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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Home%20Server%202011 | Windows Home Server 2011, code named Vail, is a home server operating system by Microsoft designed for small office/home offices and homes with multiple connected PCs to offer protected file storage, file sharing, automated PC backup, remote access, and remote control of PC desktops. It was released on 6 April 2011 following the release of Power Pack 3 for its aging predecessor, Windows Home Server. Windows Home Server 2011 is the last Windows Home Server release and was succeeded by Windows Server 2012 Essentials.
Windows Home Server 2011 is based on Windows Server 2008 R2 and requires x86-64 CPUs (64-bit), while its predecessor worked on the older IA-32 (32-bit) architecture as well. Coupled with fundamental changes in the structure of the client backups and the shared folders, there is no clear method for migrating from the previous version to Windows Home Server 2011.
Features
Windows Home Server 2011 includes additional entertainment capabilities, and an add in feature with an app store. Including web-based media functionality.
Initial speculation by technology columnist Mary Jo Foley fueled the idea that 'Vail' would integrate with Windows Media Center. This prompted the response "Time will tell" by Microsoft Windows Home Server Product Planner Todd Headrick, but by the time of the public beta Microsoft had decided not to integrate Windows Media Center with 'Vail'.
System requirements
Drive Extender removal
On 23 November 2010, Microsoft announced that Drive Extender would be removed from Windows Home Server 2011. This announcement has led to "astonishment and outrage" from testers and users. Criticism of Drive Extender's removal is mainly related to it being seen as a core feature of Windows Home Server and a key reason for adoption. Windows Home Server 2011 developer Michael Leworthy expressed concern that the implementation of Drive Extender might lead to "data error issues." As a result, third-party products entered the market to fill the void left by Drive Extender, including Drive Bender (Division M) and DrivePool (StableBit).
The volume spanning feature of Drive Extender, in which two or more drives are used as one large storage volume, is available using the Dynamic Disks feature as in any other Windows Server release.
References
Home Server 2011
Windows 7
Home Server 2011
Home servers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil%20Scarsella | Basil Scarsella is an Italo-Australian businessman. He is a former CEO of ETSA Utilities and Northern Gas Networks. He is the current CEO of UK Power Networks, formerly EDF Energy Networks. He was also President of the Oceania Football Confederation between 2000 and 2003, and is a former Member of the Executive Committee of FIFA.
Early life
Born in September 1955 near Rome, Scarsella moved to Australia from Italy in the early 1960s.
Working life
Scarsella was CEO of ETSA Utilities in Adelaide, South Australia.
Between 2005 and 2011 Scarsella was CEO of Northern Gas Networks, a company that manages the gas distribution network in the north of England.
Football
Playing career
Scarsella played as a goalkeeper for Campbelltown City.
Administration
After finishing playing he entered football administration, becoming chairman of Soccer Australia.
Scarsella was President of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) in the early 2000s when FIFA promised and subsequently reneged on direct entry for the top OFC team to the World Cup finals tournament. In 2003, he resigned after OFC members passed a vote of no confidence in his leadership.
In 2003 Scarsella became inaugural president of National Soccer League club Adelaide United.
Honours
Life member of Campbelltown City SC
Football Federation Australia - Football Hall of Fame Hall of Honour – Inducted 2001
References
Australian businesspeople
Australian soccer chairmen and investors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnet%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Mnet (acronym of Music Network) is a South Korean pay television music channel owned by CJ E&M, a division of CJ ENM, part of CJ Group.
The CJ E&M Center Studio located in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul is the headquarters, broadcast and recording centre of many Mnet programs with a studio audience, namely the live weekly music show M Countdown. It is also the venue for live performances in survival shows such as Superstar K, Show Me The Money series, Produce 101 series, Comeback War series, Planet series and Street Dance series. Other shows are filmed in CJ E&M Studio in Ilsan and CJ E&M Contents World in Paju.
History
The global website named for Mnet Global changed to MWave in April 2013. Other sites from Mnet are not affected with the change.
On February 5, 2020, it was revealed that CJ ENM had begun restructuring Mnet's "We Are K-Pop" slogan and brand after the controversy behind "Produce 101" damaged the network's image.
On February 24, 2020, Mnet unveiled their new brand logo along with its 25th anniversary., Their new logo design is based on their old logo from 1995 with the addition of their current Mnet shape and colour. M2, Mwave, and the Mnet Production logo have stuck to the former design.
On May 21, 2020, Mnet reverted its logo back to its former design with Social distancing animations.
Slogans
Mnet Digital Studio
Mnet Digital Studio launched STUDIO CHOOM in May 2019, a YouTube channel which features notable Kpop acts performing dances in front of the studio's white background and colored lights. The sets often feature backup dancers and usually lack any background props.
Programming
Current programming
Variety shows
Queendom Puzzle
Camp Zerobaseone (co-produced by Wake One Entertainment)
I Can See Your Voice 10
Girls Night Out
Kep1er Unner (co-produced by Swing Entertainment and Wake One Entertainment)
Mnet Prime Show
HIT village
Music programming
M Countdown
Daily Music Talk
M Evening
Live on M
MUSICEXPRESS
MUSIC X CURATION
MPD MUSIC TALK
MPD Music Video Commentary
M2 Today's Song Weekly Chart
Mnet Present
M Super Concert
Awards Ceremony
MAMA Awards (1999–present)
Special events
Billboard Music Award (2018–present)
Gaon Chart Music Awards (2017–present)
Grammy Award (2018–present)
Upcoming programming
Street Woman Fighter 2 (August, 2023)
I-LAND 2 (2023)
Upcoming Karaoke Survival Show (TBA)
Former programming
Awards Ceremony
Mnet 20's Choice Awards (2007–2013)
M2 X Genie Music Awards (2019)
Special events
Asia Song Festival (2016–2018)
American Music Award (2017)
idolCON (2017, 2018)
Style Icon Asia (2008–2014, 2016)
Dramas
Monstar (2013)
Mimi (2014)
Entertain Us (2014)
Sing Again, Hera Gu (2015)
The Lover (2015)
Variety shows and specials
M terview
Be Stupid
Dirty Talk
Fun & Joy
Love & Hate
MLive
Mnet Special
Mnet Star
M WIDE ENEWS
Music Spotlight
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter Forest
Boys & Girls Music Countdown (2007–2010)
Girls' Generation Goes to School (200 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit%20Technology%20Resources | Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR) is a charitable nonprofit organization (NPO) inside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that "serves low-income people in Philadelphia by recycling used computers, providing hands-on work experience, and assisting community-based service organizations to use computers in their work."
See also
A+ certification
Camara (charity)
Empower Up
Free Geek
World Computer Exchange
Digital divide in the United States
Global digital divide
Computer recycling
Electronic waste in the United States
External links
Nonprofit Technology Resources (official website)
Nonprofit Technology News
Information technology charities
Non-profit organizations based in Pennsylvania
Organizations based in Philadelphia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleba%20cordata | Gleba cordata is a species of sea butterfly, a floating and swimming sea snail or sea slug, a pelagic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymbuliidae.
References
Cymbuliidae
Gastropods described in 1776
Taxa named by Carsten Niebuhr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinued%20Archos%20products | The French consumer electronics company Archos manufactured a number of products which have since been discontinued.
Handheld and portable Computers with x86 compatible processors
ARCHOS 10 netbook
In January 2009, Archos released their first netbook, the Archos 10, following the naming scheme of the IMT players. It is a standard netbook featuring the intel Atom N260 CPU, a 10.2" WSVGA screen, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB Harddrive, and Windows XP. It is a rebranded Hasee MJ125, but includes additional anti-virus, multimedia, and productivity software. It is no longer available on their website.
A variant netbook, the ARCHOS 10s, featured a silver case in place of the ARCHOS 10's black shell.
Handheld computers with ARM-compatible processors
Generation 4
The Generation 4 series is an upgrade to the previous AV Series. The eight models include the 404, the 504, the 604, the 604 WiFi, and the 704 WiFi. All players in this series are Microsoft PlaysForSure compatible.
The Generation 4 players were modular, with the unit base priced cheaply and additional features available at extra cost. The add-on DVR Station and DVR Travel Adapter, sold separately, allowed video recording from sources including satellite, cable, and terrestrial television, as well as DVD players. The players included some working video codecs, but licensing costs meant support for MPEG-2/VOB videos with Dolby 5.1 Sound (AC3) sound and H.264 with AAC sound were not included as standard.
Documentation of the series' processor core and operating system is scant. The 404, 504 and 604 are known to use a TI DaVinci processor of type DM644x, combining an ARM9 and a DSP processor. For the 700 models a TI DM420 (no further details found in public) might serve as the CPU. For the rest of the models no documentation is available, though parts of the firmware loader were licensed under GPL and thus published. A single source claims the OS to be Windows Mobile on all models.
Generation 5
On June 14, 2007, Archos released details of the new flagship 605 WiFi, and of new 105, 405, and 705 players.
The 605 Wifi and 405 officially went on sale on September 1, 2007. The 605Wifi comes in 30GB, 80GB, and 160GB models as well as a 4GB model with an added SDHC slot. There is also a DSGi (Electrical Retailer) model specific to the United Kingdom which has a 40GB Hard Drive. The 405 comes in 2GB with SDHC slot. A 30GB version was added later.
The 105 included some video capabilities but was still pitched mainly as a small and affordable MP3 player. The 705 uses a similar design to the 704 with a slimmer profile and new 5th Gen features.
The main upgrade in this series was the addition of the Archos content portals (ACP). The Opera web browser was made optional, and support for Adobe Flash, facilitating online video streaming, was implemented. Firmware 2.1.04 was released on May 27, 2008 which allowed YouTube and Google Video streaming.
Archos TV+
The Archos TV+ was a standalone Digital Video Re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT64 | NAT64 is an IPv6 transition mechanism that facilitates communication between IPv6 and IPv4 hosts by using a form of network address translation (NAT). The NAT64 gateway is a translator between IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, for which function it needs at least one IPv4 address and an IPv6 network segment comprising a 32-bit address space. The "well-known prefix" reserved for this service is .
An IPv6 client embeds the IPv4 address it wishes to communicate with using the host part of the IPv6 network segment, resulting in an IPv4-embedded IPv6 addresses (hence the 32-bit address space in the IPv6 network segment), and sends packets to the resulting address. The NAT64 gateway creates a mapping between the IPv6 and the IPv4 addresses, which may be manually configured or determined automatically.
Principle of operation
A simple NAT64 installation may consist of a gateway with two interfaces connected to an IPv4 network and an IPv6 network, respectively. Traffic from the IPv6 network is routed via the gateway which performs all the necessary translations for transferring packets between the two networks. However, the translation is not symmetric, as the IPv6 address space is much larger than the IPv4 address space; thus, one-to-one address mapping is not possible. The gateway maintains IPv6-to-IPv4 address mapping, which may be established with an automatic algorithm (stateless mapping) or with special and manual translations (stateful mapping) when the first packet from the IPv6 network reaches the NAT64 gateway.
Stateless translation is appropriate when a NAT64 translator is used in front of IPv4-only servers to allow them to be reached by remote IPv6-only clients. Stateful translation is suitable for deployment at the client side or at the service provider, allowing IPv6-only client hosts to reach remote IPv4-only nodes.
In general, NAT64 is designed to be used when the communication is initiated by IPv6 hosts. Some mechanisms, including static address mapping, exist to allow the inverse scenario.
Not every type of resource is accessible with NAT64. Protocols that embed IPv4 literal addresses, such as SIP and SDP, FTP, WebSocket, Skype, MSN, and any other content with IPv4 literals are excluded, but a dual-stacked web proxy allows IPv6-only clients to access even web pages with IPv4 literals in URLs. However, 464XLAT, which uses NAT64, allows use of such protocols over IPv6-only connections. For SIP and FTP, the problem can also be solved using an application-level gateway, or using Port Control Protocol with the PREFIX64 extension.
References
Routing software
IPv6 transition technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20City%20%28TV%20series%29 | Super City is a television comedy series from New Zealand starring Madeleine Sami and directed by Taika Waititi. Season 1 premiered on the TV3 network in 2011. The series was picked up by the American Broadcasting Company in 2012. It opened with a healthy 24 percent share of the 25-54 age bracket, earning it 11th place on TV3's rating table for the week. The second season, directed by Oscar Kightley, premiered on 26 July 2013.
Overview
In Season 1, Madeleine Sami transforms into five different characters, all living in Auckland. Pasha is an aging cheerleader clinging to her partying lifestyle; Azeem is an immigrant taxi driver embracing Maori culture; Jo is a gym instructor in love with her best friend; Linda is the runt of her "old girls" clique fostering impoverished artists; and Georgie is a homeless girl whose freedom is unexpectedly interrupted.
In Season 2, Madeleine transforms into some new characters, including Levi Tutaima, a 20-year-old Niuean who's keen on making his way as a semi-professional rugby star, but is concerned with getting his hair right and fitting in; 26-year-old Ofa Faka'apa'apa, a benefit case-manager who has little sympathy for those who need state help and is always ready to provide unorthodox advice; 45-year-old Mary Dalziel who, while not on the path to pop stardom anymore, still awkwardly flirts her way around the local covers band scene; and 62-year-old Ray Donaldson, a British panel beater who does his best to teach his immigrant employees while also supporting his bodybuilder wife Tiffany. The second season also features other characters, including Urzila Carlson as Ofa's manager and Elroy Finn as Mary's son.
Episodes
There are six episodes in the show's first season:
Awards
Madeleine Sami won Best Performance by an Actress at the 2011 Aotearoa Film & Television Awards (previously Qantas TV and Film Award). The series was a finalist in two other categories —Best Comedy and Best Script.
Madeleine Sami and Tom Sainsbury also picked up Best Comedy Script award for Episode 3 at the 2011 SWANZ awards.
Reception
"Madeleine has an extraordinary ability to flit from character to character…she uses it to explore and have a good laugh at various aspects of 'being' Auckland. This is funny, this is funny, its smart and sharp," said Simon Wilson of Metro Magazine.
"Sami absolutely nailed these characters...very cleverly layered. Its a very good mix of comedy and tragedy. I'm disappointed it's a 6 episode season and we're halfway through. Its definitely definitely worth watching," said Sarah McMullan of National Radio.
"I applaud Super City, think it's very clever…Sami produces a medley of five very different Auckland stereotypes, obviously demonstrates her clever acting abilities and broad range," said Jane Bowron of Dominion Post.
"Have you been watching Super City? Well you should be. It shows an Auckland like you never see on TV and has genius observations and characters, great lines and it's surprising and fres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Asia | Discovery Asia (formerly known as Discovery HD and Discovery HD World) is a Southeast Asian pay television channel that features Asia-related documentaries and original Asian programming. It is operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its Asia-Pacific division.
History
The channel was launched in 2005 as Discovery HD, the first high-definition channel in Asia. It was first available in South Korea in February, and in Japan in December. On April 1, 2010, Discovery HD was rebranded to Discovery HD World. In 2008, Discovery Channel HD was launched in Japan. In February 2010, Discovery HD World India was launched with dubbed programming in Hindi and Tamil.
Programming
Acopan Tepui
Against the Elements
American Loggers
At Sea
Baltic Coast
Chasing Classics Cars
Classic Autos: Paris Auction
Disappeared
Discovery Atlas
Earth Diaries
Faces of a Vanishing World
Fantastic Festivals Of The World
Fight Quest
Fish Life
Getaway to Africa
Great Lodges... National Parks
The Greatest Auto Race On Earth
Green Paradise
Hotels
I Have Seen the Earth Change
An Inside Look
King of Construction
Laura McKenzie's Traveler
Lost City in the Sky
Mighty Ships
Mixer Season
Mysterious Journeys
My Cypriot Kitchen
Nature's Keepers
On The Run
Orangutan Island
Prototype This!
Really Big Things With Matt Rogers
Rhythm & Blooms
Sarah Palin's Alaska
Secret Creatures of Jao
Splash of Color
Star Racer
Stunt Stars
Suggs' Italian Job
Sunrise Earth
Three Sheets
Ultimate Journeys
Unique Hotels and Restaurants
Unusual World
Water Life
Weird Creatures
The World From Above
See also
Animal Planet
Discovery Channel
Discovery Home & Health
Discovery Science
TLC
Discovery Turbo
References
External links
Discovery Channel
Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
Mass media in Southeast Asia
Television channels and stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS%20Network | The ATLAS network is an association of the police tactical units of the 27 Member States of the European Union established following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 upon the initiative of the Police Chiefs Task Force.
History
ATLAS was initially informally established for information exchange and training activities co-operation between units and was later formalised by a Council decision in 2008 that also expanded ATLAS functions to include provision of assistance upon request to another Member State.
In 2018, an ATLAS Support Office was established in EUROPOL's European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC), therefore strengthening the role of the ATLAS Network within the European police organisations.
Terms
ATLAS uses the terms special intervention unit and crisis situation defined as:-
'Special intervention unit' is any law enforcement unit of a Member State which is specialised in the control of a crisis situation;
'Crisis situation' is any situation in which the competent authorities of a Member State have reasonable grounds to believe that there is a criminal offence presenting a serious direct physical threat to persons, property, infrastructure or institutions in that Member State in particular situations combating terrorism.
Organization
ATLAS recognises that a Member State may not have the means, resources or expertise to deal effectively with all crisis situations, in particular large crisis situations, and provides a framework for a Member State to request assistance from another member State.
Members
ATLAS consists of 38 special intervention units including units from non-EU Member States Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and the United Kingdom. The non-EU Member States can participate, including the use of all facilities, but have no voting rights.
See also
List of police tactical units
Europol
Club de Berne, the equivalent for intelligence services
References
Further reading
External Links
Foreign Affairs magazine: Together to Protect: Europol’s ATLAS Network and the Future of European Security
Austrian Ministry of the Interior: ATLAS-Verbund: Vernetzung gegen Terror
Law enforcement in Europe
European Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20on%20CBS | Tennis on CBS is the branding used for broadcasts of professional tennis tournaments that were produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States. At the time the network's broadcast agreements with the United States Tennis Association (USTA) ended in 2014, CBS held the broadcast rights to the U.S. Open, the U.S. Open Series and the Sony Ericsson Open. From 1980 to 1982, CBS also televised the French Open (sandwiched in-between stints at NBC). CBS also during the 1970s and 1980s, broadcast the Grand Prix tennis circuit (including the Pepsi Grand Slam). CBS returned to show tennis coverage again after five years, with both World TeamTennis (2019–present) and USA matches at the Davis Cup (2020–present)
U.S. Open coverage
CBS Sports broadcast the first US Open Tennis Championships in 1968. Bud Collins called the action alongside Jack Kramer.
James Wall (best known for playing Mr. Baxter on Captain Kangaroo) was also the stage manager for 41 consecutive years on the US Open Tennis Championships telecasts.
On May 17, 2013, ESPN signed a contract (an 11-year deal at $770 million; about $250 million more than CBS was willing to pay) with the United States Tennis Association that would give it the rights to broadcast the U.S. Open starting in 2015, ending CBS's role in covering the tournament after 47 years. At the end of their 2014 coverage, CBS for their closing credits montage, highlighting the greatest moments during their 47-year run with the US Open, used Alicia Keys's "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down".
Without the US Open, CBS's SEC college football coverage was now allowed to start on Labor Day weekend and their National Football League coverage to have a doubleheader in Week 1 of regular season.
Scheduling anomalies
In 1982, CBS debuted "Super Saturday". The Men's Semifinals sandwiched the Women's Final, with the first semifinal match starting at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
For the past few decades, the National Football League had always let CBS be the "singleheader" network during the week it televised the Men's US Open Tennis final at 4:05 p.m. Eastern Time around the country (CBS has said that it could not justify putting the Men's US Open Final on Sunday night in terms of ratings; the women's final, broadcast on a Saturday night, often outrated the men's final by a considerable margin, except when at least one American plays in the men's final).
All the courts used by the U.S. Open are lighted, meaning that television coverage of the tournament can extend into prime time to attract higher ratings. This has recently been used to the advantage of the USA Network cable channel and especially for CBS, which used its influence to move the women's singles final to Saturday night to draw higher viewership.
Effects from the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
For several years, due to the overlapping scheduling of the U.S. Open and the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon on Labor Day weekend, many CB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Computer%20Forensics%20Architecture | The Open Computer Forensics Architecture (OCFA) is a distributed open-source computer forensics framework used to analyze digital media within a digital forensics laboratory environment. The framework was built by the Dutch national police.
Architecture
OCFA consists of a back end for the Linux platform, it uses a PostgreSQL database for data storage, a custom Content-addressable storage or CarvFS based data repository and a Lucene index. The front end for OCFA has not been made publicly available due to licensing issues.
The framework integrates with other open source forensic tools and includes modules for The Sleuth Kit, Scalpel, Photorec, libmagic, GNU Privacy Guard, objdump, exiftags, zip, 7-zip, tar, gzip, bzip2, rar, antiword, qemu-img, and mbx2mbox. OCFA is extensible in C++ or Java.
See also
List of digital forensics tools
External links
Linux Magazine article on OCFA
Open Source Software for Digital Forensics
Computer forensics
Digital forensics software
Data recovery
Distributed computing architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20Earth%20Simulator%20Project | The Living Earth simulator is a proposed massive computer simulation system intended to simulate the interactions of all aspects of life, human economic activity, climate, and other physical processes on the planet Earth as part of the FuturICT project, in response to the European FP7 "Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship" initiative.
The Future and Emerging Technologies 'flagship' competition offered a 10-years, ~€1 billion funding to the winning teams; the competition attracted over 300 international teams.
The FuturICT project was not selected and thus the Living Earth Simulator was never developed. The two winners, announced as of March 2013, were Graphene and Human Brain.
References
External links
FuturICT website (archived)
Can we really model society? scientists think we can
Numerical climate and weather models
Simulation
Science and technology in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Mottram | Paul Mottram is a composer, arranger and orchestrator of music for film and television, and also writes production music for Audio Network.
Commissioned music credits include Bank Of Dave, Kirstie's Handmade Britain (Channel 4), Vic Reeves' Rogues Gallery (Discovery, BBC Three) and People Like Us (BBC Two). His music has also featured on numerous productions including the films Bad Santa, The Bee Movie and trailer for Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine and Amazon's Generation Wealth and television programmes such as The Apprentice, Panorama, Horizon, Newsnight, QI, Doctor Who, Who Do You Think You Are?, The Crown, The Restaurant, The Gadget Show, Coast, Hollyoaks, Travel Man, and Downton Abbey, and television commercials for Barclays, JVC, Pizza Hut, Rover, Renault, and Hitachi. His music also features prominently on some Youtube channels such as BuzzFeed and its affiliated channels, SortedFood, INSIDER and its affiliated channels, The Economist, and BBC Three.
After classically training as a violist, pianist and composer at Royal College of Music, Cambridge University and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he was heavily involved in the restoration and re-recording of William Walton and Malcolm Arnold’s "lost" film scores of the 1940s and 1950s. He also worked as an orchestrator on films such as Shirley Temple, Chaplin and Rain Man, before specialising in composing. Between 1986 and 1990 he fronted the band The Dubious Brothers under the name Monty Von Dubious.
He is one of the founding shareholders in Audio Network PLC where he acts as a music consultant.
Some of his most successful pieces of music include 'Sideways Like a Crab'.
References
External links
British jazz composers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Alumni of the Royal College of Music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardle%20Transport | Wardle Transport was a bus operator based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Formed in 1963 as Jack's of Norton, it expanded from 2001 to operate a network of local bus routes using over 60 vehicles. Arriva purchased the company in December 2010 and placed under the control of its Arriva Midlands subsidiary. Arriva stated that Wardle's identity would be retained. At the time of the takeover, Wardle employed 105 staff and operated a fleet of 64 buses and ran 18 scheduled services. A new livery of two-tone red and white applied in Arriva's corporate style was introduced in June 2011.
In 2015, Arriva announced that D&G Bus had purchased the operations of Wardle Transport with them taking over from 9th May 2015.
History
Wardle Transport was founded in 1963 by Doug Wardle. It initially traded as Jack's of Norton, and was run alongside travel agent Wardle Travel. For its first 38 years of existence, the company operated a small fleet of minibuses on school services. In 2002 contracts to operate two routes in Stoke-on-Trent were won; these were operated with three Optare Alero minibuses hired from Stoke-on-Trent City Council. One of these routes was withdrawn in 2004. Following First Potteries maximum allowable vehicles being cut, Wardle gained three school services, acquiring its first double-decker vehicles to operate the routes.
A new route linking Hanley, Haywood Hospital and Burslem was launched in early 2006. The route, supported by the city council, replaced a route withdrawn by another operator, but was initially found not to be commercially viable.
In 2007, the company won a contract to operate services to Stoke City Football Club home matches, initially using four double-deck buses. The services proved popular and the following season saw eight buses used. Four new commercial routes were also introduced in 2008.
A new direct service linking Blurton to Hanley, branded as Plumline, was introduced in 2008. An Optare Versa single-decker was bought for use on the route.
In August 2011 Arriva Midlands purchased the Staffordshire routes of D&G Bus with 46 routes and 30 buses and these were integrated into Wardle Transport.
In April 2012, Wardle Transport commenced operating route X50 to Derby.
Services
As of October 2013 Wardle Transport operated 39 bus routes.
References
External links
Company website
Bus operators in Derbyshire
Bus operators in Staffordshire
Companies based in Stoke-on-Trent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toolbox.com | Toolbox.com is a network of online business-to-business communities geared at professionals working in the information technology, human resources, and finance fields, allowing online collaboration between professionals utilizing discussion groups, blogs, and wikis.
After being acquired by The Corporate Executive Board Company in 2007, Toolbox.com was bought by Ziff Davis in January 2012.
History
Toolbox.com was founded in 1998 as ITtoolbox, one of the first online communities enabling professionals to share knowledge about information technology. Co-founder Daniel Morrison justified the need for ITtoolbox, saying that the site "helps professionals do their job better by tapping each other for insight and help."
In 2007, ITtoolbox was acquired by The Corporate Executive Board Company, with Daniel Morrison retaining a managing role in the site. Following the acquisition, ITtoolbox was renamed Toolbox for IT, the site as a whole was renamed Toolbox.com, and in November and December 2008 respectively, Toolbox.com officially launched two new communities for human resources and finance. Morrison considered the addition of a financial community to its network to be a key asset, especially due to the effects of the 2008 financial crisis
In 2012, Ziff Davis Media announced that it had acquired Toolbox.com for an unspecified amount. The company will incorporate Toolbox.com into its B2B operations, B2B Focus, which was formed by its acquisition of Focus Research.
References
External links
American social networking websites
Information technology organizations based in North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXDS | DXDS (1161 AM) is a radio station owned and operated by UM Broadcasting Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located in Digos.
It was formerly known as Radyo Ukay from 2000 to June 14, 2020. On June 15, 2020, management decided to retire the branding as it has run its course. DXDS, along with its other AM stations, started carrying their perspective call letters in their brandings. The yellow highlighted in the "X" of their logos means to move forward.
References
Radio stations in Davao del Sur
Radio stations established in 1967 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20East%20Midlands | Capital East Midlands was a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network, broadcasting to the East Midlands from studios in Nottingham.
It launched on 3 January 2011 following the merger of Trent FM, Leicester Sound and Ram FM.
In April 2019, the station was merged with a sister Capital station in Birmingham to form Capital Midlands.
History
The regional station originally broadcast as three stations – Radio Trent began broadcasting to Nottinghamshire in July 1975, later expanding its coverage area to central and southern Derbyshire in March 1987 with split local programming introduced for the area. The Derbyshire station was relaunched in 1994 as Ram FM. Leicester Sound was launched in Leicestershire in September 1984, just over 11 months after the county's first ILR station, Centre Radio, went into receivership.
Both Trent FM and Leicester Sound were owned by Midlands Radio until a takeover by Capital Radio plc led to the stations being sold off to the GWR Group in 1993. In 2005, the owners merged with Capital to form GCap Media, which was later taken over by Global Radio. In June 2008, Global launched The Hit Music Network on Trent, Leicester Sound and Ram FM alongside Ten 17 in Essex, Hertfordshire's Mercury 96.6 and Mercury FM in Sussex and Surrey (also Mercia FM and Beacon Black Country until their sale to Orion Media). Local programming was restricted to daily breakfast and weekday afternoon & drive time slots with networked output originating from Nottingham. Two other Hit Music stations – London's 95.8 Capital FM and Red Dragon FM in south east Wales retained local output.
On 13 September 2010, Global Radio announced it would merge Trent FM, Leicester Sound and Ram FM to form a sole regional station as part of a merger between its Hit Music and Galaxy network stations to form the nine-station Capital radio network. The merger led to the closure of studios in Leicester and advertising offices in Derby.
On 26 February 2019, Global confirmed the station would be merged with Capital Birmingham. From Monday 8 April 2019, regional output will consist of a three-hour Drivetime show from Birmingham on weekdays, alongside news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising. Local breakfast and weekend shows were replaced with network programming from London.
The last local programming from Capital East Midlands aired on Friday 5 April 2019. Local news, traffic and advertising for the region continues to air as opt-outs - the station also retains offices in Nottingham.
Notable former presenters
Sacha Brooks (now at Capital XTRA Reloaded)
Emma Caldwell
Rich Clarke (now at Heart South)
Andi Durrant (now at Kisstory)
Dave Kelly
Margherita Taylor (now at Smooth Radio and Classic FM)
Andy Twigge <ref 96–106 Capital jock in tandem skydive Radio Today, 15 September 2011</ref> (now at BBC Radio Derby)
References
External links
Capital East Midlands
East Midlands
Defunct radio stations in the Uni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30%20Rock%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of 30 Rock, an American television comedy series on the NBC network in the United States, began airing on January 12, 2012. 30 Rock was renewed for a sixth season by NBC on November 15, 2010. The season began airing mid-season to accommodate Tina Fey's pregnancy. On November 14, 2011, NBC announced that 30 Rock would return at the new time of 8:00 pm.
This season was initially expected to be Alec Baldwin's last, as he had announced he would be looking to expand into other forms of media. However, in January 2012, Baldwin confirmed that he would remain for the seventh and final season of 30 Rock. Season six received positive reviews and 13 Emmy Award nominations.
Synopsis
The story arcs of season six include: Liz has a new relationship and emotionally matures; Jack continues to attempt to recover his wife from North Korea and find his identity at Kabletown; Kenneth moves up (and later down) the corporate ladder; and Jenna reaches a new level of fame thanks to being a judge on a reality show, and considers settling down with boyfriend Paul.
Cast
Tina Fey portrays Liz Lemon, the head writer of a fictional live sketch-comedy television series TGS. The TGS cast consists of two main actors. The lead actor is the loose cannon movie star Tracy Jordan, portrayed by Tracy Morgan. His co-star is the extremely narcissistic Jenna Maroney, portrayed by Jane Krakowski. Jack McBrayer plays the naïve NBC page, and later janitor, Kenneth Parcell. Scott Adsit acts as the witty and wise TGS producer, Pete Hornberger. Judah Friedlander portrays trucker hat-wearing staff writer Frank Rossitano. Alec Baldwin plays the NBC network executive Jack Donaghy. Donaghy's full corporate title for the majority of the season is "Head of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming". Keith Powell plays the Harvard University alumnus and TGS staff writer James "Toofer" Spurlock. Katrina Bowden acts as writers' assistant Cerie Xerox. Other cast members include Grizz Chapman as Grizz Griswold, Kevin Brown as "Dot Com" Slattery, and John Lutz as J.D. Lutz. The cast for the season will also feature recurring guest stars Kristen Schaal as Hazel Wassername, a new NBC page who looks up to Liz, and James Marsden as Criss, Liz's new boyfriend.
Main cast
Tina Fey as Liz Lemon, the head writer of TGS, a live sketch comedy television show. (22 episodes)
Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan, a loose cannon movie star and cast member of TGS. (22 episodes)
Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney, a vain, fame-obsessed TGS cast member and Liz's best friend. (22 episodes)
Jack McBrayer as Kenneth Parcell, a naïve, television-loving NBC page, and later janitor from Georgia. (22 episodes)
Scott Adsit as Pete Hornberger, the witty and wise producer of TGS. (14 episodes)
Judah Friedlander as Frank Rossitano, an immature staff writer for TGS. (18 episodes)
Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy, a high-flying NBC network executive and Liz's mentor. (22 episodes)
Katrina Bowden as Cerie Xe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%201%20%28S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20Metro%29 | Line 1 (Blue) () is one of the six lines that make up the São Paulo Metro and one of the thirteen lines that make up the Metropolitan Rail Transportation Network. It was the first line built for the São Paulo Metro and also the first metro line built in Brazil. It links Tucuruvi Station to Jabaquara Station. Construction began in the late 1960s and was completed in the early 1970s.
History
Originally called North-South Line, line 1 began construction on December 14, 1968. Commercial operation began September 14, 1974, with trains running in the first seven kilometers between Jabaquara and Vila Mariana stations. On this first stretch, the daily service lasted from 10 am to 3 pm.
The choice of this route was motivated by the nonexistence of alternatives for collective rail transport for the residents of Santana and Jabaquara, and also to relieve the already complicated traffic in the city's Center. The Consortium that won the bid for the construction of the line was HMD, an association of two German companies, Hochtief and Deconsult, and the Brazilian Montreal. This consortium applied the newest technologies available at the time, such as stainless steel cars, automatic train control and signaling system, third biometallic track, electric car traction and potent electronics, making the São Paulo Metro one of the fastest and most modern in the world.
In 1975 it was expanded, first to Liberdade, then to Santana.
In 1978 the Sé station was opened.
In 1998 the line expanded to Tucuruvi, because Santana station didn't settle the number from uses.
Moema branch
When the subway was projected in 1968, it had a planning to include, besides the North-South Line (current Line 1-Blue), other two branches: Paulista (current Line 2-Green) and Moema.
Moema Branch would start at Paraíso station and follow underneath Avenida 23 de Maio, until Moema neighbourhood. The project was cancelled; however, about of the branch were constructed and its initial stretch can still be noticed at Paraíso station.
On the upper platform towards Tucuruvi, heading towards the beginning of the platform, there are two granite tracks, similar to the ones at other stations platforms. Between these tracks, there's the Metro standard rubber floor. This floor is, actually, a siding, which was installed above the branch tracks. However, the line doesn't have a third track, not allowing the train park. On the beginning of the platform, a wall separates the rest of the branch. Inside this wall, there are two other tracks of the branch, which connects with Line 1 right after Paraíso station, towards Tucuruvi. It is currently used for the parking of Metro maintenance machines.
Stations
Gallery
References
Line 01
Sao 01
Railway lines opened in 1974 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapy | Scapy is a packet manipulation tool for computer networks, originally written in Python by Philippe Biondi. It can forge or decode packets, send them on the wire, capture them, and match requests and replies. It can also handle tasks like scanning, tracerouting, probing, unit tests, attacks, and network discovery.
Scapy provides a Python interface into libpcap or native raw sockets, in a similar way to that in which Wireshark provides a view and capture GUI. It differs by supporting packet injection, custom packet formats and scripting. While it is a command-line only tool, it can still interface with a number of other programs to provide visualisation including Wireshark, GnuPlot for providing graphs, graphviz or VPython for interactive displaying, etc.
Starting with 2.4.0, Scapy supports Python 2.7 and 3.4+. It must not be confused with "scapy3k" (now renamed Kamene), which is an outdated independent and unmaintained fork.
References
External links
Free network-related software
Free software programmed in Python
Computer security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20Builder | Protocol Builder is a tool in some programming languages like C++ and C# to generate code to build protocols in a fast and reliable way. Network programming for all kinds of protocols (such as TCP, UDP, and SNMP) includes converting data to be transferred to raw bytes in the sending side and parsing these bytes in the receiving side. Protocol builders facilitate this stage, usually by automatically generating the code.
Protocol Programming has many components to be developed, these are: server listener, server connection, client connection, packets, and loggers. Most protocol builders implement these components automatically so developers save time and money.
Currently, there are two Protocol Builders in the market, one for C++ from UpRedSun which is for TCP and UDP protocols. The second one is for .Net languages which generates the code in C# for TCP Protocols, this tool is called .Net Protocol Builder.
References
External links
http://www.protocol-builder.com/
http://www.upredsun.com/
Programming tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Stroppa | Marco Stroppa (born 8 December 1959, in Verona) is an Italian composer who writes computer music as well as music for instruments with live electronics.
Biography
Marco Stroppa studied piano, composition, choral direction and electronic music at the conservatoires of Verona, Milan and Venice. From 1980 to 1984, Stroppa collaborated with the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of the University of Padua, before moving to the United States, where he continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology supported by a grant from the Fulbright Foundation until 1986. At MIT he took courses in cognitive psychology, computer science and artificial intelligence.
At the invitation of Pierre Boulez, Stroppa moved to Paris where he led the department for musical research at IRCAM from 1987 until 1990. In 1987, Stroppa founded the composition and computer music course at the International Bartók Festival in Szombathely, Hungary. Following teaching posts at the conservatoires of Lyon and Paris, Stroppa currently is professor of composition at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, where he succeeded Helmut Lachenmann in 1999.
Awards
1985 ASCAP Prize
1990 Cervo Prize for New Music
1996 Composition prize of the Salzburg Easter Festival
Selected works
1982–1984 Traiettoria for piano and computer-synthesized tape
1987 Pulsazioni
1987–1988 Spirali for string quartet
1993–1994 Hiranyaloka for orchestra
1989–1998 élet...fogytiglan for ensemble
1994–1999 Zwielicht for electronics
1996–1999 From Needle's Eye for trombone and ensemble
1991–2002 Miniature estrose Vols. 1 & 2 (14 pieces for solo piano)
2010 Let me sing into your ear for amplified basset horn and chamber orchestra
Discography
Further reading
Jean-Noel von der Weid, Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt & Leipzig, 2001, p. 729.
External links
Marco Stroppa official website
1959 births
Italian male classical composers
Italian electronic musicians
Living people
Musicians from Verona
Academic staff of the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Hive | Apache Hive is a data warehouse software project built on top of Apache Hadoop for providing data query and analysis. Hive gives an SQL-like interface to query data stored in various databases and file systems that integrate with Hadoop. Traditional SQL queries must be implemented in the MapReduce Java API to execute SQL applications and queries over distributed data. Hive provides the necessary SQL abstraction to integrate SQL-like queries (HiveQL) into the underlying Java without the need to implement queries in the low-level Java API. Since most data warehousing applications work with SQL-based querying languages, Hive aids the portability of SQL-based applications to Hadoop. While initially developed by Facebook, Apache Hive is used and developed by other companies such as Netflix and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Amazon maintains a software fork of Apache Hive included in Amazon Elastic MapReduce on Amazon Web Services.
Features
Apache Hive supports the analysis of large datasets stored in Hadoop's HDFS and compatible file systems such as Amazon S3 filesystem and Alluxio. It provides a SQL-like query language called HiveQL with schema on read and transparently converts queries to MapReduce, Apache Tez and Spark jobs. All three execution engines can run in Hadoop's resource negotiator, YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator). To accelerate queries, it provided indexes, but this feature was removed in version 3.0
Other features of Hive include:
Different storage types such as plain text, RCFile, HBase, ORC, and others.
Metadata storage in a relational database management system, significantly reduces the time to perform semantic checks during query execution.
Operating on compressed data stored in the Hadoop ecosystem using algorithms including DEFLATE, BWT, snappy, etc.
Built-in user-defined functions (UDFs) to manipulate dates, strings, and other data-mining tools. Hive supports extending the UDF set to handle use cases not supported by built-in functions.
SQL-like queries (HiveQL), which are implicitly converted into MapReduce or Tez, or Spark jobs.
By default, Hive stores metadata in an embedded Apache Derby database, and other client/server databases like MySQL can optionally be used.
The first four file formats supported in Hive were plain text, sequence file, optimized row columnar (ORC) format and RCFile. Apache Parquet can be read via plugin in versions later than 0.10 and natively starting at 0.13.
Architecture
Major components of the Hive architecture are:
nn: Stores metadata for each of the tables such as their schema and location. It also includes the partition metadata which helps the driver to track the progress of various data sets distributed over the cluster. The data is stored in a traditional RDBMS format. The metadata helps the driver to keep track of the data and it is crucial. Hence, a backup server regularly replicates the data which can be retrieved in case of data loss.
Driver: Act |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXRE | DXRE (837 AM) Sonshine Radio is a radio station owned and operated by Sonshine Media Network International. The station's studio is located in Brgy. Lagao, General Santos.
References
Radio stations in General Santos
Radio stations established in 1971
Sonshine Media Network International
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXCL-AM | DXCL (1098 AM) Sonshine Radio is a radio station owned and operated by Sonshine Media Network International. The station's studio is located at Corrales Ave. cor. Ramon Chavez St., Cagayan de Oro. Formerly the callsign was used by 1960s under the hand of Chronicle Broadcasting Network (ABS-CBN) at the frequency of 700 kHz until 1972 when the martial law begin by Marcos at September 21.
References
Radio stations in Cagayan de Oro
Radio stations established in 1975
Sonshine Media Network International
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicative%20programming | Predicative programming is the original name of a formal method for program specification and refinement, more recently called a Practical Theory of Programming, invented by Eric Hehner. The central idea is that each specification is a binary (boolean) expression that is true of acceptable computer behaviors and false of unacceptable behaviors. It follows that refinement is just implication. This is the simplest formal method, and the most general, applying to sequential, parallel, stand-alone, communicating, terminating, nonterminating, natural-time, real-time, deterministic, and probabilistic programs, and includes time and space bounds.
Commands in a programming language are considered to be a special case of specification—those specifications that are compilable. For example, if the program variables are , , and , the command := +1 is equivalent to the specification (binary expression) =+1 ∧ = ∧ = in which , , and represent the values of the program variables before the assignment, and , , and represent the values of the program variables after the assignment. If the specification is >, we easily prove (:= +1) ⇒ (>), which says that := +1 implies, or refines, or implements >.
Loop proofs are greatly simplified. For example, if is an integer variable, to prove that
while >0 do := –1 od
refines, or implements the specification ≥0 ⇒ =0, prove
if >0 then := –1; (≥0 ⇒ =0) else fi ⇒ (≥0 ⇒ =0)
where = (=) is the empty, or do-nothing command. There is no need for a loop invariant or least fixed point. Loops with multiple intermediate shallow and deep exits work the same way. This simplified form of proof is possible because program commands and specifications can be mixed together meaningfully.
Execution time (upper bounds, lower bounds, exact time) can be proven the same way, just by introducing a time variable. To prove termination, prove the execution time is finite. To prove nontermination, prove the execution time is infinite. For example, if the time variable is , and time is measured by counting iterations, then to prove that execution of the previous while-loop takes time when is initially nonnegative, and takes forever when is initially negative, prove
if >0 then := –1; := +1; (≥0 ⇒ =+) ∧ (<0 ⇒ =∞) else fi
⇒ (≥0 ⇒ =+) ∧ (<0 ⇒ =∞)
where = (= ∧ =).
Bibliography
E.C.R. Hehner, a Practical Theory of Programming, Springer-Verlag 1993. Most recent edition online at a Practical Theory of Programming.
External links
Publications by Eric Hehner.
Formal methods
Formal specification languages
Logical calculi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYAR | DYAR (765 AM) Sonshine Radio is a radio station owned and operated by Sonshine Media Network International. The station's studio is located at KJC Compound, North Rd., Brgy, Jagobiao, Mandaue, and its transmitter is located at Brgy. Cogon Pardo, Cebu City.
References
Christian radio stations in the Philippines
Sonshine Media Network International
Radio stations established in 1969
Radio stations in Metro Cebu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanguera | Kanguera is a robot hand developed by the University of São Paulo. It runs the VxWorks operating system. The goal of this research project is to model the kinematic properties of a human hand so that better anthropomorphic robotic grippers or manipulators can be developed. The name, Kanguera, is an ancient indigenous word for "bones outside the body".
Objectives
According to the university's project page, some of the objectives of the Kanguera project are to develop strategies for dexterous robotic manipulation and to create new designs for robotic hands which are biologically inspired. These new designs and strategies will be used for user friendly human machine interface and for upper limb rehabilitation technologies.
System Description
The hand has an anthropomorphic shape, and is the size of a large human hand. It has 4 fingers, and a simplified thumb, each one with four degrees of freedom (DOF). Each finger is treated as an individual robot, giving the overall system, from the wrist on, 20 DOF in total. The fingers are constructed from a special resin, and the joints are designed to mimic human joints - they are not physically joined, but in close contact, using the resin's friction and cables to work together. The motion of each DOF driven through a servo, and a cable transmission system. This transmission system is more accurate than the ones uses by previous robotic hands, and is thus more suitable for the implementation of complex trajectory algorithms, such as adduction and abduction capacity for both the fingers and the thumb.
The computational hardware is based on a GE FANUC microcontroller with a G4 processor, mounted on a standard compact PCI bus. The operating system used to run the simulations is VxWorks 6.7, and the simulation environment is handled with GraspIt! software, where a model of the hand was developed in order to visualize it.
Development
The hand was developed by the Mechatronics Laboratory at the School of Engineering of São Carlos, University of São Paulo as a successor to the Like its predecessor, the BRAHMA hand. It is now in its 4th generation. It utilizes Hardware-in-the-loop simulation techniques to reduce the development times.
References
Robot hands
Robots of Brazil
Brazilian inventions
2000s robots
University of São Paulo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantazi | Pantazi is a Greek surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Angeliki Pantazi (born 1982), Greek computer engineer
Charikleia Pantazi (born 1985), Greek rhythmic gymnast
Cleopatra Pantazi (born 1963), Greek singer
Elissavet Pantazi (born 1956), Greek hurdler
See also
Pantazis, another Greek surname
Pantazi Ghica (1831–1882), Romanian politician and writer
Valeriu Pantazi (1940–2015), born Pantazie Valeriu Constantinescu, Romanian painter and writer
Greek-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Pacific%20Red%20Electric%20Lines | The Southern Pacific Red Electric Lines, also known simply as the Red Electric, was a network of interurban passenger train services operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad in the Willamette Valley of the U.S. state of Oregon from 1914 to 1929. The service got its name from the bright red color of its cars. Despite its short history, among West Coast interurbans it was unique, and it was considered the finest such system in the Pacific Northwest. It was the only major electric interurban railroad converted from steam to electric passenger use. It was also one of few systems using all-steel equipment, and one of the largest 1500-volt systems in the country.
History
The Oregon Electric Railway completed an interurban line from Portland to Eugene in 1912, as well as several branch lines to agricultural, business, and population centers in the Willamette Valley. The Southern Pacific (SP), feeling threatened by this competition, researched the feasibility of electrifying most of its Willamette Valley trackage. At the time, electric traction was seen as the way of the future, and in 1912, SP began converting existing steam routes to overhead electrification. Via the Red Electric system, which SP established on rail lines it acquired from the Portland, Eugene and Eastern Railway (PE&E), the company planned to electrify all of its Oregon trackage except for its main line through the valley from Portland to California. The projected growth of the rural areas outside the main population centers of Portland, Salem, Corvallis, Albany and Eugene, however, did not materialize, despite the efforts of real estate promoters. The combination of this lack of growth, World War I and the rise of the automobile meant that the Red Electric system was far smaller than originally intended. The final Red Electric run took place on October 5, 1929.
Construction
Southern Pacific acquired the Portland, Eugene and Eastern in 1912. The PE&E was developed by Alvadore Welch, who owned the streetcar system in Salem, the streetcar connecting Eugene with Springfield, and the Corvallis and Alsea River Railway, a steam line that was being developed from Corvallis to Monroe. Southern Pacific added its Westside and Yamhill branches between Portland and Corvallis to the PE&E, as well as acquiring and adding the Sheridan and Willamina Railroad and the Willamette Falls Railway. SP began electrifying the PE&E steam lines soon after acquiring them. Interurban service began operation on January 17, 1914, under the Portland, Eugene and Eastern name, but SP replaced references to PE&E with "Southern Pacific Lines" in 1915. The service soon became known as the SP Red Electric. Initial service extended from Portland to Whiteson (south of McMinnville), but eventually reached Corvallis, in 1917.
Southern Pacific proposed several new lines or the electrification of existing lines within its system, but most of these were never built or converted. Instead, the company concentrated on upgradin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMOS | TMOS may refer to:
Tetramethyl orthosilicate
The Mike O'Meara Show
Time-multiplexed optical shutter
TMOS, an operating system used in the BIG-IP products by F5 Networks
Trench-MOS
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%20Furens | Hercules Furens can refer to:
Herakles (Euripides), also called Hercules Furens, a Greek tragedy
Hercules (Seneca) or Hercules Furens, a fabula crepidata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20on%20NBC | Tennis on NBC is the de facto branding used for broadcasts of major professional tennis tournaments that are produced by NBC Sports, the sports division of the NBC television network in the United States. The network has broadcast tennis events since 1955.
The network's tennis coverage normally airs during the afternoon; however for several weeks in the summer, its Sunday coverage during the morning hours of Grand Slam tennis tournaments may start as early as 8:00 a.m., resulting in the pre-emption of regular programming on that day (such as the political talk show Meet the Press).
Overview
NBC's relationship with tennis dates as far back as August 9, 1939. While at the amateur Eastern Grass Court Championships, in Rye, New York, NBC broadcast the first ever televised tennis match. NBC made history again at the 1955 Davis Cup, where they televised the first tennis match (United States vs. Australia) in color.
US Nationals coverage
NBC broadcast the US Nationals as early as 1952 and up until 1964. Bud Palmer, Jack Kramer, Lindsey Nelson, Don Budge, Bill Stern and Bill Talbert were among the commentators during this period.
Wimbledon coverage
NBC broadcast The Championships, Wimbledon beginning 1969. Americans had made a tradition of NBC's "Breakfast at Wimbledon" specials during the tournament on weekends, in which live coverage (which under the guidance of then-NBC Sports executive producer Don Ohlmeyer and associate producer Bob Basche, began in 1979 for the men's rounds and in 1982 for the women) started early in the morning (as the Eastern Time Zone in the United States is five hours behind the United Kingdom) and continued well into the afternoon, interspersed with commentary and interviews from Bud Collins, whose tennis acumen and patterned trousers are well known to tennis fans in the United States. Collins was fired by NBC in 2007, but was promptly hired by ESPN, which holds the Wimbledon cable rights. For many years, NBC's primary host was Dick Enberg, who called his 28th and final Wimbledon in 2011.
The AELTC grew frustrated with NBC's policy of waiting to begin its quarterfinal and semifinal coverage until after the conclusion of Today at 10 a.m. local, as well as broadcasting live only to the Eastern Time Zone and using tape-delay in all others. NBC also held over high-profile matches for delayed broadcast in its window, regardless of any ongoing matches. In one notorious incident in 2009, ESPN2's coverage of the Tommy Haas-Novak Djokovic quarterfinal was forced off the air nationwide when it ran past 10 a.m. Eastern, after which NBC showed the conclusion of the match on tape only after presenting the previous Ivo Karlović-Roger Federer quarterfinal in full.
The 2011 tournament marked the 43rd and final year of NBC's coverage. NBC issued a statement saying it had been outbid for the rights to future broadcasts, and beginning with the 2012 tournament, all live coverage moved exclusively to ESPN. Wimbledon became the second tennis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20technology%20for%20developing%20areas | Computer technology for developing areas is a field focused on using technology to improve the quality of life and support economic development in regions with limited access to resources and infrastructure. This area of research seeks to address the digital divide, which refers to the gap between those who have access to technology and those who do not, and the resulting inequalities in education, healthcare, and economic opportunities.
Computer technology is often given to developing areas through donation. Many institutions, government, charitable, and for-profit organizations throughout the world give hardware, software, and infrastructure along with the necessary training to use and maintain it all.
Opportunity
Developing countries lag behind other nations in terms of ready access to the internet, though computer access has started to bridge that gap. Access to computers, or to broadband access, remains rare for half of the world's population. For example, as of 2010, on average of only one in 130 people in Africa had a computer while in North America and Europe one in every two people had access to the Internet. 90% of students in Africa had never touched a computer. Industrialized countries have an average GNP ten times larger than those of developing countries. The per capita GNP of the United States compared to the per capita of India holds a ratio of fifty to zero. This may be due to differences in economic priorities and social needs. Salaries of clerical staff in developed countries are averaged ten times larger salaries than those in developing countries. Purposes and usage of technology varies drastically due to shifts of priority between industrialized and developing countries. Underutilization of existing computers continues to be a problem in developing countries. Simple designs such as computer memory still have not been implemented or maximized in comparison to industrialized countries today.
Local networks can provide significant access to software and information even without utilizing an internet connection, for example through use of the Wikipedia CD Selection or the eGranary Digital Library.
Focusing on Africa
Exploring the introduction of computer technology in Africa
Africa presents a unique cultural climate for the introduction of computer technology not only because of its diverse population, varied geography and multifaceted issues but also because of it singular challenges. Africa is composed of 53 countries many gaining independence since 1950 containing 75 unique ethnic groups and approximately 700 million people. It has been colonized and hence influenced strongly by Europeans from France, Portugal, Britain, Spain, Italy and Belgium except for the countries of Ethiopia and Liberia. Martin & O'Meara describe Africa's diversity and some of the issues that it presents: ethnicity, geography, rural/urban life styles, family life (class levels), access to developed world products, education, and media.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Geographic%20%28Greek%20TV%20channel%29 | National Geographic is a subscription television network, launched in Greece in 2001 by the Fox Networks Group. The channel features documentaries with factual content involving nature, science, culture, and history. Shows can be watched in English with Greek subtitles.
For the first 12 years, the channel was available only to the subscribers of Nova satellite bouquet. During the 2000s, foreign versions used to be available (Dutch & Romanian), but as from September 2011, the channel has been fully relaunched in Greek.
Programmes on National Geographic
Air Crash Investigation
Banged Up Abroad
Big, Bigger, Biggest
Bite Me
Britain's Greatest Machines
Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan
Great Migrations
Hooked
Hunter Hunted
Is It Real?
Lockdown
Mad Labs
Megacities in Judge Dredd
Megafactories
Megastructures
Monkey Thieves
Mysteries of the Bible
Mysteries of the Deep
Mystery Files
Naked Science
Shark Men
Stonehenge Decoded
Storm Stories
Strange Days on Planet Earth
Taboo
The Dark Side of Hippos
The Living Edens
Thrill Zone
Thunder Beasts
Totally Wild
Wild Russia
World of Wildlife
Programmes on Nat Geo Wild
Other National Geographic channels in Greece
National Geographic Music
National Geographic Music was a subscription television network which broadcast documentaries concerning 'the meeting between music and culture' around the world. It was available in Greece only in Cosmote TV and in OnTV. It stopped broadcasting in 2011 around the world, including Greece.
Nat Geo Wild
National Geographic Wild is a subscription television network which broadcasts documentaries about natural wildlife and wildlife history, with a focus on natures most fierce predators. It is available in Cosmote TV, Vodafone TV and in Nova Greece and in Cyprus it is available on Nova Cyprus, Cablenet and on CytaVision.
National Geographic HD
National Geographic HD (NGC HD) in Greece is a 720p high definition simulcast of the National Geographic in Greece. It launched on 22 December 2010. It is available in Cosmote TV, Vodafone TV and in Nova Greece and in Cyprus it is available on Nova Cyprus, Cablenet and on CytaVision.
Nat Geo Wild HD
Nat Geo Wild HD in Greece is a 720p high definition simulcast of the Nat Geo Wild in Greece. It launched on 17 March 2011 and is available in Cosmote TV, Vodafone TV and in Nova Greece and in Cyprus it is available on Nova Cyprus, Cablenet and on CytaVision.
See also
FX Greece
Fox Life Greece
External links
National Geographic Greece official site
Television channels in Greece
Television channels and stations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20on%20HBO | Tennis on HBO is a television program produced by the premium cable television network HBO that broadcasts the main professional tennis tournaments in the United States. In 1975, HBO began airing coverage (same day, weekday coverage only) of Wimbledon and did so until 1999. In 2009, HBO broadcast the inaugural Billie Jean King Cup.
Notable moments
In 1983, Beth Herr lost an epic match to Billie Jean King at Wimbledon 8–6 in the 3rd. Commentators on HBO Breakfast at Wimbledon made a very big deal out of her ability to hit numerous swinging volleys out of the air for winners. This was something that had not been done before especially by a female.
Commentators
Arthur Ashe 1981-1992
Michael Barkann
Mary Carillo: Carillo worked as both a host and analyst on HBO's Wimbledon coverage from 1996 to 1999.
Zina Garrison: Garrison served on HBO's coverage of the 1998 and 1999 Wimbledon Championships.
Julie Heldman
Billie Jean King 1984-1999
Jim Lampley: In 1987, he began working for HBO, covering boxing and HBO's annual telecast of Wimbledon.
John Lloyd
Barry MacKay
Martina Navratilova: She worked as an analyst on HBO's coverage of the Wimbledon Championships from 1995 through 1999.
References
External links
HBO declines to renew Wimbledon contract after 25 years
HBO original programming
HBO Sports
1975 American television series debuts
1999 American television series endings
HBO
1970s American television series
1980s American television series
1990s American television series
English-language television shows
HBO Shows (series) WITHOUT Episode info, list, or Article |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngoc%20Thanh%20Nguyen | Nguyễn Ngọc Thành, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Vietnamese informatician at the Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, and is the head of Department of Applied Informatics in the Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunication Technology.
References
GS.TSKH Nguyễn Ngọc Thành: Muốn sinh viên được đào tạo tiến sĩ ở nước ngoài - Phóng sự - Ký sự - Thể thao & Văn hóa
Niềm tự hào của GS.TS Việt kiều Balan Nguyễn Ngọc Thành
ACIIDS 2010 và triển vọng hợp tác giữa Đại học Huế với ĐH Công nghệ Wroclaw - Ba lan
Một người gốc Việt thành danh ở Đông Âu
Người nhận danh hiệu “Nhà khoa học xuất sắc” trong lĩnh vực công nghệ thông tin-máy tính
External links
Nguyen's Homepage
1963 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Vietnamese expatriates in Poland
People from Quảng Bình province
Vietnamese academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anja%20Feldmann | Anja Feldmann (born 8 March 1966 in Bielefeld) is a German computer scientist.
Education and career
Feldmann studied computer science at Universität Paderborn and received her degree in 1990.
She continued her studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where she earned her M.Sc. in 1991 and her Ph.D. in 1995.
Following four years of postdoctoral work at AT&T Labs Research, she held research positions at Saarland University and Technical University Munich.
In 2006 she was appointed as professor of Internet Network Architectures for the Telekom Innovation Laboratories at the Technische Universität Berlin. As Professor her research focused on Internet measurement, Teletraffic engineering, traffic characterization and debugging network performance issues. She has also conducted research into intrusion detection and network architecture. She has served on more than 50 committees and was the co-chair of SIGCOMM. Alex Snoeren said that she "was instrumental in the establishment of a rigorous science of Internet measurement. Among her many contributions, she is perhaps best known for her work in traffic characterization and engineering.”
Between 2009 and 2013 Feldmann was Dean of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2012 until early 2018 Feldmann sat on the employer side of the supervisory board of SAP. October 2017 she was appointed as director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, her focus will be on researching the Internet architecture.
Other activities
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Member of the Supervisory Board
Honors and awards
2009: Member of Leopoldina
2011: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
2011: Berlin Science Award
References
External links
Website of the Intelligent Networks Research Group at TU Berlin
Website T-Labs
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
1966 births
Living people
Scientists from Bielefeld
Max Planck Society people
Technical University of Munich alumni
Feldmann Anja
German women academics
German women computer scientists
German computer scientists
Network topology
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Max Planck Institute directors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin%20Budeanu | Constantin Budeanu (28 February 1886 – 27 February 1959) was a Romanian electrical engineer who contributed to the analysis of electric networks states and the SI system of units.
Life and work
He was born in Buzău. In 1903 he was admitted at the School of Bridges, Roads and Mines, obtaining his engineering diploma in 1909. He then studied electricity in Paris with a V. Adamachi scholarship.
Budeanu proposed the unit electric reactive power (the term var) and he introduced the concept of deformed power in electric networks.
Writings
Puissances reactives et fictives 1927
Sistemul general practic de mărimi și unitati (The General Practical System of Quantities and Units) 1957
Awards
He was awarded the Order of Labour by the communist authorities of Romania.
Notes
References
I.S. Antoniu Constantin Budeanu monograph, Romanian Academy's Publisher 1986
1959 deaths
1886 births
People from Buzău
Romanian electrical engineers
Titular members of the Romanian Academy
Politehnica University of Bucharest alumni
Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Bucharest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwolf | Earwolf is an American comedy podcasting network founded by Scott Aukerman and Jeff Ullrich in August 2010. In 2011, they announced a partnership with Funny Or Die. It merged with podcast advertising network The Mid Roll in 2014, a separate company founded by Ullrich, to form Midroll Media. Midroll was acquired by the E. W. Scripps Company in 2015. In July 2020, Sirius XM acquired Midroll Media, which includes Stitcher Radio and Earwolf, for $325 million.
Initially built around the Comedy Death-Ray Radio podcast, the network has since grown to include many podcasts on diverse subjects. The Earwolf studios are in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Comedy programming
Affirmation Nation with Bob Ducca
A self-improvement podcast hosted by Seth Morris as his character Bob Ducca.
Analyze Phish
On Analyze Phish, Harris Wittels attempted to convince Scott Aukerman to like the band Phish. The first episode aired in August 2011. Ten episodes aired, with the final installment, "Fuego," posted on July 10, 2014.
The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project
A podcast where Andy Daly and Matt Gourley sort through various podcast pilots that have been sent to Earwolf.
The Apple Sisters
A mostly scripted podcast featuring The Apple Sisters. The show features original songs and stars three singing sisters who set their act in 1943.
Attitudes!
In Attitudes!, formerly known as Throwing Shade, hosts Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi discuss issues concerning women's rights, LGBTQ rights and progressive politics laced with humor. They also consider important issues like grocery shopping, cotton candy grapes, annoying neighbors, and skin care.
Bitch Sesh: A Real Housewives Breakdown
A podcast where Casey Wilson and Danielle Schneider discuss shows from The Real Housewives franchise. They often have special guests, who have previously included Andy Cohen, June Diane Raphael, Michael Rapaport, Adam Pally, and Retta.
Big Grande Teachers' Lounge
Big Grande Teachers Lounge ran from September 2017 to June 2020 and featured Drew Tarver, Dan Lippert, Jon Mackey, and Ryan Rosenberg as bumbling teachers at the fictional Hamilton High School.
Bonanas for Bonanza
Launched in April 2020, Bonanas for Bonanza is the first podcast picked up by Earwolf from The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project. Hosts Dalton Wilcox (Andy Daly), Amy Sleeverson (Maria Bamford), and Mutt Taylor (Matt Gourley) watch the television show Bonanza.
Comedy Bang! Bang!: The Podcast
Comedy Bang Bang (previously Comedy Death-Ray Radio) is Earwolf's flagship podcast. It is hosted by Scott Aukerman and was originally an extension of his weekly live Comedy Death-Ray show. The weekly podcast features guests from the world of comedy, including Paul F. Tompkins, James Adomian, Tim Heidecker, Bob Odenkirk, and others. The show is known for improvised conversations between Aukerman and his guests, some of whom perform impressions or original characters. The show celebrated its two-year anniversary du |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20free%20public%20transport%20routes | This is a list of zero-fare public transport routes, especially limited zero-fare routes within a wider fare-paying network.
Australia
Australian Capital Territory
Former Services
Canberra: ACTION operated the free "Downtowner" route around the city centre from 1991 until 1998.
On 4 February 2013, ACTION commenced operating the "Centenary Loop" which was numbered as route 100. It operated around the city centre and parliamentary triangle to celebrate the centenary of Canberra. It ceased operation on 5 January 2014.
ACTION operated a free weekday service (Route 101) around the city centre from 2016 until 2019.
New South Wales
Homebush Bay: Telfords Bus & Coach operate the Baylink Shuttle, a weekday bus circulator between Rhodes railway station and Wentworth Point at 10 to 15 minute intervals between 06:30 and 19:00.
Manly: Four free "Hop, Skip & Jump" minibus services operate in the municipality.
Parramatta: In August 2008 Transdev NSW commenced operating a service around the CBD.
Willoughby: The City of Willoughby contracts Transdev NSW to operate a daily free bus loop route that connects St Leonards station with the Artarmon industrial area.
Wollongong: In 2009, Premier Illawarra commenced operating a free loop service in both directions connecting the University of Wollongong, North Wollongong station, Wollongong station, Wollongong Central and beach, running at intervals of 10 or 20 minutes. Route 55A operates in an anti-clockwise direction, 55C in a clockwise direction.
Former services
On 15 December 1975, the Public Transport Commission commenced operating free route 777 around the Sydney central business district. It ceased in December 1989.
On 3 December 2008, Sydney Buses commenced operating a free city loop service around the Sydney central business district. Route 555 operated in both directions via Bridge Street, George Street, Eddy Avenue and Elizabeth Street. It was later altered to operate up and down George Street from Circular Quay to Railway Square. It ceased in October 2015 due to commencement of construction of a light rail line, that is not free.
Newcastle: Newcastle Transport operated a free bus zone in the CBD area between 07:30 and 18:00. This ceased with the introduction of Newcastle Light Rail in February 2019.
Queensland
Brisbane: Transport for Brisbane operate free bus trips on weekdays in the Brisbane central business district on route 30 between the CBD and Spring Hill and on routes 40 and 50 which mirror each other, varying only because of Brisbane's one-way street grid. The service is smaller than that of other cities.
Sunshine Coast: Noosa Council have partnered with Translink to provide free buses within the Noosa Shire every weekend and during the busy Christmas and Easter Queensland school holidays
The Go Noosa Holidays service includes Translink services 626, 627, 628, 629, and 632 and Noosa Council’s 065 Go Noosa Loop Bus and 064 Peregian Beach to Noosa Heads (Christmas and Easter holidays only).
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Conner | F. William Conner is an American business executive. Conner has worked across a variety of high-tech industries, specializing in corporate turnaround, cybersecurity, data and infrastructure.
Early life
Conner was born and raised in West Helena, Arkansas. In 1981, he received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in mechanical engineering and later earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987.
Career
Conner began his career at AT&T in 1981. Over the next 11 years, he held titles of senior engineer, operations manager, and strategic planner, among others.
Conner held executive positions at Nortel Networks from 1992 to 2001. As the president of Nortel's Enterprise Data Networks, Conner managed its US$9.1 billion acquisition of Bay Networks. As Nortel's first chief marketing officer, he launched the global marketing campaigns "Come Together" and "What Do You Want the Internet to Be?"
In 2001, Conner moved into the creation and delivery of identity-based security and services as the chief executive officer and president of Entrust, a private software company. Conner joined when the company was falling from profitability; he launched a restructuring effort and began to trim workforce annually. He launched a new business model focusing on product portfolios targeted to key verticals and geographies.
Conner engineered the company's acquisition by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2009 and transitioned Entrust into a private firm. In December 2013, it was announced that Datacard Group had entered into an agreement to purchase Entrust for a reported $500 million. Conner took on a consultant role during the transition.
On January 5, 2015, Silent Circle announced that Conner had been appointed as its Chief Executive Officer, a member of Silent Circle's board of directors, and a member of the board of directors of Blackphone, a secure mobile handset developed by a subsidiary of Silent Circle. On June 17, 2016, Silent Circle blogged that Conner had resigned as CEO and would remain only as an "advisor."
Conner joined SonicWall as President and CEO on November 1, 2016. Formerly a division of Dell Software Inc., SonicWall had been spun off and acquired by Francisco Partners and Elliott Management in June 2016. In October 2017, Francisco Partners acquired Comodo Certification Authority (Comodo CA) and named Conner Chairman of the Board. In September 2018, Conner outlined the rapid growth in non-standard port threats and explained a business reorganization to serve both the SME and enterprise business markets by focusing on the enterprise verticals of retail, education and government.
In April 2020, Conner introduced SonicWall's new computer security model, the Boundless Cybersecurity model, in response to heightened cybersecurity concerns as remote and hybrid work became increasingly common amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On July 21, 2022, Conner moved to a new role as Executive Chairman of the Board.
Contributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front%20Page%20%28newsmagazine%29 | Front Page was a short-lived newsmagazine that ran in 1993 on the Fox television network in the United States. It featured five main hosts and reporters: Andria Hall, Tony Harris, Vicki Liviakis, Josh Mankiewicz, and Ron Reagan. It ran on Saturday evenings.
History
With the Fox network expanding to seven nights of primetime programming in 1993, Fox announced its fall schedule on May 25 of that year, including Front Page, which debuted a mere month later, on June 26. The original format, besides the three traditional newsmagazine long-form pieces, included short commentaries and video essays. Walter Goodman, a New York Times TV columnist, called it at the time "a news magazine for people who grew up on television." Other commentators for the program included Mike Lupica, syndicated columnist Joe Bob Briggs, Lisa Birnbach, Chris Matthews, and Tad Low. It was cancelled due to low ratings.
The program's graphic designers, including Max Almy and Teri Yarbrow, won the 1993 News & Documentary Emmy Award in Graphic Design.
References
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Burning%20of%20the%20Abominable%20House | "The Burning of the Abominable House" (Italian title: L'incendio della casa abominevole) is a short story by the Italian novelist Italo Calvino. It can be considered an experiment of computer-aided literature, where the techniques of combinatorics and constraint-based writing developed by the French writers' gathering Oulipo are applied to the narrative structure rather than just to the syntactic arrangement of a text.
Story/plot
A computer analyst and programmer is hired by an insurance company to reconstitute antecedents and circumstances of a boarding house that has mysteriously burnt to the ground. All four tenants of the house died in the blaze : the Widow Roessler (house owner), her adoptive daughter Ogiva, the young Inigo, and the Uzbek wrestler Belindo Kind. While the police have dismissed the investigation since all the persons involved are dead, the insurance company is determined to investigate the circumstances behind the blaze as each tenant took out life insurance with the company. The only available clue is the charred copybook found in the ruins of the house of which the cover alone has survived. Written on the front is the title, "An Account of the Abominable Deeds Committed in this House" while on the back is an index with twelve entries in alphabetical order:
Blackmail
Drugging
Incitement to Suicide
Knifing
Prostitution
Threatening with a Gun
Tying and Gagging
Rape
Seduction
Slander
Snooping
Strangling
To solve the enigma, the computer programmer approaches it in formal terms: each of the four characters can be at the same time the object and the subject of the 12 possible acts mentioned in the notebook's index. Taken two per time, these can configure 12 different transitive and non-reflexive relations each, resulting in a total of 12 power 12 (874.296.672.256) possible relations. In order to narrow down the number of possible hypotheses, the programmer needs to define a system of filters and selection rules that can allow the computer to automatically exclude those hypotheses that seem to be physically or logically impossible.
History
Oulipo member and ALAMO (Atelier de Littérature Assistée par la Mathématique et les Ordinateurs) founder Paul Braffort explained that Calvino initially published a shorter version of the story in the Italian edition of Playboy magazine in 1973. Calvino later expanded the text with the view to turning it into a novel titled, L’ordre dans le crime ( literally "The Order in Crime" and L’ordine del delitto in Italian). Braffort was asked by Calvino to write an editing and filtering program. This collaboration resulted in a presentation made on 15 June 1977 at the "Atelier de Recherches Avancées" at the Pompidou Centre (Centre for Art and Culture) in Paris.
References
Calvino, Italo (2009). Numbers in the Dark. Translated by Tim Parks. London: Penguin Classics
—. Prima che tu dica "pronto", Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1995 .
External links
(French) Italo Calvino ou le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewalk%20%28disambiguation%29 | A firewalk is an act of walking barefoot over a bed of hot embers or stones.
Firewalk may also refer to:
Firewalk (computing), a technique to analyze IP packets
FIREWALK, a U.S. NSA ANT catalog capabability
See also
Fire Walk with Us!, an album by Aborym
Firewalker (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewalk%20%28computing%29 | Firewalking is a technique developed by Mike Schiffman and David Goldsmith that utilizes traceroute techniques and TTL values to analyze IP packet responses in order to determine gateway ACL (Access Control List) filters and map networks. It is an active reconnaissance network security analysis technique that attempts to determine which layer 4 protocols a specific firewall will allow.
Firewalk is a software tool that performs Firewalking.
To protect a firewall or gateway against firewalking one can block ICMP Time Exceeded messages.
See also
Access Control List
Firewall (computing)
Traceroute
References
External links
Firewalk tool, an Open Source tool that determines gateway ACL filters and maps networks by analyzing IP packets responses.
WooterWoot, an Open Source set of tools that builds Check Point, Cisco ASA, or Netscreen policies from logfiles.
Use Firewalk in Linux/UNIX to verify ACLs and check firewall rule sets, article on using Firewalk, by Lori Hyde CCNA.
firewalk(8) - Linux man page
GIAC / SANS Institute Description of Firewalking
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pose%20space%20deformation | Pose space deformation is a computer animation technique which is used to deform a mesh on skeleton-driven animation. Common use of this technique is to deform the shape of a mesh (for example, an arm) according to the angle of the joint (in this case, the elbow) bent. Although the name is commonly called Pose space deformation on many scholarly articles, 3D animation software rarely uses that name. On Autodesk Maya, it's implemented under the name Pose Deformer, and on Blender, it's implemented as Corrective Shape Keys. The first famous application of this technique was the cloth's movement on the first episode of the animated film The Animatrix.
Fundamentally, pose space deformation (PSD) poses animation as an alternative class of interpolation. Rather than interpolate in time, as with animation curves, or over space, as with meshes, PSD views animation as interpolation over the domain of the character's pose. PSD was an early use of machine learning and neural networks in computer graphics: the radial basis interpolation that is often used to implement PSD is equivalent to a neural network with a radial nonlinearity.
Articles
2000 Pose space deformation: a unified approach to shape interpolation and skeleton-driven deformation
2009 Practical Experiences with Pose Space Deformation
2014 Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation Part III: Example-based Shape Deformation
External links
A posedeformer plugin for Maya
Procedural Muscle and Skin Simulation
Animatrix Pose Space Deformations
Commercial Lipservice plugin
References
Computer animation
Computer graphics
Animation techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%2088 | Optical 88 () is a chain of eyewear stores in Hong Kong. It was established in 1984, as a member of Stelux Group of Companies, who owns largest professional optical retail network in Hong Kong.
Areas served
Optical 88's headquarters is located in Hong Kong with branches across Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories) while overseas stores are located at various countries and cities including Macau, Guangzhou, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia.
Products and Services
Optical 88 sells eyeglasses and frames, including sunglasses. They also provide eye examination services.
See also
Eyeglasses
References
External links
Official Website
Retail companies of Hong Kong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro%27s%20Railway%20Tour%20of%20China | was a travel documentary series, produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and broadcast on television, both nationally and internationally by NHK's networks. A live relay from China aired every Sunday at 12:00pm, followed by a 10-minute digest edition - a new edition airing Monday through Friday at 12:00pm. The host of the program was Tomohiro Sekiguchi, an actor by profession.
Concept
Sekiguchi takes on the challenge of traveling 36,000 kilometers (about 22,369 miles) by railway throughout China. The path was designed by computer software, such that the route is an unbroken line, and not a single part of the route crosses another part of the same route.
The trip is broken into two editions: Spring and Fall. In the Spring edition, Sekiguchi's trip begins by flying from Japan to Lhasa in Tibet, and ends in Xian - with a distance of 17,000 km. The Fall edition continues the journey, and ends with a combined 36,000 km traveled.
Japanese television series
NHK original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20on%20TNT | Tennis on TNT is a television program produced by the basic cable television network TNT that broadcasts the main professional tennis tournaments in the United States. From 2000-2002, TNT alongside CNN Sports Illustrated (and CNNfn in 2002 due to the former shutting down operations earlier in the year) broadcast same day, weekday coverage (approximately 89 hours of programming with TNT covering about 61 hours in prime time) of Wimbledon, replacing sister network HBO.
TNT was ultimately replaced by ESPN2 while NBC still handled the American broadcast television portion of Wimbledon coverage. ESPN would eventually gain exclusive rights to Wimbledon, starting with the 2012 tournament.
Commentators
Marv Albert (men's play-by-play)
Mary Carillo (analyst/reporter/women's play-by-play)
Jim Courier (men's analyst)
Zina Garrison (women's analyst)
Jim Huber (essayist)
Ernie Johnson, Jr. (studio host)
Phil Jones (reporter)
Barry MacKay (women's play-by-play)
Martina Navratilova (women's analyst)
References
External links
Wimbledon 2001 - TNT.tv
Wimbledon 2002 - TNT.tv
NBC Sports And Turner Sports Acquire Rights To Wimbledon Championships
TNT (American TV network) original programming
TNT
Turner Sports
CNN/SI original programming
2000 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
2000s American television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil%20Kumar%20Gupta | Anil Kumar Gupta is an Indian scholar in the area of grassroots innovations. He is the founder of the Honey Bee Network. He retired as a full-time professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 2017, where he served for about 36 years.
He held an executive vice-chair at the National Innovation Foundation. He is also a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2004 for his contributions to management education.
Gupta has developed courses for students at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. One of his most popular courses included Shodh Yatra, (meaning 'research walk'), under which he took management students to different parts of the country to learn from local communities and study their knowledge systems. This course was derived from his larger concept of walking through the length and breadth of the country, interacting with farmers, traditional knowledge holders, grassroots innovators, innovative students, etc. It started in May 1998 in the western Indian province of Gujarat.
Education
Upon finishing his bachelor's degree (Hons) in Agriculture, he went on to complete his Masters in Sciences (Biochemical Genetics) from Haryana Agricultural University in 1974. In 1986, he earned a Ph.D. in Management from the Kurukshetra University.
Research
He is a Co-Ordinator of SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiative for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions). He was a speaker at TED India in November 2009. Since 2011, he is an advisor on issues pertaining to innovation, environment, and sustainability to Fair Observer, an online magazine covering global issues.
Awards and honours
References
External links
IIM Ahmedabad
Prof. Anil K. Gupta
Presentation page on Indian Institute of Management
Interview with Anil Gupta on Grassroots Innovation in India
Living people
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education
TWAS laureates
Year of birth missing (living people)
Business educators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrintKey%202000 | PrintKey 2000 is an old screenshot software program which rose to popularity in the late 1990s that runs under the Windows operating system. The free software allows the user to modify screenshots after they are taken. The program is activated by the Print screen button or a configurable Control key combination, then displays an image of the screenshot for editing.
PrintKey 2000, though lacking some of the features of paid programs, was well received. And thanks the fact it is compatible with Windows systems up to and including Windows 10, it still sees some use to this day.
References
Screenshot software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Android%20e-reader%20software | The following tables detail e-book reader software for the Android operating system. Each section corresponds to a major area of functionality in an e-book reader software. The comparisons are based on the latest released version.
Software reading systems
File formats supported
See Comparison of e-book formats for details on the file formats.
Navigation features
Display features
Edit-tool features
Book source management features
Other software e-book readers for Android
Other e-book readers for Android devices include: BookShout!, Nook e-Reader applications for third party devices and OverDrive Media Console. Additionally, Palmbookreader reads some formats (such as PDB and TXT) on Palm OS and Android devices. The Readmill app, introduced in February 2011, reads numerous formats on Android and iOS devices but shut down July 1, 2014. Another popular app Bluefire Reader was removed from Google Play Store in 2019.
See also
Comparison of e-readers - includes both device and software formats
Comparison of e-book readers - includes hardware e-book readers
Comparison of iOS e-reader software
Comparison of e-book software
References
External links
E-reader comparison
Google lists
Multimedia software comparisons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Henry%20Townsend | George Henry Townsend (15 January 1787 – 23 February 1869) was an English literary compiler and journalist, who wrote several books that are of value in a study of his period.
Townsend was born in Bermondsey, Surrey, England to John and Cordelia Townsend. He was admitted a Freeman of the City of London.
His books include Russell's History of Modern Europe epitomised (1857), Shakespeare not an Impostor (1857), The Manual of Dates (1862), Men of the Time (1868), The Handbook of the Year 1868 (1869) and The Every-day Book of Modern Literature (1870).
Between 1860 and 1866 Townsend wrote several pamphlets containing selections of madrigals and glees for John "Paddy" Green, the proprietor of Evans's music and supper rooms, 43 Covent Garden.
He wrote a Summary of Persian History, included as a preface to a book on Outram and Havelock's Persian Campaign and published in 1858.
During the elections of 1868 he was an active supporter of the Conservative party led by Benjamin Disraeli, and was promised a position in reward. However, the government resigned before this promise could be kept.
Deeply disappointed, Townsend committed suicide at Kennington.
Bibliography
References
1787 births
1869 deaths
People from Bermondsey
English male writers
1860s suicides |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Precision%20Bus | The HP Precision bus (also called HP-PB and HP-NIO)
is the data transfer bus of the proprietary Hewlett Packard architecture HP 3000 and later many variants of the HP 9000 series of UNIX systems. This bus has a 32-bit data path with an 8 MHz clock. It supports a maximum transfer rate of 23 MB/s in burst mode. That bus was also used to directly support the Programmable Serial Interface (PSI) cards, which offered multi-protocol support for networking, notably IBM Bisync and similar systems.The 920, 922 and 932 series supported up to three PSI cards, and up to five cards in the 948 and 958 series.
Two form factors/sizes of HP-PB expansion cards were sold: single and double.
32-bit data path width
32 MB/s maximum data rate
8 MHz maximum frequency
5 V signalling voltage
96-pin (32×3) female pin+socket card connector (Is this a DIN 41612 connector?)
External links
HP 3000 manuals
HP/PA buses on Openpa.net
Notes
Computer buses
Precision Bus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20Sanger | Eleanor Sanger (September 15, 1929 – March 7, 1993) was a 7-time Emmy-award-winning television writer and producer, who was the first woman Network Sports Producer.
"Women television producers are still as rare as Howard Cosell's silences, but at least one has begun to break through the double barriers of televised sports. That rarity is Eleanor (Sanger) Riger, the lone distaff on any network sports team." The New York Times, January 8, 1974.
Background and education
Born in Hong Kong in 1929, Sanger was the daughter of Richard Sanger (1894–1957) and Lonni Wheeler, née Wernicke (1891–1987). Her father was a sales executive for Standard Oil of California posted in the Orient for almost 30 years. Her mother was a native of Berlin, Germany. In Hong Kong, Sanger attended the Peak School, and later the British Central School. When the family was at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts she attended what is now the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School. In 1950 Sanger graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Smith College, with a degree in Government. In 1952 she completed post-graduate work at the Russian Institute (now The Harriman Institute), at Columbia University.
Early career
From 1957-60, Sanger was the Manager of Public Affairs, at Station WNBC-TV, New York City. She told the New York Times later that "'the only place women were allowed then was in Religious Programming,' noting that when she quit as WNBC's manager of Public Affairs in 1961 she was replaced in the job by two men each making twice as much as she had." During the same period, she was also the Associate Producer (1957–1960) and Producer (1960–1963) of The Open Mind, Richard Heffner's award winning series that celebrated its 50th year on the air in 2006. In 1966, Sanger went into Sports as the Manager of Client Relations and Associate Producer for ABC Sports where she stayed until 1970—with a stint as a writer on ABC News in 1967. From 1970 to 1973, Sanger was a Producer Writer for Tomorrow Entertainment producing various documentaries, including "Day of the Big Horn" starring John Denver, Tommy Tompkins, and the elusive Big horn sheep themselves.
First woman sports producer
It took a Title IX challenge by the National Organization for Women of ABC's allegedly discriminatory hiring and programming practices, and a long-standing working relationship with the head of Sports, Roone Arledge, for Sanger to be re-hired by ABC Sports as a full-fledged Producer, Writer, and Director in 1973; a post she held full-time through 1986. This assignment began in 1974 with a focus on women in sports, including a $200,000 prime-time Women's Sports special sponsored by Colgate, narrated by Dinah Shore, featuring Billie Jean King, Olga Korbut, jockey Robin Smyth and The Princess Anne. Sanger's association with women's sports continued, including her mentoring of other women in the business, passing along her belief that you could succeed without imitating your male counterparts.
Interviewed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%202%20%28S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20Metro%29 | Line 2 (Green) () is one of the six lines that make up the São Paulo Metro, and one of the thirteen lines that make up the Metropolitan Rail Transportation Network. It currently runs between the Vila Madalena and Vila Prudente stations. The line is also called, and was originally known as, the Paulista Line, because it goes along much of the Avenida Paulista, one of the leading financial centers in São Paulo. Despite being the second line to be planned, it was the third to be built—the second line built was actually Line 3 (Red). This line connects the West and South-East regions.
History
The first section of Line 2 (Green Line), initially called the Paulista Line, was built using the New Austrian Tunnelling Method. The line opened on January 25, 1991, having at that time a length of and four stations. With this line, the metro system was extended to include a major axis of the expanded center of São Paulo, with a large concentration of financial institutions, hospitals, schools, hotels, consulates, offices of state radio and television, theaters, and museums. The following year, the Ana Rosa and Clínicas stations were opened, increasing the line's length to . In 1998, two new stations (Vila Madalena and Santuário Nossa Senhora de Fátima-Sumaré) were completed, adding a further stretch.
On March 30, 2006, the then-Governor Geraldo Alckmin on his last day in office opened the Santos-Imigrantes station. Shortly after, on May 9, 2006, the Chácara Klabin station was formally opened by the subsequent Governor Claudio Lembo, thus completing the stretch between Ana Rosa and Santos-Imigrantes, making the line a total of long.
On June 30, 2007, the Governor José Serra opened the Alto do Ipiranga station, located at the junction of Avenida Dr. Gentil de Moura and Rua Visconde de Piraja, bringing the metro network in São Paulo to a total length of , with a forecast of passenger demand on Line 2 of 370,000 people per day. Jose Serra published a decree and authorization to extend the line to Vila Prudente, adding the Sacomã, Tamanduateí and Vila Prudente stations.
On May 10, 2007, during the Papal visit of Benedict XVI to the city of São Paulo, Line 2 had the highest demand of its history up until then, carrying 370,226 passengers. During the weekend of May 17–18, 2008, Line 2 was temporarily shut down between the stations Clínicas and Consolação to allow the use of a tunnel boring machine just below the level of its tunnel being used for the extension project of Line 4 (Yellow). The current record of passengers carried by the line was on May 7, 2008, with 428,056 passengers.
On March 28, 2009, the first of the sixteen new trains came into operation for the inauguration of the Sacomã - Vila Prudente stretch. On January 10, 2010, Sacomã station was opened to the public, initially only in operation from 10:30 to 15:00 and then from the 22nd, from 10:00 to 16:00. Finally, on the 30th of that month, it was fully opened to the public. Although the exten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Open%20Government%20Data%20Conference | Lasting from November 15, 2010 to November 17, 2010, The International Open Government Data Conference was a conference sponsored by the United States General Services Administration and hosted by the United States Department of Commerce on the subject of open datasets globally, in coalition with the United States' previously opened data.gov.
Presentations
Presentations on the subject of many global nations, including New Zealand's set up of a dataset website and Australia's presentation stressing identity security.
Speakers
Many presenters appeared at the event, including the host, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Department of Commerce, Jay Reich. Other notable attendees included:
Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States
Derek Willis, Newsroom Developer, The New York Times
Ken Rogers, Director of Enterprise Architecture and Planning, United States Department of State
Neil Fantom, Manager of the Development Data Group, The World Bank
References
External links
Data.gov Conference Page
New Zealand Data Site, presented in the above conference
Open government |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfterCollege | AfterCollege is an online service that connects job-seeking college students and alumni with employers who want to hire them through faculty and career networks at colleges and universities in the U.S. The service uses a patented matching process to deliver jobs to jobseekers, basing matches in part on a user's academic affiliation and field of study. Recruitology is a division of AfterCollege created in 2016, serving media companies and employers.
History
AfterCollege was one of the first entry-level job boards on the Internet, created in 1996 by students at Stanford University and originally called "The Job Resource". The service allowed students at Stanford to upload their resumes for employers to browse. The website grew in popularity and soon after spread to other campuses. In 1999, the service was incorporated and renamed AfterCollege. In 2009, AfterCollege received a Webby Honoree Award for best design in the employment category. In early 2010, AfterCollege was named one of the top niche career sites by members of the public in an online competition run by the United States Department of Labor.
In March 2012 AfterCollege participated in President Obama’s launch of Summer Jobs+, an initiative to provide employment opportunities for low-income and disconnected youth.
In August 2012, AfterCollege relaunched as a professional network for college students and recent graduates, offering profile tools and revamped job matching.
In April 2015, AfterCollege acquired Collegefeed, a service that also focused on helping college students find jobs.
Published works
In December 2017, AfterCollege co-founder Roberto Angulo published a book, Getting Your First Job For Dummies, with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
See also
Employment website
References
External links
AfterCollege Website
Employment websites in the United States
American companies established in 1999
Business services companies established in 1999
Internet properties established in 1999
Professional networks
1999 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silliman%20University%20College%20of%20Computer%20Studies | The Silliman University College of Computer Studies, abbreviated as CCS is one of the constituent colleges of Silliman University, a private university in Dumaguete, Philippines. Designated as a Center of Development in Information Technology Education by the Commission on Higher Education, the college confers three undergraduate degrees and one graduate degree.
Background
Brief history
The College's origins can be traced to the year 1988 when the then Silliman University Computer Center (SUCC) was established to consolidate under one department all computer-related courses offered by the University. Back then, the computer center acted as a delivery unit for courses offered by other colleges such as the Bachelor of Business degree Major in Business Computer Applications then offered by the College of Business Administration.
To centralize its course offerings in one institution and to comply with the Commission on Higher Education’s thrust to regulate the number of Information Technology Education degrees, a separate college named as the College of Information Technology and Computer Sciences was established by the University in 2001 which offered Bachelor of Science degrees in Information Technology and Computer Science. In 2002, a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Management was also added. In 2006 the College was renamed as the College of Computer Studies.
Facilities
The College is housed in two buildings, the one-storey Uytengsu Foundation Computer Center, and the three-storey Uytengsu Foundation Computer Studies Hall, and is part of Silliman University's local area network that uses an extensive network of fiber-optic cables. Silliman is one of only two universities in the Philippines that has an extensive fiber-optic backbone and the only school in the country that owns its fiber-optic system. Costing US $2.5 million in 1997, this backbone connects all buildings in the campus. Silliman was also the first school in the country to use wireless Wi-Fi B2B LAN technology.
To reinforce the College's course offerings, Silliman University formed partnerships with Microsoft and IBM. The Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance has given the College a 3-year complimentary MSDNAA subscription which allows it to download available software in MSDNAA for free to all students and faculty for teaching and learning purposes, while the College's partnership with IBM resulted in the introduction of the IBM Academic Exchange Offering. Electives under the program are developed for junior and graduating students majoring in Information Technology, Information Systems and Computer Science.
Academics
The College is accredited with the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities and has been designated as a Center of Development by the Commission on Higher Education. At present, the College confers three undergraduate degrees and one graduate degree.
Undergraduate
B.S. in Computer Science
B.S. in Information T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errored%20second | In telecommunications and data communication systems, an errored second is an interval of a second during which any error whatsoever has occurred, regardless of whether that error was a single bit error or a complete loss of communication for that entire second. The type of error is not important for the purpose of counting errored seconds.
In communication systems with very low uncorrected bit error rates, such as modern fiber optic transmission systems, or systems with higher low-level error rates that are corrected using large amounts of forward error correction, errored seconds are often a better measure of the effective user-visible error rate than the raw bit error rate.
For many modern packet-switched communication systems, even a single uncorrected bit error is enough to cause the loss of a data packet by causing its CRC check to fail; whether that packet loss was caused by a single bit error or a hundred-bit-long error burst is irrelevant.
For systems using large amounts of forward error correction, the reverse applies; a single low-level bit error will almost never occur, since any small errors will almost always be corrected, but any error sufficiently large to cause the forward error correction to fail will almost always result in a large burst error.
More specialist and precise definitions of errored seconds exist in standards such as the T1 and DS1 transport systems.
See also
Degraded minute
Severely errored second
Channel bit error rate
External links
Cisco DS1, T1 and E1 Glossary
Data transmission
Network performance
Error measures
Telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%20Tour%20de%20Langkawi | The 2011 Tour de Langkawi was the 16th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It began on 23 January in Dataran Lang, Langkawi and ended on 1 February in Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur. The race was sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race on the 2010–11 UCI Asia Tour calendar.
Venezuela's Jonathan Monsalve won the race followed by Colombian cyclist, Libardo Niño second and Italian cyclist Emanuele Sella third. Italian cyclist, Andrea Guardini won the points classification and Jonathan Monsalve became the King of the Mountains of the race. led the teams classification of the race.
Teams
23 teams accepted invitations to participate in the 2011 Tour de Langkawi.
Suren Cycling Team
South Korea ‡
Malaysia ‡
Singapore ‡
Max Success Sports
‡: National teams
Stages
The cyclists competed in 10 stages, covering a distance of 1,315.4 kilometres.
Classification leadership
Final standings
General classification
Points classification
Mountains classification
Asian rider classification
Team classification
Asian team classification
Stage results
Stage 1
23 January 2011 — Dataran Lang to Pekan Kuah, ,
Stage 2
24 January 2011 — Kangar to Butterworth,
Stage 3
25 January 2011 — Taiping to Sitiawan,
Stage 4
26 January 2011 — Ayer Tawar to Cameron Highlands,
Stage 5
27 January 2011 — Tapah to Genting Highlands,
Stage 6
28 January 2011 — Rawang to Putrajaya,
Stage 7
29 January 2011 — Banting to Tampin,
Stage 8
30 January 2011 — Kuala Pilah to Jasin,
Stage 9
31 January 2011 — Malacca to Nilai,
Stage 10
1 February 2011 — Shah Alam to Dataran Merdeka,
References
External links
Tour de Langkawi
2011 in road cycling
2011 in Malaysian sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitexin%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on vitexin.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as eChemPortal, and follow its directions.
Sigma Aldrich MSDS from SDSdata.org
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakame-vdc | Wakame-vdc is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud computing framework, facilitating the provisioning and management of a heterogeneous virtualized infrastructure. Wakame-vdc virtualizes the entire data center; servers, storage, and networking. Wakame-vdc is managed via a native Web Interface, the Wakame-vdc CLI, or the powerful Wakame-vdc API.
Wakame-vdc is Datacenter Level Hypervisor, and gives the infrastructure higher portability. Since it is fully Open Sourced, with Wakame-vdc it is easy to design and extend the datacenter. Wakame-vdc provides the best method to build the cloud infrastructure.
Goal
Wakame-vdc allows the administrator to spend less time managing the entire data center infrastructure.
Wakame-vdc strives to provide the same experience to the entire data center, as virtual machines have done for operating systems. The VDC (Virtual Data Center) offers virtualized facilities such as servers, storage, and networking, in what can be described as a data center level hypervisor. Deployment, migration and backup of a Wakame-vdc installation can freely be replicated between any site running Wakame-vdc, with minimal reconfiguration.
Users
KYOCERA Communication Systems Co., Ltd. - GreenOffice Unified Cloud
NTT PC Communications Incorporated. - WebARENA VPS Cloud (Public Cloud Service)
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. - Private Cloud
National Institute of Informatics - Private Cloud
Functions
Hypervisor (KVM, VMware ESXi, LXC, OpenVZ)
Flexible Instance Specification Management
Pluggable Scheduler
Software LB (Stud + HAProxy)
Storage (, ZFS, Indelible FS)
SSH Key Pair Management
Instance Backup
GUI / Web API (RESTful)
Transferring Image between DCs
Management Command Line Interface
Dynamic Assigned External IP Address
Virtual Networking (OpenFlow, Multi-tenanted L3 Network, Distributed Firewall)
See also
OpenVNet
Amazon EC2
GreenQloud
OpenNebula
OpenStack
Cloud computing
External links
Wakame-VDC Facebook Page
Wakame-VDC GitHub Repositry
Open Source Evolution: Team Eren Niazi
Cloud infrastructure
Free software programmed in Ruby |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20%28radio%20network%29 | Capital is a network of twelve independent contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming. Ten of the stations are owned and operated by Global Media & Entertainment, while the other two are owned and operated under separate franchise agreements.
As of September 2023, the stations serve a combined weekly audience of 6.1 million listeners and target a core audience in the 15–34 age group; 57% of all listeners are within this demographic. The national version of the network is widely available on Global Player, Freeview, Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media and Digital One DAB. Capital is the fifth most-popular radio network in the UK by listeners, and the second largest of the commercial stations after Heart.
Capital has a playlist which is updated weekly, and featured songs from the last one to two years in 2013. Unlike BBC Radio 1, Capital does not play rock or alternative music.
History
Capital Radio, GWR and GCap Media
Capital started as the independent music radio station for London in the early 1970s.
In the 1990s, Capital Radio became one of the UK's major radio groups via acquisition of a number of local radio stations including Red Dragon FM, BRMB and Power FM. Rival GWR Group also acquired a number of local radio stations in the 1990s, including Leicester Sound, Ram FM, GWR FM, Chiltern FM, Hereward FM, Marcher Sound and Trent FM, which operated as part of the 33-station Mix network.
Capital Radio and GWR Group's merger in 2005 to form GCap Media resulted in the stations being amalgamated into the One Network. This continued until June 2009 when most of the stations, now in the ownership of Global Radio — who had purchased GCap in 2008 — were rebranded as part of The Heart Network. This left Leicester Sound, Ram FM, Red Dragon FM and Trent FM which formed Hit Music with network content produced in Nottingham. In January 2011, these stations were rebranded as part of Capital, with the Leicester, Derby and Nottingham stations merged to form one regional station for the East Midlands.
Galaxy
The first Galaxy radio station, Galaxy 97.2, was launched in 1990 in South West England – initially broadcasting solely from Bristol – and operated under the Chiltern Radio Group. In 1994 the station won the first regional FM licence and moved frequency to 101.0 MHz, rebranded as Galaxy 101 and expanded coverage to include South Wales. At the same time a second studio was opened in Cardiff to provide some programming alongside the existing Bristol studio. Chrysalis Radio purchased the station in 1996 and, a year later, expanded the network by buying Faze FM's stations: Kiss 102 in Manchester and Kiss 105 in Yorkshire. In 1998, black community station Choice FM was acquired in Birmingham. Chrysalis Radio won the North East regional licence in 1999 and sold the original station, Galaxy 101, to the GWR Group in 2002 (this station is now Kiss 101).
In 2007, Chrysalis Radio was sold to Global Radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Hamlin | Tracy Yvette Hamlin is an American singer - songwriter, owner of the Sweet Jazz Concert Series, CEO of the independent label, DMH Records, and host of Our Tv Network’s “The Tracy Hamlin Show”. After a stint as lead vocalist for smooth jazz group Pieces of a Dream, Hamlin now performs as a solo artist internationally. Hamlin has performed as a background vocalist for Gloria Gaynor. Tracy has also arranged vocals for Gaynor’s 2013 album entitled We Will Survive. Tracy Hamlin is a former Vice President of the Washington DC Grammy Chapter and formerly served on the Recording Academy’s National Board of Trustees. Most recently, Hamlin has been appointed Vice Chairperson for Loudoun County’s Visit Loudoun Board of Directors. Hamlin was previously Secretary, Treasurer, and Vice Chairperson of the Visit Loudoun Tourist Board in Loudoun County Virginia.
Solo career
Hamlin released her first album, Seasons, in 2005 for independent label DMH Records. In 2009, Tracy released her second album, Better Days. The album's title song peaked at No. 1 UK Soul Charts. In 2011, Tracy released a single entitled Drive Me Crazy along with DJ Spen and Quantize Recordings. Drive Me Crazy made it to number 1 four different times during a four-month period on Traxsource. Tracy went on to release several albums entitled This Is My Life (2013), which also held the No. 1 position on the UK Soul Charts for two weeks, and No Limits (2015) which held the No. 1 position for five weeks on the UK Soul Charts. Since then, she has released dozens of House singles and EP’s such as You Bring Me Joy and Still Need Love, produced by Soulista and Glen Hornsborough respectively.
Sweet Jazz Concerts
An ongoing project of Hamlin’s called Sweet Jazz Concerts, is a series of Jazz concerts based in Loudoun County Virginia. Sweet Jazz Concerts uses music as a catalyst to give back to the community via music scholarships and donations to local charities such as Loudoun Abused Women Shelter Pearls Empowerment and Students Without Mothers.
DMH Records
DMH Records is the independent label run by Tracy and is the medium of release for Tracy’s five solo albums. Named after Tracy’s late mother Mrs. Dorothy Marie Hamlin, she runs the label based on the values of her mother.
DMH Artists and affiliated Artists:
Tracy Hamlin,
Rodney Shelton,
Dalia Reid,
Terry Phillips,
Kevin Jones,
Jarred Armstrong.
The Tracy Hamlin Show
The Tracy Hamlin Show, hosted by Tracy herself is a weekly talk show that airs Mondays at 7:00 pm EST on Our TV Network which is based in Saint Croix and can be viewed on Roku TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Time Warner Cable, Amazon Fire TV, Tempo, 90 Latin Markets on Le Mega Mundial, and OURTV.network. The show consists of two interview segments with a small local business owner, two interview segments of a Music Industry Artist, and a vocal performance by Tracy Hamlin.
Discography
References
External links
Official Tracy Hamlin Digital website
Tracy Hamlin's Sweet Jazz Festiva |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberstalking%20legislation | Cyberstalking and cyberbullying are relatively new phenomena, but that does not mean that crimes committed through the network are not punishable under legislation drafted for that purpose. Although there are often existing laws that prohibit stalking or harassment in a general sense, legislators sometimes believe that such laws are inadequate or do not go far enough, and thus bring forward new legislation to address this perceived shortcoming. In the United States, for example, nearly every state has laws that address cyberstalking, cyberbullying, or both.
Issues at stake
Cyberbullying and cyberstalking, by their nature, define adversarial relationships. One person (or group), the provocateur, is exerting a view or opinion that the other person (or group), the target, finds offensive, hurtful, or damaging in some way. In a general sense, it would seem simple to legislate this type of behavior; slander and libel laws exist to tackle these situations. However, just as with slander and libel, it is important to balance the protection of freedom of speech of both parties with the need for protection of the target. Thus, something that may be deemed cyberbullying at first glance may, in fact, be more akin to something like parody or similar.
A 2006 National Crime Prevention Council survey found that some 40% of teens had experienced cyberbullying at some point in their lives, making the problem particularly widespread. Not only is the issue of cyberbullying extensive, it has adverse effects on adolescents: increased depression, suicidal behavior, anxiety, and increased susceptibility of drug use and aggressive behavior.
Legislation by country
Australia
Australia does not have specific cyberbullying legislation, although the scope of existing laws can be extended to deal with cyberbullying.
State laws can deal with some forms of cyberbullying, such as documents containing threats, and threats to destroy and damage property.
Commonwealth offences that criminalise the misuse of telecommunication services are also relevant when technology is used to communicate harassment or threats.
The Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) protects individuals from harassment, including harassment that occurs via electronic communications. However, this is limited to the victims of family violence.
The Australian government has proposed specific cyberbullying laws to protect children.
United States
"Cyberbullying" versus "cyberstalking"
In the US, in practice, there is little legislative difference between the concepts of "cyberbullying" and "cyberstalking." The primary distinction is one of age; if adults are involved, the act is usually termed cyberstalking, while among children it is usually referred to as cyberbullying. However, this distinction is one of semantics, and many laws treat bullying and stalking as much the same issue.
Freedom of speech issues
First Amendment concerns often arise when questionable speech is uttered or posted online. This is equally tru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Windows%20Phone%207%20devices | This page seeks to list and compare hardware devices that are shipped with Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system. HTC Corporation, Samsung, LG, Dell, Fujitsu, Nokia, Acer, Alcatel and ZTE have all released Windows Phone-based devices.
Throughout its lifespan, Windows Phone 7 was shipped on 28 unique devices. This list contains devices that have been confirmed and officially announced by their manufacturers.
Released
Windows Phone 7.0
First generation devices come with Windows Phone 7 preinstalled and can be updated to Windows Phone 7.5 and 7.8 OS. All devices in this list feature a 1 GHz Scorpion single-core processor, 512 MB of RAM, a 480 x 800 WVGA resolution screen, a back camera of 5 megapixels and a built-in digital compass. The chipset used is the Snapdragon S1 QSD8250 on non-LG devices and the Snapdragon S1 QSD8650 on LG devices. There are two exceptions, however; the Dell Venue Pro does not feature a compass, while the HTC 7 Mozart includes an 8 MP back camera instead of 5 MP.
Windows Phone 7.5
Second generation Windows Phone comes pre-installed with the Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" version of Windows Phone or later. All devices in this list feature a single-core processor, a 480 x 800 WVGA resolution screen, and (except for the HTC Radar) a built-in digital compass. Due to the change of requirements, some second generation devices have lower-speed processors or less than 512 MB of RAM.
Windows Phone 7.8
Third generation Windows Phone 7.8 update was announced by Microsoft as an alternative to Windows Phone 8. Existing 7.5 devices cannot be updated to WP8. Only one Windows Phone 7.8 device was announced.
References
Technology-related lists
Lists of mobile phones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole%20Green%20Way | The Cole Green Way is a rail trail which runs east-west from the eastern edge of Welwyn Garden City to Hertford in Hertfordshire. Part of National Cycle Network Route 61, and the Lea Valley Walk, it runs for more than six miles along the former Hertford, Luton & Dunstable branch line from Welwyn Garden City railway station to Hertford North railway station.
History
The original line opened on March, 1, 1858 and operated passenger traffic until June, 18, 1951. It was never a busy branch line, and numbers decreased quickly after the Hertford Loop Line was added to the Great Northern Line from London King's Cross, which gave faster access to Hertford North railway station. Prior to the Loop opening, trains on this branch terminated at Hertford Cowbridge. It closed completely to goods traffic on 1 August 1962 and the track was lifted shortly afterwards.
The former trackbed has been used as a public footpath since and was refurbished by the local council to provide better facilities, including a public car park at what was Cole Green railway station. The route is largely flat, which makes it popular with walkers, horse riders and cyclists.
At the far end of the car park and associated picnic area, almost hidden in the undergrowth are the remains of buffers, presumably from station sidings.
The woodland associated with the car park and picnic area has a number of items carved from standing wood.
The route forms part of Route 61 of the National Cycle Network.
Route
Starting on the eastern edge of Welwyn Garden City at Cole Green Lane, the route heads east towards the household recycling centre by the A414 with an underpass to allow access to the former Cole Green railway station. There are bridges at Station Road by Cole Green and Chapel Lane near Letty Green. A further bridge was filled in further along, which means users must cross a country lane before rejoining the trail. At St. Mary's Lane there is another bridge just short of what was Hertingfordbury railway station, now a private residence, and then the trail finishes by Hertford Town Football Club and the viaduct south of Hertford North railway station.
Other rail trails
The Cole Green Way is one of three rail trails in the Welwyn Hatfield area. The other two are the Alban Way, from Hatfield to St. Albans, and the Ayot Greenway, which connects Welwyn Garden City to Wheathampstead.
References
External links
Cole Green Way leaflet (pdf)
Rail trails in England
Footpaths in Hertfordshire
Tourist attractions in Hertfordshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyberdefence%20Centre | The National Cyber Defence Centre (NCDC or Cyber-DC) is a cooperation, communication and coordination platform of German Federal agencies and other institutions from different ministries dealing in particular with cyber-related matters of nationwide relevance.
On the basis of an exchange on cyber-related matters or incidents every working day, a joint, overall cyber-security situation report for Germany is regularly prepared and updated. To handle issues of (potentially) national importance, the participants in the Cyber Defence Centre harmonise and coordinate the individual authorities' activities. Their implementation remains the responsibility of the respective authority or institutions.
The Cyber Defence Centre is not an authority of its own. The Federal Office for Information Security is the host of the Cyber Defence Centre and thus provides premises and technology in Bonn so that the Cyber Defence Centre is able to perform its tasks.
Creation
In the course of the implementation of the Cybersecurity Strategy for Germany, the Cyber Defence Centre was created in 2011 as a joint, inter-authority and interinstitutional platform for an improved and accelerated information exchange between the participating authorities and institutions and for an increased coordination of protective measures and countermeasures against IT security incidents in Germany.
On the basis of a cabinet decision dated 23 February 2011, the Cyber Defence Centre took up its work on 01 April 2011 - initially under the leadership of the BSI and with the direct involvement of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz / BfV) as well as the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe / BBK).
During this stage, the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt / BKA), the Federal Police (Bundespolizei / BPOL), the Central Office of the German Customs Investigation Service (Zollkriminalamt / ZKA), the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst / BND) and the Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) participated as so-called associated authorities. Based on an administrative agreement, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht / BaFin) has also been involved since 2015.
Current organisational set-up
With the entry into force of the currently valid rules of procedure on 01 September 2019, the Cyber Defence Centre underwent a significant further development.
Taking into account their respective tasks, responsibilities and legal powers, now eight core authorities with equal rights - the BBK, BSI, BfV, BKA, BND, the Federal Police Headquarters as well as for the Bundeswehr the Military Counterintelligence Service (Militärischer Abschirmdienst / BAMAD) and the Cyber and Information Domain Service (Kommando Cyber- und Informationsraum / KdoCIR) - work together even more intensively in the Cyber Defence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Disney%20Junior | This is a list of television programs broadcast on the cable and satellite TV channel Disney Junior in the United States.
Current programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Interstitial programming
Chip 'N Dale's Nutty Tales
Disney Junior Music: Nursery Rhymes
Disney Junior Music: Ready for Preschool
Disney Junior's Wonderful World of Songs
Disney Tsum Tsum
Doc Toy Hospital
Doc McSuffins: The Doc & Bella Are In!
Me & Mickey
Me & Winnie the Pooh
Me & Ariel
Meet Spidey and His Amazing Friends
Mickey Mouse: Hot Diggity-Dog Tales
Mickey's Mousekersize
Minnie's Bow-Toons
Playdate with Winnie the Pooh
Rise Up, Sing Out
Spookley Music Videos
Sunny Bunnies
Upcoming programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Former programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Programming from various Disney networks
Programming from Disney Channel
Programming from Disney XD
Programming from Playhouse Disney
Interstitial programming
Live-action
A Poem Is
Bunnytown shorts
Choo Choo Soul
Muppet Babies Play Date
Muppet Moments
Ooh, Aah & You
Quiet Is...
Special Agent Oso: Three Healthy Steps
Where Is Warehouse Mouse?
Animated
Aliens Love Underpants
Big Block SingSong
The Bite-Sized Adventures of Sam Sandwich
Calling all T.O.T.S.
Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?
Cars Toons Mater's Tall Tales
Chuggington: Badge Quest
Dance-a-Lot Robot
Dance with Mira
Disney Junior Music: Lullabies
DJ Melodies
The Doc Files
Happy Monster Band
Handy Manny's School for Tools
It's UnBungalievable
Jake's Buccaneer Blast
Jake's Never Land Pirate School
Lights, Camera, Lexi!
Lou and Lou: Safety Patrol
Mama Hook Knows Best!
Marvel Super Hero Adventures
Mickey Mouse
Mission Force One: Connect and Protect
Molang
Muppet Babies: Show and Tell
Nina Needs to Go!
PJ Masks Music Videos
PJ Masks Shorts
Playing With Skully
Rhythm & Rhymes
Shanna's Show
Shane's Kindergarten Countdown
Special Agent Oso: Three Healthy Steps
Super Simple Songs
Tasty Time with ZeFronk
Toon Bops
Toy Story Toons
Whisker Haven
Yup Yups
Programming blocks
Current
Former
See also
List of programs broadcast by Disney Junior (block)
List of programs broadcast by Playhouse Disney (precursor)
List of programs broadcast by Disney Channel
List of programs broadcast by Disney XD
References
Disney Junior
Disney Junior (United States)
Disney Junior
Disney Junior original programming
Television programming blocks in the United States
Disney Channel related-lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Mandel%20%28disambiguation%29 | Josh Mandel (born 1977) is an American politician from Ohio.
Josh Mandel may also refer to:
Josh Mandel (video game designer) (born 1958), American writer and designer of computer games
Josh Mandel, co-producer of Thirst Street |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Eduardo%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201980%29 | Carlos Eduardo Bizzaro (born January 9, 1980), known as just Carlos Eduardo, is a Brazilian former footballer.
External links
Brazilian FA Database
Profile at liga-indonesia.co.id
1980 births
Living people
Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Albania
Expatriate men's footballers in Albania
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in China
Expatriate men's footballers in China
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia
Expatriate men's footballers in Indonesia
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players
Kategoria Superiore players
Chinese Super League players
Liga 1 (Indonesia) players
Indonesian Premier League players
Brasiliense FC players
America Football Club (Rio de Janeiro) players
Volta Redonda FC players
FK Partizani Tirana players
Clube do Remo players
Wuhan Optics Valley F.C. players
Duque de Caxias Futebol Clube players
Ceará Sporting Club players
Madura United F.C. players
Persibo Bojonegoro players
Persiba Bantul players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20Sports%20Network%20Cup | The 2005 Sports Network Cup was a college football postseason NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Championship Series. The San Diego Toreros finished ahead of Dayton Flyers 26-0 in first places votes to be named the NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Football National Champions.
Dropped Out: None
Others receiving votes (in order of points, minimum of five required): Albany (15), Wagner (12)
Note: Voting was conducted by a panel of 91 FCS media members and media relations professionals. A first-place vote is worth five points, a second- place vote is worth four points, a third-place vote is worth three points, a fourth-place vote is worth two points, and a fifth-place vote is worth one point. Votes were due by Wednesday, November 26, 2005, following the final week of the regular season. Postseason play has no effect on the outcome of the awards.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20150627104044/http://sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2F2005_awards_voting.htm#cup
https://web.archive.org/web/20060202151603/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2FTSN-MID-MAJOR.htm
References
NCAA Division I FCS Consensus Mid-Major Football National Championship
College football championship trophies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20Sports%20Network%20Cup | The 2001 Sports Network Cup was a college football postseason poll by The Sports Network website. The Sacred Heart Pioneers finished first in the poll getting 204 points and 15 first place votes to be named the NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Football National Champions by the Sports Network. The Dayton Flyers finished second in the polling receiving 194 points and 6 first place votes.
Dropped Out: None.
Others receiving votes (in order of points, minimum of five required): Drake
See also
NCAA Division I FCS Consensus Mid-Major Football National Championship
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110622082425/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2FTSNcup.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20020613115747/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2FTSN-MID-MAJOR.htm
College football championship trophies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20Sports%20Network%20Cup | The 2002 Sports Network Cup was a college football postseason NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Championship Series. The Dayton Flyers finished ahead of the Duquesne Dukes 20-7 in first places votes to be named the NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Football National Champions.
Dropped Out: None
Others receiving votes (in order of points, minimum of five required): None.
See also
NCAA Division I FCS Consensus Mid-Major Football National Championship
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110622082425/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2FTSNcup.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20030210071539/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2FTSN-MID-MAJOR.htm
College football championship trophies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20Sports%20Network%20Cup | The 2003 Sports Network Cup was a college football postseason NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Championship Series. The Duquesne Dukes finished ahead of San Diego Toreros 12-6 in first places votes to be named the NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Football National Champions.
Dropped Out: None.
Others receiving votes (in order of points, minimum of five required): Iona.
See also
NCAA Division I FCS Consensus Mid-Major Football National Championship
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110622082425/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2FTSNcup.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20040607015153/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2FTSN-MID-MAJOR.htm
College football championship trophies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20Sports%20Network%20Cup | The 2004 Sports Network Cup was a college football postseason NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Championship Series. The Monmouth Hawks finished ahead of the Drake Bulldogs 19-5 in first places votes to be named the NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Football National Champions.
Dropped Out: None
Others receiving votes (in order of points, minimum of five required): Albany (3)
Note: Voting was conducted by a panel of 91 FCS media members and media relations professionals. A first-place vote is worth five points, a second- place vote is worth four points, a third-place vote is worth three points, a fourth-place vote is worth two points, and a fifth-place vote is worth one point. Votes were due by Wednesday, November 26, 2004, following the final week of the regular season. Postseason play has no effect on the outcome of the awards.
See also
NCAA Division I FCS Consensus Mid-Major Football National Championship
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20150627225647/http://sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2F2004_awards_voting.htm#cup
https://web.archive.org/web/20050726075945/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2FTSN-MID-MAJOR.htm
College football championship trophies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Sports%20Network%20Cup | The 2006 Sports Network Cup was a college football postseason NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Championship Series. The San Diego Toreros finished ahead of Monmouth Hawks 20–0 in first places votes to be named the NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Football National Champions.
Dropped Out: None
Others receiving votes (in order of points, minimum of five required): Marist (5)
Note: Voting was conducted by a panel of 112 FCS media members and media relations professionals. A first-place vote is worth five points, a second- place vote is worth four points, a third-place vote is worth three points, a fourth-place vote is worth two points, and a fifth-place vote is worth one point. Votes were due by Wednesday, November 22, 2006, following the final week of the regular season. Postseason play has no effect on the outcome of the awards.
See also
NCAA Division I FCS Consensus Mid-Major Football National Championship
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20150627035927/http://sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2F2006_awards_voting.htm#cup
College football championship trophies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20Sports%20Network%20Cup | The 2007 Sports Network Cup was a college football postseason NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Championship Trophy. The Dayton Flyers finished ahead of San Diego Toreros 30-0 in first places votes to be named the NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Football National Champions.
Dropped out:None.
Others receiving votes (in order of points):Stony Brook 7, Monmouth 3.
Note: Voting was conducted by a panel of 112 FCS media members and media relations professionals. A first-place vote is worth five points, a second- place vote is worth four points, a third-place vote is worth three points, a fourth-place vote is worth two points, and a fifth-place vote is worth one point. Votes were due by Wednesday, November 22, 2006, following the final week of the regular season. Postseason play has no effect on the outcome of the awards.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110622082425/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2FTSNcup.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20111119025309/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2Fvoting_tsncup07.htm
References
NCAA Division I FCS Consensus Mid-Major Football National Championship
College football championship trophies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Feuds | Food Feuds is a weekly series hosted by Iron Chef Michael Symon that premiered on Food Network October 10, 2010. The show features food rivalries or "feuds" between local restaurants in cities around the United States.
Synopsis
In each episode Michael Symon travels from city to city to settle some of the most famous food rivalries/feuds in the country. Symon visits both establishments, see how the specialties are prepared, tries both dishes up for the challenge, then talks with local food critics and fans to help him decide who should win. At the end, a final critique of the specialty is conducted by Symon himself, the only judge. He bases the food on three criteria: appearance, taste, and overall product while both challengers stand by to find out if they will receive the Food Feud trophy and be crowned the champion.
Episodes
Food Feuds premiered on October 10, 2010, with two back-to-back episodes that premiered at 10:00 and 10:30 pm EST. New episodes currently air on Thursday nights at 10:00 pm EST.
Note: The pilot episode debuted on Food Network and aired on Friday, June 4, 2010 at 10:30 pm ET/PT.
Season 1 (2010)
See also
Food Wars on Travel Channel
References
http://tvtango.com/series/food_feuds/episodes
External links
www.foodnetwork.com/food-feuds/index.html
Food reality television series
Food Network original programming
2000s American television series
2010 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%27s%20Eye%20%28US%20military%29 | The Mind's Eye is a video analysis research project using artificial intelligence. It is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Twelve research teams have been contracted by DARPA for the Mind's Eye: Carnegie Mellon University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SRI International, TNO (Netherlands), and the University of California, Berkeley
Mission
"The Mind's Eye program seeks to develop in machines a capability that exists only in animals: visual intelligence. This program pursues the capability to learn generally applicable and generative representations of action between objects in a scene directly from visual inputs, and then reason over those learned representations. A key distinction between this research and the state of the art in machine vision is that the latter has made continual progress in recognizing a wide range of objects and their properties - what might be thought of as the nouns in the description of a scene. The focus of Mind's Eye is to add the perceptual and cognitive underpinnings for recognizing and reasoning about the verbs in those scenes, enabling a more complete narrative of action in the visual experience."
See also
Gorgon Stare
References
External links
DARPA
Applications of artificial intelligence
DARPA projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20University%20of%20New%20South%20Wales%20faculty | This is a list of notable University of New South Wales staff.
Staff
Computer scientists
Historians
Legal academics
Ronald Sackville
Mathematicians
Medical doctors
Philosophers
Psychologists
John Sweller
Others
Administration
Chancellors
Vice Chancellors
UNSW Canberra
UNSW Canberra is a campus of the UNSW and is located at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Since 1967 the university has been providing tertiary education to officers in the Australian Defence Force through the Royal Military College, Duntroon. In 1986 the Australian Defence Force Academy, a tri-service military training institution, was established. The academy is run jointly by the commandant, who represents the Australian Defence Force side, and the rector, who represents the UNSW.
Deans and rectors
Past and present rectors
Notes
References
University of New South Wales
New South Wales
University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202011 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2011, there were 20 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was 1986's "Livin' On a Prayer" by Bon Jovi. "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" was also the final number-one single of the year, topping the final chart of the year published on Christmas Day.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2011 was "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls, which spent ten weeks at number one across three different spells. "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence was number one for five weeks in 2011, while the band also topped the chart with "My Immortal" (two weeks) and "What You Want" (one week). Muse spent seven weeks at number one with "Feeling Good", as did Foo Fighters with "Walk" (three weeks), "Best of You" and "Arlandria" (two weeks each). My Chemical Romance were number one for five weeks in 2011, four of which were with "Sing". "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N' Roses was also number one for four weeks, while Nickelback's "When We Stand Together" was number one for three.
Chart history
See also
2011 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2011
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2011 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtail%20dwarf%20goby | The longtail dwarf goby (Knipowitschia longecaudata) is a species of goby native to the Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and the Caspian Sea where it is mostly found in areas of brackish water over sand or amongst weeds where it feeds on small invertebrates. This species can reach a length of TL.
References
longtail dwarf goby
Fish of the Black Sea
Fish of the Caspian Sea
Fish of the Sea of Azov
longtail dwarf goby |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Man%20Who%20Invented%20the%20Computer | The Man Who Invented the Computer is a 2010 historical biography by author Jane Smiley about American physicist John Vincent Atanasoff and the invention of the computer. The book follows Atanasoff as he collaborates with others to develop the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC), the first electronic digital computing device.
See also
List of pioneers in computer science
External links
Official site
After Words interview with Smiley on The Man Who Invented the Computer, December 27, 2010
American biographies
History books about scientific discoveries
Doubleday (publisher) books
2010 non-fiction books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyNAPSE | SyNAPSE is a DARPA program that aims to develop electronic neuromorphic machine technology, an attempt to build a new kind of cognitive computer with form, function, and architecture similar to the mammalian brain. Such artificial brains would be used in robots whose intelligence would scale with the size of the neural system in terms of the total number of neurons and synapses and their connectivity.
SyNAPSE is a backronym standing for Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics. The name alludes to synapses, the junctions between biological neurons. The program is being undertaken by HRL Laboratories (HRL), Hewlett-Packard, and IBM Research. In November 2008, IBM and its collaborators were awarded $4.9 million in funding from DARPA while HRL and its collaborators were awarded $5.9 million in funding from DARPA. For the next phase of the project, DARPA added $16.1 million more to the IBM effort while HRL received an additional $10.7 million. In 2011, DARPA added $21 million more to the IBM project. and an additional $17.9 million to the HRL project. The SyNAPSE team for IBM is led by Dharmendra Modha, manager of IBM's cognitive computing initiative. The SyNAPSE team for HRL is led by Narayan Srinivasa, manager of HRL's Center for Neural and Emergent Systems.
The initial phase of the SyNAPSE program developed nanometer scale electronic synaptic components capable of adapting the connection strength between two neurons in a manner analogous to that seen in biological systems (Hebbian learning), and simulated the utility of these synaptic components in core microcircuits that support the overall system architecture.
Continuing efforts will focus on hardware development through the stages of microcircuit development, fabrication process development, single chip system development, and multi-chip system development. In support of these hardware developments, the program seeks to develop increasingly capable architecture and design tools, very large-scale computer simulations of the neuromorphic electronic systems to inform the designers and validate the hardware prior to fabrication, and virtual environments for training and testing the simulated and hardware neuromorphic systems.
Published product highlights
clockless operation (event-driven), consumes 70 mW during real-time operation, power density of 20 mW/cm²
manufactured in Samsung’s 28 nm process technology, 5.4 billion transistors
one million neurons and 256 million synapses networked into 4096 neurosynaptic cores by a 2D array, all programmable
each core module integrates memory, computation, and communication, and operates in an event-driven, parallel, and fault-tolerant fashion
Participants
The following people and institutions are participating in the DARPA SyNAPSE program:
IBM team, led by Dharmendra Modha
Stanford University: Brian A. Wandell, H.-S. Philip Wong
Cornell University: Rajit Manohar
Columbia University Medical Center: Stefano Fusi
Universit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202011%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2011, thirteen singles claimed the top spot, including Bruno Mars' "Grenade" and Guy Sebastian's "Who's That Girl", both of which started their peak positions in late 2010. Ten acts achieved their first number-one single in Australia, either as a lead or featured artist: Wynter Gordon, Pitbull, LMFAO, Lauren Bennett, GoonRock, Adele, Gotye, Kimbra, Kelly Clarkson and Reece Mastin. Five collaborations topped the chart.
LMFAO earned two number-one singles during the year for "Party Rock Anthem" and "Sexy and I Know It". The former was the longest running number-one single of 2011, having topped the ARIA Singles Chart for ten consecutive weeks. It became the longest running number-one single of the 2010s in the chart's history. Adele's "Someone Like You" topped the chart for seven consecutive weeks, while Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" stayed at number one for eight consecutive weeks. It became the first Australian single to achieve this feat since Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply" (1997). LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" topped the chart for seven weeks in 2011 and two additional weeks in 2012.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2011 in music
List of number-one albums of 2011 (Australia)
List of top 25 singles for 2011 in Australia
List of top 10 singles in 2011 (Australia)
References
Number-one singles
Australia
2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights%20Out%20%282011%20TV%20series%29 | Lights Out is an American television boxing drama series from the FX network in the United States. It stars Holt McCallany as Patrick "Lights" Leary, a New Jersey native, and former heavyweight champion boxer who is considering a comeback. The series premiered on January 11, 2011 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. On March 24, 2011, FX announced the cancellation of the show. The final episode aired on April 5.
Plot synopsis
An aging, former world heavyweight champion, Patrick "Lights" Leary is an extremely proud, good-hearted Irish American who is struggling to find his identity after retiring from his beloved boxing. After years of wear and tear in the ring, he is diagnosed with pugilistic dementia (a neurological disorder that affects boxers who suffered too many hits to the head, gradually causing memory loss and constant headaches). Now, Lights is struggling to support his family (a wife and three daughters) and their comfortably secure lifestyle in Bayonne, New Jersey, after his amoral and incompetent brother/business manager squanders Lights' life savings. Running out of ways—and time—to earn enough money to re-secure his family's future, Leary must decide whether to either: accept the brutal and demeaning job of debt collector for a local racketeer; or, launch a long shot, health-risking, comeback for the huge payday that would result from becoming "the champ" once again.
Cast
Holt McCallany as Patrick "Lights" Leary
Pablo Schreiber as Johnny Leary
Catherine McCormack as Theresa Leary
Stacy Keach as Robert "Pops" Leary
Meredith Hagner as Ava Leary
Ryann Shane as Daniella Leary
Lily Pilblad as Katherine Leary
Billy Brown as Richard "Death Row" Reynolds
Elizabeth Marvel as Margaret Leary
Bill Irwin as Hal Brennan
Reg E. Cathey as Barry K. Word
Eamonn Walker as Ed Romeo
Episodes
Reception
Lights Out has received positive reviews from television critics. Review aggregate Metacritic awarded the series a score of 79%, based on 25 reviews, indicating "Generally favorable reviews". Matt Roush from TV Guide said "Lights Out delivers a sucker punch of downbeat realism as Leary takes a pounding from life but refuses to give up. McCallany brings such a weary dignity to the role you can't help but root for him." He went on to say "Lights Out has its work cut out for it to find and hold an audience and deliver the proverbial TKO, but on the basis of the work alone, it's a triumph." The New York Times review said "In other words, even the soapier subplots of Lights Out are sparingly written and tautly filmed, and the story never strays too far from the violence that is at its core. It's an ambitious drama that doesn't lose sight of what Patrick tells a television interviewer about retirement: 'Sometimes, you miss hitting people.'" Brian Lowry at Variety said in his review "Lights Out isn't an unqualified knockout, but in its milieu, leading man and rich supporting players, score the show a clear winner on points. And that's no bull." James Poniewozik from Time said |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzie%C5%84%20Na%20%C5%BBywo | Dzień Na Żywo (eng. Day Live) is the hard-news daytime programming on Polish news channel TVN24. Two hosts present the news alternately every half an hour. The programme features newscasts, live reports with correspondents and talks with invited guests. It is presented by Anna Jędrzejowska, Anna Kalczyńska, Marta Kuligowska, Michał Cholewiński, Jakub Porada and Krzysztof Górlicki who hosts the weekend editions.
The team
Current hosts
Joanna Kryńska
Igor Sokołowski
Justyna Sieklucka
Krzysztof Górlicki
Anna Seremak
Justyna Kosela
Former hosts
(With current hosting position where applicable.)
Beata Tadla (The Facts on TVN, The Facts After The Facts and The Facts in the Afternoon on TVN24)
Anita Werner (The Facts on TVN, The Facts After The Facts and The Facts in the Afternoon on TVN24)
Piotr Marciniak (The Facts on TVN, The Facts After The Facts and Babilon on TVN24)
Dagmara Kaczmarek-Szałkow (Poland and The World)
Marcin Żebrowski (You Get Up and You Know)
Piotr Jacoń (Day After Day)
Agata Tomaszewska (TVN24 reporter)
Jarosław Kuźniar (You Get Up and You Know)
Anna Kleina (left the channel)
Łukasz Grass (left the channel)
Joanna Kryńska (news on You Get Up and You Know)
Kacper Kaliszewski (left the channel)
Brygida Grysiak (TVN24 reporter)
Anna Jędrzejowska (15:00 Live)
References
Polish television shows
2001 Polish television series debuts
2000s Polish television series
2010s Polish television series
2020s Polish television series
TVN24 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Greenwood | Duncan Greenwood (1919–1992) was an English playwright.
His plays include Cat among the Pigeons, Murder Delayed and No Time for Figleaves.
External links
Duncan Greenwood at the Playwrights Database, doollee.com
1919 births
1992 deaths
20th-century English dramatists and playwrights
English male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century English male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%203%20%28S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20Metro%29 | Line 3 (Red) () is one of the six lines that make up the São Paulo Metro and one of the thirteen lines that make up the Metropolitan Rail Transportation Network. It runs between Palmeiras-Barra Funda and Corinthians-Itaquera. It was formerly called the East-West Line. Line 3 is the busiest in the system.
History
This line, initially called the East-West line, was only planned to be long, connecting the Casa Verde and Vila Maria districts of São Paulo, passing through the center of Barra Funda, Sé, and Tatuapé, and be completely underground. But after a lengthy debate, it was decided that it would be constructed on the surface, taking advantage of the old Rede Ferroviária Federal train bed and sharing of its lines—a move that prevented many expropriations.
Construction began in 1972. With this design change, the East-West line would then be more than long between Praça da Sé and Guaianases, parallel to the railroad tracks. The stretch between Guaianases and Calmon Viana, in Poá was planned to be built in a second phase, making full use the rail bed. The strength of this design change would be a cost equivalent to one third of the original budget. Because of international trends that dictate that the rail for metro systems used for urban transport be made exclusive to the metro, the design was changed again.
It was up to the Rede Ferroviária Federal (predecessor of CPTM) to modernize this passage. For this reason, the line opened already overloaded. Once this impasse was resolved, construction began on the western section. On March 10, 1979 the first stretch, between Sé and Brás stations was opened. In the west, the line ended in Barra Funda. The current configuration is the same since 1988. The current record demand was made on November 7, 2008, with the transport of 1,468,935 people. On May 2–3, 2009 the stretch between Anhangabaú and Santa Cecília stations was closed to allow for the use of a tunnel boring machine being used for the extension project of Line 4 (Yellow).
In 2010 work began on the installation of glass doors on the Line 3 platforms, starting with the Vila Matilde, Carrão and Penha stations.
Expansion
An expansion is planned from Palmeiras-Barra Funda to Pio XI. Another extension is planned from Corinthians-Itaquera to Jacu Pêssego.
Stations
Gallery
References
Line 03
Sao 03
Railway lines opened in 1979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin%20Tomash | Erwin Tomash (November 17, 1921 – December 10, 2012) was an American engineer who co-founded Dataproducts Corporation, which specialized in computer technology, specifically printers and core memory units. He is recognized for his early pioneering work with computer equipment peripherals. Tomash led the creation of the Charles Babbage Institute and is responsible for The Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Technology and The Erwin Tomash Library. He died at age 91 in his home in Soquel, California due to complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Education
Born and raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Erwin Tomash graduated from the University of Minnesota with his electrical engineering degree in 1943.
Early life
Upon graduating from the University of Minnesota, Tomash joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps, where he worked with radar, and was awarded the Bronze Star for his wartime activities. Following his time with the Army Signal Corps, Tomash served at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory briefly, before joining the Engineering Research Associates. As a research associate, he worked on developing electronic computers, including the ERA 1103 or UNIVAC Scientific. In 1956, he joined Telemeter Magnetic in Los Angeles where he became the company's president. He then oversaw Telemeter Magnetics' design of core memories for computers and in 1962 left Telemeter Magnetic, and co-founded Dataproducts Corporation.
Dataproducts Corporation
Dataproducts Corporation was co-founded by Erwin Tomash in 1962, and specialized in computer peripherals, with a focus on printers. In 1966, core memory was added to the product line, and due to its resulting expansion, the company relocated to Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California in 1968. The company acquired Staff Dynamics, a personnel agency, and Uptime, a manufacturer of card readers; it also served as an incubator for Informatics, an early software company. By 1970 the company had become the world's leading independent printer manufacturer. In 1980 Tomash retired and Graham Tyson, already chief operating officer and president, succeeded him as chairman.
Awards/Accomplishments
In 1987 Erwin Tomash was honored by the IEEE Computer Society, and received the Computer Entrepreneur Award in recognition of his early pioneering work with computer peripherals.
Erwin and his wife Adelle Tomash were instrumental in establishing the Charles Babbage Institute, which honorably named a highly regarded library, archives, and a fellowship program after them, as well as the CBI Tomash computer history reprint series.
Erwin and Adelle Tomash, as well as the Tomash Family Foundation, were recognized in a 2009-2010 philanthropy report by the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) as having contributed a gift of $1,000 or more to specific programs at the university.
The Erwin Tomash Library
The Erwin Tomash Library on The History of Computing is an annotated and illustrated catalog documenting a collecti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Justin%20Compton | Paul Compton (born 1944) is an Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He was also the former Head of the UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering. He is known for proposing "ripple-down rules".
Career
Paul Compton worked at the Garvan Institute before his appointment at UNSW. He was the Head of School from 1996–1998, and again from 2003-2010. He was very popular as Head of School, and upon his retirement a large gathering fare-welled him, as well as creating a YouTube slide-show tribute.
Research
Paul Compton along with R. Jansen proposed "ripple-down rules" in 1988.
PhD graduates
Tri Minh Cao
Angela Finlayson
Mihye Kim
Maria Lee
Ashesh Mahidadia
Tim Menzies
Akara Prayote
Debbie Richards
Pramod Singh
Hendra Suryanto
Journals (2001-2005)
1 Compton, P., Peters, L., Edwards, G., and Lavers, T.G., Experience with Ripple-Down Rules. Knowledge-Based System Journal: p. in press, 2006 (accepted July 30, 2005)
2 Kim, M. and Compton, P., The perceived utility of standard ontologies in document management for specialized domains. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies: p. in press, 2005.
3 Kim, M. and Compton, P., Evolutionary Document Management and Retrieval for Specialized Domains on the Web. International Journal of Human Computer Studies. 60(2): p. 201-241, 2004.
4 Ruiz-S‡nchez, J.M., Valencia-Garc’a, R., Fern‡ndez-Breis, J.T., Mart’nez-BŽjar, R., and Compton, P., An approach for incremental knowledge acquisition from text. Expert Systems with Applications. 25(2): p. 77-86, 2003.
5 Mart’nez-BŽjar, R., Iba–ez-Cruz, F., Compton, P., and Cao, T.M., An easy-maintenance, reusable approach for building knowledge-based systems: application to landscape assessment. Expert Systems with Applications. 20: p. 153-162, 2001.
Patent (2003)
6 Compton, P., Edwards, G., Lazarus, L., Peters, L., and Harries, M., Knowledge Based System, U.P. Office, 2003.
International conference and workshops Ð refereed papers (2001-2005)
7 Park, S.S., Kim, Y.S., Park, G.C., Kang, B.H., and Compton, P. Automated Information Mediator for HTML and XML based Web Information Delivery Service. in 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2005). Sydney: Springer, p. 401-405. 2005.
8 Cao, T.M. and Compton, P. A Simulation Framework for Knowledge Acquisition Evaluation. in Twenty-Eighth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2005). Newcastle, p. 353-360, 2005.
9 Suryanto, H. and Compton, P. Invented Predicates to Reduce Knowledge Acquisition. in Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web (EKAW 2004). Whittleburg Hall, UK: Springer, p. 293-306, 2004.
10 Singh, P. and Compton, P. Evolution Oriented Semi-Supervised Approach for Segmentation of Medical Images. in Proceedings of ICISIP 2004. India: IEEE, p. 77-81, 2004.
11 Mahidadia, A. and Compton, P. Knowledge Management in Data and Knowledge Intensive Environments. in Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management: 5th International Conference, PAKM 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Bernstein | Rachel Bernstein is a video game designer and developer based in San Francisco, USA.
Education
Bernstein graduated from Princeton University with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 1987.
Career
From 1987 to 1994, Bernstein worked as a software engineer. In 1994, she co-founded the company Frog City Software with the brothers Bill and Ted Spieth. Bernstein wrote the code and assembled a development team for a prototype that later became the game Imperialism. The project received funding from Strategic Simulations in 1995, with president Chuck Kroegel describing it as, 'the thinking man's Civilisation'. Imperialism was released in 1997 and has an IGN community rating of 7.8/10. Bernstein oversaw the development of games Imperialism II and Trade Empires, for which she wrote a detailed project breakdown. In 2003, Bernstein sold Frog City to Take-Two Interactive, but continued to run the company as Take-Two's subsidiary.
Bernstein joined Electronic Arts in 2007 and became an executive producer for Maxis, overseeing the development of the Wii version of MySims Agents (2009) and The Sims Medieval (2011).
Since 2013, Bernstein has served as an executive producer at Google for the Android Play Studio.
She has been a speaker at South by Southwest, TEDxYouth, and the 2016 Astra S.T.E.A.M. Summit in San Francisco.
References
Video game developers
American software engineers
American video game designers
Women video game developers
Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice%20Tells%20All | Candice Tells All is a Canadian interior design show that aired on the W Network featuring designer Candice Olson.
References
External links
Official Website
2011 Canadian television series debuts
2010s Canadian reality television series
2013 Canadian television series endings
W Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyworld%20Digital%20Music%20Awards | The Cyworld Digital Music Awards () was a South Korean music awards ceremony. It was established in 2006 to recognize songs with the largest monthly digital sales on the Cyworld social network service. Monthly awards were also given to popular songs by new artists, popular songs by international artists, and critically acclaimed songs (which received awards called "Tam Eum Mania"). Annual awards were given for the most popular songs of 2009 and 2010.
Annual award winners
Girl group 2NE1 was the biggest winner at the 2009 Cyworld Digital Music Awards, earning four awards including Artist of the Year and Song of the Year. At the 2010 awards, 4Men won Artist of the Year, while 2PM won Song of the Year. The complete list of winners for both years is below.
Artist of the Year
Song of the Year
Rookie Award
Tam Eum Mania Award
Original Soundtrack Award
Composer Award
Best 10 Award
Other awards
Monthly award winners
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
See also
Cyworld
SK Telecom
References
External links
SK Group subsidiaries
South Korean music awards
Awards established in 2006
Annual events in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogrid | Neurogrid is a piece of computer hardware that is designed specifically for simulation of biological brains. It uses analog computation to emulate ion channel activity, and digital communication to softwire structured connectivity patterns. Neurogrid simulates one million neurons and six billion synapses in real time. The neurons spike at a rate of ten times a second. In terms of number of simulated neurons, it rivals simulations done by the Blue Brain Project. However, by running the simulation of whole neurons, instead of simulation on molecular level, it needs only one millionth of Blue Brain's power. The entire board consumes less than two watts of electrical energy.
Neurogrid was designed and built by the Brains in Silicon group at Stanford University. The group is led by Kwabena Boahen. The Neurogrid hardware was first up and running in late 2009. Since then it has been used to start performing simulation experiments.
The Neurogrid board contains sixteen Neurocores, each of which has 256 x 256 silicon neurons in an 11.9 mm x 13.9 mm chip. An off-chip RAM and an on-chip RAM (in each Neurocore) softwire horizontal and vertical cortical connections, respectively. With 61 graded and 18 binary programmable parameters, common to all of its silicon neurons, a Neurocore can model a variety of spiking and interaction patterns.
See also
CoDi
References
External links
group at Stanford University
Brains in Silicon: Neurogrid page (archived)
Computational neuroscience
Simulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cielo%20%28supercomputer%29 | Cielo was a United States supercomputer located at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Built by Cray Inc, the computer was part of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program to maintain the United States nuclear stockpile.
From 31 March 2013, with the retirement of IBM Roadrunner, it took over as their front line computer. , it is ranked as number 32 on the TOP500. , it has been decommissioned and powered down permanently.
Notes
References
New Cielo Supercomputer Arrives at Los Alamos
External links
Top500 ID card
Cray
Los Alamos National Laboratory
NNSA Advanced Technology Systems
One-of-a-kind computers
Petascale computers
X86 supercomputers |
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