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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantext | Scantext was a professional code-driven digital typesetting system popular in the 1980s, rendered obsolete by the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing software. It was developed and built by Scangraphic, a division of Dr. Böger Duplomat Apparate GmbH & Co. KG, based in Wedel near Hamburg, Germany.
System
The Scantext 1000 system comprised a CPU with multiple 8" disk drives, keyboard and monitor, the latter displaying coordinates and codes defining a page layout. The left-hand drive was intended for recording document data; the second for required font data. In the early years, no preview was available, the operator seeing only typesetting codes ("working blind"). Later, a non-interactive (green) monochrome preview display was introduced.
The Scantext 1000 system ran under the operating system CP/M and used Intel 8080/85 processors.
The 1000 system also featured an optional font editing package, allowing not only modification of existing fonts but the creation of entirely new designs. This software displayed individual font characters for pixel-based editing, in conjunction with an attached stylus. An optional drum scanner facilitated the input of new designs to create new fonts or pi characters.
To compensate for the lack of differently-sized master character images (as implemented in Monotype's Monophoto system, for instance), proportional scaling was implemented: the larger the type size specified, the tighter the spacing (an automatic feature). (For pi fonts and connecting scripts this was over-ridden by implementing a font number beginning with the figure 5, cancelling auto letterspacing.)
The Scantext 1000 system was completed by a filmsetter unit using CRT technology.
For the Scantext 2000 system a new hardware platform was defined. It made use of the Motorola 68000 processor series and 3.5" disk drives. The operating system was a Unix-derivate called OS-9. The workstation Scantext 2000 Commander featured a monochrome page preview display, plus additions to the page description language which allowed the creation of graphic primitives. The 2000 Commander also implemented the incorporation and display of bitmap images in conjunction with the optional flatbed scanner.
The system was completed by the filmsetter unit, a drum-based laser imagesetter with a (then massive) 10Mb hard drive.
Autotabs
The Scantext system had some features which present-day typesetting software would do well to emulate: autotabs in particular were a feature ahead of their time.
Scangraphic featured both horizontal and vertical tabs which could be defined as a percentage of page size, it therefore being possible to create layouts which reconfigured themselves to new page sizes.
Vertical autotabs
The Scantext system allowed a vertical autotab to be created at any point: at any ad hoc point in a column a command could be issued to close the current vertical tab; it was then possible, for instance, to type a command to box-in or to scribe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network18%20Group | Network18 Media & Investments Limited, (formerly SGA Finance and Management Service and Network18 Fincap Limited) commonly referred to as the Network18 Group and sometimes as the Network18–Eenadu Group, is an Indian media conglomerate owned by the energy giant Reliance Industries, headed by billionaire Mukesh Ambani. Rahul Joshi is the managing director, chief executive officer and group editor-in-chief of Network18, and Adil Zainulbhai is the chairman of its board of directors.
Network18 is the holding company of TV18 Broadcast, Web18 Software Services, Network18 Publishing and Capital18. Through its subsidiaries and franchise licensing agreements, the group owns and operates the news broadcasting networks of News18, and CNBC channels in India, the magazines of Forbes India and Overdrive, the websites of Firstpost and Moneycontrol, and owns various other assets and investments. The broadcasting subsidiary TV18 is the controlling partner in two mass media joint ventures, Viacom18 and AETN18, through which it operates the OTT platforms of Voot, the production house Viacom18 Studios, the television networks of Colors TV, Nickelodeon India, Comedy Central India, VH1 India, MTV India and the channel History TV18.
Incorporated in 1996 by Geeta and Rakesh Gupta, the company was acquired by Ritu Kapur and Raghav Bahl to be converted into a conglomerate holding company between 2003 and 2006. It oversaw one of the largest collections of media properties in India following its conversion but became encumbered with debt due to aggressive expansions. In 2012, the company entered into a debt agreement with Reliance Industries, through which it was granted a number of channels from the ETV Network. The agreement eventually enabled a hostile takeover of the company in 2014.
History
1996–2007: Acquisition and restructuring
SGA Finance and Management Services was incorporated on 16 February 1996, as a private limited company by Geeta and Rakesh Gupta and acquired soon afterwards by Vidya Devi and Anil Jindal. The company had remained inactive without any clear prospects until it was later acquired by the promoters of Television Eighteen India Limited.
The news broadcasting company Television Eighteen (TEIL) founded by Ritu Kapur and Raghav Bahl, became a public limited company in 1999 and its initial public offering (IPO) received an overwhelming response. The investments through the IPO exceeded the target set by the company by a magnitude of over 50 times by the end of the year, raising in the process. This decreased the promoters' stake in the company from 75% to 26.11% by 2002 causing complications. The company was in the middle of preparations to launch a Hindi business news channel but could no longer meet regulatory guidelines. TEIL was in a joint venture with CNBC since 1998, and the news channel to be launched was called CNBC Awaaz. The guidelines required the Indian promoters to have more than 51% stake in their company to be able to establish a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve%20Got%20the%20Job | You've Got the Job is a television show that aired on the Seven Network in Australia. The show was hosted by Seven News presenter and former Dancing with the Stars contestant Chris Bath.
The program follows real people seeking actual jobs, and the stories of the employers and potential employees. You've Got the Job aired on Sunday nights at 7pm.
External links
You've Got The Job
Seven Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harfleur%20station | Harfleur is a suburban railway station in Harfleur near Le Havre, France. It is situated on the Paris–Le Havre railway. Services are provided by SNCF branded TER Normandie regional rail network:
References
Railway stations in Seine-Maritime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous%20%28TV%20series%29 | Dangerous is an Australian television drama series that first screened on 16 January 2007 on FOX8 and was shown in Ireland on RTÉ One. In mid-2008, it began running on The WB's online network in the US.
It features a "Romeo and Juliet" story of forbidden love, set against the culturally diverse backgrounds of Sydney's western suburbs street crime and the affluence of Sydney's eastern suburbs. It explores youth culture, including taboo subjects like party drug use and the underground world of drag racing and ramraiding. Dangerous is produced by John Edwards and Imogen Banks. Writers include Fiona Seres and Brendan Cowell, acclaimed for their work on Love My Way. It is directed by David Caesar and Shawn Seet. The series' theme song is "Set The Record Straight", performed by New Zealand hip hop group Fast Crew, although the lyrics "Auckland City, let's go" has been changed to "Sydney City, let's go" for use on the show.
Cast
Khan Chittenden as Dean
Brooke Satchwell as Donna McCarthy
Joel Edgerton as Detective Mark Field
Robert Mammone as Craig Lukovic
Paul Pantano as Joe
Nicole da Silva as Erica "EC" Eulestra
Vico Thai as Phu "Riz" Nguyen
Jack Finsterer as Nathan Walsh
Steve Rodgers as Brendan
Katie Wall as Esther
Jackson Edwards as Kale
Gabrielle Scollay as Catriona Lukovic
Kieran Darcy-Smith as Garry
Trent Dalzell as Jock
Jess Levett as Tiane
David Dowell as Daryl
Waddah Sari as Vinnie
Episodes
(Episode information retrieved from Australian Television Information Archive).
Cars
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Foxtel
FOX8 Official Website
Southern Star
Dangerous Website
Dangerous Myspace Fan site
Fox8 original programming
2007 Australian television series debuts
2000s Australian drama television series
2007 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Sydney
Television series by Endemol Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20longest-running%20American%20first-run%20syndicated%20television%20series | This is a list of the longest running U.S. first-run syndicated television series, ordered by number of broadcast seasons.
To qualify for this list, the programming must originate in North America, shown nationally in the United States, and be first-run syndicated (as opposed to previously aired material, repackaging of previously aired material, or material released in other media). For the purposes of this list, series that were available only on a local or regional basis will be excluded. For series that were presented on U.S. broadcast networks or cable networks at other points in their runs, only the amount aired nationally as original first-run syndicated programming is represented here.
Several long-lasting series were both in first-run syndication and on U.S. network television. For those that were in syndication for fewer than ten seasons, see List of longest-running United States television series.
List
25 seasons and up
15–24 seasons
10–14 seasons
See also
List of sitcoms broadcast in first-run syndication
List of television programs by episode count
List of television series canceled after one episode
List of television series canceled before airing an episode
List of longest-running U.S. cable television series
List of longest-running U.S. broadcast network television series
List of longest-running U.S. primetime television series
List of longest-running United States television series
Notes
Longest-running syndicated
Syndicated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru%20Tanaka%20%28actor%29 | was a Japanese actor born in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. He was a graduate of the Tokyo metropolitan Yukigaya high school, Mumeijuku and was represented by JVC Entertainment Networks at the time of his death.
Filmography
Television
Rinrin to (1990, NHK)
Nurse Station (1991, TBS)
Yanagi-bashi Ryojō (2000, NHK)
Onsen e Yukō! (Series, TBS) – A manager
Deka Kizoku (After Part 2, NTV)
Jungle
Aibō (Season IV, EX)
Byōin e Yukō! (Series TBS) – Yūji Katase
Wednesday Mystery 9 "A medical examiner Shinomiya Hadzuki" 6 (2005, TX) – Kōichi Machida
anego (2005 NTV)
Voice recorder (2005 TBS)
Ultraman Mebius (2006 CBC/TBS) – Captain Shingo Sakomizu
Film
Uruu no Machi (1991)
Gekkō no Natsu (1993) – Shinsuke Kazama
Uso (1995)
Miyazawa Kenji -Sono Ai- (1996)
Kanzō Sensei (1998)
I love You (1999) – Ryūichi Mizukoshi
Declaration of war (2000) – Takayasu Tsutsumi
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) – A guard
Kusa no Ran (2004)
Deguchi no nai Umi (2006) – Toda
Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers (2006) – Captain Shingo Sakomizu
Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel (2011) – Police Officer Hiroshi Sagami / Commander Dopant
Stage
Taiyō to Tsuki ni Somuite (1999)
Kenkyaku Shōbai (2001, 2003)
Proof (2001)
Kotoba (2002)
Dubbing
Ally McBeal – Raymond Millbury (Josh Hopkins)
Enemy at the Gates (2003 NTV edition) – Commissar Danilov (Joseph Fiennes)
Hornblower – Horatio Hornblower (Ioan Gruffudd)
Starship Troopers – Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien)
Summer Scent – Yoo Min-woo (Song Seung-heon)
Sunshine – Robert Capa (Cillian Murphy)
Television CM
Kao "Bath Magicrin"
Kao "Econa Brand"
Chugai Pharmaceutical "Guronsan"
References
External links
JVC Entertainment Networks Official Web Site (Japanese)
1966 births
People from Ōta, Tokyo
2011 suicides
20th-century Japanese male actors
Japanese male television actors
Japanese male stage actors
Japanese male film actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
Male actors from Tokyo
Asadora lead actors
Suicides by hanging in Japan
2011 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Cogar | George R. Cogar (born 1932, disappeared 1983) was the head of the UNIVAC 1004 electronic design team code named the "bumblebee project", and later the "barn project", and co-founder of Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation, a Herkimer, N.Y.-based multimillion-dollar business. His most successful invention was the Data Recorder magnetic tape encoder, which was introduced in 1965 and eliminated the need for keypunches and punched cards by direct encoding on tape. He also founded the Cogar Corporation, where he built an intelligent terminal—an early forerunner of the modern personal computer—which he called the Cogar System 4 or Cogar 4. The Cogar 4 became the Singer 1500 after Singer Business Machines acquired Cogar Corporation. In 1976 International Computers Limited (ICL) acquired Singer Business Machines, changing the name of the computer to the ICL 1500.
Disappearance
Cogar was last seen Friday, September 2, 1983, when a private plane, a Britten-Norman Islander, went down somewhere in British Columbia, Canada.
Philanthropy
Cogar and his wife Ann established the Cogar Foundation for the express purpose of awarding grants and scholarships to students of Herkimer County. The Cogar Gallery at Herkimer County Community College is named for them.
Patents
See also
International Computers Limited
List of people who disappeared
MDS 2400
Singer Corporation
References
External links
https://georgecogar.com/
1932 births
Possibly living people
American computer scientists
Missing aviators
Missing person cases in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS%20%28TV%20channel%29 | CTC (or , stands for , , lit. ‘Network of television stations’ (NTS)) is a commercial television station based in Moscow, Russia. It belongs to the CTC Media company. The company is owned by National media group (Russia) and VTB Bank (Russia).
History
In 1994, Channel Six Petersburg (owned by then-current CTC Media StoryFirst Communications) began expanded outside St. Petersburg. Some local stations began rebroadcast that station: AMTV (Moscow), Zenit (Oryol), TSM Channel 10 (Novosibirisk, have been rebroadcast since the launch in 1991 but disaffiliated in 1995).
In December 1996, AMTV went into financial crisis, most of founders had left. It later joins StoryFirst Communications (at that time owned some regional TV in Russia). AMTV later joins those stations, leading to creating STS. STS was launched on 1 December 1996.
In 2002, Alexander Rodnyansky became General Director of the CTC. During the period of his leadership the ratings of the channel showed a quick and significant increase. 2006 - the best year in the history of STS. Then the average share of the channel's audience reached the highest level - 10.4% (audience "Russia, all viewers over four years").
December 21, 2009 - start broadcasting international version of the channel - "CTC International".
February 1, 2019 - CTC switched to a 16:9 broadcast format. November 2019 - the HD version of the TV channel started broadcasting.
Today STS broadcasts a mix between Russian productions and international programming of interest to its target audience, viewers aged 10–45, especially younger audiences.
Approximately 100 million people are within STS's signal reach. In 2019, STS achieved an average audience share in its target demographic of 9.45%. It ranks as the sixth most watched nationwide broadcaster in Russia overall. STS network reaches approximately 96% of urban households.
Russian series
STS airs both licensed series and sitcom. Among original Russian series and sitcoms: Poor Nastya ("Бедная Настя"), Cadets ("Кадетство"), Daddy's Daughters ("Папины дочки"), Ranetki ("Ранетки", dramedy about the same musical group - Ranetki Girls), Kitchen ("Кухня"), Eighties ("Восьмидесятые"), The Junior Team ("Молодёжка"), Two Fathers, Two Sons ("Два отца и два сына"), Londongrad ("Лондонград"), Ivanov-Ivanov ("Ивановы-Ивановы"), 90's. Fun and loud ("90-е. Весело и громко").
In the 2010s, the number of licensed series decreased. The management of the channel relies on original Russian projects.
Foreign films
CTC Media maintains shows European and Hollywood films, including those from Disney (which also includes Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios and Blue Sky Studios), Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., Paramount, Sony Pictures and others.
Russian films
STS Media participated in the shooting and promotion of many Russian films: The 9th Company ("9 рота"), Piter FM ("Питер FM"), Heat ("Жара"), Dark Planet ("Обитаемый остров"), Hooked on the Game ("На игре"), All Inclusive ("All inc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes%20management%20software | Diabetes Management Software refers to software tools that run on personal computers and personal digital assistants to help persons with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes manage the data associated with:
blood test results from a glucose meter
diabetes logbooks
basal and bolus settings for an insulin pump
records of actual insulin delivery
records of carbohydrates eaten and bloused to cover
statistical evaluation
manual log entries for exercise and other factors
coaching of dose corrections
prediction of future blood sugars, etc.
Features and uses
Conducting regular self-management tasks such as medication and insulin intake, blood sugar checkup, diet observance, and physical exercise are really demanding. This is why the use of diabetes-related apps for the purposes of recording diet and medication intake or blood glucose level is promising to improve the health condition for the patients. There are many products available to help maintain records and analyze trends related to diabetes care. Some support a single diabetes tool such as one manufacturers glucose meter, while others are intended to interface with many manufacturers products. Some diabetes management software is free to download or can be used on-line, while others are for sale (or shareware). Some are simple and easy to use for a single user, while others have very powerful features that support many users in a clinical setting. The emergence of user-friendly mobile devices has resulted in renewed interest in diabetes mobile applications, and there is a 2011 review article of the currently available features compared against evidence-based recommendations for diabetes self-management.
Depending on the product selected, there are a variety of features which include:
summary tables or diabetes logbook data that can be:
imported from multiple sources,
viewed on the screen,
saved and archived for personal use,
printed, faxed, emailed or shared online with your diabetes care team.
charts to analyze:
visualization of repeating patterns,
blood glucose trends for evaluation of
compliance with goals, and
consideration for new insulin adjustments, and
future predictions of blood glucose levels,
control screens for:
insulin pump setup and control,
continuous blood glucose monitoring setup and control.
Examples
Logbook
Example 1 shows a logbook can combine readings from multiple meters (such as one at home and another at work or school) in one place. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner readings are lined up vertically to help look for trends. The logbook automatically colors the box red for a low blood sugar, and blue for a high blood sugar. In the example chart, a pattern is easy to visualize: mornings tend to be a bit high (more insulin is needed at night) and there is a pattern of lows occurring after dinner (perhaps dinner insulin or the afternoon basal rates could be turned down).
Standard day data plots
The Standard day data plots, see example 2, shows that trends are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showtime | Showtime or Show Time may refer to:
Film
Showtime (film), a 2002 American action/comedy film
Showtime (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur
Television
Networks and channels
Showtime Networks, a division of Paramount Global which owns the Showtime brand
Showtime (TV network), a cable and satellite TV network headquartered in the U.S., part of the Paramount Global division called "Showtime Networks"
Showtime Arabia, former dominant TV service in the Middle East and North Africa, has since been merged into a pay-TV network called "OSN"
Showtime Movie Channels, a suite of Australian premium networks owned under a studio consortium which licenses the Showtime name
Showtime Scandinavia, a television channel broadcasting action movies to the Nordic countries
Series and programs
Showtime (Australian TV series), a 1959–1960 variety show
Showtime (Croatian TV series), a 2007 talent show similar to Pop Idol
Showtime (South Korean TV series), a reality television series since 2013
It's Showtime (Philippine TV program), previously Showtime, a Philippine noontime variety show
NBA Showtime, a pregame show aired before each NBA on NBC telecast
Episodes
"Showtime" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
"Showtime" (Law & Order)
"Showtime" (M*A*S*H)
Music
Albums
Showtime (Angel & Khriz album) (2008)
Showtime (Bro'Sis album) (2004)
Showtime (James Brown album) (1964)
Show Time (Arnett Cobb album) (1987)
Show Time (Ry Cooder album) (1977)
Show Time (Doris Day album) (1960)
Showtime (Dizzee Rascal album) (2004)
Showtime (The J. Geils Band album) (1982)
Showtime (Nitzer Ebb album) (1990)
Showtime (Mick Ronson album) (1999)
Show Time (Show Lo album) (2003)
Show Time (Slave album)
Showtime, by TV-2 (2011)
Songs
"Show Time", by The Detroit Emeralds (1968)
"Showtime", by Nelly Furtado from Loose (2006)
"Showtime", by Lower Than Atlantis from Changing Tune (2012)
"Showtime", by MC Ren from Renincarnated (2009)
Sports
Showtime (basketball), a style of basketball associated with the Los Angeles Lakers from 1979 to 1991
Showtime All-Star Wrestling, an American professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee
Eric Young (wrestler) (born 1979), nickname for Canadian professional wrestler
Shohei Ohtani (born 1994), nickname for Japanese professional baseball player
Other uses
Showtime (busking), a dance style for buskers in the New York City Subway
"Showtime" Marching Band, a marching band from Howard University in Washington, DC
The Sims 3: Showtime, the sixth expansion pack for The Sims 3
Showtime Rotisserie, a small oven invented and advertised by Ron Popeil
Showtime, a fragrance endorsed by Kylie Minogue
Princess Peach: Showtime!, an upcoming Nintendo Switch video game starring Princess Peach.
See also
It's Showtime (disambiguation)
ShoTime (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyles%20Electric%20Works | Skyles Electric Works is a company founded in 1978 in California by Bob Skyles, a former Commodore engineer, to produce hardware add-ons for the Commodore PET. Like Apple Computer, it began in a garage in Cupertino, California, but for most of the company's existence it was based in nearby Mountain View. The company employed 13 between 1985 and 1987 and reached annual sales of over $501,000 in those years.
The first products from Skyles Electric Works were memory expansions and keyboards (the first PETs had calculator-style keys which were unsuited to touch-typing).
The earliest software products were firmware, including the Command-O and Disk-O-Pro, which enhanced the BASIC language of the PET.
The company also published cassette and disk-based software including Busicalc, the first spreadsheet program for the Commodore 64, and which was licensed from Supersoft in England. Busicalc and the follow-up products Busicalc 2 and Busicalc 3 were highly successful in the US market during 1983 and 1984, and encouraged Skyles Electric Works to source other similar products which were rebranded to form part of the Busi series, notably Busidata . Another C64 title was the game Megapede written by Paul Andrus. Among the company's last offerings were memory expansion boards for the 500, 1000, and 2000 models of the Amiga computer.
Skyles Electric Works dissolved in 1993.
References
External links
1978 establishments in California
1993 disestablishments in California
American companies established in 1978
American companies disestablished in 1993
Computer companies established in 1978
Computer companies disestablished in 1993
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Defunct computer companies based in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook%20100%20series | The PowerBook 100 series is a line of laptop PCs produced by Apple Computer.
In October 1991, Apple released the first three PowerBooks: the low-end PowerBook 100, the more powerful PowerBook 140, and the high-end PowerBook 170, the only one with an active matrix display.
These machines caused a stir in the industry with their compact dark grey cases, use of a trackball, and the clever positioning of the keyboard which left room for palmrests on either side of the pointing device. Portable PC computers at the time tended to have the keyboard forward towards the user, with empty space behind it, so this was a surprising innovation and set the standard layout all future notebook computers would follow.
The PowerBook 140 and 170 were designed first. The 100 benefited from their development and by components miniaturized by Sony after Apple sent them schematics of the Mac Portable. The 100, however, did not sell well until Apple dropped the price substantially.
The 100 and 200 series PowerBooks were intended to tie into the rest of the Apple desktop products using the corporate Snow White design language incorporated into all product designs since 1986. However, unlike the Macintosh Portable which was essentially a battery-powered desktop in weight and size, the light colors and decorative recessed lines did not seem appropriate for the scaled-down designs. In addition to adopting the darker-gray color scheme which co-ordinated with the official corporate look, they also adopted a raised series of ridges mimicking the indented lines on the desktops. The innovative look not only unified their entire product line, but set Apple apart in the marketplace and had the added benefit of masking fingerprints while the ridges provided added traction with which to grip the PowerBook. These early series would be the last to use the aging Snow White look; a new look was debuted on the 190 and the 500 series.
The first series of PowerBooks were hugely successful, capturing 40% of all laptop sales. But several factors hampered Apple's efforts to introduce newer models and keep ahead of competitors. One was the departure of the original PowerBook team to work at Compaq. Another was that Apple's plans to move on from the 68000 and 68030 CPUs were thwarted by overheating problems with the 68040. The 100-series PowerBook were stuck with chips that could not compete with Intel 80486-based PC laptops introduced in 1994. For several years, new PowerBook and PowerBook Duo computers were introduced which featured incremental improvements, including color screens, but by mid-decade, most other companies had copied the majority of the PowerBook's features, and Apple was unable to regain their lead.
The original PowerBook 100, 140, and 170 were replaced by the 145 (updated to the 145B in 1993), 160, and 180 in 1992, with the 160 and 180 having video output allowing them to drive an external monitor. The PowerBook 180 had a superb-for-the-time active-matrix grayscale disp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL%20Bulletin | The ALGOL Bulletin () was a periodical regarding the ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68 programming languages. It was produced under the auspices of IFIP Working Group 2.1 and published from March 1959 till August 1988.
Time-line of ALGOL Bulletin
References
ALGOL 60
ALGOL 68
Computer science journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGHB-CD | KGHB-CD (channel 27) is a television station licensed to Pueblo, Colorado, United States, serving the Colorado Springs area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network UniMás. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Univision affiliate KVSN-DT (channel 48, also licensed to Pueblo). KGHB-CD's transmitter is located on Baculite Mesa north of Pueblo.
Even though KGHB broadcasts a digital signal of its own, its broadcast radius just barely reaches Colorado Springs. The station is therefore simulcast on KVSN's second digital subchannel in order to cover the entire market. This can be seen on channel 48.2 from a transmitter on Cheyenne Mountain.
Subchannel
References
External links
Entravision official site
UniMás network affiliates
GHB-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Colorado
GHB-CD
GHB-CD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProRec | The ProRec initiative of 1996 was a network of national non-profit organisations (the "ProRec centres"). The initiative was a consequence of the conclusions of the Concerted Action MEDIREC (1994-1995) regarding the reasons why Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems were not used more widely in any of the European Union. As part of the Lisbon Declaration suggestions were made to remedy this situation.
The ProRec initiative is supported by the DG Information Society of the European Union. The DG Information Society supported the ProRec initiative with the ProRec Support Action (1996-1998), and the WIDENET Accompanying Measure (2000-2003).
The goal of the initiative is to build awareness of the limitations, shortcomings and obstacles on the way towards widespread development, implementation and use of quality Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and pointing them out. Especially significant for implementing Electronic Health Record systems is the ability to communicate and interoperate.
See also
CEN/TC 251
EHRcom
European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec)
European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL)
European Health Telematics Observatory (EHTO)
Health Informatics Service Architecture (HISA)
External links
ProRec-BE
ProRec-RO
Electronic health records
Information technology organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow%20storage | Rainbow storage is a developing paper-based data storage technique first demonstrated by Indian student Sainul Abideen in November 2006. Abideen received his MCA from MES Engineering College Kuttipuram in Kerala's Malappuram District .
Initial newspaper reports of the technology were disputed by multiple technical sources, although Abideen says those reports were based on a misunderstanding of the technology. The paper meant to demonstrate the capability of storing relatively large amounts of data (and not necessarily in the gigabyte range) using textures and diagrams.
The Rainbow data storage technology claims to use geometric shapes such as triangles, circles and squares of various colors to store a large amount of data on ordinary paper or plastic surfaces. This would provide several advantages over current forms of optical- or magnetic data storage like less environmental pollution due to the biodegradability of paper, low cost and high capacity. Data could be stored on "Rainbow Versatile Disk" (RVD) or plastic/paper cards of any form factor (like SIM cards).
Criticism
Following the wide media attention this news received, some of the claims have been disputed by various experts.
Printing at 1,200 dots per inch (DPI) leads to a theoretical maximum of 1,440,000 colored dots per square inch. If a scanner can reliably distinguish between 256 unique colors (thus encoding one byte per dot), the maximum possible storage is approximately 140 megabytes for a sheet of A4 paper–much lower when the necessary error correction is employed. If the scanner were able to accurately distinguish between 16,777,216 colors (24 bits, or 3 bytes per dot), the capacity would triple, but it still falls well below the media stories' claims of several hundred gigabytes.
Printing this quantity of unique colors would require specialized equipment to generate many spot colors. The process color model used by most printers provides only four colors, with additional colors simulated by a halftone pattern.
At least one of three things must be true for the claim to be valid:
The paper must be printed and scanned at a much higher resolution than 1,200 DPI,
the printer and scanner must be able to accurately produce and distinguish between an extraordinary number of distinct color values, or
the compression scheme must be a revolutionary lossless compression algorithm.
The theory is: If Rainbow's "geometric" algorithm is to be encoded and decoded by a computer, it would equally viable to store the compressed data on a conventional disk rather than printing it to paper or other non-digital medium. Printing something as dots on a page rather than bits on a disk will not change the underlying compression ratio, so a lossless compression algorithm that could store 250 gigabytes within a few hundred megabytes of data would be revolutionary indeed. Likewise, data can be compressed with any algorithm and subsequently printed to paper as colored dots. The amount o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20Republic%20of%20Iran%20News%20Network | The Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN) is an Iranian news channel, part of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting corporation, headquartered in the Jame Jam Park in Tehran, Iran. The main programs are political, but sports, science and medical news programs also exist. Its language is mainly in Persian but there are special programs in English and Arabic.
Notable publications
June 22, 2021
On June 22, 2021, the US department of justice seized 33 Iranian websites, which they claimed were "spreading disinformation". A statement by IRINN said, the move appeared to be part of a larger-scale crackdown by the U.S. on news websites linked to the “Axis of Resistance”.
October 10, 2022
During the 2022 Iran Protests, a Hacktivist group called "Edalaat-e-Ali" hacked the News Network, targeting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and showing 4 women who were victims of allegedly not covering their hair, especially Mahsa Amini, who were featured in the hacked footage scene during the news bulletin.
References
External links
IRIB News Network Live streaming
Television stations in Iran
Mass media in Tehran
Persian-language television stations
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
24-hour television news channels in Iran
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Iran
Legislature broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDE64 | The IDE64 interface cartridge is an expansion port device for connecting ATA(PI) devices to the C64 or C128 computers.
Hardware
There were several different versions of this cartridge over the years. The interface was designed by Tomas Pribyl and Jan Vorlicek in 1994. Today Josef Soucek is working on the design.
IDE64 v1.1 – In 1997 the first public version of the cartridge appeared. The logic was fitted into 2 ispLSIs, the operating system was burned into a 32 kB EPROM, and there was 16 kB of RAM storage for buffers. There was a DS1302 real-time clock included which could keep the settings and hold the time backed by a battery. Beside the parallel ATA connector also an expansion port pass through was included to allow attaching of other cartridges.
IDE64 v2.1 – Around 1999 the first "modern" version of the cartridge came out, merging the logic into one big ispLSI PLD. Also the EPROM was upgraded to a 64 kB EEPROM to allow operating system upgrades without special equipment. The RAM was extended to hold 28 kB of buffers and internal variables. There was a new connector on board, called ShortBus. It was meant for hardware expansions like LCD displays, 7-segment display, but later also more sophisticated expansions appeared. This was also the first version to include SuperCPU compatibility.
IDE64 v3.1 –In 2001 a redesigned version of the 2.1 cartridge was made, this version drops the expansion port pass-through.
IDE64 v3.4 –CompactFlash cards became popular, so the cartridge was redesigned in 2004 to include a CF socket. This allowed a mobile and small storage possibility for the C64, without additional devices and power supplies.
IDE64 v3.4+ – In 2005, with a small hardware change, the EEPROM was upgraded to 128 kB, which allowed to hold two versions of the operating system for both a standard C64 and SuperCPU. This was selectable with a small switch, and solved the reflashing problem for those with SuperCPU equipped systems.
IDE64 v4.1 – The pre-release happened in 2008 August, but it was not available until 2009 March. The hardware was redesigned to use surface-mounted parts and a more up-to-date ispMACH CPLD, which resulted in a much shorter board. A USB serial FIFO chip was added for fast PCLink connections, and an Amiga clock-port for connecting additional devices. The card slot on this version is separated from the parallel ATA port, and offers wider compatibility with CF cards. The I/O interface was changed to support 128 kB operating system and was tweaked for slightly faster data transfer speeds.
ShortBus expansions
ETH64 – A LAN91C96 chip based Ethernet card. It is supported by Contiki, Wings and maybe some other software. It can also be used for PCLink connection.
DUART – This is a XR68C681 based dual RS-232 card featuring, mostly used for PCLink connection. It is supported by Contiki, Wings, Novaterm 9.6 and maybe some other software.
DigiMAX – It is a MAX506 based 4 channel 8-bit digital-to-analog converter card, can be used as "so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Households%20Below%20Average%20Income | Households below average income is an annual publication on poverty statistics in the United Kingdom. The data is based on the Family Resources Survey.
Poverty is defined as having an equivalised household income below the 60% median line.
References
External links
HBAI
Family economics
Government publications
Household income
Measurements and definitions of poverty
Poverty in the United Kingdom
Publications with year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20slime | In the computer programming, vector slime refers to a class of visual effects achieved by procedural deformation of geometric shapes. The techniques appear in programming demos.
Synopsis
A geometric object exposed to vector slime is usually defined by vertices and faces in two or three dimensions. In the process of deformation, each vertex in the original shape undergoes one or more linear transformations (usually rotation or translation), defined as a function of the vertex' position in space (usually a function of the magnitude of the vector) and time. The desired result is an animated geometric object behaving in a harmonic way, creating some degree of illusion of physical realism.
Older vector slime implementations kept old copies of the rendering result from simple vector objects in RAM, and selected scan-lines from the different buffers in order to make a time-displacement illusion over the y-axis.
Appearance
Depending on variances in implementation, vector slime can approximate an array of physical properties. A traditional approach is to let the linear transformation vary as a smooth function of time minus the magnitude of the vector in question. This creates the illusion that there is a force applied to the origin of the object space (where the object is usually centered), and the rest of the object's body reacts as a soft body, as each vertex reacts to a change in the force delayed by the distance to the origin. Applied to a spikeball (a sphere with extracted arms), the object could resemble the behaviour of a soft squid-like animal. Applied to a cube, the object would appear as a cubic piece of jelly propelled by a gyro force from the inside.
Areas of application
Although the classical vector slime algorithms are far from an attempt at correct physical modelling, the result can, under certain conditions, trick the viewer into believing that there is some sophisticated physical simulation involved. The effect has therefore grown quite popular in the demoscene to create impressive visual effects at relatively low computational cost. Interactive vector slime implementations can also eventually be found in computer games as a substitute for a more correct physical simulation algorithm.
Demos featuring vector slime
Crystal Dream 2 by Triton
Lethal Exit by Digital (possibly the first demo to use this term)
Yuri Nation by Non Alien Nature-V (possibly the first hardware vector slime)
Shapeshifter by Excess
Demo effects
3D computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20network | A personal network is a set of human contacts known to an individual, with whom that individual would expect to interact at intervals to support a given set of activities. In other words, a personal network is a group of caring, dedicated people who are committed to maintain a relationship with a person in order to support a given set of activities. Having a strong personal network requires being connected to a network of resources for mutual development and growth.
Personal networks can be understood by:
who knows you
what you know about them
what they know about you
what are you learning together
how you work at that
Personal networks are intended to be mutually beneficial, extending the concept of teamwork beyond the immediate peer group. The term is usually encountered in the workplace, though it could apply equally to other pursuits outside work.
Personal networking is the practice of developing and maintaining a personal network, which is usually undertaken over an extended period.
The concept is related to business networking and is often encouraged by large organizations, in the hope of improving productivity, and so a number of tools exist to support the maintenance of networks. Many of these tools are IT-based, and use Web 2.0 technologies.
History of networking and business success
In the second half of the twentieth century, U.S. advocates for workplace equity popularized the term and concept of networking as part of a larger social capital lexicon—which also includes terms such as glass ceiling, role model, mentoring, and gatekeeper—serving to identify and address the problems barring non-dominant groups from professional success. Mainstream business literature subsequently adopted the terms and concepts, promoting them as pathways to success for all career climbers. In 1970 these terms were not in the general American vocabulary; by the mid-1990s they had become part of everyday speech.
Before the mid-twentieth century, what we call networking today was framed in the language of family and friendship. These close personal relationships provided a range of opportunities to preferred subsets of people, such as access to job opportunities, information, credit, and partnerships. Family networks and nepotism have proven particularly strong throughout history. However, other common bonds—from ethnicity and religion to school ties and club memberships—can connect subsets of people as well. Of course people whom insiders consider undesirable have been barred from such networks, with important consequences. Those who tap into influential networks can be nurtured toward success. Those who are shut out from networks can lose hope of success. Numerous business heroes of the past—such as Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller—exploited networks to great effect.
The business networks that seemed natural and transparent to these white men were a closed book to women and minorities for much of American histo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia%20Central | Macromedia Central was a runtime environment developed by Macromedia (now just Adobe since being acquired) for developing application software that runs on different operating systems and are distributed over the Internet.
It is an extension of the Adobe Flash Player, and shares some similarities with the Java Runtime Environment, although it has a much smaller memory footprint and is more suited for vector animation.
Macromedia Central's newest version is currently 1.5, released in September 2004.
With the release of Adobe AIR beta, Central became obsolete and is no longer available for download. However, the SWF file that allows Central installation is available here.
Easter egg
A hidden Homestar Runner cartoon could be found in Macromedia Central by opening the "About Macromedia Central" dialog box, holding down Ctrl (or command on Macintoshes) and double-clicking on the logo. This brings up a password entry box. Enter "sbemail" as the password, and the cartoon will play in the dialog box. For more information, see the Homestar Runner Wiki's article on the cartoon.
References
External links
Adobe.com - Macromedia Central
Macromedia Central Shire - gathers some documentation about Central and make Digital Products Via Adobe tools
CNET.com - Macromedia frees Flash from the browser
Adobe Inc.
Central |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland%20Graphics%20Interface | The Borland Graphics Interface, also known as BGI, was a graphics library bundled with several Borland compilers for the DOS operating systems since 1987. BGI was also used to provide graphics for many other Borland products including the Quattro Pro spreadsheet.
The library loaded graphic drivers (*.BGI) and vector fonts (*.CHR) from disk in order to provide device independent graphics support. It was possible for the programmer to embed the graphic driver into the executable file by linking the graphic driver as object code with the aid of a utility provided by the compiler (bgiobj.exe). There were graphic drivers for common graphic adapters and printers of that time, such as CGA, EGA, VGA, Hercules, AT&T 400, MCGA and 3270 PC. There also were BGI drivers for some kinds of plotters.
The last Borland's C++ IDE for DOS is Borland C++ 3.1 (1992). The last C++ environment which supports BGI is Borland C++ 5.02 (1997), which works under Windows but can compile DOS programs. BGI was accessible in C/C++ with graphics.lib / graphics.h, and in Pascal via the graph unit.
BGI was less powerful than modern graphics libraries such as SDL or OpenGL, since it was designed for 2D presentation graphics instead of event-based 3D applications. However, it has been considered simpler to code. BGI and Turbo C++, although obsolete, are still widely used in education in India.
Third-party BGI drivers
Given the popularity of Borland compilers, a few independent software developers produced BGI drivers for non-standard video modes, advanced video cards, plotters, printers, and graphics file output.
In 1994 Jordan Hargraphix Software released SVGA BGI drivers version 5.5 that are compatible with some SVGA hardware like ATI or Cirrus Logic cards and VESA VBE-compatible cards. Also there are tweaked VGA drivers for non-standard graphic modes supported by VGA by writing directly into its registers, protected mode driver versions for Turbo Pascal 7.0 and mouse driver (actually cursor handler for unsupported video modes by standard mouse drivers). These drivers were shareware and buying them let receiving their source code and technical support; now they are no longer supported, but on 19 December 2020 Jordan Hargrave kindly released source code under the MIT License on GitHub. Main bugs are lack of aligning bytes support in VESA true-color modes (so the true-color driver is not suitable for Nvidia graphic cards) and video memory bank switching bug in mouse driver (since real mode addressing space is 1 megabyte, but some video modes require up to 4 megabytes of memory, it is split into 64 kilobyte banks).
Legacy
A BGI-compatible library, named Graph, is included in the Free Pascal Pascal compiler.
Several BGI implementations for present-day operating systems are also available (see External links.)
Example
The following program, written for Borland Turbo C, initialises the graphics and draws 1000 random lines:
#include <graphics.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdlib |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%20Association%20for%20SQL%20Server | PASS (formerly known as the Professional Association for SQL Server) was a global community for data professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. An independent, non-profit, user-run association, PASS was founded in 1999 with funds from Microsoft and Computer Associates. PASS was governed by a board of directors, elected by PASS members for two-year terms.
With growing membership of more than 300,000, PASS had more than 270 PASS Local Groups around the world as well as over 20 PASS Virtual Groups focused on a specific topic or providing learning opportunities in different local languages. Every fall, the organization hosted PASS Summit, the largest conference in the world for data professionals using the Microsoft data platform. From 2013 to 2015 PASS hosted the PASS Business Analytics Conference for data and business analysts, data scientists, and BI professionals. PASS offered virtual and in-person training for professionals working with the Microsoft Data Platform; covering topics across Architecture, Data Management, and Analytics. PASS hosted events include SQLSaturday, PASS Marathon, 24 Hours of PASS (24HOP), and the global PASS Summit conference. PASS also offered regional in-person training and networking through PASS Local Groups.
On December 17, 2020 PASS announced that because of COVID-19, they were ceasing all operations effective January 15, 2021.
On January 28, 2021 Redgate Software announced it had acquired the assets of PASS.
PASS Summit locations
1999 - Chicago
2000 - San Francisco
2001 - scheduled for Orlando Sept 15, 2001 - Canceled
2002 - Denver (January)
2002 - Seattle (November)
2003 - Seattle
2004 - Orlando
2005 - Dallas
2006 - Seattle
2007 - Denver
2008 - Seattle
2009 - Seattle
2010 - Seattle
2011 - Seattle
2012 - Seattle
2013 - Charlotte
2014 - Seattle
2015 - Seattle
2016 - Seattle, WA on October 25–28
2017 - Seattle, WA on October 31-November 3
2018 - Seattle, WA on November 6-9
2019 - Seattle, WA on November 5-8
2020 - Virtual Conference
2022 - Seattle, WA on November 15-18
PASS Business Analytics Conference
2013 - Chicago
2014 - San Jose, CA
2015 - Santa Clara, CA
2016 - San Jose, CA
European Conference locations
2000 - London
2005 - Munich
2006 - Barcelona
2008 - Neuss, Germany
2009 - Neuss, Germany
2010 - Neuss, Germany
References
External links
SQLSaturday official website
Microsoft database software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20of%20Transmission%20System%20Operators%20for%20Electricity | ENTSO-E, the European Network of Transmission System Operators, represents 39 electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) from 35 countries across Europe, thus extending beyond EU borders. ENTSO-E was established and given legal mandates by the EU's Third Package for the Internal energy market in 2009, which aims at further liberalising the gas and electricity markets in the EU.
History
On 27 June 2008, 36 European electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) signed in Prague a declaration of intent to create the ENTSO-E. ENTSO-E was established on 19 December 2008 in Brussels by 42 TSOs as a successor of six regional associations of the electricity transmission system operators. ENTSO-E became operational on 1 July 2009. The former associations ETSO, ATSOI, UKTSOA, NORDEL, UCTE and BALTSO became a part of the ENTSO-E, while still offering data by their predecessors for public interest.
Creation of ENTSO-E was initiated by the adoption of the European Union third legislative package on the gas and electricity markets. In 2003, the European Commission conducted a sector inquiry concerning the competition of electricity market in six European countries. Examining competition in these countries, the final report stated serious issues to be solved. It was noticed that the integration between member state's markets is still insufficient. Additionally, the absence of transparently available market information was assessed. As a result, the third legislative package on the EU gas and electricity markets was adopted by the European Commission in September 2007.
Objectives
According to its website, "ENTSO-E promotes closer cooperation across Europe’s TSOs to support the implementation of EU energy policy and achieve Europe’s energy & climate policy objectives, which are changing the very nature of the power system. The main objectives of ENTSO-E centre on the integration of renewable energy sources (RES) such as wind and solar power into the power system, and the completion of the internal energy market (IEM), which is central to meeting the European Union’s energy policy objectives of affordability, sustainability and security of supply. [...] ENTSO-E aims to be the focal point for all technical, market and policy issues relating to TSOs and the European network, interfacing with power system users, EU institutions, regulators and national governments."
Members
TSOs are responsible for the bulk transmission of electric power on the main high voltage electric networks. TSOs provide grid access to the electricity market players (i.e., generating companies, traders, suppliers, distributors, and directly connected customers) according to non-discriminatory and transparent rules. In many countries, TSOs are in charge of the development of the grid infrastructure, too. TSOs in the European Union internal electricity market are entities operating independently from the other electricity market players (unbundling).
ENTSO-E contained 39 Member T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-Chip%20module | A Flip-Chip module is a component of digital logic systems made by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for its PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, and PDP-10 computers, and related peripherals, beginning on August 24, 1964.
Description
As used by DEC, the term described a proprietary way to package electronic circuitry which was used for central processing units, peripheral controllers, and many other digital or analog electronic products produced by the company. The first flip-chip modules mated with single-sided 18-contact card edge connectors with contacts on 1/8 inch centers. Circuit boards were 2-7/16 inches wide by 5 inches long, with a handle adding 1/2 inch. Double-height modules with two connectors side by side were 5-3/16 inches wide. Later, when two-sided boards were introduced, upwards-compatible double-sided 36-contact edge connectors were used, but the basic connector and board dimensions remained unchanged. If more component real estate area were required for electronic circuitry, the "standard-length" modules would be supplemented by "extended-length" modules.
The company eventually produced extended-length quad-height (four connectors) and hex-height (six connectors) modules as larger circuit boards came into use; these larger boards often included metal levers to handle the larger forces need to insert or extract the boards from mating backplane connectors. The circuit boards (modules) were assembled into larger systems by plugging them into backplanes composed of blocks of connectors. These connectors were in turn interconnected by wirewrapping. (The earlier DEC System Modules used a hand-wired and soldered backplane. Manufacturing difficulties with this led DEC to investigate Gardner-Denver's automated wirewrap technology.) Troubleshooting would narrow down a fault to the module level, and a defective or suspected faulty module would be replaced by a known-good one, to repair a malfunctioning computer system.
The plastic handles were color-coded to distinguish the various circuit design families used by the modules, and thus their power supply voltages, logic signal voltages, and switching speed.
History
The trademark "Flip-Chip"' was filed on August 27, 1964. Various manuals produced by DEC refer to the modules as "FLIP CHIP", "FLIP-CHIP", "Flip Chip", and "Flip-Chip", with trademark and registered trademark symbols.
Some of these modules, for example, the R107 module shown, used hybrid integrated circuits built where individual diode chips were mounted on a ceramic substrate. Some boards containing flip chip modules were etched and drilled to allow those modules to be replaced by discrete components. At some points during production, conventional discrete components may have replaced these flip-chip devices, but the early use of hybrid integrated circuits allowed DEC to market the PDP-8 as an integrated circuit computer.
When DEC began to use monolithic integrated circuits, they continued to refer to their circuit boards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive%20testing | RF Drive testing is a method of measuring and assessing the coverage, capacity and Quality of Service (QoS) of a mobile radio network.
The technique consists of using a motor vehicle containing mobile radio network air interface measurement equipment that can detect and record a wide variety of the physical and virtual parameters of mobile cellular service in a given geographical area.
By measuring what a wireless network subscriber would experience in any specific area, wireless carriers can make directed changes to their networks that provide better coverage and service to their customers.
Drive testing requires a mobile vehicle outfitted with drive testing measurement equipment. The equipment is usually highly specialized electronic devices that interface to OEM mobile handsets. This ensures measurements are realistic and comparable to actual user experiences.
Data collected during RF drive testing
RF drive test equipment typically collects data relating to the network itself, services running on the network such as voice or data services, radio frequency scanner information and GPS information to provide location logging.
The data set collected during drive testing field measurements can include information such as:
Signal levels
Signal quality
Interference
Dropped calls
Blocked calls
Anomalous events
Call statistics
Service level statistics
Quality of Service information
Handover information
Neighboring cell information
GPS location co-ordinates
Types of RF drive testing
RF drive testing can broadly be categorized into three distinct topics:
Network benchmarking.
Optimization and troubleshooting
Service quality monitoring.
The result produced by drive testing for each of these purposes is different.
Network benchmarking
For benchmarking, sophisticated multi-channel tools such as Focus Infocom's DMTS and XGMA, DingLi Communications' Pilot Fleet, Ascom's Symphony, Rohde & Schwarz-SwissQual's Diversity Benchmarker, Keysight Nemo Invex II, Aaronia RTSA Suite or RantCell application based QoE drive test benchmarking tool are used to measure several network technologies and service types simultaneously to very high accuracy, to provide directly comparable information regarding competitive strengths and weaknesses. Results from benchmarking activities, such as a comparative coverage analysis or comparative data network speed analysis, are frequently used in marketing campaigns. Drive testing to gather network bench-marking data is the only way mobile network operators can collect accurate competitive data on the true level of their own and their competitor's technical performance and quality levels.
Optimization and troubleshooting
Optimization and troubleshooting information is more typically used to aid in finding specific problems during the rollout phases of new networks or to observe specific problems reported by consumers during the operational phase of the network lifecycle. In this mode drive testing data is used to diagnose the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20Variables | Shared Variables are a feature of the programming language APL which allows APL programs running on one processor to share information with another processor. Although originally developed for mainframe computers, Shared Variables were also used in personal computer implementations of APL. Shared Variables could be used to control peripheral devices, or to communicate with external files, database management systems, or other users. Shared Variables were first introduced by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in their APL.SV software product in 1973, and are still available , in APLs from IBM and Dyalog, for the operating systems Linux and Windows.
Origin
When APL\360 was first introduced in 1968, there were no built-in means by which a user could directly access data from outside of the APL system. Thus, starting in 1969, IBM developed the shared variable facility. Following APL.SV, the IBM VS APL and APL2 program products also supported shared variables, as did the IBM 5100 line of computers.
Shared Variable Processors were available to allow APL access to the following:
Standard operating system files (TSIO)
Time Sharing Option (TSO) and Conversational Monitor System (CMS) command processors (AP100)
VSAPL Stack Processor (AP101)
VSAPL Session Manager (AP102)
CMS Native Files (AP110)
CMS and TSO Native Files (AP111)
APL2 Data File Processor (AP121)
Virtual storage access method (VSAM) Files (AP123)
Full Screen Display Manager (AP124)
IBM Graphical Data Display Manager (GDDM) (AP126)
IBM Db2 (AP127)
Subsequent uses
In the early 1980s, I. P. Sharp Associates, which offered a rich and advanced APL, introduced Shared Variables in their product. Many of the Shared Variable Processors available for IBM products were also written for Sharp APL, notably TSIO (called PJAM), AP124, AP126, and AP127. Further, as I. P. Sharp also offered IPSANET which allowed in-house clients of SHARP APL to be connected to the network, a Network Shared Variable Processor (NSVP) allowed programs from one mainframe site to access another. NSVP predates the widespread use of the Internet by five years.
Shared Variables were one technique used by APL implementors and vendors to increase the richness of the APL language, doing so without changing the core implementation. With the advent of more powerful personal computing, the exodus of the APL user community to smaller computers was inevitable. APL was first available on Intel 8008, 8080, and Zilog Z80 based hardware, later the original IBM PC, and as of 2015, on the 32- and 64-bit Linux and Windows workstations. Although Dyalog APL included an implementation of shared variables for communication with the now-deprecated Microsoft Windows Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), only IBM continued to use Shared Variables as a means to supply new features to their versions of the APL2 language for non-mainframe computers.
Nearly all other APL vendors chose to implement new functions, such as access to L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ND-COSMOS | ND-COSMOS was the proprietary computer networking system developed by Norsk Data as the second generation NORDNET system.
It offered very tight integration with the ND-NOTIS applications, as well as the SINTRAN III operating systems. In many ways, it was a strong parallel to DEC's DECnet Phase IV system.
The network system was peer-to-peer, and the NOTIS document storage system could also have redundant servers, which made for very good service reliability.
The name was internally a pun on its recently released small computer, known as the ND Satellite.
It could function on a wide variety of different link layers, including Ethernet, X.25, HDLC, Bisync, and asynchronous serial ports.
Sources
Proprietary software
Internet Protocol based network software
Norsk Data software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Vulnerability%20Scoring%20System | The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is a free and open industry standard for assessing the severity of computer system security vulnerabilities. CVSS attempts to assign severity scores to vulnerabilities, allowing responders to prioritize responses and resources according to threat. Scores are calculated based on a formula that depends on several metrics that approximate ease and impact of an exploit. Scores range from 0 to 10, with 10 being the most severe. While many utilize only the CVSS Base score for determining severity, temporal and environmental scores also exist, to factor in availability of mitigations and how widespread vulnerable systems are within an organization, respectively.
The current version of CVSS (CVSSv3.1) was released in June 2019.
History
Research by the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) in 2003/2004 led to the launch of CVSS version 1 (CVSSv1) in February 2005, with the goal of being "designed to provide open and universally standard severity ratings of software vulnerabilities". This initial draft had not been subject to peer review or review by other organizations. In April 2005, NIAC selected the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) to become the custodian of CVSS for future development.
Feedback from vendors utilizing CVSSv1 in production suggested there were "significant issues with the initial draft of CVSS". Work on CVSS version 2 (CVSSv2) began in April 2005 with the final specification being launched in June 2007.
Further feedback resulted in work beginning on CVSS version 3 in 2012, ending with CVSSv3.0 being released in June 2015.
Terminology
The CVSS assessment measures three areas of concern:
Base Metrics for qualities intrinsic to a vulnerability
Temporal Metrics for characteristics that evolve over the lifetime of vulnerability
Environmental Metrics for vulnerabilities that depend on a particular implementation or environment
A numerical score is generated for each of these metric groups. A vector string (or simply "vector" in CVSSv2), represents the values of all the metrics as a block of text.
Version 2
Complete documentation for CVSSv2 is available from FIRST. A summary is provided below.
Base metrics
Access Vector
The access vector (AV) shows how a vulnerability may be exploited.
Access Complexity
The access complexity (AC) metric describes how easy or difficult it is to exploit the discovered vulnerability.
Authentication
The authentication (Au) metric describes the number of times that an attacker must authenticate to a target to exploit it. It does not include (for example) authentication to a network in order to gain access. For locally exploitable vulnerabilities, this value should only be set to Single or Multiple if further authentication is required after initial access.
Impact metrics
Confidentiality
The confidentiality (C) metric describes the impact on the confidentiality of data processed by the system.
Integrity
The Integrity (I) m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNet%20Technology | CNet Technology is a Taiwanese company that manufactures network equipment such as network cards, switches, and modems.
History
The company was established in 1989 in Hsinchu Science Park.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
External links
1989 establishments in Taiwan
Computer companies established in 1989
Electronics companies established in 1989
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Networking hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Computer%20Museum | The Personal Computer Museum was located in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, in a building formerly owned by the municipal government.
The building was built with bricks reclaimed from the Brantford Opera House.
Over fifty interactive personal computers were on display, from a wide variety of manufacturers, including Apple, Atari, Commodore, IBM, Radio Shack, Timex, Mattel, and others.
The museum also had a large library of original software and a huge archive of computer-related magazines.
The museum's mandate was to preserve computer technology and, more importantly, to offer interactivity with older machines.
It welcomed private tours from schools and other groups.
It was open to students, to study the origins of computers and the various technologies involved.
Parents were welcome to bring children, to see computers which the parents may have once used, to get a sense of the ancestry of today's technology.
Admission was free.
The museum first opened to the public in September, 2005.
It was run by Syd Bolton, its founder and curator, and by a group of dedicated volunteers.
In 2018, the museum closed permanently following Bolton's death. At that time, it had been open to the public only one day a month. Its contents were transferred to University of Toronto Mississauga library in October 2020.
Displays
The downstairs showcased over forty-five machines that were interactive. The most popular machines included the Commodore 64, IMSAI 8080 and Apple IIe
Video games and consoles were also represented. One rare Atari 2600 title was an "Extra Terrestrials" cartridge published in 1983 by a small Burlington, Ontario firm unaware of Atari's similarly themed 1982 'ET' game, a massive commercial failure which was a factor in the video game crash of 1983.
There was a 1953 Admiral Black & White television downstairs connected to a game of Pong
The 'Tower of Power' was a high display that includes the original packaging for such machines as the Coleco Adam, Atari 2600, and Mattel Aquarius
Upstairs contained a magazine library that had classics such as Byte Magazine and Compute!. The library was home to over 4,000 publications.
Upstairs also had a display known as 'Modem Alley' where the history of the modem was displayed including the major milestones contributed by manufacturers such as Hayes Microcomputer Products and Supra, Inc.
Both levels included hundreds of books on various topics in computer history
A special section devoted to Canadian journalist and technology evangelist Jim Butterfield was on permanent display
Computer recycling
The Personal Computer Museum engaged in computer recycling. Local residents would bring computers to the museum almost every Monday evening for safe, proper recycling.
Computers that were still viable for redistribution were given away to needy families through the computer giveaway program. The museum also has an annual 'Spring Cleanup' event with a special focus on recycling that brought in over 400 pieces of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMN | EMN may refer to:
Early Music Network
Eastman Chemical Company, an American chemical company
École de management de Normandie, a French business school
École des mines de Nantes, a French engineering school
Eman language
Equity market neutral
European Migration Network
Every Mother's Nightmare, an American heavy metal band
Néma Airport, in Mauretania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A8%20%28Croatia%29 | The A8 motorway () is a toll motorway in Croatia. It connects the A7 motorway near Rijeka with the road network in the Istrian peninsula via the Učka Tunnel. The road terminates at the Kanfanar interchange with the A9 motorway, which with the A8 motorway forms the Istrian Y road system. The motorway's national significance is reflected in its positive economic impact on the cities and towns it connects, as well as its importance to tourism in Croatia. The importance of the motorway for tourism is particularly high during the summer tourist season, when its traffic volume increases by about 65%.
The construction of the A8 motorway and the Istrian Y can be traced back to 1968 when the Croatian Parliament decided to build a modern road linking Istria with the rest of Croatia. Subsequently, a bond to fund the construction was issued. The construction work started in 1976; in 1981 the Učka Tunnel was finished and a section of the route between Matulji and Lupoglav was completed as a single-carriageway, two-lane expressway. The Lupoglav-Cerovlje portion was the next one to be completed, in 1988. The route was extended to the Rogovići interchange between 1992 and 1998, and the remaining section to Kanfanar was completed in 1999 as a two-lane road. In 2011, the expressway route started to be expanded gradually with the addition of a new carriageway and emergency lanes, eventually making most of it a controlled-access highway; the expansion of the route's first section, between Kanfanar and Rogovići, was completed in October 2011. The route's full expansion to motorway standards – including six lanes and grade separation of all its interchanges – is scheduled by 2015, when a second tube for the Učka Tunnel and a new route connecting the tunnel to the A7 motorway are planned. Construction slowed in the 1990s due to a lack of funding; therefore, a build-operate-transfer concession for the Istrian Y was granted to the BINA Istra corporation for a period of 32 years.
All intersections found along the route are grade separated, except for a single at-grade intersection currently regulated by traffic lights; a new route is planned to bypass this intersection. As of June 2021, there were eleven exits and two service areas along the route. The motorway is currently toll-free except for the Učka Tunnel and the Kanfanar-Rogovići section. However, most of the motorway is potentially a toll road using a ticket system, with each exit including a toll plaza except those of Veprinac, Opatija, and Matulji. The toll system of the A8/A9 Istrian Y is integrated: A8 tickets are valid interchangeably on the A9 sections and vice versa, thus obviating the need to stop between the sections.
Route description
The A8 motorway is an east–west motorway in Croatia, crossing the eastern and central parts of Istria. It connects the Matulji interchange near Rijeka, the largest city on the northern Adriatic coast of Croatia, to Istria via the Kanfanar interchange situated in the ar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellate%20veins | The stellate veins are veins that lie beneath the fibrous tunic of the kidney. They are stellate in arrangement and are derived from the capillary network, into which the terminal branches of the interlobular arteries break up. These join to form the interlobular veins, which pass inward between the rays.
See also
renal circulation
References
External links
Kidney anatomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic%20Walker%20%28radio%20presenter%29 | Dominic Walker was a radio presenter from the United Kingdom.
Walker used to present the mid morning show on Wire FM, previously presented on the Bauer Big City Network, Key 103, Rock FM and Channel M TV. and on the breakfast show on Wish FM. He has previously worked at various radio stations in England including the Big City Network, Signal 1 and Wire FM. He also had a stint at Radio Napa in Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
Walker has appeared in several cameo roles on stage and screen, including Coronation Street, Emmerdale, and alongside Robson Green in Rhinoceros. He also regularly hosts events, and has appeared alongside 5ive and Steps at Wembley and the MEN Arena.
In 2007 he became the Stadium Announcer at the Halliwell Jones Stadium, home of Warrington Wolves Rugby Club, having had previous experience of the role for Liverpool F.C. Reserves and Accrington Stanley, most notably for their FA Cup first-round victory over Huddersfield Town shown live on BBC Match of the Day in 2003.
Since 2008, Walker has hosted the family lounge for Wigan Warriors and has covered as the Stadium Announcer at the DW Stadium. He also hosted England and Wigan Captain Shaun O'Laughlin's Testimonial Game.
Walker has been the Stadium Announcer at Burnley FC since 2013. He also features on FIFA 17 as one of the British Stadium Announcers hosting all stadiums in the English Championship, League One and League Two. Since 2016 he's been an Executive Lounge MC for Liverpool Football Club.
Now he is re-training to be a solicitor with JMW Solicitors based in Manchester.
Walker has set up the Inside Man YouTube channel providing legal advice.
References
External links
www.dominicwalker.com
English radio DJs
People from Warrington
English rugby league commentators
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeTV | EyeTV is a European brand of TV tuners that allow users to watch TV on various devices including computers and smartphones. The brand was introduced in 2002 by Elgato Systems and was sold to Geniatech in 2016.
History
The first EyeTV hardware device was introduced in November 2002. It was a small USB-powered device that contained a cable tuner and hardware encoder in order to convert television video into an MPEG-1 format for watching on a computer. It also had coaxial and RCA plugs to connect it with a VCR or camcorder. A 2002 article in Macworld said it was the "first step" in bridging computers and television, but at this point still had "some kinks".
The next iteration was released in 2004 and called EyeTV 200. EyeTV 200 introduced a digital remote control and converted video programming into the higher-quality MPEG-2 format. A Macworld review gave it 4 out of 5 stars for "very good" and emphasized the video quality and ease-of-use. A story in The Washington Post said it was more expensive than some alternatives, but worked on a Mac and had good-quality recordings. Also in 2004 the first EyeTV product for satellite television was introduced with the EyeTV 310, which was later discontinued and replaced with EyeTV Sat.
That same year a home media server called EyeHome was introduced. It had recording features similar to other EyeTV products, but was also intended for streaming a computer display to a television. It connected Mac computers and televisions that share the same home network. A review in Macworld gave it three stars or a "good" rating, saying that it was easy to install and worked well with Apple applications, but some aspects were quirky or frustrating. Sound and Vision Magazine said it was "pretty darn cool" and an easy, inexpensive way to get media server functionality, though there were some user interface quirks. It gave the product an 89 out of 100 rating.
By 2005, several other EyeTV products had been introduced, such as the EyeTV for DTT, the EyeTV EZ and the EyeTV Wonder. The EyeTV for DTT (digital terrestrial TV) is a small USB-powered device with an antenna for receiving free over-the-air television broadcasts. It received a 4 out of 5 rating in TechRadar. A review in The Register gave it an 85 percent rating. The Eye TV Wonder was only available from July 2005 to January 2006, before being discontinued and replaced with the Eye TV EZ. The EZ was a basic, entry-level product with an analog tuner for watching TV on a Mac computer.
In 2006, version 2.1 of the EyeTV software was introduced with a new user-interface, an integrated TV guide from TitanTV and compatibility with Apple remotes. The interface was similar to that of other Apple products. An article in Macworld praised the update and especially the new editing features, but said it had some quirks, such as a difficult-to-find Edit button. Some of the iHome software, which plays video content from a computer onto a television, was released in 2006 as a univers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20live%20CDs | A live CD or live DVD is a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive.
Rescue and repair
Billix – A multiboot distribution and system administration toolkit with the ability to install any of the included Linux distributions
Inquisitor – Linux kernel-based hardware diagnostics, stress testing and benchmarking live CD
Parted Magic – Entirely based on the 2.6 or newer Linux kernels
System Folder of classic Mac OS on a CD or on a floppy disk – Works on any media readable by 68k or PowerPC Macintosh computers
SystemRescueCD – A Linux kernel-based CD with tools for Windows and Linux repairs
BSD-based
FreeBSD based
DesktopBSD – as of 1.6RC1 FreeBSD and FreeSBIE based
FreeBSD – has supported use of a "fixit" CD for diagnostics since 1996
FreeNAS – m0n0wall-based
FreeSBIE (discontinued) – FreeBSD-based
GhostBSD – FreeBSD based with gnome GUI, installable to HDD
Ging – Debian GNU/kFreeBSD-based
m0n0wall (discontinued) – FreeBSD-based
TrueOS – FreeBSD-based
pfSense – m0n0wall-based
Other BSDs
DragonFly BSD
Linux kernel-based
Arch Linux based
Artix – LXQt preconfigured and OpenRC-oriented live CD and distribution
Archie – live CD version of Arch Linux.
Antergos
Chakra
Manjaro – primarily free software operating system for personal computers aimed at ease of use.
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre - distro endorsed by the Free Software Foundation
SystemRescueCD
Debian-based
These are directly based on Debian:
antiX – A light-weight edition based on Debian
Debian Live – Official live CD version of Debian
Devuan - A fork of the Debian Linux distribution that uses sysvinit, runit or OpenRC instead of systemd.
Finnix – A small system administration live CD, based on Debian testing, and available for x86 and PowerPC architectures
grml – Installable live CD for sysadmins and text tool users
HandyLinux – A French/English Linux distribution derived from Debian designed for inexperienced computer users
Instant WebKiosk – Live, browser only operating system for use in web kiosks and digital signage deployments
Kali Linux – The most advanced penetration testing distribution
Knoppix – The "original" Debian-based live CD
MX Linux – Live based on Debian stable
Tails – An Amnesic OS based on anonymity and Tor
Slax – (formerly based on Slackware) modular and very easy to remaster
Webconverger – Kiosk software that boots live in order to turn PC into temporary Web kiosk
Knoppix-based
A large number of live CDs are based on Knoppix. The list of those is in the derivatives section of the Knoppix article.
Ubuntu-based
These are based at least partially on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian:
CGAL LiveCD – Live CD containing CGAL with all demos compiled. This enables the user to get an impression of CGAL and create CGAL software without the need to ins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship%20on%20MTV | Censorship on MTV has been the subject of debate for years. MTV, the first and most popular music television network in the U.S., has come under criticism for alleged censorship in their programming. Throughout the decades, MTV has altered or removed shows from the channel's schedule to address complaints; and music videos have been censored, moved to late-night rotation, or banned from the channel's rotation for various types of controversial content.
Censorship in full-length programming
The hit show Jackass was subject to frequent censorship in the early 2000s. The popularity of the show, combined with the propensity of young viewers to attempt to imitate the show's risky stunts, led to substantial controversy. Although the show featured prominent warning messages at its start, end, and upon return from all commercial breaks urging viewers not to re-create any stunts seen on the program, nor submit footage to the network of those stunts for casting consideration on that or other MTV series, the show was nonetheless blamed for many injuries. In 2001, then-Senator Joe Lieberman urged Viacom to take more responsibility for the program's content; which led MTV to only air the show after 10p.m. The creators of Jackass expressed frustration over the restraints that MTV's producers imposed on stunts after Lieberman's statement. These limitations eventually led to the departure of several cast members, and to the conclusion of the show.
MTV's influence also affected its famous animated program, Beavis and Butt-Head. In the wake of a controversy that followed a child burning down his house after allegedly watching the show, producers moved the show from its original 7p.m. time slot to a late-night, 11p.m. slot. Beavis' tendency to flick a lighter and chant the word "fire" was removed from new episodes, and controversial scenes were removed from existing episodes before rebroadcast. Some of the edits were so extensive that when series creator Mike Judge compiled his Collection DVDs he commented that "some of those episodes may not even exist actually in their original form".
The Parents Television Council has argued that much of the censored material on MTV is easily discernible because of the context in which it is presented.
Censorship of music videos
MTV has frequently edited music videos to remove lyrical references to alcohol, tobacco, drugs, sex, nudity, violence, weapons, homophobia, ableism, suicide, religion or advertising, and completely edits out swear words. Usually, all racial slurs are censored on MTV music videos and programming, and MTV has emphasized racial tolerance for people of all races and creeds.
Examples of lyric edits have included:
In the song "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingston, the word "suicidal" in the chorus was altered to "in denial".
In Michael Jackson's single "They Don't Care About Us", MTV has replaced the words "Jew me" and "kike me" with "do me" and "strike me" in the line "Jew me, sue me, everybody do me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20MTV%20slogans | In the early days of MTV, the first and most popular music television network in the U.S., many of the more successful musicians featured on the channel could be seen doing station identification spots for the network, exclaiming the signature line, I want my MTV!, and other phrases. Over the years, MTV would gather a large list of slogans that would become embedded in popular culture.
MTV slogans in the U.S.
"You'll never look at music the same way again" (The first slogan; appeared on the original blue MTV shirt.)
"I want my MTV!" (Originally intended as a promotional tool encouraging subscribers to ask their cable providers to add the MTV network; later became the iconic slogan for MTV for more than a decade, even being featured in the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing)
"Too much is never enough"
"Turn it on, leave it on"
"See the music you want to see"
"Army MTV" (Tina Cousins's lyrical spoofs from ABC's America's Watching and visuals spoofs from NBC's Let's All Be There)
"We're Music, We're MTV"
"The music revolution will be televised"
"MTV... Proud as a Moon Man" ("Weird Al" Yankovic's spoof of NBC's 1979-1981 slogan Proud as a Peacock)
"Doodle Doodle Dee, Wubba Wubba Wubba"
"MTV Lives In Your Music"
"Some People Just Don't Get It"
"Watch and Learn"
"M-m-m-m T-t-t-t V-v-v-v"
"MTV News: You Hear It First"
"MT-blah: Blah-blah Tele-blah"
"I love my MTV"
"Don't let Jerry Win. Best watch your MTV's"
"Think MTV"
"Not on TV, on M-TV"
"On MTV and Nowhere Else"
"Just See MTV"
"MTV Enjoy"
"MTV keeps you plugged in"
"You Down Wit MTV?!"
"MTV: We Don't Play Music"
"MTV is no longer: It's MetallicaTeleVision" (Lars Ulrich in 1996)
MTV slogans on international channels
"The Number One Music Channel" (slogan used for MTV UK from 2000 to 2002. As the channel broadcasts on digital cable and satellite, the slogan was discontinued in 2003. The decline in music related programming on MTV may have also played a part as to why this slogan was dropped.)
"Nongkrong di MTV" (Slogan in MTV Asia for MTV Indonesia before MTV Indonesia aired (1997-2001)
"MTV Gue Banget" (MTV Indonesia aired on Global TV (Indonesia), 2002–2007)
"MTV Ayos" (MTV Philippines)
"Habla Tu MTV"
"Musical Tele-vis-i-on" (MTV UK - The 'Music Man')
"There's Something in the Water!" (MTV Canada)
"Don't Give Up Your M" (MTV Australia, MTV New Zealand and MTV Baltics)
"MTV will make New Zealand music history" (MTV New Zealand)
"Follow The Music, Follow MTV" (first introduced on MTV Italia in May 2001, later shown also on MTV France and MTV Portugal)
"I Like..." (MTV Asia)
"Because MTV brings out the bitch in you" (MTV New Zealand)
"MTV May Contain Nuts" (MTV New Zealand)
"MTV - we know where you live" (MTV Australia)
"MTV - we want you to have our baby" (MTV Australia)
Paramount Media Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparl%C3%B6sa%20Runestone | The Sparlösa Runestone, listed as Vg 119 in the Rundata catalog, is located in Västergötland and is the second most famous Swedish runestone after the Rök runestone.
Description
The Sparlösa Runestone was discovered in 1669 in the southern wall of the church at Sparlösa, now part of Vara Municipality. Before their historical value was understood, many runestones were used as construction material for roads, walls, and bridges. Following a fire at the church in 1684, the runestone was split in rebuilding the wall. It was removed from the wall in 1937 and the two sections reunited.
The stone is 1.77 metres tall and it is dated to about 800 AD based upon its transitional use of rune forms from both the elder and younger futhark, but it has a probably younger line added to it saying Gisli made this memorial after Gunnar, his brother. The dating is based on the style of the images, such as a ship, which suggest the 8th century, like similar images from Gotland. However, a sail on the ship suggests a later dating than the 8th century.
The runestone is famous for its depictions and its tantalizing and mysterious references to a great battle, the names Eric and Alrik, the father who resided in Uppsala and the text descending from the gods. The stone provides an early attestation of the place name Uppsala, and the two personal names Eric ("complete ruler") and Alrik ("everyone's ruler") are both royal names, known to have been worn by the semi-legendary Swedish Yngling dynasty at Uppsala. Moreover, the mention of a great battle is suggestive of the equally semi-legendary Swedish-Geatish wars that are mentioned in Beowulf.
The words runaʀ ræginkundu meaning "runes of divine origin" are also in the runic text on the Noleby Runestone and would appear in stanza 79 of the Hávamál of the Poetic Edda several centuries later.
The runestone has imagery on four of its sides that apparently is unrelated to the runic text and in one interpretation predates it. One side has a building at the top that is over a crescent ship with a sail marked with a cross and with two birds, possibly peacocks, on its yardarms. At the bottom is a man on horseback hunting a stag and using a hunting leopard, which is not native to Sweden. The next side has an owl, with a head reminding of a lion's, and a goose fighting a snake. One side has a man and a cross band. One suggested interpretation is that the images on the stone are a memorial to Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths from 471 to 526 AD, with the building depicted on the stone a representation of his mausoleum. The other images, such as the crescent ship and the lion fighting the snake, can be interpreted as iconography of the Arian Christian faith.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
§A a⁑iuls kaf ⁓ airikis sunʀ kaf alrik- -
§B ---t---la kaf rau- at kialt(i) · …a sa- faþiʀ ubsal faþiʀ suaþ a-a-u--ba …-ąmas nątu auk takaʀ ⁓ aslriku lu--ʀ ukþ-t a(i)u(i)sl
§C …s---n(u)(ʀ)-a-- þat sikmar a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TruCluster | TruCluster is a closed-source high-availability clustering solution for the Tru64 UNIX operating system. It was originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), but was transferred to Compaq in 1998 when Digital was acquired by the company, which then later merged with Hewlett-Packard (HP).
References
TruCluster Software Product Description (SPD)
External links
High-availability cluster computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20ITV%20television%20idents | The ITV television network in the United Kingdom began as a group of regional stations, each with their own identities. Each station used its own idents to create an individual identity.
In 1989, a first attempt to establish a national ITV corporate identity was made, which saw regional brands combined with a new national ITV brand. The attempt had only limited success: some companies never adopted the ITV branding, while many others later diluted or abandoned the ITV component as time progressed. A second attempt in 1998 was more successful, but was still rejected or significantly modified by some companies.
In 2002, a major change of appearance occurred when all ITV regions in England adopted national continuity. Regional logos vanished and regional names were mentioned only before regional programmes. Effectively this left ITV1 in England looking like a national channel with slots for regional opt-outs – like BBC One – rather than a group of independent regional broadcasters sharing programmes. The unification was consolidated in 2004 when Granada plc acquired Carlton Communications to form ITV plc. By then, the two companies had acquired all the regional Channel 3 companies in England and Wales. ITV plc later acquired Channel Television in the Channel Islands and UTV in Northern Ireland.
This article looks at the history of presentation of the ITV brand on the main ITV network. The other digital channels owned by ITV plc also adopted logos very similar to the main ITV channel but with different colour schemes and background images; these are not covered by this article.
Before 1981
When ITV was incepted in 1955, every regional company had its own individual logo and identity for its own use and identification within the network. The name "ITV" was rarely used on air and had no associated broadcast logo.
From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, the IBA (Independent Broadcasting Authority) regulator used a matching pair of logos for ITV and ILR (Independent Local Radio), but these appear to have been used in print only.
1981 – September 1989
From 1981, a generic, 'blocky-looking' logo was used infrequently throughout the 1980s, often in a rainbow colouration for promos produced by the "Big Five" franchises (Thames Television, London Weekend Television, Granada Television, Yorkshire Television and ATV/Central Independent Television), as well as holding slides used by some of the regions and Channel 4 (for cross-promotion purposes), but it was never widely used as the centrepiece of an identity.
September 1989 – October 1998
A new generic ITV logo was introduced on 1 September 1989 and accompanied a first-time, national on-air identity designed by English Markell Pockett with music by Lord David Dundas. The logo was the centre of a whole branding package; there was a national logo and regional logos for all of the ITV franchises. Each franchise had a distinctive portion of their logo included into the V of the ITV logo. The ident was gener |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Management%20Center | Sun Management Center is a computer system monitoring product from Sun Microsystems.
Sun Management Center (Sun MC) is a systems management and monitoring tool for enterprise-wide management of Sun servers, desktops and storage devices. It provides in-depth monitoring of Sun hardware and the most comprehensive set of metrics for the Solaris OS, including support for Solaris Containers.
Sun MC was originally named Sun Enterprise SyMON, and was co-developed by Halcyon Monitoring Solutions. Clients are available for Solaris on SPARC and x86 systems as well as Linux on x86 systems.
Native integration support is available for IBM Tivoli and CA Unicenter; Halcyon provides integrations for HP Openview, Micromuse Netcool and other frameworks.
Protocols used
SNMP v2usec (optional encryption libraries), v1 and v3 (compatible)
HTTP with SSL
RMI
TCP/IP for Probe Connections (adhoc commands)
References
External links
Sun Microsystems software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius%20XM%20PGA%20Tour%20Radio | SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio (formerly PGA Tour Network) is a satellite radio channel on Sirius XM dedicated to coverage of golf—and in particular, the PGA Tour. The channel carries talk programming related to golf, including analysis, equipment reviews, education, as well as live hole-by-hole coverage of PGA Tour events, majors (in cooperation with terrestrial rightsholders such as Fox Sports Radio for the U.S. Open, and Westwood One for the PGA Championship), and other events. It is carried on XM channel 92, and Sirius channel 208.
The channel was established as part of a 2005 deal with its predecessor, XM Satellite Radio. The deal also included the rental and sale of XM2go receivers at PGA Tour events so that spectators could listen to the channel's coverage on-site. In 2018, Sirius XM extended its contract for PGA Tour radio rights through 2021.
In December 2013, it partnered with Golf Channel to feature audio simulcasts of its programming on the service, including its news programs Morning Drive and Golf Central.
References
External links
SirusXM PGA Tour Radio
XM Satellite Radio channels
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
Sports radio in the United States
Sirius XM Radio channels
Golf mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Scandizzo | Michael Scandizzo is the president and project lead of Castaway Entertainment, a company formed out of former Blizzard North employees in 2003. He is also responsible for programming on Diablo II, the development of the Battle.net game server network, and the Quake 2 mod Loki's Minions Capture the Flag. He also created the Boat Anchor comic strip: which describes events that mirror the time he would have spent at Blizzard North and the eventual formation of Castaway.
External links
MobyGames credits
Bio on Castaway Entertainment
American chief executives
American computer programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B5000%20instruction%20set | The Burroughs B5000 was the first stack machine and also the first computer with a segmented virtual memory.
The Burroughs B5000 instruction set includes the set of valid operations for the B5000, B5500 and B5700. It is not compatible with the B6500, B7500, B8500 or their successors.
Instruction streams on a B5000 contain 12-bit syllables, four to a word. The architecture has two modes, Word Mode and Character Mode, and each has a separate repertoire of syllables. A processor may be either Control State or Normal State, and certain syllables are only permissible in Control State. The architecture does not provide for addressing registers or storage directly; all references are through the 1024 word Program Reference Table (PRT), current code segment, marked locations within the stack or to the A and B registers holding the top two locations on the stack. Burroughs numbers bits in a syllable from 0 (high bit) to 11 (low bit) and in a word from 0 (high bit) to 47 (low bit).
Word Mode
In Word Mode, there are four types of syllables.
The interpretation of the 10-bit relative address in Operand Call and Descriptor Call depends on the setting of several processor flags. For main programs (SALF off) it is always an offset into the Program Reference Table (PRT).
Character Mode
References
Computer hardware
Stack machines
Virtual memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSIC | The Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography research group, commonly called COSIC, is a research group at the Department of Electrical Engineering of KU Leuven, which is headed by Bart Preneel.
Research
Research and expertise in digital security:
Security architectures for information and communication systems
Cryptographic algorithms and protocols
Symmetric key
Public key
Post-quantum
Security for embedded systems
Privacy-preserving systems
Applications:
Cloud
Automotive
Privacy
Data Protection
Trusted Systems
E-payments
E-documents
...
AES
One of the well-known successes is the selection of Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Currently AES is used by millions of users in more than thousand products, such as the protection of US government information.
Research projects
COSIC has participated in over 50 European research projects.
IMEC
COSIC is part of the Smart Applications and Innovation Services of imec.
References
External links
Imec
The Wall Street Journal: In Belgium, an Encryption Powerhouse Rises
Cryptography organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Bag | Big Bag is an American live-action/animated children's television series created by Nina Elias-Bamberger for Cartoon Network and Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop). It was targeted at preschool viewers. The show was co-produced by Cartoon Network and CTW, with Muppet characters created by the Jim Henson Company. It aired from 1996 to 1998, with reruns airing through 2001, alongside another program titled Small World. Localized versions of Big Bag aired on Canal J in France and Yorkshire Television in the UK.
Plot
The principal Muppet character is Chelli, a puppet dog who is joined by his best friend Bag. Chelli and Bag run a general store. They live on Main Street in an unidentified town with their human friend Molly and a variety of other animals named for their species. Two sock puppets named Lyle the Sock and Argyle McSock work as stockroom boys and often interact with the main cast. In season 2, a humanoid Muppet character called Sofie was introduced. The first season features frequent interaction with a large cast of human regulars, including an assortment of child friends and colorful locals.
Cast and characters
Muppets
Chelli (performed by Joey Mazzarino) – A patchwork dog who is the main puppet character of the series. In "Elmo's Visit," it is revealed that he is a pen pal of Elmo. He was designed by Ed Eyth and built by Rollie Krewson.
Bag (performed by Rickey Boyd) – An anthropomorphic cloth bag who is Chelli's best pal. It talks in its own gibberish which the other characters appear to understand.
Argyle and Lyle (performed by Rickey Boyd and Joey Mazzarino, 1996–1997; Jeff Conover, 1997-1998) – Two socks that are known for telling knock-knock jokes, which Lyle usually refers to as "sock-sock" jokes. When they are not hanging out in the store's sock bin, they can be found in a laundry hamper or the storeroom. Lyle speaks with a Brooklyn accent, whereas Argyle speaks with a Scottish accent.
Sofie (performed by Alice Dinnean) – A girl who joins the cast in the second season.
Additional puppets were performed by Jeff Conover, Andy Stone, and Matt Vogel.
Humans
Molly (portrayed by Selena Nelson) – A female human that Chelli and Bag live with.
Kim (portrayed by Tessa Ludwick) – A human girl who is a friend of Chelli and Bag.
Joey (portrayed by John Mountford and Adrian Smith) – A human boy who is a friend of Chelli and Bag.
Bernard (portrayed by Cullen Douglas) – A crossing guard who asks viewers if they have their telescope or hat as preludes to the Troubles the Cat and Samuel and Nina segments.
Trudy (portrayed by Clare Sera) – An exercise instructor.
Martha (portrayed by Clare Sera) – A shy woman.
Josie (portrayed by Clare Sera) – A female mail carrier who shows up to show "I did something nice today" videotapes to Chelli and Bag.
Doc Furrball (portrayed by Cullen Douglas) – A veterinarian.
Waldo Muckle (portrayed by Cullen Douglas) – An egotistic inventor and handyman. In "One Little Lie," it is reve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORVYL%20and%20WYLBUR | ORVYL is a time-sharing monitor developed by Stanford University for IBM System/360 and System/370 computers in 1967–68. ORVYL was one of the first time-sharing systems to be made available for IBM computers. Wylbur is a text editor and word processor program designed to work either without ORVYL, or in conjunction with ORVYL.
Overview
The names ORVYL and WYLBUR are often used interchangeably, but:
ORVYL is a timesharing monitor that supports a file system, command language, program execution and debugging, and provides supervisor services. The first version runs only on a 360/67, but later versions run on a System/370.
WYLBUR is a text editor, word processor, job submission and retrieval, and e-mail program designed to work in conjunction with ORVYL or with IBM's OS/360, SVS, and MVS operating systems.
MILTEN is terminal control software used by both ORVYL and WYLBUR for start/stop terminals.
WYLBUR is not a full standalone operating system in the mold of Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS) or Unix. Instead it runs on top of an IBM batch operating system (OS/360, SVS, MVS). It takes the form of an editor with a Remote Job Entry system and thus has much the same relationship to the IBM operating systems as Emacs does to Unix. For these reasons WYLBUR is often thought of as a text editor rather than a time-sharing system. However, whereas Unix does not need Emacs to provide text editing services, IBM's operating systems originally needed WYLBUR. Later innovations such as IBM's Administrative Terminal System (ATS), Conversational Remote Batch Entry (CRBE), Conversational Remote Job Entry (CRJE) and Time Sharing Option (TSO) made WYLBUR less relevant for IBM users and gradually replaced it.
This article will use the full upper case spelling for commands and keywords. All references to characters and string assume an EBCDIC code page.
Use
ORVYL and WYLBUR were used at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and many other sites. Retired from most sites in the late 1990s owing to concerns about Y2K issues, they remained in use at NIH until December 2009. ORVYL and WYLBUR are still available as open source from Stanford. There are also proprietary versions such as SuperWYlbur.
ORVYL and WYLBUR were much admired as shown by this excerpt from a 2004 article titled "Computing at CERN: the mainframe era":
[In 1976 the IBM S/370-168] also brought with it the MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) operating system, with its pedantic Job Control Language, and it provided the opportunity for CERN to introduce WYLBUR, the well-loved, cleverly designed and friendly time-sharing system developed at SLAC, together with its beautifully handwritten and illustrated manual by John Ehrman. WYLBUR was a masterpiece of design, achieving miracles with little power (at the time) shared amongst many simultaneous users. It won friends with its accommodating char |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Hawk%20in%20Boom%20Boom%20Sabotage | Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage is a 2006 computer-animated sports film starring Tony Hawk, produced by Mainframe Entertainment. FUNimation Entertainment distributed the film in the United States, while Alliance Atlantis distributed it in Canada. In Mainframe's earlier versions of the film, it used cel-shaded characters. Some of the early designs can still be seen on Mainframe's website.
Broadcast information
It has been seen on Cartoon Network and released on DVD.
YTV premiered the film on March 12, 2007.
Plot
Disgruntled circus ringleader Larry Grimley and his band of performers plan to kidnap famous celebrity Tony Hawk and his crew to a remote island as ransom due to Mayor John Dullard (who is Grimley's cousin) destroying his beloved circus, which Grimley swears vengeance. Now it is up to a bunch of five skateboarding kids (Kud, Kit, Sage, Switch Mitch and Jessie) to save Tony in time for the Boom Boom HuckJam.
Voice cast
Noel Callahan as Sage
Michael Dobson as Larry Grimley / Worker / Homey Clown
Michael Donovan as TV Narrator / Commercial VO
Aidan Drummond as Jesse
Brian Drummond as Hamshank / Chopper Chuck / DJ / Mimic
Mackenzie Gray as Marshall / Boris / Stilt Walker / Floor Worker
Tony Hawk as Himself
Scott Hyland as Frank / Carnie
David Kaye as Kud
Colin Murdock as John Dullard / Carnie
Brenna O'Brien as Jesse
Nicole Oliver as Reporter / Buzzie Bee
David Orth as Todd, Carnie
Carter West as Switch Mitch
Chiara Zanni as Kit
See also
List of animated feature films
List of computer-animated films
External links
2006 films
2006 direct-to-video films
2006 computer-animated films
Funimation
Mainframe Studios films
2000s teen fantasy films
Canadian direct-to-video films
American direct-to-video films
2000s English-language films
2000s Canadian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%21Cam | The PSP Camera is a digital camera peripheral by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable handheld video game system. In Japan, the PSP-300 was released as the on November 2, 2006, and was released in Singapore in the same year. For PAL regions, it is named the Go!Cam and was released May 25, 2007. A lower resolution version, the PSP-450x, was introduced in 2009. The PSP-450x camera was released in North America bundled with Invizimals on October 12, 2010, and was also bundled with EyePet on November 2, 2010.
The camera mounts on top of the PSP via the Mini USB connection slot and a screw. It can take still photographs and record video with audio. The microphone can also be used with the Talkman program and others.
PSP-300 E
The PSP-300 E is a silver 1.3 megapixel camera, similar to cameras found in cellular phones. It can record video at up to 480×272 at 30 frames/s and take photographs at up to 1280×960. It requires Official Firmware 2.82 or later.
PSP-450x
On October 12, 2010, when Invizimals was released, it came bundled with a new, redesigned PSP camera, model PSP-450x, which is a 0.3-megapixel camera taking photographs at a maximum resolution of 640×480 and video at up to 480×272 at 30 frames/s. The PSP-450x requires Official Firmware 6.00 or later.
Editing software
The Chotto Shot camera comes with a UMD used to edit photos and video clips, though the UMD is in Japanese, so non-Japanese users who imported it might have difficulty using the software.
The Go!Cam camera does not come with a UMD but instead has an available download for it called Go!Edit. Go!Edit is a program that enables extended usage of the Go!Cam and includes features that enable pictures and videos to be edited. Go!Edit requires PSP system firmware of 3.40 or above to be used. Aside from English, the Go!Edit program is also available in Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, French, Suomi (Finnish), Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish, and all the languages are packaged with the program itself.
The PSP camera can use firmware version 3.00 or higher to take photographs or videos with English on-screen instructions. Users can do so by selecting "CAMERA" under the "PHOTO" menu. Once taken, the photo or video will then be saved to the user's Memory Stick. Saved videos can be uploaded to the Internet from any wireless connection.
Video recording length
Go!Edit videos can only be taken for a length of 15 seconds and then edited; however, accessing the camera through the XMB menu means the video recording length depends on the size of the Memory Stick. Video quality can be changed, so the lower the quality, the longer the recording time and vice versa.
Using the best quality setting (480×272 and Fine quality), one-and-a-half hours of video can be recorded on a 4 GB Memory Stick Duo.
References
External links
Go!Cam at Playstation.com
Go!Edit Software Official Download
PSP Camera Instruction Manual - PSP-300
PSP Camera Instruction Manual - PSP-450
PlayS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create%20%28TV%20network%29 | Create is an American digital broadcast public television network broadcast on digital subchannels of PBS member stations. The network broadcasts how-to, DIY and other lifestyle-oriented instructional programming 24 hours a day.
History
Create was launched on WGBH-TV DTV/Comcast Cable and WLIW DTV/Cablevision digital services, WNET's sister station, in 2004. Create was launched nationally on January 9, 2006.
In 2009, APT started looking for a national network underwriter, while seven stations had found local underwriters that covered their network fees. Ten stations at this time were inserting local programming.
With rating data becoming available with more experience handling multicast channels and greater licensing fees, some public TV stations were changing their channel lineup. Some were dropping a network off a channel and programming it independently. A well-known station, WETA-TV, dropped Create on its .2 channel for an independent how-to channel in January 2012. The previous lack of audience data stymied efforts to find a national underwriter. In 2012, APT started planning for more original and exclusive programming. A March national pledge event, a recent new funding source for Create, with travel host Rick Steves, took in at a top 20 market about $40,000. Licensing fees were to be reinstated on July 1, 2012.
Operations
American Public Television (APT), WGBH and WNET operate the network. APT handles affiliate relations, distribution, marketing and underwriting, and producer and viewer relations. A joint team creates the schedule with all working together on strategic and business planning. WNET produces promos and spots for the network and provides master control services.
It is distributed through digital subchannel affiliations with public television stations that are members of or subscribe to APT Exchange, NETA and PBS Plus. Stations' licensing fees fall into one of five price tiers based on budget, market and station size. Shop Create webstore also generates income for the network.
Shows
Create broadcasts Arts & Crafts, Food, and Travel shows.
Arts & Crafts
"Beads, Baubles, and Jewels"
"Best of Bob Ross"
"Fit to Eat" hosted by Rob Stinson
"Craft in America"
"Canvasing The World With Sean Diedike"
"Craftman's Legacy"
Food
100 Days, Drinks, Dishes and Destinations
America's Test Kitchen
America's Test Kitchen Special: Home for the Holidays
Baking with Julia
Bringing It Home with Laura McIntosh
Buen Provecho! Florida's Spanish Flavor
Chef Paul Prudhomme: Louisiana Legend
A Chef's Life
Christina Cooks
Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board
Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Television
Ciao Italia
Confucius Was A Foodie
Cook's Country
Cooking with Nick Stellino
Dining With the Chef
Dishing with Julia Child
Eating In with Lidia
Ellie's Real Good Food
Essential Pépin
Family Ingredients
Farmer and the Foodie
Field Trip with Curtis Stone
Fit to Eat (Mississippi cooking show)
Flavor of Poland
Food Flirts
French Chef Classics
George |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20football%20clubs%20in%20Jamaica | This is a list of football clubs in Jamaica.
All information is taken from the rsssf.com database for the 2006/2007 season.
Jamaica Premier League
Jamaica Premier League 2022/2023
Arnett Gardens F.C.
Cavaliers F.C.
Dunbeholden F.C.
Harbour View F.C.
Hungry Lions F.C.Academy]]
Portmore United F.C.
Tivoli Gardens F.C.
Vere United F.C.
Waterhouse F.C.
Lucia United F.C
Parish Confederations Super Leagues
KSAFA Confederation Super League
Barbican F.C.
Boys' Town F.C.
Brown’s Town F.C.
Central Kingston F.C.
Constant Spring F.C.
Liguanea United F.C.
Meadforest F.C.
Olympic Gardens F.C.
Real Moan fc
Rockforth F.C.
Santos F.C.
Seaview Gardens F.C.
South Central Confederation Super League
Arlington F.C.
Dunbeholden F.C.
George's Valley F.C.
Humble Lions F.C.
Los Perfectos F.C.
New Green F.C.
Newland F.C.
Original Hazard F.C.
Rivoli United F.C.
Sporting Central F.C. (winners)
Tafari Lions F.C.
Value Pare F.C. (withdrew due to a conflict with the Confederation)
Eastern Confederation Super League
(Albion Fc)
Axum F.C.
Bath F.C.
Brazil F.C.
Iyante F.C.
Manchioneal F.C.
Port Morant F.C.
Star Cosmos F.C.
St. George's F.C.
York F.C. ( champion of the east)
Western Confederation Super League
Bamboo F.C.
Black Diamonds F.C.
Clarks Town F.C.
Grange Hill F.C.
Granville F.C. (winners)
Harmony F.C.
Holland F.C.
Montpellier F.C.
Mount Salem F.C.
Negril F.C.
Orange Hill F.C.
Salt Spring F.C.
Sandy Bay F.C.
Third Level
KSAFA Major League
Brown's Town F.C.
Central Kingston F.C.
Cooreville Gardens F.C.
Elleston Flats F.C.
Olympic Gardens F.C.
Pembroke Hall F.C.
Rae Town F.C.
Real Mona F.C.
Rockfort F.C.
Seaview Gardens F.C.
Shortwood United F.C.
UTech/Papine F.C.
New Kingston F.C.
Clarendon Major League
Avengers F.C.
Gayle F.C.
Mitchell Town F.C.
Morgan's Pass F.C.
Name Brand F.C.
New Bowens F.C.
New Longsville F.C.
Springfield F.C.
Tollgate F.C.
Wood Hall F.C.
Race Track F.C.
Hanover Major League
Lucea F.C.
Logwood United F.C.
Logwood Galaxy F.C.
Central F.C.
Chamber Pen F.C.
COGP F.C.
Concrete F.C.
Excel F.C.
Haddington F.C.
Lookout F.C.
Prosper F.C.
Superstar F.C.
Manchester Major League
Downs F.C.
Harmons F.C.
Hillstar F.C.
Kendal F.C.
Mandeville United F.C.
Mile Gully F.C.
Porus F.C.
Villa United
May Day F.C.
Portland Major League
Eagle Strikers F.C.
Fairy Hill F.C.
Norwich F.C.
Progressive F.C.(JUNGLES)
Snow Hill F.C.
Taurus F.C.
St. Ann Major League
Benfica F.C.
DC United F.C.
FC Ocho Rios
Golden Kickers F.C.
Great Pond F.C.
Juventus F.C.
Lewis Strikers F.C.
Parry Town F.C.
Raising Star F.C.
St. Ann Bauxite F.C.
Standfast F.C.
Volvo F.C.
York Castle High F.C.
Chalky Hill United F.C.
Steer Town F.C
St. Catherine Major League
Albion F.C.
Black Lions F.C.
Bodles F.C.
Central Links F.C.
Independence City F.C.
Meadows F.C.
McKay New Raiders F.C.
Portmore Gardens F.C.
Rodwood F.C.
Tru Juice F.C.
Waterloo F.C.
Windsor Lion F.C.
Royal Lakes F.C.
Money pro F.C.
St. Elizabeth Major League
Appleton Estate F.C.
Balaclava United F.C.
Black River F.C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDA%20interactive%20educational%20freeware%20diabetes%20simulator | AIDA is a freeware computer program that permits the interactive simulation of plasma insulin and blood glucose profiles for demonstration, teaching, self-learning, and research purposes. Originally developed in 1991, it has been updated and enhanced since, and made available without charge from 1996 on the World Wide Web. The program, which is still being updated, has gone through a number of revisions and developments in the 16+ years since its original internet launch. During this time over 2.5 million visits have been logged at the AIDA Websites and more than 400,000 copies of the program have been downloaded. Further copies of the simulator have been made available, in the past, on diskette by the system developers and from the British Diabetic Association (BDA) — now called 'Diabetes UK' — London, England, following the BDA's own independent evaluation of the software. More than 1,075,000 diabetes simulations have been run via a web-based version of the AIDA diabetes simulator.
The AIDA software is intended to serve as an educational support tool and can be used by anyone — person with diabetes, relative of a patient, health care professional (doctor, nurse, clinical diabetes educator, dietician, pharmacist, etc.), or student — even if they may have minimal knowledge of the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus.
Overview of AIDA physiological model
AIDA has been described in detail in the medical / scientific / computing / diabetes literature. It incorporates a compartmental model that describes glucose-insulin interaction in people completely lacking endogenous insulin secretion — i.e. insulin-dependent patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. The AIDA model contains a single extra-cellular glucose compartment into which glucose enters via both absorption from the intestine and glucose production from the liver. The model also contains separate compartments for plasma and 'active' insulin, the latter being responsible for glycemic control while insulin is removed from the former by liver degradation. Full details of the AIDA model are accessible from within the AIDA software package, and can be viewed and printed separately via the AIDA website.
Limitations of model
It is important to note that AIDA, like other model-based approaches, is not sufficiently accurate to be used for individual patient simulation or glycemic prediction. Therefore, as the program makes clear, it is not intended for insulin therapy planning and can only be used for teaching, self-learning, demonstration, or research purposes. While the AIDA software can simulate a wide variety of insulin dosage and diet (nutrition) adjustments, it should be stressed that the purpose of AIDA is to create a learning environment for communicating and training intuitive thinking when dealing with such adjustments. In this respect AIDA appears most of use for recreating clinical situations in diabetes care — rather than trying to predict best outcome.
Downloadable & on- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20transcontinental%20telegraph | The first transcontinental telegraph (completed October 24, 1861) was a line that connected the existing telegraph network in the eastern United States to a small network in California, by means of a link between Omaha, Nebraska and Carson City, Nevada, via Salt Lake City. It was a milestone in electrical engineering and in the formation of the United States of America. It served as the only method of near-instantaneous communication between the east and west coasts during the 1860s. For comparison, in 1841, the news of the death of President William Henry Harrison had taken 110 days to reach Los Angeles.
Background
After the development of efficient telegraph systems in the 1830s, their use saw almost explosive growth in the 1840s. Samuel Morse's first experimental line between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore—the Baltimore-Washington telegraph line—was demonstrated on May 24, 1844. By 1850 there were lines covering most of the eastern states, and a separate network of lines was soon constructed in the booming economy of California.
California was admitted to the United States in 1850, the first state on the Pacific coast. Major efforts ensued to integrate California with the other states, including sea, overland mail pioneered by George Chorpenning, the Pony Express, and passenger services such as Butterfield Overland Mail. Proposals for the subsidy of a telegraph line to California were made in Congress throughout the 1850s, and in 1860 the U.S. Post Office was authorized to spend $40,000 per year to build and maintain an overland line. The year before, the California State Legislature had authorized a similar subsidy of $6,000 per year.
Construction
Construction of the first transcontinental telegraph was the work of Western Union, which Hiram Sibley, Jeptha Wade, and Ezra Cornell had established in 1856 by merging companies operating east of the Mississippi River. A second significant step was the passing of the Telegraph Act by the Congress in 1860, which authorized the government to open bids for the construction of a telegraph line between Missouri and California and regulated the service to be provided. Eventually, the only bidder would be Sibley, because all competitors—Theodore Adams, Benjamin Ficklin and John Harmon—withdrew at the last minute. Later they joined Sibley in his effort.
Similar to the First transcontinental railroad, elimination of the gap in the telegraph service between Fort Kearny in Nebraska and Fort Churchill in Nevada was planned to be divided between teams that would be advancing the construction in opposite directions. The Pacific Telegraph Company would build west from Nebraska and the Overland Telegraph Company would build east from Nevada's connection to the California system. James Gamble, an experienced telegraph builder in California, was put in charge of the western crew, and Edward Creighton was responsible for the eastern crew. From Salt Lake City, a crew in charge of James Street advanced westward, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20Access%20with%20Collision%20Avoidance%20for%20Wireless | Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance for Wireless (MACAW) is a slotted medium access control (MAC) protocol widely used in ad hoc networks. Furthermore, it is the foundation of many other MAC protocols used in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The IEEE 802.11 RTS/CTS mechanism is adopted from this protocol. It uses RTS-CTS-DS-DATA-ACK frame sequence for transferring data, sometimes preceded by an RTS-RRTS frame sequence, in view to provide solution to the hidden node problem. Although protocols based on MACAW, such as S-MAC, use carrier sense in addition to the RTS/CTS mechanism, MACAW does not make use of carrier sense.
Principles of operation
Assume that node A has data to transfer to node B. Node A initiates the process by sending a Request to Send frame (RTS) to node B. The destination node (node B) replies with a Clear To Send frame (CTS). After receiving CTS, node A sends data. After successful reception, node B replies with an acknowledgement frame (ACK). If node A has to send more than one data fragment, it has to wait a random time after each successful data transfer and compete with adjacent nodes for the medium using the RTS/CTS mechanism.
Any node overhearing an RTS frame (for example node F or node E in the illustration) refrains from sending anything until a CTS is received, or after waiting a certain time. If the captured RTS is not followed by a CTS, the maximum waiting time is the RTS propagation time and the destination node turnaround time.
Any node (node C and node E) overhearing a CTS frame refrains from sending anything for the time until the data frame and ACK should have been received (solving the hidden terminal problem), plus a random time. Both the RTS and CTS frames contain information about the length of the DATA frame. Hence a node uses that information to estimate the time for the data transmission completion.
Before sending a long DATA frame, node A sends a short Data-Sending frame (DS), which provides information about the length of the DATA frame. Every station that overhears this frame knows that the RTS/CTS exchange was successful. An overhearing station (node F), which might have received RTS and DS but not CTS, defers its transmissions until after the ACK frame should have been received plus a random time.
To sum up, a successful data transfer (A to B) consists of the following sequence of frames:
“Request To Send” frame (RTS) from A to B
“Clear To Send” frame (CTS) from B to A
“Data Sending” frame (DS) from A to B
DATA fragment frame from A to B, and
Acknowledgement frame (ACK) from B to A.
MACAW is a non-persistent slotted protocol, meaning that after the medium has been busy, for example after a CTS message, the station waits a random time after the start of a time slot before sending an RTS. This results in fair access to the medium. If for example nodes A, B and C have data fragments to send after a busy period, they will have the same chance to access the medium since they are in trans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie%20Richard | Natalie Richard is a Canadian television personality, formerly a VJ on both the English-language MuchMusic and French-language MusiquePlus networks. On MuchMusic she hosted French Kiss for several years, which aired French language music videos. She also took the occasional acting role for television and film. She was most recently based in Montreal working on various television projects.
Notes
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Much (TV channel) personalities
French Quebecers
Canadian VJs (media personalities)
Canadian women television personalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20point%20%28mathematics%29 | In computer-aided geometric design a control point is a member of a set of points used to determine the shape of a spline curve or, more generally, a surface or higher-dimensional object.
For Bézier curves, it has become customary to refer to the -vectors in a parametric representation of a curve or surface in -space as control points, while the scalar-valued functions , defined over the relevant parameter domain, are the corresponding weight or blending functions.
Some would reasonably insist, in order to give intuitive geometric meaning to the word "control", that the blending functions form a partition of unity, i.e., that the are nonnegative and sum to one. This property implies that the curve lies within the convex hull of its control points. This is the case for Bézier's representation of a polynomial curve as well as for the B-spline representation of a spline curve or tensor-product spline surface.
References
Splines (mathematics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1130%20Commander%27s%20Vehicle | The M1130 Commander Vehicle (CV) is an armored command vehicle based on the Stryker platform. It is used within the brigade to provide means to receive information, analyze and transmit data, and control forces carrying out combat missions. Models with the double V-hull upgrade are known as the M1255 CVV.
General
The CV provides an operational platform for elements of command within the Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT). The CV integrates the C4ISR equipment for the unit commanders. It has the ability to access aircraft power and antenna systems to plan missions while en route aboard aircraft.
Operational capability
Commanders must have the capability to see and direct the battle continuously, maintaining the Common Relevant Operating Picture (CROP) for all friendly forces within their respective areas of operation. This enhanced situational awareness and understanding will enable commanders to synchronize and employ widely dispersed and highly mobile forces at decisive points of the operation. Initial fielding of the CV will be three platforms to the brigade headquarters, two platforms to the infantry maneuver battalion HQ, and two per infantry maneuver company within each battalion.
The CV is based on the Stryker Infantry carrier vehicle (ICV) platform due to the close parallels of operational requirements and battlefield capabilities between the two systems. The commonality of the platform reduces the maintenance footprint and variety of logistics support. The CV is an organic vehicle to the ICV maneuver formation.
See also
List of U.S. military vehicles by model number
References
This article incorporates work from https://web.archive.org/web/20080516205901/http://www.sbct.army.mil/product_cv.html, which is in the public domain as it is a work of the United States Military.
External links
Command vehicles
Post–Cold War armored fighting vehicles of the United States
General Dynamics land vehicles
Wheeled armoured fighting vehicles
Command vehicles of the United States Army
Mowag Piranha
Eight-wheeled vehicles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20with%20Ross%27s%20Inappropriate%20Song | "The One with Ross's Inappropriate Song" is the seventh episode of Friends ninth season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on November 14, 2002.
Plot
While changing Emma, Ross starts to sing Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back", which makes Emma laugh for the first time. Rachel is very jealous to find out that she missed Emma's first laugh, and is not amused to find that Ross was singing a song about "a guy who likes to have sex with women with giant asses" to their baby daughter, even though Ross tries to point out that the song "promotes a healthy...body image." Rachel tries many different things to get Emma to laugh, but she realizes that only "Baby Got Back" will cause Emma to laugh. At the end of the episode, Ross and Rachel sing a duet of the song and even do some dancing along with it, unaware that the rest of the group is watching them do it.
Phoebe is very concerned about meeting Mike's parents for dinner at their home. As they talk about it, Rachel talks about meeting Ross's parents for the first time during which she reveals that Judy said that Rachel was like the daughter she never had, which upsets Monica. With some fashion and conversation tips from Monica and Rachel, Phoebe arrives at the Hannigans wearing a very traditional and conservative outfit that prompts Mike to tell Phoebe that she looks like his mother. Phoebe also begins speaking in a very "snobbish" or aristocratic accent in an effort to fit in with Mike's rich parents. Mike encourages her to just be herself, but that produces disastrous results as Phoebe provides details about her life on the street (including the fact that a pimp once spat in her mouth), playfully punches Mr. Hannigan in the chest (unaware that he just had surgery), and provides Mrs. Hannigan with far too much information about Mike's sexual behavior. Phoebe is so desperate to fit in that she even tries to eat veal despite being a fervent vegetarian. While she is in the bathroom throwing up, Mike's parents drop some not-so-subtle hints about breaking up with Phoebe. Phoebe overhears Mike defending her and telling his parents that he loves Phoebe. Phoebe runs in and tells Mike that she loves him, too. Mike and Phoebe leave, but not before Phoebe tells the Hannigans that she threw up in the coat closet instead of the bathroom.
When Joey asks Monica and Chandler how he should invest his money (as opposed to his current system of taping it to the back of his toilet tank), Monica suggests investing in real estate and even tells Joey that her old boyfriend, Richard Burke, is moving out of his apartment. Chandler, who still dislikes and distrusts Richard, tags along with Joey to check out Richard's old apartment. While there, Chandler sees a videotape with Monica's name on it; he quickly (and Joey slowly) concludes that it is a sex tape. Chandler steals the tape and tries to watch it at home, but is too afraid of what might be on there and instead asks Joey to watch it. At first, it just is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVIP | KVIP and KVIP-FM are Christian radio stations in Redding, California, United States, broadcasting at 540 kHz on the AM band and 98.1 MHz on the FM band. The FM station's programming is also carried on a regional network of transmitters and translators in far northern California and southern Oregon, including three high-power stations: KNDZ (89.3 MHz) in McKinleyville, California, covering Eureka; KMWR (90.7 MHz) in Brookings, Oregon; and KGRV (700 kHz), an AM station serving Roseburg, Oregon, that generates its own funding.
KVIP has operated with a Christian format since January 1970. Prior to then, it was a commercial station between 1958 and 1969.
History
Commercial station (1958–1969)
The Shasta Broadcasting Corporation was granted a construction permit to build a new radio station at 540 kHz in Redding on December 12, 1956. Shasta Broadcasting was associated with Shasta Telecasters, which had put KVIP-TV channel 7 on the air on August 1 of that year. The radio station entered into service on December 19, 1957, broadcasting with 1,000 watts during daytime hours only.
In 1965, KVIP moved to new studios on Radio Lane which had been previously occupied by station KVCV, which had built new facilities for itself. By that time, the television station had been sold, and instead, the firm had purchased a TV station in Fresno, KJEO-TV, and an ice rink. On April Fool's Day 1966, KVIP and KAHR (1330 AM) engaged in a prank by which the two stations switched signals for the day; lines were run between the two stations to allow them to broadcast each other's programming. Callers flooded both stations' switchboards, one even thinking the stunt was a "John Birch Society plot", as the event led to what KVIP manager Donald Chamberlain termed "mass confusion".
Two years later, however, KAHR would have a major impact on the history of KVIP beyond a one-day prank. In early 1968, KAHR was placed into bankruptcy and sold at auction. The buyer was Carl McConnell, who, in addition to being a shareholder in Shasta Broadcasting, owned KVIQ-TV channel 6 in Eureka with his wife, Leah, through the California Northwest Broadcasting Company. That firm paid $55,000 for KAHR's assets; McConnell pledged to divest himself of his shares in Shasta. That May, several KVIP staffers left the station to work for KAHR.
Carl and Leah McConnell sold their stock in Shasta Broadcasting to its other shareholders, and as a result, the other investors opted to put KVIP on the market. The Bethel Church of Redding obtained an option to purchase the station for between $50,000 and $60,000, proposing a religious format. It was unable to raise the funds needed to buy the station, however, and two buyers—one from Eugene, Oregon, and another from Fresno—visited Redding to scout out a potential purchase.
On January 17, 1969, Shasta opted to discontinue operations of KVIP and its adult contemporary format after no buyer surfaced. With the station silent, there was some interest by local schools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20G4 | This is a list of television programs formerly broadcast by the U.S. cable television channel G4.
Second iteration
Final programming
Original
Xplay (2004–2013; 2013–2014 (reruns); 2021–2022)
Attack of the Show! (2005–2013; 2021–2022)
Invitation to Party (2021–2022)
Ninja Warrior (Sasuke and Kunoichi) (2006–2012, 2021–2022 (reruns))
Unbeatable Banzuke (2008–2010; 2021–2022 (reruns))
G4 Vault (2021–2022)
G4's Crash Course (2021–2022)
G4 Specials (2002–2012; 2021–2022)
Scott the Woz (2021–2022)
Name Your Price (2022)
G4 Gameday LCS (2022)
Arena (2002–2005; 2022)
Hey, Donna! (2022)
God of Work (2022)
Acquired
Starcade (2002–2004; 2021-2022)
Takeshi's Castle Thailand (2021-2022)
Viva La Dirt League (2022)
Smosh (2022)
Former programming
Original
Boosted (February–July 2021 (YouTube-exclusive); 2021–2022 (TV))
Original iteration
Former programming
Original
Blister (2002–2004)
Cheat! (2002–2009)
Cinematech (2002–2007)
Filter (2002–2006)
G4tv.com (2002–2005)
Game Makers (2002–2005)
Game On (2002–2004)
Icons (2002–2007)
Judgment Day (2002–2006)
Players (2002–2004)
Portal (2002–2004)
Pulse (2002–2004)
Sweat (2003–2005)
The Electric Playground (2003–2006)
Eye Drops (2004)
Fresh Gear (2004)
Future Fighting Machines (2004–2005)
G4 Sports (2004–2005)
Invent This! (2004; reruns)
Nerd Nation (2004; reruns)
The Screen Savers (2004–2005)
Unscrewed with Martin Sargent (2004–2005)
Cinematech: Nocturnal Emissions (2005–2007)
Formula D (2005–2006)
G4's Late Night Peepshow (2005–2006)
G4's Training Camp (2005–2006)
Street Fury (2005–2006)
Video Game Vixens (2005)
Wired For Sex (2006–2008)
The Block (2007–2008)
Boost Mobile MLG Pro Circuit (2007)
Code Monkeys (2007–2008)
Free Stuff (2007)
Whacked Out Videos (2007–2009)
Human Wrecking Balls (2008–2010; 2014; reruns)
Hurl! (2008)
Spaceballs: The Animated Series (2008)
2 Months 2 Million (2009; 2014; reruns)
American Ninja Warrior (2009–2013)
Campus PD (2009–2012; 2012–2014; reruns)
G4 Underground (2009)
The International Sexy Ladies Show (2009–2010)
Web Soup (2009–2011; 2014; reruns)
It's Effin' Science (2010; 2014; reruns)
Rated 'A' for Adult (2010–2011)
That's Tough (2010; 2014; reruns)
Bomb Patrol Afghanistan (2011–2013)
G4's Proving Ground (2011; 2014; reruns)
Jump City: Seattle (2011)
Top 100 Video Games of All Time (2012 TV special)
Acquired
10 Play (2003–2004)
Game Gods (2003–2004)
Gamer.tv (2003–2004)
Game Sauce (2003–2004)
Hi-Score (2003–2004)
Body Hits (2004)
Robot Wars (2004–2006)
Thunderbirds (2004)
Call for Help (2005–2006)
The Man Show (2005–2007)
Brainiac: Science Abuse (2005–2008)
Fastlane (2005)
Happy Tree Friends (2005–2007)
Star Trek (2005–2006)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (2005–2006)
Arrested Development (2006–2009)
Banzai (2006–2007)
Cheaters (2006–2012)
Cops (2006–2014)
The Jamie Kennedy Experiment (2006–2008)
Super Big Product Fun Show (2007–2008)
Totally Outrageous Behavior (2007–2010)
Frea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDI-45%20connector | The HDI-45 was one of Apple Computer's proprietary cable-to-onboard video connectors. A 45-pin connector, the HDI stands for High-Density Interconnect.
Use
These connectors were used only in the first generation Power Macintosh computers (the Power Macintosh 6100, 7100 and 8100), specifically connecting these computers to the Apple AudioVision 14 Display, the only display to use this connector. Other Apple displays and third-party displays could be used with a special adapter for the receptacle on the computer ("Canneloni", Apple part M2681LL/A or 590-0796-A) or a breakout cable ("Calamari", Apple M1243LL/A or 590-0793-A) for the permanently attached cable to the monitor that converts this unusual port to a standard DA-15 connector.
Technical
In addition to carrying analog RGB video, the connector supports analog stereo audio signals (input and output), Apple Desktop Bus (ADB), and S-video input. Because the AudioVision 14 Display has front-mounted connectors for ADB and audio and video, a single consolidated cable and proprietary connector was used to simplify the connection to the computer and reduce cable clutter.
See also
VESA Enhanced Video Connector, a similar concept to consolidate multiple cables
References
External links
"HDI-45 Pinout"
Analog video connectors
Electrical signal connectors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-5%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Hi-5 (also known as Hi-5 USA) is an American children's television series produced by Kids Like Us for Discovery Kids. It also aired on TLC, on the Ready Set Learn programming blocks of both networks. It is based on the original Australian series of the same name, created by Helena Harris and Posie Graeme-Evans, and was filmed and produced in Australia. The program is known for its educational content and pop music appeal, with the cast of the show known collectively as Hi-5. The series premiered on February 24, 2003. The program was nominated for three Emmy Awards.
Format
Hi-5 is a variety-style series for pre-schoolers that features music as an integral part of its premise. The program features five presenters who are collectively known as Hi-5, who perform songs as a group as well as present individual segments.
The Puzzles and Patterns segment focuses on logical thinking and mathematics, with a puppet named Jup Jup. Jup Jup is used to help complete puzzles or solve problems. The presenter of the segment Body Move encourages children to participate in movement and dance to develop physical coordination and motor development. Linguistics and aural skills are at the center of the Word Play segment. Word Play features a puppet named Chatterbox, who assists in the exploration of language through stories and rhymes. Shapes in Space focuses on visual and spatial awareness using shapes, color and everyday materials such as boxes and play dough. Musicality is explored through Making Music, with an emphasis on pitch, rhythm, beat, melody, and using a variety of real and pretend instruments. The final segment, in which the cast comes together, is entitled Sharing Stories. In this segment, the cast tells a story that explores interpersonal relationships and emotions.
The episodes are bookended with a Song of the Week; a pop-style feature song that corresponds with the weekly theme and sets an educational topic for the week's episodes.
Production
Due to the popularity and international appeal of the original Hi-5 series in Australia, it was announced in 2002 that a local American series would be introduced. The U.S. version was filmed in the Australian show's studios from September 2002 to February 2003 and made its debut in February, premiering on TLC and Discovery Kids. The cast consisted of Kimee Balmilero, Karla Cheatham Mosley, Curtis Cregan, Jennifer Korbee (née Peterson-Hind) and Shaun Taylor-Corbett. The series was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
The final group of 10 episodes from the second season premiered on September 25, 2006.
In August 2006, Cheatham Mosley and Taylor-Corbett left the cast to pursue other ventures. New touring members Sydney James and Yasmeen Sulieman joined Balmilero, Cregan, and Korbee, but were not featured in the television series. The group last performed together in Puerto Rico in 2008.
Music
The program uses music as an integral part of its concept, and like the original Australian group, t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoplast | A kinetoplast is a network of circular DNA (called kDNA) inside a mitochondrion that contains many copies of the mitochondrial genome. The most common kinetoplast structure is a disk, but they have been observed in other arrangements. Kinetoplasts are only found in Excavata of the class Kinetoplastida. The variation in the structures of kinetoplasts may reflect phylogenic relationships between kinetoplastids. A kinetoplast is usually adjacent to the organism's flagellar basal body, suggesting that it is bound to some components of the cytoskeleton. In Trypanosoma brucei this cytoskeletal connection is called the tripartite attachment complex and includes the protein p166.
Trypanosoma
In trypanosomes, a group of flagellated protozoans, the kinetoplast exists as a dense granule of DNA within the mitochondrion. Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite which causes African trypanosomiasis (African sleeping sickness), is an example of a trypanosome with a kinetoplast. Its kinetoplast is easily visible in samples stained with DAPI, a fluorescent DNA stain, or by the use of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) with BrdU, a thymidine analogue.
Structure
The kinetoplast contains circular DNA in two forms, maxicircles and minicircles. Maxicircles are between 20 and 40kb in size and there are a few dozen per kinetoplast. There are several thousand minicircles per kinetoplast and they are between 0.5 and 1kb in size. Maxicircles encode the typical protein products needed for the mitochondria which is encrypted. Herein lies the only known function of the minicircles - producing guide RNA (gRNA) to decode this encrypted maxicircle information, typically through the insertion or deletion of uridine residues. The network of maxicircles and minicircles are catenated to form a planar network that resembles chain mail. Reproduction of this network then requires that these rings be disconnected from the parental kinetoplast and subsequently reconnected in the daughter kinetoplast. This unique mode of DNA replication may inspire potential drug targets.
The best studied kDNA structure is that of Crithidia fasciculata, a catenated disk of circular kDNA maxicircles and minicircles, most of which are not supercoiled. Exterior to the kDNA disk but directly adjacent are two complexes of proteins situated 180˚ from each other and are involved in minicircle replication.
Variations
Variations of kinetoplast networks have also been observed and are described by the arrangement and location of their kDNA.
A pro-kDNA kinetoplast is a bundle-like structure found in the mitochondrial matrix proximal to the flagellar basal body. In contrast to the conventional kDNA network, a pro-kDNA kinetoplast contains very little catenation and its maxicircles and minicircles are relaxed instead of supercoiled. Pro-kDNA has been observed in Bodo saltans, Bodo designis, Procryptobia sorokini syn. Bodo sorokini, Rhynchomonas nasuta, and Cephalothamnium cyclopi.
A poly-kDNA kinetoplast is similar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide%20sequence%20tag | A peptide sequence tag is a piece of information about a peptide obtained by tandem mass spectrometry that can be used to identify this peptide in a protein database.
Mass spectrometry
In general, peptides can be identified by fragmenting them in a mass spectrometer. For example, during collision-induced dissociation peptides collide with a gas within the mass spectrometer and break into pieces at their peptide bonds. The resulting fragment ions (called b-ions and y-ions) have mass differences corresponding to the residue masses of the respective amino acids. Thus, a tandem mass spectrum contains partial information about the amino acid sequence of the peptide. The peptide sequence tag approach, developed by Matthias Wilm and Matthias Mann at the EMBL, uses this information to identify the peptide in a database. Briefly, a couple of masses are extracted from the spectrum in order to obtain the peptide sequence tag. This peptide sequence tag is a unique identifier of a specific peptide and can be used to find it in a database containing all possible peptide sequences.
Peptide fragment notation
A notation has been developed for indicating peptide fragments that arise from a tandem mass spectrum. Peptide fragment ions are indicated by a, b, or c if the charge is retained on the N-terminus and by x, y or z if the charge is maintained on the C-terminus. The subscript indicates the number of amino acid residues in the fragment. Prime symbols indicate the number of protons or hydrogens added to the fragment to form the observed ion. For example, y'' denotes the singly charged ion analogous to a protonated peptide, (y''')2+ is a doubly charged ion analogous to a doubly protonated peptide.
See also
Protein sequence
Protein mass spectrometry
References
External links
PeptideSearch Program
SPIDER: Sequence Tag Based Search Tool
Peptide sequence tag tutorial
Mass spectrometry
Proteomic sequencing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20management%20application | In the network management model, a network management application (NMA) is the software that sits on the network management station (NMS) and retrieves data from management agents (MAs) for the purpose of monitoring and controlling various devices on the network. It is defined by the ISO/OSI network management model and its subset of protocols, namely Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP).
References
Network management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-level%20store | Single-level storage (SLS) or single-level memory is a computer storage term which has had two meanings. The two meanings are related in that in both, pages of memory may be in primary storage (RAM) or in secondary storage (disk), and that the physical location of a page is unimportant to a process.
The term originally referred to what is now usually called virtual memory, which was introduced in 1962 by the Atlas system at the University of Manchester.
In modern usage, the term usually refers to the organization of a computing system in which there are no files, only persistent objects (sometimes called segments), which are mapped into processes' address spaces (which consist entirely of a collection of mapped objects). The entire storage of the computer is thought of as a single two-dimensional plane of addresses (segment, and address within segment).
The persistent object concept was first introduced by Multics in the mid-1960s, in a project shared by MIT, General Electric and Bell Labs. It also was implemented as virtual memory, with the actual physical implementation including a number of levels of storage types. (Multics, for instance, had three levels originally: main memory, a high-speed drum, and disks.)
IBM holds patents to single-level storage as implemented in the IBM i operating system on IBM Power Systems and its predecessors as far back as the System/38 that was released in 1978.
Design
In early systems, there was a clear distinction between main memory and any secondary storage. In order to process data, programs would use explicit code to read data from secondary storage into main memory, manipulate it in main memory, and then use more code to write it back out to secondary storage again. This distinction remains to this day in most operating systems (OS).
In the 1960s, timesharing and multiprogramming were introduced. In these systems, more than one program might be running at the same time, and each desires to have its own memory to work with. This led to sometimes complex systems where programs would describe the minimum and desired amounts of memory they needed to operate, and the OS would break up main memory into blocks typically known as segments. As there were now potentially many programs running at the same time, each individual program might have less memory to work with than it desired.
Attempts to address this problem led to the development of virtual memory (VM). VM systems break the main memory down into a series of fixed-sized segments, or "pages", and allocate them to programs on demand. Programs are unaware that the VM system exists, they simply ask for memory and will be granted it or denied, as before. The difference is that each program would not be limited to some fraction of the main memory being set aside for it, but would instead be granted access to the entire memory, a fixed "virtual" main memory that was typically much larger than actual physical memory. As programs used up the physical memory, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx%20Project | The Onyx project is a venture aimed to create an interactive computer movie in nonlinear form. Viewers decide what they see in the beginning, middle and end of the movie, and is similar to Choose Your Own Adventure books, where the reader was given choices of how the story should progress.
References
Interactive films
Interactive movie video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20Playlist | Orange Playlist is a British music chat show TV series, produced by INITIAL, a subsidiary of Endemol UK for the ITV Network. The third series was presented by Jayne Middlemiss. A different guest each week joins Middlemiss to discuss their lives, nominating a variety of songs to be played, one from their future, past and present, as well as their favourite track of all time.
The show was originally presented by Lauren Laverne.
See also
Orange unsignedAct – a similar music TV show sponsored by Orange and featuring Laverne
References
External links
2004 British television series debuts
2007 British television series endings
2000s British music television series
ITV (TV network) original programming
Orange S.A.
Television series by Endemol
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Townsend | Bill Townsend (born ) is an entrepreneur who helped launch several leading Internet companies including search engine Lycos, social networking site SixDegrees, now LinkedIn, GeoCities (sold to Yahoo!) and Deja.com (sold to Google and eBay). He is President & CEO of TRICCAR, Inc., a publicly-held bioceutical research and development company focused on pharmaceutical and bioceutical solutions to common diseases. He is also President & CEO of Ontheline Corporation, a next generation communications and digital lifestyle platform
Education
Townsend earned an MBA from Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business where he held the John Schoen Entrepreneur-in-Residence chair and lectured on leadership and entrepreneurship. He earned his BA at The College of Wooster and studied at Washington & Jefferson College and SDA Bocconi.
Career
Townsend has founded, co-founded or served on the executive management team or on the board of directors at several global biomedicine, nutraceutical, Internet, and technology companies. Most notably of these companies is TRICCAR, Inc., a bioceutical firm focused on bioceutical and pharmaceutical research, development, and marketing, where he serves as President and Chief Executive Officer as well as the Internet search engine company Lycos. Lycos was acquired by Terra Networks, the Internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica for $12.5 billion.
Townsend served on the Board of Directors and oversaw the Marketplace division of the $2.8 billion Newegg.com company, the second largest pure-play e-commerce retailer behind Amazon. He oversaw the company's global marketplace division and its growth to over $280 million. Previously, he served on the boards of IAB, PacAirVentures, ReallyEasyInternet VOIP, and Futuristics.net.
Philanthropy
In 2000, Townsend founded the Amati Foundation to help expand the stringed arts, specifically education in playing, making, and preserving the violin.
Townsend began studying violin making under the tutelage of Ziang Mei and William Hilton (a student of Vhakn Nigogosian), and Alberti Genduso (who has studied with the German masters Horst Kloss and Karl Roy, director of the Bavarian State School of Violin Making in Mittenwald, Germany). Townsend has made musical instruments for the likes of Martie Maguire of The Chicks and concert violinist Anne Akiko Meyers.
In 2005, he introduced a wood treatment system to increase sonority and harmonics in instrument making. This system, Il Cremonese Violin Treatments, matched the ground used by Antonio Stradivari on which to apply varnish and protect wood. One of his instruments was featured in The Smithsonian Institution's Heart & Hands exhibition about musical instruments and their makers. Another of this violins is in the GRAMMY museum. He donates proceeds of his instrument sales to charity.
Townsend is the son of Jacquelyn Mayer, Miss America 1963. He contributes time and funding to women's issues, education and animal welfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20mean | The grand mean or pooled mean is the average of the means of several subsamples, as long as the subsamples have the same number of data points. For example, consider several lots, each containing several items. The items from each lot are sampled for a measure of some variable and the means of the measurements from each lot are computed. The mean of the measures from each lot constitutes the subsample mean. The mean of these subsample means is then the grand mean.
Example
Suppose there are three groups of numbers: group A has 2, 6, 7, 11, 4; group B has 4, 6, 8, 14, 8; group C has 8, 7, 4, 1, 5.
The mean of group A = (2+6+7+11+4)/5 = 6,
The mean of group B = (4+6+8+14+8)/5 = 8,
The mean of group C = (8+7+4+1+5)/5 = 5,
Therefore, the grand mean of all numbers = (6+8+5)/3 = 6.333.
Application
Suppose one wishes to determine which states in America have the tallest men. To do so, one measures the height of a suitably sized sample of men in each state. Next, one calculates the means of height for each state, and then the grand mean (the mean of the state means) as well as the corresponding standard deviation of the state means. Now, one has the necessary information for a preliminary determination of which states have abnormally tall or short men by comparing the means of each state to the grand mean ± some multiple of the standard deviation.
In ANOVA, there is a similar usage of grand mean to calculate sum of squares (SSQ), a measurement of variation. The total variation is defined as the sum of squared differences between each score and the grand mean (designated as GM), given by the equation
Discussion
The term grand mean is used for two different concepts that should not be confused, namely, the overall mean and the mean of means. The overall mean (in a grouped data set) is equal to the sample mean, namely, . The mean of means is literally the mean of the G (g=1,...,G) group means , namely, . If the sample sizes across the G groups are equal, then the two statistics coincide.
See also
Pooled variance
References
Descriptive statistics
Means |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9%20%28Croatia%29 | The A9 motorway () is a north–south motorway in Croatia, with a length of . Beginning in Pula, the largest city on the Istrian peninsula, it runs north to the Croatian motorway and expressway network at the Kanfanar interchange. Here it meets the A8 motorway, forming the Istrian Y road system. The A9 continues north from here to the Kaštel and Plovanija border crossings into Slovenia. The motorway represents a significant north–south transportation corridor in Croatia and is a part of the European route E751. The motorway's national significance is reflected in the positive economic impact on the cities and towns it connects, as well as its importance to tourism in Croatia. Importance of the motorway for tourism is particularly high during summer tourist seasons, when traffic volume increases by more than 80%.
The A9 motorway construction works began in 1988 with its first section opening in 1991, the second one following the next year and extending the completed route to just . Lack of funding caused delays in further development, and in 1995, BINA Istra was awarded a 32-year build-operate-transfer concession to develop the Istrian Y, including the A9. Construction soon resumed, and by 2006 the entire route was completed as a two-lane expressway with grade separated intersections. In 2008 further construction works were initiated, aimed at upgrading the newly built road to a six-lane motorway. By June 2011 the entire A9 route was brought up to motorway standard, except for the Mirna Bridge and the Limska Draga Viaduct. The motorway is planned to connect to the Slovenian H5 expressway.
The motorway consists of two traffic lanes and an emergency lane in each driving direction, separated by a central reservation, except at the two bridges. All intersections of the A9 motorway are grade separated, and as of September 2011, there are 10 exits and 6 rest areas along the route. Since the motorway is tolled, using a ticket system, each exit includes a toll plaza; and the A9 motorway and the A8 motorway have an integrated toll system in place.
Route description
The A9 motorway spans the peninsula of Istria and is a significant north–south motorway in Croatia connecting Pula, the largest city in the south of the region, to the cities of Rovinj, Poreč, Novigrad, Umag; and ending at Kaštel and Plovanija at the border crossings into Slovenia south of Koper. This part of the road network of Croatia is also a part of European route E751; Koper–Kanfanar–Pula and Kanfanar–Rijeka. The motorway is of major importance to Croatia in terms of economic development, especially for tourism and as a transit and transport route. The road carries significant transit and tourist traffic as it runs along Adriatic Sea coast linking a large number of tourist resorts.
The motorway runs for between the border crossing access roundabout—the junction of the D200 and D510 state roads—at its northern end and the D66 state road serving Pula and Pula Airport at its southern end. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KICY%20%28AM%29 | KICY is a commercial radio station airing Southern Gospel music and other Christian religious programming in Nome, Alaska, broadcasting on 850 kHz AM.
From the 11:00 PM to 4:00 AM critical hours the station transmits with a three-tower directional array located slightly east of Nome, and pointing due west into Siberia, Russia and airs Russian language programming.
KICY started broadcasting in 1960.
References
External links
AM 850's Website
Nome, Alaska
Moody Radio affiliate stations
Southern Gospel radio stations in the United States
ICY
1960 establishments in Alaska
Radio stations established in 1960
Russian-language radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20numerical-analysis%20software | The following tables provide a comparison of numerical analysis software.
Applications
General
Operating system support
The operating systems the software can run on natively (without emulation).
Language features
Colors indicate features available as
Libraries
General
Operating-system support
The operating systems the software can run on natively (without emulation).
See also
Comparison of computer algebra systems
Comparison of deep-learning software
Comparison of statistical packages
List of numerical-analysis software
Footnotes
References
Numerical analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xarxa%20Vives%20d%27Universitats | The Xarxa Vives d'Universitats (, acronym: XVU; English: "Vives Network"), formerly known as Institut Joan Lluís Vives (English: "Joan Lluís Vives Institute"), is the network of Catalan language universities.
XVU was founded in 1994 and it is headquartered in the Valencian Community, in the city of Castelló de la Plana. On May 21, 2008, it was integrated into the Ramon Llull Institute.
The institute is named after Joan Lluís Vives, a prominent Valencian scholar and humanist from the 16th century.
Members
The network currently comprises 21 universities situated in the Catalan language domain, in four different states (Andorra, France, Italy and Spain). It consists of the following 21 universities:
Abat Oliba CEU University (Barcelona)
Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona)
International University of Catalonia (Barcelona)
Jaume I University (Castelló de la Plana)
Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Elche)
Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona)
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona)
Polytechnic University of Valencia (Valencia)
Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona)
Ramon Llull University (Barcelona)
Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona and Reus)
University of Alicante (Alicante)
University of Andorra (Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra)
University of the Balearic Islands (Palma)
University of Barcelona (Barcelona)
University of Girona (Girona)
University of Lleida (Lleida)
University of Perpignan (Perpignan)
University of Sassari (Sassari)
University of Valencia (Valencia)
University of Vic (Vic)
References
External links
Xarxa Vives Institute Official Web Page
Catalan culture
College and university associations and consortia in Europe
Organizations established in 1994
1994 establishments in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Ascension" is the sixth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on . It was written by Paul Brown, directed by Michael Lange, and featured guest appearances by Steve Railsback, Nicholas Lea, Steven Williams and Sheila Larken. The episode helped explore the series' overarching mythology.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. However, the events of "Ascension" are a continuation of the plot of the preceding episode, "Duane Barry". Following the kidnapping of Scully by an unhinged alien abductee Duane Barry (Steve Railsback), Mulder races to track her down.
The decision to have the character of Scully abducted was driven by necessity, as Anderson had become pregnant and required time off from production. "Ascension" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.6, being watched by 9.2 million households in its initial broadcast, and received positive reviews from critics.
Plot
Upon hearing the voicemail showing Dana Scully's (Gillian Anderson) kidnapping by Duane Barry, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) heads to her apartment and surveys the crime scene. He meets with her mother, Margaret, who claims to have had a dream about Scully being taken away. The next morning, Assistant Director Walter Skinner tells Mulder that he is "too close" to the case to be involved, and orders Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea) to escort him home. Meanwhile, Barry speeds down the Blue Ridge Parkway when he is pulled over by a highway patrol officer. When Scully—locked in the trunk—tries to get the officer's attention, Barry kills him. Mulder reviews a video of the traffic stop, and sees that Scully is still alive.
Mulder realizes that Barry is heading to a ski resort at Skyland Mountain, the location of his original abduction; he is attempting to follow through with his original plan of having the aliens abduct someone there in his place. Krycek informs the Smoking Man (William B. Davis) of these findings before departing with Mulder. When they arrive, Mulder boards the resort's aerial tramway in the hopes of reaching the mountain's peak before Barry. However, Krycek tries to delay Mulder by sabotaging the tramway's journey upward. Mulder manages to complete the journey and witnesses a strange light in the area. Upon finding Barry's car, Mulder sees no trace of Scully except her necklace. He then encounters a joyous Barry, who claims that she was taken by "them."
When Mulder interrogates Barry, he becomes so enraged that he nearly strangles him, only to stop himself. When he leaves the room, he orders Krycek to not let anyone inside; however, he finds Krycek talking to Barry when he returns. When Skinner arrives moments later, Barry breaks into convulsions and dies. Later, at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Mulder attempts to question the doctor who performed Barry's autopsy; she |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "3" is the seventh episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. First broadcast on the Fox network on , the episode was written by Glen Morgan, James Wong and Chris Ruppenthal, directed by David Nutter, and featured guest appearances by Perrey Reeves and Malcolm Stewart.
The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. Following on from the abduction of Dana Scully in the previous episode, "Ascension", "3" was the first episode of The X-Files not to feature series star Gillian Anderson. The episode earned 9 million households during its first broadcast and received mixed reviews from both critics and the show's cast and crew.
The show centers on FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-files. In the episode, Mulder is brought in to investigate a series of ritualistic murders in Los Angeles, which he initially believes were the work of a cult. However, it turns out that the perpetrators are a group of vampires.
Plot
In Los Angeles, Garrett Lorre, a middle-aged businessman, embarks on a one night stand with an anonymous woman he has met at a corporate party. However, as they are having sex in his hot tub, the woman bites Lorre to drink his blood. Two other men join the woman, helping her kill Lorre by repeatedly stabbing him using hypodermic needles.
The following day, before departing for Los Angeles, Fox Mulder stores the missing Dana's FBI badge in an X-File under her name. At the crime scene, Mulder meets with the LAPD detectives investigating the case, explaining that Lorre's murder is the latest in a series of seemingly vampiric serial killings that have spanned two other states. Because the killers write biblical passages in the victims' blood, Mulder believes that they view themselves as an "Unholy Trinity."
Mulder visits a local blood bank where a night watchman has been recently hired. Mulder has him arrested after he is caught drinking blood in the facility's storeroom. During his interrogation, the suspect tells Mulder that he belongs to a trio of vampires who desire immortality; he is known as "The Son" while the other two, a man and a woman, are called "The Father" and "The Unholy Spirit". Mulder does not believe The Son's claims. However, at sunrise, The Son is burned to death when sunlight from the window touches his flesh. Mulder is taken aback, having previously assumed vampires to be purely mythological.
During an examination of The Son's body, Mulder discovers a tattoo for Club Tepes, a local vampire club. There, he comes across a young woman named Kristen Kilar, who partakes in the consumption of blood. Mulder, having his suspicion aroused, follows Kristen after she and another club patron, David Yung, leave for an erotic liaison; he initially fears that Kristen is targeting Yung, but is beaten by Yung when he catches the agent spying on them. After |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin%20plate%20spline | Thin plate splines (TPS) are a spline-based technique for data interpolation and smoothing. A spline is a function defined by polynomials in a piecewise manner. They were introduced to geometric design by Duchon. They are an important special case of a polyharmonic spline. Robust Point Matching (RPM) is a common extension and shortly known as the TPS-RPM algorithm.
Physical analogy
The name thin plate spline refers to a physical analogy involving the bending of a plate or thin sheet of metal. Just as the metal has rigidity, the TPS fit resists bending also, implying a penalty involving the smoothness of the fitted surface. In the physical setting, the deflection is in the direction, orthogonal to the plane. In order to apply this idea to the problem of coordinate transformation, one interprets the lifting of the plate as a displacement of the or coordinates within the plane. In 2D cases, given a set of corresponding control points (knots), the TPS warp is described by parameters which include 6 global affine motion parameters and coefficients for correspondences of the control points. These parameters are computed by solving a linear system, in other words, TPS has a closed-form solution.
Smoothness measure
The TPS arises from consideration of the integral of the square of the second derivative—this forms its smoothness measure. In the case where is two dimensional, for interpolation, the TPS fits a mapping function between corresponding point-sets and that minimizes the following energy function:
The smoothing variant, correspondingly, uses a tuning parameter to control the rigidity of the deformation, balancing the aforementioned criterion with the measure of goodness of fit, thus minimizing:
For this variational problem, it can be shown that there exists a unique minimizer . The finite element discretization of this variational problem, the method of elastic maps, is used for data mining and nonlinear dimensionality reduction. In simple words, the first term is defined as the error measurement term and the second regularisation term is a penalty on the smoothness of . It is in a general case needed to make the mapping unique.
Radial basis function
The thin plate spline has a natural representation in terms of radial basis functions. Given a set of control points , a radial basis function defines a spatial mapping which maps any location in space to a new location , represented by
where denotes the usual Euclidean norm and is a set of mapping coefficients. The TPS corresponds to the radial basis kernel .
Spline
Suppose the points are in 2 dimensions (). One can use homogeneous coordinates for the point-set where a point is represented as a vector . The unique minimizer is parameterized by which consists of two matrices and ().
where d is a matrix representing the affine transformation (hence is a vector) and c is a warping coefficient matrix representing the non-affine deformation. The kernel function is a v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLY%20%28file%20format%29 | PLY is a computer file format known as the Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format. It was principally designed to store three-dimensional data from 3D scanners. The data storage format supports a relatively simple description of a single object as a list of nominally flat polygons. A variety of properties can be stored, including color and transparency, surface normals, texture coordinates and data confidence values. The format permits one to have different properties for the front and back of a polygon.
There are two versions of the file format, one in ASCII, the other in binary.
The file format
A Ply file starts with the "header" attribute, which specifies the elements of a mesh and their types, followed by the list of elements itself. The elements are usually vertices and faces, but may include other entities such as edges, samples of range maps, and triangle strips.
The header of both ASCII and binary files is ASCII text. Only the numerical data that follows the header is different between the two versions.
The header always starts with a "magic number", a line containing:
ply
which identifies the file as a PLY file. The second line indicates which variation of the PLY format this is. It should be one of the following:
format ascii 1.0
format binary_little_endian 1.0
format binary_big_endian 1.0
Future versions of the standard will change the revision number at the end - but 1.0 is the only version currently in use.
Comments may be placed in the header by using the word comment at the start of the line. Everything from there until the end of the line should then be ignored. e.g.:
comment This is a comment!
The element keyword introduces a description of how some particular data elements are stored and how many of them there are. Hence, in a file where there are 12 vertices, each represented as a floating point (X,Y,Z) triple, one would expect to see:
element vertex 12
property float x
property float y
property float z
Other property lines might indicate that colours or other data items are stored at each vertex and indicate the data type of that information. Regarding the data type, there are two variants depending on the source of the ply file. The type can be specified with one of char uchar short ushort int uint float double, or one of int8 uint8 int16 uint16 int32 uint32 float32 float64. For an object with ten polygonal faces, one might see:
element face 10
property list uchar int vertex_index
PLY implementations vary wildly in the property names. vertex_indices is more often used than vertex_index, for example in Blender and VTK. The extended specification lists a "Core List (required)", "Second List (often used)" and "Third List (suggested extensions)" of property names.
The word list indicates that the data is a list of values, the first of which is the number of entries in the list (represented as a 'uchar' in this case). In this example each list entry is represented as an 'int'. At the end o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Return%20of%20Heracles | The Return of Heracles is a role-playing video game for the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64 and Apple II computers. It was written by Stuart Smith and published by Quality Software in 1983. Following Smith's adventure role playing games Fracas and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and built on an engine that was a precursor to Adventure Construction Set, The Return of Heracles is set in the age of Greek myth and allows the player to assume the role of one or more heroes and attempt various quests.
It was later bundled with Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in a compilation called Age of Adventure, published by Electronic Arts.
Gameplay
The Return of Heracles is an RPG adventure. Each character is defined by three basic characteristics: strength, dexterity, and speed. Strength and dexterity determine how effective a character is in combat, while speed determines how many squares can be moved in one turn. Characters may also have special training in defensive techniques, use of the sword, and use of the dagger.
Reception
Softline called Heracles "Lively and colorful ... truly a must" for gamers. Computer Gaming World praised the game's transparency, stating "The rules explain
themselves. Although documentation comes with it, you'll never have to read it." Although the magazine found the game enjoyable, several flaws were noted, particularly the inaccuracies pertaining to Greek mythology.
Reviews
Casus Belli #23 (Dec 1984)
References
1983 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Quality Software games
Heracles in fiction
Role-playing video games
Video games set in antiquity
Video games based on Greek mythology
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Bergstra | Johannes Aldert "Jan" Bergstra (born 1951) is a Dutch computer scientist. His work has focussed on logic and the theoretical foundations of software engineering, especially on formal methods for system design. He is best known as an expert on algebraic methods for the specification of data and computational processes in general.
Biography
Jan Bergstra was born in 1951 in Rotterdam, the son of Tjeerd Bergstra and Johanna Bisschop. He was educated at the Montessori Lyceum Rotterdam (gymnasium beta) and then studied mathematics at Utrecht University, starting in 1969. After an MSc he wrote a PhD thesis, defended in 1976, on recursion theory in higher types, under the supervision of Dirk van Dalen.
Bergstra held posts at the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Leiden (1976–82), and the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam. In 1985 he was appointed Professor of Programming and Software Engineering at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam and, at the same time, Professor of Applied Logic at Utrecht University; such split positions are not uncommon in the Netherlands. These two chairs he continues to hold.
He has been an Advisor of the CWI (1985–2004). In 1989 he worked for a year at Philips Research in Eindhoven as a project leader and, subsequently, continued as a consultant there until 2002. While at Philips he was involved in industrial projects on consumer electronics and medical equipment.
He founded CONCUR, the international conference series in Concurrency Theory, by organising the first two conferences in Amsterdam in 1990 and 1991. He is a member of several editorial boards, and is the managing editor of Science of Computer Programming and the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming.
In 2004 Jan Bergstra contacted Mark Burgess of the Oslo University College, looking for scientific backing for a proposed one year masters course at the University in system administration. In spite of very different backgrounds, they shared a likeness of mind in their attitudes to science and research. This resulted in them becoming friends and going on to discuss and hone several parts of Promise theory together on mutual visits between Norway and the Netherlands.
He is honorary Professor of Computer Science at Swansea University and a member of Academia Europaea since 2006.
Work
On formal methods
Bergstra's research on computation has focussed on fundamental concepts, mathematical theories and practical tools. His main theoretical research programmes are:
a systematic study of specification methods for abstract data types starting in 1979, with John V. Tucker;
the invention, development and application of process algebras, especially ACP starting in 1984, with Jan Willem Klop, Jos Baeten and others;
Module Algebra starting in 1986, together with Paul Klint and Jan Heering;
Program Algebra starting in 1998, with Marijke Loots.
Based in this theoretical research, he has desi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20basis%20%28linear%20programming%29 | The Hilbert basis of a convex cone C is a minimal set of integer vectors such that every integer vector in C is a conical combination of the vectors in the Hilbert basis with integer coefficients.
Definition
Given a lattice and a convex polyhedral cone with generators
we consider the monoid . By Gordan's lemma, this monoid is finitely generated, i.e., there exists a finite set of lattice points such that every lattice point is an integer conical combination of these points:
The cone C is called pointed if implies . In this case there exists a unique minimal generating set of the monoid —the Hilbert basis of C. It is given by the set of irreducible lattice points: An element is called irreducible if it can not be written as the sum of two non-zero elements, i.e., implies or .
References
Linear programming
Discrete geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20Instability%20Task%20Force | The Political Instability Task Force (PITF), formerly known as State Failure Task Force, is a U.S. government-sponsored research project to build a database on major domestic political conflicts leading to state failures. The study analyzed factors to denote the effectiveness of state institutions, population well-being, and found that partial democracies with low involvement in international trade and with high infant mortality are most prone to revolutions. One of the members of the task force resigned on January 20, 2017, in protest of the Trump administration, before Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president.
Project history
The project began as an unclassified study that was commissioned to a group of academics (particularly active was the Center for Global Policy at George Mason University) by the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence in response to a request from senior U.S. policy makers. The State Failure Problem Set dataset and spreadsheets were originally prepared in 1994 by researchers at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) at the University of Maryland under the direction of Ted Robert Gurr and subject to the review of the State Failure Task Force. The Problem Set was subsequently reviewed, revised, and updated on an annual basis through 1999 under the direction of Ted Gurr and, beginning in 1999, Monty G. Marshall at CIDCM. In January 2001, a major review and revision of the Problem Set coding guidelines and dataset, under the direction of Monty G. Marshall, was concluded that substantially altered the case identifications and case parameters recorded in the Problem Set.
Methodology
The PITF first identified over 100 "problem cases" in the world from 1955 to 2011. Four distinct types of state failure events are included in the dataset: revolutionary wars, ethnic wars, adverse regime changes, and genocides and politicides. The Problem Set data includes the following information on each case: country, month and year of onset, month and year of ending (unless ongoing as of December 31 of the current update year), type of case, and annual codes on magnitude variables. The basic structure of the data is the "case-year," that is, there is a separate case-entry for each additional year of a multi-year episode. Only the first annual record for each event contains a brief narrative description of the event.
The goal was to find factors associated with major political conflicts. Over 400 cases were analyzed, both for global and regional data sets.
The common variables listed in each data version are as follows:
COUNTRY - Full alpha country name
SCODE - 3-letter alpha country code
CCODE - 3-number numeric Singer country code
YEAR - 4-number numeric year
MOBEGIN - 2-number numeric month denoting event beginning
YRBEGIN - 4-number numeric year denoting event beginning
MOEND - 2-number numeric month denoting event ending (99=ongoing)
YREND - 4-number numeric year denot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agat%20%28computer%29 | The Agat () was a series of 8-bit computers produced in the Soviet Union. It used the same MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor as Apple II and BBC Micros, amongst many others. Commissioned by the USSR Ministry of Radio, for many years it was a popular microcomputer in Soviet schools.
First introduced at a Moscow trade fair in 1983, the Agat was primarily produced between 1984 and 1990, although a limited number of units may have been manufactured as late as 1993. By 1988, about 12,000 units were produced. Over 9 months in 1989 about 7,000 machines were built.
There are several versions of the machine (Agat-4 to 9), with progressive enhancements to memory, video modes and compatibility with Apple II.
Architecture and design
The Agat was inspired primarily by Apple II, though being largely different from it in design. A domestically produced "partitioned 588 series" CPU was used on early pre-production series, which simulated the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor instruction set. While this permitted some degree of compatibility with the Apple, timing differences between the two CPUs rendered certain tasks (such as floppy disk access and sound generation) impossible. Later models incorporated actual MOS 6502 CPUs which permitted a greater degree of interoperability between the two platforms.
Early editions of the Agat came with a cassette tape reader and a keyboard, although later editions replaced the tape reader with a 5¼ inch floppy disk drive. The keyboard utilised the standard Russian keyboard layout, and offered a choice between either Cyrillic or Latin symbols. Earlier models had very limited upgradeability, but later models incorporated additional upgrade and peripheral slots to allow expansion. Other available peripherals included a printer, mouse, and memory upgrades. The display was provided through a 30 cm SECAM television, rather than a specialised computer monitor, that was connected to the rest of the machine through a 1 metre long cable.
Versions
Apart from the initial model, there were a number of different versions of the Agat produced:
Agat-4: A small quantity of this model was released in 1983. While popular, it quickly became obsolete.
Agat-7: The first mass-produced model, introduced in 1984, it featured more internal memory (96 KB) and disk capabilities than the Agat-4.
Agat-8: An updated and enhanced version of the Agat-7.
Agat-9: The final mass-produced model, introduced in 1986 with many improvements upon the Agat-7 and Agat-8, including additional video modes, improved memory management (128 KB or 256 KB), and improved compatibility with the Apple II + 64K.
Production
The initial run of Agat-4 machines were produced at the "Lianozovsky Electromechanical Plant" (LEMZ). Production was difficult, as the LEMZ facilities were more intended for the production of motor vehicles and radar equipment, rather than computers, and the administration of the plant was not closely associated with the designers of the Agat. Fu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%20system | Template system may refer to:
Template processor, software designed to combine templates with a data model to produce result documents
Web template system, a system that allows web designers and developers work with web templates to automatically generate custom web pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Ecological%20Observatory%20Network | National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a large facility program operated by Battelle Memorial Institute and funded by the National Science Foundation. In full operation since 2019, NEON gathers and provides long-term, standardized data on ecological responses of the biosphere to changes in land use and climate, and on feedback with the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. NEON is a continental-scale research platform for understanding how and why our ecosystems are changing.
Vision and mission
The vision for NEON is to guide global understanding and decisions in a changing environment with scientific information about continental-scale ecology through integrated observations, experiments and forecasts. NEON's mission is to design, implement and operate the first and foremost integrated continental‐scale scientific infrastructure to enable research, discovery and education about ecological change.
NEON collects ecological and climatic observations across the continental United States, including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The observatory is among the first to detect and enable forecasting of ecological change at continental scales over multiple decades. NEON has partitioned the United States into 20 ecoclimatic domains, each of which represents different regions of vegetation, landforms, climate, and ecosystem performance. Data is collected by field technicians and passive sensors at strategically selected sites within each domain and synthesized into information products that can be used to describe changes in the nation's ecosystem through space and time. NEON data products are freely available via a web portal.
Purpose and function
Science
The data NEON collects are defined by a series of Grand Challenges, as identified by the National Research Council at the request of the National Science Foundation. The National Research Council established a committee to evaluate the major ecological, environmental, and national concerns that require a continental-scale observatory, and it identified the following Environmental Grand Challenges:
Biogeochemistry: The study of how chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes combine to create the natural environment.
Biodiversity: The full range of life forms on earth, or in a particular region.
Climate change: A significant long-term change in the kind of weather we would expect based on averages calculated from climate data.
Ecohydrology: The study of how organisms interact with their environment and with the constant movement of water.
Infectious Diseases: Diseases spread by viruses, parasites, and bacteria that are sometimes transmitted to people by animals, birds, and insects.
Land Use: The many ways that people change the natural landscape and environment, such as by building cities, cutting down forests, or planting crops.
Invasive Species: Plants and organisms that overpopulate a particular place, or species that move into areas they haven’t lived in before. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20segmentation | Network segmentation in computer networking is the act or practice of splitting a computer network into subnetworks, each being a network segment. Advantages of such splitting are primarily for boosting performance and improving security.
Advantages
Reduced congestion: On a segmented network, there are fewer hosts per subnetwork and the traffic and thus congestion per segment is reduced
Improved security:
Broadcasts will be contained to local network. Internal network structure will not be visible from outside.
There is a reduced attack surface available to pivot in if one of the hosts on the network segment is compromised. Common attack vectors such as LLMNR and NetBIOS poisoning can be partially alleviated by proper network segmentation as they only work on the local network. For this reason it is recommended to segment the various areas of a network by usage. A basic example would be to split up web servers, databases servers and standard user machines each into their own segment.
By creating network segments containing only the resources specific to the consumers that you authorise access to, you are creating an environment of least privilege
Containing network problems: Limiting the effect of local failures on other parts of network
Controlling visitor access: Visitor access to the network can be controlled by implementing VLANs to segregate the network
Improved security
When a cyber-criminal gains unauthorized access to a network, segmentation or “zoning” can provide effective controls to limit further movement across the network. PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), and similar standards, provide guidance on creating clear separation of data within the network, for example separating the network for Payment Card authorizations from those for Point-of-Service (till) or customer wi-fi traffic. A sound security policy entails segmenting the network into multiple zones, with varying security requirements, and rigorously enforcing the policy on what is allowed to move from zone to zone.
Controlling visitor access
Finance and Human Resources typically need access via their own VLAN to their application servers because of the confidential nature of the information they process and store. Other groups of personnel may require their own segregated networks, such as server administrators, security administration, managers and executives.
Third parties are usually required to have their own segments, with different administration passwords to the main network, to avoid attacks via a compromised, less well protected, third party site.
Means of segregation
Segregation is typically achieved by a combination of firewalls and VLANs (Virtual Local Area Networks). Software-defined networking (SDN) can allow the creation and management of micro-segmented networks.
See also
Collision domain
Cross-domain solution
Flat network
Network bridge
Network switch
Router (computing)
Unidirectional network
References
Network architec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackJack%20%28film%20series%29 | BlackJack is a series of Australian television movies created by Shaun Micallef and Gary McCaffrie, and starring Colin Friels. The movies began airing on Network Ten in 2003 and concluded in 2007. They were shown in the United Kingdom on the BBC and UKTV Drama.
After testifying against his former colleagues in a corruption trial Sydney detective Jack Kempson (Friels) is reassigned to a unit charged with entering the details of old cases into a police database. He unofficially begins to investigate unsolved crimes dating back many years.
Episodes
Pilot
BlackJack: Murder Archive (2003) – Jack turns whistle blower, resulting in the department demoting him to data entry duties, using a crime tracking system. This gives Jack the opportunity to work at solving old crimes. He is motivated by the case of a boy kidnapped and never found 30 years ago, as well as the memory of the loss of his wife.
First trilogy
BlackJack: Sweet Science (2004) — Jack discovers that the sons (Alex O'Loughlin and Anthony Hayes) of a criminal gunned down during a football game in 1992 are now following in their dead father's footsteps.
BlackJack: In The Money (2005) – A man whose wife was brutally murdered years earlier, survives what appears to be an attempt on his life. Jack investigates whether the two events are connected and if the wrong person was convicted of the initial crime.
BlackJack: Ace Point Game (2005) – Two sisters kidnap the man they believe sexually assaulted them years earlier, with hopes of exacting revenge. As police pursue them, Jack re-examines the old evidence to determine if the man they're holding captive is indeed the perpetrator.
Second trilogy
BlackJack: Dead Memory (2006) – After her car breaks down, a missing woman's body is found in a national park. Mysteriously, the crime mirrors that of the disappearance of another girl, who was known to Jack's offsider Sam.
BlackJack: At the Gates (2006) – After their baby was tragically killed during a home invasion, a couple are motivated to build a community church. With the crime still unsolved ten years later, Jack investigates and discovers not all is what it seems.
BlackJack: Ghosts (2007) - A young mother was shot and killed during an apparent kidnapping, and twenty years on, the perpetrator is about to be paroled. Jack investigates whether justice was truly served.
Cast
Main
Colin Friels as Jack Kempson
Kate Beahan as Julie Egan
David Field as Inspector Terry Kavanagh
Marta Dusseldorp as Sam Lawson
Gigi Edgley as Liz Kempson
Doris Younane as Christine Vallas
Sophie Lee as Denise Kennedy
Todd Lasance as Stephen Hulce
BlackJack: Murder Archive (2003)
Inge Hornstra as Carmen
John Brumpton as Andy Margate
Victoria Longley as Therese Ricci
Russell Dykstra as Buchanan
Tony Barry as Joe Bueneroti
Matt Boesenberg as Shapiro
Tina Bursill as Carmen
Jason Clarke as Tony Seaton
Ron Graham as Brian Kirsten
Melissa Jaffer as Helen Kirsten
BlackJack: Sweet Science (2004)
Alex O'L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%20Books | DC Books is a publisher in Kerala publisher of books in Malayalam, and one of the publishers in India . It also operates one of the largest book store chains in India, with a network of over 45 bookshops under the DC Books and Current Books brands as well as more than 50 agencies in Kerala.
DC Books
DC Books is a publisher and bookseller with headquarters in Kottayam, Kerala, India. It published over 6500 titles, mainly literature in Malayalam, but also including children's literature, poetry, reference, biography, self-help, yoga, management titles, and foreign translations.
DC Media, is the media division of DC Books. DC Media publishes 5 magazines namely, Education Insider, Asia's leading magazine on education, Future Medicine, magazine on Asian medical industry and Emerging Kerala, Kerala's fastest growing magazine on business, economy and society, Money Indices and Travel and Flavors.
DC Books was founded in 1974 by Dominic Chacko Kizhakemuri, known as D. C. Kizhakemuri or just DC amongst literary Kerala. At that time, DC was Secretary of the Sahithya Pravarthaka Co-operative Society, a cooperative venture of Malayalam writers. The society helped writers with the business and publishing details and instituted a standard royalty of 30-40%, as well as the system of an 'advance' payment for their books, financially enabling them to devote themselves to writing full-time. When he turned his attention to founding DC Books, DC began promoting and creating markets for its books by organizing festivals, clubs, and pre-publication subscriptions, and installment schemes. Their successful bookclub scheme allows buyers to build a library of their own by buying books on installments. In 1977, Current Books became its sister concern. In 2001, DC Books launched dcbooks.com, an Indian local language bookstore with over 4,000 titles. In 2004, DC Books partnered with Corner Books to open a New Delhi branch for Keralites in Delhi.
DC Books is the publisher of several translation dictionaries used by professionals and South Asian Linguists, such as their:
"English-English-Malayalam dictionary" by T. Ramalingam Pillai ()
Malayalam English Dictionary by M. Varier, et al.
Imprints
DC Books is the parent company of the following imprints:
DC Books: non-fiction, literature, translations, and reference books
Kairali Mudralayam: popular fiction, including children's books and translations
Kairali Children's Book Trust: produces children's literature and gives annual awards for best works in Malayalam
Mango Books: Children's imprint in English. Winner of Awards for Excellence (2014) constituted by the Federation of Indian Publishers.
Achievements
In 2004 alone, won five awards in the General, Reference, Paperback, House Magazine, and Catalogues categories for their: Malayalam Encyclopedia, Thesaurus, Charithrakaandom, Pachakuthira.
In 2004 alone, D.C. Books brought out 531 titles, the maximum number among Indian publishers
DC Books was the first publisher |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation%20%28music%29 | In broadcasting, rotation is the repeated airing of a limited playlist of songs on a radio station or satellite radio channel, or music videos on a TV network. They are usually in a different order each time. However, they are not completely shuffled, so as to avoid varying the time between any two consecutive plays of a given song by either too much or too little. When measuring airplay, the number of times a song is played is counted as spins.
Stations playing new music typically have a short rotation of around four hours, while stations playing "classics" may go as long as eight hours, with a few stations promising "no repeats" where a song is not played again during a broadcast day to allow a much broader playlist (or if there is a purposeful repeat on that type of station, it ties into a station contest for a prize, such as tickets to the played artist's concert). College radio and indie radio stations sometimes have no particular rotation, only the music director's suggested lists for the disc jockeys, or are totally freeform radio. Broadcast automation systems handle a limited rotation quite well, in turn making voice tracking easy. Even if a live person is present, the automation system at commercial stations usually picks the music ahead of time out of the current rotation, thus the DJ becomes only an announcer.
Heavy rotation or power rotation is a list of songs that get the most airplay on a radio station. Songs in heavy rotation will be played many times in a 24-hour period. A reason for playing the same song more than once a day is that many listeners tune in expecting to hear their favorite song, and many listeners don't listen to the radio for extended periods of time. Prolonged listening to a station that places songs in heavy rotation can quickly become unpleasant; such stations are not well-suited for retail environments, where employees must listen for hours on end, and doing so can breed contempt for the music and create a hostile work environment.
A song placed in "lunar rotation" is one that is only played in off-peak hours, usually late at night. There can be various reasons for this, but such songs are usually not hits and are played because of the personal musical preference of the DJ or programmer, to avoid more stringent daypart-based regulations on music content or to fulfill a broadcasting obligation to carry programming that is not popular with audiences, such as Canadian content quotas or public affairs. (See also "beaver hour".)
Recurrent rotation
Recurrent rotation refers to a group of songs still frequently aired on a contemporary hit radio station several months or even years after the initial debut. It is also used to describe core songs in other radio formats as well. Most charts have special rules to determine when a song has become recurrent, at which point they are removed from current charts (such as the Billboard Hot 100) and placed on special "recurrent charts". Recurrent charts tend to be more stati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational%20application | In computing, a situational application is "good enough" software created for a narrow group of users with a unique set of needs. The application typically (but not always) has a short life span, and is often created within the group where it is used, sometimes by the users themselves. As the requirements of a small team using the application change, the situational application often also continues to evolve to accommodate these changes. Although situational applications are specifically designed to embrace change, significant changes in requirements may lead to an abandonment of the situational application altogether – in some cases it is just easier to develop a new one than to evolve the one in use.
Characteristics
Situational applications are developed fast, easy to use, uncomplicated, and serve a unique set of requirements. They have a narrow focus on a specific business problem, and they are written in a way where if the business problem changes rapidly, so can the situational application.
This contrasts with more common enterprise applications, which are designed to address a large set of business problems, require meticulous planning, and impose a sometimes-slow and often-meticulous change process.
Origination
Clay Shirky in his essay entitled "Situated Software" described a type of software that "...is designed for use by a specific social group, rather than for a generic set of "users"." IBM later morphed the term into "situational applications".
Evolution
The successful large-scale implementation of a situational application environment in an organization requires a strategy, mindset, methodology and support structure quite different from traditional application development. This is now evolving as more companies learn how to best leverage the ideas behind situational applications. In addition, the advent of cloud-based application development and deployment platforms makes the implementation of a comprehensive situational application environment much more feasible.
Examples
A structured wiki that can host wiki applications lends itself to creation of situational applications. Some mashups can also be considered situational applications. A forms application such as a Microsoft Access Database (MDB file) can be considered a situational application.
The latest implementations of situational application environments include Longjump, Force.com and WorkXpress.
See also
End user development
Mashup (web application hybrid)
Wiki application
References
External links
Luba Cherbakov, Andy Bravery, Aroop Pandya. SOA meets situational applications, 3 part series
Situational Applications: When the situation demands faster turnaround than IT can provide
Luba Cherbakov, Andy Bravery, Aroop Pandya. Changing the corporate IT development model: Tapping the power of grassroots computing, IBM Systems Journal
Software architecture
Web development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%20Bleu | France Bleu is a network of local and regional radio stations in France, part of the national public broadcasting group Radio France. The network has a public service mission to serve local audiences and provides local news and content from each of its forty-four stations.
France Bleu was created in 2000 by a fusion of two older Radio France networks, Les locales de Radio France and Radio Bleue. The flagship station in Paris goes by the name of France Bleu 107.1, while the individual stations are each named for their respective coverage areas, usually a département, région, or city.
Claude Perrier has been director of the France Bleu network since 2013. His predecessors include Philippe Chaffanjon (2012–2013) and Anne Brucy (2010–2012).
History
Disjointed beginnings (1975–2000)
Les locales de Radio France
In 1980, Jacqueline Baudrier, then Chief Director of Radio France created three new experimental local radio stations. Fréquence Nord, Radio Mayenne and Melun FM were created to cover a region, department and a town respectively. These stations were in complement to those already existing under the management of FR3 since 1975, following the break-up of the state broadcaster ORTF. Radio France assumed control of all stations in 1982, with the number of stations reaching 40 by the 1990s.
Its programming was essentially local except for music (which usually came from sister station FIP, or national programming by satellite, called Programme Modulation France), combined with news bulletins from France Inter. These stations were individually called Radio France_ followed by its coverage area, but were grouped under the name Les locales de Radio France.
Radio Bleue
Similarly in 1980, Baudrier also launched a new network, this time aimed at the over-50 demographic, called Radio Bleue. It started as a morning-only service which used a national mediumwave network, shared with educational programming. By the 1990s, it expanded its schedule, broadcasting until the evening and secured three FM frequencies from the radio regulator the CSA in three cities: Paris, Cannes, and Valence.
Plan Bleu (2000–2010)
In 2000, following a review of all radio services, Radio France director, Jean-Marie Cavada, initiated its Plan Bleu, essentially a vast re-organisation of its radio frequencies. Under the plan the local radio stations (Les locales de Radio France) were to be syndicated with Radio Bleue to form one network – the unified France Bleu officially launched on 4 September 2000 at 5:00am CET. Its network of thirty-eight local radio stations were all renamed "France Bleu __", followed by its broadcast area, to bring the network closer to the Radio France family of stations. Expanding its coverage, local FM frequencies in small to medium-sized towns were reattributed to France Bleu. Under the same plan frequencies in bigger markets switched to youth network Le Mouv' and FIP stations were drastically cut back to five locations.
News bulletins from France Int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aomori%20FM%20Broadcasting | is a Japanese FM station, an affiliate of the Japan FM Network. Their headquarters are located in Aomori Prefecture.
History
Stations
Aomori (Main Station) JOWU-FM 80.0 MHz 1 kW
Hachinohe 78.4 MHz 500w
Mutsu 81.3 MHz 100w
Kamikita 84.3 MHz 10w
Programs
It's My Radio!
Hello Radio Sounds Land
Nanbu Connection
ELM Presents ELMAGA+
JFN News
Other stations in Aomori
Aomori Broadcasting Corporation
Aomori Television
Asahi Broadcasting Aomori
See also
Japan FM Network
External links
Radio stations in Japan
Radio stations established in 1987
Mass media in Aomori (city) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20Donald%20Wilson | Henry Donald Wilson (November 21, 1923 – November 12, 2006), generally referred to as H. Donald Wilson was a database pioneer and entrepreneur. He was also the first president and one of the principal creators of the Lexis legal information system, and Nexis. An attorney by training who became an information industry innovator and a venture capital consultant to numerous businesses, Mr. Wilson was also an internationalist and a conservationist. At the time of his death, he was chairman of Lessac Technologies Inc., a text-to-voice software venture based on nearly fifty years of partnership with Arthur Lessac.
A speech about his life that Wilson gave on June 9, 2006, at Collington-Kendal was called "From Idealist to Idealistic Realist With a Ride on Moore's Law." He concluded the story of his life saying, "We are in a race between having new technology destroy us and using it to save ourselves."
Personal life
Upbringing
Born in New Rochelle, New York, on November 21, 1923, he was the third son of Andrew Wilson and Edith Rose Wilson. He was raised in Edgemont and Scarsdale, New York. His father was the chairman of the County Trust Company bank. He was a descendant of Sarah Wells and William Bull, early settlers of Orange County NY and builders of the Bull Stone House in Hamptonburg. Don Wilson and his wife Mary Louise Swan Baron Wilson lived in White Plains, New York, for 49 years.
Wilson attended public high school in Scarsdale, New York, through ninth grade, and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1941. He was the Andover Scholar in Mathematics as a freshman at Yale University. When Pearl Harbor was bombed, he and his classmates were immediately placed in an accelerated academic program, completing their studies in three years. He took a B.A. degree with honors in international relations and was an editor of the Yale Daily News. At Yale, he was a member of Berzelius and DKE.
World War II
Wilson shipped out to the South Pacific in 1944 as a lieutenant junior grade on the . He received his Yale diploma by mail in 1945. He served in seven battle campaigns including Leyte Gulf, Mindoro, and Iwo Jima. At Okinawa, he served as assistant gunnery officer through the longest shore bombardment in U.S. history. He took command of a medium-size landing craft in San Diego and sailed it through the Panama Canal and home to Charleston, South Carolina. He was discharged in June 1946.
Law school
Returning from the war, Wilson commuted to Columbia Law School by motorcycle from his parents' home in Edgemont, New York. He headed the Moot Court Committee, which he reorganized, and graduated in 1948 in the top 25% of his class. He loved to dance and was a sought-after partner for debutante balls and with friends in Manhattan nightclubs. He remained concerned, however, about the possibility of a new world war. He joined the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell in New York City in November 1948, and resigned in March 1949 to become an or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous%20conferencing | Synchronous conferencing is the formal term used in computing, in particular in computer-mediated communication, collaboration and learning, to describe technologies informally known as online chat. It is sometimes extended to include audio/video conferencing or instant messaging systems that provide a text-based multi-user chat function. The word synchronous is used to qualify the conferencing as real-time, as distinct from a system such as e-mail, where messages are left and answered later.
Synchronous conferencing protocols include:
IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
PSYC (Protocol for Synchronous Conferencing)
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol)
XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol)
SIMPLE (instant messaging protocol) (Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions)
Types
According to the type of media used, synchronous conferencing can be divided into
audio conferencing: only audio is used
video conferencing: Both audio (voice) and video and picture are used.
According to the number of access point used, synchronous conferencing can be divided into
point-to-point: Only two computers are connected end to end.
multi-point: Two or more than two computers are connected together.
Synchronous vs asynchronous conferencing
Both synchronous and asynchronous conferencing are online conferencing where the participants can interact while being physically located at different places in the world. Asynchronous conferencing allows the students to access the learning material at their convenience while synchronous conferencing requires that all participants including the instructor and the students be online at the time of conference.
While synchronous conferencing enables real time interaction of the participants, asynchronous conferencing allows participants to post messages and others can respond to it at any convenient time. Sometimes a combination of both synchronous and asynchronous conferencing is used. Both the methods give a permanent record of the conference.
Methods
Some of the methods used in synchronous conferencing are:
Chat (text only): Multiple participants can be logged into the conference and can interactively share resources and ideas. There is also option to save the chat and archive it for later review.
Voice (telephone or voice-over IP): This is a conference call between the instructor and the participating students where they can speak through built-in microphone or a headset.
Video conferencing: This may or may not require the participants to have their webcams running. Usually, a video conference involves a live feed from a classroom or elsewhere or a content.
Web conferencing: This includes Webinar (Web-based seminar) as well. Unlike in video conferencing, participants of a web conferencing can access a wider variety of media elements. Web conferences are comparatively more interactive and usually incorporate chat sessions as well.
Internet radio/pod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stration | Stration (also known as Stratio and Warezov) is a family of computer worms that can affect computers running Microsoft Windows, disabling security features and propagating itself to other computers via e-mail attachments. This family of worms is unusual in that new variants are being produced at an unprecedented rate, estimated to be up to one every 30 minutes at its peak, and downloaded from remote servers by infected machines to speed propagation. This makes detection and removal a particular challenge for anti-virus software vendors, because new signature files for each variant need to be issued to allow their software to detect them.
Details
The first variant of the Stration family was reported in late September 2006. It was quickly discovered that the worm program, as well as propagating itself by sending out copies via e-mail, was downloading new variants from one of a number of remote servers. These variants were generated by a program on those servers under control of the worm's creator(s). Computer security firm F-Secure has worked with ISPs to shut down domains hosting the variants of the worm. In November 2006, the Stration worm was the most widespread malware infection reported, accounting for around one-third of reported infections.
The Stration worms employ social engineering to infect the target machine by arriving in an e-mail masquerading as a report from a mail server informing the recipient (in somewhat broken English) that their computer is infected due to an unpatched security flaw in Windows, and offering as an attachment a purported fix, which is in fact the worm program itself. Some later variants of the worm spread via instant messenger and Skype chat alerts containing a URL leading to the worm.
Notes
Email worms
Hacking in the 2000s
2006 in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Tabriz | Here is a complete list for notable people who lived or from Tabriz:
A
Abu'l Majd Tabrizi, compiler of Safina-yi Tabriz, writer
Ahmad Hussein Adl, Minister of Agriculture
Akbar Alami, Representative of Parliament
Massoud Amin, American Engineer
Taghi Arani, Iranian political activist; killed in prison in the First Pahlavi era
Armik
Aziz Asli, soccer player
B
Bagher Khan, Nationalist revolutionist
Karim Bagheri, soccer player
Reza Baraheni, novelist, poet, critic and political activist, former president of Pen Canada
Mohammad Hossein Behjat Tabrizi (Shahriar), poet
Samad Behrangi, children's books writer
Qolam Hossein Bigjeh-Khani, musician and tar player
Gayk Bzhishkyan
C
D
Reza Deghati, photographer
Cyrus Dinmohammadi, soccer player
E
Hasan Enami Olya
Parvin E'tesami, poet
F
Javad Fakori, Major General; commander of the IRIAF during the Iran–Iraq War; served as Defense Minister
Farhad Fakhredini, conductor of National Orchestra
G
Ivan Galamian
Azim Gheychisaz
Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation
H
Ebrahim Hakimi, Prime Minister of Iran
Sattar Hamedani, soccer player
Hamid Mirza, heir presumptive of the Qajar dynasty
Mohsen Hashtroodi, mathematician
Homam-e Tabrizi, poet
Ahad Hoseini, painter
I
Iraj Mirza, poet and famous politician
J
Allameh Jafari, cleric, researcher
Feridoun Jam, Head of Iranian Army corps
Jafar Tabrizi, calligrapher
Mahmud Jam, Prime Minister of Iran
Rosa Jamali, poet, writer
K
Ahmad Kasravi, politician and author
Samuel Khachikian, film director
Rasoul Khatibi, soccer player
Mohammad Khiabani, cleric; a political leader during Iran's Constitutionalist Revolution
L
M
Yadollah Maftun Amini, poet
Abu'l Majd Tabrizi, compiler of Safina-yi Tabriz; writer
Naser Manzuri, novelist, linguist
Tahmineh Milani, film director
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Prime Minister of Iran, reformist
N
Reza Naji, actor
Nasimi, poet (however, there is a controversy about his birthplace)
P
Farah Pahlavi (Farah Diba), the last queen consort of Iran
Jafar Panahi, film director
Q
Abbas Mirza Qajar, prince, reformist
Ahmad Shah Qajar, King of Iran
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, King of Iran
Mohammad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia of the Qajar dynasty
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran
Qalandar Tabrizi, speaker of bitter truths to power
Qatran Tabrizi, poet
R
Mirza Taqikhan Raf'at Tabrizi, poet, writer, founder of Raf'at Literary School
Hassan Roshdieh, founder of the first modern school in Iran
S
Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
Gholamhossein Saedi, writer, novelist and political activist
Sattar Khan, Nationalist revolutionary leader
Seqat-ol-Eslam Tabrizi, Nationalist cleric
Shams Tabrizi, Sufi
Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Grand Ayatollah
Jamileh Sheykhi, actress
Ali Soheili, Prime Minister of Iran
T
Allameh Tabatabaei, cleric, researcher
Javad Tabatabai, political philosopher, historian, distinguished university professor
Maqsud Ali Tabrizi
Mir Ali Tabrizi, calligraphist
Mirza Abdul'Rahim Talibov Tabrizi, |
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