enter the waiting room; the last of them closes the entry door and opens the exit door. The processes then enter the critical section one by one (or in larger groups if the critical section permits this). The last process to leave the critical section closes the exit door and reopens the entry door, so the next batch of processes may enter.
The implementation consists of each process having a flag variable which is written by that process and read by all others (this single-writer property is desirable for efficient cache usage).
The flag variable assumes one of the following five values/states:
0 denoting that the process is in the noncritical section.
1 indicating that the process wants to enter its critical section (declaration of intention).
2 showing that the process waits for other processes to get through the door_in.
3 denoting that the process has just entered the waiting room.
4 indicating that the process has crossed the door_out and entered the critical section.
The status of the entry door is computed by reading the flags of all processes. Pseudo-code is given below:
# Entry protocol
flag[self] ← 1 # Standing outside waiting room
await(all flag[1..N] ∈ {0, 1, 2}) # Wait for open door
flag[self] ← 3 # Standing in doorway
if any flag[1..N] = 1: # Another process is waiting to enter
flag[self] ← 2 # Waiting for other processes to enter
await(any flag[1..N] = 4) # Wait for a process to enter and close the door
flag[self] ← 4 # The door is closed
await(all flag[1..self-1] ∈ {0, 1}) # Wait for everyone of lower ID to finish exit protocol
# Critical section
# ...
# Exit protocol
await(all flag[self+1..N] ∈ {0, 1, 4}) # Ensure everyone in the waiting room has
# realized that the door is supposed to be closed
flag[self] ← 0 # Leave. Reopen door if nobody is still in the waiting room
Note that the order of the "all" and "any" tests must be uniform. Also the "any" tests should be satisfied by a thread other than self. For example, if the test is any flag[1..N] = 1 and only flag[self] = 1, then the test is said to have failed/returned 0.
Despite the int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts%20Schools%20Network | Arts Schools Network (ASN) is a non-profit professional association founded in 1981.
History
In 1981, the Los Angeles Unified School District was planning to open a new school for the arts. The superintendent, assisted by Joan Boyette of the Music Center Education Division of Los Angeles, invited twelve arts school administrators to meet in Los Angeles in April 1981 to help in the planning. This was the first time these twelve administrators had all met together. They included leaders of the country’s most prestigious art schools: James Nelson, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL; Daryl Chambers, Booker T. Washington High School for the Arts, Dallas, TX; William Dickinson, School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH; Gail Thompson, Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven, CN; Maurice Eldridge, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, DC; William Lawrence, English High School of Visual and Performing Arts, Boston, MA; Mary Martha Lappe, High School for Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX; Karen Carroll, Hope High School, Providence, RI; Roger Jacobi, Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI; Richard Klein, LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, New York, NY; Thomas Tews, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, New Orleans, LA; Jane van Hoven, North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC.
From this and subsequent meetings, a planning committee, chaired by Maurice Eldridge, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, was created to draft bylaws and appoint officers. The first annual conference, held in October 1983, was hosted by James Undercofler and the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT. Representatives from fifty schools attended.
The Arts Schools Network's membership includes more than 300 member schools, art school administrators, art teachers, and arts-related organizations in the U.S. and other countries around the world.
2010 Board of Directors
Executive committee
Ralph S. Opacic, Ed.D. – President Founder, President, and Executive Director of Orange County High School of the Arts (Los Angeles, CA);
Tim Wade – 1st Vice President, Vice President for Student Affairs, Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen, MI);
Craig Collins – 2nd Vice President, principal at Harrison School for the Arts (Lakeland, FL);
Rory Pullens – Secretary, Head of School/Chief Executive Officer at Duke Ellington School of the Arts (Washington DC);
Bill Barrett – Treasurer, Executive Director of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (San Francisco, CA);
Dr. Denise Davis Cotton – Immediate Past President, Founder of Detroit School of Arts (Detroit, MI).
Directors
R. Scott Allen, Ph.D., Principal of High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Houston, TX);
Kim Bruno, Principal, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (New York, NY);
Jackie Cornelius, Executive Director of Fine Arts for the Duval County School District (Jacksonville, Fl);
Patricia Decker, Direct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indians%20in%20Turkey | Indians in Turkey are a small community numbering 300 and comprising roughly 100 families. Most of them work as doctors and computer engineers or employees in multinational corporations. India also has a small business presence in Turkey through representative offices of Reliance Industries, Tata Motors and Indorama.
Most Indians are Hindu and the community forms the bulk of Hindus in Turkey. In recent times, there have been efforts to promote tourism and culture from India as a means of developing the community and establishing better relations with Turkish society. There are also Hyderabadi Muslims students in Turkey and Sikhs in Turkey.
Marriages between Indian men and Turkish women are not uncommon.
See also
India–Turkey relations
Turks in India
Roma in Turkey
References
Asian diaspora in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey
India–Turkey relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceTime | SpaceTime is a role-playing game published by Blacksburg Tactical Research Center in 1988.
Description
SpaceTime is a cyberpunk system, fully compatible with Timelords. Set in a nasty urban future ruled by interplanetary corporations, the rules cover character creation, skills, combat, medical technology, equipment, weapons, and alien environments.
Publication history
SpaceTime was designed by Greg Porter, and published by Blacksburg Tactical Research Center in 1988 as a 128-page book.
Renegade Dreams, a cyberpunk adventure, was released in 1989.
In 2003, the game was redone as a setting under BTRC's EABA game system.
Reception
Reviews
Challenge (Issue 39)
Games Review (Volume 1, Issue 11 - Aug 1989)
References
Blacksburg Tactical Research Center games
Cyberpunk role-playing games
Role-playing games introduced in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomium | Geomium is a location-based social networking website, and iPhone application, founded by Ben Dowling and Michael Fergusson. Unlike many other location-based services which focus on a single type of information, such as places or events, Geomium combines places, events, deals and people all into a single application. It aggregates its information from sources such as Yelp, Qype and Eventful. The service launched to the public on 29 September 2010, focusing initially on London, UK, with more cities and mobile platforms are planned.
In addition to all of the aggregated local information Geomium provides real-time location updates, allowing users to see exactly where their friends are, rather than the last location they checked into. In addition to private member-to-member communication the site features "shouts", public location-tagged announcements and recommendations that other users can comment on.
Geomium doesn't offer "badges" or other game mechanic type rewards that are currently popular among location-based services. Instead it is aiming to be a useful application that is attractive to the mass consumer, and aims to "connect people with the people and places around them, creating a social awareness that does not currently exist".
According to Ben Dowling, Geomium was discontinued in November 2011, with an open email to 50,000 users from its founders. Later on, in April 2013, Ben Dowling founded another location-focused business, an IP address data provider, IPinfo.io.
References
Geosocial networking
British social networking websites
IOS software
Mobile social software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police%20Women%20%28TV%20series%29 | Police Women is a collective title of an American reality documentary series on the TLC network that follows female members of law enforcement agencies in different communities, at work and at home. Camera crews film them doing their everyday jobs. It is similar in most respects to COPS, a long-running reality show on the Fox Network that also documents the work of police agencies in the United States.
Series
Police Women of Broward County (August 6, 2009 – October 15, 2009) is the first of these series, which focuses on four female deputies of the Broward County Sheriff's Office in Broward County, Florida: Detectives Julie Bower (1st & 2nd season), Andrea Penoyer( 1st & 2nd season) and Ana Murillo( 1st season), Deputy Erica Huerta ( 2nd season) and Sergeant Shelunda Cooper (1st & 2nd season). The first season was telecast August 6, 2009 to October 15, 2009; a second season of this series was broadcast April 7, 2011 to July 6, 2011.
Police Women of Maricopa County (February 25, 2010 – May 5, 2010) is the second series, which follows four female deputies of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Maricopa County, Arizona: Detectives Deborah Moyer and Lindsey Smith, and Deputies Kelly Bocardo and Amie Duong.
Police Women of Memphis (May 27, 2010 – July 29, 2010) is the third series, which follows four female officers of the Memphis Police Department in Memphis, Tennessee: Officers Aubrey Olson, Arica Logan, Joy Jefferson and Virginia Awkward.
Police Women of Dallas (October 28, 2010 – February 23, 2014) is the fourth series, which follows five female officers of the Dallas Police Department in Dallas, Texas: Sergeant Tracy Jones, Senior Corporal Melissa Person and officers Beth Burnside, Mia Shagena and Sara Ramsey. The second season features three new officers: Senior Corporal Cheryl Matthews, Detective Angela Nordyke, and Officer Yvette Gonzales.
Police Women of Cincinnati (January 13, 2011 – March 3, 2011) is the fifth city in the series, which follows four female officers of the Cincinnati Police Department in Cincinnati, Ohio: Sergeant Tia Pearson, Officer Colleen Deegan, Officer Mandy Curfiss and Officer Rose Valentino.
Police Women of St. Louis County was a possible candidate for the sixth installment of the series but no news about the series has been released in over a year.
Clip specials
Between the Cincinnati and second Broward County series, TLC presented three clip specials, featuring the best moments from the first five seasons of the series.
Police Women: Most Unforgettable Chases (March 17, 2011) – Features ten of the most-exciting chases.
Police Women: Most Outrageous Criminals (March 24, 2011) – A selection of ten memorable criminals, characters and perpetrators.
Police Women: Most Amazing Arrests (March 31, 2011) – The ten most memorable arrests.
External links
References
2000s American crime television series
2010s American crime television series
Documentary television series about policing
2000s American re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Universal%20Kids | This is a list of programs that currently air and formerly aired on Universal Kids and under its former branding as Sprout.
Current programming
Original programming
Preschool
Acquired programming
Preschool
Short-form programming
Programming from Netflix
Former programming
This is a list of programs that have formerly aired on PBS Kids Sprout (2005–2013), Sprout (2013–2017), and Universal Kids (2017–present).
Original programming
Animated
Live-action
Preschool
Short-form programming
Acquired programming
Animated
Live-action
Preschool
Short-form programming
Programming from Netflix
Programming from PBS Kids
Blocks
The programming blocks below were all shown under the Sprout banner.
Notes
References
Universal Kids |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon%20Diver | , formerly known as Necromachina, is a side-scrolling platforming video game developed by feelplus and published by Square Enix. It was released for the PlayStation Network in March 2011, and for the Xbox Live Arcade on May 4, 2011.
Plot
It is the dawn of the 22nd century on the third planet from the sun. Humanity, broken free from its eschatological thralls, now watches as a lone boy stands before it. Within his hands, he controls the power of Mephistopheles – a force which can breathe life into that which has none. Animated machines devour the helpless; buildings shower the streets with storms of glass; cups, trains, bridges, whole towns – the remnants of civilization are transformed into bloodthirsty beasts whose only purpose is to wield the hammer of judgment.
The boy's name is Faust, and he will not stop until he has cleansed the planet of humankind and claimed it as his own. Centuries have passed since his advent, and the world now holds its breath as the End of Days draws ever closer. Yet hope is not lost. Hidden among humanity's last remaining survivors, an elite unit of specially trained ninja known as Moondivers have been lying in wait for orders from their Shogun to embark on one final mission to reclaim the planet. Today, those orders arrived.
Development
Koichi Yotsui directed the four-player side-scroller, with gameplay reminiscent of the Strider game series, which was also helmed by Yotsui.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN called it fun but inconsistent and flawed. Official Xbox Magazine praised the co-op mode but criticized the unnecessary long stages and called the solo mode a hopeless grind. Game Informer said that the multiplayer component was more enjoyable and polished than the single player.
References
External links
2011 video games
Cooperative video games
Feelplus games
Hack and slash games
Video games about ninja
Platformers
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Side-scrolling role-playing video games
Side-scrolling video games
Square Enix games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games set in Spain
Video games set in the 22nd century
Video games set in the United States
Video games with 2.5D graphics
Xbox 360 games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion%20Massif | Orion Massif is a prominent massif located in Palmer Land, Antarctica. It is long and consists of a complicated network of peaks, passes, ridges, and cirques. It is located east-northeast of Scorpio Peaks, between the upper parts of Meiklejohn and Millett Glaciers, and south of Goettel Escarpment. The highest peak is Mount Rigel.
It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1976 after the constellation of Orion.
References
Mountains of Palmer Land |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos%2070 | The ARCHOS 70 Internet Tablet is part of the Archos Generation 8 range, distributed between 2010 and 2011. It is a 7 inches (18 cm) tablet computer running Android.
See also
Archos 43
Archos 101
References
Tablet computers
Tablet computers introduced in 2010
Touchscreen portable media players
Android (operating system) devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Rothman%20%28statistician%29 | David Rothman (August 9, 1935 – June 12, 2004) was an American statistician, public policy advisor, and the creator of a computerized college football ranking system.
Rothman was the founder and executive director of the Foundation for the Analysis of Competitions and Tournaments (FACT), an organization and computer ranking used to select college football national champions.
The NCAA recognizes Rothman (FACT) as a "major selector" of college football national championships for the years 1968–2006. The Bowl Championship Series, for the 1999–2001 college football seasons, used FACT as one of the computer polls used to select participants for the BCS National Championship Game.
Education and career
Rothman graduated from the University of Wisconsin.
Rothman spent many years working as a private-sector aerospace statistician for companies like Lockheed Corporation, Agbabian Associates, and Rocketdyne. Through Rocketdyne, he was part of the enormous scientific technical talent pool utilized by NASA to achieve the Apollo program Moon landing. Through Agbabian Associates, he was part of the scientific technical talent pool utilized by NASA to analyze the mechanical structure used in the space shuttle reloading facility called the Vehicle Assembly Building.
College football rankings
According to Rothman, he first began ranking college football teams in 1963 using a precursory computer ranking formula. In the spring of 1970 or 1971 he developed the current ranking method used for FACT.
Rothman and his college football computer ranking system were discussed in a February 1968 issue of Time magazine.
In 1991 Sports Illustrated covered the bottom 10 teams on his list. At the time, the 0–6 Dr. Martin Luther College Lancers were ranked last out of 677 college football teams.
Rothman appeared on television once, and presented once as a keynote speaker of a statistical conference in New York City.
Rothman would eventually conduct his college football rankings as the executive director of the Foundation for the Analysis of Competitions and Tournaments (FACT), an organization he founded.
Bowl Championship Series
David Rothman's ranking system was a computerized mathematical ranking system fully developed by himself. It was unbiased and gained notice and popularity from Bowl Championship Series (BCS) administrators, his peers and the public. His system has the advantage that it was readily available to anyone who asked to use it, and it was nonproprietary.
Rothman would have liked his system to have been widely used in tournaments in college sports such as basketball and football, where standings of teams were available and coaches and schools could reproduce rankings quickly. This system only used the margin of the score and the name of the team to arrive at a ranking. He believed that the BCS organization could rely on his system because it was adequate and sufficient, and convinced them to use his system as one of the computer ranking systems use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous%20editing | In human–computer interaction, simultaneous editing is an end-user development technique allowing a user to make multiple simultaneous edits of text in a multiple selection at once through direct manipulation.
Multiple selections and cursors are typically created by using a keyboard shortcut to select repeated instances of the same text or text fragments surrounded by the same delimiters, by using a search feature to select all instances of a search term, by selecting the same column in multiple lines, or by selecting text or cursor positions with a mouse. The Lapis experimental web browser and text editor is also able to infer selections based on concept learning from positive and negative examples given by the user during a process known as selection guessing.
Tools for data wrangling (mass reformatting) also sometimes include commands for simultaneous editing of all data in a column or category.
Editors supporting simultaneous editing
Simultaneous editing in Lapis
Multiple selections in Sublime Text
Multiple cursors in Cloud9
Multi-cursor package in Atom
Multiple selections in Visual Studio Code
Multiple selections in Firefox developer tools
Multiple-cursors in Emacs
Multi Edit plug-in for gedit
Multi-Editing Settings in Notepad++
Multiple carets in PyCharm
Column Edit Mode in Vi and Vi derivatives such as Vim
See also
Batch renaming
References
Copy-and-Paste between Overlapping Windows by Olivier Chapuis, Nicolas Roussel. In Proceedings of CHI'07. "Other systems have been proposed to support fast copy-paste of multiple selections or text entities like phone numbers"
Citeseer
LAPIS: Smart Editing with Text Structure introductory article.
Lightweight Structured Text Processing, an extended description
Robert C. Miller, Brad A. Myers: Multiple selections in smart text editing. 103–110, IUI 2002, Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, January 13–16, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA. ACM, 2002,
User interface techniques
Text editor features |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Business%20Alliance | The Open Source Business Alliance - Bundesverband für digitale Souveränität e.V. is a German non-profit that operates Europe's biggest network of companies and organizations developing, building and using open source software.
History
The alliance was founded in July 2011 in Stuttgart. The two founding associations, Linux Solutions Group e.V. (Lisog) and the LIVE Linux-Verband e.V., officially merged their groups at their annual general meetings on the 20th and 21 July 2011.
The merger aimed to create a unified lobby group for the German open-source movement.
In 2014, a further attempted consolidation failed. The OSB Alliance and the Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) first announced their intention to merge the two associations to form a single large advocacy group on 18 November 2013. After almost a year of negotiations that only achieved an agreement, the merger collapsed on 15 October 2014.
At their annual general meeting in Berlin in 2018, the association's name change to "Open Source Business Alliance - Federal Association for Digital Sovereignty" was proposed and received broad support from the members present. From the perspective of the association, open source software and open standards are necessary and essential prerequisites for digital sovereignty. The OSB Alliance has established itself as one of the mouthpieces and has been promoting and promoting the topic of "digital sovereignty" for several years. As a nationwide representative of the open source industry and users, the OSB Alliance has now expanded its name in order to make this objective more aware.
Goals
General goals
The alliance's main aims are to:
Promote Linux and open source-based solutions and their use in businesses and institutions, and to support the providers of open-source software and services
Help companies to develop an open source-based business strategy
Provide a communication platform to open source-focused IT providers and users, to encourage and promote improvements in open source
Develop continuous contact with politics and public administration bodies
Work to raise public awareness of open source
Central objectives of the alliance:
The use of open standards with manufacturer-independent, fully published, unlimited specifications
The abolition of software patents, or alternatively, irrevocable free use of existing software patents
Inviolability of copyright
Action by public bodies to enable participation, i.e. open data, open innovation and open access
Open-minds economy through public forms of cooperation in politics and business
Net neutrality, i.e. equal treatment of all online data flows
Board
The current board of Open Source Business Alliance e.V. consists of 19 members:
Peter Ganten, Univention GmbH (Chairman of the Board)
Anja Stock, Sustaining Member (First Vice Chair)
Hong Phuc Dang, Sustaining Member (Second Vice Chairperson)
Timo Levi, Deutsche Telekom & T-Systems (Second Vice Chairperson)
Diego Calvo de Nó, Pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karem | Karem may refer to:
People
Abraham Karem (born 1937), an aerospace engineer and UAV pioneer
Arfa Karem (1995–2012), Pakistani student and computer prodigy
Brian Karem, American journalist
David Karem (born 1943), American politician
Robert Karem, American government official
Karem Achach, (born 1991), Mexican synchronized swimmer
Karem Ben Hnia (born 1994), a Tunisian Olympic weightlifter
Karem Mahmoud (1922–1995), Egyptian singer and actor
Karem Shivaji (born 1978), Indian politician and activist
Other uses
Karem Aircraft, an American aerospace company
Carem or Karem, a place mentioned in the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible
See also
Karey (disambiguation)
Karim, and variant spellings, a name
Ein Karem, or ʿAyn Kārim, a neighbourhood in Jerusalem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust%20%28programming%20language%29 | Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes performance, type safety, and concurrency. It enforces memory safety, meaning that all references point to valid memory, without requiring the use of automated memory management techniques such as garbage collection. To simultaneously enforce memory safety and prevent data races, its "borrow checker" tracks the object lifetime of all references in a program during compilation. Rust was influenced by ideas from functional programming, including immutability, higher-order functions, and algebraic data types. It is popular for systems programming.
Software developer Graydon Hoare created Rust as a personal project while working at Mozilla Research in 2006. Mozilla officially sponsored the project in 2009. In the years following the first stable release in May 2015, Rust was adopted by companies including Amazon, Discord, Dropbox, Facebook (Meta), Google (Alphabet), and Microsoft. In December 2022, it became the first language other than C and assembly to be supported in the development of the Linux kernel.
Rust has been noted for its rapid adoption, and has been studied in programming language theory research.
History
Origins (2006–2012)
Rust grew out of a personal project begun in 2006 by Mozilla Research employee Graydon Hoare. Mozilla began sponsoring the project in 2009 as a part of the ongoing development of an experimental browser engine called Servo, which was officially announced by Mozilla in 2010. During the same year, work shifted from the initial compiler written in OCaml to a self-hosting compiler based on LLVM written in Rust. The new Rust compiler successfully compiled itself in 2011.
Hoare later said that Rust was named after the rust fungus, with reference to the fungus's hardiness.
Evolution (2012–2019)
Rust's type system underwent significant changes between versions 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4. In version 0.2, which was released in March 2012, classes were introduced for the first time. Four months later, version 0.3 added destructors and polymorphism, through the use of interfaces. In October 2012, version 0.4 was released, which added traits as a means of inheritance. Interfaces were combined with traits and removed as a separate feature; and classes were replaced by a combination of implementations and structured types.
Through early 2010s, memory management through the ownership system was gradually consolidated to prevent memory bugs. By 2013, Rust's garbage collector was removed, with the ownership rules in place.
In January 2014, the editor-in-chief of Dr. Dobb's Journal, Andrew Binstock, commented on Rust's chances of becoming a competitor to C++, along with D, Go, and Nim (then Nimrod). According to Binstock, while Rust was "widely viewed as a remarkably elegant language", adoption slowed because it radically changed from version to version. The first stable release, Rust 1.0, was announced on May 15, 2015.
The development of the Servo brows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20children%27s%20television%20channels%20in%20South%20Asia | This is a list of children's channels in South Asia.
Bangladesh
India
The first kids channel which came first in India is Cartoon Network which is launched on May 1, 1995.
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Programming blocks
India
Pakistan
References
Lists of television channels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing%20in%20China | China operates a number of supercomputer centers which, altogether, hold 29.3% performance share of the world's fastest 500 supercomputers. China's Sunway TaihuLight ranks third in the TOP500 list.
In the November 2019 list, China dominated the globe's highest performance machines list with 228 out of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world, exceeding the second placing (United States) which had 117.
History
The origins of these centers go back to 1980s, when the State Planning Commission, the State Science and Technology Commission and the World Bank jointly launched a project to develop networking and supercomputer facilities in China. In addition to network facilities, the project included three supercomputer centers. The progress of supercomputing in China has been rapid; the country's most powerful supercomputer placed 43rd in November 2002 (DeepComp 1800), 11th by November 2003 (DeepComp 6800), 10th by June 2004 (Dawning 4000A), and by November 2010 (Tianhe-1A) held top spot. China would go on to fall behind Japan in June 2011 until June 2013 when the country's most powerful supercomputer once again clocked in as the world record.
Prior to the Sunway TaihuLight, Chinese supercomputers have used "off the shelf" processors, e.g. Tianhe-I uses thousands of Intel and Nvidia chips, and uses the Linux operating system which is open-source software. However, to avoid possible future technology embargo restrictions, the Chinese are developing their own processors such as the Loongson, a MIPS type processor.
According to the MIT Technology Review, the Loongson processor would power the Dawning supercomputers by 2012, producing a line of totally Chinese-made supercomputers that reach petaflop speeds.
In April 2021, seven Chinese supercomputing entities were added to the Entity List of the United States Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security.
Supercomputing centers
SCCAS
The Supercomputing Center of the China Academy of Sciences (SCCAS) is a support service unit affiliated to the Computer Network Information Center (CNIC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with the origin going back to 1980s. The Supercomputing Center of the China Academy of Sciences (SCCAS) provides academic support functions to the National Centers. SCCAS, which is located in Beijing, is the Northern main node and operation center for China National Grid (CNGrid).
Yinhe-1 was independently designed and manufactured as the first leading China's supercomputer in 1983 with a performance level of 100 MFLOPS.
Shanghai
Shanghai Supercomputer Center (SSC) was established in December 2000. It was the first high-performance computing public service platform in China and the fastest supercomputer in China at that time. The Shanghai Supercomputer Center operates the Magic Cube-II supercomputer that runs at 400 teraflops.
Tianjin
The National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin is one of the main centers and is the first state-level supercomputing center appr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMode%20manual%20transmission | A MultiMode manual transmission (MMT or M/M) is a type of automated manual transmission offered by Toyota. It uses a traditional manual gearbox with a computer-controlled clutch actuated by permanent magnet motors. Multimode Manual Transmission is available in the Aygo, Yaris, Corolla, Corolla Verso, Mark X and Auris in Europe, and should not be confused with Multimode Automatic Transmission, which is offered in the North American market by Toyota.
Operation
The Multimode Manual Transmission has the following gears: R, N, E, M+, M-.
R: R is the reverse gear. It is similar to R in both traditional manual and in fully automatic cars.
N: N is the neutral gear. It is similar to N in both traditional manual and full automatic.
E: E is the functional equivalent of D in a full automatic. As the gearbox in a MMT car is a manual gearbox, instead of one with a torque converter (as in a traditional automatic), gear changes are noticeable. The accelerator should be eased off, slightly, when gear changes occur. This facilitates a smooth transition, between gears, and allows for smooth acceleration.
M+: Up-shifts a gear in sequential fashion, from M1 to M5 (M6 in 6-speed MMT cars).
M- : Downshifts a gear in sequential fashion, from M5 (M6 in 6-speed MMT cars) to M1.
Differences from an automatic car
A Multimode manual car has a clutch instead of a torque converter. As such, gear changes are noticeable, and the car rolls backwards when on an up-sloping incline.
Creeping: A Multimode Manual Car creeps forward when the brake pedal is released and accelerator is not depressed, like an automatic car. This is achieved via partially engaging and slipping the clutch.
Moving off from an incline: A MMT car rolls backwards when on an up-sloping incline, unlike an automatic car. To move off from an up-sloping incline, apply handbrake before depressing the accelerator slightly. Do not hold the car on an incline by depressing the accelerator pedal, as the slipping clutch will overheat and lead to clutch damage.
Parking: Unlike an automatic car, the P gear is absent in a MMT car. The car should be parked in the following fashion. In an up-sloping incline, put the gear to M1, or E, apply handbrake, and switch off the engine. In a down-sloping incline, put the gear to R, apply handbrake, and switch off the engine. On level ground, put the gear to R, apply handbrake, and switch off the engine. R or E/M1 substitute the P function in a full automatic.
Moving off from Park: The engine can only be started with the gear in N. To start, switch on the car to ON position (this releases the gear lock), depress brake pedal, put the gear to N (from either R or E/M1), and switch on the engine.
L/1 and 2 gears in a full automatic: The MMT does not provide L/1 and 2 gears as in a full automatic. One action of the MMT system is that it detects the gradient of the slope that the car is situated in. On a down-sloping incline and if the brake pedal is depressed, it automatically s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20analysis | In network theory, link analysis is a data-analysis technique used to evaluate relationships (Tap link) between nodes. Relationships may be identified among various types of nodes (100k), including organizations, people and transactions. Link analysis has been used for investigation of criminal activity (fraud , counterterrorism, and intelligence), computer security analysis, search engine optimization, market research, medical research, and art.
Knowledge discovery
Knowledge discovery is an iterative and interactive process used to identify, analyze and visualize patterns in data. Network analysis, link analysis and social network analysis are all methods of knowledge discovery, each a corresponding subset of the prior method. Most knowledge discovery methods follow these steps (at the highest level):
Data processing
Transformation
Analysis
Visualization
Data gathering and processing requires access to data and has several inherent issues, including information overload and data errors. Once data is collected, it will need to be transformed into a format that can be effectively used by both human and computer analyzers. Manual or computer-generated visualizations tools may be mapped from the data, including network charts. Several algorithms exist to help with analysis of data – Dijkstra’s algorithm, breadth-first search, and depth-first search.
Link analysis focuses on analysis of relationships among nodes through visualization methods (network charts, association matrix). Here is an example of the relationships that may be mapped for crime investigations:
Link analysis is used for 3 primary purposes:
Find matches in data for known patterns of interest;
Find anomalies where known patterns are violated;
Discover new patterns of interest (social network analysis, data mining).
History
Klerks categorized link analysis tools into 3 generations. The first generation was introduced in 1975 as the Anacpapa Chart of Harper and Harris. This method requires that a domain expert review data files, identify associations by constructing an association matrix, create a link chart for visualization and finally analyze the network chart to identify patterns of interest. This method requires extensive domain knowledge and is extremely time-consuming when reviewing vast amounts of data.
In addition to the association matrix, the activities matrix can be used to produce actionable information, which has practical value and use to law-enforcement. The activities matrix, as the term might imply, centers on the actions and activities of people with respect to locations. Whereas the association matrix focuses on the relationships between people, organizations, and/or properties. The distinction between these two types of matrices, while minor, is nonetheless significant in terms of the output of the analysis completed or rendered.
Second generation tools consist of automatic graphics-based analysis tools such as IBM i2 Analyst’s Notebook, Netmap, Clue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Supercomputing%20Center%20%28Shenzhen%29 | The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen houses the second fastest machine in China, and the third fastest in the world. In May 2010 the Nebulae computer in Shenzhen placed second on the TOP500 supercomputer list, after the Cray computer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
See also
Supercomputer centers in China
References
Bibliography
External links
National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen
Shenzhen
Computer science institutes in China
Science and technology in China
Supercomputer sites
Supercomputing in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CXP%20%28connector%29 | In computer networking, CXP is a copper connector system specified by the InfiniBand Trade Association. It provides twelve 10 Gbit/s links suitable for single 100 Gigabit Ethernet, three 40 Gigabit Ethernet channels, or twelve 10 Gigabit Ethernet channels or a single Infiniband 12× QDR link. The C is the HEX digit of Twelve.
The connector has 4 rows, each of 21 pin, total 84 pins
See also
SFP
QSFP
CFP
References
Electrical signal connectors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC%20%28disambiguation%29 | FLAC may refer to:
Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio data compression scheme.
Free Legal Advice Centres, an Irish organization
Florida Automatic Computer, an early digital electronic computer
Striplin FLAC, an ultralight aircraft, where the abbreviation stands for Foot Launched Air Cycle
See also
FLAK (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESOFT%20Metro%20Campus | ESOFT Metro Campus (previously known as ESOFT Computer Studies) is a private sector educational institute or college located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It offers academic and professional qualifications in Computing, Business & Management, Engineering, Hospitality and English. Established in the year 2000, the company today has 40 branches nationwide. It is headed by Dr. Dayan Rajapakse.
Early years
ESOFT was established in Kirilapone (which is a suburban area of Colombo, Sri Lanka), and initially offered training services for students that were preparing for the BCS (UK) Professional Examinations. They subsequently moved to their present location in Bambalapitiya (Colombo) which is a hub for IT training in Sri Lanka .
Programmes
Programmes taught at ESOFT Metro Campus are organised into five schools or divisions. These are: School of Computing, School of Business, School of Engineering and Technology, School of Hospitality Management and the Language Academy.
School of Computing
Degree programmes available at the ESOFT School of Computing include the Bachelors in Information Technology (BIT) awarded by the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) and the BSc (Hons) in Computing and BEng (Hons) in Software Engineering awarded by the London Metropolitan University.
Students can also opt to follow professional qualifications such as the Certificate, Diploma and Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) awarded by the British Computer Society (BCS - Chartered Institute of IT) and the BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Computing and Systems Development awarded by Edexcel.
In addition, ESOFT also conducts several vendor certification programmes including those for Microsoft, Cisco and Oracle.
School of Business
The ESOFT School of Business conducts classes for both Bachelors and Masters level Business Administration qualifications awarded by the London Metropolitan University.
Students can also opt to follow professional qualifications such as the BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Management awarded by Edexcel.
School of Engineering and Technology
The ESOFT School of Engineering and Technology conducts classes for both Bachelors and Masters level qualifications in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Civil Engineering and Construction Management. These are awarded by the Kingston University London.
School of Hospitality Management
The ESOFT School of Hospitality Management offers professional qualifications such as the BTEC HNDs in Travel and Tourism Management and Hospitality Management awarded by Edexcel.
Language Academy
The language academy offers Pearson Assured courses in both academic and professional English.
Recognition
Although ESOFT started teaching for the BCS Exams in 2000, ESOFT was designated as an Accredited Course Provider of the BCS in the year 2007, in recognition of the standards that are maintained in the course delivery. ESOFT is the only organisation in the world to be accredited f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnhumby | Dunnhumby Limited is a global customer data science company.
Formation
The company was formed by husband and wife team Clive Humby and Edwina Dunn. Humby was a University of Sheffield trained mathematician and the couple both worked at Caci. Wanting to start his own business, Humby resigned from Caci and left on the day that Dunn was dismissed. The couple started dunnhumby in 1989, in the kitchen of their Chiswick, west London home. The company began working with clients, including Cable & Wireless and BMW. In May 2018, dunnhumby acquired marketing and promotions management company Aptaris.
Tesco Clubcard
Dunnhumby originally gained prominence for helping establish Tesco Clubcard. In 1994, Tesco, which was second in the UK retail market to Sainsbury's, wanted to create a new loyalty card. The man responsible for Tesco's trials, Grant Harrison, attended a conference where Clive Humby was speaking.
Harrison agreed a trial with Tesco's then marketing director Terry Leahy and, after successful trials throughout 1994, the company was asked to present their findings. The first response from the board came from Tesco's then-Chairman Lord MacLaurin, who said, "What scares me about this is that you know more about my customers after three months than I know after 30 years."
Current business
Tesco originally bought a 53% stake in 2001 for a reported £30m, increasing this to 84% in 2006, before purchasing the rest of the shares. The company employs more than 2,500 people in 30+ countries, selling information from a 40-terabyte database to companies including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and US retailer Kroger. Dunn and Humby resigned from the company in October 2010 and remained non-executive directors through early 2013. Dunn and Humby invested in the theatre analytics business Purple Seven in 2013.
KSS Retail, a provider of analytics software and services for retail price optimization and promotions planning, was acquired by dunnhumby in 2010. Founded in Manchester, UK, KSS Retail operated as a separate business unit until October 2015, when it was rebranded as dunnhumby Price and Promotion. KSS Retail developed and commercialized optimization software called PriceStrat that helps retailers identify the right prices and promotions as part of a revenue management and merchandising strategy. Through dunnhumby Price and Promotion, the business also provides artificial intelligence software that helps retailers with promotions and market basket analytics.
BzzAgent, a Boston-based social marketing and advocacy start-up, was acquired by dunnhumby in 2011. Founded in 2001, BzzAgent runs word-of-mouth networks in North America, Brazil and the United Kingdom, enlisting unpaid volunteers to try products from companies including Procter & Gamble, Unilever and L’Oréal, then share opinions about those products with others, in-person and online. PowerReviews acquired BzzAgent from dunnhumby in July 2018.
Berlin-based global advertising technology firm Socioman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dermanland%20Runic%20Inscription%20367 | Södermanland Runic Inscription 367 or Sö 367 is the Rundata catalog designation for a Viking Age memorial runestone located in Släbro, which is one kilometer north of Nyköping, Södermanland County, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Södermanland. The inscription has a facial mask and describes two men as being thegns and the owners of Sleðabrú, which today is modern day Släbro.
Description
This inscription consists of runic text in the younger futhark in three rows and in an arch around a facial mask. The runestone, which is made of gneiss and is 1.78 meters in height, is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK, which is considered to be the oldest classification. This is the classification for inscriptions that have straight text band ends without any attached serpent or beast heads. The facial mask on this stone is a common motif and is found on several other runestones including DR 62 in Sjelle, DR 66 in Århus, DR 81 in Skern, DR 258 in Bösarp, the now-lost DR 286 in Hunnestad, DR 314 in Lund, DR 335 in Västra Strö, Vg 106 in Lassegården, Sö 86 in Åby ägor, Sö 112 in Kolunda, Sö 167 in Landshammar, Nä 34 in Nasta, U 508 in Gillberga, U 670 in Rölunda, U 678 in Skokloster, U 824 in Holms, U 1034 in Tensta, and U 1150 in Björklinge, and on the Sjellebro Stone. A small cross is at the bottom of the center line of text, and it has been suggested that the facial mask represents Jesus Christ. Sö 367 was discovered broken in three pieces in a bathing area of the Nyköpingsån river near a farm in 1935, although it may have been noted in an earlier runestone survey conducted in the 1600s. This location was at an old crossing of this river, which was an important Viking Age waterway in Södermanland.
The inscription on Sö 367 states that Hámundr and Ulfr raised the stone as a memorial to their father Hrólfr and were assisted by Hrólfr's spouse Eybjôrg. The text states that the father Hrólfr and a man named Freysteinn were Þegns or thegns. The exact status of thegns in Scandinavia is unclear, although the term was borrowed from England, where it was used for royal or military retainers. Scandinavian thegns appear to have been powerful local landowners but it is unclear whether their status reflected royal sponsorship or power. The Old Norse phrase þrottaʀ þiagnaʀ or "þegns of strength" is written in a coded form using a combination of runes and cipher runes. In addition, the word þrottaʀ uses a reverse-read bind rune that combines a þ-rune and an o-rune, although it has been suggested that this was due to an error in carving the runes. The phrase "Þegns of strength" is also used on Sö Fv1948;295 in Prästgården and in its singular form on Sö 90 in Lövhulta, Sö 112 in Kolunda, Sö 151 in Lövsund, Sö 158 in Österberga, and Sö 170 in Nälberga. The text also uses a dotted form of the m-rune, which is considered to be a transitional form. The only other runestone in Södermanland that uses this form of an m-rune is Sö Fv1986;218, although it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damn%20Vulnerable%20Linux | Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) is a discontinued Linux distribution geared toward computer security students. It functioned as a tool for observing and studying vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel and popular user space software. It was available as a live DVD, and could be run through a virtual machine within the host operating system.
History
DVL was created by Thorsten Schneider, the founder of the TeutoHack laboratory at Bielefeld University, to use as a training system for his university lectures.
Design
DVL is a SLAX-based distribution, and uses the Slackware .tgz package management system. It uses outdated versions of various software, to deliberately make it the most vulnerable operating system ever.
DVL is distributed as a live CD, allowing it to be booted directly from the distribution medium without installation on a PC or within a virtual machine.
See also
References
External links
Damn Vulnerable Linux official website
Free security software
Linux security software
SLAX-based distributions
Discontinued Linux distributions
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multithreading | Multithreading may refer to:
Multithreading (computer architecture), in computer hardware
Multithreading (software), in computer software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodrome%20mapping%20database | An aerodrome mapping database is a geographic information system (GIS) database to describe airports. The following standards have been defined by the RTCA and EUROCAE:
RTCA DO-272A/EUROCAE ED-99A: User requirements for aerodrome mapping information
RTCA DO-291/EUROCAE ED-119: Interchange standards for terrain, obstacle, and aerodrome mapping data
References
(1) https://web.archive.org/web/20101231112429/http://www.eurocontrol.int/aim/public/standard_page/interop_amxs_intro.html
Geographical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing.xml | Marketing.xml is a standard used for importing marketing data into a data warehouse and was developed by Digital Jigsaw, part of the Mobile Interactive Group. The standard was initially created in November 2010.
References
XML-based standards
Marketing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITAC | HITAC (HItachi Transistor Automatic Computer) is the designation for the majority of Hitachi large and midrange computer models spanning several decades. The HITAC 301, released in May 1958, was Hitachi's first fully transistorized computer model. Earlier Hitachi computers made use of semiconductors known as parametrons.
Beginnings
Hitachi Ltd. (now referred to as Hitachi), first began research in analog computers in 1951 with digital Computers following in 1956. As a prototype for the parametron logic circuit, the HIPAC-MK-1 was developed. The main transmission lines designed by Tadami power development utilized these as tensiometers. It was then that as Parametron calculators, the HIPAC 101 and HIPAC 103 became commercialized products. Parallel research in transistor computers soon became commercialized as well.
HIPAC MK-1（1957）
38 bit-words.fixed-point number. 1024 words of Drum memory.
HIPAC 101（1960）
42 bit-words. fixed-point number. 2048 words of Drum memory. In Paris, 1959, Automath was exhibited.
HIPAC 103（1961）
48 bit-words. fixed/floating-point. 1024/4096 words of Magnetic-core memory. (8192 words of Drum memory).
As a base, the ETL Mark IV transistorized computer model was introduced and was the first commercialized in 1959. The Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association produced this model intended for business use. In the following year, the HITAC 501 was released and now supplies the Eastern Osaka Kansai Electric substation as a control system. Additionally, the Electric Testing Lab still accepts orders for the ETL Mark V. Using this as a base, researchers at the University of Kyoto cooperated to improve the technology which resulted in the HITAC 102 (also referred to as the Kyoto-Daigaku Digital Computer 1). Researchers at Japan's Economic Planning Agency introduced an improved version (HITAC 102B) as a substitute to the punch card system. In 1961, the HITAC 201 was developed as a smaller computer for business use.
HITAC 301（1959）
BCD12 fixed decimal point expression. 1960 words of Drum memory. (High speed access of 60 words is possible)
HITAC 501（1960）
First computer as a control system （Insufficient Details）
HITAC 102（1960）
ETL Mark V prototype
HITAC 201 （1961）
BCD11 fixed decimal point expression. 4000 words of Drum memory.
Moreover, in 1958, The Railway Technical Research Institute of Japan dispatched MARS. Although the first version of MARS did not include the HITAC system, its successor MARS101 utilized the HITAC 3030. After that point, Hitachi consistently used it as its mainframe.
Hitachi products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winx%20Club%203D%3A%20Magical%20Adventure | Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure () is a 2010 Italian computer-animated film based on Winx Club. The film is a sequel to Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom. Its working title, announced in 2009, was Winx Club 3D: The Magic Is Back.
The film was animated by Rainbow S.p.A. In February 2011, Nickelodeon's parent company Viacom became a co-owner of Rainbow, and it was announced that Viacom would re-release Magical Adventure through its subsidiary Paramount Pictures.
On February 19, 2013, Nickelodeon held a special screening of the movie at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Nickelodeon star Daniella Monet (who voiced Bloom's rival, Mitzi, on the show) and Winx Club creator Iginio Straffi both attended the premiere. On May 20, Nickelodeon's American channel aired the movie, and Paramount released it on DVD on August 13.
Plot
The movie begins with a welcome party between Alfea and Cloud Tower. During the annual prank by the witches in which the food turns anyone who eats it into toads, the Trix crash it and take the Compass of Revealed Secrets for the Ancestral Witches. Despite the Winx's efforts, Icy, Stormy and Darcy escape with the compass. Meanwhile, on Domino, Bloom struggles to adjust to her new life of royalty. Sky proposes to Bloom, much to the delight of her and her royal family. The Trix report to the Ancestral Witches on the successful theft and learn of the Tree of Life holding the balance between good and evil magical energy. In order to earn the Ancestral Witches' Powers, the Trix searches for the Tree of Life.
Back on Eraklyon, Sky informs his dad of his engagement to Bloom. A horrified King Erendor reveals a dark secret about Erendor and Domino's destruction, forcing Sky to call off the engagement and devastating Bloom. Enraged and overprotective of his only living daughter, King Oritel announces Bloom's debut to search for her next prince, according to Domino tradition where the King chooses his daughters' partners. The debut is announced all over Magix, prompting the rest of the Winx to visit Bloom and assist her in reject her would-be suitors. Sky sneaks in and meets Bloom, saying that he will fix everything. He is soon discovered by an upset King Oritel. He gives Bloom a letter before being forced to leave. Bloom protests what is written on the letter but is overruled by her father. An upset Bloom transports to Gardenia with the Winx. At the same time, the Trix arrive at Pixie Village and take over the Tree of Life. This eliminates all good powers of the fairies, along with the Winx's Believix. Powerless in Gardenia, the Winx turn to Bloom's adoptive parents Mike and Vanessa for shelter and meet up with the Specialists. Meanwhile, the Ancestral Witches learn that there is one tiny source of positive energy left in the universe. They remember giving King Erendor an hourglass with the tree's pollen, which protected Eraklyon when the Witches destroyed Domino. In Gardenia, the Winx and the Specialists travel to Avram, which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLQC | WLQC (103.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult standards/MOR format, licensed to Sharpsburg, North Carolina. It airs the same programming as WLHC, Robbins, North Carolina.
References
External links
LQC
Radio stations established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Thorpe%20%28TV%20producer%29 | James Thorpe is a Canadian television producer and television writer.
Career
James Thorpe began his career writing, producing and directing series and special programming for several television stations in Canada. He received international acclaim with over 35 awards for writing and producing (International Film & TV Festival of New York Award, the Can-Pro Award, and two international BPME Awards (Broadcast Promotion & Marketing Executives)).
Later Thorpe worked for CBS Television Network in the United States. He wrote and produced campaigns for such popular television programs as Murder, She Wrote, The Cosby Show, Murphy Brown and many others. During his five years at CBS, Thorpe received numerous awards, including three Emmy Awards, six Telly Awards, five Beatty Awards, two International Film & TV Festival Awards, and the Clio Award.
After moving to Los Angeles, he focused solely on script writing. He worked for the Warner Brothers Studio. Since then, he is writing and producing in North America and Europe for both film and television, including series such as Outer Limits, Highlander, The Lost World, Queen of Swords, Relic Hunter, Adventure Inc., Young Blades, The Jane Show, Flash Gordon, Wild Roses and Sanctuary. He also wrote a novel in a new mystery/detective series.
References
External links
Canadian television producers
Canadian male television writers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Neighbours%20characters%20%282006%29 | The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the Network Ten soap opera Neighbours in 2006, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's executive producer Ric Pellizzeri. The 22nd season of Neighbours began airing on 9 January 2006. March saw the first birth of 2006, when Charlie Hoyland was born to the established Stephanie Scully and Max Hoyland. That same month saw Paul Robinson's sons Cameron and Robert arrive in town. October saw many arrivals; Rosetta Cammeniti, Will Griggs, Pepper Steiger, Frazer Yeats all arrived on the same day and moved into Ramsay Street. Criminal Guy Sykes came to see Katya Kinski and Kerry Mangel became the second child to be born that year. Pepper's mother, Christine Rodd, was introduced at the end of October and Glenn Forrest arrived in November.
Charlie Hoyland
Charlie Hoyland made his first screen appearance on 20 March 2006. He was originally played by Aaron Aulsebrook-Walker, until the part was recast to Jacob Brito in 2008. A Network Ten website writer called Charlie, a "miracle baby". It took Stephanie Scully (Carla Bonner) and Max Hoyland (Stephen Lovatt) months to conceive and during the pregnancy Steph was diagnosed with breast cancer. Steph refused to have treatment until Charlie was born. In October 2010, it was revealed that Charlie was going to be snatched in a storyline, which also saw the return of a character that wanted to cause pain to Steph and Libby Kennedy (Kym Valentine). TV Week said that Charlie would "go missing in mysterious circumstances" and it would leave Steph panicked. The storyline began when Summer Hoyland (Jordy Lucas) and her friends brought Charlie out for Halloween and she took her eye off him. In 2011, Charlie left the show, along with Lyn Scully (Janet Andrewartha).
On 13 October 2015, it was announced that the character would be returning in early 2016, with Alexander McGuire now in the role. McGuire researched his on-screen family and began filming for the guest stint on 16 October. Of joining the show, he commented "It's an amazing first job in the industry. Neighbours has been such a big part of Australian television and has launched so many careers. I'm really excited. It was for a bit of fun when I asked to do a screen test. Now that I have a small role, I feel very lucky to be part of an amazing team." The character returned on 29 May 2018.
When Steph falls pregnant, she is also diagnosed with breast cancer. She refuses to have treatment to protect the baby, causing a rift between her and Max. Their son is born two weeks premature and is named Charlie after Steph's grandfather, Charlie Cassidy (Cliff Ellen). When Izzy Hoyland (Natalie Bassingthwaighte) babysits Charlie, Robert Robinson (Adam Hunter) sneaks into the house and turns on the gas. Izzy passes out, but they are both saved by Lyn Scully. A few months later, Max believes he is losing his mind when Elle Robinson (Pippa Black) launches a revenge plan against him. She s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Black%20Friday | Cyber Black Friday is a marketing term for the online version of Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The term made its debut in a 2009 press release entitled "Black Friday Goes Online for Cyber Black Friday". According to TechCrunch, there was $9 billion in online sales on Cyber Black Friday, which is up 21.6% from 2019. With this, the average cart-size for a shopper was $95.60, and Shopify noted that there was an average of $6.3 million spent per minute across their more than one million merchant platform. A lot of this spending was directed towards technological devices, primarily smart phones. Of the $9 billion is sales, $3.6 billion (40%) was for smart phones. However, Cyber Black Friday is still inferior to its sister, Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday is primarily known to offer more discounted items, and is projected to reach sales between $11.2 billion and $13 billion in 2020. On a more promising no†e, Gian Fulgoni of comScore said, "Black Friday, better known as a shopping bonanza in brick-and-mortar retail stores, is increasingly becoming one of the landmark days in the online holiday shopping world."
Some Cyber Black Friday sales are short-lived, last through the weekend, into Cyber Monday, and beyond.
Origin of the term
'Cyber Black Friday' was created in 2009 by eCoupons.com after observing that online retailers launched their holiday sales before Cyber Monday to compete with the Black Friday brick and mortar frenzy. According to Talya Schaeffer, founder of Cyber Black Friday, "Cyber Black Friday sales are typically the largest of the season. Online retailers are hoping that by offering early discounts, consumers will shop early and often."
Black Friday online sales
In 2009, most major retailers began Black Friday-style sales online, betting that many would rather click for deals on Thanksgiving or Black Friday than wake up before dawn and head to stores in search of door-busters the following day. Dozens of retailers dangled special offers on their Web sites, though not all were identical to what could be found on Black Friday in stores. On July 23, 2010, Target.com announced its first ever "Back in Black Friday" one-day online-only sale. On October 27, 2010, Sears debuted its "Black Friday Now" campaign with a Black Friday sale on October 30 and 31 and every subsequent Friday until Christmas. Like other retailers, Sears started its Black Friday sale early because consumers were looking to shop earlier in the season and spread out spending in the weeks before Christmas. In 2011 sales was $816 million which is a 26 percent increase from 2010. In 2012 Sales was over one billion (1.042) which is 28 percent increase from 2011. This is the first time that Black Friday online shopping broke one billion dollar in sales. In 2013 Online Sales was 1.930 billion which is 85 percent increase from 2013. In 2014 Online sales was 2.400 billion which is a 24 percent increase. In 2015 Online sales was 2.7 billion which i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu%20short-tailed%20bat | The Manu short-tailed bat (Carollia manu) is a bat species found in Peru and Bolivia.
References
External links
IABIN Database Entry
Bats of South America
Mammals of Peru
Mammals of Bolivia
Carollia
Mammals described in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUARM | LUARM (Logging User Actions in Relational Mode) is an Open Source experimental live digital forensics engine that produces audit data that facilitate insider threat specification as well as user action computer forensic functionality for the Linux operating system. It is designed to log in detail user activities into a simple Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) schema. MySQL is used for the relational backend although the schema could be easily converted to PostgreSQL and other popular relational databases. LUARM is written in Perl and provides a near real-time snapshot of file access, process/program execution and network endpoint user activities organized in well-defined relational table formats. The purposes are:
To assist system administrators and data security officers in the process of detecting and preventing external and internal threats to Linux based devices.
To provide a well defined easy-to-parse audit record structure, as well as scalable and reliable storage for the logged data.
Since the logged data are stored away from the monitored linux devices, LUARM can act as a valuable complement to existing data forensic investigation tools. This is because it is immune to the “observer effect” and the dangers of “static” forensic analysis: dynamic information about file, network and process activity is not lost and examining/logging data does not affect the source media state).
LUARM is being developed by Georgios Magklaras at Steelcyber Scientific, an IT consultancy specializing in information security and scientific computing. It is part of a wider Insider Misuse research effort targeting insider misuse threat specification.
References
Linux software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Vaio%20L%20series | The Sony Vaio L series is a range of Vaio all-in-one desktop computers sold by Sony since 2006.
Windows 7 models
Since the launch of Windows 7, the L series has been a touchscreen PC, featuring a 24" 1920x1080 LCD touchscreen. As of 2013, the L series used the Windows 8 operating system.
The Sony Vaio J series is similar to the L series, except that it features a 21.5" 1920x1080 LCD touchscreen.
Specifications
References
Sony Vaio L series desktop computers come with a 3.5" sized hard disk.
L
All-in-one desktop computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Vaio%20G%20series | The Sony Vaio G series was a range of ultraportable subnotebook computers launched in 2007 with a 12.1" display.
Launch specs were a 1024x768 12.1" screen, Windows Vista, Intel Core Solo low-voltage U1500 (1.33 GHz) CPU, Intel GMA 950 graphics, 1GB RAM and a 100GB 5400rpm hard drive. It weighed 1.13 kg and included DVD burner, gigabit ethernet, Bluetooth and 802.11abg wireless. In October 2007 the model was updated with Intel Core 2 Duo U7500 (1.06 GHz) CPU.
One configuration exclusive to the Japan market featured an Intel Celeron SU2300 (1.2 GHz), 2GB-8GB RAM, Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1.4 GHz) or SU9600 (1.6 GHz) CPU, a choice of hard drive or dual SSDs, and Windows 7. It was possible to order a G Series without an optical drive, in which case the weight is reduced to 868 grams.
References
G
Computer-related introductions in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayant%20Haritsa | Jayant R. Haritsa is an Indian computer scientist and professor. He is on the faculty of the CDS and CSA departments at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He works on the design and analysis of Database Systems. In 2009 he won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize sponsored by CSIR, India. In 2014 he won the Infosys Prize for Engineering.
Early life
He did his SSLC from Vijaya High School, Jayanagar, Bangalore and Pre-University in Science, from National College (Basavanagudi), Bangalore. He did his B.Tech (Electronics) from Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and MS and PhD (Computer Science), Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Career
He became a Research Fellow in Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland (College Park). He later became the chairman of CSA department at Indian Institute of Science.
Professional activities
Program Co-Chair, 42nd Intl. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2016, New Delhi, India
Program Co-Chair, 26th Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010, Los Angeles, USA
Tutorial Co-Chair, 19th Intl. World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2010, Raleigh, USA
Editorial Board, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE
Editorial Board, Intl. Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), Springer
Editorial Board, Intl. Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases(JDPD), Springer
Editorial Board, Intl. Journal of Real-Time Systems (JRTS), Springer
Honors
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, 2015
Fellow, IEEE, 2013
Distinguished Alumnus, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 2012
Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), India, 2010
Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India, 2006
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, CSIR, 2009
References
External links
Home Page
Living people
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Database researchers
Indian computer scientists
IIT Madras alumni
Scientists from Bangalore
Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO%20Family%20%28Asian%20TV%20channel%29 | HBO Family is a Southeast Asian pay television channel owned by HBO Asia, launched on 16 March 2006, together with HBO Hits. It features children's programming, comedy, family and drama films.
Programming
Info Programming
HBO Family Asia has licensing deals with 5 major Hollywood conglomerate film studios:
Warner Bros. Discovery (Warner Bros. Pictures; New Line Cinema, HBO Films, Castle Rock Entertainment; Warner Independent Pictures)
Paramount Global: (Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage).
Universal Pictures (NBCUniversal)
Sony Pictures
Independent Film Productions, such as Lionsgate Films, Regency Enterprises, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, A24, etc.
Current Programming
Adventure Time
Crashbox
Hollywood on Set
Saving My Tomorrow
Space Nova
The New Adventures of Lassie
Zoom the White Dolphin
Former Programming
Johnny Test
Majority Rules!
Supernormal
The Wannabes
The Next Step
Connor Undercover
Heroes: Legend of the Battle Disks
Teenage Fairytale Dropouts
Time Warp Trio
Captain Biceps
Darcy's Wild Life
H2O: Just Add Water
Mako Mermaids
Grojband
Paper Port
A Little Curious
Kindergarten
Classical Baby
Fraggle Rock
Ben 10 (2016)
We Bare Bears
Steven Universe
The Looney Tunes Show
The Tom and Jerry Show
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Ben 10
The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo
Justice League
References
External links
Official website
HBO
Television stations in Singapore
Movie channels in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Home Box Office, Inc.
HBO Family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20Man%20%281971%20film%29 | Paper Man is a 1971 American television film transmitted as one of the "Friday Night Movies" which CBS-TV was then including in its prime-time programming. It also had a brief theatrical run with a longer version. It was directed by Walter Grauman, and dramatized for television by James D. Buchanan and Ronald Austin, both of whom were working from a story written by Anthony Wilson. It starred Dean Stockwell, Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, James Olson, Elliott Street, and Tina Chen.
Plot
Four college students (Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, Elliott Street, and Tina Chen) take advantage of a credit card mistakenly issued to someone who does not exist by using their university's computer to counterfeit an entire identity and erase the charges they run up on it – done by Avery (Dean Stockwell), a computer wiz to fix everything for them. None of them count on the computer seeming to have some ideas of its own, or on it commencing to murder them.
Ultimately, a man employed at the university (James Olson) proves to have stolen the identity which the students had counterfeited and to have been using it to commit the offenses which the students had blamed on the computer.
Paper Man was produced at a time when identity theft was neither as common a crime, nor as difficult to commit, as it later became.
Cast
Dean Stockwell as Avery Jensen
Stefanie Powers as Karen McMillan
James Stacy as Jerry
Tina Chen as Lisa
Elliott Street as Joel Fisher
James Olson as Art Fletcher
References
External links
1971 television films
1971 films
American science fiction films
CBS network films
Films about computer security
Films about identity theft
20th Century Fox Television films
Films directed by Walter Grauman
1970s science fiction films
1970s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Weather | Old Weather is an online weather data project that currently invites members of the public to assist in digitising weather observations recorded in US log books dating from the mid-19th century onwards. It is an example of citizen science that enlists members of the public to help in scientific research. It contributes to the Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth initiative. Data collected by Old Weather has been used by at least five different climate reanalysis projects, including HURDAT, SODA and ECMWF. In February 2013, the project was awarded the Royal Meteorological Society IBM Award for Meteorological Innovation that Matters.
Origins
Old Weather is a Zooniverse project and is a collaboration between researchers at many institutions, including the University of Oxford, Oxford Martin School, ACRE (International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth), Naval-History.Net of Penarth, Jisc which encourages UK colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies, the National Maritime Museum at Maritime Greenwich, London, and the UK National Archives, Kew, London.
Importance of volunteers
In the past, computer programs have proved unable to read handwriting reliably.
However, it may be worth exploring the current status
of automatic and computer-assisted transcription
and probabilistic indexing
technologies for handwritten text images—also called Handwriting Text Recognition (HTR), Computer Assisted Transcription of Text Images (CATTI) and Keyword Spotting (KWS), respectively).
In any case, the task is much better performed by the human brain and the results transferred to a digital form.
In the site's tutorial, would-be volunteers are shown how to digitise a weather record. Further instructions on how to transcribe the logs are available on the associated Old Weather forum.
It is intended that the pages of the logs are digitised by at least three people. The results will be used to make climate model projections and an improved database of weather extremes.
USRC, USCG and USS log books
Currently, the log books of 2 US vessels are available, each of which have been scanned page by page, and the logs of another 21 vessels have been completed.
More log books will be added at intervals.
The transcriber notes the following from the log books: date, location (or voyage) and weather records, usually consisting of wind direction and strength, weather conditions, cloud type and/or amount of clear sky, barometric pressure and temperature readings. Other log entries, such as refueling figures and sightings of sea-ice, ships, people, landmarks or animals may also be recorded, as well as interesting events.
Progress
Phases I & II
Phase I was launched in October 2010 and all the available Royal Navy logs from that phase and from Phase II have now been completed. By July 23, 2012,
officially, 16,400 volunteers had transcribed the weather data from 1,090,745 pages of the log books of 302 ships. These ph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TtyEmulator | TtyEmulator is a Freeware terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client.
TtyEmulator is written for Microsoft Windows, but it will be ported to various other operating systems, if requested.
TtyEmulator was written and is maintained by FCS. Several release type can be fetched by the autoupdate feature.
Users can use this software free of charge even for private companies.
Features
Global features
Session manager included with two layouts (tree mode or folders).
User defined Hotkey to access to the Sessions manager.
Help file included [French only at the moment, English translation is in progress]
URL registering for Windows
Portable Edition : Enables user to store the software, configuration file, and even personal language file on an external storage (USB key, etc.)
Users can edit configuration file, while using portable edition (Configuration file in XML format).
Proxy support (Socks 4,4a,5, http, local) (proxy authentication also supported)
Scripting (with special escape characters support)
Auto-update feature.
Global and/or session specific Contextual commands.
SSH bouncing management (Enables users to connect to a first ssh server and then automatically make a second connection to another ssh server).
Display detailed information about established SSH communications.
zlib compression support
Several languages support (French and English included by default), Users can make language file in order to adapt this software to their natural language.
Specifics commands support for :
SSH (Ssh bouncing specific commands included)
Telnet
Serial communication
Predefined display (80x25, 132x50, fullscreen, etc.)
X11 server automatic launching at session startup.
FileZilla or WinSCP interfacing
Session specific features
Eye-candy display features (customized background, font, size, etc.)
Own clipboard with eight entries.
Session scroll locking.
Enables users to easily create Windows shortcuts for sessions.
Customized buffer size.
User defined session icon.
Bundled Applications
Main functions are realized by TtyEmulator files themselves:
- the Telnet and SSH, serial, tcp-raw, and udpserver itself;
- The SSH agent can also emulate Pagent (the PuTTY Ssh agent);
- A TFTP client is included.
See also
Comparison of SSH clients
SecureCRT
PuTTY
Cygwin/X
WinSCP
FileZilla
Xming
References
External links
Home page
TtyEmulator's direct download link
Cryptographic software
Portable software
Freeware
Internet Protocol based network software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukul%20Devichand | Mukul Devichand (born in Wales, UK) is Editor of Audio Programming for the New York Times. Previously he was Executive Editor of Voice + AI for the BBC. He was the original creator and editor of the Webby award-winning BBC Trending unit, and of the solutions-focussed journalism unit BBC World Hacks. Both teams are based in London and create digital video output, text, podcasts and radio shows for the BBC World Service and BBC News website. Previously he was a presenter and producer for BBC Radio 4. His work includes programmes such as Crossing Continents, Analysis, From Our Own Correspondent and The Report. He has also presented Our World, a BBC World TV show. In 2009, with Crossing Continents producer John Murphy, he won a One World Media Award for their reporting in Mumbai slums.
He is a graduate of the London School of Economics.
References
External links
Mukul Devichand's biography on the BBC website
http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/mukul_devichand
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8664835.stm
Living people
British radio presenters
Welsh radio presenters
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razzmatazz%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Razzmatazz is a 1977–82 news and entertainment program aimed primarily for teen and young adult audiences. Airing in the U.S. on the CBS television network, it starred Barry Bostwick in the first season, and Brian Tochi from season two onward.
The show was a news magazine presenting filmed stories of children's activities, including a girl who raised a lioness in Louisville, and a group of kite-flying enthusiasts from Saratoga, New York.
A production of CBS News in association with Scholastic, Inc., the show was produced by Joel Heller and had the same production team as CBS's news other award-winning news programs for young people, In The News, What's It All About and 30 Minutes. The series was generally broadcast on a once-a-month basis, preempting the network program televised at 4 p.m. ET, or 3 p.m. in other time zones. As not all stations carry CBS programming at that time, carriage of Razzmatazz has varied, depending on the station's schedule.
References
External links
1970s American children's television series
1980s American children's television series
1977 American television series debuts
1982 American television series endings
American children's education television series
CBS original programming
Television series by CBS Studios
CBS News |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20Education%20Institute%20of%20Texas | The Islamic Education Institute of Texas (IEIT), also known as Darul Arqam Islamic School District (DAISD) and Darul Arqam Schools is a network of Islamic schools in Greater Houston, Texas, United States. The organization is a subsidiary of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH). IEIT is headquartered in Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown) in Houston.
IEIT, as Darul Arqam, began as a full-time PreK-3 school located in two mobile homes in 1992, with 33 students and 8 faculty members. In 2004 it had over 300 students total. It is a PreK-12 school system.
Campuses
Each of the six campuses is located at a particular ISGH mosque:
Darul Arqam School North (unincorporated Harris County) - Located at Masjid Bilal (Adel Road Islamic Center), it opened in 1992 and serves grades PreK-12. In 2004 it had 175 students, with 19 in senior high school. it has more than 300 students.
Darl Arqam School Southeast Campus (Houston) - Located at Masjid Abu-Bakr (Highway 3 Islamic Center), it opened in 1992 and serves early childhood to grade 3.
Everest Academy (a.k.a. Darul Arqam School South) (Stafford) Located at Masjid Al-Sabireen (Brand Lane Islamic Center), it opened in 2005 and serves grades PreK-8.
Darul Arqam Southwest (Alief, Houston, near Sugar Land) - Located at Masjid At-Taqwa (Synott Islamic Center), it opened in 1993 and serves early childhood through grade 8.
ILM Academy (Houston) - Located at the Spring Branch Islamic Center, it opened in 2006 and serves early childhood through grade 8.
Houston Peace Academy (HPA) (unincorporated Harris County) - Located at Masjid Al-Salam (Champions Islamic Center), which has a Spring mailing address, it opened in 2010 and serves early childhood to 5th grade.
Athletics
middle school grades participate in the Private School Interscholastic Association's events, while there is no athletic association for high school grades.
In 2004 Darul Arqam submitted an application to join the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS), a private school athletic association which includes several Christian private schools. Khaled Katbi, who represented the school, had a meeting with TAPPS on November 4, 2004, and did not report any unusual questions. However the school subsequently received a letter which included a questionnaire with "Why do you wish to join an organization whose membership is basically in total disagreement with your religious beliefs?" and "Why do you think that the current member schools of TAPPS will not be biased against your school, based on the fundamental difference in your religion and Christianity, since about 90% of TAPPS schools embrace Christianity?" In response the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas stated that TAPPS should be investigated.
See also
Islam in Houston
References
External links
Islamic Education Institute of Texas
Darul Arqam Schools
Everest Academy
Schools in Houston
Islam in Houston
Islamic schools in Texas
Privat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saluki%20Radio%20Network | The Saluki Radio Network are radio stations in the U.S. states of Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky that broadcast Southern Illinois Salukis sports events. The network is managed by Learfield IMG College.
Current radio affiliates
References
List of current affiliates on SIU's website
Southern Illinois Salukis
Sports radio networks in the United States
College football on the radio
College basketball on the radio in the United States
Learfield IMG College sports radio networks
es:Southern Illinois Salukis
fr:Southern Illinois Salukis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco%20Networks | Namco Networks was an American developer and publisher of video games for mobile phones, based in San Jose, California. The company was founded on January 1, 2006, as the mobile phone division of Namco America, and produced video games for mobile phones in North America, Europe and Asia, many of which were ports of older Namco video games. Their first release was a port of Pac-Man, which was part of a batch of nine titles to be released for the iPod. Namco Networks' licensed port of Scene It? Movies is regarded as one of the first North American mobile games to incorporate downloadable, streaming video content for phones. In 2011, the company was merged with Namco Hometek, who was Namco's older home console division, to form Bandai Namco Games America, which subsequently became Bandai Namco Entertainment America in 2015.
History
The division started in 2003 as the mobile gaming arm of the arcade group Namco America and was spun off when that group was strategically acquired by Bandai Namco Holdings and renamed as Namco Networks to serve as its mobile games division. In mid 2004 the group only had four full-time staff positions and contracted game development out to a number of mobile developers. By 2007 it had built its own internal development and marketing group and the staff was well over 100, also employing a large contract QA arm. The shift in mobile publishing from carriers to app stores after introduction of the iPhone shifted the marketplace to the division's detriment. In November 2010, Namco Networks laid off 90 staffers and stated that more of the work would be shifted to its counterpart in Japan, referring to the division of Bandai Namco Games that was once known as Bandai Networks prior to the merger.
References
External links
Official website (archived)
Former Bandai Namco Holdings subsidiaries
Video game publishers
Video game companies disestablished in 2011
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Video game development companies
Companies based in San Jose, California
Video game companies established in 2006
2006 establishments in California
2011 disestablishments in California
American companies established in 2006
American companies disestablished in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordana%20Racing%20Team | The Velosure Giordana Pro Cycling Team () are a British UCI Continental cycling team.
Profile
The Velosure Giordana cycling team are sponsored by Node4, a Data Centre Services provider. The team rides senior professional events in the United Kingdom and Europe, other than the Grand Tours and UCI ProTour races. They also ride track events such as the Revolution.
In 2012 the team changed its name from Motorpoint to Node4-Giordana. In 2014 It became Velosure Giordana
Major wins
2008
Stage 2, 3 & 4 Cinturón a Mallorca, Russell Downing
Abergavenny Criterium, Russell Downing
GP of Wales, Russell Downing
Stage 4 Tour of Ireland, Russell Downing
2009
Stage 3 Cinturón a Mallorca, Russell Downing
Overall Tour of Ireland, Russell Downing
Stage 1, Russell Downing
2010
Stage 1 Cinturón a Mallorca, Ian Bibby
2011
Stage 3 Cinturón a Mallorca, Ian Bibby
Stage 6 An Post Rás, Marcin Białobłocki
2012
Overall BDO Tour of Northland, Michael Northey
Stages 1, 3 & 4, Michael Northey
Overall Irish Sea Tour of the North, James Moss
Stage 1 Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Michael Northey
Shay Elliott Memorial Race, Philip Lavery
Stage 1 An Post Rás, Marcin Białobłocki
Stage 3 Tour of Ulster, Matthew Higgins
Torquay Critrerium, Marcin Białobłocki
Guildford Criterium, James Moss
GP Ville de Pérenchies, Rico Rogers
Newport Criterium, Rico Dene Rogers
Ottershaw Series, David Clarke
Overall Tour of Southland, Michael Northey
Stage 2, Michael Northey
Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge, Michael Northey
Waipara Festival of Cycling, Matt Cronshaw
2013
Rev Classic Cambridge, Shem Rodger
Overall BDO Tour of Northland, Michael Northey
Stages 2 & 4, Michael Northey
Stage 3 Totnes–Vire Stage Race, James Williamson
Wales Open Criterium, Michael James Northey
Grand Prix of Wales, Michael Northey
Sefton Classic, Daniel Barry
National Criterium Championship, Michael Northey
2014
Jock Wadley Memorial RR, Robert Partridge
Coalville Wheelers, Steven Lampier
Overall Irish Sea Tour of the North, James Gullen
Wiltshire GP, Marcin Białobłocki
Stage 5 An Post Rás, Marcin Białobłocki
2013 team
As of 15 January 2013.
References
External links
Cycling teams based in the United Kingdom
UCI Continental Teams (Europe)
Cycling teams established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20en%20Boogie | Kate en Boogie is a Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Dennis Padilla and Nanette Medved, it premiered on July 19, 1993. The series concluded on November 24, 1994.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dennis Padilla as Boogie
Nanette Medved as Kate
Supporting cast
Caridad Sanchez
Willie Revillame
Charina Scott
Raffy Rodriguez
Ana Roces
Johnny Wilson
Smokey Manaloto
External links
1993 Philippine television series debuts
1994 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sitcoms
Television series by Viva Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gator%20Panic | Gator Panic is a redemption arcade game released in 1988 by Namco in Japan and Data East in North America. The game plays very much like Whac-A-Mole, but features alligators coming out of the cabinet horizontally instead of moles coming out vertically.
Legacy
A digital remake was made in 2006 for Point Blank DS on the Nintendo DS, and retains the original design from the Japanese release. The game was digitally remade again in 2007 for Namco Museum Remix under the name Gator Panic Remix. This version has the player swing Pac-Man at the alligators by using the Wii Remote and Nunchuck; it was included again in Namco Museum Megamix which was released in 2010. An iOS version of Gator Panic was also released in 2010, but was removed from the app store on March 30, 2015. All digital versions of the game retain the title Gator Panic in regions outside Japan.
The game has had several sequels and revisions since the original's release:
Kani Kani Panic AKA Cracky Crab (1991) - Similar title that uses crabs instead of alligators (naturally, they move sideways)
Same Same Panic - (1994) - Revised version featuring sharks instead of alligators
Wani Wani Panic 2 - (1996) - Released in America in 2012 as Funky Gators.
CR Wani Wani Panic - (2000) - Pachinko game.
Wani Wani Panic RT - (2003)
Wani Wani Panic 3 (2008)
Whack'em Funky Gators (2016) - A digital remake of the game. Known in Europe as Gator Panic.
Wani Wani Panic R (2020)
In the 2021 JRPG Tales of Arise a mallet-like artifact called "Crocodile Crusher" can be found, with the in-game description saying it was "once used to beat back alligators" above a small trademark reference to Gator Panic.
Notes
References
Bandai Namco Entertainment franchises
Namco redemption games
Namco games
Redemption games
IOS games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20Easy%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Big Easy is an American crime drama series that was based on the 1987 film of the same name.
The show premiered on the USA Network on August 11, 1996. Tony Crane played New Orleans police detective lieutenant Remy McSwain, Susan Walters played state district attorney Anne Osbourne, and Barry Corbin played police chief C.D. LeBlanc. It was developed by Jacqueline Zambrano, based on the characters created by Daniel Petrie Jr., who wrote the screenplay to the film and also was the executive producer of the series. Thirty-five episodes were broadcast over two seasons.
The series takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was shot on location.
Premise
A male New Orleans detective and a female district attorney investigate crimes for the New Orleans police department.
Episodes
Cast
Tony Crane as Det. Remy McSwain
Barry Corbin as Sheriff C.D. LeBlanc
Eric George as Smiley Dupree
Susan Walters as Anne Osbourne (season 1)
Karla Tamburelli as Det. Darlene Broussard (season 1)
Troy Bryant as A.D.A. Lightin' Hawkins (season 1)
Leslie Bibb as Det. Janine Rebbenack (season 2)
References
External links
The Big Easy Tony Crane/The Big Easy fan site
Big Easy Fan fan site
1990s American crime drama television series
1996 American television series debuts
1997 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Fictional portrayals of the New Orleans Police Department
Television shows set in New Orleans
Live action television shows based on films
Television series by Universal Television
USA Network original programming
Television series about prosecutors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotana%20Cinema | Rotana Cinema () is a Saudi Arabian free-to-air satellite television channel owned by Rotana Group network. It was launched in 2004, and broadcasts exclusively old and contemporary Egyptian films.
Rotana Cinema has the largest and richest Arabic movie library in the world; this channel broadcasts premium production films ranging from golden oldies to the latest blockbusters that have never been broadcast on TV, making it the first channel to use the direct-to-TV method by fast forwarding the period between a movie’s premier in theaters and the TV premier
Since 2005, Rotana Cinema has established itself as the Arab family's very own cinema at home and is set to continue solidifying that position through its 1000+ films not yet seen on TV and its exclusive premiers. The channel airs more than 35 premier movies per year directly from the cinema to the television.
Al Nashra Al Fanneya
Al Nashra Al Fanneya is a popular entertainment program in the Arab world and is considered the source of all the latest entertainment industry news in the region.
It provides the viewers with the latest news and updates on their favorite artists and the upcoming productions in both TV and Cinema.
Slogan
Its slogan, translated into English, means "you won't be able to blink your eyes" (). This slogan has become part of the Arab pop culture especially that the channel's ratings are the highest in the history of the Arab movie channels.
Logo
The logo has undergone periodic face-lifts since the channels launch
References
External links
Arabic-language television stations
Direct broadcast satellite services
Television stations in Saudi Arabia
Television stations in Egypt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotana%20Mousica | Rotana Mousica () is a free-to-air satellite TV channel and part of the Rotana Group network. It was launched in 2003.
It is a music channel in the Arab world showcasing the latest exclusive Khaliji, Egyptian and Arabic songs and rolling out the hits.
The format of Rotana Mousica also features programs covering all aspects of the music industry including news of the stars, entertainment events and concerts, and the performance of songs on the charts.
Mousica's slogan in Arabic means "Don't miss it".
External links
Television stations in the United Arab Emirates
Arabic-language television stations
Direct broadcast satellite services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamazight%20TV | Tamazight TV (tifinagh:ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ), also known as Amazigh TV, is a Moroccan public television TV channel, and the first exclusively Tamazight television network. It is a part of the state-owned SNRT Group along with Al Aoula, Arryadia, Athaqafia, Al Maghribia, Assadissa, Aflam TV and Laayoune TV. After initial planning in 2006, the channel was launched on 6 January 2010. The channel's objective is to promote and preserve the Amazigh culture in Morocco and in the North Africa region. Programming is in Tachelhit, Tarifit and Central Atlas Tamazight.
History
The launch of Tamazight TV followed complaints by Amazigh rights organizations regarding the exclusion of Amazigh programming on Moroccan television. A joint statement was issued in 2008; that year, the Moroccan government committed a budget of 500 million dirhams, or about 65 mililon USD, for the network.
The launch was met with mostly positive reception by Amazigh citizens, with a representative of the Amazigh Citizenship Network calling it "a kind of reconciliation with the Amazigh."
References
External links
Berber-language mass media
Television stations in Morocco
Société Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision
Television channels and stations established in 2010
2010 establishments in Morocco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Storage%20Platform | Virtual Storage Platform is the brand name for a Hitachi Data Systems line of computer data storage systems for data centers. Model numbers include G200, G400, G600, G800, G1000, G1500 and G5500
History
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, also known as VSP was first introduced in September, 2010. This storage platform builds on the design of Universal Storage Platform V, originally released in 2007.
Architecture
At the heart of the system is the HiStar E-Network, a network crossbar switch matrix. This storage platform is made up of different technologies than USP and USP V. The connectivity to back-end disks is via 6Gbit/s SAS links instead of 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel loop. The internal processors are now Intel multi-core processors, and in addition to 3.5-inch drives support has been added for 2.5 inch small-form factor HDDs. The VSP supports SSD, SAS and SATA drives.
Features included:
The ability for growth in three ways:
Scale up to meet increasing demands by dynamically adding processors, connectivity and capacity in a single unit. This enables tuning the configuration for optimal performance for both open systems and mainframe environments.
Scale out to meet demands by dynamically combining multiple units into a single logical system with shared resources. Support increased needs in virtualized server environments and ensure safe multitenancy and quality of service through partitioning of cache and ports.
Scale deep to extend the functions of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform to multivendor storage through virtualization. Offload less-critical data to external tiers in order to optimize the availability of the tier one resources.
Supports automated storage tiering, known as Dynamic Tiering, to automate the movement of data between tiers to optimize performance.
Front to back cooling airflow for more efficient cooling
Improved capacity per square foot and lower power consumption compared to the USP V.
Enables virtualization of external SAN storage from Hitachi and other vendors into one pool
Supports online local and distance replication and migration of data nondisruptively internally and between heterogeneous storage, without interrupting application I/O through use of products such as Tiered Storage Manager, ShadowImage, TrueCopy and Universal Replicator.
Single image global cache accessible across all virtual storage directors for maximum performance.
Automated wide-striping of data, which allows pool balancing and lets volume grow or shrink dynamically.
The system can scale between one and six 19-inch rack cabinets. It can hold a maximum of 2,048 SAS high-density 2.5-inch drives for 1.2 petabytes of capacity, or 1,280 3.5-inch SATA drives for a maximum capacity of 2.5 petabytes.
Supports thin provisioning and storage reclamation on internal and external virtual storage
Provides encryption, WORM and data shredding services, data resilience and business continuity services and content management services.
Specifications
Virtual Sto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Data%20Center%20Alliance | opendatacenteralliance.org appears to have been closed down.
The Open Data Center Alliance is an independent organization created in Oct. 2010 with the assistance of Intel to coordinate the development of standards for cloud computing. Approximately 100 companies, which account for more than $50bn of IT spending, have joined the Alliance, including BMW, Royal Dutch Shell and Marriott Hotels. "The Alliance's Cloud 2015 vision is aimed at creating a federated cloud where common standards will be laid down for those in the hardware and software arena."
Usage Model Roadmap
The organization sees a growing need for solutions developed in an open, industry-standard and multivendor fashion, and has thus created a usage model roadmap featuring 19 prioritized usage models. The usage models provide detailed requirements for data center and cloud solutions, and will include detailed technical documentation discussing the requirements for technology deployments.
To further its roadmap development, the steering committee established five initial technical workgroups in the areas of infrastructure, management, regulation & ecosystem, security and services.
The organization delivered a 0.50 usage model roadmap to Open Data Center Alliance technical workgroups in Oct. 2010, and delivered a full 1.0 roadmap for public use in June 2011.
Membership
The steering committee consists of BMW, Capgemini, China Life, China Unicom Group, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, Inc., National Australia Bank, Royal Dutch Shell, Terremark and UBS. Other members include AT&T, CERN, eBay, Logica, Motorola Mobility Inc. and Nokia.
"The demands on the IT organisations are coming at such an alarming rate that there are many, many different solutions being developed today that maybe don't work with each other. We need one voice, one road map, so that companies are able to say to manufacturers here is a clear vision of what they should be developing their product to do." says Marvin Wheeler, of Terremark, chairman of the Alliance.
"While it's unclear how successful this alliance will be, it is at least shedding the spotlight on cloud interoperability, a big emerging issue," said Larry Dignan of ZDNet.
References
External links
Open Data Center Alliance home page
Technology consortia
Cloud computing
Cloud standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%20Girl%205%20Gays | 1 Girl 5 Gays, sometimes abbreviated as 1g5g, was a Canadian talk show that premiered on October 14, 2009, on MTV Canada. In October 2010, gay-interest sister network Logo picked up the program, and started airing it in the United States. Aliya Jasmine Sovani was the host for the first three seasons and part of the fourth. Lauren Collins, known for her role as Paige Michalchuk on Degrassi, replaced Sovani as the host.
Out Magazine described the show as containing "frank, often curse-laced discussions about bareback sex, masturbation and one-night stands", and analogised it with "The View meets Dr. Ruth, only with hot gay men instead of menopausal madams".
Format
In each episode, one female (or "one girl") — Aliya Jasmine Sovani from 2009 to 2013, and Lauren Collins from 2013 to 2014, sits down with five panelists (or "five gays"), usually gay men but occasionally lesbian women, to discuss 20 questions about love and sex. The "five gays" in each episode are a rotating panel, each having differing backgrounds and points of view. The fast-paced discussion explores serious themes as well as lighthearted topics dealing with romance and pleasure. The show also featured special episodes, such as a high school edition, HIV+ men, co-ed episodes featuring lesbians and gays at the same time and more.
At the end of the fourth season, the show presented two special episodes featuring 20 "gays" departing the show, as producers chose to begin season five with a new cast, who were introduced 30 September 2013. MTV Canada resumed airing episodes with the new cast and Collins on October 4, 2013, but as of February 2014, Logo had not yet begun airing the show's fifth season; the show's official Twitter feed noted on March 17, 2014, that Logo had opted not to continue airing episodes after the end of season four.
When the show aired during prime time, some segments were grayed out and muted, with a notice that the uncensored show would air later.
Panelists
The rotating panel of gay men included Michael Yerxa, Alex Illest, Jean-Paul Bevilacqua, Juan Manuel Gonzalez Calcaneo, Jonathan Morton-Schuster, Matt Barker, Dean McArthur, Matt Santos, Philip Tetro, Ian Lynch, Andrew Edwards, Jake Mossop, Thomas Trafford, Ish, Jonathan Nathaniel, Gerry King, Simon Lysnes, Max Claude, Alex Brown, Jason Yantha, Dillon Scheenaard, JP Larocque, Rafay Agha, Gabriel Rojas, Jae MT, Kiel Hughes, Gaelan Love, Michael Lehman, Shawn Hitchins, Taylor James, Thomas Haskell, Chris Corsini, David Robert, Maurie Sherman, Ralph Rosario, Brad Blaylock, Ryan Carter, Ibrahim Hasan, Scott Do, Matthew Agius, Micha Baltman, Anthony Berardinucci, Matt Sims, Perez Hilton, James Bar, Jeffrey Bowers, Brett Ashley, Chase Hutchinson, Jonathan D. Lovitz, Mitchell Boucher, Mike Germanotta, Jamie Gillingham, and Taurel Lorenz.
A smaller number of episodes featured a panel of lesbians, including Brittany Leigh, Christina Mac, Brittany Emmons, Courtney Jean Milner, Valerie Bosso, and Nicole DeLargie.
Canc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%20%28Fourplay%20album%29 | 4 is the fourth studio album by Fourplay, released in 1998. This is their first album with guitarist Larry Carlton.
Track listing
Personnel
Fourplay
Bob James – pianos, keyboards, programming
Larry Carlton – guitars
Nathan East – bass guitars, bass scat (1), vocals (1, 2, 5, 6, 7), backing vocals (3), scat (7)
Harvey Mason – drums
Additional Personnel
Heather Mason – vocals (1, 2, 6)
Kevyn Lettau – vocals (2, 6)
Michele Pillar – vocals (2, 6)
El DeBarge – lead vocals (3)
James DeBarge – backing vocals (3)
Babyface – vocals (5), vocal arrangements (5)
Shanice Wilson – vocals (5)
Production
Bob James – executive producer
Fourplay – producers
Harvey Mason, Jr. – co-producer (3)
Brad Gilderman – recording, mixing (1, 3)
Don Murray – recording, mixing (2, 4-10), mastering
Linda Cobb – art direction
Zoren Gold – design, photography
Studios
Recorded at Sunset Sound and NRG Recording Studios and Pacifique Recording Studios (Hollywood, CA); Remidi Studios (Ardsley-On-Hudson, NY).
Mastered at Capitol Mastering (Hollywood, CA).
Reception
References
1998 albums
Fourplay albums
Warner Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridging%20Systems%20Interface | Bridging Systems Interface is a standard protocol for communicating with physical interfaces which attach analog or digital voice radios to digital data networks—known as 'Radio over IP'--to make easier the use of remote radios by local users, and the sharing of radios by multiple users, in the service of improving emergency communications interoperability. The standard is promulgated by the SAFECOM program in the US Department of Homeland Security's Office for Interoperability and Compatibility, specifically, the VoIP Working Group .
Technical Details
The working group has broken down the problem of moving public safety communications audio over data (usually TCP/IP) networks into 5 specific interface points:
Radio System Interface – an interface that enables VoIP communication to radio system infrastructure
Dispatch Interface – an interface to a dispatch console
End Unit (Software Device) Interface – an interface that allows a network-connected computing device to connect into a radio system using a software implementation
Radio Site Interface – an interface to a base station or similar device
Bridging Systems Enhanced Interface – additional functions of the BSI Core Profile, an interface between bridging or gateway devices
To quote the working group's pseudo-RFC standards proposal :
A bridging system is a device that enables voice communication among disparate radio frequencies, systems, or technologies. The disparate devices connected via a bridging device may include land mobile radios, analog phones, mobile phones, IP telephones, and personal computers; however, this is not an exhaustive list of connective devices. The interface through which bridging systems communicate with each other is the Bridging Systems Interface (BSI).
This interface is based on SIP, the Session Initiation Protocol, and the document provides standardized mappings between that protocol and the actual functions that are provided by individual radio hardware, whatever those might be.
Internet protocols
Public safety communications
Radio communications
Interoperable communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysidacea | The Mysidacea is a group of shrimp-like crustaceans in the superorder Peracarida, comprising the two extant orders Mysida and Lophogastrida and the prehistoric Pygocephalomorpha. Current data indicate that despite their external similarities, the three orders are not closely related, and the taxon Mysidacea is not used in modern taxonomy.
References
Malacostraca taxonomy
Obsolete arthropod taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial%20Wireless%20Chain | The Imperial Wireless Chain was a strategic international communications network of powerful long range radiotelegraphy stations, created by the British government to link the countries of the British Empire. The stations exchanged commercial and diplomatic text message traffic transmitted at high speed by Morse code using paper tape machines. Although the idea was conceived prior to World War I, the United Kingdom was the last of the world's great powers to implement an operational system. The first link in the chain, between Leafield in Oxfordshire and Cairo, Egypt, eventually opened on 24 April 1922, with the final link, between Australia and Canada, opening on 16 June 1928.
Initial scheme
Guglielmo Marconi invented the first practical radio transmitters and receivers, and radio began to be used for practical ship-to-shore communication around 1900. His company, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, dominated early radio. In the period leading up to World War I, long distance radiotelegraphy became a strategic defense technology, as it was realized that a nation without radio could be isolated by an enemy cutting its submarine telegraph cables, as indeed happened during the war. Starting around 1908, industrialized nations built global networks of powerful transoceanic wireless telegraphy stations to exchange Morse code telegram traffic with their overseas colonies.
In 1910 the Colonial Office received a formal proposal from the Marconi Company to construct a series of wireless telegraphy stations to link the British Empire within three years. While not then accepted, the Marconi proposal created serious interest in the concept.
A dilemma faced by Britain throughout the negotiations to establish the chain was that Britain owned the largest network of submarine telegraph cables. The proposed stations would directly compete with cables for a fixed amount of transoceanic telegram traffic, reducing the revenue of the cable companies and possibly bankrupting them.
Parliament ruled out the creation of a private monopoly to provide the service and concluded that no government department was in a position to do so, and the Treasury were reluctant to fund the creation of a new department. Contracting the construction to a commercial "wireless company" was the favoured option, and a contract was signed with Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company in March 1912. The government then found itself facing severe criticism and appointed a select committee to examine the topic. After hearing evidence from the Admiralty, War Office, India Office, and representatives from South Africa, the committee unanimously concluded that a "chain of Imperial wireless stations" should be established as a matter of urgency. An expert committee also advised that Marconi were the only company with technology that was proven to operate reliably over the distances required (in excess of ) "if rapid installation and immediate and trustworthy communication be desired" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20David%20Sincoskie | Walter David "Dave" Sincoskie (December 21, 1954 – October 20, 2010) was an American computer engineer. Sincoskie installed the first Ethernet local area network at Bellcore, and helped invent voice over IP technology. Sincoskie authored the first local ATM specification. He is also the inventor of the VLAN.
Education
Sincoskie received the bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware. His doctoral adviser was Dave Farber.
Career
Sincoskie worked for Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill from 1980 to 1983. In 1984 he moved to the newly formed Bellcore, where he was District Manager of the Computer Communications Research group for the first few years. During this time, Sincoskie worked on Internet telephony and as a result developed what is now known today as the VLAN.
From 1986 to 1990, he managed the Packet Communications Research Department, which spearheaded the telecommunications transition from circuit-switching to packet-switching, a key factor in the successful commercialization of the Internet. Sincoskie also co-authored the first specifications for Local ATM, which were later adopted by the ATM Forum.
From 1990 to 1996, Sincoskie was Executive Director of the Computer Networking Research Department at Telcordia. He managed a group working on the AURORA gigabit testbed, IPv6, IP over ATM, NSFNET, and broadband service control. He was the Project Director for two operational NSFNET Network Access Points, Chicago and San Francisco, which today interconnect approximately 150 Internet service providers.
From 1996 to 2008, he was senior vice president of Telcordia Technologies's Networking Systems Laboratory where, among other achievements, he pioneered the creation of Internet telephony. In 2008, Sincoskie left Telcordia and joined the faculty at the University of Delaware's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as a full professor. At UD, he formed and served as Director to the Center for Information and Communication Sciences, jump starting the cyber security research effort at the institution.
Sincoskie's record of service to the DoD, Army, and the National Academies included the National Academies Board on Army Science and Technologies (BAST), the Army Lab Assessment Group, DARPA’s Information Sciences and Technology (ISAT) group, and five National Research Council panels.
Death
On October 20, 2010, Sincoskie died of Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis while being treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD.
Awards
Sincoskie was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000. He was also an IEEE Fellow for contribution and innovations in fast packet switching, leading to the development of an international broad-band information infrastructure and received the IEEE's Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2003) for his paper, “Broadband Packet Switching: A Personal Perspective,” which detailed his research contributions over two decades to the development of broadban |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Power%20Usage%20Effectiveness | Green Power Usage Effectiveness (GPUE) is a proposed measurement of both how much sustainable energy a computer data center uses, its carbon footprint per usable kilowatt hour (kWh) and it uses its power; specifically, how much of the power is actually used by the computing equipment (in contrast to cooling and other overhead). It is an addition to the power usage effectiveness (PUE) definition and was first proposed by Greenqloud.
The Green Grid has developed the Power Usage Effectiveness metric or PUE to measure a data centers' effectiveness of getting power to IT equipment. What the PUE tells in simple terms is how much extra energy is needed for each usable kWh for the IT equipment due to the power going into cooling, power loss etc. and it's a simple formula (in theory):
PUE = Total Facility Power/IT Equipment Power
The PUE can change depending on where measurements are made, when they are made and the timespan the measurements are made in.
Data centers are subtracting factors from their PUE to lower it e.g. district heating. Some of the issues with PUE are being addressed with the PUEx definition.
GPUE is a way to "weigh" the PUE to better see which data centers are truly green in the sense that they indirectly cause the least amount of CO2 to be emitted by their use of sustainable or unsustainable energy sources.
This new metric GPUE or Green Power Usage Effectiveness is defined as:
GPUE = G × PUEx (for inline comparison of data centers)
or = G @ PUEx (a better display and for CO2 emission calculations)
The "G" is the key factor here and it is a simple calculated value:
G = Weighed sum of energy sources and their lifecycle KG CO2/KWh
G =Σ( %EnergySource × ( 1 + weight) )
P
Example:
PUE 1.20, 50/50 Coal/Hydro
G = 0.5*(1+1.050) + 0.5*(1+0.013)
G = 1.531, GPUEx = 1.84 or 1.531@1.20
Kg CO2 per usable kWh = (G-1) × PUEx = 0.64 kg
See also
Power usage effectiveness (PUE)
Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources
Data center infrastructure efficiency
Performance per watt
Green computing
IT energy management
References
Sustainable technologies
Computers and the environment
Benchmarks (computing)
Energy conservation
Electric power |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic%20Duty%20Free%20Shops | Hellenic Duty Free Shops SA, founded in 1979, is a Greek company in the travel retail industry. The company holds the exclusive right to the retail sale of duty-free goods in Greece.
It has a network in Greece, composed of 97 shops at 45 points (22 airports, 11 border checkpoints, 12 ports).
History
1900s
The company was founded in 1979 to provide duty-free goods to travelers leaving through Greek border checkpoints. Two shops were launched, one at the Eastern, and one at the Western Airport in Athens, Greece.
In 1998 "Hellenic Duty Free Shops" was listed on the Athens Stock Exchange.
The abolition of the sale of duty-free goods to passengers travelling within Europe in 1999 was a crucial point for the future of duty-free shopping. By adopting single discount prices (travel value policy) in all product categories (with the exception of tobacco and alcohol), the company maintained its special prices by absorbing, along with its suppliers, taxes, and duties.
In 2000 the first stage of privatization was completed with the transfer of a 79% stake to the Agricultural Bank of Greece (ATE).
2000s
In 2000, the new Athens Airport was opened in the area of Spata Attica. The commercial area in the new airport was designed on the basis of the specifications for modern shopping centers, creating new growth prospects. The company launched four shops there. Today, at Athens International Airport, 31 shops are in operation (12 in intra-Schengen Departures, 12 on the extra-Schengen Departures level, four in the free zone and three in the Arrivals hall, in the baggage claim area).
In 2006 privatization of the company was completed. "Links London Ltd" and "Elmec Sports SA" were acquired in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The subsidiary «Hellenic Distributions SΑ» was founded in 2001.
Awards and distinctions
Hellenic Duty Free Shops is ranked in 7th place among "The World's Top 50 Giant Operators, 2010", based on Generation Research. In 2008 it was presented with the «Export Activity 2007» award by the Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry. It has also received the distinction as the Best New Beauty Store for its perfumes and cosmetics shop in the Intra Schengen area at Athens International Airport by the Duty Free News International Product Award in 2010.
Development strategy
The company has 97 shops at 45 points in airports, ports and border checkpoints. All the shops are located after passport control.
During the period 2009–2011, €31,200,000.00 were invested. Shops at the international airport have been refurbished to meet the purchasing needs of today's travellers, e.g. perfumes, cosmetics and Folli Follie, Hellenic Gourmet, Cava και Luxury .
The border shop at Kipi, including restaurants and car parks was remodelled, while renovation took place at discount stores with brand name clothing and shoes operating at Kipi, Evzones, Niki and Promachonas.
Commercial activity
Hellenic Duty Free Shops offers brand name perfumes, cosmetics, alcoholic dr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos%2043 | ARCHOS 43 Internet Tablet is a discontinued 4.3-inch tablet computer designed and developed by Archos in the ARCHOS Generation 8 Internet Tablets line. The Archos 43 runs Android 2.2 Froyo of the Android operating system. It was released globally in early November 2010. It was met with mixed reviews, with its biggest overall complaint being its resistive touchscreen.
Pre-installed applications
On the ARCHOS 43 Internet Tablet several applications are installed by default. Users are able to add applications through Appslib, an application marketplace.
Webbrowser
Email
Contacts
Appslib
Twitter
Wikipedia
Weather Channel
Ebuddy
Deezer
Mewbox For users from the United Kingdom
Napster For users from the United States
Racing Thunderlight
World Newspaper
See also
Archos 70
Archos 101
References
Tablet computers
Touchscreen portable media players
Tablet computers introduced in 2010
Android (operating system) devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quibble%20Island | Quibble Island is a river island in the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Prior to British colonization, it was not an island but a network of inter-tidal channels. It is formed by the encirclement of the Adyar River and one of its tributaries. It is situated between the neighbourhoods of Mylapore and Adyar. It abuts the southern stretch of the Marina Beach. During the British rule, a European cemetery was located here. It also houses the grave of famous actor J. P. Chandrababu.
James Brodie (1769-1801), a British civil servant and businessman, was granted 11 acres on Quibble Island in 1796 and built Brodie Castle. Quibble Island was first shown as having two properties in a survey from 1798 but marked blank in 1816.
References
Geography of Chennai
Islands of Chennai
River islands of India
Islands of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Christmas | Arthur Christmas is a 2011 animated Christmas comedy film co-produced by Sony Pictures Animation and Aardman Animations. The film is Aardman's second mostly computer-animated feature film after 2006's Flushed Away. It was directed by Sarah Smith (in her feature directorial debut), co-directed by Barry Cook, and written by Smith and Peter Baynham. Featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, and Ashley Jensen, the film is set on Christmas Eve, and centres on Arthur Claus, the clumsy but well-meaning son of Santa Claus, who discovers that his father's high-tech ship has failed to deliver one girl's present. Accompanied only by his free-spirited and reckless grandfather, an enthusiastic young Christmas elf obsessed with wrapping gifts for children, and a team of reindeer, he embarks on a mission to deliver the girl's present personally.
Following the underperformance of Flushed Away, DreamWorks Animation did not renew its partnership with Aardman. In April 2007, Aardman signed a three-year deal with Sony. Originally titled Operation Rudolph, the project was first announced in 2007. Aardman spent 18 months on pre-production on the story and design in the UK before relocating to Sony's animation studio in Culver City, California, for another 18 months of production. On 27 April 2009, it was reported that production had begun with Aardman and Sony Pictures Imageworks working together on animation.
Arthur Christmas was released on 11 November 2011 in the United Kingdom, and on 23 November in the United States, by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label. The film received positive reviews from critics, and earned $147 million at the box office.
Plot
Instead of a single individual, Santa Claus is a hereditary title belonging to gift-givers that has been carried on for many generations. The current Santa, Malcolm Claus, is heading his seventieth mission, but his role has largely been reduced to that of a figurehead. The traditional sleigh and reindeer have been replaced by the S-1, a high-tech vessel operated by hundreds of elves that use advanced equipment and military precision to deliver presents. The complex Christmas operations are micromanaged from a North Pole-based Mission Control by Malcolm's eldest son, Steve, who expects to be handed down the role of Santa following his father's retirement. Meanwhile, Malcolm's younger son, Arthur, answers letters sent from children to Santa.
During one of the delivery operations in Poland, a toy is accidentally activated, waking a child and nearly revealing Santa. A tense escape operation ensues, during which an elf aboard the S-1 leans on a button, causing a present to fall from the supply line and go unnoticed. Another elf named Bryony Shelfley later finds the missed present—a wrapped bicycle for a young girl named Gwen living in Trelew, Cornwall, whose letter Arthur had personally responded to. Arthur is heartbroken to hear a child's b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Newman%20railway | The Mount Newman railway, owned and operated by BHP, is a private rail network in the Pilbara region of Western Australia built to carry iron ore. It is one of two railway lines BHP operates in the Pilbara, the other being the Goldsworthy railway.
In addition to the BHP network, there are three more independent iron ore rail lines in the Pilbara: Rio Tinto operate the Hamersley & Robe River railway, Fortescue Metals Group the Fortescue railway, and Hancock Prospecting the Roy Hill railway.
History
The Mount Newman railway runs for 426 kilometres, from Newman to Port Hedland, and is one of Australia's longest private railways. The line, along with its spur lines to Mount Whaleback, Orebodies 18, 23 and 25, Jimblebar, Yandi and Area C, services the iron ore mines at Newman. It has the longest and heaviest trains in the world. The railway line was officially opened on 22 January 1969 by Premier David Brand.
Voice and data communications utilise a digitally trunked P25 VHF radio system and SDH transmission via either fibre or microwave linked repeater sites. The vast majority of remote repeater sites are solar powered with generator backup. The system is maintained by BHP Billiton Rail Communication Technicians based out of Port Hedland's Nelson Point and Newman.
All track side infrastructure such as wayside monitoring equipment, signals, switch motors, telemetry data and monitoring devices are solar powered and are monitored and controlled out of the Integrated Remote Operations Centre (IROC) in Perth.
The rail journey from Newman to Port Hedland typically takes about eight hours. The 268 car trains are 2.89 kilometres long, with each wagon carrying up to 138 tonnes.
At the end of 2012, BHP Billiton opened its new train control facility. All train control function now operates from Perth.
On 21 June 2001, the line broke the world record for the heaviest train as well as the longest train when a train weighing 99,734 tons and formed of 682 wagons ran for 275 kilometres between Yandi and Port Hedland. The train was 7.3 kilometres long, carried 82,000 tons of iron ore, and was hauled by eight GE AC6000CW locomotives.
Rolling stock
To operate construction trains, in December 1967, Mount Newman Mining purchased two Electro Motive Diesel F7 locomotives from Western Pacific Railroad; these were retired in 1971.
To operate services, Mount Newman received its first Alco 636 locomotives in June 1968. A total of 54 (5452–5505) had been purchased by December 1977 with 33 manufactured by AE Goodwin and 21 by Commonwealth Engineering.
In January 1987, the first of eight (5506-5513) to be rebuilt by A Goninan & Co, Welshpool as CM36-7s was delivered. These were withdrawn in 1999. Two (5507/08) were overhauled by United Group and leased to Pilbara Rail until withdrawn in 2009.
These were followed by a further 34 (5634–5645, 5648–5669) that were rebuilt as CM40-8Ms. To save costs three (5663–5665) were built without cabs, however this compromised operatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Obesity%20Observatory | The National Obesity Observatory (NOO) was a publicly funded body that is part of a network of Public Health Observatories across Britain and Ireland. It published data, information, and intelligence related to obesity, overweight, and their underlying causes. NOO is now part of [Public Health England] who now carry out their work.
NOO worked closely with a wide range of organisations to assist policy makers and practitioners who were involved in understanding and tackling obesity at population level. It did this through analysing and interpreting research and data to produce reports and briefings. To support these activities it also produced analytical and data visualisation tools. These are used, for example, to map obesity and associated determinants at national, regional and local levels.
Members of NOO were instrumental in establishing the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Analysis and interpretation of the NCMP dataset is a core element of NOO's work.
NOO is a member of the Association of Public Health Observatories.
Standard evaluation framework
The Standard Evaluation Framework (SEF) for weight management interventions was published by the NOO in 2009. It comprises a guidance document in three parts: an introductory guide to evaluation; a table listing essential and desirable data to be collected; and a detailed description of each data item in the table.
The SEF is intended to help people to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. The aim of the SEF is to increase the number and quality of evaluations and this in turn will support the generation of evidence-based practice.
The SEF was developed following extensive consultation with a wide range of interested parties, including practitioners, academic experts, and representatives from public health observatories, regional public health groups, primary care trusts and other relevant organisations.
The SEF lists the minimum data necessary for a meaningful evaluation; alongside these it also lists a further set of desirable data that would enhance the evaluation. Supporting material explains the reasons behind these classifications and provides guidance on how to collect data. The SEF also provides basic guidance on how to conduct an evaluation for people with limited experience in this area.
The SEF can be used with a range of interventions including those conducted with individuals on a one-to-one basis or in groups, and in clinical and community settings. It is not intended for use with surgical and medicinal approaches to weight management, or in broader programmes that include changes to the built environment.
The SEF is very much a work in progress, and will itself be subject to an evaluation.
References
External links
National Obesity Observatory website
Standard Evaluation Framework
Public health organizations
Health research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20cyberattacks%20on%20Myanmar | The 2010 cyberattacks on Myanmar (also known as Burma) were distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) that began on 25 October, occurring ahead of the 2010 Burmese general election, which is widely viewed as a sham election.
This election was the first that Burma had had in 20 years. The attacks were significantly larger than attacks against Estonia and Georgia in 2007 and 2008 respectively. The attack followed a similar one on 1 February 2010, and also followed an incident of a total loss of connection to the internet the previous spring when a submarine communications cable was severed accidentally.
Attacks beginning 25 October 2010
Over the period of a week, a large-scale massive DDoS attack targeted Burma's main Internet provider, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication. Successful attacks to this network interfered with the majority of all incoming and outgoing network traffic.
The motivation for the attacks, and hence the culprits, were unclear, but there was significant speculation that blamed the Burmese government for a pre-emptive attack to disrupt Internet access just before the general elections. The ruling military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), was known for denying universal human rights such as freedom expression; the government's efforts to silence dissent are extended to cyberspace, and it has one of the most restrictive systems of Internet control in Asia. The fact that international observers and foreign journalists were not being allowed into the country to cover the polls raised suspicions that Burma's military authorities could have been trying to restrict the flow of information over the election period.
Technical details
A DDoS attack attempts to flood an information gateway with data exceeding its bandwidth. The "distributed" element of a Distributed Denial of Service means that it involves PCs spread all over the world. These enslaved computers, called "botnets," are usually home computers that have been hijacked and compromised by a virus. Botnets are usually rented out by cyber criminals for various purposes, which includes web attacks. They can be controlled from across the internet. The size of the October–November 2010 attacks increased daily from 0.5 to 10-15 Gbit/s, each daily attack lasting over eight hours (always during regular office hours), from computers across the globe. This was several hundred times more than enough to overwhelm the country's 45 Mbit/s T3 terrestrial and satellite links. Attacks on blogging websites in September were also on the order of Gbit/s.
By comparison, the 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia were at most 90 Mbit/s, lasting between a minute to over 10 hours.
Cyberattacks in Burma prior to the 2010 election
This cyber attack notably followed a similar one on 1 February 2010, when the internet link service of Myanmar's Yatanarpon Teleport Company was struck, and also followed the incident of a total loss of connection to the internet the previous spring |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Camel%20award | The "White Camel" award is given to important contributors to the Perl Programming Language community.
The awards were initiated by Perl Mongers and O'Reilly & Associates at The Perl Conference in 1999. Today, The Perl Foundation acknowledges these exceptional individuals annually.
By Year
1999: Tom Christiansen, Kevin Lenzo, Adam Turoff
2000: Elaine Ashton, Chris Nandor, Nathan Torkington
2001: David H. Adler, Ask Bjørn Hansen, YAPC::Europe team
2002: Graham Barr, Tim Maher, Tim Vroom
2003: Jarkko Hietaniemi, Andreas Koenig, Robert Spier
2004: Dave Cross, brian d foy, Jon Orwant
2005: Stas Bekman, Eric Cholet, Andy Lester
2006: Jay Hannah, Josh McAdams, Randal Schwartz
2007: Allison Randal, Tim O'Reilly, Norbert E. Grüner
2008: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Jacinta Richardson, Gabor Szabo
2009: Tim Bunce, Philippe Bruhat, Michael Schwern
2010: José Castro (cog), Paul Fenwick, Barbie
2011: Leo Lapworth, Daisuke Maki, Andrew Shitov
2012: Renee Baecker, Breno G. de Oliveira, Jim Keenan
2013: Thiago Rondon, Wendy and Liz, Fred Moyer
2014: Amalia Pomian, VM Brasseur, Neil Bowers
2015: Chris Prather, Sawyer X, Steffen Müller
2016: David Golden, Karen Pauley, and Thomas Klausner
2017: Laurent Boivin, Rob Masic, Kurt Demaagd
2018: Todd Rinaldo, David Farrell, Max Maischein
2022: Mohammad Anwar
See also
List of computer science awards
Perl programming language
YAPC, Yet Another Perl Conference
The Perl Foundation
O'Reilly and Associates
References
External links
White camel information on perl.org
The Second Annual YAPC
News of the 2011 Award
News of the 2012 Awards
Perl
Computer science awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Transformers%3A%20Prime%20episodes | Transformers: Prime is a computer-animated television series which premiered on November 29, 2010, on Hub Network, Hasbro's and Discovery's joint venture, which began broadcasting on October 10, 2010, in the United States. The series was also previewed on Hub Network on November 26, 2010, as a one-hour special. Transformers: Prime was renewed for a second season, which premiered on February 18, 2012, also on Hub Network. The third and final season premiered on March 22, 2013.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2010–11)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3: Beast Hunters (2013)
TV movie
References
Prime
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20Hall%20of%20Fame | The Oklahoma Hall of Fame was founded in 1927 by Anna B. Korn to officially celebrate Statehood Day, recognize Oklahomans dedicated to their communities, and provide educational programming for all ages. The first Oklahoma Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held the next year, inducting the first two members into the hall of fame. In the 1970s, the Hefner Mansion was donated to the association to house the exhibits and busts or portraits of the inductees, and the organization changed its name to the Oklahoma Heritage Association in 1971. It then moved into the former Mid-Continent Life Insurance building in Oklahoma City in 2007 and opened the Gaylord-Pickens Museum with interactive exhibits. In 2015, the organization changed its name for the final time to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, in order to better represent the goals and mission of the organization.
To be eligible for induction, an individual must satisfy the following criteria:
Reside in Oklahoma or be a former resident of the state.
Have performed outstanding service to humanity, the State of Oklahoma and the United States.
Be known for their public service throughout the state.
In 2000, the rules were changed to allow for posthumous nominations.
Portraits of the inductees can be seen at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum in Oklahoma City. As of 2020, 714 members have been inducted since 1928, with more inducted annually.
Notable inductees
1920s
1928
Dennis Thomas Flynn (U.S. Congressman), representative for Oklahoma Territory's at-large congressional district (1893–1897)
Elizabeth Fulton Hester (Civic leader)
1929
James S. Buchanan (Educator), 4th President of the University of Oklahoma (1924–1925)
Charles Francis Colcord (Oilman)
Alice Mary Robertson (U.S. Congressman), representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district (1921–1923)
Richard A. Sneed (Military), Confederate Army veteran and Oklahoma Secretary of State (1923–1927;1931–1935) and Oklahoma State Treasurer (1927–1931)
1930s
1930
David Ross Boyd (Educator), 1st President of the University of Oklahoma (1892–1908)
Alice Brown Davis (Seminole chief), Chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma 1922–1935
Edward K. Gaylord (Publisher)
Annette Ross Hume (Civic leader)
John Graves Leeper (Public servant)
Frank Phillips (Oilman)
Joseph W. Scroggs (Educator)
1931
Charles F. Barrett (Military)
Laura A. Clubb (Philanthropist)
Gregory Gerrer (Artist/Religious leader)
Roy V. Hoffman (Military)
Douglas H. Johnston (Chickasaw governor)
Ernest W. Marland (Governor)
Benjamin Nihart (Educator)
Joseph B. Thoburn (Historian)
1932 (25th anniversary of Oklahoma)
Frank M. Bailey (Jurist), member of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (1919–1921)
Joseph Blatt (Religious leader)
Fowler Border (Physician)
Fred S. Clinton (Oilman)
John B. Connors (Public servant)
John Hazelton Cotteral (Jurist)
John B. Doolin (Public servant)
William A. Durant (Public servant)
F.B. Fite (Physician)
Frank Frantz (Public servant)
Thomas P. Gore (U.S. Senator)
Charles Ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroRNA%20and%20microRNA%20target%20database | This microRNA database and microRNA targets databases is a compilation of databases and web portals and servers used for microRNAs and their targets. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) represent an important class of small non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that regulate gene expression by targeting messenger RNAs.
microRNA target gene databases
microRNA databases
References
Further reading
External links
starBase database
StarScan tool
Cupid: simultaneous reconstruction of microRNA-target and ceRNA networks
miRBase database
deepBase database
TargetScan
picTar
miRecords database
TarBase database
Target ID Library
miRTarBase database
MBSTAR tool
RNA
MicroRNA
Genetics databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country%20lane | A country lane is a narrow road in the countryside.
In North America and Australia, the term "lane" also may refer to rear access roads which act as a secondary vehicular network in cities and towns. Some towns and cities in Ireland and the United Kingdom, including the City of London, also name some minor streets and (often pedestrian) passageways as a "lane". However, the more usual British usage of the term "lane" is for a narrow road with little vehicular traffic in the countryside, within or between villages, and these can be named or remain unnamed.
Because country lanes are typically "single lane" or "single track" (that is, the paved road is not wide enough for two vehicles to pass) there will usually be official or unofficial passing places along the route for traffic to pass safely.
See also
Backroad
Boreen
Dirt road
Gravel road
Green lane
Single-track road
Sunken lane
References
Types of roads
Types of streets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends%20of%20the%20Earth%20Europe | Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) is the European branch of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI). It includes 33 national organizations and thousands of local groups.
The Friends of the Earth Europe office in Brussels fulfills a number of functions. It represents the network's member groups towards the European institutions aiming to influence EU-policymaking; raises public awareness of environmental issues; runs capacity building projects for its membership, and is a secretariat for its 33 national members.
The FoEE office is located in a sustainable building housing Belgian and European NGOs near the European Parliament in Brussels.
FoEE Member organisations
Campaigns
The current campaign priorities of Friends of the Earth Europe are:
Climate justice and energy
Food, agriculture and biodiversity
Economic justice
Resource justice and sustainability
Climate justice and energy
Friends of the Earth Europe is "working to create the much-needed, fair and urgent transition to a fossil fuel free Europe. It wants to deliver a 100% renewable, no nuclear, super energy-efficient, zero-fossil-fuel Europe by 2030."
The organization calls for radical improvements in energy efficiency, an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels, a dramatic shift towards community-owned renewable energies, and reduced overall resource consumption and lifestyle changes. This often means targeting extractive industries, especially those who are involved in fracking and tar sands extraction.
Food, agriculture and biodiversity
The organization has been a key participant in the European movement against GMOs which has been successful in stopping the planting of GM crops across most of Europe.
The organization advocates for more environmentally friendly, equitable and sustainable farming. This includes campaigning to reform the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in ways that can mitigate climate change emissions (especially through reducing reliance on soy imports for livestock), protect biodiversity, and stop the collapse of family farming in Europe's agriculture sector.
FoEE has also been active in its opposition to EU trade deals, such as the CETA agreement with Canada and TTIP with the US, because of a belief that those trade deals do not support human rights and the environment.
One of FoEE's campaigns aims to protect nature and biodiversity by supporting local groups in their preservation initiatives.
Economic Justice
Friends of the Earth Europe's economic justice program is occupied with the influence of companies over EU decision-making and the economic, social and environmental consequences of corporate practices. It works to expose cases of corporate capture of EU regulation and examples of the influence of corporate interests over EU policy process which often results in a lack of regulation or weak regulation.
The program looks into the issue of European companies which have subsidiarie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MREN | MREN (Montenegrin Research and Education Network) is a collection of all networking services and facilities that support the information and communication requirements of the education and research community in Montenegro. Sole purpose of MREN is to create, promote, offer, participate in and preserve the requisite bases for use of modern information and communication technologies in the education and research community in Montenegro.
One of the main missions of the MREN is connecting Academic Network to GÉANT, and support substantial use of the Pan-European and world research networks by Montenegrin researchers, scientists, lecturers and students. Beside GÉANT, MREN is involved in other key European projects: SEERA-EI, EGI-InSPIRE and HP-SEE. Completed projects in which MREN participated were: SEE-GRID-SCI, SEEREN and SEE-GRID.
MREN has clear objectives in fulfilling its purpose of supporting ICT in education and research community, and that involves:
Create and maintain of Internet portals for idea and information exchange among the users of the research networks, as well as between broad social groups that use the new information and communication technologies;
Support and participation in projects and initiatives for the development of the information technologies in Montenegro and abroad;
Organization of information workshops and trainings for different social groups, including distance learning;
Supporting the education and qualification students and specialists, working in the field of the information technologies;
Technological, administrative and financial optimization of the connections of Montenegrin organizations and persons of the scientific and information areas to the research networks;
Provision of support to schools and educational institutions that offer ICT training;
Organization of educational seminars, conferences, symposiums, exhibitions and other public events dedicated on the promotion of advanced information technologies and multimedia information services;
Consulting on technological solutions on ICT Projects, as well as participation in national and international initiatives aiming at the ICT development in the European countries.
According to defined objectives, MREN has several activities in fulfilling those objectives, and those are:
Representation of Montenegro in the field of research networks
Promotion of e-business practices and technologies.
Management of the National Research and Educational Network
Planning, designing and implementation of technological and developmental projects with emphasis in Research Networking and Grid areas
For technical management and monitoring of the National Research and Educational Network, The Information Technology Centre (CIS) of University of Montenegro (UoM) is responsible, while for professional and administrative activities according to MREN demands is responsible Ministry of Science.
References
External links
MREN official web page
The Information Technolo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile%20Jamaica | Smile Jamaica is a Jamaican-produced television show that is broadcast on Television Jamaica (TVJ) on weekdays from 6:00 am – 8:30 am (Jamaican time). It is the premier morning show for the network providing programming of news, information and entertainment.
References
External links
Smile Jamaica official page
Jamaican television series
Television talk shows
Television Jamaica original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20IPv6%20support%20in%20operating%20systems | This is a comparison of operating systems in regard to their support of the IPv6 protocol.
Notes
Operating systems that support neither DHCPv6 nor SLAAC cannot automatically configure unicast IPv6 addresses.
Operating systems that support neither DHCPv6 nor ND RDNSS cannot automatically configure name servers in an IPv6-only environment.
References
External links
ISOC IPv6 FAQ with OS tips
IPv6
Computing comparisons
IPv6 support |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphStream | GraphStream is a graph handling Java library that focuses on the dynamics aspects of graphs. Its main focus is on the modeling of dynamic interaction networks of various sizes.
The goal of the library is to provide a way to represent graphs and work on it. To this end, GraphStream proposes several graph classes that allow to model directed and undirected graphs, 1-graphs or p-graphs (a.k.a. multigraphs, that are graphs that can have several edges between two nodes).
GraphStream allows to store any kind of data attribute on the graph elements: numbers, strings, or any object.
Moreover, in addition, GraphStream provides a way to handle the graph evolution in time. This means handling the way nodes and edges are added and removed, and the way data attributes may appear, disappear and evolve.
Stream
Dynamics of graphs is modeled as stream of graph events. These events can be about the structure of the graph (add and remove elements) or about the attributes of elements (graph, node and edge attributes).
This is the list of events which can be found in GraphStream:
node/edge addition/deletion,
clear graph,
graph/node/edge attribute addition/change/deletion,
begin step.
A stream is the connection between a source providing events and a sink. Sources can be anything able to produce events, for example a source reading a file, an algorithm generating a graph ...
Visualization
GraphStream provides some features to display graphs. The rendering of elements can be customized by defining a CSS stylesheet for the graph being displayed. Viewer allows an automatic layout of nodes.
See also
Graph (discrete mathematics)
Graph drawing
Graph theory
Graph (data structure)
Social network analysis software
References
External links
RI2C Team Homepage
LITIS Homepage
Graph drawing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falke%20%28spacecraft%29 | Falke was a German program to fly a subscale model of the Space Shuttle orbiter in real conditions in order to obtain aerodynamic data in the frame of the preparation of the Hermes spaceplane. One flight test was performed in 1990.
Organization
The program was funded by the German federal Ministry of Research. The leadership of the program was DLR. The flight model was produced by the German company OHB-System
Flight model characteristics
Length
Wing span
Height
Mass
The shape of Falke was the one of the Space Shuttle orbiter with a 1/5 scale factor. Falke had its own power, an autopilot and a computer to control the hydraulically actuated flight control surfaces of the spaceplane.
The sensor suite of Falke was measuring attitude, temperature, flux, pressure and acceleration.
CNES was tracking Falke by radar and telemetry.
Flight history
The only flight of Falke took place on September 6, 1990. French space agency CNES launched a stratospheric balloon from its Aire-sur-l'Adour center carrying Falke. After a 2 h 43 m ascent, Falke was released at an altitude of .
At the end of the flight, a parachute was deployed at an altitude of 6 km and Falke landed in horizontal position on airbags.
Outcome
Three further flights were foreseen, but they were cancelled when the European Space Agency cancelled Hermes.
References
Details and images of the balloon drop test from a balloon in 1990 - StratoCat website
French Balloon Operational Activity - Overall view and two examples: FALKE, an aeronautic project using Stratospheric balloon, and Arctic long-duration flights during the ILAS campaign - Pierre Faucon - CNES, Aire-sur-l'Adour - Paper ISTS 98 - j - 19V
Spaceplanes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortescue%20railway | The Fortescue railway, owned and operated by Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), is a private rail network in the Pilbara region of Western Australia built to carry iron ore. It opened in 2008. When it was completed, it was the heaviest haul railway in the world, designed for 40 tonne axle loads, 2.5 to 5 tonnes heavier than the other Pilbara iron ore rail systems. On 4 November 2014, FMG Rail commenced trialling 42-tonne axle loads.
In addition to the FMG line, a number of other networks operate in the region. Rio Tinto operate the Hamersley & Robe River railway, BHP operates the Goldsworthy and Mount Newman railways and Hancock Prospecting the Roy Hill railway.
History
FMG originally planned to use the existing railway lines, owned and operated by BHP and Rio Tinto, to develop its Cloud Break mine deposit. Lengthy legal battles however forced the company to spend A$2.5 billion to construct its own line.
Construction on the line from the Cloud Break mine to the Herb Elliott Port at Port Hedland commenced in November 2006. The current network consists of of track. The line was scheduled to be fully operational within 18 months, but a cyclone in March 2007 killed two workers at the project and led to delays. The first train from the mine to the port ran on 5 April 2008. In December 2012, the line was extended to the new Solomon Mine.
The journey from mine to port takes approximately five hours, and on average fourteen trains are operated per day. The line is open-access, meaning Fortescue is willing to allow other mining companies to use it for their operations.
BHP & Rio Tinto railway use
Before deciding to construct its own line, in June 2004 FMG lodged an application with the National Competition Council of Australia to use part of the Goldsworthy and Mount Newman railways.
In June 2010, the Australian Competition Tribunal ruled that FMG be granted access to Rio Tinto's Robe River line and BHP's Billiton's Goldsworthy line but not to the busier Hamersley and Mount Newman lines. Treasurer Wayne Swan suggested that several advantages would accrue from access to the rail lines by third parties. It would increase competition, reduce duplication of infrastructure, and reduce environmental damage.
Access to the rail networks by third parties is governed by the State Agreements Act.
In November 2010, BC Iron became the first mining company to access a Pilbara network via a third party agreement.
Rolling stock
To operate construction trains, four ex-Hamersley & Robe River railway C-636Rs were leased from Coote Industrial after overhaul in Perth, and a former Kowloon-Canton Railway EMD G12 locomotive leased from Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia. As at February 2015, FMG operated 45 locomotives and 3,244 iron ore wagons.
As at October 2014, the locomotive fleet comprises 21 Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACess 15 GE Dash 9-44CWs and nine former Union Pacific Railroad Electro Motive Diesel SD90s that were converted to SD70ACes. Seven rebuilt Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Merrill | Nicholas Merrill is an American system administrator, computer programmer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Calyx Internet Access, an Internet and hosted service provider founded in 1995, and of the non-profit Calyx Institute. He was the first person to file a constitutional challenge against the National Security Letters statute in the USA PATRIOT Act and consequently the first person to have a National Security Letter gag order completely lifted.
Challenging the National Security Letter: Doe v. Ashcroft
After receiving a National Security Letter (NSL) from the FBI, he sued the FBI and Department of Justice and became the plaintiff in the lawsuit Doe v. Ashcroft (filed April 9, 2004 in the United States) filed on behalf of a formerly unknown ISP owner by the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union against the U.S. federal government.
The letter—on FBI letterhead—requested that Merrill provide 16 categories of "electronic communication transactional records," including e-mail address, account number and billing information. Most of the other categories remain redacted by the FBI.
Merrill never complied with the FBI's National Security Letter request, and eventually—several years into the lawsuit—the FBI decided it no longer wanted the information it had demanded and dropped its demand for records. However, for several years after dropping the demand, the FBI continued to prevent Merrill from publicly speaking about the NSL, consulting an attorney, or even from being publicly identified as the recipient of the NSL.
Because National Security Letters are accompanied by an open-ended, lifelong gag order, Merrill was unable to be identified in court papers as the plaintiff in the case and instead was referred to as "John Doe". As the years passed and the person who held the office of Attorney General changed, the case was renamed from Doe v. Ashcroft to Doe v. Gonzales, and then to Doe v. Mukasey, and finally Doe v. Holder. In fact, in 2007 The Washington Post made an exception to its policy against anonymous op-eds to publish an editorial by Merrill because of the gag order.
The case yielded two significant rulings. The first was a September 2004 district court decision that the national security letter statute was unconstitutional, which prompted Congress to amend the law to allow a recipient to challenge the demand for records and the gag order. The second was a December 2008 appeals court decision that held that parts of the amended gag provisions violated the First Amendment and that, to avoid this, the FBI must prove to a court that disclosure would harm national security in cases where the recipient resists the gag order.
On August 10, 2010, after more than 6 years, Nicholas Merrill was partially released from his gag order and allowed to reveal his identity, although he still could not reveal what information the FBI sought from him. This was 3 years after Merrill won The Roger Baldwin 'Medal of Liber |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20programming | In computer programming, symbolic programming is a programming paradigm in which the program can manipulate its own formulas and program components as if they were plain data.
Through symbolic programming, complex processes can be developed that build other more intricate processes by combining smaller units of logic or functionality. Thus, such programs can effectively modify themselves and appear to "learn", which makes them better suited for applications such as artificial intelligence, expert systems, natural language processing, and computer games.
Languages that support symbolic programming include homoiconic languages such as Wolfram Language, LISP and Prolog.
See also
Symbolic artificial intelligence
Symbolic language (programming)
References
Programming paradigms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASDAN | "ASDAN"(Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network) is a British education charity and awarding organization, headquartered in Bristol. It began as a research project of the University of the West of England in the 1980s, and was formally established as an educational charity in 1991. It provides curriculum programs and qualifications to help young people develop knowledge and skills for learning, work and life. This aim is most directed to help children find jobs and careers.
ASDAN programs and qualifications are delivered by over 3,000 secondary schools, special schools, colleges, alternative education providers and youth organizations across the United Kingdom, and in more than thirty countries and territories overseas. The stated purpose of the charity is "the advancement of education, by providing opportunities for all learners to develop their personal and social attributes and levels of achievement through ASDAN awards and resources, and the relief of poverty, where poverty inhibits such opportunities for learners."
ASDAN's charitable fund provides grants to registered centers of ASDAN to help increase educational opportunity and alleviate the effects of deprivation and poverty, both in the United Kingdom and overseas.
ASDAN's flagship course is Certificate of Personal Effectiveness (CoPE),. It can be studied in Years 10 and 11 (Scottish S4 and S5), or in Post 16 education, either within the whole school PSHE program or within the option system. It aims to develop skills and knowledge in areas such as communication, citizenship and community, beliefs and values, the environment, health and fitness, and independent living, among other things. It is known that CoPE Level 3 offers a tariff of 16 UCAS points towards university admission.
References
Educational charities based in the United Kingdom
Educational organisations based in the United Kingdom
Examination boards in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh%20parameterization | Given two surfaces with the same topology, a bijective mapping between them exists. On triangular mesh surfaces, the problem of computing this mapping is called mesh parameterization. The parameter domain is the surface that the mesh is mapped onto.
Parameterization was mainly used for mapping textures to surfaces. Recently, it has become a powerful tool for many applications in mesh processing. Various techniques are developed for different types of parameter domains with different parameterization properties.
Applications
Texture mapping
Normal mapping
Detail transfer
Morphing
Mesh completion
Mesh Editing
Mesh Databases
Remeshing
Surface fitting
Techniques
Barycentric Mappings
Differential Geometry Primer
Non-Linear Methods
Implementations
A fast and simple stretch-minimizing mesh parameterization
Graphite: ABF++, LSCM, Spectral LSCM
Linear discrete conformal parameterization
Discrete Exponential Map
Boundary First Flattening
Scalable Locally Injective Mappings
See also
Parametrization
Texture atlas
UV Mapping
External links
"Mesh Parameterization: theory and practice"
3D computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scherr | Scherr may refer to;
Surname
Adam Scherr (ring name Braun Strowman; born 1983), American strongman and professional wrestler
Allan L. Scherr (born 1940), American computer scientist
Johannes Scherr (1817–1886), German writer
Mary Ann Scherr (1921–2016), American designer and educator
Rachel Scherr, American physicist
Tony Scherr, American jazz musician
Uwe Scherr (born 1966), retired German football player
Bill Scherr (born 1961), American olympic wrestler
Other uses
Scherr, West Virginia, U.S.
Scherr Formation, a bedrock formation covering several U.S. states |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20Medical%20Association%20journals | There are thirteen medical journals published by the JAMA Network, a division of the American Medical Association (AMA). The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), along with JAMA Network Open and eleven specialty journals, compose the JAMA Network family of journals. The journals share a common website, archives and other means of access (such as RSS feeds), have common policies on publishing and public relations, and pool their editorial resources in producing the AMA Manual of Style.
They also operate a common webpage, For The Media, that provides free access to news releases about the latest research published in AMA journals to credentialed journalists prior to official publication dates (pre-embargo content), as well as access to all related pre-embargo (pre-publication) news releases and video news release scripts.
Before they were rebranded as the JAMA Network in 2013, the AMA's stable of journals were referred to as JAMA and the Archives journals (for example, this is how the AMA Manual of Style formerly referred to them), because the specialty journals used to have titles on the pattern of Archives of [Specialty].
JAMA Network recently created four new journals: JAMA Oncology in 2015, JAMA Cardiology in 2016, JAMA Network Open in 2018, and JAMA Health Forum in 2021
As of 2023, the Network has adopted a new policy whereby any manuscript accepted for publication may be deposited by the author into a "public repository of their choosing" on the day that the paper is published by the Network, which remains the repository of record.
Journals
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
JAMA Cardiology
JAMA Dermatology
JAMA Health Forum
JAMA Internal Medicine
JAMA Network Open
JAMA Neurology
JAMA Oncology
JAMA Ophthalmology
JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
JAMA Pediatrics
JAMA Psychiatry
JAMA Surgery
References
External links
For The Media
JAMA Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsushita%20JR%20series | The Matsushita JR series was a line of microcomputers produced by Matsushita Electric Industrial (now Panasonic) during the 1980s. Based on the success of the Sharp MZ and NEC PC-8000 series, it was an attempt by Matsushita to enter the personal computer market.
The JR series included four computer models: the JR-100, the JR-200, the JR-300 and the JR-800.
JR-100
The JR-100 was released on November 21st, 1981 with a price of 54,800 yen. Like the Hitachi Basic Master and Sharp MZ-80, it was a low-performance, low-priced personal computer offering basic semi-graphic character based graphics, a monochrome display, and minimal sound ability. The CPU was an 8-bit Panasonic MN1800A NMOS microprocessor (compatible with the Motorola MC6802, a slightly improved version of the Motorola MC6800) running at a slow 0.89 MHz, and it came with 16 KB of RAM (expandable to 32 KB).
Specifications:
CPU: MN1800A (MC6802 compatible)
Clock speed: 890 KHz
RAM: 16-32 KB
ROM: 8 KB
Graphics: Monochrome; 32x24 text characters; 64x48 semi-graphic characters with 8x8 pixel matrix
Sound: Internal speaker
Connections: Monitor, Expansion, Tape (Frequency-shift keying encoding with 1200Hz for space and 2400Hz for mark; 600 baud)
OS: JR-BASIC 1.0
JR-200
The JR-200 is made of silver grey plastic, and has a black matte area around the chiclet keyboard area. It used the same MN1800A CPU as the previous model, but added a second processor, the 4-bit MN1544CJR, which is used for I/O and contains 128 bytes of RAM plus four kilobytes of ROM.
The computer received favorable reviews on its launch. Creative Computing wrote "The Panasonic JR-200 is one of the nicest new computers to make the scene in some time."
A version of the JR-200 called the Panasonic JR-200U was developed for the North American and European markets and was announced in January 1983.
Specifications:
CPU: MN1800A + MN1544
Clock speed: 890 KHz
RAM: 36 KB
ROM: 16 KB
Graphics: 8 colors (black, blue, red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, white); 256x192; 32x24 text characters; 64x48 semi-graphic characters with 8x8 pixel matrix
Sound: 3 voices, 5 octaves, square wave. Generated by the MN1271 sound, I/O and timer chip.
Connections: Composite and RF video, expansion, tape (600/2400 bauds), printer port, floppy drive, joystick
OS: JR-BASIC 5.0
JR-300
The JR-300, released in 1984, was completely redesigned in comparison with the earlier JR-100 and JR-200 models. The JR-300 had a Zilog Z80A CPU as well as a second MN1800A CPU to allow backwards compatibility with the JR-200.
Specifications:
CPU: MN1800A + Z80A
Clock speed: 4 MHz
RAM: 82 KB
ROM: 40 KB
Graphics: 8 colors; 640x200; 320x200; 640x400
Sound: Yamaha 8910 (3 voices, 5 octaves)
Connections: RGB, Composite and RF video, sound out, expansion, tape (600/2400 bauds), printer port, floppy drive, joystick
OS: JR-BASIC 5.0, Extended Basic
JR-800
A handheld model called JR-800 was launched in 1983 with a price of 128,000 yen, but it was not compatible with the previous |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Dimension%20Partnership%20in%20Public%20Health%20and%20Social%20Well-being | The Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS) is an international networking platform for strengthening professional connections, sharing and co-creating knowledge, and developing joint activities in public health and social well-being.
The Partnership is served by the NDPHS Secretariat that was established in 2012 as an international legal entity hosted by the Swedish Government located in Stockholm and funded jointly by the Partner Countries.
History
The cooperation network arose out of the Northern Dimension Forum on Social Protection and Health held in the city of Joensuu, Finland, in 2002. The NDPHS was formally established at a ministerial-level meeting in Oslo, Norway on 27 October 2003. Today the Partnership constitutes "an umbrella for activities on the regional, subregional and local levels, serving as a forum for coordination and synergies among the various actors."
Objectives
According to the founding document the main goal of the NDPHS is "to promote sustainable development in the Northern Dimension area through improving human health and social wellbeing." In doing so, reducing the spread of major communicable diseases and preventing life-style related non-communicable diseases as well as enhancing peoples’ levels of social well-being and promoting socially rewarding lifestyles are further tasks of the NDPHS. All in all, as stated in the Oslo Declaration, "[t]he activities (…) should contribute to greater political and administrative coherence in the area, narrowing of social and economic differences, and to a general improvement of the quality of life and of the demographic situation."
Structure
The highest decision-making body of the NDPHS is the Partnership Annual Conference (PAC), a high-level ministerial dialogue that formulates the overall policy orientation of the Partnership. The operational decision-making body is the Committee of Senior Representatives (CSR) which is composed of senior representatives appointed by each Partner and chaired by a senior representative of the Partnership. The CSR reports to the PAC, ensuring fulfillment of decisions and recommendations of the PAC.
The chairmanship rotates among the Partners every two years. In 2022-2023 the Partnership is chaired by Sweden and co-chaired by Lithuania. The major practical work e.g. the implementation of the NDPHS Strategy and its accompanying Action Plan, including elaboration and implementation of concrete projects is then done in the Expert Groups, according to their Terms of Reference. The members of the Expert Groups are designated representatives of the Partners who have profound expertise in their respective fields.
The following expert-level structures are operating within the NDPHS:
Expert Groups
Expert Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (EG AMR)
Expert Group on Alcohol and Substance Use (EG ASA)
Expert Group on HIV, TB, and Associated Infections (EG HIV, TB&AI)
Expert Group on Non-communicable Diseases (EG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20and%20Beatrice%20Laufer%20Center%20for%20Physical%20and%20Quantitative%20Biology | The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology (Laufer Center) is a multidisciplinary venue where research from fields such as biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, engineering, genetics, mathematics, and physics come together and target medical and biological problems using both computations and experiments. The Laufer Center is part of Stony Brook University. The Center's current director is Dr. Ivet Bahar, Louis & Beatrice Laufer Endowed Chair, and Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Stony Brook University. Other faculty members include: Founding Director and Laufer Family Endowed Chair, Dr. Ken A. Dill, Associate Director, Dr. Carlos Simmerling, Henry Laufer Endowed Professor, Dr. Gábor Balázsi, Assistant Professor, Dr. Eugene Serebryany, and affiliated faculty from the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Pharmacology, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology & Immunology, Ecology & Evolution and Computer Science at Stony Brook University, as well as from Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Among the Laufer Center's goals is to enhance interdisciplinary education at Stony Brook University. Dr. Gábor Balázsi coordinates the flagship course of the Center, Physical and Quantitative Biology, which is offered each Fall through the Departments of Physics, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering.
History
The center was founded in 2008 by a gift from Drs. Henry Laufer, Marsha Laufer and their family in memory of Louis and Beatrice Laufer. On May 7, 2012 the Laufer Center opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
References
Bioinformatics organizations
Computational biology
Stony Brook University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Batzner | J. C. Batzner is a composer primarily of electronic music and is a currently on the faculty of Central Michigan University. Jay Batzner is also the programming director for Electronic Music Midwest He ran a daily podcast about miniatures He wrote the music for Carla Poindexter's Carnival Daring Do His 10-minute opera Secrets & Waffles debuted in Carnegie Hall with the Remarkable Theater Brigade's Opera Shorts in 2010. Batzner's work was also part of several 60x60 mixes including the Sanguine Mix, Order of Magnitude Mix, 2009 International Mix, Evolution Mix (part I), 2005 Midwest Mix.
In 2012, Jay Batzner brought 60x60 Dance with his colleague Heather Trommer-Beardslee to Central Michigan University
Discography
Quills and Jacks of Outrageous Fortune 60x60 2005 CD Vox Novus
Sonance: New Music for Piano
References
External links
Jay Batzner's Homepage
Biography at Vox Novus
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
American electronic musicians
American male classical composers
American classical composers
Living people
21st-century American composers
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XenForo | XenForo is a Internet forum software package written in the PHP programming language. The software is developed by former vBulletin lead developers Kier Darby and Mike Sullivan. The first public beta release of XenForo was released in October 2010, the stable version on March 8, 2011. The program includes several search engine optimization (SEO) features.
On November 12, 2014, Chris Deeming joined the development team. One of his products, Xen Media Gallery, now XenForo Media Gallery, joined the XenForo family of products.
Development
One of the developers of XenForo, Kier Darby, had been a lead developer for the community platform vBulletin. The original owner of vBulletin, Jelsoft, was acquired by the American new media company Internet Brands in 2007. Disagreements occurred between the developers and the new management and most of the vBulletin developers left Internet Brands in 2009. Darby and other former vBulletin developers began work on a new platform, XenForo.
Internet Brands lawsuits
One day before the scheduled release of the first public beta of XenForo in October 2010, Internet Brands announced that it would file a lawsuit against the XenForo team in the UK, claiming: copyright infringement of property acquired by Internet Brands, use of code in XenForo that was refactored from vBulletin code, breach of contract, and engaging in unfair business practices. Representatives stated that XenForo "unfairly stands on the shoulders of more than a decade of development", development which had become the property of Internet Brands through the acquisition. Internet Brands denied that the timing of the lawsuit was to coincide with the public beta. In November 2010, Internet Brands sued XenForo and Darby in California District Court in the United States, additionally claiming that Darby had not returned confidential information from Internet Brands regarding the vBulletin software. The XenForo team denied the claims.
On February 28, 2013, XenForo announced that the lawsuit had been settled between the parties in both the UK and the US. Although specific terms of the agreement are confidential, Internet Brands withdrew both the US and UK lawsuits. XenForo announced that all license holders with a valid license from June 19, 2012 would receive an additional 255 days of support and download access.
Release history
See also
Comparison of Internet forum software
References
External links
Internet forum software
2010 software
PHP software
Proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kik%20Messenger | Kik Messenger, commonly called Kik, is a freeware instant messaging mobile app from the Canadian company Kik Interactive, available on iOS and Android operating systems.
The application uses a smartphone's internet connection to transmit and receive messages, photos, videos, sketches, mobile web pages, and other content after users register a username.
Kik is known for its features preserving users' anonymity, such as allowing users to register without the need to provide a telephone number or valid email address. However, the application does not employ end-to-end encryption, and the company also logs user IP addresses, which could be used to determine the user's ISP and approximate location. This information, as well as "reported" conversations, are regularly surrendered upon request by law enforcement organizations, sometimes without the need for a court order.
Kik was originally intended to be a music-sharing app before transitioning to messaging, briefly offering users the ability to send a limited number of SMS text messages directly from the application.
During the first 15 days after Kik's re-release as a messaging app, over 1 million accounts were created. In May 2016, Kik Messenger announced that they had approximately 300 million registered users, and was used by approximately 40% of United States' teenagers.
Kik Messenger was acquired by Medialab Technology in October 2019.
History
Kik Interactive was founded in 2009 by a group of students from the University of Waterloo in Canada who wished to create new technologies for use on mobile smartphones. Kik Messenger is the first app developed by Kik Interactive, and was released on October 19, 2010. Within 15 days of its release, Kik Messenger reached one million user registrations, with Twitter being credited as a catalyst for the new application's popularity.
On November 24, 2010, Research In Motion (RIM) removed Kik Messenger from BlackBerry App World and limited the functionality of the software for its users. RIM also sued Kik Interactive for patent infringement and misuse of trademarks. In October 2013, the companies settled the lawsuit, with the terms undisclosed.
In November 2014, Kik announced a $38.3 million Series C funding round and its first acquisition, buying GIF Messenger "Relay". The funding was from Valiant Capital Partners, Millennium Technology Value Partners, and SV Angel. By this time, Kik had raised a total of $70.5 million.
On August 16, 2015, Kik received a $50 million investment from Chinese Internet giant Tencent, the parent company of the popular Chinese messaging service WeChat. The investment earned the company a billion dollar valuation. Company CEO Ted Livingston stated Kik's aspirations to become "the WeChat of the West" and said that attracting younger users was an important part of the company's strategy.
In March 2016, the arrest of registered sex offender Thomas Paul Keeler II uncovered more than 200 Kik groups dedicated to the distribu |
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