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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20auditing | Data auditing is the process of conducting a data audit to assess how company's data is fit for given purpose. This involves profiling the data and assessing the impact of poor quality data on the organization's performance and profits. It can include the determination of the clarity of the data sources and can be applied in the way banks and rating agencies perform due diligence with regard to the treatment of raw data given by firms, particularly the identification of faulty data.
Data auditing can also refer to the audit of a system to determine its efficacy in performing its function. For instance, it can entail the evaluation of the information systems of the IT departments to determine whether they are effective in protecting the integrity of critical data. As an auditing tool, it can detect fraud, intrusions, and other security problems.
References
Data management
Data quality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20clock | A master clock is a precision clock that provides timing signals to synchronise slave clocks as part of a clock network. Networks of electric clocks connected by wires to a precision master pendulum clock began to be used in institutions like factories, offices, and schools around 1900. Modern radio clocks are synchronised by radio signals or Internet connections to a worldwide time system called Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is governed by primary reference atomic clocks in many countries.
A modern, atomic version of a master clock is the large clock ensemble found at the U.S. Naval Observatory.
History
Between the late 1800s and the availability of Internet time services, many large institutions that depended on accurate timekeeping such as schools, offices, railway networks, telephone exchanges, and factories used master/slave clock networks. These consisted of multiple slave clocks and other timing devices, connected through wires to a master clock which kept them synchronized by electrical signals. The master clock was usually a precision pendulum clock with a seconds pendulum and a robust mechanism. It generated periodic timing signals by electrical contacts attached to the mechanism, transmitted to the controlled equipment through pairs of wires. The controlled devices could be wall clocks, tower clocks, factory sirens, school bells, time card punches, and paper tape programmers which ran factory machines. Thousands of such systems were installed in industrial countries and enabled the precise scheduling which industrial economies depended on.
In early networks the slave clocks had their own timekeeping mechanism and were just corrected by the signals from the master clock every hour, 6, 12, or 24 hours. In later networks the slave clocks were simply counters which used a stepper motor to advance the hands with each pulse from the master clock, once per second or once per minute. Some types, such as the Synchronome, had optional extra mechanisms to compare the time of the clock with a national time service that distributed time signals from astronomical regulator clocks in a country's naval observatory by telegraph wire. An example is the GPO time service in Britain which distributed signals from the Greenwich Observatory.
The British Post Office (GPO) used such master clocks in their electromechanical telephone exchanges to generate the call timing pulses necessary to charge telephone subscribers for their calls, and to control sequences of events such as the forcible clearing of connections where the calling subscriber failed to hang up after the called subscriber had done so. The UK had four such manufacturers, all of whom made clocks to the same GPO specification and which used the Hipp Toggle impulse system; these were Gent and Co., of Leicester, Magneta Ltd of Leatherhead in Surrey, Synchronome Ltd of Alperton, north-west London, and Gillett and Johnson.
See also
Shortt–Synchronome clock
Pendulum clo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Meek | Tom Meek (born 1956) is an American columnist and author of "Another Day In Cyberville" published weekly in The Gainesville Voice, a New York Times regional newspaper, beginning in October, 2000 in The Gainesville Sun. "Cyberville" deals with issues related to high-tech, computers, New Media and Internet issues. Meek also writes musical and other occasional features on persons such as trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and American composer Joseph Byrd for publication in print and online, and is the author of online blogs dealing with media and music. Meek has also served as a media consultant for interests worldwide including the Fox Broadcasting Network, Swedish Televerket and numerous Fortune 500 companies, and is an expert witness certified by the United States Supreme Court on media and copyright issues related to cable television and broadcast television.
Life and career
Meek originally began involvement in media by doing volunteer music programming at WIOT-FM at age 12. He then extended his involvement in music by serving as a DJ and sound and light engineer at the Catacombs Coffee House in Sylvania, Ohio from 1969 to 1972. Meek began his television career while still in high school as a producer for WSPD-TV in Toledo, Ohio in 1973. He also served as an Ohio county-level student coordinator in the 1972 presidential campaign of Senator George McGovern. He moved to Columbus, Ohio in 1976, where he worked as a music buyer for the Peaches Records chain. After spending a year in Boston, Massachusetts at Grahm Junior College in 1978–79, Meek moved to Gainesville, Florida and graduated from the University of Florida in 1982 with a degree in Communications while working at WUFT-TV and other media positions at the university from 1980 to 1982. In his final semester Meek helped launch a new graduate level communications degree program, serving as director and co-producer of a drama "Ernie Pyle, Here Is My War", winner of the 1982 Alpha Epsilon Rho Grand Prize for Drama.
Although he initially planned to pursue a journalism master's degree in Gainesville, Meek immediately began working as a producer and researcher at WFTV-TV, Orlando when offered a job in May, 1982. After two years producing a morning news and information program, he was hired at WOFL-TV in April, 1984, initially as Community Affairs Director, then as Station Operations Manager beginning in 1986. While at WOFL-TV, Meek wrote, produced and edited a number of documentaries, including a program on Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida which was credited with helping keep the Morse collections intact for an eventual larger museum, and a program on the introduction of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) into Central Florida, which won a medal at the New York International Film & Television Festival in 1984. Meek's television producing experience exceeds 500 programs including documentaries, information, telethons, talk and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadrunner%20%28supercomputer%29 | Roadrunner was a supercomputer built by IBM for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA. The US$100-million Roadrunner was designed for a peak performance of 1.7 petaflops. It achieved 1.026 petaflops on May 25, 2008, to become the world's first TOP500 LINPACK sustained 1.0 petaflops system.
In November 2008, it reached a top performance of 1.456 petaFLOPS, retaining its top spot in the TOP500 list. It was also the fourth-most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world on the Supermicro Green500 list, with an operational rate of 444.94 megaflops per watt of power used. The hybrid Roadrunner design was then reused for several other energy efficient supercomputers. Roadrunner was decommissioned by Los Alamos on March 31, 2013. In its place, Los Alamos commissioned a supercomputer called Cielo, which was installed in 2010.
Overview
IBM built the computer for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). It was a hybrid design with 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i and 6,480 AMD Opteron dual-core processors in specially designed blade servers connected by InfiniBand. The Roadrunner used Red Hat Enterprise Linux along with Fedora as its operating systems, and was managed with xCAT distributed computing software. It also used the Open MPI Message Passing Interface implementation.
Roadrunner occupied approximately 296 server racks which covered and became operational in 2008. It was decommissioned March 31, 2013. The DOE used the computer for simulating how nuclear materials age in order to predict whether the USA's aging arsenal of nuclear weapons are both safe and reliable. Other uses for the Roadrunner included the science, financial, automotive, and aerospace industries.
Hybrid design
Roadrunner differed from other contemporary supercomputers because it continued the hybrid approach to supercomputer design introduced by Seymour Cray in 1964 with the Control Data Corporation CDC 6600 and continued with the order of magnitude faster CDC 7600 in 1969. However, in this architecture the peripheral processors were used only for operating system functions and all applications ran in the one central processor. Most previous supercomputers had only used one processor architecture, since it was thought to be easier to design and program for. To realize the full potential of Roadrunner, all software had to be written specially for this hybrid architecture. The hybrid design consisted of dual-core Opteron server processors manufactured by AMD using the standard AMD64 architecture. Attached to each Opteron core is an IBM-designed and -fabricated PowerXCell 8i processor. As a supercomputer, the Roadrunner was considered an Opteron cluster with Cell accelerators, as each node consists of a Cell attached to an Opteron core and the Opterons to each other.
Development
Roadrunner was in development from 2002 and went online in 2006. Due to its novel design and complexity it was constructed in three phases and be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercom%20Plus | IntercomPlus is the Walgreen Company's proprietary pharmacy computer system. It was founded as Intercom in 1981, and was the first large scale retail pharmacy computer system . It relies on VSAT satellite access and/or broadband connections to link the over 8,000 Walgreens retail, mail service, and specialty pharmacies. Through its usage, Intercom made Walgreens the largest private user of satellite transmission data in the world, second only to the U.S. Government . The design of the system enables seamless store-to-store prescription filling, making filling a refill at a location other than where it was filled originally essentially no different from filling it again at the original location.
IC+ is written in Team Developer, from Unify (formerly Centura), and comprises the following applications:
TeamRX
Pharmacy Management
Laser Printer/Thermal Printer Settings
Strategic Inventory Management System (SIMS)
StoreNet/RXNet
Scale Sign On
Consultation (CAP)
RX Savings Advisor
Corporate E-Mail Server
RX Compliance Advisor
Intercom Plus is consistently being improved for maximum accuracy and performance.
TeamRX
This application is the core of IC+. Paper prescriptions are scanned so that the image can be retained electronically (a program called Walgreens VISION). The scanned image can then be sent to other Walgreens locations through DWB (Dynamic Workload Balancing) or POWER (Pharmacy Optimization Within Enterprise Re-Engineering) for various purposes (data entry or data review). The paper prescription is kept on file per local or state laws. In certain states, the computerized image serves as the legal copy of the prescription and the original paper hard copy becomes the Third Party Audit Record (3PAR).
After the patient, drug, and prescriber information has been entered (often by a technician or pharmacy intern), the prescription is double checked (by a registered pharmacist) to ensure the information was entered accurately. Intercom Plus's Automatic Label Printing System (ALPS) program generates a leaflet for the prescription. The technician then scans the leaflet on a Check-weigh Scale and the system generates a vial label for the prescription after the system performs a National Drug Code (NDC) validation via scanner. The vial label is placed appropriately sized container for the prescription. The system automatically checks the patient's current medication list for any potential drug interactions via Drug Utilization Reviews (DUR).
Intercom Plus is also used to refill prescriptions and lookup patient records from any Walgreens nationwide.
The work queue is used to view entered, printed, filled, and ready prescriptions. It is a searchable database containing all active prescriptions for the store.
Pharmacy Management
Pharmacy Management is used to change drug locations, lookup pharmacy staff information, generate reports, and complete miscellaneous tasks. It also features "dial a pharmacist" which allows a pharmacy team member to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mark%20of%20Kri | The Mark of Kri is an action-adventure game developed by San Diego Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for PlayStation 2. The game was followed by Rise of the Kasai, which was released in April 2005.
Background
With an art team consisting mostly of former 2D animators, The Mark of Kri offered a juxtaposition of cartoonish character designs and graphic violence while employing a unique visual style influenced by various Polynesian cultures and art, as well as the game's plot taking place in a Polynesian-influenced fantasy setting, and Maori mythology.
The game also featured elements of adaptive music, with techniques developed specifically for the game, and "incredibly tight synchronization [with] on-screen state changes."
Plot
The story begins with Rau Utu, a great and noble warrior in a new generation of warrior protectors of the bearers of the Marks of Kri called the Rakus, trained by his mentor, adopted father, and the last of the older generation of the Rakus, Baumusu.
Accompanied during his adventure by a raven, Kuzo, his scout, spirit guide, chronicler and narrator of the story, he was taught stealth and extraordinary skill with his sword. He was also taught to be a hero to help those in need rather than act as a mercenary. Rau was being asked for a favor by the village innkeeper, Rongo, as well as an old cleric, Maoruku, from the north of Tapuroku, who says that bandits are keeping business away and asks Rau to look into it. After Rau takes care of the bandits, news of his prowess as a warrior and his heroics spread far and wide.
This leads to a mysterious man showing up in the tavern, who offers Rau money for his services. Despite the uneasy feeling that Rau has about the man and Baumusu's suspicions regarding the necromancer, he accepts his offer. He then travels to the forest of Heiadoko, where he retrieves a piece of parchment from the tomb of Sambu-usu. This parchment, however, is actually one of the Marks of Kri - human skin. Rau returns home from his job to find that he's been taken advantage of by the mysterious man known simply as the "Dark One".
The man later revealed turns out to be the Ganguun Priest, a member of an evil organization, the Kasai, and is devoted to its efforts to rule the world, as well as subverting Rau's true destiny. Furthermore, Rau then is told by an elderly woman, the fortune teller named Simka, that the money Rau received from him was a counterfeit, a curse marked by the Kasai. He then is told to head north to a place called Vaitaku, to find a tree and eat its fruit, knowing that this special tree is an oracle.
After Rau eats the sacred fruit, the oracle tree informs him both of the Mark of Kri, and his destiny to protect a captured boy. The boy, the oracle says, holds the fifth mark, which the "Dark One" will soon have in his twisted possession. Furthermore, it is revealed that Rau not only has a great destiny, but will be among the gods, as his name will be used and w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunst%20%28performance%20group%29 | Dunst is a queer performance art and activist group in Copenhagen, Denmark. The group began in 2001 as an informal network, but since 2004 it formally works as an association. Among its projects are art shows, dinner nights, performances, film nights, parties and political manifestations, as well as TV and radio shows. The name means odour or reek in Danish.
Activities
During 2003, Dunst handled the Gay House at Christiania. Events and parties in the revived Gay House were popular among Copenhagen's gays, but Dunst allegedly received complaints and threats from Christiania residents and subsequently moved out of Christiania.
During 2003 Dunst broadcast six episodes of its own TV show on Kanal København, a local Copenhagen television network. The network, however, declined to air an episode showing one artist eating excrement and subsequently banned Dunst from its facilities. Dunst currently broadcasts a weekly radio show on the local cable network.
Dunst has made events in neighbouring countries and has gained some international attention, notably in Berlin.
Style and context
Dunst is known for its bizarre and ironic drag queen personalities (including such names as Ramona Macho, Miss Fish, Puta and Tove Hansen) and music performers such as the band Nuclear Family. Having decidedly anti-establishment aims, the group has a humorous approach with a drag-punk flavour. Public appearances have been referred in several mainstream media which would otherwise often ignore gay events.
The attitude of Dunst appears more sarcastic and less militant than radical queer punk formations in other countries. It could be claimed that Dunst combines a postmodern appearance with a Danish tradition of humorous political activism. During the 1970s and 1980s, the theatre group Solvognen (Sun Chariot, linked with Christiania), singers Troels Trier and Rebecca Brüel, and the squatter performance network Kulørte Klat ("Coloured Blob") made imaginative and ironic performances, as well as feminist groups of rødstrømper (literally "Redstockings").
Manifesto
The Dunst website proclaims its "Manifesto" as follows:
1. dunst is for all the cute ones.
2. dunst is the culture bearing layer of our gender political confusement.
3. dunst has provocation as a work tool and not as a goal in itself.
4. dunst makes contrasts strong.
5. dunst is for all who in a self performance will go beyond their own modesty.
6. dunst is the low life that others won't have an opinion about.
7. dunst is the sanctuary for those who come from a male or female chauvinist upbringing.
8. dunst crosses the gender specific habits and limits you keep in your everyday life.
9. dunst is for those who think they and others should be culturally carpet bombed.
10. dunst is always in change.
References
External links
Dunst website
LGBT organizations in Denmark
Culture jamming
Performance artist collectives
Political activism
Queercore
DIY culture
Queer organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunst | Dunst may refer to:
Dunst (performance group), a queer performance network in Copenhagen, Denmark
Kirsten Dunst, American actress
Barbara Dunst, Austrian footballer
Daniel Dunst, Austrian footballer
Tony Dunst, American professional poker player
Dunst Bruce, member of Chumbawamba, an English rock band
Dunst Opening, an uncommon chess opening known by many names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20table | In computer programming, a branch table or jump table is a method of transferring program control (branching) to another part of a program (or a different program that may have been dynamically loaded) using a table of branch or jump instructions. It is a form of multiway branch. The branch table construction is commonly used when programming in assembly language but may also be generated by compilers, especially when implementing optimized switch statements whose values are densely packed together.
Typical implementation
A branch table consists of a serial list of unconditional branch instructions that is branched into using an offset created by multiplying a sequential index by the instruction length (the number of bytes in memory occupied by each branch instruction). It relies on the fact that machine code instructions for branching have a fixed length and can be executed extremely efficiently by most hardware, and is most useful when dealing with raw data values that may be easily converted to sequential index values. Given such data, a branch table can be extremely efficient. It usually consists of the following 3 steps:
optionally validating the input data to ensure it is acceptable (this may occur without cost as part of the next step, if the input is a single byte and a 256 byte translate table is used to directly obtain the offset below). Also, if there is no doubt about the values of the input, this step can be omitted.
transform the data into an offset into the branch table. This usually involves multiplying or shifting (effectively multiplying by a power of 2) it to take into account the instruction length. If a static translate table is used, this multiplying can be performed manually or by the compiler, without any run time cost.
branching to an address made up of the base address of the branch table plus the just generated offset. This sometimes involves an addition of the offset onto the program counter register (unless, in some instruction sets, the branch instruction allows an extra index register). This final address usually points to one of a sequence of unconditional branch instructions, or the instruction immediately beyond them (saving one entry in the table).
The following pseudocode illustrates the concept
... validate x /* transform x to 0 (invalid) or 1,2,3, according to value..) */
y = x * 4; /* multiply by branch instruction length (e.g. 4 ) */
goto next + y; /* branch into 'table' of branch instructions */
/* start of branch table */
next: goto codebad; /* x= 0 (invalid) */
goto codeone; /* x= 1 */
goto codetwo; /* x= 2 */
... rest of branch table
codebad: /* deal with inva |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20account%20policy | A user account policy is a document which outlines the requirements for requesting and maintaining an account on computer systems or networks, typically within an organization. It is very important for large sites where users typically have accounts on many systems. Some sites have users read and sign an account policy as part of the account request process.
Policy content
Should state who has the authority to approve account requests.
Should state who is allowed to use the resources (e.g., employees or students only)
Should state any citizenship/resident requirements.
Should state if users are allowed to share accounts or if users are allowed to have multiple accounts on a single host.
Should state the users’ rights and responsibilities.
Should state when the account should be disabled and archived.
Should state how long the account can remain active before it is disabled.
Should state password construction and aging rules.
Example
Some example wording:
“Employees shall only request/receive accounts on systems they have a true business need to access. Employees may only have one official account per system and the account ID and login name must follow the established standards. Employees must read and sign the acceptable use policy prior to requesting an account.”
See also
Network security policy
Computer security policy
Internet security
Computer security
Network security
Industrial espionage
Information security
External links
National Institute for Standards and Technology
Information technology management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20access%20policy | Remote access policy is a document which outlines and defines acceptable methods of remotely connecting to the internal network. It is essential in large organization where networks are geographically dispersed and extend into insecure network locations such as public networks or unmanaged home networks. It should cover all available methods to remotely access internal resources:
dial-in (SLIP, PPP)
ISDN/Frame Relay
telnet access from Internet
Cable modem
This remote access policy defines standards for connecting to the organizational network and security standards for computers that are allowed to connect to the organizational network.
This remote access policy specifies how remote users can connect to the main organizational network and the requirements for each of their systems before they are allowed to connect.
See also
Network security policy
Computer security policy
User account policy
Internet security
Computer security
Network security
Industrial espionage
Information security
External links
National Institute for Standards and Technology]
Information technology management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Muir%20Health | John Muir Health is a hospital network headquartered in Walnut Creek, California and serving Contra Costa County, California and surrounding communities (all considered suburbs of Oakland and San Francisco). It was formed in 1997 from the merger of John Muir Medical Center (based in Walnut Creek) and Mount Diablo Medical Center (based in neighboring Concord).
John Muir Health includes two of the largest medical centers in Contra Costa County: John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, a medical center that serves as Contra Costa County's only designated trauma center; and John Muir Medical Center, Concord. Together, they are recognized as highly regarded centers for neurosciences, orthopedics, cancer care, cardiovascular care and high-risk obstetrics. Other areas of specialty include general surgery, robotic surgery, weight loss surgery, rehabilitation and critical care. Both hospitals are accredited by The Joint Commission, a national surveyor of quality patient care.
John Muir Health also offers complete inpatient and outpatient behavioral health programs and services at its Behavioral Health Center, a fully accredited, 73-bed psychiatric hospital located in Concord.
Since its inception in 1996, the John Muir Physician Network has become one of the largest physician networks in Northern California, with more than 900 primary care and specialty physicians. Physicians associated with the Physician Network belong to either John Muir Medical Group (JMMG) or Muir Medical Group IPA, Inc. The Physician Network owns and operates primary care practices staffed by JMMG physicians in 23 locations from Brentwood to Pleasanton.
In addition, John Muir Health provides outpatient services throughout the community and urgent care centers in Brentwood, Concord, San Ramon and Walnut Creek.
John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek
John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek is a 554-bed acute care facility that is designated as a level II trauma center, the only trauma center for Contra Costa County and portions of Solano County. Recognized as one of the region's premier health care providers, its areas of specialty include high- and low-risk obstetrics, orthopedics, rehabilitation, neurosciences, cardiac care, and cancer care. In spring 2011, The Tom and Billie Long Patient Care Tower, with 230 private rooms opened. Key areas of expansion include emergency, trauma, imaging, lab, surgery, critical care, neonatal intensive care unit, birth center, orthopedics and rehabilitation.
John Muir Medical Center, Concord
John Muir Medical Center, Concord, is a 244-bed acute care facility that serves Contra Costa and southern Solano counties. The medical center is a center for cancer care and cardiovascular care, including open heart surgery and interventional cardiology. Other areas of specialty include general surgery, orthopedic and neurology programs. In November 2010, The Hofmann Family Patient Care Tower opened, housing private patient rooms, a centralized cardiovasc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw%20data | Raw data, also known as primary data, are data (e.g., numbers, instrument readings, figures, etc.) collected from a source. In the context of examinations, the raw data might be described as a raw score (after test scores).
If a scientist sets up a computerized thermometer which records the temperature of a chemical mixture in a test tube every minute, the list of temperature readings for every minute, as printed out on a spreadsheet or viewed on a computer screen are "raw data". Raw data have not been subjected to processing, "cleaning" by researchers to remove outliers, obvious instrument reading errors or data entry errors, or any analysis (e.g., determining central tendency aspects such as the average or median result). As well, raw data have not been subject to any other manipulation by a software program or a human researcher, analyst or technician. They are also referred to as primary data. Raw data is a relative term (see data), because even once raw data have been "cleaned" and processed by one team of researchers, another team may consider these processed data to be "raw data" for another stage of research. Raw data can be inputted to a computer program or used in manual procedures such as analyzing statistics from a survey. The term "raw data" can refer to the binary data on electronic storage devices, such as hard disk drives (also referred to as "low-level data").
Generating data
Data has two ways of being created or made. The first is what is called 'captured data', and is found through purposeful investigation or analysis. The second is called 'exhaust data', and is gathered usually by machines or terminals as a secondary function. For example, cash registers, smartphones, and speedometers serve a main function but may collect data as a secondary task. Exhaustive data is usually too large or of little use to process and becomes 'transient' or thrown away.
Examples
In computing, raw data may have the following attributes: it may possibly contain human, machine, or instrument errors, it may not be validated; it might be in different area (colloquial) formats; uncoded or unformatted; or some entries might be "suspect" (e.g., outliers), requiring confirmation or citation. For example, a data input sheet might contain dates as raw data in many forms: "31st January 1999", "31/01/1999", "31/1/99", "31 Jan", or "today". Once captured, this raw data may be processed stored as a normalized format, perhaps a Julian date, to make it easier for computers and humans to interpret during later processing. Raw data (sometimes colloquially called "sources" data or "eggy" data, the latter a reference to the data being "uncooked", that is, "unprocessed", like a raw egg) are the data input to processing. A distinction is made between data and information, to the effect that information is the end product of data processing. Raw data that has undergone processing are sometimes referred to as "cooked" data in a colloquial sense. Although raw data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire%20%281973%20video%20game%29 | Empire is the name of a computer game written for the PLATO system in 1973. It is significant for being quite probably the first networked multiplayer arena shooter-style game. It may also be the first networked multiplayer action game (although Maze War is another possibility for this distinction).
Gameplay
Although PLATO terminals had touch panels, they did not have mice, and all control in the game is via typing. Commands involving directions to change course and fire weapons are entered as degree headings, with 0 being to the right, 90 up, 180 left, and 270 down. The "arrow" keys, clustered around "s", could also be used (e.g. "qw" being the same as 113 degrees). PLATO terminals had 512 by 512 pixel monochrome vector CRT display screens, and could use downloadable character sets to display graphics.
The object of the game is to conquer the galaxy. This galaxy contains 25 planets and 4 races. The races were the Federation, Romulans, Orions, and (originally) Klingons. The fourth race was changed to Kazari, just prior to publication because the game authors were worried about copyright infringement. In 1991, the fourth race name was changed back to Klingon on the NovaNET system, but remained Kazari on the CDC systems.
Each team is given three adjacent planets as their home system. Each home system is located towards one corner of the map, which was many screens in size, and thus has two other teams relatively nearby. There are two neutral worlds between each team and its two neighbors, and five more neutral worlds in the middle of the galaxy. Each planet given to a team contains 50 armies at the start of the game, while the neutral planets start off with 25 self-ruled armies.
Up to 30 players could be in the game at once, with no more than 15 players on a team. Each player is given a starship to pilot. Players dogfight each other, destroy enemy armies by bombing them, beam up friendly armies to transport them, and beam down armies to take over planets. The ships of each race have slightly different capabilities; Orion ships have the weakest weapons but are fast, Roms have the strongest weapons, but are the slowest, and Fed and Kazari ships have medium speed and strength. (In the VAX Conquest variant, which features engine and weapons temperature statistics, Federation ships have the highest overall speed; Klingon weapons do the most damage; Orions can "cruise" at a faster speed than others without engine overheat; and Romulans can fire weapons more often without weapon systems overheating.)
Ships have two kinds of weapons: phasers and photon torpedoes. Phasers fire in a cone shape and do damage immediately, while torpedoes take some time to reach their target and can be dodged. Torpedoes can also be detonated before they strike. When a player is killed, they resurrect in a new ship in their home system, or in any home system that has been conquered by their team.
Although an action game, Empire can be slow to play, and moves have to be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing-Tabulating-Recording%20Company | The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) was a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems subsequently known as IBM.
In 1911, financier and noted trust organizer, "Father of Trusts", Charles R. Flint amalgamated (via stock acquisition) four companies: Bundy Manufacturing Company, International Time Recording Company, the Tabulating Machine Company, and the Computing Scale Company of America; creating a fifth company – the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
CTR was initially located in Endicott, New York The amalgamated companies had 1,300 employees and manufactured a wide range of products, including employee time-keeping systems, weighing scales, automatic meat slicers, and punched card equipment.
CTR was renamed as the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1924.
The individual companies continued to operate using their established names until the businesses were integrated in 1933, and the holding company was eliminated.
Companies amalgamated
Bundy Manufacturing Company
The first time clock was invented on November 20, 1888, by Willard Bundy, a jeweler in Auburn, New York. A year later, his brother, Harlow Bundy, organized the Bundy Manufacturing Company, and began mass-producing time clocks.
In 1900, Bundy Manufacturing sold its time recording business to a new company, the International Time Recording Company. Bundy Manufacturing went on to produce adding machines.
In 1906 Harlow Bundy moved his business into a new three-story brick building in Endicott, New York.
International Time Recording Company
In 1894, J. L. Willard and F. A. Frick of Rochester, New York, formed the Willard & Frick Manufacturing Company as the first time card recorder company in the world.
In 1900 George W. Fairchild, an investor and director of the Bundy Manufacturing Company, led the formation in Jersey City, New Jersey, of the International Time Recording Company (ITR) which consolidated the time recording business of Bundy with the Willard & Frick Manufacturing Co. In 1901, the company was re-incorporated in Binghamton, New York. The same year, it acquired the Chicago Time-Register Co., the first autograph time recorder company in the world and a manufacturer of key, card, and autograph employee time recorders.
In 1906, ITR relocated to Endicott, New York, where it built a larger factory next to the new building of the Bundy Manufacturing Company. Before the CTR amalgamation, Harlow Bundy would be named ITR's treasurer and general manager.
Dr. Alexander Dey invented the first dial recorder in 1888, and in 1907 ITR acquired the Del Ray Register Company. In 1908, ITR acquired the Syracuse Time Recorder Company, a manufacturer of dial recorders.
ITR's 1935 catalog lists various clocks, from industrial timeclocks, recording clocks, and program clocks to ornamental store-front clocks. It also lists the Series 970 Intercommunicating Telephone System. Since 1907 or earlier ITR had published a magazi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire%20%281972%20video%20game%29 | Empire is a 4X computer wargame created in 1972 by Peter Langston, taking its name from a Reed College board game of the same name. It was initially created by Langston in BASIC on an HP2000 minicomputer at Evergreen State College. When the host computer was retired, the source code to the game was lost. Subsequently, two other authors each independently wrote a new version of the game, both named Empire. In the decades since, numerous other versions of Empire have been developed for a wide variety of platforms.
The game is turn-based, with players giving orders at their convenience, and in some versions then executed simultaneously by the game server at set intervals ranging from a few hours to once per day. The game world consists of "sectors", which may be designated as agricultural, industrial, etc. There are dozens of unit types requiring a variety of raw and manufactured materials for their creation. "Blitz" games may last a few hours, typical games a few months, and some larger games up to a year.
Gameplay
Empire is a turn-based 4X wargame, where players command armies of units which they use to explore the game world, control territory, and attack opponents. The game world consists of "sectors", which may be designated as agricultural, industrial, etc. Control of these sectors grants the player a variety of raw and manufactured materials, which they may use to construct dozens of unit types. In each round, the players submit their commands for the activities of their units to the central server, which executes all of the commands either simultaneously or in a sequence. Rounds can last anywhere from a few hours to a day. As such, a full game can take much longer than modern 4X games, depending on the size of the game world; "Blitz" games may last a few hours, while typical games last months and larger games can take up to a year to complete.
Development
Empire was created in 1972 by Peter Langston, taking its name from a Reed College board game of the same name. It was initially created by Langston in BASIC on an HP2000 minicomputer at Evergreen State College. Between 1972 and 1974, Langston expanded on the game, with additions by Ben Norton, Chuck Douglas, Mike Rainwater, and several others. When the host computer was retired, the original game was lost. Subsequently, two other authors each independently wrote a new version of the game, both named Empire, and several ports of the game were created for other computer systems, such as PSL Empire for the PDP 11/70, and a version with added weather effects for the VAX-11. Langston, now at Harvard University, recreated the game in C, and shared the source code with a few other developers; disliking the changes they made, he stopped doing so, maintaining the canonical version of the game until 1985, when he stopped development. Around that time, he gave the source code to a group including Dave Pare, who was attempting to reverse engineer the game. Pare then adapted the game into a version n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truphone | Truphone is a GSMA-accredited global mobile network that operates its service internationally. The company is headquartered in London and has offices in ten other countries, being spread across four continents.
Truphone offers eSIM-based GSM mobile services to both businesses and individuals, mobile phone calls and SMS recording services for businesses, remote SIM provisioning and related services, and has a customer base that includes more than 3,500 multinational enterprises in 196 countries.
History
Truphone (a trading name of TP Global Operations Ltd, which acquired the assets of Truphone Ltd, formerly Software Cellular Network Ltd) was founded in 2006 by James Tagg, Alexander Straub and Alistair Campbell.
The company's core business focus is Truphone (launched as Truphone Local Anywhere in January 2010). It is a GSM SIM-based mobile service that provides bundles of minutes, text and data to business customers for use in an area of 66 countries. Truphone calls this group of countries Truphone World.
Within this area is a group of countries the company calls the Truphone Zone. Here, the company has MVNO partnerships with local operators and offers customers additional local mobile phone numbers. This is so users’ contacts can always reach them with a local call at a local rate.
Truphone was originally formed to develop downloadable mobile VoIP applications for smartphones, using the integrated Wi-Fi connection on the device. These offered the ability to make free or low cost calls on the mobile device in areas where there is weak or no GSM coverage, and to send Instant Messages to other networks in partnership with the multimillion-dollar Air Voice Telecommunications Group.
The first Truphone application released was for Nokia devices. This was followed by applications for Apple iPhone, BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPod Touch, Android devices and a softphone application for desktop was launched in late 2010.
Truphone's SIM based products are entirely separate from the Apps. In 2012, Truphone had announced the intention to combine the SIM and App accounts for customers in the future, but their App service has since been discontinued.
In 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to fine Truphone for exceeding foreign ownership limits without FCC approval, noting that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and his children indirectly control a stake in the company.
On 24 January 2023, Truphone Limited has sold substantially all assets and subsidiaries to TP Global Operations Limited.
Timeline
Products and services
Truphone SIM
The Truphone SIM is a standard GSM service with patented technology that allows customers to have additional phone numbers for any or all of the countries where Truphone has MVNO partnerships with local operators. Currently this includes Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States.
The company has built a mobile network with core net |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure%20security | Infrastructure security is the security provided to protect infrastructure, especially critical infrastructure, such as airports, highways rail transport, hospitals, bridges, transport hubs, network communications, media, the electricity grid, dams, power plants, seaports, oil refineries, liquefied natural gas terminals and water systems. Infrastructure security seeks to limit vulnerability of these structures and systems to sabotage, terrorism, and contamination.
Critical infrastructures naturally utilize information technology as this capability has become more and more available. As a result, they have become highly interconnected, and interdependent. Intrusions and disruptions in one infrastructure might provoke unexpected failures in others, which makes handing interdependencies a key concern.
There are several examples where an incident at one critical infrastructure site affects others. For example, in 2003, the Northeastern American areas experienced a power outage that appears to have originated in the Midwest, and possibly from a tree branch. In 2013, damage caused by a sniper attack at an electrical substation in California threatened power distribution throughout Silicon Valley. The 2020 Nashville bombing caused telecommunications outages in several states.
Potential causes of infrastructure failure
Critical infrastructure is vital for essential functioning of a country. Incidental or deliberate damage will have serious impact on the economy as well as providing essential services to the communities it serves. There are a number of reasons why infrastructure needs to be heavily secured and protected.
Terrorism - person or groups deliberately targeting critical infrastructure for political gain. In the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, the Mumbai central station and hospital were deliberately targeted.
Theft – person of groups breaking into critical infrastructure sites like electrical substations or telecommunication towers to steal materials or equipment (e.g. metal theft)
Sabotage - person or groups such as ex-employee, political groups against governments, environmental groups in defense of environment. Refer to Bangkok's International Airport Seized by Protestors.
Information warfare - private person hacking for private gain or countries initiating attacks to glean information and also damage a country's infrastructure. For example, in cyberattacks on Estonia and cyberattacks during the 2008 South Ossetia war.
Natural disaster - hurricane or natural events which damage critical infrastructure such as oil pipelines, water and power grids. See Hurricane Ike and Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina.
Security challenges for the electricity infrastructure
One of the fundamental foundations of modern society is the electrical power systems. An intentional disruption of electricity supplies would affect national security, the economy, and every person's life. Because power grids and their sources are widely dispersed, this is a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSP%20algorithm | GSP algorithm (Generalized Sequential Pattern algorithm) is an algorithm used for sequence mining. The algorithms for solving sequence mining problems are mostly based on the apriori (level-wise) algorithm. One way to use the level-wise paradigm is to first discover all the frequent items in a level-wise fashion. It simply means counting the occurrences of all singleton elements in the database. Then, the transactions are filtered by removing the non-frequent items. At the end of this step, each transaction consists of only the frequent elements it originally contained. This modified database becomes an input to the GSP algorithm. This process requires one pass over the whole database.
GSP algorithm makes multiple database passes. In the first pass, all single items (1-sequences) are counted. From the frequent items, a set of candidate 2-sequences are formed, and another pass is made to identify their frequency. The frequent 2-sequences are used to generate the candidate 3-sequences, and this process is repeated until no more frequent sequences are found. There are two main steps in the algorithm.
Candidate Generation. Given the set of frequent (k-1)-frequent sequences Fk-1, the candidates for the next pass are generated by joining F(k-1) with itself. A pruning phase eliminates any sequence, at least one of whose subsequences is not frequent.
Support Counting. Normally, a hash tree–based search is employed for efficient support counting. Finally non-maximal frequent sequences are removed.
Algorithm
F1 = the set of frequent 1-sequence
k=2,
do while Fk-1 != Null;
Generate candidate sets Ck (set of candidate k-sequences);
For all input sequences s in the database D
do
Increment count of all a in Ck if s supports a
End do
Fk = {a ∈ Ck such that its frequency exceeds the threshold}
k = k+1;
End do
Result = Set of all frequent sequences is the union of all Fk's
The above algorithm looks like the Apriori algorithm. One main difference is however the generation of candidate sets. Let us assume that:
A → B and A → C
are two frequent 2-sequences. The items involved in these sequences are (A, B) and (A,C) respectively. The candidate generation in a usual Apriori style would give (A, B, C) as a 3-itemset, but in the present context we get the following 3-sequences as a result of joining the above 2- sequences
A → B → C, A → C → B and A → BC
The candidate–generation phase takes this into account. The GSP algorithm discovers frequent sequences, allowing for time constraints such as maximum gap and minimum gap among the sequence elements. Moreover, it supports the notion of a sliding window, i.e., of a time interval within which items are observed as belonging to the same event, even if they originate from different events.
See also
Sequence mining
References
R. Srikant and R. Agrawal. 1996. Mining Sequential Patterns: Generalizations and Performance Improvements. In Proc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%209%20%28Greece%29 | Channel 9 (Greek: Κανάλι 9) was a Greek television channel broadcasting in the region of Attica. Despite being declared to be a news-based channel, the majority of the channel's programming since the early 2010s, has consisted of telemarketing.
History
In 1992, the channel was launched as Tile Tora, founded by journalist Gregoris Michalopoulos. In January 2000, the channel was bought by Stathis Tsotsoros (Alpha TV) and was renamed POLIS TV or POLIS for short; a radio counterpart was established the same year. Michalopoulos became the channel's vice president. In 2004, the channel was renamed TV Cosmopolis or TVC for short. In 2005, the channel changed ownership again, and was temporarily renamed back to POLIS in preparation for an overhaul. On October 11, 2005, a fire almost completely ruined formerly sister station Alpha TV's studios in Agios Ioannis Rentis, where the regional station was housed anew, along with some archive material; the scheduled for the end of the month rebrand and new programming of the station were halted, with its already existing programming broadcasting from Alpha's headquarters in Kantza. In December 2005, the station was renamed to Channel 9, broadcasting from the studios in Rentis, after another deadline for December 5 was expired. The then new programming of the station, featuring primarily news bulletins, was undertaken by journalist Nikos Evangelatos, who was at the same time hosting the news program Apodeikseis on Alpha. It hasn't changed its main 4:3 idents since then. In 2010, the channel started focusing on economy shows, with Panagiotis Mpousmpourelis at the head.
Between 2004 and 2006, the channel was infamous for strikes by its crew and its executives firing employees. The channel would slowly start constantly airing replays of other shows, and there would be a potential shutdown of the station. At the end of 2006, journalist Nikos Evangelatos was forced to resign, following improper financial handling, firing all of the station's 390 employees. Since then, Channel 9 has gone through economic redevelopment, something that has managed to progress slowly into the new digital age.
In February 2007, Channel 9 started broadcasting live from its website. In December 2013, Channel 9 was added to Cosmote TV. It was removed from the service in November 2018.
Ownership
The channel has several times changed ownership in its history. The first company to operate the station was the Tiletora Anonymous Radio Television Company, which was established on February 6, 1992. A year later, the operation of the channel under the 19205/E license of local signal in Attica was legalized, and on March 20, 1998, the Ministry for the Press issued a decision, according to which, the channel was re-legalized as a regional one. Since its inception, the channel's headquarters would be initially located at Lycabettus St. 17 and later on Ilias Iliou St. 15, until mid-2001, when it was moved to Kallithea.
On June 30, 2000, the organiza |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatiotemporal%20database | A spatiotemporal database is a database that manages both space and time information. Common examples include:
Tracking of moving objects, which typically can occupy only a single position at a given time.
A database of wireless communication networks, which may exist only for a short timespan within a geographic region.
An index of species in a given geographic region, where over time additional species may be introduced or existing species migrate or die out.
Historical tracking of plate tectonic activity.
Spatiotemporal databases are an extension of spatial databases and temporal databases. A spatiotemporal database embodies spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal database concepts, and captures spatial and temporal aspects of data and deals with:
geometry changing over time and/or
location of objects moving over invariant geometry (known variously as moving objects databases or real-time locating systems).
Implementations
Although there exist numerous relational databases with spatial extensions, spatiotemporal databases are not based on the relational model for practical reasons, chiefly among them that the data is multi-dimensional, capturing complex structures and behaviours.
As of 2008, there are no RDBMS products with spatiotemporal extensions. There are some products such as the open-source TerraLib which use a middleware approach storing their data in a relational database. Unlike in the pure spatial domain, there are however no official or de facto standards for spatio-temporal data models and their querying. In general, the theory of this area is also less well-developed. Another approach is the constraint database system such as MLPQ (Management of Linear Programming Queries).
GeoMesa is an open-source distributed spatiotemporal index built on top of Bigtable-style databases using an implementation of the Z-order_curve to create a multi-dimensional index combining space and time.
SpaceTime is a commercial spatiotemporal database built on top of the proprietary multidimensional index similar to the kd-tree family, but created using the bottom-up approach and adapted to particular space-time distribution of data. In a study conducted by Ericsson, SpaceTime significantly outperformed GeoMesa.
See also
Historical geographic information system
Locating engine
Multimedia database
Structure mining
Time geography
References
External links
Organizations
http://vldb.org (Very Large Databases)
http://www.dexa.org (Database and Expert Systems Applications)
Implementations
https://secondo-database.github.io/ (Secondo)
Database management systems
Geographic data and information
Spatial databases
Space and time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill%20Womach | Merrill Womach (February 7, 1927 – December 28, 2014) was an American undertaker, organist and gospel singer, notable both for founding National Music Service (now Global Distribution Network, Inc.), which provided recorded music to funeral homes across America, and for surviving a Thursday, November 23, 1961 plane crash in Beaver Marsh, Oregon that left him disfigured with third degree burns on his hands and his entire head.
Womach authorized an autobiography of his recovery titled Tested by Fire, co-authored with his former wife Virginia with help from Mel and Lyla White. A documentary film titled He Restoreth My Soul was also made about Womach's accident and subsequent recovery.
He died in his sleep on December 28, 2014.
Discography
1960 My Song
1967 I Believe in Miracles
1968 Merrill Womach Sings Christmas Carols
1969 A Time For Us
1970 Surely Goodness and Mercy
1973 I Stood At Calvary
1974 Happy Again
1976 Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory
1977 In Concert
1977 In Quartet
1977 New Life Collectible
1979 Images Of Christmas
1979 My Favorite Hymns
1980 Reborn
1981 Classical
1981 I'm A Miracle, Lord
1981 Merrill
1983 Feelin' Good
1985 Thank You, Lord
References
External links
1927 births
2014 deaths
American gospel singers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept%20mining | Concept mining is an activity that results in the extraction of concepts from artifacts. Solutions to the task typically involve aspects of artificial intelligence and statistics, such as data mining and text mining. Because artifacts are typically a loosely structured sequence of words and other symbols (rather than concepts), the problem is nontrivial, but it can provide powerful insights into the meaning, provenance and similarity of documents.
Methods
Traditionally, the conversion of words to concepts has been performed using a thesaurus, and for computational techniques the tendency is to do the same. The thesauri used are either specially created for the task, or a pre-existing language model, usually related to Princeton's WordNet.
The mappings of words to concepts are often ambiguous. Typically each word in a given language will relate to several possible concepts. Humans use context to disambiguate the various meanings of a given piece of text, where available machine translation systems cannot easily infer context.
For the purposes of concept mining, however, these ambiguities tend to be less important than they are with machine translation, for in large documents the ambiguities tend to even out, much as is the case with text mining.
There are many techniques for disambiguation that may be used. Examples are linguistic analysis of the text and the use of word and concept association frequency information that may be inferred from large text corpora. Recently, techniques that base on semantic similarity between the possible concepts and the context have appeared and gained interest in the scientific community.
Applications
Detecting and indexing similar documents in large corpora
One of the spin-offs of calculating document statistics in the concept domain, rather than the word domain, is that concepts form natural tree structures based on hypernymy and meronymy. These structures can be used to generate simple tree membership statistics, that can be used to locate any document in a Euclidean concept space. If the size of a document is also considered as another dimension of this space then an extremely efficient indexing system can be created. This technique is currently in commercial use locating similar legal documents in a 2.5 million document corpus.
Clustering documents by topic
Standard numeric clustering techniques may be used in "concept space" as described above to locate and index documents by the inferred topic. These are numerically far more efficient than their text mining cousins, and tend to behave more intuitively, in that they map better to the similarity measures a human would generate.
See also
Formal concept analysis
Information extraction
Compound term processing
References
Natural language processing
Applications of artificial intelligence
Data mining |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper%20Jacks | Jasper Jacks is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network. He has been portrayed off-and-on by actor Ingo Rademacher since 1996. The role was temporarily played by Gideon Emery during Rademacher's absence in January 2008. The character gained popularity due to a love triangle between him and supercouple Sonny Corinthos and Brenda Barrett. When Brenda left the show, the love triangle continued on with Sonny and Carly Benson.
Casting and character creation
The role of Jasper "Jax" Jacks was originated by German-born Australian actor Ingo Rademacher, who debuted in the role on January 31, 1996. In April 2000, Rademacher announced his decision to not sign a new contract with the series, and would vacate the role of Jasper. On his departure, Rademacher said in a statement, "I haven't really built up my resumé. I think [daytime] was a good move. And especially being on General Hospital, the best daytime show, I think. But there are other things I'd like to do." Following his departure, the actor signed onto the NBC primetime series Titans. In April 2001, it was rumored that Rademacher would make his way back to General Hospital, despite being interested in the role of "Colin" on the NBC Daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives, a potential love interest of the character Jennifer Horton (Melissa Reeves). That month, further speculation led many to believe that Rademacher would return to his daytime home following the cancellation of Titans and his rumored deal with Days of our Lives failing to provide any truth. It was later confirmed that Rademacher was to return to the series in June 2001. He returned on-screen July 30, 2001.
In September 2004, following his being quoted as being "burned out", Rademacher was rumored to be making an exit from his daytime home once again, however the rumors turned out to be false. In May 2011, it was announced that Rademacher had been fired from the series following a noticeable decline in Jasper's airtime on the series. Rademacher last aired in July 2011, before returning in August in what he stated was expected to be the first of many guest appearances on the series.
In November 2011, it was announced by ABC that Rademacher would make another scheduled guest appearance on the series, this time lasting three weeks. Rademacher returned on December 30, 2011, and left the series once again on January 23, 2012.
In August 2012, following the surprising return of Jerry Jacks (Sebastian Roché), it was announced that Rademacher would once again make a return to the series in the role of Jasper Jacks. Rademacher made his on-screen return on August 23, 2012. He finished his guest series the following month, making his final appearance on September 26, 2012.
Rademacher, along with co-star Vanessa Marcil, was invited back for the show's 50th anniversary. An official announcement was made on March 5, 2013. He appeared back on-screen on April 1, 2013. On June 2, 2016, TVLine broke news t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Swedish%20general%20election%20computer%20infringement%20affair | The 2006 Swedish election espionage affair, in daily media sometimes called Leijongate, which is created from Watergate and the liberal party leader Lars Leijonborg, was a series of computer break-ins and the subsequent scandal. It all started on September 4, 2006, only weeks before the 2006 general election, the Social Democratic Party reported a computer break-in into the Social Democrats' internal network to the police. It has been reported that members of the Liberal People's Party had copied secret information not yet officially released to counter-attack Social Democratic political propositions on at least two occasions.
Timeline
November 8, 2005 Stig-Olof Friberg is hired as first ombudsman for the Swedish Social Democratic Party in Skaraborg. He gets free access to the top secret sections of the Social Democratic intranet containing analysis of their political opponents, how to counter them, media strategy and future plans. He logs on using an unencrypted wireless network and uses his user name as password.
Some time in November 2005 Nicklas Lagerlöf, chairman of the Western Sweden district of the Liberal Youth of Sweden (LUF) gets access to Stig-Olof Friberg's user name and password. He also get access to the user names and passwords of Niklas Sörman, ombudsman at the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU) and secretary Birgitta Svensson. Nicklas Lagerlöf says he was given the passwords by Niklas Sörman who then files a slander lawsuit. Nicklas Lagerlöf later gives the login information to Per Jodenius, press secretary at the LUF main office in Stockholm.
January 12, 2006 Access to the Social Democrats' intranet from Liberal Party servers increases. During the following months 78 log-ins are made downloading internal reports and documents.
February 2, 2006 The Social Democrats start their campaign promising better education for people working with care of the elderly. The same day Lars Leijonborg and the Party social policy spokesperson Erik Ullenhag present their counter-report.
February 17, 2006 At 10 AM, school minister Ibrahim Baylan presents his school report. At 1.15 PM, the Liberal Party releases their counter-report having read the government's report a day before it was published.
February 24, 2006 A person working at the Social Democratic party HQ sends forged e-mails. During the day, ten log-ins from the Liberal Party onto the Social Democrats' intranet are logged. The log-ins stop when the name of the mailer is revealed.
March 14, 2006 Last log-in from servers belonging to the Liberal Party to the Social Democrats' intranet. Log-ins continue from a Telia account.
March 15, 2006 Niki Westerberg, press secretary of the Liberal Party, informs party secretary Johan Jakobsson that she thinks Per Jodenius has access to the Social Democrats' intranet. Jakobsson says he told Jodenius to reveal it to a reporter and stop the illegal access. Per Jodenius contacts Niklas Svensson on Expressen who does not reveal the stor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBASIC | CBASIC is a compiled version of the BASIC programming language written for the CP/M operating system by Gordon Eubanks in 1976–1977. It is an enhanced version of BASIC-E.
History
BASIC-E was Eubank's master's thesis project. It was developed in PL/M by Eubanks for Gary Kildall's new CP/M operating system while both men were at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. BASIC-E was based on a BASIC compiler originally written by Gary Kildall in 1974.
Because it was developed at public expense, BASIC-E is in the public domain and could not be marketed exclusively. Seymour Rubinstein, the marketing director of IMSAI contacted Eubanks and asked him to create a saleable version under contract for the IMSAI 8080 microcomputer. Eubanks developed CBASIC in his spare time while he was still a naval officer stationed on the submarine USS George Washington at Vallejo, California. He retained joint ownership of the program with IMSAI, and sold the program through his own company, Compiler Systems, until it was acquired by Digital Research in 1981.
CBASIC COMPILER VER 2.07
CRUN VER 2.38 / COPYRIGHT 1981 COMPILER SYSTEMS INC.
Features
BASIC-E and early versions of CBASIC compiled source code into an intermediate p-code file, which was then executed by a separate run-time interpreter program. CBASIC could execute in a minimum of 24 KB of memory. Line numbers in the program source were optional, unless needed as a label for a program jump. CBASIC proved very popular because it incorporated 14-digit binary-coded decimal (BCD) math which eliminated MBASIC's rounding errors that were sometimes troublesome for accounting.
CBASIC2 adds the following features:
Integer variables
Chaining with common variables
Additional pre-defined functions
Cross reference capability
Reception
InfoWorld in 1980 described CBASIC as the "primary language for the development of commercial CP/M applications", because of developers' widespread familiarity with BASIC and ability to distribute royalty-free binaries without source code to CBASIC owners. The magazine stated that the language had become popular "despite serious drawbacks", including the required preprocessor for interpreted source code making debugging difficult, slow speed, and incompatible changes. Jerry Pournelle said in May 1983 that Digital Research had "practically ruin[ed]" Eubanks' CBASIC manual after acquiring his company, but that the new edition was much better.
References
External links
Gordon Eubanks own story of BASIC-E and CBASIC, Computer World oral history transcript, November 2000
BASIC-E Reference Manual (December 1976)
CBASIC 2 Reference Manual (Table of contents on p. 115) November 1981
Another CBASIC description
cbc – a CBASIC to C converter
Interpreter in 6502 assembler
CBASIC 2.8 = CBASIC-86 1.00 Posting by Emmanuel Roche
BASIC interpreters
BASIC compilers
CP/M software
Programming languages created in 1977
BASIC programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overture%20%28disambiguation%29 | An overture is the instrumental introduction to a dramatic, choral or, occasionally, instrumental composition.
Overture may also refer to:
Companies
Overture Networks, multi-national manufacturer of networking and telecommunications equipment
Overture Films theatrical motion picture production & distribution company
Overture Services, an Internet search engine company acquired by Yahoo! in 2003
Films
Overture (1958 film), a 1958 Canadian documentary film
Overture (1965 film), a 1965 Hungarian documentary film
The Overture, a 2004 Thai musical-drama film
Music
"Overture" (Def Leppard song), the last track on Def Leppard's debut album On Through The Night (1980)
"Overture" (The Who song), a song by The Who from the 1969 rock opera Tommy
"Overture 1928", the second track from Dream Theater's fifth studio album, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
"Overture" (Bruckner), an orchestral composition by Anton Bruckner
"Overture", a 2015 song by AJR from Living Room
"Overture", a 2017 song by AJR from The Click
"Overture", a 2023 song by Kamelot from The Awakening
"Overture", a 2010 song by Martin O'Donnell on the soundtrack of Halo: Reach
"Overture", a 2007 song by Patrick Wolf from The Magic Position
"Overture", a song from Irving Berlin's musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Dolores Gray as Annie Oakley
"Overture", the instrumental introduction of Rush's song "2112" from the album of the same name, released in 1976
Other uses
Overture (novel), a 2018 novel by Zlatko Topčić
Overture (video game), a 2015 action-adventure game
Overture Center, a performing arts center and art gallery in Madison, Wisconsin
Penumbra: Overture, a survival horror PC video game, the first installment of the Penumbra series by Frictional Games
Overture (software), notation software developed by Sonic Scores
Boom Overture, a supersonic jet airliner expected to be introduced around 2029
See also
Ouverture (disambiguation)
Toussaint Louverture (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpsd | gpsd is a computer software program that collects data from a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and provides the data via an Internet Protocol (IP) network to potentially multiple client applications in a server-client application architecture. Gpsd may be run as a daemon to operate transparently as a background task of the server. The network interface provides a standardized data format for multiple concurrent client applications, such as Kismet or GPS navigation software.
Gpsd is commonly used on Unix-like operating systems. It is distributed as free software under the 3-clause BSD license.
Design
gpsd provides a TCP/IP service by binding to port 2947 by default. It communicates via that socket by accepting commands, and returning results. These commands use a JSON-based syntax and provide JSON responses. Multiple clients can access the service concurrently.
The application supports many types of GPS receivers with connections via serial ports, USB, and Bluetooth. Starting in 2009, gpsd also supports AIS receivers.
gpsd supports interfacing with the Network Time Protocol (NTP) server ntpd via shared memory to enable setting the host platform's time via the GPS clock.
Authors
gpsd was originally written by Remco Treffkorn with Derrick Brashear, then maintained by Russell Nelson. It is now maintained by Eric S. Raymond.
References
External links
Global Positioning System
Free software programmed in C
Free software programmed in Python
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20distribution%20system | A global distribution system (GDS) is a computerised network system owned or operated by a company that enables transactions between travel industry service providers, mainly airlines, hotels, car rental companies, and travel agencies. The GDS mainly uses real-time inventory (e.g. number of hotel rooms available, number of flight seats available, or number of cars available) from the service providers. Travel agencies traditionally relied on GDS for services, products and rates in order to provide travel-related services to the end consumers. Thus, a GDS can link services, rates and bookings consolidating products and services across all three travel sectors: i.e., airline reservations, hotel reservations, car rentals.
GDS is different from a computer reservation system, which is a reservation system used by the service providers (also known as vendors). Primary customers of GDS are travel agents (both online and office-based) who make reservations on various reservation systems run by the vendors. GDS holds no inventory; the inventory is held on the vendor's reservation system itself. A GDS system will have a real-time link to the vendor's database. For example, when a travel agency requests a reservation on the service of a particular airline company, the GDS system routes the request to the appropriate airline's computer reservations system.
Example of a booking facilitation done by an airline GDS
A mirror image of the passenger name record (PNR) in the airline reservations system is maintained in the GDS system. If a passenger books an itinerary containing air segments of multiple airlines through a travel agency, the passenger name record in the GDS system would hold information on their entire itinerary, while each airline they fly on would only have a portion of the itinerary that is relevant to them. This would contain flight segments on their own services and inbound and onward connecting flights (known as info segments) of other airlines in the itinerary. For example, if a passenger books a journey from Amsterdam to London on KLM, London to New York on British Airways, and New York to Frankfurt on Lufthansa through a travel agent and if the travel agent is connected to Amadeus GDS, the PNR in the Amadeus GDS would contain the full itinerary, while the PNR in KLM would show the Amsterdam to London segment along with the British Airways flight as an onward info segment. Likewise, the PNR in the Lufthansa system would show the New York to Frankfurt segment with the British Airways flight as an arrival information segment. Finally, the PNR in British Airways' system would show all three segments, one as a live segment and the other two as arrival and onward info segments.
Some GDS systems also have a dual-use capability for hosting multiple computer reservation systems; in such situations functionally the computer reservations system and the GDS partition of the system behave as if they were separate systems.
Future of GDS systems and c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Edu-Ware%20products | Most of the programs in Edu-Ware Services' initial product line, released in 1979 under the slogan "Unique software for the unique mind", were not typical of the intellectually challenging computer games and structured, pedagogically sound educational software for which the company would later become known. Quickly designed and programmed in Applesoft BASIC primarily by co-founder Sherwin Steffin, most of these text-based programs were dropped from Edu-Ware's catalog when the company began developing products featuring high-resolution graphics in 1981.
E.S.P.
E.S.P. is a game giving players the opportunity to find out whether they possess extrasensory perception. While displaying a constantly changing graphic design on the screen, the program briefly flashes emotionally charged words, randomly chosen from a word list, on the screen. The program then asks a series of questions to determine if the player's attitudes have been influenced by the subliminal messages. A file-builder is included to allow players to insert new words in the data base.
The program was offered in both a stand-alone disk version and a compendium, along with E.S.P. and Zintar, called Party-Pak I. However, Edu-Ware dropped the game from its product line by the time its August 1, 1980 catalog was issued.
Metri-Vert
Metri-Vert is an analytical program performing metric conversion calculations for length/distance, area, volume weight and temperature. The program features a display page storing up to twenty conversions for easy reading and recall.
Perception
Perception is a puzzle game consisting of three games designed to challenge and improve players' visual skills. The first involves using game paddles to draw lines matching those drawn by the computer. The second, based on a World War II test for spy candidates, tests players' power of observation by showing them only small glimpses of an abstract object as a narrow mask travels over it and then asking them to choose from among several objects what they had just seen. The third modules tests player's visual memory by requiring them to distinguish sizes of identical shapes. Players have control over the shape, display time, and presentation format.
Originally developed by Steffin before founding Edu-Ware, he wrote a second version of the program soon after establishing the publishing company. The program was offered as both a stand-alone versions, and in a compendium, along with Statistics and Compu-Read, called Edu-Pak I. Edu-Ware upgraded the program to high resolution graphics using its EWS3 graphics engine in 1982, renaming it Perception 3.0, which was featured in the company's catalogs until 1984.
Rescue
Rescue is a low-resolution graphics action game in which the player uses game paddles move his spaceship to intercept with a damaged ship randomly floating around the screen. The program was offered in both disk and cassette stand-alone versions, as well as in a compendium, along with War, called Rescue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20Database%20Image | The Portable Database Image, also known as .pdi file, is a proprietary loss-less format designed for analytics, publishing and syndication of complex data. The .pdi format, generation process, and GUI, were invented by Dr. Reimar Hofmann and Dr. Michael Haft from Siemens AG Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.
The .pdi footprint is typically 100 to 1000 times smaller than the footprint normally found in structured data files or database systems, and is rendered without any loss of detail. The word portable in the name derives from the idea that the smaller footprint allows a .pdi runs in the main memory of a user's’ computer without disk or network input/output (IO).
The .pdi is a digitally rights protected, encrypted data source that can be accessed by any ODBO (OLE DB for OLAP) compliant OLAP tool, including Microsoft Excel and the Panoratio's Explorer GUI.
The .pdi presents detailed discrete or binned data without pre-calculation or cardinality reduction. It allows for real-time correlation and relationship exploration of unrestricted bounds — throughout all dimensions. They (.pdi’s) have been tested in excess of 5,000 dimensions and 500 million rows of information, with query response times in the .1 to 8 second range.
Additionally, because of patented techniques used in .pdi generation, patterns found in the data are summarily exposed, allowing for instant predictive and descriptive data mining. Yield optimizations, segmentation, outcome optimizations and simulations are all dynamically supported by the .pdi format. Users are constantly presented with the most changed and most highly correlated dimensions affected in every query as discovered in the patterns of the historical data.
External links
Panoratio web site. Panoratio provides the PDI related software.
About PDI at computerworld.com
Journalism
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20characterizations | Algorithm characterizations are attempts to formalize the word algorithm. Algorithm does not have a generally accepted formal definition. Researchers are actively working on this problem. This article will present some of the "characterizations" of the notion of "algorithm" in more detail.
The problem of definition
Over the last 200 years, the definition of the algorithm has become more complicated and detailed as researchers have tried to pin down the term. Indeed, there may be more than one type of "algorithm". But most agree that algorithm has something to do with defining generalized processes for the creation of "output" integers from other "input" integers – "input parameters" arbitrary and infinite in extent, or limited in extent but still variable—by the manipulation of distinguishable symbols (counting numbers) with finite collections of rules that a person can perform with paper and pencil.
The most common number-manipulation schemes—both in formal mathematics and in routine life—are: (1) the recursive functions calculated by a person with paper and pencil, and (2) the Turing machine or its Turing equivalents—the primitive register-machine or "counter-machine" model, the random-access machine model (RAM), the random-access stored-program machine model (RASP) and its functional equivalent "the computer".
When we are doing "arithmetic" we are really calculating by the use of "recursive functions" in the shorthand algorithms we learned in grade school, for example, adding and subtracting.
The proofs that every "recursive function" we can calculate by hand we can compute by machine and vice versa—note the usage of the words calculate versus compute—is remarkable. But this equivalence together with the thesis (unproven assertion) that this includes every calculation/computation indicates why so much emphasis has been placed upon the use of Turing-equivalent machines in the definition of specific algorithms, and why the definition of "algorithm" itself often refers back to "the Turing machine". This is discussed in more detail under Stephen Kleene's characterization.
The following are summaries of the more famous characterizations (Kleene, Markov, Knuth) together with those that introduce novel elements—elements that further expand the definition or contribute to a more precise definition.
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A mathematical problem and its result can be considered as two points in a space, and the solution consists of a sequence of steps or a path linking them. Quality of the solution is a function of the path. There might be more than one attribute defined for the path, e.g. length, complexity of shape, an ease of generalizing, difficulty, and so on.
]
Chomsky hierarchy
There is more consensus on the "characterization" of the notion of "simple algorithm".
All algorithms need to be specified in a formal language, and the "simplicity notion" arises from the simplicity of the language. The Chomsky (1956) hierarchy is a containment hierarchy of classes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%20of%20Eric | The Stone of Eric, listed as DR 1 in the Rundata catalog, is a memorial runestone that was found in Northern Germany. This area was part of Denmark during the Viking Age.
Description
The Stone of Eric is one of the Hedeby stones. It was found in 1796 at Danevirke and moved to a park in Schleswig. Like the Skarthi Rune stone, DR 3, it is believed to have been raised in about 995 C.E. Its inscription describes an attack from the Swedish king Eric the Victorious on Hedeby, who took advantage of the fact that Sweyn Forkbeard was campaigning in England.
The inscription refers to King Sweyn's hemþægi or heimþegi (pl. heimþegar), meaning "home-receiver" (i.e., one who is given a house by another). A total of six runestones in Denmark refer to a person with this title, the others being DR 3 in Haddeby, the now-lost DR 154 in Torup, DR 155 in Sjørind, and DR 296 and DR 297 in Hällestad. The use of the term in the inscriptions suggest a strong similarity between heimþegar and the Old Norse term húskarl (literally, "house man"), or housecarl. Like housecarls, heimþegar are in the service of a king or lord, of whom they receive gifts (here, homes) for their service. Some, like Johannes Brøndsted, have interpreted heimþegi as being nothing more than a local Danish variant of húskarl.
The runic text also describes Erik as being a styrimann, a title often translated as "captain" and which describes a person who was responsible for navigation and watchkeeping on a ship. This term is also used in inscriptions on Sö 161 in Råby, U 1011 in Örby, U 1016 in Fjuckby, and U Fv1976;104 at the Uppsala Cathedral. Thorulf describes the relationship between himself and Erik using the term félag, which refers to a joint financial venture between partners. Several other runestones mention that the deceased using some form of félag include Sö 292 in Bröta, Vg 112 in Ås, Vg 122 in Abrahamstorp, the now-lost Vg 146 in Slöta, Vg 182 in Skattegården, U 391 in Villa Karlsro, the now-lost U 954 in Söderby, DR 66 and DR 68 in Århus, DR 125 in Dalbyover, DR 127 in Hobro, DR 262 in Fosie, DR 270 in Skivarp, DR 279 in Sjörup, DR 316 in Norra Nöbbelöv, DR 318 in Håstad, DR 321 in Västra Karaby, DR 329 and DR 330 in Gårdstånga, DR 339 in Stora Köpinge, and X UaFv1914;47 in Berezanj, Ukraina.
Erik at the end of the text is described as being drængʀ harþa goþan meaning "a very good valiant man." A drengr in Denmark was a term mainly associated with members of a warrior group. It has been suggested that drengr along with thegn was first used as a title associated with men from Denmark and Sweden in service to Danish kings, but, from its context in inscriptions, over time became more generalized and was used by groups such as merchants or the crew of a ship. Other runestones describing the deceased using the words harþa goþan dræng in some order include DR 68 in Århus, DR 77 in Hjermind, DR 127 in Hobro, DR 268 in Östra Vemmenhög, DR 276 in Örsjö, DR 288 and DR 289 in Bjäresjö, Sm 48 in T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successful%2C%20Bitch%20%26%20Beautiful | Successful, Bitch & Beautiful is an album released in 2000 by an Estonian industrial metal band No-Big-Silence.
It was recorded by Finnish record company Cyberware Productions.
It did well on release and in 2001 went on sale in other countries.
The homepage of Cyberware states that the album of No-Big-Silence is a magnificent masterpiece and regards it as one of the label's strongest releases today. According to Cyberware, the bonus video "Star DeLuxe" on the Western version of the album gives a good overview of the band's glamorous live-show and enthusiastic fanbase.
Track listing
"Porn's Got You" – 3:24
"Reaction" – 5:16
"Make Them Bleed" – 4:06
"The Fail" – 3:56
"On the Hunt" – 3:48
"Modern Whore" – 2:53
"The Fixing" – 3:44
"Vamp-o-Drama" – 4:22
"Star DeLuxe" – 3:06
"Save Me Again" – 5:44
"Otherside" – 4:30
"Blowjob" – 5:07
Personnel
Vocals – Cram
Bass, backing vocals, guitar – Willem
Guitar, keyboards and programming, bass – Kristo K
Drums – Marko Atso on 8 and 12
Drums – Kristo Rajasaare on 1,2,3,6,7,9,10,11
Editing, Mixing – Kristo Kotkas
Producing – No-Big-Silence
Artwork – Harijis Brants
Layout – Harijis Brants and Jensen
2000 albums
No-Big-Silence albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox%20Mystique | The Mystique and Mystique 220 were 2D, 3D, and video accelerator cards for personal computers designed by Matrox, using the VGA connector. The original Mystique was introduced in 1996, with the slightly upgraded Mystique 220 having been released in 1997.
History
Matrox had been known for years as a significant player in the high-end 2D graphics accelerator market. Cards they produced were Windows accelerators, and the company's Millennium card, released in 1995, supported MS-DOS as well. In 1996 Next Generation called Millenium "the definitive 2D accelerator." With regard to 3D acceleration, Matrox stepped forward in 1994 with their Impression Plus. However, that card only could accelerate a very limited feature set, and was primarily targeted at CAD applications. The Impression could not perform hardware texture mapping, for example, requiring Gouraud shading or lower-quality techniques. Very few games took advantage of the 3D capabilities of Impression Plus, with the only known games being the three titles that were bundled with the card in its '3D Superpack' CD bundle: 3D fighting game, Sento by 47 Tek; 3D space combat game, IceHawk by Amorphous Designs, and Specter MGA (aka Specter VR) by Velocity.
The newer Millennium card also contained 3D capabilities similar to the Impression Plus, and was nearly as limited. Without support for texturing, the cards were very limited in visual enhancement capability. The only game to be accelerated by the Millennium was the CD-ROM version of NASCAR Racing, which received a considerable increase in speed over software rendering but no difference in image quality. The answer to these limitations, and Matrox's first attempt at targeting the consumer gaming PC market, would be the Matrox Mystique. It was based heavily on the Millennium but with various additions and some cost-cutting measures.
Overview
The Mystique was a 64-bit 2D GUI and video accelerator (MGA1064SG) with 3D acceleration support. Mystique has "Matrox Simple Interface" (MSI) rendering API. It was one of many early products by add-in graphics board vendors that attempted to achieve good combined 2D & 3D performance for consumer-level personal computers. The board used a 64-bit SGRAM memory interface (Synchronous Graphics RAM) instead of the more expensive WRAM (Window RAM) aboard the Matrox Millennium. SGRAM offered performance approaching WRAM, but it was cheaper. Mystique came in configurations ranging from 2 MB SGRAM up to 8 MB. Mystique also had various ports on the card for memory expansion and additional hardware peripherals. The 8 MB configuration used the memory expansion module. Add-on cards from Matrox included the Rainbow Runner Video, a board offering MPEG-1 and AVI video playback with video inputs and outputs. The other add-on was called Rainbow Runner TV, an ISA-based TV tuner card for watching TV on PC.
Mystique's 2D performance was very close to that of the much more expensive Millennium card, especially at XGA 1024x768 r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigtrygg%20Runestones | The two Sigtrygg Runestones, designated as DR 2 and DR 4 in the Rundata catalog, are two of the Hedeby stones that were found in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, which during the Viking Age was part of Denmark. The runestones were raised after the Danish king Sigtrygg Gnupasson by his mother Ásfriðr. Together with the account of Adam of Bremen, the two inscriptions constitute evidence for the House of Olaf on the Danish throne.
The stones are dated as being carved after 934 C.E. as the historian Widukind of Corvey recorded that King Gnupa, who is mentioned in both inscriptions, was forced to pay a tribute to the German king in that year.
DR 2
DR 2 was found at Haddeby in Schleswig-Holstein in 1797. At one time, scholars considered the word and rune selection on this runestone, when compared with the inscription on DR 4, along with other inscriptions as evidence of Swedish influence in Denmark during the 10th century. For example, although both DR 2 and DR 4 use the Younger Futhark, DR 2 uses "short twig" style runes for the n- and a-runes. However, in recent years this has been downplayed after it was shown that part of the evidence was actually due to a misdating of another runestone and the possible misspellings of some words in the inscriptions.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
A osfriþr : karþi : kum bl ' þaun oft : siktriku :
B sun (:) (s)in : oui : knubu
Transcription into Old Norse
A Asfriþr gærþi kumbl þøn æft Sigtryg,
B sun sin ok Gnupu.
Translation in English
A Ásfriðr made the memorial after Sigtrygg
B her son together with Gnupa
DR 4
DR 4 was discovered in 1887 on the ramparts of Gottorf Castle. Prior to the recognition of the historical significance of runestones, they were often used as construction materials for roads, walls, and buildings.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
A osfriþr ÷ karþi kubl ÷ þausi ÷ tutiʀ ÷ uþinkaurs ÷ oft ÷ siktriuk ÷ kunuk ÷
B ÷ sun ÷ sin ÷ ÷ auk ÷ knubu ÷
C kurmʀ (÷) raist (÷) run(a)(ʀ) (÷)
Transcription into Old Norse
A Asfriþr gærþi kumbl þøsi, dottiR Oþinkors, æft Sigtryg kunung,
B sun sin ok Gnupu.
C Gormʀ rest runaʀ.
Translation in English
A Ásfriðr made the memorial, the daughter of Odinkar, after King Sigtrygg,
B her son together with Gnupa.
C Gorm made the runes.
See also
List of runestones
Sædinge Runestone
Stone of Eric
References
External links
Photograph of DR 2
10th-century inscriptions
1797 archaeological discoveries
1887 archaeological discoveries
Runestones in memory of Viking warriors
Runestones in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLEAN | CLEAN may refer to:
Component Validator for Environmentally Friendly Aero Engine
CLEAN (algorithm), a computational algorithm used in astronomy to perform a deconvolution on dirty images
Commonwealth Law Enforcement Assistance Network, a system used by law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies in Pennsylvania which interfaces NCIC, Penndot and other sources beneficial to law enforcement personnel. Operated by the Pennsylvania State Police.
Cryogenic Low-Energy Astrophysics with Noble gases, a liquid argon dark matter detector under construction at SNOLAB. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PP-format | The PP-format (Post Processing Format) is a proprietary file format for meteorological data developed by the Met Office, the United Kingdom's national weather service.
Simulations of the weather are performed by the Met Office's Unified Model, which can be used for Numerical Weather Prediction or Climatology, and data is collected. This data is usually meteorological in nature and may include averaged data for parameters like global surface temperatures or accumulations of rainfall for locations inside the model, though the Unified Model is capable of outputting many sophisticated diagnostics to PP-format. These files are binary streams, structured in a proprietary file format which can then be processed and transformed into other, more portable, formats. The main reason for using such a format is to increase the rate at which data can be written from the model to disk, a major consideration when running a simulation that must be timely and efficient.
References
Earth sciences data formats
Met Office |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZINC%20database | The ZINC database (recursive acronym: ZINC is not commercial) is a curated collection of commercially available chemical compounds prepared especially for virtual screening. ZINC is used by investigators (generally people with training as biologists or chemists) in pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and research universities.
Scope and access
ZINC is different from other chemical databases because it aims to represent the biologically relevant, three dimensional form of the molecule.
Curation and updates
ZINC is updated regularly and may be downloaded and used free of charge. It is developed by John Irwin in the Shoichet Laboratory in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.
Version
The latest release of the website interface is "ZINC 15" (2015). The previous website was at ZINC, but the maintainers recommend moving to ZINC15 because of its better search capabilities. The database contents are continuously updated.
See also
PubChem a database of small molecules from the chemical and biological literature, hosted by NCBI
ChEMBL, a database of information about medicinal chemistry and biological activities of small molecules.
External links
ZINC database
Chemical databases
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Rosen%20%28attorney%29 | Lawrence Rosen (also Larry Rosen) is an American attorney and computer specialist. He is a founding partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a Californian technology law firm, specializing in intellectual property protection, licensing and business transactions for technology companies. He also served as general counsel and secretary of the Open Source Initiative, and participates in open source foundations and projects, such as the Python Software Foundation, and the Free Standards Group.
Rosen was a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School in Spring 2006. He is the author of the Academic Free License and the Open Software License. He is a member of the board of the Open Web Foundation. Rosen was a director of the Apache Software Foundation from July 2011 to March 2012.
References
External links
Lawrence Rosen's page at Rosenlaw & Einschlag
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American lawyers
Stanford Law School faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Entertainment | BBC Entertainment is an international television channel broadcasting comedy, drama, light entertainment, reality and children's programming (some regions only) from the BBC, Channel 4 and other UK production houses. The channel broadcasts regional versions to suit local demands and replaced BBC Prime. It is wholly owned by BBC Studios.
Launch dates
The channel was launched in October 2006, replacing BBC Prime in Asian markets such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and South Korea. On 28 December 2006, it was launched on the Astro platform in Malaysia. The channel was launched in India in May 2007 on the Tata Sky platform and on India online Broadband Public Limited, but ceased broadcasting at the end of November 2012 due to "commercial considerations".
The channel was launched in Poland, on Cyfrowy Polsat, in December 2007, and replaced BBC Prime on DStv in South Africa on 1 September 2008. It was launched together with its sister channels (BBC Knowledge, BBC Lifestyle and BBC HD) in the Nordic countries in November 2008, when it replaced BBC Prime on Canal Digital, Com Hem, Telia Digital-TV and FastTV. The Nordic countries get a separate feed of the channel which differs from that in the rest of Europe. It was also launched in Mexico on the SKY México digital satellite platform in August 2008 in a deal with Televisa, and it has since extended to other Central and South American countries.
The channel replaced BBC Prime in the rest of Europe and the Middle East & North Africa in November 2009. In Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, BBC Entertainment is carried alongside BBC One and BBC Two on the Telenet, Ziggo, and Naxoo cable networks.
On 1 December 2009, Astro dropped the channel and replaced it with ITV Choice. On 1 March 2010 in Italy Sky Italia also dropped the channel. In 2010 Kabel Deutschland (Germany) made it a pay-TV channel.
In August 2012, Unifi picked up the channel, thus making the channel available in Malaysia once more after a 3-year hiatus. However Unifi dropped the channel in 1 October 2015 and replaced by BBC First on after 1 years. It ceased broadcasting on 1 January 2016 in CEE, and it was replaced by BBC Earth.
On 13 April 2017, BBC Entertainment ceased its transmissions in Latin American countries, along with BBC Earth and CBeebies.
Finally, BBC First was launched in some Asian regions on 19 March 2016. Singapore Via Starhub TV broadcasts ceased on 29 April 2015, while in Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia, broadcasts ceased on 1 January 2017. In Myanmar and Mongolia, broadcasts ceased on 1 March 2018. In Taiwan, broadcasts ceased on 10 March 2017 and were replaced by CBeebies.
Programming
This table is not complete
See also
BBC America
BBC Canada
BBC Earth
BBC First
BBC HD (international)
BBC Knowledge
BBC Lifestyle
BBC World News
CBBC
CBeebies
References
External links
BBC Entertainment - Official website
BBC Nordic - Official website
BBC to launch global TV channels BBC News Online
BBC W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20Layer%20Protocol | Packet Layer Protocol or PLP is the Network Layer protocol for the X.25 protocol suite. PLP manages the packet exchanges between DTE (data terminal) devices across VCs (virtual circuits). PLP also can be used on ISDN using Link Access Procedures, D channel (LAPD).
There are 5 modes of PLP: call setup, data transfer, idle, call clearing, and restarting.
Call setup mode is used to create VCs (virtual circuits) between DTE devices. A PLP uses the 14-digit X.121 addressing scheme to set up the virtual circuit.
Data transfer mode is used to send data between DTE devices across a virtual circuit. At this level PLP handles segmentation and reassembly, bit padding, error control and flow control.
Idle mode is used when a virtual circuit is established but there is no data transfer happening.
Call clearing mode is used to end sessions between DTE devices and to terminate VCs.
Restarting mode is used to synchronize the transmission between a DTE device and its locally connected DCE (data communications) device.
There are 4 types of PLP packet fields:
General Format Identifier (GFI): Identifies packet parameters (whether it is data or control information), what type of windowing is being used, and whether delivery confirmation is needed.
Logical Channel Identifier (LCI): Identifies the virtual circuit across the local DTE/DCE interface.
Packet Type Identifier (PTI): Identifies the PLP packet type (17 different types).
User Data—Contains encapsulated upper-layer information when there is user data present, otherwise additional fields containing control information are added.
External links
ITU-T recommendations
X.25 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20People%27s%20Theatre | Young People's Theatre (YPT) is a professional theatre for youth located in Toronto, Ontario. The company produces and presents a full season of theatre and arts education programming, performing to approximately 150,000 patrons annually. Founded in 1966 by Susan Douglas Rubeš, YPT originally operated out of the now-demolished Colonnade Theatre on Bloor Street. Since its 1977–78 season, the company has resided in a renovated heritage building in downtown Toronto.
YPT operates two performance spaces at 165 Front Street East: the Ada Slaight Stage and the Nathan Cohen Studio. It stages an average of eight productions each year. The current artistic director is Herbie Barnes, and the current executive director is Nancy J. Webster.
History
Rubeš created the Museum Children's Theatre in her Toronto kitchen and opened Alice in Wonderland at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1963. Rubeš staged her first YPT show, The Looking Glass Revue, at the Colonnade Theatre in 1966.
Before being located at its current site, YPT staged shows at the St. Lawrence Centre, the Ontario Science Centre and Toronto's Firehall Theatre. The company also toured to schools throughout Ontario, and toured the play Inook and the Sun in the United Kingdom. In 1977, YPT staged its first show in its current location with an adaptation of The Lost Fairy Tale. YPT added a drama school in 1969. As of 2022, the drama school operates at four different locations in Toronto.
Several stage and screen actors have appeared on the YPT mainstage since the 1970s, including Martin Short, Megan Follows, Brent Carver, Cynthia Dale, Fiona Reid, Gordon Pinsent, R.H Thomson, Sheila McCarthy and Eric Peterson. Celebrities such as Drake and Kiefer Sutherland also attended YPT's Drama School.
In the spring of 2001, the theatre was renamed Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People after a donation of $1.5 million from Kevin Kimsa in honour of his mother, Lorraine. In March 2011, the theatre announced a change back to its original name.
The Slaight family's 2015 donation of $3 million resulted in the creation of the Ada Slaight Education Centre at YPT. At the time it was the largest non-capital gift received by a Toronto theatre company. In 2022 a gift from the Slaight Family resulted in the renaming of the company's Mainstage to the Ada Slaight Stage.
In 2016 YPT was one of a number of theatres offering free tickets to newly arrived Syrian refugees.
The building
Young People Theatre's current home is a renovated 1887 heritage building in Toronto, Ontario. This site was a three-story stable for the horses that pulled Toronto Street Railways horse cars in the late 19th century, as well as an electrical plant and a Toronto Transit Commission warehouse. The warehouse sat empty for much of the 20th century before it became the site for YPT. The building was renovated in 1977 by Zeidler Partnership Architects to contain a large main stage (the current day Susan Douglas Rubes Theatre) and a smaller studio (th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom.com | Atom.com (formerly AtomFilms) was a broadband entertainment network offering original short subject movies, animations, and series by independent creators. The company was founded in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi. Sequoia Capital, led by Michael Moritz, was the lead investor in Atom Films.
Overview
Atom Films was the first online video platform for Oscar winners Jason Reitman, Aardman Animations, and David Lynch. It was the first site to work with a major intellectual property rights owner to allow derivative works by the general public when it created a partnership with George Lucas and LucasFilm for The Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards in November 2000.
Buyout
On August 10, 2006, Atom Entertainment was bought by MTV Networks (now called Paramount Media Networks) with all its properties, including AtomFilms, Addicting Games, Addicting Clips (renamed AtomUploads) and Shockwave.com. The buyout occurred shortly after negotiations against and subsequently with Google to purchase YouTube. In 2012, Atom.com was absorbed into Comedy Central, and was renamed CC Studios.
References
External links
Atom Official Website
Movies & TV Shows
Movies & TV Shows
Movies & TV Shows
American film websites
Websites about animation
Former Viacom subsidiaries
Home video companies of the United States
Internet properties established in 1998
Internet properties disestablished in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia%20Andrews | Pia Andrews (née Pia Smith, also formerly known as Pia Waugh), born 1979, is an open government leader and the Special Advisor, Digital & Client Data Workstream Lead for Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).
Andrews spearheaded the growth of the Australian open government community by organising events such as GovHack, GovCamp and other events that bring together a diverse range of citizens who want to see government data made open for reuse. Previously, Andrews was known for her work as an Australian free software advocate. Her past positions include presidency of Software Freedom International; and presidency and vice-presidency of Linux Australia.
Career
Andrews was employed by IT services company Volante for several years. In 2005 Andrews was appointed Research Co-ordinator of the Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software (ASK-OSS) project. From 2006 Andrews, with her then-husband Jeff Waugh, was a director of Waugh Partners, an Australian Open Source consultancy. Waugh Partners won the 2007 NSW State Pearcey Award for Young Achievers for their work promoting Free Software to the Australian ICT industry. She was the project leader and a member of the Board of Directors of the One Laptop Per Child Australia program, launched in 2008.
Andrews is a self-taught computer specialist, and has also studied politics at a tertiary level. She has been involved in several projects and events promoting ICT careers to children and women.
In April 2009 Andrews announced her appointment as a policy advisor to Kate Lundy, and announced that in this role she was stepping aside from leadership and advocacy roles in community groups, and that she would no longer work for Waugh Partners.
In November 2012 Andrews joined the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO). She was Director of Coordination and Gov 2.0 in the Technology and Procurement Division of Finance (under John Sheridan, the CTO of Australia) and in charge of Australian national open data site http://data.gov.au/
In 2014 Andrews was recognised for innovation and named one of Australia's 100 Women of Influence 2014 in The Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards.
Andrews was included in the 2018 list of the world's 100 most influential people in digital government, by Apolitical Group.
In August 2018 Andrews was appointed Executive Director of Digital Government in the New South Wales Department of Finance, Services and Innovation.
In February 2020 Andrews was appointed Special Advisor, Digital & Client Data Workstream Lead for Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).
Free software community and volunteer positions
Andrews has held several positions in the Free Software community:
Judge at the inaugural New Zealand Open Source Awards, 17 October 2007
President, Software Freedom International, the organising body of Software Freedom Day, 2006–2008
Member, organising committee for linux.conf.au 2007
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20D.%20Chamberlin | Donald D. Chamberlin is an American computer scientist who is one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery.
Chamberlin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to the SQL database query language.
Biography
Donald D. Chamberlin was born in San Jose, California. After attending Campbell High School, he studied engineering at Harvey Mudd College from where he holds a BS. After graduating, he went to Stanford University on a National Science Foundation grant. At Stanford, he studied electrical engineering and minored in computer science. Chamberlin holds an MSc and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. After graduating, Chamberlin went to work for IBM Research at the Yorktown Heights research facility in New York, where he had previously had a summer internship.
Chamberlin is best known as co-inventor of SQL (Structured Query Language), the world's most widely used database language. Developed in the mid-1970s by Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce, SQL was the first commercially successful language for relational databases. Chamberlin also was one of the managers of IBM's System R project, which produced the first SQL implementation and developed much of IBM's relational database technology. System R, together with the Ingres project at U.C. Berkeley, received the ACM Software System Award in 1988.
Until his retirement in 2009, he was based at the Almaden Research Center. He was appointed an IBM Fellow in 2003.
In 2000, jointly with Jonathan Robie and Daniela Florescu, he drafted a proposal for an XML query language called Quilt. Many ideas from this proposal found their way into the XQuery language specification, which was developed by W3C with Chamberlin as an editor. XQuery became a W3C Recommendation in January 2007.
Chamberlin is also an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In 2005, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich.
In 2009, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his fundamental work on structured query language (SQL) and database architectures."
Research
In 1988, Chamberlin was awarded the ACM Software Systems Award for his work on System R.
Current work
Donald Chamberlin joined Couchbase, Inc. as Technical Advisor in 2015.
Bibliography
He is the author of two books on IBM's DB2 UDB, and more than 50 technical papers.
He contributed a chapter (and the cover photograph) to the 2003 book XQuery from the Experts, .
He contributed a chapter titled Sharing Our Planet to the 1997 book Beyond Calculation: the Next Fifty Years of Computing, .
He has also contributed problems and served as a judge for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest for seventeen consecutive years (1998–2014).
He is the author of the book SQL++ For SQL Users: A Tutorial, .
External l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Day%20I%27ll%20Be%20on%20Time | One Day I'll Be on Time is the second album by The Album Leaf.
Track listing
Personnel
Jimmy LaValle – producer, engineer, mixing, instrumentation
Rafter Roberts – engineer, drum programming, mastering
References
2001 albums
The Album Leaf albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NBC%20television%20affiliates%20%28table%29 | The National Broadcasting Company is a television network based in the United States made up of 12 owned-and-operated stations and nearly 223 network affiliates.
Stations are listed in alphabetical order by city of license.
A blue background indicates an affiliate originating as a digital subchannel.
A gray background indicates a low-power station.
A lavender blue background indicates an affiliate originating as a digital subchannel of a low-power station.
(**) – Indicates station was built and signed on by NBC.
Owned-and-operated stations
Affiliate stations
U.S. territories
Outside the U.S.
Notes
License ownership/operational agreements
Primary and secondary affiliations
Satellites, semi-satellites and translators
Previous NBC affiliations
Miscellany
See also
List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S. state)
List of former NBC television affiliates
Lists of ABC television affiliates
Lists of CBS television affiliates
Lists of Fox television affiliates
References
NBC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom | This is a list of diplomatic missions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, excluding honorary consulates. The UK has one of the largest global networks of diplomatic missions. UK diplomatic missions to capitals of other Commonwealth of Nations member countries are known as High Commissions (headed by 'High Commissioners'). For three Commonwealth countries (namely India, Nigeria, and Pakistan), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) still uses the term "Deputy High Commission" for Consulates-General (headed by Deputy High Commissioners), although this terminology is being phased out. British citizens may get help from the embassy of any other commonwealth country present, when in a country where there is no British embassy. There are also informal arrangements with some other countries, including New Zealand and Australia, to help British nationals in some countries.
In 2004, the FCO carried out a review of the deployment of its diplomatic missions, and subsequently over a two-year period closed its missions in Nassau (in the Bahamas), Asunción (Paraguay), Dili (East Timor), Maseru (Lesotho), Mbabane (Swaziland), Antananarivo (Madagascar), Nuku'alofa (Tonga), Tarawa (Kiribati), and Port Vila (Vanuatu). Additionally several consulates and trade offices were also closed, including those in Fukuoka (Japan), Vientiane (Laos), Douala (Cameroon), Porto (Portugal), along with Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Stuttgart in Germany, and Phoenix, San Juan, and Dallas in the United States. Other consulates in Australia, Germany, France, Spain, New Zealand, and the US were downgraded and staffed by local personnel only. In 2012, Foreign Secretary William Hague announced the opening of embassies in Liberia and Haiti, the re-opening of embassies in Laos, El Salvador, and Paraguay, and the opening of a Consulate-General in Recife (Brazil). He also said that by 2015, the UK would have opened up to eleven new embassies and eight new Consulates or Trade Offices. In 2013, a UK government office was established in Seattle. In 2014, all services at the former UK Consulate in Orlando were transferred to the nearby UK Consulate-General in Miami. In 2015, the UK Consulate-General in Denver was reclassified as a UK Government Office.
In 2018 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has announced that new High Commissions will open in Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Grenada, Lesotho, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Swaziland, Tonga and Vanuatu and a British office in Somaliland like the one in Taipei, Taiwan
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office employs approximately 13,200 staff in the UK and in more than 260 Posts overseas. Approximately one-third of these employees are UK-based civil servants (including members of HM Diplomatic Service) and two-thirds are employed locally by Posts overseas.
Africa
Algiers (Embassy)
Luanda (Embassy)
Gaborone (High Commission)
Bujumbura (Embassy Liaison Office)
Yaoundé (High Commission)
N'Djamena (Emb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita%20Centre%20for%20Computational%20Engineering%20and%20Networking | The Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN) at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a research university in India, is a research and teaching center works on technologies to solving computational problems that can be applied in real world projects. The centre is involved in research projects funded by organizations like ISRO, NPOL, Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Department of Science and Technology.
The center is involved in the areas of Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computational Linguistics, Data science and Natural Language Processing. A translation project is underway to develop tools to translate web content from English to Indian languages. Research is also ongoing in the area of speech translation. The centre conducts a Masters in Technology programme in Computational Engineering and Networking and Remote Sensing and Wireless Sensor Networks
CEN is a centre within the Amrita Schools of Engineering campuses. The centre is headed by Dr K P Soman who has been in the research field for more than 25 years. He secured his PhD from IIT Kharagpur and was scientific officer in the Reliability Engineering Centre, IIT Kharagpur, before joining Amrita.
The center offers Bachelor of Technology in Artificial intelligence, Computer science and engineering and Master of Technology in Computational Engineering and Networking, Data science, Remote Sensing & Wireless Sensor Network, Machine learning, Cyber security, Natural language processing, Computer network, Embedded Computing and Control, Robotics and Computer Vision, Computational chemistry, Quantum computing, Scientific Computing and Applications, Wireless Communication, Signal processing, Computer vision, Digital image processing and Information systems.
References
External links
Amrita CEN website
Amrita - New York universities launch joint programmes, The Hindu, 3 January 2006
Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculty%20of%20Electrical%20Engineering%20and%20Computing%2C%20University%20of%20Zagreb | The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (, abbr: FER) is a faculty of the University of Zagreb. It is the largest technical faculty and the leading educational as well as research-and-development institution in the fields of electrical engineering and computing in Croatia.
FER owns four buildings situated in the Zagreb neighbourhood of Martinovka, Trnje. The total area of the site is . , the Faculty employs more than 160 professors and 210 teaching and research assistants. In the academic year 2010/2011, the total number of students was about 3,800 in the undergraduate and graduate level, and about 450 in the PhD program.
As of academic year 2004./2005., when the implementation of the Bologna process started at the University of Zagreb, the faculty has two baccalaureus programmes (each lasting 3 years):
Electrical engineering and information technology
Computing
After receiving a bachelor's degree, students can take part in one of three master's programmes:
Electrical engineering and information technology, with the following profiles:
Audio Technologies and Electroacoustics
Electrical Power Engineering
Electronic and Computer Engineering
Electronics
Electric Machines, Drives and Automation
Information and communication technology, with the following profiles:
Control System and Robotics
Information and Communication Engineering
Communication and Space Technologies
Computing, with the following profiles
Software Engineering and Information Systems
Computer Engineering
Computational Modelling in Engineering
Computer Science
Network Science
Data Science
Organisation
The Faculty comprises 12 academic departments:
Applied Physics
Applied Computing
Applied Mathematics
Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and Measurements
Electric Machines, Drives and Automation
Energy and Power Systems
Telecommunications
Electronic Systems and Information Processing
Control and Computer Engineering in Automation
Electroacoustics
Electronics, Microelectronics, Computer and Intelligent Systems
Communication and Space Technologies
History
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering (, abbr: ETF) was formed on 1 July 1956 when the College of Engineering of the University of Zagreb was divided into ETF and three other new faculties. The faculty existed under this name until 7 February 1995 when it was renamed to its current name.
In 1956, the first curriculum was formed, offering students programme called "Study of Electrical Engineering". The faculty was divided into two departments, one for weak current (Odjel za slabu struju) and another for the strong current (Odjel za jaku struju). This was later referred to as the ETF-1 programme. The Faculty changed its curriculum in 1967, when the ETF-2 curriculum introduced a division of studies into electrical power systems, electronics, electrical machinery and automation. In 1970, the ETF-3 curriculum introduced further specializations, such as nuclear power systems and computing. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colma%20%28album%29 | Colma is the fourth studio album by guitarist Buckethead. It was released on March 24, 1998, on CyberOctave records. The album was recorded for Buckethead's mother, who at the time was sick with colon cancer, and he wanted to make an album which she would enjoy listening to while recovering.
Berklee College of Music alumna Teri Untalan appeared as a guest musician on two tracks of the album. In a 2009 interview, she recalled Buckethead as being "an odd one, an elusive character."
Background
Colma is somewhat of a departure for the artist, featuring more acoustic guitar than is typical of his albums. Additionally, Colma mostly contains simple bass guitar, lead guitar, and drum patterns, in contrast to much of Buckethead's music that emphasizes speed and virtuosity.
Reception
Critical reception was mixed to positive. James Lien of CMJ New Music Monthly writes that Colma'''s melodies are "geometric and mathematical-sounding, almost like Bach or modern classical music." Andy Gill of The Independent describes the mood of the album as "reflective" saying, "[Buckethead uses] the dry, neutral tone favoured by jazz guitarists on a series of discreet instrumentals."
Gill describes the tracks "Ghost" and "Hills of Eternity" as being "ruminative, sluggish pieces sprinkled with limpid droplets of guitar." He also thought the title-track, "Colma", closed the album "like the twinkle of a long-dead star." Reviewer Jeff Clutterbuck of The Daily Vault'' considers "Watching the Boats With My Dad" to be an authentic, emotional track writing that "[It] is so wistful and flows so gently, you have to believe it was inspired by a real moment." On the other hand, "Big Sur Moon" offers a change of style in guitar playing showcasing Buckethead's consistent quick rhythmic ability on acoustic guitar.
Rick Anderson of Allmusic gave the album three stars out of a possible five, writing "the material is surprisingly pleasant" for Buckethead, with a "contemplative" quality to most songs. Anderson criticized the "unimaginative production" and thought Buckethead's lackluster bass playing was disappointing compared to his guitar work.
Track listing
Notes
The song "Hills of Eternity" is named after the cemetery, Hills of Eternity Memorial Park where Wyatt Earp is buried.
The song "Wishing Well" is identical to the Pieces song "Danyel", but excludes Buckethead's vocals.
Personnel
Performers
Buckethead – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar (on all tracks, except "Machete")
Brain – drums, percussion, tape loops
DJ Disk – turntables (on "Machete," "Hills of Eternity," and "Lone Sal Bug")
Bill Laswell – bass guitar (on "Machete")
Terry Untalan – cello, viola (on "Wondering" and "Lone Sal Bug")
Production
Recorded and mixed by Xtrack at Embalming Plant, Oakland, CA.
Track 6 recorded and mixed by Robert Musso at Orange Music, West Orange, New Jersey.
Produced by Buckethead and Xtrack. Track 6 produced by Bill Laswell and Buckethead.
References
1998 albums
Buckethe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20%28C%2B%2B%29 | In the C++ Standard Library, algorithms are components that perform algorithmic operations on containers and other sequences.
The C++ standard provides some standard algorithms collected in the <algorithm> standard header. A handful of algorithms are also in the <numeric> header. All algorithms are in the namespace.
Categories of algorithms
The algorithms in the C++ Standard Library can be organized into the following categories.
Non-modifying sequence operations (e.g. , , )
Modifying sequence operations (e.g. , , )
Sorting (e.g. sort, , )
Binary search (e.g. , )
Heap (e.g. , )
Min/max (e.g. , )
Examples
(returns an iterator the found object or , if the object isn't found)
returns the greater of the two arguments
finds the maximum element of a range
returns the smaller of the two arguments
finds the minimum element of a range
References
External links
C++ reference for standard algorithms
C++ Standard Library
Articles with example C++ code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B%20string%20handling | The C++ programming language has support for string handling, mostly implemented in its standard library. The language standard specifies several string types, some inherited from C, some designed to make use of the language's features, such as classes and RAII. The most-used of these is .
Since the initial versions of C++ had only the "low-level" C string handling functionality and conventions, multiple incompatible designs for string handling classes have been designed over the years and are still used instead of std::string, and C++ programmers may need to handle multiple conventions in a single application.
History
The type is the main string datatype in standard C++ since 1998, but it was not always part of C++. From C, C++ inherited the convention of using null-terminated strings that are handled by a pointer to their first element, and a library of functions that manipulate such strings. In modern standard C++, a string literal such as still denotes a NUL-terminated array of characters.
Using C++ classes to implement a string type offers several benefits of automated memory management and a reduced risk of out-of-bounds accesses, and more intuitive syntax for string comparison and concatenation. Therefore, it was strongly tempting to create such a class. Over the years, C++ application, library and framework developers produced their own, incompatible string representations, such as the one in AT&T's Standard Components library (the first such implementation, 1983) or the type in Microsoft's MFC. While standardized strings, legacy applications still commonly contain such custom string types and libraries may expect C-style strings, making it "virtually impossible" to avoid using multiple string types in C++ programs and requiring programmers to decide on the desired string representation ahead of starting a project.
In a 1991 retrospective on the history of C++, its inventor Bjarne Stroustrup called the lack of a standard string type (and some other standard types) in C++ 1.0 the worst mistake he made in its development; "the absence of those led to everybody re-inventing the wheel and to an unnecessary diversity in the most fundamental classes".
Implementation issues
The various vendors' string types have different implementation strategies and performance characteristics. In particular, some string types use a copy-on-write strategy, where an operation such as
string a = "hello!";
string b = a; // Copy constructor
does not actually copy the content of to ; instead, both strings share their contents and a reference count on the content is incremented. The actual copying is postponed until a mutating operation, such as appending a character to either string, makes the strings' contents differ. Copy-on-write can make major performance changes to code using strings (making some operations much faster and some much slower). Though no longer uses it, many (perhaps most) alternative string libraries still implement copy-on-write st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ABC%20television%20affiliates%20%28table%29 | The American Broadcasting Company is a television network based in the United States made up of eight owned-and-operated stations and nearly 226 network affiliates.
Stations are listed in alphabetical order by city of license.
A blue background indicates an affiliate originating as a digital subchannel.
A gray background indicates a low-power station or translator.
A lavender blue background indicates an affiliate originating as a digital subchannel of a low-power station.
(**) – Indicates station was built and signed on by ABC.
Owned-and-operated stations
Affiliate stations
U.S. territories
Outside the U.S.
Notes
License ownership/operational agreements
Primary and secondary affiliations
Satellites, semi-satellites and translators
Previous ABC affiliations
Miscellany
See also
List of ABC television affiliates (by U.S. state)
List of former ABC television affiliates
Lists of CBS television affiliates
Lists of Fox television affiliates
Lists of NBC television affiliates
References
ABC
ABC television affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Boomerang | This is a list of television programs broadcast by Boomerang in the United States.
Current programming
This is a list of programs currently airing on Boomerang's schedule as of October 2023. A few of the programs are being run concurrently with Cartoon Network. An asterisk (*) indicates that the program is also airing on MeTV.
Original programming
Programming from Cartoon Network
Programming from Warner Bros. Animation
Programming from Hanna-Barbera
Current programming blocks
Digital content
A list of shows that, so far, have only been made available on Boomerang's SVOD subscription service.
Programming from Cartoon Network
Programming from Warner Bros. Animation
Programming from Hanna-Barbera
Former programming
A list of shows that have formerly ran on Boomerang. It does not include specials that are often part of a programming block. An asterisk (*) indicates that the program is now on Boomerang's SVOD subscription service. Two asterisks (**) indicates that the program is now airing on MeTV.
Original programming
Programming from Cartoon Network
Programming from Warner Bros. Animation
Programming from Hanna-Barbera
Programming from Ruby-Spears
Programming from Warner Bros. Cartoons
Programming from The Program Exchange
Other acquired programming
Former programming blocks
Former interstitial series
See also
List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network
List of programs broadcast by Cartoonito
List of programs broadcast by Adult Swim
List of programs broadcast by Toonami
Boomerang
Notes
References
Boomerang
Cartoon Network-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Fassler | Ron Fassler (born March 4, 1957 in New York City) is an American film and television actor and author. He is best known for his role as Bryan Grazer, the LAPD captain in the Fox Network cult science fiction TV series Alien Nation. The series was canceled after a short run, but Fox brought it back in 1994 in a series of five TV movies. Fassler reprised his role as Captain Grazer in Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994), Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995), Alien Nation: Millennium (1996), Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996), and Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997).
His first TV role was in the 1981 TV movie Senior Trip, which also starred "Alien Nation" co-star Jeff Marcus.
Seen as Ted Koppel in 2009'sWatchmen, Fassler's first feature film appearance was in the 1990 comedy move Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). Other recent films include Charlie Wilson's War (2008), Hancock (2008), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), For Your Consideration (2006) and Flags of Our Fathers (2006).
Fassler has made many guest appearances on TV shows ranging from NYPD Blue to The Facts of Life, Matlock, 7th Heaven and Star Trek: Voyager, along with recurring roles on Sisters and the recent critically acclaimed Side Order of Life. He even did multiple episodes of The Young and the Restless as Justin Johns.
As a writer, Fassler co-wrote the Lifetime TV movie, How I Married My High School Crush (2007) and also wrote for the sitcom Murphy Brown.
More recently, Fassler had a recurring role on the Disney XD sitcom Zeke and Luther where he played reporter Dale Davis. This role has also carried over to other Disney XD sitcoms including Kickin' It and Pair of Kings. Fassler also appeared in the 2015 movie Trumbo.
In recent years, Fassler has been directing shows at Priscilla Beach Theatre.
His book "Up in the Cheap Seats: A Historical Memoir of Broadway" which chronicles Fassler's years as a teenage theatregoer, and includes interviews with more than 100 Broadway theatre artists, was published in February, 2017.
Film
Television
External links
1957 births
American male film actors
American male television actors
Male actors from New York City
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-C | Control-C is a common computer command. It is generated by pressing the key while holding down the key on most computer keyboards.
In graphical user interface environments that use the control key to control the active program, control+C is often used to copy highlighted text to the clipboard.
In many command-line interface environments, control+C is used to abort the current task and regain user control. It is a special sequence that causes the operating system to send a signal to the active program. Usually the signal causes it to end, but the program may "catch" it and do something else, typically returning control to the user.
In graphical environments
Larry Tesler created the concept of cut, copy, paste, and undo for human-computer interaction while working at Xerox PARC to control text editing. During the development of the Macintosh it was decided that the cut, paste, copy and undo would be used frequently and assigned them to the ⌘-Z (Undo), ⌘-X (Cut), ⌘-C (Copy), and ⌘-V (Paste). The four letters are all located together at the left end of the bottom row of the standard QWERTY keyboard. IBM and early versions of windows used a different set of keys as part of IBM Common User Access. Later Windows adopted the shortcuts using Control instead of the Command key, as usual keyboard of IBM PC has no Command key.
In command-line environments
Control+C was part of various Digital Equipment operating systems, including TOPS-10 and TOPS-20. Its popularity as an abort command was adopted by other systems including Unix. Later systems that copied it include CP/M, DOS and Windows. In POSIX systems, the sequence causes the active program to receive SIGINT, the interruption signal. If the program does not specify how to handle this condition, the program is terminated. Typically a program that does handle a SIGINT will still terminate itself, or at least terminate the task running inside it.
This system is usually preserved even in graphical terminal emulators. If control-C is used for copy in the graphical environment, an ambiguity arises. Typically an alternate keystroke is assigned to one of the commands, and both appear in the emulator's menus.
As many keyboards and computer terminals once directly generated ASCII code, the choice of control+C overlapped with the ASCII end-of-text character. This character has a numerical value of three, as "C" is the third letter of the alphabet. It was chosen to cause an interrupt as it is otherwise unlikely to be part of a program's interactive interface.
See also
C0 and C1 control codes
Control-D
Control-V
Control-X
Control-Z
Control-\
Keyboard shortcut
References
Computer keys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mergers%20and%20acquisitions%20by%20Yahoo%21 | Yahoo! is a computer software and web search engine company founded on March 1, 1995. The company is a public corporation and its headquarters is located in Sunnyvale, California. It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994. According to web traffic analysis companies, Yahoo has been one of the most visited websites on the Internet, with more than 130 million unique users per month in the United States alone. As of October 2007, the global network of Yahoo receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average, making it one of the most visited US websites.
Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com, an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire. Most of the companies acquired by Yahoo are based in the United States; 78 of the companies are from the United States, and 15 are based in a foreign country. As of July 2015, Yahoo has acquired 114 companies, with Polyvore being the latest.
Acquisitions
See also
List of largest mergers and acquisitions
Lists of corporate acquisitions and mergers
References
Yahoo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Fox%20television%20affiliates%20%28table%29 | The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network based in the United States made up of 18 owned-and-operated stations and over 227 network affiliates.
Stations are listed in alphabetical order by city of license.
A blue background indicates an affiliate originating as a digital subchannel.
A gray background indicates a low-power station or translator.
A lavender blue background indicates an affiliate originating as a digital subchannel of a low-power station.
(**) – Indicates station was a Fox owned-and-operated station from the network's inception in 1986.
(++) – Indicates station was owned by New World Communications and switched network affiliations to Fox between 1994 and 1996.
Owned-and-operated stations
Affiliate stations
U.S. territories
Outside the U.S.
These channels use the Fox brand but do not necessarily air all of the same programming as the U.S. network:
Fox – cable television channel available in the UK and Ireland
Fox8 (Australia) – a cable television channel available through the Foxtel cable service
Fox Televizija (Serbia) – national coverage TV
Fox Turkey (Turkey) – terrestrial commercial broadcaster in Turkey and Europe.
Star Channel (Latin America) – cable television channel
Notes
License ownership/operational agreements
Primary and secondary affiliations
Satellites and semi-satellites
Previous Fox affiliations
Miscellany
See also
List of Fox television affiliates (by U.S. state)
List of former Fox television affiliates
Lists of ABC television affiliates
Lists of CBS television affiliates
Lists of NBC television affiliates
References
Fox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceragon | Ceragon Networks Ltd. is a networking equipment vendor, focused on wireless point-to-point connectivity, mostly used for wireless backhaul by mobile operators and wireless service providers as well as private businesses.
Ceragon's products include Short-Haul and Long-Haul wireless point-to-point systems in licensed microwave licensed spectrum (4–42 GHz) and millimeter-wave (57–88 GHz and, in the future – up to 170 GHz) spectrum range.
5G Wireless Backhaul Services
Ceragon is also a provider of 5G wireless transport, enabling it to connect of broadband sites to the core network in a wireless manner. This is a common way to connect areas to broadband networks when for various reasons using an optic fiber connection is not an option.
Corporate history
Established in 1996 under the name Giganet, Ceragon Networks was first listed on the NASDAQ on September 6, 2000 (symbol: CRNT).
Ceragon designs and manufactures high-capacity communication systems for wireless backhaul, mid-haul, and front-haul – addressing the segment of the cellular market that connects a typical cell site to an operator's core network (backhaul) and different cell site functions that reside in separate geographical locations (mid-haul and front-haul). Ceragon provides wireless equipment with capacities of up to 20Gbps and plans to add products, based on higher frequency bands, to support up to 100Gbps.
Ceragon markets its products under the IP-20 and IP-50 brands. Ceragon has a customer base of over 230 service providers of all sizes, and hundreds of private networks in more than 130 countries across the globe.
Ceragon has numerous sales offices located throughout North and South America, EMEA, and Asia, handling direct sales. Partnerships with leading distributors, VARs, and system integrators around the world provide an active indirect channel. Its US headquarters was opened in 1999 and its European headquarters in 2000.
Ceragon reported worldwide revenue of $290.8 million US dollars for 2021.
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Companies listed on the Nasdaq
Telecommunications companies established in 1996
1996 establishments in Israel
Companies based in Tel Aviv
Networking companies
Networking hardware companies
Information technology companies of Israel
Electronics companies of Israel
Companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Broadband | Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited (CBNL) is a telecommunications company which develops and manufactures point-to-multipoint (PMP) wireless backhaul and access solutions, providing services to telecommunication customers in more than 30 countries.
The company is a privately held backed by institutional investors: Amadeus Capital Partners, Accel Partners, TVM Capital GmbH, Adara Venture Partners and Samsung Ventures Europe.
Leadership
Jonathan McKay (Chairman)
Lionel Chmilewsky (Chief Executive Officer)
Locations
The company's headquarters are in Cambridge, as part of the Cambridge technology cluster (Silicon Fen). CBNL also has offices in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya.
Products and services
The company's VectaStar product uses its PMP topology to share wireless backhaul and access resource between several cell sites, each generating voice and packet traffic. This technology means spectrum can be managed dynamically and efficiently, reducing capital and operating costs. VectaStar is used by telecommunications network providers across the globe to build a variety of wireless backhaul and access networks. This includes new packet networks; mobile broadband network upgrades; ethernet enterprise networks and 2G – 3G IP backhaul migration. VectaStar delivers up to and over 300Mbit/s full duplex per sector and is deployable in 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G small cell and Long Term Evolution (LTE) backhaul networks.
The company offers services including network planning and design; network deployment; network operation; customer training; 24-hour customer support and WEEE recycling.
History
The company was founded in 2000 by ten engineers from Cambridge University who secured private equity funding to develop an innovative solution to the increased demand for mobile communications. Soon after the company started, the earliest variant of VectaStar was launched and shipped to the first customers. Over the following years CBNL identified new market opportunities and developed product variants to address those, featuring new frequencies and a move into the backhaul space.
The period of 2005–2010 saw the Company grow 864 per cent – growth which ranked the Company in the top 200 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2010, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in EMEA, and reaching number 38 in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 in 2011.
In November 2011 the Company supplied microwave radio equipment to backhaul Telefónica UK's O2 4G trial network in London, UK.
Small cells
In April 2012 CBNL announced that it had been accepted as a member of the Small Cell Forum, a not-for-profit membership organization that seeks to enable and promote small cell technology worldwide. CBNL has since been appointed Vice Chair of Small Cell Forum Backhaul Special Interest group.
As a member of Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance, CBNL recently led a mixed group of both operators and vendors to generate consensus around the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordia%20subcordata | Cordia subcordata is a species of flowering tree in the borage family, it can be found growing in eastern Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, northern Australia and the Pacific Islands including Hawaii. The plant is known by a variety of names including kou, beach cordia, sea trumpet, and kerosene wood, among others.
Names
Other names for the species include kanawa, tou, mareer, manjak, snottygobbles, glueberry, narrow-leafed bird lime tree, In Java and Madura, it is known as kalimasada, purnamasada, or pramasada; Javanese folklore consider the tree to contain spiritual power. In the Marshall Islands it is known as kono. In Fiji, it is called nawanawa.
Distribution
This species has a very wide range from the east coast of Africa west throughout tropical Asia and Oceania, as far west as Hawaii. This distribution was achieved due to special characteristics of its fruit allowing for successful oceanic dispersal. Prior to 2001, C. subcordata was considered to be a Polynesian introduction to Hawaii by many authorities, but subfossil evidence from Makauwahi Cave in Kauai indicates that it was an abundant species in Hawaiian lowland forests well before humans arrived, confirming its status as an indigenous species.
Description
C. subcordata or kou trees are found in coasts at elevations from sea level to that receive of annual rainfall. They prefer neutral to alkaline soils (pH of 6.1 to 7.4), such as those originating from basalt, limestone, clay, or sand. Allowable soil textures include sand, sandy loam, loam, sandy clay loam, sandy clay, clay loam, and clay. It can also grow in edges of rocky shores and mangrove swamps.
A mature kou tree grows to at maturity, but may be as tall as . It has ovate leaves that are and wide and short hairs on their upper surface.
Flowers and fruit
Blooming occurs throughout the year, but most kou flowers are produced in the spring. Each kou flower is funnel or tube-shaped long and in diameter made of orange petals and pale green sepals that form cymes or panicles.
Kou trees produce fruit all year around. Their fruit are spherical long, brown, and woody when mature. Each fruit contains four or fewer seeds that are long. The fruit are buoyant and may be carried very far by ocean currents.
Uses
The seeds are edible and have been eaten during famine.
The wood of the tree has a specific gravity of 0.45, is soft, durable, easily worked, and resistant to termites. In ancient Hawaii kou wood was used to make umeke (bowls), utensils, and umeke lāau (large calabashes) because it did not impart a foul taste to food. Umeke lāau were 8–16 litres (2–4 gal) and used to store and ferment poi. Kou wood burns readily as firewood, and this led to the nickname of "Kerosene Tree" in Papua New Guinea. The flowers were used to make lei, while a dye for kapa cloth and aho (fishing lines) was derived from the leaves. Fijians obtain fibre to make baskets and garlands from its inner bark by soaking it in seawater.
In the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotaria | Rotaria is a genus of asexual, microscopic animal known as a bdelloid rotifer. Analysis published in 2007 of morphology and DNA sequence data of species from the genus confirmed that despite their asexual mechanism of reproduction, two fundamental properties of species, independent evolution and ecological divergence by natural selection occurred. This demonstrates that sex is not a necessary condition for speciation.
References
Bdelloidea
Rotifer genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon%20ST | Argon ST is a subsidiary of The Boeing Company headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, United States, that specializes in systems engineering and provides C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) products. Argon ST's efforts include developing systems for signal intercept and identification, airborne imaging systems, threat warning systems, electronic intelligence, active electronic warfare systems, communications reconnaissance systems, torpedo countermeasures systems, imaging systems, communication systems, wireless networks and navigation systems. Argon ST systems support a full range of military and strategic units including surface and sub-surface, airborne, and land-based platforms serving defense, homeland security, and international customer needs.
Structure
Argon ST is a wholly owned, non-fully integrated subsidiary of The Boeing Company. It shares its business area with Digital Receiver Technologies (DRT), another subsidiary based in Germantown, Maryland. Together they are a part of the larger Electronic and Information Solutions (E&IS) division, which is headquartered at Argon ST's original location in Fairfax, Virginia. Electronic and Information Solutions is a part of Boeing Defense, Space, and Security (BDS), which are headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and St. Louis, Missouri, respectively. Boeing's corporate headquarters are in Arlington, Virginia.
On October 21, 2016, the E&IS division merged with Boeing's Strategic Missile and Defense Systems (SM&DS) division to form Strategic Defense and Intelligence Systems (SD&IS). On December 5, 2016, The E&SS division merged with Boeing Intelligence & Analytics (BI&A) to form Electronic Sensor & Intelligence Solutions (ES&IS). On December 13, 2016, Boeing Defense announced that they would be moving their headquarters from St. Louis to Boeing's Long Bridge office in Arlington to be closer to the Pentagon. ES&IS remains headquartered in Fairfax with SD&IS in Arlington.
History
Argon ST was created with the merger of SenSyTech, Inc. and Argon Engineering Associates on September 29, 2004. In August 2006, Argon ST acquired Innovative Research, Ideas & Services Corporation (IRIS), the authors of the sensor fusion software Transducer Markup Language (TML). On July 3, 2006, Argon ST completed the acquisition of San Diego Research Center (SDRC), achieving a corporate goal of being able to provide an end-to-end sensor system. Specifically, SDRC’s wireless communication technologies address the challenges of mobile military systems. On October 1, 2005, Argon ST acquired Radix Technologies, bringing in signal processing technology for reconnaissance and navigation, complementing Argon ST’s core advanced signal intercept and processing capabilities and systems. On June 30, 2010, Argon ST announced that it would be acquired by The Boeing Company for approximately $775 million and integrated into the aerospace firm as an independent su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixter | Mixter is a computer security specialist. Mixter first made the transition out of the computer underground into large-scale public awareness, in 2000, at which time newspapers and magazines worldwide mentioned a link to massively destructive and effective distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks which crippled and shut down major websites (including Yahoo!, Buy.com, eBay, Amazon, E-Trade, MSN.com, Dell, ZDNet and CNN). Early reports stated that the FBI-led National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) was questioning Mixter regarding a tool called Stacheldraht (Barbed Wire). Although Mixter himself was not a suspect, his tool, the Tribe Flood Network (TFN) and an update called TFN2K were ultimately discovered as being the ones used in the attacks, causing an estimated $1.7 billion USD in damages.
In 2002 Mixter returned to the public eye, as the author of Hacktivismo's Six/Four System. The Six/Four System is a censorship resistant network proxy. It works by using "trusted peers" to relay network connections over SSL encrypted links. As an example, the distribution includes a program which will act as a web proxy, but all of the connections will be hidden until they reach the far end trusted peer.
References
External links
Personal website
Computer security specialists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soir%203 | Soir 3 (literally Evening 3) was the late-night newscast of the French public television network France 3. The program, FR3's first national news bulletin, was launched in 1978 by its then head of news Jean-Marie Cavada. The bulletin was shown at 10:30 pm for 60 minutes from Monday to Thursday, and was presented by Louis Laforge and Patricia Loison. The weekend editions, simply known as Soir 3 was broadcast at various times on Fridays and at weekends, when the regular anchor was Francis Letellier.
The newscast was axed in a cost-cutting move in 2019 with a single-anchor replacement, "Le 23h", broadcast instead on the Franceinfo channel.
Format
Weekdays
For most of the year the weekday editions of Soir 3 were broadcast at 10:30 pm from the set of the live cultural discussion show Ce soir (ou jamais!), which were broadcast immediately afterwards. During certain periods, such as over the summer break and on other holidays, the programme was however shown at various times and comes from the France 3 news studio. In addition to a summary of the day's news, the programme format included several regular features such as sans détours (without detours, an extended interview with a prominent figure or expert) and lu, vu, entendu (read, seen and heard, which highlights a cultural medium such as a book, album or play). The latter of these were usually the last item in the bulletin. The show, Ce soir (ou jamais!), has since transferred to France 2 in March 2013, meaning that Grand Soir 3 was then broadcast live from the France 3 news studio.
Stéphane Lippert has been the interim weekday host of Soir 3 since September 2010, replacing Carole Gaessler who left the programme after two years to become the anchor of France 3's main evening news bulletin, 19/20. Lippert was previously the host of the network's lunchtime news programme 12/13. Gaessler had succeeded Marie Drucker in September 2008 after the latter joined the news team of sister station France 2; Drucker had in turn held the position from September 2005 when she replaced the duo of Audrey Pulvar and Louis Laforge. Drucker stood aside for a spell in the run-up to the 2007 French presidential election after details of her relationship with Minister of Overseas France François Baroin were made public. During the period Drucker switched positions with Laforge, now host of the documentary series Des racines et des ailes. Other past hosts of Soir 3 have included Christine Ockrent and Henri Sannier. From 25 March 2013, it was then known as Grand Soir 3 and became an hour-long news and discussion programme, broadcasting from 10:30pm to 11:30pm. The Grand Soir 3'''s last anchors were Louis Laforge and Patricia Loison.
Originally airing at around 11 pm, the weekday programme moved to 10:30 pm on 5 January 2009, as France 3 revamped its schedule to accommodate the government-mandated end of advertising on France Télévisions stations during prime time. A five-minute pre-recorded regional news opt-out was intr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine%20Operating%20System | Divine Operating System is the second studio album released by Supreme Beings of Leisure, an electronic/trip hop band, in 2003.
Track listing
All tracks by Supreme Beings of Leisure
"Give Up" – 3:50
"Ghetto" – 4:22
"Catch Me" – 4:20
"Get Away" – 3:22
"Rock and a Hard Place" – 4:25
"Calamity Jane" – 5:19
"Divine" – 4:26
"Touch Me" – 4:11
"So Much More" – 5:54
"Freezer" – 4:25
"Perfect" – 5:01
Bonus DVD
"Give Up"
"Ghetto"
"Catch Me"
"Touch Me"
Personnel
Tony Wright – cover art
Jason Arnold – mixing
Flavia Cureteu – design
DJ Swamp – scratching
Jesse Gorman – assistant engineer
Suzie Katayama – string arrangements, string conductor
Lory Lacy – flute
Bill Meyers – string arrangements, string conductor
Andres Moreta – art direction
Jimi Randolph – engineer, mixing
Manoochehr Sadeghi – santur
Ramin Sakurai – programming, multi instruments, producer, engineer, string arrangements, mixing, synthesizer strings
Christine Sirois – assistant engineer
Sheldon Strickland – bass, producer
Rick Torres – guitar, programming
Brad Wood – producer
References
External links
Divine Operating System at Discogs
2003 albums
Supreme Beings of Leisure albums
Contemporary R&B albums by American artists
Disco albums by American artists
Soul albums by American artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware | Hardware may refer to:
Technology
Computing and electronics
Electronic hardware, interconnected electronic components which perform analog or logic operations
Digital electronics, electronics that operate on digital signals
Computer hardware, physical parts of a computer
Networking hardware, devices that enable use of a computer network
Electronic component, device in an electronic system used to affect electrons, usually industrial products
Other technologies
Household hardware, equipment used for home repair and other work, such as fasteners, wire, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, utensils, and machine parts
Builders hardware, metal hardware for building fixtures, such as hinges and latches
Hardware (development cooperation), in technology transfer
Drum hardware, used to tension, position, and support the instruments
Military technology, application of technology to warfare
Music hardware, devices other than instruments to create music
Entertainment
Hardware (Krokus album), 1981
Hardware (Billy Gibbons album), 2021
Hardware (band), consisting of Bootsy Collins, Buddy Miles, and Stevie Salas
Hardware (character), a character from Milestone Comics
Hardware (film), a 1990 film
Hardware (TV series), a British situation comedy
Hardware: Online Arena, a 2002 video game
"Hardware", a 1987 science fiction story by Robert Silverberg
Other uses
Hardware, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia
See also
Hardware acceleration, the speedup of computing tasks by performing them in customized hardware rather than software
Hardware architecture, the identification of a system's physical components and their interrelationships
Hardware engineering, or computer engineering
Ware (disambiguation)
Open-source hardware
Hardware store, a business which sells household hardware
Materiel, equipment or hardware, and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management
Medals
Trophies
Software
Open-source software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Barnett%20%28entrepreneur%29 | James Mark Barnett II (born September 30, 1986) is an American entrepreneur and community activist from Dallas, Texas. At 17, he created a social networking site for gay teenagers and young adults called My-Boi.Com, which resulted in his father moving him from his Christian high school and his outing to his parents. His situation received national media attention and Barnett received several awards for his efforts on behalf of gay youth. Barnett has since created a web development firm and a social networking site for the general high school and college community.
Early life
Barnett was motivated to create his own social networking site for gay youth after the then only existing service, XY.Com, went from being a free service to being fee based one. In July 2004, he created My-Boi.Com, announcing the free status of his service in advertisements on XY.Com.
Expulsion, media attention and awards
Three months after My-Boi's creation, Trinity Christian Academy was notified of Barnett's homosexuality, and the school administration called on him to further discuss his sexual orientation. The school also notified Barnett's parents about James' homosexuality and website. A compromise was eventually reached wherein Barnett's father withdrew him from the school to avoid any damage to James' permanent school record. He completed his studies at a public high school.
Barnett's situation was picked up by both the mainstream and gay-focused press, with national organizations such as the Human Rights Council discussing his situation on The O'Reilly Factor.
In January 2005, Barnett was awarded the Point Foundation Scholarship. Vance Lancaster, the executive director of the foundation, noted that "[James' story] is a sadly common and very real example of why Point Foundation scholarships are necessary." In June 2005, Barnett was recognized with the Lawrence & Garner Courage Award, given by the Lambda Legal Foundation, for "outstanding courage in the face of uncertainty, discrimination and hostility in the advancement of civil rights for the LGBT and HIV/AIDS communities."
Current activities
Barnett graduated from Plano West Senior High in 2005, a public high school. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas, where he declared business as his major.
In 2007, Barnett launched DoorQ.com, a website for gay fans of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This is the first project of Door Q Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based production company he launched in May 2007 with two associates, Jody Wheeler and Daniel Greeney.
He also owns and operates Pointblanc, a web development corporation.
References
External links
James-Barnett.com
Businesspeople in information technology
1986 births
Living people
American LGBT businesspeople
LGBT people from Kansas
LGBT people from Texas
Businesspeople from Dallas
People from Hutchinson, Kansas
University of Texas at Dallas alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based%20definition | Model-based definition (MBD), sometimes called digital product definition (DPD), is the practice of using 3D models (such as solid models, 3D PMI and associated metadata) within 3D CAD software to define (provide specifications for) individual components and product assemblies. The types of information included are geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), component level materials, assembly level bills of materials, engineering configurations, design intent, etc. By contrast, other methodologies have historically required accompanying use of 2D engineering drawings to provide such details.
Use of the 3D digital data set
Modern 3D CAD applications allow for the insertion of engineering information such as dimensions, GD&T, notes and other product details within the 3D digital data set for components and assemblies. MBD uses such capabilities to establish the 3D digital data set as the source of these specifications and design authority for the product. The 3D digital data set may contain enough information to manufacture and inspect product without the need for engineering drawings. Engineering drawings have traditionally contained such information.
In many instances, use of some information from 3D digital data set (e.g., the solid model) allows for rapid prototyping of product via various processes, such as 3D printing. A manufacturer may be able to feed 3D digital data directly to manufacturing devices such as CNC machines to manufacture the final product.
Limited Dimension Drawing
Limited Dimension Drawing (LDD), sometimes Reduced Dimension Drawing, are 2D drawings that only contain critical information, noting that all missing information is to be taken from an associated 3D model. For companies in transition to MBD from traditional 2D documentation a Limited Dimension Drawing allows for referencing 3D geometry while retaining a 2D drawing that can be used in existing corporate procedures. Only limited information is placed on the 2D drawing and then a note is placed to notify manufactures they must build off the 3D model for any dimensions not found on the 2D drawing.
Standardization
In 2003, ASME published the ASME Y14.41 Digital Product Definition Data Practices, which was revised in 2012 and again in 2019. The standard provides for the use of many MBD aspects, such as GD&T display and other annotation behaviors within 3D modelling environment. ISO 16792 standardizes MBD within the ISO standards, sharing many similarities with the ASME standard. Other standards, such as ISO 1101 and of AS9100 also make use of MBD.
In 2013, the United States Department of Defense released MIL-STD-31000 Revision A to codify the use of MBD as a requirement for technical data packages (TDP).
See also
ASME Y14.41
CAD standards
References
External links
Model-centric Design, Design World, 2008
Computer-aided design
Computer-aided engineering
Product lifecycle management
Computer-aided manufacturing software
Management cybernetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soname | In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, a soname is a field of data in a shared object file. The soname is a string, which is used as a "logical name" describing the functionality of the object. Typically, that name is equal to the filename of the library, or to a prefix thereof, e.g. libc.so.6.
Name
The soname is often used to provide version backwards-compatibility information. For instance, if versions 1.0 through 1.9 of the shared library "libx" provide identical interfaces, they would all have the same soname, e.g. "libx.so.1". If the system only includes version 1.3 of that shared object, with filename "libx.so.1.3", the soname field of the shared object tells the system that it can be used to fill the dependency for a binary which was originally compiled using version 1.2.
If the application binary interface of a library changes in a backward-incompatible way, the soname would be "bumped" or incremented, e.g. from "libx.so.1" to "libx.so.2".
The GNU linker uses the -hname or -soname=name command-line options to specify the library name field. Internally, the linker will create a DT_SONAME field and populate it with name.
Given any shared object file, one can use the following command to get the information from within the library file using objdump:
$ objdump -p libx.so.1.3 | grep SONAME
SONAME libx.so.1
See also
Application programming interface (API)
Linux
References
Unix
Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Johnson | Ian Johnson may refer to:
Ian Johnson (cricketer) (1917–1998), Australian Test cricket captain
Ian Johnson (businessman) (1949–2019), managing director of the Seven Network
Ian Johnson (writer) (born 1962), Beijing-based writer and journalist
Ian Johnson (footballer, born 1960), English football defender
Ian Johnson (footballer, born 1975), English football winger
Ian Johnson (footballer, born 1983), English football midfielder
Ian Johnson (American football) (born 1986), running back
Ian Johnson, a character in the 2013 British TV series Utopia
Ian Johnson (publicist), public relations manager based in London
Ian Johnson, British economist in GLOBE
Ian Johnson (water polo) (1925–2001), British Olympic water polo player
Ian Johnson (soldier), South African Army general
See also
Ian Johnston (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Johnson%20%28businessman%29 | Ian Johnson (March 1949 – 26 June 2019) was an Australian businessman.
Originally a long-time senior executive at the Nine Network (GTV-9), in October 2003 Johnson moved to the Seven Network to become managing director of Channel Seven Melbourne.
Johnson died in June 2019 aged 70.
References
1949 births
2019 deaths
Australian television executives
People educated at Trinity Grammar School, Kew |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20Where%20They%27re%20Up%20All%20Night | "The One Where They're Up All Night" is the twelfth episode of Friends seventh season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on January 11, 2001.
Plot
Ross drags the gang, including Tag, up onto the roof to look at the "Bapstein-King" comet, but no one is entirely interested. Two hours later, Rachel and Tag escape to go watch a movie together; and Phoebe, Chandler and Monica retire to get some sleep. This leaves Ross on the roof with Joey, who is far more interested in scoping out ladies through his binoculars. Joey, at one point, hands over the binoculars and starts looking through a pipe instead. This pipe turns out to be the one that was propping the roof door open; Joey and Ross are now stuck on the roof in the dead of night. The two attempt to climb down the fire escape, but discover that the bottom-floor ladder, which is supposed to slide down to the ground, will do no such thing; eventually, Joey serves as the bottom segment of the ladder, and Ross climbs down him so he can shimmy down and drop, but he is too scared. Joey scares him off by telling him his pants are falling off but that he is not wearing any underwear. Ross loses his grip, falls and sprains his ankle.
Monica falls asleep quickly, but Chandler cannot, and continually wakes her up in his attempts to put himself to sleep, first by reading one of Monica's books, and then by digging pots out of the cabinet to warm some milk for himself. Chandler then proposes that he and Monica stay up all night talking to each other like when they first started dating, to which she agrees. She finally warms the milk for him, only to discover him snoozing. She then slams the door shut to wake him back up so they can talk. Finally they end up in bed, and at Monica's suggestion they start to have sex... but Monica falls asleep halfway through it. After unsuccessfully trying to convince her to stay awake so they can try again, Chandler decides to make her coffee, but this turns out to be unnecessary: a mention that he will probably spill coffee grounds on the floor has her wide awake in moments. Finally, as the episode ends, a satisfied Monica notes that they have seven minutes before she has to get up for work. When Chandler implies that they can have sex in seven minutes, Monica misunderstands and breaks out the vacuum cleaner and furniture polish to clean the living room.
Rachel and Tag are about to retire for a night of similar festivities in her apartment when Rachel asks if Tag mailed out a set of contracts to Milan. She insists she placed them on his desk, while he insists they were nowhere in sight. Eventually they raid the office, where Rachel discovers Tag was right, but works out a subterfuge so that she can sneak them into his desk drawer. However, when she tells Tag to look there, the contracts are nowhere in sight—they have magically appeared back on Rachel's desk. Rachel asks how exactly that happened, inadvertently revealing that she had placed them there.
Phoeb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMT%20%28company%29 | LMT (, 'Latvian Mobile Telephone') is a mobile GSM/UMTS/LTE operator in Latvia.
LMT was founded on January 2, 1992. It was the first mobile network operator in the country and established itself as an operator for the NMT system, but in January 1995 it started operating a GSM network alongside the existing NMT network. Based on market research, it requested for its license to be expanded to permit the use of the 1800 MHz range, which was allowed in the summer of 1999. On December 1, 1999, there were 14 active GSM 900/1800 base stations, with the plan to have 11 more operational before the end of the millennium.
History
LMT announced on April 3, 2000 that it was partnering with Hansabank to release the first ever mobile banking solution in the country. It allowed the user to ,for example, look up currency rates, check the account balance, see the transactions done on the account and receive text messages notifying about actions done on the account. The account holder was able to choose how often those notifications should arrive with the options ranging from monthly up to after each action takes place. It was also noted right away that there are plans to provide a method for making payments via mobile banking as that was not initially possible saying that this marks the start of a new generation of services.
In November 2000, LMT started a prepaid service called OKarte (OCard) along their existing subscription based service. The cooperation with Hansabank was continued by allowing the prepaid accounts to be instantly refilled from any Hansabank ATM. On October 7, 2013, the prepaid service was merged with the LMT branding and renamed to LMT Okarte.
LMT announced in January 2002 that it will stop supporting the NMT network at the end of the year and started rolling out GPRS later that year, providing GPRS everywhere in Latvia by September 2002. Following the expansion, LMT announced the support for MMS on March 31, 2003. After acquiring the licence, the initial release of the commercial UMTS network was in December 2004. Soon after that, in June 2005, EDGE was introduced in Riga and Jūrmala by LMT and the HSDPA rollout started in August 2006.
In cooperation with TeliaSonera, LMT started selling the iPhone in Latvia on September 26, 2008.
The LTE network was commercially released on May 31, 2011, but was not made available to phone users initially. The first citywide coverage of the network in Latvia was in Liepāja in July 2012 and following further network development, LTE was made available to phone users on November 5, 2013, without any additional charges. As of April 2014, 50% of Latvians had access to the LTE network with the future goal of providing it in the whole territory of Latvia, including rural areas, by 2016.
In April 2013, LMT started the project ‘LMT for Latvia’ (LMT Latvijai in Latvian) – a comprehensive and nationwide CSR project, in cooperation with local municipalities and locals of different Latvian towns and cities. New |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%3A%20The%20Battle%20to%20Save%20the%20Earth | The Transformers The Computer Game Vol. 1: Battle to Save the Earth is an action role-playing game released by Activision in 1986, based on the popular Transformers animated series. The game was released for the Commodore 64 in Datasette and floppy disk formats. It was the first Transformers game by Activision, which subsequently published more games for the franchise over two decades later.
Gameplay
Players are shown a map with nine key sites that the Decepticons plan to attack. The objective is to move an Autobot to a location to do battle with invading Decepticon forces.
Once the Autobot reaches the location, the player switches to first-person view to shoot down the Decepticons and prevent them from stealing valuable resources and building their ultimate weapon. In the middle of the game, the Decepticons steal a mechanical Tyrannosaurus from Dinosaur Park, using a nuclear rod they stole from the nuclear power plant cooling tower, and send it towards the shuttle base. The player must attempt to prevent the dinosaur robot from destroying the Space Shuttle in the complex. After destroying the Space Shuttle, the Decepticons attempt to steal the cosmic dust that is left behind, as well as a laser from a research facility. The Decepticons then move onto the zoo to use the enhanced laser on the hippo exhibit to make it into a giant hippo, and it is sent to the pipe junction. Once the hippo arrives at the pipe junction it destroys it, and the game ends.
Points are accumulated by the Autobots by destroying the Decepticons as they attempt to steal resources, while Decepticons gain points for successfully stealing resources. Whichever side, Autobots or Decepticons, have the highest resource points at the end of the game, wins. A medal is awarded to the player depending on their performance.
Characters
There are a total of eight Autobot characters to control; each with a designated number as shown on the game's map screen, including Bumblebee, Cliffjumper and Blurr. For reasons unknown, Rodimus and Hot Rod appear in the game as separate characters, despite the fact that they are the same character This was also one of the few Transformers games to not include Optimus Prime (because of the events of the animated movie).
Versions
The game was released in two versions; floppy disk and cassette.
The floppy disk version features an introductory sequence describing the back story of the Transformers with sampled speech narration and loads the "transformation" animations from disk in game.
The cassette version however omits the introductory sequence and gives the player the option to choose which of the Transformer characters' animations should be shown during gameplay - the transformation sequence for this character alone will be shown and all other characters' map screen icons merely change colour to indicate robot or vehicle mode. The cassette version also crashes when the player reaches a certain point in the game (the "Pipeline Junction") meaning th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orn | Orn or ORN may refer to:
Orn (name), a given name and surname
Orn, the second book in Piers Anthony's trilogy Of Man and Manta
Offshoring Research Network, an international network researching the offshoring of business processes and services
Olfactory receptor neuron, a type of cell in the nasal mucosa that transduces the presence of odorant molecules into a neural signal
Olympic route network, a network of dedicated roads linking venues and other key sites in the host city during Olympic games
Oran Es Sénia Airport (IATA code), an international airport in Es Sénia, Algeria
Ornithine, an amino acid that plays a role in the urea cycle
Osteoradionecrosis, a complication of radiation therapy where a section of bone dies
See also
Orm (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Overdrive | Caroline Overdrive was a programming strand which ran on British radio station Radio Caroline in 1986–1987.
Background
After Caroline's return to the air in 1983 from the MV Ross Revenge, the station played an eclectic mixture of chart hits, album tracks and golden oldies, but by 1985 the station faced competition from the aggressively commercial Laser 558. Caroline began transmitting a second service on 576 kHz, close to Laser's frequency, broadcasting a more conventional singles-oriented format, while its main frequency of 963 kHz carried the Dutch station Radio Monique by day and sponsored religious programming in the evening under the name "Viewpoint 963". After Laser closed in November 1985 Caroline took over the 558 kHz slot.
During 1985 the 963 kHz transmitter had been used for some nighttime music shows after the end of Viewpoint, most notably Jamming 963, a short run of reggae programmes.
Overdrive
On January 1, 1986 DJ Tom Anderson, who had been heavily involved with the station's 1983 relaunch, began Caroline Overdrive on the 963 kHz transmitter after the end of Viewpoint. Overdrive carried a wide selection of "alternative" music, the only apparent rule being that it should provide an alternative to the mainstream programming on 558. Presentation was uncluttered, with a minimum of DJ chatter and few jingles. One critic described the service as being similar to a John Peel show except that it ran all night.
Increases in the number of religious programmes meant that as the year progressed the start of Overdrive was pushed back from 8 p.m. to 9 and later 9:30.
Towards the end of 1986 a combination of transmitter maintenance and lack of direct involvement by Anderson meant that Overdrive was frequently off the air. The last Overdrive programme was broadcast in February 1987 under the title "Testing 963", parodying the newly relaunched Laser's test broadcasts. After this no further alternative programming was heard on 963.
References
External links
Pirate Radio Diary: 1986
Alan's Real Audio Collection: includes background details for Caroline Overdrive
Music rotation chart for Caroline Overdrive
Pirate radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideshow%20%28disambiguation%29 | A sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus, carnival or fair etc.
Sideshow or Side Show may also refer to:
Brands and computing
Windows SideShow, a Microsoft technology for Windows Vista
Sideshow Collectibles, a California-based designer toy and collectible studio
Films and theatre
The Sideshow (film), a 1928 American silent drama film
The Side Show, 1929 Vitaphone sound short directed by Doc Salomon
Side Show (musical), a 1997 Broadway musical
Sideshow (1950 film), an American crime film
Sideshow (2000 film), a horror film
Side Show (film), a 1931 musical comedy film
Sideshow, a 1974 play by Miguel Piñero
Music
The Side Show (nightclub), Cape Town, South Africa.
Sideshow, a 2004 comedy album by The Bob and Tom Show
Sideshow (album), a 1992 album by 8 Bold Souls
"Sideshow" (song), a 1974 song by Blue Magic
"Sideshow", a 1994 song by Alice Cooper from the album The Last Temptation
Television
Sideshow Bob, a character from The Simpsons
Sideshow Mel, Bob's replacement in The Simpsons
The Sideshow (TV series), an Australian comedy/variety TV show
Sideshow, a shapechanging superhero from Milestone Comics
The Side Show Countdown with Nikki Sixx
Other
Sideshow alley, an Australian term for amusements
Sideshow (automobile exhibition), an illegal automotive skills event that originated in Oakland, California
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia, a 1979 book by William Shawcross |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potty%20Painter | Potty Painter, also known as Potty Painter in the Jungle, is a video game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and VIC-20 computers and released by Rabbit Software in December 1983. It a clone of the arcade video game ''Amidar.
Gameplay
The goal of the game is to join the dotted lines around a grid of squares each different in size with each valuing different points. In the meantime the player must avoid enemies who try to capture them. Starting the game, the player has 5 lives and 3 freezes which enable the player to freeze the computer controlled characters for around 10 seconds.
Levels alternate between playing as a monkey against tribesmen and playing as a paint-roller against teddy bears. Completing a level enables the player to play a bonus game which involves guiding a teddy bear to a banana to gain an extra 1000 points.
References
External links
1983 video games
Commodore 64 games
Maze games
Rabbit Software games
Single-player video games
Video game clones
Video games about primates
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50%20Years%2050%20Stars | 50 Years 50 Stars is a television special that marked 50 years of television in Australia. Hosted by Mike Munro and broadcast on Sunday 10 September 2006 on the Nine Network, the special counted down the top 50 greatest living Australian television personalities.
Also in the special featured many special comments from other television personalities, including Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, John Wood, Erik Thomson, Bert Newton, Jacki Weaver, Scott Cam, James Brayshaw, Jules Lund, Livinia Nixon, Steve Vizard, Ray Martin, Tracy Grimshaw, Brian Henderson, Giaan Rooney, Kimberley Davies & Jana Wendt.
# Bert Newton
# Kath & Kim
# Garry McDonald
# Paul Hogan
# Don Lane
# Kylie Minogue
# Barry Humphries
# John Farnham
# John Wood
# Olivia Newton-John
# Magda Szubanski
# Eddie McGuire
# Andrew Denton
# Ian 'Molly' Meldrum
# Daryl Somers
# Mike Willesee
# Rove McManus
# Sigrid Thornton
# Eric Bana
# Jana Wendt
# Lisa McCune
# Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
# Noeline Brown
# John Clarke
# Mike Walsh
# Stuart Wagstaff
# Georgie Parker
# Don Burke
# Reg Grundy
# Richie Benaud
# Ray Martin
# Rebecca Gibney
# Nicole Kidman
# Brian Henderson
# Claudia Karvan
# George Negus
# Denise Drysdale
# Glenn Robbins
# Rob Sitch
# Michael Caton
# Jacki Weaver
# Lorraine Bayly
# Kerri-Anne Kennerley
# Ossie Ostrich
# Bec Cartwright/Hewitt
# Toni Lamond
# Mark Mitchell
# Jack Thompson
# Roy and HG
# Delta Goodrem
See also
List of Australian television series
50 Years 50 Shows
External links
Nine Network press release as published on the Australian TV Guide.
ninemsn video
2006 in Australian television
Nine Network specials
Australian non-fiction television series
Lists of mass media in Australia
Australian television specials
2000s Australian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Latino%20TV | American Latino TV is a nationally syndicated television program produced by American Latino Syndication, a division of LATV Networks. The weekly magazine and culture lifestyle program showcases American and foreign-born Latinos making a positive impact in American society. The program set the standard for highlighting American Latino culture through entertainment, the arts and sciences, education and sports. The show has had various hosts throughout the years including Liza Quin, Belqui Ortiz, Stephanie Ortiz, Jeannette Sandoval, Julian Dujarric, Daisy Fuentes, Valery Ortiz and is currently hosted by Carolina Trejos.
American Latino TV can be seen weekly in over 100 cities in over 92% of U.S. Hispanic homes (and 65% of all TV homes) across the U.S. on a number of TV affiliates, as well as in reruns on cable networks. Segments from the show can also be seen on the Internet and the show is broadcast internationally in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and in parts of Canada bordering the U.S. The show often airs in tandem with its sister program LatiNation and has also spawned a series of specials titled American Latino Presents and The American Latino Awards.
Format
The show is a half-hour culture and entertainment magazine with 4–5 segments ranging from 1:30–3:30 minutes in length. The segments include music, fashion, culture, celebrity interviews and inspirational stories of regular people doing extraordinary things.
Hosts
Celines Toribio (2002 Urban Latino TV)
Johnny Salgado (2002–04 Urban Latino TV)
Noemi (2002–04 Urban Latino TV)
Liza Quin (2004–2007)
Cristina Fernandez (2004–2007)
Belqui Ortiz (2007–08)
Stephanie Ortiz (2007–08)
Jeanette Sandoval (2008–09)
Julian Dujarric (2008–2009)
Daisy Fuentes (2009–10)
Valery Ortiz (2010–16)
Natasha Martinez (2016–19)
Carolina Trejos (2019–present)
Origins
American Latino TV was formerly known as Urban Latino TV and was originally produced by the AIM Tell-A-Vision Group (AIM TV), a New York City-based production and syndication company. AIM TV is a division of Artist and Idea Management and helped establish the business model of producing English language content for U.S. born Latinos beginning in 2001.
AIM TV was established in February 2000 by Robert G. Rose with the help of his production partner, Renzo Devia. AIM TV was the first television company to successfully produce, distribute and syndicate television programming targeting U.S. born Latinos, helping to spawn an industry that had not existed before (TV content in English, targeted to young, mostly U.S. born Latinos). 65% of U.S. Latinos are U.S. born according to U.S. Census data, but rarely if ever watch Spanish-language TV (according to Tomas Rivera Policy Inst. 1999).
In January 2008, the syndicated programs and the American Latino brand name were acquired by LATV Networks, the nation's first bilingual entertainment/music network distributed via digital multicast. The company gradually moved production to Los Angeles, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Tornado | The HTC Tornado is a smartphone model designed by High Tech Computer Corporation and powered by the Windows Mobile 5 operating system. It has QVGA display resolution.
The Tornado is rebranded as at least 9 different models: the Dopod 586W, Qtek 8300, T-Mobile USA SDA (AKA SDA II), Cingular 2125, i-mate SP5 and Orange SPV C600. These individual companies customize the operating system and sell it as a consumer package.
Features
240 x 320 pixels TFT display (65k colors)
1.3-megapixel camera
64 MB SDRAM, 64 MB Flash ROM, miniSD card slot
TI OMAP 850, 200 MHz processor
EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Infrared
References
Latest Mobile Phone in Hindi
External links
HTC
Latest Mobile Phone Information in Hindi
Tornado
Mobile phones introduced in 2005
Windows Mobile Standard devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvil%20of%20Dawn | Anvil of Dawn is a 1995 fantasy role-playing video game developed by DreamForge Intertainment and published by New World Computing. Anvil of Dawn was named the best role-playing game of 1995 by Computer Gaming World and Computer Game Review.
Gameplay
The game was released 1995 for MS-DOS and was one of the last dungeon crawl RPGs with blockstep movements and semi-3D environment. The game presents a real-time, three-dimensional view from the character's perspective. It was released on CD and features fully spoken dialogue and several pre-rendered cutscenes. The player controls only one character throughout the game, which is chosen at the beginning from 5 different heroes. The other characters can then be met in the game also trying to fulfill the quest. The game is mostly action oriented but also contains some puzzles. There are no experience points as the character gets better through using his abilities and spells. It also features several different endings.
Plot
The game plays in the world of Tempest. The civilization had been overrun by an evil warlord and the last castle of the good is under siege. The player's character is then teleported in the already occupied and devastated land, where he strives to fulfill his quest to defeat the warlord and his minions.
Development
Anvil of Dawn was developed by DreamForge Intertainment. In the concept stage, the team chose to focus the game on atmosphere and player immersion, which led to the decision to pre-render the game's environments via three-dimensional (3D) graphical models. While real-time 3D graphics were used by certain other dungeon crawl games at the time, DreamForge believed that their environments looked "flat and pixellated", and sought greater realism through pre-rendering. For the outdoor scenes, the team lined 3D models of each environment with "movement nodes", and pre-recorded "mini-cinematics" to animate transitions from one node to another. Their objective was to make the game feel seamless, whether the player was stepping through an area or moving between dungeons.
The goal of uninterrupted immersion led them to simplify the game's interface, to reduce the number of heads-up display icons and to include automatically updated quest logs, spellbooks and maps. According to the company's Chris Straka, the team "made every effort to bridge the gap between the novice and the expert player", without automating too much of the gameplay. So that players could immediately understand and play Anvil of Dawn, DreamForge chose to make the game completable with only the left mouse button. This decision in turn inspired the team to limit the game to a single player character, instead of a party-based system. Straka explained, "In this way, we didn't have to worry about multiple characters, multiple faces, multiple inventories, etc., and how all the possible combinations can be made functional with a simple left click."
Several months were dedicated to the conception and implementation of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E762 | European route E 762 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and officially ends at the border between Montenegro and Albania. In Albania, road signs indicate the route heading towards Montenegro but not heading toward Shkodër.
Route
M-18 Sarajevo
Foča
: Šćepan Polje - Podgorica ()
: Podgorica
: Podgorica () - Božaj
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
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E762
E762 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN%20International | ESPN International is a family of sportscasting and production networks around the world. It was begun in 1989, is operated by ESPN Inc. and owned by The Walt Disney Company.
Operating regions
Latin America
Spanish-speaking countries
ESPN North (Mexico, Central America and Dominican Republic) (2 feeds)
ESPN South (South America) (4 feeds)
ESPN2 North (Mexico, Central America and Dominican Republic) (2 feeds)
ESPN2 South (South America) (4 feeds)
ESPN3 North (Mexico, Central America and Dominican Republic)
ESPN3 South (South America) (2 feeds)
ESPN4 North (Central America and Dominican Republic)
ESPN4 South (South America, except Argentina) (2 feeds)
ESPN Extra North (2 feeds)
ESPN Extra South
ESPN Premium (Argentina)
Brazil
ESPN
ESPN2
ESPN3
ESPN4
ESPN Extra
Caribbean
ESPN
ESPN2
ESPN Extra
Netherlands
ESPN
ESPN2
ESPN3
ESPN4
ESPN Ultra HD
Oceania
ESPN
ESPN2
Sub-Saharan Africa
ESPN
ESPN2
Japan
J Sports (1, 2, 3 & 4 – in joint-venture with J:COM, SKY Perfect JSAT and TBS)
Canada
ESPN International does not directly operate its own channels in Canada, but owns a 20 percent voting interest (and slightly larger equity interest) in CTV Specialty Television, a subsidiary of the Canadian media company Bell Media. Canadian regulations on the foreign ownership of broadcasters prohibit ESPN from acquiring majority interest.
CTV Specialty Television in turn operates the following sports television channels:
The Sports Network (TSN) – five feeds
Réseau des sports (RDS) – two feeds
RDS Info
Although these channels have mainly retained their local brands (ESPN having acquired part-ownership several years after TSN and RDS launched), they now mostly have ESPN-style logos and use other ESPN branding elements. TSN has also adopted the SportsCentre title for its sports highlights programs.
Through CTV Specialty, ESPN also has an indirect interest in Discovery Channel Canada and several related channels, which are operated in partnership with Discovery Communications. These holdings date to CTV Specialty's previous incarnations as Labatt Communications and later as NetStar Communications, in which ESPN also held a minority interest. ESPN is not believed to have any involvement with the Discovery operations.
ESPN is also indirectly associated with TSN Radio, a brand used by several sports radio stations (each wholly owned by Bell Media), each of which also carries a limited amount of ESPN Radio programming.
Former operations
Asia-Pacific
In June 2012, News Corporation announced it would acquire ESPN's 50% stake in its joint venture ESPN Star Sports. Following the takeover, ESPN in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia was relaunched as Fox Sports in January 2013, while a version for Mainland China became Star Sports 2 in January 2014. Meanwhile, Star India acquired ESPN Software India from ESPN Star Sports, but kept ESPN brand for a while. ESPN International later established a partnership with what is no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai%20Global%20Network | Thai TV Global Network (TGN) is a defunct Thai satellite television channel. Тhai TV Global Network is the first and only satellite TV broadcasting center in Thailand. TGN, under the operation of the Royal Thai Army Radio and Television Channel 5, provides 24-hour-programs broadcasting to 170 countries on five continents. All facets of Thai life, culture, activities, information, news and entertainment are included in the programming for the channel.
TGN reaches an audience of 350 million viewers around the world.
Programming on the channel includes game shows, reports about the royal house of the Chakri dynasty, news, Thai music videos, soap operas, cooking shows (some in English), and Thai boxing known as Muay Thai.
Reception
Thailand
Satellite reception via Thaicom 5
C-band and Ku-band
Cable operators in Thailand
UBC channel 179 **
500 ** cable operators as a member of the Thailand Cable TV Association'Independent cable networks **
Worldwide
Satellite (DVB-S)
Hotbird 13 degrees East 10 815 H (Europe)
Various cable operators in some countries (DVB-C)
Internet http://app.tv5.co.th/
also available on Galaxy 19 at 97 west
History
The pay TV station Thai Wave''' started via satellite in 1996. At the beginning, the station featured Thai video clips from Thailand, as well as news and soap operas. The station broadcast daily from 8 pm to 4 am. The program was promoted in Europe by THAI WAVE International Broadcasting Co. Ltd., Hauptstr. 100, 76461 Muggensturm, Germany. The use of Thai Wave analogue Decoding from this period was same as Premiere and Canal +, special was the "white key" that had to be used in decoders to decode the program. After about a year, Thai Wave ended operation due to the low demand. The home of the station was in Phaya Thai, a Khet (district) of Bangkok and it was used the studio and program content from Royal Thai Army Radio and Television Channel 5. Later Thai TV Global Network started operation by digital satellite broadcasting.
Eutelsat II-F3 16 degrees east - Thai Wave (encrypted / encoded, sometimes "clear window") Entertainment thai 11 163 H 20 6.65 PAL (analog)
On 15 November 2022, TV 5 announced the planned termination of Thai TV Global Network, with transmissions ceasing from 10 January 2023.
References
Thai TV Global - the official website
live stream of the station (in three selectable data rates)
External links
Television stations in Thailand
Defunct television networks
Royal Thai Army
Television channels and stations established in 1998
1998 establishments in Thailand
International broadcasters
2023 disestablishments in Thailand
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonds%20de%20solidarit%C3%A9%20FTQ | The largest development capital network in the province, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ was created on the initiative of the FTQ, Québec's largest central labour body.
As of November 30, 2022, the Fonds held $17.8 billion in net assets and had more than 753,000 owner-shareholders.
History
1981 : Beginning of an economic crisis that would last 18 months and see business interest rates climb to 25%.
1982 : Québec Summit: The FTQ looks for ways to save jobs.
June 1982 : Launch of the Corvée-Habitation project, a partnership between construction workers, unionized workers, businesses and governments that would save over 57,000 jobs during the three-year economic crisis and give homebuyers access to financing below the market rate.
September 1982 : Denis de Belleval writes 20-page report to propose creation of a 750 million dollar fund much like the one later proposed by FTQ.
October 1982 : Closure of several plants in Sept-Îles that had been bought out by workers to save their jobs. Facing bankruptcy, workers not only lost their savings but their livelihoods as well.
April 1983 : Louis Laberge convinces the FTQ General Council to create the Fonds in order to share the risk and make investments in SMEs in order to create and maintain jobs.
June 1983 : The Fonds de solidarité FTQ is created through Bill 192. Louis Laberge declares, "The Fonds will be a profitable entity, not a charitable organization or a subsidy agency."
June 1983 : The Québec and federal governments each contribute $10 million to launch the Fonds.
December 1984 : The Fonds makes its first investment: $500,000 in Scierie des Outardes.
January 1985 : The Fonds launches its first advertising campaign for its RRSP.
February 23, 1985 : First Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
1986 : Introduction of economic education for workers.
1990 : Creation of SOLIM, a real estate investment fund known today as Fonds immobilier de solidarité FTQ.
1990 : The Fonds teams up with the Union des municipalités régionales de comté (UMRCQ) to create société en commandite SOLIDEQ, charged with creating the SOLIDES, today known as the Fonds locaux de solidarité FTQ [local solidarity funds].
1996 : Creation of the Fonds régionaux de solidarité FTQ [regional solidarity funds].
1997 : Raymond Bachand replaces Claude Blanchet as President and CEO.
1997 : Introduction of the Shareholder's Booklet.
1998 : The Fonds celebrates its 15th anniversary.
1999 : Henri Massé becomes President of the FTQ and Chairman of the Fonds.
2000 : Over 20% of Canada's venture capital is managed by the Fonds.
2002 : Pierre Genest becomes President and CEO.
2002 : Net assets reach $4.5 billion.
2002 : Shareholder base surpasses 500,000.
2005 : Québec's Department of Finance announces changes to the Fonds’ investment rules, allowing it to increase its investments in larger companies.
2006 : Yvon Bolduc takes over the helm at the Fonds.
2009 : The Fonds becomes a signatory to the United Nations Global C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20P.%20Bhatkar | Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar is an Indian computer scientist, IT leader and educationalist. He is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He is a Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Maharashtra Bhushan awardee. Indian computer magazine Dataquest placed him among the pioneers of India's IT industry. He was the founder and executive director of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and is currently working on developing exascale supercomputing for India.
Bhatkar has been chancellor of Nalanda University, India since January 2017. Prior to that, he served as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Delhi from 2012 to 2017. Currently he is serving as the Chairman of Vijnana Bharati, a non profit organization of Indian scientists.
Career
Bhatkar was born in Muramba, Taluka Murtijapur, District Akola Maharashtra, India. He received a B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Nagpur University, Nagpur; ME degree from the MS University of Baroda, Vadodara and a PhD from IIT Delhi.
Bhatkar is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He developed the first Indian supercomputer, the PARAM 8000, in 1991 and later the PARAM 10000 in 1998. Based on the PARAM series of supercomputers, he built the National Param Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) which is now made available as a grid computing facility through the Garuda grid on the National Knowledge Network (NKN) providing nationwide access to High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. Currently, Bhatkar is working on exascale supercomputing via the capability, capacity and infrastructure on NKN.
Bhatkar has played a significant role in forming several national institutions and research centers including Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the Electronics Research and Development Centre (ER&DC) in Thiruvananthapuram, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala (IIITM-K), the ETH Research Laboratory and International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT) in Pune, Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation (MKCL) and the India International Multiversity. He has served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the government of India, CSIR governing body, IT Task Force, and eGovernance committee chairman of the governments of Maharashtra and Goa. He also serves as the president of Vijnana Bharati.
In 2016, Bhatkar was appointed as the Chairperson of the Science & Engineering Research Body (SERB). In January 2017, Bhatkar was appointed as the Chancellor of the Nalanda University. He is also the Founder Chancellor and Chief Mentor of Multiversity. Dr. Vijay Bhatkar has served as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT-Delhi (2012-2017), Chairman of the ETH (Education To Home) Research Lab, Chairman of the Board of Management of Government College of Engineering, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeform | Timeform is a sports data and content provider located in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1948, it provides systematic information on form to punters and others involved in the horse racing industry. The company was purchased by the sports betting exchange Betfair in December 2006. Since 2 February 2016, it has been owned by Flutter Entertainment.
History
Portway Press Ltd was formed in 1948 by Phil Bull, who wanted to establish a mathematical link to a horse's performance, based on the time the horse recorded. At a time when such data was virtually unheard of, Bull started publishing a racing annual, which evolved into the "Racehorses Of.." series. The company was purchased for a reputed £15 million by the sports betting exchange Betfair in December 2006.
Data system
According to Timeform, one of its ratings represents "the merit of the horse expressed in pounds and is arrived at by careful examination of its running against other horses using a scale of weight for distance beaten which ranges from around 3 lb a length at five furlongs and 2 lb a length at a mile and a quarter to 1 lb a length at two miles".
Timeform ratings for three-year-olds and up on the Flat:
140+: an all-time great horse
135–139: an outstanding horse
130–134: above average Group 1 winner (a "top-class racehorse")
125–129: average Group 1 winner
116–124: average Group 2 winner
110–115: average Group 3 winner
100–105: average Listed Race winner
Timeform states that the very poorest horses may be rated as low as 30, with the very best horses rated 130 and above. Two-year-old ratings are slightly lower than those for older horses. It also notes that only a very select number of horses have achieved a rating of 175 and above for hurdling (16) or 182 and above for chasing (20).
The Beyer Speed Figure used in the United States is similar to a Timeform rating. The popular rule of thumb for comparing these two numbers is to add 12–14 points to the Beyer score to estimate the Timeform number.
Flat vs hurdle vs steeplechase
Timeform maintains different scales for horses racing on the flat, over hurdles and over fences. The scores cannot be compared for the obvious differences between the race types. For instance, Arkle at 212, Flyingbolt at 210, Sprinter Sacre at 192 are then followed by Mill House and Kauto Star, both at 191, are the highest rated steeplechasers. The highest rated horses over hurdles are Night Nurse at 182, Istabraq and Monksfield, both at 180, and Persian War at 179. The table below lists scores for flat horses only starting with the highest, rated at 147 which is the British horse Frankel.
Publications
Annually in March, the company puts out its book Racehorses of ...., which currently contains more than 1,200 pages and provides information and ratings on the top flat horses in Australasia, Dubai, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, North America and Scandinavia. Also, annually in October the company publishes Chasers and Hurdl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E851 | European route E 851 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Petrovac, Montenegro, passes through northern Albania and ends in Pristina, Kosovo.
Route
Petrovac (Start of Concurrency with ) - Sutomore (End of Concurrency with ) - Sukobin
A1 Lezhë
R7 Prizren
Prishtina
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
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E851
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s%20Ajtai | Miklós Ajtai (born 2 July 1946) is a computer scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center, United States. In 2003, he received the Knuth Prize for his numerous contributions to the field, including a classic sorting network algorithm (developed jointly with J. Komlós and Endre Szemerédi), exponential lower bounds, superlinear time-space tradeoffs for branching programs, and other "unique and spectacular" results. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Selected results
One of Ajtai's results states that the length of proofs in propositional logic of the pigeonhole principle for n items grows faster than any polynomial in n. He also proved that the statement "any two countable structures that are second-order equivalent are also isomorphic" is both consistent with and independent of ZFC. Ajtai and Szemerédi proved the corners theorem, an important step toward higher-dimensional generalizations of the Szemerédi theorem. With Komlós and Szemerédi, he proved the ct2/log t upper bound for the Ramsey number R(3,t). The corresponding lower bound was proved by Kim only in 1995, a result that earned him a Fulkerson Prize. With Chvátal, Newborn, and Szemerédi, Ajtai proved the crossing number inequality, that any drawing of a graph with n vertices and m edges, where , has at least crossings. Ajtai and Dwork devised in 1997 a lattice-based public-key cryptosystem; Ajtai has done extensive work on lattice problems. For his numerous contributions in Theoretical Computer Science, he received the Knuth Prize.
Biography
Ajtai received his Candidate of Sciences degree in 1976 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1995, he has been an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In 1998, he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. In 2012, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2021, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Bibliography
Selected papers
References
External links
Miklós Ajtai home page
1946 births
Living people
Knuth Prize laureates
20th-century Hungarian mathematicians
21st-century Hungarian mathematicians
Hungarian computer scientists
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Theoretical computer scientists
Hungarian expatriates in the United States
American computer scientists
IBM employees
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight%20space | In mathematics, weight space may refer to:
Weight space (representation theory)
Parameter space in artificial neural networks, where the parameters are weights on graph edges. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTX%20%28explosive-detection%20device%29 | The CTX (Computer Tomography X-ray) is an explosive detection device, a family of x-ray devices developed by InVision Technologies in 1990 that uses CAT scans and sophisticated image processing software to automatically screen checked baggage for explosives.
CTX-5000
In 1994, the CTX-5000 became the first computed tomography explosive detection system certified by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The certification of the CTX-5000 followed nine years of development. During that time the FAA invested $90 million in explosives detection and nearly $8.6 million in the specific technology. From 1995 to 1997, the CTX-5000 was tested to solve the challenges involved in integrating an explosives detection system into a baggage system and to validate the estimated costs of wide-scale deployment of the systems.
CTX-5000 SP
The CTX-5000 SP scanning system, an improved version of the CTX-5000 for checked baggage, was delivered to the FAA in 1997 and placed at several of the US's busiest and largest airports. From 1997 to 2000, more than 100 of the systems have been purchased by the FAA to install in US airports, according to InVision.
CTX-5500DS
The CTX-5500DS is an automated explosives detection system that uses computed tomography to characterize materials in checked bags and automatically identify objects that could be improvised explosive devices. The CTX-5500DS is the most widely used, FAA-certified Explosives Detection System in the world. It can be used for either standalone applications or in an integrated manner with airport baggage handling systems. It can also be configured to detect other types of contraband material. The CTX-5500DS has an FAA-certified throughput of 384 bags per hour. Its Dynamic Screening (DS) capability offers flexibility by allowing manual or automatic switching between various screening modes.
CTX-2500
The CTX-2500 is a small-sized explosives detection system that is half the length of earlier CTX models. The CTX 2500 utilizes a single rotating X-ray source to acquire positioning images and CT-slice images, thus achieving its smaller size. The CTX 2500 system is the first FAA-certified Explosives Detection System (EDS) mounted on a truck for easy mobility and access to cargo. One of the units costs approximately US$700,000.
CTX-9000
The CTX-9000 DSi system is the world's fastest FAA-certified (Certification moved to TSA Transportation Security Lab in 2002) Explosives Detection System, handling 542 bags per hour. It features alternate operational modes yielding even higher throughputs. The CTX-9000 DSi is designed for integrated airport installations. Its 1-metre wide conveyor coordinates with standard airport baggage handling systems. The system's architecture utilizes modular components, helping to ease scanner upgrading and servicing. The scanner contains 4 active radiation-shielding curtains. In addition, the gantry rotates at 120 RPM, enabling a slice image to be generated within half a second. A high-s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace%20of%20Cakes | Ace of Cakes is an American reality television show that aired on the Food Network. The show focused on the daily operations of Duff Goldman's custom cake shop, Charm City Cakes, in Baltimore, Maryland; including small-business ownership, working with various vendors, tasting with customers, constructing cakes, and delivering his products.
Synopsis
Ace of Cakes highlights the frantic activity encompassing the production of a substantial number of custom edible art cakes in a short period of time. The staff consists primarily of Duff Goldman's good friends who have varying personalities. They are frequently shown working long hours to build and decorate the cakes, yet are always making jokes to offset the alleged stress of hitting each deadline. Staff members sometimes drive the cakes to their final destinations, which can require road trips of several hundred miles. Goldman has an informal approach to running Charm City Cakes. He is known for using non-traditional cooking utensils such as blowtorches, belt sanders, and power saws, and more to construct his designs.
Some of the notable cakes created by Charm City Cakes include cakes for the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico in Maryland, Baltimore Zoo, the premiere of the 2007 film Hairspray, a replica of Radio City Music Hall for The Rockettes, a hatbox-shaped cake for an 80-year-old grandmother, the Hogwarts castle for the premiere of the fifth Harry Potter film in Los Angeles, an edible replica of Wrigley Field, a replica of the shark ray at the Newport Aquarium, a cake for the Paramount Pictures premiere of the DreamWorks Animation film Kung-Fu Panda, and a replica of the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA. For the season finale of Season 5, the bakery's staff traveled to Hawaii to create a cake for the 100th episode of Lost.
Episodes
Season one of Ace of Cakes consisted of six episodes airing in early fall 2006. The show proved to be one of the highest-rated prime time shows in Food Network's history, causing the network to order 15 episodes for season two including a 2-hour-long episode featuring the official NFL cake for Super Bowl XLI. A one-hour special featured the show's first international delivery (to London, England) in an episode aired in December 2010. Season 10, planned to be the program's last (despite its popularity), premiered in January 2011 and had six episodes. The final episode featured a large-scale Delorean time machine cake created for Universal Studios' Back to the Future anniversary event in New York City. Seasons 1–5 have been released on DVD.
Production
Ace of Cakes was shot on location at the bakery in Baltimore, Maryland, a converted church. The show has also featured other locations where Duff, Geof and occasionally others travel to in delivery of cakes such as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., Miami, Boston, Alaska, and Hawaii, among others. The show was edited in Los Angeles at the show's production company, Authentic Entertainment, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregate%20data | Aggregate data is high-level data which is acquired by combining individual-level data. For instance, the output of an industry is an aggregate of the firms’ individual outputs within that industry. Aggregate data are applied in statistics, data warehouses, and in economics.
There is a distinction between aggregate data and individual data. Aggregate data refers to individual data that are averaged by geographic area, by year, by service agency, or by other means. Individual data are disaggregated individual results and are used to conduct analyses for estimation of subgroup differences.
Aggregate data are mainly used by researchers and analysts, policymakers, banks and administrators for multiple reasons. They are used to evaluate policies, recognise trends and patterns of processes, gain relevant insights, and assess current measures for strategic planning. Aggregate data collected from various sources are used in different areas of studies such as comparative political analysis and APD scientific analysis for further analyses. Aggregate data are also used for medical and educational purposes. Aggregate data is widely used, but it also has some limitations, including drawing inaccurate inferences and false conclusions which is also termed ‘ecological fallacy’. ‘Ecological fallacy’ means that it is invalid for users to draw conclusions on the ecological relationships between two quantitative variables at the individual level.
Applications
In statistics, aggregate data are data combined from several measurements. When data is aggregated, groups of observations are replaced with summary statistics based on those observations.
In a data warehouse, the use of aggregate data dramatically reduces the time to query large sets of data. Developers pre-summarise queries that are regularly used, such as Weekly Sales across several dimensions for example by item hierarchy or geographical hierarchy.
In economics, aggregate data or data aggregates are high-level data that are composed from a multitude or combination of other more individual data, such as:
in macroeconomics, data such as the overall price level or overall inflation rate; and
in microeconomics, data of an entire sector of an economy composed of many firms, or of all households in a city or region.
Major users
Researchers and analysts
Researchers use aggregate data to understand the prevalent ethos, evaluate the essence of social realities and a social organisation, stipulate primary issues of concern in research, and supply projections in relation to the nature of social issues. Aggregate data are useful for researchers when they are interested in investigating on the relationships between two distinct variables at the aggregate level, and the connections between an aggregate variable and a characteristic at the individual level. Researchers have also made an effort to evaluate policies, practices and precepts of systems critically with the assistance of aggregate data, to investigat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMCS | AMCS may refer to:
The Australian Marine Conservation Society
The International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
pl:AMCS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel%20University%20College%20of%20Computing%20and%20Informatics | The Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), formerly the College of Information Science and Technology or iSchool, is one of the primary colleges of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The College of Computing & Informatics has faculty and administrative offices, research laboratories, collaborative learning spaces, and classrooms at 3675 Market Street (University City Campus). Its current dean is Yi Deng.
CCI was formed in September 2013 by merging the former College of Information Science and Technology (iSchool), the Department of Computer Science, and the Department of Computing and Security Technology. It is part of the iSchools Caucus and the former College of Information Science and Technology was one of the three founding members of the iSchool Caucus.
History
CCI was created in 2013 as a result of merging the former College of Information Science and Technology (iSchool), the Department of Computer Science, and the Department of Computing and Security Technology. Details regarding the history of the iSchool is below:
College of Computing and Informatics (2013–present)
1995-2013 College of Information Science and Technology
1985-1995 College of Information Studies
1979-1985 School of Library and Information Science
1942-1979 Graduate School of Library Science
1922-1942 School of Library Science
1900-1914 Library School
1893-1900 Library Dept.
1892-1893 Library and Reading Room
Programs
Undergraduate
The College of Computing & Informatics offers six undergraduate programs: the Bachelor of Science in Information Systems (BSIS), Data Science (BSDS), Information Technology (BSIT), Software Engineering (BSSE), Computing and Security Technology, Computer Science (CS), and the BS/MS Accelerated Degree Program which allows students to complete both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in five years. Most of the undergraduates take advantage of Drexel's long-standing co-op program to get real-world work experience before graduation.
The college also has a Peer Mentor program through which incoming undergraduate students are assigned mentors who are current students in CCI programs. Any student who fits the criteria can apply to be a Peer Mentor after their first year and be interviewed for selection.
Graduate
The college offers master's programs including the Master of Science in Information with majors in Library and Information Science and Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience, the Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS), the Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS), the Master of Science in Software Engineering (MSSE), the Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS), the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (MSAIML), the online Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI), and a joint program with the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of Drexel's College of Engineering, the Master of Science in Cybersecurity (MSC). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NightRider%20%28bus%20service%29 | The NightRider was a network of bus services in Melbourne, Australia. It operated on weekends and for special events from the Melbourne central business district to the outer suburbs on 13 routes, with over 300 stops between 01:30 (00:00 on the Doncaster route) and 04:30 on Saturdays and 05:30 on Sundays. NightRider ceased operation on 27 December 2015, being replaced by Night Network's Night Bus services which commenced operation in 2016.
History
The NightRider network was launched in May 1993 with nine routes all originating on Swanston Street. They were the first night routes in Melbourne after the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board withdrew its services in the 1960s.
In November 2008, the NightRider network was overhauled. The logo and branding were replaced, and operators of several routes changed. New routes commenced to Doncaster, Healesville and Cranbourne. Frequencies were increased from 60 to 30 minutes. Due to Metro Trains Melbourne now running until 01:00, the first services were revised to depart at 01:30 instead of 00:30 on most services.
Route numbers were issued by Metlink for the first time (previously some operators did display them on buses) and are all in the 900 series, with the numbers corresponding to the predominant route number allocations at the outer termini. For example, many buses in the Dandenong area were in the 800s, hence the number 980 and 981 was allocated to them.
Originally fares were set at a flat $5 regardless of distance travelled. From March 2007 standard Metcard tickets were adopted for use on the service.
Buses were labelled with a large NightRider logo, and text saying "NightRider – The after midnight bus service".
Routes
Buses ran half hourly from 01:30 (00:00 on Doncaster route 961) to 04:30 on Saturdays and 05:30 on Sundays on the following routes:
References
Bus transport in Melbourne
Night bus service
Public transport in Melbourne
1993 establishments in Australia
2015 disestablishments in Australia |
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