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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20in%20anime | The events of 1998 in anime.
Events
May 20, 1998 - Animax, a Japanese anime satellite television network, is created
Accolades
At the Mainichi Film Awards, Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas won the Animation Film Award and Mizu no Sei Kappa Hyakuzu won the ลfuji Noburล Award.
Releases
Deaths
Yoshifumi Kondล
Kazuo Harada
Shigezล Sasaoka
See also
1998 in animation
External links
Japanese animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
1998 in animation
1998 in Japan
Years in anime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20294001%E2%80%93295000 |
294001โ294100
|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 294001 || || โ || October 8, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.91" | 910 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 294002 || || โ || October 8, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || HNS || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 294003 || || โ || April 17, 1996 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || HOF || align=right | 3.5 km ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 294004 || || โ || October 6, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 294005 || || โ || October 7, 2007 || Catalina || CSS || โ || align=right | 4.1 km ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 294006 || || โ || October 7, 2007 || Catalina || CSS || โ || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 294007 || || โ || October 7, 2007 || Catalina || CSS || fast? || align=right | 4.0 km ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 294008 || || โ || October 7, 2007 || Catalina || CSS || EUN || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 294009 || || โ || October 7, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || TIR || align=right | 3.6 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 294010 || || โ || October 7, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 2.9 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 294011 || || โ || October 8, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 294012 || || โ || October 8, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.74" | 740 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 294013 || || โ || October 8, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.73" | 730 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 294014 || || โ || October 8, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 294015 || || โ || October 8, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 4.3 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 294016 || || โ || October 7, 2007 || Catalina || CSS || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.82" | 820 m ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 294017 || || โ || October 7, 2007 || Catalina || CSS || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.81" | 810 m ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 294018 || || โ || October 8, 2007 || Catalina || CSS || โ || align=right | 3.4 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 294019 || || โ || October 8, 2007 || Catalina || CSS || KAZ || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 294020 || || โ || October 8, 2007 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.96" | 960 m ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 294021 || || โ || October 8, 2007 || Catalina || CSS || โ || align=right | 3.9 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 294022 || || โ || October 6, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 3.5 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 294023 || || โ || October 6, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.73" | 730 m ||
|-id=024 b |
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|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 297001 || || โ || October 18, 2001 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.75" | 750 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 297002 || || โ || March 17, 2010 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 3.0 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 297003 || || โ || March 16, 2010 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 3.4 km ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 297004 || || โ || March 21, 2010 || Calvin-Rehoboth || CalvinโRehoboth Obs. || โ || align=right | 2.4 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 297005 Ellirichter || || || March 22, 2010 || ESA OGS || ESA OGS || โ || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 297006 || || โ || March 21, 2010 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || KOR || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 297007 || || โ || March 20, 2010 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.69" | 690 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 297008 || || โ || March 18, 2010 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.89" | 890 m ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 297009 || || โ || March 25, 2010 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || 7:4 || align=right | 5.1 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 297010 || || โ || March 18, 2010 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 297011 || || โ || March 19, 2010 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 3.1 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 297012 || || โ || March 25, 2010 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || V || align=right | 1.00 km ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 297013 || || โ || March 20, 2010 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 3.3 km ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 297014 || || โ || March 21, 2010 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 2.8 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 297015 || || โ || March 25, 2010 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 2.8 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 297016 || || โ || March 17, 2010 || Catalina || CSS || โ || align=right | 2.0 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 297017 || || โ || December 1, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.79" | 790 m ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 297018 || || โ || April 2, 2010 || WISE || WISE || โ || align=right | 1.6 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#C2FFFF
| 297019 || || โ || April 1, 2010 || WISE || WISE || L5 || align=right | 14 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 297020 || || โ || April 4, 2010 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.96" | 960 m ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 297021 || || โ || April 8, 2010 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 297022 || || โ || January 26, 2001 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 1.6 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 297023 || || โ || April 6, 2010 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 2.4 km ||
|-id=024 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 29702 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20AM%20class%20electric%20multiple%20unit | The New Zealand AM class of electric multiple unit (EMU) was constructed for the electrification of Auckland's railway network. The class was introduced in 2014 with the first unit having arrived in September 2013. The units are classified AM (Auckland Metro), with the driving motor car with pantograph classified AMP, the middle trailer car AMT and the driving motor car without pantograph AMA. The trains are operated by Auckland One Rail for Auckland Transport under the AT Metro brand.
History
In February 2010, an "industry engagement document" preceding the formal call for tenders was published, calling for 114 EMU cars in 38 three-car sets, capable of being coupled as six-car trains, the maximum Auckland's stations can handle. The tender also included 13 electric locomotives (which did not eventuate). The sets would have seated around 240 passengers. While the document specified only a small number of elements, it required a speed of 110ย km/h for fully laden trains, a minimum design life of 35 years and the ability to climb the steep grades of the proposed City Rail Link. The expected value of the contract was approximately $500 million.
In December 2010, there was concern that government handling of the tender could be placing the process into doubt, with four tenderers out of the ten shortlisted having withdrawn. One of them, Bombardier Transportation, criticised the government for initially shortlisting four companies then extending it to ten, which in their view created a lack of confidence in the tendering process. Another criticism was that KiwiRail had "effectively prevented" their facilities in Hillside and Lower Hutt from tendering for the contract or parts of the contract, settling for encouraging overseas tenderers to include some local component. This, together with the refusal to allow local manufacturing to build railway wagons, was seen by groups such as unions and newspaper commenters as a sign that KiwiRail/the Government was unwilling to support New Zealand rail manufacturing.
In April 2011, it was confirmed that the shortlist had been reduced to two, with the contract expected to be awarded several months later. Still uncertain was ownership of the trains, with Auckland Transport preferring to take ownership rather than KiwiRail. The Rail & Maritime Transport Union favoured this course, as it would have ensured that they could not be sold by the government at a later stage. Auckland Council transport committee chairman Mike Lee noted that it would be inappropriate that Auckland would be expected to pay back a government loan for the trains (unlike recent Wellington train purchases), yet could end up not owning the trains.
In August 2011, it was confirmed that the tender specification had been changed to 57 three-car EMUs (approximately 50% more than before) and no locomotives, reducing long-term maintenance costs. All trains would be able to use the City Rail Link, which might not have been possible for locomotive-hauled |
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|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304001 || || โ || January 31, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.67" | 670 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304002 || || โ || January 31, 2006 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || FLO || align=right | 1.6 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304003 || || โ || January 31, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.74" | 740 m ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304004 || || โ || January 28, 2006 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.94" | 940 m ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304005 || || โ || February 1, 2006 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.74" | 740 m ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304006 || || โ || February 1, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 1.00 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304007 || || โ || February 1, 2006 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.98" | 980 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304008 || || โ || February 2, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.88" | 880 m ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304009 || || โ || February 2, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.74" | 740 m ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304010 || || โ || February 2, 2006 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.70" | 700 m ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304011 || || โ || February 3, 2006 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || โ || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304012 || || โ || February 20, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.75" | 750 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304013 || || โ || February 20, 2006 || Catalina || CSS || KLI || align=right | 2.7 km ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304014 || || โ || February 21, 2006 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.89" | 890 m ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304015 || || โ || February 20, 2006 || Catalina || CSS || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.93" | 930 m ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304016 || || โ || February 21, 2006 || Catalina || CSS || V || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304017 || || โ || February 20, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || MAS || align=right | 1.00 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304018 || || โ || February 20, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.70" | 700 m ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304019 || || โ || February 20, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304020 || || โ || February 20, 2006 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304021 || || โ || February 23, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.98" | 980 m ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 304022 || || โ || Febr |
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|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 308001 || || โ || September 8, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.76" | 760 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 308002 || || โ || September 8, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || โ || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 308003 || || โ || September 9, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.64" | 640 m ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#FA8072
| 308004 || || โ || September 11, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.8 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 308005 || || โ || September 7, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 2.1 km ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 308006 || || โ || September 8, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || MEL || align=right | 4.7 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 308007 || || โ || September 8, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.94" | 940 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 308008 || || โ || September 9, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.91" | 910 m ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 308009 || || โ || September 10, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.6 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 308010 || || โ || September 10, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 308011 || || โ || September 10, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 308012 || || โ || September 10, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 5.1 km ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 308013 || || โ || September 10, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 3.9 km ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#FA8072
| 308014 || || โ || September 10, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 308015 || || โ || September 11, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 5.6 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 308016 || || โ || September 11, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 308017 || || โ || September 11, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || EUN || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 308018 || || โ || September 11, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 2.0 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 308019 || || โ || September 11, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 2.6 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#FA8072
| 308020 || || โ || September 13, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 4.9 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 308021 || || โ || September 9, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 308022 || || โ || September 9, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 308023 || || โ || September 6, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.62" | 620 m ||
|-id=024 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 308024 || || โ || September 6, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || H || align=right data-so |
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311001โ311100
|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 311001 || || โ || November 21, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.84" | 840 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311002 || || โ || November 24, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 311003 || || โ || December 14, 2003 || Palomar || NEAT || โ || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 311004 || || โ || December 17, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || PHO || align=right | 2.0 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 311005 || || โ || December 17, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || H || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311006 || || โ || December 17, 2003 || Palomar || NEAT || EUN || align=right | 2.0 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 311007 || || โ || December 17, 2003 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || H || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311008 || || โ || December 17, 2003 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311009 || || โ || December 17, 2003 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || AER || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 311010 || || โ || December 19, 2003 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || 3:2 || align=right | 8.2 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311011 || || โ || December 19, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311012 || || โ || December 18, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.6 km ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311013 || || โ || December 18, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 311014 || || โ || December 29, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.70" | 700 m ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311015 || || โ || December 27, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311016 || || โ || December 28, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || JUN || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311017 || || โ || December 29, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.6 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311018 || || โ || December 30, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || HNS || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311019 || || โ || December 17, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311020 || || โ || December 18, 2003 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311021 || || โ || January 12, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || EUN || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 311022 || || โ || January 14, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311023 || || โ || January 17, 2004 || Haleakala || NEAT || โ || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=024 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311024 || || โ || January 18, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || โ || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=025 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 311025 || || โ || January 16, 200 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN%20Tasrail | AN Tasrail was an Australian railway operator that operated the Tasmanian rail network from March 1978 until November 2004. Originally a subsidiary of the Federal Government's Australian National, it was sold to Australian Transport Network (ATN) in November 1997. ATN was acquired by Pacific National in 2004 and the AN Tasrail subsidiary was later acquired by the Tasmanian Government in 2009 to become TasRail.
History
Until March 1978, the Tasmanian Government Railways had operated the state mainline railways since 1890, and had amassed a large and prosperous network over that time, albeit ahead of continued financial losses and the dwindling of freight and passenger workings up into the 1970s.
The Tasmanian and Federal Governments entered into an agreement for the transfer of the Tasmanian railways to Australian National on 1 July 1975, but the Tasmanian Transport Commission's Railways Branch retained responsibility for administering and operating the system as an agent for Australian National, until the latter assumed full control on 1 March 1978.
In November 1997, as part of the privatisation of Australian National, AN Tasrail was sold to Australian Transport Network, a partnership of New Zealand-based Tranz Rail and United States railroad Wisconsin Central.
In April 1998 Tasrail purchased Tasmania's only other rail operator, the Emu Bay Railway in the state's north-west from Pasminco. In February 2004, the company was purchased by Pacific National, owned by Patrick Corporation and Tranz Rail owner Toll Holdings.
In 2009 the operations were taken over by TasRail.
Operations
The main cargo carried by AN Tasrail was cement, which is carried from Railton to the port at Devonport. Other major commodities carried were coal, logs, containers and newsprint. Passenger services ceased in June 1978.
The Australian National green and yellow livery was adopted in 1980. Upon privatisation, the Wisconsin Central's maroon and yellow livery was adopted. This was retained during the period of Pacific National ownership.
Rolling Stock
AN Tasrail inherited all of the Tasmanian Government Railways rolling stock. No new locomotives were ordered, but second-hand locomotives were purchased, some of which were for parts only.
Former Tasmanian Government Railways locomotives
V class
X class
Y class
4 Z class
6 Za class
Australian National purchases
20 830 class transferred from Australian National from 1980
16 ZB class former Queensland Rail 2350/2370 class English Electric locomotives purchased in 1987
45 ZC class former Queensland Rail 1300 class English Electric locomotives purchased in 1988
Australian Transport Network purchases
12 rebuilt Queensland Rail 1460/1502 class DQ class locomotives
3 rebuilt Queensland Rail 1460 QR class locomotives
2 rebuilt Western Australian Government Railways D class locomotives with cabs similar to the New Zealand DXR class
1 New Zealand DC class locomotive
Former Emu Bay Railway locomotives
4 10 class
7 11 class
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Library%20Format | Advanced Library Format (ALF), also known as IEEE 1603 or IEC 62265, is an IEEE and IEC standard that describes a data specification language for library elements used in ASIC design applications for integrated circuits. ALF can model behavior, timing, power and noise, hot electron, electromigration, antenna effects, physical abstraction and physical implementation rules of library elements.
References
IEC 62265:2005
External links
Version 2.0 reference manual (PDF)
IEEE standard 1603
IEEE DASC standards
IEC standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCBLogo | UCBLogo, also termed Berkeley Logo, is a programming language, a dialect of Logo, which derived from Lisp. It is a dialect of Logo intended to being a "minimum Logo standard".
It has the best facilities for handling lists, files, input/output (I/O), and recursion.
It can be used to teach most computer science concepts, as University of California, Berkeley lecturer Brian Harvey did in his Computer Science Logo Style trilogy. It is free and open-source software released under a GNU General Public License (GPL).
Design
Logo was designed in spirit of low threshold and no ceiling, which enables easy entry by novices and yet meet the needs of high-powered users. UCBLogo has a rudimentary graphical user interface (GUI), so several projects exist that provide a better interface. MSWLogo and its successor FMSLogo, for Microsoft Windows, are commonly used in schools in the United Kingdom and Australia. For input/output (I/O), text may be written to the command window (output stream) using print and to the graphics window using label.
Animations require both the ability to draw and to erase shapes. The process is the same, except that in the former, a line is deposited on the display device and in the latter a line is removed. Using the turtle analogy, the turtle's pen must paint, and the turtle's pen must erase. The turtle can be set to erase anything below it, using the command PENERASE (PE), while the pen can be set to start drawing again with the command PENPAINT (PPT), in UCBLogo.
The pen
The analogy of a turtle with a pen attached to its tail is often used. The turtle's pen can be lifted and lowered, thus drawing a rudimentary dotted line.
An example code:
FD 20 ; draw a line and move
PENUP ; lift the pen so it draws nothing
FD 20 ; move and not draw
PENDOWN ; lower the pen so it draws again
FD 20 ; draw a line and move
PENUP ; lift the pen so it draws nothing
FD 40 ; move and not draw
PENDOWN ; lower the pen so it draws again
RT 20 ; rotate right (clockwise) 20 degrees
Data
There are three data types in UCBLogo: the word, the list, and the array (a number is a special case of word). The interpreter detects the datatype by context; there is no static typing.
Prefixing a variable with a colon (:) means the contents of, passing a variable by reference. The double quote symbol (") means the word is evaluated as itself: it is not paired as opening and closing quotes as happens in many other languages. A number is a special case of self-evaluation and can be used with or without a preceding quote.
Variable assignment is handled with the make command:
make "x sum :y 3
make takes 2 parameters, the second of which here is sum :y "3. sum takes two 'parameters' and is an 'operation', thus the calculation is possible.
Variables do not have to be declared before use; their scope is then global. A variable may be declared local, then its scope is limited to that procedure and any procedures that it calls, which is termed dynamic scope. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonebraker | Stonebraker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
John Stonebraker (1918โ2000), American football player
Michael Stonebraker (born 1943), American computer scientist
See also
Stonebreaker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonebreaker | Stonebreaker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Michael Stonebraker (born 1943), computer scientist
Mike Stonebreaker (born 1967), American football player
Steve Stonebreaker (1938โ1995), American football player
See also
The Stonebreaker, painting by Henry Wallis
Stonebreakers Hut, road in the Isle of Man |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20PowerPC-based%20game%20consoles | There are several ways in which game consoles can be categorized. One is by its console generation, and another is by its computer architecture. Game consoles have long used specialized and customized computer hardware with the base in some standardized processor instruction set architecture. In this case, it is PowerPC and Power ISA, processor architectures initially developed in the early 1990s by the AIM alliance, i.e. Apple, IBM, and Motorola.
Even though these consoles share much in regard to instruction set architecture, game consoles are still highly specialized computers so it is not common for games to be readily portable or compatible between devices. Only Nintendo has kept a level of portability between their consoles, and even there it is not universal.
The first devices used standard processors, but later consoles used bespoke processors with special features, primarily developed by or in cooperation with IBM for the explicit purpose of being in a game console. In this regard, these computers can be considered "embedded". All three major consoles of the seventh generation were PowerPC based.
As of 2019, no PowerPC-based game consoles are currently in production. The most recent release, Nintendo's Wii U, has since been discontinued and succeeded by the Nintendo Switch (which uses a Nvidia Tegra ARM processor). The PlayStation 3, the last PowerPC-based game console to remain in production, was discontinued in 2017.
List
See also
PowerPC applications
List of PowerPC processors
References
Embedded systems
Lists of video game consoles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20316001%E2%80%93317000 |
316001โ316100
|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316001 || || โ || March 15, 2009 || La Sagra || OAM Obs. || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.78" | 780 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316002 || || โ || March 15, 2009 || Catalina || CSS || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.90" | 900 m ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316003 || || โ || March 15, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.63" | 630 m ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316004 || || โ || March 15, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316005 || || โ || March 15, 2009 || La Sagra || OAM Obs. || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.99" | 990 m ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316006 || || โ || March 2, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.72" | 720 m ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316007 || || โ || March 7, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.71" | 710 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316008 || || โ || March 16, 2009 || La Sagra || OAM Obs. || โ || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316009 || || โ || March 18, 2009 || Mayhill || A. Lowe || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.74" | 740 m ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316010 Daviddubey || || || March 19, 2009 || Mayhill || N. Falla || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.75" | 750 m ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316011 || || โ || March 17, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.78" | 780 m ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316012 || || โ || March 16, 2009 || La Sagra || OAM Obs. || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.88" | 880 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316013 || || โ || March 17, 2009 || La Sagra || OAM Obs. || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.69" | 690 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316014 || || โ || March 19, 2009 || Hibiscus || N. Teamo || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.61" | 610 m ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316015 || || โ || March 19, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.82" | 820 m ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316016 || || โ || March 22, 2009 || Vicques || M. Ory || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.73" | 730 m ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316017 || || โ || March 19, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316018 || || โ || March 19, 2009 || La Sagra || OAM Obs. || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.84" | 840 m ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316019 || || โ || March 22, 2009 || La Sagra || OAM Obs. || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.78" | 780 m ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316020 Linshuhow || || || March 21, 2009 || Lulin Observatory || Y.-S. Tsai, T. Chen || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.73" | 730 m ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 316021 || || โ || March 25, 2009 || Sierra Stars || F. Tozzi || โ || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=022 bgcol |
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318001โ318100
|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 318001 || || โ || February 12, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.96" | 960 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 318002 || || โ || February 9, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || โ || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 318003 || || โ || February 14, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 318004 || || โ || February 11, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || RAF || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 318005 || || โ || February 10, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || โ || align=right | 4.3 km ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 318006 || || โ || February 11, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || โ || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 318007 || || โ || February 11, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.77" | 770 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 318008 || || โ || February 12, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || 3:2 || align=right | 5.2 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 318009 || || โ || February 14, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || HIL3:2 || align=right | 8.0 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 318010 || || โ || February 15, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.94" | 940 m ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 318011 || || โ || February 15, 2004 || Catalina || CSS || 3:2 || align=right | 6.1 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 318012 || || โ || February 11, 2004 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.77" | 770 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 318013 || || โ || February 11, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.95" | 950 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 318014 || || โ || February 19, 2004 || Haleakala || NEAT || HIL3:2 || align=right | 8.3 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 318015 || || โ || February 16, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.86" | 860 m ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 318016 || || โ || February 18, 2004 || Catalina || CSS || EUN || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 318017 || || โ || February 16, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 318018 || || โ || February 18, 2004 || Catalina || CSS || EUN || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 318019 || || โ || February 18, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 318020 || || โ || February 16, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.99" | 990 m ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 318021 || || โ || February 29, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || CLA || align=right | 1.8 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 318022 || || โ || February 26, 2004 || Kitt Peak || M. W. Buie || MAR || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 318023 || || โ || March 11, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || โ || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=024 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 318024 | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview%20%28surveillance%20program%29 | Fairview is a secret program under which the National Security Agency cooperates with the American telecommunications company AT&T in order to collect phone, internet and e-mail data mainly of foreign countries' citizens at major cable landing stations and switching stations inside the United States. The FAIRVIEW program started in 1985, one year after the Bell breakup.
In 2010, the NSA had access to these AT&T facilities:
8 internet peering points
26 VoIP router facilities
1 VoIP hub router facility (with 30 planned)
9 submarine cable landing points (with 7 planned)
16 4ESS circuit switching stations
Except for the VoIP facilities, most are along U.S. borders.
In 2011, NSA spent $188.9 million on the program, which was twice as much as on its second-largest program, STORMBREW.
In 2013, whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA was harvesting the telephone metadata and text messages from over a billion subscribers in China; no precise program name was reported at the time.
Several weeks later, Glenn Greenwald wrote in The Guardian about FAIRVIEW: "The NSA partners with a large US telecommunications company" that "partners with telecoms in the foreign countries, [which] then allow the US company access to those countries' telecommunications systems, and that access is then exploited to direct traffic to the NSA's repositories."
Documents provided by Snowden said the NSA had collected 2.3ย billion separate pieces of data from Brazilian users in January 2013.
In 2013, Brazilian television showed a map of FAIRVIEW with markers all over the United States, but without a legend that explained what they stood for.
AT&T was first identified as FAIRVIEW's "key corporate partner" in 2013, by the Washington Post, quoting NSA historian Matthew Aid. This was confirmed in 2015 by a joint report by ProPublica and the New York Times, based upon NSA documents that describe the company as "highly collaborative" and praise the company's "extreme willingness to help".
Legal authorities
Various legal authorities authorize the collection of data under the FAIRVIEW program: FISA, which requires individual warrants from the FISA Court, section 702 FAA for when one end of the communications is foreign, and the Transit Authority for when both ends of a communication are foreign.
Under the FAIRVIEW program, AT&T provided the NSA with domestic telephone metadata in bulk, which was authorized under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. First this was from landline connections, but in 2011, AT&T also started handing over cell phone metadata: 1.1 billion pieces a day.
Media related to FAIRVIEW
External links
NSA Spying Relies on AT&Tโs โExtreme Willingness to Helpโ
FAIRVIEW: Collecting foreign intelligence inside the US
References
2013 scandals
Intelligence agency programmes revealed by Edward Snowden
Counterterrorism in the United States
Espionage
Human rights
Mass surveillance
National Security Agency
Obama administration controversies
Privacy in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medio%20%28company%29 | Medio is a business-to-business mobile web analytics provider based in Seattle, Washington. The company processes pre-existing data to provide historic and predictive analytics. Medio is built on a cloud-based Hadoop platform and is designed to interpret big data for mobile enterprise. Medio has had partners including: IBM, Rovio, Verizon, T-Mobile, ABC, and Disney.
Medio was founded in 2004 by Brian Lent, Bill Bryant, David Bluhm, and Michael Libes and employed 40 people. Founded to be the 'Google' of mobile search engines, Medio was backed by $30 million in initial venture funding from companies including: Accel Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Frazier Technology Ventures.
Medio received $11 million more in 2006 to create a mobile analytics search engine capable of searching for ringtones, graphics, and internet-delivered information. This sparked employment to over 100 employees for some time, but in 2009 Google released their new mobile search engine. Rob Lilleness, who joined the company as President and COO in 2007 and was subsequently named CEO in 2009, took that as an opportunity to refocus as a predictive analytics and data science provider, using their recommendations engine as a key component of their newly focused company. The shift resulted in lay-offs of much of the staff, scaling back to nearly 60 employees.
By the end of 2010, the company became profitable, nearly tripling its sales from previous years. Medio grew to 70 employees with a total of $44 million in venture funding.
On July 1, 2014, Medio was acquired by Nokia.
References
External links
Medio.com Website
Analytics companies
Big data companies
Mobile technology companies
Software companies established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Media%20Access%20Protocol | The Digital Media Access Protocol (DMAP) is the family of proprietary protocols introduced by Apple that are used by iTunes, iPhoto, Remote and other software to share media across a local network.
DMAP addresses the same problems for Apple as the UPnP AV standards address for members of the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA).
Description
The DMAP protocol is a specialized HTTP protocol, which performs two functions. It sends a list of items and it streams requested items to clients. There are also provisions to notify the client of changes to the server. Requests are sent to the server by the client in form of URLs and are responded to with data in mime-type. Services such as iTunes and iPhoto uses the zeroconf (also known as Bonjour) service to announce itself and discover DMAP services on a local subnet.
A range of open- and closed-sourced applications have successfully reversed engineered parts of the protocol
DMAP interface
The combined DACP, DAAP and DAAP services can be expressed in terms of a WADL interface which documents the URL's that are accessible.
DMAP implementations
References
Data transmission
Network protocols
Apple Inc. services
ITunes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuricon | Matsuricon is a three-day anime convention held during August in Columbus, Ohio, at the Hyatt Regency Columbus and Greater Columbus Convention Center. The convention is family friendly.
Programming
The convention typically offers an artist alley, cosplay contest, dealers room, formal ball, gaming (arcade, board, video), karaoke, masquerade, and a video contest. The Carolina Manga Library provided the conventions manga library in 2014. Matsuricon's 2014 charity fundraisers raised $13,916 and benefited Pelotonia.
History
In 2012 the convention hosted the Distant Worlds concert, led by Arnie Roth. The concert was followed up with a meet and greet event with composer Nobuo Uematsu for VIP ticket holders. Matsuricon in 2018 shared convention center space with an Ohio GOP dinner that featured as a speaker President Donald Trump. Matsuricon 2020 and 2021 was cancelled and replaced by virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Event history
References
External links
Anime conventions in the United States
Recurring events established in 2006
2006 establishments in Ohio
Annual events in Ohio
Festivals in Ohio
Culture of Columbus, Ohio
Tourist attractions in Columbus, Ohio
Conventions in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlateSmart | PlateSmart Technologies is a software based license plate recognition (LPR) company based in Oldsmar, Florida. The company's camera agnostic software uses a video camera and computer to identify and record license plates via video analytics algorithms. The company employs engineers, mathematicians, video engineers, and law enforcement officers located throughout the United States. PlateSmart has an integrator in Dubai, U.A.E. called Electronic Design.
PlateSmart's main product, ARES, integrates with existing hardware to create an LPR system. This technology has been utilized by law enforcement agencies, the US Navy, the University of Miami, and NCIS. PlateSmart also designs applications to string LPR systems together, analyze LPR data, recognize patterns and form reports for users.
PlateSmart's software is also designed to integrate with other Video Management Systems (VMS) to alter product features and capabilities. PlateSmart has partnered with the following integrators:
Pelco
Avigilon
Verint Systems
exacq Technologies
Milestone
OnSSI
Mavin Technologies
SureView
Vicon Industries
References
External links
Official website
Automatic number plate recognition
American companies established in 2004
2004 establishments in Florida
Companies based in Pinellas County, Florida
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20325001%E2%80%93326000 |
325001โ325100
|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325001 || || โ || January 30, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.61" | 610 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325002 || || โ || January 30, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.75" | 750 m ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325003 || || โ || January 30, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.94" | 940 m ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 325004 || || โ || January 31, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 2.1 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325005 || || โ || January 31, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.58" | 580 m ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325006 || || โ || January 31, 2008 || Catalina || CSS || ERI || align=right | 3.1 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325007 || || โ || January 30, 2008 || Catalina || CSS || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.84" | 840 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325008 || || โ || January 19, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.87" | 870 m ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325009 || || โ || January 31, 2008 || Catalina || CSS || โ || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 325010 || || โ || January 18, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 325011 || || โ || January 30, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325012 || || โ || January 20, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.98" | 980 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325013 || || โ || January 31, 2008 || Catalina || CSS || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325014 || || โ || February 7, 2008 || Mayhill || A. Lowe || โ || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325015 || || โ || February 3, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.61" | 610 m ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325016 || || โ || February 3, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.75" | 750 m ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 325017 || || โ || September 12, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325018 || || โ || February 3, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.58" | 580 m ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325019 || || โ || February 6, 2008 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || โ || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325020 || || โ || February 8, 2008 || Altschwendt || W. Ries || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.85" | 850 m ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325021 || || โ || February 1, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.98" | 980 m ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 325022 || || โ || February 1, |
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329001โ329100
|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 329001 || || โ || August 20, 1998 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.80" | 800 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 329002 || || โ || December 15, 2002 || Haleakala || NEAT || โ || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 329003 || || โ || November 24, 2000 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.99" | 990 m ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 329004 || || โ || August 4, 2005 || Palomar || NEAT || โ || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 329005 || || โ || December 17, 2001 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || EUN || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 329006 || || โ || December 8, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 3.3 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 329007 || || โ || February 24, 2006 || Catalina || CSS || โ || align=right | 4.4 km ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#C2FFFF
| 329008 || || โ || June 23, 2004 || Mauna Kea || J. Pittichovรก, J. Bedient || L4ERY || align=right | 7.2 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 329009 || || โ || August 20, 2001 || Palomar || NEAT || โ || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 329010 || || โ || October 27, 2005 || Catalina || CSS || โ || align=right | 3.4 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 329011 || || โ || January 23, 2007 || Bergisch Gladbach || W. Bickel || โ || align=right | 2.1 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 329012 || || โ || December 4, 2010 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || URS || align=right | 4.3 km ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 329013 || || โ || April 22, 1998 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 329014 || || โ || October 24, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 2.0 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 329015 || 2011 AG || โ || December 6, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 3.1 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 329016 || || โ || October 24, 2005 || Mauna Kea || A. Boattini || โ || align=right | 3.9 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 329017 || || โ || January 3, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || TIR || align=right | 4.1 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 329018 Neufeld || || || December 1, 2005 || Kitt Peak || L. H. Wasserman || EOS || align=right | 2.3 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 329019 || || โ || August 27, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 2.2 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 329020 || || โ || October 26, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right | 1.6 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 329021 || || โ || October 2, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right | 4.0 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 329022 || || โ || January 4, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || EOS || align=right | 2.6 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 329023 || || โ || January 28, 2007 || Catalina || CSS || AER || align=right | 2.1 km ||
|-id=024 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 329024 || || โ || November 25, 20 |
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332001โ332100
|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332001 || || โ || May 4, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.79" | 790 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 332002 || || โ || June 1, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || MAR || align=right data-sort-value="0.97" | 970 m ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332003 || || โ || June 4, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || critical || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332004 || || โ || June 5, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.75" | 750 m ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332005 || || โ || June 6, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.78" | 780 m ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332006 || || โ || June 11, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || PHO || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 332007 || || โ || June 28, 2005 || Palomar || NEAT || ALA || align=right | 5.2 km ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332008 || || โ || June 30, 2005 || Socorro || LINEAR || PHO || align=right | 2.5 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332009 || || โ || June 27, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.61" | 610 m ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 332010 || || โ || June 29, 2005 || Palomar || NEAT || 3:2 || align=right | 5.6 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332011 || || โ || June 30, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || โ || align=right data-sort-value="0.92" | 920 m ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332012 || || โ || July 3, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.95" | 950 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332013 || || โ || July 3, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 332014 || || โ || July 7, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || SHU3:2 || align=right | 5.4 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332015 || || โ || July 10, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.77" | 770 m ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 332016 || || โ || July 2, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.89" | 890 m ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry%20Pi%20OS | Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) is a Unix-like operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi family of compact single-board computers. First developed independently in 2012, it has been produced as the primary operating system for these boards since 2013, distributed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Raspberry Pi OS is highly optimized for the Raspberry Pi with ARM CPUs. It runs on every Raspberry Pi except the Pico microcontroller. Raspberry Pi OS uses a modified LXDE desktop environment with the Openbox stacking window manager, along with a unique theme. The default distribution is shipped with a copy of the computer algebra system Wolfram Mathematica, VLC, and a lightweight version of the Chromium web browser.
History
Raspberry Pi OS was first developed by Mike Thompson and Peter Green as Raspbian, an independent and unofficial port of Debian to the Raspberry Pi. The first build was released on July 15, 2012. As the Raspberry Pi had no officially provided operating system at the time, the Raspberry Pi Foundation built on the work by the Raspbian project and began producing and releasing their own version of the software. The Foundation's first release of Raspbian, which now referred both to the community project as well as the official operating system, was announced on September 10, 2013.
On May 28, 2020, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced a beta 64-bit version. However, this version was not based on Raspbian, instead taking its user space software from Debian GNU/Linux. When the Foundation did not want to use the name Raspbian to refer to software that was not based on the Raspbian project, the name of the officially provided operating system was changed to Raspberry Pi OS. This change was also carried over to the 32-bit version, though it continued to be based on Raspbian. The 64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS was officially released on February 2, 2022.
Features
User interface
Raspberry Pi OS has a desktop environment, PIXEL (short for Pi Improved Xwindows Environment, Lightweight), based on LXDE, which looks similar to many common desktops, such as macOS and Microsoft Windows. The desktop has a background image. A menu bar is positioned at the top and contains an application menu and shortcuts to a web browser (Chromium), file manager, and terminal. The other end of the menu bar shows a Bluetooth menu, Wi-Fi menu, volume control, and clock. The desktop can also be changed from its default appearance, such as repositioning the menu bar.
Package management
Packages can be installed via APT, the Recommended Software app, and by using the Add/Remove Software tool, a GUI wrapper for APT.
Components
PCManFM is a file browser allowing quick access to all areas of the computer, and was redesigned in the first Raspberry Pi OS Buster release (2019-06-20).
Raspberry Pi OS originally distributed the web browser Epiphany, but switched to Chromium with the launch of its redesigned desktop. The built-in bro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20Networks | Smart Networks ( ()) is a Belarusian project which was designed to search for, select and teach young analysts for the state administration. The project was initiated by the Informational-Analytical Center under the Administration of President of the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, the Republican Institute of Higher Education, Belarusian State University and Minsk State Linguistic University. In October 2012, the project began with the formations of an analytical community of 150 young people.
Participants
The Smart Networks project participants are citizens of Belarus who are under thirty-five years of age and who have received at a minimum, a Bachelor or Master's academic degree. They have the analytical ability and interest in political matters to create a product which can be used by the government of Belarus to benefit the state. There is also an element of self-development for the participants. Preference in choosing participants was given to those people with English and Chinese skills.
History
Alexey Macevilo, the project coordinator said,
"We started the project because we were searching analysts for our Center. It is clear, that we have enough experienced staff members, who cope with their duties well. But there are also some modern challenges we have to respond. Technology challenges first of all. They do change the society. Social interactions move into cyberspace. We need analysts who are able to work in this environment."
and,
"Web-community, formed in "Vkontakte" social network, is turning into something bigger than simply mechanism of selection. In fact it is a core of young analysts network. They are able to handle brainstorming sessions, express-polls, discuss new ideas and projects online."
Umnye Seti (Smart Network) became a discussion platform for young political analysts. In October 2012, two hundred people competed in a qualifying round: 54% were graduate students, 11% postgraduates; and 40% workers. In November 2012 in Minsk, 25 finalists attended a seminar in research methodology and applied political analysis. In January and February 2013, participants worked on individual projects. A social network called Smart Networks became their platform for interaction, exchange of opinions and collaboration.
Outcomes
Participants provided material for Alexander Lukashenko's presidential annual State of the Nation Address to the Belarus people and the National Assembly, which was delivered on 19 April 2013. The State Youth Personnel Policy community developed a virtual debate club. On 6 June 2013, project participants met with representatives of the Belarus government administration. The participants have their projects published in Belaruskaya Dumka (Belarusian Thought), a socio-political magazine.
Agenda - 2015
The project includes a series of scientific conferences named "Agenda-2015". It is envisioned that participants will propose ideas for the social and economic development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantel | Pantel may refer to:
Panamericana Televisiรณn, a Peruvian television network
Guylรจne Pantel (born 1963), French politician
Sylvia Pantel (born 1961), German politician
Thierry Pantel (born 1964), French former long-distance runner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Kohgiluyeh%20and%20Boyer-Ahmad | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Saโฤdatฤbฤd) is a village in Babuyi Rural District, Basht District, Basht County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 265, in 47 families.
References
Populated places in Basht County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo%20city%20code | In the aviation industry, a pseudo city code, pseudo-city code, or office ID, is an alpha-numeric identifier for a corporate user of a computer reservation system (CRS) or global distribution system (GDS), typically a travel agency. The codes are typically 3 or 4 characters long, (although the Amadeus system uses up to nine characters), and are unique to a specific office of a travel agency. They are used to associate each agency's bookings with the agency, and also to identify private fares available to the agency.
Pseudo city codes (PCCs) have many uses in the airline industry. As well as identifying a particular office, they can be used to restrict or allocate certain privileges. The most common of these is privacy: an agent can normally only see bookings made in their PCC. A travel agency's head office or ticketing department may have more access and see all bookings made within the company. The codes are also used to restrict those who can issue tickets, limiting access only to agencies with the required training and legal requirements.
Some GDS systems have a "training pseudo" where agents cannot make live bookings.
These restrictions also allow airlines to negotiate fares with a company and restrict it to an individual company. Only those agencies within that pseudo-city code will be able to access and sell the fare.
GDS examples are Galileo, Sabre, Amadeus.
References
Airline tickets
Travel technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percom | Percom Data Corporation was an early microcomputer company formed in 1976 to sell peripherals into the emerging microcomputer market. They are best known for their floppy disk systems, first for S-100 machines, and the later for other platforms like the TRS-80 and the Atari 8-bit family. The company was purchased by Esprit Systems in 1984.
Origins
Percom started after the meeting that produced the Kansas City standard for storing data on cassette tapes. The final version of the standard was written in February 1976, co-authored by Lee Felsenstein and Harold Mauch. Mauch published an article on the technical aspects of the standard in the next month's Byte magazine, entitled "Digital Data on Cassette Recorders".
Mauch and his wife Lucy started what was originally PerCom Data that same month, selling the CIS-30 adaptor allowing any portable cassette player to be connected to the Motorola 6800-based micros from SWTPC. The CIS-30 was a success, and soon followed by similar devices for other platforms. Floppy disk drives followed, along with rapid growth. Percom incorporated (dropping the capital C in the name) in 1978.
In 1979 the company branched out into the TRS-80 market, starting with the Percom Separator, and add-on device that corrected deficiencies in Radio Shack's own floppy disk interface. In 1980 they introduced the Percom Doubler, the first double-density floppy disk for the TRS-80 platform. They later introduced Electric Crayon, a color graphics system that communicated with the TRS-80 through the printer port and output to a separate composite monitor or color television. In 1981 they moved all operations to Dallas, Texas except technical services and repair which stayed in Garland, Texas.
Percom introduced a drive for the Atari 8-bit family in 1982. In contrast to the Atari 810, the only drive on the platform at that time, the RFD40 drive offered double-density formatting and higher performance. Its onboard controller also allowed three additional "dumb" drives, lacking the controller, to be connected and thereby lowering the cost of a multi-drive system. A drive with the controller cost $799, additional drives were $399. The standard 34-pin connector also allowed for the use of 8-inch drives on the same controller. The system did not ship with a compatible DOS, instead, it shipped with a utility that modified an existing copy of Atari DOS to add double-density support. The 1983 AT-88 model was a single-density version otherwise the same as the RFD40.
Harold died suddenly in August 1982 and the company began to focus on the business market. This resulted in the creation of the Visionnet, an early Ethernet card for the IBM PC. Western Digital licensed the design and sold it under the name Ethercard Plus.
After Mauch
Harold Mauch's sudden death in August 1982 upset the company considerably. Focussing on business products, leaving the home compute field, the company started branching out into new product lines. PerComNet for the IBM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaap%20Schekkerman | Jaap Schekkerman (born 1953) is a Dutch computer scientist and founder of the Institute For Enterprise Architecture Developments (IFEAD) in the Netherlands. He is particularly known for his 2003 book How to Survive in the Jungle of Enterprise Architecture in which he compared 14 Enterprise Architecture Frameworks.
Biography
Schekkerman received a degree in clinical chemistry from the Bakhuis Roozeboom Instituut in Beverwijk in 1973, and his Engineer's degree in electronic engineering from the HTS Amsterdam in 1979. Further on he received a certificates in information technology from AMBI in 1984, and a certificates in business economics from the Open University in the Netherlands in 1988.
Schekkerman started working as assistant scientist at the Free University Amsterdam in 1973. The next year he started working at the Red Cross Hospital in Beverwijk, where he became chief information officer and participated in the development of medical information technology. From 1985 to 1989 he managed the IT Research & Development department of the insurance company Centraal Beheer, and in 1989 became IT consultant at the Dutch Software developer RAET. From 1995 till 2005 he was business and Information Technology consultant for Capgemini, from 2005 till 2008 Business Technology Strategy & Enterprise Architecture consultant for Verdonck, Klooster & Associates in the Netherlands, and from 2008 till 2012 management consultant for Logica, and lecturer at the Delft TopTech Program of the Technical University Delft. From 2012 till 2016 Jaap Schekkerman was Global Director Cyber Protection & Resilience at CGI, a Canadian IT & Security Firm responsible for Worldwide Cyber Protection & Resilience in Industrial Control Systems. His main focus was helping Global Industrial, Pharmaceutical & Energy Companies in defining their Cyber & Physical Protectection & Resilience Architecture as a foundation for further implementations.
In 1982 Schekkerman received the American Ames Award for his article about future medical information technology development. In 2001 he founded the Institute For Enterprise Architecture Developments (IFEAD) in the Netherlands.
In 2012 Schekkerman became Global Director Cyber Security at CGI (Canada) where he was responsible for Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems at companies worldwide.
In 2013 Schekkerman is awarded with the International Global Excellence iCMG Hall of Fame Award for his 20 years contribution to the Enterprise and Security Architecture Profession at the Architecture World Summit 2013, India.
In 2015 Schekkerman was one the leading founders of the Cyber Research Center - Industrial Control Systems, a cyber research center focused on Cyber Protection & Resilience of Industrial Control Systems. Cyber Protection & Resilience are the Only Drivers for Successful Architecture Today
In 2018 Schekkerman stopped his activities at the Cyber Research Center - Industrial Control Systems for personal reasons.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20340001%E2%80%93341000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadatabad-e%20Lishtar | Sadatabad-e Lishtar (, also Romanized as Sฤdฤtฤbฤd-e Lฤซshtar; also known as Sฤdฤt) is a village in Lishtar Rural District, in the Central District of Gachsaran County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 116, in 25 families.
References
Populated places in Gachsaran County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad-e%20Lishtar | Saadatabad-e Lishtar (, also Romanized as Saโฤdatฤbฤd-e Lฤซshtar; also known as Saโฤdatฤbฤd) is a village in Lishtar Rural District, in the Central District of Gachsaran County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 277, in 70 families.
References
Populated places in Gachsaran County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Highway%2021%20%28Uttar%20Pradesh%29 | Uttar Pradesh State Highway 21 (UP SH 21) passes through Bilaraya - Lakhimpur - Sitapur - Panwari and covers a distance of 385.46ย km.
Uttar Pradesh state in India has a series of road networks. There are 35 national highways with total length of 4635ย km and 83 state highways with total length of .
See also
State highway
State Highway (India)
Lakhimpur Kheri district
Dudhwa National Park
References
External links
Lakhimpur Kheri official website
State Highway 21 on Google Maps
State Highways in Uttar Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Highway%2025%20%28Uttar%20Pradesh%29 | Uttar Pradesh State Highway 25 (UP SH 25) starts from Palia (Lakhimpur) and goes to Lucknow and covers a distance of 265.50ย km.
Uttar Pradesh state in India has a series of road networks. There are 35 national highways with total length of 4635ย km and 83 state highways with total length of .
See also
State highway
State Highway (India)
Lakhimpur Kheri district
Dudhwa National Park
References
External links
Lakhimpur Kheri official website
State Highway 25 on Google Maps
Transport in Lakhimpur Kheri district
State Highways in Uttar Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Highway%2026%20%28Uttar%20Pradesh%29 | Uttar Pradesh State Highway 26 (UP SH 26) passes through Pilibhit - Lakhimpur - Bahraich - Basti and covers a distance of 402.03ย km.
Uttar Pradesh state in India has a series of road networks. There are 35 national highways with total length of 4635ย km and 83 state highways with total length of .
See also
State highway
State Highway (India)
Lakhimpur Kheri district
Dudhwa National Park
References
External links
Lakhimpur Kheri official website
State Highway 26 on Google Maps
Transport in Lakhimpur Kheri district
State Highways in Uttar Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Highway%2090%20%28Uttar%20Pradesh%29 | Uttar Pradesh State Highway 90 (UP SH 90) passes through Lakhimpur - Bijua - Palia - Gauriphanta and covers a distance of .
Uttar Pradesh state in India has a series of road networks, there are 35 national highways with total length of and 83 state highways with total length of .
See also
State highway
State Highway (India)
Lakhimpur Kheri district
Dudhwa National Park
References
External links
Lakhimpur Kheri official website
State Highway 90 on Google Maps
Transport in Lakhimpur Kheri district
State Highways in Uttar Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Highway%2093%20%28Uttar%20Pradesh%29 | Uttar Pradesh State Highway 93 (UP SH 93) starts from Gola (Lakhimpur) and goes to Shahjanhapur and covers a distance of 58.62ย km.
Uttar Pradesh state in India has a series of road networks, there are 35 national highways with total length of 4635ย km and 83 state highways with total length of .
See also
State highway
State Highway (India)
Lakhimpur Kheri district
Dudhwa National Park
References
External links
Lakhimpur Kheri official website
State Highway 93 on Google Maps
Transport in Lakhimpur Kheri district
State Highways in Uttar Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdapTV | AdapTV is the world's first dedicated to the mobility impaired, hearing impaired, and visually impaired.
AdapTV initially launched as a network of low power broadcasting stations (LPTV) that all carried the same programming, with the flagship station being KALTV in St. Louis, MO.
History
In late 2011 AdapTV sold or closed down most of its LPTV stations in order to raise funds for and concentrate on a national cable television launch.
In mid 2012, AdapTV began broadcasting in cable markets nationwide. Some viewers who received AdapTV's low power signal are no longer able to receive the channel as their cable company does not carry it leading to a large volume of requests for a relaunch of LPTV stations in those markets or internet streaming of the channel. Officials for the network stated that the latter is in the works.
Prior to AdapTV, the Silent Network and Kaleidescope TV both served all or part of this audience. The Silent Network featured programming with open captioning and sign-language for the hearing impaired and deaf starting in 1980. The network was later purchased by a private group in San Antonio, TX who eventually transformed the channel into Kaleidescope TV which was envisioned as a channel for viewers of visual, hearing, mobility and other impairments but later became a general health network before ceasing to broadcast several years later.
Programming
Programming on AdapTV is as diverse as general entertainment networks and broadcast channels for the general viewing community.
Sports
Deaflympics
The network covers live or tape delayed coverage of most sporting events, open and closing ceremonies for the Deaflympics, the Olympics sanctioned sporting event held every four years. The next Deaflympics starts June 23, 2013 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Paralympics
The Paralympics is a major international sporting event for athletes with physical and mobility difficulties andcarried live and in repeats on AdapTV.
Wheelchair racing
AdapTV carries Wheelchair Racing every Sunday afternoon as part of its sports block.
News
AdapTV has the US's only open-captioned news broadcasts and also includes sign-language interpretation and audio description for the visually impaired. All major news stories are covered as well as stories of special interest to AdapTV viewers. Sign-language interpretation has been available on news broadcasts internationally for years including a special programming block on the BBC which AdapTV also carries.
Films and Series
Kids TV
AdapTV provides a wide variety of children's programming including films, cartoons, educational series and more for children who are hard of hearing or deaf, visually impaired or blind or physically or mobility challenged. As well the network seeks to reach the friends of these children and help create an inclusive environment. Much of the programming is produced by AdapTV, colleges for the hearing and visually impaired and the BBC
Events
Miss Deaf America
Miss Deaf America is the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gothenburg%20tram%20stations | This article is a list of all Gothenburg tram network stations, which serve Gothenburg in southwest Sweden.
References
Tram
Tram transport in Sweden
Tram stations
Gothenburg tram stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral%20History%20Metadata%20Synchronizer | The Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) is a web application designed to enhance online access to oral history interviews. OHMS was originally designed and created by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries in 2008 for deployment through the Kentucky Digital Library. In 2011, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History received a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to make the system open source and free to use with interoperability and sustainability as the primary goals. According to the Nunn Center, "The primary purpose for OHMS is to empower users to more effectively and efficiently discover information in an oral history interview online by connecting the user from a search result to the corresponding moment in an interview."
OHMS is a two-part system which includes the web app (the back-end) and the viewer (user interface). The web application is used to prepare the oral history interview by embedding timecode into a transcript or creating a time-coded index of the interview, which is then viewable online in the OHMS Viewer, accessible from the archive's chosen content management system. "The programme enables researchers to search through an oral history recording using keywords, and to be taken to the exact moment that the keyword is spoken. It means researchers do not have to scroll through hours of tape or pages of transcript before finding the topic they are interested in."
The original version of OHMS synchronized transcribed text with time code in the audio/video, as well as providing a user map/viewer that connected search results of a transcript to the corresponding moments in the audio or video. OHMS designer Doug Boyd writes, "OHMS inexpensively and efficiently encodes transcripts of interviews and then connects the transcripts to the corresponding moments in the audio or video interview."
In 2011, the Nunn Center introduced the Interview Indexing Module which allows indexing or annotation of an interview that corresponds to time-code. In his article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Brad Wolverton writes about Doug Boyd's work on OHMS: "Through his work as director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History heโs developed a method for indexing audio and video recordings, making it easy for researchers to call up precise words without having to listen to endless hours of tape." In the Fall of 2011, the Institute for Museum and Library Services awarded the Nunn Center a National Leadership Grant of$195,853 to further develop OHMS for open source distribution. OHMS is currently being developed and the grant initiative is working with project partners to implement the system beyond the University of Kentucky.
OHMS Viewer Examples
OHMS Viewer: synchronized transcript
OHMS Viewer: interview index
OHMS Viewer: synchronized transcript + interview index
OHMS Viewer: bilingual (synchronized transcript + translation)
Development Timeline
According to the N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20of%20Transmission%20System%20Operators | European Network of Transmission System Operators may refer to:
European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity
European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roel%20Vertegaal | Roeland "Roel" Vertegaal (born July 13, 1968) is a Dutch-Canadian interaction designer, scientist, musician and entrepreneur working in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. He is best known for his pioneering work on flexible and paper computers, with systems such as PaperWindows (2004), PaperPhone (2010) and PaperTab (2012).
References
1968 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Humanโcomputer interaction researchers
Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston
People from Leiden
Dutch expatriates in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet%20%26%20Clank%3A%20Into%20the%20Nexus | Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus (known as Ratchet & Clank: Nexus in PAL regions) is a 2013 platform video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is the eighth main installment in the Ratchet & Clank series and the fourth and final installment in its Future Saga. The series is noted for the inclusion of exotic and unique locations and over-the-top gadgets, elements of the traditional Ratchet & Clank experience that return in this game.
Into the Nexus received generally positive reception upon release, although lower than previous games in the Future series, with reviewers praising its graphics, gameplay, controls, and humor, but criticizing its story and short length. The next release in the series, a reimagining of the first installment, was released for the PlayStation 4 in April 2016, while a proper sequel, titled Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, was released for the PlayStation 5 in June 2021.
Gameplay
The gameplay is similar to other games in the Ratchet & Clank series but more focused on gravity. The game features new weapons and gadgets as well as some returning ones, including the Fusion Grenade and The Warmonger. The game introduces weapons including the Winterizer, which creates a tornado that freezes enemies and turns them into snowmen; The OmniBlaster, a fast, short-range weapon, and; a Nightmare Box, a device that scares enemies, usually in forms of clowns, an eye or a pirate leaving Ratchet all sorts of weapons to eliminate them. Skill Points, Cheats and Gold Bolts make their return. Gadgets include The Repulsor, which suspends enemies in mid-air. Gravity is a vital entity, as it is used to travel to hard to reach places. Clank participates in 2D sections referred to The Netherverses which are mind bending puzzles, where Clank must navigate a treacherous maze while a Nether follows him. The main goal is for the Nether to reach the other side of the rift through the protagonist Ratchet's dimension.
Characters such as Zephyr, Cronk, Talwyn, Captain Qwark and The Plumber return, as well as the army of enemies called Thugs-4-Less. The Intergalactic Arena (named later as Destructapalooza) also returns. Raritanium is used to upgrade weapons. The game has three difficulty settings: Cadet, Hero and Legend. A Challenge Mode is available.
Plot
Some time after the events of Full Frontal Assault, Ratchet and Clank (having joined the Polaris Defense Force), along with Cronk and Zephyr, are assigned to escort criminal Vendra Prog to a remote prison to serve her life sentence, aboard the ship Nebulox Seven. While Vendra is being prepped for the handoff, she uses her psychic powers to disable the ship's power, putting the crew's survival at risk. Although Ratchet manages to fix the damage, a small army of Thugs-4-Less mercenaries led by Vendra's twin brother Neftin attack the ship and rescue her. The mercenaries blow up the Nebulox with explosives, killing Cronk and Zephyr. Ratche |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium%20%28programming%20language%29 | Tritium is a simple scripting language for efficiently transforming structured data like HTML, XML, and JSON. It is similar in purpose to XSLT but has a syntax influenced by jQuery, Sass, and CSS versus XSLT's XML based syntax.
History
Tritium was designed by Hampton Catlin, the creator of languages Sass and Haml and is currently bundled with the Moovweb mobile platform.
As with Sass (created to address deficiencies in CSS) and Haml (created to address deficiencies in coding HTML templates), Catlin designed Tritium to address issues he saw with XSLT while preserving the core benefits of a transformation language. Much of this was based on his prior experience porting Wikipedia's desktop website to the mobile web.
Open Tritium is the open source implementation of the Tritium language. It was presented at O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2014 and the compiler is implemented in Go.
Concept
Tritium takes as input HTML, XML, or JSON documents and outputs HTML, XML, or JSON data that has been transformed according to the rules defined in the Tritium script. Like jQuery, idiomatic Tritium code is structured around selecting a collection of elements via a CSS or XPath selector and then chaining a series of operations on them.
For example, the following script will select all the HTML table elements with id of foo and change their width attributes to 100%.
# Select all HTML nodes that are table elements with ID foo.
# The $$() function takes a regular CSS selector
$$(โtable#fooโ) {
# change the width attributes to โ100%โ
attribute(โwidthโ, โ100%โ)
}
While Tritium supports both XPath and CSS selectors via the $() and $$() functions (respectively), the preferred usage is XPath. For example, the above code rewritten to use the equivalent XPath selector would be:
# Select all HTML nodes that are table elements with ID foo.
# The $() uses XPath
$(โ//table[@id=โfooโ]โ) {
# change the width attributes to โ100%โ
attribute(โwidthโ, โ100%โ)
}
Comparison to XSLT
Both Tritium and XSLT are designed for transforming data. However, Tritium differs in key ways to make it more familiar and easier to use for web developers:
Familiar syntax: Tritium's syntax is similar to CSS and jQuery so that it is more familiar and readable to web developers than the XML based syntax of XSLT.
Imperative style: Tritium uses an imperative programming style instead of the functional and recursive processing model of XSLT. While functional programming has key advantages, it is less familiar to web designers than imperative programming.
Input transparency: In XSLT any input elements that are not specified by a transform rule are removed from the output. Tritium reverses this behavior: any input elements that are not specified by a transform rule are passed to the output unchanged.
HTML-compatible: Tritium was designed to process HTML, XML, and JSON, whereas XSLT only works on XML.
References
External links
Open Tritium website
GitHub page for Open Tritium
Offici |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SegReg | In statistics and data analysis, the application software SegReg is a free and user-friendly tool for linear segmented regression analysis to determine the breakpoint where the relation between the dependent variable and the independent variable changes abruptly.
Features
SegReg permits the introduction of one or two independent variables. When two variables are used, it first determines the relation between the dependent variable and the most influential independent variable, where after it finds the relation between the residuals and the second independent variable. Residuals are the deviations of observed values of the dependent variable from the values obtained by segmented regression on the first independent variable.
The breakpoint is found numerically by adopting a series tentative breakpoints and performing a linear regression at both sides of them. The tentative breakpoint that provides the largest coefficient of determination (as a parameter for the fit of the regression lines to the observed data values) is selected as the true breakpoint. To assure that the lines at both sides of the breakpoint intersect each other exactly at the breakpoint, SegReg employs two methods and selects the method giving the best fit.
SegReg recognizes many types of relations and selects the ultimate type on the basis of statistical criteria like the significance of the regression coefficients. The SegReg output provides statistical confidence belts of the regression lines and a confidence block for the breakpoint. The confidence level can be selected as 90%, 95% and 98% of certainty.
To complete the confidence statements, SegReg provides an analysis of variance and an Anova table.
During the input phase, the user can indicate a preference for or an exclusion of a certain type. The preference for a certain type is only accepted when it is statistically significant, even when the significance of another type is higher.
ILRI provides examples of application to magnitudes like crop yield, watertable depth, and soil salinity.
A list of publications in which SegReg is used can be consulted.
Equations
When only one independent variable is present, the results may look like:
X < BP ย ==> ย Y = A1.X + B1 + RY
X > BP ย ==> ย Y = A2.X + B2 + RY
where BP is the breakpoint, Y is the dependent variable, X the independent variable, A the regression coefficient, B the regression constant, and RY the residual of Y.
When two independent variables are present, the results may look like:
X < BPX ย ==> ย Y = A1.X + B1 + RY
X > BPX ย ==> ย Y = A2.X + B2 + RY
Z < BPZ ย ==> ย RY = C1.Z + D1
Z > BPZ ย ==> ย RY = C2.Z + D2
where, additionally, BPX is BP of X, BPZ is BP of Z, Z is the second independent variable, C is the regression coefficient, and D the regression constant for the regression of RY on Z.
Substituting the expressions of RY in the second set of equations into the first set yields:
X < BPX and Z < BPZ ย ==> ย Y = A1.X + C1.Z + |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moler%20%28surname%29 | Moler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Cleve Moler (born 1939), American mathematician and computer programmer
Janja Moler (1780-1841), Serbian iconographer
Janko Mihailoviฤ Moler (1792โ1853), Serbian priest and artist
Kathryn Moler (born 1966), American physicist
Petar Nikolajeviฤ Moler (1775โ1816), Serbian politician
See also
Moller
Moser (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberiada%20%28opera%29 | Cyberiada (also known by its German title ) is an opera in three acts (11 scenes) composed by Krzysztof Meyer to a Polish-language libretto by the composer himself, based on The Cyberiad, a series of science fiction short stories by Stanisลaw Lem. It won the Grand Prix of the Prince Pierre of Monaco composers' competition in 1970 and was first performed in its entirety on 11 May 1986 at the Opernhaus Wuppertal.
Background and performance history
Meyer's first (and only) opera, Cyberiada was composed between 1967 and 1970. The composer himself wrote the libretto which is based on Stanisลaw Lem's The Cyberiad, a darkly comic series of science fiction short stories. The revolutionary approach by Meyer in terms of music included the incorporation of chance into the process of creation known as aleatoricism, and the use of sonorism in orchestration, based on inventing new types of sounds on individual instruments. The opera won the Grand Prix of the Prince Pierre of Monaco composers' competition in 1970. The first act was premiered on Polish television in 1971. The first complete performance of the work took place at the Opernhaus Wuppertal on 11 May 1986 conducted by . On that occasion, it was performed as Kyberiade in a German translation by Jรถrg Morgener (pseudonym of Jรผrgen Kรถchel). The stage director was Friedrich Meyer-Oertel.
The opera was given its Polish premiere and sung in the original Polish at the Grand Theatre, Poznaล, on 25 May 2013 in honour of Meyer's 70th birthday. It was the first time the opera had been revived since its premiere in Wuppertal. The Poznaล production was directed by Ran Arthur Braun and conducted by Krzysztof Sลowiลski, with space-scenography by Justin C. Arienti.
Roles
Synopsis
The setting of the opera is described in German as "Auf der Erde in der Zukunft, im kybernetischen Zeitalter" (On Earth in the future, in the cybernetic era). The libretto follows the "nested stories" ("nested fairy tales") format, with the internal stories corresponding to Lem's original texts.
Queen Genia (Genialina) suffers from melancholy. To cheer herself up, she asks her android Trull (a robotic engineer and a powerful supercomputer, a counterpart of Lem's Trurl) to construct robots who can invent fairytales for her amusement. Three machines each entertain her by telling a different story. This is where fairytales inside a tale begin. However, Trull makes sure that he himself is featured in every one of them.
The first story recounts how Trull builds a supercomputer for Mondrylion (the name is kind of "Smarty-boots" in Polish, named Mandrilius in the German version), the King of the FarTooMany folk. When the King tries to get his new computer to destroy Trull, the wily engineer saves himself by a clever trick.
The second story recounts how the subject of King Voluptatus (Krรณl Rozporyk in Polish, i.e. Zipperupus), a constructor named Chytrian (Listig in German), tries to get rid of him because he has completely lost touch with re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiko%20Estrada | Jason Joseph Francis Carlos Diaz Ejercito (; born June 4, 1995), known professionally as Kiko Estrada, is a Filipino actor who is best known for his role in Tween Hearts on GMA Network before he transferred to ABS-CBN, where he appeared in Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto and Annaliza. In 2014, he moved back to GMA Network, where he appeared on several television dramas.
Background
Estrada was born in Manila. His mother, Cheska Diaz, is a former actress, and his father, Gary Estrada, is an actor who also serves as board member of Quezon Province. He is the grandson of Paquito Diaz and George Estregan. His parents have separated and each remarried, and he has several younger half-siblings. Of these, he has three half-sistersโGarielle Bernice, Garianna Beatrice and Gianna Bettinaโfrom his father's present wife, Bernadette Allyson, and he has a half-brother, Stefan, and a half-sister, Gabrielle Alexi, from his mother's present husband, Carlos Morales.
Estrada went to high school at Colegio San Agustin, he attended college at College of St. Benilde, where he enrolled in the diplomatic affairs program and he played a former college basketball team of College of St. Benilde. His parents were the main force that urged him to go into show business. He began acting lessons in ABS-CBNโs Star Magic in 2010.
Estrada was in a relationship with former Kapamilya and now Kapuso actress Devon Seron, but then confirmed their split in April 2021. Also has
previous relationship with Barbie Forteza. He was previously in a relationship with fellow Kapamilya actress, Heaven Peralejo.
Career
In 2011, Estrada's first appearance was in Reel Love: Tween Hearts. He played a supporting role in the youth-oriented television series and he teamed up with Barbie Forteza. The show ended in June 2012.
In 2012, four months after Tween Hearts ended, Estrada moved to ABS-CBN for non-contractual acting. In his new station, his first acting stint was a supporting role in noontime television series, Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto. The series ended in December 2012.
In 2013, Estrada formally signed a contract with ABS-CBN and started his time at the station by landing a role in Asiaโs longest drama anthology Maalaala Mo Kaya in the episode "Krus" where he was cast as the leading man of Julia Montes. He was also part of the remake of Annaliza where he played a supporting role.
In July 2013, Estrada announced his first foray into the movie world with a movie called Chasing Boulevards with co-star Kim Rodriguez and Teejay Marquez. He also appeared in Minute to Win It as a contestant joining the team of Star Magic Circle 2013.
In 2014 Estrada was originally part of the main cast of Mirabella as Julia Barretto's leading man but was later replaced by Enrique Gil and Sam Concepcion. After months of hiatus he came back and signed an exclusive contract with GMA Network via Strawberry Lane. He is paired with his Chasing Boulevard co-star Kim Rodriguez. He also played a callboy who learned about his |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanka%20Bell | Lanka Bell () is the 3rd largest fixed wireless operator and the 3rd largest fixed phone operator with an island wide digital wireless network in Sri Lanka.
Lanka Bell was formed in 1997 as the single largest BOI Company in Sri Lanka with an investment of over US$150 Million. It was subsequently acquired by the privately held diversified conglomerate Milford Holdings (Private) Limited in 2005.
Lanka Bell Services
Fixed wireless telephone services
Broadband Internet (4G LTE)
Internet leased lines
International private leased circuit
Managed Services
Internet Data Center
Virtual Private Networks
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Services
Bell Fax (soft Fax solution)
Bulk SMS Solutions
Voice Solutions E1/SIP Trunks
References
Telecommunications companies of Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Computer%20Science%2C%20Stony%20Brook%20University | The Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, United States, was established in 1969. The department completed the NSF-funded Reality Deck project, a 1.5 billion pixel immersive display which is the largest resolution immersive display ever built.
References
Stony Brook University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Koplovitz | Kay Koplovitz (nee Smith, born April 11, 1945) is an American businesswoman, best known as the founder of the cable television channel USA Network, for which she served as chairwoman and CEO from its founding in 1977 until 1998 when it was sold for $4.5 billion. She was the first woman in the US to head a television network. She is also the author of the books Bold Women, Big Ideas: Learning to Play the High-Risk Entrepreneurial Game, and Been There, Run That. She is credited with creating the joint advertising-licensing model, which became widespread among cable television networks.
Early life and education
Kay Koplovitz was born as Kay Smith in a middle-class neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, her mom worked in the home, and her father was a sales executive for a metal forging company. As a young child Koplovitz would always be looking for ways to make money, having an early affinity for salesmanship, her entrepreneurial spirt was being crafted, from selling Christmas cards to Girl Scout cookies, Koplovitz loved making ideas work, making money and being able to buy things she wanted.
Koplovitz graduated from the University of WisconsinโMadison with a B.A. in communications and earned a master's degree in communications from Michigan State University.
Between her junior and senior year Koplovitz visited England, and while on her travels saw a poster advertising a lecture on geosynchronous orbiting satellites. The then twenty year old Koplovitz was fascinated by the lecture, and later she wrote her masters thesis on satellite communications and the potential impact on governments, people, and communications.
Career
USA Networks
In 1975 Koplovitz joined Home Box Office and led the promotion of cable and satellite broadcasting of the Thrilla in Manila boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. September 30th 1975 would change history forever. The timing of the sporting event would be the turning point Koplovitz would need in order to launch her idea. The live broadcast of the famous boxing match, allowed congressman and senators to see that satellites could be used for good commercial purposes and give people much joy from experiencing the live broadcasts. She subsequently founded the USA Network in 1977 as an all-sports service, known as the Madison Square Garden Sports Network (not to be confused with the New York City-area regional sports network of the same name now simply known as MSG); She led the launch of the USA Network mainly as an all-sports service in order to compete with Home Box Office. The channel was renamed the USA Network in 1980. USA later become the number one ranking cable network in primetime viewership for 13 consecutive years. The USA Network was the first cable network to rely greatly on advertising revenue. Despite creating and supervising the network, Koplovitz did not own it, but remained its President during ownership changes. Under Koplovitz's leadership, the USA Network was the number one ranking ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanix%20Books | Humanix Books is an American print and e-book publishing house and a division of conservative news network Newsmax Media. The company publishes books in the areas of health, personal finance, current affairs, and politics. Books by the company are distributed by Two Rivers Distribution.
The company began operations in 1969. The first titles by the company were published in response to the need for higher quality classroom materials to support learning. In 2012 the company was acquired by Newsmax Media and shortly after Anthony Ziccardi was named the publisher of Humanix Books. The company released The ObamaCare Survival Guide by Nick J. Tate that same year. The book is about the arguments against the Affordable Care Act and it became a number one New York Times Best Seller in the Paperback Advice & Misc. category for paperback books. In 2015 Mary Glenn replaced Anthony Ziccardi as the publisher of the company. In 2019, Adam Keith Pfeffer was named the deputy publisher of the company.
References
External links
Book publishing companies based in New York City
Publishing companies established in 1969 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arie%20E.%20Kaufman | Arie E. Kaufman (born 1954) is an Israeli-American computer scientist best known for his work in volume visualization and virtual reality. Dr. Kaufman is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, where he is also Director of the Center for Visual Computing (CVC), and Chief Scientist at the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT). He has an H-Index of 84 and is currently the ninth most cited researcher in the world working in the area of visualization.
Education
Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Kaufman attended Hebrew University as an undergraduate, graduating in 1969 with BSc degrees in physics and mathematics. He later received his PhD in Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1977, supervised by Samuel Bergman.
Academic work
Within the field of computer science, Kaufman is known for his work in visualization, graphics, virtual reality, user interfaces, multimedia, and their applications, especially in bio-medicine. He is especially well known for his work on the 3-dimensional virtual colonoscopy, a revolutionary low-risk technique for colon cancer screening, and for pioneering the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and GPU-clusters. In 2012, he presided over the development and opening of the Reality Deck, the largest virtual reality display in the world, at Stony Brook University.
Kaufman was the founding Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), co-founded the IEEE Visualization Conference and Volume Graphics series, and is currently the director of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics. He is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, winner of many awards, including the IEEE Visualization Career Award, and member of the European Academy of Sciences.
References
Stony Brook University faculty
Living people
American computer scientists
1954 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Information visualization experts
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAT-1 | CAT-1 (also Technological Capsule 1, also Obรฉlix) was the first artificial Earth satellite launched by the European Space Agency on their own rocket, the Ariane 1. It was only intended to provide data on the launch characteristics of the new rocket and was only powered for 8 orbits.
References
External links
Image of satellite
European Space Agency satellites
First artificial satellites of a country
Satellites formerly orbiting Earth
Spacecraft launched in 1979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name%20conflict | Name conflict may refer to:
Name collision
Naming collision
Identifier#Implicit context and namespace conflicts
Name mangling
Name conflicts with minor planets
See also
Scope (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore | XKeyscore (XKEYSCORE or XKS) is a secret computer system used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for searching and analyzing global Internet data, which it collects in real time. The NSA has shared XKeyscore with other intelligence agencies, including the Australian Signals Directorate, Canada's Communications Security Establishment, New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau, Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, Japan's Defense Intelligence Headquarters, and Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst.
In July 2013, Edward Snowden publicly revealed the program's purpose and use by the NSA in The Sydney Morning Herald and O Globo newspapers. The code name was already public knowledge because it was mentioned in earlier articles, and, like many other code names, it appears in job postings and online rรฉsumรฉs of employees.
On July 3, 2014, German public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, a member of ARD, published excerpts of XKeyscore's source code. A team of experts analyzed the source code.
Scope and functioning
XKeyscore is a complicated system, and various authors have different interpretations of its actual capabilities. Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald explained XKeyscore as being a system which enables almost unlimited surveillance of anyone anywhere in the world, while the NSA has said that usage of the system is limited and restricted.
According to The Washington Post and national security reporter Marc Ambinder, XKeyscore is an NSA data-retrieval system which consists of a series of user interfaces, backend databases, servers and software that selects certain types of data and metadata that the NSA has already collected using other methods.
According to Snowden and Greenwald
On January 26, 2014, the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk asked Edward Snowden in its TV interview: "What could you do if you would use XKeyscore?" and he answered:
According to The Guardians Glenn Greenwald, low-level NSA analysts can, via systems like XKeyscore, "listen to whatever emails they want, whatever telephone calls, browsing histories, Microsoft Word documents. And it's all done with no need to go to a court, with no need to even get supervisor approval on the part of the analyst."
He added that the NSA's database of collected communications allows its analysts to listen "to the calls or read the emails of everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms that you've entered, and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future".
According to the NSA
In an official statement from July 30, 2013, the NSA said "XKeyscore is used as a part of NSA's lawful foreign signals intelligence collection system. ..." to legally obtain information about "legitimate foreign intelligence targets in response to requirements that our leaders need for information necessary to protect our nation and its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt%20for%20Exomoons%20with%20Kepler | The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) is a project whose aim is to search for exomoons, natural satellites of exoplanets, using data collected by the Kepler space telescope. Founded by British exomoonologist David Kipping and affiliated with the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, HEK submitted its first paper on June 30, 2011. HEK has since submitted five more papers, finding some evidence for an exomoon around a planet orbiting Kepler-1625b in July 2017.
Scientific work
HEK searches for exomoons in two ways, radial-velocity variation and transit-timing variation, both of which are based on alterations to the basic signal produced by the planet. For moons detected the first way, the sinusoidal changes in the wavelength of the light of the host star created by the planet may themselves be modulated slightly by a moon of the planet. In the second method, the interval at which a planet transits its host star may be made slightly shorter or longer under the gravitational influence of a moon, revealing its existence.
In its first paper, the Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler selected several Kepler planet candidates as search targets, based on the probability and detectability of potential moons around the planets. A second paper, published in early 2013, covering the properties of seven of the planet candidates, revealed no moons but allowed the astronomers to constrain the moon-to-planet mass ratios for the planets. A third paper, accepted by the Astrophysical Journal, analyzed the transit and radial-velocity signals of Kepler-22b, the first and only habitable-zone planet analyzed by the HEK team as of July 2013. As with previous searches, though, no moons were conclusively discovered, constraining the maximum mass of a Kepler-22b moon below 0.54 Earth masses with 95% confidence.
Despite the lack of positive results in one-and-a-half years of operation, several commentators, including Shannon Hall of Universe Today and Markus Hammonds of Discovery News, have expressed hope that there are billions of exomoons, many habitable, remaining to be found in the Milky Way. Citing the fact that the first exoplanets were not found in the first discovery efforts, and the fact that the Milky Way is extremely large and diverse, both commentators contend that exomoons will be found eventually.
In July 2017, the project reported weak evidence for a set of Io-like moons, and evidence for a moon around the planet orbiting Kepler-1625.
References
Exoplanet search projects
Kepler space telescope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis%20Bubenko | Janis Askolds Bubenko junior (; born 3 February 1935 in Riga, Latvia; died 15 January 2022 in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer and Systems Science, Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University.
Biography
Born 1935 in Riga, Latvia, Bubenko fled with his family to Sweden at the end of World War II in 1944. He received his MSc in civil engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1958, his Licentiate of Technology in structural mechanics also from the Chalmers University of Technology in 1958. In 1973 he received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1973, and his habilitation in 1974.
In 1961 Bubenko started his career as a manager in Univac Scandinavia, a branch of the U.S. computer company Univac. In 1965 he started as an assistant professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, where in 1969 he founded the research group Computer Aided Design of Information Systems (CADIS). From 1977 to 1981 he was a professor of Computer and Systems Sciences at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, and from 1981 to 2000 professor at the Royal Institute of Technology and University of Stockholm.
Bubenko has chaired multiple Information Systems conferences since the late 1970s. He is member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.1.
Publications
Bubenko authored and co-authored more than 140 articles, and seven textbooks in the fields of "Information Systems Development Methods, Performance Analysis of Data Processing Systems, Operating Systems, and Conceptual Modelling Methods". Books, a selection:
1971. Computer-aided information systems analysis and design. The first Scandinavian workshop. With Arne Sรธlvberg and Bรถrje Langefors (Eds).
1973. Contributions to formal description, analysis and design of data processing systems. Stockholm. Libris
2000. Information systems engineering: state of the art and research themes. With Sjaak Brinkkemper, Eva Lindencrona and Arne Sรธlvberg.
2003. Working Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (1st : 2003 : Trondheim, Norway) History of Nordic computing : IFIP WG9.7 First Working Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1), June 16โ18, 2003, Trondheim, Norway. Edited with Arne Sรธlvberg and John Impagliazzo.
Articles, a selection:
2007. "From Information Algebra to Enterprise Modelling and Ontologies - a Historical Perspective on Modelling for Information Systems". In: Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering. John Krogstie et al. eds. pp 1โ18
References
External links
Janis A. Bubenko jr at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
1935 births
Living people
Information systems researchers
Swedish computer scientists
Academic sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20REX | The Samsung REX series is a range of Samsung smartphones and feature phones, ranging from low to mid-end phones, running a Java-based operating system with Samsung's TouchWiz user interface. It was one of the Samsung line of devices that are aimed at the budget phone market alongside lower end Samsung Galaxy devices. Its main competition includes the Nokia Asha range and Firefox OS.
Currently, most devices are dual-SIM equipped and only released in the Indian market. The Samsung REX 90 was being also sold in CIS countries.
List of devices
There are four mobile phones in the REX range ever released
REX 60 (also known as Samsung Champ Deluxe)
REX 70 (also available as single-SIM phone)
REX 80 (also known as Samsung Star 3, but with improved software)
REX 90
See also
Firefox OS
Nokia Asha series
References
Mobile phones introduced in 2013
Samsung smartphones
REX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20train%20backbone | An Ethernet train backbone (ETB) is a train communication network based on Ethernet technology standardised with IEC-61375-2-5. This is a train-wide communication backbone such as Wire Train Bus (WTB).
Notes and references
See also
Ethernet consist network (ECN)
External links
Industrial Ethernet
Network topology
Networking standards
Ethernet standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Things%20Foundation | Good Things Foundation is a registered charity based in the UK, the objective of which is to make the benefits of digital technology more accessible. It manages the Online Centres Network, the Learn My Way learning platform, and the National Databank.
The charity was originally known as Online Centres Foundation before rebranding as Tinder Foundation in 2013. A further rebrand, to Good Things Foundation, took place in November 2016. Good Things Foundation's chief executive is Helen Milner OBE.
History
Originally known as Online Centres Foundation, the charity was established in December 2011 to manage the UK online centres contract, taking on the network on from learndirect (then Ufi Ltd).
In July 2013, the company rebranded as Tinder Foundation. In November 2016, they rebranded once more as Good Things Foundation, partially to avoid confusion with dating application Tinder.
Operations
Since founding, Good Things Foundation has managed the Online Centres Network โ providing support to community organisations teaching digital skills through a learning platform, called Learn My Way. The charity adopted a new strategy in 2022, establishing a 'National Databank' which provides free access to mobile connectivity data for people on low incomes.
Funding
Good Things Foundation receives funding from a mixture of public, private and third sectors, including Virgin Media O2, Vodafone, and Nominet UK. The charity has worked closely with government departments, and currently works with regional authorities including the Greater London Authority and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
People
CEO
Helen Milner (2011 โย present)
Chair
Lord Jim Knight (2011 โย 2016)
Liz Williams (2016 โ present)
References
External links
Online Centres Network
Learn My Way
helenmilner.com
2011 establishments in the United Kingdom
Information technology charities based in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Sheffield
Social enterprises
Organizations established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amari%20Hotels%20and%20Resorts | Amari Hotels and Resorts is a Thai-based hotel and resort chain owned by ONYX Hospitality Group, operating a network of properties in urban and resort destinations throughout Thailand and Asia. Amari serves as the centerpiece of ONYX Hospitality Group's portfolio of brands, reflecting the warmth and energy of an evolving modern Asia. Amari's network of properties spans Thailand and beyond, from scenic seaside locations to vibrant urban settings including Hua Hin, Pattaya, Samui, Phuket, Krabi, Bangkok, Dhaka, the Maldives, Johor Bahru, andย Vang Vieng in Laos.
History
Founded by the parent company Italthai in Thailand in 1965, under Siam Lodge Hotel Group, it later became Amari Hotels and Resorts Company Limited in 1992.
In April 1995, Amari formed a joint venture with Philippine Public Estates Authority to form a reclamation project called Freedom Islands in the Philippines and was approved by then-President Fidel V. Ramos on June the same year. It never came to fruition as it was marred by allegations of corruption.
In 2010, Amari Hotels and Resorts announced a new corporate structure with the creation of ONYX Hospitality Group, as a hotel management company. This restructure has allowed the company to pursue its expansion plans in moving beyond Thailand.
ONYX Hospitality Group has a range of hotels, resorts, serviced apartments and spa brands including Amari, Shama, OZO, The Saffron Collection and Breeze Spa.
In 2010, the Amari brand was relaunched with a new brand identity โColours and Rhythmsโ.
In 2020, the brand launched a refreshed brand identity 'Brighten Your World' to celebrate contemporary Thainess; food, arts, design, architecture, wellness, festivities and fun through its service, product design, brand signatures and experiences.
The Amari culture
Celebrating contemporary culture: Guests are provided with a revitalised view of contemporary local culture
International standards: Reliable quality and consistent service that can be trusted
Straight from the heart: Down-to-earth service from genuine and caring team members
Vibrant spaces: Specially designed spaces, activities, food & beverages so guests can come together
Hotels
As of October 2023, Amari has 14 properties in Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Maldives.
Upcoming Hotels
Dancing with the Stars
In January 2013, BBC Worldwide Ltd. partnered with Amari to bring television show Dancing with the Stars to Thailand. The premier of Dancing with the Stars (Thailand) aired on 7 January 2013 and ran for a total of 7 x 90-minute episodes.
References
External links
Amari official website
Hospitality companies of Thailand
1965 establishments in Thailand
Companies based in Bangkok
Hotel chains in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Gringos | Los Gringos is a 1999 computer animated short created and written by Anders J. L. Beer and written/directed by Rob Letterman. It was an official selection for the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
Cast
John Leader as Narrator
Pat Morita as Samurai
Charles Napier as Gringo Cowboy
References
External links
Los Gringos at TMC.com
1999 films
American comedy short films
1999 comedy films
1999 animated films
1990s American animated films
American animated short films
Films directed by Rob Letterman
Films scored by Michael Giacchino
1990s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%202%3A%20The%20Game | Don 2: The Game is an action-adventure video game developed by Gameshastra and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. It is based on the film of the same name. The game was released only in India in February 2013. It is one of the last games released by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Don 2 focuses primarily on shooter style missions with stealth elements. The game includes twelve missions and four boss battles including Kuala Lumpur and Berlin.
References
External links
Don 2 Game
2013 video games
Action games
Gameshastra games
India-exclusive video games
Organized crime video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation Portable games
Single-player video games
Third-person shooters
Video games based on films
Video games developed in India
Video games set in Berlin
Video games set in Malaysia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla%20Savage | Carla Diane Savage is an American computer scientist and mathematician, a professor of computer science at North Carolina State University and a former secretary of the American Mathematical Society (2013-2020).
Education and research
Savage earned her Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Illinois at UrbanaโChampaign under the supervision of David E. Muller; her thesis concerned parallel graph algorithms. Much of her more recent research has concerned Gray codes and algorithms for efficient generation of combinatorial objects.
Awards and honors
In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2019 she was named a SIAM Fellow "for outstanding research in algorithms of discrete mathematics and in computer science applications, alongside exemplary service to mathematics".
Selected publications
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
American women computer scientists
Women mathematicians
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
North Carolina State University faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
21st-century American mathematicians
20th-century American women
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudscaling | The Cloudscaling Group, Inc., was a software company based in San Francisco, California, USA. The companyโs Open Cloud System is a cloud computing system based on the OpenStack open-source software project. It is used to deploy infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public, private and hybrid clouds that support applications typically found on public cloud infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services or Google Compute Engine. These applications are often referred to as cloud-ready applications, which Cloudscaling refers to as dynamic applications and are contrasted with traditional enterprise IT applications.
History
Cloudscaling was founded in 2006 by Randy Bias and Adam Waters. It started as a professional services company selling custom cloud infrastructure for large service providers, chiefly telecom service providers. The companyโs engineering team had previously worked on cloud projects for Yahoo!, Amazon Web Services, VMware and Puppet Labs. KT Corporation (formerly Korea Telecom) was an early customer, for which the company in 2010 designed and deployed a cloud with CloudStack software and another that was the first OpenStack storage cloud (Swift) outside of Rackspace. Cloudscaling also designed and deployed an OpenStack Swift storage cloud for Internap in 2011.
In February 2012, the company shifted its focus to become a product company, announcing version 1.0 of Open Cloud System.
In early 2013, the company announced the general availability of Open Cloud System 2.0 and announced Ubisoft, Living Social and EVault as reference customers. The company in April signed partnerships with both Seagate Technology and Juniper Networks, both of which joined Trinity Ventures in a Series B round valued at $10 million.
In October 2014, the company was purchased by EMC Corporation for an undisclosed sum.
References
External links
Cloudscaling website
Companies based in San Francisco
Companies established in 2006
2006 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Einreinhofer | Bill Einreinhofer is an American television producer, director, writer and educator. He has developed and produced programming for the PBS NewsHour, Good Morning America and HBO. A member of the Directors Guild of America, he was an executive producer at WNET in New York and for the PBS series Innovation. He produced, directed and wrote Spacewalkers: The Ultimate High-Wire Act for the Discovery Channel. His most recent Public TV documentary is China: Frame by Frame. (2023) When Bill Einreinhofer stepped off the plane in Beijing more than 30 years ago, he had no idea it was the first of dozens of visits to China. He would spend much of his professional career making stories in and about China. The film is distributed by the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) and was seen on 250+ Public TV stations nationwide as well as on the PBS App. He was Executive Producer of the independent feature film Invisible Love, the story of a young, idealistic woman repeatedly betrayed by the men in her life. The film is set during the 1930s in what was then known as French Indochina. It was selected Best International Feature at the 2021 Paris International Film Festival. He is Chair Emeritus of the Broadcast Journalism department at the New York Film Academy. In addition to working on NYFA's Manhattan campus, he has also taught and co-taught media and journalism seminars across Asia. Many of his former students have gone on to successful careers in broadcast and digital journalism throughout the United States and around the world.
Career
He conceived and was executive producer of Innovation, the PBS science, health and technology news series. This included supervising production of the Innovation mini-series People in Motion. Hosted by Itzhak Perlman and Marlee Matlin, People in Motion was praised for its focus on technology as a means of empowerment for people with disabilities. He has also developed and produced programming for the PBS NewsHour, Good Morning America and HBO. He produced, directed and wrote Spacewalkers: The Ultimate High-Wire Act for the Discovery Channel.
Over the course of his career, Einreinhofer has won numerous awards, including three Emmy Awards, a CINE Golden Eagle, a Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival and a Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival.
While an executive producer at WNET in New York, Einreinhofer was responsible for the PBS non-fiction mini-series and specials The Future Is Now, The Stuff of Dreams and Earth Tech '92. An international co-production, Earth Tech โ92 was hosted by NPR correspondent Scott Simon from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (popularly known as the "Earth Summit") in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
He has produced an extensive body of work in and about China. The first program was the public television documentary China Now: To Get Rich Is Glorious, which explored what China's leaders dubbed "socialism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Scheinerman | Edward R. Scheinerman is an American mathematician, working in graph theory and order theory. He is a professor of applied mathematics, statistics, and computer science at Johns Hopkins University. His contributions to mathematics include Scheinerman's conjecture, now proven, stating that every planar graph may be represented as an intersection graph of line segments.
Scheinerman did his undergraduate studies at Brown University, graduating in 1980, and earned his Ph.D. in 1984 from Princeton University under the supervision of Douglas B. West. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1984, and since 2000 he has been an administrator there, serving as department chair, associate dean, vice dean for education, vice dean for graduate education, and vice dean for faculty (effective September 2019).
He is a two-time winner of the Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award for expository writing, in 1991 for his paper "Random intervals" with Joyce Justicz and Peter Winkler, and in 2001 for his paper "When Close is Close Enough". In 1992 he became a fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, and in 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Selected publications
Books
Invitation to Dynamical Systems (Prentice Hall, 1996, reprinted by Dover Publications, 2012).
Fractional Graph Theory (With Daniel Ullman, Wiley, 1997, reprinted by Dover Publications, 2011).
Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction. (Brooks/Cole, 2000; 3rd edition, Cengage Learning, 2012).
C++ for mathematicians : an introduction for students and professionals (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006).
The Mathematics Lover's Companion: Masterpieces for Everyone (Yale University Press, 2017).
Papers
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References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Graph theorists
Brown University alumni
Princeton University alumni
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20M%C3%A4hr | Christian Mรคhr (born 1952) is an Austrian chemist and science fiction writer. His novel Fatous Staub concerns parallel worlds, computers, and the mathematical work of Pierre Fatou. It won the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis and the Kurd-Laรwitz-Preis for 1992.
References
People from Vorarlberg
1952 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Disney%20Channel%20%28Portuguese%20TV%20channel%29 | This is a list of television programs currently broadcast (in first-run or reruns), scheduled to be broadcast or formerly broadcast on Disney Channel Portugal.
Programming
Current programming
Original programming
Live-action
Bunk'd (March 18, 2016 โ present)
Raven's Home (February 16, 2018 โ present)
Sydney to the Max (January 4, 2021 โ present)
Secrets of Sulphur Springs (May 1, 2021 โ present)
The Villains of Valley View (March 13, 2023 โ present)
Animated
Mickey Mouse (September 13, 2013 โ present)
Big City Greens (July 1, 2019 โ present)
The Ghost and Molly McGee (February 21, 2022 โ present)
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (March 10, 2023 โ present)
Hamster & Gretel (April 1, 2023 โ present)
Kiff (May 15, 2023 โ present)
Reruns
Animated
Amphibia (September 14, 2020 โ November 22, 2022, first-run; November 23, 2022 โ present, reruns)
Acquired programming
Other programming
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir (February 22, 2016 โ present)
Sadie Sparks (February 3, 2020 โ present)
Ghostforce (September, 2021 โ present)
The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti (May 9, 2022 โ present)
Former programming
Original programming
Animated series
Kim Possible (September 15, 2003 โ June 20, 2008, first-run; June 21, 2008 โ 2011, April 29, 2013 โ 2014, reruns)
The Proud Family (September 20, 2003 โ 2008, first-run; 2010 โ 2011, reruns)
Lilo & Stitch: The Series (January 5, 2004 โ 2007, first-run; 2007 โ 2009, 2011 โ 2014, reruns)
Dave the Barbarian (2004 โ 2005, first-run; 2005 โ 2009, Summer 2015 reruns)
Brandy and Mr. Whiskers (March 19, 2005 โ 2007, first-run; 2007 โ 2011, 2012, 2015 reruns)
The Buzz on Maggie (2005 โ 2006)
American Dragon: Jake Long (April 18, 2005 โ 2009, first-run; 2009 โ 2011, reruns)
The Emperor's New School (June, 2006 โ 2009, first-run; 2009 โ 2014, reruns)
The Replacements (February 23, 2007 โ 2009, first-run; 2009 โ 2012, June 17, 2013 โ 2014, reruns)
Phineas and Ferb (February 1, 2008 โ September 12, 2015, first run; September 13, 2015 โ 2016, 2018 reruns)
Fish Hooks (February 25, 2011 โ 2012)
Gravity Falls (June 7, 2013 โ June 1, 2016, first run; June 2, 2016 โ January 13, 2023, reruns)
Elena of Avalor (October 8, 2016 โ unknown)
Milo Murphy's Law (April 17, 2017 โ April 9, 2020)
Tangled: The Series (June 3, 2017 โ January 28, 2021)
DuckTales (November 11, 2017 โ July 19, 2022)
Big Hero 6: The Series (October 12, 2018 โ December 30, 2021)
101 Dalmatian Street (March 23, 2019 โ 2022)
The Owl House (January 11, 2021 โ June 24, 2023, first-run; June 25, 2023 โ September 10, 2023, reruns)
Situation comedies/comedy-drama series
Even Stevens (April, 2004 โ 2007, first-run)
Lizzie McGuire (April, 2004 โ 2007, first-run; 2007 โ 2009, reruns)
That's So Raven (April, 2004 โ 2008, first-run; 2008 โ 2010, reruns)
Phil of the Future (June 2005 โ 2007, first-run; 2007 โ 2009, reruns)
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (September, 2005 โ 2008, first-run; 2008 โ 2010, reruns)
Hannah Montana (September 15, 2006 โ 2011, first-run, 2011 โ Septem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12%20Tiny%20Christmas%20Tales | 12 Tiny Christmas Tales (stylized onscreen as 12 tiny Christmas tales) is an American Christmas animated short film that was broadcast on Cartoon Network on December 7, 2001. This project was animated and directed by Bill Plympton and Inspired by Christmas cards that Plympton began drawing for his parents in 1964.
Plot
A grandmother tells her three grandchildren increasing bizarre stories of Christmas.
Segments
The stories are based on eight-panel sequences.
Victor the Tree
When Victor was young, his mother told him if he was a good tree and grew straight, he will be chosen as the village square tree. So, little tree Victor grew big and straight which make him become the village square tree.
Cecil the Snowman
Cecil fell in love with a snow girl, but they were separated by snow fissure. That did not stop Cecil, he jumped all the way to the other side of the snow to be with his love and lived happily ever after.
Blitzen
Blitzen, the reindeer, was telling jokes in the North Pole to his friends, meanwhile he was imagining himself in Las Vegas being famous telling his jokes.
The 12 Days of Christmas
A lady opening the door getting many different types of birds as gifts as the days passed. In the end she cooks all the bird and have dinner with the man.
A Little Veggie Christmas
A small vegetable in the market was taken by old lady and taken home to put as decoration in a door.
The Killer Snowflake
Old bob went for a walk in the night, he was missing the next morning. The next night widow Hadley went shopping and did not return a trap was set and the killer snowflake was trapped and taken to court his crystallized tears were turned into very beautiful snowflake. He fell in love and moved into a house into the woods.
Lester the Loud Tie
A tie was chosen by a girl in the store and gave it to his father as a Christmas present. Her dad returned the tie. But then her daughter went back to get the tie and used it as a wreath crownโs bow.
The Dancing Bear and the King
The kingdom was sad because the king was sad in the holiday season. He was not able to get the holiday spirit, costumes did not work. So the village got a dancing bear for the circus to make the king happy so he did.
The Boy Who Loved Christmas
Eugene the boy who loved Christmas on all the seasons Easter, summer, and hallowing. He run around with his Santa Clause Christmas costume. ย
The Peddler and the Donkey
A peddler was scared by a โcrazy local dogโ the horse pulling the carriage and the peddler got scared and run away.
The Plucky Present
An animated present fall off from Santa clauseโs bag, the animated present tries to find his destination which is Jennyโs house.
The Carolers
A man was trying to sing but a dog was interrupting him howling, so the man decided to come closer to the dog and joins the dog by singing.
Cast
Madelon Thomas as Grandma
Billy Schneider as Older Boy
Madeline Rogan as Little Girl
Peter Dylan Rogan as Younger Boy
Oliver Wyman as Blitzen / Angry Guy (credited as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20international%20databases%20on%20individual%20student%20achievement%20tests | This article contains a list of international databases on individual student achievement tests that can be used for psychometric research. In other words, this table only includes datasets containing items measuring ability and directly answered by students.
See also
List of online databases
References
Academic publishing
academic databases
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Katz | Charles Abraham Katz (July 7, 1927 โ May 9, 1974) was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to early compiler development in the 1950s.
Katz received two degrees in mathematics, a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Temple University in 1950, and a Master of Science (M.S.) at the University of Pennsylvania in 1953. He then went to work at Remington Rand, in the UNIVAC division, with Grace Hopper to develop compilers for her A-0 system UNIVAC programming languages starting with A-2, followed by MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC. He then went on to General Electric, Burroughs Corporation, and Xerox.
In 1958, he served as one of the original four American members of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, supports, and maintains the languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
Katz died in Rockville, Maryland on May 9, 1974, at the age of 46.
References
1927 births
1974 deaths
American computer programmers
Temple University alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20S.%20Muller | Richard Stephen Muller (born May 5, 1933) is an American professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California at Berkeley.
He made contributions to the founding and growth of the field of MicroElectromechanical Systems (MEMS). Together with student, Roger T. Howe, he made the initial seminal contribution of polysilicon sacrificially-released beams in 1982. This led to a class of micromanufacturing processes called surface micromachining. These processes preceded the creation of low cost, mass-produced commercial micro accelerometers, which are used in automotive collision sensors for airbag deployment. Together with Richard M. White, he created BSAC (Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center), an organization that produced many generations of academic researchers and intellectual properties in the MEMS field. MEMS is an activity that in 2013 accounted for multi-billion dollar revenue worldwide.
Muller was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for contributions to the technology and design of integrated electronic sensors.
Biography
Muller received the degree of Mechanical Engineer (with highest honors) from the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955; and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Physics, in 1957 and 1962, respectively, at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, California. From 1955 to 1962 he was a member of the technical staff at the Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California. In 1962, he joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at UC Berkeley. From 1995 to 2005, Muller served as a Trustee of the Stevens Institute of Technology.
Scientific work
His initial research and teaching on the physics of integrated-circuit devices led to collaboration with Theodore I. Kamins of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in writing Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits, first published by John Wiley & Sons in 1977, with a second edition in 1986, and a third edition appearing in 2002. Muller changed his research focus in the late 1970s to the general area now known as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and he joined in 1986 with colleague Richard M. White to found the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), an NSF/Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. In 1990, he proposed to IEEE and ASME the creation of a MEMS technical journal, which began publication in 1991 as the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (IEEE/ASME JMEMS). In 1997, Muller was chosen Editor-Chief of JMEMS and served in this position until 2013. Muller and his student Roger T. Howe created the process of surface micromachining using polysilicon (poly) as a structural material, and silicon oxide as a sacrificial layer. This surface micromachining process becomes the foundation of high volume airbag accelerometers. The surface micromachining process is the fundamental process for many consumer, industrial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay%20transport%20virtualization | Overlay transport virtualization (OTV) is a Cisco proprietary protocol for relaying layer 2 communications between layer 3 computer networks.
See also
Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE)
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
IEEE 802.1ad, an Ethernet networking standard, also known as provider bridging, Stacked VLANs, or simply QinQ.
NVGRE, a similar competing specification
Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
External links
Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization overview
Network protocols
Tunneling protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingate%20Systems | Ingate Systems AB is a Swedish company that sells data network security and telecommunication equipment. The company primarily provides SIP Trunking of IP PBX:s on the US market. It is associated with sister company Intertex Data AB.
History
Ingate Systems was founded in 2001 as a joint venture between the Swedish companies Intertex Data AB, which had developed the first SIP proxy-based SIP aware firewall for the SOHO and SMB market, and Cendio Systems AB, which had developed the Fuego enterprise firewall. Ingate developed SIP-capable enterprise firewalls and SIParatorsยฎ, Ingate's brand of Session Border Controllers (SBC:s). Intertex became sister company to Ingate, with joint development, and continued its development of its embedded products, Ethernet and DSL access routers for telecom service provider's volume deployment of SIP services to the home and SMB LAN:s โ products that include firewall, SBC and IP PBX functionality.
In the fall of 2012, the group companies Ingate and Intertex merged into current Ingate Systems, to join their efforts for global unified communication beyond traditional telephony using both the SIP standard and the emerging WebRTC standard and to cover the product range from home and SOHO to enterprise and carrier usage.
Since 2006, Ingate has hosted the SIP Trunking-Unified Communications Seminars at the IXEXPO conferences.
Ingate also participates in the SIP Trunking Community by TMCnet.
Products
Ingate has a line of enterprise Session border controllers ranging from home and SOHO usage to enterprise and telecom service provider usage of up to 20,000 concurrent telephone calls.
The SBC:s are often used for SIP Trunking, i.e. connecting enterprise IP PBX:s to telecom service provider's SIP based Voice over IP (VoIP) connections. A wide range of IP PBX:s and service providers are supported by the Ingate startup configuration tool. Unified Communications (UC) solutions such as the Microsoft Lync and Cloud computing solutions such as the Microsoft Office 365 are also supported.
The Ingate products are all based on an SBC architecture where an IETF RFC 3261-compliant SIP proxy controls the NAT and firewall engine to route all types of media between parties on both public and private IP networks. All products include a routing SIP Proxy and a SIP registrar, and when required a SIP Back-to-back user agent (B2BUA), and can in addition to security at the enterprise edge, also do accounting by reporting usage in Call Detail Records. The Ingate products are not limited to VoIP but support full UC or multimedia real-time communication, and can route such communication over the Internet with or without service provider involvement.
Products are being developed to also support and enable the upcoming WebRTC standard, an initiative by Google to bring high quality multimedia real-time communication directly into the web browser.
References
External links
Internet+, A Model for Global Unified Communication website
Ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20databases%20of%20United%20States%20persons | Various national databases of United States persons, and their activities, have been compiled by government and private entities. Different data types are collected by different entities for different purposes, nominal or otherwise. These databases are some of the largest of their kind, and even the largest ever.
Accessibility of government databases may be controlled by various means, such as requirement of a warrant, subpoena, or simple request from another branch of government. Commercial databases are generally established for profit. Some other databases are available for free usage with various states across the United States. Typical instances include Colorado Resident Directory and many others out there on the internet. Data breaches may occur as a result of a vulnerability or publication in error.
Databases
Government
Private
See also
Government database
Mass surveillance
References
Mass surveillance
Government databases
Automatic number plate recognition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Edelman | Alan Stuart Edelman (born June 1963) is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Principal Investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) where he leads a group in applied computing. In 2004, he founded a business called Interactive Supercomputing which was later acquired by Microsoft. Edelman is a fellow of American Mathematical Society (AMS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for his contributions in numerical linear algebra, computational science, parallel computing, and random matrix theory. He is one of the cocreators of the technical programming language Julia.
Education
Edelman received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Yale University in 1984, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from MIT in 1989 under the direction of Lloyd N. Trefethen. Following a year at Thinking Machines Corporation, and at CERFACS in France, Edelman went to U.C. Berkeley as a Morrey Assistant Professor and Levy Fellow, 1990โ93. He joined the MIT faculty in applied mathematics in 1993.
Research
Edelman's research interests include high-performance computing, numerical computation, linear algebra, and random matrix theory.
In random matrix theory, Edelman is most famous for the Edelman distribution of the smallest singular value of random matrices (also known as Edelman's law), the invention of beta ensembles, and the introduction of the stochastic operator approach, and some of the earliest computational approaches.
In high performance computing, Edelman is known for his work on parallel computing, as the co-founder of Interactive Supercomputing, as an inventor of the Julia programming language and for his work on the Future Fast Fourier transform. As the leader of the Julialab, he supervises work on scientific machine learning and compiler methodologies.
In numerical linear algebra, Edelman is known for eigenvalues and condition numbers of random matrices, the geometry of algorithms with orthogonality constraints, the geometry of the generalized singular value decomposition (GSVD), and applications of Lie algebra to matrix factorizations.
Awards
A Sloan fellow, Edelman received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Career award in 1995. He has received numerous awards, among them the Gordon Bell Prize and Householder Prize (1990), the Chauvenet Prize (1998), the Edgerly Science Partnership Award (1999), the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Prize (2000), and the Lester R. Ford Award, (2005, with Gilbert Strang).
In 2011, Edelman was selected a Fellow of SIAM, "for his contributions in bringing together mathematics and industry in the areas of numerical linear algebra, random matrix theory, and parallel computing."
In 2015, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20column | In relational databases a virtual column is a table column whose value(s) is automatically computed using other columns values, or another deterministic expression. Virtual columns are defined of SQL:2003 as Generated Column, and are only implemented by some DBMSs, like MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Firebird (database server) (COMPUTED BY syntax).
Implementation
There are two types of virtual columns:
Virtual columns
Persistent columns
Virtual columns values are computed on the fly when needed, for example when they are returned by a SELECT statement. Persistent column values are computed when a row is inserted in a table, and they are written like all other values. They can change if other values change. Both virtual and persistent columns have advantages and disadvantages: virtual columns don't consume space on the disk, but they must be computed every time a query refers to them; persistent columns don't require any CPU time, but they consume disk space. However, sometimes a choice is not available, because some DBMS's support only one column type (or neither of them).
IBM Db2
IBM Db2 supports Virtual column of Version 8 as Generated column.
MariaDB
MariaDB is a MySQL fork. Virtual columns were added in the 5.2 tree.
Expressions that can be used to compute the virtual columns have the following limitations:
They must be deterministic
They cannot return constant values
They cannot use user-defined functions or stored procedures
They cannot include other virtual columns
They cannot make use of subqueries
Persistent columns can be indexed and can be part of a foreign key, with a few small limitations concerning constraint enforcement.
Virtual columns can only be used on tables which use a storage engine which supports them. Storage engines supporting virtual columns are:
InnoDB
MyISAM
Aria
MRG_MyISAM tables can be based on MyISAM tables which include persistent columns; but the corresponding MRG_MyISAM column should be defined as a regular column.
Syntax
A CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE statement can be used to add a virtual column. The syntax used to define a virtual column is the following:
<type> [GENERATED ALWAYS] AS ( <expression> ) [VIRTUAL | PERSISTENT] [UNIQUE] [UNIQUE KEY] [COMMENT <text>]
type is the column's data type
expression is the SQL expression which returns the column's value for each row
text is an optional column comment
MySQL
Support for virtual columns, known in MySQL as generated columns, started becoming available in MySQL 5.7. Various limitations on their use have been relaxed in subsequent versions.
Oracle
Since version 11g, Oracle supports virtual columns.
SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server supports virtual columns, but they are called Computed Columns.
SQL Server supports both persisted and non-persisted computed columns.
Firebird
Firebird has always supported virtual columns as its precursor InterBase supports it, called Computed Columns.
Firebird supp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Fisher%20%28disambiguation%29 | Martin Fisher was a politician.
Martin Fisher may also refer to:
Martin Fisher (actor) on List of EastEnders characters
Marty Fisher, Martin 'Marty' Fisher, Shameless fictional character
Computer technology for developing areas#Martin Fisher: a possible business plan
Martin Fisher (zoologist), see Silver Medal
Martin Fisher (inventor), see LemelsonโMIT Prize
See also
Martin Fischer (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halderman | Halderman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Caitlin Halderman (born 2000), Indonesian actress and singer
J. Alex Halderman (born 1981), American computer scientist
Joe Halderman (born 1957), American television news writer, director, and producer
Linda Halderman (born 1968), American politician
See also
Haldeman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihastina%20subviridata | Bihastina subviridata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1915. It is found in Papua New Guinea.
References
Moths described in 1915
Asthenini
Moths of New Guinea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihastina%20viridata | Bihastina viridata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1906. It is found in Papua New Guinea.
References
Moths described in 1906
Asthenini
Moths of New Guinea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDX%20Group | TDX Group is a data and technology company that provides creditors platforms, tools and services to maximise returns from debt portfolios. TDX Group was founded in 2004 by Mark Onyett. TDX Group was acquired by Equifax in 2014.
TDX Creditor Solutions core technology platforms are used for the management and streamlining of debt collection, debt sale and insolvencies by creditors from the following industries: financial services, telecommunications, media., utilities, public sector and healthcare. TDX Group also offers advisory services to creditors looking to review their existing debt management processes.
History
In 2008 TDX Group secured an investment from Investcorp Technology Partners, the technology private equity arm of alternative investment manager Investcorp.
In January 2014, Equifax acquired TDX Group from Investcorp for $327 million.
TDX Group employs over 300 people globally with its head office based in Nottingham, UK, and international operations across Spain, South America, Australia and North America. The UK company is split into two main divisions, TDX Creditor Solutions and TDX Industry Solutions.
Awards and accreditation
2008: ranked 11th in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 table of the UKโs top-performing private companies with the fastest-growing sales
2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012: named in the top fifty best places to work in the UK, in a survey conducted by the Great Place to Workยฎ Institute
2009: awarded โBest Use of Technology โ In-House Solutionsโ at the Credit Today Awards for what has evolved to become PLATO
2011: shortlisted for Credit Today Consumer Credit Team of the Year and Advertisement of the Year
2011: shortlisted for Compliance Team of the Year at the Credit Today Debt Collections Awards
2011: winners of Innovation of the Year at the Credit Today Debt Collections Awards
2013: winners of Credit Marketing Campaign of the Year at the Credit Today Awards
2014: winners of Contribution to the Community Award at the Nottingham Post Business Awards
2014: shortlisted for Best Use of Technology โ Supplier at the Credit Today Awards
2014: winners of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Credit Today Awards
References
Debt collection
Technology companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM%20Class%204600%20and%204700 | The ATM Class 4600 and 4700 are a series of articulated trams used by the ATM on the Milan urban tramway network.
They were projected in the 1950s as an articulated version of the series 5300; originally a series of 15 cars (to be numbered from 4601 to 4615) was foreseen, but the two last units were delivered in an experimental โณall electricโณ version and, because of that, were numbered in the 4700 series. Some years later a second series of "all-electric" cars was built, numbered from 4716 to 4733.
Originally, the cars were painted in a two-tone-green livery, later repainted in the orange livery, and since 2010 in a white-and-yellow livery.
Bibliography
Giovanni Cornolรฒ, Giuseppe Severi: Tram e tramvie a Milano 1840-1987., Azienda Trasporti Municipali, Milan 1987.
External links
Tram vehicles of Italy
Transport in Milan
Breda trams
600 V DC multiple units |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM%20Class%201500 | The ATM Class 1500, also known as type 1928, is a series of tram vehicles used by the ATM on the Milan urban tramway network.
History
In the 1920s, the increasing traffic on the Milan urban tramway network made pressing the substitution of the old tramcars โณtype Edisonโณ. The municipal tram office decided to design a new type of tramcars, built on two bogies, taking as model the Peter Witt streetcars built in Cleveland and in other cities of the United States.
The Milan streetcar was projected by the municipal engineers in 1927, and two prototypes, built by Carminati & Toselli and numbered 1501 and 1502, came into service at the end of the same year.
After a few tests, the construction of a 500 units stock (numbered 1503 to 2002) began, divided between several manufacturers:
the Societร Italiana Carminati & Toselli built 110 units (1503 to 1612);
the Societร Italiana Ernesto Breda built 110 units (1613 to 1722);
the Officine Meccaniche di Reggio Emilia built 50 units (1723 to 1772);
the Officine Meccaniche built 110 units (1773 to 1882);
the Officine Elettro-Ferroviarie Tallero built 110 units (1883 to 1992);
the built 10 units (1993 to 2002).
The electrical equipment were built by Ansaldo and TIBB, the bogies by Fiat under Commonwealth-license.
The cars were delivered in 1929โ1930 and immediately put into service. In 1932โ1935 some cars were equipped with an experimental half door at the tail, and from 1938 to 1940 with a definitive entire door; the Peter Witt system were therefore abandoned after a few years of service.
During the Second World War many cars were seriously damaged, but only one unit had to be scrapped, the others being repaired or reconstructed from 1945 to 1949.
From 1970 on, the traditional green livery (introduced in 1930) was abandoned, and a new orange one introduced; from 1972 the traditional trolley pole was substituted by a pantograph. Since 1976 some cars were put aside and later demolished.
Nowadays circa 135 units are still in service, repainted in the last years in a white and yellow livery already used on the prototypes. Most trams are in use for daily service, but some are for special occasions (trams 1503, 1699, 1702, 1723, 1822 and 1847), some for drivers instructions (trams 1602, 1798, 1862), two for the driving restaurant service ATMosfera (trams 1855 and 1970) and there is the โณwhite tramโณ, the school tram (โณScuolaintramโณ).
Legacy
In 1929 a unit was sent to Frankfurt and tested on the tram network, without success. Another unit was sold to Brussels, where it became model for the series 5000; later it went to Madrid.
In Italy, tramcars similar to the Milan Peter Witt were built for the cities of Genoa, Naples, Padua, Trieste and Turin.
Reconstructions
Two damaged units were used in 1984 to arrange a low-floor prototype, the car no. 4500.Two units have been restored, respectively in the original state with only two doors, and in the state of the 1950s in green livery.
Many cars were sold to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2013โ14 daytime network television schedule for four of the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2013 to August 2014. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, and any series canceled after the 2012โ13 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS โ which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids โ is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with Fox (as the network does not air a daytime network schedule or network news), MyNetworkTV (as the programming service also does not offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).
Legend
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC World News
The Chew
General Hospital
Good Morning America
The View
This Week with George Stephanopoluos
Litton's Weekend Adventure
Jack Hanna's Wild Countdown
Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin
Born to Explore with Richard Wiese
Sea Rescue
New series:
Litton's Weekend Adventure
The Wildlife Docs
Expedition Wild
Not returning from 2012-13
Litton's Weekend Adventure
Recipe Rehab (moved to CBS)
Food for Thought with Claire Thomas
CBS
Returning series:
The Bold and the Beautiful
CBS Evening News
CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS This Morning
Face the Nation
Let's Make a Deal
The Price is Right
The Talk
The Young and the Restless
New series:
CBS Dream Team
Lucky Dog
Dr. Chris Pet Vet
Recipe Rehab (moved from ABC)
Jamie's 15-Minute Meals
All In with Laila Ali
Game Changers with Kevin Frazier
Not returning from 2012-13
Cookie Jar TV
Busytown Mysteries
The Doodlebops
Libertyโs Kids
The CW
Returning series:
The Bill Cunningham Show
The Adventures of Chuck and Friends
Rescue Heroes
Sonic X
Bolts and Blip
The Spectacular Spider-Man
Justice League Unlimited
Dragon Ball Z Kai
B-Daman Crossfire
Yu-Gi-Oh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Data%20Services%20Hub | The Federal Data Services Hub is a tool used to facilitate the government-backed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health coverage program.
Origins
It is built by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Health and Human Services (HHS). It combines data on income and employment from IRS records, health and entitlements from HHS records, identity from Social Security, citizenship from Department of Homeland Security records, criminality from Department of Justice records, and residency from state records. Also involved will be the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Office of Personnel Management, the Peace Corps, and state Medicaid administrations.
Content
Data includes:
References
External links
Federal Data Services Hub Frequently Asked Questions from Medicaid
Federal government of the United States
Databases in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Navapolatsk | The Navapolatsk tramway network is a public transport system in Navapolatsk, Belarus.
References
Tram transport in Belarus
Navapolatsk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelic%20non-determinism | In computer science, angelic non-determinism is the execution of a nondeterministic algorithm where particular choices are declared to always favor a desired result, if that result is possible.
For example, in halting analysis of a Nondeterministic Turing machine, the choices would always favor termination of the program.
The "angelic" terminology comes from the Christian religious conventions of angels being benevolent and acting on behalf of an omniscient God.
References
Theoretical computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonic%20non-determinism | A term which describes the execution of a non-deterministic program where all choices are made in favour of non-termination.
References
Theoretical computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl%20cutter | A vinyl cutter is an entry level machine for making signs. Computer designed vector files with patterns and letters are directly cut on the roll of vinyl which is mounted and fed into the vinyl cutter through USB or serial cable. Vinyl cutters are mainly used to make signs, banners and advertisements. Advertisements seen on automobiles and vans are often made with vinyl cut letters. While these machines were designed for cutting vinyl, they can also cut through computer and specialty papers, as well as thicker items like thin sheets of magnet.
In addition to sign business, vinyl cutters are commonly used for apparel decoration. To decorate apparel, a vector design needs to be cut in mirror image, weeded, and then heat applied using a commercial heat press or a hand iron for home use.
Some businesses use their vinyl cutter to produce both signs and custom apparel. Many crafters also have vinyl cutters for home use. These require little maintenance and the vinyl can be bought in bulk relatively cheaply.
Vinyl cutters are also often used by stencil artists to create single use or reusable stencil art and lettering
How it works
A vinyl cutter is a type of computer-controlled machine tool. The computer controls the movement of a sharp blade over the surface of the material as it would the nozzles of an ink-jet printer. This blade is used to cut out shapes and letters from sheets of thin self-adhesive plastic (vinyl). The vinyl can then be stuck to a variety of surfaces depending on the adhesive and type of material.
To cut out a design, a vector-based image must be created using vector drawing software. Some vinyl cutters are marketed to small in-home businesses and require download and use of a proprietary editing software. The design is then sent to the cutter where it cuts along the vector paths laid out in the design. The cutter is capable of moving the blade on an X and Y axis over the material, cutting it into the required shapes. The vinyl material comes in long rolls allowing projects with significant length like banners or billboards to be easily cut.
A major limitation with vinyl cutters is that they can only cut shapes from solid colours of vinyl, paper, card or thin plastic sheets such as Mylar. The type and thickness of material will vary for each cutter and how much downforce the cutter is capable of. If the material has no backing, a backing sheet, material or cutting mat and a temporary adhesive are needed to allow the cutter to cut through the material.
A design with multiple colours must have each colour cut separately and then layered on top of each other as it is applied to the substrate. This is a process that is often applied in stencil art. Also, since the shapes are cut out of solid colours, photographs and gradients cannot be reproduced with a stand-alone cutter.
Design Creation
Computer designed images are loaded onto the vinyl cutter via a wired connection or over a wireless protocol, such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Ocean%20Station | The Indian Ocean Station (IOS) was a US Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) tracking station that operated in the Seychelles islands from 1963 until 1996. When the station opened it marked the start of an official American military presence in Seychelles.
Sites
The station was made up of the following sites:
Technical site
The technical site was located off the top of La Misere Road. It housed the one 60-foot antenna used to support telemetry, tracking and commanding for satellites. This antenna was housed within a radome, which resembled a large golf ball when viewed from a distance. In later years a second antenna with radome was added; this antenna supported communications with the US via satellite. The technical site fell into disrepair and was subsequently used for a residence for Sheikh Khalifa, the President of the United Arab Emirates. The building of the residence generated local controversy.
Transmitter site
The transmitter site was located north of Grand Anse.
Receiver site
The receiver site was located near Souvenir Estate. The station Commander's house was located nearby.
Housing site
The housing site included housing, dining and other support facilities for station staff. The housing site subsequently became the site for the Seychelles Tourism Academy.
Commemoration
IOS celebrated its 25 anniversary in 1988. Although the station had been closed since 1996, former IOS staff organized a 50th anniversary reunion in June-July 2013, covered in the local media.
References
Further reading
United States Air Force
History of Seychelles
Seychelles articles missing geocoordinate data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewardship%20%28disambiguation%29 | Stewardship in the sense of caring management or leadership may refer to:
Stewardship
Stewardship (theology)
Specifically, it may refer to:
Data steward
Environmental stewardship
Nuclear stockpile stewardship
Product stewardship
See also
Steward (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg%20Tinkov | Oleg Yuryevich Tinkov (, ; born 25 December 1967) is a Russian-born Cypriot entrepreneur and businessman.
Tinkov is the founder of a network of shops of household appliances Technoshock, frozen food factories Daria, brewing companies and network of Tinkoff restaurants. Among less well-known projects โ music store Music Shock and the record label Shock Records, which released first albums by bands Kirpichi, and Leningrad, and which worked with the Knife for Frau Mรผller. Tinkov was the founder and chairman of the Tinkoff Bank board of directors (until 2015 it was called Tinkoff Credit Systems). The bank was founded in 2007 and as of December 1, 2016, it was ranked 45 in terms of assets and 33 โ for equity among Russian banks.
In 2019 Tinkov was diagnosed with leukemia. Tinkov was indicted by a US grand jury in Sept 2019 for willfully filing false tax returns and attempting to evade over $240 million in taxes while renouncing his US citizenship. He was arrested in London in February 2020 but fought extradition based on a new diagnosis of leukaemia making him too unwell to travel. He eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay over $508 million in unpaid taxes, fines and a fraud penalty, as well as time served and a year's supervised release.
In 2021 he had complications after surgery and his chances of survival were estimated at only 40%. By 2022 his cancer went into remission. After the diagnosis, Tinkov left management positions in his businesses. In 2020 he announced the foundation of his own charity fund for leukemia sufferers. with $200 million investment of his own money.
Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth at $8.2 billion in November 2021; Forbes estimated his net worth at $0.8 billion four months later. After he publicly criticized the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in April 2022, he said officials of the Putin administration threatened to nationalize Tinkoff Bank, and he went into hiding after selling his 35% stake under pressure. In October 2022, he renounced his Russian citizenship, citing the Ukrainian war and the "Putin fascism" as the reason.
Biography
Early years
Tinkoff was born in the village Polysayevo, Leninsk-Kuznetsk district of the Kemerovo Oblast in Russian family of a miner and a seamstress.
Since the age of 12 Tinkoff was interested in road cycling, he was a member of cycling clubs at school, and later โ at the workplaces. He won in a number of competitions, and in 1984 received the title of a candidate in master of sports. During training camps Tinkoff first took up black marketeering, buying hard-to-find goods in Central Asia, and selling them in Leninsk-Kuznetsky. His cycling career was interrupted by military service: he did not get into the Sports Club of the army and was sent to the border troops. In 1986โ1988 he served in the Far East โ in Nakhodka and Nikolayevsk-on-Amur.
University
In 1988, Oleg Tinkov entered the Mining Institute university, which had a large number of foreign st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing%20News | Chasing News with Bill Spadea (formerly Chasing New Jersey and Chasing News) was a news and talk show program broadcast by WWOR-TV, a MyNetworkTV O&O based in Secaucus, New Jersey and serving New York City, and sister to Fox flagship station WNYW-TV. The program aired nightly at 11 PM on WWOR and is rerun on WNYW.
Premiering on July 8, 2013, the program replaced the more conventional newscasts that were previously broadcast by the station. The program featured various segments and stories focusing on headlines and issues affecting the New Jersey area, featuring reports by a group of correspondents known as "chasers".
The program was met with mixed reception upon its premiere for its visually intensive and tabloid-like format, but was praised for how it targeted younger viewers through social engagement. However, the closure of WWOR's news department as part of the changes led to concerns from politicians over whether Fox Television Stations was still in compliance with a mandate to provide news programming for the New Jersey area until its end in June 2020.
Technology
The program was one of the early adopters of cell phone/smartphone news gathering, which was how the show was shot by reporters from the inception of the program in 2013, a very taboo practice in the NY market, now a common practice among news outlets around the country. The show was also a regular user of GoPro cameras, often giving stories a more "along for the ride feel" to the viewer.
Background
WWOR-TV had aired conventional, daily newscasts in some form or another since 1971; most recently, it took the form of a 35-minute newscast, The 10 O'Clock News (previously known as My9 News and UPN 9 News), broadcast on weeknights at 10:00ย p.m. Since the 2001 purchase of WWOR by Fox Television Stations from Chris-Craft Broadcasting however, FTS had taken to downplaying WWOR's newscasts (and likely would have discontinued them immediately if not for FCC license conditions requiring news and public affairs coverage of New Jersey), in order to avert any ratings cannibalization from their flagship local newscasts on Fox station WNYW.
On July 3, 2013, Fox announced the immediate cancellation of The 10 O'Clock News, and the July 8, 2013 premiere of Chasing New Jersey. The new program, hosted by local politician Bill Spadea, was billed as a "fast-paced, unpredictable ride across the state of New Jersey" that would feature reports on issues affecting the region by correspondents known as "chasers". The program was produced from a studio in Trenton, New Jersey by Fairfax Productions, a production company owned by Dennis Bianchiโgeneral manager of Philadelphia's Fox O&O WTXF-TV (which also airs Chasing New Jersey at 12:30ย a.m.) Fox also registered a series of trademarks for Chasing programs in other cities (and for a national version, Chasing America), indicating that Fox planned to implement the format to its other markets as well.
The transition to Chasing New Jersey resulted in layoffs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flit%20%28computer%20networking%29 | In computer networking, a flit (flow control unit or flow control digit) is a link-level atomic piece that forms a network packet or stream. The first flit, called the header flit holds information about this packet's route (namely the destination address) and sets up the routing behavior for all subsequent flits associated with the packet. The header flit is followed by zero or more body flits, containing the actual payload of data. The final flit, called the tail flit, performs some book keeping to close the connection between the two nodes.
A virtual connection holds the state needed to coordinate the handling of the flits of a packet. At a minimum, this state identifies the output port of the current node for the next hop of the route and the state of the virtual connection (idle, waiting for resources, or active). The virtual connection may also include pointers to the flits of the packet that are buffered on the current node and the number of flit buffers available on the next node.
Interconnect Network : Basics
The growing need for performance from computing systems drove the industry into the multi-core and many-core arena. In this setup, the execution of a kernel (a program) is split across multiple processors and the computation happens in parallel, thus ensuring performance with respect to execution time. This however implies that the processors must now be able to communicate with each other and exchange data and control signals seamlessly. One straightforward approach is the bus based interconnect, a group of wires connecting all the processors. This approach is however not scalable as the number of processors in the system increase. Hence, a scalable high performance interconnect network lies at the core of parallel computer architecture.
Basic network Terminologies and background
Definitions of an Interconnection network
The formal definition of an interconnection network
"An interconnection network I is represented by a strongly connected directed multigraph, I = G(N,C). The set of vertices of the multigraph N includes the set of processing element nodes P and the set of router nodes RT. The set of arcs C represents the set of unidirectional channels (possibly virtual) that connect either the processing elements to the routers or the routers to each other".
The primary expectation of an interconnection network is to have as low a latency as possible, that is the time taken to transfer a message from one node to another should be minimal, while allowing a large number of such transactions to take place concurrently. As with any other engineering design trade offs, the interconnection network must accomplish these traits while keeping the cost of implementation as low as possible. Having discussed what is expected of a network, let us look at a few design points that can be tweaked to obtain the necessary performance.
The basic building blocks of an interconnection network are its topology, routing algorithm, switching str |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queering%20Paradigms | Queering Paradigms (QP) refers to an informal network, a series of conferences and a book series founded by Professor Bee Scherer. QP originally started as a colloquium in February 2008 to celebrate LGBT History Month at Canterbury Christ Church University. This colloquium was in part a protest against the university's stance to prevent civil partnership ceremonies from taking place on campus.
The conferences have since taken place in Canterbury (UK), Brisbane (Australia), Oneonta (US), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Quito (Ecuador) and, again in the South of England (Winchester and Canterbury), the Cayman Islands, Vienna (Austria) and Sydney (Australia). The book series has nine volumes so far and three volumes in a sub-series called QP in Focus.
Queering Paradigms I (February 2009)
The first official Queering Paradigms conference was organised in February 2009 in Canterbury by B. Scherer, a professor of comparative religion, gender and sexuality at Canterbury Christ Church University.
The book resulting from this conference was published by Peter Lang Oxford in 2010 and was edited by Scherer.
Queering Paradigms II (April 2010)
This conference took place at the Queensland University of Technology and was organised by Sharon Hayes, Matthew Ball and Angela Dwyer. Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby gave a keynote speech, which was widely commented upon in Australian newspapers.
Subsequently, also second book was published by Peter Lang, edited by B. Scherer and M. Ball.
Queering Paradigms III (April 2011)
QP 3 was organised at SUNY, Oneonta, by professors Kathleen O'Mara and Betty Wambui.
K. O'Mara and Liz Morrish edited the corresponding book.
Queering Paradigms IV (July 2012)
QP 4 took place in Rio de Janeiro and was organised by Rodrigo Borba, Elizabeth Lewis, Branca Fabrรญcio and Diana Pinto, who are also the editors of the QP 4 and QP4a books: QP4 in English was published in 2014 and another volume, QP4a, has been published in 2017 as a bilingual book in Portuguese and Spanish (Insurgรชncias queer ao sul do Equador).
Queering Paradigms V (February 2014)
QP 5 took place in Quito, Ecuador in February 2014. Previously, a regional QP colloquium was organised in Quito in October 2012. QP 5 organisers continued to create social impact after the event, e.g. by lobbying for Equal Marriage in Ecuador. The corresponding QP 5 volume, a hybrid and trilingual book in English, Spanglish, Spanish and Portuguese, was edited Maria Viteri and Manuela Picq (2016).
Queering Paradigms VI (July 2015)
Organised by QP founder Bee Scherer, QP 6 took place in the south of England in July 2015 and focused on the intersection of disability studies and queer studies. Held both at the University of Winchester and Canterbury Christ Church University, QP 6 part-merged with the VariAbilities II conference. In a final event an Emerging Scholars' day was held at the University of Kent organised by the Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing.
The corresponding QP6 book |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZubaBox | A ZubaBox is a solar-powered internet cafรฉ developed by Computer Aid International. It is constructed from used shipping containers and consists of a Pentium 4 PC (3ย GHz+, 3GB RAM, 80GB+ HDD), 11 sets of peripherals (keyboards, mice, monitors), 2 desktop virtualisation cards, a ventilation fan for the server, low-power lights and an advanced power inverter. The solar panels used are poly-crystalline and the cell batteries are of Advanced Glass Mat type. It is named after the Nyanja word "Zuba", which means "Sun".
Deployments
First Deployment
The first ever ZubaBox was deployed in a mission hospital in the village of Macha, Zambia and is used by the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. It is located 70ย km from the nearest paved road and supports a mesh network with a radius of 1.5ย km. The ZubaBox in Macha has a rota system which enables students to use it in the mornings, teachers and nurses to use it for professional training in the afternoon and is then open to adults to use thereafter.
Subsequent Deployments
Since then, there have been around 10 ZubaBoxes deployed in countries such as Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Kenya.
References
Internet cafรฉs
Solar energy |
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