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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windlight%20Studios | Windlight Studios was a computer animation and visual effects' company established in 1993, and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was folded into the holdings of Canada's Nelvana studio in 1997. Its co-founder, Scott Dyer, became Nelvana's senior vice president in charge of production in late 2001.
References
Maule, Christopher J. and Acheson, Archibald Lloyd Keith (2001). Much Ado About Culture: North American Trade Disputes, p. 122. University of Michigan Press. .
External links
Official site (archived at the Wayback Machine)
Corus Entertainment profile for co-founder Dyer
American animation studios
Defunct companies based in Minneapolis
Entertainment companies established in 1993
Corus Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather%20buoy | Weather buoys are instruments which collect weather and ocean data within the world's oceans, as well as aid during emergency response to chemical spills, legal proceedings, and engineering design. Moored buoys have been in use since 1951, while drifting buoys have been used since 1979. Moored buoys are connected with the ocean bottom using either chains, nylon, or buoyant polypropylene. With the decline of the weather ship, they have taken a more primary role in measuring conditions over the open seas since the 1970s. During the 1980s and 1990s, a network of buoys in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean helped study the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Moored weather buoys range from in diameter, while drifting buoys are smaller, with diameters of . Drifting buoys are the dominant form of weather buoy in sheer number, with 1250 located worldwide. Wind data from buoys has smaller error than that from ships. There are differences in the values of sea surface temperature measurements between the two platforms as well, relating to the depth of the measurement and whether or not the water is heated by the ship which measures the quantity.
History
The first known proposal for surface weather observations at sea occurred in connection with aviation in August 1927, when Grover Loening stated that "weather stations along the ocean coupled with the development of the seaplane to have an equally long range, would result in regular ocean flights within ten years." Starting in 1939, United States Coast Guard vessels were being used as weather ships to protect transatlantic air commerce.
During World War II The German Navy deployed weather buoys (Wetterfunkgerät See — WFS) at fifteen fixed positions in the North Atlantic and Barents Sea. They were launched from U-boats into a maximum depth of ocean of 1000 fathoms (1,800 metres), limited by the length of the anchor cable. Overall height of the body was 10.5 metres (of which most was submerged), surmounted by a mast and extendible aerial of 9 metres. Data (air and water temperature, atmospheric pressure and relative humidity) were encoded and transmitted four times a day. When the batteries (high voltage dry-cells for the valves, and nickel-iron for other power and to raise and lower the aerial mast) were exhausted, after about eight to ten weeks, the unit self-destructed.
The Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Automatic Device (NOMAD) buoy's hull was originally designed in the 1940s for the United States Navy’s offshore data collection program. The United States Navy tested marine automatic weather stations for hurricane conditions between 1956 and 1958, though radio transmission range and battery life was limited. Between 1951 and 1970, a total of 21 NOMAD buoys were built and deployed at sea. Since the 1970s, weather buoy use has superseded the role of weather ships, as they are cheaper to operate and maintain. The earliest reported use of drifting buoys was to study the behavior of ocean c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9%20de%20Transports%20de%20l%27Agglom%C3%A9ration%20St%C3%A9phanoise | Société de Transports de l'Agglomération Stéphanoise, or STAS operates a public transport network and infrastructure in and around Saint-Étienne. Its responsibility is to provide tramway, trolleybus and bus service in the fifty-three communes of the Saint-Étienne agglomeration.
History
The company's official name, although not used is the TPAS and is a Société Anonyme with a capital of 17 700 000 euros. Its main shareholder, Transdev is the parent company. STAS was created on 1 April 2000.
Depots
STAS maintains its rolling stock from three sites:
Transpôle depot at Saint-Priest-en-Jarez (company headquarters, 9 hectares)
Transparc depot at Saint-Étienne (2 hectares)
Saint-Chamond depot
and is also responsible for sites throughout the Saint-Étienne:
An information point and reseller, Place Dorian in Saint-Étienne
park and ride at Saint-Priest-en-Jarez
Musée des Transports Urbains de Saint-Étienne et sa Région, transport museum.
Fleet
The STAS providing a diverse array of service possesses a diverse fleet, of which includes:
Trolleybus
Irisbus Cristalis
Bus
Heuliez GX 117
Irisbus Agora
Mercedes-Benz Citaro
Renault Agora articulated
Citaro Facelift
Citaro C2
Citelis 12
Citelis 18
Urbanway 12
Urbanway 18
Heuliez GX 127
Heuliez GX 327
Tramway
Tramway Français Standard
CAF Urbos 3
Bicycles
Vélivert bike sharing program with 400 long term renting and 300 short term renting bicycles.
External links
STAS
Public transport operators in France
Bus companies of France
Transdev
Transport in Saint-Étienne
Veolia
Transport in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Heartbeat%20home%20media%20releases | This is a list of media releases of the television series Heartbeat, which includes DVD and VHS.
DVD release
DVDs of the series in the UK are listed below, released by Network DVD. Only series 1–5 have been released so far in Finland. In Australia (Region 4) Series 1–5 have been released both individually and as a box set. Series 6–10 have also been released. Series 11 and 12 were released on 6 November 2013. Some music has been partly changed or removed due to copyright grounds/licensing costs.
All region releases
References
Heartbeat (British TV series)
Heartbeat (Tv Series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AELC | AELC may refer to:
Adaptive Equal Loudness Compensation, an audio algorithm to enhance sound effect, MalleusTek
American Evangelical Lutheran Church, a predecessor church of the Lutheran Church in America, United States
Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church, India
Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana, Association of Catalan Language Writers, a non-profit professional organisation, Spain.
Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, a predecessor church body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20Tupi | Rede Tupi (; in English, Tupi Network) was a Brazilian commercial terrestrial television network. Its flagship station, located in the city of São Paulo, was the first TV station to operate in the country, being inaugurated on 18 September 1950 by journalist Assis Chateaubriand. It was owned by Diários Associados, one of the largest media conglomerates of the 20th century, owner of several newspapers, magazines, and radio stations.
Named after the Tupiniquim tribe in Brazil, Rede Tupi was a pioneer in television programming in South America, setting the tone for the best telenovelas, news programming, sports, and entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s, such as TV de Vanguarda (Vanguard TV), O Repórter Esso (The Esso Reporter), Alô Docura, Clube dos Artistas (1952–80), Beto Rockfeller, O Mundo é das Mulheres (The World is for Women) and many more. It led the way for the establishment of television stations throughout Brazil, and in 1960, beat other stations in broadcasting via satellite (the first Brazilian TV network to achieve such a feat) in honor of the formal opening of Brasilia.
Its success prompted other nations in the continent to have television stations. The network added new talent to Brazilian show business, which was then a thriving industry depending on films and radio. During the 1960s, its programs revolutionized television through animation, humor, comedy and children's shows plus the telenovelas that gave rise to the launch in 1965 of its rival network in Rio de Janeiro, Rede Globo.
The network was formed in the 1970s, with members as co-brothers of the Diários Associados and affiliates. Its flagships were TV Tupi São Paulo and TV Tupi Rio de Janeiro. Due to a history of management problems, which resulted in a financial crisis, Tupi had part of its licenses revoked by the Government of Brazil in July 1980, shutting down the network.
History
1930s and 40s: build-up
In 1938, RCA set up a stand at its headquarters in New York, featuring a complete system for television transmission and reception. The aim was to show interest in the new technology not only in the USA, but also abroad. One of the foreign invitees was Diários Associados. Who went to New York to represent the company was its director at the time, Dário de Almeida Magalhães. Upon returning, he wrote in an editorial at the group's main newspaper of the time, O Jornal do Rio de Janeiro, about the experiment. The first television demonstration was held on June 3, 1939 with the help of the German company Telefunken but without the direct involvement of Diários Associados.
In July 1944, Chateaubriand visited the United States, a country he hadn't visited until then. One of the aims of the trip was to talk with David Sarnoff, who had prepared a stand showing the advances in radio and television in the world, something that, especially for radio, would be beneficial in the post-war world, perfecting the existing technology. One of the people present was Vladimir Zworykin, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20routing | In computer networking, source routing, also called path addressing, allows a sender of a packet to partially or completely specify the route the packet takes through the network. In contrast, in conventional routing, routers in the network determine the path incrementally based on the packet's destination. Another routing alternative, label switching, is used in connection-oriented networks such as X.25, Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode and Multiprotocol Label Switching.
Source routing allows easier troubleshooting, improved traceroute, and enables a node to discover all the possible routes to a host. It does not allow a source to directly manage network performance by forcing packets to travel over one path to prevent congestion on another.
Many high-performance interconnects including Myrinet, Quadrics, IEEE 1355, and SpaceWire support source routing.
Internet Protocol
In the Internet Protocol, two header options are available which are rarely used: "strict source and record route" (SSRR) and "loose source and record route" (LSRR). Because of security concerns, packets marked LSRR are frequently blocked on the Internet. If not blocked, LSRR can allow an attacker to spoof an address but still successfully receive response packets by forcing return traffic for spoofed packets to return through the attacker's device.
In IPv6, two forms of source routing have been developed. The first approach was the Type 0 Routing header. This routing header was designed to support the same use cases as the IPv4 header options. Unfortunately there were several significant attacks against this routing header and its utilisation was deprecated. A more secure form of source routing is being developed within the IETF to support the IPv6 version of Segment Routing.
Software-defined networking
Software-defined networking can also be enhanced when source routing is used in the forwarding plane. Studies have shown significant improvements in convergence times as a result of the reduced state that must be distributed by the controller into the network.
Myrinet
When using source routing with Myrinet, the sender of the packet prepends the complete route, one byte for every crossbar, to each packet header.
Each crossbar examines the first routing byte of the packet.
When using source routing, that byte indicates a particular port of that crossbar; when that port becomes available, the router discards that routing byte and sends the rest of the packet out that port.
SpaceWire
Each packet traveling through a SpaceWire network can use path addressing (source routing) or logical addressing or some combination.
The router examines the first data character of the packet; when it indicates some specific port of the router, the router discards that routing character and sends the rest of the packet out that port.
See also
Bang path
Dynamic Source Routing
Policy-based routing can also be used to route packets using their source addresses.
Scalable Source Routing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20programming%20languages%20%28syntax%29 | This comparison of programming languages compares the features of language syntax (format) for over 50 computer programming languages.
Expressions
Programming language expressions can be broadly classified into four syntax structures:
prefix notation
Lisp (* (+ 2 3) (expt 4 5))
infix notation
Fortran (2 + 3) * (4 ** 5)
suffix, postfix, or Reverse Polish notation
Forth 2 3 + 4 5 ** *
math-like notation
TUTOR (2 + 3)(45) $$ note implicit multiply operator
Statements
When a programming languages has statements, they typically have conventions for:
statement separators;
statement terminators; and
line continuation
A statement separator demarcates the boundary between two separate statements. A statement terminator defines the end of an individual statement. Languages that interpret the end of line to be the end of a statement are called "line-oriented" languages.
"Line continuation" is a convention in line-oriented languages where the newline character could potentially be misinterpreted as a statement terminator. In such languages, it allows a single statement to span more than just one line.
Line continuation
Line continuation is generally done as part of lexical analysis: a newline normally results in a token being added to the token stream, unless line continuation is detected.
Whitespace – Languages that do not need continuations
Ada – Lines terminate with semicolon
C# – Lines terminate with semicolon
JavaScript – Lines terminate with semicolon (which may be inferred)
Lua
OCaml
Ampersand as last character of line
Fortran 90, Fortran 95, Fortran 2003, Fortran 2008
Backslash as last character of line
bash and other Unix shells
C, C++ preprocessor
Mathematica, Wolfram Language
Python
Ruby
JavaScript – only within single- or double-quoted strings
Backtick as last character of line
PowerShell
Hyphen as last character of line
SQL*Plus
Underscore as last character of line
AutoIt
Cobra
Visual Basic
Xojo
Ellipsis (as three periods–not one special character)
MATLAB: The ellipsis token need not be the last characters on the line, but any following it will be ignored. (In essence, it begins a comment that extends through (i.e. including) the first subsequent newline character. Contrast this with an inline comment, which extends until the first subsequent newline.)
Comma delimiter as last character of line
Ruby (comment may follow delimiter)
Left bracket delimiter as last character of line
Batch file: starting a parenthetical block can allow line continuation
Ruby: left parenthesis, left square bracket, or left curly bracket
Operator as last object of line
Ruby (comment may follow operator)
Operator as first character of continued line
AutoHotkey: Any expression operators except ++ and --, and a comma or a period
Backslash as first character of continued line
Vimscript
Some form of inline comment serves as line continuation
Turbo Assembler: \
m4: dnl
TeX: %
Character position
Fortran 77: A non-comme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20programming%20languages%20%28strings%29 | This comparison of programming languages (strings) compares the features of string data structures or text-string processing for over 52 various computer programming languages.
Concatenation
Different languages use different symbols for the concatenation operator. Many languages use the "+" symbol, though several deviate from this.
Common variants
Unique variants
AWK uses the empty string: two expressions adjacent to each other are concatenated. This is called juxtaposition. Unix shells have a similar syntax. Rexx uses this syntax for concatenation including an intervening space.
C (along with Python) allows juxtaposition for string literals, however, for strings stored as character arrays, the strcat function must be used.
COBOL uses the STRING statement to concatenate string variables.
MATLAB and Octave use the syntax "[x y]" to concatenate x and y.
Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET can also use the "+" sign but at the risk of ambiguity if a string representing a number and a number are together.
Microsoft Excel allows both "&" and the function "=CONCATENATE(X,Y)".
Rust has the concat! macro and the format! macro, of which the latter is the most prevalent throughout the documentation and examples.
String literals
This section compares styles for declaring a string literal.
Quoted interpolated
An expression is "interpolated" into a string when the compiler/interpreter evaluates it and inserts the result in its place.
Escaped quotes
"Escaped" quotes means that a 'flag' symbol is used to warn that the character after the flag is used in the string rather than ending the string.
Dual quoting
"Dual quoting" means that whenever a quote is used in a string, it is used twice, and one of them is discarded and the single quote is then used within the string.
Quoted raw
"Raw" means the compiler treats every character within the literal exactly as written, without processing any escapes or interpolations.
Multiline string
Many languages have a syntax specifically intended for strings with multiple lines. In some of these languages, this syntax is a here document or "heredoc": A token representing the string is put in the middle of a line of code, but the code continues after the starting token and the string's content doesn't appear until the next line. In other languages, the string's content starts immediately after the starting token and the code continues after the string literal's terminator.
Unique quoting variants
Notes
1. String.raw`` still processes string interpolation.
References
1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/raw
Strings
Programming language comparison |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Rokhlin | Vladimir Rokhlin may refer to:
Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin (1919–1984), Soviet mathematician
Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. (born 1952), mathematician and computer scientist, son of Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20Data%20Bank%20of%20Japan | The DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) is a biological database that collects DNA sequences. It is located at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) in the Shizuoka prefecture of Japan. It is also a member of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration or INSDC. It exchanges its data with European Molecular Biology Laboratory at the European Bioinformatics Institute and with GenBank at the National Center for Biotechnology Information on a daily basis. Thus these three databanks contain the same data at any given time.
History
DDBJ began data bank activities in 1987 at NIG and remains the only nucleotide sequence data bank in Asia.
Organisation
Although DDBJ mainly receives its data from Japanese researchers, it can accept data from contributors from any other country. DDBJ is primarily funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). DDBJ has an international advisory committee which consists of nine members, 3 members each from Europe, US, and Japan. This committee advises DDBJ about its maintenance, management and future plans once a year. Apart from this, DDBJ also has an international collaborative committee which advises on various technical issues related to international collaboration and consists of working-level participants.
See also
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
References
External links
Official site
DDBJ entry in MetaBase.
Genomics
Genome databases
Molecular biology
Nucleic acids
Bioinformatics organizations
Biological databases
Databases in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Empires | Cyber Empires (known as Steel Empire in Europe) is a strategy/top-view fighting game produced by Silicon Knights. The game was produced in MS-DOS, Atari ST and Amiga versions, and was originally released in March 1992. The current copyright holder was Strategic Simulations, Inc., which later became part of Ubisoft.
Gameplay
The game has two basic components. The first requires the player to engage in Risk-like strategic decision-making with the goal of conquering the given land mass. The player raises cyborg armies to accomplish this goal. During the second basic component of the game, the top-down battle mode, players can choose to assume manual control of one cyborg in their army during offensive or defensive battle sessions, or let the computer simulate the battle behind the scenes to much more predictable outcomes. This allows players to play only the Risk-style board game component of the game. The opposite, battles only, is also possible. Cyber Empires innovated by mixing strategy with arcade action on a global scale.
The game offers a total of nine different cyborgs from which the user can create an army of up to 10 units, that is no more than 10 units may occupy one country. The units range from the small and fast Mercury capable of little damage but a high speed, to the Titan which is the ultimate cyborg capable of long-range missile attacks and short-range auto-cannon attacks.
The strategy part of the game allows the user to place capitols in any countries occupied by their troops. Countries with capitols in them create extra revenue every turn and can be built upon. The buildings includes fortifications, factories and factory upgrades. Fortifications comes in 3 varieties: light, medium and heavy, but can only protect a country if at least one cyborg is present. Factories come in 3 varieties also, they can have 1, 2 or 4 bays. The number of bays a factory has determined the number of cyborgs it can build at once. The upgrade level of a factory, on the other hand, determines how fast an individual cyborg can be built.
Reception
Computer Gaming World warned that Cyber Empires was an action game with strategic elements and that it was not well suited for strategy-only players. The magazine called it "a solid game. It has nothing to rave about and nothing that hobbles it", with "adequate" graphics and sound, and recommended the game to action gamers who were "fans of BattleTech, Robotech and Giant Robot universes". A 1994 survey of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game two-plus stars out of five.
References
External links
The history of Silicon Knights
1992 video games
Action games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Science fiction video games
Silicon Knights games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in Canada
Video games scored by Richard Joseph
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20artifact | A virtual artifact (VA) is an immaterial object that exists in the human mind or in a digital environment, for example the Internet, intranet, virtual reality, cyberspace, etc.
Background
The term "virtual artifact" has been used in a variety of ways in scientific and public discourse. Previously it has referred to objects of different nature (e.g. images, user interfaces, models, prototypes, computer animation, virtual books) that exist in digital environments. The concept behind the term is rapidly developing and expanding as new phenomena emerge in the virtual domain.
History of the phenomenon
Imaginary worlds, characters, items, etc. have been described in stories and tales since the dawn of humanity. In the philosophic discourse, utopias have existed where extensive systems and their components have been depicted in detail. Imaginary artifacts have been described and created in terms of language and visual presentation. The development of the visual presentation techniques (e.g. linear perspective, cinematography) enabled more sophisticated methods to describe these artifacts, events and entities in painting, photography and film. Moreover, virtual artifacts were (and still are) commonly found in environments that require a strong imaginary aspect in order to be experienced, such as radio shows, novels, tabletop role-playing games, etc.
The development of computing enabled the creation of interactive virtual environments that were based on digital technologies and new methods of presentation. In digital environments, virtual artifacts became independent entities that could exist and interact outside the human mind. Even previously unknown, complex forms and imaginary artifacts (e.g. fractals) could be created and represented in these environments.
In digital environments
Humans have expanded the existing environment to the virtual domain. Virtual artifacts can be seen as an essential cultural phenomenon in modern society. Virtual artifacts bear meanings and functions and since they are part of the world they affect real world events and people's lives.
Virtual artifacts have certain similarities to real-life artifacts even though they do not have physical properties in the traditional sense. However, real-life objects and environments can be simulated in digital environments (like computer games, 3D modeling or virtual reality). Simulated virtual objects (photorealistic VA) and environments have a model in the real world; however, depending on the context, an abstract virtual artifact isn't necessarily dependent on the laws of physics or causality.
Some virtual artifacts are purely abstract in their nature, therefore they can't model real-life objects or phenomena. For example, computer programs or digital user interfaces, while often containing representative components of real-life objects, can't exist in physical terms. These virtual artifacts do not have to be comprehensible to humans at all; they can be created and understood |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K17ED-D | K17ED-D is a low-power Class A television station in Payette, Idaho, broadcasting locally in digital on UHF channel 17 as an affiliate of the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN). Founded July 21, 1995, the station is owned and operated by HC2 Holdings. The station was owned by 3ABN until 2017, when it was included in a $9.6 million sale of 14 stations to HC2 Holdings.
Subchannels
References
External links
Religious television stations in the United States
Innovate Corp.
Television stations in Idaho
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Low-power television stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K24HH-D | K24HH-D, virtual and UHF digital channel 24, is a low-power, Class A FamilyNet and Worship Network-affiliated television station licensed to Wichita Falls, Texas, United States. Founded on January 29, 1992, the station is owned by Christian Family Network TV. The station is relayed on Wichita Falls on K20DN-D (channel 20).
History
The station previously broadcast in analog as K30DJ on channel 30; however, the station would move to K24HH-D, which was on a newly created license. K30DJ's license was cancelled and its call sign was deleted from the Federal Communications Commission's database on May 22, 2012.
External links
CFNT official site
24HH-D
Television channels and stations established in 1992
24HH
1992 establishments in Texas
Religious television stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy%20Network | Policy Network was an international progressive think tank based in London. The President of Policy Network was former UK First Secretary of State and EU Trade Commissioner Lord Mandelson; Lord Liddle (former Special Adviser to President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso) was Chairperson.
Policy Network sought to promote strategic thinking on progressive solutions to the challenges of the 21st century and the future of social democracy. It organized debates and conducted research on policy and political challenges.
In May 2021, Policy Network merged with Progress to form Progressive Britain.
Website
Policy Network's website hosted the Policy Network Observatory, a forum for ideas and policy debate. The Policy Network Observatory also hosted a monthly insight bulletin, The State of the Left, which included insider analyses of the political climate in a number of countries around the world. In 2010, Policy Network launched its opinion poll tracker, which tracked the fortunes of Europe's social democratic parties on a cross-comparative basis. Many articles on the Policy Network Observatory had been re-published by the New Statesman and The Guardian and some were translated into French at Toute L’Europe and Spanish at Agenda Pública and promoted by Policy Network's partner organisations in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, and Italy.
Work programmes
Under conditions of globalisation and European integration, the distinction between national and international problems has become increasingly blurred. Understanding the relationship between the domestic and the international informs Policy Network's work across three areas:
The renewal of social democracy
Europe's economic and social models
The politics of multi-level governance and institutional reform
Specific topics include: welfare state and labour market reform, globalisation, European Union, economic governance, industrial policy, climate change and energy, and migration and integration.
Current or recent projects include economic and public service reform; migration, integration and political trust; and the future of the post-financial crisis global economy.
Progressive Governance Network
The Progressive Governance Network, for which Policy Network acts as the secretariat, brings together progressive heads of state, government ministers, politicians and intellectuals from across the world to address the challenges of globalization. The network's stated goal is to enhance co-operation and links between key progressive policymakers and academics as well as to provide a meeting place for exchanging concrete policies and practices. The Progressive Governance Network was launched in 1999 by U.S. President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair, Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Wim Kok, and Prime Minister of Italy Massimo D'Alema.
Since its formation in 1999, Progressive Governance confere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%208 | System 8 may refer to:
Computing
Copland, an unreleased operating system
Mac OS 8, a late 1990s version of the Macintosh operating system
Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8 operating systems:
OS/8, released in 1971
TSS/8, released in 1968
MS/8, released in 1966
PDP-8 4K Disk Monitor System, released in 1965
Exec 8, the Unisys operating system
WPS-8 (Word Processing System-8) - Digital Equipment Corporation word processor
Other uses
STS-8 (Space Transportation System-8), the Space Shuttle mission
Base-8 number system
Roland System-8, the Roland Corporation synthesizer
See also
OS8 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%209 | System 9 or System IX may refer to:
Computing
IBM System z9, the mainframe line
Plan 9 from Bell Labs, the operating system
Mac OS 9, latest release of Classic Mac OS operating system
OS-9, the Unix-like real time operating system
SYSTEM POWER 9, line of power supplies by be quiet!
Other
STS-9 (Space Transportation System-9), the Space Shuttle mission
See also
Series 9
OS9 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeFRaG | DeFRaG (also capitalised as defrag, abbreviated as df, and its name comes from « Défis Fragdome ») is a free software modification for id Software's first-person shooter computer game Quake III Arena (Q3A). The mod is dedicated to player movements and trickjumping. It aims at providing a platform for self-training, competition, online tricking, machinima making, and trickjumping. Hence it constitutes an exception among other Q3A mods.
The mod includes a variety of features—timers and meters, ghost mode, cheat prevention and learning tools. Specially designed maps are provided that will rely on the player's movement abilities to be completed up to the finish line, while standard Q3A maps and Capture the Flag (CTF) fast captures are supported as well. Furthermore gamespace physics from both the original Q3A and the Challenge ProMode Arena (CPMA) mod are supported.
The modification was released to the public in ca. September–October 2000. In 2002 DeFRaG was selected as "Mod of the Week" at Planet Quake.
Overview
DeFRaG was initially designed for making possible a new kind of competition based on timed runs. Those competitions called "DeFRaG runs" differ from common speedruns in several ways. Unlike speedruns, DeFRaG runs are not done in maps from an out-of-the-box original game, but in specially designed and customed DeFRaG maps, and there are no opponents to be vanquished during the run. Because of their design many of these maps cannot be completed by normal player skills; rather trickjumping skills are indispensable. Furthermore start-, checkpoints-, and stop-triggers are built into the maps. As a proof of the accomplishment the mod automatically records a demo of every map completed successfully. Along with the demo, the precise time in which the map was completed is stored.
Competition and community
The mod's competitive method is lent to it by an online infrastructure which has triggered the formation of a transnational community. Players download custom-designed maps (more than 16000 DeFRaG maps are available) and aim to complete the map's objectives in the shortest time possible. The best times can be submitted to online high score tables, which are keeping track of the fastest times for particular maps. These online scoreboards can be global or encompass certain regions only. During the mod's highest popularity, the DeFRaG development team periodically released new map packs, containing a number of officially sanctioned maps. These are generally the only maps on which times are accepted for the official website high score tables. In consequence the DeFraG community's individual members engage and specialize in one or more different practices: trickjumping itself, movie making, map making, coding, maintaining websites, portals (for interaction and as archives for maps and movies), and online scoreboards.
Violence
The DeFRaG modification completely removes violence (except for the ability of the player to explode into bloody chunks) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSMOS%20%28telecommunications%29 | COSMOS (Computer System for Main Frame Operations) was a record-keeping system for main distribution frames (MDFs) in the Bell System, the American Bell Telephone Company and then, subsequently, AT&T–led system which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1977 to 1984.
COSMOS was introduced in the 1970s after MDFs were found to be congested in large urban telephone exchanges. It assigns terminals so jumpers need not be so long, thus leaving more space on the shelves. COSMOS also converts customer service orders into printed work orders for staff who connect the jumpers. COSMOS orders are usually coordinated with RCMAC to ensure that translations match wiring. With good computer records, jumpers are often left in place for reuse when one customer replaces another, resulting in a great reduction in labor.
More modern modular MDFs were developed around the same time called COSMIC (Common System Main Interconnecting) frames.
See also
Operations support systems
Telephony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervi%20Pohjanheimo | Mervi Pohjanheimo (born June 10, 1945, in Mäntyharju, Finland) is a Finnish and television director and producer. She has directed and produced TV entertainment shows for a Finnish television network called Oy Mainos-TV-Reklam Ab, later MTV3, since the late 1970s.
Filmography
Director
Tupla tai kuitti (1972-1973)
Piikkis (1987)
Ilettääkö (1988)
Levyraati (1988)
Enkelten keittiö (1989)
Seppo Hovin seurassa (1990)
Hecumania (1996)
Tangomarkkinat (1999)
Koivula ja tähdet (2000)
MTV3 Live: Joulun tähti (2002)
Aarresaaren sankarit (2003)
Producer
Hecumania (1996)
MTV3 Live: Joulun tähti (2002)
References
External links
1930 births
Living people
People from Mäntyharju
Finnish television directors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubeez | Cubeez is a British computer-animated preschool education television series that was broadcast between 2000 and 2001 on GMTV's Kids. It is aimed at pre-school children aged 2–5. The four box-like characters, Bozz, Doody, Dink and Tizzy are accompanied on their adventures by a talking paintbrush (voiced by Marc Silk) and a variety of creative characters that they're made in Alias Wavefront Maya. Each episode has a strong educational element and features live-action footage of children.
Characters
Cubeez
Bozz (voiced by Keith Wickham) is the pink male , and the leader of the four.
Tizzy (voiced by Jan Haydn Rowles) is the yellow female .
Dink (voiced by Mike Walling) is the blue male .
Doody (voiced by Tara Newley) is the orange female with round red glasses.
Friends
Learning Wall (voiced by Marc Silk (season 1), Claire King (Season 2)
Boingles (voiced by Marc Silk)
Wiggywams (voiced by Marc Silk)
Eyesanozes (Marc Silk)
Artist the Paintbrush (Marc Silk)
Tok Tok (Marc Silk)
Bobby Bingle Boingle
Aunt Boingle
Pecking Circle Pecker
Peebo
Episodes
Music
Telling Stories
Busy Bears and Boingles
Growing
Transport and Speed
Weather
Colours and Patterns
Shapes
Counting
Fast and Slow
Up and Over
High and Low
Emotions
One to Five
Helping Hands
Caring for the Environment
Transport
Sight and Sound
Sports Day
Home Sweet Home
Hop, Skip and Jump
A Windy Day
Happy Birthday Dink
Colours/Patterns
Shapes
Fixing Things
Round and About
Lollipops and Flowers
Animals
Lost and Found
Pairs
Circles and Squares
Eyesanozes
Bobby Bingle Boingle
Music Box
Flowers
The Skeeta Race
Night And Day
Storytime
Over And Under
Spots And Stripes
Mending and Making
Shapes and Sizes
Party Time
Ice Cubeez
Over and Out
Slow or Fast
Everything Has a Pattern
Fun with Friends
Three, Two, One
Moves
Ups and Downs
Colours
Sounds Like
Changing Colours
Doc Bozz
Rise and Shine
See, Hear, Feel
Go Round
Five
Storytime
Seasons and Flowers
Fairplay
Loud and Quiet
Once Upon a Time
Surprise Surprise
Dance Dance Dance
VHS/DVDs
In the United Kingdom, Right Entertainment and Universal Pictures Video released the series on VHS and DVD, using the half-hour version of the programme and containing three episodes each.
The first VHS volume, titled "Colours and Shapes", was released on 27 May 2002, contains the episodes "Colours and Patterns", "Shapes" and "Counting". The second VHS volume - "Musical Storytime", was released on 14 August 2002, contains the episodes "Music", "Telling Stories" and "Busy Bears and Boingles". They were released on DVD on 10 May and 16 August 2004, respectively.
The third VHS/DVD volume, titled Up & Over, was released on 7 February 2005, contains the episodes "Fast and Slow", "Up and Over" and "High and Low". The final volume, released only on DVD, titled "Growing", was released on 2 May 2005 and contains the episodes "Growing", "Transport and Speed" and "Weather".
Broadcast
Cubeez has been shown around the world. In the United Kingdom, it was aired on GMTV Kids f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workflow%20engine | A workflow engine is a software application that manages business processes. It is a key component in workflow technology and typically makes use of a database server.
A workflow engine manages and monitors the state of activities in a workflow, such as the processing and approval of a loan application form, and determines which new activity to transition to according to defined processes (workflows). The actions may be anything from saving an application form in a document management system to sending a reminder e-mail to users or escalating overdue items to management. A workflow engine facilitates the flow of information, tasks, and events. Workflow engines may also be referred to as Workflow Orchestration Engines.
Workflow engines mainly have three functions:
Verification of the current process status: Check whether it is valid executing a task, given current status.
Determine the authority of users: Check if the current user is permitted to execute the task.
Executing condition script: After passing the previous two steps, the workflow engine executes the task, and if the execution successfully completes, it returns the success, if not, it reports the error to trigger and roll back the change.
A workflow engine is a core technique for task allocation software, such as business process management, in which the workflow engine allocates tasks to different executors while communicating data among participants. A workflow engine can execute any arbitrary sequence of steps, for example, a healthcare data analysis.
See also
Business rules engine
Business rule management system
Comparison of BPEL engines
Inference engine
Java Rules Engine API
Rete algorithm
Ripple down rules
Semantic reasoner
Business Process Execution Language
Production system
Workflow management system
Joget Workflow
Conductor (software)
References
Data management
Servers (computing)
Workflow technology
Workflow applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Official%20WTCC%20Game | Race is a racing simulator computer game based on the World Touring Car Championship released in November 2006. The game was developed and published by SimBin Studios (later Sector3 Studios), who had earlier produced critically acclaimed racing simulators like GTR and GT Legends, and distributed by Eidos in Europe and by Valve across their Steam network. The first expansion pack, Caterham Expansion was released in June 2007 featuring new cars and tracks.
The game features almost all drivers and all of the teams and tracks from the 2006 World Touring Car Championship season.
It was followed by a sequel in 2007, named Race 07.
Reception
GameSpot reviewed the game stating: "Simbin follows up its GTR 2 success with another great PC racing sim, this time set in the World Touring Car series". They also awarded the game a score of 8.8 (Great).
References
External links
2006 video games
Eidos Interactive games
Racing simulators
SimBin Studios games
Video games developed in Sweden
Video games set in Brazil
Video games set in China
Video games set in the Czech Republic
Video games set in France
Video games set in Germany
Video games set in Italy
Video games set in Mexico
Video games set in Spain
Video games set in Turkey
Video games set in the United Kingdom
Video games with expansion packs
Windows games
Windows-only games
World Touring Car Championship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20Leadership%20Charter%20School | The Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School (PALCS) is a public cyber charter school approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and open to all students in grades K–12 (ages 5–21) who reside in the state of Pennsylvania.
Overview
As a cyber school, PA Leadership provides educational content over the Internet. As a Pennsylvania public charter school, any student residing in Pennsylvania can choose to enroll in the school. After a registration and orientation process students receive a laptop computer, 3-in-1 printer-scanner-copier, headset-microphone, textbooks, learning kits and online resources.
School
Schedule
PALCS follows a standard school year of 180 days. They have a similar school calendar to a typical brick and mortar, i.e. winter break, spring break, and in-service days. In order to track attendance, students are required to log in to the school's platform, PALCSchool, every school day. Students are not required to log in at any specific time or for any amount of time unless a live class session is scheduled. Families are recommended to set a schedule and actively engage in school work for roughly five to seven hours a day. The flexible structure gives student the ability to participate in extracurricular activities such as traveling, sports, acting or dancing.
PALCSchool is a custom built learning platform with integrations to various online learning and communication systems. Through PALCSchool, students are connected to Canvas, a learning management system, where assignments are posted with deadlines that are typically one week after the assignment is posted by the teacher. Students have access to their assignments 24/7 and can work from any Internet-connected computer.
Elementary school
PALCS Elementary School, catering to students in grades K-5, provides students with four core classes and multiple electives. Students are required to attend 2–3 virtual lessons a week, each lesson lasts 30–45 minutes. These lessons are at the same time each week.
Middle school
PALCS Middle School, catering to students in grades 6–8, provides students with four core classes and multiple electives. Attendance for virtual lessons is worth 5% of the grade but is not required. Students are required to take either Personal Fitness, History of Team Sports, or Health. 8th-grade students are required to take Health regardless of any previous classes.
High school
PALCS High School, with students in grades 9–12, provides students with at least four core classes of varying rank (Academic, College Prep, Honors, AP), and over 95 electives. PALCS High School students are required to either attend the virtual lessons during the course of a week or watch the recording. PALCS courses are NCAA approved for students looking to continue with athletics in their college career.
Standardized testing
PALCS Students are required to take PSSAs or Keystone Exams during their school career. PALCS provides testing centers statewide that students attend.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keane%20%28company%29 | Keane was a Boston-based Information Technology services unit of NTT DATA, itself a subsidiary of the Japanese national phone company, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) Group. It offered Application Services, as well as Infrastructure and Business Process Outsourcing solutions delivered through onsite, nearshore, and offshore resources.
It ranked 70 on the 2010 InformationWeek 500, a list of the top technology innovators in the U.S. Keane was recognized for advancing the practice of application management outsourcing (AMO) with its DynAMOSM solution, and was listed as an industry finalist for the Consulting & Business Services category.
History
Keane Associates was founded on December 15, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts by John F. Keane. The company's initial focus was in the healthcare technology sector. The company grew to over 100 employees within ten years. By the 1990s Keane had become a publicly traded company and expanded into software engineering, application maintenance, program management and consulting services.
September 11, 2001 - One of the company's locations was the South Tower in New York City that collapsed because of the 9/11 terror attacks.
October 20, 2003 - Keane acquired a majority (60%) interest in Worldzen, a global Business Process Outsourcing organization. The entity worked closely with their consulting arm, Keane Consulting Group.
February 7, 2007 - Caritor acquired Keane, Inc. The combined entity retained the name of Keane. The corporate headquarters was relocated to San Francisco, CA and then to Boston, MA.
On January 3, 2011, it was announced that Keane had become a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT DATA Corporation of Japan. and came to be known as Keane, an NTT Data Company The company was at the time of its acquisition by NTT, approximately half-owned by.
In 2012, all North American (and a lot of other global) entities of NTT were amalgamated under the NTT DATA name and reorganized based on their area of specialty. At this point, all legacy companies (Keane, Revere Group, Intelligroup, Vertex, MISI, and NTT DATA AgileNet) were operating as NTT DATA Americas.
Subsidiaries
Keane Care, Inc (part of the Healthcare Solutions Division of Keane, Inc) provides clinical and financial software information systems to the long-term care industry.
Kamco (Keane Australia Micropayment Consortium) is providing the myki ticketing system for Victoria, Australia's Public Transport System. although the Myki roll-out has been suspended and is not available on V/Line Long Distance services.
Figtree Systems is a provider of Claims & Risk Management software.
Kamco consortium
High level discussions between Keane CEO John McCain and the Government of Victoria were held in February 2010 about the Myki implementation, a project carried out by the Kamco consortium (comprising Ascom, ERG, Keane and Giesecke & Devrient Australasia) that was significantly delayed and over budget. During those discussions, Keane committed to dedica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28House%29 | "Pilot", also known as "Everybody Lies", is the first episode of the medical drama House. The episode premiered on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. It introduces the character of Dr. Gregory House (played by Hugh Laurie)—a maverick antisocial doctor—and his team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. The episode features House's attempts to diagnose a kindergarten teacher after she collapses in class.
House was created by David Shore, who got the idea for the misanthropic title character from a doctor's visit. Initially, producer Bryan Singer wanted an American to play House, but British actor Hugh Laurie's audition convinced him that a foreign actor could play the role. Shore wrote House as a character with parallels to Sherlock Holmes—both are drug users, blunt, and close to being friendless. The show's producers wanted House handicapped in some way and gave the character a damaged leg arising from an improper diagnosis.
The episode received generally positive reviews; the character of House was widely noted as a unique aspect of the episode and series, though some reviewers believed that such a cruel character would not be tolerated in real life. Other complaints with the episode included stereotyped supporting characters and an implausible premise. The initial broadcast of "Pilot" was watched by approximately seven million viewers, making it the 62nd-most-watched show of the week.
Plot
Shortly after the start of class, kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler becomes dysphasic and experiences seizures. Dr. James Wilson attempts to convince Gregory House to treat Adler, but House initially dismisses him, believing that the case would be boring. Hospital administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy approaches House in the elevator and attempts to persuade him to fulfill his duties at the hospital's walk-in clinic. House refuses, claiming that Cuddy cannot fire him due to tenure, and hurriedly leaves. When House's team attempts to perform an MRI on Adler, they discover that House's authorization for diagnostics has been revoked; Cuddy restores his authorization in exchange for his working at the clinic.
Adler's throat closes up during the MRI due to an allergic reaction to gadolinium, prompting two members of House's team, Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer) and Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), to perform a tracheotomy. In the hospital's clinic, House's first patient is a man who is orange because of an over-consumption of carrots and vitamins (niacin). House also treats a ten-year-old boy whose mother allows him to use his asthmatic inhaler only intermittently instead of daily as prescribed. House criticizes the mother for making such a drastic medical decision without first learning more about asthma. During his monologue, House stumbles on an idea and leaves quickly to treat Adler; he diagnoses her with cerebral vasculitis, despite having no proof. House treats Adler with steroids, which improves her |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV%20Prevention%20Trials%20Network | The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) is a worldwide collaborative clinical trials network that brings together investigators, ethicists, community and other partners to develop and test the safety and efficacy of interventions designed to prevent the acquisition and transmission of HIV. HPTN studies evaluate new HIV prevention interventions and strategies in populations and geographical regions that bear a disproportionate burden of infection. The HPTN is committed to the highest ethical standards for its clinical trials and recognizes the importance of community engagement in all phases of the research process.
The HPTN was established in 2000, building on the work of the HIV Network for Prevention Trials (HIVNET). HPTN’s Leadership and Operations Center (LOC) is based at FHI 360, Durham, NC. Its Laboratory Center (LC) is at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Statistical and Data Management Center (SDMC) is housed within the Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. The HPTN Modelling Centre, part of the SDMC, is a collaboration between the Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology at Imperial College London, UK, and SCHARP.
The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, Office of The Director, the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, all part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, co-fund the HPTN.
Snapshot
More than 78 trials ongoing or completed
172,000+ study participants enrolled and evaluated
69 clinical research sites in 13 countries
800+ publications
Mission statement
The HPTN is dedicated to the discovery and development of new and innovative research strategies to reduce the acquisition and transmission of HIV.
Leadership
The HPTN leadership group is a subset of the Executive Committee (EC). The EC includes investigators from the Clinical Trials Units (CTUs), the Leadership and Operations Center (LOC), the Statistical and Data Management Center (SDMC), the Laboratory Center (LC), Community representatives, National Institutes of Health (NIH) representatives, and other individuals with expertise in HPTN scientific research areas.
The EC, under the direction of HPTN Principal Investigators (PIs) Dr. Myron Cohen, and Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr in conjunction with the NIH, sets the research priorities of the HPTN and directs its scientific agenda.
Network groups and committees
The HPTN is a global network of investigators from Clinical Trials Units (CTUs), Leadership and Operations Center (LOC) which includes recognized experts in HIV prevention, leadership partners from the network Laboratory Center (LC) and Statistical and Data Management Center (SDMC) and various working groups (WGs) and committees charged with the scientific management and operational support of the ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes%20Durham | Dallas Wesley "Wes" Durham (born January 25, 1966 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American sportscaster. He is a play-by-play announcer for Fox Sports and ACC Network coverage of college football and basketball. He works telecasts of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) due to his experience broadcasting in the conference.
Durham served as the radio play-by-play announcer for the Georgia Tech football and men's basketball teams from the start of the 1995-1996 season through 2010, and continued to announce the basketball games through 2013. He was also Georgia Tech's Director of Broadcasting and is the radio play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Falcons.
Biography
Early life
Durham's father, Woody Durham, was the "Voice of the Tar Heels" for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for forty years. Growing up in that environment gave Wes the opportunity to see behind the scenes of sports and sports broadcasting.
Wes worked as a disc jockey for a roller rink and for a radio station during high school. Wes Durham attended Apex High School. He then went to Elon College and learned about broadcasting while working as an undergraduate assistant on the Elon Sports Network and local radio station WBAG. After graduating in 1988, he had stints as the radio announcer for the athletic teams at Marshall University and Radford University. He then spent three years at Vanderbilt University.
Georgia Tech
Durham came to Georgia Tech in the fall of 1995. In 1997, he was also named Tech's Director of Broadcasting. Durham was paired with former Tech QB Kim King until King died in 2003. Later on Durham worked with Jeff Van Note and Rick Strom during the remainder of his time at GT. Durham was known for making exciting calls while having a lot of charisma. Notable calls were the 1998 and 1999 thrillers between Tech and the Georgia Bulldogs, Calvin Johnson's game winning catch at Clemson in 2004, Will Bynums game winning layup in the Final Four in 2004, and Nesbitt taking back his own fumble against Florida State in 2009.
After Durham left his role at Georgia Tech in 2013, his duties were taken over by Brandon Gaudin.
Broadcasting
Play-by-play
Beginning with the 2004 NFL season, Durham also took on the radio play-by-play duties for the Atlanta Falcons in addition to his responsibilities at Georgia Tech. In 2011, when Raycom Sports began producing ACC college football games to air on Fox Sports Net (under a sub-license from ESPN), Durham was called upon to be the play-by-play announcer due to his long history working in the ACC. He was teamed with analyst James Bates. During his time at Elon, Wes interned at local radio station WBAB in Burlington NC were he was on the broadcast team announcing for WM Williams Bulldogs football.
Radio host
In 2018, Durham began hosting ACC This Morning on SiriusXM ACC Radio, with co-host Mark Packer. In March 2019, it was announced that the duo would host a similar program in simulcast with SiriusXM and ESPN's new AC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Dalton%20%28gambler%29 | Michael Dalton (born 1955) is a gambling author, publisher and founder of the Blackjack Review Network. He is best known for his Encyclopedia of Casino Twenty-One (formerly titled Blackjack: A Professional Reference) and Blackjack Review Magazine, which was published from 1992 through 1998.
Dalton became interested in blackjack and advantage play while working for NASA in the 1980s. After receiving his master's degree in Space Technology in 1985, Dalton found card counting to be an exciting diversion. Dalton's passion for blackjack (and now poker) prompted him to create and maintain a blackjack and poker website providing free access to his Encyclopedia of Casino Twenty-One and public blackjack and poker forums.
In 2004, Dalton published the controversial book Blackjack Ace Prediction by David McDowell. This book received initial praise from the leading blackjack authorities until Arnold Snyder's analysis in 2005 indicated some technical problems with the strategy.
Dalton is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and a graduate of Florida Institute of Technology. He resides in Merritt Island, Florida and is married. He also enjoys playing the great highland bagpipes and performing with the City of Melbourne Pipes and Drums and the Space Coast Highlanders. Dalton has a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and retired in 2009 after 31 years with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Books by Michael Dalton
Encyclopedia of Casino Twenty-One
Blackjack: A Professional Reference
External links
Encyclopedia of Casino Twenty-One
American blackjack players
American gambling writers
American male non-fiction writers
Living people
1955 births
People from Merritt Island, Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20House%20Homeland%20Security%20Subcommittee%20on%20Cybersecurity%20and%20Infrastructure%20Protection | The Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Innovation is a subcommittee within the House Homeland Security Committee. Established in 2007 as a new subcommittee, it handles many of the duties of the former Commerce Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
The Subcommittee focuses on: protecting federal networks; strengthening critical infrastructure security and resilience; and advancing cooperation between the federal government and non-federal owners and operators of the critical infrastructure that underpins our national security, economy, and way of life.
The Subcommittee maintains oversight of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the cybersecurity missions and operations of other DHS components.
Members, 118th Congress
Historical membership rosters
117th Congress
116th Congress
115th Congress
See also
United States House Committee on Homeland Security
References
External links
Official Site
Homeland Cybersecurity
2007 establishments in Washington, D.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plima | The Plima (; ) is a stream in South Tyrol, Italy. It flows into the Adige near Latsch.
References
Civic Network of South Tyrol
Rivers of Italy
Rivers of South Tyrol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica%20S.%20Lam | Monica Sin-Ling Lam is an American computer scientist. She is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.
Professional biography
Monica Lam received a B.Sc. from University of British Columbia in 1980 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987.
Lam joined the faculty of Computer Science at Stanford University in 1988. She has contributed to the research of a wide range of computer systems topics including compilers, program analysis, operating systems, security, computer architecture, and high-performance computing. More recently, she is working in natural language processing, and virtual assistants with an emphasis on privacy protection. She is the faculty director of the Open Virtual Assistant Lab, which organized the first workshop for the World Wide Voice Web. The lab developed the open-source Almond voice assistant, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Almond received Popular Science's Best of What's New award in 2019.
Previously, Lam led the SUIF (Stanford University Intermediate Format) Compiler project, which produced a widely used compiler infrastructure known for its locality optimizations and interprocedural parallelization. Many of the compiler techniques she developed have been adopted by industry. Her other research projects included the architecture and compiler for the CMU Warp machine, a systolic array of VLIW processors, and the Stanford DASH distributed shared memory machine. In 1998, she took a sabbatical leave from Stanford to help start Tensilica Inc., a company that specializes in configurable processor cores.
In another research project, her program analysis group developed a collection of tools for improving software security and reliability. They developed the first scalable context-sensitive inclusion-based pointer analysis and a freely available tool called BDDBDDB, that allows programmers to express context-sensitive analyses simply by writing Datalog queries. Other tools developed include Griffin, static and dynamic analysis for finding security vulnerabilities in Web applications such as SQL injection, a static and dynamic program query language called QL, a static memory leak detector called Clouseau, a dynamic buffer overrun detector called CRED, and a dynamic error diagnosis tool called DIDUCE.
In the Collective project, her research group and she developed the concept of a livePC: subscribers of the livePC will automatically run the latest of the published PC virtual images with each reboot. This approach allows computers to be managed scalably and securely. In 2005, the group started a company called MokaFive to transfer the technology to industry. She also directed the MobiSocial laboratory at Stanford, as part of the Programmable Open Mobile Internet 2020 initiative.
Lam is also the cofounder of Omlet, which launched in 2014. Omlet is the first product from MobiSocial. Omlet is an open, decentralized social networking tool, base |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell%20BorderManager | BorderManager is a multi purpose network security application developed by Novell, Inc. BorderManager is designed as a proxy server, firewall, and VPN access point. Novell has announced that migration to SuperLumin 4.0 Proxy Cache is "Novell's preferred firewall and proxy solution for NetWare customers upgrading to Novell Open Enterprise Server on Linux."
History
BorderManager was designed to run on top of the NetWare kernel and takes advantage of the fast file services that the NetWare kernel delivers. Aside from the more easily copied firewall and VPN access point services, Novell designed the proxy services to retrieve web data with a server to server connection rather than a client to server connection as all of the prior proxy servers on the market had done. This retrieval method along with NetWare's fast file IO and other proprietary code made BorderManager's proxy engine one of the fastest in existence.
In 2003, Novell announced the successor product to NetWare: Open Enterprise Server (OES). First released in March 2005, OES completes the separation of the services traditionally associated with NetWare, i.e. file and print. This makes it possible for the customer to choose which NetWare or Linux kernel the services will run on.
At this time Novell all but announced the end of development for the NetWare kernel (numerous public and private statements that there is no 64-bit future for NetWare and that Linux is the path to 64-bit computing for OES). To follow through on this migration path, Novell began porting all applications to Linux. The company began looking at alternate ways to deliver these same services, as firewall and VPN access point services of equivalent functionality are readily available in the free/open-source community and there are also basic proxy services as well (i.e. Squid). The desire to deliver a functional equivalent could not be done by a full software code port as much of the cache engine was sold as part of the Volera Excelerator and Novell holds a great desire to use or create open-source software for basic services such as this.
Novell entered an agreement with Astaro to relabel Astaro Security Gateway and license it as Novell Security Manager. The product was removed from the Novell price list on 15 February 2007.
Future
In the late summer of 2006 Novell announced, that there would be a BorderManager 3.9 release.
At the Novell BrainShare conference in 2010, Novell announced "SuperLumin 4.0 Proxy Cache as path forward for BorderManager customers." They also announced "extended BorderManager General Support for two years (through March 7, 2012)" to give customers "adequate time to make the move."
As of November 2011, the Novell Support Lifecycle page states that "Border Manager 3.9 General Support will be extended to September 30, 2013, to make it easy for customers to plan and execute their upgrade to Novell Open Enterprise Server. The upgrade path for Border Manager remains SuperLumin Nemesis."
Third-P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20State%20of%20California%20enterprise%20computing%20systems | This is a partial list of State of California enterprise computing systems:
Automated licensing information and report tracking system
Variant names: ALIRTS
Department: Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
Function: Tracks licensing information of health care facilities in the State of California. This includes clinics, acute care hospitals, and other in-patent facilities. Does not cover dentists or other private medical practices.
Details: none.
Exists as of: 2007.
Altaris CAD
Variant names: Sometimes referred to as PSI CAD, PSI being the company that designed the system. Northrop Grumman purchased PSI.
Department: Resources Agency, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF).
Function: Computer-assisted dispatch system manufactured by Northrop Grumman.
Details: Each dispatching center has a stand-alone system. Systems are customizable to meet local needs. Replaces a system called CalCAD.
Summary of stated purpose: To manage on-duty staff and pending requests for service. The system records incidents, resources, and aids in the efficient use of staff. It includes stored geographic information including maps, street centerlines, routing based on centerlines, and addresses.
Exists as of: 2006.
Automated firearms system
Department: Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information, California Department of Justice.
Function: Tracks the serial numbers of every firearm owned by government, observed by law enforcement, seized, destroyed, held in evidence, reported stolen, recovered, voluntarily registered, or handled by a firearms dealer (except most long guns).
Details: Data are collected from field checks of firearms.
Summary of stated purpose: Identifies lost or stolen firearms and connects firearms with persons.
Exists as of: 1990
CalCAD
Obsolete California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection DOS-based computer-aided dispatch system replaced by Altaris CAD in 2005. No geographic verification was built in. Uploads data from Ranger Units to statewide CAIRS system for analysis of trends and costs.
California All Incident Reporting System (CAIRS)
Department: Resources Agency, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF)
Function: Tracks statistical information on fires and other requests for service so the data can be analyzed in preventing fires.
Details: This is a web-based system provided by a vendor named CompuPro. Rollout was set for Summer 2006.
Summary of stated purpose: It provides reports usable by all parts of the CDF organization to analyze trends and improve service. The primary purpose was to comply with a regulatory requirement (California Health and Safety Code Section 13110.5) intended to reduce costs and loss of life from fire and other events.
Exists as of: 2006
California new employee registry
Department: Employment Development Department (EDD)
Function: stores the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of every new employee in the state.
Details: Every employer is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20Cyber%20Charter%20School | The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, known simply as PA Cyber, is a public cyber charter school founded in Midland, Pennsylvania in 2000.
Regional Office locations
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Erie, Pennsylvania
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Midland, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
State College, Pennsylvania
Warrendale, Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Alumni
Gabby Barrett, country singer
Sabrina Carpenter, actress and singer
Alex Kirilloff, MLB outfielder for the Minnesota Twins
Alison Riske, tennis player
Notable staff
Ellis Cannon, talk show host, teacher at the Ellis Cannon Academy of Sports Media and Broadcasting
References
Public elementary schools in Pennsylvania
Public high schools in Pennsylvania
Charter schools in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 2000
School districts in Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Education in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Public middle schools in Pennsylvania
2000 establishments in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCSX-Reloaded | PCSX is a free and open-source, video game console emulator that allows software designed to be used with the Sony PlayStation to run on personal computers. Over the years, development changed hands several times with PCSX-Reloaded (PCSXR) now being the main version. As of 2021, the emulator seems to be no longer under active development. A newer, actively maintained fork of PCSX-Reloaded is PCSX-Redux.
PCSX has a high compatibility rate, and is currently available for a number of different operating systems including, Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. It is released under the GNU General Public License.
History
Development for the emulator started in July 20, 1999, The emulator was first released for the PC on August 31, 2000. Official development ceased on September 17, 2003, and development shifted to the new PlayStation 2 emulator, PCSX2.
PCSX-df was created in 2006 and added new features, a new GTK-based interface, AMD64 support, and corrected some bugs, but was developed mainly with only Linux compatibility in mind. Version 1.10 was released on March 29, 2009.
PCSX-Reloaded is a new project created in mid-2009, which is based on the work of the PCSX-df branch, completely independent, and works on bug fixes while maintaining Windows and OS X compatibility alongside Linux. PCSX-df and PCSX-Reloaded coexisted for a while, with PCSX-df merging changes of PCSX-Reloaded back into df.
In 2019, another fork PCSX-Redux was started. It can be seen as the latest iteration of the original PCSX codebase. This fork has the goal of a complete redesign along more up to date code standards. Everything should be implemented on top of SDL/OpenGL3+/ImGui. Additionally, the plugin system will be replaced through a single monolithic codebase that handles all aspects of the PlayStation emulation. In this context, PCSX-Redux shares several approaches with the PlayStation 2 emulation successor project PCSX2
Features
PCSX supports network play and external plugins as used by ePSXe. As with many modern emulators, PCSX-Reloaded supports savestates and also has Save Rewind feature (currently only OSX and Linux version), Support for ECM files (currently only OS X and Linux version), Support for Libarchive (currently only OSX and Linux version), widescreen hack and makes use of plug-ins to emulate GPU, SPU, and CD-ROM drive functions, a model first established in PSEmu Pro, it uses Peops OpenGL plugin for graphics on default but can also use Pete's OpenGL2, gpuBladeSoft, PCSX2 graphics plugin GSDX, AmiDog GPU plugin, Asmodeans PSXFX shader pack, input plugins such as Lilypad and Pokopom Pad Plugin. It also has multi-track cue support and is the only PS1 emulator with compatibility with anti-jitter options in graphics plugins, such as GTE accuracy in the default Peops OpenGL plugin, or Improved coordinate accuracy in Edgbla's gpuBladeSoft and it also supports PeteOpenGL2Tweak plugin. Additionally, PCSX seeks to simulate the functionality of the PlayStation BIO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Madnick | Stuart E. Madnick (born 1944) is an American computer scientist, and professor of information technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology school of engineering. He is the director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS), formerly called the MIT Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity ((IC)³).
Life and work
Madnick has degrees in Electrical Engineering (B.S. and M.S.), Management (M.S.), and Computer Science (Ph.D.) from MIT.
Madnick has been a faculty member at MIT since 1972. He has served as the head of MIT's Information Technologies Group for more than twenty years. He has also been an affiliate member of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, a member of the research advisory committee of the International Financial Services Research Center, and a member of the executive committee of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research.
In 2010, Madnick was the John Norris Maguire Professor of Information Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a professor of engineering systems in the MIT School of Engineering, and codirector of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS).
He has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), University of Newcastle (England), Technion (Israel), and Victoria University (New Zealand).
Work
His current research interests include connectivity among disparate distributed information systems, database technology, software project management, and the strategic use of information technology. He is co-director of the PROductivity From Information Technology (PROFIT) Initiative, and co-Heads the Total Data Quality Management (TDQM) research program.
He has been the Principal Investigator of a large-scale DARPA-funded research effort on Context Interchange which involves the development of technology that helps organizations to work more cooperatively, coordinated, and collaboratively. As part of this effort, he is the co-inventor on the patents "Querying Heterogeneous Data Sources over a Network Using Context Interchange" and "Data Extraction from World Wide Web Pages."
He has been active in industry, making significant contributions as a key designer and developer of projects such as IBM's VM/370 operating system and Lockheed's DIALOG information retrieval system. He has served as a consultant to many major corporations, such as IBM, AT&T, and Citicorp. He has also been the founder or co-founder of several high-tech firms, including Intercomp (acquired by Logicon), Mitrol (acquired by General Electric's Information Systems Company), Cambridge Institute for Information Systems, founded with John J. Donovan (its successor corporation was named Cambridge Technology Group, founded by John J. Donovan), iAggregate (acquired by ArsDigita, which was subsequently acquired by Red Hat), and now operates a hotel in the 14th-century Langley Castle in Northumberland in northern England. Ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4CC | 4CC is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
FourCC - a sequence of four bytes used to uniquely identify data formats, especially video formats
4CC (AM) - a radio station in Gladstone and Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
NER Class 4CC, a class of 2 British 4-cylinder compound locomotives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommonLoops | CommonLoops (the Common Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System; an acronym reminiscent of the earlier Lisp OO system "Loops" for the Interlisp-D system) is an early programming language which extended Common Lisp to include Object-oriented programming functionality and is a dynamic object system which differs from the OOP facilities found in static languages such as C++ or Java. Like New Flavors, CommonLoops supported multiple inheritance, generic functions and method combination. CommonLoops also supported multi-methods and made use of metaobjects. CommonLoops and New Flavors were the primary ancestors of CLOS.
CommonLoops was supported by a portable implementation known as Portable CommonLoops (PCL) which ran on all Common Lisp implementations of the day.
References
Further reading
The Loops Manual, Daniel G. Bobrow, Mark Stefik. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Xerox Corporation, 1983
Lisp (programming language)
Common Lisp (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity%20Circus%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Celebrity Circus was an Australian reality television series which aired in May 2005 on the Nine Network. The show took celebrities and, with the help of Silvers Circus, trained them into circus acts. In the final show, the celebrities performed in front of a live crowd and showcased what they had learned. It was shown over five one-hour episodes and was hosted by Bud Tingwell. The various skills in the show were high-wire, flying trapeze, knife throwing, fire juggling and clowning. Some of the performers were also trained in two events called the Human Cannon and the Wheel of Death.
The participants were: actors Cameron Daddo and Kimberley Davies; former Home and Away star Dieter Brummer; Celebrity Big Brother winner Dylan Lewis; Australia's Funniest Home Video Show host Toni Pearen; Vadim Dale (from Outback Jack) and his fiancé, Natalie Franzman; Olympic beach volleyball gold medallist Kerri Pottharst; and Ricki-Lee Coulter from Australian Idol. The first episode, which aired on 1 May, was placed in the top ten of the ratings for that week.
The series appeared in the Portugal on TVI in 2006 as Circo das Celebridades. On 11 June 2008 an American version began airing on NBC.
International versions
Currently airing franchise
Franchise no longer in production
References
2000s Australian reality television series
Nine Network original programming
2005 Australian television series debuts
2005 Australian television series endings
Circus television shows
Television shows set in Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-CD-Roast | X-CD-Roast is a GTK+ front-end for cdrtools which provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for CD authoring.
X-CD-Roast runs on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems. Released under the GNU General Public License, X-CD-Roast is free software.
Features
CD-Text reading/editing/writing support
Comparison
X-CD-Roast was an early GUI front-end for unix-like systems, which has subsequently been reviewed as more primitive than other CD authoring software.
References
External links
Optical disc-related software that uses GTK
Free optical disc authoring software
Linux CD/DVD writing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitanihon%20Broadcasting | , also known as KNB, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS). Their headquarters are located in Toyama Prefecture.
History
With the promulgation of the Three Radio Laws, it was initially expected in 1948 that Toyama would be the target area of a radio station from Ishikawa as Hokuriku Cultural Broadcasting (the later Hokuriku Broadcasting Company). Teru Nakayama, editor-in-chief of the Kitanihon Shimbun, who felt a sense of crisis about this, advised the top management to apply for a license for a private radio station. At this time, no one listened, but this was the trigger that later led to the opening of Kitanihon Broadcasting.
Kitanihon Broadcasting applied for a license on February 15, 1951 and issued its preliminary license on April 21 the same year.
Network
TV: Nippon News Network (NNN)
RADIO: Japan Radio Network (JRN), National Radio Network (NRN)
Stations
Analog TV
Toyama (Main Station) JOLR-TV 1ch
Nanto-Toga 6ch
Unazuki 36ch
Hosoiri-Inotani 39ch
Himi-Ronden 41ch
Digital TV(ID:1)
Toyama (Main Station) JOLR-DTV 28ch
Radio
Toyama(Main Station) JOLR 738 kHz; 80.1 MHz, 90.2 MHz
Programs
Radio
TV
Rival Stations
Toyama Television(BBT)
TulipTelevision(TUT)
Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting(HAB, by introducing CATV)
References
External links
KNB WEB
Television stations in Japan
Radio in Japan
Nippon News Network
Television channels and stations established in 1959
Mass media in Toyama (city) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiescence%20search | Quiescence search is an algorithm typically used to extend search at unstable nodes in minimax game trees in game-playing computer programs. It is an extension of the evaluation function to defer evaluation until the position is stable enough to be evaluated statically, that is, without considering the history of the position or future moves from the position. It mitigates the effect of the horizon problem faced by AI engines for various games like chess and Go.
Human players usually have enough intuition to decide whether to abandon a bad-looking move, or search a promising move to a great depth. A quiescence search attempts to emulate this behavior by instructing a computer to search "volatile" positions to a greater depth than "quiet" ones to make sure there are no hidden traps and to get a better estimate of its value.
Any sensible criterion may be used to distinguish "quiet" positions from "volatile" positions. One common criterion is that moves exist in the position that can dramatically change the valuation of the position, such as captures in chess or Go. As the main motive of quiescence search is to get a stable value out of a static evaluation function, it may also make sense to detect wide fluctuations in values returned by a simple heuristic evaluator over several ply, i.e. a history criterion. The quiescence search continues as long as the position remains volatile according to the criterion. In order to get the quiescence search to terminate, plies are usually restricted to moves that deal directly with the threat, such as moves that capture and recapture (often called a 'capture search') in chess. In highly "unstable" games like Go and reversi, a rather large proportion of computer time may be spent on quiescence searching.
The horizon effect
The horizon effect is a problem in artificial intelligence which can occur when all moves from a given node in a game tree are searched to a fixed depth. Threats and opportunities beyond the search depth will remain undetected. This can result in the peculiar ploy of a program making delaying moves that degrade the position until it pushes a threat beyond the search depth or "horizon". By the time the threat must be dealt with, the position has become too degraded to be salvageable. Quiescence search attempts to mitigate this issue by extending the search depth in volatile positions where the heuristic value may have significant fluctuations between moves.
Pseudocode
This pseudocode illustrates the concept algorithmically:
function quiescence_search(node, depth) is
if node appears quiet or node is a terminal node or depth = 0 then
return estimated value of node
else
(recursively search node children with quiescence_search)
return estimated value of children
function normal_search(node, depth) is
if node is a terminal node then
return estimated value of node
else if depth = 0 then
if node appears quiet then
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig%20%28command%29 | dig is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS).
dig is useful for network troubleshooting and for educational purposes. It can operate based on command line option and flag arguments, or in batch mode by reading requests from an operating system file. When a specific name server is not specified in the command invocation, it uses the operating system's default resolver, usually configured in the file resolv.conf. Without any arguments it queries the DNS root zone.
dig supports Internationalized domain name (IDN) queries.
dig is a component of the domain name server software suite BIND. dig supersedes in functionality older tools, such as nslookup and the program host; however, the older tools are still used in complementary fashion.
Example usage
Basic
In this example, dig is used to query for any type of record information in the domain example.com:
$ dig example.com any
; <<>> DiG 9.6.1 <<>> example.com any
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4016
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;example.com. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com. 172719 IN NS a.iana-servers.net.
example.com. 172719 IN NS b.iana-servers.net.
example.com. 172719 IN A 208.77.188.166
example.com. 172719 IN SOA dns1.icann.org. hostmaster.icann.org. 2007051703 7200 3600 1209600 86400
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: ::1#53(::1)
;; WHEN: Wed Aug 12 11:40:43 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 154
The number 172719 in the above example is the time to live value, which indicates the time of validity of the data.
The any DNS query is a special meta query which is now deprecated. Since around 2019, most public DNS servers have stopped answering most DNS ANY queries usefully .
If ANY queries do not enumerate multiple records, the only option is to request each record type (e.g. A, CNAME, or MX) individually.
Specific DNS server
Queries may be directed to designated DNS servers for specific records; in this example, MX records:
$ dig wikimedia.org MX @ns0.wikimedia.org
; <<>> DiG 9.11.3 <<>> wikimedia.org MX @ns0.wikimedia.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39041
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1024
; COOKIE: c9735311d2d2fa6e3b334ab01b67960d (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wikimedia.org. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
wikimedia.org. 3600 IN MX 10 mx1001.wikimedia.org.
wikimedia.org. 3600 IN MX 50 mx2001.wikimedia.org.
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 208.80.154.238#53(208.80.154.238)
;; WHEN: Sat Sep 18 21:33:24 PDT 2021
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 108
With output formatting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20John%20Regional%20Hospital | Saint John Regional Hospital is a Canadian hospital in Saint John, New Brunswick.
Operated by Horizon Health Network, Saint John Regional Hospital opened in 1982, replacing the Saint John General Hospital and West Saint John Community Hospital facilities, creating the largest single health care facility in the province.
Saint John Regional Hospital is the largest tertiary care referral hospital in New Brunswick and specializes in cardiac (New Brunswick Heart Centre) and trauma care services.
Saint John Regional Hospital is also a teaching hospital for the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia as well as the
Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
It also provides training opportunities for nursing and other health care programs at the University of New Brunswick's Saint John and Fredericton campuses and the New Brunswick Community College.
Services
Addictions and Mental Health
Clinical Services
Cardiac Surgery
Day Surgery
Dermatology
Dialysis (Nephrology)
Ear, Nose & Throat (Otolaryngology)
Emergency Department
Family Medicine
General Surgery
Gynecology Surgery
Gastroenterology
Geriatrics / Restorative Care
Infectious Disease
Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Internal Medicine
Minor Surgery
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Neurosurgery
Pediatrics
Palliative Care
Physiatry
Plastic and Burns Unit
Psychiatry
Obstetrics
Oncology
Ophthalmology (Eye) Surgery
Orthopedic Surgery
Plastic Surgery
Rehabilitation
Rheumatology
Sleep Centre
Thoracic Surgery
Urology Surgery
Vascular Surgery
Support and Therapy
Diagnostics and Testing
Clinics
Other Services
References
External links
Saint John Regional Hospital
Hospital buildings completed in 1982
Hospitals in New Brunswick
Teaching hospitals in Canada
Hospitals established in 1982
Buildings and structures in Saint John, New Brunswick
Heliports in Canada
Certified airports in New Brunswick
1982 establishments in New Brunswick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20performance%20support%20systems | An electronic performance support system (EPSS) is any computer software program or component that improves user performance.
EPSSs can help an organization to reduce the cost of training staff while increasing productivity and performance. They can empower employees to perform tasks with a minimum amount of external intervention or training. By using this type of system an employee, especially a new employee, will often not only be able to complete his or her work more quickly and accurately, but, as a secondary benefit, will also learn more about the job and the employer's business.
An EPSS is best considered when
workers require knowledge to achieve individual performance in a business environment
skilled performers are spending a lot of time helping less skilled performers
new workers must begin to perform immediately and training is impractical, unavailable or constrained
employees need to be guided through a complex process or task that cannot be memorized.
These situations often occur when new systems (e.g. customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning) are introduced, upgraded or consolidated, and in certain call centres when agents must perform using complex systems, processes or products.
Components
There are different views about the components and characteristics of EPSS. For example, from Barker and Banerji’s (1995) point of view, an EPSS has four functional levels, which should be brought together:
the user interface shell (the human computer interface) and the database
generic tools (help system, documentation, text retrieval system, intelligent agents, tutoring facility, simulation tools and communication resources)
application-specific support tools
a target application domain (schools, particular business settings, military, etc.).
Advantages
Reducing the complexity or number of steps required to perform a task
Providing the performance information an employee needs to perform a task
Providing a decision support system that enables an employee to identify the action that is appropriate for a particular set of conditions
Definitions
In Electronic Performance Support Systems, Gloria Gery defined EPSS as:
an integrated electronic environment that is available to and easily
accessible by each employee and is structured to provide immediate, individualized
on-line access to the full range of information, software, guidance, advice and
assistance, data, images, tools, and assessment and monitoring systems to permit
job performance with minimal support and intervention by others.
Also, in 1991, Barry Raybould gave a shorter definition:
a computer-based system that improves worker productivity by providing on-the-job access to integrated information, advice, and learning experiences.
From a business perspective, a former Nortel Networks executive, William Bezanson (2002) provided a definition linked to application usability and organizational results: A performance support system provides just-in-time, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwise | Erwise is an early discontinued web browser, and the first that was available for the X Window System.
Released in April 1992, the browser was written for Unix computers running X and used the W3 common access library. Erwise was the combined master's project of four Finnish students at the Helsinki University of Technology (now merged into Aalto University): Kim Nyberg, Teemu Rantanen, Kati Suominen and Kari Sydänmaanlakka. The group decided to make a web browser at the suggestion of Robert Cailliau, who was visiting the university, and were supervised by Ari Lemmke.
The development of Erwise halted after the students graduated and went on to other projects. Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, travelled to Finland to encourage the group to continue with the project. However, none of the project members could afford to continue with the project without proper funding.
The name Erwise originates from otherwise and the name of the project group, OHT.
Development
For the web to be popularized, Tim Berners-Lee knew that what people wanted was a GUI-based browser – one that could target multiple operating systems, and most importantly, be easy-to-use for the technologically challenged. At the time, personal computers were also confusing to some people that were not experienced with technology.
History
Extremely pre-documented (in Finnish).
Serious coding started around March 1992.
Alpha release available by anonymous FTP from info.cern.ch—binaries only (sun4 works, decstation too, display requires Motif) as of 15 April 1992.
Source code released on www-talk August 92.
Characteristics
The following are significant characteristics of the browser:
It used a multi-font text.
The links of Erwise browser were underlined. To visit the links you had to double click on the links.
Erwise could execute multiple window operation, though the optional single window mode was also available.
Erwise could open local files.
Erwise had little English documentation.
Some of the buttons were for features that were not implemented.
Tim Berners-Lee would have continued with the works of Erwise. He could not do so because Erwise's code was documented in the Finnish language.
Criticism
Erwise crashed on some versions of Unix, which Berners-Lee attributed to poor Motif implementations.
See also
ViolaWWW
References
Sources
Berners-Lee, Tim: Weaving the Web .
External links
The source code at FUNET FTP archives
1992 software
Discontinued web browsers
Finnish inventions
Free software programmed in C
History of the Internet
POSIX web browsers
Public-domain software with source code
Software developed in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%20Anywhere | SAP SQL Anywhere is a proprietary relational database management system (RDBMS) product from SAP. SQL Anywhere was known as Sybase SQL Anywhere prior to the acquisition of Sybase by SAP.
Features
SQL Anywhere can be run on Windows, Windows CE, Mac OS X, and various UNIX platforms, including Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris. Database files are independent of the operating system, allowing them to be copied between supported platforms. The product provides several standard interfaces (ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET) and a number of special interfaces such as PHP and Perl. The engine supports stored procedures, user functions (using Watcom SQL, T-SQL, Java, or C/C++), triggers, referential integrity, row-level locking, replication, high availability, proxy tables, and events (scheduled and system events). Strong encryption is supported for both database files and client-server communication.
Uses
SQL Anywhere is used in several contexts, including as an embedded database, particularly as an application data store. For example, it is used in Intuit QuickBooks, in network management products, and in backup products. Its ability to be used with minimal administration is a distinguishing feature in this role.
It can be used as a database server for work groups or for small or medium-sized businesses. It can also function as a mobile database. It includes scalable data synchronization technology that provides change-based replication between separate databases, including large server-based RDBMS systems.
Technologies
SQL Anywhere Server is a high performing and embeddable relational database-management system (RDBMS) that scales from thousands of users in server environments down to desktop and mobile applications used in widely deployed, zero-administration environments.
Ultralite: UltraLite is a database-management system designed for small-footprint mobile devices such as PDAs and smart phones.
Mobilink: MobiLink is a highly-scalable, session-based synchronization technology for exchanging data among relational databases and other non-relational data sources.
QAnywhere: QAnywhere facilitates the development of robust and secure store-and-forward mobile messaging applications.
SQL Remote: SQL Remote technology is based on a store and forward architecture that allows occasionally connected users to synchronize data between SQL Anywhere databases using a file or message transfer mechanism.
History
Initially created by Watcom as Watcom SQL.
Version 3: 1992
Watcom acquired by Powersoft in 1993; Watcom SQL shipped with their visual programming environment PowerBuilder
Version 4: 1994 (Stored procedures, triggers)
PowerSoft and Sybase merged in 1995: Watcom SQL was renamed SQL Anywhere.
Version 5: 1995 (SQL Remote data replication; graphical administration tools)
Version 6: 1998. Renamed Adaptive Server Anywhere (ASA). (multi-processor support, Java objects in the database)
Version 6.0.2: 1999 (MobiLink data synchronization, UltraLite mobile datab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPMC | IPMC may refer to:
Ionic polymer-metal composite or compound
Intelligent platform management controller, in Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture
IPMI Management Controller, in Hardware Platform Interface
IP Multicast
International Postgraduate Medical College |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop-switch%20sequence | A loop-switch sequence (also known as the for-case paradigm or Anti-Duff's Device) is a programming antipattern where a clear set of steps is implemented as a switch-within-a-loop. The loop-switch sequence is a specific derivative of spaghetti code.
It is not necessarily an antipattern to use a switch statement within a loop—it is only considered incorrect when used to model a known sequence of steps. The most common example of the correct use of a switch within a loop is an inversion of control such as an event handler. In event handler loops, the sequence of events is not known at compile-time, so the repeated switch is both necessary and correct (see event-driven programming, event loop and event-driven finite state machine).
This is not a performance antipattern, though it may lead to an inconsequential performance penalty due to the lack of an unrolled loop. Rather, it is a clarity antipattern, as in any non-trivial example it is much more difficult to decipher the intent and actual function of the code than the more straightforward refactored solution.
Example
An event-driven solution would implement a listener interface:
String key = null;
String value = null;
List<String> params = null;
int column = 0;
public void addToken(token) {
// parse a key, a value, then three parameters
switch (column) {
case 0:
params = new LinkedList<String>();
key = token;
break;
case 1:
value = token;
break;
default:
params.add(token);
break;
}
if (++column >= 5) {
column = 0;
completeRow(key, value, params);
}
}
But without the listener, it becomes an example of the antipattern:
// parse a key, a value, then three parameters
String key = null;
String value = null;
List<String> params = new LinkedList<String>();
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
switch (i) {
case 0:
key = stream.parse();
break;
case 1:
value = stream.parse();
break;
default:
params.add(stream.parse());
break;
}
}
And here is the refactored solution:
// parse a key and value
String key = stream.parse();
String value = stream.parse();
// parse 3 parameters
List<String> params = new LinkedList<String>();
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
params.add(stream.parse());
}
References
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2c | f2c is a program to convert Fortran 77 to C code, developed at Bell Laboratories. The standalone f2c program was based on the core of the first complete Fortran 77 compiler to be implemented, the "f77" program by Feldman and Weinberger. Because the f77 compiler was itself written in C and relied on a C compiler back end to complete its final compilation step, it and its derivatives like f2c were much more portable than compilers generating machine code directly.
The f2c program was released as free software and subsequently became one of the most common means to compile Fortran code on many systems where native Fortran compilers were unavailable or expensive. Several large Fortran libraries, such as LAPACK, were made available as C libraries via conversion with f2c. The f2c program also influenced the development of the GNU g77 compiler, which uses a modified version of the f2c runtime libraries.
See also
BCX – translates BASIC source code to C/C++ source code
References
S. I. Feldman and P. J. Weinberger. A portable Fortran 77 compiler. In UNIX Time Sharing System Programmer's Manual, volume 2. AT&T Bell Laboratories, tenth edition, 1990.
S. I. Feldman, David M. Gay, Mark W. Maimone, and N. L. Schryer, "A Fortran to C Converter," AT&T Bell Laboratories technical report, 1990. Also the paper of the same title by S. I. Feldman, published in ACM SIGPLAN Fortran Forum, vol. 9, issue 2, p. 21–22 (1990).
The f2c source code and documentation, at Netlib.
Fortran compilers
Compilers
Source-to-source compilers
C (programming language)
Free compilers and interpreters
Free software programmed in C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP%20accelerator | A PHP accelerator is a PHP extension designed to improve the performance of software applications written in the PHP programming language.
Operation
Most PHP accelerators work by caching the compiled opcode/bytecode of PHP representation of php files to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling source code on each request (some or even most of which may never be executed). To further improve performance, the cached code is stored in shared memory and directly executed from there, minimizing the amount of slow disk reads and memory copying at runtime.
Practical benefits
PHP accelerators substantially increase the speed of PHP applications. Improvements of web page generation throughput by factors of two to seven have been observed.
The effect on application performance of opcode caching varies widely, depending on factors such as the inherent execution time of the PHP application and the percentage of source code actually executed on a given request, and whether additional optimization steps are performed. While a code optimizer may even slow down overall performance when used in isolation, it can provide an additional performance boost when coupled with a bytecode cache, as the optimization effort is performed just once.
See also
List of PHP accelerators
References
External links
Alternative PHP Cache , a widely used opcode cache.
Free proxy servers
PHP software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Johnn | Kevin Johnn is American fashion designer. He was one of the original designers of Project Runway on Bravo. He also appeared on the Axis Networks reality show Club Kids (2013-2014).
Project Runway
He appeared and starred on the hit Bravo Emmy nominated show Project Runway. Kevin Johnn won the challenge "Rockstar" and had his outfit worn by Sarah Hudson in her music video, Girl on the Verge and dressed Heidi Klum for the second season of Project Runway.
Career
Kevin Johnn resides in New York, New York, and is currently CFO/Creative Director of his own brand Kevin Johnn, a collection of luxury fashion sophisticated dresses and gowns. And of the dress line I Love Kevin Johnn clothing & accessories line based in New York City.
External links
Official Website www.kevinjohnn.com
First View
Fashion tribes Interview: Kevin Johnn 2007 Collection Reviewed
American fashion designers
Project Runway (American series) participants
The New School faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACC0 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:ACC0}}
ACC0, sometimes called ACC, is a class of computational models and problems defined in circuit complexity, a field of theoretical computer science. The class is defined by augmenting the class AC0 of constant-depth "alternating circuits" with the ability to count; the acronym ACC stands for "AC with counters". Specifically, a problem belongs to ACC0 if it can be solved by polynomial-size, constant-depth circuits of unbounded fan-in gates, including gates that count modulo a fixed integer. ACC0 corresponds to computation in any solvable monoid. The class is very well studied in theoretical computer science because of the algebraic connections and because it is one of the largest concrete computational models for which computational impossibility results, so-called circuit lower bounds, can be proved.
Definitions
Informally, ACC0 models the class of computations realised by Boolean circuits of constant depth and polynomial size, where the circuit gates includes "modular counting gates" that compute the number of true inputs modulo some fixed constant.
More formally, a language belongs to AC0[m] if it can be computed by a family of circuits C1, C2, ..., where Cn takes n inputs, the depth of every circuit is constant, the size of Cn is a polynomial function of n, and the circuit uses the following gates: AND gates and OR gates of unbounded fan-in, computing the conjunction and disjunction of their inputs; NOT gates computing the negation of their single input; and unbounded fan-in MOD-m gates, which compute 1 if the number of input 1s is a multiple of m. A language belongs to ACC0 if it belongs to AC0[m] for some m.
In some texts, ACCi refers to a hierarchy of circuit classes with ACC0 at its lowest level, where the circuits in ACCi have depth O(login) and polynomial size.
The class ACC0 can also be defined in terms of computations of nonuniform deterministic finite automata (NUDFA) over monoids. In this framework, the input is interpreted as elements from a fixed monoid, and the input is accepted if the product of the input elements belongs to a given list of monoid elements. The class ACC0 is the family of languages accepted by a NUDFA over some monoid that does not contain an unsolvable group as a subsemigroup.
Computational power
The class ACC0 includes AC0. This inclusion is strict, because a single MOD-2 gate computes the parity function, which is known to be impossible to compute in AC0. More generally, the function MODm cannot be computed in AC0[p] for prime p unless m is a power of p.
The class ACC0 is included in TC0. It is conjectured that ACC0 is unable to compute the majority function of its inputs (i.e. the inclusion in TC0 is strict), but this remains unresolved as of July 2018.
Every problem in ACC0 can be solved by circuits of depth 2, with AND gates of polylogarithmic fan-in at the inputs, connected to a single gate computing some symmetric (not depending on the order of the inputs) function. These cir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEITE-AM | XEITE-AM is a radio station in Mexico City, broadcasting on 830 kHz. The station is known as Radio Capital, broadcasting adult contemporary music and talk programming, and is owned by Capital Media.
History
XELA-AM
XELA-AM began broadcasting on July 5, 1940, with a classical music format. For many years it was one of the few sources of classical music available to ordinary Mexican citizens. XELA was able to acquire quality sound recordings from the United States, England and France, even though it started with a very low budget, through an exchange program for Mexican music recordings. The station was acquired by Grupo Imagen in 1963.
From the 1970s to the mid-1980s, the station simulcast on XELA-FM 98.5. That station was split off in the mid-1980s. One long-running feature of the station was La hora sinfónica Corona, the dinner hour symphony which aired continuously for 59 years.
The station was threatened with closure in 2000, but protests by listeners from laborers to the intelligentsia keep it open for a while longer. Their slogan was "Buena música desde la Ciudad de México!" ("Good music from Mexico City!").
XEITE-AM
On January 2, 2002, Imagen dropped the classical music format for sports, as "Estadio W 830" (a format now found on XEX-AM) and changed the callsign to XEITE-AM. The change resulted in protests from the station's dedicated listeners; some Mexican cultural figures, including Elena Poniatowska, José Luis Cuevas, Vicente Quirarte and Víctor Hugo Rascón, formed the "National XELA Rescue Committee" (or CONAREXELA) on July 10 of that year. The group sought for the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio to take over the station, but IMER refused, saying it would incorporate that format into its own XHIMER-FM 94.5.
In 2004, the station was sold to Grupo Radio Capital (now known as Capital Media). The Radio Capital format included news and sports programming as well as contemporary music.
At 7 p.m. on February 14, 2019, Radio Capital in Mexico City ceased operations to make way for the relocation of the Quiéreme romantic format from Grupo Siete from 1440 XEEST-AM, which shares transmission facilities with XEITE.
In December 2019, the station switched to Christian programming under the name "Ondas de Paz". On February 14, 2020, Ondas de Paz moved back to 1440 and Capital resumed programming the 830 frequency.
On March 1, 2021, the religious format Radio Omega entered, after the discarded alliance with Grupo Radio Centro.
References
Correa, Guillermo (2002) "El rescate de XELA: exige la comunidad intelectual al gobierno" (XELA's rescue: intellectual community's demand from government) Proceso Cisa Comunicacion e Informacion (Oct 6, 2002): pp. 86–89;
Alatorre, Antonio et al. (Oct 2002) "Días de radio: la desaparición de la XELA ha reducido al mínimo la oferta de huena música en la radio mexicana, avasallada por una oralidad buera: Seis radioescuchas refinados participan en una especie de oración fúnebre por la estación que los educó |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy%20Killen | William Doyce “Buddy” Killen (November 13, 1932 – November 1, 2006) was an American record producer and music publisher, and a former owner of Trinity Broadcasting Network and Tree International Publishing, the largest country music publishing business, before he sold it to CBS Records in 1989. He was also the owner of Killen Music Group, involved with more diverse genres of music, such as pop and rap.
Life
Killen was born in Florence, Alabama. He was a bass player in the Grand Ole Opry before he was hired, in 1953, to listen to new songs in a new business started by Jack Stapp, the manager of the Grand Ole Opry. When Stapp died in 1980, Killen became the sole owner of Stapp's company, Tree International Publishing. During his early career he worked with artists such as Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Louise Mandrell, Diana Trask, Exile, Roger Miller, Joe Tex, Ronnie McDowell and T. G. Sheppard.
Later career
With his Killen Music Group, Killen published some songs on the soundtrack to the film Idlewild. He also co-published the popular "Me and My Gang" by Rascal Flatts and worked with artists such as Faith Hill, Trace Adkins, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire and Bill Anderson. He also worked at the W.O. Smith School of Music.
Death
Killen died in Nashville, Tennessee on November 1, 2006, twelve days before his 74th birthday. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer.
References
External links
[ Allmusic]
Killen-related business stories from NashvillePost.com
Alabama Music Hall of Fame 1985 inductee Buddy Killen
1932 births
2006 deaths
Musicians from Florence, Alabama
Record producers from Alabama
American country songwriters
American male songwriters
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Musicians from Nashville, Tennessee
Deaths from cancer in Tennessee
20th-century American musicians
Songwriters from Tennessee
Songwriters from Alabama
20th-century American male musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Health%20Information%20Network | The Public Health Information Network (PHIN) is a US national initiative, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for advancing fully capable and interoperable information systems in public health organizations. The initiative involves establishing and implementing a framework for public health information systems.
Design
PHIN is designed to do the following:
Enable the consistent exchange of health data
Protect the security of the health data exchanged
Ensure that the network will be available at all times
Structure
The five functional areas of PHIN:
Detection and Monitoring
Data Analysis
Knowledge Management
Alerting
Response
PHIN's impact on public health
PHIN attempts to provide the public health sector with continuous access to necessary health care information. Access to near real-time data attempts to improve community-based interventions that are implemented as a result of terrorism or disease outbreaks.
PHIN provides support and helps improve the outcomes of various public health programs including the following:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Desired outcome: improving public health information systems.
The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Supports: Terrorism Defense, Healthcare Delivery Improvement, and IT Enhancements.
Healthy People 2010
Supports: Focus area 23 - ensure that public health agencies have the adequate infrastructure to effectively provide essential public health services.
Partners in public health
Desired outcome: "Roadmap" for establishing national capacity for public health systems.
Health is a most important component of a successful life. Health and fitness divide into three aspects physical health, mental health, and social health. Symptoms of a healthy life are taking a good and healthy diet, having a peaceful sleep, having a strong immune system that can beat diseases, having an extraordinarily creative mind, and having good cooperative behavior in a social circle. A healthy and peaceful life needs exercise, walking, vitamins, and supplements.
Budget and funding
PHIN first received funding in 2004 through the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 25% and 30% of the $849 million of funding received through the Public Health Response and Preparedness Cooperative Agreement was to be used to focus on improving public health preparedness in all 50 states, 4 metropolitan areas and 8 US territories. In 2004 the initiative of the program was to "ensure that all public health partners have, or at least will have, access to a system or systems to accomplish established preparedness functions." In 2005, additional finances were available to states through the terrorism cooperative agreement. This agreement will support the development of current and new systems, in state health and public health departments, which will meet the PHIN standards and specifications.
Partner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri%20Anderson | Sheri Anderson is responsible for helming over 3000 hours of network television. She has been involved in every aspect of the writing process including long-term storyline, daily episode breakdowns, dialogue writing and editing, audition scenes and supervision of the writing staff, as well as having final say in casting. She is recognized as one of the creative forces behind the high romance era of soap opera in the 1980s, the most popular in the genre's history.
Shows that Anderson helmed or co-head wrote include Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Santa Barbara, Guiding Light, Another World and primetime's Falcon Crest. During that time, she developed two spinoffs for Days of our Lives. She also served as Executive Producer for the first original content program on the web, The Spot, and also developed numerous TV and film projects domestically for Spelling Entertainment, NBC, Sony Interactive and Nelvana, and internationally with Bavaria Films (Germany), Spectak (Australia) and Franz Marx Films/MNET (South Africa). Through an actress she cast on Days of our Lives, Sheri met highly respected talent manager, Paul Cohen and they soon joined forces. Their company, The Partnership is based in Hollywood and represents actors in film and television. Anderson, formerly a member of Writers Guild of America West, left and maintained financial core status amidst the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.
Sheri resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Paca Thomas, five-time Emmy-winning sound designer, producer and owner of media arts company pacaworks.com.
References
External links
American soap opera writers
American television producers
American women television producers
Women soap opera writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE%20Linux%20Forum | The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CE Linux Forum or CELF) was a non-profit organization to advance the Linux operating system as an open-source software platform for consumer electronics (CE) devices. It had a primarily technical focus, working on specifications, implementations, conferences and testing to help Linux developers improve Linux for use in CE products.
It existed from 2003 to 2010.
History
The forum was an outgrowth of a joint project between Sony Corporation and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (using the brand name Panasonic). CELF was founded in June 2003 by those plus six more consumer electronics companies, Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sharp Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation.
It was seen at least partially as a reaction to the use of Windows CE for consumer electronics.
Phillips and Samsung founded a group with similar aims in November 2004, promoting a universal home application programming interface called the UHAPI Forum.
The UHAPI was presented to the CE Linux Forum in 2005.
NXP Semiconductors spun off from Phillips in 2006, and the UHAP was revised up to a version 1.2.
A sample implementation of UHAPI was published on SourceForge.
The UHAPI forum added a few other supporters, such as the Digital TV Alliance of China and Japan-based Access (company),
and maintained a web site until the Great Recession of 2008.
By 2004, hardware from Renesas Electronics running software from Lineo was demonstrated at a CELF meeting.
In 2005, a meeting in San Jose, California drew about engineers from competing companies.
By the end of 2006, the competing Linux Phone Standards Forum had formed, to focus on mobile devices.
After other groups such as Linaro and the Limo Foundation formed, some questioned the fragmentation of the industry.
In 2010, the CE Linux Forum merged with the Linux Foundation, to become a technical work group of Linux Foundation.
The group planned to support the Yocto Project to produce an embedded Linux distribution.
Activities
CELF initiatives included:
technical working groups, which produce specifications and implementations (usually patches against existing open source projects) to enhance Linux suitability for CE products
hosting of conferences dedicated to embedded Linux (see below)
providing hardware resources to open source developers
funding for direct feature development, via contracting with a few Linux developers
a test lab in San Jose, California was established in 2006
Members submit technical output directly back to the relevant open source project (for example, by sending enhancements to the Linux kernel directly to the Linux kernel mailing list, or to an appropriate technology- or architecture-specific mailing list.) Collected information and forum output was primarily located on a wiki for embedded developers.
The content of CELF's wiki was included on another site called eLinux.org, created by Tim Riker in 2006.
As of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletoon%20%28disambiguation%29 | Teletoon is an English-language Canadian TV channel now known as Cartoon Network.
Teletoon may also refer to:
Télétoon, a French-language Canadian channel
Teletoon+, formerly Minimax Poland and ZigZap; a Polish TV channel
Télétoon+, formerly Télétoon; a French TV channel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parakey | Parakey is a web-based computer user interface proposed by Firefox contributors Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt. Ross describes it as "a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do." The idea behind it is to make image, video, and writing transfer to the web easier. He explains that the current problem with transferring data to the web is that in order to move an image onto the web you first have to transfer pictures from your digital camera, then upload them to a place like Flickr. Or, if you want to rant, you launch a blog on blogger.com before you can start talking.
On 20 July 2007 Parakey was bought by Facebook for an undisclosed sum. The purchase also included the developers' assistance in progressing Facebook. Parakey was Facebook, Inc's first acquisition.
Sources
Meta Platforms acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formatted%20File%20System | The Formatted File System (FFS) is the name of a series of Database Management Systems (DBMS) developed for military use and designed to run on IBM mainframe computers.
The period from 1964 to 1968 saw the transition from isolated DBMS development efforts to the development of DBMS families. The Formatted File System is one such family. Others included General Electric's IDS family, and the Mark IV series developed by Informatics Inc. (later acquired by Sterling Software). These families were developed across organizations and branches of government, spreading and evolving with their primary developers. Beginning around 1968, industry DBMS development became increasingly proprietary.
Family Members
IRS(DTMB), 1958, IBM 704
Information Retrieval System (David Taylor Model Basin)
TUFF/TUG(DTMB), 1959, IBM 704/9
Tape Update for Formatted Files / Tape Updater and Generator (David Taylor Model Basin)
FFS(SAC), 1961, IBM 7090
Formatted File System (Strategic Air Command)
FFS(IDHS), 1963, IBM 1401
Formatted File System (Intelligence Data-Handling System)
FFS(FICEUR), 1963, IBM 1410
Formatted File System (Naval Fleet Intelligence Center in Europe)
FFS(DIA-IDHS), 1965, IBM 1410
Formatted File System (Defense Intelligence Agency - Intelligence Data-Handling System)
GIS, 1965, IBM SYSTEM/360
Generalized Information System
NIPS, 1965, IBM 1410
NMCS (National Military Command System) Information Processing System
NIPS, 1968, IBM SYSTEM/360
NMCS (National Military Command System) Information Processing System
CDMS, 1968, IBM SYSTEM/360
Cobol Data Management System
References
Proprietary database management systems
IBM mainframe software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20the%20Writer | "Jack the Writer" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American situation comedy 30 Rock, which aired on November 1, 2006, on the NBC network in the United States, and on November 1, 2007, in the United Kingdom. The episode was written by Robert Carlock and was directed by Gail Mancuso. Guest stars in this episode include Katrina Bowden, Keith Powell, Maulik Pancholy, Tom Broecker, Jonathan Lutz, James Anderson and Sharon Wilkins.
The episode focuses on the relationship between Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), head writer of TGS with Tracy Jordan, and Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), her boss; and the distractions the writers of TGS face when writing sketches. This becomes evident when Liz's assistant, Cerie (Katrina Bowden), wears sexually suggestive clothing; and when Jack decides to join the writers for observation. Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer) learns that working for Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), the main star of TGS, is more than he expected.
Plot
The staff are preparing to write sketches for TGS with Tracy Jordan when Jack arrives and announces that he went through a program at General Electric (GE) called Six Sigma, which encourages bosses to interact with their staff. He tells Liz and the writers that he will be sitting in the writers' room every day as an observer. As days pass, Jack begins to interfere with the writers' work, and instead of just being an observer, he regularly gives the writers ideas for upcoming sketches. This causes a major frustration for the staff, so Liz tells Jack that the writers do not like his involvement. Jack says that although he enjoyed joining the writers every day, he tells Liz that he accepts their decision.
Afterwards, Jack's secretary tells Liz that Jack wants her to apologize, but that she has to pretend that it was her idea. Liz goes to Jack's office and apologizes, and they forgive each other. While the staff eats their lunch, Jack introduces the staff to two of his guests. The writers mention to Liz that they would love to go outside to the same roof that is used for The Today Show, and Liz tells them that she can make it happen now that she and Jack are friends. Liz asks Jack, but he denies the request. He tells her that the two guests were his bosses from GE, and then criticizes Liz and her staff. He apologizes to Liz, but she says that their friendship is over. Having settled the situation with Jack, Liz tries to talk to her assistant Cerie about her attire, which seems to distract the writers. Liz attempts to convince her to wear something conservative, but Cerie tells Liz that she would look great in something sexy herself, and Liz is later seen walking down the hallway with a dress that reads "Dirty Diva".
Kenneth, who is now working for Tracy, learns that working for Tracy is more than he expected. Tracy orders Kenneth to complete several tasks, including going to Yankee Stadium for nachos, and picking up an important package, which turns out to be an illegal fish that Tracy wants to put |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wnn | Wnn ( or ) is a Japanese input system. The network-extensible Kana-to-Kanji conversion system was jointly developed and released by the Software Research Group of Kyoto University Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Omron Tateisi Electronics Co., and Astec, Inc.
It is distributed as freeware with a licence allowing users to copy and modify the software; however, it is not free software since certain restrictions are placed on the user, including a prohibition on changing the name. The licence is otherwise similar to the (old, containing the advertising clause) BSD licence.
Wnn is used as part of several programs that deal with Japanese text, including JWPce and NJStar's Japanese Word Processor.
The name is derived from the Japanese phrase "Watashi no namae wa Nakano desu" (my name is Nakano), as a design goal of the Wnn project was to be able to enter such a sentence, and have the correct kanji and kana [私の名前は中野です] selected automatically.
Wnn is maintained by the FreeWnn project.
External links
Description of Wnn
The FreeWnn project
Han character input
Japanese-language computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic%20coefficient | A humanistic coefficient () is a conceptual object, methodological principle, or method of conducting social research wherein data analysis stresses the perceived import of analyzed experiences to their participants. The term was coined by Polish sociologist Florian Znaniecki.
Znaniecki coined the term in Polish in his Wstęp do socjologii (Introduction to Sociology, 1922) and translated it into English as "humanistic coefficient" in his book, The Object-Matter of Sociology (1927).
Definitions
Grossly and simply speaking, the humanistic coefficient is the difference between trying to describe or explain social facts as if they were purely physical phenomena, or doing it instead by taking into account the culture of the folk or milieu in which those facts happen.
In Znaniecki's own words: "an observer of cultural life can understand the data observed only if taken with the "humanistic coefficient", only if he does not limit his observation to his own direct experience of the data but reconstructs the experience and the data in the social context of the people involved". Elsewhere he wrote: "This essential character of cultural data we call the humanistic coefficient, because such data, as objects of the student's theoretic reflection, already belong to somebody's else's experience and are such as this active experience makes them."
Piotr Sztompka defines the humanistic coefficient as "a connection that exists between each social fact and actions and experiences of particular individuals, and the resulting need for those facts to be studied from specific perspective that requires the research to place him or herself in the position of those individuals." Elżbieta Hałas in turn defines it as "the notion of the human collective's constructing and reconstructing of reality", thus related to the concept of social constructionist.
Meaning
According to the concept of the humanistic coefficient, all social facts are created by social actors, and can only be understood from their perspective. No social facts can exist without connection to some individuals (although that connection does not have to necessarily be consciously perceived). Thus the sociologist should study reality by trying to understand how others see the world, not as an independent observer (objectively); in other words the scientist needs to understand the world of the subject. Ken Plummer puts it curtly as "the object of study is always linked to somebody's human meanings."
While some have criticized the humanistic coefficient approach as too close to subjectivism, Znaniecki himself saw is as anti-subjectivist; he noted that social facts like cultural systems can exist even if nobody perceives their existence. He was also critical of any value coming from personal, subjective observations, arguing that such observations have value only if they can be objectively described. Both natural and social sciences operate within the bounds of the humanistic coefficient, but the natural scie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20More%20Sport | C More Sport is a Scandinavian pay television sports network owned by C More Entertainment. It was launched as the Nordic version of Canal+ Sport on 1 May 2004, when C More introduced themed channels for movies and sports. On 1 September 2005, most sports broadcasts were moved to Canal+ Sport and separate versions of the channel were made for Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. With the launch of a second sports channel, the first channels got their current name. Canal+ Sport 1 in Denmark was rebranded as Canal 8 Sport on 13 August 2012.
Programming
Soccer
La Liga
Serie A
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Major League Soccer (Sweden only)
Argentine Primera División
UEFA Europa League (Finland only)
UEFA Nations League (Sweden only)
Barça TV
Real Madrid TV
Arsenal TV
Chelsea TV
Tennis
ATP Tour
Various tournaments on the WTA Tour
Ice hockey
Elitserien/Swedish Hockey League (SHL)
IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships
Basketball
National Basketball Association (NBA)
Mixed martial arts
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC)
Motorsports
IndyCar
Elitserien
Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC)
Past Sports rights
Soccer
Premier League
Allsvenskan
Eredivisie
Bundesliga
Copa del Rey
Primeira Liga
Royal League
Tippeligaen
The Championship
League Cup
Copa América
Ice hockey
National Hockey League (NHL)
Mixed martial arts
PRIDE Fighting Championship
Motorsports
Formula 3
DTM
BTCC
ESPN America programming
Golf Channel programming
See also
C More Entertainment
C More First
C More Hits
C More Action
C More Tennis
References
External links
Television stations in Denmark
Television channels in Finland
Television channels in Norway
Television channels in Sweden
Pan-Nordic television channels
Sports television networks
Television channels and stations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20sequence | In mathematics and theoretical computer science, an automatic sequence (also called a k-automatic sequence or a k-recognizable sequence when one wants to indicate that the base of the numerals used is k) is an infinite sequence of terms characterized by a finite automaton. The n-th term of an automatic sequence a(n) is a mapping of the final state reached in a finite automaton accepting the digits of the number n in some fixed base k.
An automatic set is a set of non-negative integers S for which the sequence of values of its characteristic function χS is an automatic sequence; that is, S is k-automatic if χS(n) is k-automatic, where χS(n) = 1 if n S and 0 otherwise.
Definition
Automatic sequences may be defined in a number of ways, all of which are equivalent. Four common definitions are as follows.
Automata-theoretic
Let k be a positive integer, and let D = (Q, Σk, δ, q0, Δ, τ) be a deterministic finite automaton with output, where
Q is the finite set of states;
the input alphabet Σk consists of the set {0,1,...,k-1} of possible digits in base-k notation;
δ : Q × Σk → Q is the transition function;
q0 ∈ Q is the initial state;
the output alphabet Δ is a finite set; and
τ : Q → Δ is the output function mapping from the set of internal states to the output alphabet.
Extend the transition function δ from acting on single digits to acting on strings of digits by defining the action of δ on a string s consisting of digits s1s2...st as:
δ(q,s) = δ(δ(q, s1s2...st-1), st).
Define a function a from the set of positive integers to the output alphabet Δ as follows:
a(n) = τ(δ(q0,s(n))),
where s(n) is n written in base k. Then the sequence a = a(1)a(2)a(3)... is a k-automatic sequence.
An automaton reading the base k digits of s(n) starting with the most significant digit is said to be direct reading, while an automaton starting with the least significant digit is reverse reading. The above definition holds whether s(n) is direct or reverse reading.
Substitution
Let be a k-uniform morphism of a free monoid and let be a coding (that is, a -uniform morphism), as in the automata-theoretic case. If is a fixed point of —that is, if —then is a k-automatic sequence. Conversely, every k-automatic sequence is obtainable in this way. This result is due to Cobham, and it is referred to in the literature as Cobham's little theorem.
k-kernel
Let k ≥ 2. The k-kernel of the sequence s(n) is the set of subsequences
In most cases, the k-kernel of a sequence is infinite. However, if the k-kernel is finite, then the sequence s(n) is k-automatic, and the converse is also true. This is due to Eilenberg.
It follows that a k-automatic sequence is necessarily a sequence on a finite alphabet.
Formal power series
Let u(n) be a sequence over an alphabet Σ and suppose that there is an injective function β from Σ to the finite field Fq, where q = pn for some prime p. The associated formal power series is
Then the sequence u is q-automatic if and only if this f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor%20Computer%20Systems | Metaphor Computer Systems (1982–1994) was an American computer company that created an advanced workstation, database gateway, unique graphical office interface, and software applications that "seamlessly integrate" data from both internal and external sources. The Metaphor machine was one of the first commercial workstations to offer a complete hardware/software package and a GUI, including "a wireless mouse and a wireless five-function key pad". Although the company achieved some commercial success, it never achieved the fame of either the Apple Macintosh or Microsoft Windows.
History
David Liddle and Donald Massaro founded Metaphor in 1982 after leaving Xerox PARC. By 1987, the company had an annual revenue of $39.7 million. In 1991, IBM, one of its primary customers, acquired the company outright.
Patriot Partners
Metaphor and IBM created a venture called Patriot Partners in 1990, the same year Metaphor ceased selling its own hardware
and instead "market Metaphor's business analysis software for use on" the IBM PS/2.
The attempt was to create an organization that could produce a solid business line of object-oriented software. Rather than capitalize the venture, IBM purchased the Metaphor software division in 1991 and operated it as a wholly owned, independent subsidiary, and the hardware and field repair division was spun off into its own company, Sequence Support Services. In May 1992, Sequence Support Services ceased operations. In October 1994, Metaphor ceased operations.
Meta5
In March 2000, IBM licensed the Metaphor IBM Intelligent Decision Server (IDS) technology to Relational Development Systems (RDS), which was renamed Meta5.
Product overview
Hardware
Released in September 1984, the Metaphor workstation had infrared wireless input devices: keyboard, mouse, numeric pad, and five-function keypad. This was the first commercial appearance of a cordless mouse. The input devices docked in the desktop workstation where they were recharged. Objects on the desktop and open applications had a uniform command set that could be controlled by the keypad which had Copy, Move, Delete, Options, and Size. The workstations were Motorola 68000-based, networked with Ethernet, and contained 1 MB RAM.
The industrial design of the workstation was done by Mike Nuttall of Matrix Product Design. It won a gold medal from the IDSA. The workstation itself was engineered by James Yurchenco at David Kelley Design. Both Matrix and David Kelley Design were precursors of IDEO.
Two different workstations models were produced. Workstation One had an external electronics enclosure. Workstation Two had integrated electronics. Workstation Three, which included a color screen, was designed through final prototypes, but was never taken into production.
In August 1988, the Workstation 2XP was released which adapted a standard PC into a Metaphor workstation using a 68000-based co-processor card with 2 MB RAM, Ethernet adapter, three-button mouse, and 15-inch color mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Council%20on%20Refugees%20and%20Exiles | Established in 1974, ECRE is a European network of 105 NGOs in 39 European countries.
In 2011, the council raised concerns regarding planned repatriations of Afghan asylum children.
In 2014, the council was critical of EU cutbacks of migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
Members
Organisation suisse d'aide aux réfugiés
References
External links
ECRE Official Site
Refugee Stories Project
Refugee aid organizations in Europe
Human rights organisations based in Belgium
European migrant crisis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20allocation%20%28computer%29 | Resource allocation is the process by which a computing system aims to meet the hardware requirements of an application run by it. Computing, networking and energy resources must be optimised taking into account hardware, performance and environmental restrictions. This process may be undertaken by the hardware itself, an operating system, a distributed computing system, or as part of data center management.
See Also
Concurrency control
References
Memory management
Scheduling (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience%20%28TV%20network%29 | Audience Network (also known as Audience from 2016 until 2020) was an American pay television channel that was owned by AT&T. It featured a mix of original and acquired series, specials, and feature films. The network operated as a commercial-free service and broadcast its programming without editing for content. It was originally exclusive to DirecTV, though it was also added to AT&T U-verse after AT&T's 2015 acquisition of DirecTV. It was also made available on later AT&T streaming efforts, including AT&T TV and AT&T Watch TV, a lower-cost option available to AT&T Mobility customers. As of 2019, the channel had a subscription base of 26 million. The channel ceased operations on May 22, 2020.
History
The network launched on November 25, 1999, as Freeview, a service on DirecTV channel 103 carrying a continuous loop of concerts and other events. Freeview was part of all of the satellite provider's subscription packages, starting with the Total Choice tier. In 2005, it was moved to channel 101 and was rebranded as The 101 Network (as a suffix, "101" is college jargon for basic classes or, in more general terms, a way to describe any basic concept). Following the rebrand, the channel's schedule began to expand to include original programs. It also presented its very first original, CD US, which was announced on November 1, 2005.
The channel was rebranded as Audience Network on June 1, 2011. In 2015, the channel was added to AT&T U-verse after DirecTV was acquired by AT&T. In June 2018, AT&T announced its discount streaming service, WatchTV, which would carry Audience.
Closure
On January 8, 2020, it was announced by parent company AT&T that Audience would end operations in its current format and transition to a barker channel for HBO Max, a service which launched on May 27. Rich Eisen later confirmed in a statement regarding the future of his daily radio show (which had maintained a longtime video simulcast on Audience) that the network would go off the air on February 29 (his show ended the day before on Audience, and ended on radio on April 7). AT&T itself would not confirm the actual end date for the network at the time and it did continue for two months after with previous programming, though simulcasts of Eisen's show and The Dan Patrick Show both ceased on February 28, and the network's website became merely a redirect to the generic DirecTV network listing. Eisen later found a new television home on NBCSN and YouTube, with Patrick also utilizing a YouTube live stream during the COVID-19 pandemic, before both ultimately ended up at Comcast-owned streaming service Peacock. In mid-April 2020, AT&T notified customers the network would officially sunset at 12:00 am Pacific on May 22, 2020. The network closed as scheduled after an airing of the documentary Black Sabbath: The End of The End, after which the channel space created by Freeview in 1999 folded.
Programming
Original series
Former acquired series
Acquisition of Wonderland
Starting in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked%20Wicked%20Games | Wicked Wicked Games is a telenovela that debuted on December 6, 2006 on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 63 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial was directed by Terry Cunningham, Dennis Dimster, P. David Ebersole, Jeff Hare and Jeremy Stanford. It focuses on a bitter, obsessed woman's vendetta against her former lover. As of 2021, the entire series is streaming on TubiTV.
Story
This romantic melodrama starred Tatum O'Neal as Blythe Hunter, a beautiful scorned woman, whose boyfriend Theodore Crawford (Clive Robertson) left her twenty-five years ago to marry someone else. As revenge, she decides to destroy him by grooming her two sons to marry his two daughters and take over The Tides, a racetrack in Del Mar, California. She wreaks havoc on the Crawfords, but the plan doesn't go the way she had hoped.
Wicked Wicked Games also starred David Smith and Jack Krizmanich as Blythe's sons, Josh and Aaron, respectively. Josh is a doctor who gets manipulated into Blythe's schemes by the more "wicked" son Aaron. Jessie Ward and Kate French played Emma and Brooke respectively, the Crawford daughters.
Blythe approaches Aaron to pose as "Daniel Karol" and help her undermine Theodore and take control of the Tides. Blythe also employs her lawyer, Benjamin Grey to help her do her dirty work. Aaron quickly gets the job, and begins to work for Theo. Only Taylor Burns, CFO of the Tides, is suspicious of him. Over the show's first month, Emma gets engaged to the Tides lawyer Edward (who is cheating on her with secretary Jennifer), Brooke quickly falls for Daniel, and Blythe reveals herself to Theo, and tries to rekindle the flame between them, steaming Theo's girlfriend, Hope Lorca, who raised Brooke and Emma after their mother's death, and was the family housekeeper.
Soon, Emma makes a startling discovery- that Theo is not Brooke and herself's real father, but her late mother, Anna had a lover named Gavin. She confronts Theo and Madeline, Theo's sister, who confirm the truth. Madeline indulges in cyber romance with "Phillipe", who she confides in. Lani Walker, Blythe's assistant, falls for Taylor, and is shocked by the lengths her boss is going to. Blythe loves to torture Lani, and she soon begins to undermine Blythe, a huge mistake on her part. Theo is soon on to Blythe. Blythe is thrilled to learn that Theo may be planning to propose to her, but instead proposes to Hope, which soon pleases Blythe, realizing that he will be too busy planning a wedding to notice his business being taken from him. Not too much later, Blythe takes over the Tides, and throws Theo out. She takes pride in revealing that "Daniel" is her son, Aaron, which also stuns Brooke. Theo is devastated, and turns to alcohol for comfort. Jennifer wants Edward to leave Emma, and Edward's obsession with Emma grows, as Emma continues to fall for Josh. Taylor ends things with Lani after realizing that she was aware of what Blythe wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Information%20and%20Resource%20Service | The Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit anti-nuclear group founded in 1978. Its mission is to be an information and networking center for citizens and organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation and sustainable energy issues. The organization advocates for energy efficiency, solar power, wind power and plug-in hybrids.
In 2000, NIRS' affiliation with World Information Service on Energy (WISE) turned it into an international organization (NIRS/WISE).
Issue stances
International offices
NIRS and WISE have merged their operations and WISE has relay offices in Amsterdam, Argentina, Austria, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, and Ukraine.
Michael Mariotte (1952-2016) was president and executive director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service for 30 years. He was a well-known opponent of nuclear power and organized anti-nuclear activities in Europe after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Mariotte was a keen supporter of renewable energy and efficient energy use. He believed that nuclear power would become obsolete, to be replaced by clean energy sources.
Press
On 3 August 2004, NIRS issued a report stating that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission may allow the illegal practice of manually shutting down nuclear power plants in the event of fire.
On 15 May 2007, NIRS issued a report claiming that radioactive scrap, concrete, equipment, asphalt, plastic, wood, chemicals, and soil from U.S. nuclear weapons facilities are being released to regular landfills and could get into commercial recycling streams."
On 17 July 2007, regarding the leakage of water from the spent fuel pool of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant after the 2007 Niigata earthquake, Michael Mariotte, spoke on behalf of the NIRS and commented "The leak itself doesn't sound significant as of yet, but the fact that it went unreported is a concern, when a company begins by denying a problem, it makes you wonder if there's another shoe to drop."
The magazine Nuclear Engineering International has said that NIRS runs the best website on uranium mining throughout the world.
In October 2010, Michael Mariotte, then the executive director of NIRS, predicted that the U.S. nuclear industry will not experience a nuclear renaissance, for the simple reason that “nuclear reactors make no economic sense”. The economic slump has driven down electricity demand and the price of competing energy sources, and Congress has failed to pass climate change legislation, making nuclear economics very difficult.
Controversy
Critics accuse NIRS of fearmongering and question the qualifications of NIRS staff to adequately assess the safety of nuclear energy. No NIRS staff member is credited with formal training in nuclear physics or engineering.
In a 2008 response to NIRS claims appearing on the website palmbeachpost.com, David Bradish of the Nuclear Energy Institute challenged a contention |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Sight%20Fax | 4-Sight Fax is a fax server program for Apple Macintosh computer systems, produced by Soft Solutions Inc., USA.
Now on its 7th version, the server can handle an unlimited number of users, and may be accessed by a variety of means, including a virtual printer and supplied client software. It can run on Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 systems.
The supplied client software allows the server to be configured on a per-user basis, with settings for junk handling, archiving, and receipt confirmation, among other features. It is available in versions for Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, and Windows.
See also
Fax server
Footnotes
External links
4-Sight Fax website
Fax software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NBC%20personalities | This list includes various personalities who are well known for their roles on America's NBC television network.
Richard Valeriani
George Clay, Carl Stern,
Announcers
Bill Hanrahan (1918–1996) announcer for NBC and for NBC Nightly News, Huntley/Brinkley, John Chancellor, and the Tom Brokaw eras. Guest announcer for Saturday Night Live.
Danny Dark (1938–2004) announcer
Ray Forrest (1916–1999) radio staff announcer for NBC, pioneered TV announcing and news broadcasting
Howard Reig (1921–2008) announcer for NBC Nightly News since the Tom Brokaw era. Was replaced by actor Michael Douglas.
Don Pardo (1918–2014) announcer for Saturday Night Live, as well as former announcer for The Price Is Right, Jeopardy!, and WNBC's Live at Five
Bill Wendell (1924–1999), announcer on The Ernie Kovacs Show, To Tell the Truth, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Late Night With David Letterman, among other assignments
Bill Wolff (1927–2014), announcer for the soap opera Another World from 1964 to 1987, as well as WNBC staff announcer.
Casey Kasem (1932–2014), West Coast announcer for NBC Television and staffer for KNBC. Hosted American Top 40 popular music countdown show from 1970 to 2009
The Today Show anchors
News anchors
Weather anchors
Current shows and anchors
Today
Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb (Anchors)
Craig Melvin (News Anchor)
Al Roker (Meteorologist)
Carson Daly (Orange Room)
Today Third Hour
Al Roker (Host)
Craig Melvin (Host)
Sheinelle Jones (Host)
Dylan Dreyer (Host)
Today with Hoda and Jenna
Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager (Hosts)
NBC Nightly News
Lester Holt (Anchor)
The Tonight Show
Jimmy Fallon (Host)
Late Night
Seth Meyers (Host)
Weekends
Weekend Today
Peter Alexander (Anchor)
Kristen Welker (Anchor)
Somara Theodore (Meteorologist)
Sunday Today
Willie Geist (Anchor)
Meet The Press
Chuck Todd (Moderator)
Dateline NBC
Lester Holt (Anchor)
Nightly News
Jose Diaz-Balart (Anchor)
Kate Snow (Anchor)
America's Got Talent (2006-)
Terry Crews (Host season 14–present)
Simon Cowell (Judge season 11–present)
Sofia Vergara (Judge season 15–present)
Howie Mandel (Judge season 5–present)
Heidi Klum (Judge season 8–present)
The Voice (2011-)
Carson Daly (Host season 1–present)
Kelly Clarkson (Coach season 14–present)
John Legend (Coach season 16–present)
Blake Shelton (Coach season 1–present)
Nick Jonas (Coach season 18–present)
Christina Aguilera (Coach season 1-3, 5, 8, and 10)
American Ninja Warrior (2012-)
Matt Iseman (Co-host season 2–present)
Akbar Gbaja-Biamila (Co-host season 5–present)
Zuri Hall (Sideline reporter season 11–present)
Little Big Shots (2016-)
Melissa McCarthy (Host season 4)
World of Dance (2017-2020)
Jenna Dewan (Host)
Jennifer Lopez (Judge season 1–present)
Derek Hough (Judge season 1–present)
Ne-Yo (Judge season 1–present)
Making It (2018-)
Amy Poehler (Co-host season 1–present)
Nick Offerman (Co-host season 1–present)
Bring the Funny (2019-)
Amanda Seales (Host)
Kenan Thompson (Judge season 1–present)
Chrissy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20Monte%20Carlo | The Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) modelling method is a variation of the standard Metropolis–Hastings algorithm to solve an inverse problem whereby a model is adjusted until its parameters have the greatest consistency with experimental data. Inverse problems are found in many branches of science and mathematics, but this approach is probably best known for its applications in condensed matter physics and solid state chemistry.
Applications in condensed matter sciences
Basic method
This method is often used in condensed matter sciences to produce atom-based structural models that are consistent with experimental data and subject to a set of constraints.
An initial configuration is constructed by placing atoms in a periodic boundary cell, and one or more measurable quantities are calculated based on the current configuration. Commonly used data include the pair distribution function and its Fourier transform, the latter of which is derived directly from neutron or x-ray scattering data (see small-angle neutron scattering, wide-angle X-ray scattering, small-angle X-ray scattering, and X-ray diffraction). Other data that are used included Bragg diffraction data for crystalline materials, and EXAFS data. The comparison with experiment is quantified using a function of the form
where and are the observed (measured) and calculated quantities respectively, and is a measure of the accuracy of the measurement. The sum is over all independent measurements, which will include the sum over all points in a function such as the pair distribution function.
An iterative procedure is run where one randomly chosen atom is moved a random amount, followed by a new calculation of the measurable quantities. Such a process will cause to either increase or decrease in value by an amount . The move is accepted with the probability according to the normal Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, ensuring that moves that give better agreement with experimental data are accepted, and moves that worsen agreement with experimental data can be accepted to a greater or lesser extent corresponding to how much the agreement has worsened. Moreover, the move may also be rejected if it breaks certain constraints, even if the agreement with data is improved. An example would be to reject a move which brings two atoms closer than a preset limit, to prevent overlap or collision between the two atoms.
Following the acceptance/rejection test, the procedure is repeated. As the number of accepted atom moves increases, the calculated quantities will become closer to the experimental values until they reach an equilibrium state. From then onward the RMC algorithm will simply generate a small oscillation in the value of . The resulting atomic configuration should be a structure that is consistent with the experimental data within its errors.
Applications
The RMC method for condensed matter problems was initially developed by McGreevy and Pusztai in 1988, with application to liquid argon (Note |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comscore | Comscore is an American-based global media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises; media and advertising agencies; brand marketers and publishers.
History
Comscore was founded in July 1999 in Reston, Virginia. The company was co-founded by Gian Fulgoni, who was for many years the CEO of market research company Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) and Magid Abraham, who was also an ex-IRI employee and had served as president of IRI in the mid-1990s.
On March 30, 2007, Comscore made an initial public offering of shares on the Nasdaq, using the symbol "SCOR".
On February 11, 2014, Comscore announced the appointment of Serge Matta as chief executive officer, effective March 1.
Co-founder Gian Fulgoni, who had been serving as chairman emeritus since 2014, replaced Serge Matta as chief executive officer on August 10, 2016. On September 2, 2016, Comscore received a letter from NASDAQ that it was in danger of being delisted from the exchange on September 12 unless Comscore filed its 2015 annual report (form 10-K) and reports for the first two quarters of 2016. On February 6, 2017, Comscore announced they would not meet the NASDAQ-imposed deadline to "complete its financial restatement and regain compliance with Nasdaq's listing requirements." Because of this missed deadline, "Comscore's common stock may be suspended from trading and delisted from Nasdaq." If Comscore is delisted from NASDAQ and their trading is suspended, they advise they intend to "be quoted on the OTC Markets." In November 2017, According to the reports, Gian Fulgoni co-founder and CEO retired.
On April 23, 2018, it was announced that Bryan Wiener was appointed as the company's chief executive officer, effective May 30. Wiener had previously served as chairman of 360i, a 1,000-person advertising agency known for its ability to help brands capitalize on change through innovation and a data-driven approach to marketing.
On April 1, 2019, CEO Bryan Wiener announced that he, along with president Sarah Hofstetter would be stepping down from their respective roles at Comscore, citing irreconcilable differences in strategy with the company's board.
On November 5, 2019, Bill Livek was appointed by Comscore's Board of Directors as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice Chairman. Prior to joining Comscore, Mr. Livek served as Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Rentrak, where he spearheaded the next generation of products to precisely measure movies and TV everywhere. In February 2022, Livek announced he was going to retire and step down as CEO once the board found a replacement.
Mergers and acquisitions
Comscore acquired Media Metrix in a deal announced in June 2002. Earlier, the Federal Trade Commission announced it would block a bid by NetRatings to acquire Media Metrix.
Media Metrix originated as PC Meter, a business unit of market research company NPD Group, and began publishing statistics in January 1996. In July 1997, it c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out%20of%20the%20Shadows%20%28video%20game%29 | Out of the Shadows is an action-adventure game developed for the ZX Spectrum by R.M. Waller and R.M.R. Woodward. It was published in 1984 by Mizar Computing and in 1986 on the compilation Fourmost Adventures by Global Software.
Reception
Out of the Shadows received a "Crash Smash" from CRASH magazine, who highlighted the novel light and shadow concept and overall complexity of the gameplay.
References
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games
1984 video games
Action-adventure games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20Requirements%20for%20Authority%20Data | Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD), formerly known as Functional Requirements for Authority Records (FRAR), is a conceptual entity-relationship model developed by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) for relating the data that are recorded in library authority records to the needs of the users of those records and facilitate and sharing of that data.
The draft was presented in 2004 at the 70th IFLA General Conference and Council in Buenos Aires by Glenn Patton. It is an extension and expansion to the FRBR model, adding numerous entities and attributes.
The conceptual work and future implementations are aimed at supporting four tasks, frequently executed by users in a library context—either the library patrons (the first three tasks), or the librarians themselves (all four tasks):
Find: Find an entity or set of entities corresponding to stated criteria;
Identify: Identify an entity;
Contextualize: Place a person, corporate body, work, etc. in context;
Justify: Document the authority record creator's reason for choosing the name or form of name on which an access point is based.
Next to the development of FRAR, the Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR) is also charged to study the feasibility of an International Standard Authority Data Number (ISADN) and serve as the official IFLA liaison to and work with other interested groups concerning authority files.
See also
BIBFRAME
FRSAD
FRBR
FRBRoo
IFLA Library Reference Model
External links
Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR)
Full text with 2009 and 2013 corrections
Library cataloging and classification
Library 2.0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger%20II | Challenger II may refer to:
Challenger 2, British main battle tank
Quad City Challenger II, ultralight aircraft
Challenger II, a microcomputer manufactured by Ohio Scientific in 1977
Challenger II, the American registration name for racehorse and leading sire Challenger (horse) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Inner%20Life%20of%20the%20Cell | The Inner Life of the Cell is an 8.5-minute 3D computer graphics animation illustrating the molecular mechanisms that occur when a white blood cell in the blood vessels of the human body is activated by inflammation (Leukocyte extravasation). It shows how a white blood cell rolls along the inner surface of the capillary, flattens out, and squeezes through the cells of the capillary wall to the site of inflammation where it contributes to the immune reaction.
When teaching biology, professors will often generate 3D animations to demonstrate certain concepts to their students in a much more visual way than would otherwise be possible. In the case of The Inner Life of the Cell the creators aimed for a more cinematic, as opposed to academic, feel.
Production
David Bolinsky, former lead medical illustrator at Yale, lead animator John Liebler, and Mike Astrachan are some of the creators at XVIVO who made the movie. The audio track was composed, recorded, and produced by Matt Berky. They created the animation for Harvard's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Most of the processes animated were the result of Alain Viel's, Ph.D. work describing the processes to the team. Alain Viel is an associate director of undergraduate research at Harvard University.
The film took 14 months to create for 8.5 minutes of animation. It was first seen by a wide audience at the 2006 SIGGRAPH conference in Boston.
References
External links
,
YouTube video (narrated and much better than Harvard site because it is full size)
Extravasion Simplified cartoon version of the same process.
David Bolinsky's Speech Presenting The Inner Life of the Cell
Cells
American animated short films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screening%20router | A screening router performs packet-filtering and is used as a firewall. In some cases a screening router may be used as perimeter protection for the internal network or as the entire firewall solution.
References
See also
Access Control List
DMZ
Data security
Networking hardware
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Button | Jim Button may refer to:
Computer programmer Jim Knopf
The main character in Michael Ende's Jim Button novels:
Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
Jim Button and the Wild 13 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWOG | KWOG (channel 57) is a religious television station licensed to Springdale, Arkansas, United States, serving Northwest Arkansas as an Owned-and-operated station of the Daystar Television Network. The station's transmitter is located west of Springdale.
History
Prior to March 2, 2007, the station aired SafeTV with the callsign KSBN-TV, owned by Total Life Community Educational Foundation.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Official website
Daystar Television Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Springdale, Arkansas
WOG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workrave | Workrave is a free software application intended to prevent computer users from developing or aggravating occupational diseases such as carpal tunnel syndrome, repetitive strain injuries, or myopia.
The software periodically locks the screen while showing an animated character, “Miss Workrave”, walks the user through various stretching exercises, urges them to take a coffee break and sets a daily work time limit after which it automatically triggers an action, such as suspend the machine.
The program is cross-platform and dependent on the GTK+ graphical widget toolkit as well as other GNOME libraries on Linux. It is also available for Microsoft Windows.
See also
List of repetitive strain injury software
Repetitive strain injury
References
Further reading
"Operating Your Body at Peak Performance", a Linux Journal column about xwrits, RSIBreak, and Workrave
"How Open Source Saved My Neck", an InternetNews.com column by Sean Michael Kerner about Workrave
External links
Health software
Cross-platform free software
Software that uses GTK
Repetitive strain injury software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20recovery%20control | In computing, error recovery control (ERC) (Western Digital: time-limited error recovery (TLER), Samsung/Hitachi: command completion time limit (CCTL)) is a feature of hard disks which allow a system administrator to configure the amount of time a drive's firmware is allowed to spend recovering from a read or write error. Limiting the recovery time allows for improved error handling in hardware or software RAID environments. In some cases, there is a conflict as to whether error handling should be undertaken by the hard drive or by the RAID implementation, which leads to drives being marked as unusable and significant performance degradation, when this could otherwise have been avoided.
Overview
Modern hard drives feature an ability to recover from some read/write errors by internally remapping sectors and performing other forms of self-test and recovery. The process for this can sometimes take several seconds or (under heavy usage) minutes, during which time the drive is unresponsive. Hardware RAID controllers and software RAID implementations are designed to recognise a drive which does not respond within a few seconds, and mark it as unreliable, indicating that it should be withdrawn from use and the array rebuilt from parity data. This is a long process, degrades performance, and if more drives fail under the resulting additional workload, it may be catastrophic.
If the drive itself is inherently reliable but has some bad sectors, then TLER and similar features prevent a disk from being unnecessarily marked as 'failed' by limiting the time spent on correcting detected errors before advising the array controller of a failed operation. The array controller can then handle the data recovery for the limited amount involved, rather than marking the entire drive as faulty.
Typical defaults
Effectively, TLER and similar features limit the performance of on-drive error handling, to allow hardware RAID controllers and software RAID implementations to handle the error if problematic.
Generally, Western Digital enterprise drives such as Raptor, Caviar RE2 and RE2-GP (RAID Edition) come with TLER Read "Enabled" (7 seconds) and TLER Write "Enabled" (7 seconds) while desktop drives such as Caviar SE, SE16, and GP come with TLER Read and Write Disabled (configured as 0 seconds, to disable).
Standalone vs. RAID considerations
It is best for TLER to be "enabled" when in a RAID array to prevent the recovery time from a disk read or write error from exceeding the RAID implementation's timeout threshold. If a drive times out, the hard disk will need to be manually re-added to the array, requiring a re-build and re-synchronization of the hard disk. Enabling TLER seeks to prevent this by interrupting error correction before timeout, to report failures only for data segments. The result is increased reliability in a RAID array.
In a stand-alone configuration TLER should be disabled. As the drive is not redundant, reporting segments as failed will only increa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Storage%20Technology | Data Storage Technology (DST) is a wide magnetic tape data storage format created by Ampex in 1992. The DST format was also made by Ampex as a digital videotape format, DCT, using the same design of cassette. DST is relatively high capacity and high speed, especially compared to other tape technologies available in the 1990s. There are 3 standard tape cartridges sizes compatible with each generation, "Small", "Medium", and "Large".
Generations
External links
Entry in Computer Desktop Encyclopedia (Search for "DST")
Ampex's History (Search for "DST")
Computer storage tape media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales%20of%20the%2077th%20Bengal%20Lancers | Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC during its 1956-57 season.
In a period in which much of the programming on U.S. television consisted of Westerns, Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers could best be described as an "Eastern". It consisted of the adventures of a fictional regiment of the famed real-life cavalry of the British Indian Army. The leading characters were the 77th's officers: the commander, Colonel Standish (Patrick Whyte) and two of his lieutenants, William Storm (Warren Stevens) and Michael Rhodes (Phil Carey). Rhodes was portrayed as a Canadian, purportedly because the actor portraying him, a native of New Jersey, could not be coached to produce a credible English accent.
George Archainbaud earned a nomination from the Directors Guild of America as well from the Emmys in 1957 for his direction of the episode "The Traitor," which first aired Nov. 19, 1956.
The series failed in the ratings opposite Lassie on CBS and ended its run after six months on the air.
It was sponsored by General Foods.
See also
Lives of a Bengal Lancer
References
Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows
1956 American television series debuts
1957 American television series endings
Television series by Screen Gems
American adventure television series
NBC original programming
Television shows set in the British Raj |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraTopia | TerraTopia was a series of children's books produced by The Nature Company in the early 1990s and eventually spun off into other products, most notably an adventure game for computers.
TerraTopia books
Several TerraTopia books were released in the early 1990s, as well as a collection of the four stories together as one hardcover volume that was recognized by Parents' Choice Awards. The books took the format of short graphic novels, with comic-book-style panels and word balloons. The stories are about the wonders of nature and caring for the environment. The Elders of TerraTopia bestow upon five ordinary children an animal totem, giving them the ability to assume that animal's form.
The Secret of the Dragonfly and The Daring Dino Rescue
The Adventure of The Wandering Wolves in Vulcan's Vent ISBN
Sketch's Sketch Book
Terratopia, The Graphic Adventure: The First Four Tales (hardcover compilation)
TerraTopia computer game
TerraTopia, a computer game designed for boys and girls age 8 and up, was published by Virgin Sound and Vision in 1995 as a part of its Virgin Adventure Series. It was quite often a standard issue game on most computers that came equipped with Windows 95 in the mid to late 1990s.
Voiceover Cast
The cast of TerraTopia, in order of on-screen appearance:
Other TerraTopia products
In 1993 TerraTopia was made into a board game, designed by Peter Olotka of Cosmic Encounter fame and his son, Greg Olotka. In the spirit of the books, the game was cooperative rather than competitive, with all players attempting to overcome various challenges using their Terratrooper abilities and ultimately recover their stones.
Cancelled and unreleased
A Canal+ TerraTopia television show was announced in 1995, planned for release in 1996 as a 52-episode series. Planned to coincide with the television show was a Minolta TerraTopia camera, which would have been Minolta's first camera marketed primarily to kids and would have featured the character Sketch to get children interested in nature photography.
In 1998, The Discovery Channel purchased The Nature Company and converted all remaining Nature Company stores to the Discovery Channel brand. As of 2006, there have been no attempts to revive TerraTopia as a Discovery Channel property.
References
"Canal Plus, Solomon Int'l find 'TerraTopia' TV isle", The Hollywood Reporter, June 21, 1995
"Minolta to create a children's camera based on the critically acclaimed TerraTopia license", Business Wire, June 20, 1995
External links
Terratopia.com, official site
Discovery Channel
TerraTopia board game
1990s children's books
Children's fiction books
American picture books
Series of children's books
Environmental fiction books
Fiction about shapeshifting
Adventure graphic novels
American graphic novels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20XML%20markup%20languages | This is a list of notable XML markup languages.
A
AdsML Markup language used for interchange of data between advertising systems.
aecXML: a mark-up language which uses Industry Foundation Classes to create a vendor-neutral means to access data generated by Building Information Modeling.
AFrame: a mark-up language to create 3D graphics on web pages **.
Agricultural Ontology Service
AIML Markup language used for creating artificial intelligence chatterbots.
AnIML Markup language used for data created by scientific analytical instruments.
ARXML Autosar specification description XML
Atom (standard): The Atom Syndication Format is a language used for web feeds
Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML): format for capturing a person's interests and dislikes
Automated Test Markup Language (ATML): defines a standard exchange medium for sharing information between components of automatic test systems.
Attention.xml: used for RSS and similar online subscription-tracking applications
Auto-lead Data Format: an open XML-based standard specifically for communicating consumer purchase requests to automotive dealerships.
B
BeerXML: a free XML based data description standard for the exchange of brewing data
Binary Format Description language: an extension of XSIL which has added conditionals and the ability to reference files by their stream numbers, rather than by their public URLs
Biological Dynamics Markup Language (BDML) is an XML format for quantitative data describing biological dynamics.
Business Intelligence Markup Language (BIML) is an XML dialect for defining business intelligence (BI) assets.
Business Process Execution Language: a business process modeling language that is executable
C
Call Control eXtensible Markup Language: a standard designed to provide telephony support to VoiceXML
CCTRL: a call control XML that allows developers to create telephony services that run on Lignup, Inc.'s software communications platform
CellML: a language describing mathematical models
Channel Definition Format
Chemical Markup Language
ClaML : Classification Markup Language for health informatics, accepted as European Norm EN 14463:2007.
Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
Clinical Document Architecture
COLLADA: a standard for exchanging digital assets among various graphics software applications
Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
CXML: a protocol intended for communication of business documents between procurement applications, e-commerce hubs and suppliers
CityGML: An open standardised data model and exchange format to store digital 3D models of cities and landscapes.
D
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA): A document format used by publishers
Data center markup language
Data Format Description Language
Digital Forensics XML
Dimensional Markup Language
Directory Service Markup Language
DisplayML
DocBook: a markup language for technical documentation.
Document Schema Definition Languages
Document Structure Description: a schema language for XM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Radio%20Network | The National Broadcasting Company's NBC Radio Network (also known as the NBC Red Network from 1927 to 1942) was an American commercial radio network which was in continuous operation from 1926 through 1999. Along with the NBC Blue Network, it was one of the first two nationwide networks established in the United States. Its major competitors were the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), founded in 1927, and the Mutual Broadcasting System, founded in 1934. In 1942, NBC was required to divest one of its national networks, so it sold NBC Blue, which was soon renamed the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). After this separation, the Red Network continued as the NBC Radio Network.
For the first 61 years of its existence, this network was owned by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) with New York City radio station WEAF (renamed WNBC in 1946, WRCA in 1954 and again as WNBC in 1960) as its flagship station. Following the emergence of television as the dominant entertainment medium and much of NBC Radio's talent migrating both to CBS and NBC television, the network would make multiple investments in programming in hopes of retaining relevance. These included the weekend program umbrella Monitor (1955–1975), the all-news focused NBC News and Information Service (1975–1977) and the talk radio service NBC Talknet, all of which encountered varying degrees of success and failure.
Following RCA's purchase by General Electric, NBC's radio network division was sold to Westwood One in 1987, which already had acquired Mutual and merged the two together. NBC Radio News, which also merged into Mutual's news service, saw most of its functions cease on April 17, 1999, after further consolidation merged both NBC and Mutual directly into CBS's radio news operations. Westwood One and its successor network continued to use "NBC" branding for some of its programming until 2020, partnering with NBC News to operate NBC News Radio from 2003 until 2014, and with NBC Sports for NBC Sports Radio. From 2016 onward, iHeartMedia has handled production and distribution of NBC News Radio.
Early history
WEAF chain
The 1926 formation of the National Broadcasting Company was a consolidation and reorganization of earlier network radio operations developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) beginning in 1922, in addition to more limited efforts conducted by the "radio group" companies, which consisted of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its corporate owners, General Electric (GE) and the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (and, for a period of time, the United Fruit Company).
Organized radio broadcasting started in the early 1920s, with AT&T soon becoming an industry leader. In 1920 and 1921, AT&T concluded a series of patent cross-licensing agreements with the "radio group" companies. The "radio group" began negotiating under that name through a cross-licensing agreement between GE and Westinghouse, agreed to on July 1, 1921. Under these ag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribler | Tribler is an open source decentralized BitTorrent client which allows anonymous peer-to-peer by default. Tribler is based on the BitTorrent protocol and uses an overlay network for content searching.
Due to this overlay network, Tribler does not require an external website or indexing service to discover content. The user interface of Tribler is very basic and focused on ease of use instead of diversity of features. Tribler is available for Linux, Windows, and OS X.
Tribler has run trials for a video streamer known as SwarmPlayer.
History
The name Tribler stems from the word tribe, referring to the usage of social networks in this P2P client. The first version of Tribler was an enhancement of ABC aka Yet Another BitTorrent Client.
In 2009, the development team behind Tribler stated that their efforts for the coming years were focused on the integration of Tribler with television hardware.
In 2014, with the release of version 6.3.1, a custom built-in onion routing network was introduced as part of Tribler. Users can load any clearnet torrent, and by leaving the box for anonymity ticked, the files will be routed through other Tribler. Because the custom onion network does not use Tor exit nodes, it is enhanced to make every Tribler user to function as a relay.
Features
Tribler adds keyword search ability to the BitTorrent file download protocol using a gossip protocol, somewhat similar to the eXeem network which was shut down in 2005. The software includes the ability to recommend content. After a dozen downloads the Tribler software can roughly estimate the download taste of the user and
recommends content. This feature is based on collaborative filtering, also featured on websites such as Last.fm and Amazon.com. Another feature of Tribler is a limited form of social networking and donation of upload capacity. Tribler borrows bandwidth capacity from connected nodes regarded as helpful to boost the download speed of files.
SwarmPlayer
The SwarmPlayer is a Python-based BitTorrent Internet TV viewer. It allows one to watch BitTorrent-hosted peer-to-peer digital media distribution of video on demand and plays live Tribler streaming media. It is based on the same core as the Tribler TV application.
The core software is free and open source software based on the Tribler platform, licensed under the LGPL 2.1.
Development
Tribler was created by university researchers at the Delft University of Technology, who are trying to improve peer-to-peer technology. Tribler is designed to enhance BitTorrent by removing the need for central elements such as the websites for finding content, as well as being anonymous.
The European Union's P2P-Next project to develop an Internet television distribution standard builds on Tribler technology.
Reception
After a news article on TorrentFreak in February 2012 mentioned Tribler's decentralization and the fact that its index is impossible to take down, the website became hugely popular, causing it to be reduced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K51GK | K51GK was a low-power Class A television station in Sioux City, Iowa, United States, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 51 as an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcast Network. Founded October 15, 1992, the station was acquired by Cornerstone Faith Center in 1997 and moved to channel 51 in 2004. The station's license was cancelled and its call sign deleted by the Federal Communications Commission on May 10, 2011.
K51GK's programming was the same national schedule as TBN, but deviated for taped repeats of their services, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11p.m. Cable One did not offer the channel, but broadcast the taped service on their local public-access television channel, Thursdays at 6:30p.m. The church's other program, Breakaway was seen Sunday mornings on KTIV and Sundays at 12p.m. on Sky Angel's Angel One channel.
References
External links
TBN official site
Cornerstone Faith Center official site
Religious television stations in the United States
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1992
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
1992 establishments in Iowa
2011 disestablishments in Iowa
Defunct mass media in Iowa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Radio%20Grandstand | ABC Sport, formerly ABC Radio Grandstand, is a live radio sports focused commentary and talk-back program which runs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) local radio network across Australia and on one digital-only station.
History
From the first week in November 2020, the ABC rebranded all of its sports coverage as "ABC SPORT", renaming the ABC Grandstand on digital radio as well as its social media accounts to this name.
Description
Sports that covered by the station include Test, Twenty20 and One-Day International cricket (live), rugby league (mostly in Queensland and New South Wales), the Summer Olympics, Australian Football League games, Australian Open tennis and soccer matches, including games involving the Socceroos and the A-League competition.
Programming
Grandstand cricket
ABC Grandstand has been broadcasting cricket since the 1930, and is the only national Australian radio station to broadcast live Test, One Day and domestic cricket.
The lead ABC cricket commentators are as follows:
Jim Maxwell – A highly experienced and highly regarded cricket commentator, Maxwell has covered Australian One-Day, Test, and World Cup matches. He also has broadcast rugby union, rugby league, golf, and hockey, and Olympic Games.
Ian Chappell – Former captain of Australia. He has played over 90 Test and One Day cricket matches for Australia and has a Test batting average of 42.42.
Alison Mitchell – Commentator of Channel 7's cricket coverage since 2018, first joined the ABC in 2014. She has also covered the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games and four Women's Cricket World Cups.
Other notable callers include Andrew Moore, Kristen Beams, Dirk Nannes, and Stuart Clark.
Grandstand rugby league
Grandstand Rugby League is the ABC's flagship NRL programme in the northern states. The programme calls every game live each week of the season including the State of Origin series and Finals with in depth previews and reviews, analysis, extensive talkback and interviews, and live score updates of other matches.
Grandstand AFL
Grandstand AFL is ABC's flagship sports programme in the southern states. The programme calls six AFL games live a week with further match preview, analysis, and talkback of the game. An introduction in 2008 was the Sunday Inquisition with Gerard Whateley highlighting the good and the bad of the AFL games for the past week. Coverage preference is given to local teams in their state. National coverage for games outside the home state is determined by the match with the highest appeal.
Commentators: Quentin Hull, Rob Cross, Peter Walsh, Clint Wheeldon, Corbin Middlemas, Adam White, Matt Clinch, David Parkin, Jon Dorotich, Kelli Underwood, Stan Alves, Mark Maclure
Grandstand A-League
Beginning in the 2013/14 season, ABC Grandstand began covering every match of the A-League live on either local radio, digital radio, or via a dedicated mobile app.
Presenters
Simone Thurtell
Simone Thurtell was a presenter for Grandstand. She |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under%20Suspicion%20%28TV%20series%29 | Under Suspicion is an American police drama television series set in Portland, Oregon. It was created by Jacqueline Zambrano. Its episodes were broadcast on the CBS network from September 16, 1994 to March 10, 1995. Though short-lived, the show premiered to fairly strong reviews, which praised lead Karen Sillas's performance and observed that the show functioned as a kind of Americanized Prime Suspect.
Filming occurred in Portland, with views of the South Park Blocks and Willamette River.
The show is rated M in New Zealand for violence, sexual references and offensive language.
Cast
The show stars Karen Sillas as Detective Rose "Phil" Phillips, the only female detective in a male-dominated police squad.
The supporting cast includes Philip Casnoff as Internal Affairs Sergeant Jimmy Vitelli, veteran character actor Seymour Cassel (star of Faces and Minnie and Moskowitz) as Captain Mickey Schwartz, Ray Baker (Hard Rain) as Chief DeSort, Paul McCrane as Detective Clarke, Michael Beach as Detective Desmond Beck, Doug Baldwin as coroner Leon Hart, and Arabella Field as Patsi Moosekian.
Plot
The harsh realities of discrimination are always apparent to Detective Rose "Phil" Phillips. In addition to coping with the daily pressures of being a detective, she must break down the barrier of crude sexist comments made by her fellow cops and force them to see her as an equal.
Sexy, tough and a good cop, Phil confronts her own feelings about being a woman in a man's world when she finds herself attracted to Sergeant Jimmy Vitelli of Internal Affairs, a handsome, arrogant cop on the rise.
Phil's determination, crime-solving skills and feminine perspective make her a compassionate, outstanding detective, but she'll always be Under Suspicion as she struggles to prove that she's just "one of the boys."
Episodes
References
External links
1990s American crime drama television series
Television shows set in Portland, Oregon
Television shows set in Oregon
Television shows filmed in Oregon
CBS original programming
1994 American television series debuts
1995 American television series endings
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
American detective television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20II | Artificial Intelligence II is a compilation album released via Warp on 30 May 1994. It is the eighth and final release in Warp's Artificial Intelligence series. It peaked at number 16 on the UK Compilation Chart.
Critical reception
John Bush of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, stating that it is "a bit more sonically experimental" than Artificial Intelligence. Mark Richardson of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.8 out of 10, saying: "By 1994 there were a lot of people making 'electronic listening music' and this doesn't feel like a particularly special assemblage of what was out there."
Track listing
Note
Tracks 11–14 are excluded from the single-disc CD edition; tracks 13–14 are excluded from the cassette and standard double-disc vinyl editions.
Charts
References
External links
Artificial Intelligence II at Warp
1994 compilation albums
Warp (record label) compilation albums
Record label compilation albums
Electronic compilation albums
Intelligent dance music compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20and%20the%20Moods | Anna and the Moods is a 2006 computer animated short film by the Icelandic digital design and animation company CAOZ in Reykjavík. The plot centers on a girl named Anna Young who contracts a horrible illness that makes her incredibly moody.
The film was written by Academy Award-nominated writer Sjón on a commission by the Brodsky Quartet, which performs the music composed by Julian Nott in the film. It premiered at the 2006 Reykjavík International Film Festival, and was released in Iceland on February 9, 2007 in both Icelandic and English. Anna and the Moods won the Edda Award for Best Short Film.
Plot
Anna Young has always been the perfect daughter. One day, Anna's attitude dramatically changes, leaving her parents worried. Unable to figure out what has happened to their daughter, Anna's parents take her to Dr. Artmann's clinic for unruly children. At the clinic Anna is exposed to a variety of obstacles in a complex labyrinth. The only way out of the maze for Anna is to complete the tasks in the right way. Anna, however, decides to create mischief to escape. This leads Dr. Artmann to come to a shocking conclusion about Anna, the cure of which is a nasty surprise for her parents.
Cast
Terry Jones, narrator
Björk as Anna Young
Damon Albarn as Mr. Young
Thorunn Larusdottir as Mrs. Young
Sjón as Dr. Artmann
Jón Páll Eyjólfsson as Granny, Anna's Uncle, Hunter, Michael, MUM figure
Hreidar Smárason as Little Brother
Martin Regal as Normal Boy
Ámundi Sigurdsson as Healthy Boy
Einar Örn Benediktsson as Peter the Goth
Stefán Karl Stefánsson, special ad lib and extras
References
External links
2006 films
CAOZ films
Icelandic animated short films
British animated short films
2006 computer-animated films
Computer-animated short films
2000s British films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Caribbean%20Fiber | Southern Caribbean Fiber, (once known as Antilles Crossing), is an underwater 20 gigabit per second (Gbit/s) fiber optics ring network connecting several nations and overseas territories of the Caribbean Sea. The initial phase of construction extended from Needham's Point, Saint Michael, Barbados to Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands where it interconnects with Global Crossing's worldwide telecommunications network.
Originally built by TeleBarbados, it is one of the newer important network connections to the Internet for Barbados, the Windward and also Leeward Islands. The company began as a joint venture between Leucadia National Corporation and Barbados Light & Power Holdings Limited with plans to build out the network in four phases.
Phase I (The red phase) links Barbados, to the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Phase II (The grey phase) will see the linking of Barbados firstly to Tobago and then onward to Trinidad further south.
Phase III (The green phase) will see the link from Trinidad traveling Northward to Grenada, Saint Vincent, and Saint Lucia.
Phase IV (The blue phase) will see a link extended from Saint Lucia Northward to Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Kitts and Saint Croix in United States Virgin Islands
In 2012 TeleBarbados including its subsea fiber unit Antilles Crossing was acquired by Columbus Communications to form short lived Columbus Networks. Through further consolidation in the region Cable and Wireless Communications led an acquisition of Columbus Communications and out of concerns of competition in 2013 Digicel after outlining objection to the deal between Columbus Communications and C&W, Digicel Group reached a deal to acquire some of the former assets of Columbus Networks and Antilles Crossing along with other fiber assets in the region to maintain competition Digicel completed on September 10, 2014, the acquisition of this and other assets forming Southern Caribbean Fiber.
Original Stake holders
Antilles Crossing
Barbados Light & Power,
Ectel,
Leucadia,
Network Research
Participant countries
Barbados (red),
Grenada (green),
Guadeloupe (blue),
Martinique (blue),
Saint Kitts and Nevis (blue),
Saint Lucia (green),
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (green),
Trinidad and Tobago (grey),
United States Virgin Islands (red),
Facts
USVI—Barbados: 940 km segment
Total: 3000 km
See also
TeleBarbados
List of international submarine communications cables
References
External links
Communications in the Caribbean
Communications in Barbados
Submarine communications cables in the Caribbean Sea
Wide area networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20centrale%20de%20P%C3%A9kin | (abbreviated ECPk, ) is a Sino-French engineering school in the centre of Beijing, China. It was established in 2005 by the initiative of the Écoles Centrales Network, a group of France's leading graduate schools in engineering research and education including the prestigious , together with China's Beihang University - the nation's top research institution in the field of aeronautics and astronautics.
ECPk campus is located at Beihang University.
History
In 2004, an agreement was signed by the Écoles Centrales and Beihang University to create the , which was then founded in 2005 in Beijing. In line with the Centrale education model which promotes close ties with the industry, the school signed partnerships with several major corporations in France and China, such as Société Générale, Alstom, Airbus, Schlumberger, Orange S.A., Safran, PSA Peugeot Citroën, COMAC, Total, and Ernst & Young, which have committed to support the institution's development as founding partners. Their contributions are to include defining the school's education strategy as well as providing financial support, research cooperation, industrial training, and publicity.
was inaugurated in September 2005 by Hervé Biausser, director of (now CentraleSupélec) and representative of the Écoles Centrales. The first class of students graduated in January 2012.
Admission
It recruits 100 students each year among the best of the Chinese education system, after the nation's intensive university entrance examinations (Gaokao, 高考).
Training
Most lessons are conducted in French, and the training lasts 6 years, after which graduates receive a master's degree from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Beihang University) and the French diplôme d'ingénieur. The first three years correspond to preparatory classes similar to the French classes préparatoires and are based on 4 domains: language, mathematics, physical sciences, and industrial engineering.
The last three years correspond to the "generalist" engineer curriculum followed by the Écoles Centrales. Some of the specialization options include Materials Science, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Aeronautical Engineering, and Aerospace Science.
International exchange programs are also being planned as part of the curriculum.
External links
Official website
Educational institutions established in 2005
Pekin
Universities and colleges in Beijing
Engineering universities and colleges in China
2005 establishments in China |
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