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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20plug-in | An audio plug-in, in computer software, is a plug-in that can add or enhance audio-related functionality in a computer program. Such functionality may include digital signal processing or sound synthesis. Audio plug-ins usually provide their own user interface, which often contains GUI widgets that can be used to control and visualise the plug-in's audio parameters.
Types
There are three broad classes of audio plug-in: those which transform existing audio samples, those which generate new audio samples through sound synthesis and those which analyze existing audio samples. Although all plug-in types can technically perform audio analysis, only specific formats provide a mechanism for analysis data to be returned to the host.
Instances
The program used to dynamically load audio plug-ins is called a plug-in host. Example hosts include Bidule, Gig Performer, Mainstage, REAPER and Sonic Visualiser. Plug-ins can also be used to host other plug-ins. Communication between host and plug-in(s) is determined by a plug-in API. The API declares functions and data structures that the plug-in must define in order to be usable by a plug-in host. Additionally, a functional specification may be provided, which defines how the plug-in should respond to function calls, and how the host should expect to handle function calls to the plug-in. The specification may also include documentation about the meaning of variables and data structures declared in the API. The API header files, specification, shared libraries, license and documentation are sometimes bundled together in an SDK.
List of plug-in architectures
See also
Effects unit
References
Software add-ons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2%20Spreadsheet | S2 Spreadsheet was a Lotus 1-2-3 compatible spreadsheet developed by IBM in 1984. It had all the features of Lotus 1-2-3, plus it had an ability to connect to IBM mainframes via TCP/IP and pull data from IBM databases such as IBM DB2 and IBM SQL/DS. It also had features that allowed for easy visual connection between formulas and their dependencies - those features were later adopted by Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Excel. S2 was developed almost concurrently with Lotus development of 1-2-3, and matched 1-2-3 feature for feature. The S2 program was used throughout IBM in 1980s and 1990s. In 1986 it caused a legal controversy within IBM because of then current look-and-feel lawsuits between Lotus and other companies, and most importantly because IBM was negotiating a high-profile deal with Lotus to market Lotus 1-2-3.
According to a PC WEEK article of 1986 and a subsequent one in 2009, the sole author of this program was a developer in Thomas Watson Research Center, Oleg Vishnepolsky. Vishnepolsky developed this program unaware of the brewing deal between IBM and Lotus, and distributed it within IBM community to close to 50,000 users by the time of the controversy. A copy of his program ended up with a reporter of PC Week, who published an article speculating that IBM and Lotus' deal may be coming apart. That article caused a consternation within IBM executive quarters and attorneys.
IBM attorneys and executives in the end decided that the program does not violate the Lotus copyright. Given S2's wide adoption within IBM they decided not to withdraw it from use, and let Vishnepolsky to continue its development. Vishnepolsky however lost interest in further development of S2, moved to another project and later authored TCP/IP for OS/2 and IBM POS terminals. S2 spreadsheet got ported to OS/2 and AIX by other developers and remained in use through the 90s. Vishnepolsky reportedly said that instead of getting fired from IBM he received an outstanding technical achievement award from IBM CEO John Fellows Akers in 1992.
See also
Barry Appelman
TCP/IP
References
DOS software
Spreadsheet software for Windows
Spreadsheet software
IBM software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20inequality%20in%20education | Structural inequality has been identified as the bias that is built into the structure of organizations, institutions, governments, or social networks. Structural inequality occurs when the fabric of organizations, institutions, governments or social networks contains an embedded bias which provides advantages for some members and marginalizes or produces disadvantages for other members. This can involve property rights, status, or unequal access to health care, housing, education and other physical or financial resources or opportunities. Structural inequality is believed to be an embedded part of the culture of the United States due to the history of slavery and the subsequent suppression of equal civil rights of minority races. Structural inequality has been encouraged and maintained in the society of the United States through structured institutions such as the public school system with the goal of maintaining the existing structure of wealth, employment opportunities, and social standing of the races by keeping minority students from high academic achievement in high school and college as well as in the workforce of the country. In the attempt to equalize allocation of state funding, policymakers evaluate the elements of disparity to determine an equalization of funding throughout school districts.p.(14)
Policymakers have to determine a formula based on per-pupil revenue and the student need.p.(8) Critical race theory is part of the ongoing oppression of minorities in the public school system and the corporate workforce that limits academic and career success. The public school system maintains structural inequality through such practices as tracking of students, standardized assessment tests, and a teaching force that does not represent the diversity of the student body. Also see social inequality, educational inequality, racism, discrimination, and oppression. Social inequality occurs when certain groups in a society do not have equal social status. Aspects of social status involve property rights, voting rights, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, access to health care, and education as well as many other social commodities.
Education: student tracking
Education is the base for equality. Specifically in the structuring of schools, the concept of tracking is believed by some scholars to create a social disparity in providing students an equal education. Schools have been found to have a unique acculturative process that helps to pattern self-perceptions and world views. Schools not only provide education but also a setting for students to develop into adults, form future social status and roles, and maintain social and organizational structures of society. Tracking is an educational term that indicates where students will be placed during their secondary school years.[3] "Depending on how early students are separated into these tracks, determines the difficulty in changing from one track to another" (Grob, 2003, p. 202).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20inequality | Structural inequality occurs when the fabric of organizations, institutions, governments or social networks contains an embedded cultural, linguistic, economic, religious/belief, physical or identity based bias which provides advantages for some members and marginalizes or produces disadvantages for other members. This can involve, personal agency, freedom of expression, property rights, freedom of association, religious freedom,social status, or unequal access to health care, housing, education, physical, cultural, social, religious or political belief, financial resources or other social opportunities. Structural inequality is believed to be an embedded part of all known cultural groups. The global history of slavery, serfdom, indentured servitude and other forms of coerced cultural or government mandated labour or economic exploitation that marginalizes individuals and the subsequent suppression of human rights ( see UDHR) are key factors defining structural inequality. In particular the history of oppression of the Jewish people, as victims of historic and ongoing antisemitism that dates back to their slavery under the Pharaohs offer an example of the historic nature and wide variance of structural inequality.
Structural inequality can be encouraged and maintained in society through structured institutions such as state governments, and other cultural institutions like government run school systems with the goal of maintaining the existing governance/tax structure regardless of wealth, employment opportunities, and social standing of different identity groups by keeping minority students from high academic achievement in high school and college as well as in the workforce of the country. In the attempt to equalize allocation of state funding, policymakers evaluate the elements of disparity to determine an equalization of funding throughout school districts.(14)
Combating structural inequality therefore often requires the broad, policy based structural change on behalf of government organizations, and is often a critical component of poverty reduction. In many ways, a well-organized democratic government that can effectively combine moderate growth with redistributive policies stands the best chance of combating structural inequality.
Education
Education is the base for equality. Specifically in the structuring of schools, the concept of tracking is believed by some scholars to create a social disparity in providing students an equal education. Schools have been found to have a unique acculturative process that helps to pattern self-perceptions and world views. Schools not only provide education but also a setting for students to develop into adults, form future social status and roles, and maintain social and organizational structures of society. Tracking is an educational term that indicates where students will be placed during their secondary school years.[3] "Depending on how early students are separated into these tracks, dete |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rassd%20News%20Network | Rassd News Network, also known by its initials of RNN (Arabic: شبكة رصد الاخبارية), is an alternative media network based in Cairo, Egypt. RNN was launched as a Facebook-based news source launched on January 25, 2011. It quickly advanced to become a primary contributor of Egyptian revolution-related news that year. Applying the motto "From the people to the people," the citizen journalists who created RNN have since added a Twitter feed and launched an independent website dedicated to short news stories favored by an online audience.
RNN is an organized citizen news network with four working committees; one for editing the news, another to support the correspondents covering Egypt, a third for managing the multimedia feeds and a fourth for staff functions such as development, training and public relations. RNN's Arabic name, Rassd, is an acronym that stands for Rakeb (observe), Sawwer (record) and Dawwen (blog). RNN created a Ustream channel on January 27, 2011, and a YouTube account a month later.
The success of RNN and its new social media model is evidenced in its recent local network expansion into Libya, Morocco, Syria, Jerusalem and Turkey. Even so, one media scholar in the US (commenting in 2011) called the accuracy of RNN's reporting "fairly mediocre".
RNN has endured closures of their Facebook profile and YouTube account as part of the attacks from private media, attempting to thwart their work and influence their content.
Use of RNN's news by international media
RNN has been a global source of Egyptian revolution-related news since its launch. During the early days of the citizen uprisings across the Middle East, major networks such as BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya used some of Rassd's news and photos, and followed the network on Twitter. Three days after the online portal went live it was streaming video to MSNBC through its Facebook page. Then on February 5, 2011, Louisville's NBC-affiliate cited RNN, Cairo when it reported that President Hosni Mubarak had stepped down as head of Egypt's ruling party.
See also
Arab Spring
Mosul Eye
Vivahiba
References
External links
Rassd Live on Ustream
Citizen journalism
Alternative media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20Man | Paper Man can refer to:
Films
The Paper Man (1963 film), a 1963 Mexican film — vagabond with high-denomination banknote
Paper Man (1971 film), a 1971 horror film — rogue computer murders students starring Dean Stockwell and Stefanie Powers
Paper Man (2009 film), a 2009 independent comedy-drama film — writer with imaginary friend
PaperMan, 2011, a six-minute Original Net Animation released with the mobile version of the video game, years after glimpses were shown in the original CounterStrike skin
Paperman (2012 film), a 2012 Disney animated short film
The Paper Man (2020 film), a Canadian documentary film
Music
Paper Man (1968 album), a 1968 album led by American jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver
The Paper Man, a 2008 cloud rap album by Viper.
Television
The Paper Man (miniseries), 1990, the rise to power of an Australian media mogul called Philip Cromwell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic%20Television | Hellenic Television may refer to:
Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, Greek state broadcaster
New Hellenic Television, second television network of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation
Hellenic TV, a Greek-language television station based in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-text%20database | A full-text database or a complete-text database is a database that contains the complete text of books, dissertations, journals, magazines, newspapers or other kinds of textual documents. They differ from bibliographic databases (which contain only bibliographical metadata, including abstracts in some cases) and non-bibliographic databases (such as directories and numeric databases).
One of the earliest systems was IBM STAIRS, introduced in 1973.
Full-text databases became common about 1990 when computer storage technology made them economic and technologically possible. There are two main classes: an extension of the classical bibliographical databases into full-text databases (e.g. on hosts such as BRS, Dialog, LexisNexis and Westlaw) and Internet-based full-text databases (based on search engines or XML).
See also
Digital library
Full-text search
References
Tenopir, Carol & Ro, Jung Soon (1990). Full Text Databases. New York: Greenwood Press. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Darmstadt | The Darmstadt tram network is a light rail system and the backbone of public transport within Darmstadt, a city in the federal state of Hesse, Germany. As of 2014, nine lines on four main routes () serve 162 stops, including 92 low-floor stops. The system is operated by , and is an integral part of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV), the public transit authority of the Rhein-Main-Area.
History
Trams have operated continuously in Darmstadt since 1886, with the opening of a steam tram line. The network has been operated since 1912 by Hessische Eisenbahn-Aktiengesellschaft (HEAG) either directly, or, more recently, through one of its subsidiaries. Since then the trams have become a distinctive part of Darmstadt's character and are widely used by people from all walks of life as a safe and fast means of transportation within Darmstadt and its suburbs. At the Hauptbahnhof station (HBF) the tram system and the Rhine-Main S-Bahn meet. While some older lines like the Oberwaldhaus-/Martinsviertel-/and Ostbahnhof lines were closed, new sections were built, following the development of new residential areas, e.g. the new lines to Kranichstein, Arheilgen north and Alsbach south. Since the 1990s the tram system has gradually been modernised. All lines (except for line 3) have since been less of a classical tram system and more of a light rail system (Stadtbahn) with a private right-of-way and separate stations with "same-level-platforms".
Lines
The central hub of the Darmstadt tram network is the "Luisenplatz", at which eight of Darmstadt's nine tram lines stop. On the main routes the hours of operation are usually from around 5:00 am until 1:00 am. The network is currently made up of the following lines:
All lines run – unless otherwise stated – at 15-minute intervals (at night and on Sunday mornings at 30-minute intervals). On the southern route between Eberstadt and Alsbach, service intervals are 15 minutes during peak hours and 30 minutes in the evenings. Since many stations are being served by more than one line, service intervals are 3 to 7 minutes at the central stations, especially in the city centre.
Rolling stock
The fleet consists of 48 trams and 30 trailers. 14 new Stadler-built low-floor trams are scheduled to enter service in 2022. A follow-on order for a further 11 trams was announced in June 2021. The five-section unidirectional Stadler ST15 trams are due to enter service between mid-2023 and mid-2024, allowing the ST12 vehicles to be withdrawn.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
Bibliography
Bürnheim, Hermann; Burmeister, Jürgen (1997). Bahnen und Busse rund um den langen Ludwig. (Engl.: Railways and Buses around the long Ludwig) (4th ed.). Düsseldorf: Alba Publikation. . (German)
Schwandl, Robert (2012). Schwandl's Tram Atlas Deutschland (3rd ed.). Berlin: Robert Schwandl Verlag. .
References
External links
HEAG mobilo – official website
Darmstadt
Darmstadt
Transport in Hesse
Metre gauge rai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bounce%20TV%20affiliates | The following is a list of affiliates of Bounce TV, a digital terrestrial television network catering to an African American audience.
Bounce TV launched in September 2011 with an affiliate list buoyed by early carriage deals with stations owned or operated by Gray Television, and Nexstar Media Group. As of May 2017, Bounce TV covers over 74% of overall TV households and 79% of African American households.
Current affiliates
1 Indicates station is a primary feed Bounce TV affiliate.
Former affiliates
References
External links
Affiliate map on BounceTV.com
Bounce TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSU | CSU may refer to:
Channel service unit, a Wide area network equivalent of a network interface card
Chari Aviation Services, Chad, by ICAO airline code
Christian Social Union (UK), an Anglican social gospel organisation
Christian Social Union in Bavaria, a political party in Bavaria, Germany
Civil Service Union, a defunct trade union in the United Kingdom
Constant speed unit, a mechanical device on an aircraft propeller that regulates engine speed by automatically changing pitch
Crime Scene Unit, a forensic in some police groups this refers to crime scene investigators who respond to a crime scene
Český statistický úřad, Czech Statistical Office
Universities and university systems
Cagayan State University, Philippines
California State University system, United States
Caraga State University system, Philippines
Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Central State University, Ohio, United States
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Charleston Southern University Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Clayton State University, Georgia, United States
Cleveland State University, Ohio, United States
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Columbia Southern University, Alabama, United States
Columbus State University, Georgia, United States
Concordia Student Union, the organization representing undergraduate students at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Connecticut State University System, United States
Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20fare%20collection | An automated fare collection (AFC) system is the collection of components that automate the ticketing system of a public transportation network – an automated version of manual fare collection. An AFC system is usually the basis for integrated ticketing.
System description
AFC systems often consist of the following components (the "tier" terminology is common, but not universal):
Tier 0 – Fare media
Tier 1 – Devices to read/write media
Tier 2 – Depot/station computers
Tier 3 – Back office systems
Tier 4 – Central clearing house
In addition to processing electronic fare media, many AFC systems have equipment on vehicles and stations that accepts cash payment in some form.
Fare media
AFC systems originated with tokens or paper tickets dispensed by staff or from self-service vending machines. These have generally been replaced with magnetic stripe cards.
Since their introduction in 1997 with the Octopus card in Hong Kong, contactless smart cards have become the standard fare media in AFC systems, though many systems support multiple media types.
More recently, contactless smart cards from bank networks have been seen more frequently in AFC.
Devices to read/write media
These take numerous forms, including:
Ticket office terminals – where a media holder can purchase a right to travel from staff in an office, or enquire as to the value and travel rights associated with the media
Ticket vending machines – where a media holder can purchase a right to travel from a self-service machine, or enquire as to the value and travel rights associated with the media
Fare gate – often used in a train station so a media holder can gain access to a paid area where travel services are provided
Stand-alone validator – used to confirm that the media holds an appropriate travel right, and to write the usage of the media onto the media for later verification (e.g. by a conductor/inspector). Often used in proof-of-payment systems.
On-vehicle validator – used by a media holder to confirm travel rights and board a vehicle (e.g. bus, tram, train)
Inspector/conductor device – used by staff such as a conductor to verify travel rights
Unattended devices are often called "validators", a term which originated with devices that would stamp a date/time onto paper tickets to provide proof of valid payment for a conductor.
Depot/station computers
Used to concentrate data communications with devices in a station or bus depot. Common in older AFC systems where communication lines to upper tiers were slow or unreliable.
Back office
Servers and software to provide management and oversight of the AFC system. Usually includes:
Fare management – changing of fares and fare products
Media management – support for blacklisting of lost/stolen media
Reporting – periodic reports on performance of the AFC system, financial details and passenger movements
Clearing house (Central Management System)
In environments where multiple system operators share common, interoperable med |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance%20Passenger%20Information%20System | Advance Passenger Information System or APIS is an electronic data interchange system established by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),
APIS governs the provision of a limited number of data elements (identification details from the passport and basic flight information) from commercial airline and vessel operators to the computer system of the destination state. Required information should conform to specifications for UN/EDIFACT Passenger List Message (PAXLST) formats.
Beginning in May 2009, private aircraft pilots must also provide the necessary information to the CBP. The regulations were put into effect in December 2008 with a 180-day voluntary compliance period.
(electronic APIS) is a public website which allows small commercial carriers to transmit data to the CBP electronically.
When travelling to or from certain countries, passengers are required to provide advance passenger information (API) before they check in or they will be unable to fly. These countries include
Antigua
Australia
Barbados
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
China
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
France
Grenada
India
Ireland
Jamaica
Japan
Maldives
Mexico
Panama
Portugal
Republic of Korea
Russian Federation
Saint Lucia
Spain (except for Schengen Area passengers)
Taiwan
Trinidad & Tobago
United Kingdom
United States
and some more
The required information consists of:
Full name (last name, first name, middle name if applicable)
Gender
Date of birth
Nationality
Country of residence
Travel document type (normally passport)
Travel document number (expiry date and country of issue for passport)
[For travelers to the US] Address of the first night spent in the US (not required for US citizens/nationals, legal permanent residents, or alien residents of the US entering the US)
See also
Automated Targeting System
Fltplan.com
Immigration Advisory Program
Passenger name record
References
External links
U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Travel / For Travel Industry Personnel / APIS: Advance Passenger Information System
British Airways, Advance Passenger Information.
eAPIS Online Transmission System (at cbp.gov)
eAPIS UN/EDIFACT Implementation Guide (Specification – pdf)
Aviation security
National security
Identity documents of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roslyn%20%28compiler%29 | .NET Compiler Platform, also known by its codename Roslyn, is a set of open-source compilers and code analysis APIs for C# and Visual Basic (VB.NET) languages from Microsoft.
The project notably includes self-hosting versions of the C# and VB.NET compilers – compilers written in the languages themselves. The compilers are available via the traditional command-line programs but also as APIs available natively from within .NET code. Roslyn exposes modules for syntactic (lexical) analysis of code, semantic analysis, dynamic compilation to CIL, and code emission.
Features
Features of Roslyn include:
Compilers for the C# and Visual Basic languages exposed as services via APIs.
APIs for code analysis and refactoring.
History
The code name "Roslyn" was first written by Eric Lippert (a former Microsoft engineer) in a post that he published in 2010 to hire developers for a new project. He first said that the origin of the name was because of Roslyn, Washington, but later in the post he speaks ironically about the "northern exposure" of its office; the city of Roslyn was one of the places where the television series Northern Exposure was filmed.
Microsoft made a community technology preview (CTP) available for public download in October 2011. It installed as an extension to Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
The CTP was updated in September 2012 to include many updates to the Roslyn APIs introduced in the June 2012 and October 2011 CTPs, including breaking changes. While the June 2012 CTP API is complete for the compilers, not all features were implemented for the C# and VB.NET languages.
At the Build 2014 conference in San Francisco April 2014, Microsoft made the "Roslyn" project open-source and released a preview of the language integration for Visual Studio 2013. , Roslyn is under the Apache License 2.0. The project was effectively transferred under the stewardship of the newly founded .NET Foundation. At the same conference, Xamarin announced that they are working on integrating the new compilers and tools in Xamarin Studio.
The compilers were not feature-complete in this release. Each of the compilers contains features that are planned for the coming language versions (C# 6 and Visual Basic.NET 14). The APIs are also available through the NuGet package manager.
, Roslyn supports VB and C#, and the compilers are written in their respective languages. Roslyn's first release to manufacturing (RTM) was with Visual Studio 2015.
In January 2015, Microsoft moved the Roslyn source code from CodePlex to GitHub.
Architecture
Traditionally .NET compilers have been a black box for application developers. With increasing complexity and demands for source code analysis in modern integrated development environments, however, compilers need to expose application programming interfaces (APIs) that will help developers to directly perform phases of compilation such as lexical and syntactic structure analysis of source code. Roslyn was designed with that intent from th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu%20Bu%20Jing%20Xin | Startling by Each Step, also known as Bubu Jingxin (), was Tong Hua's debut novel.
Originally published online in 2005 on Jinjiang Original Network (), it was later published by Ocean Press (), National Press (), Huashan Arts Press (), Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House (), and Yeren Culture Publishing (). Tong Hua revised the novel in 2009 and 2011. The latest edition contained an additional 30,000 word epilogue.
The story features a twenty-first century woman who gets transported back in time to the court dramas of the late Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty. The novel was most prominently adapted as the television series Scarlet Heart, and was later also adapted into a radio drama, feature, film, stage play and a Korean drama.
Synopsis
Twenty-first century woman, Zhang Xiao, encountered traffic collision after work that sent her back in time to the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi Emperor's reign (in the year 1704). She found herself trapped in the body of a young daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, Ma'ertai Ruoxi, younger sister of Ma'ertai Ruolan, who was a concubine of the emperor's eighth son, Yinsi. Stranded in the past, Ruoxi became acquainted with Kangxi's other sons, including the fourth prince Yinzhen and his full brother, the fourteenth prince Yinti. She forged a close friendship with the thirteenth prince, Yinxiang. Using charm and wit, Ruoxi won the emperor's favor and became his lady-in-waiting, attending to the monarch and his family.
During Ruoxi's stay in the Forbidden City, she and Yinsi developed a mutual attraction. She initially rejected him but later agreed to marry him if he gave up his ambition for the throne. Ruoxi knew that Yinsi's path will ultimately lead to his lifelong imprisonment after Yinzhen became emperor. Yinsi refused and Ruoxi warned him to be wary of Yinzhen, providing him a list of those who would support his ascension.
After breaking up with Yinsi, Ruoxi fell in love with Yinzhen. Meanwhile, Yinsi and his supporters, acting on Ruoxi's advice, framed Yinzhen for plotting against the crown prince Yinreng. Yinxiang took the blame and was sentenced to house arrest. After this incident, Yinsi discovered that Ruoxi was romantically involved with Yinzhen. The battle for the throne became inflamed when Yinreng's other crimes later came to light. The crown prince lost both his position and freedom. Kangxi then began to show preference for Yinti and offered Ruoxi as a concubine to him. Ruoxi, however, declined. Outraged by her boldness, the emperor demoted her to the laundry department.
Kangxi eventually died of illness. With military support from Longkodo and Nian Gengyao; Yinzhen staged a coup and seized the throne from Yinti to become the Yongzheng Emperor. Yinzhen then released Yinxiang from custody and began a romantic relationship with Ruoxi. In an attempt to keep the secret that Yinti was named heir before their father's death, Yinzhen placed him under house arrest. Ruoxi is often caught between the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20LNER%20Class%20D49%20locomotives | Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the LNER Class D49, that ran on the London and North Eastern Railway network. The class names came from English and Scottish counties for the early locomotives, and fox hunts for the later locomotives.
Most names were local to the areas of Scotland and the North of England where the locomotives were based, but some were out of area, while a few were nowhere near the LNER network.
Notes
D49/1 (Part 1) locomotives were built with piston valves, activated by Walschaerts valve gear for the outside cylinders, and Gresley conjugated valve gear for the inside cylinder.
D49/3 (Part 3) locomotives were built with Lentz oscillating poppet valves activated by Walschaerts valve gear. All were later rebuilt to D49/1 valve gear arrangements.
D49/2 (Part 2) locomotives were built with Lentz poppet valves activated by rotary cams.
References
D49/9
4-4-0 locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1927
British railway-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audification | Audification is an auditory display technique for representing a sequence of data values as sound. By definition, it is described as a "direct translation of a data waveform to the audible domain." Audification interprets a data sequence and usually a time series, as an audio waveform where input data are mapped to sound pressure levels. Various signal processing techniques are used to assess data features. The technique allows the listener to hear periodic components as frequencies. Audification typically requires large data sets with periodic components.
Audification is most commonly applied to get the most direct and simple representation of data from sound and to convert it into a visual. In most cases it will always be used for taking sounds and breaking it down in a way that we can visually understand it and construct more data from it.
History
The idea of audification was introduced in 1992 by Greg Kramer, initially as a sonification technique. This was the beginning of audification, but is also why most people to this day still consider audification a type of sonification.
The goal of audification is to allow the listener to audibly experience the results of scientific measurements or simulations.
A 2007 study by Sandra Pauletto and Andy Hunt at the University of York suggested that users were able to detect attributes such as noise, repetitive elements, regular oscillations, discontinuities, and signal power in audification of time-series data to a degree comparable with visual inspection of spectrograms.
Applications
Applications include audification of seismic data and of human neurophysiological signals. An example is the esophageal stethoscope, which amplifies naturally occurring sound without conveying inherently noiseless variables such as the result of gas analysis.
Medicine
Converting ultrasound to audible sound is a form of audification that provides a form of echolocation. Other uses in the medical field include the stethoscope and the audification of an EEG.
Music
The development of electronic music can also be considered the history of audification. This is because all electronic instruments involve electric process audified using a loudspeaker.
Seismology
Audification is of interest for research into Auditory Seismology. It is used in earthquake prediction. Applications include using seismic data to differentiate bomb blasts from earthquakes.
The technique presents sound waves of earthquakes alongside a visual representation. The addition of audio allows both the eye and ears to contribute to better understanding.
NASA
NASA has used audification to represent radio and plasma wave measurements.
Sonification
Both sonification and audification are representational techniques in which data sets or its selected features are mapped into audio signals. However, audification is a kind of sonification, a term which encompasses all techniques for representing data in non-speech audio. Their relationship can be de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telfairia%20pedata | Telfairia pedata, commonly known as oysternut (alternately spelled as 'oyster nut', etc.), queen's nut, Zanzibar oilvine (alternately spelled as 'oil vine', etc.), kweme or kulekula, is a dioecious African liana which can grow up to 30 metres long, having purple-pink fringed flowers, and very large (30–90 cm × 15–25 cm), many-seeded, drooping, ellipsoid berries which can weigh up to 15 kg (though one old source from 1882 claimed up to 60 lbs). It is valuable for having edible fruit, seeds and oil.
Propagation
Propagation is by seed which are black to brown-red, recalcitrant and vary from 1g to 68g, with the smaller ones tending to have greater viability. They cannot survive desiccation and fungi are the main cause of seed loss.
Habitat
Telfairia pedata is found in high-precipitation tropical locales, in coastal and riverine forest lowlands. It was also reported to grow in elevations between 900 and 1800 m above sea level with annual rainfall of 1000 to 1400 mm.
In Tanzania, 280 trees species were found to be hosts of T. pedal, with three tree species being most common hosts; Albizia schimperiana, Persea americana and Croton macrostaychs. Other common host trees for the climber were Artocarpus heterophyllus, Cordia africana, Terminalia superba, Ficus sur, Rauvolfia caffra, Ficus thonningii and Mangifera indica.
Distribution
Telfairia pedata is native to Tanzania (including the Zanzibar Archipelago) and northern Mozambique. It is also cultivated as a crop plant in Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia. In Tanzania the crop grows on both lowland coastal areas as well as highland areas of the Northern corridor of the country, commonly found on the slopes of Meru and Kilimanjaro mountains.
T. pedata is retorted to be found in high abundance in higher altitudes of more than 1500 masl up to 2000 masl and in areas of higher rainfall similar to another Telfairia species T.occidentalis.
Uses
The fruits of Telfairia pedata are edible, but the principal value is found in the seeds (or "nuts") and the seeds' oil. The flavourful seeds are prepared in various culinary ways (cooked, roasted, pickled, etc.), but can also be eaten raw, and are given to nursing mothers to facilitate milk production. The versatile, mildly sweet oil from the seeds (marketed as ‘oyster-nut oil’ or ‘koémé de Zanzibar’) is used in cooking, cosmetics, soap and candle-making, and as a gastric and anti-rheumatism medicine; it is believed, by Chaga people of Tanzania, to be beneficial to give a tonic made from the seeds to women who have just given birth. It common known as Makungu in Pare mountains where Pare people eat them fresh and sometimes roast to eat alone or cook with other food. The left-over cake of seeds from oil pressing is rich in fat and protein, and used as livestock fodder.
Fatty acids
The fatty acids which are found in the oil are here broken down by their average percentages:
linoleic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniTouch | OmniTouch is a wearable computer, depth-sensing camera and projection system that enables interactive multitouch interfaces on everyday surface. Beyond the shoulder-worn system, there is no instrumentation of the user or the environment. For example, the present shoulder-worn implementation allows users to manipulate interfaces projected onto the environment (e.g., walls, tables), held objects (e.g., notepads, books), and their own bodies (e.g., hands, lap). On such surfaces - without any calibration - OmniTouch provides capabilities similar to that of a touchscreen: X and Y location in 2D interfaces and whether fingers are “clicked” or hovering. This enables a wide variety of applications, similar to what one might find on a modern smartphone. A user study assessing pointing accuracy of the system (user and system inaccuracies combined) suggested buttons needed to be in diameter to achieve reliable operation on the hand, on walls. This is approaching the accuracy of capacitive touchscreens, like those found in smart phones, but on arbitrary surfaces.
OmniTouch was developed by researchers Chris Harrison, Hrvoje Benko and Andy Wilson at Microsoft Research in 2011. The work was accepted to and presented at the 2011 ACM User Interface and Software Technology conference. Many major news outlets and online tech blogs covered the technology.
It is conceptually similar to efforts such as Skinput and SixthSense. A central contribution of the work was a novel depth-driven, fuzzy template matching approach to finger tracking and click registration. The system also finds and tracks surfaces suitable for projection, on which interactive applications can be projected.
Citations
External links
Project page for OmniTouch
Microsoft Research press release
Demo Video: OmniTouch Overview, ACM UIST 2011
Demo Video: Finger Tracking Explanation, ACM UIST 2011
Computer peripherals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byobu%20%28software%29 | Byobu is an enhancement for the GNU Screen terminal multiplexer or tmux used with the Linux computer operating system that can be used to provide on-screen notification or status, and tabbed multi-window management. It is intended to improve terminal sessions when users connect to remote servers.
History
Version 1.0, under the name Screen Profiles, came out of discussions at the 2008 Ubuntu Developer Summit about how to simplify the on screen notification of an administrator connected to a server.
The project was renamed to Byobu for its 2.0 release, from the Japanese byōbu folding screen. Byobu 3.0 reworked the build system to use automake and allow for porting to other Unix-like operating systems. Byobu 4.0 introduced screen splitting, reworked the status notification system, and added support for tmux profiles. The most significant change that Byobu 5.0 introduces is a shift from GNU Screen to tmux as the default backend.
Originally written for Ubuntu, it has since been ported to multiple other Linux distributions and other Unix-like operating systems.
References
External links
Ubuntu Manpage
Project home
How To Install and Use Byobu for Terminal Management on Ubuntu 16.04, Stephen Rees-Carter, digitalocean.com, August 4, 2016
Byobu: Like Screen, but Better, Juliet Kemp, ServerWatch, October 4, 2010
Use byobu for extended features in your terminal window, Jack Wallen, ghacks.net, November 16, 2010
Free system software
Terminal multiplexers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Xyboard | The Motorola Droid Xyboard, previously released as the Xoom 2 in Europe before being renamed, is an Android-based tablet computer by Motorola Mobility, announced by Motorola on November 3, 2011.
The device is available in 3G and Wi-Fi variants with there being options between an 8.2-inch screen or a 10.1-inch screen model.
There is an optional active capacitive stylus available, sold separately.
Media Edition
The Droid Xyboard is also available as a Media Edition. The Motorola website states that the Media Edition will "Stream files from your PC" with "MotoCast™" and has an 8.2-inch "HD widescreen" with "Adaptive virtual surround sound". The Media Edition does not support the active stylus.
Availability
UK
Both Xoom 2 tablets were released in November 2011, and are available in the UK at Carphone Warehouse, Best Buy, Dixons, PC World and Currys in the United Kingdom.
North America
The Droid Xyboard was released in some stores on December 9, and was released in all stores on December 12, 2011.
See also
Comparison of tablet computers
Droid RAZR
Android version history
References
External links
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers
Tablet computers introduced in 2011
Motorola products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%20Joo | Judy Joo is a chef, author, restauranteur, and television personality. She is best known as being the host of Food Network's "Korean Food Made Simple" S1 and S2 and an Iron Chef UK and her restaurant Seoul Bird in London, Las Vegas, and New York. Joo splits her time between New York City, London, and Asia.
Early life and education
Judy Joo was born in Summit, NJ to Dr. Eui Don Joo and Mrs. Young Nim Park. Dr. Eui Don Joo was born in Chŏngju, North Korea and fled south when he was a child with his parents and 8 siblings. He grew up on Jeju Island in a refuge camp. Four of his older brothers were drafted into the Korean war. He attended Seoul National Medical School and worked as an army military physician upon graduation. He then moved to the United States for his internship and residency, specializing in psychiatry. He practiced psychiatry in Michigan, New Jersey, and New York before finally retiring at age 75. Mrs Young Nim Park was born in Icheon, South Korea and graduated from Sogang University. She moved to the USA to pursue a master's degree in chemistry at Ohio State University on a full scholarship.
Judy Joo attended the Kent Place School for girls in Summit, NJ from Kindergarten to 12th grade. She then went on to earn a B.S. from Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science. She later went to cooking school at The French Culinary Institute.
Career
Joo graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. She began a career in the banking industry working at Goldman Sachs and then Morgan Stanley as an institutional fixed income derivatives saleswoman.
However, she switched careers and began working as a chef after attending The French Culinary Institute, (Pastry Arts) in 2004 and graduating at the top of her class. She then went to work at Saveur magazine in the test kitchens as well as in editorial. She also worked at Slow Food USA, where she founded their first inner city Slow Food in Schools program, "Harvest Time in Harlem".
A move to London led her to restaurants, where she worked at Gordon Ramsay's restaurants, including Maze, Petrus, Gordon Ramsay Restaurant, Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's and The Boxwood Café. She has also completed "stages" in the restaurants The French Laundry, Nahm (Bangkok), and The Fat Duck.
In January 2015, she opened up her own restaurant in London called Jinjuu in Soho, London. Jinjuu was widely recognized to be London's premier modern Korean restaurant and expanded to three locations (Soho, Mayfair, and Hong Kong). She left the Jinjuu brand in 2019 and then opened a fast casual concept, Seoul Bird in 2020 in the Westfield Mall, Shepherd's Bush, London. A second location in 2021 followed in Canary Wharf and then Seoul Bird opened in the Aria Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas in 2022. Seoul Bird opened in Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York in 2023, home of The Brooklyn Nets NBA team.
She has two cookbooks, "Korean F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20W%C3%BCrzburg | The Würzburg tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Würzburg, a city in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany.
The network presently consists of five lines, with a total track length of (yielding a one-way route length of approximately ). It is currently operated by Würzburger Straßenbahn GmbH, a subsidiary of (WVV), and integrated in the (VVM).
History
The first horse-drawn tramway opened in Würzburg in 1892. The first electric trams went into operation in Würzburg in 1900.
Beginning in the 1990s, a concerted effort was made to move Würzburg's tramlines into their own rights-of-way and convert them more to a light rail (Stadtbahn) type of operation over the traditional tram system operating in regular road traffic. Currently, most of Würzburg tramlines, outside of sections downtown and in the Sanderau district, operate as light rail in their own rights-of-way. In addition, low-floor light rail vehicles were purchased.
Lines
, the network was made up of the following five lines:
* The figure refers to both directions, ie a complete round trip.
Rolling stock
The Würzburg tram fleet consists of:
GTW-D8 (6 trams, built by Düwag in 1968)
GT-E (14 trams, built by LHB in 1989)
GT-N (20 trams, built by Alstom LHB in 1995)
An Artic tram was tested on the network in October 2014. 18 new low-floor trams were ordered from in 2019, with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2022.
See also
Trams in Germany
List of town tramway systems in Germany
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Würzburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-GmbH (WVV) – official site
Verkehrsunternehmens-Verbund Mainfranken GmbH (VVM) – official site
Wurzburg
Rail transport in Bavaria
Würzburg
750 V DC railway electrification
Würzburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland%20Warriors | Highland Warriors is a real-time strategy computer game which takes place during the Middle Ages of the British history. It was developed by German studio Soft Enterprises and produced by Data Becker. It has been released on the January 20, 2003.
There are four major sections in the Highland Warriors campaign:
The unification of the clans under a single king.
The conquest of Scotland by England.
The rebellion of William Wallace and his uprising against the English army (during the 14th century)
The reunification of the tribes by Robert the Bruce and the declaration of independence.
Gameplay
Highland Warriors brings the traditional gameplay of a typical RTS game: The exploitation of the resources is necessary to build bases, which at their turn will allow to create armies and then attack the enemy to achieve victory. There are five types of natural resources: timber, food, stone, iron ore and gold.
Each side has different units. Beside the regular ones (infantry, cavalry, ranged, and siege units) some factions even have magic-using units, such as druids, mages, and rangers.
Also, the game does not provide any information about the units, except for their price; so to judge a given unit, one would have to guess from its cost.
One noticeable point, though, is Highland Warriors gameplay feature known as "Blood Frenzy": in this mode, soldiers will spread and automatically attack closest enemies. The downside of this is that the player lose the control of any attacking units.
Development
Highland Warriors was published in the UK and the rest of Europe by NovaLogic.
Reception
The game has been met with mixed reviews, holding a score of 58 on Metacritic. GameSpot states that its "historical accuracy doesn't compensate for the deficiencies in its gameplay and graphics."
References
2003 video games
NovaLogic games
Real-time strategy video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Germany
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games set in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Bub | Jeffrey Bub (born 1942) is a physicist and philosopher of physics, and Distinguished Professor in the department of philosophy, the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
He obtained his bachelor's degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Cape Town. A scholarship allowed him to work at Birkbeck College with David Bohm who had profound intellectual influence on his work. Bub obtained his PhD in Mathematical Physics from London University in 1966. Before taking up his position as professor at the University of Maryland in 1986, he worked at the University of Minnesota, Yale University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Western Ontario. He has been visiting professor at Princeton University, Yale University, the University of California at Irvine, the CPNSS at the London School of Economics, the University of California at San Diego, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Vienna.
His main research interests relate to quantum foundations, quantum information, quantum computation, and quantum cryptography. In 1998, his book Interpreting the Quantum World won the Lakatos Award. In 2005 he received the University of Maryland's Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize for his work in the area of quantum foundations and quantum information.
Bub has published over 100 scientific articles; the first of these are three articles authored together with David Bohm and published in 1966 and 1968. In 2010, he published an argument that the famous work of John Stewart Bell (and, thus, Grete Hermann) had misconstrued von Neumann's proof of the impossibility of hidden variables in quantum mechanics. The validity of Bub's argument is, in turn, disputed.
Publications
Books
Jeffrey Bub: Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates, Oxford University Press, 2016,
Jeffrey Bub: Interpreting the Quantum World, Cambridge University Press, 1997, (revised paperback edition, 1999) – Review by Kent A. Peacock
Jeffrey Bub: The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science), Springer, 1974,
Jeffrey Bub:
Other
William Demopoulos and Itamar Pitowsky (eds.): Physical Theory and its Interpretation: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub, Springer, 2006,
References
External links
Jeffrey Bub, CV at John Templeton Foundation
Jeffrey Bub, homepage and List of publications
Jeffrey Bub, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland
Works by Jeffrey Bub, philpapers.org
Jeffrey Bub, Rob Clifton: A uniqueness theorem for “No collapse” interpretations of quantum mechanics, Stud. Hist. Mod. Phys., vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 181–219, 1996
Lectures by Jeffrey Bub, PIRSA, Perimeter Institute
1942 births
21st-century American physicists
Philosophers of science
Living people
20th-century American philosophers
Univer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsniff-ng | netsniff-ng is a free Linux network analyzer and networking toolkit originally written by Daniel Borkmann. Its gain of performance is reached by zero-copy mechanisms for network packets (RX_RING, TX_RING), so that the Linux kernel does not need to copy packets from kernel space to user space via system calls such as recvmsg(). libpcap, starting with release 1.0.0, also supports the zero-copy mechanism on Linux for capturing (RX_RING), so programs using libpcap also use that mechanism on Linux.
Overview
netsniff-ng was initially created as a network sniffer with support of the Linux kernel packet-mmap interface for network packets, but later on, more tools have been added to make it a useful toolkit such as the iproute2 suite, for instance. Through the kernel's zero-copy interface, efficient packet processing can be reached even on commodity hardware. For instance, Gigabit Ethernet wire-speed has been reached with netsniff-ng's trafgen. The netsniff-ng toolkit does not depend on the libpcap library. Moreover, no special operating system patches are needed to run the toolkit. netsniff-ng is free software and has been released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
The toolkit currently consists of a network analyzer, packet capturer and replayer, a wire-rate traffic generator, an encrypted multiuser IP tunnel, a Berkeley Packet Filter compiler, networking statistic tools, an autonomous system trace route and more:
netsniff-ng, a zero-copy analyzer, packet capturer and replayer, itself supporting the pcap file format
trafgen, a zero-copy wire-rate traffic generator
mausezahn, a packet generator and analyzer for HW/SW appliances with a Cisco-CLI
bpfc, a Berkeley Packet Filter compiler
ifpps, a top-like kernel networking statistics tool
flowtop, a top-like netfilter connection tracking tool with Geo-IP information
curvetun, a lightweight multiuser IP tunnel based on elliptic-curve cryptography
astraceroute, an autonomous system trace route utility with Geo-IP information
Distribution specific packages are available for all major operating system distributions such as Debian or Fedora Linux. It has also been added to Xplico's Network Forensic Toolkit, GRML Linux, SecurityOnion, and to the Network Security Toolkit. The netsniff-ng toolkit is also used in academia.
Basic commands working in netsniff-ng
In these examples, it is assumed that eth0 is the used network interface.
Programs in the netsniff-ng suite accept long options, e.g., --in ( -i ), --out ( -o ), --dev ( -d ).
For geographical AS TCP SYN probe trace route to a website:
astraceroute -d eth0 -N -S -H <host e.g., netsniff-ng.org>
For kernel networking statistics within promiscuous mode:
ifpps -d eth0 -p
For high-speed network packet traffic generation, trafgen.txf is the packet configuration:
trafgen -d eth0 -c trafgen.txf
For compiling a Berkeley Packet Filter fubar.bpf:
bpfc fubar.bpf
For live-tracking of current TCP connections (including prot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL%20query%20languages | QUEL is a relational database query language, based on tuple relational calculus, with some similarities to SQL. It was created as a part of the Ingres DBMS effort at University of California, Berkeley, based on Codd's earlier suggested but not implemented Data Sub-Language ALPHA. QUEL was used for a short time in most products based on the freely available Ingres source code, most notably in an implementation called POSTQUEL supported by POSTGRES. As Oracle and DB2 gained market share in the early 1980s, most companies then supporting QUEL moved to SQL instead. QUEL continues to be available as a part of the Ingres DBMS, although no QUEL-specific language enhancements have been added for many years.
Usage
QUEL statements are always defined by tuple variables, which can be used to limit queries or return result sets. Consider this example, taken from one of the first original Ingres papers:
range of E is EMPLOYEE
retrieve into W
(COMP = E.Salary / (E.Age - 18))
where E.Name = "Jones"
Here E is a tuple variable that ranges over the EMPLOYEE relation, and all tuples in that relation are found which satisfy the qualification `E.Name = "Jones"`. The result of the query is a new relation W, which has a single domain COMP that has been calculated for each qualifying tuple. Additional queries can then be made against the relation W.
An equivalent SQL statement is:
create table W as
select (E.salary / (E.age - 18)) as COMP
from employee as E
where E.name = 'Jones'
In this example, the relation is being stored in a new table W. This is not a direct analog of the QUEL version; relations in QUEL are more similar to temporary tables seen in most modern SQL implementations.
Here is a sample of a simple session that creates a table, inserts a row into it, and then retrieves and modifies the data inside it and finally deletes the row that was added (assuming that name is a unique field).
Another feature of QUEL was a built-in system for moving records en-masse into and out of the system. Consider this command:
copy student(name=c0, comma=d1, age=c0, comma=d1, sex=c0, comma=d1, address=c0, nl=d1)
into "/student.txt"
which creates a comma-delimited file of all the records in the student table. The d1 indicates a delimiter, as opposed to a data type. Changing the to a reverses the process. Similar commands are available in many SQL systems, but usually as external tools, as opposed to being internal to the SQL language. This makes them unavailable to stored procedures.
QUEL has an extremely powerful aggregation capability. Aggregates can be nested, and different aggregates can have independent by-lists and/or restriction clauses. For example:
retrieve (a=count(y.i by y.d where y.str = "ii*" or y.str = "foo"), b=max(count(y.i by y.d)))
This example illustrates one of the arguably less desirable quirks of QUEL, namely that all string comparisons are potentially pattern matches. matches all values starting with . In contrast, SQL uses only for exac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quel | Quel may refer to:
QUEL query languages, a relational database access language
Quel, La Rioja, a municipality in La Rioja, Spain
Quél, taxonomic author abbreviation for Lucien Quélet (1832–1899), French naturalist and mycologist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20Ecological%20Greenways%20Network | Florida Ecological Greenways Network work to provide a "system of native landscapes and ecosystems that supports native plant and animal species, sustains clean air, water, fisheries, and other natural resources, and maintains the scenic natural beauty that draws people to visit and settle in Florida," as stated Florida Greenways Commission. It also functions to devise a plan for a statewide greenways system, based on GIS (Geographic Information System) technology and suggestions from the public. The GIS data used includes soil, water, and geological information, wildlife movements and habitat data, as well as existing trails and parks, transportation and infrastructure fixtures, educational and historical sites, and political boundaries. This system would be created in accordance with the December 1994 report from the Florida Greenways Commission to the Governor of the state of Florida, a report which outlined the protocol for creating it. Such a system would connect all aspects of the state's "green infrastructure", making it more comprehensive for use by the state's citizens and more effective in achieving greater sustainability throughout the state of Florida for generations to come.
Such sustainability would be achieved through the various goals of the project, primarily a conservation effort to preserve Florida's existing ecosystems and landscapes, such as the Loxahatchee River at Jonathan Dickinson State Park and the Broward Urban River Trail in Fort Lauderdale, while taking into account the habitats of native species such as the Florida panther, the Florida black bear and the crested caracara (their habitat data was taken into account when the network was updated) as well as to connect these remain systems and maintain their ability to function as "dynamic systems", as well as adapt to "future environmental changes", such as to mitigate the effects of climate change.
The network is used as a main data source, Florida Forever, for identifying the most significant and intact landscapes for conserving in the state. The project is a collaboration of many groups and leadership has gone from the Florida Greenways Commission (Commission), the Florida Greenways Coordinating Council (FGCC) with support from the state Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Office of Greenways and Trails (OGT), and the Florida Greenways and Trails Council (FGTC). All three organizations worked with support from professors, staff, and students of the University of Florida GeoPlan Center, the Department of Landscape Architecture, the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (University).
Foundations and history
The basis for the FEGN is in the state recreational trails system, approved by Legislature in 1979, as well as the Florida Canoe Trail System and preexisting parks, refuges and water and wildlife management areas. In 1991, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection established a Stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial%20diagram | Alluvial diagrams are a type of flow diagram originally developed to represent changes in network structure over time.
In allusion to both their visual appearance and their emphasis on flow, alluvial diagrams are named after alluvial fans that are
naturally formed by the soil deposited from streaming water.
Interpretation
In an alluvial diagram, blocks represent clusters of nodes, and stream fields between the blocks represent changes in the composition of these clusters over time. The height of a block represents the size of the cluster and the height of a stream field represents the size of the components contained in both blocks connected by the stream field.
Application
Alluvial diagrams were originally developed to visualize structural change in large complex networks. They can be used to visualize any type of change in group composition between states or over time and include statistical information to reveal significant change. Alluvial diagrams highlight important structural changes that can be further emphasized by color, and make identification of major transitions easy.
Alluvial diagrams can also be used to illustrate patterns of flow on a fixed network over time. The Users Flow feature of Google Analytics uses alluvial diagrams to graphically represent how visitors move among the nodes (individual pages) on a website.
See also
Sankey diagram
References
External links
Alluvial generator implemented in Javascript - Create alluvial diagrams from network data and export to SVG
RAWGraphs: an open source data visualization tool - Create alluvial diagrams from dataset and export to SVG or PNG
Users Flow for Google Analytics
Diagrams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei%20SingleRAN | Huawei SingleRAN is a radio access network (RAN) technology offered by Huawei that allows mobile telecommunications operators to support multiple mobile communications standards and wireless telephone services on a single network. The technology incorporates a software-defined radio device, and is designed with a consolidated set of hardware components, allowing operators to purchase, operate and maintain a single telecommunications network and set of equipment, while supporting multiple mobile communications standards.
History
Huawei began to develop its SingleRAN technology in order to address network operators' demand for improved cost efficiency in managing telecommunications network sites, spectrum, pipeline and staff. In 2008, the company introduced the industry's first commercial SingleRAN product, which allowed mobile operators to switch from GSM to UMTS network standards or use both simultaneously. That year Huawei also launched a commercial network based on SingleRAN that offered simultaneous CDMA and LTE modes.
Deployment
In May 2009, América Móvil, the largest mobile operator in Latin America, deployed Huawei's SingleRAN GSM and UMTS system in Panama, providing its customers with voice and data services from GSM and UMTS networks simultaneously. According to The Economist, América Móvil found that the power consumption of its base stations was reduced by 50% and the volume of equipment it needed was reduced by 70%, following deployment of Huawei's SingleRAN hardware.
In June 2009, Huawei's SingleRAN technology was selected by TeliaSonera for Europe's first GSM/UMTS network with software-defined radio (SDR) technology. TeliaSonera used Huawei SingleRAN to provide its subscribers in Finland with both GSM and UMTS services using the same 900MHz spectrum. Later that year, in December 2009, TeliaSonera also used Huawei's SingleRAN LTE technology to launch the world's first LTE commercial network in Norway. That same month, Net4Mobility selected Huawei SingleRAN GSM system to deploy their GSM/LTE 900 MHz SDR network in Sweden.
Developments
In March 2010, Huawei achieved what it stated is a world-record 1.2Gbit/s download speed on a demo network built around Huawei's prototype SingleRAN LTE-Advanced device. In November that year, the company released a new SingleRAN technology, enabling operators to migrate between WiMAX and LTE TDD networks. That same month, Aero2 selected Huawei's SingleRAN technology to deploy the world's first GSM and LTE 1800MHz SDR network in Poland, which was due to become operational in early 2011.
In the first half of 2011, Huawei launched a SingleRAN system that supported both WiMAX and LTE. To date, Huawei has deployed over 130 SingleRAN networks worldwide for global network operators including Telefónica, O2 Germany, China Unicom, America Movil, Telenor, Net4Mobility and TeliaSonera.
Products
Huawei has developed and provides four SingleRAN products for mobile network operators. According to Huawei, SingleR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20population%20milestones | World population milestones went unnoticed until the 20th century, since there was no reliable data on global population dynamics.
It is estimated that the population of the world reached
Old estimates put the global population at 9 billion by 2037–2046, after 8 billion, and 10 billion by 2054–2071, after 9 billion; however these milestones are likely to be reached far sooner. Projected figures vary depending on underlying statistical assumptions and which variables are manipulated in projection calculations, especially the fertility variable. Long-range predictions to 2150 range from a population decline to 3.2 billion in the 'low scenario', to 'high scenarios' of 24.8 billion. One scenario predicts a massive increase to 256 billion by 2150, assuming fertility remains at 1995 levels.
Global billionth milestones
There is no estimation for the exact day or month the world's population surpassed the one and two billion marks. The days of three and four billion were not officially noted, but the International Database of the United States Census Bureau places them in July 1960 and April 1974 respectively.
Five billion
The Day of Five Billion, 11 July 1987, was designated by the United Nations Population Fund as the approximate day on which the world population reached five billion. Matej Gašpar from Zagreb, Croatia (then SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia), was chosen as the symbolic 5-billionth person alive on Earth. The honor went to Zagreb because the 1987 Summer Universiade was taking place in the city at the time.
Six billion
The United Nations Population Fund designated 12 October 1999 as the approximate day on which the world population reached six billion. It was officially designated "The Day of Six Billion". Demographers do not universally accept this date as being exact. In fact, there has been subsequent research which places the day of six billion nearer to 18 June or 19 June 1999. The International Programs division of the United States Census Bureau estimated that the world population reached six billion on 21 April 1999. United Nations Population Fund spokesman Omar Gharzeddine disputed the date of the Day of Six Billion by stating, "The U.N. marked the '6 billionth' [person] in 1999, and then a couple of years later the Population Division itself reassessed its calculations and said, actually, no, it was in 1998."
On the Day of Six Billion, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina to monitor the Dayton Agreement. At midnight he went to Koševo Hospital, where Adnan Mević, born at 12.01 am, was named the symbolic 6 billionth concurrently alive person on Earth. He is the first son of Fatima Mević and Jasminko Mević and weighed 3.5 kg.
Seven billion
The "Day of Seven Billion" was targeted by the United States Census Bureau to be in March 2012, while the Population Division of the United Nations suggested 31 October 2011, and the latter date was officially designated by the United Nations Population Fu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Dad%21%20%28season%209%29 | The ninth season of American Dad! debuted on the Fox network on September 30, 2012, at 9:30/8:30c, and concluded on May 12, 2013.
Guest stars for the season include Wayne Brady, Alison Brie, Sean Hayes, Mariah Carey, Charlie Day, Michelle Dockery, Nathan Fillion, Will Forte, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rupert Grint, Jon Hamm, and Shaun White.
Episode plots include Jeff discovering Roger is an alien and being stranded on an alien space ship in a two-episode story arc ("Naked to the Limit, One More Time", "Lost in Space"), Klaus finding his human body, then switching with Stan's ("Da Flippity Flop"), Roger becoming Stan's stepfather ("American Stepdad") and Hayley getting a job as a bar singer for Roger ("Love, AD Style").
The episode "Minstrel Krampus" was scheduled to air on December 16, 2012, but was replaced by a repeat of "Wheels & the Legman and the Case of Grandpa's Key" out of sensitivity for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. To compensate for this, they aired the episode "National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well: The Hole Story" early. "Minstrel Krampus" eventually aired in the tenth season.
Episode list
References
2012 American television seasons
2013 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%20and%20Cari | Cash and Cari is a television show starring estate sale expert Cari Cucksey produced by Cineflix. The show airs on W Network in Canada and HGTV in the U.S.A. Cari searches through homes, looking for items to sell and refurbishing as she prepares the home for a huge estate sale. Cari searches for antiques, collectible, and one-of-a-kind items. Once Cari and her team of experts price out and set up for the sale, they open to the public hoping to sell anything and everything they can.
Host
Cari Cucksey
Host Cari Cucksey developed a love of antiquing from her mother. Cari's love for selling, trading and buying antiques began when she was 12 years old. She has been a professional estate liquidator for over 10 years, traveling across America in search of the oldest and most unusual items she can find to sell or restore.
Cari previously owned and operated a retail store in Northville, Michigan named RePurpose Estate Services, which has since closed. The retail shop featured antiques, consignment items, designer and vintage clothing and accessories.
Seasons
Season 1
Episode 101: Run Studebaker Run!
Episode 102: Money in Music
Episode 103: Estate Sale Show Down
Episode 104: The Reluctant Seller
Episode 105: Jammed Packed Treasures
Episode 106: Collectors' Paradise
Episode 107: Waterford Wars
Episode 108: The Charitable Sale
Episode 109: Fine Furniture Estate Sale
Episode 110: Railway to Heaven
Episode 111: The Scent of Success. This episode features the restoration of an antique clock by Andy & Dan Anderson openers of Northville Watch and Clock Shop.
Episode 112: Rich Pickings
Episode 113: Grandfather's Treasure Trove
Season 2
Episode 201 “Estate Sale Frenzy”
Episode 202 “Planes, Drains and Great Deals”
Episode 203 “Blue Bin Bonanza”
Episode 204 “Fresh Faces”
Episode 205 “Quirky Collectibles”
Episode 206 “Cari’s Sale Contest”
Episode 207 “Corvette Bidding War”
Episode 208 “High End Estate Sale”
Episode 209 “Signs of Trouble”
Episode 210 “A Tale of Two Sales”
Episode 211 "A Sale for Susie"
Episode 212 “Collector’s Delight”
Episode 213 “Sale At The Mansion”
References
External links
Cineflix official website
Cash and Cari at HGTV
2011 Canadian television series debuts
2013 Canadian television series endings
2010s Canadian reality television series
W Network original programming
Television series by Cineflix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-crowd%20algorithm | The in-crowd algorithm is a numerical method for solving basis pursuit denoising quickly; faster than any other algorithm for large, sparse problems. This algorithm is an active set method, which minimizes iteratively sub-problems of the global basis pursuit denoising:
where is the observed signal, is the sparse signal to be recovered, is the expected signal under , and is the regularization parameter trading off signal fidelity and simplicity. The simplicity is here measured using the sparsity of the solution , measure through its -norm. The active set strategies are very efficient in this context as only few coefficient are expected to be non-zero. Thus, if they can be identified, solving the problem restricted to these coefficients yield the solution. Here, the features are greedily selected based on the absolute value of their gradient at the current estimate.
Other active-set methods for the basis pursuit denoising includes BLITZ, where the selection of the active set is performed using the duality gap of the problem, and The Feature Sign Search, where the features are included based on the estimate of their sign.
Algorithm
It consists of the following:
Declare to be 0, so the unexplained residual
Declare the active set to be the empty set, and to be its complement (the inactive set)
Calculate the usefulness for each component in
If on , no , terminate
Otherwise, add components to based on their usefulness
Solve basis pursuit denoising exactly on , and throw out any component of whose value attains exactly 0. This problem is dense, so quadratic programming techniques work very well for this sub problem.
Update - n.b. can be computed in the subproblem as all elements outside of are 0
Go to step 3.
Since every time the in-crowd algorithm performs a global search it adds up to components to the active set, it can be a factor of faster than the best alternative algorithms when this search is computationally expensive. A theorem guarantees that the global optimum is reached in spite of the many-at-a-time nature of the in-crowd algorithm.
Notes
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docsity | Docsity is an online social learning network for worldwide students and professionals. Originally launched in 2010 exclusively for Italian students, it became an international website in mid-2012 by opening to worldwide students. It is advertisement-free and user-generated.
Docsity provides 3,019,782 study documents catalogued by subject and study path. Currently, the platform is available in 9 languages including: Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Serbian, Polish and Russian and has 15,435,176 registered students.
History
"After finishing the polytechnic, I found myself with a mountain of excellent Electronic Engineering notes. So I asked myself: why not share them with students from all over Italy?"
Riccardo Ocleppo, founderDocsity started as an initiative by Riccardo, who was displeased, during his university experience, with time management and the possibility of deepening study subjects. He had realized that finding correct study notes was difficult or even impossible, but he was trying to solve these aspects of university life. So he started Docsity.com, an online platform where students could share and view notes for free and also could discuss them with one another. In a very short time, thousands of students had registered on the platform, interested in the quality shared contents. Subsequently, the main Italian newspapers took notice including La Stampa, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Corriere and Il Sole 24 Ore.
Features
Document sharing: students can share their study notes and all their university-related documents for other students to search, view, and download.
Networking: it helps students to meet with other students through friendships, have fun studying, interact on each other's walls and get notifications on friends' activities.
News and Blogs: students can read various articles on everyday student life and become authors by submitting blog posts.
Video sharing: students can share and catalog academic videos from YouTube or upload their own videos for other students to view.
Q & A section: students from around the world can interact and help one another by answering questions and voting other contributions.
Docsity has around 300,000+ study notes shared by students, 400,000+ Questions and Answers, 500+ published articles, 2,000+ academic videos and 500,000+ university students(Unofficial figures).
Technology
Docsity allows its users to upload, download and share notes (including .doc, .pdf, .ppt and popular image formats). Its question and answer section allows students to ask and answer questions, and to vote, rate, and comment on the answers. The video section offers videos cataloged or uploaded by students and can be searched by subject, course and type. The news and blog section contains news articles by university students on numerous topics related to education and everyday student life.
The website offers a star rating and comments feature on all its content for the users for their feedback |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrolytdatenbank%20Regensburg | Elektrolytdatenbank Regensburg (abridged ELDAR) is a compilation of thermodynamic data, bibliography and properties of electrolytes and their solutions.
History
The gathering of data has begun in 1981. It is a member of DECHEMA and associate of Dortmund Data Bank.
Content
Densities, dielectric constants
Thermal expansion and compressibility data
Electrical conductivity data
Solubility data
Activity and excess molar quantity data
External links
official site
Chemical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapy | Scrapy ( ) is a free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python and developed in Cambuslang. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler. It is currently maintained by Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub), a web-scraping development and services company.
Scrapy project architecture is built around "spiders", which are self-contained crawlers that are given a set of instructions. Following the spirit of other don't repeat yourself frameworks, such as Django, it makes it easier to build and scale large crawling projects by allowing developers to reuse their code.
Some well-known companies and products using Scrapy are: Lyst, Parse.ly, Sayone Technologies, Sciences Po Medialab, Data.gov.uk’s World Government Data site.
History
Scrapy was born at London-based web-aggregation and e-commerce company Mydeco, where it was developed and maintained by employees of Mydeco and Insophia (a web-consulting company based in Montevideo, Uruguay). The first public release was in August 2008 under the BSD license, with a milestone 1.0 release happening in June 2015. In 2011, Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) became the new official maintainer.
References
Check out the list of top 21 Best Web Scraping tools in 2023
Web crawlers
Web scraping
Free software programmed in Python
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllosticta%20nicotianae | Phyllosticta nicotianae is a plant pathogen infecting tobacco.
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Tobacco diseases
nicotiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qsort | qsort is a C standard library function that implements a sorting algorithm for arrays of arbitrary objects according to a user-provided comparison function. It is named after the "quicker sort" algorithm (a quicksort variant due to R. S. Scowen), which was originally used to implement it in the Unix C library, although the C standard does not require it to implement quicksort.
The ability to operate on different kinds of data (polymorphism) is achieved by taking a function pointer to a three-way comparison function, as well as a parameter that specifies the size of its individual input objects. The C standard requires the comparison function to implement a total order on the items in the input array.
History
A qsort function appears in Version 2 Unix in 1972 as a library assembly language subroutine. Its interface is unlike the modern version, in that it can be pseudo-prototyped as qsort(void * start, void * end, unsigned length) – sorting contiguously-stored length-long byte strings from the range [start, end). This, and the lack of a replaceable comparison function, makes it unsuitable to properly sort the system's little-endian integers, or any other data structures.
In Version 3 Unix, the interface is extended by calling compar(III), with an interface identical to modern-day memcmp. This function may be overriden by the user's program to implement any kind of ordering, in an equivalent fashion to the compar argument to standard qsort (though program-global, of course).
Version 4 Unix adds a C implementation, with an interface equivalent to the standard.
It was rewritten in 1983 for the Berkeley Software Distribution. The function was standardized in ANSI C (1989).
The assembly implementation is removed in Version 6 Unix.
In 1991, Bell Labs employees observed that AT&T and BSD versions of qsort would consume quadratic time for some simple inputs. Thus Jon Bentley and Douglas McIlroy engineered a new faster and more robust implementation. McIlroy would later produce a more complex quadratic-time input, termed AntiQuicksort, in 1998. This function constructs adversary data on-the-fly.
Example
The following piece of C code shows how to sort a list of integers using qsort.
#include <stdlib.h>
/* Comparison function. Receives two generic (void) pointers to the items under comparison. */
int compare_ints(const void *p, const void *q) {
int x = *(const int *)p;
int y = *(const int *)q;
/* Avoid return x - y, which can cause undefined behaviour
because of signed integer overflow. */
if (x < y)
return -1; // Return -1 if you want ascending, 1 if you want descending order.
else if (x > y)
return 1; // Return 1 if you want ascending, -1 if you want descending order.
return 0;
// All the logic is often alternatively written:
return (x > y) - (x < y);
}
/* Sort an array of n integers, pointed to by a. */
void sort_ints(int *a, size_t n) {
qsort(a, n, sizeof(*a), compare_ints);
}
E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conor%20McBride | Conor McBride (born 18 February 1973) is a Reader in the department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde. In 1999, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Dependently Typed Functional Programs and their Proofs at the University of Edinburgh for his work in type theory. He formerly worked at Durham University and briefly at Royal Holloway, University of London before joining the academic staff at the University of Strathclyde.
He was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
He favors and often uses the language Haskell.
Research
His most notable research is in the field of type theory. He cocreated the programming language Epigram with James McKinna. Several of his articles, including the joint-written article defining the Epigram language, have been published in the Journal of Functional Programming.
Selected bibliography
Video lectures
References
External links
, University of Strathclyde
, personal
Living people
British computer scientists
Academics of the University of Strathclyde
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
1973 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusterpoint | Clusterpoint is a European software technology company developing and supporting the Clusterpoint database management system platform.
The company was founded by software engineers, and is venture capital backed. For most of its history Clusterpoint has been servicing business customers as an enterprise software vendor.
Clusterpoint database
Clusterpoint is a schema-free document database.
Examples are where SQL RDBMS data is used in combination with an enterprise search engine to address performance and scalability needs of web and mobile applications, or where big data and analytics tools such as Hadoop might be needed due to sheer volume of data or large computing workloads.
General features
Data is managed in open, cross-platform, industry standard XML or JSON format using open API, for instance, Python API or JavaScript Node.js API
Data structure agnostic and type-rich database, handles variable data structure XML or JSON documents in a single database. Supports unstructured textual data, dates, numbers, meta-data (all XML and JSON types)
Cross-platform support: binaries are available for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows. Clusterpoint database software can be compiled on other operating systems.
Multi-master cluster software architecture: any cluster node can serve as a master and run the management application
Horizontal database scalability: scales out from a single server to few thousands of servers networked into a cluster infrastructure
Clusterpoint products
Clusterpoint DBMS: Clustered NoSQL database, which uses the approach of multiple server system to spread load and increase performance. Clusterpoint database facilitates high parallelism of computing and distribution of data.
GOL: Big Data SIEM Analytics tool from Clusterpark Log, Events and Security Records Search and Analytics.
DigiBrowser: Quick SQL denormalization into NoSQL database imports multi-table SQL database into one Clusterpoint database using automagic denormalization.
NTSS: Network Traffic Surveillance System for Lawful Intercept High-speed capture, store, search and analysis of all Internet traffic for the corporate network.
References
Proprietary database management systems
Document-oriented databases
XML databases
Distributed computing architecture
NoSQL
XML
Database-related software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Nuremberg | The Nuremberg tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Nuremberg, a city in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany. The system reached the neighboring city of Fürth from its opening year to almost a century later when construction of the U1 subway line led to the withdrawal of tram service to and within Fürth. During that era and referring to it historically in literature or nostalgic activities, the system was known as “Nürnberg-Fürther Straßenbahn“ (Nuremberg-Fürth tramway). For example, a local association dedicated to preserving the history and heritage of the tram network as well as old rolling stock calls itself “Freunde der Nürnberg-Fürther Straßenbahn“ (friends of the Nuremberg Fürth tramway) The system is planned to cross the municipal boundaries of Nuremberg once more, if and when the extension to Erlangen and from there to Herzogenaurach dubbed "Stadtumlandbahn" (or "StUB" for short) opens (see below).
The network is operated by Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg (VAG), which is a member of the Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg (VGN; Greater Nuremberg Area Transport Association). The VAG also operates the Nuremberg U-Bahn and local buses while the Deutsche Bahn AG operated Nuremberg S-Bahn also operates within VGN schedules and ticketing rules.
, the network consisted of five lines, running on a total operational route length of . The network carried 39.152 million passengers annually.
History
The first horse-drawn tramline opened in Nuremberg on 25 August 1881.
Electrification came to the system when the first electric tramline opened on 7 May 1896. The entire system was electrified on 20 July 1898. Until the 1990s the track gauge was nominally , however, this figure is just from standard gauge and thus both figures are within each other's tolerances.
The system reached into the neighboring city of Fürth until 1981 (weeks ahead of the 100th anniversary of the system) when tram service was shut down in anticipation of the newly built subway line U1 replacing the service to Fürth - prior to that the trams to Fürth had been using the elevated line built for the U1 as a transitional service. This marked a particularly high-profile example of shutdowns of tram service on the network in the course of U-Bahn expansion. When the decision to build an U-Bahn (as opposed to converting the existing tram system into a Stadtbahn as other West German cities were doing at the time) was taken in the 1960s, the tram network was planned to be gradually replaced by subways and buses and shut down step by step. However, this decision was ultimately reversed and there have both been shutdowns (last along Pirckheimer Straße in 2011) and expansions (last in 2016 towards the new northern endpoint "Am Wegfeld" in preparation for potential extension towards neighboring Erlangen) in the 2010s.
Both the decision to abandon tram service in favor of U-Bahn and bus service and its reversal were parallele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CasaPound | CasaPound Italia (abbr. CPI; "House of [Ezra] Pound") is an Italian neo-fascist movement and formerly a political party born as a network of far-right social centres arising from the occupation of a state-owned building by squatters in the neighborhood of Esquilino in Rome on 26 December 2003. Subsequently, CasaPound spread with other instances of squatting, demonstrations and various initiatives, becoming a political movement.
As such, in June 2008, CasaPound therefore constituted an "association of social promotion", and assumed its current name CasaPound Italia – CPI; the party's symbol is the "Arrowed Turtle". On 26 June 2019, CasaPound's leader Gianluca Iannone announced CasaPound existence as a political party had ended, going back to its original status of social movement.
History
The first occupation made using the name CasaPound was on 26 December 2003 in Rome, by a group of young people referring to the ONC/OSA area (acronym for "Non-Compliant Occupations and Occupations with a Housing Purpose"), and coming from previous experience of CasaMontag (named after Guy Montag) at the gates of Rome. The building, a state-owned building in via Napoleone III, later has been used as the national headquarters of the movement and the association. In 2010, 23 families and a total of 82 people lived in CasaPound occupied building.
Previously, CasaPound was associated with Tricolour Flame until 2008 but now has its own movement, CasaPound Italy, extending all over Italy with many social centres. While CPI does not recognize the classic definitions of right and left, it is commonly placed in the category of the political groups and movements of the Italian radical right. Casapound is generally self-defined by its followers as Third Position, however.
In 2011 it was estimated that CasaPound Italy had 5,000 members, while in 2017 they reached 6,000. On 13 November 2017, Simone Di Stefano was elected secretary and nominal prime ministerial candidate for the 2018 general election, although the party subsequently formally stated that it hoped Northern League leader Matteo Salvini became Prime Minister.
In order to participate in the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy, an electoral joint list was formed by CasaPound together with United Right. CasaPound leader Simone Di Stefano topped the coalition's list however the coalition was unable to win any seats in the European Parliament. On 26 June 2019, CasaPound's Iannone announced CasaPound existence as a political party had ended, going back to its original status of social movement.
During the 2022 Italian general election, CasaPound supported Italexit, which had a candidate list that included CasaPound members.
Ideology
One feature of this movement, according to sociologist Emanuele Toscano, is to present a different interpretation of fascism aimed at overcoming the dichotomy of right-left. The political position of CasaPound is based on the fascist Third Position, defined as "extreme-upper- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AceDB | AceDB is a biological database for handling genomic data. It was developed by Richard M. Durbin and Jean Thierry-Mieg in 1989. AceDB stands for a C. elegans database. Although AceDB was initially created as a database specifically for the nematode worm it has also come to mean the database software itself, which has been used to store information for other species. According to its website, AceDB provides a custom database kernel with a non-standard data model designed with flexibility in mind. For example, there is an AceDB instance for the organism Pristionchus pacificus called AppaDB. Much of the functionality of AceDB for C. elegans has been made available through the WormBase database.
Features included:
a graphical user interface with many specific displays and tools for genomic data
open-source software
package that implements a simple web browser interface allowing the database to accessed from anywhere
Interfaces easily with perl, Java and CORBA
Tools for comparative genome analysis including The Oxford Grid, The Pairwise Chromosome Map, The One-to-Many Chromosome Map, The Species Grid, Translocation Grid
built-in ability to handle phylogenetic data
easily links to outside applications
developed to run under the Unix operating system, using X-Windows for graphics, with a local copy of the database files
Development on AceDB appears to have ceased as the interface is still using old technology and many of the sites that originally used it have upgraded to newer software.
References
External links
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/acedb
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Route%2053 | Amazon Route 53 (Route 53) is a scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Released on December 5, 2010, it is part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The name is a possible reference to U.S. Routes, and "53" is a reference to the TCP/UDP port 53, where DNS server requests are addressed. In addition to being able to route users to various AWS services, including EC2 instances, Route 53 also enables AWS customers to route users to non-AWS infrastructure and to monitor the health of their application and its endpoints. Route 53's servers are distributed throughout the world. Amazon Route 53 supports full, end-to-end DNS resolution over IPv6. Recursive DNS resolvers on IPv6 networks can use either IPv4 or IPv6 transport to send DNS queries to Amazon Route 53.
Customers create "hosted zones" that act as a container for four name servers. The name servers are spread across four different TLDs. Customers are able to add, delete, and change any DNS records in their hosted zones. Amazon also offers domain registration services to AWS customers through Route 53. Amazon provides an SLA of the service always being available at all times (100% available).
One of the key features of Route 53 is programmatic access to the service that allows customers to modify DNS records via web service calls. Combined with other features in AWS, this allows a developer to programmatically bring up a machine and point to components that have been created via other service calls such as those to create new S3 buckets or EC2 instances.
Supported DNS record types
A
AAAA
CAA
CNAME
MX
NAPTR
NS
PTR
SOA
SPF
SRV
TXT
Additionally, there is a Route 53-specific virtual record type called "Alias". Alias records act similarly to CNAME records but are resolved on the server side and appear to clients as an A record. They can be used to create transparent references to other AWS resources that only provide DNS names and not IP addresses, such as an Elastic Load Balancer or a CloudFront distribution. Because alias records are resolved on the server-side and return A records to clients they can be used in domain apex records in a similar way to a CNAME record, where CNAME records are disallowed for this use by RFC 2181.
See also
List of managed DNS providers
References
External links
Amazon Route 53 main page
Amazon Route 53 API Reference
Route 53
Domain Name System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish%20Guy | "Amish Guy" is the seventh episode of the tenth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 27, 2011. The episode follows the Griffin family after their car breaks down in Amish country on their way back from a vacation. The family must then learn to adjust to the community for the weekend, until they are able to fix their car at a mechanic. However, when Meg falls in love with an Amish boy named Eli, and his father forbids the two from ever seeing each other again, a Romeo and Juliet family conflict arises between the two families. This results in a battle between the families, with the victor determining Meg and Eli's ultimate fate.
The episode was written by Mark Hentemann and directed by John Holmquist. It received mostly positive reviews from critics for its storyline and numerable cultural references. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 5.5 million homes in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Christine Lakin, Ari Graynor, Bobby Lee, Bailey Gambertoglio, Missi Pyle and Kevin Michael Richardson, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series. It was first announced at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International.
Plot
The Griffin family decide to travel to the Six Flags amusement park. When Peter is barred from riding The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen roller coasters because he is too overweight, he becomes disappointed. Peter's friends Joe and Quagmire then convince him to go on a diet in order to be able to ride the coaster. He is unable to lose any weight and decides to wear a girdle instead. The family then travels to Ohio in order to ride a new roller coaster called The Holocaust. This time Peter is allowed to ride the roller coaster, but it is unable to make it up the first hill, and collapses under his weight.
As the family begin driving home, the car suddenly breaks down in Amish country, with no mechanic or any signs of modern civilization in sight. The family approaches a group of Amish workers, asking if they can stay in the workers' village for the weekend. When Meg complains about the lack of electricity and other modern conveniences, a local Amish boy named Eli decides to take her on a tour of the village. The pair then begin to kiss, but the boy's overprotective, abusive, fanatical, and strict father Ezekiel interrupts them, and instructs the two never to see each other again over fears that Meg may corrupt his son. Upon hearing of this, Peter tries to talk to Ezekiel, but unintentionally turns the Amish community against him after trying to introduce Ezekiel to rock music with the song "Highway to Hell", prompting him to demand that the Griffin family leave, arranging for two horses to pull the car back to their home. Eli decides to follow Meg, and the group then returns to Quahog.
Later that day, the Amish follow the family to Quahog and vandalize the Griffins' home – painting "Ye Suck" and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen%20Anderson-Lopez | Kristen Anderson-Lopez (born March 21, 1972) is an American songwriter and lyricist known for co-writing the songs for the 2013 computer-animated musical film Frozen and its 2019 sequel Frozen II with her husband Robert Lopez. The couple won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Let It Go" from Frozen and "Remember Me" from Coco (2017) at the 86th and 90th awards respectively. She also won two Grammy Awards at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.
Personal life
Anderson-Lopez was raised in Croton-on-Hudson, New York (a suburb of New York City), until 1986; the Myers Park neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1986 to 1990; and Waxhaw, North Carolina (a suburb of Charlotte), from 1990 onward (which was her home during her college years). Her parents, Erin and John, still live in Waxhaw. According to her father, Anderson-Lopez first fell in love with the theater at the age of four, when he took her to see a U.S. Bicentennial musical tribute staged in their then-hometown of Croton-on-Hudson. After her family moved to North Carolina, she attended and graduated from Charlotte Country Day School. She went on to Williams College in western Massachusetts, where she double-majored in drama and psychology and graduated in 1994. While at Williams, she became a member of the college's oldest all gender a capella group-The Ephlats. After a theater internship in Florida, Anderson-Lopez spent several years working temporary jobs while pursuing her dream of becoming a Broadway theatre performer in New York City. In 1999, she entered the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and found her true calling as a lyricist, and also met her future husband Robert Lopez.
In October 2003, Anderson married Lopez, who would go on to become an EGOT-winning songwriter, composer and lyricist, including three Tony Awards for Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon. They have two daughters; Katie and Annie, who both had voice parts in Frozen.
Anderson-Lopez's sister, Kate Anderson, co-wrote the songs for Olaf's Frozen Adventure.
Stage productions
In 2006, Anderson-Lopez and her husband wrote the songs for the Walt Disney World production of Finding Nemo – The Musical.
Anderson-Lopez is the co-creator of the musical In Transit, developed at the O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference. The musical ran Off-Broadway at the 59E59 Theatre, from September 21, 2010, to October 30, 2010. The production received the 2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble, as well as a nomination for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Musical (among others) and the 2011 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. It opened on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre in November 2016, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall.
She co-created the romantic stage musical Up Here, which debuted in 2015, with her husband and Alex Timbers.
Her work for young audiences includes numerous short and full-length musical adaptations for Theatreworks USA (Diary of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good-bye%20%28The%20Wonder%20Years%29 | "Good-bye" is the twentieth episode of the third season of The Wonder Years and the forty-third episode overall. "Good-bye" aired on April 24, 1990 on the ABC network. The episode revolves around the relationship between Kevin Arnold and his math teacher, Mr. Collins, who pushes him to succeed in math. Kevin becomes antagonistic towards Mr. Collins, only to become regretful when tragedy befalls the teacher.
The episode was well received by the critical community at the time. It has been retrospectively considered a classic episode of the series. Bob Brush won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for his work on scripting this episode. Michael Dinner won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, becoming one of the few episodes to accomplish the directing/writing double.
Plot
Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) is averaging a "respectable" C in Mr. Collins' math class. Despite his best efforts, Kevin can only muster average 'C' grades. Kevin is mostly content with this, particularly after he does pull off a 'B' on a recent test, reasoning to himself that he is trying his best. However, Kevin becomes curious when he sees that Paul received a note from Mr. Collins on his math paper which read, "Good job, Paul." Kevin stops to talk with Mr. Collins regarding his progress in the class, expecting Collins to be impressed with his grades. When Mr. Collins doesn't reciprocate Kevin's enthusiasm for his grades, Kevin begins to wonder why. Kevin stops Mr. Collins in the courtyard and the teacher explains that he does not believe Kevin is achieving his potential in the class, and could achieve an 'A' on his upcoming midterm, if he really tried. Mr. Collins begins to personally tutor Kevin, and the two develop a unique bond in the class.
After many tutoring sessions in preparation for the midterm, one afternoon, Mr. Collins suddenly tells Kevin that he would not be able to help Kevin with his math for the rest of the week because he would be away, but would be back for the midterm at the end of the week. Kevin does not take this well, saying, "I thought you were my friend," to which Collins replies "I am not your friend Mr. Arnold - I am your teacher". Mr. Collins, after being away a few days does show up for the midterm and Kevin, feeling betrayed, purposefully flunks the midterm examination, writing "who cares" and "???" in response to the questions, which disturbed Mr. Collins greatly. Kevin drops his test off and rushes out of the class, while Mr. Collins, looking over the paper, calls out "Kevin!", which Kevin ignores. Although Kevin is proud of himself that evening, as the weekend progresses, Kevin regrets his decision to flunk the test.
On Monday, Kevin asks to see Mr. Collins in the teachers' lounge to apologize for his behavior. Mr. DiPerna surprises Kevin at the door and pulls him aside, explaining that Mr. Collins had died over the weekend from a heart condition, something he was suffering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oprah%27s%20Lifeclass%20episodes | Oprah's Lifeclass is an American primetime self-help talk show hosted and produced by Oprah Winfrey, airing on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 Classes (2011)
Season One of Oprah's Lifeclass aired on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network from Monday October 10 until Friday November 11, 2011. The first season of Lifeclass aired Monday-Friday at 8/7c, following The Rosie Show, and the pair was considered a reboot for the struggling network to increase viewership during its fall launch of shows. Season One consists of twenty-five hour-long episodes hosted by Winfrey, and nine 90-minute webcasts hosted by Winfrey and a guest teacher (some of which aired as Oprah's Lifeclass LIVE episodes, following Lifeclass on Friday nights).
Season 2 Classes (2012)- Oprah's Lifeclass: The Tour
Season Two of Oprah's Lifeclass aired weekly on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network from Monday March 26 until Monday April 30, 2012. Winfrey hosted class discussions in various cities across North America, in an effort to better connect with the show's audience. Winfrey made tour stops in St. Louis, Missouri, New York City, New York, and Toronto, Ontario. The second season aired Mondays at 8/7c and consists of six two-hour episodes.
Season 3 Classes (2012-13)
Season Three of Oprah's Lifeclass premiered on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network on Sunday July 29, 2012 at 10/9c. It features Winfrey hosting classes in front of a live studio audience at Harpo Studios in Chicago with various guest co-hosts. Some episodes of season three were filmed at The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Sarofim Hall in Houston, Texas on October 5, 2012 with Joel Osteen and Rick Warren. The third season aired Sundays at 9/8c or 10/9c and consists of seven hour-long episodes.
Season 4 Classes (2013)
Season Four of Oprah's Lifeclass premiered on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network on Sunday February 10, 2013 at 9/8c. It features Winfrey hosting classes in front of a live studio audience at Harpo Studios in Chicago with various guest co-hosts, including Lifeclass mainstay Iyanla Vanzant, Gary Chapman, Brené Brown, and Dr. Phil. An episode featuring Bishop T.D. Jakes teaching a lesson about fatherless sons and daughters filmed in Texas in late August.
Season 5 Classes (2014)
Season Five of Oprah's Lifeclass premiered on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network on Friday January 3, 2014 at 10/9c. It features Winfrey hosting classes in front of a live studio audience in "The Social Lab" at Harpo Studios in Chicago with various guest co-hosts.
Online Classes
References
Oprahs lifeclass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Kuipers | Benjamin Kuipers (born 7 April 1949) is an American computer scientist at the University of Michigan, known for his research in qualitative simulation.
Biography
Kuipers graduated from Swarthmore College in 1970 with a B.A. in Mathematics. He then did two years of alternate service as a conscientious objector to military service, working in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. He began his doctoral studies in pure mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He soon discovered the field of Artificial Intelligence, and spent most of his time at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, where his advisor was Marvin Minsky. He received his PhD in Mathematics from MIT in 1977. He spent a post-doctoral year as a research associate at the MIT Division for Study and Research in Education, funded by a DARPA grant to support collaborative research with BBN psychologist Albert Stevens.
Kuipers joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin in 1985 and became department chair in 1997. In January 2009, he moved to the University of Michigan, where he is now a professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
Kuipers is an elected fellow of the AAAI and the AAAS.
Personal stance on military funding
Kuipers is also well known for his personal stance against accepting military funding for his research. As he explains in his essay, "Why don't I take military funding?", during a DARPA-funded post-doctoral year he discovered that the primary interest in his early work on cognitive maps came from military agencies with the goal of building intelligent cruise missiles. As explained in his essay, he felt that he did not want his life's work to contribute to war.
Selected publications
Kuipers, Benjamin. Qualitative reasoning: modeling and simulation with incomplete knowledge. MIT press, 1994.
Articles, a selection
Kuipers, Benjamin. "Modeling Spatial Knowledge ." Cognitive science 2.2 (1978): 129–153.
Kuipers, Benjamin. "Qualitative simulation." Artificial intelligence 29.3 (1986): 289–338.
Kuipers, Benjamin, and Yung-Tai Byun. "A robot exploration and mapping strategy based on a semantic hierarchy of spatial representations." Robotics and autonomous systems 8.1 (1991): 47–63.
References
External links
1949 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
University of Michigan faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoy%20%28surname%29 | Stoy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Franklin Pierce Stoy (1854–1911), Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey from 1900 to 1911
Joe Stoy, British computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datakhel | Datakhel () or Datta Khel is a town in North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
It is part of Datta Khel Tehsil of North Waziristan district.
Overview and history
Datakhel is located around 41 km South West of near by towns of Miran Shan and 21 km of Boya in North Wizaristan. According to the 2017 census, the population of Datakhel, is 1037 with total number of household stands at 171.
On Sept 25, 2008, as an indication of escalating tensions between nations, Pakistani forces fired warning shots at American aircraft after they crossed into Pakistan's territory in the area of Saidgai, in North Waziristan's Datakhel region.
On March 17, 2011, a US airstrike that killed 44 people in the city led to widespread condemnation in Pakistan.
See also
North Waziristan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
References
External links
Populated places in North Waziristan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Karel%20Lenstra | Jan Karel Lenstra (born 19 December 1947, in Zaandam) is a Dutch mathematician and operations researcher, known for his work on scheduling algorithms, local search, and the travelling salesman problem.
Lenstra received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 1976, advised by Gijsbert de Leve. He then became a researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, where he remained until 1989. After taking positions at the Eindhoven University of Technology (where he became Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science) and the Georgia Institute of Technology, he returned to CWI as its director in 2003. He stepped down in 2011, and at that time became a CWI Fellow. He was editor-in-chief of Mathematics of Operations Research from 1993 to 1998, and is editor-in-chief of Operations Research Letters since 2002.
Lenstra became an INFORMS fellow in 2004.
In 1997, he was awarded the EURO Gold Medal, the highest distinction within Operations Research in Europe.
In 2011, he was made a knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, and the CWI organized a symposium in his honor.
Lenstra is the brother of Arjen Lenstra, Andries Lenstra, and Hendrik Lenstra, all of whom are also mathematicians. He is married to Karen Aardal, in 2020 professor at Delft University.
Publications
Jan Karel Lenstra // DBLP, Universität Trier
Peter J. M. van Laarhoven, Emile H. L. Aarts, Jan Karel Lenstra. - Job Shop Scheduling by Simulated Annealing (info) // Operations Research, , pp. 113-125.
Emile H. L. Aarts, Peter J. M. van Laarhoven, Jan Karel Lenstra, Nico L. J. Ulder: A Computational Study of Local Search Algorithms for Job Shop Scheduling. // INFORMS Journal on Computing 6(2): 118-125 (1994) (dblp)
References
Sources
Album Academicum (website University of Amsterdam)
1947 births
Living people
Dutch mathematicians
Dutch operations researchers
University of Amsterdam alumni
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Georgia Tech faculty
Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
People from Zaanstad
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacognosy%20Research | Pharmacognosy Research is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal published on behalf of the Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide. The journal publishes articles on the subject of pharmacognosy, natural products, and phytochemistry and is indexed with CASPUR, EBSCO, ProQuest, and Scopus.
External links
Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide
Open access journals
Biannual journals
English-language journals
Pharmacology journals
Academic journals established in 2007
Medknow Publications academic journals
Pharmacognosy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20Wireless | Republic Wireless (stylized in all lowercase) was an American mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). Republic sold low cost mobile phone service on partner networks. Republic started as a unique company that provided customers with VOIP numbers which relied on WiFi first with cell as a backup.
In 2021, Republic was acquired by Dish Wireless and converted to providing conventional cellular service. Their service was then promoted as being available to Dish Network customers only. Switched from the T-Mobile network to the AT&T network when purchased by Dish around July 2022. In 2023, the company began shutting down and transitioning customers to different plans on Boost Infinite.
Customers
As of 2021, the company had about 200,000 subscribers, and as of 2019 it had close to $100 million in annual revenue. Trade publication Inside Towers wrote that its customers "appear to be more tech savvy than most, and also more price conscious".
History
Early history
Republic was an early provider of WiFi-first MVNO services.
Created in January 2010 as a subsidiary of Bandwidth.com, the company announced it would provide a monthly subscription of $19 per month for wireless service with unlimited calling, texting, and data on a "Hybrid Calling" system.
Republic Wireless began beta service on November 8, 2011, with the LG Optimus S and later the Motorola Defy XT in July 2012. On November 19, 2012, Republic Wireless ended its private beta and transitioned to an open, public beta.
On November 14, 2013, Republic officially came out of its Beta testing period and began offering the Moto X for $299 with four new service plans starting at $5 per month.
In 2013, the company introduced WiFi-to-cellular handover so that calls could transition from Wi-Fi to cell tower service.
Additional models and new technology
On March 13, 2014, Republic officially announced the release of their next phone, the Motorola Moto G which was priced at $149 for the 8GB and $179 for the 16GB version. The Moto G was released for sale on April 17, 2014. Unlike Moto X which offered four service plans, Moto G offered only three service plans. (Moto G did not offer the 4G service plan.) On October 15, 2014, Republic released the Motorola Moto E pricing it at $99. On November 26, 2014, Republic announced that they would be offering the 16 GB second generation Moto X for $399 beginning December 10, 2014.
In 2015, the company introduced cellular-to-WiFi handover.
In July 2016, Republic added several phone models from Samsung, LG, and Huawei, in addition to its already-established Motorola line. Also, the switch was made to new plans on the T-Mobile network, replacing their older plans using the Sprint network.
In August 2016, Republic also added a bring-your-own-phone (BYOP) compatibility to its service plans by offering SIM card kit sales in their online store.
On December 1, 2016, Republic Wireless announced its spin-off from Bandwidth.com.
Also in 2016, the company introduced "bonded |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%27y%C5%8D%20Shinkansen | The is a line of the Japanese Shinkansen high-speed rail network, connecting Shin-Osaka in Osaka with Hakata Station in Fukuoka, the two largest cities in western Japan. Operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West), it is a westward continuation of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and also serves other major cities in between on Honshu and Kyushu islands such as Kobe, Himeji, Okayama, Hiroshima, and Kitakyushu. The Kyushu Shinkansen continues south of Hakata to Kagoshima. The San'yō Shinkansen connects Hakata with Osaka in two and a half hours, with trains operating at a maximum operating speed of for most of the journey Some Nozomi trains operate continuously on San'yō and Tōkaidō Shinkansen lines, connecting Tokyo and Hakata in five hours.
Rolling stock
As of March 2020, the following types are used on San'yō Shinkansen services.
500 series: Kodama services
700–7000 series: Hikari / Kodama services
N700 series: Nozomi / Hikari / Kodama services
N700-7000/8000 series: Mizuho / Sakura / Kodama services
Former rolling stock
0 series: Hikari / Kodama services
100 series: Hikari / Kodama services
300 series: Nozomi / Hikari / Kodama services
700-0 series: Nozomi / Hikari / Kodama services
700–3000 series: Nozomi / Hikari / Kodama services
Stations
All stations on the San'yō Shinkansen are owned and operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West), with the exception of Shin-Osaka station, which is run by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). Kodama trains stop at all stations; other services have varying stopping patterns. All trains stop at Shin-Osaka, Shin-Kobe, Okayama, Hiroshima, Kokura, and Hakata. Nozomi or Mizuho trains cannot be used by foreign tourists traveling with a Japan Rail Pass.
Legend:
As of 2012, the maximum line speed is, West-bound between Shin-Ōsaka and Shin-Kobe, between Shin-Kobe and Nishi-Akashi, and between Nishi-Akashi and Hakata. East-bound it is between Hakata and Himeji, between Himeji and Shin-Kobe and between Shin-Kobe and Shin-Ōsaka.
History
Construction of the San'yō Shinkansen between Shin-Ōsaka and Okayama was authorized on 9 September 1965, and commenced on March 16, 1967. Construction between Okayama and Hakata commenced on 10 February 1970. The Shin-Ōsaka to Okayama segment opened on March 15, 1972; the remainder of the line opened on March 10, 1975. The first Hikari trains, using 0 series trains, made the Shin-Ōsaka to Hakata run in 3 hours 44 minutes. This was shortened to 2 hours 59 minutes in 1986 with an increase in maximum speed to . 100 series trains, introduced in 1989, boosted maximum speed to and reduced travel time to 2 hours 49 minutes.
Tokyo to Hakata Nozomi services began on 18 March 1993, using 300 series trains. The Shin-Ōsaka to Hakata run was reduced to 2 hours 32 minutes, at a maximum speed of . On 22 March 1997, the 500 series entered service on Nozomi services between Shin-Ōsaka and Hakata, reducing that run to 2 hours 17 minutes at a maximum speed of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20Cell%20Compression | Color Cell Compression is a lossy image compression algorithm developed by Campbell et al., in 1986, which can be considered an early forerunner of modern texture compression algorithms, such as S3 Texture Compression and Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression. It is closely related to Block Truncation Coding, another lossy image compression algorithm, which predates Color Cell Compression, in that it uses the dominant luminance of a block of pixels to partition said pixels into two representative colors. The primary difference between Block Truncation Coding and Color Cell Compression is that the former was designed to compress grayscale images and the latter was designed to compress color images. Also, Block Truncation Coding requires that the standard deviation of the colors of pixels in a block be computed in order to compress an image, whereas Color Cell Compression does not use the standard deviation. Both algorithms, though, can compress an image down to effectively 2 bits per pixel.
Algorithm
Compression
The Color Cell Compression algorithm processes an image in eight steps, although one of the steps (step #6) is optional. It is assumed here that the input is a 24 bits/pixel image, as assumed in the original journal article, although other bit depths could be used.
For each 8-bit RGB octet triple contained in each 24-bit color value in the input image, the NTSC luminance is computed using the following formula:
The image is now subdivided into 4-pixel by 4-pixel blocks, and, the arithmetic mean of the luminance of each pixel in the block is used to select a representative luminance value.
Each block of pixels is then divided into two groups. One group consists of pixels in the current block where each pixel's luminance is greater than or equal to the representative luminance for the current block. The second group of pixels consists of pixels in the current block where each pixel's luminance is less than the representative luminance for the current block. Whether a pixel in the current block belongs to a certain group is determined by a binary "0" or a "1" value in another, separate, 16-entry bitmap.
Two representative 24-bit colors are now selected for each block of pixels by computing two arithmetic means. The first arithmetic mean is the arithmetic mean of all of the pixels belonging to the first group of pixels where the luminance of each pixel is a "1" in the luminance bitmap. The second 24-bit representative color is selected similarly, by taking the arithmetic mean of all the 24-bit color pixels in the second group where each pixel corresponds to a "0" in the luminance bitmap.
The luminance bitmap is stored in a temporary location and then the two 24-bit representative colors for the current block are appended to the bitmap. At this stage, the image has been compressed into a 16-entry bitmap with two 24-bit binary values appended. The total size of the compressed block is now 16 bits for the luminance bitmap, and two 24-b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDAS%20Heritage | MIDAS Heritage – the UK Historic Environment Data Standard is a British cultural heritage standard for recording information on buildings, archaeological sites, shipwrecks, parks and gardens, battlefields, areas of interest and artefacts.
The data standard suggests the minimum level of information needed for recording heritage assets and covers the procedures involved in understanding, protecting and managing these assets. It also provides guidelines on how to support effective sharing of knowledge, data retrieval and long-term preservation of data.
MIDAS Heritage is freely available to anyone interested in recording historic environment information. It is used by national government organisations, local authorities, heritage sector organisations, amenity groups and societies, the research community and professional contractors.
History
The first edition of the standard, MIDAS – A Manual and Data Standard for Monument Inventories, was published by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) in 1998. The organisation merged with English Heritage in 1999 and the updated version, MIDAS Heritage, was published in 2007 in collaboration with other UK heritage organisations. The standard was developed by the Forum on Information Standards in Heritage (FISH), a discussion forum aimed at helping to resolve standards and recording issues for the whole of the heritage sector. A revised version, with more explicit compliance statements, was released in 2012. Following the separation between English Heritage (managing guardianship sites) and Historic England as the strategic historic environment body for England in 2015, responsibility for MIDAS transferred to Historic England.
Coverage
MIDAS Heritage is a set of closely integrated data standards, rather than one single standard. It is designed to be used in conjunction with separate standards covering specific types of applications or projects, which will give the necessary data elements. Examples include SPECTRUM (artefacts), UK Gemini Discovery Metadata Standard (GIS), CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (concepts and relationships), and ''Informing the Future of the Past: Guidelines for Historic Environment Records’’. MIDAS Heritage complies with the UK e-Government Metadata Standard (e-GMS), which is based on Dublin Core.
There are six main themes, each containing several Information Groups, which in turn contain a number of Information Units.
The standard aims only to provide a common information framework and does not cover: what software or file format to use; what to call fields and tables in a database and how they are designed; what indexing terms to use; how to record archives and museum collections, or how to redesign an existing information system.
References
External links
• MIDAS Heritage - free download: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/midas-heritage/midas-heritage-2012-v1_1/
• English Heritage https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandata%20aglaja | Chandata aglaja is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Taiwan.
References
Moths described in 1978
Hadeninae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandata%20taiwana | Chandata taiwana is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Taiwan.
References
Moths described in 1982
Hadeninae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20Guetzloe | Douglas M. Guetzloe (June 15, 1954 – February 6, 2018) was the founder and chairman of Ax the Tax; a radio talk show host and founder of an internet broadcasting network.
Biography
Guetzloe was a community activist who headed Ax the Tax, an anti-tax group in Florida, and a radio talk show host heard exclusively on the Phoenix Network, an internet radio station which he owned. His activities involve political and civic affairs in Central Florida as well as state and national issues. A graduate of Florida State University, Guetzloe served as the university's student body president (his student body vice president was former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist). Following graduation Guetzloe moved to Orlando, Florida to accept a position as public relations director for the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association. Two years later, he was appointed the regional director for the Florida Medical Association where he handled public relations, lobbying and political matters in a 17-county area of Florida.
Guetzloe founded Ax the Tax in 1982 and shortly thereafter established a public relations and marketing company called Advantage Consultants. He contended his leadership as chair of Ax the Tax has led to 17 successful anti-tax battles. His successes have ranged from defeating the 2003 Mobility 20/20 sales tax increase for transportation to being described as "a knight in shining armor charging in on his white horse" by a city commissioner for successfully saving a historic trailer park in Winter Garden, Florida.
Florida Taxpayers Union
Guetzloe helped found the Florida Taxpayers Union in 2004 as an affiliate of the National Taxpayers Union, a grassroots organization working for lower taxes, smaller government and accountability from public officials. The Florida group maintains it has more than 140,000 members, supporters and contributors throughout the state. The issues the Florida Taxpayers Union focuses on include high taxes that undermine private market competition, state regulatory burdens, wasteful government spending and lawsuit abuse. The group also promotes more access to school choice for parents, private property rights, a taxpayer bill of rights to restrain the growth of government and increased domestic oil and gas production for energy needs.
Campaign Flyer and First Amendment
In 2006, Guetzloe was charged with 14 misdemeanors for distributing a political campaign mailer that did not identify who paid for the flyer. Although 13 counts were dismissed in 2008 by Florida's 5th District Court of Appeal and Florida First District Federal Judge Stephen Mickle threw out the state's electioneering communications law in 2009 (the law which Guetzloe was charged under), Guetzloe was sentenced to a 60-day jail term by Orange County Circuit Judge C. Jeffery Arnold in May 2011. Guetzloe claimed he was the only person in America put in jail for not putting a seven-word disclaimer on a political campaign flyer. He also cited the 1995 U.S. Supreme Court ru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20string%20handling | The C programming language has a set of functions implementing operations on strings (character strings and byte strings) in its standard library. Various operations, such as copying, concatenation, tokenization and searching are supported. For character strings, the standard library uses the convention that strings are null-terminated: a string of characters is represented as an array of elements, the last of which is a " character" with numeric value 0.
The only support for strings in the programming language proper is that the compiler translates quoted string constants into null-terminated strings.
Definitions
A string is defined as a contiguous sequence of code units terminated by the first zero code unit (often called the NUL code unit). This means a string cannot contain the zero code unit, as the first one seen marks the end of the string. The length of a string is the number of code units before the zero code unit. The memory occupied by a string is always one more code unit than the length, as space is needed to store the zero terminator.
Generally, the term string means a string where the code unit is of type char, which is exactly 8 bits on all modern machines. C90 defines wide strings which use a code unit of type wchar_t, which is 16 or 32 bits on modern machines. This was intended for Unicode but it is increasingly common to use UTF-8 in normal strings for Unicode instead.
Strings are passed to functions by passing a pointer to the first code unit. Since char* and wchar_t* are different types, the functions that process wide strings are different than the ones processing normal strings and have different names.
String literals ("text" in the C source code) are converted to arrays during compilation. The result is an array of code units containing all the characters plus a trailing zero code unit. In C90 L"text" produces a wide string. A string literal can contain the zero code unit (one way is to put \0 into the source), but this will cause the string to end at that point. The rest of the literal will be placed in memory (with another zero code unit added to the end) but it is impossible to know those code units were translated from the string literal, therefore such source code is not a string literal.
Character encodings
Each string ends at the first occurrence of the zero code unit of the appropriate kind (char or wchar_t). Consequently, a byte string () can contain non-NUL characters in ASCII or any ASCII extension, but not characters in encodings such as UTF-16 (even though a 16-bit code unit might be nonzero, its high or low byte might be zero). The encodings that can be stored in wide strings are defined by the width of wchar_t. In most implementations, wchar_t is at least 16 bits, and so all 16-bit encodings, such as UCS-2, can be stored. If wchar_t is 32-bits, then 32-bit encodings, such as UTF-32, can be stored. (The standard requires a "type that holds any wide character", which on Windows no longer holds true si |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux | tmux is an open-source terminal multiplexer for Unix-like operating systems. It allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously in a single window. It is useful for running more than one command-line program at the same time. It can also be used to detach processes from their controlling terminals, allowing remote sessions to remain active without being visible.
Features
tmux includes most features of GNU Screen. It allows users to start a terminal session with clients that are not bound to a specific physical or virtual console; multiple terminal sessions can be created within a single terminal session and then freely rebound from one virtual console to another, and each session can have several connected clients.
Some notable tmux features are:
Menus for interactive selection of running sessions, windows or clients
Window can be linked to an arbitrary number of sessions
vi-like or Emacs command mode (with auto completion) for managing tmux
Vertical and horizontal window split support
Tmux lacks built-in serial port and telnet support. It uses different command keys from the ones used by screen, so it is not a drop-in replacement for screen, but it can be configured to use compatible keybindings.
Availability
tmux is included in the OpenBSD base system, and is available as a package for many other Unix-like operating systems.
See also
Byobu (software)
Mosh (software)
Twin (windowing system)
xpra
References
Unix software
Terminfo
Terminal multiplexers
Free software programmed in C
Software using the ISC license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard%20certificate | In computer networking, a wildcard certificate is a public key certificate which can be used with multiple sub-domains of a domain. The principal use is for securing web sites with HTTPS, but there are also applications in many other fields. Compared with conventional certificates, a wildcard certificate can be cheaper and more convenient than a certificate for each sub-domain. Multi-domain wildcard certificates further simplify the complexity and reduce costs by securing multiple domains and their sub-domains.
Example
A single wildcard certificate for will secure all these subdomains on the domain:
Instead of getting separate certificates for subdomains, you can use a single certificate for all main domains and subdomains and reduce cost.
Because the wildcard only covers one level of subdomains (the asterisk doesn't match full stops), these domains would not be valid for the certificate:
The "naked" domain is valid when added separately as a Subject Alternative Name ():
Note possible exceptions by CAs, for example wildcard-plus cert by DigiCert contains an automatic "Plus" property for the naked domain .
Type of wildcard certificates
Wildcard certificates are categorized on the basis of validation level, number of domain and number of servers it can be used with. Likewise they are named as domain validation wildcard certificate, organisation validation wildcard certificate and extended validation wildcard certificate when we categorize them according to validation level. The name Multi-domain wildcard certificates and Multi-server wildcard certificates are given according to number of domain and number of server. All types of wildcard certificates signed by popular CAs are categorized and listed internet. Therefore there are types of wildcard which can secure multiple domains, multiple servers and provide different levels of validation.
Limitations
Only a single level of subdomain matching is supported in accordance with .
It is not possible to get a wildcard for an Extended Validation Certificate. A workaround could be to add every virtual host name in the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) extension, the major problem being that the certificate needs to be reissued whenever a new virtual server is added. (See Transport Layer Security § Support for name-based virtual servers for more information.)
Wildcards can be added as domains in multi-domain certificates or Unified Communications Certificates (UCC). In addition, wildcards themselves can have extensions, including other wildcards. For example, the wildcard certificate has as a Subject Alternative Name. Thus it secures as well as the completely different website name .
argues against wildcard certificates on security grounds, in particular "partial wildcards".
Examples
The wildcard applies only to one level of the domain name.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioUML | BioUML is an open-source software platform for the analysis of data from omics sciences research and other advanced computational biology developed by scientists from the Institute of Systems Biology in Novosibirsk, Russia. The platform is freely available online and used in research labs for the discovery of disease origins and prevention.
Available versions
The current release of BioUML is version 0.9.3 released in October 2010 and includes 3 versions.
BioUML Server offers access to data and analysis methods installed server-side for BioUML clients (workbench and web edition) over the Internet.
BioUML Workbench is a Java application that can work standalone or as "thick client" for the BioUML server edition.
BioUML Web Edition is a web browser based "thin client" for the BioUML server edition and provides most of the functionality of the BioUML workbench. It utilizes AJAX and HTML5 <canvas> technology for interactive data editing and visual modeling.
The platform has been developed continuously since 2003 and offers data analysis and visualizations for scientists involved in complex molecular biology research. The system allows for the formalized description of biological systems structure and function including tools required to make discoveries related to genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics. The BioUML platform is built in a modular architecture which has allowed for the relatively simple addition of new tools. This has allowed the integration of many 3rd party tools into the platform over the 7 years it has been available.
Application and usage
BioUML was used as the main workbench for Cyclonet's integrated database on cell cycle regulation and carcinogenesis in 2007
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) and other high throughput methods create huge data sets (called "big data") in the region of 100 terabytes upwards. BioUML can disseminate, analyse and produce visualizations and simulations, allows for parameter fitting and supports many other analysis techniques required to deal with large amounts of raw data. As research is typically shared between various institutions, the storage, delivery and sharing of 'big data' volumes has been a technical challenge. A typical genome data set might contain 500 terabytes of data which may need to be shared, often internationally using Internet2 technology. Proprietary data compression mechanisms have been created (by Valex LLC) for the NCBI Short Read Archive Project that allow for the delivery of raw research data at speeds of up to 40Gbit/s. To provide a full solution for such collaborative research, the makers of BioUML have developed a new hardware/software system in partnership with Valex LLC. This version of BioUML is called Bio datomics.
References
External links
Official site
Computational biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Eades | Peter D. Eades (born 8 January 1952) is an Australian computer scientist, an emeritus professor in the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney, known for his expertise in graph drawing.
Eades received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Australian National University in 1974, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the same university in 1977 under the supervision of Jennifer Seberry. He then did postdoctoral studies at the University of Waterloo before taking an academic position at the University of Queensland, where he remained until 1991. He was a professor of computer science at the University of Newcastle from 1992 to 1999, and joined the University of Sydney faculty in 2000. As well as his faculty position at Sydney, Eades was also a distinguished researcher at NICTA.
Eades is the co-author (with Giuseppe Di Battista, Roberto Tamassia, and Ioannis G. Tollis) of the book Graph drawing: Algorithms for the visualization of graphs, and of the associated survey "Algorithms for drawing graphs: an annotated bibliography". He has also written many highly cited research papers in graph drawing, on topics including spring algorithms, performance speed up with N-body methods, maintenance of the "mental map" in dynamically changing drawings, heuristics for reducing the number of edge crossings in layered graph drawings, and visual display of clustering information in graphs. He was the keynote speaker at the 12th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization in 2006, was one of three invited speakers at the 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation in 2008, and was one of two invited speakers at the 18th International Symposium on Graph Drawing in 2010.
He has been the doctoral advisor of over 30 graduate students.
A workshop in honor of Eades' 60th birthday was held in 2012, as part of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing.
References
External links
Home page at the University of Sydney
List of publications in DBLP
1952 births
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Graph drawing people
Australian National University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Queensland
Academic staff of the University of Newcastle (Australia)
Academic staff of the University of Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20BBC%20Canada | This is a list of programs that were broadcast on BBC Canada until the network's closure on December 31, 2020.
Former programming
55 Degrees North
Absolute Power
According to Bex
Afterlife
Agent vs Agent
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Alan Clark Diaries
Ancestors in the Attic
Antiques Roadshow
Ashes to Ashes
At the End Of My Leash
Auf Wiedersehen Pet
Bargain Hunt
Beachcomber Cottage
Beautiful People
Big City Broker
The Big Flip
Blackadder
The Body Farm
Britain's Worst Driver
Border Force
Border Security (Australia)
Build a New Life
The Catherine Tate Show
Celeb
Celebrity Fantasy Homes
Colin & Justin's Home Heist
Come Fly With Me
Conviction
Coupling
Countdown to Murder
The Crouches
Cutting It
Dalziel and Pascoe
Daniel Deronda
Dead Ringers
Death in Holy Orders
Death in Paradise
Debbie Travis’ Facelift
Design Inc.
Dragons' Den (UK)
Dream Home Abroad
EastEnders
Escape to the Country
The F Word
The Fades
Fantasy Homes by the Sea
Fawlty Towers
Find Me The Face
The Fix
Flog It!
Free Agents
Fresh and Wild
Friday Night Dinner
From Darkness
Garden Invaders
Gavin & Stacey
The Graham Norton Show
Hell's Kitchen (UK)
Holiday Showdown
Holmes Inspection
Holmes Makes it Right
Holmes on Homes
Home To Stay
Homes Under The Hammer
The Hotel Inspector
How Not to Live Your Life
How the Other Half Live
Ideal
Inspector Lynley
The Jonathan Ross Show
Judge John Deed
Junk Brothers
Kitchen Nightmares
The Kumars at No. 42
The Lakes
Law and Order: UK
Life Laundry
Life on Mars
A Likeness in Stone
Little Britain
Little Britain Abroad
Living The Dream
Location, Location, Location
Luther
Make My Body Younger
Manchild
Mary Queen of Shops
Mersey Beat
Million Pound Property Experiment
Misfits
Monroe
Neat
The Omid Djalili Show
The Other Boleyn Girl
PA'S
A Place to Call Home
Property Virgins
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Ramsay's Best Restaurant
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
Real Men
Real Renos
The Really Big Flip
Restaurant Makeover
Rich Bride, Poor Bride
Robin Hood
Room Rivals
Room Service
The Royal Bodyguard
Scott & Bailey
Servants
Spa/Teen Spa
Spooks
State of Play
Strange
Swiss Toni
Tamasin’s Weekends
The Thin Blue Line
This Small Space
Til Debt Do Us Part
TLC
Top Gear
Torchwood
Total Wipeout
A Town & Country Murder
Trading Up In The Sun
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
The Unsellables
The Unsellables (UK)
Waking The Dead
Wedding SOS
Wei in Pass Me The Soap
What Not to Wear
The World's Toughest Driving Tests
Would You Rather?
See also
List of programs broadcast by the BBC
BBC Canada
BBC
List of programs broadcast by BBC America
References
http://www.bbccanada.com/Schedule/
http://www.bbccanada.com/Series/
https://web.archive.org/web/20120516052633/http://www.channelcanada.com/Article1937.html
http://www.falltvpreview.com/channel.php?id=10
External links
BBC Canada official website
BBC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich%20Ross | Rich Ross is the former Group President of Discovery Channel and Science Channel. Earlier in his tenure at Discovery he also oversaw Animal Planet and Velocity (TV network). Previously he was the Chief Executive Officer of Shine America, responsible for commercial strategy of the Shine Group in the United States. He was also the president of entertainment at Disney Channel, and chairman of Walt Disney Studios. When Ross was named Chairman of Walt Disney Studios in 2009, he became the first openly gay studio chief.
Ross discussed his plans for Discovery Channel on January 8, 2015 at the 2015 Television Critics Association press tour that included hiring key senior level executives to oversee documentaries and specials, as well as scripted programming. He had the highest-rated Shark Week ever and its most-watched July ever.
Early life
Ross grew up in Eastchester, New York. His father, Marty, was a garment-industry executive, and his mother, Harriet, was a former teacher turned real-estate agent. Ross is Jewish. He graduated from Eastchester High School. When he was 19, he was hired to work in the mail room at the William Morris Agency in New York. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and English. In 1986, he earned his J.D. degree from Fordham University.
Career
Ross's first job in the entertainment industry was as a talent booker at Nickelodeon. He built the Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite talent relations department and oversaw casting and talent booking for the network's shows including Clarissa Explains It All and Hey Dude. He served as executive producer of Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards. As vice president of program enterprises at Nickelodeon, Ross was involved in all original-programming deals and launched Nick News with Linda Ellerbee into syndication. He was a part of the launch team for Nickelodeon's first international network, Nickelodeon UK. He joined FX Networks in 1993 and was a member of the executive team that launched the cable network.
Disney
In 1996, Ross joined Disney Channel in programming and production as a senior vice president, becoming general manager and executive vice president in 1999. In 2002 he became president of entertainment for Disney Channel, before being named president of Disney Channels Worldwide in 2004, where he oversaw the Disney Channel, Disney XD, Playhouse Disney, Disney Cinemagic, Hungama, GXT, Jetix, and Radio Disney brands. He is credited with establishing Disney's global kids' TV business as the prime entertainment source for the tween market with shows like Hannah Montana, Lizzie McGuire, Wizards of Waverly Place, Shake It Up,The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck, That's So Raven and Phineas and Ferb. He launched the highly successful Disney Channel Original Movie franchise that produced the worldwide hit High School Musical series, as well as the Camp Rock and The Cheetah Girls series. Popular Playhouse Disne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaeloo | Kaeloo is a French computer-animated comedy television series. The first season, comprising 52 episodes, each seven minutes long, it is created by Rémi Chapotot and Jean-François Henry and produced by Cube Creative and Xilam associated with Blue Spirit. The series has been airing from June 6, 2010, on Canal+, Canal+ Kids and Télétoon+, and also started airing from September 2017 on C8.
Overview
The show centers around the adventures of a group of anthropomorphic animal buddies, Kaeloo (Kaelou in the Pilot), Stumpy, (Moignon in the Pilot), Quack-Quack, Mr. Cat, and of Season 2-3-4-5, Pretty, Eugly, Olaf, Ursula, and The Sheep who play games to keep themselves from getting bored. Things always go wrong due to Stumpy's ineptitude at almost everything, Quack-Quack's addiction to yogurt, Pretty's (un)kindness, Eugly's emotional vulnerability, Olaf's desire to take over the world, Mr. Cat's constant cheating and abuse of the others, and most of all, Kaeloo's ability to transform into a hulking monster named Bad Kaeloo (Bad Kaelou in the Pilot) when angered, and of Season 5, The Rules and Stumpy's Sisters.
Characters
Main
Kaeloo (Kaelou) (voiced by Emmanuel Garijo in French and Andy Chase (Pilot), Doug Rand (Season 1) in English) - The titular character and main protagonist. she is an emotionally unstable tree frog who easily gets angry when pushed too far. When she gets too upset, she transforms into "Bad Kaeloo", who's always looking for games to play with her so-called "buddies". When pushed too far, Kaeloo enters an intense rage that transforms her into the hulking "Bad Kaeloo". Throughout the series, it is heavily implied that Kaeloo may have a crush on Mr. Cat, who also happens to have a crush on her. Kaeloo is gender ambiguous in the French dub of the show, no one knowing her gender is a running gag. She is re-written to be female in most of the other dubs of the series; however, the Italian, Serbian and Hindi dubs, as well as the first 10 episodes in the English dub have her re-written as male, with the former three dubs editing out any suggestive scene between her and Mr. Cat.
Stumpy (Moignon) (voiced by Rémi Chapotot in French and Doug Rand (Pilot and Season 1)) - a dim-witted red squirrel, fascinated by explosions, superpowers and anything remotely dangerous. He has little to no sense of reality and is not very intelligent. He is fascinated by adventure, explosions, superpowers, intergalactic wars and the like. Stumpy aspires to be like his idol, comic book hero Mr. Coolskin. He hates books without pictures, being made fun of, other people touching his things, and washing. Whenever he doesn't understand something (which is often), is afraid or otherwise agitated, he spouts gibberish as his neck spasms erratically.
Quack-Quack (Coin-Coin) (voiced by Rémi Chapotot in French and Doug Rand in English) - a duck who spent most of his life as a lab animal, where he was subjected to all sorts of experiments. He is very intelligent, indestruc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare%20machine | In computer science, bare machine (or bare metal) refers to a computer executing instructions directly on logic hardware without an intervening operating system. Modern operating systems evolved through various stages, from elementary to the present day complex, highly sensitive systems incorporating many services. After the development of programmable computers (which did not require physical changes to run different programs) but prior to the development of operating systems, sequential instructions were executed on the computer hardware directly using machine language without any system software layer. This approach is termed the "bare machine" precursor to modern operating systems. Today it is mostly applicable to embedded systems and firmware generally with time-critical latency requirements, while conventional programs are run by a runtime system overlaid on an operating system.
Advantages
For a given application, in most of the cases, a bare-metal implementation will run faster, using less memory and so being more power efficient. This is because operating systems, as any program, need some execution time and memory space to run, and these are no longer needed on bare-metal.
For instance, any hardware feature that includes inputs and outputs are directly accessible on bare-metal, whereas the same feature using an OS must route the call to a subroutine, consuming running time and memory.
Disadvantages
For a given application, bare-metal programming requires more effort to work properly and is more complex because the services provided by the operating system and used by the application have to be re-implemented regarding the needs. These services can be:
System boot (mandatory)
Memory management: Storing location of the code and the data regarding the hardware resources and peripherals (mandatory)
Interruptions handling (if any)
Task scheduling, if the application can perform more than one task
Peripherals management (if any)
Error management, if wanted or needed
Debugging a bare-metal program is difficult since:
There are no software error notifications nor faults management, unless they have been implemented and validated.
There is no standard output, unless it has been implemented and validated.
The machine where the program is written cannot be the same where the program is executed, so the target hardware is either an emulator / simulator or an external device. This forces to setup a way to load the bare-metal program onto the target (flashing), start the program execution and access the target resources.
Bare-metal programming is generally done using a close-to-hardware language, such as Rust, C++, C, assembly language, or even for small amounts of code or very new processors machine code directly. All the previous issues inevitably mean that bare-metal programs are very rarely portable.
Examples
Early computers
Early computers, such as the PDP-11, allowed programmers to load a program, supplied in machine code, to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Computation%20in%20Psychology | The Society for Computation in Psychology (SCiP, formerly Society for Computers in Psychology) is a scholarly society founded in 1971 with the purpose of the increasing and diffusing knowledge of the use of computers in psychological research.
SCiP is an organization of researchers interested in applications of computational techniques and methods in psychology. One focus over the past several years has been on aiding psychologists in using computers in their teaching and research, statistical analysis tools, web-based research, clinical applications, and computational modelling. The Society has also encouraged consideration of psychological aspects of hardware and software development and design.
History
SCiP was initiated in 1971 by Donald Tepas who, with support from the National Science Foundation, organized the first National Conference on the Use of On-Line Computers in Psychology (NCUOLCP). The conference took place the day before the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, and proceedings were published in the journal Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation (BRMI) (now Behavior Research Methods), providing the template for future gatherings.
In its first decades, the society tracked and contributed to the rise of computers in psychological research and society more generally, adopting the name Society for Computers in Psychology in 1982. Its members were also quick to pick up on the potential of the World Wide Web as a medium for and topic of research.
More recently, reflecting the ever-increasing influence of computation and computational methods in psychology, the society has accommodated technical contributions as well as substantive research that makes use of these developments. In 2019, members voted to change its name once more, to Society for Computation in Psychology.
Annual meeting
The Society holds an annual meeting with talks and posters attended by psychologists from around the world. The meeting precedes the Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Castellan Award
The John Castellan Student Paper Award is awarded annually to a student or recent graduate based on work done as a student.
Early Career Impact Award
The Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS), which provides support for the Early Career Impact Award for the Society for Computers in Psychology, is a FABBS society.
References
External links
Psychological societies
Organizations established in 1971 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localization%20Industry%20Standards%20Association | Localization Industry Standards Association or LISA was a Swiss-based trade body concerning the translation of computer software (and associated materials) into multiple natural languages, which existed from 1990 to February 2011. It counted among its members most of the large information technology companies of the period, including Adobe, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, McAfee, Nokia, Novell and Xerox.
LISA played a significant role in representing its partners at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the TermBase eXchange (TBX) standard developed by LISA was submitted to ISO in 2007 and became ISO 30042:2008. LISA also had a presence at the W3C.
A number of the LISA standards are used by the OASIS Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization framework.
LISA shut down on 28 February 2011, and its website went offline shortly afterwards. In the wake of the closure of LISA, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute started an Industry Specification Group (ISG) for localization. The ISG has five work items:
Term-Base eXchange (TBX) / ISO 30042:2008
Translation Memory eXchange (TMX), with GALA
Segmentation Rules eXchange (SRX) / ISO/CD 24621)
Global information management Metrics eXchange – Volume (GMX-V);
Another organization that was formed in response to the closure of LISA is Terminology for Large Organizations (TerminOrgs), a consortium of terminology professionals who promote terminology management best practices.
References
External links
LISA Website via the Internet Archive
Translation organizations
Machine translation
Computer-assisted translation
Information technology organisations based in Switzerland
Technology trade associations
Business organisations based in Switzerland
1990 establishments in Switzerland
2011 disestablishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Frankfurt%20%28Oder%29 | The Frankfurt (Oder) tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Frankfurt (Oder), a town in the federal state of Brandenburg, Germany, on the Oder River, at the German-Polish border.
Opened in 1898, the network presently consists of five lines. It is operated by (SVF), and integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB).
Lines
, the three main tram lines in Frankfurt (Oder) operated daily 4:00 to 23:30, at:
a 20-minute headway: Monday to Friday, 6:00–19:00, and Saturday 9:00–16:00;
a 30-minute headway: Sundays and public holidays all day (from 6:00), and Monday-Saturday before and after the period with 20-minute intervals.
Line 1 runs from the new housing development of Neuberesinchen through the city centre to the stadium.
Line 2 connects the university campuses (the main building, the auditorium and the Marion Gräfin Dönhoff building) with the speech centre in the Witzlebenstraße and extends to the fairgrounds.
Line 3 is a booster line for line 4 on weekdays. It operates Monday to Friday from the European University via the Südring to Kopernikusstraße, and, in rush hour, continues to the Technology Park and the hospital in the suburb of Markendorf (Ort) at 20-minute intervals.
Line 4, a main line, runs from the Lebus-suburb in Frankfurt's north via the railway station and the Südring, past the new solar factories, to Markendorf (Ort).
Line 5 is a tangential line - it "bypasses" the city centre, from Neuberesinchen via the station to the fairgrounds. However, it connects at Dresdener Platz or the station with lines towards the city centre. On weekdays, it is operated every 20 minutes by KT4Dms running in pairs, or a single KT4Dm, or a low-floor vehicle.
System
Frankfurt (Oder) - approx. 62,000 inh.; in the state of Brandenburg, 70 km east of Berlin (linked to Berlin by RE trains), at the Polish border.
Tramway
- Network length approx. 19.5 km
- 3 lines (+ 2 peak-hour lines)
- 1000 mm gauge
- Mostly on separate right-of-way on newer routes
- Rolling stock (unidirectional): TATRA KT4D; low-floor AEG GT6M
Rolling stock
SVF operates GT6M low-floor vehicle and KT4Dms.
See also
Trams in Germany
List of town tramway systems in Germany
References
External links
Frankfurt (Oder)
Frankfurt (Oder)
Transport in Brandenburg
Metre gauge railways in Germany
Frankfurt Oder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Romkey | John Romkey is an American computer scientist who along with Donald W. Gillies co-developed MIT PC/IP, the first TCP/IP stack in the industry for MS-DOS on the IBM PC in 1983 while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1986, Romkey founded FTP Software, a commercial TCP/IP stack provider. Romkey authored the first network analyzer, Netwatch, predating the Network General Sniffer. He served on the IAB. With Simon Hackett, Romkey connected the first appliance (a toaster) to the Internet in 1990. Romkey is currently one of the owners of Blue Forest Research, a consulting company.
FTP Software provided commercial third-party TCP/IP packages for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. With the advent of Microsoft's own free TCP/IP stack, codenamed "Wolverine" and first introduced as an optional extra for Windows for Workgroups 3.11, FTP Software was driven out of business, along with all the other commercial providers of TCP/IP stacks.
Publications
References
Internet protocols
History of the Internet
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Internet activists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HB-F9P | The HB-F9P was a Sony MSX2-computer, launched in 1985. The abbreviation HB stands for Hit Bit.
The HB-F9P was unusual in the sense that it did not come with a built in floppy disk drive, instead it had a built in software suite "Memovision" that would run automatically unless a program cartridge was inserted in the cartridge slot or the key was pressed during booting.
Memovision could store data on the special HBI-55 (battery backed RAM) "data cartridge" that Sony originally had developed, for their HB-55 and HB-75 MSX computers. These systems contained a simple built in program called the "Personal Databank". Memovision was a continuation of the same idea, but much extended, as it contained stuff like a (birthday) calendar with alarm system, a "family databank" (a combination of a text editor and database) a built in calculator and a timer and time calculator, all rendered in pseudo 3D style.
Variants
Of the HB-F9 there were many different localized variants produced:
HB-F9P, with QWERTY-keyboard layout was designed for the PAL-standard, and meant for European countries, except Germany, France, Spain and the former Soviet Union.
HB-F9R, had a Russian keyboard.
HB-F9D, had a QWERTZ-keyboard for the German market
HB-F9F, had an AZERTY-keyboard for the French market, and was designed for the SECAM-standard.
HB-F9S, had a modified QWERTY-keyboard for the Spanish market.
Technical specifications
Processor
Sharp LH-0080 or NEC μPD780C
memory
ROM: 96 KB
MSX BASIC version 2.0: 48 KB
software suite: 48 KB
RAM
VRAM: 128 KB
main memory: 128 KB
Video
VDP
Yamaha V9938
text: 80×24, 40×24 en 32×24 (characters per line × lines) four colors, two foreground colors and two background colors
graphical: maximal 512×212 pixels (16 colors of 512) and 256×212 (256 colors)
colors: 512 maximal
Engine
MSX-Engine: S-1985
real-time clock with trickle-charged battery backup
sound
Yamaha YM2149 PSG
3 sound channels and one noise channel
8 octaves
Interfaces
power cord
RF-output
CVBS monitor
luminance output
monochrome switch
headset sound output
data-recorder I/O (1200/2400 baud)
1 general purpose expansion connector
printer
keyboard
2 joysticks
2 cartridge slots
References
Sony
MSX2 microcomputer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen%20%28website%29 | Amen was a social networking service.
About
Noted for its addictive, mad lib-like feel and ability to create structured data, Amen has received attention, having been selected as one of Venturebeat's top 5 favorites from TechCrunch Disrupt 2011.
"You fire up the app on the iPhone or web browser and say a person, place or thing is “the best” or “the worst” ever, like like, the Best Dubstep track ever...You can agree with this statement with an “Amen”. But with a “Hell no” you have to suggest an alternative answer. It's a rigid structure, but you can post whatever you want."
.
History
Amen was started in February 2011 by Felix Petersen, Florian Weber and Caitlin Winner. Seed round investors include Index and A Grade. In August 2013, Amen was bought by tape.tv. In February 2015 tape.tv announced the shut down of the platform.
See also
State
References
External links
Defunct social networking services
Internet properties established in 2011
2011 establishments in Germany
German social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Educational%20Network%20for%20Satellite%20Operations | The Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations (GENSO) is forming by a worldwide network of ground stations and spacecraft which can interact via a software standard. The GENSO aims to increase the return from educational space missions and changed the way that these missions are managed, dramatically increasing the level of access to orbital educational spacecraft.
History
In November 2007, a kickoff meeting was held at the CubeSat workshop. This short presentation (at Aalborg University in Denmark) to the rest of the GENSO groups described work at Cal Poly for the project. This workshop kicked off the Alpha Test phase of the project. The entire project was successfully demoed in front of a live audience (us). The Mission Control Client booked downlink sessions with the Ground Station Server, and the Ground Station Server controlled the radio and rotors at the AAU ground station (across the building). The running Authentication Server authenticated people and registered satellites on the network.
In February 2009, the ROBUSTA project joined the GENSO initiative. ROBUSTA is the first French university CubeSat. The objective of the payload experiment is to measure the radiation induced degradation of electronic devices. Flight data will be compared to the results of a novel prediction method taking into account the Enhanced Low Dose Rate Sensitivity. The second interesting point of this project is that it's a real educational project. Although the system hasn't yet grown to the "hundreds" of ground stations identified in Alexandru Munteanu's Thesis from 2009, testing and integration continue to proceed.
The GENSO project initiated under the guidance of the International Space Education Board (ISEB) has many existing capabilities and is accumulating the interest of large groups inside and outside of the United States. However, it is still lacking a fully equipped ground station that can complement its capabilities.
Since 2011, a great deal of work has been done on Release 1E of GENSO to help make it more user friendly and reliable for the Amateur Radio community. Ground stations like the one at COSMIAC are now running 24/7 downloading data for educational satellites such as the University of Michigan RAX-2 spacecraft.
How GENSO works
The GENSO system is a software networking standard which allows a user to communicate with a spacecraft by using a remote ground station which has a clear view of the spacecraft. Communications between the client computer (a mission controlcomputer) and the ground station server are conducted across the Internet.
There are three major components to the GENSO system :
GSS – Ground Station Server
MCC - The Mission Control Client is the control station for a satellite. Each satellite will have one MCC. A GSS will see a snapshot of the satellite but only MCC will have the entire picture
AUS – The Authentication Server is the server that mediates communication between MCCs and GSSs on the GENSO networ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefire%20Supercomputer | The Bluefire Supercomputer is an IBM supercomputer installed in May 2008 by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). It is used to advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate.
Usage
Scientists at NCAR, and across the country, use the system to accelerate research into climate change, including future patterns of precipitation and drought around the world, changes to agriculture and growing seasons, and the complex influence of global warming on hurricanes. Researchers also use it to improve weather forecasting models so society can better anticipate where and when dangerous storms may strike.
Performance
Bluefire has a peak speed of more than 76 teraflops (76 trillion floating-point operations per second). When first installed, it was ranked at number 38 on the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
ICESS
Bluefire is the second phase of a system called the Integrated Computing Environment for Scientific Simulation (ICESS) at NCAR. The first phase was called Blueice. After undergoing acceptance testing, Bluefire began full operations in August 2008 and replaced three supercomputers with an aggregate peak speed of 20 teraflop.
Hardware
Bluefire uses the POWER6 microprocessor, each having a clock speed of 4.7 gigahertz. The system consists of 4,064 such processors, 12 terabytes of memory, and 150 terabytes of DS4800 disk storage.
Cooling system
Bluefire relies on a water-based cooling system that is 33 percent more energy efficient than traditional air-cooled systems. Heat is removed from the electronics by water-chilled copper plates mounted in direct contact with each POWER6 microprocessor chip. As a result of this water-cooled system and POWER6 efficiencies, Bluefire is three times more energy efficient per rack than its predecessor.
References
IBM supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone%20%28supercomputer%29 | Yellowstone was the inaugural supercomputer at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was installed, tested, and readied for production in the summer of 2012. The Yellowstone supercomputing cluster was decommissioned on December 31, 2017, being replaced by its successor Cheyenne.
Yellowstone was a highly capable petascale system designed for conducting breakthrough scientific research in the interdisciplinary field of Earth system science. Scientists used the computer and its associated resources to model and analyze complex processes in the atmosphere, oceans, ice caps, and throughout the Earth system, accelerating scientific research in climate change, severe weather, geomagnetic storms, carbon sequestration, aviation safety, wildfires, and many other topics. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the State and University of Wyoming, and operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Yellowstone's purpose was to improve the predictive power of Earth system science simulation to benefit decision-making and planning for society.
System description
Yellowstone was a 1.5-petaflops IBM iDataPlex cluster computer with 4,536 dual-socket compute nodes that contained 9,072, 2.6-GHz Intel Xeon E5-2670 8-core processors (72,576 cores), and its aggregate memory size was 145 terabytes. The nodes interconnected in a full fat tree network via a Mellanox FDR InfiniBand switching fabric. System software includes the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system for Scientific Computing, LSF Batch Subsystem and Resource Manager, and IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS).
Yellowstone was integrated with many other high-performance computing resources in the NWSC. The central feature of this supercomputing architecture was its shared file system that streamlined science workflows by providing computation, analysis, and visualization work spaces common to all resources. This common data storage pool, called the GLobally Accessible Data Environment (GLADE), provides 36.4 petabytes of online disk capacity shared by the supercomputer, two data analysis and visualization (DAV) cluster computers (Geyser and Caldera), data servers for both local and remote users, and a data archive with the capacity to store 320 petabytes of research data. High-speed networks connect this Yellowstone environment to science gateways, data transfer services, remote visualization resources, Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) sites, and partner sites around the world.
This integration of computing resources, file systems, data storage, and broadband networks allowed scientists to simulate future geophysical scenarios at high resolution, then analyze and visualize them on one computing complex. This improves scientific productivity by avoiding the delays associated with moving large quantities of data between separate systems. Further, this reduces the volume of data that needs to be transferred to researchers at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacognosy%20Communications | Pharmacognosy Communications is a peer-reviewed open-access pharmacy journal published by EManuscript Services on behalf of Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide. It is a quarterly publication edited by pharmacognosist Ian Edwin Cock, Griffith University, Australia. It publishes articles on the subjects of pharmacognosy, natural products, phytochemistry, and phytomedicine.
The journal is indexed with CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, EBSCO, Google Scholar, Index Copernicus, OpenJGate, ProQuest, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.
Phcog.net (Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide) appeared on Beall's list from October 2012 through September 12, 2015.
References
External links
Phcog.Net
Open access journals
English-language journals
Pharmacognosy
Academic journals established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaGlest | MegaGlest is a free and open source real-time strategy computer game in a fantasy world, mixing elements of re-imagined past civilizations, magic and steampunk. It is an actively developed fork of the 2004 game Glest, which is no longer under development.
Gameplay
MegaGlest is set in a fantasy world with seven factions: Magic, Tech, Indians, Egypt, Norsemen, Persian and Romans, which together form the Megapack. Each come with their own set of units, buildings and upgrades, advantages and disadvantages, which allows for variation in strategy while keeping a balanced gameplay. For example, the Tech faction uses traditional human warriors and has medieval mechanical devices in its arsenal, and are strong in melee combat while the Magic faction is designed for more advanced players with most of their units morphed from or summoned by others. Magic lacks the hand-to-hand combat strength of the Tech faction but features more versatile units. Tilesets are selected at the new game setup menu and determine the graphical nature of the MegaGlest game world. MegaGlest provides cross-platform online multiplayer LAN/Internet support.
Because of the modability of the engine, MegaGlest can play games from a variety of player-created mods and total conversions, spanning very different themes. The Japanese mod is an artistic mod with units and buildings inspired by historic Japanese warfare. Prax is another fantasy-themed tech tree which bears some similarities to MegaGlest's Magic and Tech factions but improves upon them, bearing both units and structures with very different properties and making use of newer engine features. The Military Glest and Enemies and Allies mods have a contemporary warfare theme and the Vbros Mods have a variety of factions; British, Western, Pirates, Canadians, Crusaders, Dark Knights, USA, Moon, Chess, Penguins, and much more.
Game engine
While the term MegaGlest is usually used to refer to the complete game, the game engine, referred to as MegaGlest Engine, may also be used to create separate games. At this time, there is one released game which is built on the MegaGlest Engine: Annex - Conquer the World, another free and open source real-time strategy game, has a futuristic scenery with Manga elements, vehicle and hero units, and is therefore quite different from MegaGlest. Two more games are under development, planning to combine the open source engine with proprietary assets.
Development
MegaGlest, a cross-platform game, is a continuation of real-time classic Glest, which has not been developed since April 2009. The MegaGlest game intends to continue in Glest'''s spirit and with similar gameplay, while improving existing features and adding more functionality, and therefore continues to use the Glest versioning scheme. The MegaGlest engine is designed to be moddable, with game elements defined by editable XML files. While a map editor and a model viewer are included, additional game assets can also be developed using separate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20van%20Wijk | Jarke J. (Jack) van Wijk (born 1959) is a Dutch computer scientist, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and an expert in information visualization.
Biography
Van Wijk received his M.S. from the Delft University of Technology in 1982. His master's thesis, on simulation of traffic collisions, led him to become interested in computer visualization, and he remained at Delft for his doctoral studies, completing a Ph.D. in 1986 under the supervision of Dennis J. McConalogue. He worked at the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands from 1988 until 1998, when he joined the Eindhoven faculty; he was promoted to a full professorship in 2001.
As well as being a faculty member at TU Eindhoven, van Wijk is the vice president for scientific affairs at MagnaView, a Dutch information visualization company.
Research
In information visualization, Van Wijk is known for his research in texture synthesis, treemaps, and flow visualization. His work on map projection won the 2009 Henry Johns Award of the British Cartographic Society for best cartographic journal article.
He has twice been program co-chair for IEEE Visualization, and once for IEEE InfoVis. In 2007, he received an IEEE Technical Achievement Award for his visualization research.
In graph drawing, van Wijk has worked on the visualization of small-world networks and on the depiction of abstract trees as biological trees. He has also conducted user studies that showed that the standard depiction of directed edges in graph drawings using arrowheads is less effective at conveying the directionality of the edges to readers than other conventions such as tapering. He was one of two invited speakers at the 19th International Symposium on Graph Drawing in 2011, and the capstone speaker at the IEEE Visualization 2013.
References
External links
Home page at TU Eindhoven
1959 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Graph drawing people
Information visualization experts
Delft University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20BBC%20America | The following is a list of television programs currently or formerly broadcast by BBC America.
Current programming
From BBC
Unscripted
Variety
Top Gear (2002)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Upcoming programming
Original programming
Drama
Orphan Black: Echoes (2024)
In development
Drama
Untitled Killing Eve spin-off
Former programming
Original programming
Drama
Copper (2012–13)
Orphan Black (2013–17)
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond (2014)
Intruders (2014)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016–17)
Killing Eve (2018–22)
The Watch (2021)
The Split (season 3) (2022; moved from SundanceTV)
Comedy
Almost Royal (2014–16)
Ten Percent (2022)
Unscripted
Docuseries
Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty (2021)
Africa's Wild Year (2022)
Reality
No Kitchen Required (2012)
Richard Hammond's Crash Course (2012)
Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers (2013)
Mud, Sweat & Gears (2015)
Variety
Factomania (2014)
Top Gear America (season 1) (2017; moved to MotorTrend+)
Syndicated programming
A
Absolutely Fabulous (1998–2013; 2016)
The Accidental Angler (2007–11)
Africa (2013)
Africa's Wild Year (2022)
After Henry (1998–2006)
After You've Gone (2007–10; 2014)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1998–2012; 2014–17)
Airport (1998–2009; 2012–13)
Alan Davies' Teenage Revolution (2011–14)
Alas Smith and Jones (1998–2008)
Alexei Sayle's Stuff (1998–2008)
Alistair McGowan's Big Impression (2000–06)
All Creatures Great and Small (1998–2007)
'Allo 'Allo! (1998–2007)
Almost Royal (2014–16)
Angels (1998–2008)
Animal Park (2000–19)
Antiques Roadshow (2012–18)
Any Dream Will Do (2007–15)
The Apprentice (2005–17)
Are You Being Served? (1998–2008)
The Armstrong and Miller Show (2008–13; 2014–15)
As Time Goes By (1998–2007)
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth (2015)
Attenborough's Global Adventure (2022)
Attenborough in Paradise (1996)
The Avengers (1998–2007)
B
Baby Chimp Rescue (2020)
Backup (1998–2008)
Ballet Shoes (1998–2006)
Bargain Hunt (2007–19)
BBC World News (1999–2019)
BBC World News America (1999–2019)
Beast (2000–07)
Bedlam (2012–16)
Being Human (2009–13)
Bellamy's People (2010–14)
Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie (2001–09; 2013)
The Ben Elton Show (1998–99; 2010–14)
The Benny Hill Show (1998–2006)
Bergerac (1998–2008)
The Best of Tommy Cooper (1998–2005)
Big Cats (2018)
Big Deal (1998–2004)
Big Train (1999–2009)
Bill Hicks: One Night Stand (1998–99; 2014)
Black Books (2001–14)
Blackadder (1998–2008)
Blake's 7 (1998–2005)
Blandings (2013–16)
The Blue Planet (2001)
Blue Planet II (2018)
The Bob Monkhouse Show (1998–2005)
Bones
Bottom (1998–2011)
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity (2002; 2014–15)
Bottom Live (1998–2013)
Bravestarr (1998–2004)
Bread (1998–08)
Britain's Missing Top Model (2010–18)
The Brittas Empire (1998–2005)
Broadchurch (2014–19)
Bromwell High (2005–13)
Bullseye (1998–2003)
Burn Notice (2011–17)
Butterflies (1998–2004)
C
Campion (1998–2008)
The Canterbury Tales (2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou%20Maletta | Louis Phillip "Lou" Maletta Jr. (December 14, 1936 – November 2, 2011) was an American media executive and LGBT rights activist. Maletta founded the Gay Cable Network in 1982.
Life and career
Maletta was born in Brooklyn, New York and served in the United States Army. After his discharge, he worked as a freelance photographer and travel agent. Maletta married and had a daughter with his wife before divorcing and coming out as gay. He was with his partner Luke Valenti from 1974 until Maletta's death.
Maletta's start in media came with the show Men & Film on Manhattan Cable Television, a show that evolved from showing edited gay pornography to covering events important in the community. He was inspired to start Gay Cable Network after seeing the effects AIDS had on a friend. The network went on to produce original programming, including coverage of Democratic National Conventions and Republican National Conventions between 1984 and 2000.
Andy Humm, then a GCN correspondent, recounted years afterward that Maletta's wearing of a "spandex, a black leather jacket, the Gay Network T-shirt and a cowboy hat" at a backwoods Mississippi Hardee's while en route to the Republican National Convention caught the attention of other patrons, so much so that the place went "deadly silent. I didn’t think we’d get out alive, but perhaps the locals were just too shocked to react."
Gay Cable Network closed in 2001 upon Maletta's retirement. All 6,100 video tapes of GCN's archive were sold to the New York University's Fales Library for preservation in 2009.
Maletta was also the off-camera voice in a Calvin Klein campaign pulled in 1995 for racy content which some suggested had overtones of underage pornography. Maletta died of liver cancer in Kingston, New York.
References
External links
Gay Cable Network Archives, Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University
1936 births
2011 deaths
American broadcasters
American LGBT rights activists
Deaths from cancer in New York (state)
Deaths from liver cancer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NickMom | NickMom was an American nighttime programming block owned by Viacom Media Networks (now Paramount Media Networks). It aired on the Nick Jr. Channel during the watershed hours of 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. ET, when the channel's regular audience of children would normally be sleeping. The block carried ad-supported comedy programming targeting an adult demographic, particularly young mothers.
When NickMom was first announced in 2011, over 30 projects were in development for the block. Original shows produced for NickMom included the stand-up comedy show called NickMom Night Out, the variety show Parental Discretion with Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, and the docu-comedy show Take Me to Your Mother. The block's highest-rated program was Instant Mom, which was ordered specifically for NickMom but also aired on Nickelodeon's main channel during the Nick at Nite block.
At first, the timing of NickMom generated some controversy. As the Nick Jr. Channel only operated a single feed out of the Eastern Time Zone, the channel transitioned into its adult-oriented shows earlier than expected in other time zones. Viacom rectified this issue in February 2013 with the launch of a second Pacific Time Zone-based feed for the channel. The NickMom block lasted for almost three years, ending its run on September 28, 2015. The NickMom website was also closed, and the domain now redirects to the parental resources section of Nick.com.
History
Launch
On October 18, 2011, Viacom announced that it would launch a new block on the Nick Jr. Channel for the 2012-13 television season known as NickMom, which would be aimed towards young mothers, as part of the company's "cradle-to-grave" strategy where viewers grow into watching other Viacom networks (from Nick Jr. to Nickelodeon, then MTV, VH1 and then TV Land and formerly, CBS and Showtime). The company explained that "today's moms who grew up with Nickelodeon have a renewed relationship with us through their kids", and that the new brand would "offer a destination that is unique in today's entertainment landscape with content that taps into Nickelodeon's comedic DNA". Unlike the Nick Jr. Channel's main programming, which was commercial-free at the time, NickMom was to be commercially supported, having recently reached sponsorship deals with General Mills and Reckitt Benckiser. Over 30 projects were in development for the block at the time of the announcement.
Closure
On September 5, 2015, the network's Twitter and Facebook accounts released a statement explaining that the NickMom programming block and website would cease operations by the end of the month.
NickMom ended its three-year run at 2 a.m. ET on September 28 after a showing of the film Guarding Tess, without any mention of it coming to an end. Shortly after, the network's website address was redirected to Nickelodeon's site for parental resources.
Programming
Original programming which launched with the block included Parental Discretion with Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad%20Tablet | The ThinkPad Tablet is a tablet computer made by Lenovo as part of its series of Android-based tablet devices and is targeted towards business users. Lenovo's tablet offerings are available in both ThinkPad and IdeaPad variants. While the ThinkPad Tablets are designed for business, the IdeaPad tablets, like the laptops of the same name, are meant for home and personal use. These tablets are different from Lenovo's X Series tablets, which are laptop/tablet hybrids and which use Microsoft Windows as their operating system.
Description
Released in August 2011, the ThinkPad Tablet is the first in Lenovo's line of business-oriented Tablets with the ThinkPad brand. The tablet has been described by Gadget Mix as a premium business tablet. Since the Tablet is primarily business-oriented, it includes features for security, such as anti-theft software, the ability to remotely disable the tablet, SD card encryption, layered data encryption, and Cisco Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Additionally, the ThinkPad Tablet is able to run software such as IBM's Lotus Notes Traveler. The stylus could be used to write notes on the Tablet, which also included software to convert this handwritten content to text. Another feature on the Tablet was a drag-and-drop utility designed to take advantage of the Tablet's touch capabilities. This feature could be used to transfer data between USB devices, internal storage, or an SD card.
Slashgear summarized the ThinkPad Tablet by saying, "The stylus and the styling add up to a distinctive slate that doesn’t merely attempt to ape Apple’s iPad."
The ThinkPad Tablet was discontinued upon the launch of the Windows 8-based ThinkPad Tablet 2 in October 2012. At the same time, Lenovo discontinued the use of Android on its ThinkPad-branded tablets; subsequent models, beginning with the Tablet 2, have exclusively used Windows as their operating system.
Design and development
David Hill of Lenovo said he believed the ThinkPad Tablet to be "the weapon of choice for business success". In his article on the development of the Tablet, he indicated that every design detail was subjected to multiple design reviews, including basic elements such as the placement of the logo.
Digitizer pen
A challenge was indicated to be designing and integrating a digitizer pen into the Tablet, which already had a "crowded interior". This required a study of pen barrel diameter and the balancing of batteries, digitizer technology components, ergonomics, and storage space constraints for the pen itself. Additionally, dowel rods were used for diameter studies and sharpened pencils were used to study the appropriate length with users. The final pen developed based on this was 120 mm long.
Folio keyboard
The ThinkPad Tablet was launched with an optional, dedicated . The folio offered a Lenovo keyboard and an optical trackpoint. The presence of this folio was appreciated by PC World as well, with the reviewer calling the folio the Tablet's best feature.
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20Rescue | Bar Rescue is an American reality television series that airs on Paramount Network (formerly Spike during the first five seasons). It stars Jon Taffer, a long-time food and beverage industry consultant specializing in nightclubs, bars and pubs. Taffer offers his professional expertise, renovations and equipment to desperately failing bars in an effort to save them from closing.
The show premiered on what was then known as Spike in the United States on July 17, 2011. In the UK, the show originally aired on 5Star, later moving to Spike (UK), which is now 5Spike/5Action.
A spin-off series titled Marriage Rescue premiered on June 2, 2019.
On September 22, 2020, it was announced that the series would move to another ViacomCBS (Now Paramount) network, as part of a since-rescinded plan to shift the Paramount Network to television films and miniseries. Bar Rescues move also never took place, as its eighth season premiered on Paramount Network on May 2, 2021. The eighth season focused on Taffer's residence of Las Vegas, a city whose hospitality industry was devastated during the COVID-19 pandemic, then returned with episodes of bars throughout the United States in its traditional format on March 20, 2022.
Overview
The series stars Jon Taffer, owner and chairman of bar/nightclub consulting firm Taffer Dynamics, Inc. Taffer is a bar and nightclub owner who has started, flipped, or owned numerous establishments in a career that spans over three decades. Bar owners submit an application via the Paramount Network website to have their failing establishment rescued by Taffer and his team of experts.
A typical episode begins with Taffer's team performing reconnaissance and surveillance on a struggling bar to determine its operational and service weaknesses. For the recon, one or more team members and/or local residents enter the bar, order food and drinks to gauge their quality, and form an opinion of the atmosphere and service. The surveillance involves hidden cameras, preinstalled with the owner's consent, through which Taffer and his team watch the kitchen and customer service areas. He then introduces himself to the owner(s) and staff to discuss his findings, and to describe the changes he believes should be made (management, customer service, cleanliness, etc.) in order to make the bar profitable. He also examines the bar's financial records to find possible cost savings. During these meetings, Taffer exhibits a brusque, no-nonsense, and confrontational attitude intended to goad the owner(s) and staff into making drastic changes to the way the bar is run – including the firing of inept and/or dishonest employees when necessary.
Taffer's team members train the staff on methods of improving food/drink preparation, customer service, and efficiency, frequently concentrating on a more limited selection of recipes than the bar typically offers. After the initial training, Taffer puts the bar through a "stress test" (similar to a soft launch), inviting in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Guanrong | Guanrong Chen () or Ron Chen is a Chinese mathematician who made contributions to Chaos theory. He has been the chair professor and the founding director of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks at the City University of Hong Kong since 2000. Prior to that, he was a tenured full professor at the University of Houston, Texas. Chen was elected Member of the Academy of Europe in 2014, elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2015, and elected IEEE Fellow in 1997. He is currently the editor-in-chief for the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.
He is known for his contributions to Chaos theory and Bifurcation theory, including the Chen attractor, a kind of dynamical system attractor named after him (see Multiscroll attractor).
Early life
In 1948, Chen Guanrong was born in Guangzhou, China. In 1978, he enrolled in the Guangzhou Sun Yat-sen University. In 1981 he graduated with a master's degree in computational mathematics.
He then studied in the US and in 1987 earned a PhD in applied math from Texas A&M University.
Academia
From 1987 to 1990 he worked as a professor at Rice University. From 1990 to 1999 he worked at University of Houston and became a full tenured professor.
In 2000, he became a chair professor at the City University of Hong Kong, founding the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks.
He conducts research on chaos, control theory, bifurcations, nonlinear dynamics, complex systems, etc.
IEEE
From 1999 to 2001, he served as the chairman for the IEEE Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee. Since 2008, he has served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine.
Since 2010, he has served as Editor in Chief of International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. Before, from 1991 to 2009, he was editor for the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. From 2004 to 2007, he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. From 2004 to 2005, he was an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
Journals and conferences
From 2008 to 2009, he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Circuits Theory and Applications as well as editor for the International Journal of Circuits Theory and Applications.
From 2006 to 2008, he was editor for the Journal of Control Science and Engineering.
Since 1995, he has been editor for the Chinese Academy of Sciences Journal on Control Theory and Applications.
From 2001 to 2014, he was editor for the Journal of Systems Science and Complexity.
From 2009 to 2014, he served as the chairman for the Chinese Society's Complex Systems and Networks Committee.
Research
He is known for the Chen attractor, Lu Chen attractor, and other works on Multiscroll attractors. He conducts research on chaos, control theory, bifurcations, nonlinear dynamics, complex systems, etc.
Chen attractor
Chen discovered the Chen equations, a system of coupled differential equations that produce the Chen's attractor, a typ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril%20%28workflow%20engine%29 | Anduril is an open source component-based workflow framework for scientific data analysis developed at the Systems Biology Laboratory, University of Helsinki.
Anduril is designed to enable systematic, flexible and efficient data analysis, particularly in the field of high-throughput experiments in biomedical research. The workflow system currently provides components for several types of analysis such as sequencing, gene expression, SNP, ChIP-on-chip, comparative genomic hybridization and exon microarray analysis as well as cytometry and cell imaging analysis.
Architecture and features
A workflow is a series of processing steps connected together so that the output of one step is used as the input of another. Processing steps implement data analysis tasks such as data importing, statistical tests and report generation. In Anduril, processing steps are implemented using components, which are reusable executable code that can be written in any programming language. Components are wired together into a workflow, or a component network, that is executed by the Anduril workflow engine. Workflow configuration is done using a simple yet powerful scripting language, AndurilScript. Workflow configuration and execution can be done from Eclipse, a popular multipurpose GUI, or from the command line.
The core Anduril engine is written in Java and components are written in a variety of programming languages, including Java, R, MATLAB, Lua, Perl and Python. Components may also have dependencies on third-party libraries, such as Bioconductor. Components for cell imaging and microarray analysis are provided but additional components can be implemented by users. The Anduril core has been tested on Linux and Windows.
Anduril 1.0: AndurilScript language
Hello world in AndurilScript is simply
std.echo("Hello world!")
Commenting follows the syntax of Java:
// A simple comment
/* Another simple comment */
/** A description that will be included in component description */
Components are called by assigning their calls to named component instances. Names cannot be re-used within a single workflow. There are special components for input files that include external files to the script. Supported atomic types are integer, float, boolean and string, and typing is done implicitly.
in1 = INPUT(path="myFile.csv")
constant1 = 1
componentInstance1 = MyComponent(inputPort1 = in1, inputParam1 = constant1)
Workflows are constructed by assigning outputs of component instances to inputs of following components.
componentInstance2 = AnotherComponent(inputPort1 = componentInstance1.outputPort1)
Component instances can also be wrapped as functions.
function MyFunction(InType1 in1, ..., optional InTypeM inM,
ParType1 param1, ..., ParTypeP paramP=defaultP)
-> (OutType1 out1, ..., OutTypeN outN)
{
... statements ...
return record(out1=x1, ..., outN=xN)
}
In addition to standard if-else and switch-case st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil%20Ramos | Khalil Joseph Nepomuceno Ramos (; born January 22, 1996) is a Filipino actor and singer. He is currently an exclusive actor of GMA Network.
In July 2011, Ramos won second place on Pilipinas Got Talent, a reality talent show in ABS-CBN and became a recording artist under Star Magic. In 2012, he was cast in his first teleserye project, Princess and I, top-billing with Kathryn Bernardo, Daniel Padilla and Enrique Gil.
From 2013 to 2016, he appeared in supporting roles in a string of films such as She's Dating the Gangster, Kid Kulafu, A Second Chance, Honor Thy Father and Everything About Her. His first starring role came as Felix Salonga in the 2016 critically acclaimed coming-of-age film 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten. He has since been cast in recurring roles the drama A Love to Last (2017) and fantasy series La Luna Sangre (2017–18).
He also starred in indie films such as Riding in Tandem opposite Jason Abalos, released in select cinemas in the Philippines from October 13–19, 2017. It was announced that he was cast in thriller drama Kasunduan which also stars Joey Marquez, Joem Bascon and Ejay Falcon, set to be released in 2018.
He transferred to GMA Network's talent agency, Sparkle GMA Artist Center, in 2020 after 9 years with Star Magic.
Personal life
Khalil Joseph Nepomuceno Ramos was born January 22, 1996, in Parañaque City, Philippines to parents Lito Ramos and Tessa Nepomuceno, who are entrepreneurs. As of 2011, he was in his third year at Colegio San Agustin-Makati.
Khalil was inspired by his father, who started to train him to be a singer at the age of 5. His talent were influenced by Michael Jackson, David Cook, Journey, and John Lennon. However, his musical taste matured from the influences
by Queen, Aerosmith, and The Beatles while growing up. In 2011 he trained with Jay Glorioso of the UP Diliman College of Music and Juilliard School of Performing Arts.
Filmography
Film
Television
1 Khalil Ramos guestings and appearances on Talent & Reality Game Shows
2 Khalil Ramos guestings and appearances on Variety & Talk Shows
Discography
Album
Singles
Music videos
Music video appearances
Covers
Ramos became popular due to his viral cover songs. Most of these covers were courtesy of his guesting on the radio program The Roadshow on Wish 107.5 in 2016. Some of these covers include "Iris" (originally by Goo Goo Dolls). Due to his popularity, he guested again on the radio station for the second time in January 2017. In September 2019, Ramos, together with partner Gabbi Garcia, performed their rendition of "Pagtingin" by Ben&Ben.
Theatre
Accolades
References
External links
Khalil Ramos on Star Magic
Khalil Ramos on Star Records
Khalil Ramos on ASAP Artists
1996 births
Filipino male television actors
21st-century Filipino male singers
Living people
Participants in Philippine reality television series
ABS-CBN personalities
GMA Network personalities
21st-century Filipino male actors
Pilipinas Got Talent contestants
Star Music artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minirail | The Minirail was an automated monorail system on Saint Helen's and Notre Dame islands in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The network was built for the 1967 World's Fair (Expo 67), and continued to operate for Man and his World. The system consisted of three independent circuits operated by two different types of trains: the larger "Blue" that ran mostly on Notre Dame Island, and the smaller "Yellow" which ran on the north and south ends Saint Helen's Island.
The main circuits of the Minirail ceased service in the early 70's and 80's then demolished shortly after, however the La Ronde "Yellow" loop, segregated from the rest of the system on the north end, remained in service for over a half century. This last vestige of the Minirail was finally demolished in 2022.
Routes
The main part of the system was the "Blue" Minirail on Notre Dame Island (with a small cross over loop on its neighboring island). There were also two smaller loops: the "Yellow" Minirails on opposite ends of Saint Helen's Island. The minimum system radius was , and maximum grade 10%.
Notre Dame Island (Blue)
(1967-1973)
The larger Minirail was laid out to pass as many major points as possible. Stations were named for nearby major attractions. The circuit had six stops at four stations: Metro, Canada, Theme and Agriculture (the latter two stations being served twice). Although on an elevated structure up to above the ground for most of its length, the line also swung out over the water near the Quebec Pavilion, dropping to within of the St. Lawrence. It also ran through the Ontario pavilion and the geodesic dome of the U.S. Pavilion. A section of the Blue line crossed over and ran a small loop on Saint Helen's Island, primarily to connect to the Metro and (south) Yellow Minirail line. The track structure was designed by the Swiss firm of Maschinenfabrik Habegger and fabricated on-site by Dominion Bridge Company. The running rails were twin × "I" beams apart, supported on A-frame pylons on centres, reduced to on curves. The Blue Minirail continued to operate on Notre Dame Island until late 1973, despite the closure and abandonment of the park below two years earlier. During these final two years there were no stops as all stations on Notre Dame Island were closed, therefore passengers boarded and exited at the Metro Minirail station on Saint Helen's Island. Service ceased by the end of the 1973 season. The circuit itself was dismantled by the mid-1970s, primarily due to construction of the Olympic rowing basin.
Saint Helen's Island (Yellow)
(1967-1981)
The Saint Helen's Island Yellow Minirail ran around a loop on the south end of the island with two stations: Metro and Place des nation (that connected with the Metro, Blue Minirail, and the Expo Express). After leaving the latter station the route swung over a corner of Swan Lake. Both this and the La Ronde loop were built by Mojan Ltée. It ceased operation when the Saint Helen's Island section of Man and His World closed in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20in%20Love | "Computer in Love" may refer to:
a song by Perrey and Kingsley, from their 1966 album The In Sound from Way Out!
a song by Bonaparte, from their 2010 album My Horse Likes You |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Welbourn | Donald Welbourn FREng was an English engineer, and a pioneer of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) research and development in the United Kingdom.
Early life
Welbourn was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (BA 1937), and became a University Lecturer in 1952.
CAD/CAM
Welbourn was a key pioneer of CADCAM research and development in the UK. After initial work at Cambridge, Lord Caldecote, chairman of the Delta Group plc, persuaded him to help the group. This help led to the formation Delcam in 1989.
Personal life
Welbourn was married to Esther, Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge, predeceased him in 2001. He leaves a daughter, Ann, and a son, Hugh.
References
Additional sources
Donald Welbourn
https://web.archive.org/web/20111106061744/http://www.delcam.com/general/about/history.asp
Fellows of Selwyn College, Cambridge
English civil engineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
2009 deaths
1916 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protofuse | Julien Bayle (born February 1976 in France) is a French electronic musician and music software trainer.
Biography
Bayle was born in the South of France. He studied Biology and Computer Sciences in Marseille. During his studies, he explored minimal techno, influenced especially by Carl Craig and Surgeon.
His work explores software including Cubase 1.0 and Generator (the precursor to Reaktor). His first live solo shows took place in early 2003. He designed and built the protodeck midi controller, (based on the open-source hardware framework MIDIbox) in 2008.
He founded and leads his own studio, Julien Bayle Studio. He provides Ableton Live Suite, Max for Live, and Max/MSP advanced training courses, and also leads workshops in Europe in art and design schools. He is an Ableton Certified Trainer.
Musical approach
Bayle is often described as a minimalist experimental musician when he plays his ambient music performance or when he plays more syncopated IDM.
His influences include Autechre and Aphex Twin, and for his ambient music by Brian Eno and Pete Namlook.
Selected discography
EP
Part EP, 2010
Bits#0, 2011
Bits#1, 2011
References
External links
Julien Bayle Studio
Julien Bayle's discography at Discogs
Interview Julien Bayle: Uncertainty, Fragility, Max, and Live
Interview Beyond Form: A Partnership of Spiritual Vision and Brutalist Flesh at Elastic Arts
Audio interview MATTER by Radio Grenouille
Interview Discussion with Lucia Udvardyova / SHAPE Network
1976 births
Living people
French electronic musicians
Intelligent dance musicians
French experimental musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%20%28operating%20system%29 | Galileo was an unreleased 32-bit operating system that was under development by Acorn Computers as a long-term project to produce "an ultra-modern scalable, portable, multi-tasking, multi-threading, object-oriented, microkernel operating system", reportedly significant enough to Acorn's strategy to warrant a statement to the financial markets.
Announced in early 1997 as targeting "the next generation of smart appliances", running initially on ARM architecture devices but intended to be easily portable to "other RISC processors" (or even "a range of RISC and CISC processors"), emphasis was made on its quality of service features that would guarantee system resources to critical tasks, as well as its reliability, its sophistication relative to RISC OS (which was described as "too primitive to succeed as a 21st century operating system"), and its small footprint that would "enable Acorn to compete in the semi-embedded systems market". However, the system's "modular object-oriented" architecture gave it the scalability to potentially be deployed in devices ranging from "multimedia cellular phones" and network computers to desktop workstations and server platforms.
Features
The operating system was to offer an "innovative modular real time kernel", also described as a microkernel with a hardware abstraction layer, having a footprint of only 15 KB. The kernel itself supported preemptive multitasking, being "multi-threaded and fully pre-emptive", and was portable through extensive high-level language use (an estimated 95% of the code) in conjunction with the hardware abstraction layer. Kernel responsibilities included memory allocation, interrupt handling, direct memory access services, scheduling, and the resource allocation required by the quality of service functionality.
Systems using Galileo were to be able to leverage the modularity of the software architecture to deliver a "complete customisable software stack" that could be deployed in ROM, with system modules and applications being executed in-place to reduce RAM requirements. The architecture was also meant to allow additional components, such as multimedia codecs or network stacks, to be downloaded and deployed without the need to restart the system. It was noted that "virtually all Galileo tasks run in user mode", with "complete memory and CPU usage protection" enforced to uphold the quality of service regime.
The inclusion of quality of service features was intended to "eliminate the need for dedicated multimedia chips" in consumer-level Internet appliances, particularly those chips concerned with video compression and decompression that might instead be implemented in software, thus helping manufacturers to reduce system costs below an anticipated target given of $100 by 1998. Such objectives were to be achieved through collaboration with system-on-chip manufacturers, with a specific collaboration in progress mentioned in early 1997, and with "companies such as Hitachi" expected to r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20Laboratories%20America | NEC Laboratories America, Inc. (NEC Labs America), formerly known as NEC Research Institute (1988 – 2002), is the US-based center for NEC Corporation’s global network of corporate research laboratories. It was established in 1988 with the primary location in Princeton, New Jersey and subsequently, a second location in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically San Jose, California. The lab is a subsidiary of the NEC Corporation of America, headquartered in Irving, Texas. Its mission is to generate significant new knowledge and create innovative solutions for society in collaboration with industry, academia, and governments. Most research results from NEC Labs America are published in the open scientific literature.
History
NEC Labs America was created through the merger of the NEC Research Institute (NECI) and the NEC C&C Research Laboratories (CCRL). NECI was founded in 1988 to conduct long-term basic research in sciences underlying the computer and communications (C&C) technologies of the future. Its founding board was composed of thought leaders in computing and physical sciences, including Joseph Giordmaine, C. William Gear, Stuart Solin, Peter Wolff, Robert Tarjan and Leslie Valiant, with the goal of making important contributions to the basic research community and applying their results to improve the quality of human life. CCRL was established in Oct 1991 under the leadership of Kojiro Watanabe and its Silicon Valley Office, headed by Yoshinori Hara, was established in Aug 1995. NECI and CCRL merged in 2002.
Initial research areas in the physical sciences included device physics, materials science, optical and quantum electronics, circuits and implementations of neural, optical, and other novel computer architectures. Research areas in computer science included parallel computing, software, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. During the past two decades, its focus has adapted in favor of computer science disciplines.
Research Areas
Research emphasis at NEC Labs America has evolved over time and in the current era, reflects a focus on artificial intelligence and its potential applications. Current research areas at NEC Labs America include the following:
Data Science and System Security
Integrated Systems
Machine Learning
Media Analytics
Optical Networking and Sensing
Key People
Presidents
The current president of NEC Labs America is Christopher White, who assumed the position in March 2020. The founding president of NEC Research Institute was Dawon Kahng, who served from the inception of the organization until his death in May 1992 and was succeeded by C. William Gear (1992 – 2000) and David Waltz (2000 – 2002). Previous presidents of NEC Labs America in its current form include Robert Millstein (2002 – 2005), Roger Tran (2005 – 2017) and Akihiro Uchida (2017 – 2020).
Fellows
Robert Tarjan: A computer scientist and expert on graph algorithms, winner of the 1986 ACM Turing Award, currently distinguished professor at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumos%20Networks | Lumos is a telecommunications provider, based in Waynesboro, Virginia; and High Point, North Carolina, offering landline and cellular telephone, residential and business optical fiber services, web hosting, yellow pages, and digital television. The company announced a merger with North State Communications effective August 15, 2022.
History of Lumos
Lumos formally split from nTelos following the close of business on October 31, 2011. Following a 1-for-2 reverse stock split of nTelos common stock, nTelos shareholders received one share of Lumos common stock for each share of nTelos common stock that they owned following the split. Lumos Networks began public trading on the NASDAQ exchange on November 1, 2011, under the ticker symbol LMOS.
As of November 17, 2017, Lumos Networks completed a merger sale to EQT Infrastructure. Lumos stockholders received $18.00 in cash for each share of Lumos Networks common stock they held. Upon completion of the sell Lumos Networks ceased to be a publicly traded company.
On April 10, 2018, EQT Partners purchased a majority stake in Spirit Communications with the intent to combine Spirit with Lumos.
On January 14, 2019, Lumos Networks Corp. ("Lumos") and Spirit Communications ("Spirit") announced that the two companies have been re-branded as Segra. The company's Rural Local Exchange Carrier (RLEC) segment retained the Lumos Networks name and would be supported by a team of employees led by Diego Anderson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Residential and Small Business.
History of North State Communications
In 1895, local businessmen started the High Point Telephone Exchange in High Point, N.C. In 1899, J.F. Hayden, who started a telephone system in Thomasville, bought the High Point company; both companies grew quickly. In 1905, the High Point company was incorporated as North State Telephone Company. In 1919, Hayden bought the Southern Bell system in High Point, which had operated since 1907. In 1920 North State became the first telephone company in the state to install the automatic-dial system.
In 1929 the company bought the Randleman system, and in 1935 the Thomasville company became part of North State.
In 2004, NorthState began offering DirecTV digital satellite TV.
In 2005, NorthState spent $30 million to begin offering the area's first fiber optic residential service.
In 2007, NorthState's cell phone service changed from Cingular to AT&T. Also in 2007, the company began offering 3G service.
On May 28, 2009, North State announced the brand name Plex, which included both landline and wireless telephone; high-speed Internet capable of 80 Mbits Down and 30Mbits Up; and Plex Advanced TV, a cable TV alternative using Internet Protocol with existing and expanded fiber optic lines capable of delivering HDTV and standard digital TV, as well as video on demand and digital music. The company added fiber optic service in new areas as it began offering the new TV service during summer 2009.
In 201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20cities%20with%20most%20bicycle%20commuters | The following is a list of United States incorporated places with at least 5,000 workers with the 25 highest rates of bicycle commuting (bicycle mode share), according to data from the 2019 American Community Survey, 5 year average. The Census Bureau, through the American Community Survey, measured the percentage of commuters who bike to work, as opposed to walking, taking public transit, driving an automobile, boat, or some other means.
See also
List of U.S. cities with most pedestrian commuters
List of U.S. cities with high transit ridership
Modal Share
References
Cities with most bicycle commuters
Bicycle commuters
Bicycle commuters
Cycling-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest%20deadline%20first%20scheduling | Earliest deadline first (EDF) or least time to go is a dynamic priority scheduling algorithm used in real-time operating systems to place processes in a priority queue. Whenever a scheduling event occurs (task finishes, new task released, etc.) the queue will be searched for the process closest to its deadline. This process is the next to be scheduled for execution.
EDF is an optimal scheduling algorithm on preemptive uniprocessors, in the following sense: if a collection of independent jobs, each characterized by an arrival time, an execution requirement and a deadline, can be scheduled (by any algorithm) in a way that ensures all the jobs complete by their deadline, the EDF will schedule this collection of jobs so they all complete by their deadline.
With scheduling periodic processes that have deadlines equal to their periods, EDF has a utilization bound of 100%. Thus, the schedulability test for EDF is:
where the are the worst-case computation-times of the processes and the are their respective inter-arrival periods (assumed to be equal to the relative deadlines).
That is, EDF can guarantee that all deadlines are met provided that the total CPU utilization is not more than 100%. Compared to fixed priority scheduling techniques like rate-monotonic scheduling, EDF can guarantee all the deadlines in the system at higher loading.
Note that use the schedulability test formula under deadline as period. When deadline is less than period, things are different. Here is an example: The four periodic tasks needs scheduling, where each task is depicted as TaskNo( computation time, relative deadline, period). They are T0(5,13,20), T1(3,7,11), T2(4,6,10) and T3(1,1,20). This task group meets utilization is no greater than 1.0, where utilization is calculated as 5/20+3/11+4/10+1/20 = 0.97 (two digits rounded), but it's still unscheduable, check EDF Scheduling Failure figure for details.
EDF is also an optimal scheduling algorithm on non-preemptive uniprocessors, but only among the class of scheduling algorithms that do not allow inserted idle time. When scheduling periodic processes that have deadlines equal to their periods, a sufficient (but not necessary) schedulability test for EDF becomes:
Where p represents the penalty for non-preemption, given by max / min . If this factor can be kept small, non-preemptive EDF can be beneficial as it has low implementation overhead.
However, when the system is overloaded, the set of processes that will miss deadlines is largely unpredictable (it will be a function of the exact deadlines and time at which the overload occurs.) This is a considerable disadvantage to a real time systems designer. The algorithm is also difficult to implement in hardware and there is a tricky issue of representing deadlines in different ranges (deadlines can not be more precise than the granularity of the clock used for the scheduling). If a modular arithmetic is used to calculate future deadlines relative to now, the field |
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