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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil%20Murasu%20%28India%29 | Tamil Murasu is a daily evening Tamil language newspaper published from nine cities of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in India. It is owned by Kalanidhi Maran's Sun TV Network.
External links
Tamil Murasu homepage (archived)'''
Mass media in Chennai
Tamil-language newspapers published in India
Mass media in Madurai
Mass media in Coimbatore
Sun Group
2004 establishments in India
Newspapers established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace%20and%20Reds | Cyberspace and Reds is a mixtape by Mike Skinner under his alias The Streets, released on 24 January 2011.
History
In November 2010, Mike Skinner announced via the official Streets website, that he will release what he referred to as a "mixtape" album called Cyberspace and Reds, consisting of various recordings he had made since he finished work on the final Streets album Computers and Blues. The album cover is the first computer-related photo tweeted to Skinner after his announcement of the album.
The album was initially released only for download via the Streets iPhone app. Users of the app were required to scan one barcode displayed on the website, and the barcode "from the side of a 300g tin of tomato soup by a well known brand" (the brand turned out to be Heinz). Three days after this release, a so-called "deluxe" edition was made available for general download through the Streets website; it featured a reworked version of Robots are taking over, as well as a bonus track called At the back of the line.
Track listing
Release history
References
External links
Download or Listen to Cyberspace & Reds
2011 albums
679 Artists albums
Albums produced by Mike Skinner (musician)
The Streets albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibore | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ibore+Primary+School/@6.7805373,6.2879107,888m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x10469971d1cdd059:0xa4ee050796069788!8m2!3d6.78077!4d6.2899666
Ibore is an ancient city located in northern part of Esan an ethnic group in Edo state, Nigeria. It is one of the major towns in the present day Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo State.
History
Ibore and Irrua kingdom has an issue of kingship. HRH Pa D.A. Okosun is the traditional ruler of Ibore kingdom.
Ibore is an ancient city located in the northern part of Esan and an ethnic group in Edo State, Nigeria. It is one of the major towns in the present day Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo State.
The original name is Ibhole. Ibhole was anglicized to Ibore by the Portuguese who first made direct contact with its natives. Ibore is one of the most culturally endowed towns in Esanland. Particularly unique among its numerous cultural heritage is the Iruen, Elbolo and Igbikhio festivals. Unlike most Esan villages and towns whose roots are from Bini, Ibore the 1st son of his father, migrated originally from Otuo (Owan) area of Edo state in the 15th and 16th century, along with two younger brothers called Atuagbo and Ugbalo and their uncle, Obiabi. They had a collective family surname name, known as Uneah. They settled in close proximity to each other. Ibore and his uncle Obiabi lived in the same vicinity, his youngest brother (Ugbalo), was a bit further at the center and Atuagbo, his immediate younger, was at the tail end of the locality. They co-existed and engaged themselves in common goals, as one family. They were all hunters by profession.
Quarters in Ibore:
Ibhole is divided into quarters, examples are Afuokhuaria, Afonza, Afumeimen, Afuanko, Idumegbor, Idinegbon Udugei, Obiabi, Idunoko, Ikekihiala and Aferejoudu.
Quarters in Ibore
Ibhole is divided into Quarters, examples are Afuokhuaria, Afonza, Afuomemen, Afuanko, Idumegbor, Idinegbon Udugei, Obiabi, Idunoko, Ikekihiala and Aferejoudu.
Notable families
Notable families from Ibore include the Aluede family, Ughulu family, Amomoh family, Abuya, Akele, Anetor, Igenegbale, Ikheloa, Enabulu, Umoru, Evah, Egegele, Adaghebalu, Inibhunu, Okeke, Ebhodaghe, Ewanlen, Uikhenan, Uwaya, Osereme, Iwelomen, Efojie, Ediale, Azegbea, Omankhanlen, Akhigbe, Ugbesia, Aluede, Okagwi Ubebe, Okojie, Okosun, Odigie, 0mokodon,Omenai, Okoroson, Iyile, Agidi, Iyere, Aijiabhu, Omenai, Ojeikhudu, Okhale, Omoifoh, Iselobhor, Okoh, Okoedion, Ijie, Oriaifoh, Okoror, Ikpea, Inotu, Esene, Odiboh, Ebhohimen, Itotoh, Akhimien, Aisebeogun, Ojemen, Oyabure, Ehichioya, Omongida, Oigbochie, Owobu, Aigbomian, Aigberemoin, Esezobor, Oiyehi, Udegbe, Oboism, Elimighale, Oamen, Okhiria, Okaka, Umuobuare, and Orhiabure.
Other most notable sons of this small town in Nigeria are Genesis Inibhunu, late Sonny Okosun (Ozidizi), M.O. Ijie, Oziegbe Ubebe, Henry Osime Omenai, Henry Ibhade Omenai and Peter Okoh.
Populated places in Edo State |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Cairo | Constructed near the beginning of the 20th century, until 2014 the Cairo tramway network was still used in modern-day Cairo, especially in modern areas, like Heliopolis and Nasr City. During the 1970s, government policies favoured making space for cars, resulting in the removal of over half of the network. Trams were removed entirely from central Cairo but continued to run in Heliopolis and Helwan.
However, Helwan's part of the system shut down completely in the aftermath of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and in 2014–2015 the surviving tram service in Heliopolis was almost entirely discontinued. Only a short section of one line in Heliopolis, between Court Square and the Tivoli Dome, continued to be operated. By the end of 2019, service had ceased definitively, with tracks dismantled in order to widen the neighborhood's roads as well as to build bridges above the tracks.
References
Transport in Cairo
Cairo
Public transport in Egypt
Metre gauge railways in Egypt
Railway lines opened in 1896 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%20Japanese%20television%20dramas | ←2010 - 2011 - 2012→
This is a list of Japanese television dramas often called doramas by fans.
Networks
NHK
NTV (Nihon TV)
YTV (Yomiuri TV)
TBS
MBS
CX (Fuji TV)
KTV (Kansai TV)
THK (Tokai TV)
EX (TV Asahi)
ABC
TX (TV Tokyo)
WOWOW
Winter (January to March)
Specials
Spring (April to June)
Specials
Summer (July to September)
Specials
Autumn (October to December)
See also
List of Japanese television dramas
List of Japanese Television Dramas
2011 in Japanese television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather%20reconnaissance | Weather reconnaissance is the acquisition of weather data used for research and planning. Typically the term reconnaissance refers to observing weather from the air, as opposed to the ground.
Methods
Aircraft
Helicopters are not built to withstand the severe turbulence encountered in hurricane rainbands and eye walls. One reason is that a helicopter receives all of its lift from its rotating blades, and they are most likely to break off in hurricane conditions.
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is used as a weather reconnaissance aircraft, with 5 different versions being used. The current version is the Lockheed C-130J.
The Lockheed WC-130J aircraft is a venerable aircraft for weather reconnaissance. It flies directly into the hurricane, typically penetrating the hurricane's eye several times per mission at altitudes between and . The 53rd WRS Hurricane Hunters operate ten WC-130J aircraft for weather reconnaissance.
The WP-3D Orion aircraft flown by the NOAA Hurricane Hunters are heavily instrumented flying laboratories specifically modified to take atmospheric and radar measurements within tropical cyclones and winter storms.
The NOAA Gulfstream IV high altitude jet conducts hurricane surveillance flying upwards of each flight to document upper and lower level winds that affect the movement of tropical cyclones. The hurricane models (computer models predicting hurricane tracks and intensity) mainly utilize NOAA G-IV dropwindsonde data that is collected both day and night in storms affecting the United States.
Other aircraft have been used to investigate hurricanes, including an instrumented Lockheed U-2 that was flown in Hurricane Ginny during the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season.
Past aircraft used were the A-20 Havoc, 1944; B-24, 1944–1945; B-17, 1945–1947; B-25, 1946–1947; B-29, 1946–1947. WB-29, 1951–1956; WB-50, 1956–1963; WB-47, 1963–1969; WC-121N 1954-1973; WC-130A,B,E,H, 1965-2005.
Watercraft
Watercraft deployed for use as weather ships have fallen out of favor due to their high operating cost. Unmanned weather buoys replaced weather ships when they became prohibitively expensive. Since the 1970s, their role has been largely superseded by weather buoys by design. Across the northern Atlantic, the number of weather ships dwindled over the years. The original nine ships in the region had fallen to eight by the 1970s. In 1974, the Coast Guard announced plans to terminate the United States stations, and, in 1977, the last United States weather ship was replaced by a newly developed weather buoy.
By 1983, data was still being collected by ships "M" ("Mike"), "R" ("Romeo"), "C" ("Charlie"), and L ("Lima"), Because of high operating costs and budget issues, weather ship "R" was recalled from the Bay of Biscay before the deployment of a weather buoy for the region. This recall was blamed for the minimal warning given in advance of the Great Storm of 1987. The last weather ship was Polarfront, known as weather station "M" at 66°N, 02°E, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdichotomous%20model | In computational complexity theory, and more specifically in the analysis of algorithms with integer data, the transdichotomous model is a variation of the random-access machine in which the machine word size is assumed to match the problem size. The model was proposed by Michael Fredman and Dan Willard, who chose its name "because the dichotomy between the machine model and the problem size is crossed in a reasonable manner."
In a problem such as integer sorting in which there are integers to be sorted, the transdichotomous model assumes that each integer may be stored in a single word of computer memory, that operations on single words take constant time per operation, and that the number of bits that can be stored in a single word is at least . The goal of complexity analysis in this model is to find time bounds that depend only on and not on the actual size of the input values or the machine words. In modeling integer computation, it is necessary to assume that machine words are limited in size, because models with unlimited precision are unreasonably powerful (able to solve PSPACE-complete problems in polynomial time). The transdichotomous model makes a minimal assumption of this type: that there is some limit, and that the limit is large enough to allow random-access indexing into the input data.
As well as its application to integer sorting, the transdichotomous model has also been applied to the design of priority queues and to problems in computational geometry and graph algorithms.
See also
Word RAM
Cell-probe model
References
Computational complexity theory
Models of computation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bic%20Camera | is a consumer electronics retailer chain in Japan. Currently, it has 45 stores in 17 prefectures. Bic Camera has a 50% ownership of former rival store Kojima and full ownership of computer store chain Sofmap.
As of 2023, Bic Camera is the second largest electronics and home appliance retailer, behind Yamada Denki.
History
In 1968, founded in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. Four years later, the camera sales department was separated from the company and renamed . In 1978, Bic Color was renamed Bic Camera, with their first store opening in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Originally specializing in selling cameras at discount prices, Bic Camera expanded to selling home appliances, personal computers, alcoholic beverages, golf equipment, bedding, luxury brand products, bicycles, and toys.
In 1994, Bic Camera spun-off its PC section to . Following a decline in PC sales, this subsidiary was absorbed back into the company in 2000. In 1995, Bic Camera displayed banners protesting France's nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific. Nippon BS Broadcasting Corp. was established in 1999, with Bic Camera as its majority shareholder.
As part of its expansion, Bic Camera purchased Sogo's Yūrakuchō building in 2001. Throughout the 2000s, Bic Camera opened locations connected to JR stations across the country. In 2005, Bic Camera moved its headquarters from Nishi-Ikebukuro to Takada. A year later, the company purchased Sofmap in February and had itself listed in the JASDAQ Securities Exchange on August 10. In September, Bic Camera purchased a 3.2% stake in Tokyo Broadcasting System. On October 5, 2007, Bic Camera acquired a 9.33% share of rival Best Denki and increased its stake to 14.95%. On June 10, 2008, the company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and had itself delisted from JASDAQ on August 29. In 2009, Bic Camera was fined 1.3 million by the TSE for falsifying its earnings after its shares lost half its value early that year. As a result, Arai stepped down as chairman and the company was delisted from the TSE. Sofmap was delisted on January 26, 2010 after becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Bic Camera. In June 2010, Bic Camera absorbed rival Sakuraya.
On June 26, 2012, Bic Camera purchased 50% of rival store chain . As a result of the Kojima acquisition, Best Denki split from Bic Camera and was fully acquired by Yamada Denki on July 13. On September 1, Arai was reinstated as chairman. On September 27, Bic Camera signed a partnership with clothing giant Uniqlo to convert the Shinjuku East Store to . The partnership ended on June 19, 2022 and the store reverted into a Bic Camera branch the next day.
In April 2016, Bic Camera opened its first branch at Haneda Airport. Air Bic Camera also has locations at Narita International Airport, Chubu Centrair International Airport, and Naha Airport, as well as two branches in Odaiba. On December 19, Bic Camera partnered with Rakuten to launch . In 2018, Bic Camera reported record profits and a 50% increase in shares |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Sonology | The Institute of Sonology is an education and research center for electronic and computer music based at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in the Netherlands.
Background
The institute was founded at Utrecht University in 1960 as the Studio for Electronic Music (STEM), as a successor to the former studio for electronic music at Philips' NatLab in Eindhoven. In 1964, Gottfried Michael Koenig became the studio's artistic director. The studio grew under Koenig's leadership, and in 1966 an annual international electronic music course was founded which exists to this day.
In 1967 STEM was renamed as the "Institute of Sonology". International attention increased in 1971 with the purchase of a PDP-15 minicomputer which was used to develop programs for algorithmic composition and digital sound synthesis. During the early years of the institute, a series of landmark programs were developed there, including Koenig's Project 1, Project 2, and SSP, Paul Berg's PILE, Werner Kaegi's MIDIM/VOSIM, and Barry Truax's POD. In 1971 the Brazilian composer Jorge Antunes, a precursor of electronic music in his country, was a student at the Institute where he composed the work "Para Nascer Aqui".
In 1986, the institute was moved to the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, hosting the International Computer Music Conference there during its inaugural year.
Current research focuses on algorithmic composition, live electronic music, historical reconstructions of electronic and computer music (including György Ligeti's Pièce électronique Nr. 3 and Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique), field recording, sound installations, and sound spatialization. Alongside the annual one-year course, the institute offers bachelor's and master's degrees in Sonology.
Discography
Gottfried Michael Koenig – The Electronic Works (1990) BV Haast
His Master's Noise (2001) BV Haast
Kees Tazelaar – Electronic compositions (2004) Near
Institute of Sonology: Early Electronic Music 1959–1969 (2009) Sub Rosa
Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music, vols. 1 and 2 (1979) Composer's Voice
Notable teachers and alumni
Ángel Arranz
Clarence Barlow
Jorge Antunes
Richard Barrett
Justin Bennett
Paul Berg
Konrad Boehmer
Darien Brito
Nuno Canavarro
Luc Döbereiner
Cathy van Eck
Barbara Ellison
Angel Faraldo
Raviv Ganchrow
Kathrin Grenzdörfer
Marie Guilleray
Bjarni Gunnnarsson
Edwin van der Heide
Werner Kaegi
Ji Youn Kang
Roland Kayn
Gottfried Michael Koenig
Fani Konstantinidou
Johan van Kreij
Otto Laske
Giacomo Lepri
Cort Lippe
Igor Lintz Maués
Sergio Luque
Riccardo Marogna
Fred Momotenko
Hugo Morales Murguia
Yota Morimoto
Lasse Nøsted
Peter Pabon
Gabriel Paiuk
Jean Piché
Sara Pinheiro
Kees van Prooijen
Dick Raaijmakers (also taught at the Royal Conservatoire's pre-Sonology studio)
Takayuki Rai
Joel Ryan
Robert Rowe
Wouter Snoei
Peter Struycken
Kees Tazelaar
Stan Tempelaars
Roland Kuit
Barry Truax
Henry Vega
Claude Vivier
Rodney Waschka II
Frits Weila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyse | Wyse Technology, often shortened to Wyse, was an independent American manufacturer of cloud computing systems. As of 2012, Wyse is a subsidiary of Dell. Wyse are best remembered for their video terminal line introduced in the 1980s, which competed with the market-leading Digital. They also had a successful line of IBM PC compatible workstations in the mid-to-late 1980s. But starting late in the decade, Wyse were outcompeted by companies such as eventual parent Dell. Current products include thin client hardware and software as well as desktop virtualization solutions. Other products include cloud software-supporting desktop computers, laptops, and mobile devices. Dell Cloud Client Computing is partnered with IT vendors such as Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, and VMware.
On April 2, 2012, Dell and Wyse announced that Dell intended to take over the company. With this acquisition Dell surpassed their rival Hewlett-Packard in the market for thin clients. On May 25, 2012, Dell informed the market that it had completed the acquisition, renaming the company Dell Wyse.
History
1980s
Wyse Technology was founded in 1981 by Garwing Wu, Bernard Tse, and Grace Tse. The company became famous in the 1980s as a manufacturer of character terminals. Most of these terminals can emulate several other terminal types in addition to their native escape sequences. These terminals were often used with library card catalogs such as Dynix. In 1983, Wyse began shipping the WY50, a terminal that was priced some 44 percent lower than its nearest competitor. It became their first big-selling product, and had a larger screen and higher resolution than competitor products at the time. Following the WY50 was the WY60, the best-selling general purpose terminal of all time. In addition to standard character-mode operation, the WY60 supported box graphics that could be used to produce more attractive displays. The Wyse 99GT and 160 terminals added graphical capability through Tektronix 4014 emulation. The WY325 and 375 models added color support with Tektronix graphics.
In 1984, Wyse entered the personal computer marketplace. The first of these was the Wyse 1000, a computer based on the Intel 80186 (which did not see huge volumes because its integrated hardware was incompatible with the hardware used in the original IBM PC). Next came the WYSEpc, an IBM-compatible computer based on the 8088 processor, which had a good following due to its slim-line design. Later, Wyse introduced personal computers compatible with the IBM PC/AT based on the 80286 and 80386, which were top sellers. Wyse sold through 2-tier distribution, which limited growth in the late 1980s as mail order companies like Dell and Gateway entered the marketplace. In 1984 Wyse became one of the leaders in the general purpose text (GPT) terminal industry and on August 17, 1984, went public on the New York Stock Exchange. In the following years, Wyse added the PC product line Wyse pc3216. The Wyse 3216 was based on Intel's ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Runic%20Inscription%2048 | Danish Runic Inscription 48 or DR 48 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone from Hanning, which is about north of Skjern, Denmark. The runic inscription features a depiction of a hammer, which some have interpreted as a representation of the Norse pagan god Thor, although this interpretation is controversial.
Description
The inscription on DR 48 consists of four lines of horizontal and one line of vertical runic text on a granite block. The stone dates from the 12th century and was reused after being shaped in the construction of the south chancel wall of a church in Hanning. Before the historic nature of runestones was understood, they were often re-used as material for the construction of roads, bridges, and buildings. Although clearly visible in the wall for several centuries, the existence of the runestone was first reported in 1843. Because the stone was shaped for use in the wall, a portion of the text has been lost. The inscription also depicts a hammer within the runic text after the Old Norse word sina, which has been interpreted as being Thor's hammer Mjöllnir. Thor's hammer was used on several memorial runestones in Sweden and Denmark, perhaps as a parallel to or a pagan reaction to the use of the cross by Christians. Other surviving runestones or inscriptions depicting Thor's hammer include runestones U 1161 in Altuna, Sö 86 in Åby, Sö 111 in Stenkvista, Vg 113 in Bjärby, Öl 1 in Karlevi, DR 26 in Laeborg, DR 120 in Spentrup, and DR 331 in Gårdstånga. Because of the dating of the inscription to the 12th century based upon linguistic analysis, which is some 200 years after the Christianization of Denmark, some have questioned whether the hammer is actually a statement of heathenism. It has been suggested that the hammer is not a depiction of Mjöllnir but is instead a symbol identifying a blacksmith or other occupation. However, there are no parallels of such symbolic depictions on other medieval runestones, and the hammer is very similar to that on DR 26 in Laeborg, which is considered to be a depiction of Mjöllnir.
The inscription indicates the stone was raised as a memorial by a man possibly named Vagn who was the son of Tófi in memory of his mother Gyða. The vertical line of text likely names the runemaster who hewed or cut the runes.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
ua-- : tofa : su(n) ¶ rsþi : sten : þene × ¶ eftir : Gyþu : moþ-¶r : sina ×÷: ¶ (×) (e)--kil : h...
Transcription into Old Norse
<ua-->, Tofa sun resþi sten þænne æftir Gyþu, moþ[u]r sina. ...kell h[io].
Translation in English
<ua-->, Tófi's son, raised this stone in memory of Gyða, his mother. ...-kell (cut).
References
Runestones in Denmark
Danish Runic Inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography%20and%20Genealogy%20Master%20Index | The Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) was a printed reference index, and is currently a proprietary database published by the Gale Research Company. The database indexes more than 15 million individuals, living and deceased, covered in more than 1700 biographical reference sources.
History
The BGMI was initially published in print in 1975 under the editorship of M.C. Herbert and B. McNeil. The second print edition of eight volumes was published in 1980. The database version of BGMI indexes names exactly as they are spelled in the source indexes. Searches cover all volumes and supplements of the print publication, and returns an alphabetized list of all names retrieved.
External links
Gale Catalog - Biography and Genealogy Master Index
References
External links
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Won-Ki%20Hong | James Won-Ki Hong (born September 28, 1959) is Director of Innovation Center for Education (since Nov. 2019), Co-Director of Cetner for Crypto Blockchain Research (since Feb. 2020), and Professor of Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (since May 1995) at POSTECH. He served as Dean of Graduate of Information Technology at POSTECH from 2015 to 2019. He was Senior Executive Vice President and CTO of KT Corporation leading R&D activities from March 2012 to Feb. 2014. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo in 1991. His research interests include blockchain, network management, network monitoring and network analysis, ICT convergence, ubiquitous computing, and smartphonomics. He has served as Chair (2005–2009) of the IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc), Committee on Network Operations and Management. He has also served IEEE ComSoc Director of Online Content (2004–2005, 2010–2011). He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal on Network Management (IJNM) and of ComSoc Technology News. He is the Chair of Steering Committee of IEEE IFIP NOMS International Symposium on Integrated Network Management and Steering Committee member of APNOMS. He was General Chair of APNOMS 2006, and General Co-Chair of APNOMS 2008 and APNOMS 2011. He was General Co-Chair of IFIPS NOMS 2010. He is an editorial board member of Transactions on Network and Service Management, Journal of Network and Systems Management and Journal of Communications and Networks.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Waterloo (1991)
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Western Ontario (1985)
HBSc. in Computer Science, University of Western Ontario (1983)
Professional activities
Executive Director, SDN/NFV Forum (2014–present)
Chairman of the National Intelligence Communication Enterprise Association (2013-2014)
Member of IEEE Future Directions Committee (FDC) Industry Advisory Board (IAB) (2013-2014)
Member of Private Enterprise Advisory Committee of Global Green Growth Institute
Chairman of ICT Standardization Committee, Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA)
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Network Management, Wiley & Sons (2012. 1-present)
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Communications Society Technology News, IEEE (2012. 1–2014.12)
Editorial Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2004–present)
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Journal of Network and Systems Management, Springer (2005–present)
General Chair, International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, May 15–17, 2019, Seoul, Korea
General Chair, IEEE NetSoft 2016
General Co-Chair, IEEE NOMS 2018, NOMS 2010
General Chair APNOMS 2006, General Co-Chair APNOMS 2008
Steering Committee Member, IEEE NOMS/IM and APNOMS
Editorial Board Member, IEEE TNSM, JNSM, IJNM, JTM
Chair (2005–2009), Vice Chair (2003–2005), Technical Chair (1998–2000), IEEE Communications Society CNOM
Director of Online Content, IEEE Communications Society (2010–pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porirua%20railway%20station | Porirua railway station is an important intermediate station in New Zealand on the Kapiti Line from Wellington and is part of Wellington's Metlink suburban rail network operated by Transdev Wellington.
The island platform urban railway station is on a double track section of the North Island Main Trunk which was opened in 1885 as a single main line on the alignment of today's Down (southbound) line. There is subway access to Porirua city centre and bus stops serving the Porirua area.
Services
Porirua is served by electric multiple units owned by Greater Wellington Regional Council and operated on its behalf by Transdev.
Porirua is served by Kapiti Line commuter trains operated by Transdev Wellington under the Metlink brand operating between Wellington and Porirua or Waikanae. Services are operated by electric multiple units of the FT/FP class (Matangi). Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, pass through the station but do not stop.
Off-peak trains stop at all stations between Wellington and Waikanae. During peak periods, trains from Wellington that stop at all stations may terminate at Porirua or Plimmerton and return to Wellington while a number of peak services run express between Wellington and Porirua.
Travel times by train are twenty-one minutes to Wellington, and thirty-nine minutes to Waikanae.
Trains run every twenty minutes during daytime off-peak hours, more frequently during peak periods, and less frequently at night. Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between Wellington and Waikanae stopping at Porirua ran every thirty minutes but were increased to one every twenty minutes from 15 July 2018.
The station is the hub for bus services west to Titahi Bay and east to Porirua East and Ascot Park. Hoy wrote in 1968 that the importance of Porirua
is shown by the activity of arriving and departing trains and the fact that nearly half the weekday services terminate there. A goods shed and lengthy yard is available for local industries. A casual observer will perhaps wonder where the City obtains its importance until he looks at the line of buses both private and N.Z.R. waiting to take passengers on to Porirua East and Titahi Bay. Well over 1,000,000 passengers are brought to the station annually on the Government buses alone. Porirua station is of modern design with a glassed-in ticket office and waiting room at the northern end, while subways link the two bus stands on each side of the track.
In 2010–11 improvements costing over $1 million were made to the station building, platforms etc.
In 2014 it was described as, "the region's second busiest station".
On 10 March 2014, work, expected to take 3 months, started on improvements to the southern part of the commuter parking. Further expansion in 2015 brought the park and ride provision to 480, with 172 to be added in 2017. Car parking is free, whereas fares on connecting local buses were $2 in 2017.
History
The line wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang%20%28German%20TV%20channel%29 | Boomerang was a German pay television channel operated by Warner Bros. Discovery under its International division. It was launched on 1 June 2006, the channel primarily airs animated programming.
Broadcasting
In August 2013, SES Platform Services (later MX1, now part of SES Video) won an international tender by Turner Broadcasting System, to provide playout services for Boomerang, and for Cartoon Network, TNT Glitz, TNT Film and TNT Serie (in both SD and HD) for the German-speaking market, digitization of existing Turner content, and playout for Turner on-demand and catch-up services in Germany, Austria, Switzerland the Benelux region, from November 2013.
On 1 October 2018, Boomerang Germany shut down and was replaced with Boomerang CEE.
Logos
References
External links
Official Site
Germany
Turner Broadcasting System Germany
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
Television stations in Germany
Television stations in Austria
Television stations in Switzerland
German-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
Children's television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsushima%20Shrine | is a Shinto shrine in Tsushima, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is the head shrine of a nationwide shrine network of shrines dedicated to the , Centered primarily in the Tōkai region, this network has approximately 3,000 shrines and is the tenth-largest network in the country. The main kami of this faith are , the god of pestilences, and Susanoo, two deities that have been conflated together. For this reason, like other shrines of the network it is also called . See Gion faith for more info.
History
Shrine legend, unsupported by any historical documentation, claims that the shrine was founded in Tsushima by the semi-legendary Emperor Kōrei (343-215 BCE) to worship Gozutennō's aramitama (its violent side), which remained at Izumo-taisha, and it's nigemitama (calm aspect) which came to Japan from the Korean peninsula after stopping in Tsushima Island, between Korea and Japan. The shrine relocated to its current location in Owari Province in 540 CE. This may explain the relationship between the two Tsushimas suggested by the common name. The shrine appears in historical records from the time of Emperor Saga (786-846 CE), during whose rank it was awarded the status of First Court Rank, indicating that it was of considerable importance and antiquity by that time. It was awarded the title of Tennō-sha by Emperor Ichijō (980-1011 CE); however, for unknown reasons, it is not mentioned at all in the Engishiki records completed in 927 CE, nor in the official records of the province. In the Sengoku period, the Oda clan built Shobata Castle in the vicinity of the shrine, and the family crest of the Oda clan is the same emblem as that used by the Tsushima Shrine, indicating a close connection. The shrine was subsequently repaired by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and it received official status and patronage by the Owari Tokugawa clan of Owari Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate in the Edo period.
With the establishment of State Shinto in the Meiji period, Tsushima Shine was initially ranked as a prefectural shrine in Modern system of ranked Shinto shrines, and its status was increased to that of a kokuhei-shōsha (国幣小社), or National Shrine, 3rd rank, in 1926.
In 1920, the Honden of the shrine, which was built in 1605 under the patronage of Matsudaira Tadayoshi, was designated an Important Cultural Property. The building is built in the owari-zukuri style, of which few examples remain. The Rōmon gate, built in 1591, was also designated an Important Cultural Property in 1954.
The shrine holds a festival called in the sixth month of the lunar calendar (July in the Gregorian calendar) during which boats called are floated on the Tennō River, and reeds are released into the water.
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References
Beppyo shrines
Shinto shrines in Aichi Prefecture
Tsushima, Aichi
Kokuhei Shōsha
Gion shrines
Important Cultural Properties of Aichi Prefecture
Aichi Prefecture designated tangible cultural property |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper%203D | Grasshopper is a visual programming language and environment that runs within the Rhinoceros 3D computer-aided design (CAD) application. The program was created by David Rutten at Robert McNeel & Associates. Programs are created by dragging components onto a canvas. The outputs of these components are then connected to the inputs of subsequent components.
Overview
Grasshopper is primarily used to build generative algorithms, such as for generative art. Many of Grasshopper's components create 3D geometry. Programs may also contain other types of algorithms including numeric, textual, audio-visual and haptic applications.
Advanced uses of Grasshopper include parametric modelling for structural engineering, parametric modelling for architecture and fabrication, lighting performance analysis for eco-friendly architecture and building energy consumption.
The first version of Grasshopper, then called Explicit History, was released in September 2007. Grasshopper has become part of the standard Rhino toolset in Rhino 6.0 and later.
AEC Magazine stated that Grasshopper is "Popular among students and professionals, McNeel Associate’s Rhino modelling tool is endemic in the architectural design world. The new Grasshopper environment provides an intuitive way to explore designs without having to learn to script." Research supporting this claim has come from product design and architecture.
See also
Architectural engineering
Comparison of CAD software
Design computing
Parametric design
Generative design
Responsive computer-aided design
Visual programming language
References
Further reading
K Lagios, J Niemasz and C F Reinhart, "Animated Building Performance Simulation (ABPS) - Linking Rhinoceros/Grasshopper with Radiance/Daysim", Accepted for Publication in the Proceedings of SimBuild 2010, New York City, August 2010 (full article).
J Niemasz, J Sargent, C F Reinhart, "Solar Zoning and Energy in Detached Residential Dwellings", Proceedings of SimAUD 2011, Boston, April 2011
Arturo Tedeschi, Architettura Parametrica - Introduzione a Grasshopper, II edizione, Le Penseur, Brienza 2010,
Arturo Tedeschi, Parametric Architecture with Grasshopper, Le Penseur, Brienza 2011,
Arturo Tedeschi, AAD Algorithms-Aided Design, Parametric Strategies using Grasshopper, Le Penseur, Brienza 2014,
Pedro Molina-Siles, Parametric Environment. The Handbook of grasshopper. Nodes & Exercises , Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016.
Diego Cuevas, Advanced 3D Printing with Grasshopper: Clay and FDM (2020).
External links
Computer-aided design
Building engineering software
Computer-aided design software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubberman%20Denmark | Dubberman Denmark is a Danish dubbing company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a subsidiary of Dubberman.
Clients
Cartoon Network (Denmark)
Disney Character Voices International
Danmarks Radio
TV 2 (Denmark)
References
External links
Official website
Mass media companies of Denmark
Mass media companies based in Copenhagen
Companies based in Copenhagen Municipality
Dubbing studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom%203D%20System | The Famicom 3D System is a Japan-exclusive accessory for the Nintendo Family Computer released in 1987.
Overview
The 3D System consists of a pair of active shutter glasses and an adapter to connect them to the Famicom's third player expansion port. The glasses are connected to the adapter via dual 3.5 mm jacks. This allowed compatible games to display a stereoscopic image similar to that of the Sega Master System's SegaScope 3-D Glasses. Games would play in conventional 2D until a "3D mode" was activated by use of the select button.
Twin Famicom 3D System
Sharp Corporation released their own branded version of the 3D System called the Twin Famicom 3D System. Though marketed towards users of Sharp's Twin Famicom, it was equivalent to the 3D System with only cosmetic differences.
Reception and legacy
The 3D System was a commercial failure and, as a result, was never released outside Japan. Criticisms included the clunkiness of the glasses and the limited selection of compatible titles. Eight years later, in 1995, Nintendo again ventured into stereoscopic gaming with the commercially unsuccessful Virtual Boy. In the following years, Nintendo experimented in stereoscopic 3D with both the GameCube and Game Boy Advance SP systems, but these features were not released commercially due to cost and technical limitations. In 2011, Nintendo released the 3DS handheld capable of displaying stereoscopic 3D images without the need for special glasses. The 3DS has enjoyed a largely positive reception. In 2019 Nintendo released a Labo VR Kit.
List of compatible games
Attack Animal Gakuen by Pony Canyon
Cosmic Epsilon by Asmik
Falsion by Konami
Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally by Nintendo
Highway Star (Rad Racer outside Japan) by Square
JJ: Tobidase Daisakusen Part II by Square
Fuuun Shourin Ken - Ankoku no Maou by Jaleco
See also
Nintendo 3DS
SegaScope 3-D Glasses
Virtual Boy
References
External links
from FamicomDojo.TV
Nintendo Entertainment System accessories
Video game console add-ons
Stereoscopy
Japan-only video game hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals%20United | Animals United is a 2010 German computer-animated fantasy adventure comedy film directed and produced by Reinhard Klooss and Holger Tappe and released on October 7, 2010. The film stars Ralf Schmitz and Thomas Fritsch as a meerkat named Billy and a lion named Socrates, who go on an epic quest to discover why their river has unexpectedly dried up. It is based on the 1949 book of the same name by Erich Kästner. This is the second adaptation as , which was also the first German animated feature film to be in color that was released in 1969. The screenplay for the film was written by Oliver Huzly and Reinhard Kloos. An English-language dub version for Animals United stars an ensemble British cast, including James Corden, Stephen Fry and Andy Serkis.
A sequel, Pets United, was released in 2019, which exclusively brought the sequel to Netflix.
Plot
In the Okavango Delta, the annual flood has failed to arrive in the Delta. The water has become scarce and the native animals including a herd of rhinos and buffaloes, including Chino and Biggie, fiercely fight over it. A grey meerkat named Billy and a lion named Socrates set out to find more water, and during their quest they enter a scary and dingy place called "The Valley of Death" and then are met by a rag-tag group of animals from across the world: a polar bear named Sushi, a kangaroo named Toby, a Tasmanian devil named Smiley, two Galápagos tortoises named Winifred and Winston, and a rooster named Charles, all of whom have had their lives ruined by humans in some way and have travelled to Africa. That night, Socrates tells Billy the tragic story of how he and his brother Mambo entered "The Valley of Death" and how Mambo was shot a strange poacher. The next morning, the animals discover the reason for the lack of water in the Delta: a dam has been constructed to supply energy for a luxury resort called the Eden Paradise Hotel which is for the Climate Conference owned by a man named Mr. Smith. The animals meet a chimpanzee named Toto who is the hotel's mascot, Toto helps the animals get their water back, however, a poacher named Hunter kidnaps Socrates, while the other animals escape.
The animals hold a conference where Winifred and Winston explain the deadly future that could be possible for animals. After the conference, however, Winifred and Winston pass away. That day, Billy and the other animals travel through "The Valley of Death" towards the dam. Hunter spots the animals and tries to stop them with a bi-plane, but is stopped by Toto. The animals then began to send a message by letting a swarm of locusts teach the humans a lesson for stealing the water by eating everything in their conference room, including their documents and their clothes. Billy rescues Socrates and they escape down a chute with the help from Toto. The animals chase Hunter and threaten to lower him to the den of tigers if he doesn't tell them why he blocked the water, ending with Billy knocking the poacher out. The water then |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylophanes%20undata | Xylophanes undata is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
Distribution
It is found from Central America to Peru and further south into Bolivia.
Description
The wingspan is 72–83 mm. It is similar in colour and pattern to Xylophanes zurcheri, but the forewing outer margin is more strongly crenulated, the crenulations are all of similar size except for one which is slightly longer. Furthermore, the most distal postmedian line on the forewing upperside is more conspicuous and straight and delineating a narrow, rectangular, pale purple-grey patch.
Biology
Adults have been recorded year round (except March) in Costa Rica. In Peru, there are three generations per year with adults on wing from January to February, in June and in October.
The larvae probably feed on Rubiaceae species.
References
undata
Moths described in 1903 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augeas%20%28software%29 | Augeas is a free software configuration-management library, written in the C programming language. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Augeas uses programs called lenses (in reference to the Harmony Project) to map a filesystem to an XML tree which can then be parsed using an XPath syntax, using a bidirectional transformation. Writing such lenses extends the amount of files Augeas can parse.
Bindings
Augeas has bindings for Python, Ruby, OCaml, Perl, Haskell, Java, PHP, and Tcl.
Programs using augeas
Certbot, ACME client
Puppet provides an Augeas module which makes use of the Ruby bindings
SaltStack provides an Augeas module which makes use of the python bindings
References
External links
Configuration management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localgiving | Localgiving is a membership network and online fundraising platform dedicated to supporting local charities and community groups in the United Kingdom (UK).
Localgiving aims to support local charitable organisations to diversify their income through online fundraising. It provides tools, training and advice to help local groups connect with supporters online, improve their digital skills and develop practical fundraising experience. It is also an advocate for the local voluntary sector and works to raise awareness and support for local groups from the public, government and businesses. Its online fundraising platform enables supporters to make one-time and regular monthly donations, claim Gift Aid, sponsor fundraisers and stay in touch with their chosen local causes. Localgiving also helps local groups to access new sources of funding by taking part in incentivised giving initiatives such as match fund campaigns and competitions.
Localgiving allows charities and community organisations too small to register with the Charity Commission or, in Scotland, the OSCR, to benefit from an infrastructure that simplifies the giving process. It also allows them to benefit from Gift Aid on eligible donations through a unique donation journey.
Localgiving's mission is to provide support to small, grassroots aid organisations across the UK.
Legal structure
Localgiving is a charity registered with the Charity Commission as the Localgiving Foundation (formerly Ardbrack Foundation).
Localgiving Ltd is a subsidiary company, wholly owned by the Localgiving Foundation, and employs staff to deliver Localgiving's core programmes and work towards its charitable objectives. It is a not-for-profit social enterprise registered with Companies House in the UK (company registration number 07111208).
Localgiving was founded by Marcelle Speller in partnership with UKCF (UK Community Foundations), which was previously known as Community Foundation Network (CFN) and launched in 2009.
History
Localgiving founder Marcelle Speller OBE and Matthew Bowcock, Chair of CFN, claim to have identified the need for Localgiving while at an Institute of Philanthropy course in 2007. Speller established Localgiving in 2008, and in April 2010 she transferred all her shares to UKCF (formerly CFN) and the Localgiving Foundation (formerly the Ardbrack Foundation).
The pilot phase of Localgiving began in autumn 2009 with a user group of eight Community Foundations supporting communities in Berkshire, London, Calderdale, Essex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Hertfordshire, Kent, and Scotland. By the end of the pilot phase in September 2010, 161 local charities and community organisations had signed up. By 2012 over 3000 charities registered on the site and the charity was working with more than 40 Community Foundations across the country.
Localgiving has helped local charities and community groups to raise over £13 million since its launch, including a series of "match funding" campaigns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional%20transformation | In computer programming, bidirectional transformations (bx) are programs in which a single piece of code can be run in several ways, such that the same data are sometimes considered as input, and sometimes as output. For example, a bx run in the forward direction might transform input I into output O, while the same bx run backward would take as input versions of I and O and produce a new version of I as its output.
Bidirectional model transformations are an important special case in which a model is input to such a program.
Some bidirectional languages are bijective. The bijectivity of a language is a severe restriction of its power, because a bijective language is merely relating two different ways to present the very same information.
More general is a lens language, in which there is a distinguished forward direction ("get") that takes a concrete input to an abstract output, discarding some information in the process: the concrete state includes all the information that is in the abstract state, and usually some more. The backward direction ("put") takes a concrete state and an abstract state and computes a new concrete state. Lenses are required to obey certain conditions to ensure sensible behaviour.
The most general case is that of symmetric bidirectional transformations. Here the two states that are related typically share some information, but each also includes some information that is not included in the other.
Usage
Bidirectional transformations can be used to:
Maintain the consistency of several sources of information
Provide an 'abstract view' to easily manipulate data and write them back to their source
Definition
Bidirectional transformations fall into various well-studied categories.
A lens is a pair of functions , relating a source and a view . If these functions obey the three lens laws:
PutGet:
GetPut:
PutPut:
It is called a well-behaved lens.
A related notion is that of a prism, in which the signatures of the functions are instead , . Unlike a lens, a prism may not always give a view; also unlike a lens, given a prism, a view is sufficient to construct a source. If lenses allow "focusing" (viewing, updating) on a part of a product type, prisms allow focusing (possible viewing, building) on a part of a sum type.
Both lenses and prisms, as well as other constructions such as traversals, are more general notion of bidirectional transformations known as optics.
Examples of implementations
Boomerang is a programming language that allows writing lenses to process text data formats bidirectionally
Augeas is a configuration management library whose lens language is inspired by the Boomerang project
biXid is a programming language for processing XML data bidirectionally
XSugar allows translation from XML to non-XML formats
See also
Bidirectionalization
Reverse computation
Transformation language
References
External links
Bidirectional Transformations: The Bx Wiki
Pacheco, Hugo, and Alcino C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Embedded%20Industry | Windows Embedded Industry, formerly Windows Embedded POSReady and Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS), is an operating system subfamily developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows Embedded family of products. Based on Windows NT, Windows Embedded Industry is designed for use in industrial devices such as cash registers, automated teller machines, and self service checkouts. Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry was the last release, with Windows IoT Enterprise superseding Windows Embedded Industry, Windows Embedded Standard, and Windows For Embedded Systems (FES).
Releases
Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS)
Windows Embedded for Point of Service was released on May 24, 2005, nearly a year after its Windows XP SP2 counterpart was launched by Microsoft in August 2004. WEPOS expanded Microsoft's Windows Embedded family of products. It was the first edition of Windows Embedded that could use the Windows Update Agent to update an installed and deployed image. Service Pack 3 (SP3) for WEPOS was released on October 8, 2008. Mainstream support ended on April 12, 2011, and extended support ended on April 12, 2016. When the new Microsoft Lifecycle Support policy for Internet Explorer went into effect on January 12, 2016, IE6 support was dropped from not only WEPOS, but all other supported platforms.
Windows Embedded POSReady 2009
Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 offers more features over Windows Embedded for Point of Service such as Full Localization, Internet Explorer 7 and XPS support if .NET Framework 3.5 or higher is installed. This edition was released on December 9, 2008, exactly seven months after its Windows XP SP3 counterpart was launched on May 6, 2008. Prior to XP's end of support, some Windows XP users have reported that the Regedit tool on their operating system can be used to 'trick' Windows Update into accepting updates targeting POSReady 2009. POSReady 2009 is also notable as being the last XP derived operating system to receive official support from Microsoft. Starting in 2017, Microsoft announced end of support for POSReady 2009. Mainstream support for Windows Embedded POSReady 2009—the last supported edition of Windows based on Windows XP—ended on April 8, 2014, and extended support ended on April 9, 2019, marking the final end of the Windows XP codebase after 17 years, 7 months, and 16 days.
Windows Embedded POSReady 7
Windows Embedded POSReady 7, which is based on Windows 7 with SP1, was released on July 1, 2011, nearly two years after Windows 7 debuted. It is the last supported edition of Windows based on Windows 7 to receive official support from Microsoft. Mainstream support for Windows Embedded POSReady 7 ended on and extended support ended on . That date marked the final end of extended support for the Windows 7 codebase after 12 years, 2 months and 20 days. Windows Embedded POSReady 7 is eligible for the paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. This service is available via OEMs, in yearly installments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Random%20Years | The Random Years is an American sitcom created by Michael Lisbe and Nate Reger that aired for four episodes on the United Paramount Network (UPN) in March 2002. The series centers on childhood friends Alex Barnes (Will Friedle), Wiseman (Joshua Ackerman), and Todd Mitchell (Sean Murray) and their lives after graduating college while living in Chinatown, Manhattan. Storylines focus on the characters' jobs and romantic relationships, often including their neighbor Casey Parker (Natalia Cigliuti) and their building superintendent Steve (Winston J. Rochas).
Lisbe and Reger based The Random Years on their own experiences living in New York City. UPN produced the show, along with As If, as mid-season replacements for Roswell, which was not performing well with its ratings. Friedle was initially cast in Off Centre, a sitcom for The WB Television Network, but appeared in The Random Years after being replaced by Eddie Kaye Thomas in the former.
The Random Years, along with As If, received the lowest ratings of any original program aired that season on network television. UPN canceled the series after four of its seven filmed episodes aired. Some critics described the show as enjoyable despite its predictability while others criticized it as too formulaic. Although certain actors were praised in reviews, the cast as a whole received negative feedback.
Premise and characters
The Random Years follows three childhood friends—Alex Barnes (Will Friedle), Wiseman (Joshua Ackerman), and Todd Mitchell (Sean Murray)—as they attempt to navigate life after graduating college. They were friends since elementary school and during the series, they are in their early 20s and share a loft apartment in Chinatown, Manhattan. Alex is a researcher and an assistant to a rock critic for Music Week magazine; he runs his own website, but dreams of being a music critic. A mama's boy, Wiseman only became a dental technician to please her and is not interested in being a dentist. At the start of the series, he strives to act more independently. The unemployed Todd does not have any plans for his future, and instead relies on schemes and is frequently shown watching television. He connects everything to Star Wars to the point of saying: "I don't make fun of your religion, you don't make fun of mine." The series characterizes Alex as lovesick, Wiseman as eccentric, and Todd as a slacker. Critics compared Wiseman to Cosmo Kramer from the sitcom Seinfeld, writing that both have uncontrollable hair and are idiot savants.
Alex hires Casey Parker (Natalia Cigliuti) to help him with his website. Casey is a temp worker who attends New York University Stern School of Business. Having only recently moved to New York City, she struggles to make it on her own, but the show portrays her as ambitious. She moves into the men's building, with Alex's assistance, in the second episode. Her apartment was previously used by Steve (Winston J. Rochas), the building superintendent, to store his bro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20G.%20Atkeson | Christopher Granger Atkeson (born 1959) is an American roboticist and a professor at the Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Atkeson is known for his work in humanoid robots, soft robotics, and machine learning, most notably on locally weighted learning.
Early life and education
Atkeson graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1981 with an A.B. in biochemistry. He received his S.M. degree in applied mathematics in the same year, also from Harvard. He then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his PhD in brain and cognitive science from them in 1986, advised by Emilio Bizzi.
Career
Before joining the faculty at CMU in 2000, he was an assistant, then associate professor in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT from 1986 to 1993. He was also an associate professor at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology from 1994 to 2000.
Atkeson's work in soft robotics helped influence production on the 2014 Disney film Big Hero 6, and he consulted with the film's production team on the design of Baymax.
Honors and awards
National Science Foundation Engineering Initiation Award, 1987–1988.
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1988–1993.
W. M. Keck Foundation Assistant Professorship in Biomedical Engineering, 1988–1990.
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1989–1991.
W. M. Keck Foundation Associate Professorship in Biomedical Engineering, 1990–1991.
Teaching Award from the MIT Graduate Student Council, 1990.
Edenfield Faculty Fellowship Award, 1995.
Elected by faculty to College of Computing Dean's Advisory Committee, 1995–1996, 1996–1997.
Finalist, Best Paper Award, ICRA 2000.
Personal life
Atkeson is married to Jessica Hodgins, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at CMU, and former director of Disney Research, Pittsburgh.
References
External links
Home Page
Mathematics Genealogy Project profile
Artificial intelligence researchers
Georgia Tech faculty
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Living people
Machine learning researchers
American roboticists
1959 births
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Sloan Research Fellows
Disney Research people
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Hart | Emma Hart may refer to:
Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765–1815), English model and actress
Emma Hart (artist) (born 1974), English mixed medium artist
Emma Hart (computer scientist) (born 1967), English academic who works with computational intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyocera%20Echo | The Kyocera Echo (sometimes referred to as Sprint Echo) is a smartphone manufactured by Kyocera of Japan, and distributed by Sprint in the United States. It runs the Google Android operating system. It was announced by Sprint on 7 February 2011, and released for sale 17 April 2011.
It is unusual in having two 3.5-inch screens that, when juxtaposed in "tablet mode" create one 4.7-inch screen. Sprint claims it as the "first dual-screen smart phone". When using the device, the screens can be used in four modes:
Tablet mode, where the two screens form one 4.7" image.
Optimized mode, where each screen shows a different part of one application. For example, one can open up "optimized applications" on the device such as email, where the top screen shows a selected email message and the bottom screen shows the user inbox.
"Simul-Task" mode, where one application will run on the top screen while a separate application runs on the bottom screen.
Single-Screen mode, where the device is folded and the bottom screen is concealed, making only the top primary 3.5-inch screen usable.
References
External links
Kyocera mobile phones
Android (operating system) devices
Smartphones
Dual screen phone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20Pascal | Vector Pascal is an open source compiler that extends the Pascal programming language. It is designed to support efficient expression of algorithms using the SIMD model of computation. It imports into Pascal abstraction mechanisms derived from Iverson's APL programming language. In particular it extends all operators to work on vectors of data. The type system is also extended to handle pixels and dimensional analysis.
The compiler is implemented in Java.
Supported architectures
Intel 486
Intel Xeon-Phi (auto parallelising Xeon Phi compile)
AMD Opteron processor, the Opteron compiler supports multi-core parallelism
Pentium 4
Athlon
Sony PlayStation 2 Emotion Engine
The Cell processor (PS3)
Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel Sandy Bridge, AMD Bulldozer (microarchitecture))
Standards
The syntax generally follows that of Turbo Pascal and includes all features of the ISO standard (ISO 7185-1990) except where overridden by Turbo Pascal. Features of Extended Pascal (an extended Pascal standard was created as ISO/IEC 10206) are also incorporated.
References
External links
Reference Manual in SIGPLAN Notices
Orthogonal Parallel Processing in Vector Pascal
Pascal (programming language)
Pascal programming language family
Pascal (programming language) compilers
Array programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workbook%20Project | The Workbook Project (WBP) is an online community and network with an emphasis on film, design, video games, and transmedia storytelling. It was founded by writer-director Lance Weiler in 2006. It provides resources, advice, and documentation from the community with a focus on the process of funding, creating, distributing and sustaining creative projects. Its goal is to help extend the story of any project, while giving value to the project and its audience. Within the WBP are five individual branches that all feed back into the larger Workbook Project community. Those branches include: WBPLabs, New Breed, Culture Hacker, RADAR, DIY DAYS.
WBP host a yearly Discovery and Distribution Award which is designed to fund and provide distribution for a film, musician or designers.
The most recent project from WBP, Pandemic 1.0, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2011, was an example of Weiler bringing in the community of WBP to collaborate on and participate with the project.
Notes and references
Film organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBench | NBench, short for Native mode Benchmark and later known as BYTEmark, is a synthetic computing benchmark program developed in the mid-1990s by the now defunct BYTE magazine intended to measure a computer's CPU, FPU, and Memory System speed.
History
NBench is essentially release 2 of BYTE Magazine's BYTEmark benchmark program (previously known as BYTE's Native Mode Benchmarks), published about 1995, which was just a few years before the magazine ceased publication. NBench is written in C, and was initially focused on PCs running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Independently of BYTE, in 1996 NBench was ported to Linux and other flavors of Unix by Uwe F. Mayer.
More recently Ludovic Drolez prepared an NBench App for the Android mobile device operating system.
NBench should not be confused with the similarly named but unrelated AMD N-Bench.
Design
The NBench algorithm suite consists of ten different tasks:
Numeric sort - Sorts an array of long integers.
String sort - Sorts an array of strings of arbitrary length.
Bitfield - Executes a variety of bit manipulation functions.
Emulated floating-point - A small software floating-point package.
Fourier coefficients - A numerical analysis routine for calculating series approximations of waveforms.
Assignment algorithm - A well-known task allocation algorithm.
Huffman compression - A well-known text and graphics compression algorithm.
IDEA encryption - A relatively new block cipher algorithm.
Neural Net - A small but functional back-propagation network simulator.
LU Decomposition - A robust algorithm for solving linear equations.
A run of the benchmark suite consists essentially of two phases for each of the tests. First, a calibration loop is run to determine the size of the problem the system can handle in a reasonable time, in order to adapt to the ever-faster computer hardware available. Second, the actual test is run repeatedly several times to obtain a statistically meaningful result.
Originally, NBench and BYTEmark produced two overall index figures: Integer index and Floating-point index. The Integer index is the geometric mean of those tests that involve only integer processing—numeric sort, string sort, bitfield, emulated floating-point, assignment, Huffman, and IDEA—while the Floating-point index is the geometric mean of those tests that require the floating-point coprocessor—Fourier, neural net, and LU decomposition. The index figures where relative scores to get a general feel for the performance of the machine under test as compared to a baseline system based on a 90 MHz Pentium Intel CPU.
The Linux/Unix port has a second baseline machine, it is an AMD K6/233 with 32 MB RAM and 512 KB L2-cache running Linux 2.0.32 and using GNU gcc version 2.7.2.3 and libc-5.4.38. The original integer index was split into an integer-operation and a memory-operation index, as suggested by Andrew D. Balsa, reflecting the realization that memory management is important in CPU design. The o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%20%28TV%20series%29 | Ninjago (previously known as Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu until 2019) is a computer-animated epic-fantasy superhero television series produced by The Lego Group. It was created to coincide with the Lego Ninjago line of construction toys, which is based on the characters and events of the series. It centers on the fictional world of Ninjago, telling the story of a group of six teenage ninjas and their battles against the forces of evil. The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen, two Danish film producers. The storyline was written by Kevin and Dan Hageman until the ninth season; their successor as the head writer was Bragi Schut. The show features a large ensemble cast of voice actors who had recurring roles in the series. The English-language voice cast was recorded in Canada for its entire run. The music was scored by composers Michael Kramer and Jay Vincent.
The series was in continuous production for over a decade and celebrated its tenth anniversary on January 14, 2021. It began with two pilot episodes in January 2011, which were followed by two 13-episode seasons that aired from December 2011 to November 2012. Both the Lego theme and the series had an intended shelf life of three years with the second season planned as the original ending. However, the success of the series and its product line led to the show continuing production, with thirteen more seasons, a special, a feature film adaptation, and a four-episode miniseries being released. Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu was produced in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Wil Film ApS for its first ten seasons. The production was relocated to WildBrain Studios in Canada for the eleventh season, and the series was retitled Ninjago. The series concluded on October 1, 2022, with the second part of the fifteenth season being released on Netflix in Australia and New Zealand.
In Denmark, where the series' original production companies are located, it premiered on Cartoon Network. It aired on various Cartoon Network feeds internationally. In the United States, it aired on Cartoon Network until 2020, when premieres moved to Netflix. In Canada, the series was broadcast on Teletoon and YTV.
A sequel series titled Ninjago: Dragons Rising, set in the same continuity as the original, debuted on Netflix on June 1, 2023.
Synopsis
The show is largely set in the fictional realm of Ninjago, a place loosely inspired by East Asian myths and culture. While featuring historically designed buildings and traditional clothing, Ninjago exists in a modern setting centered around the large metropolis of Ninjago City, which features skyscrapers, current-age and futuristic vehicles, modern electronics, mechanical exo-suits (mechs), and other futuristic technology. The plot focuses on a group of six teenage ninja fighting against the forces of evil, who are also defined as "Elemental Masters", several characters who have elemental powers.
The series began with the ninja team being formed and trained by thei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%20Full%20Members%27%20Cup%20final | The 1990 Full Members' Cup final, also known by its sponsored name, the Zenith Data Systems Cup, was a football match which took place at Wembley Stadium on 25 March 1990. It was contested between First Division Chelsea and Second Division Middlesbrough. Chelsea's Tony Dorigo scored the only goal of the match with a long-range free kick.
Match details
References
Full Members' Cup Final 1990
Full Members' Cup Final 1990
1990
1989–90 in English football
March 1990 sports events in the United Kingdom
1990 sports events in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%20effect | Mode effect is a broad term referring to a phenomenon where a particular survey administration mode causes different data to be collected. For example, when asking a question using two different modes (e.g. paper and telephone), responses to one mode may be significantly and substantially different from responses given in the other mode. Mode effects are a methodological artifact, limiting the ability to compare results from different modes of collection.
Theory
Particular survey modes put respondents into different frames of mind, referred to as a mental "script". This can affect the results they give. For example:
Face-to-face surveys prompt a "guest" script. Respondents are more likely to treat face-to-face interviewers graciously and hospitably, leading them to be more agreeable and affecting their answers. Differences between the interviewers administering the survey can also lead to a range of "interviewer effects" on survey results.
Phone interviews prompt a "solicitor" or "telemarketer" script. Respondents may place less priority on telephone interviews, making them more likely to satisfice (answer questions with the least possible effort) in order to finish the interview sooner. Wariness of who may be on the other end of the phone can also lead respondents to provide more socially acceptable answers than would be given in other survey modes.
Mode effects are likely to be larger when the differences between modes are larger . Face-to-face interviews are substantially different from self-completed pen-and-paper forms. By contrast, web-surveys, pen-and-paper and other self-completed forms are quite similar (each requiring respondents to read and privately respond to a question) and therefore mode effects may be minimised.
Users of surveys must consider the potential for mode effects when comparing results from studies in different modes. However, this is difficult as mode effects can be complex and subject to interactions between respondent demographics, subject matter and mode. Unless the mode effects are formally investigated for the survey instrument, it is difficult to quantify their size and qualitative judgments by experts familiar with the subject matter and respective modes are required instead.
Social desirability bias
Studies of mode effects are sometimes contradictory but some general patterns do emerge. For example, social desirability bias tends to be highest for telephone surveys and lowest for web surveys:
Telephone surveys
Face-to-face surveys
IVR surveys
Mail surveys
Web surveys
Therefore, as the data collected on sensitive topics (such as sexual behavior or illicit activities) will change depending on the administration mode, researchers should be cautious of combining data or comparing results from different modes.
Differences in questions between modes
Some modes require different question wording from others, in order to suit the features of the mode. For example, self-complete forms can use lists of exampl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizja%20Jeden | Wizja Jeden was a Polish television channel that was launched on April 1, 1998. The channel was available on Wizja TV and some cable networks. The channel showed comedy related programs. The channel also commissioned dubbed versions of some programs such as South Park, Beavis and Butt-head, and others.
In addition to films, series and programs, the channel also broadcast events from concerts, sporting events and other events such as the Golden Globe Award.
Former programs
Star Trek
South Park
Beavis and Butt-head
Dilbert
Daria
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The PJs
Captain Star
Bob and Margaret
References
External links
Defunct television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2001
1998 establishments in Poland
2001 disestablishments in Poland
Polish-language television stations
Mass media in Warsaw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APO-Source | APO-Source - The African News Source is the online database of news releases of the African Press Organization (APO). Started in 2007, APO-Source offers free access to tens of thousands of Africa-related news releases themed by country, industry and subject.
Working Method
The African Press Organization distributes an average of 20,000 Africa-related news releases a year. These releases are indexed by 135 categories -country, industry and subject, institution name- and offered for free to International and African journalists.
The journalists can then run searches by key-word, date, country, industry and subject or institution name. They can also choose to receive the news releases by RSS feed, email, FTP or widgets.
This online database of news releases is updated hourly, from Monday to Friday and comprises releases in several languages including French, English, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish or even Norwegian.
APO-Source is part of Africa Wire® the service for press release wire distribution in Africa offered by the African Press Organization, global leader in news distribution related to Africa.
In October 2015, APO-Source has been replaced by Africa-Newsroom.com.
References
External links
APO-Source - The African News Source
Website of the African Press Organization
Journalism organizations
African journalism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuanghedong%20Cave%20Network | Shuanghedong (), is the longest cave in China, in Asia, and the 3rd longest in the world in May 2023.
It is located near the town of Wenquan in Suiyang County, Zunyi, Guizhou Province .
The cave contains numerous waterfalls, and at least three underground rivers, some of which contain cave shrimp, and fish weighing several pounds. Tadpoles, frogs, salamanders, insects, spiders, bats, leeches, blind fish, and mushrooms have also been found.
Since 1987, at least 20 expeditions from France and Japan have explored the cave.
In May 2023 the network reaches 400 kilometers of development.
Entrances
响水洞 Xiangshuidong
大风洞 Dafengdong
小龙洞 Xiaolongdong
山王洞 Shanwangdong
山王洞2 Shanwangdong2
阴河洞 Yinhedong
下洞 Xiadong
皮硝洞 Pixiaodong
麻黄洞 Mahuangdong
衫林洞 Shanlindong (east)
小水洞 Xiaoshuidong
何教洞 Hejiaodong
双河水洞 Shuangheshuidong
衫林洞 Shanlindong (west)
衫林洞2 Shanlindong2 (west)
石膏洞 Shigaodong (east)
熊华塘洞 Xionghuatangdong
红罩子洞 Hongzhaozidong
团堆窝水洞 Tuanduiwoshuidong
罗教洞 Luojiaodong
罗教洞二口 Luojiaodongerkou
铜鼓皮硝洞 Tonggupixiaodong
石膏洞 Shigaodong (west)
洞天坑 Dongtiankeng
上洞 Shangdong
龙潭子水洞 Longtanzishuidong
龙潭子水洞 Longtanzishuidong
文家洞 Wenjiadong
曾教洞 Zengjiaodong
黄家弯洞 Huangjiawandong
黄家弯大风洞 Huangjiawandafengdong
老硝洞 Laoxiaodong
黄瓜头洞 Huangguatoudong
大土洞 Datudong
大庆消坑洞 Daqingxiaokengdong
大屋基大风洞 Dawujidafengdong
二羊花沟半坡大风洞 Eryanghuagoubanpodafengdong
辛家湾凉风洞 Xinjiawanliangfengdong
石萌子特别大风洞 Shimengzitebiedafengdong
大土田角大风洞 Datutianjiaodafengdong
大土田角大风洞2 Datutianjiaodafengdong2
洞堡垭口洞 Dongbaoyakou
消坑凼大风洞 Xiaokengdangdafengdong
青岗林风洞 Qingganglinfengdong
消坑凼大风洞2 Xiaokengdangdafengdong2
瓦厂堡洞 Wachangbaodong
大田湾大消坑 Datianwandaxiaokeng
大田塘大风洞 Dàtiántángdàfēngdòng
酸枣洞 Suanzaodong
酸枣洞 2 Suanzaodong 2
酸枣洞 3 Suanzaodong 3
猎熊消坑 Liexiongxiaokeng
桃子树弯小坑 Taozishuwanxiaokeng
水洞 Shuidong (Chenghuatang)
堆窝洞 Duiwodong
See also
List of caves in China
List of longest caves
References
External links
Images
Caves of Guizhou
Gypsum caves
Karst formations of China
Archaeological sites in China
Tourist attractions in Guizhou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly%20Files%3A%20Tell%20Them%20Lucifer%20was%20Here | Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer was Here is an Australian made-for-television movie that aired on 7 February 2011 on the Nine Network. It is part of the Underbelly franchise and is the first of four television movies in the spin-off series Underbelly Files, the other three being Infiltration, The Man Who Got Away, and Chopper.
It tells the true story of the murders of two Victorian police officers, Gary Silk and Rodney Miller, who were gunned down in the line of duty in 1998 and the manhunt to catch their killers.
Synopsis
Tell Them Lucifer was Here tells the true story of the murders of Police Officers Silk and Miller, who were gunned down in the line of duty in 1998, and the massive police manhunt to catch their killers. The story centres on the investigation of the murders under the direction of Detective Inspector Paul Sheridan and the Lorimer Taskforce. Tracking down the killers proved all but impossible, and it was only through outstanding detective work, dogged persistence, and sheer faith that the killers were brought to justice.
Alternate version
Late in 2010, the telemovie hit a legal snag as part of a pending court case in the New South Wales (NSW) law courts, which resulted in a slightly altered version of Tell Them Lucifer was Here being broadcast in Sydney and NSW on Monday 7 February. The version screened in NSW omitted one particular scene and changed the names of a number of individuals in the case (for example, "Bandali Debs" was changed to "Patrici Fabro"). However, in an oversight, the subtitles were not edited, and showed the original names. When the DVD of the "Underbelly Files" telemovies were released Tell Them Lucifer Was Here was omitted from the release in NSW only. Like the first series of Underbelly in Victoria releases of the DVD that contained Tell Them Lucifer Was Here had a warning sticker banning the exhibition of the telemovie in NSW.
Cast
Daniel Whyte as Sgt. Gary Silk
Paul O'Brien as Snr. Cnst. Rodney Miller
Brett Climo as Det. Insp. Paul Sheridan
Jane Allsop as Carmel Arthur
Jeremy Kewley as Det. Sgt. Graeme Collins
Todd Lasance as Det. Sgt. Dean Thomas
Ditch Davey as Det. Sgt. Mick Ritchie
Christopher Bunworth as Det. Sgt. Mark Butterworth
James Taylor as Det. Sgt. Steve Beanland
Marshall Napier as Chief Comm. Neil Comrie
Robert Taylor as Dpty. Comm. Graham Sinclair
Greg Stone as Bandali Debs
Dimitri Baveas as Jason Roberts
Annie Jones as Dorothy Debs
Brigid Gallacher as Nicole Debs
Melissa Bergland as Joanne Debs
Lee Cormie as Joseph Debs
Don Hany as Nik "The Russian" Radev
Robert Ratti as Greaseball
Jasmine Dare as Kristy Harty
Saara Lamberg as Sabrina (German backpacker)
Ratings
Tell Them Lucifer was Here aired on 7 February 2011 at 8:30 pm and pulled in an audience of 1.377 million viewers, which made it the #1 rating show for that night. However 1.377 million viewers was somewhat down from previous Underbelly premieres.
References
Nine Network original programming
APRA A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python%20compiler | Python compiler may refer to:
Python, a native code compiler for CMU Common Lisp
One of several compiler implementations for the Python programming language: see Python implementations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataPoint%2C%20Inc | DataPoint, Inc is an American data center (colocation) and managed data network services provider, located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is one of the largest cloud computing, network management, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) companies in Maryland.
History
DataPoint, Inc is the name adopted by ToadNet after it was acquired by Continental VisiNet Broadband in 2004. The company was founded in Severna Park, Maryland as Toad Computers in 1986 by two high school students, David Troy and Ray Mitchell. Toad Computers began as Maryland's only Atari computer dealership and largely worked through mail-order until Atari started requiring their vendors to have storefront facilities in 1988.
The small computer sales company expanded into the internet service provider market in 1995, when the first commercial providers started to gain traction linking customers to the World Wide Web. When the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed newer companies to compete with the large telephone carriers by buying up phone lines, Troy bought out his partner Mitchell and shut down Toad Computers, opening the new ToadNet.
ToadNet managed to survive the end of the dot-com bubble as one of the last independently owned dial-up service providers in the country. Seeing opportunity to offer high-speed services and expand its data center, in 2004 ToadNet was sold to Continental VisiNet Broadband for a reported $2.6 million. Afterward, the name was changed to DataPoint and was relocated from Severna Park to Baltimore, into a new state-of-the-art data center.
As of 2011, DataPoint continues to operate out of Baltimore as a subsidiary of Norfolk, Virginia-based “super-regional” cloud computing company, Continental VisiNet Broadband (which is itself owned by the large media company, Landmark Media Enterprises).
Products and services
DataPoint specializes as an Internet service provider and data center company, providing broadband access and managed services largely to Baltimore, Maryland area businesses. Additionally, the company currently offers customized network services, cloud computing, virtual networks, colocation, IaaS, and NuSec solutions (providing internet security and firewalls).
References
External links
DataPoint
Continental VisiNet Broadband
Companies based in Baltimore
Companies established in 1986
1986 establishments in Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20P.%20Barnett | Michael Peter Barnett (24 March 1929 – 13 March 2012) was a British theoretical chemist and computer scientist. He developed mathematical and computer techniques for quantum chemical problems, and some of the earliest software for several other kinds of computer application. After his early days in London, Essex and Lancashire, he went to King's College, London, in 1945, the Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern in 1953, IBM UK in 1955, the University of Wisconsin Department of Chemistry in 1957, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solid State and Molecular Theory Group in 1958.
At MIT he was an associate professor of physics and director of the Cooperative Computing Laboratory. He returned to England, to the Institute of Computer Science of the University of London in 1964, and then back to United States the following year. He worked in industry, and taught at Columbia University 1975–77 and the City University of New York, 1977–96, retiring as an emeritus professor. After retirement he focused on symbolic calculation in quantum chemistry and nuclear magnetic resonance.
Early life and career
Barnett spent most of the World War II years near Fleetwood in Lancashire. He attended Baines' Grammar School in Poulton-le-Fylde, then went to King's College, London in 1945, where he received a BSc in chemistry in 1948, a PhD for work in the theoretical physics department with Charles Coulson in 1952, that he continued on a one-year post-doctoral fellowship. His assigned project was to determine if electrostatic forces could account for the energy needed to make two parts of an ethane molecule rotate around the bond that joins them.
This work required the evaluation of certain mathematical objects – molecular integrals over Slater orbitals. Barnett extended some earlier work by Charles Coulson by discovering some recurrence formulas, that are part of a method of analysis and computation frequently referred to as the Barnett-Coulson expansion. Molecular integrals remain a significant problem in quantum chemistry and continued to be one of Barnett's main interests.
Two years after Barnett started this work, he was invited to be one of the twenty-five participants in a conference that was organised by Robert Mulliken, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and known, from its venue, as the Shelter Island Conference on Quantum Mechanics in Valence Theory. Barnett's attendance was enabled by the British Rayon Research Association, which supported his post-graduate work.
At the Royal Radar Establishment, Barnett held a Senior Government Fellowship. He worked on aspects of theoretical solid state physics, that included the properties of organic semiconductors. As part of his work at IBM UK, he directed an IBM model 650 computer centre. He directed and participated in numerous projects that included (1) calculating DNA structures from crystallographic data, and (2) simulations to plan the location and operation of dams and reservoirs on the Ri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Unpoppables | Unpoppables was a television show on cable television network TLC, featuring three balloon artists that aired for six episodes in early 2011. The show portrays their work for the company New Balloon Art, based in Los Angeles, California. Season one began on February 7, 2011,Bangladesh and there has yet to be an announcement regarding a second season.
Format
The production company for "The Bangladesh" is Authentic Entertainment. Authentic Entertainment is the same company that produces Ace of Cakes. Like "Ace of Cakes", the show follows a group of highly skilled artisans in their respective fields as they are challenged to complete seemingly impossible tasks at the last moment. In the show, the cast is given three days to design and build their elaborate balloon creations. This is common in the balloon world as balloon sculptures can not be made more than 72 hours in advance of an event or they risk deflation, color fading and popping.
Cast
The cast consist of three characters. Addi Somekh taught himself balloon art all on his own. His success has led him to appear on The Martha Stewart Show, The Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Access Hollywood, and several other shows. He owns and manages his own company - New Balloon Art Prior to "The Unpoppable," Addy had achieved notability in the balloon twisting world as he traveled to 34 countries with photographer Charlie Eckert making free hats for photo ops.
Katie Balloons is portrayed as the show's fashion expert; she did not regularly make dresses for other people until the show began.
Brian Asman is a former chef now working full-time for New Balloon Art. He is known for his realistic art and professionalism. Brian is from Brooklyn, New York.
New Balloon Art
New Balloon Art is the name of balloon decorating company, owned by Addi, that the show focuses on. Founded in 2002 as a one-man company, today the company has grown to include clients worldwide. For large projects, Addi brings in extra assistance as needed beyond the team of Katie and Brian. Information about New Balloon Art can be found at their website.
References
External links
New Balloon Art Website
TLC'S "The Unpoppables" Webpage
2011 American television series debuts
TLC (TV network) original programming
Television shows set in Los Angeles
Television series by Authentic Entertainment
Balloon artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20computer%20animation | The history of computer animation began as early as the 1940s and 1950s, when people began to experiment with computer graphics – most notably by John Whitney. It was only by the early 1960s when digital computers had become widely established, that new avenues for innovative computer graphics blossomed. Initially, uses were mainly for scientific, engineering and other research purposes, but artistic experimentation began to make its appearance by the mid-1960s – most notably by Dr Thomas Calvert. By the mid-1970s, many such efforts were beginning to enter into public media. Much computer graphics at this time involved 2-dimensional imagery, though increasingly as computer power improved, efforts to achieve 3-dimensional realism became the emphasis. By the late 1980s, photo-realistic 3D was beginning to appear in film movies, and by mid-1990s had developed to the point where 3D animation could be used for entire feature film production.
The earliest pioneers: 1940s to mid-1960s
John Whitney
John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servos to control the motion of lights and lit objects – the first example of motion control photography. One of Whitney's best known works from this early period was the animated title sequence from Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo, which he collaborated on with graphic designer Saul Bass. In 1960, Whitney established his company Motion Graphics Inc, which largely focused on producing titles for film and television, while continuing further experimental works. In 1968, his pioneering motion control model photography was used on Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and also for the slit-scan photography technique used in the film's "Star Gate" finale.
The first digital image
One of the first programmable digital computers was SEAC (the Standards Eastern Automatic Computer), which entered service in 1950 at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Maryland, USA. In 1957, computer pioneer Russell Kirsch and his team unveiled a drum scanner for SEAC, to "trace variations of intensity over the surfaces of photographs", and so doing made the first digital image by scanning a photograph. The image, picturing Kirsch's three-month-old son, consisted of just 176×176 pixels. They used the computer to extract line drawings, count objects, recognize types of characters and display digital images on an oscilloscope screen. This breakthrough can be seen as the forerunner of all subsequent computer imaging, and recognising the importance of this first digital photograph, Life magazine in 2003 credited this image as one of the "100 Photographs That Changed the World".
From the late 1950s and early 1960s, mainframe digital |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Elton%20Live%20from%20Planet%20Earth | Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth was an Australian comedy television series produced by FremantleMedia which aired on the Nine Network in 2011. The program was broadcast live as a sketch comedy and variety show. Comedian Ben Elton presented the program and performed some stand-up material, with the sketches performed by an ensemble cast including Paul McCarthy and Genevieve Morris. After critical reviews, hostile social media reaction and poor ratings, the Nine Network cancelled the show after three episodes had aired.
Format and regular segments
Ben Elton hosted the show and performed a comedic monologue weekly. Several guest comedians and musicians also performed in between sketches by the ensemble cast of nine performers, which included several from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), alongside comedy veterans McCarthy and Morris. Genevieve Morris played celebrity interviewer Elaine Front in one of the show's regular segments, in which Front remained steadfastly unimpressed by the celebrity status of her interview subjects.
Another regular segment was Girl Flat, a "live sitcom" featuring parody versions of Lady Gaga, Beyoncé Knowles, Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse living together in a share house.
Reception
Live From Planet Earth debuted on Channel Nine on 8 February 2011, in the 9:30 pm timeslot. During the broadcast of the first episode, reaction on Twitter was hostile, with many users speculating the show would be axed.
Ratings for the first episode dropped significantly as it aired, with around 805,000 watching the program when it began following Top Gear. After 15 minutes, viewers had dropped to 633,000, then by 33 per cent to 421,000, with 296,000 viewers watching the final 15 minutes—an average of 455,000 viewers over the whole hour. The ratings for the second episode dropped further, averaging 384,000 viewers according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTAM, falling from 469,000 to 250,000.
Reviews of the first episode were largely negative. Colin Vickery of the Herald Sun called it "an early contender for worst show of the year", and Amanda Meade of The Australian called it "a screaming, embarrassing failure". The Age's Karl Quinn stated there was "more to like than dislike" about the show.
A third episode went to air in a delayed timeslot of 10:40 pm, but ratings dropped further to 189,000 viewers and on 23 February, Channel Nine announced the show had been cancelled.
References
External links
Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth (ninemsn)
2011 Australian television series debuts
2011 Australian television series endings
Nine Network original programming
2010s Australian comedy television series
English-language television shows
Television shows written by Ben Elton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVCap | VVCap was a screenshot program that operated under the Windows operating system. It was created and distributed by G Central. VVCap was available in English, Spanish and Russian versions, and is supported in those languages.
VVCap replaces the native Print Screen function with additional features, such as: screenshot can be instantly posted to a URL or file, or be placed to a clipboard.
Features
Instant Post
VVCap allows posting an image to web in minimum amount of clicks, which makes it an ideal tool for sharing messages via instant messaging or Twitter but at this moment, their web servers apparently are down and the website has a 503 HTTP error, for now the clipboard function only works.
Security
Images stored on the server are being encrypted, and it is not possible to mass-decrypt images by an administrator. Unless presented with URL, that contains file pointer and decryption key, the file itself cannot be decrypted.
References
External links
Screenshot software
Windows graphics-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20Enemies | Best Enemies is an education resource and film created by Ross and Darren Bark that discusses the cyber bullying problem in Australian schools, and explores how to tackle it and help students become pro-active in reporting and stopping it.
Programs and services
Best Enemies has also been used as a community-based education program that illustrates the issue of cyber bullying through a film based on a true story of a 15-year-old girl whose best friend betrayed her in a bullying campaign conducted via SMS and online messaging.
The program targets schools and youth organisations to address the causes and consequences of the serious social problem of cyber bullying and cyber safety. The program is supported by Youth Interagency Groups, the Department of Education and Training and various agencies of the NSW Government.
The Best Enemies study guide and cybersafety resource was produced by The Australian Teachers of Media and is also distributed by The Education Shop.
The program is supported by Hoyts, Girlfriend Magazine, Mentos Cube, Myspace and Point Zero Youth Services.
Partnership with Bully Free Australia Foundation
In March 2013, Best Enemies and The Bully Free Australia Foundation signed a partnership agreement with a vision to "protect and empower Australian children and adolescents to live a fulfilling life free from all forms of bullying".
On 16 March 2013, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard formally opened The Bully Free Australia Foundation at Essendon Airport to a crowd of more than 400 people.
References
External links
"CYBER BULLYING" 2009 Private Members Statements Parliament of New South Wales Parliament of New South Wales
"Best Enemies Education Program" Best Enemies Education Program
"Pillow-talking bully girls" 2010 News North Shore Times North Shore Times
"It’s time to Get Connected for mental health" 2010 Ku-ring-gai Council Mental Health Forum Ku-ring-gai Council Ku-ring-gai Council
Educational organisations based in Australia
Media studies
Australian film awards
Harassment and bullying
Cyberbullying |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ancient%20World%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Ancient World is a series of documentaries presented by historian Bettany Hughes that gives viewers a personal take on ancient world cultures. The documentaries aired on Channel 4 network over a period of eight years and were packaged with new introductions as "Bettany Hughes' Ancient World".
Episode list
References
British military television series
Channel 4 documentary series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.11ac-2013 | IEEE 802.11ac-2013 or 802.11ac is a wireless networking standard in the IEEE 802.11 set of protocols (which is part of the Wi-Fi networking family), providing high-throughput wireless local area networks (WLANs) on the 5 GHz band. The standard has been retroactively labelled as Wi-Fi 5 by Wi-Fi Alliance.
The specification has multi-station throughput of at least 1.1 gigabit per second (1.1 Gbit/s) and single-link throughput of at least 500 megabits per second (0.5 Gbit/s). This is accomplished by extending the air-interface concepts embraced by 802.11n: wider RF bandwidth (up to 160 MHz), more MIMO spatial streams (up to eight), downlink multi-user MIMO (up to four clients), and high-density modulation (up to 256-QAM).
The Wi-Fi Alliance separated the introduction of ac wireless products into two phases ("waves"), named "Wave 1" and "Wave 2". From mid-2013, the alliance started certifying Wave 1 802.11ac products shipped by manufacturers, based on the IEEE 802.11ac Draft 3.0 (the IEEE standard was not finalized until later that year). Subsequently in 2016, Wi-Fi Alliance introduced the Wave 2 certification, which includes additional features like MU-MIMO (down-link only), 160 MHz channel width support, support for more 5 GHz channels, and four spatial streams (with four antennas; compared to three in Wave 1 and 802.11n, and eight in IEEE's 802.11ax specification). It meant Wave 2 products would have higher bandwidth and capacity than Wave 1 products.
New technologies
New technologies introduced with 802.11ac include the following:
Extended channel binding
Optional 160 MHz and mandatory 80 MHz channel bandwidth for stations; cf. 40 MHz maximum in 802.11n.
More MIMO spatial streams
Support for up to eight spatial streams (vs. four in 802.11n)
Downlink multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO, allows up to four simultaneous downlink MU-MIMO clients)
Multiple STAs, each with one or more antennas, transmit or receive independent data streams simultaneously.
Space-division multiple access (SDMA): streams not separated by frequency, but instead resolved spatially, analogous to 11n-style MIMO.
Downlink MU-MIMO (one transmitting device, multiple receiving devices) included as an optional mode.
Modulation
256-QAM, rate 3/4 and 5/6, added as optional modes (vs. 64-QAM, rate 5/6 maximum in 802.11n).
Some vendors offer a non-standard 1024-QAM mode, providing 25% higher data rate compared to 256-QAM
Other elements/features
Beamforming with standardized sounding and feedback for compatibility between vendors (non-standard in 802.11n made it hard for beamforming to work effectively between different vendor products)
MAC modifications (mostly to support above changes)
Coexistence mechanisms for 20, 40, 80, and 160 MHz channels, 11ac and 11a/n devices
Adds four new fields to the PPDU header identifying the frame as a very high throughput (VHT) frame as opposed to 802.11n's high throughput (HT) or earlier. The first three fields in the header are readable by leg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKY-DT | CKY-DT (channel 7) is a television station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. The station is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media, and maintains studios on Graham Avenue (adjacent to the Canada Life Centre) in Downtown Winnipeg; its transmitter is located near Lord Selkirk Highway/Highway 75 in Ritchot.
History
Beginning in 1954, Winnipeg had one television station, government-owned CBWT (channel 4). In January 1960, the Canadian Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG) held public hearings in Winnipeg in response to three applications which had been submitted to operate a commercial television station on channel 7. These applications were presented by R. S. Misener and Associates, a group associated with radio stations CKY–Winnipeg, CFAM–Altona and CKSB–St. Boniface; Perimeter Television Broadcasters Ltd., a group associated with Winnipeg radio station CJOB; and the Red River Television Association, a group associated with the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper and radio station CKRC.
The Misener application was subsequently approved by the BBG, and the TV station was founded as independent station CJAY-TV on November 12, 1960. It joined the CTV Television Network when it launched on October 1, 1961.
On June 1, 1973, after Moffat bought controlling interest in the station, its call sign was changed to CKY-TV to match Moffat's AM and FM stations, making it one of the only two Canadian television stations, the other being the now-defunct CKX-TV, with a three-letter call sign. (From 2007 to 2009, CKY-TV and CKX-TV were sister stations following CTVglobemedia's buyout of CHUM Limited.)
The CJAY call letters are now used on a Calgary rock station now owned by CTV's owner Bell Media. In 1992, Moffat sold CKY (AM) and CKY-FM (subsequently CITI-FM) to Rogers Media while maintaining ownership of the television station.
In August 1992, general manager Vaughn Tozer hired Jim Wicks, a Canadian-American broadcaster, to be the main news anchor and managing editor. Tozer and Wicks reorganized the newsroom and the on-air team to help accomplish their goal. Within three ratings periods, the newscast had climbed from third place to first place, replacing CBWT's 24 Hours as the highest-rated newscast in Winnipeg. At one point, the newscast was advertised on billboards throughout the city as "Wicks at 6". The on-air chemistry between Wicks and sports director Steve Vogelsang added to the popularity of the program.
Although the personalities have since changed on several occasions, the station's newscast has remained Manitoba's #1 newscast, increasing its lead in recent years due in part to the demise of CHMI's newscasts and budget cuts at CBWT. Currently, CKY-TV is the market's only station with a weekday noon newscast. As of today, CKY-TV is the oldest private television station in Manitoba since CKX-TV's demise.
In 2001, Moffat Broadcasting was purchased by Shaw Cablesystems, which was not interested in CKY-TV or its co-own |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle%20Home | Lifestyle Home (stylised as Lifestyle HOME) is an Australian subscription television channel dedicated to home and property programming. It ranges from home improvements to home investments, renovation, gardens and property.
Programming
Original programming
Shaynna's World of Design (2015)
Tiny House Australia (2016–present)
I Own Australia's Best Home (2016–present)
Deadline Design (2016–present)
Acquired programming
A Place in the Sun
Homes Under the Hammer
Holmes On Homes
Carter Can
The Outdoor Room with Jamie Durie
Mark Burnett's Design Star
May the Best House Win
House Gift
My Dream Home
Colin & Justin's Home Heist
Property Virgins
Axe The Agent
See also
Lifestyle
Lifestyle You
Lifestyle Food
References
External links
XYZ Network
Television networks in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in Australia
Foxtel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20concurrent%20and%20parallel%20programming%20languages | This article lists concurrent and parallel programming languages, categorizing them by a defining paradigm. Concurrent and parallel programming languages involve multiple timelines. Such languages provide synchronization constructs whose behavior is defined by a parallel execution model. A concurrent programming language is defined as one which uses the concept of simultaneously executing processes or threads of execution as a means of structuring a program. A parallel language is able to express programs that are executable on more than one processor. Both types are listed, as concurrency is a useful tool in expressing parallelism, but it is not necessary. In both cases, the features must be part of the language syntax and not an extension such as a library (libraries such as the posix-thread library implement a parallel execution model but lack the syntax and grammar required to be a programming language).
The following categories aim to capture the main, defining feature of the languages contained, but they are not necessarily orthogonal.
Coordination languages
CnC (Concurrent Collections)
Glenda
Linda coordination language
Millipede
Dataflow programming
CAL
E (also object-oriented)
Joule (also distributed)
LabVIEW (also synchronous, also object-oriented)
Lustre (also synchronous)
Preesm (also synchronous)
Signal (also synchronous)
SISAL
BMDFM
Distributed computing
Bloom
Emerald
Hermes
Julia
Limbo
MPD
Oz - Multi-paradigm language with particular support for constraint and distributed programming.
Sequoia
SR
Event-driven and hardware description
Esterel (also synchronous)
SystemC
SystemVerilog
Verilog
Verilog-AMS - math modeling of continuous time systems
VHDL
Functional programming
Clojure
Concurrent ML
Elixir
Elm
Erlang
Futhark
Haskell
Id
MultiLisp
SequenceL
Logic programming
Constraint Handling Rules
Parlog
Prolog
Mercury
Monitor-based
Concurrent Pascal
Concurrent Euclid
Emerald
Multi-threaded
C=
Cilk
Cilk Plus
Cind
C#
Clojure
Concurrent Pascal
Emerald
Fork – programming language for the PRAM model.
Go
Java
LabVIEW
ParaSail
Rust
SequenceL
Object-oriented programming
Ada
C*
C#
JS
TS
C++ AMP
Charm++
Cind
D programming language
Eiffel SCOOP (Simple Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming)
Emerald
Java
Join Java - A Java-based language with features from the join-calculus.
LabVIEW
ParaSail
Python
Ruby
Partitioned global address space (PGAS)
Chapel
Coarray Fortran
Fortress
High Performance Fortran
Titanium
Unified Parallel C
X10
ZPL
Message passing
Ateji PX - An extension of Java with parallel primitives inspired from pi-calculus.
Rust
Smalltalk
Actor model
Axum - a domain-specific language being developed by Microsoft.
Dart - using Isolates
Elixir (runs on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine)
Erlang
Pony (programming language)
Janus
Red
SALSA
Scala/Akka (toolkit)
Smalltalk
Akka.NET
LabVIEW - LabVIEW Actor Framework
CSP-based |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20East%20Anglia | Transport in East Anglia consists of extensive road and rail networks as well as one of England's key regional airports and the country's busiest container port. Despite having very little motorway within their borders, the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire have modern transport links with the rest of the country.
Airports
Norwich Airport is the major passenger airport within East Anglia. In 2011 it was the 25th busiest airport in the United Kingdom and deals with over 400,000 passengers a year. Airlines operating from the airport include KLM, Loganair and TUI Airways. Destinations served by the airport include Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, a major European and world hub airport, and domestic locations such as Exeter and Aberdeen as well as locations in countries such as Spain, Turkey and Greece.
There are a number of other private airfields in the region, including heliports servicing the North Sea oil and gas industry such as at Great Yarmouth – North Denes Airport and at Norwich Airport. Regular flights from Cambridge Airport operated to destinations such as Jersey with occasional flights to other European destinations. All scheduled and charter flights were halted at the end of January 2016 due to a lack of passenger numbers.
Stansted Airport is located just outside the region in north-west Essex. This is the third busiest airport in the UK and the closest major airport to East Anglia.
Rail
The East Coast Main Line passes through the region with some express trains stopping at Peterborough. Local services on this line also stop at St Neots and Huntingdon. The other Inter City route in the region is the Great Eastern Main Line which has Norwich as its terminus. Major stations in the region on this route include Ipswich, Stowmarket and Diss. Major commuter lines in the region include the West Anglia Main Line which connects Cambridge with London Liverpool Street and the Cambridge Line which connects the city with London King's Cross. These routes all run north-south and connect the region with London and, in the case of the East Coast Main Line, with cities in the north of Britain.
Routes running east-west in the region include connections between Ipswich and Cambridge and onward towards Birmingham New Street and the line connecting Norwich and Liverpool Lime Street via the Midlands. More local routes include the East Suffolk Line, the Wherry Lines and Bittern Line around Norwich, the Felixstowe Branch Line and the Fen Line connecting Cambridge with Kings Lynn.
The majority of services in the region are operated by Abellio Greater Anglia, including all services from London to Norwich. London North Eastern Railway operates services on the East Coast Main Line and Great Northern operates local services on this line and some services through Cambridge. East Midlands Railway operates services from Norwich to Liverpool and CrossCountry runs trains west from the Cambridge area. The Dutchflyer service runs from Cambridge and Lowesto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20TouchPad | The HP TouchPad is a tablet computer that was developed and designed by Hewlett-Packard. The HP TouchPad was launched on July 1, 2011, in the United States; July 15 in Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany; and August 15 in Australia.
On August 18, 2011, 49 days after the TouchPad was launched in the United States, HP announced that it would discontinue all current devices running webOS. Remaining TouchPad stock received substantial price reductions, and quickly sold out.
History
The HP TouchPad was announced on February 9, 2011, at the webOS "Think Beyond" event held at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco alongside the HP Veer and HP Pre 3.
Initial sales of the device sold 25,000 of 270,000 units, and did not meet HP's expectations, rapidly becoming overshadowed by the launch of the iPad 2 in March. On August 16, 2011, it was reported that Best Buy refused to pay HP for any more TouchPad stock. In Europe, the TouchPad was estimated to have sold 12,000 in its first month of release. In Australia, Harvey Norman who was the exclusive retailer sold about 1,200 units in the four days it was on sale. Industry commentators suggested that the lack of apps for the platform and lackluster advertising was hindering sales. On August 18, HP announced that it would discontinue all webOS devices. HP CTO Shane Robison noted that the TouchPad "was half a generation or a generation behind the iPad and so that wasn't going to drive volume." Some years later, a member of the development team described the device as being made from "cast-off reject iPad parts."
On August 19, 2011, HP announced a substantial price drop on the TouchPad. In Canada and the USA, the price was $99 for the 16GB model and $149 for the 32GB model and quickly sold out. Large numbers of buyers acquired the TouchPad at these "firesale" prices. Most brick-and-mortar retailers reportedly sold out their entire inventories within hours the morning of August 20. Online retailers, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and Best Buy, took orders on August 22 that rapidly exceeded their inventory, and were forced to cancel many orders. A similar sale was held in Australian Harvey Norman stores, with several stores selling out their inventory within an hour. Similar sales took place in the UK with several stores reducing prices (£89 for the 16GB and £115 for the 32GB), and the HP TouchPad became the tablet with the highest approval rating. HP TouchPad stock immediately sold out domestically and overseas from consumers rushing to take advantage of the price promotion.
Following this successful sale, and to clear out their component suppliers' inventories of touch panels, batteries, and chassis, HP announced on August 30 that it would make another production run of the TouchPad. These units were used to fulfill existing orders to businesses like Tiger Direct and Best Buy, in bundles with a set price of $249.99 and $299.99.
Following Meg Whitman's appointment as CEO of HP, in conjunction with a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senghor%20on%20the%20Rocks | Senghor on the Rocks is an online geo-novel. It was first published under a creative commons license in 2008 by Christoph Benda (Text, Geodata), Johannes Krtek (Design) and Florian Ledermann (Programming, Production) as "the first full-length novel consistently illustrated with Google Maps"
Synopsis
The story of Senghor on the Rocks begins in Dakar, Senegal on 20 December 2001. On this very day people in Dakar were celebrating the national soccer team's qualification for the Football World Cup, as the breaking news about the death of Léopold Sédar Senghor, the famous poet and the republic's first president, hit the country. Starting at this point the novel follows Austrian camera assistant Martin "Chi" Tschirner, who flew to Dakar for a promotional video job, through a "fast paced adventure that starts as a job, develops into an involuntary journey and culminates in a reflection about the possibilities and limits of cross-cultural understanding", as Florian Ledermann put it in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald.
Background
As the author of Senghor on the Rocks puts it in a publication on the project, one of the novel's main topics is the "'cross cultural dialogue', a minefield of clichés, projections, cultural attributions and prejudices". In this case an "omniscient narrator seemed almost impossible as trying to describe the cultural 'other' from an assumedly objective point of view always comes with the peril of producing exoticisms or hegemonial projections". The whole novel therefore is "strictly told in a first-person perspective stressing the bias of a subjective view instead of trying to avoid it. At the same time, the main character pretends to tell his story not only from his very own point of view but also at the very moment it is taking place". These considerations resulted in the novel's strict spatial and temporal linearity. With this narrative structure Senghor on the Rocks was well suited for an adoption as an online "geo-novel" being presented together with animated maps.
Implementation
The project is aiming at providing a new, continuous, dramatic experience to the user. For the implementation of Senghor on the Rocks the Google Maps API was enhanced with additional methods for page transitions. These transitions are intended to be reflecting the "subjective, searching and sometimes confused perspective of the story". In addition an animated, rotatable arrow was introduced to point out locations on the map. Compared to the pushpin needles and markers normally used in Google Maps an arrow adds a semantical openness to the representation of the maps, as it may be referring to an exact point, an area of varying radius, a viewing direction or a distinct object on the map like a building.
The developers of Senghor on the Rocks refer to an extended and modified approach to the microformats paradigm. Hence, all metadata, including map positions, zoom levels, routes, and arrow positions is stored in the main HTML file insi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibenz%28a%2Cj%29anthracene | Dibenz[a,j]anthracene is an organic compound with the chemical formula C22H14.
In February 2014, NASA announced a greatly upgraded database for tracking polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), including dibenz[a,j]anthracene, in the universe. According to scientists, more than 20% of the carbon in the universe may be associated with PAHs, possible starting materials for the formation of life. PAHs seem to have been formed shortly after the Big Bang, are widespread throughout the universe, and are associated with new stars and exoplanets.
References
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
IARC Group 3 carcinogens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clio%20pyramidata | Clio pyramidata is a species of sea butterfly, a floating and swimming sea snail, a pelagic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cliidae.
Formae
Forma Clio pyramidata f. lanceolata Lesueur, 1813
Forma Clio pyramidata f. pyramidata Linnaeus, 1767
Forma Clio pyramidata f. tyrrhenica A.W. Janssen, 2012
Distribution
This species has a wide distribution: subtropical., European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean (Azores, Cape Verde), the Northwest Atlantic (Gulf of Maine), the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and off New Zealand.
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 21 mm.
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 3718 m.
References
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp
Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
Willan, R. (2009). Opisthobranchia (Mollusca). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
Janssen A.W. (2012) Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. Bollettino Malacologico 48 (suppl. 9): 1-105
External links
Clio pyramidata at Marine Species Identification Portal
Cavolinioidea
Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean
Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean
Molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea
Gastropods of Cape Verde
Gastropods described in 1767
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%20Hill%20Hospital | Box Hill Hospital is a teaching hospital in Melbourne. It is one of the seven hospitals that are governed within the Eastern Health network which provides health care services across the Eastern metropolitan area of Victoria.
Established in 1956, Box Hill Hospital is a large acute hospital in the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill, which admits over 48,000 patients each year.
The hospital provides a wide range of healthcare services including: emergency care, general and specialist medicine, intensive care, mental health services for children, adolescents and adults, maternity services, post-acute care programs, surgery, teaching and research.
Box Hill Hospital is a university teaching hospital affiliated with Monash, La Trobe and Deakin Universities.
In 2016 Box Hill Hospital celebrated its 60th anniversary with a staff event.
Bunjil the Eagle
Bunjil the Eagle, which stands 2.8 metres tall, creates a welcoming environment for Aboriginal patients, staff and their families inside Box Hill Hospital's new main entrance. Bunjil was carved from a sugar gum tree by renowned Aboriginal artist Glenn Romanis.
Maternity
Located on Level 3 of the new 10-storey building, the service includes 10 birthing rooms (five with birthing baths), 31 post-natal beds, a special care nursery, foetal monitoring assessment area and outpatient clinics.
Emergency
The new Emergency Department (entrance via Rodgerson Road) is open and the former Emergency Department (Nelson Road) is now closed.
History
The idea of a local hospital to serve the Box Hill area first surfaced around 1937, with a site in Nelson Road being acquired from the Rodgerson estate in 1945. Construction started in early 1949 but because of funding issues the hospital did not open until April 1956. Its original name was the Box Hill and District Hospital.
Services
The Box Hill hospital provides the following services:
Emergency care
general and specialist medicine
intensive care
mental health services for children, adolescents and adults
maternity services
post acute care programs
specialist surgery
general, non-invasive, and interventional cardiology
Redevelopment project
Box Hill Hospital's new $448 million clinical services building was designed by Jackson Architecture in Association with Silver Thomas Hanley and opened by former Victorian Premier Denis Napthine in August 2014. The project was completed ahead of schedule. Patients were moved to the new building on 30 September 2014. The 10-storey Arnold St building houses the hospital's new emergency department, as well as maternity, cardiac and intensive care units. Box Hill Hospital's new 10-storey clinical services block (known as Building A) has been designed to accommodate future growth in Melbourne's east.
On 9 December 2009, the Victorian Labor government approved $407.5 million in funding for the redevelopment of the Box Hill Hospital. Plans for a new building to be constructed over the car park at the rear of the hospital and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Runic%20Inscription%20107 | Danish Runic Inscription 107 or DR 107 is the Rundata listing for a Viking Age memorial runestone that was found at Egå, Denmark.
Description
The inscription on DR 107 consists of three runic text bands carved in the younger futhark with two bands in arches with the third band in the center. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK, which is the classification for runic text bands that have straight ends with no attached serpent or beast heads. The runestone was first recorded, with its top section missing, as being part of a wall in Egå. Before the historic significance of runestones was understood, they were often re-used as material in the construction of bridges, walls, and buildings. It was noted that prior to this, the stone had been in the bank near a bridge, and may have been associated with some local grave mounds. The top section was located in 1839, and the repaired stone is in height. The runestone was moved to Copenhagen, and is now in the Danish National Museum.
The runic text states that the stone was raised as a memorial by Alfkell and his sons in memory of his deceased relative Manni. Manni is described as being a landhirþiʀ or landhirði, an Old Norse word that means "guard of land" but is often translated as being a land or estate overseer or steward. Another inscription which uses this term is DR 134 in Ravnkilde. The owner of the land is named as Ketill the Norwegian. Here the word norrøna means Norseman but was used in Denmark at that time to denote a Norwegian. A small cross was carved at the top of the stone within the runic band separating the words suniʀ and risþu.
The runestone is known locally as Egå-stenen (English: The Egå Stone).
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
alfkil ÷ uk ÷ hns ÷ suniʀ ÷ risþu : stin : þansi : ift : ¶ * mana : sin : frinta : þans × uas * lantirþi ÷ kitils ÷ þis ÷ ¶ nuruna ÷
Transcription into Old Norse
Alfkel ok hans syniʀ resþu sten þænsi æft Manna, sin frænda, þans was landhirþiʀ Kætils þæs norrøna.
Translation in English
Alfkell and his sons raised this stone in memory of Manni, their kinsman, who was Ketill the Norwegian's estate-steward.
References
External links
Photograph of DR 107 - Arild Hauge website
Runestones in Denmark
Danish Runic Inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animax%20%28Spanish%20TV%20channel%29 | Animax was a Spanish version of anime channel Animax owned by Sony. It was launched in Spain as a programming block on AXN Spain on 20 October 2007 before launching as a full channel on 12 April 2008.
The channel was shuttered on 1 January 2014.
History
Animax began as a programming block in Spain and Portugal on the AXN. The block aired on weekends from 13:00 to 16:00 in Portugal and Spain from 20 October 2007 until September 2008. Shows broadcast on the block included InuYasha, Outlaw Star, Trigun, Orphen, Excel Saga and Samurai Champloo and Corrector Yui, The Law of Ueki, Detective Conan, Lupin III and KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops.
The full channel was subsequently launched on 12 April 2008 on the Movistar TV and Canal+ platforms in Spain, and Meo and Clix in Portugal. Among the series broadcast across Animax's networks in Spain and Portugal were Nana, Black Lagoon, Love Hina, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Chobits, Devil May Cry.
It was announced on 4 December 2013, that the channel would cease transmission at the end of the month. The channel's programming would move to different channels in the next few weeks. During the channel's final week, it would air just a repeated loop of KochiKame and Yakitate!! Japan. The channel shut down at 7:59 PM on 1 January 2014; "Yakitate!! Japan" was the last show aired.
After 3 bumpers aired between a goodbye message, it was replaced with a slide signifying the channel's shutdown.
Programming
Black Lagoon
Blood+
Chobits
Death Note
Fruits Basket
Gunslinger Girl
Hunter × Hunter
Insert Coin
KochiKame
Naruto
Samurai Champloo
Yakitate!! Japan
See also
Animax
Sony
AXN
References
External links
Official Site
Facebook page
Twitter page
Animax
Defunct television channels in Spain
Sony Pictures Television
Spanish companies established in 2008
2013 disestablishments in Spain
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCode | FastCode is an open source programming project that aims to provide optimized runtime library routines for Embarcadero Delphi and C++ Builder. This community-driven project was started in 2003 by Dennis Kjaer Christensen and has since contributed optimized functionality to the 32-bit Delphi runtime library (RTL).
Organized as a competition divided into challenges, FastCode focuses on optimizing specific functions against multiple targets. The project offers benchmarking tools and validation processes for each function contribution. Contributions are scored, with points awarded based on performance against the targets. Embarcadero recognizes and incorporates the code created by the FastCode team into their Delphi codebase. Most participants in this project are assembler developers who utilize processor-specific code. The list of challenges tackled by the FastCode project is extensive; it covers diverse areas ranging from string manipulation functions like PosEx or CompareText to mathematical operations such as Power or Int64Mul.
Structure
The project is organized as a competition divided into challenges. Each challenge takes one function and optimizes it against a number of targets. The project provides tools for benchmarking and validating each function contribution. One point is given per contribution (maximally one function per target is given points) and ten points are awarded for a target winner. A list with all contributors and their scores is maintained, and at the end of each year, until 2008, a winner was celebrated. Borland, Codegear and Embarcadero, the owners of Delphi and C++ Builder, have historically sponsored prizes.
The majority of participants in the competition are assembler developers who often utilize processor-specific 32-bit code and extra instruction sets, such as MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3 and SSE4.
The project enjoys the support of Embarcadero who recognizes the contributions of the FastCode team and incorporates their code into the codebase for Delphi. The default memory manager for Embarcadero Delphi, FastMM4, is the winner of the FastCode Memory Manager challenge.
The project was first hosted on Robert Lee's OptimalCode site, and its source code's home page is , last updated in 2008. The source code contains both the enhanced routines and the testing suites to benchmark the routines. In 2017, the benchmark routines for Move, FillChar and the memory manager have been ported for 64-bit, available at .
Testing
The FastCode project puts a lot of effort into testing and focus is on providing very-high-quality software. Testing is split into two categories - testing for correctness and testing for speed.
Validation
Validation is done on all CPUs from the target set and very often on other CPUs and OSs (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 etc.) as well. Validation is done across many different function inputs, both normal usage cases and error usage cases. Validation is done against known correct values and again |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Robertson | Stephen Robertson may refer to:
Stephen Robertson (computer scientist), British computer scientist
Stephen Robertson (cricketer) (born 1963), New Zealand cricketer
Stephen Robertson (footballer) (born 1977), Scottish football goalkeeper
Stephen Robertson (politician) (born 1962), Australian politician
See also
Steven Robertson (born 1970), Scottish actor
Steve Robertson (disambiguation)
Robertson Stephens, investment bank |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konalai | Konalai is a village in Manachanallur Taluk, Tiruchirappalli District, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is 67 meters above sea level with good road connections amidst a network of rivers and waterways north of the Kolladam River. The state capital of Chennai is 331 km northeast with the district headquarters of Tiruchirappalli 22 km to the south and Manachanallur Taluk 14 km southwest. The nearest major railway station to Konalai is in Tiruchirappalli.
Demographics
In 2011, Konalai was inhabited by 1109 families of which 9.9% (110) of the population were children under age six.
The local language is Tamil. Tamil is widely spoken throughout the Taluk.
Education
The Dr. G. Sakunthala College of Nursing, the Universal Teacher Training Institute, Trichy Engineering College, and St. Therasa's Aid are near Konalai. Due to these institutions of higher education, the results yielded are a higher literacy rate for the village (86.81%) relative to the Tamil Nadu region (80.09%). Male literacy (92.31%) exceeds female literacy (81.70%). The schools are mostly run by government.
Attractions
The St. Antony of Padua Church is approximately 116 years old and belongs to the Kumbakonam Diocese. Two festivals are held at the church each year, on 19–21 January and on 12–13 June.
Nearby villages and cities
Konalai is surrounded by Lalgudi Taluk towards the south, Tiruchirappalli Taluk. Thiruverambur Taluk lies to the South, and Pullambadi Taluk lies to the East. Some notable cities near Konalai include Lalgudi, Tiruchirappalli, Thuraiyur, and Perambalur.
References
Villages in Tiruchirappalli district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AksyonTV | Aksyon TV (, visually rendered in all uppercase as AKSYONTV) was a Philippine free-to-air television network. It was a joint venture of Nation Broadcasting Corporation and TV5 Network, Inc. (international operations is under its subsidiary Pilipinas Global Network Ltd.), both under PLDT media arm MediaQuest Holdings. Its programs were primarily produced by TV5's divisions News5 and ESPN5. AksyonTV formerly broadcasts terrestrially through DWNB-TV (UHF channel 41) in Metro Manila, as well as on UHF channel 29 in Cebu, Davao and other relay stations, and on a digital subchannel via channel 5.2 in Metro Manila. It occupies the frequency previously used by MTV Philippines (now MTVph), a subsidiary of MTV Networks Asia Pacific from 2001 until 2006.
Named after TV5's newscast, Aksyon, it started broadcasting on February 21, 2011, as an all-news channel, with simulcasts from Radyo5 and independently produced newscasts from News5. It has also carried-over sports coverages due to shutdown of sports primetime block AKTV in May 2013 due to high airtime costs and low ratings caused by IBC's impending privatization. Its main broadcast facilities are located at TV5 Media Center, Reliance cor. Sheridan Sts., Mandaluyong. It was the first and only 24-hour news channel on free-to-air TV and the first 24-hour Filipino language news channel until December 1, 2013. It formerly operates daily from 5:00 AM to 12:00 MN.
The program line-up of AksyonTV also includes news analysis, documentaries and talk shows, as well as entertainment and other news and sports-related programs.
On November 30, 2018, TV5 Network announced that AksyonTV would be rebranded as 5 Plus on January 13, 2019, with its programs consisting mostly of sport events. AksyonTV silently ended its broadcast on January 12, 2019, with ESPN5's Heavy Hitters as its last program to air on the network. AksyonTV International continues to broadcast after the rebrand.
History
Originally, local UHF channel 41 was intended to broadcast local programming under the supervision of Nation Broadcasting Corporation. Sometime in 2000, MTV Networks Asia Pacific, operator of MTV (Music Television) brand in Asia wanted to transmit its music channel on terrestrial television in the Philippines. Eventually, MTV Networks Asia Pacific entered into an agreement with Nation Broadcasting Corporation to transmit its localize music channel via its UHF channel and started broadcasting MTV Philippines on January 1, 2001, until the partnership ended on February 15, 2007.
In March 2010 MediaQuest Holdings, a PLDT subsidiary, the Philippines' largest telecommunication company, announced the acquisition of ABC Development Corporation, broadcaster of TV5 from the joint consortium led by former PLDT Chairman Antonio "Tonyboy" O. Cojuangco, Jr. and Malaysia-based broadcaster Media Prima Berhad.
In October 2010, through its flagship station, it took over the management of Nation Broadcasting Corporation and its radio and television busi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AXN%20%28Indian%20TV%20channel%29 | AXN was an Indian pay television channel that was owned by Sony Pictures Networks. Funded through advertising and subscription fees, AXN primarily focused on action genre and reality programming.
History
AXN launched in the Indian subcontinent on 8 January 1999 as a flagship feed of AXN Asia. During the channel's early years it operated as a genre-based network, airing mainly action films, action programmes, action animation and action sports.
Facing tough competition from rival networks Zee Café and Star World and a precipitous decline in the international syndication market for fictional action series and films, the channel shifted in mid-2005 by gradually incorporating more and more drama and comedy based programs into its schedule in order to attract more viewers and replicate the success shows such as Friends (comedy) and Law & Order (drama) had found on other channels. Big acquisitions included 24 and the CSI franchise.
The channel's high-definition feed was launched on 6 April 2015, which carried the same schedule as the SD feed but with different commercials.
Rebranding
The channel underwent a rebranding on 24 January 2016 with the addition of the slogan Live R.E.D standing for Reality, Entertainment and Drama. During the premiering Billions with this transformation, the channel sought to further diversify its portfolio away from its action genre by airing action shows with more intense, smart and unexpected characters.
To further its mission of diversification, the channel forged a multi-year deal with CBS Studios in July 2014, acquiring exclusive broadcast rights to the network's shows in India. The acquisition of the critically acclaimed Hulu original series The Handmaid's Tale for first airing in India also helped greatly in attracting more viewers for the channel and advertising the channel's content.
Closure
The channel's viewership began to gradually decline since early 2019, post the implementation of the new tariff order (NTO) by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India which mandated that channels should not be bundled in packs, leading to a sharp fall in demand for niche channels.
Consequently, on 1 June 2020 Sony Pictures Networks India announced that effective from 30 June 2020 AXN would cease all operations in India for both its SD and HD feeds, with the majority of its programming moving to Sony's SVOD service, Sony Liv, thus ending the channel's existence of 21 years.
Fall in ad revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic and further decline in viewership due to the advent of SVOD platforms in India were also cited as reasons behind the channel's closure.
Programming
AXN primarily aired shows from the U.S. and U.K. (including selected shows produced/distributed by Sony Pictures Television).
The following is a list of programming broadcast by the network:
Anime
Curious Play
Durarara!!
Gunsmith Cats
Ninku
You're Under Arrest
Comedy-Drama
BrainDead
Californication
Chuck
Limitless
Nurse Jackie
Sex and the City
Drama
24 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%201 | Link 1 is a computer network standard developed by NATO to provide information exchange for air defence.
General description
Link 1 is a point-to-point, duplex, non-encrypted, digital NATO Tactical Data Link (TDL) Standard for the automatic exchange of Track and Strobe data, combined with link and data management messages between ground based ASACS-elements / e.g. CRC and CAOC, specific units (TACCS / MC) and data link buffers (SSSB, CSI).
In everyday language, the different meaning of the wording Link 1 TDL Standard (format) and Link 1 information content (subject matter) to be transmitted on this particular TDL Standard is mixed up in many cases.
Remark:
TACCS / MC = Tactical Air Command and Control Service / (NATO) Major Command)
SSSB = Ship Shore Ship Buffer
CSI = CRC/SAM Interface
SAM = Surface-to-air missile
History
Link 1 is a NATO first Generation's TDL Standard. It was developed in the 1950s as pure Air Surveillance data link format in order to exchange radar track date between defined Areas of Responsibility – AOR (geographical areas) or Track Continuity Areas (TCA).
Data links first generation
NATO first generation's TDL Standards were developed in line with the appropriate Standardization Agreement (STANAG) in the mid 1960s. These proprietary types of data formats do not support direct data and information exchange between different military IT architectures without specific conversion of data.
NATO TDL Standards are being developed by the Data Link Working Group (DLWG) of the Information Systems Sub-Committee (ISSC). See also TDL Synopsis).
Utilisation
Today the Link 1 TDL Standard is not only used by NATO nations but also in Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries. Air Force internal it supports NATO Air Defence Ground Environment (NADGE) and is used by the TACC Service, in CRC, CAOC and Air Defence.
Types of tracks
The following tracks are exchanged by Link 1 between different users of the Recognized Air Picture (RAP).
Ground Environment Tracks (GE Tracks): tracks, which have received their last position-update by a ground site. These are either local or remote.
Airborne Early Warning Tracks (AEW Tracks): Tracks, which have received their last position-update by an AEW-platforms. These are always remote.
GE / AEW Tracks: These Tracks are used as "Track Pairs" for registration purposes and are update by both the ground site and AEW.
E-3A Tracks: The Tracks of an active E-3A, usually correlated with the received P-1 Message on IJMS.
Messages
The following link messages are supported by Link 1 in the NATO Air Defense Ground Environment (NADGE):
S0 – Test Message: Used to test the channel in order to exchange Link 1 data. The S0 is, on average, transmitted every 10 seconds.
S3 – IFF/SIF Message: Use to transmit the IFF/SIF Mode 1, 2 and 3 on a specific Track. This Message is always associated with a S4 Basic Track Data Messages.
S4 – Basic Track Data Message: Used to report the basic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20monitoring | Bus monitoring is a term used in flight testing when capturing data from avionics buses and networks in data acquisition telemetry systems. Commonly monitored avionics buses include
ARINC Standard buses such as ARINC-429, ARINC 573, ARINC 717
ARINC 629 also known as Multi-transmitter Data Bus
ARINC 664 also known as Deterministic Ethernet
ARINC 825 Controller Area Network (CAN)
Common Airborne Instrumentation Systems (CAIS)
Cross Channel Data Link (CCDL) / Motor Controller Data Link (MCDL)
Ethernet
Fibre Channel
Firewire, IEEE 1394
IRIG-106 PCM
MIL-STD-1553
RS-232/RS-422/RS-485
STANAG-3910
Time-Triggered Protocol (TTP)
Typically a bus monitor must listen-only on the bus and intercept a copy of the messages on the bus. In general a bus monitor never transmits on the monitored bus. Once the bus monitor has intercepted a message, the message is made available to the rest of the data acquisition system for subsequent recording and/or analysis.
There are three classes of bus monitor:
Parser bus monitor
Snarfer bus monitor
Packetizer bus monitor
Parser bus monitor
Parser bus monitoring is also known as coherent monitoring or IRIG-106 Chapter 4 monitoring. Parser bus monitors are suited to applications where the bus is highly active and only a few specific parameters of interest must be extracted.
The parser bus monitor uses protocol tracking to identify and classify messages on the bus. From the identified messages of interest, specific parameters can be extracted from the captured messages. In order to ensure that coherency is achieved whereby all extracted parameters are from the same message instance, the parameters must be triple buffered with stale and skipped indicators. Optionally time tags can be added to each parsed message.
Snarfer bus monitor
Snarfer bus monitoring is also known as FIFO or IRIG-106 Chapter 8 monitoring. Snarfer bus monitors are suited to applications where all messages and traffic on the bus must be captured for processing, analysis, and recording.
A snarfer bus monitor captures all messages on the bus, tags them with a timestamp and content identifiers (for example Command or Status in the case of MIL-STD-1553 buses), and puts them into a FIFO.
Packetizer bus monitor
Packetizer bus monitors are designed for networked data acquisition systems where the acquired data from the avionics buses is captured and re-packetized in Ethernet frames for transmission to an analysis computer or network recorder.
The packetizer bus monitor captures selected messages of interest (parsed) or all messages on the bus (snarfed) and packages the message in the payload of a UDP/IP packet. The application layer contains bus identifiers, sequence numbers and timestamps. The most popular application layer protocols used for networked data acquisition systems include the Airbus IENA format and the iNET (integrated Network Enhanced Telemetry) TmNS (Telemetry Network System) format.
References
External links
IRIG
Xid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Shaw%20%28business%20writer%29 | Robert Shaw (born 1950, Manchester UK) is a business author and consultant in the field of marketing, particularly Marketing performance measurement and management and Database marketing.
Life and career
Shaw received his master's degree and Ph.D. at Cambridge University, both in mathematical physics, and he also holds an MSc in Operations Research. He worked for Andersen Consulting leading consulting projects and developing new concepts on marketing data and metrics and then in 1989 founded VBMF, his own consulting firm. He has been consulted by many large companies – including BP, IBM, Manchester United, Nestle and Unilever and has a Brand Leadership Award from the World Brands Congress; CEO Magazine has named him “leading new-generation business guru”; the Management Consultants Association and the Chartered Institute of Marketing have both awarded him Book of the Year Author. He is currently an Honorary Professor of Marketing Metrics at Cass Business School.
Key Ideas
Two key ideas run through most of Shaw's writing.
1. Marketing automation: the idea that the marketing function should embrace IT to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. Shaw has tracked the uses and abuses of IT in marketing for over 20 years and defined best practices in this field.
1988 – Database Marketing
1988 – Survey of Marketing Software Packages
1991 – Computer-Aided Marketing and Selling
1994 – How to Transform Marketing Through IT
2009 – Rethinking the Chain – Make marketing leaner, faster and better
2. Marketing performance measurement and management. Shaw identified the need for marketing to become more measurable and accountable and his researches continue to define best practice in this field.
1997 – Marketing Accountability
1998 – Improving Marketing Effectiveness
1999 – Measuring and valuing customer relationships
2002 – Getting better value from marketing investments
2002 – How to Control Marketing – ICAEW Guide
2005 – Marketing Payback – Is Your Marketing Profitable
2008 – Return on Ideas: Better Results from Finance and Marketing Working Together
See also
Customer relationship management
Marketing effectiveness
Marketing ROI
Demand chain
References
Living people
1950 births
Writers from Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland%20Sea%20Dogs%20Radio%20Network | The U.S. Cellular Portland Sea Dogs Radio Network is a 4-station (2 A.M., 2 F.M.) radio network in the U.S. New England states of Maine and New England. The flagship is 95.5/95.9 WPEI/WPPI. The play-by-play announcer is Emma Tiedemann. The radio network broadcasts all 140 Portland Sea Dogs baseball games.
Network stations
Flagship stations (2 stations)
95.5 WPPI: Topsham, Maine
95.9 WPEI: Saco, Maine
Affiliate stations (2 stations)
Maine (2 stations)
780 WEZR: Rumford
1450 WPNO: South Paris
Former network stations (9 stations)
Former flagships (1 station)
1490 WBAE: Portland, Maine
Former affiliates (8 stations)
1160 WSKW: Skowhegan, Maine (2008)
1240 WEZR: Lewiston
1220 WPHX: Sanford, Maine (2005)
1380 WMYF: Portsmouth, New Hampshire (2012)
92.7 WOXO-FM: Norway, Maine (2005, 2012)
93.7 WRMO: Millbridge, Maine (2009-2010)
100.7 WTBM: Mexico, Maine (2005)
106.5 WMEX: Rochester, New Hampshire (2005)
References
External links
2013 Sea Dogs Radio Network page. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
2012 Affiliate list on the Sea Dogs' website. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
January 7, 2005 press release about the change in flagship to WBAE.
Portland Sea Dogs
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentric%20Data%20Systems | Concentric Data Systems, Inc. was founded in December 1979 by John J. Henderson and Jonathan Sachs, both having left their jobs as system programmers at Data General Corporation. Originally, the company undertook a variety of software consulting projects for the Data General line of computers. In 1981, the company developed a spreadsheet product, CompuCalc, that ran on Data General hardware and was modeled after VisiCalc.
In 1982, Sachs left and joined Mitch Kapor to found Lotus Development Corporation.
Concentric transitioned to a product development company, producing a series of software products for the IBM PC. The products were a file manager, C.I.P, followed by a report writer for Lotus, 1-2-3 Report Writer, followed by a series of report writers marketed under the name R&R. The R&R products worked with dBase, FoxBase, FoxPro, and various SQL database products.
In 1995, Concentric Data Systems was acquired by Wall Data Corporation of Kirkland, WA.
In 1999, Liveware Publishing, Inc. acquired the copyrights and intellectual property of the entire R&R and Arpeggio product line from Wall Data Corporation. R&R has been continuously updated and sold through the present.
References
External links
Official Website
R&R Report Writer Version 6
Arpeggio
Liveware Publishing
1995 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1979
American companies disestablished in 1995
Computer companies established in 1979
Computer companies disestablished in 1995
Defunct companies based in Massachusetts
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct software companies of the United States
Information technology companies of the United States
Software companies established in 1979
Software companies disestablished in 1995
Technology companies established in 1979
Technology companies disestablished in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard%20Wilhelm | Reinhard Wilhelm (born June 5, 1946) is a German computer scientist.
Life and work
Wilhelm was born in , today part of the municipality of Finnentrop, Westphalia. He studied math, physics and mathematical logic at University of Münster and computer science at Technical University Munich and Stanford University. He finished his PhD at TU Munich in 1977. In 1978, he obtained a professorship at Saarland University, where he led the chair for programming languages and compiler construction until his retirement in 2014. In addition, Wilhelm has held the post of scientific director of the Leibniz Center for Informatics at Schloss Dagstuhl from its inception in 1990 until 2014. Today he is a professor emeritus at Saarland University.
Wilhelm is one of the co-founders of the European Symposium on Programming (ESOP) and the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS). The European Association for Programming Languages (EAPLS) goes back to his idea to found an organization for advancing research on programming languages and programming systems. In 1998, he founded AbsInt, a research spin-off that offers software-quality assurance tools based on abstract interpretation, among them tools for the verification of real-time requirements, used for example for certification of the time-critical embedded systems inside the Airbus A380.
Wilhelm's research focuses on programming languages, compiler construction, static program analysis and embedded real time systems, but also includes animation and visualization of algorithms and data structures. Wilhelm discovered connections between code selection and the theory of regular tree automata, which is relevant for code generation using tree automata. He is one of the co-developers of the MUG1, MUG2 and OPTRAN compiler generators, which are based on attribute grammars. Together with Ulrich Möncke, he proposed grammar flow analysis as a generalization of interprocedural data flow analysis. He invented a popular shape analysis based on three-valued logic together with Mooly Sagiv and Tom Reps.
Wilhelm is co-author of the book Compiler Construction, which teaches compilers not only for imperative languages, but for object-oriented, functional and logical ones as well and stresses theoretical foundation. It is available in German and French, too.
Wilhelm became a fellow of the ACM in 2000 for his research on compiler construction and program analysis and his work as a scientific director of the LZI. The TU Darmstadt and the awarded him with the Alwin-Walther medal in 2006. In 2007 the French Ministry of Education and Research awarded him with the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt prize for his contributions to science and his achievements in German–French cooperation in research and education. He became a member of the European academy of sciences (Academia Europaea) in 2008. October of the same year he was awarded an honorary doctorate of the RWTH Aachen. In December, he obtained an honorary degree of T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian%20Gorka | Sebastian Lukács Gorka () (born October 22, 1970) is a British-born Hungarian-American media host and commentator currently affiliated with Salem Radio Network and NewsMax TV and a former government official who served briefly in the Trump administration as a Deputy Assistant to the President for seven months, from January 2017 until his termination on August 25, 2017.
Gorka was born in the United Kingdom to Hungarian parents, lived in Hungary from 1992 to 2008, and in 2012 became a naturalized American citizen. Gorka has written for a variety of publications, is politically conservative and has ties to the alt-right, though he rejects the term and has condemned the alt-right, calling it "bogus" and "a new label for nationalists or irredentist bigots".
During his seven months in the Trump administration, Gorka gave a series of combative interviews with the press in which he defended the administration's positions on national security and foreign policy. Various national security scholars in academic and policymaking circles have characterized Gorka as fringe. Some critics have challenged his academic credentials, his views on Islam and radicalization, and his motives for identifying with the Order of Vitéz and supporting Magyar Gárda, an organization banned by the European Union.
Early life and education
Gorka was born in London to Zsuzsa and Pál Gorka. His parents had fled to the United Kingdom from Hungary after the failed anti-Soviet 1956 uprising and became naturalised British citizens on February 25, 1963. He attended St Benedict's School in west London, and received a lower second-class honours (2:2) B.A. degree in philosophy and theology from Heythrop College, a constituent college of the University of London.
While at university, he joined the British Territorial Army as a volunteer (typically committing to a weekend a month and a fortnight's annual camp), serving over a period of three years in the 22 Intelligence Company of the Intelligence and Security Group (Volunteers), an interrogation unit with a NATO role specializing in Russian language training and supporting 1 (BR) Corps until the latter was disbanded in 1992 at the end of the Cold War.
In 1992, he moved to Hungary, where he worked for the Hungarian Ministry of Defence while studying for a master's degree in international relations and diplomacy at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, now known as the Corvinus University, which he completed in 1997. In 1997, he was a Partnership for Peace International research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome.
In 1998, Gorka served as an adviser to Viktor Orbán. In 2002, he entered the political science doctoral program at Corvinus University of Budapest where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2007. Gorka is a naturalized American citizen.
Career
Gorka worked in the Hungarian Ministry of Defense during the prime ministership of József Antall.
Following the September 11 attacks, Gorka became a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner%27s%20gene%20network%20model | Wagner's gene network model is a computational model of artificial gene networks, which explicitly modeled the developmental and evolutionary process of genetic regulatory networks. A population with multiple organisms can be created and evolved from generation to generation. It was first developed by Andreas Wagner in 1996 and has been investigated by other groups to study the evolution of gene networks, gene expression, robustness, plasticity and epistasis.
Assumptions
The model and its variants have a number of simplifying assumptions. Three of them are listing below.
The organisms are modeled as gene regulatory networks. The models assume that gene expression is regulated exclusively at the transcriptional level;
The product of a gene can regulate the expression of (be a regulator of) that source gene or other genes. The models assume that a gene can only produce one active transcriptional regulator;
The effects of one regulator are independent of effects of other regulators on the same target gene.
Genotype
The model represents individuals as networks of interacting transcriptional regulators. Each individual expresses genes encoding transcription factors. The product of each gene can regulate the expression level of itself and/or the other genes through cis-regulatory elements. The interactions among genes constitute a gene network that is represented by a × regulatory matrix in the model. The elements in matrix R represent the interaction strength. Positive values within the matrix represent the activation of the target gene, while negative ones represent repression. Matrix elements with value 0 indicate the absence of interactions between two genes.
Phenotype
The phenotype of each individual is modeled as the gene expression pattern at time . It is represented by a state vector in this model.
whose element denotes the expression state of gene i at time t. In the original Wagner model,
∈
where 1 represents the gene is expressed while -1 implies the gene is not expressed. The expression pattern can only be ON or OFF. The continuous expression pattern between -1 (or 0) and 1 is also implemented in some other variants.
Development
The development process is modeled as the development of gene expression states. The gene expression pattern at time is defined as the initial expression state. The interactions among genes change the expression states during the development process. This process is modeled by the following differential equations
where τ) represents the expression state of at time . It is determined by a filter function σ. represents the weighted sum of regulatory effects () of all genes on gene at time . In the original Wagner model, the filter function is a step function
In other variants, the filter function is implemented as a sigmoidal function
In this way, the expression states will acquire a continuous distribution. The gene expression will reach the final state if it reaches a sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20McCue | Mike McCue (born 1968) is an American technology entrepreneur who founded or co-founded Paper Software, Tellme Networks, and Flipboard.
Early life
McCue grew up in New York City, the oldest of six children. His parents, Lucy Ann and Patrick J., were running a small ad agency. When McCue was in his early teens, his father, who lacked health insurance, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and the family was forced out of their home and had to rely on food stamps. After his father died of cancer, McCue chose to help his family instead of joining the United States Air Force Academy, and never attended college.
Career
Early career
McCue was fascinated by software and began his first business in his early teens, writing video games at home that he licensed to magazines and in the end to a games publisher. He had wanted to be an astronaut and his first real app, he said, was a space shuttle flight simulator he wrote in TI-BASIC in 1981.
Admiring technology entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Mitch Kapor and Bill Gates, McCue joined IBM in 1986, giving up a congressional nomination to attend the US Air Force Academy. He was employed on a six-month temporary contract but ended up staying three-and-a-half years.
Paper Software and Netscape
In 1989 McCue founded his first company, Paper Software, aiming "to make using a computer as easy as using a piece of paper". At first the company was not successful and McCue spent a summer digging ditches and building houses to raise funds, and then doing software design consulting for a company contracted to the pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co.
Paper Software's first product was Sidebar, a set of icons designed to make using a computer more intuitive, but after discovering Mosaic, McCue began to develop technology allowing web browsers to display complex 3-D graphics. McCue acted as CEO, winning nearly 80% market share in 3D internet software from Microsoft and SGI.
McCue rejected offers for Paper Software from America Online and Silicon Graphics before selling to Netscape for $20 million in February 1996. At Netscape McCue was appointed Vice President of Technology, helping to create Netscape Netcaster and working on transforming its Netscape Navigator browser into a Web-based desktop operating system. It has been said that the project, called Constellation after a boat McCue's father had helped to restore, led Microsoft to alter its Windows licensing agreements to prevent PC manufacturers using competing software, eventually leading to antitrust proceedings against the company.
When McCue later paid $200,000 for a 48-foot classic wooden sailboat he named it “Constellation”.
Tellme Networks and Microsoft
In February 1999 McCue left Netscape to co-found Tellme Networks with Angus Davis. McCue had previously recruited Davis to work at Netscape when he was 19 years old, and credited him with the idea for the new company. Tellme went on to raise $238 million in venture capital.
Tellme launched in July 2000 with the am |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbe%20Mowshowitz | Abbe Mowshowitz (born 13 November 1939, Liberty, New York) is an American academic, a professor of computer science at the City College of New York and a member of the Doctoral Faculty in Computer Science at The City University of New York who works in the areas of the organization, management, and economics of information systems; social and policy implications of information technology; network science; and graph theory. He is known for his work on virtual organization, a concept he introduced in the 1970s on information commodities, on the social implications of computing and on the complexity of graphs and networks.
Before joining the faculty at The City College of New York, Mowshowitz was a faculty member at the University of Toronto (Departments of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering, 1968–1969); the University of British Columbia (Department of Computer Science, 1969–1980); and was research director in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1982–1984). In addition, he was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Management, Delft, The Netherlands (1979–1980); held the Tinbergen Chair in the Graduate School of Management at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1990–1991); was a professor in the Department of Social Science Informatics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1991–1993, 1994–1997); and was the CeTim professor of Technology Innovation Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2001–2002).
Mowshowitz received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1967 (under the direction of Professor Anatol Rapoport), and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1961.
His research on the structural complexity of graphs (published in 1968) was based on a paper by Professor Nicolas Rashevsky, who first introduced the idea of measuring the information content of a graph using Shannon's entropy measure. Mowshowitz formalized and extended Rashevsky's idea and characterized the structural complexity of various classes of graphs and binary operations on graphs. Two measures of structural complexity were defined, both relative to a partition of the vertices of a graph. One of the measures, based on a partition related to independent sets, stimulated Körner's development of graph entropy.
Mowshowitz was an early and persistent advocate of and contributor to studies of the social relations of computing. He introduced an undergraduate course on that topic at the University of British Columbia in 1973; published a comprehensive text in 1976; served as vice-chairman (1983–1985) and chairman (1985–1987) of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computers and Society; and was a member of IFIP Working Group 9.2 (Computers and Social Accountability) from 1977 to 1997. As the title of his book The Conquest of Will suggests, Mowshowitz aimed to extend the idea of conquest of the material world theme of many i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20D%20%28disambiguation%29 | System D or Système D is a person's ability to adapt quickly and improvise to solve problems.
System D or systemd may also refer to:
systemd, a computer startup system for Linux
Système D, an album by Les Rita Mitsouko
System-D, the Belgian DJ Jean-Philippe Chainiaux
CCIR System D, an analog TV broadcast system used in mainland China and the former USSR
See also
Black market |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Rael | Joseph Rael (Tiwa: Tslew-teh-koyeh: "Beautiful Painted Arrow") (b. 1935) is a Native American ceremonial dancer, shaman, writer, and artist. He is also known as the founder of a global network of Sound Peace Chambers.
Early life and education
Rael was born in 1935 on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation. His father, Alfred Rael (Red Fish), was a Tiwa-speaking native of Picuris Pueblo; his mother, Beatrice Head, was a granddaughter of the Ute chief. The family moved to the Picuris Pueblo near Taos, New Mexico when Joseph was about seven. Here he received the name Tslew-teh-koyeh (Beautiful Painted Arrow). He was educated at the Santa Fe Indian School, and holds a B.A. in political science from the University of New Mexico and an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Sound Peace Chambers
In 1983, Rael conceived the idea of building a kiva-like structure, which he called a Sound Peace Chamber, "where people of all races might gather to chant and sing for world peace and to purify the earth and oceans". He built the first in Bernalillo, New Mexico. His work inspired others to build a network of Sound Peace Chambers around the world, and there are now such chambers in Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Puerto Rico, Scotland and Wales, as well as in the U.S. states of Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Ceremonial dances
Rael also began creating and leading ceremonial dances, which he has taught to people of all nationalities. He wrote that he created three dances: the "Long Dance", the "Sun-Moon Dance", and the "Drum Dance". He retired from active leadership of these dances in 1999.
Semi-retirement
Rael is currently semi-retired and resides on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in Colorado, where he continues to paint visionary art. His art has been shown in galleries in North Carolina, Texas, and Norway.
Bibliography
Rael has written a number of books which are based primarily on the Tiwa world view.
Beautiful Painted Arrow: Stories and Teachings from the Native American Tradition. Element Books, 1992.
Being and Vibration, with Mary E. Marlow. Council Oak Books, 1993. ; 2003 reprint.
Tracks of Dancing Light: A Native American Approach to Understanding Your Name. Element Books, 1994.
The Way of Inspiration: Teachings of Native American Elder Joseph Rael. Council Oak Books, 1996.
Ceremonies of the Living Spirit. Council Oak Books, 1997.
House of Shattering Light: Life as an American Indian Mystic. Council Oak Books, 2003.
Sound: Native Teachings and Visionary Art of Joseph Rael. Council Oak Books, 2009.
Walking the Medicine Wheel: Healing Trauma and PTSD. Millichap Books/Pointer Oak, 2016.
Becoming Medicine: Pathways of Initiation into a Living Spirituality. Condor & Eagle Press, 2020.
Becoming Who You Are: Beautiful Painted Arrow's Life & Lessons for Chi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netty%20%28software%29 | Netty is a non-blocking I/O client-server framework for the development of Java network applications such as protocol servers and clients. The asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools are used to simplify network programming such as TCP and UDP socket servers. Netty includes an implementation of the reactor pattern of programming. Originally developed by JBoss, Netty is now developed and maintained by the Netty Project Community.
Besides being an asynchronous network application framework, Netty also includes built-in implementations of SSL/TLS, HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSockets, DNS, Protocol Buffers, SPDY and other protocols. Netty is not a Java web container, but is able to run inside one, and supports message compression. Netty has been actively developed since 2004.
Beginning with version 4.0.0, Netty also supports the usage of NIO.2 as a backend, along with NIO and blocking Java sockets.
See also
Application server
Node.js
Twisted (software)
Apache MINA
References
External links
Java platform
Message-oriented middleware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelmetrix | Pixelmetrix Corporation is a company that develops preventive monitoring products for terrestrial, satellite, cable, and IPTV networks. The company is known for its DVStation product, and also provides equipment and network intelligence systems to television broadcasters for the management and monitoring of quality of service and quality of experience. Pixelmetrix is headquartered in Singapore, and also has offices in the United States and Europe.
Following a liquidation exercise starting in 2014, the Pixelmetrix legal entity was dissolved in 2017. From 2014, full hardware and software support for all Pixelmetrix product lines has been provided by Torque Video Systems.
Corporate history
In 1999, Danny Wilson and Ben Lim founded Pixelmetrix Corporation in Singapore as a privately held limited company, recruiting Tom Orlowski and Hideki Takahashi to complete the start-up team. The name “Pixelmetrix“ was derived from the combination of the words "pixel" and "metrics", loosely suggesting that the company "measures pixels".
Pixelmetrix released its first product, DVStation, in 2000. DVStation is a modular multi-player system that can simultaneously monitor up to 21 ports and multiple layers of the video transmission chain.
In 2002, Japan Telecom and Korea Telecom selected DVStation for end-to-end signal quality monitoring during the FIFA World Cup Football games in Japan and Korea. In 2004 the DVStor and DVShift Compliance Recording product lines were introduced to target disaster recovery. With the emergence of IPTV, Pixelmetrix launched DVStation-IP3 in 2006 for IPTV test and monitoring. The following year, it brought on the Electronic Couch Potato and Consolidator to monitor true customer viewing to ensure "Quality of Experience".
By October 2001, Pixelmetrix had opened an office in Switzerland and established a sales office in Florida. The company added a support office in Barcelona, Spain in 2010.
Finance
The company has pursued external funding and today is backed by several private, venture capital and institutional investors including OWW Capital Partners, UOB Ventures, Enspire Capital and Singapore Economic Development Board Technopreneur Investment Fund. Revenues have grown year on year and the company has been profitable throughout the years.
Awards
Pixelmetrix has been conferred the TV Technology STAR Awards (Superior Technology Award Recipient) 2012, 2009, 2007, 2004 and 2000, Cable & Satellite International Highly Commended Product of the Year Award 2010, Frost & Sullivan Industrial Technologies Award (2009), C+T Technology Development Award 2009, Cable & Satellite International Product of the Year Award 2008, Engineering & Technology Emmy Award (2007), Broadcast Engineering publication Pick Hit Awards 2008 and 2005, BIRTV Product of the Year Award 2006, Cable-Satellite/Mediacast Product of the Year Awards 2004 and 2003, as well as the IABM Peter Wayne Award for Best Design and Innovation (2000).
Product lines
Pixelmetrix has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRC/CTB | DRC/CTB (CTB) was a publisher of educational assessment for the early learner, K–12, and adult basic education markets. DRC/CTB was a division of Data Recognition Corporation (DRC) until being fully merged into DRC's Educational Services division. From 1965 to 2015, the company was known as CTB/McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill companies, and prior to 1965 California Testing Bureau was an independent company.
CTB has published many assessments including California Achievement Tests (CAT), Tests of Basic Experiences (TOBE), and TerraNova.
History
CTB was established in 1926 in Los Angeles by Ethel Clark. Clark's husband Willis had developed the Los Angeles Diagnostic Tests in the Fundamentals of Arithmetic, which she bought the rights to sell. She sent out 25 cent postcards advertising the availability of the test to various districts around the country. One year later, she heard from her first customer: the Kansas City school district. In 1960, the company relocated to Monterey, California, where the company headquarters was located until merged into DRC.
In 1965, CTB was acquired by McGraw-Hill Education and became CTB/McGraw-Hill.
On June 30, 2015 McGraw-Hill Education announced that Data Recognition Corporation (DRC) had agreed to acquire "key assets" of the CTB/McGraw-Hill assessment business.
Today
CTB serves more than 18 million students in all 50 states and 49 countries. CTB's current president is Ellen Haley. In 2002, CTB reportedly had a 40 percent share of the test design market, ranking second of the four major companies in the industry.
In 2011 CTB acquired Bookette, a privately held software company. In June 2011, CTB celebrated its 85th anniversary.
Tests
Current
TerraNova: TerraNova is an assessment battery that was introduced in 1996. The first TerraNova assessment released in 1996 was a result of the updates of the California Achievement Tests and the California Test of Basic Skills. In 2006 CTB introduced TerraNova, Third Edition. TerraNova 3 was the first norm-referenced test (NRT).
Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE): Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE) is an adult basic education assessment. TABE was introduced in 1967. In 2007, TABE–Complete Language Assessment System–English™(TABE CLAS–E™) was introduced.
Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC): Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC) is a state-of-the-art affordable new national high school equivalency exam. TASC was introduced in 2013. It assesses five subject areas including Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. It measures examinees' levels of achievement relative to that of graduating high school seniors, and career and college readiness, as outlined by the Common Core State Standards.
LAS Links: LAS Links is a language proficiency assessment introduced in 1987.
First Performances: First Performances is an assessment for early learners. It includes tests in concepts of letter and number.
Out of print
California Achiev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well%20World%20series | The Well World series is a series of science fiction novels by Jack L. Chalker. It involves a planet-sized supercomputer known as the Well of Souls that builds our reality on top of an underlying one of greater complexity but smaller size. The computer was built by a now-extinct race, the Markovians, who developed the Well of Souls with the goal of creating a new species that would transcend their own.
The Well World is the planet that houses the Well of Souls, and it exists within the original Markovian reality. Its surface was used as an experimental site where the Markovians tested their species designs before sending the successful ones into the new universe to populate planets. Humans are one of many such designed species who now live in the "real" world. During the time period of the novels, the Well World has been abandoned and left on its own for an unknown length of time.
The books mainly follow a mysterious character known as Nathan Brazil, who has an (initially) unknown connection to the Well World. The books are adventures that follow Brazil and a changing cast of secondary characters through a series of visits to the Well World over a period of hundreds (and millions) of years.
Setting
The series is largely set on a fictional planet named Well World. The Well World was constructed by an ancient alien species, known as the Markovians, who felt they had reached a dead end in their evolution. The Well World houses a planet-sized, reality-shaping computer that creates an artificial universe layered on top of the much smaller, original Markovian one. The Well World exists within the original Markovian universe, and can only be accessed through gateways on a number of Markovian planets scattered through the artificial universe. The Markovians experimented in species design on the Well World, sending the more successful ones into the new universe to populate one of these planets. By the time of the stories in the series, the Markovians have vanished, leaving behind the Well World, continually maintaining the new universe.
The Well World's surface is composed primarily of 1560 large hexagonal regions—called "hexes"—each with an independent and often dramatically different climate and ecosystem, that David Langford compares to the hexagonally tiled boards used in "hex-and-counter" forms of tabletop wargaming. Each of these hexes is a prototype environment for a planet that exists in the external universe, half of which, comprising the planet's southern hemisphere, contain carbon-based (or similar) oxygen-breathing life. The North is made up of exotic species which are often so alien that no common ground exists between them and the Southern races, and, often, their Northern neighbors as well. Since the Northern hemisphere contains, for example, seas of oxygen, chlorine, methane, and ammonia, Southern races need some kind of life support in the North. The two hemispheres are separated by an impermeable wall that extends "several kilomet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Data%20Privacy%20and%20Security%20Act%20of%202009 | The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2009 ( Official title: A bill to prevent and mitigate identity theft, to ensure privacy, to provide notice of security breaches, and to enhance criminal penalties, law enforcement assistance, and other protections against security breaches, fraudulent access, and misuse of personally identifiable information), was a bill proposed in the United States Congress to increase protection of personally identifiable information by private companies and government agencies, set guidelines and restrictions on personal data sharing by data brokers, and to enhance criminal penalty for identity theft and other violations of data privacy and security.
The bill was sponsored in the United States Senate by Patrick Leahy (Democrat-Vermont), where it is known as S.1490.
Status
Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the bill on July 22, 2009 and was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee where it was approved. The last action was on December 17, 2009.
This bill did not come up for debate during the 111th United States Congress and at the end of the 2009-2010 session and never became law.
Summary
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress summarizes the bill in its four main parts.
Title I - Enhancing Punishment for Identity Theft and Other Violations of Data Privacy and Security
Section 101
Amends the federal criminal code to add intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to the definition of racketeering activity.
Section 102
Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to five years for intentionally and willfully concealing a security breach involving sensitive personally identifiable information that causes economic damage to one or more persons. It defines "sensitive personally identifiable information" to include an individual's name in combination with other personal information, such as a social security number, home address, date of birth, biometrics data, or financial account information.
Section 103
This directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review and amend, if appropriate, federal sentencing guidelines for persons convicted of using fraud to access, or to misuse, digitized or electronic personally identifiable information, including sentencing guidelines for identity theft.
Section 104
Amends the federal bankruptcy code to prohibit the dismissal or conversion of a bankruptcy case based upon a debtor's failure to meet means testing eligibility requirements if such debtor is a victim of identity theft.
Title II - Data Brokers
Section 201
Requires interstate data brokers (defined as business entities which, for monetary fees or dues, regularly engage in the practice of collecting, transmitting, or providing access to sensitive personally identifiable information on more than 5,000 individuals to nonaffiliated third parties on an interstate basis) to: (1) disclose to a requesting individual all personal electronic records pertaining to such individual in their d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Carr | Jeffrey Carr is a cybersecurity author, researcher, entrepreneur and consultant, who focuses on cyber warfare.
Career
In 2008, Carr founded Project Grey Goose, a crowd-sourced open-source intelligence effort to attribute major cyber attacks. The Project soliticited the expertise of vetted volunteers, while seeking to filter out non-experts and cyber criminals. The Project's first area of research was the campaign of cyberattacks during the Russo-Georgian War.
In 2011, Carr created the Suits and Spooks conference series, which offered a private forum for intelligence veterans to meet with technologists, academics, hackers, and business executives. The forum was acquired by Wired Business Media in 2014.
Carr was the founder of now-defunct cybersecurity firms Taia Global Ltd (also founder) and GreyLogic. He later wrote about the lessons he gained from their failures.
Carr has lectured on cybersecurity issues at the Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Army War College, Air Force Institute of Technology, NATO’s CCDCOE Conference on Cyber Conflict, and DEF CON.
Writing and research
He is the author of Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld (O'Reilly Media 2009, 2011), which analyzed cyber conflicts from 2002 until 2009. In Cyber Warfare, Carr argued that international cyber attacks are predominantly deployed by non-state actors, who are sometimes encouraged and tolerated by state entities. Alternately, as Carr later told The Christian Science Monitor, it is private IT infrastructure, rather than government policy, that lies at the heart of US vulnerability to international cyber attacks.
Jeffrey Carr has blogged about cyber security and warfare at Intelfusion.net (until September 1, 2010) and Forbes' The Firewall. Carr said he had quit The Firewall in protest, after his post on Yuri Milner's relationship to the Russian FSB was taken down by Forbes at the request of Milner's lawyer.
In March 2017, Carr stated there was growing doubt in the computer security industry regarding the narrative of Russian state sponsorship of hacks associated with the 2016 US elections. Carr stated that, because the FBI relied on forensic investigations by global cybersecurity consultancy CrowdStrike, "everyone else is relying on information they provided." Several notable competitors of CrowdStrike, including Symantec and FireEye examined the underlying data and endorsed CrowdStrike's conclusions.
Professional publications
“The Classification of Valuable Data in an Assumption of Breach Paradigm”, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, March 2014
“The Misunderstood Acronym: Why Cyber Weapons aren’t WMD”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Sept 1, 2013, Vol, 69, No. 5, p. 3237
“Intelligence Preparation of the Information and Communications Environment”, Air & Space Power Journal, 2012, Vol 24, No. 3
References
External links
Jeffrey Carr's Digital Dao Blog
Living people
O'Reilly writers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-Thread | RT-Thread is an open-source real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded systems and Internet of things (IoT). It is developed by the RT-Thread Development Team based in China. RT-Thread is aimed to change the current situation in China that there is no well used open-source real-time operating system in the microcontroller field.
, RT-Thread was reported to be #3 on the list of RTOSes with the largest number of contributors (behind Zephyr and Mbed).
Variants
In 2006, RT-Thread began as an open-source real-time operating system (RTOS) that is mainly written in the programming language C. In 2017, a second variant was released for resource-constrained microcontrollers; it needs a minimum of 3 kB flash memory or read-only memory (ROM) and 1.2 kB random-access memory (RAM). Also, RT-Thread's first variant was named Standard, and second variant was named Nano.
See also
Embedded system
Microcontroller
Single-board microcontroller
References
External links
, Chinese
gitee repository
Real-time operating systems
Embedded operating systems
ARM operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderic%20Grupen | Rod Grupen is a professor of Computer science and director of the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst.
Grupen's research integrates signal processing, control, dynamical systems, learning, and development as a means of constructing intelligent systems. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal, conference, and workshop papers. Grupen is the co-editor-in-chief of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AI EDAM). In 2010, Grupen received the Chancellor's Medal, the highest honor bestowed on individuals for exemplary and extraordinary service to the University of Massachusetts.
Grupen received both a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A. in physics from Franklin and Marshall College in 1980, an M.S. in mechanical engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1984, and a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Utah in 1988. Grupen is most recently the author of the book "The Developmental Organization of Dexterous Robot Behavior" to be published by MIT Press in 2011.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
University of Utah alumni
American roboticists
American computer scientists
American mechanical engineers
McKelvey School of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenger%20%281986%20video%20game%29 | Way of the Tiger II: Avenger is a video game made by Gremlin Graphics in 1986, for the computers Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and MSX.
Gameplay
In the game's story, Yaemon the Grand Master of Flame has killed the player's foster-father Naijish and stolen the Scrolls of Kettsuin. To recover the scrolls, the player has to find enough keys to penetrate the Quench Heart Keep, and then kill each of the 3 guards. The game is viewed from above and superficially resembles Gauntlet.
Reception
Guy Langley for Computer and Video Games compared the game to Gauntlet, noting that Avenger was more of an adventure and has "smarter graphics".
Rich Pelley for Your Sinclair gave the game a rating of 86 and praised its variety, with elements of maze games, beat-em ups, and puzzlers.
Zzap! rated the game at 86%, calling it "highly competent".
Mike Roberts for Computer Gamer rated the game at 85% overall and complimented the life energy system.
Amtix rated the game at 73% overall, noting that it was too similar to the original Way of the Tiger.
Commodore User scored the game 7 out of 10 overall, noting its "tough arcade adventure-style".
Reviews
Jeux & Stratégie #43
Aktueller Software Markt
Happy Computer
References
External links
Avenger at Mobygames
Avenger at Ready64
Avenger at GameBase64
Avenger at Lemon64
1986 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Commodore 64 games
Gremlin Interactive games
MSX games
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20White%20Collar%20characters | This is a list of characters in the USA Network original comedy-drama TV series White Collar. The principal cast of the series has remained mostly the same throughout the series. However, various recurring characters have appeared over the course of the show's run.
Main characters
: Thomason was credited in the main cast in the pilot, but did not appear again until the first-season finale, in which she was a guest star.
Neal Caffrey
Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) is a former conman who, after being caught escaping from prison, begins to work for the FBI's white collar crime unit under the supervision of Special Agent Peter Burke.
In the first episode, Neal is finishing a four-year prison sentence. His girlfriend, Kate, visits him in prison to break up with him. In order to get her back, he stages an elaborate prison break. Peter Burke, the agent who put Neal in prison to begin with, quickly catches up with Neal, where it is revealed that Kate has left only a bottle of Bordeaux behind at their apartment. Neal is quickly brought back to prison, where he is told he will have to serve four more years. After helping Peter and his team find an elusive criminal, the Dutchman (Mark Sheppard), Neal is released on the condition that he wear an ankle monitor that records his movements. He easily finds lodging with an elderly woman, June, and the two quickly become close.
Throughout the series, Neal helps the FBI solve difficult cases, using his vast knowledge of white collar crime. He is a skilled thief and art forger, among other criminal activities. Neal uses his position at the FBI in order to get closer to Kate; however, after her death, he uses it to find her killer.
During the first season, Neal spends much of his time researching Kate's disappearance. With the help of his best friend, Mozzie, Neal learns that Kate was taken by a man with an FBI ring. After discovering that Peter had visited her, Neal believes that Peter is the man behind her disappearance. This causes a strain on their relationship, though it eventually recovers. Neal finds that in order to free Kate, he must find the music box. He recruits an old friend, Alex Hunter, to do so in "Home Invasion" (1.11). The two continue to search over the next several episodes. In "Out of the Box" (1.14), after Neal locates Kate, who has boarded an airplane, he witnesses her death.
Over the second season, Neal reveals much about his past. In "Forging Bonds" (2.11), he tells Peter that his first con with Mozzie involved a man named Vincent Adler. Adler introduced Neal to Kate, and the two quickly began a relationship. Months later, Neal and Kate discovered that Adler had been caught running a Ponzi scheme, and they lost all of their money. After Kate realized that Neal was conning her as well, she left him and began running her own cons. However, Neal found her. After the two confessed their love, Neal was arrested (for the first time) by Peter. Back in the present day, Neal meets an insurance in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggle%20%28architecture%29 | Haggle is a European Union funded project in Situated and Autonomic Communications.
Haggle is an autonomic networking architecture designed to enable communication when network connectivity is intermittent. In particular, Haggle exploits opportunistic contacts between mobile users to deliver data to the destination.
See also
Delay-tolerant networking
Haggle
References
External links
Haggle Architecture and Software Platform at Google code.
Haggle at Institute for Computer Communications and Applications
Academic computer network organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium%20fallax | Clostridium fallax is an anaerobic, motile, gram-positive bacterium
References
External links
Type strain of Clostridium fallax at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Gram-positive bacteria
Bacteria described in 1923
fallax |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20User%20%28magazine%29 | Windows User (1991–1996) was the first UK computer magazine for end-users of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
It was published by Reed Business Publishing, designed by Phil Brooker, and edited by Sean Geer who later went on to edit the UK edition of Wired. Regular contributors included Mike Hardaker, Mark Stephens, Andrew Brown (author of ‘The Darwin Wars’), Tim Nott and Glyn Moody.
It had no editorial connection with the middle-eastern or US publications of the same name.
References
1991 establishments in the United Kingdom
1996 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1991
Magazines disestablished in 1996
Microsoft Windows magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%20TV%20%28Iceland%29 | Nova TV is a Live TV streaming service owned and operated by Nova. It has live programming from the major broadcast and cable brands in Iceland.
The streaming service is available to all residents of Iceland. It can be streamed via the Nova TV website on computers, or the Nova TV app on smartphones, tablets, Apple TV and Android TV.
References
External links
Official Site
Television channels in Iceland
Television channels and stations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrovienord | Ferrovienord (prior to 2006, Ferrovie Nord Milano Esercizio) is an Italian transport company managing the network of regional railway concessions owned by the group in northern Italy. It is a subsidiary of Ferrovie Nord Milano.
History
The company was founded in 1985, as part of the transformation of Ferrovie Nord Milano SpA (FNM), a holding company. Its original name was Ferrovie Nord Milano Esercizio (FNME) and its objects were the management and maintenance of the FMN rail network and transport services on the network.
In 1987, the FNM, together with the Province of Brescia and the Società Nazionale Ferrovie e Tramvie (SNFT),
formed the Consorzio Brescia Nord (English: Consortium of Brescia North), the task of which was to take over the SNFT's concession for the Brescia–Iseo–Edolo railway. Five years later, the FNM acquired the SNFT, and took over its stake in the Consortium. Consequently, on 1 January 1993 the FNME received from its parent, the FNM, the right to operate the railway that had previously been exercised by the SNFT, and assumed its direct management.
In 2004, the FNM group adhered to the principle of accounting separation between infrastructure management and transport services. The FNME has since been managing the network and stations of the FNM group, while the departments related to passenger rail and freight were split from the holding company and allocated to two new companies. The Ferrovie Nord Milano Trasporti S.r.l. (now known as LeNORD) obtained the management of passenger traffic, while the Ferrovie Nord Cargo S.r.l. took over goods traffic.
On 15 May 2006, following a process of redefinition of the corporate identity of all group companies, the FNME was renamed FERROVIENORD.
Activities
The company specializes in the management of a long rail network and its 120 stations.
The activity is organized into two sections: the Milan branch and Iseo branch.
The Milan branch takes care of the regional line concessions operated by the group linking Milan with Brianza, Erba, Varese, Como, Novara, Brescia and Milan-Malpensa Airport. In particular, the railway lines under its responsibility are:
Milan–Seveso–Asso (including the Seveso–Camnago branch);
Milan–Saronno;
Saronno–Novara (including the Sacconago–Malpensa branch);
Saronno–Como;
Saronno–Varese–Laveno;
Saronno–Seregno (temporarily closed until June 2012).
The Iseo branch of the company deals with the management of the Brescia–Iseo–Edolo and the Bornato–Rovato branch.
All lines are electrified at a voltage of 3000 volts DC, with the exception of two lines operated using diesel traction: Brescia–Edolo and Bornato–Rovato.
See also
LeNORD
NordCargo
Servizio ferroviario suburbano di Milano
DB-ÖBB-LeNORD
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Milan
Railway companies established in 1985
Transport in Milan
Italian companies established in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop%20Podcasting%20Yourself | Stop Podcasting Yourself is a Canadian comedy podcast distributed on the Maximum Fun network hosted by Graham Clark and Dave Shumka. Each week the comedy duo invites a guest (usually a fellow comedian) onto the program for a conversational interview. It is sometimes referred to by its acronym, SPY. The podcast is a three-time Canadian Comedy Award Winner for Best Podcast/Best Audio Show or Series, winning the award in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
History
Stop Podcasting Yourself started independently on March 2, 2008, being distributed through iTunes and its blog. At the time, podcasting had not "sorted itself out yet". Originally, Clark and Shumka intended to do sketches on the show. Due to its early start in the world of podcasting, the show is considered a pioneer for comedy podcast chat shows.
On March 22, 2010, it was announced that the Vancouver-based podcast would join Maximum Fun.
On April 15, 2016, the hosts went on to sprout the podcast and album Our Debut Album.
Format
The podcast's segments include "Get to Know Us" (where they get to know the guest) and "Overheard", where they discuss humorous things they've overheard (or sometimes overseen) in their day-to-day lives. The podcast is released every Monday and is the only Canadian show on the Maximum Fun network. Other than those two segments, the show has "little in the way of format". Despite this, the show has been described as having a consistent "tone, and speed ... whether the guest is a famous LA comedian, or a smaller local one". The show is also consistent in releasing episodes. As of 2016, the show had only missed two weeks since debuting.
The show is usually recorded at Shumka's home studio in Vancouver. Its listeners are referred to as "bumpers" after Shumka mistakenly referred to the audience that way in episode 1.
References
External links
Website at Maximum Fun
Stop Podcasting Yourself Blog
Maximum Fun
Comedy podcasts
Audio podcasts
2008 podcast debuts
Canadian Comedy Award winners
Culture of Vancouver
Canadian podcasts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Bravo | This is a list of programs broadcast by Bravo, an American cable and satellite television network owned by NBCUniversal that originated as a premium channel, when it launched in December 1980. The channel largely features on reality television, with some feature films and syndicated programming.
Current programming
Project Runway (2004)
Top Chef (2006)
The Real Housewives of Orange County (2006)
Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles (2006)
The Real Housewives of New York City (2008)
The Real Housewives of Atlanta (2008)
The Real Housewives of New Jersey (2009)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2010)
The Real Housewives of Miami (2011)
Vanderpump Rules (2013)
Married to Medicine (2013)
Below Deck (2013)
Southern Charm (2014)
The Real Housewives of Potomac (2016)
Below Deck Mediterranean (2016)
Summer House (2017)
Below Deck Sailing Yacht (2020)
Family Karma (2020)
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (2020)
Winter House (2021)
Love Match Atlanta (2022)
The Real Housewives of Dubai (2022)
Real Girlfriends in Paris (2022)
Below Deck Adventure (2022)
Southern Hospitality (2022)
Love Without Borders (2022)
SWV & Xscape: The Queens of R&B (2023)
Summer House: Martha's Vineyard (2023)
Dancing Queens (2023)
Luann & Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake (2023)
Below Deck Down Under (2023)
Upcoming programming
Untitled Vanderpump Rules spin-off (TBA)
Former programming
Unscripted
Scripted
Acquired
References
Bravo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojo%20%28learning%20environment%29 | Kojo is a programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for computer programming and learning. It has many different features that enable playing, exploring, creating, and learning in the areas of computer programming, mental skills, (interactive) math, graphics, art, music, science, animation, games, and electronics. Kojo draws ideas from the programming languages Logo and Processing.
Kojo is open-source software. It was created, and is actively developed, by Lalit Pant, a computer programmer and teacher living in Dehradun, India. Kojo provides domain-specific languages (DSLs) for its different areas of learning, and as such can be considered an educational programming language.
Kojo is written in, and its approach is based on, the programming language Scala, where users begin with a simple subset of the language and progress in steps. Its graphical user interface is based on Java Swing; a former version was based on the Java NetBeans platform.
Lalit chose Scala as the underlying language for Kojo because of its low barrier to entry and potential power.
Kojo has been used in schools and classes around the world. Some of these include:
The State of Goa, within its ICT/coding curriculum.
Himjyoti School, Dehradun, India.
Mondrian House School, Dehradun, India.
Rishi Valley School, Madanapalle, India.
Cardinal Forest Elementary School, Springfield, Virginia, USA.
Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California, USA.
Our Lady's Catholic High School, Preston, England.
A Swedish 4th grade class consisting of 10-year-old children. Kojo has been featured by Dagens Nyheter (DN) and Computer Sweden as a result of the work done by this class.
Events like Silicon Valley Code Camp, CoderDojo, Hack The Future, and Meetups.
The development of Kojo is partly sponsored by Lightbend, formerly TypeSafe, and Lund University, Computer Science Department, where Kojo is used to introduce children and teachers to computer programming. Professor Björn Regnell of Lund University has an informative presentation on the subject. Professor Regnell writes, in translation: "Kojo is the best tool, with a low barrier of entry, I have seen for making real text based programming available for children, that is also usable all the way up to university level".
Kojo provides rich support for programming and learning in the Turkish language as of the latest release in 2021 and beyond.
See also
Thonny
Microsoft Small Basic
BASIC-256
Toolbox
JUDO
References
Java platform
Free software programmed in Scala
Programming languages
Pedagogic integrated development environments
Educational_software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20code%20virus | Source code viruses are a subset of computer viruses that make modifications to source code located on an infected machine. A source file can be overwritten such that it includes a call to some malicious code. By targeting a generic programming language, such as C, source code viruses can be very portable. Source code viruses are rare, partly due to the difficulty of parsing source code programmatically, but have been reported to exist.
One such virus (W32/Induc-A) was identified by anti-virus specialist Sophos as capable of injecting itself into the source code of any Delphi program it finds on an infected computer, and then compiles itself into a finished executable.
Notes
References
Computer viruses
Virus
Source code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20Karels | Michael J. (Mike) Karels is an American Software Engineer and one of the key people in history of BSD UNIX.
In 1993, the USENIX Association gave a Lifetime Achievement Award (Flame) to the Computer Systems Research Group at University of California, Berkeley, honoring 180 individuals, including Karels, who contributed to the CSRG's 4.4BSD-Lite release.
Later, Mike moved to BSDi (Berkeley Software Design) and designed BSD/OS, which was, for years, the only commercially available BSD style Unix on Intel platform. BSD/OS is a very reliable OS platform designed for Internet services. BSDi software asset was bought by Wind River in April 2001, and Mike joined Wind River as the Principal Technologist for the BSD/OS platform.
In 2009, Mike was Sr. Principal Engineer at McAfee. In 2015 he worked for Intel and later for Forcepoint LLC.
Bibliography
S. Leffler, M. McKusick, M. Karels, J. Quarterman: The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System, Addison-Wesley, January 1989, . German translation published June 1990, . Japanese translation published June 1991, (out of print).
S. Leffler, M. McKusick: The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System Answer Book, Addison-Wesley, April 1991, . Japanese translation published January 1992,
M. McKusick, K. Bostic, M. Karels, J. Quarterman: The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, April 1996, . French translation published 1997, International Thomson Publishing, Paris, France, .
References
External links
Mike Karels at Unix Guru Universe's Unix Contributors
Mike Karels Linkedin Page
American computer programmers
American computer scientists
BSD people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Z is a Canadian French language specialty channel owned by Bell Media. Z focuses on programming primarily from the science fiction, fantasy, and technology genres consisting of dramas, films, and documentaries.
History
In May 1999, Radiomutuel Inc. was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a television broadcasting licence for a channel called Canal Z, aux limites du savoir, described as "a national French-language television specialty service that is dedicated entirely to science and technology, the earth and its secrets, space exploration, the paranormal and science fiction, lifestyles and computer science."
Before the channel was launched, in June 1999, Astral Media announced its intention to purchase Radiomutuel, which was approved by the CRTC on January 12, 2000 and closed shortly thereafter.
The channel launched on January 31, 2000 as Canal Z (often referred to as simply Z). The channel was renamed Ztélé in 2005 and a new logo was introduced. In 2006, an HD feed debuted.
Astral Media was acquired by Bell Media on July 5, 2013, making Ztélé a sister channel to the English-language science-fiction channel Space, while retaining its other sister stations. Disney Junior was sold to DHX Media, and MusiMax and MusiquePlus were sold to V Media Group, both deals occurring the next year.
As of August 25, 2014, the channel has been renamed Z.
On August 16, 2023, Z and Vrak were removed from Vidéotron, a cable service serving most major markets in Quebec.
Z HD
On October 30, 2006, Astral Media launched "Z HD" (then-known as "Ztélé HD"), a HD simulcast of Z's standard definition feed.
References
External links
Bell Media networks
Analog cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2000
French-language television networks in Canada
2000 establishments in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Bowles | Kenneth L. "Ken" Bowles (c. 1929 – August 15, 2018) was an American computer scientist best known for his work in initiating and directing the UCSD Pascal project, when he was a professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Education
Bowles received his PhD under Henry G. Booker at Cornell University in 1955 for radar studies of the Aurora Borealis.
Career
Starting in 1960, Bowles worked for the Central Radio Propagation Lab, National Bureau of Standards, where he directed the construction and research use of the Jicamarca Radio Observatory near Lima Peru. That work involved heavy use of computers for signal analysis to study the earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere.
In 1965, Bowles was invited by Prof. Henry Booker to help him start the Applied ElectroPhysics Department at UCSD.
They were tasked to start and organize a new department of applied engineering physics (AEP).
While starting to establish a new radio astronomy experiment near UCSD for studies of the Sun's ionized atmosphere, the concentration on computer analysis led UCSD to appoint Bowles as computer center director in 1968. He introduced interactive computing to UCSD, but returned to full-time teaching in 1974 when budget pressures made computer centers very controversial.
In an effort to increase student use of computers while also reducing costs, Bowles wanted to take advantage of small computer price/benefit. Urs-Ammann's P-machine allowed Pascal to be implemented on a variety of machines.
With graduate student Mark Overgaard and a supporting team of undergraduates, he then set out to provide low cost instructional computing services to the majority of UCSD students using small computers. Between late 1974 and 1980, that project grew into the UCSD Pascal Project.
Computer center directorship: when Bowles' work on the university search committee failed to produce a new director for UCSD's computing center, UCSD's chancellor convinced Bowles to take the job himself in 1968. Bowles was all but forced out in 1974 when the university relieved him of much of his authority as director of the UCSD computing center while he was away on a lecturing trip to the University of Oxford. There was a disagreement in priorities. Bowles wanted numerous machines to give students hands-on experience with interactive computing. The university instead committed to the purchase of a large IBM mainframe and set the center's priorities on business process support for the university administration.
The UCSD Pascal Project caused some controversy, with Pascal purists unhappy with UCSD Pascal extensions to the language. Some of these extensions are now present in modern Pascal compilers.
As the UCSD Pascal Project grew, it was necessary for the project to leave UCSD by licensing the software to a commercial vendor. The UCSD concerns about taxes forced the project to be licensed to SofTech Microsystems, taking effect 1 June 1979.
Bowles then started a small |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charice%3A%20Home%20for%20Valentine%27s | Charice: Home for Valentine's is a TV Special produced by GMA Network for Valentine's Day 2011 with Filipino singer Jake Zyrus. The special was originally supposed to be shot in November as Charice: Home for Christmas, but it was reshot due to illness.
Main singer
Charice Pempengco
Guest singers
Ogie Alcasid
Michael V.
Rachelle Ann Go
Elmo Magalona
See also
List of GMA Network specials aired
References
External links
Official Website of GMA Network
Official Website of GMA Pinoy TV
GMA Network television specials
2011 Philippine television series debuts |
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