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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyungpook%20National%20University%20Hospital%20station | Kyungpook National University Hospital station is a station of Daegu Metro Line 2 in Samdeok-dong, Daebong-dong, Jung District, Daegu, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation
See also
Kyungpook National University Hospital
Chilgok Kyungpook National University Medical Center station
Daegu Metro stations
Jung District, Daegu
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20MagPi | The MagPi is the official Raspberry Pi magazine. It started off life as a free fanzine for users of the computer. It was created by the community as an unofficial volunteer produced publication and in 2015 was handed over to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to be run in-house as the official Raspberry Pi magazine. It was launched in May 2012 and contains news, projects and tutorials.
Reception
Writing in LinuxNov at the time of the launch, Mohamed Hussein considered it to be "really worth" downloading for its informative and helpful content. The first issue was found by Harry Fairhead in to be uninspiring, with the lack of hardware available to writers being noted. However, he did consider it to be a "venture worth supporting" in the longer term.
Writing in The Wall Street Journals Tech Europe blog, Ben Rooney described the magazine as having a "comforting nostalgic feel" but questioned whether this would appeal to a new generation of programmers.
References
External links
Raspberry Pi Remote Access
The Magpi magazines (Archived)
Raspberry Pi
Free magazines
Magazines established in 2012
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Mass media in Cambridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM%20System-on-Chip%20Architecture | ARM System-on-Chip Architecture is a book detailing the system on a chip ARM architecture, as a specific implementation of reduced instruction set computing. It was written by Steve Furber, who co-designed the ARM processor with Sophie Wilson.
The book's content covers the architecture, assembly language programming, support mechanisms for high-level programming languages, the instruction set and the building of operating systems. The Thumb instruction set is also covered in detail.
It has been cited in numerous academic papers, and has been recommended to those working in the development of embedded systems.
References
2000 non-fiction books
ARM architecture
Computer books
Handbooks and manuals
System on a chip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beginner%27s%20Guide%20to%20Computers | The Beginner's Guide to Computers is a book about microcomputers and general computing. It was published in 1982 as an accompaniment to the BBC Computer Literacy Project and The Computer Programme.
Its content covers the basics of the history of computing, programming languages, debugging, logic programming, semiconductor memory, printing, ADCs/DACs, flowcharts, as well as some technologies only found in Britain (such as Prestel, Ceefax, ORACLE). The possibilities of networks, robotics, electronic offices and publishing are also considered, with particular reference to the BBC Micro.
Reception
The book's square shape was described in The New York Times as "clumsy", although this does not stop it from being a "quite decent introduction" which is "easy to read". Those interested in actually using personal computers to "do something" were advised to look elsewhere. The World Yearbook of Education 1982/83: Computers and Education described it as "lucidly written and well laid out with profuse illustrations", noting the use of "appealing cartoons".
References
Handbooks and manuals
1982 non-fiction books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGCC | TGCC (Très Grand Centre de Calcul) is a new "green infrastructure" for high computing performance, able to host petascale supercomputers at French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission.
This supercomputing center has been planned to welcome the first French Petascale machine Curie, funded by GENCI for the PRACE Research Infrastructure, and the next generation of the CCRT Computing Center.
References
Supercomputing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20DMZ%20Network%20Architecture | The term Science DMZ refers to a computer subnetwork that is structured to be secure, but without the performance limits that would otherwise result from passing data through a stateful firewall. The Science DMZ is designed to handle high volume data transfers, typical with scientific and high-performance computing, by creating a special DMZ to accommodate those transfers. It is typically deployed at or near the local network perimeter, and is optimized for a moderate number of high-speed flows, rather than for general-purpose business systems or enterprise computing.
The term Science DMZ was coined by collaborators at the US Department of Energy's ESnet in 2010.
A number of universities and laboratories have deployed or are deploying a Science DMZ. In 2012 the National Science Foundation funded the creation or improvement of Science DMZs on several university campuses in the United
States.
The Science DMZ
is a network architecture to support Big Data. The so-called information explosion has been discussed since the mid 1960s, and more recently the term data deluge has been used to describe the exponential growth in many types of data sets. These huge data sets, often need to be copied from one location to another using the Internet. The movement of data sets of this magnitude in a reasonable amount of time should be possible on modern networks. For example, it should only take less than 4 hours to transfer 10 Terabytes of data on a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network path, assuming disk performance is adequate The problem is that this requires networks that are free from packet loss and middleboxes such as traffic shapers or firewalls that slow network performance.
Stateful firewalls
Most businesses and other institutions use a firewall to protect their internal network from malicious attacks originating from outside. All traffic between the internal network and the external Internet must pass through a firewall, which discards traffic likely to be harmful.
A stateful firewall tracks the state of each logical connection passing through it, and rejects data packets inappropriate for the state of the connection. For example, a website would not be allowed to send a page to a computer on the internal network, unless the computer had requested it. This requires a firewall to keep track of the pages recently requested, and match requests with responses.
A firewall must also analyze network traffic in much more detail, compared to other networking components, such as routers and switches. Routers only have to deal with the network layer, but firewalls must also process the transport and application layers as well. All this additional processing takes time, and limits network throughput. While routers and most other networking components can handle speeds of 100 billion bits per second (Gbps), firewalls limit traffic to about 1 Gbit/s, which is unacceptable for passing large amounts of scientific data.
Modern firewalls can leverage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Allen%20%28sports%20commentator%29 | Paul Allen (born January 6, 1966) is a sports commentator who has called play-by-play for the Minnesota Vikings since 2002. He is the voice of the Minnesota Vikings Radio Network and for horse racing at Canterbury Park. Allen has worked for Twin Cities radio station KFAN, where he currently hosts a morning sports radio show, since 1998.
Biography
Allen previously called horse races at different locations throughout the United States until he came to Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minnesota in 1995. Allen was both criticized and praised by Vikings fans for "ripping" into Brett Favre after he threw an interception in the 2009 NFC Championship game against the New Orleans Saints that ultimately kept them out of Super Bowl XLIV. He uses personally coined phrases like "Minnesota Moving Company" (offensive line) and "Minneapolis Miracle," the play where the Vikings beat the New Orleans Saints with a last play touchdown in the playoffs on January 14, 2018. Allen is known for his emotional calls, such as the aforementioned 2009 NFC Championship, the 2003 Vikings' regular season finale against the Arizona Cardinals, and the 2015 Wild Card Playoff game between the Vikings and the Seattle Seahawks.
Allen is a devout Christian and does a podcast called Faith and Goal. He also speaks at churches and leads chapels every summer at the Dean Kutz Memorial Chapel on the property of Canterbury Park.
References
External links
The Paul Allen Project - KFAN
Living people
American sports announcers
National Football League announcers
Minnesota Vikings announcers
People from Shakopee, Minnesota
1966 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple%20%28payment%20protocol%29 | Ripple is a real-time gross settlement system, currency exchange and remittance network that is open to financial institutions worldwide and was created by Ripple Labs Inc., a US-based technology company. Released in 2012, Ripple is built upon a distributed open source protocol, and supports tokens representing fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodities, or other units of value such as frequent flier miles or mobile minutes. Ripple purports to enable "secure, instantly and nearly free global financial transactions of any size with no chargebacks". The ledger employs the native cryptocurrency known as XRP.
In December 2020, Ripple Labs and two of its executives were sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for selling XRP tokens, which the SEC classified as unregistered securities. In July 2023, the court ruled that "XRP, as a digital token, is not in and of itself a 'contract, transaction, or scheme' that embodies the Howey requirements of an investment contract."
History
Ripple was conceived by Jed McCaleb and built by Arthur Britto and David Schwartz who then approached Ryan Fugger who had debuted in 2005 as a financial service to provide secure payment options to members of an online community via a global network. Fugger had developed a system called OpenCoin which would transform into Ripple. The company also created its own form of digital currency referred to as XRP to allow financial institutions to transfer money with negligible fees and wait-time. In 2013, the company reported interest from banks for using its payment system.
By 2018, over 100 banks had signed up, but most of them were only using Ripple's XCurrent messaging technology, while avoiding the XRP cryptocurrency due to its volatility problems. Representatives of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), whose market dominance is being challenged by Ripple, have argued that the scalability issues of Ripple and other blockchain solutions remain unsolved, confining them to bilateral and intra-bank applications. A Ripple executive acknowledged in 2018 that "We started out with your classic blockchain, which we love. But the feedback from the banks is you can’t put the whole world on a blockchain."
Ripple relies on a common shared ledger, which is a distributed database storing information about all Ripple accounts. Chris Larsen told the Stanford Graduate School of Business that the network was managed by a network of independent servers which compare their transaction records, and that servers could in theory belong to anyone, including banks or market makers. Ripple validates accounts and balances instantly for payment transmission and delivers payment notification within a few seconds. Payments are irreversible, and there are no chargebacks.
Ripple Labs continued as the primary contributors of code to the consensus verification system behind Ripple. In 2014, the protocol gained access to the US banking system amid concer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Griggs | Ted Griggs (born October 24, 1960) was President, Group Leader and Strategic Production and Programming, NBC Regional Sports Network, overseeing CSN New England, CSN Philadelphia, TCN, and CSN Mid-Atlantic. Prior to that position, Griggs worked as President of Comcast SportsNet Bay Area and Comcast SportsNet California. Comcast SportsNet Bay Area is the regional sports network that broadcasts across Northern California and Nevada and televises live sporting events, including San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, Golden State Warriors, San Jose Sharks, San Jose Earthquakes, and San Jose SaberCats. As president, Griggs oversees the daily operation of the network, including affiliate relations, advertising sales, programming, production, marketing and public relations.
Griggs joined the network in 1998. He served as vice president of production and operations, and, in 2007, became vice president and general manager. Also in 2007, under Griggs’ leadership, the network relocated to new, high-definition television studios in downtown San Francisco.
Career
From 1982 to 1997, Griggs served as a producer, senior producer (1982–1994), vice president, and executive producer (1994–1997) at Golden Gate Productions. During his tenure at Golden Gate Productions, he worked on Sports Illustrated for Kids Olympics Special for NBC, World Cup Soccer Preview for ABC, MCI Downhill Replays for NBC and CBS, Stanford University Football, and World Cup Downhill Skiing. Griggs also worked on a total of eleven years of NFL Super Bowl Specials and twelve years of national and international Pre-Olympic programming.
At Trans World International, Griggs served as a senior producer, from 1997 to 1998, and produced several ski series, for multiple networks. In addition, he also directed several events for WNBC and ESPN. Griggs was a sports producer for San Francisco's KRON-TV’s Sports Final, from 1981 to 1982.
In 2021, Gravity Media appointed Griggs as managing director of its North American operation.
Awards
The San Jose Mercury News ranked Griggs number one in "Bay Area’s 25 Most Powerful Sports People," in 2008. Since then, he has remained in the top five each year. In 2010, Griggs served as the executive producer for the show, "Out. The Glenn Burke Story," which explored the life of the first openly gay Major League Baseball player. The show earned a nomination for Outstanding Documentary at the national GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) Media Awards, as well as a nomination from the Northern California Emmy Awards.
While Griggs served as vice president, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area won a total of 60 local Emmy Awards and three Beacon Awards, cable television's award for public affairs excellence.
Education and personal life
Griggs is a native of Hayward, California. His father was a car mechanic. Griggs graduated from Moreau Catholic High School, and attended California State University, East Bay where he majored in Biology and then Theatre Arts. H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive%20for%20Small%20Press%20%26%20Communication | The Archive for Small Press & Communication (A.S.P.C. or ASPC) was founded in 1974 by Guy Schraenen and Anne Marsily in Antwerp, Belgium. It was part of the international network of the small press ( often used interchangeably with "indie publisher", and "independent press") movements of this period. In fact the A.S.P.C. was a development of the former activities in Guy Schraenen's Galerie Kontakt (1966–1978) and their publishing house Guy Schraenen éditeur (1973–1978).
The Fund and the Activities of the Archive
"The Archive for Small Press & Communication (A.S.P.C) has the aim to collect and preserve all types of art documentation, emanating principally from artists’ initiatives and covering all fields the contemporary artist is active in." (Guy Schraenen)
The A.S.P.C covers all fields of the contemporary art and had the aim to collect and preserve all types of art documentations emanating principally from artists’ initiatives. As the most of the collected documents record activities neglected by the traditional artworld, the preserved works remain an important contribution to the knowledge of the contemporary art scene until the 1980s. In the view of this fact the A.S.P.C. is as well an artistic as a political statement. Paul de Vree wrote about it:
“It is thanks to the ‘Small Press’ that not only the avant-garde but also the pluralism of ideas and action have found their way into the rigid world of confirmism.”
The collection consists publications, ranging from the avantgarde of the 1920s. The main focus are the tendencies of the 1960s to the 1980s such as Conceptual Art, Fluxus, Land Art, Minimalism, Pop Art, Concrete Poetry, Sound Poetry, Sound Art, Mail Art. In this field the Archive conserved visual, sound and text works. They are divided in several sections such as Artist's Books, Records and Cassetts, Posters, Film and Video Art, Catalogues, Multiples, Magazines, Postcards, Photographs, Writings by Artists and Original Works. All together it is a fund of thousands of documents representing the works of several hundreds of artists from over 25 countries. Many of them are meanwhile recognized by a larger public such as Ben, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Ulises Carrión, Henri Chopin, Mirtha Dermisache, Hanne Darboven, Robert Filliou, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Roman Opalka, Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri, Timm Ulrichs, Bernard Villers, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner.
Next to the collection of publications, works, documents and bio-bibliographical publications the A.S.P.C. also published publications and had an uninterrupted activity in showing exhibitions in its own exhibition space (“ARCHIVE SPACE”) and travelling exhibitions, in producing a monthly radio programme (“I AM AN ARTIST”) and in organizing lectures and symposiums. All this happened on individual base and in collaboration with artists’ run spaces, museums or cultural centers. 1999 a museum took note of the A.S.P.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellmax | CellMax Technologies, also known as Cellmax, is a Swedish developer and manufacturer of efficient antennas used for base station s in mobile networks.
CellMax Technologies was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Kista, Stockholm, with subsidiaries in Singapore and the USA. In 2012, CellMax Technologies opened a factory outside Warsaw.
Cellmax was named a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2011 company as one of the fastest growing technology companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
In 2012, Cellmax invested 20 million SEK in a research center and antenna laboratory in Kista. The plant is described as one of the world's most modern and will be used for research and development of the 'next generation' of base station antennas. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Sweden's Prince Daniel opened the plant in summer 2012 along with global industry leaders in telecommunications, and foreign ambassadors.
References
External links
CellMax Technologies global website
Swedish Wikipedia about CellMax Technologies
Technology companies of Sweden
Networking hardware companies
Swedish brands
Telecommunications equipment
Telecommunications companies established in 2001
manufacturing companies based in Stockholm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mam%20%28film%29 | Mam is a 2010 British short film by writer Vivienne Harvey and director Hugo Speer. Produced by Vigo Films in association with South Yorkshire Filmmakers Network. It has a running time of 15 minutes.
Plot summary
When Mam won’t get out of bed, 12-year-old Danny must fend for his brothers and sisters - whilst trying to protect a secret that threatens to break up the family forever.
Cast
Josie Lawrence as Reenie
Paul Barber as The Chemist
Ronan Carter as Danny
Tisha Merry as Charlie
Karren Winchester as The Neighbour
Charlie Street as Jimmy
Katie Gannon as Lauren
Patrick Downes as Tommy
Sylvie Caswell as Kyla
Elly May Taylor as Debs
Jodie McEnery as Gang Member
James Varley as Gang Member
Dwayne Scantlebury as Gang Member
Danny Gregory as Gang Member
Paul Tomblin as Gang Member
Accolades
Best Foreign Film - Williamsburg Independent Film Festival, Brooklyn, USA (2011)
Best Yorkshire Short - Hull International Short Film Festival, UK (2011)
Best Community Short - Rob Knox Film Festival, UK (2012)
Festivals
External links
BFI
British Film Council
Screen Yorkshire
The Moving Arts Journal - Review
2010 films
British short films
British independent films
2010s English-language films
2010s British films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20encryption | Database encryption can generally be defined as a process that uses an algorithm to transform data stored in a database into "cipher text" that is incomprehensible without first being decrypted. It can therefore be said that the purpose of database encryption is to protect the data stored in a database from being accessed by individuals with potentially "malicious" intentions. The act of encrypting a database also reduces the incentive for individuals to hack the aforementioned database as "meaningless" encrypted data is of little to no use for hackers. There are multiple techniques and technologies available for database encryption, the most important of which will be detailed in this article.
Transparent/External database encryption
Transparent data encryption (often abbreviated as TDE) is used to encrypt an entire database, which therefore involves encrypting "data at rest". Data at rest can generally be defined as "inactive" data that is not currently being edited or pushed across a network. As an example, a text file stored on a computer is "at rest" until it is opened and edited. Data at rest are stored on physical storage media solutions such as tapes or hard disk drives. The act of storing large amounts of sensitive data on physical storage media naturally raises concerns of security and theft. TDE ensures that the data on physical storage media cannot be read by malicious individuals that may have the intention to steal them. Data that cannot be read is worthless, thus reducing the incentive for theft. Perhaps the most important strength that is attributed to TDE is its transparency. Given that TDE encrypts all data it can be said that no applications need to be altered in order for TDE to run correctly. It is important to note that TDE encrypts the entirety of the database as well as backups of the database. The transparent element of TDE has to do with the fact that TDE encrypts on "the page level", which essentially means that data is encrypted when stored and decrypted when it is called into the system's memory. The contents of the database are encrypted using a symmetric key that is often referred to as a "database encryption key".
Column-level encryption
In order to explain column-level encryption it is important to outline basic database structure. A typical relational database is divided into tables that are divided into columns that each have rows of data. Whilst TDE usually encrypts an entire database, column-level encryption allows for individual columns within a database to be encrypted. It is important to establish that the granularity of column-level encryption causes specific strengths and weaknesses to arise when compared to encrypting an entire database. Firstly, the ability to encrypt individual columns allows for column-level encryption to be significantly more flexible when compared to encryption systems that encrypt an entire database such as TDE. Secondly, it is possible to use an entirely unique and separate en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splatalogue | Splatalogue is a database for astronomical spectroscopy which contains information on nearly six million spectral lines and is maintained by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
The name is a portmanteau of "spectral line catalogue".
It contains data from seven catalogues and other sources of spectral line data and is accessible via an online search interface.
Spectral lines
The spectral lines contained in Splatalogue range in frequency from 400 to 3.22×1018 Hz (400 Hz to 3.22 PHz), or equivalently, wavelengths from 97.25nm to 749.5 km). About 99.99% of the lines are in the microwave, millimeter, and submillimeter spectral regimes (1 GHz to 10 THz), as the catalogue is for use mainly by observational astronomers using instruments such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array and NRAO's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope.
External links
Splatalogue
References
astronomical catalogues |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawri%20school | The Thawri school () was a short-lived school of Fiqh. Its founder was Sufyan Al-Thawri, a great 8th century scholar, jurist and hadith compiler.
History
Sufyan Al-Thawri was born in Kufa in 719, and became the main scholar of Fiqh of the aforementioned city's Hadith school. He held similar views to that of his contemporary, Imam Abu Hanifa, founder of the Hanafi school of Fiqh, though he opposed his use of Qiyas and Istihsan.
After Ath-Thawri's move to Basra later in his life, his jurisprudential thought (usul) became more closely aligned to that of the Umayyads and of Al-Awza'i.
He spent the last year of his life hiding after a dispute between him and the Abbasid Caliph Muhammad Ibn Mansur Al-Mahdi. The Caliph had sent a letter to Al-Thawri requesting him to accept the post of Judge of Kufa on the condition that he did not make any judgment or ruling in opposition to the state policy. Al-Thawri tore this letter up and threw it into the Tigris river in disgust. After his death, the Thawri Madhhab was taken up by his students, including notably Yahya al-Qattan. However, his school did not survive, but his jurisprudential thought and especially hadith transmission are highly regarded in Islam, and have influenced all the major schools, although not in the form of organized school like other Madhhabs.
Disappearance
The disappearance of Al-Thawri's school can be attributed to two factors. The first of these is that he spent the greater part of his life in hiding due to his differences with the state. Unable to cultivate a large following because of this, no major group of students could carry on his work. The second of these reasons is that despite having created fairly extensive compilations of hadith and their interpretations, Al-Thawri instructed his principal student, Ammar ibn Sayf, to destroy and burn all of his works. This was carried out by his student, but many of his ideas were recorded by students of other Imaams, so they have survived until today, though not in any organized form.
References
Islamic jurisprudence
Schools of Sunni jurisprudence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20League%20Baseball%20on%20NBC%20Sports%20Regional%20Networks | Major League Baseball on NBC Sports Regional Networks refers to Major League Baseball television coverage on the chain of NBC Sports regional networks.
NBC Sports Bay Area (San Francisco Giants)
Giants' telecasts are split between KNTV (over-the-air) and NBC Sports Bay Area (cable). Jon Miller regularly calls the action on KNTV (on September 4, 2010, Miller made his first appearance with then Comcast SportsNet Bay Area), while the announcing team for NBC Sports Bay Area telecasts is Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper, affectionately known as "Kruk and Kuip" (pronounced "Kruke" and "Kype"). KNTV's broadcast contract with the Giants began in 2008, one year after the team and KTVU mostly ended a relationship that dated to 1958, the team's first year in the Bay Area. (As a FOX affiliate, KTVU continues to air Giants games that are part of the Major League Baseball on Fox package; Several Giants games a year are also part of the ESPN and TBS packages.).
See also
List of San Francisco Giants broadcasters
NBC Sports Chicago (Chicago White Sox)
NBC Sports Chicago was created in 2004. It is jointly owned by Comcast subsidiary NBCUniversal (20%), the family of J. Joseph Ricketts (owner of the Cubs, 20%), Jerry Reinsdorf (owner of both the Bulls and the White Sox, giving him a 40% stake), and Rocky Wirtz (owner of the Chicago Blackhawks, 20%). The channel airs a majority of games for those four teams. It also carries games for the AFL Chicago Rush, Chicago Fire S.C., and NIU Huskies football. Although WCIU-TV and WGN-TV carry many Cubs, White Sox, Blackhawks and Bulls games, NBC Sports Chicago was created so the teams mentioned could have editorial control over their broadcasts. Previously, these teams' cable games were produced by FSN Chicago. However, with the creation of the then Comcast SportsNet Chicago, all of Chicago's major professional teams dropped their agreements with FSN Chicago, though that channel limped along for another two years until going defunct in 2006. All games of the major Chicago sports teams on NBC SportsNet Chicago are broadcast in high definition.
Cubs (until 2019)
Cubs telecasts are locally aired on three different outlets: Over broadcast television via the WGN television outlets (both the local station on Channel 9 and the superstation nationally, produced through the station's WGN Sports department), Weigel Broadcasting's WCIU-TV (Channel 26.1) and on cable television over NBC Sports Chicago (of which the Ricketts family owns a 20% interest), with some games, mainly on Wednesday evenings, airing over the supplemental NBC Sports+ channel. WCIU came into the fold in the early 2000s due to demands by The WB Television Network for WGN to devote more time to the network's programming, and later on the same has been expected by The CW, though WGN still does push back CW primetime programming to accommodate game broadcasts.
Len Kasper is the play-by-play announcer, and Bob Brenly, a former major league catcher and Arizona Diamo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20over%20LTE | Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is an LTE high-speed wireless communication standard for voice calls using mobile phones and data terminals. VoLTE has up to three times more voice and data capacity than older 3G UMTS and up to six times more than 2G GSM. It uses less bandwidth because VoLTE's packet headers are smaller than those of unoptimized VoIP/LTE. VoLTE calls are usually charged at the same rate as other calls.
To be able to make a VoLTE call, the device, its firmware, and the mobile telephone providers on each end, as well as the inter-carrier connectivity must all implement the service in the area, and be able to work together. VoLTE has been marketed as "HD Voice" by some carriers, but this is a broader concept. Moreover, HD+ (EVS) is used only in LTE; HD Voice was available in 3G too.
Overview
VoLTE is based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architectural framework, with specific profiles for control and media planes of voice service. This facilitates VoLTE on the LTE wireless broadband service defined by GSMA in PRD IR.92. The approach results in the voice service (control and media planes) being delivered as data flows within the LTE data bearer, with no dependency on (or ultimately, requirement for) the circuit-switched voice network to be in the call path.
As of February 2019 there were 253 operators investing in VoLTE in 113 countries globally, including 184 operators with commercially launched VoLTE-HD voice service in 87 countries, up from 137 operators in 65 countries 12 months previously, according to data from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association. By August 2019, these numbers had risen to 262 operators investing in VoLTE in 120 countries and 194 operators with launched VoLTE-HD voice services in 91 countries.
History
Beginning in August 2012, MetroPCS launched the world's first commercial VoLTE services in Dallas, Texas, in the United States, alongside the first VoLTE phone, the LG Connect 4G. In May 2014, Singtel introduced the world's first commercial "full-featured" VoLTE service in Singapore, only in combination with Galaxy Note 3, it was subsequently expanded. In June 2014, KT showcased the world's first cross-border roaming services based on Voice over LTE. The South Korean operator partnered with China Mobile to develop VoLTE roaming services.
In November 2014, Verizon and AT&T announced the companies are enabling VoLTE-to-VoLTE connections between their respective customers. VoLTE interoperability between Verizon and AT&T customers began in 2015. Testing and design were performed between both companies using third party networks such as Alcatel-Lucent. This was stated to have been completed in November 2017.
On July 11, 2015, SEATEL Cambodia announced the world's first commercial 100% VoLTE service without 2G/3G in Cambodia.
As of 2020, almost all new phones for sale have the potential to support VoLTE.
By December 31, 2022, Verizon shut down their CDMA network, therefore requiring devices to support LTE or 5G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20mapper%20pattern | In software engineering, the data mapper pattern is an architectural pattern. It was named by Martin Fowler in his 2003 book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. The interface of an object conforming to this pattern would include functions such as Create, Read, Update, and Delete, that operate on objects that represent domain entity types in a data store.
A Data Mapper is a Data Access Layer that performs bidirectional transfer of data between a persistent data store (often a relational database) and an in-memory data representation (the domain layer). The goal of the pattern is to keep the in-memory representation and the persistent data store independent of each other and the data mapper itself. This is useful when one needs to model and enforce strict business processes on the data in the domain layer that do not map neatly to the persistent data store. The layer is composed of one or more mappers (or Data Access Objects), performing the data transfer. Mapper implementations vary in scope. Generic mappers will handle many different domain entity types, dedicated mappers will handle one or a few.
Implementations
Implementations of the concept can be found in various frameworks for many programming environments.
Java/.NET
MyBatis persistence framework
Hibernate (NHibernate) persistence framework
Node.js / TypeScript
Bookshelf.js library
TypeORM library
Massive.js library
Prisma
Objection.js library
MikroORM library
LDkit Object Graph Mapper (OGM) for RDF data sources
PHP
Atlas ORM (data mapper, table data gateway, query builder, and PDO wrapper)
Doctrine2 Object Relational Mapper (ORM) and the Database Abstraction Layer
Cycle ORM (PHP DataMapper ORM and Data Modelling Engine)
Perl
DBIx
Python
SQLAlchemy library
mincePy library
Ruby
DataMapper library (Actually this library implemented the Active Record design pattern, its successor, DataMapper 2 (now ROM) aimed to actually implement the design pattern it was named after)
Elixir
Ecto persistence framework
See also
References
Software design patterns
Architectural pattern (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abowd | Abowd is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gregory Abowd (born 1964), American computer scientist
John M. Abowd (born 1951), American economist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop.%201280%20%28band%29 | Pop. 1280 is a self-styled cyberpunk/industrial rock band from Brooklyn, New York City. Their name is derived from Jim Thompson’s novel of the same name.
History
The band started in 2008 when Chris Bug moved to New York after a two-year post-high-school graduation sojourn in China, convinced by his long-time friend Ivan Lip. Settled in Greenpoint the duo, with Bug at vocals and Lip at guitar, decided to recruit members who didn’t already play an instrument. So John Skultrane and Andrew Smith eventually joined as bass player and drummer.
Lip started writing music along with Bug and the resulting sound was initially pegged as downer punk but soon Pop.1280 has been compared to various bands from different musical decades. In effect they seem to mix together sonic deviations from no wave and new wave, punk and industrial, noise and tribal, electronic and post hardcore, borrowing sounds from The Velvet Underground, Suicide, Joy Division, The Birthday Party, Sonic Youth, Liars and many more.
Discography
Albums
The Horror (2012, Sacred Bones Records)
Imps of Perversion (2013, Sacred Bones Records)
Paradise (2016, Sacred Bones Records)
Way Station (2019, Weyrd Son Records)
Museum On The Horizon (2021, Profound Lore Records)
EP
The Grid (2010) (Sacred Bones Records)
"Pulse" (2016) (Population Control Center)
Singles
"Bedbugs"/"Times Square" (2009, self-release)
"Neon Lights"/"Da'Rat Hessla"/"Ponys" (2010, Badmaster Records) split with Hot Guts
"Thirteen Steps"/"Dead Hand" (2011, Blind Prophet Records)
"Penetrate"/"Krankenschwester" (2015, Sacred Bones Records)
References
External links
Musical groups established in 2008
American industrial rock musical groups
2008 establishments in New York City
Sacred Bones Records artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-REX%20%28web%20server%29 | T-REX (Tree and Reticulogram Reconstruction) is a freely available web server, developed at the department of Computer Science of the Université du Québec à Montréal, dedicated to the inference, validation and visualization of phylogenetic trees and phylogenetic networks.
The T-REX web server allows the users to perform several popular methods of phylogenetic analysis as well as some new phylogenetic applications for inferring, drawing and validating phylogenetic trees and networks.
Phylogenetic inference
The following methods for inferring and validating phylogenetic trees using distances are available: Neighbor joining (NJ), NINJA large-scale Neighbor Joining, BioNJ, UNJ, ADDTREE, MW, FITCH and Circular order reconstruction. For the maximum parsimony: DNAPARS, PROTPARS, PARS and DOLLOP, all of them from the PHYLIP package, and for the maximum likelihood: PhyML, RAxML, DNAML, DNAMLK, PROML and PROMLK, the four latter methods are from the PHYLIP package, are available.
Tree drawing
Hierarchical vertical, horizontal, radial and axial types of tree drawing are available.
Input data can be in the three following formats: Newick format, PHYLIP and FASTA format. All graphical results provided by the T-REX server can be saved in the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format and then opened and modified (e.g. prepared for a publication or presentation) in the user’s preferred graphics editor.
Tree building
A developed application for drawing phylogenetic trees allowing for saving them in the Newick format.
Tree inference from incomplete matrices
The following methods for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from a distance matrix containing missing values, i.e. incomplete matrices, are available: Triangles method by Guénoche and Leclerc (2001), Ultrametric procedure for the estimation of missing values by Landry, Lapointe and Kirsch (1996) followed by NJ, Additive procedure for the estimation of missing values by Landry, Lapointe and Kirsch (1996) followed by NJ, and the Modified Weighted least-squares method (MW*) by Makarenkov and Lapointe (2004). The MW* method assigns the weight of 1 to the existing entries, the weight of 0.5 to the estimated entries and the weight of 0 when the entry estimation was impossible. The simulations described in (Makarenkov and Lapointe 2004) showed that the MW* method clearly outperforms the Triangles, Ultrametric and Additive procedures.
Horizontal gene transfer detection
Complete and partial Horizontal gene transfer detection and validation methods are included in the T-REX server. The HGT-Detection program aims to determine an optimal, i.e. minimum-cost, scenario of horizontal gene transfers while proceeding by a gradual reconciliation of the given species and gene trees.
Reticulogram inference
The reticulogram i.e. reticulated network reconstruction program first builds a supporting phylogenetic tree using one of the existing tree inferring methods. Following this, a reticulation branch that minimizes the least-sq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii%20U%20system%20software | The Wii U system software is the official firmware version and operating system for Nintendo's Wii U home video game console. Nintendo maintains the Wii U's systemwide features and applications by offering system software updates via the Internet. Updates are optional to each console owner, but may be required in order to retain interoperability with Nintendo's online services. Each update is cumulative, including all changes from previous updates.
The system's official integrated development environment, named MULTI and published by embedded software engineering vendor Green Hills Software, is intended for use by Nintendo and its licensed developers in programming the Wii U. Details of the operating system's internal architecture have not been officially publicized.
The Wii U Menu is the main dashboard of the system, acting as an application organizer and launcher. It is a graphical shell similar to the Wii's "Wii Menu" and Nintendo 3DS HOME Menu. It allows launching software stored on Wii U optical discs, applications installed in the internal memory or an external storage device, or Wii titles through the system's "Wii Mode". The WaraWara Plaza is displayed on the TV screen, while the Wii U GamePad screen displays the application icons available for launch; the two screens' display roles can be swapped with the press of a button.
Like the original Wii, discs can also be hot-swapped while in the menu. The Wii U Menu may also be used to launch applications entirely beyond just gaming: the Miiverse social network which is integrated with all games and applications; the Internet Browser for the World Wide Web; play media through Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu, YouTube, and more; download Wii U software and content through the Nintendo eShop; and receive official notifications from Nintendo. System settings, parental controls and the activity log can also be launched through the menu.
Wii U Menu
WaraWara Plaza
The Wii U Menu is directly integrated with Miiverse and the Nintendo Network. When the Wii U powers on, the television screen shows the WaraWara Plaza in which user status and comments on Miiverse are shown. Each user is represented by their respective Mii and was associated with a Miiverse community. Users could save any Mii on the WaraWara Plaza to their personal library, like their posts (with a "Yeah!"), write a comment, and send a friend request.
Since Miiverse is discontinued, the WaraWara Plaza now only shows the built-in tips from Nintendo usually meant for offline users.
Home Menu
The Home Menu (stylized as HOME Menu) can be accessed during any game or application through the user pressing the Home Button on the Wii U GamePad, Wii U Pro Controller or Wii Remote. The Home Menu allows the user to launch certain multitasking applications, such as Miiverse, Nintendo TVii, Nintendo eShop, and the Internet Browser while a game or application is running. It also displays various information such as date and time, the wireless signal st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratings%20Guy | "Ratings Guy" is the second episode of the eleventh season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 7, 2012. The episode follows the Griffin family becoming a Nielsen family and Peter attempting to take over the TV airwaves.
This episode was dedicated in memory of both Phyllis Diller (who voiced Thelma Griffin in several episodes of the show) and Michael Clarke Duncan (who had a brief voice role in this episode). This episode was also one of Duncan's final roles before his untimely death from complications following a heart attack a month earlier.
Plot
The Griffins receive a letter from the Nielsen Company telling them they have been selected to have their viewing habits monitored. Tom Tucker comes to the door, having heard of the Griffins becoming a Nielsen family, and asks Peter for some suggestions to change the show. Tom performs Peter's crazy suggestions on the air, which displeases Peter's friends Joe and Quagmire. When the Nielsen representative returns to reset the card on his Nielsen box, Peter takes the opportunity to steal a bunch of Nielsen boxes so he can have a much bigger impact on the ratings.
Peter soon forces many shows to make outlandish changes to "improve" them, which angers Lois and Joe, and an angry mob issue their complaints towards Peter for what he did to some of their favorite TV shows. After barely getting medical help and getting kicked out of the Drunken Clam, Peter realizes he won't be able to show face around Quahog unless he fixes things, and decides to try and fix television, but Mayor Adam West shows up and shoots the boxes to pieces to prevent Peter from making more alterations to his favorite TV shows and in retaliation for Peter adding an extra tree on One Tree Hill. With the boxes destroyed, Brian believes that they are now sunk, but suddenly Peter comes up with another plan.
Peter goes to the Television Producers Guild for help, stating that he is the man who ruined television and is going to fix it. He gathers many TV producers (including J.J. Abrams, Mark Burnett, Dick Wolf, Jon Hamm and Kelsey Grammer) to discuss ideas to make their shows better again. Abrams comes up with an idea about a show that details an alien that goes back in time and encounters a koala in an Eastern European town and Peter tells him to go with that idea. Peter then has four TV producers to make 15 workplace comedies where people talk to the camera for some reason, thus breaking the fourth wall. Burnett is asked by Peter to give him a reality show where people do horrible, unforgivable things to each other for embarrassingly small sums of money. Peter then has two TV producers leave to make a show about horrible New Jersey freaks and tells Wolf to give him the same Law & Order six times. Peter tells the TV producers from Bravo do a show about women fighting.
Every television show goes back to normal as Peter is friends with Joe and Quagmire again. Peter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once%20Upon%20a%20Dream%20%28TV%20series%29 | Once Upon a Dream is an Australian children's television series. It airs on Network Ten. The six episodes take you behind the scenes of the Australian Ballet's production of Swan Lake. It is a documentary style series.
References
Network 10 original programming
Australian children's television series
2012 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Warner | Justin M. Warner (born February 11, 1984) is an American cookbook author and television personality. He is best known for his appearances on Food Network, including the eighth season of the series Food Network Star, which he won. He is the author of The Laws of Cooking: And How to Break Them (2015). He is also the host of Eat the Universe on marvel.com where he makes meals inspired by characters of the Marvel Universe.
Early life
Warner was born on February 11, 1984 in Hagerstown, Maryland. His mother, Jan, is a schoolteacher, and his father was a psychiatrist. Warner was born when his father was 57 years old. In 1998 he was a finalist in the National Spelling Bee. His father died shortly after Justin graduated from South Hagerstown High School in 2002.
Warner has had no formal culinary training; he was inspired to learn to cook by his father.
Food Network
Warner appeared on 24 Hour Restaurant Battle in August 2010 with his then-girlfriend J.J. Pyle. They won the episode with their brunch restaurant concept, but the restaurant itself never came to fruition.
Food Network Star
Later in 2012 Warner became a contestant on the eighth season of Food Network Star, mentored by Alton Brown. He did not watch the series before becoming a contestant, because he does not own a television. He eventually became one of the final four contestants, and he filmed a pilot for a potential series called Rebel with a Culinary Cause. He won the competition.
Alton Brown announced on January 4, 2013, that he will "regrettably" not be producing Justin's show.
In March 2013, Justin Warner debuted a one-hour pilot special on Food Network titled Rebel Eats. In 2014, he was a judge on Guy's Grocery Games.
Career
He was one of the co-owners of Do or Dine restaurant in Bed-Stuy, New York, before it closed in September 2015.
in 2021, Justin and his wife Brooke opened "Bokujo Ramen", in Rapid City, South Dakota. It combines their love of Japanese food, with local ingredients.
Starting October 31, 2016, Warner, along with a few others acting as staff, created a new cooking show on Twitch.tv known as Chefshock, "Shockingly Real, Shockingly Live, and just plain Shockingly Delicious.", where he cooks live from his home kitchen from completely raw ingredients with viewers encouraged to cook along and ask questions. Questions are often presented to Warner by a moderator who shares in eating the finished results, while those that cook along and post their own progress pictures are featured throughout the show during lulls in the cooking process. Ingredients required to cook along at home are shared a week in advance, usually through the use of google documents to allow those that wish to participate time to gather them.
Personal life
On June 29, 2015, Justin Warner married his fiancée Brooke Sweeten.
Filmography
Bibliography
The Laws of Cooking: And How to Break Them (, 2015)
References
External links
1984 births
American television chefs
American male chefs
Food Networ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Basel | The Basel trolleybus system () was part of the public transport network of Basel, Switzerland, for nearly six decades. Opened in 1941, it combined after 1997 with the Basel Regional S-Bahn, the Basel tramway network and Basel's urban motorbus network to form an integrated all-four style scheme until its closure in 2008.
The trolleybus system was operated by Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB), which also operates Basel's motorbus network and some of the trams on its tramway network. At its height, the trolleybus system consisted of three lines, two of which ran into the neighbouring municipality of Riehen, north of Basel.
History
The individual sections of the Basel trolleybus system went into service as follows:
Line 34 was converted to motorbus operation on 9 September 2000. A conversion of line 33 followed on 13 December 2004. After the latter closure, Basel's only remaining trolleybus line was the long line 31.
A popular initiative to rescue the trolleybuses then occurred, but on 17 June 2007 the initiative was rejected by a 27,403 to 23,645 (53.7%) majority of the voting citizens. Subsequently, the final trolleybus run on line 31 took place on 30 June 2008.
Fleet
A total of 52 trolleybuses were procured for the Basel trolleybus system. All of them were supplied new, apart from nos. 921 and 922, which were acquired second-hand from the Kaiserslautern trolleybus system in Germany:
Up until the closure of the system, motorbus no. 48 served as an overhead wire de-icer, and for that purpose was fitted with trolley poles.
Some of the retired trolleybuses were transferred to Pazardzhik and Ruse in Bulgaria as well as Braşov in Romania. Trolleybus no. 358 is now in the possession of the Lausanne-based RétroBus Léman museum society.
Depot
The vehicles in Basel's trolleybus fleet were kept at the Rankstrasse bus garage, on line 31. The garage was also connected with line 33 via non-revenue wires (wiring not used for passenger service) from Basel Badischer Bahnhof.
See also
List of trolleybus systems in Switzerland
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
RétroBus Léman – official site
Transport in Basel
Basel
Basel
1941 establishments in Switzerland
2008 disestablishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DbDOS | dbDOS is software developed by dBase for Windows computers with Intel processors. dbDOS allows Intel-based PCs to run DOS Applications, such as dBASE III, dBASE IV (Version 1, 2, 3), and dBASE V for DOS in an emulated DOS environment. It is an environment configured specifically to allow the various versions of dBASE for DOS to run without any changes to the dBASE executables or the dBASE compiled programs created.
The company dBase offers licenses for dBase CLASSIC (DOS).
Overview
In the late 1980s to early 1990s, dBase for DOS was one of the more popular database tools on the market. When Borland decided to stop the development of the DOS version in favour of the Windows version, many companies were left providing support for themselves.
Many decided to keep their applications running on the DOS platform for many years following Borland's switch to Windows. This strategy worked well enough until Microsoft decided to make some changes in the way the underlying operating system worked. And as more and more PC started supporting 64-bit operating systems, the ability to keep dBASE for DOS running on maintainable hardware became difficult.
In 2012, the newly formed dBase LLC opted to support this install base of dBASE applications by releasing a virtualization tool named dbDOS. Based on the popular DOSBox, dbDOS quickly became an easy way to enable virtually any DOS-based application on Microsoft's Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, both 32- and 64-bit versions of the operating systems. With enhanced support for dBASE III, dBASE IV (Version 1, 2, 3), and dBASE V for DOS, dbDOS is the easiest way to keep mission-critical applications up and running for years to come.
dbDOS 1.0 was released on May 23, 2012, following the restructuring of dBase LLC in April 2012.
System requirements
The dbDOS virtual machine requires an Intel-based personal computer running Microsoft Windows. The computer must have at least 1 gigabyte of RAM and at least 100 megabytes of free hard drive space available.
Once the virtual machine software known as dbDOS is installed, the user is then free to install additional application software provide they have the originally licensed installation media available.
Features
Easy-to-use wizard-based interface supports importing and exporting multiple environment configurations
No modifications to dBASE or any other applications are required
Ability to run any DOS programs* (BETA)
Very small footprint, under 10 megabytes of storage needed for the running program
Revive existing applications instead of rewriting them
Original installation media and licence from the manufacturer are required to install and run applications within Dados
dBase dbDOS 1.1 was released as a free upgrade on June 22, 2012. New features in this release include:
Ability to print ESC and printer-specific codes to the host OS's printers (either networked or connected)
dBase dbDOS 1.5 was released as a fr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge%20function | In cryptography, a sponge function or sponge construction is any of a class of algorithms with finite internal state that take an input bit stream of any length and produce an output bit stream of any desired length. Sponge functions have both theoretical and practical uses. They can be used to model or implement many cryptographic primitives, including cryptographic hashes, message authentication codes, mask generation functions, stream ciphers, pseudo-random number generators, and authenticated encryption.
Construction
A sponge function is built from three components:
a state memory, S, containing b bits,
a function
a padding function P
S is divided into two sections: one of size r (the bitrate) and the remaining part of size c (the capacity). These sections are denoted R and C respectively.
f produces a pseudorandom permutation of the states from S.
P appends enough bits to the input string so that the length of the padded input is a whole multiple of the bitrate, r. This means the input is segmented into blocks of r bits.
Operation
The sponge function "absorbs" (in the sponge metaphor) all blocks of a padded input string as follows:
S is initialized to zero
for each r-bit block B of P(string)
R is replaced with R XOR B (using bitwise XOR)
S is replaced by f(S)
The sponge function output is now ready to be produced ("squeezed out") as follows:
repeat
output the R portion of S
S is replaced by f(S) unless output is full
If less than r bits remain to be output, then R will be truncated (only part of R will be output).
Another metaphor describes the state memory as an "entropy pool", with input "poured into" the pool, and the transformation function referred to as "stirring the entropy pool".
Note that input bits are never XORed into the C portion of the state memory, nor are any bits of C ever output directly. The extent to which C is altered by the input depends entirely on the transformation function f. In hash applications, resistance to collision or preimage attacks depends on C, and its size (the "capacity" c) is typically twice the desired resistance level.
Duplex construction
It is also possible to absorb and squeeze in an alternating fashion. This operation is called the duplex construction or duplexing. It can be the basis of a single pass authenticated encryption system.
The state S is initialized to zero
for each r-bit block B of the input
R is XORed with B
S is replaced by f(S)
R is now an output block of size r bits.
Overwrite mode
It is possible to omit the XOR operations during absorption, while still maintaining the chosen security level. In this mode, in the absorbing phase, the next block of the input overwrites the R part of the state. This allows keeping a smaller state between the steps. Since the R part will be overwritten anyway, it can be discarded in advance, only the C part must be kept.
Applications
Sponge functions have both theoretical and practical uses. In theoretical cryptanalysis, a random sp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemilichery%20railway%20station | Nemilichery railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Nemilichery, Thiruninravur a suburb of Chennai, and is located 27 km west of Chennai Central railway station. It has an elevation of 32.05 m above sea level.
Presently, Nemilichery, with three temporary shelters, is only a halt station and not a full-fledged one. However, all the 71 pairs of slow suburban trains halt at the station.
History
Nemilichery railway station is the newest railway station in the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. With the two nearest railway stations of and on the eastern and western sides, respectively, lying 4.01 km apart, there was a demand for a new railway station in the midst of these two stations, which would benefit more than 100,000 people in the neighbourhood. Southern Railway gave its in principle approval for the construction of a new railway station in 2002 and the site inspection was carried out by the then minister of state for railways, A. K. Moorthy, in 2003. The railway station was initially estimated at a cost of 5.8 million, with the Jaya Group of Educational Institutions contributing 2.5 million as public contribution towards the construction. The final cost of construction of the station, however, was about 10 million, including 3.574 million towards earth work for laying the platform and 3.828 million towards shifting of tracks.
The station was inaugurated on 5 February 2010. The lines at the station, however, were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section.
The subway connecting the two sides of the neighbourhoods was completed by March 2016 and was commissioned to public use on 21 April 2016
Neighbourhoods
The station serves the neighbourhood, including East Thiruninravur, Srinath Nagar, TI Nagar, Gomathi Amman Nagar, Ambal Nagar, Nehru Nagar, Nemilichery, Annambedu, West Thandurai, Abirami Nagar, and Rajankuppam.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Nemilichery station at Indiarailinfo.com
Railway stations in India opened in 2010
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python%20SCOOP%20%28software%29 | SCOOP (Scalable Concurrent Operations in Python) is a Python software module for distributing concurrent tasks on various environments, from heterogeneous grids of workstations to supercomputers.
It uses ØMQ and the Greenlet package as building blocks to encapsulate and distribute tasks (named a Future) between processes and/or systems. Its interface is inspired from the PEP-3148 proposal.
SCOOP is targeted towards scientific applications that require execution of many loosely coupled tasks using all available hardware resources. These resources need to be accessible through SSH.
History
SCOOP was initiated by Yannick Hold and Marc Parizeau at the Computer Vision and Systems Laboratory of Université Laval. It is an iterative step over the now deprecated DTM module of the DEAP framework for developing evolutionary algorithm. While DTM used MPI for its communications, SCOOP uses instead ØMQ.
Network topology
SCOOP uses the Broker Architecture to distribute its Futures. It is based on a central element, called the Broker, that dispatches work to its workers. The main difference between this pattern and a Master/slave topology reside in the Future origin. In the Broker architecture, the Futures emanate from a worker, which is located on the periphery of the topology, instead of the master in the Master/slave architecture. This allows higher reliability in regard to worker faults and generally better performances due to the generic function of the Broker. Since he doesn't need to serialize nor deserialize any Future to route them around the grid, his workload consists of networking or interprocess I/O and almost no CPU processing time. This lowers the bottleneck of the Broker topology.
The Broker architecture won't stress the networking fabric and elements as much as a totally distributed topology since there is only one connection required on every worker.
Example
An introductory parallel "Hello, world!" example is implemented this way:
from scoop import futures
def hello_world(value) -> str:
return "Hello World from Future #{}".format(value)
if __name__ == "__main__":
return_values = futures.map(hello_world, range(16))
print("\n".join(return_values))
References
External links
Official documentation
Distributed computing
Free science software
Python (programming language) scientific libraries
Python (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammyy | Ammyy (sometimes called AMMYY) was a company which created the remote desktop software called Ammyy Admin. It was often used by scammers who cold-call homes to try to gain access to their computer.
Since 2011 the company has issued warnings about these scammers who abuse their software against its intended purposes.
See also
Event Viewer
Technical support scam
References
Remote desktop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella%20Atkins | Stella Atkins is a Professor Emeritus in computing science at Simon Fraser University in Canada, and one of the founding members of the Systers community for technical women in computing. Her primary research interests are in medical computing (includes laparoscopic surgery, sleep studies and telehealth) and medical image display and analysis.
Education
Atkins grew up in England with an intense interest in math. Her father was an engineer and her mother, a statistician. She enjoyed reading math books for fun but because her sister was studying mathematics in college, she wanted to take a different route and pursued chemistry studies instead. When choosing a university, Atkins chose University of Nottingham in England, because chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, who had just received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was there.
After Atkins received her B.Sc. in chemistry from Nottingham University (1966), she went on to work at the Shell Refining Company as a chemical engineer. There she performed simulations of oil refineries and oil flow, and developed her interest in computing.
Atkins later became a scientific computer programmer advisor at the University of Warwick in England and received a M.Phil. in computer science from there in 1976. In 1985, Atkins received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of British Columbia.
References
External links
Google scholar profile
Living people
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Warwick
University of British Columbia Faculty of Science alumni
Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
British emigrants to Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minelvaton%20Saga%3A%20Ragon%20no%20Fukkatsu | is a role playing game published by Taito for the Family Computer. It is the first game in the Minelvaton series, being followed by Silva Saga and ending with Silva Saga II: The Legend of Light and Darkness.
A tribute CD Minelvaton Saga Tribute was published in 2009.
Plot
Minelvaton Saga takes place on the world Minelvaton, in the area known as Southern Ofelia. In the kingdom of Palmeccia both the King and Queen have been murdered by the hands of a servant of Ragon, son of the Zuhl. The player takes control of the Prince of Palmeccia in a quest for revenge and to kill the evil Ragon.
Gameplay
In the first few minutes of gameplay, Minelvaton Saga plays and looks like Dragon Quest: an open-world role-playing game with top-down perspective. As soon as a battle starts, though, the fundamental difference becomes apparent: Minelvaton Saga is an action-based RPG, while Dragon Quest is a turn-based RPG. However, the two sequels Silva Saga I and II feature turn-based combat.
The player is given control of a single character and can explore a number of towns, dungeons, and the world surface itself. Once the player receives the ship for sailing, the game world becomes truly open, as the player can explore almost anywhere that can be reached.
Like a typical role-playing game, there are random battles, but actual combat is action-based. In battle, the player starts at the bottom of the screen facing the enemies that are at the top. In order to defeat enemies, the player must run into one in order to exchange blows. This system was already used in other early series of Japanese role-playing games, e.g. Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II and the Ys series.
Beyond that, the basic plot and some of the battle system concept seems to have been co-opted by Sega's Sword of Vermilion.
Credits
Writer?: Ramon Yūto
Design Works (Illustrator?): Hitoshi Yoneda
Music: Yō Ōyama (leader of the progressive rock band ASTURIAS), Haruhiko Tsuda (guitarist of Shingetsu)
Legacy
Although never released outside Japan, the game was fan translated to English in 2011.
References
External links
Minelvaton Saga at Giant Bomb
1987 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Role-playing video games
Taito games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Hale | Joe or Joseph Hale may refer to:
Joseph Hale (1913–1985), politician
Joe Hale, founder of Network of International Christian Schools
Joe Hale (animator)
See also
Joseph Haile, historic house |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prismatic%20%28app%29 | Prismatic was a social news curation and discovery application for various Web browsers and mobile devices running iOS. It combined machine learning, user experience design, and interaction design to create a new way to discover, consume, and share media. Prismatic software used social network aggregation and machine learning algorithms to filter the content that aligns with the interests of a specific user. Prismatic integrated with Facebook, Twitter, and Pocket to gather information about user's interests and suggest the most relevant stories to read.
Prismatic initially launched in 2012 for Web browsers and the iPhone, followed by the release of an iPad app on December 19, 2013.
On December 20, 2015 the company closed its consumer-facing apps and focused on offering its machine learning algorithms to publishers and hedge funds.
Prismatic was produced by Prismatic, Inc., a United-States-based software company founded in 2010 by Bradford Cross and Aria Haghighi and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Features
The Prismatic app was centered on a feed of news stories. Users can share stories to connected services like Twitter and Facebook, save stories for later reading, comment on stories, and browse tens of thousands of topics.
History
Though the Prismatic app was featured on the front page of the Apple app store, and Prismatic received $15m funding back in 2012, the industry of news aggregation apps have been difficult to break through and Prismatic had to close their doors on December 20, 2015.
Invention
Prismatic was founded by Bradford Cross and Aria Haghighi in 2010. Before starting Prismatic, Cross was a head of research at Flightcaster, a Y Combinator funded startup. Haghighi received a BS in Mathematics at Stanford and completed an NLP and machine learning focused PhD at UC Berkeley before joining Prismatic.
The initial technical and design research was completed in the winter of 2010. The first prototypes were ready by April 2011. Invitation only beta opened in April 2012 followed by a public web app release in June 2012. An iPhone app was released in August 2012. Prismatic released version 2.0.0 on Apple's App Store in December 2013.
Funding
Prismatic raised $1.5 million in venture financing in early 2012 from investors including Battery Ventures and Javelin Venture Partners. On December 5, 2012 Prismatic announced that it had raised $15 million in Series A from Jim Breyer and Yuri Milner
Public response
Prismatic had been positively reviewed by multiple news outlets, including The New York Times, TechCrunch, Business Insider, GigaOm, AllThingsD, and PandoDaily.
Apple had repeatedly featured the Prismatic iOS app. Prismatic had an average rating of 4.5 stars on the iOS App Store, from over 2,000 user ratings.
Technology
Prismatic primarily used Clojure and ClojureScript in production. Prismatic has open-sourced a large part of its technology stack on GitHub, including Plumbing, om-tools, Schema, fnHouse, and hiph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamus%20%28album%29 | Iamus is the first studio album composed using Iamus, a computer cluster designed by the University of Malaga which creates contemporary classical music. The pieces are composed using melomics computational system, and are entirely computer generated, with no human input.
Overview
The compositions were composed using a genomic process which creates music and converts it to standard musical notation, to be utilized by live musicians for performance and editing.
Iamus is arguably the first complete album to be composed solely by a computer and recorded by human musicians. This has generated a controversial discussion about the nature of artistic expression not only in music, but in many performing and visual arts. Tom Service, in reference to the piece "Hello World!", stated, "Iamus's Hello World... ought to pose existential questions about the integrity of musical composition, to blow holes in the fallacy that every note a human composer writes comes from a wellspring of emotion and deep thought unique to our consciousness."
Philip Ball, prolific science author, has written a piece on the album in the interdisciplinary science journal Nature, about Iamus and its role with present methods of music composition.
Track listing
References
External links
Melomics Homepage
Melomics page at University of Malaga (Spain)
Melomics Records Youtube Channel
Tom Service' Review of Hello World! from The Guardian
German Public Radio coverage, with interviews.
2012 albums
Compositions by Iamus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Iamus is a figure in Greek mythology.
Iamus may also refer to:
Iamus (computer), a computer created by University of Malaga
Iamus (album), a 2012 album composed by the Iamus computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20libraries | This sortable list of largest libraries includes libraries that, as measured in 2008 or subsequently, store 15 million or more items. All figures are based on data published by the libraries themselves. As there are no universally accepted standards for measuring stock, libraries may have counted their holdings in different ways, and the figures given may not be directly comparable.
Largest libraries in the world
See also
List of largest libraries in the United States
References
Libraries
Largest
Largest libraries
Articles with tables in need of attention |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Lugano | The Lugano trolleybus system () was a trolleybus system that formed part of the public transport network of Lugano, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland, for nearly half a century. Opened in 1954, the system had progressively replaced the Lugano tramway network by 1959, and was significantly expanded between 1975 and 1981. However, it was closed in 2001, and the overhead wires had been completely removed by the summer of 2002.
At its height, the system consisted of four lines. From its opening until the end of 1999, it was operated by Azienda Comunale dei Trasporti della Città di Lugano (ACT) (which was called the Azienda Comunale del Traffico (also ACT) until 1969). Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi S.A. (TPL) took over on 1 January 2000.
History and routes
The Lugano trolleybus system was one of the last trolleybus systems to be opened in Switzerland. Only the Montreux/Vevey system (1957) and the Schaffhausen system (1966) were opened later.
Initially, the Lugano system was made up only of routes converted from tramway lines. The first trolleybus route, opened on 25 April 1954, ran from the centre of Lugano to Cinque Vie, which is located in a hilly area. Another trolleybus route was put into operation in the autumn of 1959, between central Lugano and Castagnola. At the end of that year, a route to Paradiso was opened (its turning loop was put into operation a year later). Also in 1959, a route was opened to Cornareda, at which a trolleybus depot was built. Not until 1963, with the opening of the Massagno–Crocifisso route (later extended to Vezia), did the system expand to include a route that had not previously been powered by overhead wires.
Following a reorganisation of the system in 1972, the system's network, consisting of three routes with a cumulative length of , was:
In 1975, ACT built an extension from Cinque Vie to Breganzona. A year later another new section was opened: the route to Cornareda was extended to the new quarter of Pregassona, which is located on a hill above the city. In 1980, a new trolleybus depot was built, and connected to this extension. The old depot became the local workshops of a transport company. The last new trolleybus route to be opened in Lugano was an extension of the Crocifisso route to Vezia.
Until 1993, each route was assigned two different numbers, one of which was displayed by vehicles running in one direction, the other by vehicles travelling in the opposite direction. In 1993, this relatively uncommon practice was discontinued. Thereafter, the trolleybus routes were as follows:
In 2000, the new operator, TPL, decided to close the system. The last day of trolleybus operation was Thursday, 28 June 2001, with trolleybuses running on routes 3 and 5 on the final day. Route 1's trolleybuses had been replaced by motorbuses a few weeks earlier, due to road construction. Use of trolleybuses on route 4 had ended some time earlier.
One of the main reasons given for the decision to close the system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptoide | Aptoide is an online marketplace for mobile applications which runs on the Android operating system. In Aptoide, unlike the Android-default Play Store, there is not a unique and centralized store; instead, each user manages their own store. The software package is published by Aptoide S.A., a for-profit company incorporated in 2011, and headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal.
There are several versions of the Aptoide app: Aptoide for smartphones and tablets, Aptoide TV an edition for smart TVs and STBs, Aptoide VR and Aptoide Kids developed for children's devices.
The Android application used to access the stores is open source, and there are several forks such as F-Droid. The communication between the client and servers is done using an open protocol based on XML.
The concept is inspired by the APT packaging manager, which can work with multiple sources (repositories). When the user wants a package, they can use the client to search for sources where the application is stored.
The name Aptoide is formed from the words "APT" (the Debian package manager) and "oide" (the last syllable of "Android").
History
Aptoide started as a proposal of Paulo Trezentos at the 2009 Caixa Mágica Summer Camp. The proposal was accepted and later became what today is Aptoide. This first stage of development was later developed in the scope of SAPO Summerbits.
The idea behind Aptoide came from different sources. On one hand, the research in Linux installers in Mancoosi European Project, Paulo Trezentos PhD project and Portugal Telecom A5 phone, project where the team participated.
In the end of 2010, it was launched in the Bazaar Android site. Bazaar Android provided the possibility for the users to create their own store. In August 2012, Aptoide and Bazaar Android brands were merged to allow a better communication.
In 2011, Aptoide S.A. was incorporated in Lisbon, Portugal, as a spin-off of CM Software.
In 2011, F-Droid was forked from Aptoide.
In 2013, Aptoide received a total of 750,000 euros in seed funding from Portugal Ventures.
In 2015, the company secured a Series A financing round of 3.7 million euros (4 million dollars), led by German venture capital firm e.ventures with co-investment from Gobi Partners (China) and Golden Gate Ventures (Singapore). The investment has allowed Aptoide to grow its team, currently having over 60 employees.
In 2014, Aptoide filed a European Union Antitrust complaint against Google, claiming that Google creates obstacles for users to install third-party app stores, links essential services with Google Play (thus blocking, again, these third-party app stores), and blocks access to Aptoide websites in its Chrome Web browser.
In May 2015, Aptoide announced that it would start its operations in Asia by opening an office in Singapore.
In 2017, Aptoide announced that it would be working with AppCoin and "enter the digital currency business with the plainly named AppCoins. Launched in conjunction with the 2017 Web Summit editio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NullCrew | NullCrew was a hacktivist group founded in 2012 that took responsibility for multiple high-profile computer attacks against corporations, educational institutions, and government agencies.
History
On July 13, 2012, the group assumed the World Health Organization and PBS releasing a pastebin post containing 591 plain-text usernames, and passwords; relating to the WHO attack, as far as the PBS attack goes, it was mostly database information as well as 1,000 emails and passwords.
On July 16, the group breached ASUS (aka ASUSTeK Computer Inc.), releasing a Pastebin post containing 23 administrator usernames and hashed passwords.
The group targeted several universities in the United Kingdom including Cambridge in August 2012.
In September, the group claimed on its Twitter account to have taken control of eight servers run by entertainment corporation Sony. Also in September, the group responded to the arrest of a Pirate Bay co-founder in Cambodia by officials; the response was an attack against the Cambodia Government, leading to several governmental servers being pillaged.
On November 5, 2012; A renown anonymous holiday known by a V for Vendetta phrase "Remember, Remember the fifth of November." Two of the group's core members: Null and Timoxeline announced a successful attack against the U.K. Ministry Of Defense; the attack included over 3,000 Usernames, Email addresses, and passwords that appeared to belong to the U.K. Ministry Of Defense. The two claimed that the attack was allowed due to a simple mistake by the web-developers and the attack was indeed SQL Injection.
The group released the first in what is supposed to be a series of mini e-zines under the operation of "FuckTheSystem" on September 28, 2012. The first mini e-zine contained the column and table structure to the U. S. Department of State, as well as the administrator and webmaster password in plain-text; it also contained exposure of vulnerabilities on the Foxconn website.
On October 27, 2012: NullCrew announced the release of their first self-titled e-zine containing credentials of government and military servers belonging strictly to the United States. The affected servers were: The hacked sites includes Montana's Official State Website(mt.gov), Force Health Protection & Readiness(fhpr.osd.mil), The official website of the State of Louisiana(la.gov), The Official Website of the State of Texas (www.texas.gov), United Nations (Several servers including ones from: Unesco and un.org.) The amount of the credentials leaked ranked well in the thousands.
On October 6, 2012, the group posted on two Twitter feeds; both claimed to have hacked the ISP Orange. The first post, from the official Twitter account, was a pastebin, containing table, columns, and databases of the Orange website. The second post came from 0rbit and contained more sensitive information, such as MySQL hosts, users, passwords, and fifty two corporation and government officials email addresses.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen%20C.%20Stone | Maureen C. Stone is an American computer scientist, specializing in color modeling.
Biography
Stone has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and another master's degree from the California Institute of Technology. She worked for many years at Xerox PARC. After leaving PARC, she founded a consulting firm in the Seattle, Washington area in 1998, and became is an adjunct professor in the School for Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She joined Tableau Research in 2011, and headed the company as its senior director before retiring as a senior principal research scientist there.
Stone was program chair for SIGGRAPH in 1987, and
editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications from 2007 to 2010.
Research
Stone began working in computer graphics in the early 1970s, as part of the PLATO project at the University of Illinois. She is the author of the book A Field Guide to Digital Color, and has performed pioneering research on color management for digital printing. She has also collaborated with colleagues from PARC on research in human–computer interaction; some of her highly cited works in this area concern snapping to nearby objects in point and click interfaces, transparent user interface elements, and interaction with high-resolution video displays.
Recognition
In 2020, Stone was listed in the IEEE Visualization Academy by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community.
Selected publications
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Reports
References
External links
Personal home page
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Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Color scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
Scientists at PARC (company)
American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.%20S.%20Mahalingam | V. S. Mahalingam is a distinguished DRDO scientist and Director of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He is an alumnus of Chennai's College of Engineering, Guindy.
References
Indian computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Scientists from Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Morgan%20%28sportscaster%29 | Mike Morgan is an American sportscaster, who calls college football, basketball, and baseball games for ESPN and the SEC Network. He also call NFL games nationally for Compass Radio.
He's also called several College Football Bowl games on ESPN Radio.
He has broadcast Atlanta Hawks games of the NBA as well on television. He can be heard on SiriusXM hosting sports talk shows.
Previously, he called Big 12 college football games for Fox Sports. He was formerly the voice of the South Carolina Gamecocks football, basketball, and baseball teams during which time he was named "South Carolina Sportscaster of the Year" five times. Other baseball duties include Atlanta Braves on radio and spring training games on television, Gwinnett Braves, and college baseball on Comcast/Charter Southeast. Morgan called NFL for the Carolina Panthers preseason games on television for 6 years from 2009-2014.
Baseball duties
He calls college baseball games for ESPN/SEC Network. He called Atlanta Braves spring training games on CSS and South Carolina Gamecocks baseball on the radio. He has also been a fill in radio voice for the Atlanta Braves for select regular season games for 3 years.
Basketball duties
He calls college basketball for ESPN/SEC Network and was the voice of the South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball. He's also called NBA games on television
Football duties
He calls college football for ESPN/SEC Network and calls NFL on Compass Radio.
He was the television voice of the South Carolina Gamecocks football and was the preseason voice of the Carolina Panthers. Morgan also has been calling several college football games on national radio for such outfits as ESPN Radio and Compass Radio including the Outback Bowl, Vegas Bowl, and Peach Bowl and Cheez-It Bowl.
Personal life
He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
References
Biography. Mike Morgan ESPN
Mike Morgan Vision Sports Group
Checking in with Mike Morgan The Big Spur, February 6, 2016
Braves Add a New Broadcaster for CSS Games Battery Power, Mar 4, 2010
Notes
Living people
American sports announcers
Baseball announcers
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
National Football League announcers
Carolina Panthers announcers
People from Atlanta
South Carolina Gamecocks
South Carolina Gamecocks baseball announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Minor League Baseball broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20ASA | In computer networking, Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, or simply Cisco ASA, is Cisco's line of network security devices introduced in May 2005. It succeeded three existing lines of popular Cisco products:
Cisco PIX, which provided firewall and network address translation (NAT) functions, ended its sale on July 28, 2008.
Cisco's IPS 4200 Series worked as intrusion prevention systems (IPS).
Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators, which provided virtual private networking (VPN).
The Cisco ASA is a unified threat management device, combining several network security functions in one box.
Reception and criticism
Cisco ASA has become one of the most widely used firewall/VPN solutions for small to medium businesses. Early reviews indicated the Cisco GUI tools for managing the device were lacking.
A security flaw was identified when users customized the Clientless SSL VPN option of their ASA's but was rectified in 2015.
Another flaw in a WebVPN feature was fixed in 2018.
In 2017 The Shadow Brokers revealed the existence of two privilege escalation exploits against the ASA called EPICBANANA and EXTRABACON. A code insertion implant called BANANAGLEE, was made persistent by JETPLOW.
Features
The 5506W-X has a WiFi point included.
Architecture
The ASA software is based on Linux. It runs a single Executable and Linkable Format program called lina. This schedules processes internally rather than using the Linux facilities. In the boot sequence a boot loader called ROMMON (ROM monitor) starts, loads a Linux kernel, which then loads the lina_monitor, which then loads lina. The ROMMON also has a command line that can be used to load or select other software images and configurations. The names of firmware files includes a version indicator, -smp means it is for a symmetrical multiprocessor (and 64 bit architecture), and different parts also indicate if 3DES or AES is supported or not.
The ASA software has a similar interface to the Cisco IOS software on routers. There is a command line interface (CLI) that can be used to query operate or configure the device. In config mode the configuration statements are entered. The configuration is initially in memory as a running-config but would normally be saved to flash memory.
Options
The 5512-X, 5515-X, 5525-X, 5545-X and 5555-X can have an extra interface card added.
The 5585-X has options for SSP. SSP stands for security services processor. These range in processing power by a factor of 10, from SSP-10 SSP-20, SSP-40 and SSP-60. The ASA 5585-X has a slot for an I/O module. This slot can be subdivided into two half width modules.
On the low end models, some features are limited, and uncrippling happens with installation of a Security Plus License. This enables more VLANs, or VPN peers, and also high availability. Cisco AnyConnect is an extra licensable feature which operates IPSec or SSL tunnels to clients on PCs, iPhones or iPads.
Models
The 5505 introduced in 2010 was a desktop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alber%20Saber | Alber Saber Ayad (, , also spelled Albert; born c. 1985) is an Egyptian computer science student and blogger who was arrested on 13 September 2012 on allegations of having shared the YouTube trailer for the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims on his Facebook page. While he was raised in a Coptic Christian family, he is now an atheist.
Arrest
On 11 September 2012, a large protest took place at the US Embassy in Cairo against Innocence of Muslims, which had been created by an Egyptian Coptic Christian living in the US. On 12 September, Alber Saber's home was surrounded by a crowd calling for his death for heresy and atheism. The crowd attempted to break down the door, and also threatened to burn down the house. Saber's mother called the police for protection, and Saber was arrested by them the following day. Saber later stated that a police officer incited other prisoners to attack him in detention; he was beaten and cut on the neck with a razor. According to Amnesty International, Saber's home, where his mother and sister also live, continues to be the scene of angry protests.
Police confiscated Saber's computer, but found no evidence that he had uploaded the video in question. Instead, Saber was charged with "defamation of Islam and Christianity, insulting the divine and satirizing religious rituals and sanctities and the prophets under articles 98, 160 and 161 of the Egyptian Penal Code", with a maximum sentence of six years' imprisonment. The prosecution stated that Saber had "promoted his extremist thoughts in speech and writings by creating web pages, including [the] 'Crazy dictator' and 'Egyptian atheists' [pages]." In a hearing on Saber's initial detention, a prosecutor told the court that Saber had insulted Muhammad, Jesus, Mary, Gabriel, and "God himself." Saber's lawyers stated that Saber did not post the video and is innocent of the charges. One of his lawyers described the case as simply "a way to defuse the people's anger".
Reuters described the case as raising "concerns over freedom of expression". The case also drew protest from several NGOs. Amnesty International designated Saber a prisoner of conscience, "detained solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression", and called for his protection and immediate release. Reporters Without Borders condemned the arrest as "censorship". Eight human rights organizations filed a complaint on Saber's behalf demanding that his torture allegations be investigated.
Trial and sentence
On 12 December 2012, Saber was found guilty and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. He was allowed to appeal if he first paid $167 bail. Though the bail was paid, police returned him to prison. Amnesty International condemned the sentence as "an outrageous assault on freedom of expression".
Appeal and flight from Egypt
On 26 January 2013, Saber was released for an appeal session and subsequently left Egypt.
References
1980s births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living peop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canimals | Canimals (portmanteau of "can" and "animal") (, kaenimeol), also known as Canimals: We Can Do It!, is a live-action/computer-animated television series by Voozclub Co., Ltd. The main characters are Ato, Mimi, Uly, Fizzy, Nia, Oz, Pow, Toki, and Leon. Internationally, the series has aired in the United Kingdom through CITV and worldwide through ITV Network.
The show has received generally positive reviews with praise going to its novel materials and high-quality production.
Plot
Canimals are adorable creatures in the form of cylinders that carry colorful cans. Canimals are always interested in what is going on around them and have a lot of questions. They hide in their cans when humans are nearby. Even the most mundane objects hold something different and fascinating for the Canimals.
Characters
Ato - A cheerful and adventurous Beagle in a green can. In the episode title cards, he displays the Canimals logo.
Oz - A clever Turkish Angora in a red can. She frequently gets herself into more trouble than she can manage, but thanks to her intelligence, she can get away with just about anything.
Uly - A hungry Pug in an orange can. He has a large appetite and will eat just about anything he sets his eyes on.
Mimi - A sassy poodle in a pink can. She loves doing girly activities usually with the other female Canimals. However, she can also get annoyed easily and has a habit of smacking other Canimals out of the way with her ears.
Pow - A Great Owl in a light brown can. He can debilitate the other Canimals by shooting laser waves from his eyes. He is capable of carrying others with his claws as can be seen in some episodes.
Fizzy - A Siamese cat in a blue can. He aspires to live a ninja lifestyle, but everything he does has a tendency to backfire on him.
Toki - A hyperactive and spontaneous Rabbit in a blue can similar to Fizzy's. He is chock full of energy and loves to hop and dance around, especially if there is music.
Nia - A timid and childlike Turkish Van in a yellow can. She is easily frightened and prone to tears, and can let out a deafening sonic scream.
Leon - A Chameleon in a green and yellow can. He has the ability to turn invisible and use his tongue to grab objects or cling to higher places.
Other characters
Woo-ang - A bull terrier who's always happy-go-lucky.
Peng and Gwen - A penguin twin brother and sister duo.
Boco - A giant squirrel who is the leader of the Cocoboses. In the episode "Canned Nuts", he antagonizes Ato, Toki and Nia.
Cocoboses - Small squirrels who love metal nuts and bolts.
Wooga - A gorilla who hates dogs and other kinds of animals, except for cats. Wooga can have a serious temper at times.
Koby - A turtle who hates spicy food. He is kind, grumpy, furious and happy. He gets nervous sometimes.
Pip - A black and white cat who is Ato's friend for most of the time. She was nicknamed Mini Pip when Mimi and Nia cared for her. However, she can take on a giant form and antagonize the Canimals.
Lion De Capr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLIR%20%28software%29 | MLIR is a unifying software framework for compiler development. MLIR can make optimal use of a variety of computing platforms such as GPUs, DPUs,TPUs, FPGAs, AI ASICS, and quantum computing systems (QPUs).
MLIR is a sub-project of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure project and aims to build a ″reusable and extensible compiler infrastructure (..) and aid in connecting existing compilers together.″
Name
The name of the project stands for Multi-Level Intermediate Representation, in which the multi-level keyword refers to the possibility of defining multiple dialects and progressive conversions towards machine code. This capability enables MLIR to retain information at a higher level of abstraction and perform more accurate analyses and transformations, which otherwise would have to deal with lower level representations.
Dialects
Operations represent the core element around which dialects are built. They are identified by a name – that must be unique within the dialect they belong to – and have optional operands, results, attributes and regions. Operands and results adhere to the Static Single Assignment form. Each result also has an associated type. Attributes represent compile-time knowledge (e.g., constant values). Regions consist in a list of blocks, each of which may have input arguments and contain a list of operations. Despite the dialects being designed around the SSA form, PHI nodes are not part of this design and are instead replaced by the input arguments of blocks, in combination with operands of control-flow operations.
The general syntax for an operation is the following:
%res:2 = "mydialect.morph"(%input#3) ({
^bb0(%arg0: !mydialect<"custom_type"> loc("mysource.cc":10:8)):
// nested operations
}) { some.attribute = true, other_attribute = 1.5 }
: (!mydialect<"custom_type">) -> (!mydialect<"other_type">, !mydialect<"other_type">)
loc(callsite("foo" at "mysource.cc":10:8))The example shows an operation that is named morph, belongs to the mydialect dialect, takes one input operand and produces two results. The input argument has an associated type named custom_type and the results both have type other_type, with both the types belonging again to the mydialect dialect. The operation also has two associated attributes – named some.attribute and other_attribute – and a region containing one block. Finally, with keyword loc a locations are attached for debugging purposes.
The syntax of operations, types and attributes can also be customized according to the user preferences by implementing proper parsing and printing functions within the operation definition.
Core dialects
The MLIR dialects ecosystem is open and extensible, meaning that end-users are free to create new dialects capturing the semantics they need. Still, the codebase of MLIR already makes various kinds of dialects available to end-users. Each of them aims to address a specific aspect that often manifests within in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan%20%282013%20film%29 | Tarzan (also known as Tarzan 3D) is a 2013 English-language German computer-animated action-adventure film written, directed and produced by Reinhard Klooss and released on October 17, 2013 in Russia. The film was released across early 2014 in other countries. The film stars the voices of Kellan Lutz, Spencer Locke, Anton Zetterholm, Mark Deklin, Joe Cappelletti, and Jaime Ray Newman. The screenplay was written by Reinhard Klooss, Jessica Postigo and Yoni Brenner. The film is based on the novel Tarzan of the Apes (1912) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The film grossed $44 million worldwide despite receiving predominantly negative reviews from critics. Tarzan was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 5, 2014 by Highlight Film.
Plot
In prehistoric times, an asteroid crashes into Earth and kills all the dinosaurs. In the present day, industrialist John Greystoke funds an expedition to Uganda to locate the meteor and harness its energy. Aided by scientist James Porter, the expedition is a failure, and John decides to leave with his wife and their son, John Jr.
While flying a semi-active volcano, the Greystokes' helicopter's instruments go haywire. Forced to land on the meteor, John explores a cave and discovers glowing rock formations. Using his pickaxe, John collects a sample, only to cause a chain reaction that awakens the volcano. While trying to escape, their helicopter crashes, with only John Jr. surviving. The boy is discovered by the Mountain gorilla Kala, who recently lost her child. Adopted into the troop, John chooses to be called "Tarzan", a name he made up meaning "Ape with no fur."
Tarzan grows up learning the ways of the animals. After the Greystokes' disappearance, Dr. James Porter funds his expeditions by acting as a jungle guide for wealthy tourists.
During a routine safari, a client wanders away from the group, attracting the attention of a cassowary. Dr. Porter's daughter Jane saves him by putting herself in danger, as she is bitten by a viper. Infatuated with the girl, Tarzan carries Jane to a shelter and cures her. The next day, she returns to her father's camp with only vague memories of the night before.
Confused by exposure to humans after so long, Tarzan decides to leave his gorilla family. He wanders to the site of the helicopter crash, finds the meteor stone his father took, and builds a shelter. Years later, Tublat, the apes' abusive leader, noses around Tarzan's shelter and accidentally activates the helicopter's emergency beacon. The transmission is received by Greystoke Energies. William Clayton, its current CEO, knowing what John senior was looking for, sees a chance to make money. He promises Jane, who now works for a conservation group, to fund her organization if she accompanies him to Africa to speak with her father.
In Africa, Jane is disgusted by Clayton's greed. She leaves the party, wanders into the jungle and finds Tarzan, now a man. Astounded, he brings her to his refuge. As a mark of love, Tarzan chips off a p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cajun%20Pawn%20Stars%20episodes | This is a list of episodes from the reality television series Cajun Pawn Stars, which airs on the cable network History.
Series overview
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Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
References
Lists of American reality television series episodes
Pawn Stars
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes
Louisiana-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20silver%20production | This is a list of countries by silver production in 2022 based on data by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Countries
See also
List of silver mines
References
Lists of countries by mineral production
Silver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Garcia | Greg Garcia may refer to:
Greg Garcia (baseball) (born 1989), American baseball player
Greg Garcia (government official), assistant secretary for cyber-security and telecommunications under the United States Department of Homeland Security
Greg Garcia (producer) (born 1970), American television director and producer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing%20in%20Pakistan | The high performance supercomputing program started in mid-to-late 1980s in Pakistan. Supercomputing is a recent area of Computer science in which Pakistan has made progress, driven in part by the growth of the information technology age in the country. Developing on the ingenious supercomputer program started in 1980s when the deployment of the Cray supercomputers was initially denied.
The fastest supercomputer currently in use in Pakistan is developed and hosted by the National University of Sciences and Technology at its modeling and simulation research centre. As of November 2012, there are no supercomputers from Pakistan on the Top500 list.
Background
The initial interests of Pakistan in the research and development of supercomputing began during the early 1980s, at several high-powered institutions of the country. During this time, senior scientists at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) were the first to engage in research on high performance computing, while calculating and determining exact values involving fast-neutron calculations.
According to one scientist involved in the development of the supercomputer, a team of the leading scientists at PAEC developed powerful computerized electronic codes, acquired powerful high performance computers to design this system and came up with the first design that was to be manufactured, as part of the atomic bomb project. However, the most productive and pioneering research was carried out by physicist M.S. Zubairy at the Institute of Physics of Quaid-e-Azam University. Zubairy published two important books on Quantum Computers and high-performance computing throughout his career that are presently taught worldwide. In 1980s and 1990s, the scientific research and mathematical work on the supercomputers was also carried out by mathematician Dr. Tasneem Shah at the Kahuta Research Laboratories while trying to solve additive problems in Computational mathematics and the Statistical physics using the Monte Carlo method. In 1990s, the Khan Research Laboratories deployed a series of supercomputer systems at its site, becoming nation's one of the first fastest computers at that time. Technological imports in supercomputers were denied to Pakistan, as well as India, due to an arms embargo, as the foreign powers feared that the imports and enhancement to the supercomputing development was a dual use of technology and could be used for developing nuclear weapons in 1990s.
During the Bush administration, in an effort to help US-based companies gain competitive ground in developing information technology-based markets, the U.S. government eased regulations that applied to exporting high-performance computers to Pakistan and four other technologically developing countries. The new regulations allowed these countries to import supercomputer systems that were capable of processing information at a speed of 190,000 million theoretical operations per second (MTOPS); the previous limit had been 85,00 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets%20in%20Gibraltar | Streets in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar are represented by road signs as in the United Kingdom. As of 2007, Gibraltar has a network of of roads.
History
Most of the traditional Spanish names for the streets in Gibraltar were established before 1870 when the local police added signs. The new signs did not refer to the older names and this has led to a long running confusion. The deputy librarian of the Garrison Library issued a list of the streets in English and Spanish in the Gibraltar Directory of 1890 to assist.
Castle Street
Castle Street (Calle de la Cuesta or more popularly Calle Comedia) runs to the east of the town, to the north of Flat Bastion Road. It is divided into several parts which are named Upper Castle and Lower Castle Road.
The street is also known as Calle Comedia as in the nineteenth century the street had a theatre in what had been a real tennis court which was used for entertainment. This theatre was in use until the Theatre Royal was built in Governor's Parade.
Cathedral Square
The Cathedral Square, a square in the city centre is the location of the Church of England Cathedral of the Holy Trinity which stands to the eastern end of the square. Other features at the square include Duke of Kent House, which is home to the Gibraltar Tourist Board, the Bristol Hotel a children's play park and a boulevard lined with nine cannon overlooking the harbour. Fortress House is also located at 9 Cathedral Square one of the oldest and largest colonial houses on the Rock.
Devil's Gap Road
The Devils Gap Road (Escalera de Monte in Spanish) lies between its junction with Flat Bastion in the northern direction and the Upper Kiln Road in the southern direction. Also known as the Union Jack Steps and Referendum Steps, the road was originally painted in 1967 to celebrate the Gibraltar sovereignty referendum of that year. In August 2011, the steps were repainted in red, white, and blue by volunteers intent on restoring the Union Jack.
Devil's Tower Road
Devil's Tower Road is a major road of northeastern Gibraltar. It runs south of Gibraltar International Airport, extending from Winston Churchill Avenue east to Eastern Beach Road. The road was named after Devil's Tower, a 17th-century watchtower which formed part of the northern defences of Gibraltar as mentioned in the Treaty of Utrecht. In 2007, the Government of Gibraltar announced plans for a new airport terminal and diversion of traffic along Devil's Tower Road, with a new access road that would link Devil's Tower Road and the Gibraltar-Spain border. The new access road would pass through a tunnel at the eastern end of the runway. By 2011, Devil's Tower Road had been converted to a dual carriageway, with elimination of on-street parking, and the government had announced a plan to rename the road as North Front Avenue. This decision was met with protests from the community. In August of that year, the Government cancelled the contract with firm OHL for the tunnel and a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Basic%20Programming%20Support | IBM Basic Programming Support/360 (BPS), originally called Special Support, was a set of standalone programs for System/360 mainframes with a minimum of 8 KiB of memory.
BPS was developed by IBM's General Products Division in Endicott, New York. The package included "assemblers, IOCS, compilers, sorts, and utilities but no governing control program." BPS components were introduced in a series of product announcements between 1964 and 1965.
BPS came in two versions — a strictly punched card system and a magnetic tape based system which, contrary to the stated goals, kept a small supervisor permanently resident.
Programming languages available were IBM Basic Assembly Language, IBM RPG, and FORTRAN IV (subset). Tape FORTRAN required 16 KiB of memory. There were also two versions of the BPS assembler, with the tape version having enhanced capabilities.
BPS also had a "disk" counterpart called BOS/360. It also required 8 KiB of memory and supported disks such as the IBM 2311.
The group responsible for BPS/BOS went on to develop DOS/360 and TOS/360 as a supposed "interim" solution when it became evident that OS/360 would be too large to run on 16 KiB systems.
BPS and BOS could be used to run standalone applications on a minimal System/360. One application was the System/360 Work Station for remote job entry to a larger system.
See also
Punched card input/output
References
External links
IBM System/360 Basic Programming Support and IBM Basic Operating System/360 Programming Systems Summary C24-3420-0
IBM mainframe operating systems
Discontinued operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures%20in%20Zambezia | Adventures in Zambezia, or simply Zambezia, is an 2012 South African 3D computer animation adventure film. The film was directed by Wayne Thornley, written by Andrew Cook, Raffaella Delle Donne, and Anthony Silverston, and stars the voices of Jeremy Suarez, Abigail Breslin, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy, and Samuel L. Jackson with supporting roles done by Jim Cummings, Richard E. Grant, Jenifer Lewis, Jamal Mixon, and David Shaughnessy. It tells the story of a peregrine falcon who journeys to the titular bird city of Zambezia. Adventures in Zambezia is the first film produced by Triggerfish Animation Studios and distributed by Cinema Management Group and Sony Pictures in English territories.
Adventures in Zambezia was theatrically released on 3 July 2012 and earned $34.4 million on a R173 million ($20 million USD) budget. It received Annie Award nominations for Music in an Animated Feature Production and for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production. The film won the Best South African Feature Film at the Durban International Film Festival in 2012. It also won Best Animation at the South African Film and Television Awards and Best Animation at the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards.
Plot
Kai, a high-spirited young peregrine falcon on the cusp of adulthood is bored and lonely living in a remote outpost in the Katungu grassland with only his strict father, Tendai, for company. Forbidden from venturing beyond the Katungu Boundary, his suspicions that there must be more to life are confirmed when a saddle-billed stork named Gogo, her weaver bird co-pilot Tini, and recently newly hatched ducklings crash land into his nest. From them, Kai learns that downriver is a bustling bird city called Zambezia with exciting opportunities for a talented flier such as himself, where Gogo and Tini are going. In an angry exchange with his father and an encounter with the marabou storks (whose species were left out of the founding of Zambezia) Cecil, the marabou's leader, his brother Sill, and his cousin Morton who had been following Gogo and Tini on their route to Zambezia to eat eggs that Gogo and Tini were caring, which led to Tendai accidentally killing Sill by getting him stuck on a branch and drowning him when the branch breaks, in a struggle to save Kai, Gogo, and Tini. Kai discovers that Tendai has known all along about Zambezia and has been there himself even after Gogo, Tini, and the marabous recognized him. Hurt and angry at his father's lies, Kai leaves Katungu and journeys downriver. The following night, Tendai then tries to follow Kai to apologize to him.
Arriving at Zambezia – a majestic Baobab perched on the edge of Victoria Falls – Kai is amazed by the throngs of birds from all over the world who are busy preparing for the annual Spring Celebrations. He soon befriends a fast-talking nightjar called Ezee who knows how to enjoy the perks of community life and guides him through the city. Kai is bowled over when he meets Zoe, a beautiful and feisty k |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophodermium%20aucupariae | Lophodermium aucupariae is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Leotiomycetes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophodermium%20seditiosum | Lophodermium seditiosum is a plant pathogen which infects pine trees..
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal tree pathogens and diseases
Leotiomycetes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20e-Science%20infrastructures | This is a list of e-Science infrastructures, that is, of computer systems created to support the computational demands of e-Science.
World Wide LHC Computing Grid
European Grid Infrastructure
Open Science Grid
Nordic Data Grid Facility
References
E-Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Reed%20%28mathematician%29 | Bruce Alan Reed FRSC is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, the Canada Research Chair in Graph Theory and a former professor of computer science at McGill University. His research is primarily in graph theory.
Academic career
Reed earned his Ph.D. in 1986 from McGill, under the supervision of Vašek Chvátal. Before returning to McGill as a Canada Research Chair, Reed held positions at the University of Waterloo, Carnegie Mellon University, and the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
Reed was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009, and is the recipient of the 2013 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize.
Research
Reed's thesis research concerned perfect graphs.
With Michael Molloy, he is the author of a book on graph coloring and the probabilistic method. Reed has also published highly cited papers on the giant component in random graphs with a given degree sequence, random satisfiability problems, acyclic coloring, tree decomposition, and constructive versions of the Lovász local lemma.
He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002. His talk there concerned a proof by Reed and Benny Sudakov, using the probabilistic method, of a conjecture by Kyoji Ohba that graphs whose number of vertices and chromatic number are (asymptotically) within a factor of two of each other have equal chromatic number and list chromatic number.
Selected publications
Articles
Books
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian mathematicians
Graph theorists
McGill University Faculty of Science alumni
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Academic staff of McGill University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renata%20Kijowska | Renata Kijowska (born December 10, 1975) is a Polish journalist and reporter of The Facts, the flagship newscast of TVN, one of Poland's major television networks.
Biography
She studied political science and journalism at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Renata Kijowska began her career in TVP, she co-operated with television newscast Kronika (TVP Kraków). She was also a journalist of TV Puls and Radio Plus.
Renata Kijowska wrote in Tygodnik Powszechny, a Polish Roman Catholic weekly magazine, focusing on social and cultural issues.
References
Polish television journalists
Polish radio journalists
Polish women radio presenters
Living people
1975 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detrick%20DeBurr | Detrick DeBurr (born October 25, 1969) is an entrepreneur, author, and computer/website specialist. He rose to prominence with Deal Us In! How Black America Can Play and Win in the Digital Economy and Build Gamified Websites with PHP and JQuery. He is a co-founder of Game Time Giving. Prior to this, he was Founder/CEO of Digital Rhythm Inc., an IT service provider based in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Early life and education
DeBurr was born and raised in Monroe, Louisiana. He graduated from Neville High School in 1987 then later attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He received a computer information systems degree from DeVry University after moving to Dallas, where he now resides.
Career
In February 2000, DeBurr left an up-and-coming corporate CAREER with GTE Directories (Verizon Information Services) to start Digital Rhythm Inc. Digital Rhythm is a Dallas, Texas based Information Technology services provider. Digital Rhythm specializes in providing sub-contract Information Technology services to prime Information Technology contractors.
DeBurr has published two books, "Build Gamified Websites with PHP and JQuery" (Packt Publishing) in September 2013 and "Deal Us In! How Black America can Play and Win in the Digital Economy" (Anji Publishing Inc.), in October 2002. In 2001, DeBurr received Stanford University's Digital Visions Fellowship for his efforts on projects addressing the "Digital Divide" all over world with extended work done in Ghana, West Africa. He has been a frequent lecturer on technology related issues all around the world. He is the former host of "CyWord" an online radio technology program aired by The Black World Today. In 2011 he founded CUPID! On The Go, a mobile application where users can get access to local news.
DeBurr serves on numerous boards and committees in his community, and ran for The Colony, TX City Council in 2021.
Personal life
DeBurr has three children: Terry, Joshua, and Aisha. He is an active member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
References
External links
1969 births
Living people
People from Monroe, Louisiana
Writers from Louisiana
Southern University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lankhorst | Lankhorst may refer to:
People
Marc Lankhorst (b. 1968), Dutch computer scientist
Peter Lankhorst (b. 1947), Dutch politician
Places
Lankhorst - a hamlet near the city of Meppel
Dutch-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTcube%20Turbo | The NeXTcube Turbo is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by NeXT. It superseded the earlier NeXTcube workstation and is housed in the same cube-shaped magnesium enclosure. The workstation runs the NeXTSTEP operating system.
Hardware
The NeXTcube Turbo is a development of the earlier NeXTcube. It differs from its predecessor in having a 33 MHz 68040 processor.
The NeXTdimension board can also be used in the NeXTcube Turbo.
There was also a very rare accelerator board known as the Nitro; between 5 and 20 are estimated to have been made. It increased the speed of a NeXTcube Turbo by replacing the standard 33 MHz processor with a 40 MHz one.
Specifications
Display: 1120×832 17" grayscale MegaPixel Display
Operating System: NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP
CPU: 33 MHz 68040 with integrated floating-point unit
Digital Signal Processor: 25 MHz Motorola DSP56001
RAM: 16 MB, expandable to 128 MB (Four 72-pin SIMM slots)
Floppy Drive: 2.88 MB (optional)
Hard Drive: 400 MB, 1.4 GB or 2.8 GB SCSI drive
Expansion: four NeXTbus slots (mainboard uses one slot)
Size (H × W × D): 12" × 12" × 12"
See also
NeXT Computer
NeXTcube
NeXTstation
NeXT character set
References
External links
old-computers.com — NeXTcube
NeXTComputers.org
Computer workstations
NeXT
History of the Internet
Steve Jobs
68k-based computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia%20G%27s%20Bitchin%27%20Kitchen | Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen is a Canadian cooking television series that began airing simultaneously on Food Network Canada in Canada and Cooking Channel in the United States on April 2, 2010; after originating as a web series in 2007. It was presented by chef and musician Nadia G.
Ali Rosen of The Daily Meal described the series as "a continuation of [Nadia G's] web series", which Nadia G confirmed: "I could create cool aprons, I could dish out recipes, I could do the comedy, music videos, so we've always had a lot of freedom in Bitchin' Kitchen and that has continued."
Bitchin' Kitchen concluded on January 5, 2013, after three seasons. The correspondents on the series would all later appear on Nadia G's subsequent series, Bite This with Nadia G.
Cast
Nadia G Herself
Peter Koussioulas Panos
Jordan Lu Taste Tester
Ben ShaouliYeheskel Mizrahi, the Spice Agent
Bart RochonHans
Episodes
References
External links
2010s Canadian cooking television series
2010 Canadian television series debuts
2013 Canadian television series endings
Cooking Channel original programming
English-language television shows
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Food reality television series
Television series by Halcyon Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Data%20Network | French Data Network (FDN) is a French non-profit organization (association loi 1901) founded on June 2, 1992. Its purpose is: "the promotion, use and development of the Internet and Usenet networks in accordance with their ethics, in particular by encouraging non-commercial use for research and educational purposes", "the defense of public liberties on the Internet and the defense of the neutrality of telecommunication networks".
FDN is the oldest Internet Service Provider in France still in business, offering RTC (since 1992), ADSL (since 2005), VPN (since 2013) and FTTH (since 2022) access to its members. It is a founding member of Gitoyen, a non-profit tier 2 operator.
FDN has also been politically active, taking a strong position against the HADOPI law. During the internet blackout in some countries during the Arab spring, it proposed RTC services to anyone able to access international phone calls. It has a strong position against censorship and in favor of network neutrality.
FDN is a founding member of the FDN Federation.
References
External links
Non-profit organizations based in France
Internet service providers of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSQL | NewSQL is a class of relational database management systems that seek to provide the scalability of NoSQL systems for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads while maintaining the ACID guarantees of a traditional database system.
Many enterprise systems that handle high-profile data (e.g., financial and order processing systems) are too large for conventional relational databases, but have transactional and consistency requirements that are not practical for NoSQL systems. The only options previously available for these organizations were to either purchase more powerful computers or to develop custom middleware that distributes requests over conventional DBMS. Both approaches feature high infrastructure costs and/or development costs. NewSQL systems attempt to reconcile the conflicts.
History
The term was first used by 451 Group analyst Matthew Aslett in a 2011 research paper discussing the rise of a new generation of database management systems. One of the first NewSQL systems was the H-Store parallel database system.
Applications
Typical applications are characterized by heavy OLTP transaction volumes. OLTP transactions;
are short-lived (i.e., no user stalls)
touch small amounts of data per transaction
use indexed lookups (no table scans)
have a small number of forms (a small number of queries with different arguments).
However, some support hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) applications. Such systems improve performance and scalability by omitting heavyweight recovery or concurrency control.
List of NewSQL-databases
Apache Trafodion
Clustrix
CockroachDB
Couchbase
Google Spanner
MySQL Cluster
NuoDB
Pivotal GemFire XD
SingleStore was formerly known as MemSQL.
TIBCO Active Spaces
TiDB
TokuDB
TransLattice Elastic Database
VoltDB
YugabyteDB
Features
The two common distinguishing features of NewSQL database solutions are that they support online scalability of NoSQL databases and the relational data model (including ACID consistency) using SQL as their primary interface.
NewSQL systems can be loosely grouped into three categories:
New architectures
NewSQL systems adopt various internal architectures. Some systems employ a cluster of shared-nothing nodes, in which each node manages a subset of the data. They include components such as distributed concurrency control, flow control, and distributed query processing.
SQL engines
The second category are optimized storage engines for SQL. These systems provide the same programming interface as SQL, but scale better than built-in engines.
Transparent sharding
These systems automatically split databases across multiple nodes using Raft or Paxos consensus algorithm.
See also
Transaction processing
Partition (database)
Distributed Relational Database Architecture
Distributed SQL
References
Data management
Distributed data stores |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScREC | ScREC is a supercomputer developed by the Research Centre for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS) at the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan (NUST) in Islamabad, Pakistan. With a 132 teraflops performance, it is currently the fastest supercomputer in Pakistan.
System specifications
ScREC is able to perform parallel computing and has a performance speed of 132 teraFLOPS (trillion operations per second). It is the fastest running graphics processing unit (GPU) parallel computing system to have been developed in Pakistan. The supercomputer has multi-core processors and graphics co-processors, with an inter-process communication speed of 40 gigabits per second. According to system specifications, the computer cluster consists of 66 nodes equipped with 30,992 processor cores. Additional component details include:
32 dual quad core computer nodes (256 processor cores)
32 Nvidia graphics processing units
QDR InfiniBand interconnection
21.6 TB storage
See also
Information technology in Pakistan
Supercomputing in Pakistan
References
External links
Supercomputing Research and Education Facility, Research Centre for Modeling and Simulation (NUST)
Science and technology in Pakistan
Information technology in Pakistan
Parallel computing
GPGPU supercomputers
Supercomputing in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadara | Zadara is a cloud computing company founded in 2011, with headquarters in Irvine, California. The company develops computer software that it markets as storage-as-a-service, which can be used for cloud or on-premises servers, a model sometimes called private cloud.
History
Zadara Storage was founded in 2011 with $3 million in start-up funding. In 2012, the company introduced cloud-based storage to Amazon.com's public cloud customers. The storage was designed to be used as persistent storage in conjunction with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The company started by selling block data storage for storage area networks (SAN), and later added network attached storage (NAS) for cloud customers.
In July 2012 the company completed a $7 million first funding round. In August 2013, Toshiba's America Electronic Components (TAEC) division invested $3 million in the company. Reports indicated that as part of the investment, Toshiba's disk drives would be used in Zadara's storage products. In 2014, Zadara was named a Cool Vendor by informational technology advisory firm Gartner.
In September 2018, the company closed a $25 million series C funding round, led by Israel Growth Partners.
In 2019, Asigra, a cloud-based data recovery software based in Toronto, Canada, partnered with Zadara "to release a purpose-built backup appliance with a subscription-based pricing model" that "aimed at service providers who would rather rent than buy."
In February 2021, Zadara acquired developer NeoKarm, the developer of an Amazon Web Services-compatible cloud system. Also in February, the company became the official sponsor of Alfa Romeo in Formula One.
Products and services
Zadara Storage sells enterprise-class cloud compute & data storage services on a pay-as-you-go basis to companies worldwide through its Zadara Enterprise Data Cloud, for which it holds a patent. The operating software combines the company's proprietary software with third-party software including OpenStack, and allows the storage to be distributed to different users or tenants in a multi-tenant environment. The platform allows users to create private clouds consisting of multiple high-availability cluster virtual storage arrays. In addition to its block and file storage services, the company also sells Amazon S3/OpenStack Swift-compliant object storage services.
The Zadara Storage Backup to Amazon S3 (B2S3) product allows automatic backups from Zadara Storage Cloud to Amazon S3-compatible storage. Zadara Container Services is technology that embeds Docker containers into Zadara's storage arrays.
References
External links
Companies established in 2011
Companies based in Irvine, California
Cloud storage
Software companies based in California
2011 establishments in California
Software companies of the United States
2011 establishments in the United States
Software companies established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberSource%20Corp.%20v.%20Retail%20Decisions%2C%20Inc. | CyberSource Corp. v. Retail Decisions, Inc., 654 F.3d 1366 (Fed. Cir. 2011), is a United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit case that disputed patent eligibility for the '154 patent, which describes a method and system for detecting fraud of credit card transactions through the internet. This court affirmed the decision of United States District Court for the Northern District of California which ruled that the patent is actually unpatentable.
Background
CyberSource Corporation is the owner of '154 patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,029,154), which describes a method and system for detecting fraud of credit card transactions through internet by using IP addresses, MAC addresses, e-mail addresses, etc. in order to determine if an address is associated with the credit card.
Essentially, the patent is divided into a method and a system part. The method aspect is described in Claim 3, and the system part is described in Claim 2. The details are as follows:
Method claim (Claim 3)
Claim 3 is the method for verifying the validity of a credit card transaction over the Internet by obtaining information about other transactions over the web with similar card transaction information, constructing a map of the card numbers and using it to determine whether or not the credit card transaction is valid or not.
System claim (Claim 2)
Claim 2 generally mentions a computer readable medium containing program instructions, but mostly contains nearly identically the exact process described in Claim 3.
The disputing point was whether Claim 3 and Claim 2 are patent-eligible. The district court affirmed that both Claim 3 and Claim 2 are unpatentable based on the fact that these claims were not sufficient under 35 U.S.C. § 101, citing the In re Bilski case, which disputed a method of hedging risk in the field of commodities trading. Moreover, the court noted that both claims were directed as an unpatentable "mental process". The decision was made with reference to Bilski's case, as the Bilski case was appealed to the Supreme Court while this case was proceeding. History of these cases are documented in the timeline below.
Timeline of events
CyberSource sued Retail Decisions Inc. for patent infringement on August 11, 2004.
Retail Decisions initiated an ex parte reexamination of the '154 patent to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
District court suspended proceedings until the patent is reissued.
Patent certificate reissued with amended claims on August 5, 2008.
District court restarted the proceeding.
Federal Circuit decided In re Bilski on October 30, 2008.
District court dismissed the claims of CyberSource.
CyberSource appealed to Federal circuit court in April 2009.
The court suspended proceedings until the decision of Bilski.
Supreme Court of the United States made the decision of Bilski v. Kappos on June 28, 2010.
The proceeding started again on October 28, 2010.
Opinion of the Court
The federal circuit court affirmed the district court decision, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communaut%C3%A9%20tarifaire%20vaudoise | The Communauté tarifaire vaudoise, also known by its marketing name mobilis, is a Swiss tariff network covering the whole of the canton of Vaud.
References
External links
mobilis web site
Transport in the canton of Vaud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Sievers | Kay Sievers is a German computer programmer, best known for developing the udev device manager of Linux, systemd and the Gummiboot EFI bootloader. Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.
In 2012, together with Harald Hoyer, Sievers was the main driving force behind Fedora's merging of the /lib, /bin and /sbin file-system trees into /usr, a simplification which other distributions such as Arch Linux have since adopted.
In April 2014, Linus Torvalds banned Sievers from submitting patches to the Linux kernel for failing to deal with bugs that caused systemd to negatively interact with the kernel.
employed by Red Hat, Inc., Sievers previously worked for Novell.
Kay Sievers grew up in East Germany and nowadays resides in Berlin, Germany.
References
Free software programmers
Living people
Linux people
German computer programmers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Red Hat employees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%20Hoyer | Harald Hoyer is a computer programmer and photographer, best known for developing the dracut initramfs generator and framework, the udev device manager of Linux, the systemd replacement for the System V init daemon and the Gummiboot EFI boot loader. Harald Hoyer also made various contributions to the Linux Kernel, starting 1997. In 2012, together with Kay Sievers, Hoyer was the main driving force behind merging the , and file system trees into in the Fedora distribution
He is employed by Red Hat, Inc.
Harald Hoyer resides in Vaterstetten, Germany.
References
Free software programmers
Living people
1971 births
Red Hat employees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed%20Acquirer%20Network%20Fee | The Fixed Acquirer Network Fee (FANF) is a fee that Visa began assessing each of its merchants for in April 2012. Ranging from US$1.25 to $380,000, it is based on the size of the merchant. For example, a high-volume merchant category code (MCC) with over 4,000 locations would have to pay a price near the top of the spectrum, while a small business would end up paying somewhere near the bottom.
References
External links
Visa Second Quarter 2014 Earnings
Credit card terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiTerm | MultiTerm is a terminology management tool providing one solution to
store and manage multilingual terminology.
History
MultiTerm was launched in 1990 by Trados GmbH as a terminology database for translation professionals. Trados was acquired by SDL plc in 2005, with MultiTerm being renamed SDL MultiTerm. SDL merged with RWS in 2020, and the name reverted to MultiTerm.
About MultiTerm
MultiTerm Desktop is the desktop terminology management tool from RWS. It can be used by translators and terminologists as a standalone desktop tool to manage terminology, or it can be integrated with Trados Studio to increase translation productivity and accuracy.
Features
MultiTerm allows the user to:
Customize termbases with descriptive fields to provide more information about the term
Insert digital media files and hyperlink to URLs to terms in the termbase
Store an unlimited number of terms in unlimited languages
Import and export terms from different technology environments, such as Microsoft Excel,
Integrate with Trados Studio to improve translation consistency
Components of MultiTerm
"MultiTerm Desktop"
MultiTerm Desktop is a database application that allows the user to create, manage and present terminology. Terms can be added and searched in a wide variety of languages, allowing for consistent use of brand terms.
"MultiTerm Extract"
MultiTerm Extract is a tool used to create glossaries of terminology using existing translated documents. The software does this by using a statistical algorithm to examine the frequency of terms at a sub-segment level. This allows translators to build project glossaries without having to manually search for the terms.
"MultiTerm Widget"
MultiTerm Widget is a lightweight application that allows you to highlight a word from any application on your desktop and retrieve its meaning and translation immediately from your project glossaries and translation memories.
System requirements
SDL MultiTerm 2017 Desktop is a Unicode application and can therefore be used only on Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10. SDL recommend at least a Pentium® IV-based computer with 2 GB RAM.
Criticism
Entering terms individually is a time-consuming process. This is somewhat circumvented by the use of SDL's Glossary Converter, which allows terminology from other sources to be converted to a MultiTerm termbase, and by allowing translators to create term entries while translating in SDL Trados Studio.
Contrary to certain claims, the TBX interchange format (ISO 30042:2008) is not supported. Whilst TBX files cannot be imported directly, they can be converted to a MultiTerm termbase by SDL Convert or SDL Glossary Converter. Support for terminology relations is only possible through the use of cross-references, but you cannot designate the type of relation between terms.
External links
www.rws.com - Official RWS MultiTerm website.
References
Translation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFUnit | pFUnit is a Fortran programming language framework for unit testing following the xUnit model. Capabilities include parallel execution using MPI and OpenMP. Development began at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 2005. The framework makes extensive use of modern standard features of Fortran (2003, 2008), like support for object-oriented programming. A python-based preprocessor provides directives reminiscent of other xUnit testing frameworks (e.g. @assert), as well as support for parameterized test cases. pFUnit can be built using either a GNU make or CMake process.
It is published under the NASA Open Source Agreement version 1.3.
See also
List of unit testing frameworks
Fortran
References
External links
GitHub project page
SourceForge project page
NASA GSFC project page
NASA Modeling Guru
pFUnit (Version 1, now superseded by Versions 2 etc.) tutorial at UCAR, T. Clune, NASA/GSFC, 2012 April 31
Unit testing frameworks
Fortran libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness%20to%20Yesterday | Witness to Yesterday is a Canadian docudrama television series which featured staged interviews with historical personalities. It was first broadcast by Global Television Network in 1974 then produced by TVOntario to 1976. A 12-episode revival of the series was produced in 1998 for History Television.
Synopsis
Each episode featured a historical person as portrayed by a guest actor in conversation with host Patrick Watson who took the role of an interviewer.
Witness to Yesterday was among the first series to be broadcast by Global. Original episodes were broadcast on Global in a regular Tuesday 10:00 p.m. time slot from 8 January 1974 to 21 May 1974. The debut episode featured Sandy Dennis as Joan of Arc.
Production
The series was produced in Montreal by Look Hear Productions, a division of the McConnell advertising company.
Laurier Lapierre conducted research for the series. Scripts were written, but the filming often incorporated ad-lib dialogue. Each episode was produced for approximately $6000 with actors paid from $600 to $2500. Host Patrick Watson earned 15% of the international sales income plus his base $500 per episode. Writers included Patrick Watson, Patrick Withrow and Doug Scott.
Global Television Network encountered financial difficulties in its initial months and cancelled most of its original Canadian programming by May 1974. Global owed Look Hear Productions $130,000 for producing 24 episodes of Witness to Yesterday. The last episode filmed prior to Global's cancellation featured Donald Sutherland as doctor Norman Bethune. Global eventually paid 30% of its bill for the series as part of its financial settlement with creditors.
CBC Television considered picking up the series but by then had booked other productions. Witness to Yesterday was transferred to Toronto educational station CICA-TV (OECA) which planned the production of three new episodes for the 1974–75 season and another 13 for the 1975–76 season, in addition to rebroadcasting the initial 20 episodes.
Episodes
Global Television Network episodes (1974)
Global broadcast the series on a regular 10 p.m. Tuesday time slot.
CICA/TVOntario episodes (1974–1976)
Reception
Witness to Yesterday was sold to broadcasters in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and on other Canadian stations.
Blaik Kirby of The Globe and Mail deemed the premiere to be "flat and undramatic", noting that French-Canadian actress Geneviève Bujold should have been considered for the role of Joan of Arc over the less appropriate performance from American Sandy Dennis. Later, Kirby gave the overall series a favourable review, noting that it "was in almost everyone's opinion, one of the very best of Global's Canadian programs, which were a worthy achievement even as a group."
1998 revival
New episodes of Witness to Yesterday were broadcast by History Television in 1998. Watson again hosted the series and was its primary writer with additional writing by Hugh Graham. 12 episodes were compl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Choice%20Superchannel | First Choice Superchannel may refer to either of the following Canadian pay television services, which were jointly marketed under this name from 1984 to 1989:
The Movie Network, a pay television service serving eastern Canada (known as First Choice 1983–1984 and 1989–1993)
Movie Central, a pay television service serving western and northern Canada (known as Superchannel 1983–1984 and 1989–2001)
Not to be confused with the currently-operating Canadian service named Super Channel, which launched in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BizTalkRadio | BizTalkRadio is a radio network in the United States. Its programming focuses on the entrepreneur, small business owner and listener who wants to manage their family's assets. Formerly known as the Business Talk Radio Network, BTR was purchased by Centerpost Limited in October 2013. Centerpost is a private media company that also owns BizTV, Youtoo America TV and Lifestyle Talk Radio Network. BizTalkRadio currently has over 300 radio stations that air its programming.
BizTalkRadio shows
Weekday programming
Business Rockstars
Investor's Edge
The Big Biz Show
The Frankie Boyer Show
The Kristen Hagopian Show
Weekend programming
Killer Innovations with Phil McKinney
Garden America
External links
Official Website
Business TalkRadio Network Rebrands As BizTalkRadio
American radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeungnam%20University%20station | Yeungnam University Station is a station of Daegu Metro Line 2 in Dae-dong, Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
See also
Yeungnam University
External links
Cyber station information from Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation
Daegu Metro stations
Gyeongsan
Metro stations in North Gyeongsang Province
Yeungnam University
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imdang%20station | Imdang Station is a station of Daegu Metro Line 2 in Imdang-dong and Jungbang-dong, Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
References
External links
Cyber station information from Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation
Daegu Metro stations
Gyeongsan
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeongpyeong%20station | Jeongpyeong Station is a station of Daegu Metro Line 2 in Jeongpyeong-dong, Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation
Daegu Metro stations
Gyeongsan
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%20Metzger | Kelly Jane Metzger (born February 25, 1980) is a Canadian voice and theater actress. She is best known for providing the voice of Nya in the Cartoon Network series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu and Ninjago: Dragons Rising, and Spitfire from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
Life and career
After making her debut in the title role of Anne of Green Gables, she performed on the stage with several Vancouver-based theatrical companies. After this, she began a career in voice acting. Among her more noted voice acting roles are the English voice of Sayu Yagami in the anime series based on the Death Note manga, the character of Buttercup in Powerpuff Girls Z, the voice of Spitfire in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (excluding the episode "Sonic Rainboom", where she was voiced by Nicole Oliver), the voice of Nya in the Cartoon Network series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu, and the voice of Sugar Sprinkles and Kora Dixon in Littlest Pet Shop. She also voiced Makena in Barbie: Thumbelina, Shimmer in Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale, Wickellia in Barbie: Princess Charm School and Allie in Barbie in A Mermaid Tale 2. Metzger also does the singing voice of the character Gloriosa Daisy in the 2016 film My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree and the voice of Petunia Petals in My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip.
References
External links
Official website
1980 births
Living people
Canadian film actresses
Canadian stage actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian voice actresses
People from Edmonton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse%20360 | Pulse 360, Inc was a online advertising and marketing network which was based in Getzville, New York. The company was founded in October 1999 under the name Kanoodle. The company reached over 65% of online users monthly and also at one time reached 141 million unique visitors across over 1000 websites. The ad distribution centered on highly visited national and local news sites across the United States including NBCNews.com, Comcast, Weather.com, and ABCNews.com.
Origin
Pulse 360 was originally launched under the name Kanoodle.com in October 1999 and was founded by Kent Keating. Kanoodle specialized in search targeted sponsored links and eventually branched out into content targeted sponsored links in January 2004 with the addition of CBSMarketwatch as a partner. The content targeted sponsored links program was renamed Pulse 360 in August 2006. In December 2009, Pulse 360 became one of the first companies to pass the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Click Measurement Guideline’s Audit after Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Pulse 360 was also a Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) member and was added as compliant with the IAB/NAI Code of Conduct in April 2011. They are also DAA Self Regulatory Principles compliant for online behavioral advertising. Pulse360 added retargeting capabilities to their list of advertising services in July 2011.
Business
Pulse360 maintained relationships with hundreds of online publishers primarily in the news space. MSNBC.com, CNN.com, Abcnews.com, Cox Media and USAToday inventory are included in its publisher network. Pulse360 advertisers could customize campaigns using various options offered by the company. Geotargeting to country, state, zip or DMA along with audience targeting towards user demo, interest or intent were available. The company was approved to serve third party ads on both the Google Doubleclick Ad Exchange and Yahoo.
References
Defunct marketing companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerMILL | PowerMILL is a 3D CAM solution that runs on Microsoft Windows for the programming of tool paths for 2 to 5 axis CNC (Computer Numerical Control) Milling machines developed by Autodesk Inc. The software is used in a range of different engineering industries to determine optimal tool paths to reduce time and manufacturing costs as well as reduce tool loads and produce smooth surface finishes. More than 15,000 organisations use PowerMILL worldwide.
History
The code of PowerMILL originates from the software DUCT which was developed in 1973 by Donald Welbourn and Ed Lambourne along with the help of Delta Metal Group, whose funding aided the transfer of the system into industry. DUCT was initially developed with the sponsorship of Control Data in Germany in the form of access to their time-sharing computing resources. The advancement of mini computers from 1982 meant that it became economically viable to design complex 3D shapes using a computer.
From 1995 to 1998 DUCT was gradually replaced with a new range of products, which covered the full manufacturing cycle from conceptual design through to manufacture. Delcam's Power Solution range of products that built upon the functionality of the DUCT suite, incorporated the latest user interface technology and offered users many new benefits.
Release History
Ad-ons
PowerMILL Pro includes PS-Exchange a CAD data translator for all neutral import and export (IGES and VDA and STEP)
PowerMILL 3+2 Machining where a 3 axis milling program is executed with the cutting tool locked in a tilted position
PowerMILL 4&5 axis machining for 4 and 5 axis machines
PowerMILL Rotary Axis for machines using a rotary axis
PowerMILL Training Seat/IGES Viewer
PowerMILL Port Machining for the machining of tubular apertures
PowerMILL Blade, Blisk & Impeller Machining
PowerMILL Robot Interface for programming of robotic arms
See also
Autodesk
Delcam
PowerSHAPE
PowerINSPECT
References
Computer-aided manufacturing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift%20%28software%29 | Redshift is an application that adjusts the computer display's color temperature based upon the time of day. The program is free software, and is intended to reduce eye strain as well as insomnia (see Sleep#Circadian clock and Phase response curve#Light).
Redshift transitions the computer display's color temperature evenly between daytime and night temperatures to allow the user's eyes to slowly adapt. At night, the color temperature is low and is typically 3000–4000 K, preferably matching the room's lighting temperature. Typical color temperature during the daytime is 5500–6500 K.
Features
Redshift is primarily distributed for and used on the Linux operating system.
Redshift can be used to set a single color temperature and brightness ("one shot mode") or can adjust the temperature and brightness continuously to follow the sun's elevation, in which case it will transition to the night color temperature settings near twilight. The temperature and brightness settings for daytime and night can be user-configured.
To determine the Sun's elevation the software requires the user's location in form of latitude and longitude.
On Linux and BSD operating systems, Redshift supports multiple monitors through the X extensions RandR (preferred) or VidMode, or through the Direct Rendering Manager. Because Redshift can only be configured to use the same gamma correction on all monitors it controls, it is usually desirable to run one instance of the program per monitor.
Interfaces
Redshift originally possessed only a command-line interface, but now has graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that support most Linux desktop environments. Those GUIs include redshift-gtk, redshift-plasmoid, and nightshift.
redshift-gtk is included in Redshift's source tree. In addition to a windowed interface, it provides a tray status icon that can enable or disable Redshift or adjust the screen's color temperature automatically.
Redshift can be opened with the use of terminal, panel launchers or startup commands: the command 'redshift -O #TEMP' (#TEMP being a number from 1000 to 25000) will set the temperature and the command 'redshift -x' to exit Redshift.
A simple script can be made and called upon to set the colour temp manually via a shortcut or panel launcher:
Create a new file and copy in the following:#!/bin/bash
shouldloop=true;
while $shouldloop; do
read -p "What temp would you like? 1000-25000K: " scale
if "$scale" -ge 1000 && "$scale" -le 25000; then
redshift -O $scale
shouldloop=false;
elif $scale = "x"; then
exit
elif $scale = "X"; then
exit
else
echo "Invalid value or outside range. x to exit..."
fi
done
Save the file in your /home/$user directory.
Change the properties of the file so it can be executed (using chmod or context menu permissions).
Create a new launcher ("set temp") referring to the file you have named above and select "Open in Terminal".
Create a new launcher ("exit redshift") |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40-track%20mode | 40-track mode is a steganographic technique that allows for hidden data on a 3.5 inch floppy diskette.
Technical details
A 3.5 inch 1.44MB mini-floppy diskette contains 80 tracks, 18 sectors per track, and 512 bytes per sector. A 3.5 inch 720k diskette contains 80 tracks, 9 sectors per track, and 512 bytes per sector. This technique refers to formatting an 80-track 1.44MB diskette as a special 40-track 720KB diskette.
In doing so one may create, in effect, two 40-track partitions. The former of these partitions is visible and usable as in a normal diskette, and the latter hidden.
One may then fill the unallocated (hidden) 40 tracks with up to 720KB of secret or encrypted data, that will not be superficially visible to a user.
Writing a 1.44MB floppy in 40-track mode causes the allocated tracks to be written
to the actual even numbered tracks, thus causing drives attempting to read a 1.44MB diskette as a 720KB diskette to become confused because of the strange data in between even numbered tracks. The hidden data then resides on the odd numbered tracks.
Generally, device drivers only copy allocated data, and thus traditional copies of such a disk would generally not contain the hidden data.
Equivalents of this technique can easily be done on almost any media.
This technique is different than the "40th track" copy protection schemes used during the 80s and 90s.
History
The KGB and senior FBI agent Robert Hanssen used this technique to communicate with one another between 1985 and 2001
.
References
Steganography
Floppy disk computer storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Set | Hot Set is an American reality television game show on the Syfy cable network in which a group of production artists compete against each other to create movie sets. Ben Mankiewicz serves as the show's host, with judges being Curt Beech, Lilly Kilvert, and Barry Robison.
Each week, the artists must build a "hot set" that tests their artistry and techniques to create a fully functioning film set to match a theme over the course of 3 days, using a budget of $15,000. The first two days allows for concept design and building, a third day of filming and judging. The judges then have the opportunity to look at the sets from afar and up close. One artist will be deemed the winner, receiving a cash reward of $10,000.
Episodes
References
External links
2012 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
Syfy original programming
English-language television shows
2012 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ObjectDatabase%2B%2B | ObjectDatabase++ (ODBPP) is an embeddable object-oriented database designed for server applications that require minimal external maintenance. It is written in C++ as a real-time ISAM level database with the ability to auto recover from system crashes while maintaining database integrity. Its unique transaction process allows for maintenance of both the indexes and tables, preventing double allocation of index entries that could prohibit rollback of transactions.
Features of ODBPP include: full multi-process and multi-thread transaction control, auto real-time database recovery, hierarchical object data design, native code and script access, static hash index on object IDs, numerous supported index methods including full-text and biometric pattern matching.
History
The initial development was implemented by Ekky Software from 2001 to 2003.
It took 4 complete rewrites of the database before testing confirmed it matched specifications and functioned as designed.
Over the last decade numerous product enhancements have enabled far greater index and data support.
Hierarchical data objects
ODBPP supports objects that are hierarchical in design, similar to XML, JSON or serialized PHP. It is this hierarchical object that separates object databases from their relational cousins and it is the process of keeping the entire object in one record rather than spreading it out over multiple tables that give object databases the distinction from the relational model.
Traditional relational design
Traditionally databases have been designed with the relational model. This would separate data over several tables and use a common identifier to relate all the child records back to their parent. These model was based on each row within the table containing individual pieces of data. SQL databases based on this design would create joins that would reconnect the entire relation back together, suffering performance limitations.
Object-database design
In the object database design, instead of using multiple tables to store a data object, it is stored in one a single record. This keeps the entire object intact and reducing the need to join the data back together. This process of storing the entire object in one table reduces the total amount to lock, reads and write operations required. It is also this ability to store an object in one record that reduce the amount of file reads and writes, which enables the object design to maintain efficiency with very large and very complex database designs.
Looking at the images to the right, the on above depicts the relational model and has the data spread over two tables, with the parent in amber and the children in blue. In the object model, both the parent and children are stored in the one data record, the information that was previously stored within the related table is now stored within the sub or nested table of Foo.
Multi-process transaction control
ODBPP implements a transaction control that allows for process to c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dremel%20%28software%29 | Dremel is a distributed system developed at Google for interactively querying large datasets.
Dremel is the query engine used in Google's BigQuery service.
Dremel is the inspiration for Apache Drill, Apache Impala, and Dremio, an Apache licensed platform that includes a distributed SQL execution engine.
In 2020, Dremel won the Test of Time award at the VLDB 2020 conference, recognizing the innovations it pioneered.
References
Google software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadashir%20Datar | Sadashir Datar (born 1885, date of death unknown) was an Indian long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1885 births
Year of death missing
Athletes (track and field) at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Indian male long-distance runners
Indian male marathon runners
Olympic athletes for India
Place of birth missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared-disk%20architecture | A shared-disk architecture (SD) is a distributed computing architecture in which the nodes share same disk devices but each node has its own private memory. The disks have active nodes which all share memory in case of any failures. In this architecture the disks are accessible from all the cluster nodes. This architecture has quick adaptability to the changing workloads. It uses robust optimization techniques. It contrasts with shared-nothing architecture, in which all nodes have sole access to distinct disks. Multiple processors can access all disks directly via intercommunication network and every processor has local memory.
Shared Disk has two advantages over Shared Memory. Firstly, each processor has its own memory, the memory bus is not a bottleneck; secondly, the system offers a simple way to provide a degree of fault tolerance.
References
Data partitioning
Distributed computing architecture
Software architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As%20Good%20as%20Dead%20%281995%20film%29 | As Good as Dead is a 1995 television film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen. The psychological thriller, originally broadcast on USA Network, stars Crystal Bernard, Judge Reinhold and Traci Lords. The film was released on VHS in 1998.
Plot
Nicole is a makeup artist with an ulcer. She befriends Susan at a club. Susan harbors a sadness over the death of her mother and the fact that her father left when she was two years old. Nicole takes Susan to her house where she shows her the location of the spare key and lends her some clothes. Nicole invites Susan to a party at a fancy house where she admits to Susan that she spent time in jail for shoplifting. After drinking alcohol her ulcer flares up and Susan drives her to the hospital. Nicole does not have insurance so they use Susan's name and insurance to sign her in.
Susan takes medical leave from work. She calls the hospital for information about the patient checked in under her name but the staff refuses to give her any information. She calls her office to check her voicemail but is informed that "Susan Warfield" died in the hospital. She finds that her apartment has been rented and her belongings have been repossessed.
Susan learns that Nicole's body was taken from the hospital and cremated at a ceremony paid for by a man claiming to be her brother "Aaron Warfield" even though Susan has no brothers. Her ATM card is rejected so she takes a bus to Nicole's apartment and begins wearing her clothes. She learns that the death was due to a transfusion of the wrong type of blood and fears that she could be accused of manslaughter for having given incorrect medical information so she assumes Nicole's identity completely and visits the lawyer, who says that he is suing for $10 million for negligence and tells her where "Aaron Warfield" is staying in a hotel.
At the hotel, she finds the room of the wrong Warfield and encounters her own father Edgar Warfield, whom she has never met but recognizes from an old wedding photograph. Edgar confirms that "Aaron Warfield" is his son (therefore her half-brother) and warns her to stay away from him because he does not treat women well. She confronts him about the daughter he never knew and he says that he returned to town for her funeral and met up with Aaron, who was already in town. She leaves her phone number as "Nicole" and returns to the hospital, where she learns that a technician named Eddie Garcia was fired for entering the blood type as B− instead of A−, though Eddie argues that he saw someone watching him enter the computer access code and that person must have used it to change the data.
A police car turns on its sirens when it sees Susan driving Nicole's car because Nicole had a warrant due to several unpaid parking tickets. While escaping Susan nearly runs into a car driven by a pianist named Ron, who shows great interest in her and asks her to dinner. After dinner she finds that someone has broken into her apartment through the front do |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lookalike%20%281990%20film%29 | The Lookalike is a 1990 American made-for-television thriller film directed by Gary Nelson based on a novel by Kate Wilhelm and starring Melissa Gilbert and Diane Ladd. It premiered on USA Network on December 12, 1990 and was released on VHS in 1991.
Plot
Melissa Gilbert stars as a woman grieving about her child who she lost in an accident, when she one day recognizes her daughter in a girl.
Cast
Melissa Gilbert as Gina/Jennifer
Diane Ladd as Mary Helen Needam
Frances Lee McCain as Dr. Stamos
Jason Scott Lee as John "Charlie" Chan
Thaao Penghlis as Nikos Lissandros
Bo Brinkman as Stuart
April Stevens as Young Gina, Jennifer & Sarah
C.K. Bibby as Jack Needam
References
External links
1990 television films
1990 films
1990 thriller films
USA Network original films
Films based on American novels
Films directed by Gary Nelson
1990s English-language films
American thriller television films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawol%20station | Sawol Station is a station of Daegu Metro Line 2 in Sawol-dong and Sinmae-dong, Suseong District, Daegu, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation
Daegu Metro stations
Suseong District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinmae%20station | Sinmae Station is a station of Daegu Metro Line 2 in Sinmae-dong and Maeho-dong, Suseong District, Daegu, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation
Daegu Metro stations
Suseong District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Inspectors | Health Inspectors is an American reality television series on the Food Network. The series debuted on October 26, 2012 and follows Ben Vaughn as he volunteers his time to various restaurateurs around the country, who need to renovate their restaurants.
Episodes
See also
Public health inspector
Environmental health officer
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
2012 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonho%20station | Yeonho Station is a station of Daegu Metro Line 2 in Yeonho-dong, Suseong District, Daegu, South Korea.
See also
Beomanno
External links
Cyber station information from Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation
Daegu Metro stations
Suseong District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchon%20station | Manchon Station is a station of Daegu Metro Line 2 in Manchon-dong, Suseong District, Daegu, South Korea.
References
External links
Cyber station information from Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation
Daegu Metro stations
Suseong District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Greatest%20Event%20in%20Television%20History | The Greatest Event in Television History is a mockumentary TV special series created by Adam Scott and Naomi Scott. The series premiered on Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim on October 12, 2012, and ended on January 23, 2014, with a total of four episodes. Each episode originally aired independently as a "special presentation", several months apart.
Format
The format of each special is a brief mockumentary about the shot-for-shot remake of a 1980s TV series opening credits sequence, followed by the remake itself. Series co-creator Adam Scott says the specials are at least in part motivated by his own memories of watching 1980s TV as a kid. Each episode is hosted by Jeff Probst with actors portraying fictional versions of themselves or others. After each episode, the original opening credit scene is shown.
Production
Four episodes were produced during the show's run; the series finale aired on January 23, 2014. In an interview with Splitsider, Scott explained the conclusion of the series: "It's a lot of work for such a short, stupid thing... they're really fun and they're fun to make, but we're ready to move on."
Cast
Amanda Anka as voiceover (voice)
Jeff Probst as himself
Jon Hamm as Rick Simon
Adam Scott as A.J. Simon / Jonathan Hart / Monroe Ficus / Henry Desmond
Paul Rudd as Director / Kip Wilson
Gus Van Sant as himself
Joe Schroeder as Tallest Doctor
Kathryn Hahn as Gretta Strauss / Sara Rush
Paul Scheer as Protester
Megan Mullally as Cecilia Simon
Bailey as Marlowe
Amy Poehler as Jennifer Hart
Paul Rust as Director
Horatio Sanz as Max
Maya Ferrara as Basecamp PA
David Wain as Bell Taint
Nick Kroll as Jeremy Bay
Catherine O'Hara as Muriel Rush
Jon Glaser as Henry Rush
Chelsea Peretti as Jackie Rush
Jason Mantzoukas as Director
Seth Morris as Channon Flowers
Damian Lang as Emergency Medic
Gillian Jacobs as Sonny Lumet
Mo Collins as Ruth Dunbar
Aisha Muharrar as Isabelle Hammond
Helen Slayton-Hughes as Lilly Sinclair
Aidy Bryant as Amy Cassidy
Episodes
References
External links
2012 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
Adult Swim pilots and specials
Film and television opening sequences
2010s American mockumentary television series
Adult Swim original programming
Television series by Williams Street |
Subsets and Splits
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