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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarygirl | Scarygirl (also stylized as ScaryGirl) is an adventure-platform game for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network and Microsoft Windows. Scarygirl was previously a graphic novel by Nathan Jurevicius, a Flash game, and a downloadable title for the PlayStation Portable. It was developed by TikGames and published by Square Enix.
Scarygirl places the player in control of a girl who is sent from her home to a far-away city on a rescue mission. The girl is able to jump, grapple, and hover her way through seven game worlds, either alone or with another player in a cooperative multiplayer mode. Combat is handled through combining strings of light and heavy attacks, with grapple-based attacks becoming available once enemies take enough damage. Roundly praised for Jurevicius' art, ScaryGirl received otherwise mixed reviews upon its release. Critics found fault with both the control scheme and its combat system, although boss battles did receive some praise.
Gameplay
Scarygirl is a side-scrolling adventure-platform game. Players control the protagonist Scarygirl as she navigates and fights through twenty-one stages spread across seven distinct worlds. The game uses a 2.5D visual style and employs parallax scrolling to create visual depth.
Outside of combat, Scarygirl navigates the game world by running, jumping, gliding, and using her tentacle arm to grapple onto objects. Scarygirl eventually gains access to a feather attachment that can replace the hook on her tentacle arm, allowing Scarygirl to hover and reach otherwise inaccessible locations. Stages contain deadly traps that have to be avoided, often by grappling over them, and most stages contain at least two paths through the stage, although after choosing one the option to backtrack and take the other route exists. Crystals, which can be used to purchase combat upgrades for both combat and exploration, and heart fragments, which increase Scarygirl's maximum health, are scattered throughout stages. In order to get all of the crystals and heart fragments, players will have to traverse both paths through stages that have more than one path.
In combat, Scarygirl has light and heavy attacks, which can be strung together to form combos. Heavy attacks have the ability to launch enemies in the air. After enemies take a certain amount of damage, they can be grappled and thrown or used to bludgeon other enemies. Additional moves are available for purchase using crystals, such as a grappling attack that heals Scarygirl or an attack that turns Scarygirl's tentacle into a club with a smashing attack. Additional weapons, which replace the hook at the end of Scarygirl's tentacle arm, are also available for purchase, and include an anchor and a fan. Scarygirl charges a meter when she attacks, and is able to enter a "Rage Mode" once it is fully charged. In rage mode Scarygirl gains the ability to eat enemies, restoring her own health in the process.
Scarygirl does not have an online co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202011 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2011
After Words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Rebel | Code Rebel Corporation was an American technology company founded by Arben Kane and headquartered in Kahului, Hawaii, United States. The company developed and sold computer software and was best known for its terminal services and virtualization software principally for Apple Inc. products.
Customers included Fortune 500 companies by late 2014, including AT&T, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Bloomberg, and the University of California. Code Rebel went public in May 2015, and in early 2016, Code Rebel announced an upcoming merger with Aegis Identity Software, Inc. Code Rebel's shares doubled in market value after the announcement, with the merger made official on March 11, 2016. The company filed for bankruptcy in May 2016.
History
Founding and early years (2006-2014)
The software technology company Code Rebel was founded by software engineer Arben Kane in 2006, with headquarters in Kahului, Hawaii, United States. Alex Kukhar and Volodymyr Bykov, who became part of the core engineering team, also co-founded the company. Kane became CEO and chairman. The initial idea behind Code Rebel was to create a new object oriented remote access protocol that would allow the user to access a specific application and its active state. The company went on to develop, manufacture, license, support and sell computer software typically related to terminal services and virtualization software for Apple Inc. products. In particular, the company is known for its remote access software application called iRAPP, and a Mac terminal services application called iRAPP Terminal Server (iRAPP TS).
As the company grew, it began catering software to companies such as Intuit, Bloomberg and Wells Fargo. Code Rebel later relocated to the United States mainland, setting up an office in New York City. In October 2010, University of Alabama’s Management Information Systems program announced a partnership with Code Rebel, LLC to create Apple iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad applications. Kane was supervising around 50 software engineers and designers by 2014, largely in the United States and Europe. Customers included Fortune 500 companies by late 2014, including AT&T, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Bloomberg, Lloyds Bank, Merck, Panasonic and IKEA, as well as organizations such as the University of California, University of Texas and University of Missouri.
Code Rebel markets and distributes its software products through both direct sales and a reseller program. The company had a network of 17 resellers in nine countries by 2015. Code Rebel went public in May 2015, in the first IPO for a Hawaii technology company since 2000, and is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. By its second day of trading, the company's stock was up over 200% from its initial offering price. Dr. James Canton joined Code Rebel as director in 2015. On July 28, 2015, Code Rebel announced it had acquired ThinOps Resources, for $9.25 million.
On January 14, 2016, Code Rebel announced that it would likely merge with Aegis Identi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm%E2%80%93Roslagens%20J%C3%A4rnv%C3%A4gar | Stockholm–Roslagens Järnvägar (SRJ) was a private railway company in Sweden 1885–1951, running a vast network of narrow gauge railways in Roslagen north of Stockholm. The company was taken over by Swedish State Railways in 1951, formally combined into Swedish State Railways in 1959.
Parts of the SRJ network closest to Stockholm is now used for commuter traffic and called Roslagsbanan, owned by Storstockholms lokaltrafik. The line between Hargshamn and Dannemora has been converted to standard gauge and made part of the national, government owned network. Another part close to Uppsala is used as a heritage railway and called Upsala-Lenna Jernväg. All other parts are now closed.
History
The SRJ network became a large narrow gauge system throughout Roslagen and east Uppland through mergers and acquisitions, connecting Stockholm and Uppsala with ports, smaller towns and parts of the countryside and used for both freight and passenger transports.
The first parts of what became the total network were inaugurated in 1876 as the Uppsala-Lenna railway. In 1885 the line from Stockholm East Station (Stockholm) to Rimbo opened, what is now the longest part of Roslagsbanan and originally built and run by the private enterprise Stockholm-Rimbo Järnväg (SRJ). These lines were connected, making Rimbo a junction on the first railway connection between Stockholm and Uppsala (the government owned standard gauge mainline straight from Stockholm C to Uppsala C was not inaugurated until some years later). In 1909 SRJ changed its name to Stockholm–Roslagens Järnvägar (with the same abbreviation) following the take-over of companies running adjacent lines, such as the Uppsala-Lenna railway and Djursholmsbanan (DjB). The total SRJ network, all with the same narrow gauge, at its largest covered large parts of Roslagen, hence its name.
Parts of the network made up one of the oldest electrified railway lines for public transport in Europe: The first Stockholm - Djursholm suburban part was electrified in 1892. and this line was at the time drawn further in to the centre of Stockholm on a tram track, ending at Engelbrektsplan next to Humlegården, allowing for just a short walk to the city centre or to inner city tram lines and busses; since 1960 this line now also ends at the East Station.
In the beginning of the 20th century and well into the 1950s, Djursholms Ösby, a junction station on the network, was one of the busiest railway stations in Sweden with a train stopping every three minutes and three different lines dividing from there, transporting people and goods.
In the years following World War II, more and more of Swedish railways were taken over by the government through Swedish State Railways (Statens Järnvägar, SJ), a fate also shared by the SRJ network. In 1969 the Stockholm Landsting took over the southern network (Stockholm-Rimbo, which is what now goes under the name Roslagsbanan) from SJ, since then using it for passenger use only, with the newly formed co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPMW | WPMW is an FM radio station licensed to Middleborough Center, Massachusetts, and is owned by Holy Family Communications. WPMW operates with 400 watts on 88.5 MHz. It broadcasts programming from The Station of the Cross, a Catholic radio network.
History
The station was granted the call sign WRRS on October 29, 2010. It began broadcasting in 2012 with programming from the Talking Information Center, a radio reading service for blind people normally heard on FM subcarriers. WRRS went silent as of December 28, 2016, but returned to the air December 22, 2017.
On October 1, 2021, it was announced that WRRS would be sold by Talking Information Center, Incorporated to the Academy of the Immaculate for $85,000. Academy of the Immaculate owned WPMW, also on 88.5 MHz. The sale was consummated on November 29, 2021.
Effective March 20, 2023, WRRS and WPMW were sold to Holy Family Communications for $150,000. The two stations swapped call signs on August 15, 2023.
References
External links
Middleborough, Massachusetts
PMW
Mass media in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Radio stations established in 2012
2012 establishments in Massachusetts
Catholic radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad%20Helix | Lenovo ThinkPad Helix refers to two generations of 2-in-1 convertible tablets that can be used as both a conventional ultrabook and a tablet computer. The first-generation Helix was announced at the 2013 International CES and was released on 21 May 2013. A second-generation Helix came out in 2014.
History
First generation
In March 2013, Lenovo said that the ThinkPad Helix would launch in April in the United States. Launch dates in other countries will vary. The Helix was announced at the 2013 International CES. Lenovo touts the device as a “high performance Ultrabook with a detachable Windows 8 tablet.” The starting price for the base model Helix is expected to be $1,499.
Second generation
The ThinkPad Helix II was released in October 2014. It is an Ultrabook-class convertible laptop based on the Intel Core M processor. The Helix II uses a vapor chamber with no moving parts instead of fans for cooling, achieving a significant noise reduction. It is both thinner and lighter than its predecessor at .38 inches thick and weighing 1.8 pounds.
Features
Design
The Helix serves as a conventional notebook computer but uses a "rip and flip" design that allows the user to detach the display and then replace it facing in a different direction. Also, as all essential processing hardware is contained in the display assembly and it has multitouch capability, the monitor can be used as a standalone tablet computer. The Helix features include Gorilla Glass, stylus-based input, and Intel vPro hardware-based security features, and is designed to appeal to business users. The Helix makes use of a refined version of the ThinkPad trackpoint. The five mechanical buttons featured on most ThinkPad trackpoints have been replaced with a fixed glass touchpad. The included pressure-sensitive stylus is from Wacom and fits into a dedicated slot in the tablet portion of the device.
Specifications and performance
The Helix has an 11.6-inch 1080p IPS display that has ten-point capacitive multi-touch capability. At 400 nits the Helix's display is the brightest available among ThinkPad models. Connectors for mini-HDMI and mini-Display Port support graphics output. A five-megapixel rear camera and a two-megapixel front-facing camera are mounted on the display. The Helix comes standard with an Intel 3rd generation Core i5 processor, but can be upgraded to a Core i7 processor. On launch, the i7 upgrade for a convertible tablet was unique within its class. A SSD is used for HD storage. Fans are situated where the keyboard dock meets the tablet. This allows the Helix's processor to take advantage of Intel chipset capabilities to regulate clock speeds in relation to heat distribution. The Helix's power management software controls the speed of the processor to ensure that battery life is not adversely affected. The battery in the Helix's tablet section is advertised as providing five hours of use. Docking the tablet with the keyboard extends battery life by an advertised additio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Rostock | The Rostock tramway network () is a network of tramways forming the centrepiece of the public transport system in Rostock, the largest city in the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Opened in 1881 as a horsecar system, the network was converted to electrical operation in 1904. It is currently operated by (RSAG), and integrated in the (VVW).
Lines
, the network had six lines, as follows:
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Rostock
Rostock
Rail transport in Rostock
Transport in Rostock
Rostock
750 V DC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Mira%20Mira | José Mira Mira (December 31, 1944 – August 13, 2008) Spanish scientist, Professor of Computational Sciences and Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Department of the Computational Science Engineering's ETS in the UNED, until his death.
His research interest was related to the methodological aspects of Knowledge Engineering and the relations between Neuroscience and Computation. From an applied perspective, his interest was focused on Knowledge Based Systems (KBS) development in Industry and Medicine domains, including DIAGEN project and no less than other 10 CICYT and ESPRIT projects. On such subjects he mentored about 30 Ph D Thesis and published more than 300 works in magazines of the field. For more than 10 years, Professor Mira was sponsor and chairman of the biennial conferences IWANN and then he worked to set up and consolidate a new interdisciplinary series of conferences on concepts, techniques, and tools between "Natural Computation" and artificial computation, the currently biennial conferences IWINAC.
Early years
José Mira Mira was born in Pinoso, Alicante (Spain), on December 31, 1944. He obtained his high-school diploma at the Hermanos Maristas school in Murcia (Spain).
Complutense University of Madrid
He obtained his bachelor's degree in Physics in the Complutense University of Madrid in October 1966 he joined the Laboratory of Biocybernetics and Bionics associated to the Instituto de Electricidad y Automática of the Spanish National Research Council and the Depeartment of Electricity of the Faculty of Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid. This Laboratory had been recently created by Professor José Garcia Santesmases, who mentored him in his Ph.D. thesis "Cybernetic Models of Learning", dissertation defended in 1971. In this epoch, he was strongly influenced by his collaboration with Professor Roberto Moreno-Díaz, who had rejoined the Laboratory of Biocybernetics and Bionics of the Complutense University of Madrid after he returned from the USA, where he had been working as a researcher since 1965, in the Laboratory of Electronics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Warren S. McCulloch.
University of Granada
In 1975, he became a Professor of Electronics in the University of Granada. There he mentored the Ph.D. thesis of his wife, Ana Delgado, "Neurocybernetic Models of Brain Dynamics". It was precisely in the beginning of this process (as his wife tells in the preface of the book mentioned here in the footnotes), and because of Professor Mira wanted the thesis to be focused on certain properties of the brain functions, like cooperation and functional sharing, in order to study the correlation between local traumatic injury and the subsequent lack of functionalities, that Professor Mira got to know the eminent Spanish scientist Justo Gonzalo, beginning a close friendship that would last his whole life. Between 1976 and 1978 he is also Chief of Studies of the Unive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djursholmsbanan | Djursholmsbanan (DjB) was the original name of a network of narrow-gauge urban railways between Stockholm and Djursholm in Stockholm County, Sweden. This network is now a part of Roslagsbanan, but the oldest line was closed in 1976.
History
Djursholmsbanan was inaugurated on 20 December 1890, connected to the network of Stockholm–Roslagens Järnvägar at the then Djursholm railway station, later renamed Djursholms Ösby station. The lines were originally owned by the real estate company Djursholms AB, which had been founded in 1889 for the development of the garden town Djursholm on the lands around Djursholm Castle. The creation of the railway was a key part in making Djursholm attractive for potential buyers of lots in the new community, giving them a means of good communication to Stockholm.
The trains on Djursholmsbanan were driven on electricity, originally from its own power plant at Stocksund harbour, close to the then Stocksund railway station. The network north and east of Djursholms Ösby was owned by Djursholmsbanan, while the trains shared the tracks with the steam powered Rimbo trains of Stockholm–Roslagens Järnvägar (SRJ) between Djursholms Ösby and Stockholm East Station. From East Station, the Djursholm trains had their own tram track ending closer to the city centre, at Engelbrektsplan.
A second line, in the western parts of Djursholm, was opened in 1910, terminating in Altorp. The original plan was to connect the two lines in the north, allowing for passengers to ride all the way around Djursholm, but the newer line was eventually drawn to the new neighbourhood of Näsbypark in Täby Municipality instead.
DjB was eventually taken over by SRJ, which in turn was nationalised in 1959. The southern parts of the former SRJ network, including Djusholmsbanan, was in turn taken over by Storstockholms lokaltrafik (SL) some years later. SL gave its part of the former SRJ network the new name Roslagsbanan. In the mid-20th Century, all of these lines had been electrified.
The tram tracks to Engelbrektsplan were closed in 1960 but instead, passengers coming to Stockholm East Station has a connection to the Stockholm metro through the adjacent Tekniska högskolan metro station since 1973.
The oldest line, between Djursholms Ösby and Eddavägen, was closed in 1976, due to low passenger numbers in the relatively sparsely populated garden town.
Sources
Railway lines in Sweden
Regional rail in Sweden
Defunct railway companies of Sweden
891 mm gauge railways in Sweden
Railway lines opened in 1890 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s%20Your%20Bid%3F | What's Your Bid? was an ABC and DuMont Television Network game show hosted by Leonard Rosen (as "Liberal Bill") (ABC) and Robert Alda (DuMont), with announcement and live commercials delivered by John Reed King (ABC) and Dick Shepard (DuMont). The show aired Saturdays from February 14, 1953, to late April on ABC, and Sundays from May 3, 1953, to June 28, 1953, on DuMont. The show was an auction where audience members bid on items, with all revenues from the auction directed to a specific charity that week, and often matching funds provided to that charity or another organization on behalf of the show's sponsor, Charles Antell Cosmetics. Winners would receive other prizes along with their auction items, ranging from consumer products to household appliances to cars, and Charles Antell products were frequent consolation prizes. In the middle segment, three pre-selected viewers would be telephoned, and given an opportunity to bid on an item, with the show's announcers manning the phones to deliver their bids to the host. In the final segment, a celebrity guest, such as Ralph Bellamy or Eva Gabor, would appear to speak on behalf of that week's charity organization, and auction off what was claimed to be a personal belonging of theirs.
Episode status
In August 2019, an ABC episode was posted onto YouTube. The status of the rest of the episodes from both DuMont and ABC is unknown, though it is possible that most DuMont episodes were lost.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
What's Your Bid? at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1953 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
1950s American game shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO%20Major%20Fishing%20Areas | The FAO Major Fishing Areas are areas in the world in what the Food and Agriculture Organization has divided the fishery. This definition is required for the statistical data-gathering, the management of fisheries and jurisdictional purposes. The boundaries of the areas were determined on various considerations with consulting international fishery agencies.
Areas
The defined areas are:
Area 18: the Arctic Ocean
Area 21: the Northwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean
Area 27: the Northeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean
Area 31: the Western part of the Atlantic Ocean
Area 34: the Eastern Central part of the Atlantic Ocean
Area 37: the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea
Area 41: the Southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean
Area 47: the Southeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean
Area 48: the Antarctic part of the Atlantic Ocean
Area 51: the Western part of the Indian Ocean
Area 57: the Eastern part of the Indian Ocean
Area 58: the Antarctic and Southern parts of the Indian Ocean
Area 61: the Northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean
Area 67: the Northeastern part of the Pacific Ocean
Area 71: the Western Central part of the Pacific Ocean
Area 77: the Eastern Central part of the Pacific Ocean
Area 81: the Southwestern part of the Pacific Ocean
Area 87: the Southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean
Area 88: the Antarctic part of the Pacific Ocean
References
Food and Agriculture Organization
Fishing areas
Fisheries law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovetown%2C%20USA | Lovetown, USA is an American reality documentary television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network that premiered on August 19, 2012. Lovetown, USA follows the community in Kingsland, GA as they take on Oprah's challenge to become one loving community in 30 days.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202012 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2012
After Words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends%20of%20the%20Earth%20%E2%80%93%20France | Friends of the Earth – France is an association for the protection of people and the environment. It is one of 76 national groups around the world which make up the Friends of the Earth network of environmental organizations. The group is listed as an association under the French law of 1901 (Loi de 1901) and authorised to act for the protection of the environment in France by order of the Environment Minister. Friends of the Earth – France is independent of any economic, political and religious influences.
The association is a network of thirty local groups which are largely autonomous and work according to their local priorities. They are also involved in national and international campaigns owing to a shared commitment to social and environment justice.
History
The Friends of the Earth was founded by David Brower in San Francisco in 1969 after he stepped down as chairman of the Sierra Club. He wished to form an association to investigate causes of damage to the environment and then to combat them. He founded a new organisation, Friends of the Earth, and the association gathered support from many famous names.
In France, Friends of the Earth registered as an association in Paris on the 11th of July 1970. The main founders were Edwin Matthews, an American lawyer living in Paris, and Alain Hervé, a poet and reporter whose initial idea was to see Friends of the Earth become a movement that aimed to improve public knowledge of nature. Members of the sponsorship committee included: Jean Dorst (naturalist, former director of the French Museum of Natural History), Pierre Fournier (novelist under the name of Pierre Gascar), anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, biologist Konrad Lorenz, anthropologist Théodore Monod and biologist Jean Rostand.
Friends of the Earth were among the first organisations to push for environmental candidates in political elections, such as René Dumont who ran for president in 1974 as the first ecologist candidate and who later became honorary president of the association. Afterwards, the group also attracted activists such as Pierre Radanne (ex-director of the ADEME) and Dominique Voynet (Environment Planning Minister in 1997).
In 1983, Friends of the Earth decided to focus on their associational activities. Many of the activists then left the association to participate in the creation of the Greens (Les Verts, :fr:Europe Écologie Les Verts), such as Yves Cochet (founder of the local group in Rennes). Later on more activists left to form the Génération Écologie, such as Brice Lalonde (Paris group) who went on to become Environment Minister in 1988.
The departure of several activists weakened the campaign resources, including the financial resources. Several teams, including those of Pierre Samuel and , have since succeeded in maintaining and developing the national association for Friends of the Earth – France. The structure of the association has remained decentralised. Local groups have considerable auto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20Security%20Alliance | Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to “promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and to provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing.”
The CSA has over 80,000 individual members worldwide. CSA gained significant reputability in 2011 when the American Presidential Administration selected the CSA Summit as the venue for announcing the federal government’s cloud computing strategy.
History
The CSA was formed in December 2008 as a coalition by individuals who saw the need to provide objective enterprise user guidance on the adoption and use of cloud computing. Its initial work product, Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing, was put together in a Wiki-style by dozens of volunteers.
In 2014, the Chairman of the Board of the CSA was Dave Cullinane, VP of Global Security and Privacy for Catalina Marketing, St. Petersburg, Florida, and former CISO for eBay. Cullinane has said, "If you have an application exposed to the Internet that will allow people to make money, it will be probed."
Profile
In 2009, the Cloud Security Alliance incorporated in Nevada as a Corporation and achieved US Federal 501(c)6 non-profit status. It is registered as a Foreign Non-Profit Corporation in Washington.
Policy maker support
The CSA works to support a number of global policy makers in their focus on cloud security initiatives including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), European Commission, Singapore Government, and other data protection authorities. In March 2012, the CSA was selected to partner with three of Europe’s largest research centers (CERN, EMBL and ESA) to launch Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud.
Size
The Cloud Security Alliance employs roughly sixty full-time and contract staff worldwide. It has several thousand active volunteers participating in research, working groups and chapters at any time.
Membership
According to CSA, they are a member-driven organization, chartered with promoting the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and providing education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.
Individuals
Individuals who are interested in cloud computing and have experience to assist in making it more secure receive a complimentary individual membership based on a minimum level of participation.
Chapters
The Cloud Security Alliance has a network of chapters worldwide. Chapters are separate legal entities from the Cloud Security Alliance, but operate within guidelines set down by the Cloud Security Alliance In the United States, Chapters may elect to benefit from the non-profit tax shield that the Cloud Security Alliance has.
Chapters are encouraged to hold local meetings and participate in areas of research. Chapter activities are coordinated by the Cloud Security Alliance worldwide.
Inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202013%20%28Spain%29 | This lists the singles that reached number one on the Spanish Promusicae sales and airplay charts in 2013. Total sales correspond to the data sent by regular contributors to sales volumes and by digital distributors. There is a two-day difference between the reporting period from sales outlets and from radio stations. For example, the report period for the first full week of 2013 ended on January 6 for sales and on January 4 for airplay.
Chart history
References
Spain
Number-one singles
2013
nl:Nummer 1-hits in de Spaanse single top 50 in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20calling | Base calling is the process of assigning nucleobases to chromatogram peaks, light intensity signals, or electrical current changes resulting from nucleotides passing through a nanopore. One computer program for accomplishing this job is Phred, which is a widely used base calling software program by both academic and commercial DNA sequencing laboratories because of its high base calling accuracy.
Base callers for Nanopore sequencing use neural networks trained on current signals obtained from accurate sequencing data.
Base calling accuracy
Base calling can be assessed by two metrics, read accuracy and consensus accuracy. Read accuracy refers to the called base's accuracy to a known reference. Consensus accuracy refers to how accurate a consensus sequence is compared to overlapping reads from the same genetic locus.
References
Molecular biology
Bioinformatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Roy%20Doty%20Show | The Roy Doty Show was a Sunday morning DuMont Television Network children's TV show hosted by Roy Doty (1922–2015). The show aired from May 10, 1953, to October 4, 1953. Cartoonist Roy Doty drew cartoons and sketches and told children's stories.
Episode status
As with many DuMont series, no copies of the episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
Daytime television in the United States
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
CTVA entry
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1953 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
1950s American children's television series
Black-and-white American television shows
Works about the visual arts
Television shows about comics
Documentary television series about art
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Information | Operation Information was a DuMont Television Network public affairs TV show giving veterans information on their rights and benefits. The show aired Thursdays from July 17, 1952, to September 18, 1952. DuMont had previously aired a similar series for veterans Operation Success (1948–49).
Episode status
As with many DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
Operation Information at IMDB
CTVA entry
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1952 American television series debuts
1952 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows
DuMont news programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report%20Card%20for%20Parents | Report Card for Parents was a DuMont Television Network panel discussion show on child behavior which aired Mondays at 8pm ET from December 1, 1952, to February 2, 1953.
Episode status
As with many DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
CTVA entry
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1952 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
1950s American game shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organogels | In polymer chemistry, an organogel is a class of gel composed of an organic liquid phase within a three-dimensional, cross-linked network. Organogel networks can form in two ways. The first is classic gel network formation via polymerization. This mechanism converts a precursor solution of monomers with various reactive sites into polymeric chains that grow into a single covalently-linked network. At a critical concentration (the gel point), the polymeric network becomes large enough so that on the macroscopic scale, the solution starts to exhibit gel-like physical properties: an extensive continuous solid network, no steady-state flow, and solid-like rheological properties. However, organogels that are “low molecular weight gelators” can also be designed to form gels via self-assembly. Secondary forces, such as van der Waals or hydrogen bonding, cause monomers to cluster into a non-covalently bonded network that retains organic solvent, and as the network grows, it exhibits gel-like physical properties. Both gelation mechanisms lead to gels characterized as organogels.
Gelation mechanism greatly influences the typical organogel properties. Since precursors with multiple functional groups polymerize into networks of covalent C-C bonds (on average 85 kcal/mol), networks formed by self-assembly, which relies on secondary forces (generally less than 10 kcal/mol), are less stable., Theorists also have difficulties predicting characteristic gelation parameters, such as gel point and gelation time, with a single and simple equation. Gel point, the transition point from a polymer solution to gel, is a function of the extent of reaction or the fraction of functional groups reacted. Gelation time is the time interval between the onset of reaction– by heating, addition of catalyst into a liquid system, etc.– and gel point. Kinetic and statistical mathematical theories have had moderate success in predicting gelation parameters; a simple, accurate, and widely applicable theory has not yet been developed.
Organogel formulation
The formulation of an accurate theory of gel formation that correctly predicts gelation parameters (such as time, rate, and structure) of a broad range of materials is highly sought after for both commercial and intellectual reasons. As noted earlier, researchers often judge gel theories based upon their ability to accurately predict gel points. The kinetic and statistical methods model gel formation with different mathematical approaches. most researchers used statistical methods, as the equations derived thereby are less cumbersome and contain variables to which specific physical meanings can be attached, thus aiding in the analysis of gel formation theory. Below, we present the classical Flory-Stockmayer (FS) statistical theory for gel formation. This theory, despite its simplicity, has found widespread use. This is due in large part to small increases in accuracy provided by the use of more complicated methods, and to its being |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Digital%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202013 | The Gaon Digital Chart of Gaon Music Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. It consists of a weekly chart, listed from Sunday to Saturday, a monthly chart, and a yearly chart. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly, monthly, and yearly charts. The Digital Chart ranks songs according to their performance on the Gaon Download, Streaming and BGM charts.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
References
External links
Gaon Digital Chart
2013 singles
Korea, South singles
2013 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Album%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202013 | The Gaon Album Chart is a record chart that ranks the best-selling albums and EPs in South Korea. It is part of the Gaon Music Chart which launched in February 2010. The data for the chart is compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Music Content Industry Association based on weekly and monthly physical albums and digital sales by six major distributors: LOEN Entertainment, S.M. Entertainment, Sony Music Korea, Warner Music Korea, Universal Music and Mnet Media.
Overall, EXO's XOXO Repackage (korean ver) album was Gaon Album Chart best selling album of 2013, selling 335,823 copies. EXO also sold South Korea best-selling album of 2013 with all standard XOXO (korean ver) and reissue XOXO (chinese ver), XOXO Repackage (korean ver) and XOXO Repackage (chinese ver) albums selling a total of 1,006,473 units overall. The group won Album of The Year at 2013 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Album of The Year (3rd Quarter) & (4th Quarter) at 3rd Gaon Chart Music Awards, Disk Daesang and Disk Bonsang at 28th Golden Disc Awards.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
Notes
References
External links
Gaon Charts - Official Website
2013
Korea, South albums
2013 in South Korean music
de:Liste der Nummer-eins-Hits in Südkorea (2013) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Event-Based%20Systems | The International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems is a conference in computer science.
History
The DEBS event began as a series of five workshops run annually from 2002 to 2006. These DEBS workshops were co-located variously with International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS), ACM SIGMOD Conference/PODS and International Conference on Software Engineering (ACM ICSE).
The inaugural DEBS conference was held in 2007, in Toronto, Canada, and has been held annually since.
Conference structure
DEBS events follow the structure of many computer science conferences, runs a sequential track program, and includes tracks for:
Research papers
Industry submissions
Tutorials
Demonstrations and posters
and a doctoral workshop.
A recent, novel feature of the conference is the "Grand Challenges" track, which aims to provide a datasets and exercises by which academic and industrial teams may compete to demonstrate the strengths of their solutions.
Location history
2017: Barcelona, Spain
2016: Irvine, California, United States
2015: Oslo, Norway
2014: Mumbai, India
2013: Arlington, Texas, United States
2012: Berlin, Germany
2011: New York City, New York, United States
2010: Cambridge, United Kingdom
2009: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
2008: Rome, Italy
2007: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DEBS Workshops
2006: Lisbon, Portugal
2005: Columbus, Ohio, United States
2004: Edinburgh, Scotland
2003: San Diego, California, USA
2002: Vienna, Austria
See also
List of computer science conferences
References
External links
http://debs.org/
DEBS 2017- June 19–23, 2017, Barcelona, Spain
DEBS 2016- June 20–24, 2016, Irvine, CA, USA
DEBS 2015- June 29-July 3, 2015, Oslo, Norway
DEBS 2014 - May 26–29, 2014, Mumbai, India
DEBS 2013 - June 29-July 3, 2013, Arlington, Texas, USA
DEBS 2012 - July 16–20, 2012, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany
DEBS 2011 - July 11–14, 2011, New York, U.S.
DEBS 2010 - July 12–15, 2010, Cambridge, United Kingdom
DEBS 2009 - July 6–9, 2009, Vanderbilt University Campus, Nashville, TN, USA
DEBS 2008 - July 2–4, 2008, Rome, Italy
DEBS 2007 - June 20–22, Toronto, Canada
Computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadspace | Leadspace is a software as a service (SaaS) Data Science Company that provides a B2B Customer Data Platform. The company's products unifies multiple data sources, 1st party and 3rd party sources from social media, contact databases and customer relationship management systems and Marketing Automation platforms.
History
Leadspace was founded in 2007 (then named Data Essence) by Amnon Mishor and Yaron Karasik, former intelligence officers and experts in semantic analysis and web mining technologies. The company raised funding from Battery Ventures, Jerusalem Venture Partners, Arrowroot Capital and Vertex Venture Capital.
Leadspace launched its first product, a sales prospecting application, in 2012. In March 2013, Leadspace added the capability of generating targeted lists based on match to an ideal buyer profile, and an online view of a company's ideal buyer profiles.
The company became a Salesforce.com ISV partner and a member in Marketo Launchpoint. In July 2015, Leadspace raised $18 million in funding led by Battery Ventures.
In April 2018, Leadspace announced plans to merge with Radius Technologies. The merger dissolved in August 2018.
In October 2020, JVD Partners sued Leadspace's CEO, Doug Bewsher, claiming he secretly tried to sell the company. The Plaintiffs alleged that Doug Bewsher presented his board with inflated figures for years, he forged data, and he spent money from company's coffers. The suit was subsequently dropped.
References
Companies based in Menlo Park, California
Software companies based in California
Hod HaSharon
Software companies of the United States
2007 establishments in California
Software companies established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsphere%20%28software%20company%29 | Microsphere was a British software company formed in Muswell Hill, north London in 1982 by husband and wife team David and Helen Reidy, best known for several popular computer games in the mid 1980s.
Company history
The company was formed in November 1982 as a consulting firm, before transforming into development the following year. The Reidys targeted the then recently released ZX Spectrum, and initially attempted to write business software, producing the Visicalc clone Omnicalc, but quickly realised that the future for the machine lay with games after their first effort, a cassette containing Crevasse and Hotfoot, received a good review in Sinclair User.
After recruiting local artist and family friend Keith Warrington, they released one of their best known and critically acclaimed games, Skool Daze in 1984, which sold 50,000 copies and Crash described as "excellent value, plenty to do, addictive, unusual" and followed it up with Back to Skool in 1985, which drew similar praise.
When interviewed, the Reidys said that they used no compilers or assemblers, and designed everything on pencil and paper, adding the raw, hand assembled Z80 machine code onto the computer. Warrington tried using a computer to design his graphics, but decided he preferred traditional methods on graph paper. The company never expanded, as the founders had no motivation to do so, and as time progressed, they found it increasingly difficult to cope with the more professional marketing campaigns that started to be introduced in the maturing computer game industry. In an interview, Helen Reidy said that "It seems they're [retail stores] more concerned with your advertising budget and the size of your box - it's very difficult to get a good game from a small software house into the large stores."
The company's last release was the detective adventure Contact Sam Cruise, which according to David Reidy wasn't commercially successful, blaming software piracy for lack of sales. Uninterested in developing for the emerging 16 bit computers and consoles, he decided to change careers and became an electrical engineer.
Releases
ZX-Sideprint (1983)
Omnicalc (1983)
Crevasse / Hotfoot (1983)
The Train Game (1983)
Evolution (1983)
Wheelie (1983)
Skool Daze (1984)
Skyranger (1984)
Back To Skool (1985)
Contact Sam Cruise (1986)
References
External links
Microsphere on World of Spectrum
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrksat%201C | Türksat 1C was a Turkish communications satellite as part of a project to form an instant network with two geosynchronous satellites that is supervised by the companies Türksat A.Ş. in Turkey and Aérospatiale of France.
Türksat 1C was launched by Arianespace atop an Ariane-44L H10-3 launch vehicle along with
Saudi Arabian satellite Arabsat-2A in a dual-payload launch on July 9, 1996, from ELA-2 at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. It was built under the insurance terms of the turnkey system contract to replace the first Turkish satellite Türksat 1A, which was lost following a launch failure on January 24, 1994. The contract was modified so that the coverage area of Türksat 1C was enlarged by two big zones.
Turksat 1C was successfully placed into geostationary transfer orbit and positioned at 31.3°E on July 10, 1996. Completing the orbital tests, the satellite shifted to longitude 42°E. After this process, which took 17 days, the broadcast traffic of the Türksat 1B was transferred to Türksat 1C. Finally, when these processes completed Türksat 1B was positioned at 31.3°E following similar orbital manoeuvres.
Turksat 1C was designed for covering Turkey and Europe on west spot by vertical emission and Turkey and Central Asia on east spot by horizontal emission so as to serve simultaneously between Europe, Turkey and Central Asia, and to provide direct connection between Europe and Central Asia. It is based on the Aerospatiale Spacebus 2000 series having an on-orbit mass of . The communications payload consists of 16 Ku band transponders with eight backup, nine with 36Mhz, two with 54Mhz and five 72Mhz bandwidth.
On July 16, 2008, all traffic on Turksat 1C was transferred to Turksat 3A, which was launched on June 13, 2008 and its television broadcast was terminated on October 3, 2010.
See also
Turksat (satellite)
References
Communications satellites of Turkey
Spacecraft launched in 1996
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Derelict satellites orbiting Earth
Turksat 1C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telco-OTT | Telco-OTT (Over-The-Top) is where a telecommunications service provider delivers one or more services across an IP network. The IP networks is predominantly the public internet although sometimes telco cloud run services delivered via a corporation's existing IP-VPN from another provider, as opposed to the carrier's own access network. It embraces a variety of telco services including communications (e.g. voice and messaging), content (e.g. TV and music) and cloud-based (e.g. compute and storage) offerings.
Stimulated by the availability of high performance fixed and mobile broadband networks as well as the rapid adoption of smartphones and tablet computers, telco-OTT is viewed by a selection of industry analysts and media commentators as the mechanism that mobile network operators need to employ in order to compete with the vast and growing range of over-the-top (OTT) services provided by non-telco companies.
Telco-OTT is a response to the fact that users will have multiple devices (smartphones, laptops or other connected devices such as TVs, games consoles) which almost inevitably will have various different access providers (especially with the growth of public-access Wi-Fi). So to deliver consistent telco-branded services, at some points at least, they will need to be delivered over 3rd-party access.
The term was first coined by telecoms industry analyst Dean Bubley who first published a report on it in February 2012, but first used the term in a June 2011 presentation he gave at the eComm conference in SF.
Resources
Analysys Mason: "Telco OTT service case studies: next-generation mobile voice and messaging" (6 September 2012)
Disruptive Analysis: "Telco-OTT Strategies & Case Studies: 'Give it a name!': The overlooked rise of telecom operators' own access-independent Internet services, for communications, content, cloud & connectivity" (February 2012)
Martin Geddes Consulting: "Introduction to Telco-OTT Services" (3 May 2012)
Ovum: "Mobile Operator Strategies for Defending Against OTT Competition" (12 September 2012)
Telco-OTT Today
Amazon Prime Statistics
A few myths about telco and OTT models
"How Mobile OTT is Ruling over Telco Operator" (June 15, 2017)
References
Telecommunication services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Man%27s%20Experience | One Man's Experience, also known as One Man's Story, was a DuMont Television Network anthology TV show written and produced by Lawrence Menkin (1911-2000). The show aired Monday through Friday at 2:30pm ET from October 6, 1952, to April 10, 1953. The 15-minute show aired alongside another 15-minute Menkin show One Woman's Experience which aired at 2:45pm ET.
Some sources suggest that these episodes were also aired during the DuMont series Monodrama Theater which aired at 11pm ET from May 1952 until December 7, 1953.
Episode status
As with many DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
One Man's Experience at IMDB
CTVA entry
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1952 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Woman%27s%20Experience | One Woman's Experience, also known as One Woman's Story, was a DuMont Television Network anthology TV show created and produced by Lawrence Menkin (1911-2000) and starring Wendy Waldron.
The show aired from October 6, 1952 to April 3, 1953, Mondays through Fridays from 2:45pm to 3pm ET. The 15-minute show aired alongside another 15-minute Menkin show One Man's Experience which aired at 2:30pm ET. Some sources suggest that these episodes were also aired during the DuMont series Monodrama Theater which aired at 11pm ET from May 1952 until December 7, 1953.
Episode status
As with many DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1952–53 United States network television schedule (weekday)
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
One Woman's Experience at IMDB
CTVA entry
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1952 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
1950s American anthology television series
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Brandenburg%20an%20der%20Havel | The Brandenburg an der Havel tramway network () is a network of tramways forming the centrepiece of the public transport system in Brandenburg an der Havel, a city in the federal state of Brandenburg, Germany.
Opened in 1897 as a horsecar system, the network was converted to an electrically powered system in 1911. It is currently operated by (VBBr), and integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB).
== Lines ==
, the network had four lines, as follows:
Line 1/2 replaces lines 1 and 2 on Sundays and public holidays.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Track plan of the Brandenburg tram system
Brandenburg tram
Transport in Brandenburg
Brandenburg An Der Havel
Metre gauge railways in Germany
Brandenburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Chemnitz | The Chemnitz tramway network () is a network of tramways forming the centrepiece of the public transport system in Chemnitz, a city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.
Opened in 1880 as a horsecar system, the network was converted to an electrically powered system between 1893 and 1898. The network's gauge, originally , was widened to by the outbreak of World War I. From the 1950s, the gauge was widened further, to , although the gauge conversion work was not completed until as late as 1988. The infrastructure is currently operated by the (CVAG), and services are operated by them and City-Bahn Chemnitz. The system is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen (VMS).
The city used Czechoslovak Tatra T3 trams (Tatra T3D and Tatra B3D) from 1969 until they were all decommissioned by 2019. Some were sold to Kazakhstan and Russia. In 1993, the city began using Stadler Variobahn, originally built by ABB (ASEA Brown Boveri, now made by Stadler). In 2019, new Škoda 35 T trams were delivered to the city.
Lines
, the network consists of 9 lines, as follows:
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Track plan of the Chemnitz tram system
Chemnitz
Transport in Chemnitz
Chemnitz
Chemnitz
Chemnitz
Chemnitz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Issai%20Schur | This is a list of things named after Issai Schur.
Frobenius–Schur indicator
Herz–Schur multiplier
Jordan–Schur theorem
Lehmer–Schur algorithm
Schur algebra
Schur class
Schur's conjecture
Schur complement method
Schur complement
Schur-convex function
Schur decomposition
Schur functor
Schur index
Schur's inequality
Schur's lemma (from Riemannian geometry)
Schur's lemma
Schur module
Schur multiplier
Schur cover
Schur orthogonality relations
Schur polynomial
Schur product
Schur product theorem
Schur test
Schur's property
Schur's theorem
Schur's number
Schur–Horn theorem
Schur–Weyl duality
Schur–Zassenhaus theorem
Schur, Issai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20members%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Engineering%20%28Computer%20science%29 | This list is a subsection of the List of members of the National Academy of Engineering, which includes over 2,000 current members of the United States National Academy of Engineering, each of whom is affiliated with one of 12 disciplinary sections. Each person's name, primary institution, and election year are given. This list does not include deceased members.
References
Computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mole%20%28Australian%20season%206%29 | The sixth season of the Australian version of The Mole took place in various locations around Australia, and was hosted by Shura Taft.
Show details
In October 2012, the Seven Network announced through its 2013 programming launch that The Mole would return following a seven-year absence. On 11 January 2013, it was announced that Shura Taft would be hosting the revived show.
The announced maximum kitty for the season was $250,000. The show premiered on Tuesday, 2 July at 7:30pm, and was originally going to air three nights a week, however, disappointing ratings resulted in the show reverting to airing only once a week, on Wednesday nights showing double episodes at 9:30pm; that took effect from the fifth episode until the eleventh episode. Further disappointing ratings, and a clash with a documentary on the Essendon Football Club supplements saga saw the show moved to an even later timeslot, airing at 10:30pm on Wednesdays; this took effect from the twelfth episode until the end of the season.
Terminations in this edition of The Mole were, in the early stages of the game, far less frequent than is typical of other editions – the first termination, for instance, did not occur until the conclusion of the third episode. They were also somewhat irregularly spaced, and could occur at any time within a particular episode. After the seventh termination, the game settled into the more widely utilised system of a quiz and termination occurring at the end of each episode.
Contestants
Twelve contestants participated this season. On 11 June 2013, the contestants were revealed:
1 Aisha Jefcoate has, since the end of filming, moved to Sydney as she tries to pursue a career in television presenting.
Termination chart
indicates which contestant successfully defended the Exemption for that specific Quiz.
In a silent auction, Sam bid on and won, for $70,000, 'The Ultimate Exemption', which allowed him to be exempt from termination, undefended until Quiz 9.
Hillal had 30 seconds taken off his time for this quiz after winning the Go Mole assignment in Week 14.
Indicates the player won the game
Indicates the player was the mole
Indicates the player won an exemption for the next quiz
Indicates the player won an exemption, but either gave it back for money or lost it in a later assignment
Indicates the player lost an exemption, but used freebies on the quiz to correct wrong answers, indicated by the number
Indicates the player used freebies on the quiz to correct wrong answers, indicated by the number
Indicates the player used freebies on the quiz to correct wrong answers, indicated by the number, and was terminated
Indicates the player scored the lowest on the quiz without holding any freebies or exemptions and was terminated
Indicates the player won an exemption, but either gave it back for money or lost it in a later assignment and was terminated
Indicates the player had 30 seconds taken off his/her time for this specific quiz
Summary
Week 1
T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Toma | Victor Toma (April 4, 1922 - November 26, 2008) was a Romanian engineer and scientist, known to be the creator of the first Romanian computer CIFA 1 in 1957 at the IFA - Institute of Atomic Physics. At the same institute he built CIFA 2, CIFA 3 CIFA 4 and CET 500 and at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1964 the computer VITOSHA similar with CIFA 3. Since 1968 to his retirement he was head of laboratory in the Institute of computer engineering ITC Bucharest. He was made an honorary member of the Romanian Academy in 1993.
References
1922 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Romanian engineers
Honorary members of the Romanian Academy
Burials at Bellu Cemetery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECIPT | The Timişoara Polytechnic Institute Electronic Computer (Romanian: Mașina Electronică de Calcul Institutul Politehnic Timişoara), known as MECIPT, is the name used for a family of computers built from 1961 to 1968 at the Polytechnic University of Timișoara in Romania.
MECIPT-1 was a first generation computer built by Iosif Kaufmann and Wilhelm Lowenfeld (1956–1962), a team joined in 1961 by Vasile Baltac. This was the second computer built in Romania after Victor Toma built the CIFA-1 in 1957, and the first in a Romanian university. MECIPT-2 (1962) and MECIPT-3 (1965) followed as second and third generation computer technology.
Parts of MECIPT 1 and 2 were exhibited in the Museum of Banat. and are now in the UPT Museum In 2011, a 50th anniversary celebration was organized in Timişoara to recall the importance of the MECIPT computers to Romania.
References
Early computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberpac | Iberpac (or Red UNO) was the Spanish packet switched X.25 data network. It was operated by Telefónica España, the incumbent Spanish telecommunications operator. Iberpac lents its name to Iberpac Plus and Iberpac Básico, the latest X.25 services in Spain.
History
Red Especial de Transmisión de Datos
Iberpac evolved from the Spanish Red Especial de Transmisión de Datos (RETD), the world's first public data network.
Created in 1971, RETD was based on general-purpose Univac 418 III computers. The original Red Secundaria de Alto Nivel (RSAN) protocols for RETD were custom-developed by Telefónica (then CTNE) under ARPANET design principles.
Project TESYS
By 1978, project TESYS (Telefónica, SECOINSA, SITRE) started the development of specific-purpose switching nodes. Some of the design principles of TESYS nodes were advanced for their time (multithreading, token passing protocols). In contrast, the large user base with terminals based on legacy RSAN protocols slowed the adoption of X.25, TESYS product development and support were targeted to CTNE only (thus precluding the spread of TESYS to international markets) and data lines in Spain became slow for their time (only 2% lines above 1200 bit/s in Spain in 1982, compare 89% in West Germany).
Iberpac and Red UNO X.25
Renamed as IBERPAC, the network evolved to X.25 in the 1980s, and it was renamed again as 'Red UNO' in the 1990s. Bank branches and financial services conformed the main user base. IBERPAC enabled new videotex and teletext services, although the adoption lagged far behind the popularity of similar services in other countries, such as the French Minitel. Services based on legacy RSAN protocols were definitely scrapped in 1996.
Use
Until December 31, 2015, Red UNO supported two legacy X.25 services: flat-rate Iberpac Plus and pay-per-use Iberpac Básico. Iberpac services were targeted to corporate customers with specific reliability demands.
References
Jorge Infante, El desarrollo de la red pública de datos en España, Revista BIT del Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, nº 136, 2002. (In Spanish)
External links
Description of Iberpac Plus (in Spanish)
Wide area networks
X.25 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dama%20y%20obrero%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Dama y obrero (Lit: Lady and Worker / English: Labor of Love) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is a remake of the Chilean telenovela of the same title produced by TVN in 2012. Ana Layevska and José Luis Reséndez stars as the protagonists, while Fabián Ríos, Felicia Mercado and Sofía Lama stars as the antagonists.
On June 24, 2013, Telemundo broadcast Dama y Obrero, replacing Pasión Prohibida. The last episode was broadcast on October 18, as part of Telemundo's changes in prime-time programming, and because of low ratings. On October 21, 2 hours of Marido en Alquiler have been temporarily broadcast weeknights at 8pm/7c. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
Plot
Ignacia (Ana Layevska) is a young engineer working at a large construction company, Omega Construction, which is owned by Tomás Villamayor (Fabián Ríos), her boyfriend. They spend much time together and finally decide to get married, but Ignacia misconceives the kind of person that Tomás really is. Shortly before their wedding, they have a very strong fight in which Tomas tries to hit her but is foiled by the intervention of Pedro. that makes Ignacia leave the town and take time for reflection.
She meets Pedro o Pérez (Jose Luis Resendez), a simple laborer without money and big aspirations, who makes her forget all her problems. The attraction between the two is immediate and mutual (love at first sight). They cannot avoid spending a memorable weekend together, which ends on a Sunday afternoon by when the two are madly in love with each other. However, Ignacia knows that, what she is experiencing is a dream, a parenthesis in her life. When Pedro awakes on Monday morning, he thus finds a note at his side saying that Ignacia thanks him, and she is leaving without a trace.
On Ignacia's return home, Tomás is awaiting her with the news that he is offering her a new position in his company and he is looking for her forgiveness. She agrees but gets surprised when she comes to the workplace in her position of construction supervisor to see Pedro as a worker at the construction site. Despite having every reason in the world not to be together, Ignacia and Pedro discover that their love persists over all prejudices, differences, rejection and, the many, sometimes cruel, obstacles raised by others, who want to see them apart.
Cast
Main
Ana Layevska as Ignacia Santamaría
José Luis Reséndez as Pedro Pérez
Fabián Ríos as Tomás Villamayor
Felicia Mercado as Estela Mendoza
Mónica Sánchez Navarro as Margarita Pérez
Shalim Ortíz as José Manuel Correal
Leonardo Daniel as Mariano Santamaría
Sofia Lama as Mireya Gómez
Tina Romero as Alfonsina Cardemil
Riccardo Dalmacci as Olegario Gómez
Christina Dieckmann as Karina Cuervo
Lilian Tapia as Berta Suárez / Gina Pérez
Alex Ruiz as Christopher Melquíades Godínez
Óscar Priego as Rubén Santamaría
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suits%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of the American legal comedy-drama Suits was ordered on October 12, 2012. The third season originally aired on USA Network in the United States between July 16, 2013 and April 10, 2014. The season was produced by Hypnotic Films & Television and Universal Cable Productions, and the executive producers were Doug Liman, David Bartis and series creator Aaron Korsh. The season had six series regulars playing employees at the fictional Pearson Darby, later Pearson Darby Specter and Pearson Specter, law firm in Manhattan: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, Meghan Markle, Sarah Rafferty, and Gina Torres.
Overview
The series revolves around corporate lawyer Harvey Specter and his associate attorney Mike Ross, the latter practicing without a law degree.
Cast
Regular cast
Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter
Patrick J. Adams as Mike Ross
Rick Hoffman as Louis Litt
Meghan Markle as Rachel Zane
Sarah Rafferty as Donna Paulsen
Gina Torres as Jessica Pearson
Recurring cast
Abigail Spencer as Dana Scott
Conleth Hill as Edward Darby
Amanda Schull as Katrina Bennett
Michelle Fairley as Dr. Ava Hessington
Max Beesley as Stephen Huntley
Guest cast
Gary Cole as D.A. Cameron Dennis
Michael Phelps as himself
Stephen Macht as Professor Gerard
Six actors received star billing in the show's first season. Each character works at the fictional Pearson Hardman law firm in Manhattan. Gabriel Macht plays corporate lawyer Harvey Specter, who is promoted to senior partner and is forced to hire an associate attorney. Patrick J. Adams plays college dropout Mike Ross, who wins the associate position with his eidetic memory and genuine desire to be a good lawyer. Rick Hoffman plays Louis Litt, Harvey's jealous rival and the direct supervisor of the firm's first-year associates. Meghan Markle plays Rachel Zane, a paralegal who aspires to be an attorney but her test anxiety prevents her from attending Harvard Law School. Sarah Rafferty plays Donna Paulsen, Harvey's long-time legal secretary, confidant, and the only one at the firm who knows Mike never attended law school. Gina Torres plays Jessica Pearson, the co-founder and managing partner of the firm.
Michelle Fairley guest stars in multiple episodes as oil executive Dr. Ava Hessington, a high-profile client for the new Pearson Darby firm whose father has a past with Darby. Gary Cole reprises his Season 1 role as former Manhattan DA Cameron Dennis, now assigned as a special prosecutor in the Hessington case. Max Beesley is introduced as recurring character Stephen Huntley, Darby's right-hand man from the London office, who is considered the British Harvey. Swimmer Michael Phelps made a cameo appearance in the eleventh episode of the season. Stephen Macht, Gabriel Macht's father, guest stars as Professor Gerard in the season's twelfth episode.
Episodes
Ratings
References
External links
Suits episodes at USA Network
List of Suits season 1 episodes at Internet Movie Database
03
2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demaine | Demaine or de Maine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Erik Demaine (born 1981), Canadian computer scientist, son of Martin
Martin Demaine (born 1942), American artist and computer scientist, father of Erik
Mike Demaine (1948–2013), Australian footballer (Australian rules)
Paul A. D. de Maine (1924–1999), American computer scientist
Robert deMaine (born 1969), American cellist
William Demaine (1859–1939), Australian politician
David Demaine (born 1942), English footballer
See also
Demaine, Saskatchewan, hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%3A%20War%20Logs | Mars: War Logs is a cyberpunk role-playing video game developed by Spiders and published by Focus Home Interactive. The game is set on Mars and was released on April 26, 2013. It features a character who can specialize in stealth, combat or 'technomancy'. Spiders CEO Jehanne Rousseau has described the game as featuring a variety of companions and side-quests, as well as a world which reacts to the moral choices made by the player. On June 18, 2013 a new English localization was released for the game, containing rewritten game text and rerecorded dialog. A sequel, The Technomancer, was released on June 28, 2016.
Plot
The game is set on Mars, a century after a great upheaval. Powerful guilds battle over water, which has become a valuable resource. Two of the most powerful of these are Aurora and Abundance. The player takes on the role of Roy Temperance, an escaped prisoner of war who finds himself caught between a variety of powerful factions, and must also battle a variety of creatures created by the planet's radioactive environment.
Reception
Mars: War Logs has received mixed reception, with PC version scoring 59 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 32 reviews, and 59.50% on GameRankings, based on 20 reviews, Xbox 360 version scoring 61 out of 100, based on 6 reviews, and 61.67%, based on 6 reviews, while PlayStation 3 version scored 60.00%, based on 2 reviews.
IGN praised the game as one that "shoots for the moon", saying it is "an attempt to pull off an epic in the style of Mass Effect or The Witcher 2 on a fraction of the budget." However they criticized the game's clumsily handled story line, silly "virtue" names like Morality or Charity, stiff characters and a lack of focus but stated that while it "isn't a great RPG, it is at least the seed of one – and a seed with some surprisingly green shoots sticking out of it." PC Gamer bemoaned the need to constantly "wrestle with an exuberant camera" and joked that the "combat can't remember if this is a third-person game or one where you don't really need to see anything at all." They also criticized the UI design, "stance" gimmick, uncanny valley facial animation, subtlety-free script, and a rushed final act. PC Gamer recommended the game however, saying "you should consider Mars: War Logs – a budget title that's more entertaining than all my complaints about it would seem to imply. There's also a B-movie charm. It's clumsily goodhearted, and has a couple of great moments where you feel like you're affecting the world. Every bit of it needs more time and money, but it's something of a surprise to find that I left the game genuinely fond of its big, fractionally-realised ambition."
References
External links
Official website
2013 video games
Action role-playing video games
Cyberpunk video games
Hack and slash role-playing games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Role-playing video games
Science fiction video games
Single-player video games
Stealth video games
Video games developed in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima%20Sport | Prima Sport is a Romanian network of sports channels owned and operated by the media group Clever. The package includes four channels called Prima Sport 1, Prima Sport 2, Prima Sport 3, Prima Sport 4, and Prima Sport 5. It was launched in 2011, under the name Transilvania L!VE and after other names, the channels became Prima Sport on April 19, 2022.
History
Transilvania L!VE was launched on December 19, 2011. It was run by Transilvania Media Group, a media company owned by businessman Arpad Paszkany. On February 14, 2012, a second channel was launched, Transilvania LOOK.
The name was changed in October 2012 to Look TV and Look Plus.
Both channels were sold in March 2014 to Intel Sky Broadcasting LTD, the company that bought the rights for the Liga I and Cupa Ligii and needed their own television channels to distribute the content. On July 1, 2014, the HD version of both channels was launched.
In September 2017 it was sold to Clever Media Network SRL, owned by businessman Adrian Tomşa.
Look Sport 2 and Look Sport 3 were launched on August 16, 2019.
In 2020, LookPlus was changed to a second channel of sports programming under the name Look Sport+.
On April 19, 2022, Look Sport became Prima Sport 1, Look Sport+ became Prima Sport 2, Look Sport 3 changed its name to Prima Sport 3 and Look Sport 2 became Prima Sport 4.
Shows
Fotbal All Inclusive, hosted by Radu Banciu.
Fotbal Show, a football talk show, hosted by Vlad Măcicășan, Mădălin Negoiță and Cristian Jacodi as executive producer.
Prima Motors, with Alexandru Cocu.
Notele lui Banciu, with Radu Banciu and Vlad Măcicășan (weekly show).
Nimic despre offside, with Emil Grădinescu and Cristi Costache.
Sport competitions
Liga I
Liga II
Cupa României
Supercupa României
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Super Cup
UEFA Youth League
Premier League
La Liga
Bundesliga
2. Bundesliga
DFL-Supercup
Serie A
Coppa Italia
Supercoppa Italiana
Ligue 1
Premier League
Primeira Liga
Süper Lig
Belgian First Division A
Saudi Pro League
Best of the Best Kickboxing
Formula One
Formula Two
Formula Three
Porsche Supercup
MotoGP
World Men's Handball Championship
World Women's Handball Championship
European Men's Handball Championship
European Women's Handball Championship
EHF Champions League
EHF European League
EHF European Cup
Women's EHF Champions League
Women's EHF European League
Women's EHF European Cup
UEFA Futsal Champions League
Basketball Champions League
Liga Națională de Rugby
Romanian Superliga (water polo)
Liga Națională (men's basketball)
References
External links
Official website
Television stations in Romania
Sports television in Romania
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Premier League on television
Sports television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Social%2050%20number-one%20artists | The Billboard Social 50 is a popularity chart which ranks the most active musical artists on the world's leading social networking services. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Next Big Sound, is based collectively on each artist's weekly additions of friends, fans and followers, along with artist website views and streaming media. Bill Werde, the former editorial director of Billboard, called the Social 50 "yet another step" in the evolution of the magazine and an "important response to our changing times". The chart initially only retrieved its data from YouTube, Vevo, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and iLike to create its ranking, but in November 2012 was expanded to include SoundCloud and Instagram. Data from Vine and Tumblr were added to the chart in June 2015.
The Billboard Social 50 was launched on December 11, 2010. The first artist to reach number one on the chart was Barbadian singer Rihanna. Since debuting, she has spent a total of 21 weeks at the top of the chart. In October 2016, South Korean boy band BTS landed the number one spot on the chart, becoming the second K-pop act, after Psy, to reach first place on the ranking. They hold the record for the most weeks at number one, with 210. Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Bieber follows with 164 weeks at number one. BTS also hold the record for the most consecutive weeks at number one, with 180. Following her death in December 2012, American singer Jenni Rivera became the first and only artist to top the chart posthumously. Since its launch, 20 artists have reached the top spot on the Billboard Social 50. Three of these artists—Rivera, Skrillex and Justin Timberlake—have only reached the spot for a single week.
On December 26, 2020, Billboard announced its suspension of the Social 50 chart for an undisclosed period of time in order to facilitate their transition to a new data partner. While this would also impact the Artist 100 and Emerging Artists charts—both include social metrics in their formulation—Billboard stated that neither chart would be disrupted. The Social 50 was to resume activity sometime early in 2021, but remains inactive to date.
Number-one artists
See also
2010 in music
2011 in music
2012 in music
2013 in music
2014 in music
2015 in music
2016 in music
2017 in music
2018 in music
2019 in music
2020 in music
References
Social 50 history
External links
at Billboard
at Next Big Sound
United States Social 50
Social 50 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir%20%28programming%20language%29 | Elixir is a functional, concurrent, high-level general-purpose programming language that runs on the BEAM virtual machine, which is also used to implement the Erlang programming language. Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications. Elixir also provides tooling and an extensible design. The latter is supported by compile-time metaprogramming with macros and polymorphism via protocols.
The community organizes yearly events in the United States, Europe, and Japan, as well as minor local events and conferences.
History
José Valim is the creator of the Elixir programming language, a research and development project created at Plataformatec. His goals were to enable higher extensibility and productivity in the Erlang VM while maintaining compatibility with Erlang's ecosystem.
Elixir was aimed at large-scale sites and apps. Elixir uses features of Ruby, Erlang, and Clojure to develop a "high-concurrency" and "low-latency" language. Elixir was designed to handle large data volumes. Elixir is used in the telecommunication, eCommerce, and finance industries.
On July 12, 2018, Honeypot released a mini-documentary on Elixir.
Versioning
Each of the minor versions supports a specific range of Erlang/OTP versions. The current stable release version is .
Features
Compiles to bytecode for the BEAM virtual machine of Erlang. Full interoperability with Erlang code, without runtime impact.
Scalability and fault-tolerance, thanks to Erlang's lightweight concurrency mechanisms
Built-in tooling for managing dependencies, code compilation, running tests, formatting code, remote debugging and more.
An interactive REPL inside running programs, including Phoenix web servers, with code reloading and access to internal state
Everything is an expression
Pattern matching to promote assertive code
Type hints for static analysis tools
Immutable data, with an emphasis, like other functional languages, on recursion and higher-order functions instead of side-effect-based looping
Shared nothing concurrent programming via message passing (actor model)
Lazy and async collections with streams
Railway oriented programming via the with construct
Hygienic metaprogramming by direct access to the abstract syntax tree (AST). Libraries often implement small domain-specific languages, such as for databases or testing.
Code execution at compile time. The Elixir compiler also runs on the BEAM, so modules that are being compiled can immediately run code which has already been compiled.
Polymorphism via a mechanism called protocols. Dynamic dispatch, as in Clojure, however, without multiple dispatch because Elixir protocols dispatch on a single type.
Support for documentation via Python-like docstrings in the Markdown formatting language
Unicode support and UTF-8 strings
Examples
The following examples can be run in an iex shell or saved in a file and run from the command line by typing elixir <f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal%20error | Fatal error may refer to
Fatal exception error, an unrecoverable error that forces a process to terminate abnormally and return control to the operating system
Fatal system error, an unrecoverable error of the operating system that requires a restart
Fatal Error, a 1999 film about a computer virus that evolves into a biological virus
Fatal System Error (book), an nonfiction account of a cybercrime investigation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20QuickTake | The Apple QuickTake (codenamed Venus, Mars, Neptune) is one of the first consumer digital camera lines. It was launched in 1994 by Apple Computer and was marketed for three years before being discontinued in 1997. Three models of the product were built including the 100 and 150, both built by Chinon; and the 200, built by Fujifilm. The QuickTake cameras had a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels maximum (0.3 Mpx).
Time magazine profiled QuickTake as "the first consumer digital camera" and ranked it among its "100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present" list. Although the greyscale Dycam Model 1 (also marketed as the Logitech FotoMan) was the first consumer digital camera to be sold in the US (starting in November 1990) and at least one other camera, the Fuji DS-X, was sold in Japan even earlier, in late 1989, the QuickTake was probably the first digicam to have wide consumer acceptance.
History
Kodak had been developing CCD-based digital cameras since the mid-1970s, when Steve Sasson built a toaster-sized experimental model that recorded data to a cassette tape; the first digital photograph was captured at a resolution of 100 pixels square in December 1975. However, the first electronic still cameras to be marketed were shown early as 1981, when Sony demonstrated the prototype Pro Mavica. These early filmless cameras recorded still video frames instead of creating digital files; the Pro Mavica recorded its still frames on a proprietary floppy disk. By the late 1980s, the technologies were beginning to converge and mature; Fujifilm showed the DS-1P, a still video camera that stored its images in solid-state memory instead of a floppy, at Photokina 1988 and developed the technologies into the Fuji DS-X, which was first sold in 1989. Kodak introduced a prototype of its DCS 100, a digital SLR based on the Nikon F3 in 1986 and began commercial sales to news photographers in 1991; the DCS 100 used a CCD sensor and stored its images on a tethered hard drive.
The Dycam Model 1 was launched in 1991, capturing greyscale images into internal memory; CNN noted the Dycam's possibilities in a 1992 segment, touting its advantages over conventional film-based cameras. In 1992, Apple Computer started marketing plans for a digital camera codenamed Venus. At the time over $12 billion was spent annually in the United States on photography. Apple searched for a company to design and manufacture their QuickTake digital camera line. During this time, Apple entered into a set of non-disclosure agreements with Kodak to share its proprietary digital camera architecture and cooperate in its further development; Kodak contributed the CCD sensor to the final design. Later, Chinon was added as the manufacturing/assembly partner, also responsible for the design of the optics and basic electronics. By October 1993, rumors of Venus and its capabilities had publicly tied Kodak, Apple, and Chinon together; the cost was anticipated to be relatively low compare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldMap | WorldMap is a web platform for creating, displaying, analyzing, and searching spatial data and other data forms across multiple disciplines.
WorldMap is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free internet mapping electronic media site open to everyone that is housed at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University and accessible at the WorldMap website makes it possible for those who are not experts in GIS and web mapping to explore, visualize, and share their research materials in a GIS spatial framework, enhancing their ability to conduct academic research, community service projects, and instructional activities. The WorldMap site allows users to add their own map layers and data sets, symbolize them, edit them, add overlays, add multimedia content (images, video, text), control access, and share or publish them.
The purposes of WorldMap are simple: to enable one to explore the development of human civilization in all its diversity and complexity in spatial data contexts, to take advantage of the knowledge of others to enhance one's particular interests, and to create a sustainable and scalable platform in which students, scholars, organizations, and ordinary citizens can participate in creating and sharing any work that can be usefully represented spatially.
Overview
Worldmap is an open-source and open access online platform for visualizing and sharing spatial data. Worldmap was launched in July 2011 by the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. The site was created following the success of the AfricaMap project here, that launched in beta version in November 2009 to bring together a range of cross-disciplinary materials on Africa, within an online mapping environment. AfricaMap demonstrated that there is a large amount of detailed mapping data on Africa that can be brought together in one place, that web technologies are mature enough to be able to handle a large volume of data (hundreds of gigabytes in this case), and that users can explore these data smoothly on top of high resolution imagery such as Google satellite view. WorldMap, in which AfricaMap is now located, has data that range from detailed street maps, to language and ethnicity groupings, historic and scholarly maps, environment, transportation systems, World Census and other demographic and economic data, political systems, institutions and infrastructure, urban planning, archaeology, cultural sites, crisis areas, and health and disease. AfricaMap also includes data from the Ibrahim Index of African Governance that allows users to display and analyze results along with other data. A searchable gazetteer in AfricaMap includes over 2 million place names readable in a multiplicity of languages.
From the outset, collaborations with other institutions interested in the potentials of the AfricaMap (and WorldMap) platform were sought. These encouraged the creation of new data and in some cases, direct links to other sites were employed to display of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction%20%282013%20film%29 | Seduction is a 2013 Filipino erotic thriller drama film directed by Peque Gallaga and starring GMA Network's exclusive actors Richard Gutierrez, Solenn Heussaff, and Sarah Lahbati. The film was produced by Regal Films and was released on January 30, 2013.
Cast
Richard Gutierrez as Ram
Solenn Heussaff as Sophia
Sarah Lahbati as Trina
Mark Gil as Fidel
Jay Manalo as Ervin
Yayo Aguila as Dolor
Vangie Labalan as Viring
Al Tantay as Lucas
Shyr Valdez as Yolanda
Jon Orlando as Marcel
Rodjun Cruz
Reception
Although reviews were mostly positive, the film was a Philippine box office bomb.
References
2013 films
2013 romantic drama films
2010s Tagalog-language films
Regal Entertainment films
Philippine romantic drama films
2010s English-language films
Films directed by Peque Gallaga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Movie%20Channel | My Movie Channel (formerly Blink Cinema) was a 24-hour Filipino cable and satellite television network based in Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong. Owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation, It currently airs movies from Hollywood and around the world, while also airing entertainment news programs, talk shows and drama series.
History
January 2013: Blink Cinema
Blink Cinema was launched on January 3, 2013, with the full broadcast taking effect later that month.
November 2013: My Movie Channel
The channel was renamed as My Movie Channel on November 30, 2013, coinciding with the transfer of ETC to SBN and former sister channel Solar News Channel's move to RPN 9, as well as the launch of Solar's video-on-demand website Blink. On March 1, 2015, the channel replaced former sister channel TGC on various cable providers, following the latter's end of operations on February 28, 2015. After almost 2 years ago on broadcasting, My Movie Channel announced that they will ceased broadcasting on television effective June 30, 2015, and gave thanks to its viewers before they sign-off on July 1, 2015.
Programming
The channel's programming mainly consists of movies from major Hollywood film studios, while foreign films are aired on its weekly "World Cinema" block on weekdays. It also airs entertainment news programs, US talk shows, and US TV series, the latter of which are shown on its "Series at Six" block.
Final aired programs
U.S. TV series
Drama Series
Mr Selfridge
NCIS
Talk Shows
Inside the Actors Studio
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Entertainment News
Entertainment Tonight
The Insider
See also
Solar Entertainment Corporation
ETC
2nd Avenue
Movie Central
References
External links
My Movie Channel on Solar Entertainment Website
Defunct television networks in the Philippines
Former Solar Entertainment Corporation channels
Movie channels in the Philippines
English-language television stations in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 2013
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2015
2013 establishments in the Philippines
2015 disestablishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202013 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2013, there were 15 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Back in Black" by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, which spent the first week of the year atop the chart. AC/DC also had the final number-one single of the year, "Highway to Hell", which topped the chart in the final two weeks of 2013.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2013 was "Still Into You", the second single from Paramore's self-titled fourth studio album Paramore, which spent a total of seventeen weeks at number one during the year, including a single run of seven consecutive weeks. Fall Out Boy spent sixteen weeks at number one with four singles: "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)", "The Phoenix", "Alone Together" and "Young Volcanoes". You Me at Six were number one for five weeks during the year, three of which were with "Lived a Lie" and two of which were for "Fresh Start Fever". "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls was number one for four weeks, while Biffy Clyro spent four weeks at number one with two releases: "Black Chandelier" and "Opposite". AC/DC spent three weeks atop the chart in 2013.
Chart history
See also
2013 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2013
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2013 in British music
United Kingdom Rock Singles
2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%20is%20the%20Champion%3F | Who Is the Champion? (Vietnamese : Ai là nhà vô địch ?) is a 2003 Vietnamese computer-animated sport film produced by Hanoi Film Productions.
Plot
A golden buffalo and a brown bear compete in weightlifting to see who will become the 2003 Southeast Asian Games champion.
Music
The song "For the world of tomorrow" was composed by Nguyễn Quang Vinh and sung by Linh Dung.
References
Who is the champion ? - First animated film about 22nd SEA Games - Việt Báo // Friday, September 12, 2003 (15:14 ~ GMT+7)
Vietnamese animated films
Vietnamese computer-animated films
Vietnamese children's films
Vietnamese sports films
Films about animals playing sports
2003 films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarz | Swarz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lou Swarz (1897–?), American actress
Robert S. Swarz, American electrical and computer engineer
Sahl Swarz (1912–2004), American sculptor and arts educator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia%20%28disambiguation%29 | Dinotopia is a series of fantasy children's books created by author and illustrator James Gurney.
Dinotopia may also refer to:
Games
Dinotopia (video game), a 1996 computer game
Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates, an 2002 platform-based video game for Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey, a 2003 action-adventure video game released by Vicious Cycle Software
TV
Dinotopia (miniseries), a three-part TV miniseries from May 2002 co-produced by Walt Disney Television and Hallmark Entertainment
Dinotopia (TV series), a TV series from November 2002 which continued where the miniseries had left off
Film
Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone, a 2005 American animated film directed by Davis Doi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ambassadors%20of%20France%20to%20Greece | The following is a (currently) incomplete list of ambassadors of France to Greece.
For ambassadors and high-ranking diplomats of France in Greece who were active between 1815 and 1905, the data below is taken from a list of diplomats published in 1906 by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For ambassadors and diplomats who were active after 1944, the data comes from two more recent lists also compiled by the ministry. Additional individual references are given in the table.
See also
France–Greece relations
References
France
Greece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlight%20%28application%29 | Highlight was a social networking application for iOS and Android created by Paul Davison. The application finds nearby users and shows things they have in common with a user. The application received a large update which introduced Android support on November 20, 2012. On April 30, 2015, the developers announced a change of focus towards social networking via photo-sharing through their Roll app.
Criticism
Highlight has been criticized for its disclosing of private information to strangers. Highlight requires a connection to both users' Facebook accounts and their location. The difference between Highlight and other services like Foursquare is that it shares information continuously.
References
Defunct social networking services
Online companies of the United States
Internet properties established in 2012
Image-sharing websites
IOS software
Android (operating system) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIRS%20caching%20algorithm | LIRS (Low Inter-reference Recency Set) is a page replacement algorithm with an improved performance over LRU (Least Recently Used) and many other newer replacement algorithms. This is achieved by using "reuse distance" as the locality metric for dynamically ranking accessed pages to make a replacement decision.
Summary
Quantifying the locality
While all page replacement algorithms rely on existence of reference locality to function, a major difference among different replacement algorithms is on how this locality is quantified. LIRS uses reuse distance of a page, or the number of distinct pages accessed between two consecutive references of the page, to quantify locality. Specifically, LIRS uses last and second-to-last references (if any) for this purpose. If a page is accessed for the first time, its reuse distance is infinite. In contrast, LRU uses recency of a page, which is the number of distinctive pages accessed after the reference of the page, to quantify locality. To take into account of up-to-date access history, the implementation of LIRS actually uses the larger of reuse distance and recency of a page as the metric to quantify its locality, denoted as RD-R. Assuming the cache has a capacity of C pages, the LIRS algorithm is to rank recently accessed pages according to their RD-R values and retain the C most highly ranked pages in the cache.
The concepts of reuse distance and recency can be visualized as below, in which T1 and T2 are page B’s second-to-last and last reference times, respectively, and T3 is the current time.
. . . B . . . B . . . . . . . . . . B . . . . .
^----Reuse Distance---^--Recency--^
T1 T2 T3
Selecting the replacement victim
LIRS organizes metadata of cached pages and some uncached pages and conducts its replacement operations described as below, which are also illustrated with an example in the graph.
The cache is divided into a Low Inter-reference Recency (LIR) and a High Inter-reference Recency (HIR) partition. The LIR partition is to store the most highly ranked pages (LIR pages) and the HIR partition is to store some of the other pages (HIR pages).
The LIR partition holds the majority of the cache, and all LIR pages are resident in the cache.
All recently accessed pages are placed in a FIFO queue called the LIRS stack (stack S in the graph), and all resident HIR pages are also placed in another FIFO queue (stack Q in the graph).
An accessed page is moved to the top of Stack S and any HIR pages at the stack's bottom are removed. For example, Graph (b) is produced after page B is accessed on Graph (a).
When a HIR page in Stack S is accessed, it turns into a LIR page and accordingly the LIR page currently at Stack S’s bottom turns into a HIR page and moves to the top of Stack Q. For example, Graph (c) is produced after page E is accessed on Graph (a).
When there is a miss and a resident page has to be replaced, the resident HIR page at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20Network%20Administrator%27s%20Guide | The Linux Network Administrator's Guide is a book on setting up and running Unix networks. The first and second editions are freely available in electronic form under the GFDL. It was originally produced by Olaf Kirch and others as part of the Linux Documentation Project with help from O'Reilly. The second edition, from Terry Dawson, was released March 2000. The third edition of the guide was written by Tony Bautts, with assistance from Gregor N. Purdy in February 2005, but is not freely available like the previous two versions.
Contents
It includes the following sections:
Introduction to Networking
Issues of TCP/IP Networking
Configuring the Networking Hardware
Setting up the Serial Hardware
Configuring TCP/IP Networking
Name Service and Resolver Configuration
Serial Line IP
The Point-to-Point Protocol
Various Network Applications
The Network Information System
The Network File System
Managing UUCP
Electronic Mail
Getting email Up and Running
Sendmail+IDA
Netnews
C News
A Description of NNTP
Newsreader Configuration
A glossary
Annotated Bibliography
External links
The Second edition
The Third edition
2005 non-fiction books
O'Reilly Media books
Books about Linux
System administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20BASIC | The IBM Personal Computer Basic, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150 (IBM PC) in 1981. IBM released four different versions of the Microsoft BASIC interpreter, licensed from Microsoft for the PC and PCjr. They are known as Cassette BASIC, Disk BASIC, Advanced BASIC (BASICA), and Cartridge BASIC. Versions of Disk BASIC and Advanced BASIC were included with IBM PC DOS up to PC DOS 4. In addition to the features of an ANSI standard BASIC, the IBM versions offered support for the graphics and sound hardware of the IBM PC line. Source code could be typed in with a full-screen editor, and very limited facilities were provided for rudimentary program debugging. IBM also released a version of the Microsoft BASIC compiler for the PC, concurrently with the release of PC DOS 1.10 in 1982.
Background
IBM licensed Microsoft BASIC for the IBM Personal Computer, despite already having its own version of BASIC for the company's mainframes. Don Estridge said, "Microsoft BASIC had hundreds of thousands of users around the world. How are you going to argue with that?"
IBM Cassette BASIC
IBM Cassette BASIC came in 32 kilobytes (KB) of read-only memory (ROM), separate from the 8 KB BIOS ROM of the original IBM PC, and did not require an operating system to run. Cassette BASIC provided the default user interface invoked by the BIOS through INT 18h if there was no floppy disk drive installed, or if the boot code did not find a bootable floppy disk at power up. The name Cassette BASIC came from its use of cassette tapes rather than floppy disks to store programs and data. Cassette BASIC was built into the ROMs of the original PC and XT, and early models in the PS/2 line. It only supports loading and saving programs to the IBM cassette tape interface, which is unavailable on models after the original Model 5150. The entry-level version of the 5150 came with just 16 KB of random-access memory (RAM), which was sufficient to run Cassette BASIC. However, Cassette BASIC was rarely used because few PCs were sold without a disk drive, and most were sold with PC DOS and sufficient RAM to at least run Disk BASIC—many could run Advanced BASIC as well. There are three versions of Cassette BASIC: C1.00 (found on the early IBM PCs with 16–64K motherboards), C1.10 (found on all later IBM PCs, XTs, ATs, and PS/2s), and C1.20 (found on the PCjr).
IBM Disk BASIC
IBM Disk BASIC (BASIC.COM) was included in the original IBM PC DOS. Because it uses the 32 KB Cassette BASIC ROM, BASIC.COM did not run on even highly compatible PC clones, such as the Compaq Portable. The name Disk BASIC came from its use of floppy disks as well as cassette tapes to store programs and data. Disk-based code corrected errata in the ROM-resident code and added floppy disk and serial port support.
Disk BASIC can be identified by its use of the letter D preceding the version number. It adds disk support and some features |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party%20at%20Tiffany%27s | Party at Tiffany's is an American reality-documentary television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The series premiered on December 3, 2011.
Premise
The series follows Tiffany Young and her Atlanta, Georgia-based bakery, Pink Pastry Parlor.
Episodes
References
External links
2011 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Guard | Data Guard or data guard may refer to:
Guard (information security) - a security mechanism for computers on separate networks
Oracle Data Guard - software for replicating Oracle databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Hospital%20%28TV%20series%29 | University Hospital is an American medical drama series that aired from January 16 to May 1, 1995. It was part of a syndicated package of shows called the Spelling Premiere Network.
Premise
The series is about four student nurses at a university hospital.
Cast
Main
Rebecca Cross as Megan Peterson
Hillary Danner as Jamie Fuller
Hudson Leick as Tracy Stone
Alexandra Wilson as Samantha "Sam" McCormick
Tonya Pinkins as Nurse Jenkins
Recurring
Doug Wert as Dr. Rob Daniels
Michael Palance as Mark
Episodes
References
External links
1995 American television series debuts
1995 American television series endings
1990s American drama television series
1990s American medical television series
English-language television shows
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Television series by Spelling Television
Television series by CBS Studios
Television shows filmed in Vancouver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20i920/i930 | The Motorola i920/i930 is Motorola's first wave of iDEN Protocol-based smartphones.
Background
Both the i920 and the i930 were released for use with Sprint Nextel's iDEN Network, marketed as a phone that Sprint Nextel iDEN customers can take without having to resort to an alternate phone number outside the Continental US. In the past, world travellers subscribing to Nextel iDEN Services generally have to carry an alternate phone (i.e. the V180) to roam around the world. With the i920 or the i930, one phone, one phone number can be used at any part of the world which has a GSM network. The phone won't be made available to either Boost Mobile or Southern Linc networks, given that Boost Mobile is a prepaid service and Southern Linc is a regional carrier serving mainly Alabama and Georgia.
i920/i930 specifications
As of the February 16, 2006 update, the specifications are based from the Phonescoop and the Sprint Nextel intel unless otherwise footnoted:
Three-Mode GSM with iDEN 800 and Nextel Worldwide Service Support
Clamshell Form-Factor with extendable antenna and Easy-Flip Button
176x220 16-Bit Internal TFT Color Screen (65536 Colors) with 96x65 STN LCD 4096 External Color Screen
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition Build 4.21.1088 with the following:
22MB Smartphone-Reserved Memory
26MB In-Smartphone Memory for Storage
32MB SDRAM
64MB EEPROM
310K Pixel VGA (640x480) Camera with LED Flash and 10-Second Video Recording—only available with the i930
Multimedia and Text Messaging Service
WiDEN High-Speed Data Support
SD/MMC Card Compatibility (Does not support SDIO)
Speakerphone
Pocket Internet Explorer with Pocket Outlook
MSN Messenger
Windows Media Player 10 Support
Active Sync
T9 Text Entry System
Java ME
MMS Support
GPS and Airplane (Disable RF) Mode
Length of 3.5", Width of 1.9", Depth of 1.2"
Weight of 5.9 Ounces with included battery
165 Minutes Talk Time (245 Minutes for 6:1 Networks), 65 hours Standby
880 mAh Lithium Ion Battery included
Pricing and release information
At the initial release of the Motorola i930, the phone was released for sale on October 6, 2005, but the demand and anticipation has been extremely high when the phone first came out that it was backordered due to limited stock. Popularity and demand of the i930 eclipsed when potential buyers found out that stock was grievously scarce, followed by a steep and gradual decline in demand at the release of the i870.
In order to adhere to corporation-wide policies of camera absence in electronic devices, Motorola released a non-camera version of the i930 called the i920 sometime in February. While the technology on both the i920 and the i930 are considered to be obsolete by some, the pricing map is as follows:
The 2-year agreement price is available to new Nextel subscribers, as well as all current Nextel subscribers, which is specifically outlined in the Nextel Upgrade Frequency Policy Pages. Firm-related incentives, Equipment/Phone exemptions, and other perks may be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemirhodon | Hemirhodon is a genus of trilobites that lived in the Cambrian, from the middle Cambrian to the Dresbachian.
References
Paleobiology Database
Sepkoski Online
Corynexochida genera
Dolichometopidae
Cambrian trilobites of North America
Paleozoic life of British Columbia
Cambrian genus extinctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Cybercrime%20Centre | The European Cybercrime Centre (EC3 or EC³) is the body of the Police Office (Europol) of the European Union (EU), headquartered in The Hague, that coordinates cross-border law enforcement activities against computer crime and acts as a centre of technical expertise on the matter.
History
When officially launched on 11 January 2013, the European Cybercrime Centre was not expected to be fully operational until 2015.
It began with a staff of 30, with plans to expand to 40 by the end of 2013.
It began operations with a budget of about 3.6 million euros.
Organisational structure and key personnel
The head of EC3 reports directly to the head of Europol.
The first person to head the department was the former head of Danish domestic intelligence, , who left Europol in January 2015 to become Barclays' Chief Intelligence Security Officer.
Responsibilities and cooperation with other bodies
EC3 was tasked with assisting member states in their efforts to dismantle and disrupt cybercrime networks and developing tools and providing training.
EC3 works with the European Union Intelligence and Situation Centre (INTCEN), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDCP), the World Customs Organization (WCO), the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (EBCG, also known as Frontex), and the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF).
Press releases in 2015 also revealed that EC3 works with American security services, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
There is some overlap with the responsibilities of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA).
At a press conference on 10 February 2014, asked about massive identity theft uncovered by the German Federal Office for Information Security, the then head of the EC3, Troels Oerting, said that his unit was not responsible for combatting "politically motivated hacking and/or espionage against EU institutions".
Activities
In February 2014, Troels Oerting reported successes that the unit had had in 2013. These included catching internet extortioners, with 13 arrests. They had also been involved in fighting malware attacks on banks using botnets and – in cooperation with Microsoft and experts from the German Federal Criminal Police Office – taking down the ZeroAccess botnet.
In 2014, details were revealed of Operation Onymous, which took down a number of Darknet sites, including Pandora , Cloud 9, Hydra, Blue Sky, Topix, Flugsvamp, Cannabis Road, Black Market and Silk Road 2.0.
In 2015, American media reported on a coordinated FBI operation with the assistance of EC3 to take down Dark0de, the largest English -language communication and trading platform for cybercriminals.
Participating states
As well as the EU member states, there is cooperation with a number of other states, including Australia, Canada, North Macedonia, Norway, Switzerland, Monaco, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, the Republic of Serbia, Montenegro, Ukraine and the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Scientific%20Optical%20Network | The International Scientific Optical Network or ISON () is an international project, currently consisting of about 30 telescopes at about 20 observatories in about ten countries (Russia, Ukraine (Andrushivka), Georgia (Abastumani), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Spain (Teide), Switzerland (Zimmerwald), Bolivia (Tarija), USA (Mayhill), Italy (Collepardo)) which have organized to detect, monitor and track objects in space. Other observatories include the "ISON-Kislovodsk Observatory", located near Kislovodsk, North Caucasus, Russia, with the observatory code D00.
ISON is managed by the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was credited for the discovery of comets C/2010 X1 (Elenin) and C/2012 S1 (ISON), the latter popularly known as Comet ISON.
The minor planet 365756 ISON is named for the network.
See also
List of astronomical societies
References
External links
(in Russian)
(in English)
Astronomy organizations
Minor-planet discovering observatories
Organizations established in 2004
Russian Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC%201%20%28Mauritian%20TV%20channel%29 | MBC 1 is a Mauritian free-to-air television channel of the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation. It was launched as the first TV channel in the country on 8 June 1964.
Programming
Anou Bouze
Anou Riyer (Let's Laugh)
Beat Box (Musical Show)
Bhojpuri Top 5 (musical show)
Bollywood Top 10 (musical show)
Devon Ke Dev - Mahadev
Dossier de la Rédaction
Eclats de Vie
Fami Pa Kontan (The Family Is Not Happy)
Gulmohar ki Chaon Mein
Jamai Raja
Siya Ke Ram
Le Journal (news)
Live n Direk (musical show)
Mangeons Veg (Let's Eat Veg)
The Power
Priorité Santé (Health Priority)
Rangsaaz
Samachar (news)
Dil Hai Hindustani (season 2)
Talk Back
TV Mag
Viens Decouvrir (Come and Discover)
History
On November 3, 2013, MBC (Mauritius) introduced the MBC News Channel which airs between 7AM-6PM on MBC 1, bringing up-to-date local, regional and international news every hour including reportages and documentaries in major Mauritian speaking language. MBC News Channel remained a block on MBC 1, from 7 AM to 6PM until January 31, 2015 where it was removed.
Former local programmes broadcast on MBC News Channel
These programmes were broadcast before the MBC News Channel was discontinued.
A Vous De Juger (The decision is yours)
Aaj Ki Khabrein (Today's News)
Etre Femme (Being Woman)
Flash News
Flash Samachar (Hindi Flash News)
Information (News)
MBC Morning Show
Samachar (Hindi News)
Sports
Zournal Kreol (Creole News)
Some of these shows are also telecast on Senn Kreol, YSTV and MBC 3.
See also
Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation
Kids Channel (Mauritian TV channel)
MBC 2 (Mauritian TV channel)
MBC 3 (Mauritian TV channel)
BTV (Mauritian TV channel)
List of television channels in Mauritius
Media of Mauritius
List of programs broadcast by the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation
References
1964 establishments in Mauritius
Television channels and stations established in 1964
Television channels in Mauritius
Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saidapet%20railway%20station | Saidapet railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Beach–Chengelpet section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhoods of Saidapet and Little Mount. It is situated about from Chennai Beach, and has an elevation of above sea level.
History
Saidapet railway station was constructed when the suburban railway service between Madras Beach and Tambaram was opened on 11 May 1931, and the tracks were electrified on 15 November 1931. The section was converted to 25 kV AC traction on 15 January 1967.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Saidapet railway station on Indiarailinfo.org
Railway stations in India opened in the 1900s
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYTM-TV | DYTM-TV, channel 2, is a television station of Philippine television network Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation. Its studios and transmitter are located in Brgy. Calindagan, Dumaguete, Negros Oriental. This station is currently inactive.
See also
List of Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation channels and stations
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation stations
Television stations in Negros Oriental
Television channels and stations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-5-YB-TV | D-5-YB-TV is a commercial television station owned by GMA Network Inc. Its transmitter is located at Pancil, Brgy. Looc, Sibulan, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
Although its programs are from GMA 7 Cebu, most of the program line-up are derived from GMA 7 Manila.
GMA TV-5 Dumaguete Programs
Balitang Bisdak - flagship regional newscast (simulcast over TV-7 Cebu)
GMA Regional TV Live! - flagship morning newscast (simulcast over TV-7 Cebu)
See also
DYSS-TV
List of GMA Network stations
GMA Network stations
Television stations in Dumaguete
Television stations in Negros Oriental
Television channels and stations established in 1995
1993 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Retro | Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer is a coffee table book about the history of home computers and personal computers. It was written by Gordon Laing, a former editor of Personal Computer World magazine and covers the period from 1975 to 1988 (the era before widespread adoption of PC compatibility). Its contents cover home computers, along with some business models and video game consoles, but hardware such as minicomputers and mainframes is excluded.
In writing the book, the author's research included finding and interviewing some of those who worked on the featured hardware and founded the companies. Such hardware was borrowed from private collections and computer museums, with more than thirty coming from the Museum of Computing in Swindon.
Contents
Topics covered include choice of video chip and how designers of sound chips later proceeded to make synthesisers. A number of British computers "that most Americans have probably never encountered in person" are included, such as the Acorn Atom, and Grundy NewBrain. Almost forty computers are included in total.
Reception
It has been described as a "beautifully illustrated" "well written" book which "drips detail", with the author being noted as a "perfectionist". The photographs depict "external views of each machine from several angles". Omissions (such as the ) were noted by Mike Magee in The Inquirer. There are internal photographs in a few cases.
Writing in The Register, Lance Davis commented on the importance of such books, stating "... history isn't just about dead people who wore crowns."
References
External links
Coffee table books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVA%20software | DIVA (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis) allows the spatial interpolation/gridding of data (analysis) in an optimal way, comparable to optimal interpolation (OI), taking into account uncertainties on observations. In comparison to standard OI, used in Data assimilation, DIVA, when applied to ocean data, takes into account coastlines, sub-basins and advection because of its variational formulation on the real domain. Calculations are highly optimized and rely on a finite element resolution. Tools to generate the finite element mesh are provided as well as tools to optimize the parameters of the analysis. Quality control of data can be performed and error fields can be calculated. Also detrending of data is possible. Finally 3D and 4D extensions are included with emphasis on direct computations of climatologies from ODV spreadsheet files.
The software whose first version was available since 1996, can now be downloaded at the DIVA site and is the reference tool for calculating climatologies within the SeaDataNet projects. It has also been included as the state-of-the art gridding method in Ocean Data View.
The classical DIVA version is now superseded by an N-dimensional implementation:
https://github.com/gher-uliege/DIVAnd.jl
Notes and references
Data analysis software
Earth sciences graphics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20cyber%20security%20community | The cyber security (or information assurance) community in the United Kingdom is diverse, with many stakeholders groups contributing to support the UK Cyber Security Strategy. The following is a list of some of these stakeholders.
Government
According to a parliamentary committee the UK government is not doing enough to protect the nation against cyber attack.
Cyber Aware
Cyber Aware is a cross-government awareness and behaviour campaign which provides advice on the simple measures individuals can take to protect themselves from cyber crime.
Cyber Security Operations Centre
In April 2016, the Ministry of Defence announced the creation of the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) "to protect the MOD's cyberspace from malicious actors" with a budget of over £40 million. It is located at MoD Corsham.
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is one of the lead government departments on cyber security policy, responsible for supporting & promoting the UK cyber security sector, promoting cyber security research and innovation, and working with the National Cyber Security Centre to help ensure all UK organisations are secure online and resilient to cyber threats.
Get Safe Online
Get Safe Online is a United Kingdom-based campaign and national initiative to teach citizens about basic computer security and internet privacy.
National Crime Agency (NCA)
The National Crime Agency (NCA) hosts the law enforcement cyber crime unit, incorporating the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
National Cyber Force (NCF)
The National Cyber Force consolidates offensive cyber capabilities from the Ministry of Defence and GCHQ.
National Cyber Security Centre
The National Cyber Security Centre is the UK’s authority on cyber security; its parent organisation is GCHQ. It absorbed and replaced CESG (the information security arm of GCHQ) as well as the Centre for Cyber Assessment (CCA), Computer Emergency Response Team UK (CERT UK) and the cyber-related responsibilities of the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI). NCSC provides advice and support for the public and private sector in how to avoid cyber threats.
CESG (originally Communications-Electronics Security Group) was a branch of GCHQ which worked to secure the communications and information systems of the government and critical parts of UK national infrastructure. The NPSA provided protective security advice to businesses and organisations across the national infrastructure.
National Security Council
The National Security Council is a Cabinet committee tasked with overseeing all issues related to national security, intelligence coordination, and defence strategy.
Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance
The Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance (OCSIA) supports the Minister for the Cabinet Office, the Rt Hon Francis Maude MP and the National Security Council in determining prior |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Trek%3A%20Enterprise%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise commenced airing on the UPN network in the United States on October 8, 2004 and concluded on May 13, 2005 after airing 22 episodes. Set in the 22nd century, the series follows the adventures of the first Starfleet starship Enterprise, registration NX-01. The fourth season saw changes made to the production team, with Manny Coto becoming the show runner. He had joined the team during the third season as a co-executive producer. Other changes included Star Trek novelists Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens being brought on board as writers.
Season four was the final season of the series, with the show being cancelled during the filming of the episode "In A Mirror, Darkly". Following the cancellation, fans of the show conducted protests and raised funds to pay for a fifth season, however their efforts were unsuccessful. "These Are The Voyages..." was the final episode of the series, and gained the highest number of viewers for the season according to Nielsen Media Research. Despite critics describing the fourth season in a warmer manner, the finale was received poorly, with Rick Berman later regretting the storyline. The series was nominated for three Emmy Awards for episodes in the fourth season, but the only award won was an Outstanding Visual Effects for a Broadcast Series at the 2005 Visual Effects Society awards.
Plot overview
Following the season-long Xindi arc during the third season, season four comprised several shorter story arcs. These included a wrap-up to the Temporal Cold War storyline that began with the pilot episode, "Broken Bow". Other arcs covered the differences between the Klingons seen in Enterprise, compared to those seen in series set later in the Star Trek timeline. One of the senior officers on the Enterprise is killed, during an Andorian story. The season also featured a greater number of references to Star Trek: The Original Series, with Orion slave girls and genetically engineered humans similar to Khan Noonien Singh appearing in one particular story arc, which also featured the return of Brent Spiner to the Star Trek franchise.
Cast
Main cast
Guest cast
Episodes
In the following table, episodes are listed by the order in which they aired.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan%20McAvoy | Dylan McAvoy is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network, portrayed by Steve Burton. Dylan first appeared on January 29, 2013. He is initially involved in a story arc involving Avery Bailey Clark (Jessica Collins), his former lover who believes he died during the war in Afghanistan. Avery is stunned by Dylan's return, but remains in a relationship with Nicholas Newman (Joshua Morrow). Burton noted the extreme differences between Dylan and his General Hospital character Jason Morgan. The actor was able to have a new wardrobe and look. While Jason was confined and "Stone Cold", Dylan has been credited by Burton as allowing him to portray his lighter side in addition to more of his own personality. The character was later paired with Chelsea Lawson (Melissa Claire Egan); their short-lived romance and marriage received negative reviews from viewers and critics alike.
In October 2013, it was revealed that Dylan is in fact the long-lost son of Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott), Nicholas' mother, making them half-brothers. In June 2014, it was revealed that Dylan's biological father is Nikki's childhood friend, and chief of police, Paul Williams (Doug Davidson). Later, Dylan establishes a relationship with Nicholas' former wife, Sharon Newman (Sharon Case), whom he eventually marries. Burton's performance earned him a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2014 and 2016, winning the award in 2017. In October 2016, Burton announced his decision to not renew his deal with The Young and the Restless. He made his final appearance on January 27, 2017.
Casting
In October 2012, Burton departed the role of fan favorite Jason Morgan on ABC Daytime's General Hospital. That November, news broke that The Young and the Restless put out a casting call for a character named Dylan, who was slated to "hit the airwaves" in early 2013. The casting call described him as a "rugged, dynamic, energetic man in his mid-30s" who "comes from humble, blue-collar beginnings, was studying to be an architect when his construction/contractor father was injured and Dylan had to drop out of college to take over the business. He's done two tours of duty in the Middle East, army special ops. The war left a mark on him. He's done his best to bury it with optimism and a wry, sometimes offbeat sense of humor".
After the casting call was issued, there was brief speculation that the character was a recast for Chance Chancellor, who was also a war veteran. Later, Burton's name was attached to the role. During an appearance on The Talk the following January, Burton officially confirmed that he was cast as Dylan. The episode of The Talk was described as "phenomenal"; Burton had no idea it would have been "New Year's Eve kinda crazy." After one of the show's co-hosts Julie Chen made the announcement of his casting and welcomed Burton to the CBS family, confetti dropped while another co-host S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20King%20of%20Milu%20Deer | The King of Milu Deer (), also known as Finding the Milu King: The Magic Reel, is a 2009 Chinese computer-animated film. It is touted as the first 3-D animated Chinese film. The film was produced by CITV New Media Group, a private company, and cost 35 million yuan (US $5.1 million to make. It was written by Zhang Zhi Yi and Wang Wei and directed by Guo Weijiao. The film took in 4 million yuan (US $570,000) at the box office in its first week. It won Best Animated Film at the thirteenth Hua Biao Film Awards and was nominated at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Awards for the Best Animation Trophy. The theme song of the film was performed by Yisa Yu.
References
2009 films
2009 computer-animated films
Chinese animated films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineralogical%20Abstracts | Mineralogical Abstracts, also known as MINABS Online, was a bibliographic database that was first published in 1920 and discontinued in 2008. It is now included in GeoRef. The database consists of more than 135,000 abstracts of journal papers. Subject coverage includes mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, environmental mineralogy, and related topics. From 1920 until 1957, it appeared as a supplement to The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society. The last editor-in-chief was Robert A. Howie, who served in this position from 1966 until Mineralogical Abstracts ceased publication in 2008. Howie oversaw the transition from a paper publication to compact disks (MinSource) and then to the online version in 2003 (MinAbs Online).
References
External links
Publications established in 1920
Publications disestablished in 2008
Mineralogy
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopula%20sedataria | Scopula sedataria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in western China.
References
Moths described in 1897
sedataria
Moths of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Daniel%20Fekete | Jean-Daniel Fekete is a French computer scientist.
Education
Fekete received his PhD from the Paris-Saclay University in 1996.)
He obtained his Habilitation in 2005, entitled "Nouvelle génération d'Interfaces Homme-Machine pour mieux agir et mieux comprendre" (New generation of Human Machine Interfaces for better interacting and understanding) at Université Paris-Sud 11 (now Paris-Saclay University). The jury was Joëlle Coutaz (Prof. Université de Grenoble II), Saul Greenberg (Prof. University of Calgary, Canada), Ben Shneiderman (Prof. University of Maryland, USA), Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (Prof. Paris-Saclay University, FR), Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (Prof. Sorbonne University, FR), Guy Mélançon (Prof. Université Montpellier III, FR) and Claude Puech (Prof. Grenoble Alpes University, FR).
As an undergraduate student he worked at the Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressource Humaine.
Research
After an early career working in startups developing medical diagnostic expert systems and interactive 2D animation software, Fekete joined INRIA. He is currently the Scientific Leader of the Aviz group, which he created in 2006. Aviz is an INRIA group, and also part of Université Paris-Saclay.
Fekete's main fields of research are visual analytics, information visualization and human–computer interaction.
Fekete developed the Infovis Toolkit, a Java toolkit to facilitate the design of information visualization interfaces; and later expanded this work into the meta-toolkit Obvious.
He led the development of techniques for the interactive analysis of graphs using various representations including the early use of matrices, and their evaluation.
Making visualization more accessible to social scientists and historians has been a goal in the development of several tools, e.g., to analyze social networks, genealogical structures, or collections of structured documents.
Early work on large scale visualization led to contributions on progressive analytics as a method for managing big data analysis, and the organization of a Dagsthul seminar.
Additional research directions include visualization literacy, and data physicalization such as with the Zooid user interface, which received an award at UIST'2016.
From 2009 to 2012 Jean-Daniel Fekete was the president of l'AFIHM, the French national equivalent of Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI. He has served as IEEE InfoVis Paper Co-Chair (2009–2010) and Conference Chair (2011). He was the general chair of the IEEE VisWeek 2014 conference (Paris, France).
From August 2001 to August 2002 Fekete was a visiting scientist at the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL), which he previously visited (July to August 1998) to develop "Excentric Labeling" along with Catherine Plaisant as a technique to display a high density of labels on maps.
Awards
In 2020 Jean-Daniel Fekete was elected to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) CHI Academy, for his contributions to the field of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalai | Kalai may refer to:
People
Adam Tauman Kalai, American computer scientist
Ehud Kalai, prominent American game theorist and mathematical economist
Gil Kalai (born 1955), Henry and Manya Noskwith Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hanoch Kalai (1910–1979), member of Irgun and Lehi and an expert on the Hebrew language
Iosif Kalai (born 1980), Romanian football player of Hungarian ethnicity
Leslie Kalai (born 1984), Papua New Guinean footballer who is a goalkeeper
Yael Tauman Kalai, Israeli-American cryptographer
Places
Kalai, Iran, village in Gilan Province, Iran
Kalai, Cambodia, commune in Ou Chum District in northeast Cambodia
Kalai Upazila, Upazila of Joypurhat District in the Division of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Other uses
Kaivantha Kalai, a 2006 South Indian Tamil film written and directed by Pandiarajan
Kalai Arasi, a 1963 Tamil-language adventure science fiction-comedy film
Kalai (process), a metalworking process
Koloi or Kalai, a scheduled tribe in Tripura, India
Varma kalai, a martial art and esoteric healing art originating from ancient Tamil Nadu in South India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varedo%20railway%20station | Varedo railway station is a railway station in Italy. It serves the town of Varedo.
Services
Varedo is served by lines S2 and S4 of the Milan suburban railway network, operated by the Lombard railway company Trenord.
References
External links
Ferrovienord official site - Varedo railway station
Railway stations in Lombardy
Ferrovienord stations
Railway stations opened in 1879
Milan S Lines stations
Railway stations in Italy opened in the 1870s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad%2C%20The%20Lost%20Explorer | Tad, the Lost Explorer (Spanish: Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones) is a 2012 Spanish 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Enrique Gato. The film is a spinoff of Gato's 2004 short film, Tadeo Jones and its sequel Tadeo Jones and the Basement of Doom, and while technically based on the shorts, the film was mainly adapted from the Spanish graphic novel Tadeo and the Secret of the Toactlum, illustrated and co-written by Juan López Fernández (Jan) and written by Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallón, and Enrique Gato. The film was adapted and written by Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallón, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull and Neil Landau. The film's music was composed by Zacarías M. de la Riva. The English cast features the voices of Kerry Shale, Ariel Winter, Bruce Mackinnon, Mac McDonald, Liza Ross, Cheech Marin and Adam James. The film was produced by Telecinco Cinema, El Toro Picture, Lightbox Entertainment, Ikiru Films, Telefónica Producciones, and Media Networks, with the participation of AXN, Canal Plus and TVC.
The film premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on 5 June 2012 and was theatrically released on 31 August 2012 in Spain by Paramount Pictures. The film received positive reviews from Spanish critics, but it was not well received in North America and it earned €45 million on an €8 million budget, making it a box-office hit.
It was nominated for 5 Goya Awards, winning 3 for Best Animated Film, Best New Director and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 27th Goya Awards.
A sequel, titled Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas, was released in 2017. The final installment titled Tad, the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet was released in August 2022.
Plot
Tadeo Jones (Tad Stones in the English version and voiced by Kerry Shale) is a bricklayer who lives in Chicago, working on the construction of the city's subway. Ever since he was five years old, he has dreamed of being a professional archaeologist. After being fired from his job as a bricklayer for daydreaming and for his dog urinating on the construction foreman, Tad visits his friend Professor Humbert (voiced by Mac McDonald), asking for the professor's help in investigating an apparently vintage bottle of Coca-Cola Tad found on the construction site. The professor receives a letter from his friend Professor Lavrof summoning him to Peru to re-unite his half of a stone "key" that will unlock the legendary Incan city of Paititi. Arriving at the airport, Professor Humbert suffers an accident after taking the wrong pills and is taken to the hospital. Meanwhile, a member of the nefarious firm Odysseus Inc. is spying on them and sends the photo to the other members who are in the Sechura Desert.
Tad takes the professor's place and, along with his dog Jeff, travels from Chicago to Cusco, Peru. in the Cusco airport Tad meets Freddy (voiced by Cheech Marin), a local hustler. Tad is kidnapped by men from Odysseus, who threaten him to give them the stone key, b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Redundancy%20Protocol | Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) is a data network protocol standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission as IEC 62439-2. It allows rings of Ethernet switches to overcome any single failure with recovery time much faster than achievable with Spanning Tree Protocol.
It is suitable to most industrial Ethernet applications.
Properties
MRP operates at the data link layer (OSI Layer 2) of Ethernet switches and is a direct evolution of the HiPER-Ring protocol developed by Hirschmann in 1998.
Hirschmann is now owned by Belden.
MRP is supported by several commercial industrial Ethernet switches.
In an MRP ring, the ring manager is named Media Redundancy Manager (MRM), while ring clients are named Media Redundancy Clients (MRCs).
MRM and MRC ring ports support three statuses: disabled, blocked, and forwarding. Disabled ring ports drop all the received frames. Blocked ring ports drop all the received frames except the MRP control frames. Forwarding ring ports forward all the received frames.
During normal operation, the network works in the Ring-Closed status (Figure 1). In this status, one of the MRM ring ports is blocked, while the other is forwarding. Conversely, both ring ports of all MRCs are forwarding. Loops are avoided because the physical ring topology is reduced to a logical line topology.
In case of failure, the network works in the Ring-Open status (Figure 2). For instance, in case of failure of a link connecting two MRCs, the MRM sets both of its ring ports to the forwarding state; the MRCs adjacent to the failure each have a disabled port (because of the link loss) and a forwarding ring port; the other MRCs have both ring ports forwarding. Also, in the Ring-Open status, the network logical topology is a line.
Frame structure
MRP information is sent in the form of an Ethernet frame, with the EtherType field set to 0x88E3. The frames are built by Type–length–value (TLV) structures, allowing organizationally specific information.
Standards
The International Electrotechnical Commission standard for MRP was published in 2010 as IEC 62439-2 and amended in 2012.
The standard IEC 62439 published in 2012 also defined the following protocols:
Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP)
Cross-network Redundancy Protocol - CRP
Beacon Redundancy Protocol - BRP
High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR)
With the settings specified in IEC 62439-2, MRP guarantees a worst-case recovery time of 500 ms, 200 ms, or 30 ms in rings composed of up to 50 switches, and a worst-case recovery time of 10 ms in rings composed of up to 14 switches.
See also
Fieldbus
References
Networking standards
Network protocols
Industrial Ethernet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platige%20Image | Platige Image S.A. is a Polish-based company specializing in the creation of computer graphics, 3D animation, and digital special effects for various fields, including advertising, film, art, education, and entertainment. The studio employs a team of over 320 artists, comprising directors, art directors, graphic designers, and producers. The company has won approximately 280 awards and honors. Its animated shorts have garnered top prizes at SIGGRAPH four times and earned two British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards. Additionally, the studio has been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Lions at the Venice Film Festival, as well as receiving an Oscar nomination.
Product divisions
Commercials
Platige Image is a creative studio that has made a name for itself in the advertising industry, producing over 5,000 commercials for big brands and working with renowned agencies worldwide such as BBDO, DDB Worldwide, Grey Global Group, Havas Worldwide, JWT, Saatchi & Saatchi, PZL, Publicis, Young and Rubicam, and more. The studio has a global reach, having completed numerous campaigns for international markets, including the UK, Portugal, and the US, creating commercials for popular brands like LEGO, Kellogg Company, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Vodafone, to name a few. Recently, Platige Image collaborated with the Australian Tourist Board for a project, showcasing their film and advertising spot-making expertise.
The studio has also worked with luxury car brands like Ferrari, Audi, and Aston Martin, and has produced some of Poland's most iconic advertising campaigns, including the widely popular Land of Orange series, the Heart and Mind characters, and commercials for popular beer Zubr, in partnership with Kompania Piwowarska.
Animation
Platige Image has audiences with animated shorts, including cult works, including The Cathedral (2003), Fallen Art (2004), Ark (2007), The Kinematograph (2009) and Paths of Hate (2010). Platige Image has unique projects like the world's first stereoscopic reconstruction of a destroyed city, City of Ruins (2010), and a stereoscopic interpretation of Jan Matejko's Battle of Grunwald. Platige Image portfolio that includes projects for industry like Activision, Ubisoft, SEGA, Creative Assembly and CD Projekt Red. In 2019, Platige Image made the Netflix's series Love, Death & Robots, creating Fish Night, directed by Damian Nenow.
Film & VFX
The studio was involved in VFX work for multiple Polish and international feature films, including Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) and Antichrist (2009), Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing (2010), Andrzej Wajda's Katyń (2007), and Rafał Wieczyński's Popieluszko. Freedom Is Within Us. Currently. Platige providing visual effects for Lukasz Barczyk's Łukasz Barczyk's Influenz and collaborating on the post-production of Agnieszka Smoczynska Daughters of Dancing (2015). The studio it also produced an animated prologue fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20descriptor | In computing, a data descriptor is a structure containing information that describes data.
Data descriptors may be used in compilers, as a software structure at run time in languages like Ada or PL/I, or as a hardware structure in some computers such as Burroughs large systems.
Data descriptors are typically used at run-time to pass argument information to called subroutines. HP OpenVMS and Multics have system-wide language-independent standards for argument descriptors. Descriptors are also used to hold information about data that is only fully known at run-time, such as a dynamically allocated array.
Examples
The following descriptor is used by IBM Enterprise PL/I to describe a character string:
'desc type' is 2 to indicate that this is an element descriptor rather than an array or structure descriptor.
'string type' indicates that this is a character or a bit string, with varying or non varying length. 2 indicates a non varying (fixed-length) character string.
'(res)' is a reserved byte not used for character strings.
'flags' indicate the encoding of the string, EBCDIC or ASCII, and the encoding of the length of varying strings.
'maximum string length' is the actual length of the string for non varying strings, or the maximum length for varying strings.
Here is the source of an array descriptor from Multics. The definitions include a structure for the base array information and a structure for each dimension. (Multics ran on systems with 36-bit words).
dcl 1 array based aligned,
2 node_type bit(9) unaligned,
2 reserved bit(34) unaligned,
2 number_of_dimensions fixed(7) unaligned,
2 own_number_of_dimensions fixed(7) unaligned,
2 element_boundary fixed(3) unaligned,
2 size_units fixed(3) unaligned,
2 offset_units fixed(3) unaligned,
2 interleaved bit(1) unaligned,
2 c_element_size fixed(24),
2 c_element_size_bits fixed(24),
2 c_virtual_origin fixed(24),
2 element_size ptr unaligned,
2 element_size_bits ptr unaligned,
2 virtual_origin ptr unaligned,
2 symtab_virtual_origin ptr unaligned,
2 symtab_element_size ptr unaligned,
2 bounds ptr unaligned,
2 element_descriptor ptr unaligned;
dcl 1 bound based aligned,
2 node_type bit(9),
2 c_lower fixed(24),
2 c_upper fixed(24),
2 c_multiplier fixed(24),
2 c_desc_multiplier fixed(24),
2 lower ptr unaligned,
2 upper ptr unaligned,
2 multiplier ptr unaligned,
2 desc_multiplier ptr unaligned,
2 symtab_lower ptr unaligned,
2 symtab_upper ptr unaligned,
2 symtab_multiplier ptr unaligned,
2 next ptr unaligned;
See also
Burroughs large systems descriptors
References
Data structures by computing platform
Programming language implementation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech%20Rytter | Wojciech Rytter is a Polish computer scientist, a professor of computer science in the automata theory group at the University of Warsaw. His research focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms, and in particular on stringology, the study of algorithms for searching and manipulating text.
Professional career
Rytter earned a master's degree in 1971 and a Ph.D. in 1975 from Warsaw University, and earned his habilitation in 1985. He has been on the faculty of Warsaw University since 1971, and is now a full professor there. He has also held long-term visiting positions at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Liverpool University, Bonn University, the University of California, Riverside, Warwick University, and the University of Mexico.
Books
Rytter is the author or co-author of:
Zagadnienie stabilności automatów skończonych Stochastycznych (in Polish, PKiN, 1972)
Automaty funkcyjne (in Polish, Centrum Obliczeniowe Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1976)
Złożność czasowa dwukierunkowych automatów stosowych i programów rekurencyjnych (in Polish, 1983)
Efficient parallel algorithms (with Alan Gibbons, Cambridge University Press, 1988)
Analysis of algorithms and data structures (with Lech Banachowski and Antoni Kreczmar, Addison-Wesley, 1991)
Text algorithms (with Maxime Crochemore, Oxford University Press, 1994)
Fast parallel algorithms for graph matching problems (with Marek Karpinski, Clarendon Press, 1998)
Jewels of stringology: text algorithms (with Maxime Crochemore, World Scientific, 2002)
Awards and honors
Rytter is a member of the Academia Europaea.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Polish computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
University of Warsaw alumni
Academic staff of the University of Warsaw
Members of Academia Europaea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%20Hall | Barney Hall (June 24, 1932January 26, 2016) was an American sports commentator for Motor Racing Network, formerly calling NASCAR races. Hall broadcast races for over 50 years. Hall is considered one of the best NASCAR commentators of all-time. MRN director David Hyatt stated, "Motor Racing Network is 'The Voice of NASCAR' and Barney Hall is the voice of MRN."
Career
Hall was born at Elkin, North Carolina in 1932. After serving four years in the United States Navy, Hall's career started in the 1950s working for local radio stations in Elkin, particularly as disk jockey at WIFM-FM for 13 years.
In 1960, Hall became the first person to work on the public address system at Bristol Motor Speedway, which was stated as "dumb luck". When Motor Racing Network started in 1970, Hall became a turn announcer, before becoming a booth announcer. Hall commentated on all but three Daytona 500s in his career. On July 5, 2014, Hall announced that the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona would be his final broadcast.
In 2007, he was inducted into the National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) Hall of Fame. On May 23, 2012, the NASCAR Hall of Fame announced the creation of the Squier-Hall Award for Media Excellence, named for Hall and former MRN reporter Ken Squier.
On January 26, 2016, MRN president David Hyatt announced that Hall had died at the age of 83 after complications from surgery. He was survived by his wife of 35 years, Karen Carrier.
References
1932 births
2016 deaths
American color commentators
Motorsport announcers
People from Elkin, North Carolina
United States Navy sailors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme%20Simsion | Graeme C. Simsion is a New Zealand-born Australian author, screenwriter, playwright, and data modeller, best known for his first novel The Rosie Project .
Early life and education
Simsion was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia with his family when he was 12 years old.
Prior to becoming an author, Simsion was an information systems consultant, co-authoring the book Data Modelling Essentials, and worked in wine distribution.
Literary career
Rosie novels
In 2012 Simsion won the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book The Rosie Project. The novel was published by Text Publishing to critical acclaim in Australia in January 2014. By March 2016 it had sold more than three and a half million copies in over 40 countries around the world.
Simsion initially wrote The Rosie Project as a screenplay, which has since been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment.
A sequel titled The Rosie Effect, was published on 24 September 2014.
The third and final book, The Rosie Result, was published in February 2019.
Other novels
Simsion's third novel, The Best of Adam Sharp was published by Text Publishing in 2016. Its movie rights were optioned to Toni Collette’s company Vocab Films.
Simsion's fourth novel Two Steps Forward, a collaboration with his wife Anne Buist, was published on 2 October 2017. Its sequel, titled Two Steps Onward, was published in June 2021.
Personal life
Simsion is married to psychiatrist Anne Buist and has two children.
In 2006 he obtained a PhD in data modelling from the University of Melbourne.
Awards
The Rosie Project
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Ireland, longlisted, 2015
Australian Book Industry's Book of the Year, Winner, 2014
Australian Book Industry's General Fiction Book of the Year, winner, 2014
Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award, shortlisted, 2014
Best Debut Fiction, Independent Booksellers of Australia Awards, shortlisted, 2014
Waverton Good Read Award, United Kingdom, shortlisted, 2014
The Indie Awards, shortlisted, 2014
Victorian Premier's Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript, Winner, 2012
The Rosie Effect
Indie Book Awards, shortlisted, 2015
Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award, shortlisted, 2015
Australian Book Industry General Fiction Award, shortlisted, 2015
Other awards
Doctor of Communication Honoris Causa - RMIT
The Age Short Story Award (2012) – second prize - Three Encounters with the Physical
Stringybark Seven Deadly Sins Award (2012) - second prize - Eulogy for a Sinner
Publications
Novels
Two Steps Onward, with Anne Buist, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2021
The Rosie Result, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2019
Two Steps Forward, with Anne Buist, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2017
The Best of Adam Sharp, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016
The Rosie Effect, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014
The Rosie Project, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2012
Short stories
Intervention on the Number 3 Tram, Review of Australian Fiction, 201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20October%20%28malware%29 | Operation Red October or Red October was a cyberespionage malware program discovered in October 2012 and uncovered in January 2013 by Russian firm Kaspersky Lab. The malware was reportedly operating worldwide for up to five years prior to discovery, transmitting information ranging from diplomatic secrets to personal information, including from mobile devices.
The primary vectors used to install the malware were emails containing attached documents that exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Excel.
Later, a webpage was found that exploited a known vulnerability in the Java browser plugin.
Red October was termed an advanced cyberespionage campaign intended to target diplomatic, governmental and scientific research organizations worldwide.
A map of the extent of the operation was released by the Kaspersky Lab – the "Moscow-based antivirus firm that uncovered the campaign."
After being revealed, domain registrars and hosting companies shut down as many as 60 domains, used by the virus creators to receive information. The attackers, themselves, shut down their end of the operation, as well.
The perpetrator of the operation has not been conclusively determined but it appeared to have been in operation on some level since May 2007 at the latest. According to Kaspersky Lab, Russian slang words were found in the code which would be "generally unknown to non-native Russian speakers." However, the program also appeared to be built on existing exploits developed by Chinese hackers and previously used against Tibetan activists.
References
External links
Info at kaspersky.com
Spyware
Hacking in the 2010s
Espionage in Russia
Cybercrime in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone%20Home | Gone Home is a first-person exploration video game developed and published by The Fullbright Company. Gone Home was first released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux computers in August 2013, followed by console releases for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in January 2016, the Nintendo Switch in September 2018, and iOS in December 2018.
Set in the year 1995, Gone Home puts the player in the role of a young woman returning from overseas to her rural Oregon family home to find her family currently absent and the house empty, leaving her to piece together recent events. Gone Home does not feature much interactivity, but instead has the player explore the house at their own pace and determine what has transpired by examining items, journals, and other items left around the various rooms. The Fullbright team, having previously worked on BioShock 2: Minerva's Den, took concepts and ideas from that game to craft an exploration game to engage the player in uncovering the narration by non-linear progression by searching the house, while keeping the project manageable for their small team.
Gone Home was critically praised at release. Several outlets used the game as an example of video games as art, as its non-standard gameplay format demonstrates progression of the video game industry into more artistic forms. However, this also raised the question of whether Gone Home should be considered a game, and led to the derogatory term "walking simulators" to describe exploration games with little interactivity, though since then, the industry has come to embrace the term.
Gameplay
The player takes the role of Katie in the first-person view, who can move around the house and view and interact with objects. There are no defined goals in the game; however, the game encourages and rewards the player when they explore new areas of the house and search for new messages. Much of the interactivity rests upon looking at objects and notes within the house. In order to progress in the game, the player must find certain objects that unlock access to other parts of the house.
Plot
On 7 June 1995, 21-year-old Katie Greenbriar (voiced by Sarah Elmaleh) returns home from overseas to her family's new home in fictional Boon County, Oregon. Her family consists of her father, Terry, a failed writer who makes a living reviewing home electronics; her mother, Janice, a wildlife conservationist who recently got promoted to director; and her 17-year-old sister Samantha (voiced by Sarah Grayson). Upon arriving, she finds the house deserted, much of their possessions still in moving boxes, and a note on the door from Sam imploring Katie not to investigate what happened.
Searching the house, Katie begins to piece together what happened during her absence. After moving in, Samantha found it difficult to adjust to her new high school, but eventually made friends with another girl, Yolanda "Lonnie" DeSoto, a JROTC cadet. The two bonded over Street Fighter, punk rock, grunge and the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud-based%20integration | Cloud-based integration is a form of systems integration business delivered as a cloud computing service that addresses data, process, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and application integration.
Description
Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is a suite of cloud services enabling customers to develop, execute and govern integration flows between disparate applications. Under the cloud-based iPaaS integration model, customers drive the development and deployment of integrations without installing or managing any hardware or middleware. The iPaaS model allows businesses to achieve integration without big investment into skills or licensed middleware software. iPaaS used to be regarded primarily as an integration tool for cloud-based software applications, used mainly by small to mid-sized business. Over time, a hybrid type of iPaaS—Hybrid-IT iPaaS—that connects cloud to on-premises, is becoming increasingly popular. Additionally, large enterprises are exploring new ways of integrating iPaaS into their existing IT infrastructures.
Cloud integration was basically created to break down the data silos, improve connectivity and optimize the business process. Cloud integration has increased its popularity as the usage of Software as a Service solutions is growing day by day.
Prior to the emergence of cloud computing in the early 2000s, integration could be categorized as either internal or business to business (B2B). Internal integration requirements were serviced through an on-premises middleware platform and typically utilized a service bus to manage exchange of data between systems. B2B integration was serviced through EDI gateways or value-added network (VAN). The advent of SaaS applications created a new kind of demand which was met through cloud-based integration. Since their emergence, many such services have also developed the capability to integrate legacy or on-premises applications, as well as function as EDI gateways.
The following essential features were proposed by one marketing company:
Deployed on a multi-tenant, elastic cloud infrastructure
Subscription model pricing (operating expense, not capital expenditure)
No software development (required connectors should already be available)
Users do not perform deployment or manage the platform itself
Presence of integration management and monitoring features
The emergence of this sector led to new cloud-based business process management tools that do not need to build integration layers - since those are now a separate service.
Drivers of growth include the need to integrate mobile app capabilities with proliferating API publishing resources and the growth in demand for the Internet of things functionalities as more 'things' connect to the Internet.
See also
Platform as a service
References
Cloud computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luit | luit is a utility program used to translate the character set of a computer program so that its output can be displayed correctly on a terminal emulator that uses a different character set. Whereas iconv converts the character set of strings or text files at rest, luit converts the input and output of programs running interactively.
Overview
The main purpose of luit is to allow "legacy" applications that use character sets other than UTF-8 to work with contemporary terminal emulators.
luit may be required today when connecting to a "legacy" host that only supports an older encoding, such as ISO 8859-1. For example, instead of running "ssh legacy-machine", a user may have to run "" to properly render French accented characters on a UTF-8 terminal.
luit is also used to properly render the output of applications that use ISO 2022 character set switching. ISO 2022 is an older standard that allowed an application to "switch" between different fonts, e.g., to mix line-drawing characters with text or to display text in multiple languages and character sets. UTF-8 itself does not support switching fonts; the encoding is stateless and gives each unique character (including line-drawing characters) its own numerical encoding. It can be used to translate between these two encodings.
Examples of programs that require translation to run correctly on a UTF-8 terminal include earlier versions of emacs/MULE, and programs that use ISO 2022 shift sequences in ANSI escape codes that switch to an alternate character set in order to draw line-drawing characters.
luit is invoked automatically by xterm when necessary to translate program output into UTF-8, for programs running on a local computer. When connecting remotely to another computer, the user must run luit directly.
luit interprets application output according to the locale's character set with ISO 2022 shifts and ECMA-48 escape sequences. If an application is speaking a different language than the locale's character set (one that may have matched the terminal emulator's expectations in the absence of luit), luit can misinterpret the application's output and produce corrupted output to the terminal.
History
luit was written in 2001 by Juliusz Chroboczek, when major Linux distributions began migrating to the Unicode character set from "legacy" encodings such as ISO 8859-1. It has since become a widely installed base utility, present on more than half of all Linux computer systems by some estimates. It is also part of IBM's AIX.
Implementations
There are two versions of luit: one maintained by Thomas Dickey as part of xterm, and another formerly updated by Freedesktop.org. Some Linux distributions ship the latter version as part of their X11 utilities package. However, while migrating to GitLab, the latter fork was discontinued because it was unmaintained.
See also
Mojibake
References
External links
Unix text processing utilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Until%20Dawn | Until Dawn is a 2015 interactive drama horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. Players assume control of eight young adults who have to survive on Blackwood Mountain when their lives are threatened. The game features a butterfly effect system in which players must make choices that may change the story. All playable characters can survive or die, depending on the choices made. Players explore the environment from a third-person perspective and find clues that may help solve the mystery.
The game was originally planned as a first-person game for the PlayStation 3's motion controller PlayStation Move. The motion controls were dropped when it became a PlayStation 4 game. The story was written by Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick, who sought to create the video game equivalent of a slasher film. The development team took inspiration from various sources. These include the movies Evil Dead II and Poltergeist, and video games Heavy Rain, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill. To ensure the game was scary, the team used a galvanic skin response test to measure playtesters' fear levels when playing it. Jason Graves composed the soundtrack and Guerrilla Games' Decima game engine was used for the graphics. Several noted actors, including Rami Malek, Hayden Panettiere, Meaghan Martin, Brett Dalton, Jordan Fisher, Nichole Bloom, and Peter Stormare, provided motion capture and voice acting.
Until Dawn was announced at Gamescom 2012 and released in August 2015. Although there was little marketing effort from Sony, its sales surpassed expectations. The game received generally positive reviews, and was nominated for multiple year-end accolades. Critics praised the branching nature of the story, butterfly effect system, world building, characters, and use of quick time events, but criticised the controls. Supermassive followed the game with a virtual reality spin-off, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (2016), and a prequel, The Inpatient (2018), while a spiritual successor, The Quarry, was released in 2022.
Gameplay
Until Dawn is an interactive drama in which players primarily assume control of eight young adults who have to survive on Blackwood Mountain until they are rescued at dawn. The gameplay is mainly a combination of cutscenes and third-person exploration. Players control the characters in a linear environment and find clues and items. Players can also collect totems, which give players a precognition of what may happen in the game's narrative. An in-game system keeps track of all of the story clues and secrets that players have discovered, even across multiple playthroughs. Action sequences feature mostly quick time events (QTE). One type of QTE involves hiding from a threat by holding the controller as still as possible when a "Don't Move" prompt appears.
The game features a butterfly effect system, in which players have to make choices. These range from small decisions like picking up |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20XK7 | XK7 is a supercomputing platform, produced by Cray, launched on October 29, 2012. XK7 is the second platform from Cray to use a combination of central processing units ("CPUs") and graphical processing units ("GPUs") for computing; the hybrid architecture requires a different approach to programming to that of CPU-only supercomputers. Laboratories that host XK7 machines host workshops to train researchers in the new programming languages needed for XK7 machines. The platform is used in Titan, the world's second fastest supercomputer in the November 2013 list as ranked by the TOP500 organization. Other customers include the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre which has a 272 node machine and Blue Waters has a machine that has Cray XE6 and XK7 nodes that performs at approximately 1 petaFLOPS (1015 floating-point operations per second).
Overview
XK7 is scalable up to 500 cabinets, each contains 24 blades and each blade contains 4 nodes (1 CPU and 1 GPU per node). The CPUs available are of the 16-core AMD Opteron 6200 Interlagos series and the GPUs are of the Nvidia Tesla K20 Kepler series. Each CPU can be paired with either 16 or 32 GB of error-correcting code memory (ECC) while the GPUs have either 5 or 6 GB of ECC memory depending on the model of GPU used. The nodes communicate with each other via the Gemini Interconnect; each Gemini chip services 2 nodes with a capacity of 160 GB/s. Depending on the components used, a full cabinet will consume between 45 and 54.1 kW of electricity which is converted into heat; thus the cabinets need cooling, either by air or water.
XK7 based machines run the Cray Linux Environment which incorporates SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Code to run on an XK7 machine can be written in a range of programming languages. The hybrid architecture requires different programming to conventional CPU-only supercomputers; Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre hold workshops to educate researchers on the new programming approach.
Usage
The XK7 platform was announced on October 29, 2012 to coincide with the completion of Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Titan has 18,688 XK7 nodes, each containing an Opteron 6274 CPU with 32 GB of memory and a K20X GPU with 6 GB. The computer has a theoretical peak performance of 27.1 petaFLOPS but in the LINPACK benchmark used by the TOP500 organisation to rank supercomputers it performed at 17.59 petaFLOPS, enough to take first place on the November 2012 list. Titan uses 8.2 MW of electricity and is third on the Green500 list which ranks supercomputers by their energy efficiency.
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Illinois has a machine, Blue Waters, using a combination of Cray XE6 and XK7 nodes. The machine has 3072 XK7 nodes and 22,752 XE6 nodes. Each XE6 node has two Opteron 6276 and 32 GB of memory per CPU. The XK7 nodes also have Opteron 6276 CPUs with 32 GB of memory and a K20X GPU with 6 GB. Blue Waters has per |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20Bus%20Software | Bubble Bus Software was a publisher of video game software for home computers in the mid-1980s, founded by Mark Meakins and based in Tonbridge, Kent. Their releases targeted popular home computers of the time, such as the Commodore 64, VIC-20 and ZX Spectrum. Their most notable releases were Starquake and Wizard's Lair, both written by Stephen Crow. Wizard's Lair was notable for its similarity to both Atic Atac and Sabre Wulf.
Games developed or published
Alien Panic 64 (Commodore 64)
Aqua Racer (Commodore 64)
Awesome Earl in SkateRock (Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MS-DOS)
Boardello (MSX, Tatung Einstein)
Boing (Commodore 64)
Brainstorm (ZX Spectrum)
Bumping Buggies (Commodore 64)
Cave Fighter (Commodore 16 Plus/4, Commodore 64)
Cavern Run 64 (Commodore 64)
Classic Invaders (Amiga, Amstrad CPC)
Classic Muncher (Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum)
Exterminator (Commodore 64, VIC-20)
Final Frontier (MS-DOS)
Flying Feathers (Commodore 64)
Hustler (Commodore 16 Plus4)
Kick Off (Commodore 64)
Krazy Kong (Commodore 64)
Max Torque (Commodore 64)
Metranaut (Commodore 64)
Minnesota Fats' Pool Challenge (Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16 Plus/4, Commodore 64, MSX, Tatung Einstein, ZX Spectrum)
Moonlight Madness (ZX Spectrum)
Starquake (Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, Tatung Einstein, ZX Spectrum)
Tazz (Commodore 16 Plus/4, Commodore 64)
The Fifth Quadrant (Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum)
The Ice Temple (ZX Spectrum)
Trizons (Commodore 16 Plus/4)
Widow's Revenge (Commodore 64)
Wizard's Lair (Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum)
References
External links
Bubble Bus Software on World of Spectrum
Bubble Bus Game Cover Gallery on Retromuseums
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss%20network | In queueing theory, a loss network is a stochastic model of a telephony network in which calls are routed around a network between nodes. The links between nodes have finite capacity and thus some calls arriving may find no route available to their destination. These calls are lost from the network, hence the name loss networks.
The loss network was first studied by Erlang for a single telephone link. Frank Kelly was awarded the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for his 1991 paper Loss Networks where he demonstrated the behaviour of loss networks can exhibit hysteresis.
Model
Fixed routing
Consider a network with J links labelled 1, 2, …, J and that each link j has Cj circuits. Let R be the set of all possible routes in the network (combinations of links a call might use) and each route r, write Ajr for the number of circuits route r uses on link j (A is therefore a J x |R| matrix). Consider the case where all elements of A are either 0 or 1 and for each route r calls requiring use of the route arrive according to a Poisson process of rate vr. When a call arrives if there is sufficient capacity remaining on all the required links the call is accepted and occupies the network for an exponentially distributed length of time with parameter 1. If there is insufficient capacity on any individual link to accept the call it is rejected (lost) from the network.
Write nr(t) for the number of calls on route r in progress at time t, n(t) for the vector (nr(t) : r in R) and C = (C1, C2, ... , CJ). Then the continuous-time Markov process n(t) has unique stationary distribution
where
and
From this result loss probabilities for calls arriving on different routes can be calculated by summing over appropriate states.
Computing loss probabilities
There are common algorithms for computing the loss probabilities in loss networks
Erlang fixed-point approximation
Slice method
3-point slice method
Notes
Queueing theory
Application-specific graphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20Hydraulic%20Power%20Company | Liverpool's Hydraulic Power Company were the operators of a public hydraulic power network supplying energy across the city of Liverpool, England, via a system of high-pressure water pipes from two pumping stations. The system was the third public system to be built in England, opening in 1888. It expanded rapidly, but gradually declined as electric power become more readily available. The pumping station was converted to electric operation in 1960, but the system was turned off in 1971. One of the pump sets was salvaged and presented to the Liverpool Museum.
History
The Liverpool Hydraulic Power Company obtained Acts of Parliament in 1884 and 1887, to allow it to construct a hydraulic power network under the streets of Liverpool. The system was operational by 1888, and was the third such undertaking in Britain, following the opening of the first system in Hull in 1877, and the second in London in 1883. At its inception, it supplied pressurised water at to its customers through around of mains. The pumping station drew its water supply from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and was pumped into the system by steam engines with a total output of .
Demand for power grew, and by 1890 there were two power stations, one on Athol Street to the north, and the other on Grafton Street in the south of the city. Nine triple-expansion pumps could supply of water per day to the system, which now had of pipes, and by 1895 there were 453 hydraulic machines connected to the network. In addition to lifts, cranes and packing machines, the water also supplied hydrants and sprinklers which were used in case of fire.
The Institute of Mechanical Engineers made a visit to Liverpool in June 1891, to inspect various works, and details of the hydraulic power system were published in The Practical Engineer later that year. The pressure mains were made of cast iron, and the flanged joints were sealed with gutta-percha rings. Where possible, the pipes were laid in circuits, so that sections could be isolated for repairs or extensions, without interruption of the supply to others beyond the isolated section. The steam engines were supplied by the Hydraulic Power Company of Chester, run by Edward B. Ellington, the man behind the first British system at Hull. Steam for the first two pumping sets was supplied by three Lancashire boilers, which were fitted with mechanical stokers, operated by hydraulic power. Pressure in the system was maintained by two hydraulic accumulators, each having an diameter piston with a stroke of . The report wrongly quoted the operating pressure as .
Under the terms of their Acts of Parliament, the company had rights to lay mains beneath the streets in some parts of Liverpool, but in others they needed the consent of Liverpool Corporation. This consent was not always forthcoming, and there complaints in 1889 that the corporation were obstructing the expansion of the system to allow it to supply buildings owned by the Exchange Company, the Liverp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBB%20%28software%29 | FBB is a free and open source bulletin board system for packet transmissions of radio amateurs. Written in C programming language, it allows transmission of messages over the AX.25 packet radio network by VHF, PACTOR on HF and Internet. Originally an MS-DOS program, the current versions run on Linux and 32-bit Windows.
Created in 1986 and consistently maintained, it can be compared to DPBOX and Winlink system, with which it is compatible (Routing mail by the Open FBB forwarding protocol). It also integrates BBS hierarchical addressing.
Its name comes from the radio call sign of its first author, Jean-Paul Roubelat, F6FBB.
References
External links
LinFBB SourceForge project site
FBB software general information
Packet radio
Bulletin board system software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seculert | Seculert is a cloud-based cyber security technology company based in Israel. The company's technology is designed to detect breaches and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), attacking networks. Seculert's business is based on malware research and the ability to uncover malware that has gone undetected by other traditional measures.
In 2012, the company was named one of the hottest new security start-ups by The New York Times, and a finalist in the SC Magazine awards for Rookie Security Company of the Year.
History
Seculert was founded in 2010 by former RSA FraudAction Research Lab Manager Aviv Raff, former SanDisk Product Marketing Manager Dudi Matot and former Finjan VP of Operations Alex Milstein. In 2011, the company launched their first offering, Seculert Echo. Their Seculert Sense, traffic log analysis, was released in October 2012. At the RSA Conference in February 2013 Seculert unveiled the beta version of Seculert Swamp, a malware analysis sandbox.
Seculert is privately funded and headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel. In July 2012, the company announced $5.35M in venture funding from YL Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. In July 2013, Seculert announced that they raised an additional $10 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital .
On January 31, 2017, Seculert was acquired by Radware, a company based out of Mahwah, New Jersey, US.
Notable alerts
In January 2012, Seculert discovered that Ramnit started targeting Facebook accounts with considerable success, stealing over 45,000 Facebook login credentials worldwide, mostly from people in the UK and France.
In March 2012, Seculert reported that Kelihos botnet, which was distributed as a Facebook worm, was still active and spreading.
In July 2012, Seculert, in conjunction with Kaspersky Lab, uncovered an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting Iran and other Middle Eastern countries dubbed Mahdi (malware).
In August 2012, Seculert, Kaspersky Lab and Symantec revealed the discovery of Shamoon, a sophisticated malware that attacked Qatar's natural gas firm, Rasgas and the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, ARAMCO.
In December 2012, Seculert uncovered Dexter, a new malware that steals payment card data from point-of-sale terminals used by stores, hotels, and other businesses. Most of the victim businesses were English-speaking, with 42 percent based in North America, and 19 percent in the U.K. Dexter infected systems running a variety of different versions of Windows, including XP, Home Server, Server 2003, and Windows 7.
In January 2013, Kaspersky Labs (KL) revealed a cyber espionage operation dubbed Red October. The next day, Seculert identified a special folder used by the attackers for an additional attack vector. In this vector, the attackers sent an email with an embedded link to a specially crafted PHP web page. This webpage exploited a vulnerability in Java, and in the background downloaded and executed the malware automatically.
In January 2014, the Seculert Research L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellgate | Hellgate could refer to:
Hellgate: London, a 2007 computer game
Hellgate (1952 film), an American Western
Hellgate (1970 film), a Hong Kong film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio
Hellgate (1989 film), a horror film starring Ron Palillo
Hellgate (2011 film), a horror film starring Cary Elwes
Places
Hellgate (Colorado), a mountain pass in Saguache County, Colorado, United States.
Hellgate (Oregon), a pass in Wasco County, Oregon, United States.
See also
Gates of Hell (disambiguation)
Hell Gate (disambiguation)
Hells Gate (disambiguation) |
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