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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Earth%20Resources%20Observation%20and%20Science | The Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) is a United States Geological Survey data management, systems development, and research field center. It serves as the national archive of remotely sensed images of the Earth's land surface acquired by civilian satellites and aircraft. EROS is located northeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, between Baltic and Garretson.
In the 1960s the federal government decided it needed a single facility to handle and distribute Landsat satellite data. A study determined that such a data center be located where it could receive transmissions directly from a satellite passing over any part of the conterminous United States. This limited the location to an elliptical area that stretched from Topeka, Kansas, to just north of Sioux Falls. A rural location was also recommended to avoid radio and TV interference.
South Dakota Senator Karl Mundt worked with local business leaders in South Dakota to buy the land necessary for the data center and in 1970 it was announced that the Sioux Falls area had been chosen as the site for EROS. Construction started shortly thereafter and the facility opened on August 7, 1973.
Operation
EROS has nearly 600 government and contractor employees. It is staffed by USGS employees and employees from private industry that work under contract to support EROS' mission.
See also
Airborne Science Program
References
External links
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) official website
United States Department of the Interior
Satellite meteorology
Education in Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Buildings and structures in Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Tourist attractions in Minnehaha County, South Dakota
1973 establishments in South Dakota
Projects at EROS include:
Landsat
LANDFIRE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajeet | Kajeet is a Mobile network operator that delivers secure and controlled internet access to a variety of industries across North America and globally in 24 other countries. Kajeet Inc. provides Iot of connectivity, software, hardware products and services to businesses, schools, hospitals, government agencies, and telecommunications enterprises. Its headquarters are located in McLean, Virginia and operations are located in Phoenix, Arizona, with regional offices in 11 cities in the United States.
Background
Kajeet was founded in the 2003 by three fathers who wanted to figure out how to use mobile technology to provide a safe mobile experience for kids. The company name, "Kajeet", was derived as an anagram from the names of the founder's children. Two of the original founders still guide the company today: Ben Weintraub, COO, and Daniel Neal, CEO. Kajeet's original service provided safety-conscious families with affordable cell phones and prepaid plans for their teens, and young children. More recently Kajeet has implemented its patented mobile management technology to provide off-campus mobile connectivity service to school districts.
In 2007, Kajeet was mentioned in a Time Magazine online article and in the print edition. In both, the author Wendy Cole recounted her daughter's experience during Kajeet beta testing.
Education Broadband
Kajeet began offering off-campus mobile broadband service to schools and districts in 2012 and Education Broadband service in 2014. According to multiple sources, on average, one-third of U.S. students do not have adequate Internet access when they leave school. As more and more districts and schools incorporate technology into their curriculum and prepare for state-mandated testing (1-to-1, BYOD, Blended Learning), students are required to work on assignments outside the classroom. A large number of disadvantaged students are finding themselves caught in a widening “digital divide” struggling to keep up with their more affluent peers.
According to the Kajeet website, the company provides a “safe, affordable, mobile broadband solution called Education Broadband™ that connects economically disadvantaged students to the Internet outside of school.” The Education Broadband solution, includes a portable Kajeet SmartSpot® and patented filtering and controls that enables school districts to provide CIPA-compliant, education-only filtered Internet access to keep students focused on school work without worry of data abuse.
History
On March 19, 2007, Kajeet launched a presence in Whyville, the virtual world for kids, sponsoring a "Chat Factory" in the Whyville Mall. In May 2007, the kajeet-Whyville relationship was presented as a case study in online marketing to kids at the Kid Power 2007 conference in Orlando, Florida.
In mid-March 2007, Kajeet officially announced its retail launch in Best Buy and Limited Too stores, and in April began selling in Long's Drugs stores on the west coast.
In early April 2007, Kajeet beg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack%20%28radio%20program%29 | Hack is the title of a current affairs radio program on Australian national radio broadcaster Triple J.
The show began at the start of 2004 after a shake-up of the station's programming. The previous current affairs program, The Morning Show, from 9 a.m. to midday, was axed; the half-hour Hack was its replacement, from 5.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
It was hosted by Steve Cannane until mid-2006. At this point, Cannane left Triple J radio to become the current affairs reporter for their jtv program. One of Cannane's stories on Hack, "Petrol Sniffing, Pill Testing and the Cost of War", earned him a Walkley Award. He won the Walkley Award for Broadcast Interviewing in 2006.
Kate O'Toole was Cannane's replacement as host of the radio program. O'Toole remained with the program until December 2010, she was replaced by Tom Tilley.
In April 2012, journalist Sophie McNeill was announced as host of the program with Tom Tilley becoming the face of Hack on ABC News 24, although he continued to be a reporter for the show. Sophie went on maternity leave in 2013, and Tilley returned to the host role permanently when she decided not to return.
In December 2019, Tom Tilley announced that he would be leaving Triple J to pursue other career opportunities, with Avani Dias being announced as Tilley's replacement. Jo Lauder, Isabella Higgins and Dave Marchese hosted the program for a short time in 2020 while Dias worked on a Four Corners investigation, with Dias returning to the chair shortly after. Dias continued to serve as presenter until December 2021 when she left to become the ABC's foreign correspondent to South East Asia. Dave Marchese was announced as Hack's new host for 2022.
The current Executive Producer (EP) is Clare Blumer. Recent EPs include Meghan Woods and prior to her, Laura McAuliffe who served as EP from 2018 to 2020.
Hosts
Current host
Dave Marchese (2022–present)
Former hosts
Steve Cannane (2004–2006)
Kate O'Toole (2006–2010)
Tom Tilley (2011–2012), (2013–2019)
Sophie McNeill (2012–2013)
Avani Dias (2020-2021)
Reporters
Alex Mann
Stephen Stockwell
Sarah McVeigh
Joanna Lauder
Kaitlyn Sawrey
References
External links
Podcast on Apple Music
Triple J programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successive%20linear%20programming | Successive Linear Programming (SLP), also known as Sequential Linear Programming, is an optimization technique for approximately solving nonlinear optimization problems. It is related to, but distinct from, quasi-Newton methods.
Starting at some estimate of the optimal solution, the method is based on solving a sequence of first-order approximations (i.e. linearizations) of the model. The linearizations are linear programming problems, which can be solved efficiently. As the linearizations need not be bounded, trust regions or similar techniques are needed to ensure convergence in theory.
SLP has been used widely in the petrochemical industry since the 1970s.
See also
Sequential quadratic programming
Sequential linear-quadratic programming
Augmented Lagrangian method
References
Sources
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20Targeting%20System | The Automated Targeting System or ATS is a United States Department of Homeland Security computerized system that, for every person who crosses U.S. borders, scrutinizes a large volume of data related to that person (see below), and then automatically assigns a rating for which the expectation is that it helps gauge whether this person may be placed within a risk group of terrorists or other criminals. Similarly ATS analyzes data related to container cargo.
These ratings take many details into account, such as country of origin, how travel to the U.S. was funded, and the visitor's driving record. Other more mundane details also factor in, such as where the person is sitting on the flight and what they ordered for their meal.
The existence of such a system was first discovered by the public in November 2006, when a mention of it appeared in the Federal Register. The system was first implemented in the late 1990s, and was significantly expanded shortly after the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.
Exemption from Privacy Act
Following the controversial Passenger Name Record agreement signed with the European Union (EU) in 2007, the Bush administration proposed to exempt the Automated Targeting System from the requirements of the 1974 Privacy Act for access to records and for an accounting of disclosures. Those proposed exemptions were finalized on February 3, 2010.
Litigation
Lawsuits have been filed under both the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking disclosure of information about ATS as well as records from ATS dossiers about individuals.
EFF v. Department of Homeland Security
On December 19, 2006, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) project filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security under FOIA, demanding "immediate answers about an invasive and unprecedented data-mining system deployed on American travelers."
Shearson v. Department of Homeland Security
In June 2006, Julia Shearson, Executive Director of the Cleveland Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed suit pro se against the DHS under the Privacy Act, seeking disclosure of records about herself from ATS and the correction of erroneous records falsely characterizing her as a terrorist.
In 't Veld v. Department of Homeland Security
On July 1, 2008, the EFF FLAG project filed suit against the DHS under FOIA on behalf of Sophie In 't Veld, a Member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands, seeking disclosure of records about herself from ATS and other systems of records.
Hasbrouck v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection
On August 25, 2010, Edward Hasbrouck of the Identity Project (PapersPlease.org) filed suit against CBP under the Privacy Act and FOIA, seeking disclosure of records about himself from ATS, information about how ATS records are retrieved, and records related to the processing of his previous Privacy Act requests and appeals for ATS records. Mr. Hasb rouck was repr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-adaptive%20sequential%20testing | Computer-adaptive sequential testing (CAST) is another term for multistage testing. A CAST test is a type of computer-adaptive test or computerized classification test that uses pre-defined groups of items called testlets rather than operating at the level of individual items. CAST is a term introduced by psychometricians working for the National Board of Medical Examiners. In CAST, the testlets are referred to as panels.
References
Psychometrics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A380%20road | The A380 is a road in South West England, connecting the Torbay area to the Devon Expressway, and hence to the rest of Great Britain's main road network.
Route
The A380 leaves the A38 at Kennford, some from that road's junction with the M5 motorway, and from the centre of the city of Exeter. It then proceeds in a generally southerly direction, climbing over the Haldon Hills before descending past the towns of Kingsteignton and Newton Abbot and continuing on a flyover over the Penn Inn roundabout heading towards Torquay.
Beyond Newton Abbot, the road bypasses the village of Kingskerswell on the South Devon Highway. The road soon comes to Edginswell (a signal controlled junction) at Torquay where it meets the A3022 that (as Dual carriageway) serves the large seaside resort of Torquay. The road then heads right up a hill towards Gallows Gate roundabout then Preston Down roundabout and then Churscombe Cross roundabout on the Paignton ring road where the road reduces to single carriageway and enters Paignton finally ending at Collaton St Mary inland from Paignton, where it meets the A3022 (again) and the A385 at Tweenaways Cross. Prior to the construction of the Kingkerswell bypass, the A380 passed through Kingkerswell (although the original route was along Fore Street) and into Torquay along the current A3022 terminating on the now declassified Union Street which was then the A379. Another branch ran past Torre Abbey to the sea front.
Kingskerswell bypass
There have been plans to alleviate the traffic congestion on the stretch of the road between Newton Abbot and Torquay since 1951. Construction of a bypass around Kingskerswell was almost authorised by the Department for Transport, with construction to start in 2010 and completion in 2013, but in March 2009 it was suggested that with the economic recession there may not be sufficient money left for constructing a bypass, since money was awarded to other road building schemes elsewhere in the UK the previous autumn. A public enquiry was held in 2009. In October 2010 the government refused to fund the scheme, and placed it in a funding pool to compete against 33 other schemes nationwide for a £600 million development fund. However, in November 2011 the government awarded £74.6 million towards the cost of the bypass, with construction to start the following year. Construction began in October 2012 with the road completed and opened in December 2015. This new section of road is designated the South Devon Highway.
Penn Inn Roundabout
The Penn Inn Roundabout is a signal-controlled roundabout interchange at Newton Abbot where the A380 used to meet the A381 and an unclassified road at one of the busiest roundabouts in Devon. The A380 now continues over the roundabout on a flyover continuing to Exeter as part of the South Devon Highway (Traffic can still get to the roundabout off the dual carriageway using the other lane). This is to relieve congestion especially at peak times. There is a completely s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando%20Health | Orlando Health is a private, not-for-profit network of community and specialty hospitals based in Orlando, Florida. Orlando Health is Central Florida’s fourth largest employer with nearly 23,000 employees and more than 4,500 affiliated physicians.
History
The system was founded in 1918 when the first hospital, Orange General Hospital, was opened. In 1946, the hospital name changed to Orange Memorial Hospital. In 1951, Orange Memorial became approved as a teaching hospital, one of the first in Florida.
In 1977, Orange Memorial and Holiday hospitals consolidated to form the new Orlando Regional Medical Center, in 1984 the Air Care Team was formed providing scene and interfacility air transport to the Central Florida area, and in 1985 Sand Lake Hospital was built. The Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children & Women opened in 1989 and in 1991 M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando was created.
In 1992, ORMC changed its corporate name to Orlando Regional Healthcare System to reflect the growing network of facilities. That same year, ORHS began co-owning South Seminole Hospital with Healthtrust. In 1997, ORHS purchased a 49% share in Leesburg Regional Medical Center.
In 1999, ORHS purchased Lucerne Hospital. The following year, ORHS dropped the word "System" from its name, keeping Orlando Regional Healthcare as the corporate name. In 2005, the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies was built.
In 2008, the system was rebranded to change the corporate name of the organization from Orlando Regional Healthcare to Orlando Health.
On October 1, 2020, Bayfront Health St. Petersburg joined Orlando Health Inc. Orlando Health officially closed on the hospital purchase from Community Health Systems (CHS) on Wednesday, September 30.
Demographics
Orlando Health serves 1.6 million Central Florida residents and several thousand international patients annually. Orlando Health is considered a disproportionate share hospital, meaning it receives special funding because it treats significant populations of indigent patients. Orlando Health is also Central Florida's only qualified participant in the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida (SNHAF). The 14 hospital systems that make up the SNHAF include the state's teaching hospitals, public hospitals and trauma centers. These organizations account for less than 10 percent of the hospitals in Florida, but provide more than 50% of the state's charity care.
Facilities
The core campus of Orlando Health is located just south of downtown Orlando. Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, and Orlando Health UF Health Cancer Center are grouped together on the main campus of Orlando Health.
Orlando Health | Orlando Regional Medical Center
Orlando Health | Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
Orlando Health | Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies
Orlando Health | Horizon West Hospital in Winter Garden
Orlando |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BChlmann%20decompression%20algorithm | The Bühlmann decompression set of parameters is an Haldanian mathematical model (algorithm) of the way in which inert gases enter and leave the human body as the ambient pressure changes. Versions are used to create Bühlmann decompression tables and in personal dive computers to compute no-decompression limits and decompression schedules for dives in real-time. These decompression tables allow divers to plan the depth and duration for dives and the required decompression stops.
The sets of parameters have been developed by Swiss physician Dr. Albert A. Bühlmann, who did research into decompression theory at the Laboratory of Hyperbaric Physiology at the University Hospital in Zürich, Switzerland.
The results of Bühlmann's research that began in 1959 were published in a 1983 German book whose English translation was entitled Decompression-Decompression Sickness. The book was regarded as the most complete public reference on decompression calculations and was used soon after in dive computer algorithms.
The model (Haldane, 1908) assumes perfusion limited gas exchange and multiple parallel tissue compartments and uses an inverse exponential model for in-gassing and out-gassing, both of which are assumed to occur in the dissolved phase.
Principles
Building on the previous work of John Scott Haldane (The Haldane model, Royal Navy, 1908) and Robert Workman (M-Values, US-Navy, 1965) and working off funding from Shell Oil Company, Bühlmann designed studies to establish the longest half-times of nitrogen and helium in human tissues. These studies were confirmed by the Capshell experiments in the Mediterranean Sea in 1966.
The basic idea (Haldane, 1908) is to represent the human body by multiple tissues (compartments) of different saturation half-times and to calculate the partial pressure of the inert gases in each of the compartments (Haldane's equation):
with the initial partial pressure , the partial pressure in the breathing gas (minus the vapour pressure of water in the lung of about 60 mbar), the time of exposure and the compartment-specific saturation half-time .
When the gas pressure drops, the compartments start to off-gas.
Nitrogen (air, nitrox) set of parameters
To calculate the minimum tolerable pressure , the constants and , which are derived from the saturation half-time as follows (ZH-L 16 A):
are used to calculate M-Value ():
The values calculated do not correspond to those used by Bühlmann for tissue compartments 4 (0.7825 instead of 0.7725) and 5 (0.8126 instead of 0.8125).
Versions B and C have manually modified the coefficient .
The modified values of and are shown in bold in the table below.
Helium (heliox) set of parameters
According to Graham's Law, the speed of diffusion (or effusion) of two gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure is inversely proportional to the square root of their molar mass (28.0184 g/mol for and 4.0026 g/mol for , i.e. ), which means that molecules diffuse 2.645 times |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADALINE | ADALINE (Adaptive Linear Neuron or later Adaptive Linear Element) is an early single-layer artificial neural network and the name of the physical device that implemented this network. The network uses memistors. It was developed by professor Bernard Widrow and his doctoral student Ted Hoff at Stanford University in 1960. It is based on the perceptron. It consists of a weight, a bias and a summation function.
The difference between Adaline and the standard (McCulloch–Pitts) perceptron is in how they learn. Adaline unit weights are adjusted to match a teacher signal, before applying the Heaviside function (see figure), but the standard perceptron unit weights are adjusted to match the correct output, after applying the Heaviside function.
A multilayer network of ADALINE units is a MADALINE.
Definition
Adaline is a single layer neural network with multiple nodes where each node accepts multiple inputs and generates one output. Given the following variables as:
is the input vector
is the weight vector
is the number of inputs
some constant
is the output of the model
then we find that the output is . If we further assume that
then the output further reduces to:
Learning rule
The learning rule used by ADALINE is the LMS ("least mean squares") algorithm, a special case of gradient descent.
Define the following notations:
is the learning rate (some positive constant)
is the output of the model
is the target (desired) output
is the square of the error.
The LMS algorithm updates the weights by
This update rule minimizes , the square of the error, and is in fact the stochastic gradient descent update for linear regression.
MADALINE
MADALINE (Many ADALINE) is a three-layer (input, hidden, output), fully connected, feed-forward artificial neural network architecture for classification that uses ADALINE units in its hidden and output layers, i.e. its activation function is the sign function. The three-layer network uses memistors. Three different training algorithms for MADALINE networks, which cannot be learned using backpropagation because the sign function is not differentiable, have been suggested, called Rule I, Rule II and Rule III.
MADALINE Rule 1 (MRI) - The first of these dates back to 1962 and cannot adapt the weights of the hidden-output connection.
MADALINE Rule 2 (MRII) - The second training algorithm improved on Rule I and was described in 1988. The Rule II training algorithm is based on a principle called "minimal disturbance". It proceeds by looping over training examples, then for each example, it:
finds the hidden layer unit (ADALINE classifier) with the lowest confidence in its prediction,
tentatively flips the sign of the unit,
accepts or rejects the change based on whether the network's error is reduced,
stops when the error is zero.
MADALINE Rule 3 - The third "Rule" applied to a modified network with sigmoid activations instead of signum; it was later found to be equivalent to backpropagation.
Addit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality%20Medical%20Data%20System | The Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS) is used to automate the entry, classification, and retrieval of cause-of-death information reported on death certificates throughout the United States and in many other countries. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) began the system's development in 1967.
The system has facilitated the standardization of mortality information within the United States, and ACME has become the de facto international standard for the automated selection of the underlying cause of death from multiple conditions listed on a death certificate.
System components
The MMDS system consists of the following components, and is itself part of the National Vital Statistics System.
MICAR
There are two Mortality Medical Indexing, Classification, and Retrieval components.
SuperMICAR automates the MICAR data entry process. This program is designed as an enhancement of the earlier PC-MICAR Data Entry program. Super-MICAR is designed to automatically encode cause-of-death data into numeric entity reference numbers.
MICAR200 automates the multiple cause coding rules and assigns International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) codes to each numeric entity reference number.
ACME
The Automated Classification of Medical Entities program automates the underlying cause-of-death coding rules. The input to ACME is the multiple cause-of-death codes (ICD) assigned to each entity (e.g., disease condition, accident, or injury) listed on cause-of-death certifications, preserving the location and order as reported by the certifier. ACME then applies the World Health Organization (WHO) rules to the ICD codes and selects an underlying cause of death. ACME has become the de facto international standard for the automated selection of the underlying cause of death.
TRANSAX
The TRANSlation of Axis program converts the ACME output data into fixed format and translates the data into a more desirable statistical form using the linkage provisions of the ICD. TRANSAX creates the data necessary for person-based tabulations by translating the axis of classification from an entity basis to a record basis.
See also
Vital statistics
Nosology
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
References
External links
About the Mortality Medical Data System
U.S. National Vital Statistics System
Health software
Nosology
Population
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomai | Xenomai is a real-time development software framework cooperating with the Linux kernel to provide pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time computing support to user space application software seamlessly integrated into the Linux environment.
The Xenomai project was launched in August 2001. In 2003, it merged with the Real-Time Application Interface (RTAI) project to produce RTAI/fusion, a real-time free software platform for Linux on Xenomai's abstract real-time operating system (RTOS) core. Eventually, the RTAI/fusion effort became independent from RTAI in 2005 as the Xenomai project.
Xenomai is based on an abstract RTOS core, usable for building any kind of real-time interface, over a nucleus which exports a set of generic RTOS services. Any number of RTOS personalities called “skins” can then be built over the nucleus, providing their own specific interface to the applications, by using the services of a single generic core to implement it.
Xenomai vs. RTAI
Many differences exist between Xenomai and RTAI, though both projects share a few ideas and support the RTDM layer. The major differences derive from the goals the projects aim for, and from their respective implementation. While RTAI is focused on lowest technically feasible latencies, Xenomai also considers clean extensibility (RTOS skins), portability, and maintainability as very important goals. Xenomai's path towards Ingo Molnár's PREEMPT_RT support is another major difference compared to RTAI's objectives.
See also
Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems (Adeos)
RTAI
References
External links
Radboud Univ. - Xenomai see the Xenomai exercises
Real-time operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aironet%20Wireless%20Communications | Cisco Aironet is a maker of wireless networking equipment currently operated as a division of Cisco Systems. It was started by ex-Marconi Wireless employees in 1986 as Telesystems SLW in Canada, right after the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened up the ISM bands for spread spectrum license-free use. Telxon acquired Telesystems SLW in 1992, and Aironet Wireless Communications was spun off from Telxon's RF Division in 1994. Cisco Systems acquired Aironet in 1999.
One of its pre-acquisition direct competitors was NCR and its successors (AT&T and Lucent), who sold the WaveLAN wireless networking technology.
Pre-acquisition Aironet products
ARLAN 900 MHz proprietary wireless networking
ARLAN 2.4 GHz proprietary wireless networking
Cisco Era Aironet products
Aironet 700W Series
Simultaneous dual band radio, 802.11n based, wall-plate-mountable, BandSelect, VideoStream, 4x Gb ethernet ports, one PoE port, requires a controller.
Aironet 1100 Series (2009)
1130
1140 - 802.11n (2.4 GHz only), PoE, single port, ClientLink beam forming technology.
End of Life: October 1, 2013.
End of Software Updates: October 1, 2014.
Aironet 1700 Series
Aironet 1850 Series
Aironet 1200 Series
1240
1250
1250
Aironet 1300 Outdoor Access Point/Bridge
Aironet 2600 Series
Aironet 2700 Series
Aironet 2800 Series
Aironet 3500 Series
Aironet 3600 Series
Aironet 3700 Series
Aironet 3800 Series
Aironet 4800 Series
Cisco Aironet compatible wireless controllers
Cisco 8540 Wireless LAN Controller
Cisco 5520 Wireless LAN Controller
Cisco 3504 Wireless LAN Controller
Cisco 2500 Wireless LAN Controller
Cisco Virtual Wireless Controller.
See also
List of Cisco Systems acquisitions
References
External links
The WayBack Machine's archive of a page with more info on Aironet's history
1999 news release about Cisco acquiring Aironet
Linux drivers for Aironet ARLAN
Cisco End-Of-Life announcement about pre-acquisition Aironet devices
Wireless networking hardware
Cisco Systems acquisitions
Computer companies established in 1986
Networking companies of the United States
Networking hardware companies
1999 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veeker | Veeker was a mobile-to-Internet video communication service and social networking site.
History
Veeker was founded in September 2005, and was an early innovator in the evolution of mobile communication from audio and text to video. Veeker was headquartered in San Francisco, CA, . Veeker was co-founded by Rodger Raderman (a founder of iFilm, a user-video upload site long preceding YouTube, now CEO of NukoToys), Alex Kelly, Marcus Yoder, Raj Singh (founder of ToneThis, one of the earliest ringtone creation software as of 2004). The original prototype was built for Veeker by Bogex, an engineering team headed by Arthur Sulit (co-founder of Snip n' Send, one of the earliest ringtone creation and distribution software and the first to work in-browser as of 2004, and original chief developer behind EasyRingtoneMaker) and Clint Mario Cleetus (founder or Bogex). Subsequent versions were built by a team of engineers headed by Daniel Reynaud (founder of ThumbJive, which initially explored mobile phone games, who worked later on at Google).
Veeker raised approximately $2.6m Series A from Silicon Valley VCs and a variety of angel investors. Several media outfits including NBC leveraged Veeker to power citizen journalism. Veeker commercials was run nationwide on a variety of its customers' media networks.
Veeker was one of the first platforms supporting near-real-time upload and sharing of mobile video, back in 2006, just prior to the arrival of the iPhone. For instance, one of its platform features enabled citizens to upload mobile videos to their profile page from wherever they were at, such as at a sports event, or a news location, and post the video for public viewing within seconds from their cell phone, entirely through specially encoded SMS texting to Veeker's servers from wherever the user is, without needing to log into an Internet browser.
Mobile-to-internet video market
According to IDC, during the period between 2005 and 2009, 2.4 billion mobile phones equipped with video cameras were projected to enter the global marketplace. Veeker believed that mobile video communication will become pervasive, and was indeed one of a handful which were among the earliest adapters in that space. However, during May 2006, when Veeker's first demo was rolled out, difficulties in rapid-market adaption included potentially, that Internet-enabled smartphones and subscription plans were still highly expensive, small-screened, not user-friendly and unpopular, the primary modes of cellphone messaging being SMS, with few customers paying for MMS enabled plans. However, the website itself, with its Profile pages, and friends-of-friends ability to share selected videos or pictures, on a scrolling window, were considered innovative for its time. Many advanced features of Flash, integrated with then-emergent JavaScript libraries (before the popularity of JQuery today), were used, allowing users to interact intuitively with and organize their uploads or shares |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-based%20complexity | Information-based complexity (IBC) studies optimal algorithms and computational complexity for the continuous problems that arise in physical science, economics, engineering, and mathematical finance. IBC has studied such continuous problems as path integration, partial differential equations, systems of ordinary differential equations, nonlinear equations, integral equations, fixed points, and very-high-dimensional integration. All these problems involve functions (typically multivariate) of a real or complex variable. Since one can never obtain a closed-form solution to the problems of interest one has to settle for a numerical solution. Since a function of a real or complex variable cannot be entered into a digital computer, the solution of continuous problems involves partial information. To give a simple illustration, in the numerical approximation of an integral, only samples of the integrand at a finite number of points are available. In the numerical solution of partial differential equations the functions specifying the boundary conditions and the coefficients of the differential operator can only be sampled. Furthermore, this partial information can be expensive to obtain. Finally the information is often contaminated by noise.
The goal of information-based complexity is to create a theory of computational complexity and optimal algorithms for problems with partial, contaminated and priced information, and to apply the results to answering questions in various disciplines. Examples of such disciplines include physics, economics, mathematical finance, computer vision, control theory, geophysics, medical imaging, weather forecasting and climate prediction, and statistics. The theory is developed over abstract spaces, typically Hilbert or Banach spaces, while the applications are usually for multivariate problems.
Since the information is partial and contaminated, only approximate solutions can be obtained. IBC studies computational complexity and optimal algorithms for approximate solutions in various settings. Since the worst case setting often leads to negative results such as unsolvability and intractability, settings with weaker assurances such as average, probabilistic and randomized are also studied. A fairly new area of IBC research is continuous quantum computing.
Overview
We illustrate some important concepts with a very simple example, the computation of
For most integrands we can't use the fundamental theorem of calculus to compute the integral analytically; we have to approximate it numerically. We compute the values of at n points
The n numbers are the partial information about the true integrand We combine these n numbers by a combinatory algorithm to compute an approximation to the integral. See the monograph Complexity and Information for particulars.
Because we have only partial information we can use an adversary argument to tell us how large n has to be to compute an -approximation. Because of these information- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalView | GlobalView was an integrated “desktop environment” including word-processing, desktop-publishing, and simple calculation (spreadsheet) and database functionality. It was developed at Xerox PARC as a way to run the software originally developed for their Xerox Alto, Xerox Star and Xerox Daybreak 6085 specialized workstations on Sun Microsystems workstations and IBM PC-based platforms.
Overview
Initially GlobalView required an additional processor on a PC expansion card, later it was run using emulation. Though the software it was based on had once been far ahead of its time (in terms of its integration and use of a graphical user interface), the high cost of the processor and later low speed of the emulator doomed it to poor sales (almost exclusively old customers of the Alto and Star, recognized as precursors of the Apple Macintosh but in themselves expensive corporate niche machines). The resulting lack of resources for development left it to fall further and further behind its competitors. It existed from the late 1980s until the early 1990s.
Reception
Stewart Alsop II in 1988 cited "two significant problems with ViewPoint". He said that the lack of freedom for third-party software "to develop a separate identity" meant that they would be "invisible" like expansion cards. Alsop believed that ViewPoint had changed little from the original Xerox PARC technology created more than ten years earlier, because (unlike Apple and Microsoft's "hundreds of thousands of users") not enough consumers had used it to give Xerox feedback. He advised the company to "be much less defensive and much more open minded; it needs to stop resting on its laurels".
References
External links
Xerox GlobalView 2.1 Screenshots
Xerox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20safety | Internet safety, also known as online safety, cyber safety and electronic safety (e-safety), is the act of maximizing a user's awareness of personal safety and security risks to private information and property associated with using the Internet, and the self-protection from computer crime.
As the number of internet users continues to grow worldwide, internets, governments, and organizations have expressed concerns about the safety of children and teenagers and the elderly using the Internet. Over 45% have announced they have endured some sort of cyber-harassment. Safer Internet Day is celebrated worldwide in February to raise awareness about internet safety. In the UK the Get Safe Online campaign has received sponsorship from government agency Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) and major Internet companies such as Microsoft and eBay.
Information security
Sensitive information such as personal information and identity, passwords are often associated with personal property and privacy and may present security concerns if leaked. Unauthorized access and usage of private information may result in consequences such as identity theft, as well as theft of property. Common causes of information security breaches include:
Phishing
Phishing is a type of scam where the scammers disguise themselves as trustworthy source in an attempt to obtain private information such as passwords, credit card information, etc. through the internet. These fake websites are often designed to look identical to their legitimate counterparts to avoid suspicion from the user. Normally, hackers will send third-party email to target requesting personal information, and they will use this as an entry point to implement attack.
Malware
Malware, particularly spyware, is malicious software designed to collect and transmit private information, such as passwords, without the user's consent or knowledge. They are often distributed through e-mail, software, and files from unofficial locations. Malware is one of the most prevalent security concerns as often it is impossible to determine whether a file is infected, regardless of the source of the file.
Personal safety
The growth of the internet gave rise to many important services accessible to anyone with a connection. One of these important services is digital communication. While this service allowed communication with others through the internet, this also allowed communication with malicious users. While malicious users often use the internet for personal gain, this may not be limited to financial/material gain. This is especially a concern to parents and children, as children are often targets of these malicious users. Common threats to personal safety include phishing, internet scams, malware, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, online predators, and sextortion.
Cyberstalking
Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual, group, or organization. It may include false accusations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Breath%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "One Breath" is the eighth 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 Glen Morgan and James Wong, directed by R. W. Goodwin, and featured guest appearances by Melinda McGraw, Sheila Larken and Don S. Davis. The episode helped to explore the series' overarching mythology. "One Breath" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.5, being watched by 9.1 million households in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly positive reviews from television critics.
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. In the episode, Scully is found comatose in hospital after her abduction in the earlier episode "Ascension". Mulder attempts to investigate what has happened to her, but finds himself hindered by a man he had believed to be an ally.
Anderson returned to the series only days after having given birth, missing the previous episode due to her pregnancy. Morgan and Wong attempted to create a version of the earlier episode "Beyond the Sea", this time centered on Duchovny's character Mulder. The episode also introduced the character of Melissa Scully, an attempt to provide a romantic lead for Mulder which was later dropped.
Plot
Background
FBI special agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is currently missing, having disappeared after being kidnapped by a deranged multiple-abductee in the two-part episodes "Duane Barry" and "Ascension". Her partner Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) has continued his work without her, but is still investigating her disappearance, believing her to have been abducted by aliens. His investigations into similar abductions in the past have been aided by The Lone Gunmen, a trio of conspiracy theorists made up of John Byers (Bruce Harwood), Melvin Frohike (Tom Braidwood) and Richard Langly (Dean Haglund).
Events
Scully's mother, Margaret (Sheila Larken), tells Mulder a story about Dana shooting a snake with her brothers as a child and regretting what she did. She indicates that she is ready to let go of Dana and shows Mulder Scully's gravestone. Mulder, however, refuses to give up.
Scully then turns up mysteriously at a hospital in a coma. An out-of-control Mulder demands to know how she got there and is escorted out by security but calms down and meets with Dr. Daly (Jay Brazeau), who reveals that no one can figure out how she got there or what's wrong with her. At Scully's bedside, Mulder meets her older sister Melissa (Melinda McGraw).
Scully has a vision of sitting in a boat, attached by rope to a dock where Mulder and Melissa stand with the mysterious Nurse Owens behind them. Frohike visits Scully and sneaks out her medical chart, which the Lone Gunmen investigate. Byers finds that Scully's blood contains branched DNA that may have been used for identification but now is inactive and a poisonous waste p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%20nationale%208 | The Route nationale 8, or RN 8, was a trunk road (nationale) in southeast France between Aix-en-Provence and Toulon.
Reclassification
In a recent reorganisation of the French road network (2005) the RN8 has been downgraded and re-numbered as the RD8n in Bouches-du-Rhône and RDN8 in Var.
Route
Aix-en-Provence to Marseille (0 km to 23 km)
The road begins at a junction with the RN 7 in Aix as the Avenue Pierre Brossolette and heads South crossing the A8 autoroute as well as the A51 autoroute heading towards the Chaine de l'Étoile (670 m). The road crosses the A7 autoroute before entering the north west suburbs of Marseille reaching the water front in the city centre.
Marseille to Toulon (23 km to 84 km)
The RN 8 heads East alongside the A50 autoroute to Aubagne passing north of Mt. St. Cyr (609 m). The road heads Southeast below the Massif de la Sainte Baume and over the Col de l'Ange (218 m). The road then passes the Parc d'OK Corral and motor racing circuit Circuit du Castellet Paul Ricard. The road turns South past Le Beausset and the Gorges de Saint Anne as well as the le Gros Cerveau.
The road then enters La Seyne-sur-Mer and Western Toulon running along the waterfront and harbour. The road ends at the start of the A57 autoroute and the RN 97 and RN 98.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliotte%20Friedman | Elliotte Friedman (born September 27, 1970) is a Canadian sports journalist. Since 2014, he has been a ice hockey reporter for Sportsnet and an insider for the NHL Network. He is a regular panelist on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada.
Early life and education
Friedman was born and raised in a middle-class Jewish home. He attended the University of Western Ontario and worked at the student newspaper The Gazette as a sports editor and eventually as editor-in-chief in 1992–93.
Career
Friedman began his broadcast career for the Toronto sports radio station The Fan 590 in 1994. He did play-by-play for Toronto Raptors games on both radio and television and reported on Toronto Blue Jays games in 1998. He also did freelance work for the London Free Press and the Toronto Star.
Friedman was awarded the Telemedia Reporter of the Year award in 1996. He then worked for The Score network before joining CBC Sports in 2003. At CBC, Friedman was a reporter for Hockey Night in Canada, the studio host for the final two seasons of the CFL on CBC and for some Toronto Raptors games and participated in the CBC's Olympic Games coverage. He began reporting on the CFL in 2006, after Brian Williams moved to CTV/TSN. In 2011, he received the Best Sports Reporting Gemini Award for his work on Hockey Night in Canada's Heritage Classic. He also continued to appear regularly on The Fan 590 (now Sportsnet 590). After Rogers Media acquired exclusive national media rights to the NHL and began producing Hockey Night for CBC, Friedman was hired by Sportsnet to continue his role.
In 2016, Friedman was a commentator during CBC's coverage of diving and swimming events at the 2016 Summer Olympics to replace Steve Armitage (who was unable to attend the Games due to his diagnosis with chronic heart failure).
On August 11, 2016, Friedman received international attention after making a mistake in his commentary of the Men's 200 metre individual medley final. He said that he U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte was leading and had won the race, when it was actually won by his rival, Michael Phelps.
Personal life
Friedman is married to the former television producer Steph Friedman.
References
1970 births
Living people
Canadian Football League announcers
Jewish Canadian journalists
Canadian radio sportscasters
Canadian television sportscasters
Journalists from Toronto
Major League Baseball broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
National Hockey League broadcasters
Toronto Blue Jays announcers
Olympic Games broadcasters
Toronto Raptors announcers
University of Western Ontario alumni
American Hockey League broadcasters
Swimming commentators
20th-century Canadian people
21st-century Canadian people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewalker%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Firewalker" is the ninth 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 Howard Gordon, directed by David Nutter, and featured guest appearances by Bradley Whitford, Leland Orser and Shawnee Smith. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider 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. In the episode, Mulder and Scully investigate a death in a remote research base and discover that a new silicon-based ophiocordyceps-like fungus found in the area may be killing the researchers.
The plot of the episode was inspired by NASA's Project Dante. "Firewalker" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9, being watched by 8.6 million households in its initial broadcast. The episode received poor reviews from critics, being noted as repeating material already familiar to the series.
Plot
Dr. Adam Pierce, a scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, intercepts a visual transmission from Firewalker, a mobile robot sent by a volcanic research project on Mount Avalon near Bend, Oregon. Firewalker is broadcasting from inside a volcanic cave, where Pierce glimpses the dead body of the chief seismologist, Phil Erickson. He also sees a shadow moving in the cave, an impossibility due to the extremely high temperatures. Firewalker's camera is then destroyed, ending the transmission.
Pierce goes to Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), showing them a TV interview of the project's leader, Daniel Trepkos (Bradley Whitford); Pierce was with the project until he and Trepkos had a falling-out. Mulder is reluctant to let Scully come along because of her recent abduction; Scully, however, insists that she is ready. Upon arriving at Mount Avalon, Pierce enters the woods to inspect the project's equipment while the agents search the laboratory. They discover the seemingly traumatized team: robotics engineer Jason Ludwig (Leland Orser), systems analyst Peter Tanaka (Hiro Kanagawa), and graduate student Jessie O'Neil (Shawnee Smith). They claim that Trepkos destroyed their lab and disappeared after Firewalker's first descent. Meanwhile, outside, Trepkos strangles Pierce.
After the team finds and stores Pierce's body, Mulder reviews Trepkos' fragmented notes. He finds references to a new silicon-based organism existing inside Mount Avalon; Scully, however, doubts his conclusions because of his mental state. Tanaka breaks into convulsions and displays a high fever, but refuses any help from Mulder or Scully. When he is put on a stretcher for a medivac pickup, Mulder notices a throbbing bulge in his neck. Tanaka flees into the woods and dies when a tentacle-like ascocarp bursts out of his throat. An autopsy by Scully finds sand (silicon dioxide) in his lungs, indicating the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20the%20DuMont%20Television%20Network | This is a list of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network, which operated in the United States from 1942 to 1956. All regularly scheduled programs which were aired on the DuMont network are listed below, regardless of whether they originated at DuMont. Some DuMont network series were actually broadcast from Baltimore's WAAM-TV, Chicago's WGN-TV, Cincinnati's WCPO-TV, or Philadelphia's WFIL. These stations were not DuMont-owned stations but were affiliated with the network. Programs which aired on the DuMont network but originated from affiliate stations are noted in this list.
Some DuMont programs were produced by other networks but aired on DuMont. For example, Play the Game (1946) was produced by ABC, but aired on DuMont since ABC had no network until 1948. The Admiral Broadway Revue (1949) aired on both NBC and DuMont at the same time, as did Man Against Crime (1953). Pick the Winner (1952) aired on both CBS and DuMont. Some programs, such as Flash Gordon (1954) aired both in syndication and on DuMont. These exceptions are noted in the list.
Programs produced at DuMont facilities but which aired on other networks, such as CBS's The Honeymooners (1955), are not included in this list. Also not included in this list are the numerous local programs seen on individual DuMont stations, Paramount television series, and programs created by successor companies (DuMont Broadcasting Company, Metropolitan Broadcasting, Metromedia, and Fox Broadcasting Company). See those articles for programs produced or aired by those companies.
A timeline of DuMont network programs appears at the end of this list. For a list of surviving DuMont programs, see List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
Former Programming
Scripted
Drama
Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949–1955)
Charlie Wild, Private Detective (1952) - moved from ABC
Chicagoland Mystery Players (1947–1950) - moved from WGN-TV
Crawford Mystery Theatre (1951–1952)
Flash Gordon (1954–1955)
Front Page Detective (1951–1952)
Jimmy Hughes, Rookie Cop (May–July 1953)
Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers (1951–1952)
Man Against Crime (1953–1954) - moved from CBS, simulcast with NBC
Not for Publication (1951–1952)
Rocky King, Detective (1950–1954) - a.k.a. Inside Detective
Shadow of the Cloak (1951–1952)
Summer Night Theater (July 1953)
The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950–1951)
The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952)
The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong (Aug–Nov 1951)
The O'Neills (Sept 1949–Jan 1950)
The Plainclothesman (1949–1954)
The Secret Files of Captain Video (Sept 1953–May 1954)
The Stranger (1954–1955)
This Is the Life (Sept 1952–Fall 1953)
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1953–1954)
Sitcoms
Colonel Humphrey Flack (1953–1954) - a.k.a. The Fabulous Fraud
Easy Aces (Dec 1949–June 1950)
It's a Business (March–May 1952)
Marge and Jeff (1953–1954)
Mary Kay and Johnny (1947–1948)
Off the Record (October 1948)
The Ernie Kovacs Show (Apr 1954–Apr 1955) - moved fro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive%20Medical%20Electronics | Beehive Medical Electronics, later known as Beehive International, was a manufacturer of computer display terminals.
History
The company was based in Salt Lake City, Utah and manufactured a variety of CRT display terminals in the 1970s and 1980s.
At its peak, Beehive employed 400 people. In 1980, the company opened a plant in Ireland.
The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in October 1984 and emerged from Chapter 11 in 1985.
Beehive outsourced production to Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG in West Germany in July, 1988. The company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in November 1988 and the assets were auctioned off in January, 1989.
The terminal models included the ATL-008, MiniBee, the SuperBee and the B-100. The B-100 was also provided to original equipment manufacturers for rebranding. The Cromemco 3101 terminal is a rebranded B-100.
References
External links
B-100 terminal
Beehive Model I/II/III
Mini Bee Computer Terminal Illustrated Parts Breakdown
Mini Bee Computer Terminal Service Manual
ATL-008 Technical User's Manual
ATL-008 Maintenance Manual
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Utah
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noma%C3%AF | Nomaï, S.A. was a computer storage products manufacturer, based in Avranches, France. It was founded in 1992 and acquired by Iomega in 1998. The company was listed on the Paris Bourse with symbol NOMF.PA. In 1994, the company had a revenue of 70 million Francs. Many companies including EMTEC, Maxell, Memorex, Letraset, Fujifilm, BASF, Verbatim, and Lexmark sold products manufactured by Nomaï under OEM and distribution agreements.
The company had three subsidiaries, a research and design facility in Scotland, a factory in Albi, France and a sales office in the United States.
Lawsuits
Iomega
In 1997, Iomega filed suit against Nomaï for patent infringement and related issues concerning Nomaï's XHD 100 (Zip-compatible) floppy. A Paris court issued an injunction against Nomaï for making the product too similar in appearance to Iomega's Zip.
That injunction ended in September 1997 and Nomaï responded by completing the acquisition of RPS Media (which included a floppy disk manufacturing plant in Albi, France). This factory was expected to greatly increase the production of the XHD media.
There were several other lawsuits filed by Iomega in the second half of 1997 in France, Germany and the U.S.
The lawsuits were only resolved in July 1998 when Iomega purchased a majority of Nomaï stock as well as the specific technology used to produce XHD and DUO media.
Iomega closed the Avranches factory in 1999 after getting into financial difficulty.
SyQuest
In 1993, SyQuest Technology filed suit against Nomaï for stealing technology and making similar data storage cartridges that work with the SyQuest 44 MB and 88 MB drives.
In 1997, SyQuest filed another suit against Nomaï for making similar data storage media. This suit was resolved much more rapidly and amicably than the Iomega suit, but SyQuest and Nomaï both had trouble afterwards.
References
External links
A brief history of Nomaï S.A.
Computer companies of France
1998 mergers and acquisitions
Companies based in Normandy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Trek%3A%20Deep%20Space%20Nine%3A%20Harbinger | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Harbinger is a video game for the MS-DOS and Apple Macintosh operating systems. The game is based upon the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It was the first Star Trek: Deep Space Nine video game to be released for the PC.
Several cast members provided voices for their characters in this game, including Avery Brooks as Sisko.
Plot
The player character, Envoy Bannick, is on special assignment to a newly discovered race in the Gamma Quadrant. On the return trip through the wormhole, Bannick is attacked by some sort of alien drones and, despite assistance by Deep Space Nine, crashes into its docking ring while on emergency approach.
Once Bannick arrives on the station, he discovers most of it has been abandoned except for senior staff due to a plasma storm in the vicinity. The Defiant is missing and on evacuation duty as well, leaving only two runabouts and an ambassadorial ship from the alien race Bannick was negotiating with docked at the station.
Almost immediately after arrival, Deep Space Nine is attacked by the same hostiles that attacked the runabout. After driving them off, Bannick attempts to contact the ambassador, only to find him murdered.
After solving the murder and discovering how exactly the new aliens know of the drones that are attacking the station in increasingly strong waves, Bannick and Major Kira mount an attack on the drone factory homeworld, attempting to stop the final assault which will destroy Deep Space Nine and swarm Bajor afterwards.
With the attack thwarted and the runabout destroyed, Bannick and Kira evacuate on a custom built drone, back to the station as the factory world explodes.
Reception
Computer Gaming World gave the game a positive review, with the author commenting: "The 'guest star' design works very well-it's a lot of fun to interact with Sisko, Quark, Dax and the others."
Next Generation panned the game, saying that it "manages to take the worst parts of The Hive and mesh them with the annoying, incoherent puzzles of The 11th Hour." The reviewer also found the storyline contrived, and scored the game one out of five stars.
See also
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars
Harbinger (Star Trek: Enterprise) (2004 Enterprise episode with similar name)
Harbinger (Star Trek novel) (novel)
References
External links
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Harbinger at MobyGames
Star Trek: DS9: Harbinger at Adventure Gamers
1996 video games
Adventure games
DOS/4GW games
Classic Mac OS games
Viacom New Media games
Video games based on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Video games developed in the United States
Stormfront Studios games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream%20of%20Comedy | Cream of Comedy was an annual award show broadcast by The Comedy Network that promoted emerging Canadian comedic talent in the early stage of their careers. The show was established in the memory of Toronto comedic performer Tim Sims and has raised significant annual contributions for the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award (TSEF).
Contestants included various comedy acts (often stand-up comics and character performers but also improvisers, duos, musicians and sketch troupes). A jury of comedy professionals would choose five finalists from a larger field of entrants/contestants to perform in the televised showcase. The Cream of Comedy special featured clips and 15-minute comedy performances by these five finalists, taped before a live audience for broadcast. The jury kept the winners' names strictly confidential until they were announced at the end of the Cream of Comedy special taping, and then the winners were presented with the Tim Sims Award, $5,000 and (in later years) a scholarship to the Toronto Second City Training Centre.
The show started in 1996 when The Second City's Toronto location donated its venue for the event. Four people donated money to begin the TSEF. The event was considered a training ground for relatively young comics, providing them national exposure for their talent. Past winners have included Gavin Crawford, Nathan Fielder, Ron Sparks, Katie Crown and Fraser Young.
Patrick McKenna hosted the inaugural show and returned to host again in 2002. That year, the jury became hopelessly deadlocked and so two winners were named: Tim Polley and Brad Hurt. To avoid this in the future, a new rule was made giving a tie-breaking vote to comedian Lindsay Leese, widow of Tim Sims and founder of the TSEF.
1998 winner Gavin Crawford and 2000 nominee Aurora Browne returned to co-host the show in 2006. 2005 winner Jeff McEnery hosted the show in 2014.
On October 26, 2015, Toronto's Second City staged the last Cream of Comedy show. It was the award event's 20th year.
References
External links
Cream of Comedy at The Comedy Network
Cream of Comedy at Imdb
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/26/1069825832918.html
http://www.blogto.com/arts/2013/10/this_week_in_comedy_cream_of_comedy_laugh_sabbath_monkey_toast_and_the_dark_comedy_fest/
Canadian television specials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino%27s%20Pizza%20Enterprises | Domino's Pizza Enterprises Limited (DPE) is the largest pizza chain in Australia in terms of network stores numbers and network sales, as well as the largest franchisee for the US Domino's Pizza brand in the world. DPE is the exclusive master franchise for the Domino's brand network in Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Luxembourg, Denmark and Taiwan. Across these markets, DPE has over 2,800 stores. In May 2005 DPE became the first publicly listed pizza company in Australia.
In 2018, Domino's was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame.
History
Australia
The first Domino's store to open in Australia was in Springwood, Queensland, in 1983, and offered home delivery after home delivery was introduced into Australia by the Pizza Oven Family Restaurants located at multiple sites all over the southside of Brisbane owned by Paul Hughes & Bill Kerwick in 1981. The Australian and New Zealand Master Franchise was bought by Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza in 1993, and in 1995 the two brands merged and rebranded as Domino's Pizza.
Currently, there are around 700 Domino's stores in Australia, making it the biggest pizza franchised business in the country. The Australian stores are spread across the country, from the main capital cities like Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Sydney, to more rural areas like Armidale.
New Zealand
In 2003, Domino's entered the New Zealand fast food market, competing with both rival pizza chain Pizza Hut and local pizza chain Hell Pizza.
In January 2005, Domino's acquired the Australian pizza chain Pizza Haven's 35 New Zealand stores. By that stage, Domino's had 16 stores bases in the North Island; with the acquisition bringing the total number of Domino's-owned stores across New Zealand to 51. Most Pizza Haven stores were given the option of converting to Domino's stores while some stores were able to stay branded under Pizza Haven. All New Zealand-based Pizza Haven stores subsequently converted Domino's.
Domino's New Zealand was the first to introduce drone-delivery pizza in November 2016, partnering with Flirtey Drone Delivery.
Timeline
1983: First Domino's store opened in Australia.
1993: Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza bought Domino's Pizza.
1995: Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza was merged into Domino's Pizza.
1997: Domino's established the Domino's Partners Foundation.
2000: Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza was renamed Domino's Pizza Australia.
2001: Don Meij and Grant Bourke, the two largest franchisees at the time, merged their stores into the corporate store network to bring the total to 50 corporate stores and 128 franchised stores.
2003: Domino's expanded into new markets in Victoria, Australia, and Wellington, New Zealand.
2005: Domino's listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, becoming the first publicly listed Australian pizza company.
2006: Domino's purchased existing Domino's operations in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the principality of Monaco.
2009: Domino's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal%20Species%20of%20the%20World | Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference is a standard reference work in mammalogy giving descriptions and bibliographic data for the known species of mammals. It is now in its third edition, published in late 2005, which was edited by Don E. Wilson and DeeAnn M. Reeder.
An online version is hosted by Bucknell University, from which the names of the species can be downloaded as a custom dictionary. A partial online version is available at Google Books (see "External links" below).
The Checklist Committee is charged with compiling and updating MSW. In its Annual Report for 2015, the Committee noted that it is under contract with Johns Hopkins Press for the 4th edition of MSW, which will be edited by DeeAnn M. Reeder and Kristofer M. Helgen. The database has been made editable for the authors, leading to more frequent website updates. The publication was scheduled for 2019.
References
External links
Site hosted by Bucknell University
search hosted by Bucknell University
taxon browser on archived version of the Smithsonian website for MSW3 (archived 26 May 2011)
Mammal Species of the World at Google Books
Mammalogical literature
Online taxonomy databases
Zoology books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inking | Inking may refer to:
Inking (attack), act of throwing ink on other person
Inking, a defensive activity of certain cephalopods and sea hares
Inking (comic book production)
Pen computing, a computer input method using a stylus
A real-time computer graphics technique of outlining the edges of a model
See also
Ink (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rural%20Juror | "The Rural Juror" is the tenth episode of the first season of 30 Rock. It was written by Matt Hubbard and was directed by Beth McCarthy. The episode first aired on January 11, 2007, on the NBC network in the United States. Guest stars in the episode include Lonny Ross, Keith Powell, Maulik Pancholy, Kevin Brown, Grizz Chapman, Chris Parnell, Rachel Dratch, Whoopi Goldberg, Charlie Grandy, Bob Wiltfong, and Matt Oberg.
The episode focuses on the release of Jenna Maroney's (Jane Krakowski) long-anticipated indie film, The Rural Juror, the tongue-twisting title of which Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and the writers of TGS with Tracy Jordan cannot understand. Meanwhile, Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), desperate for some financial help, heeds Jack Donaghy's (Alec Baldwin) advice and creates his own celebrity product to endorse.
Plot
Jenna anticipates the opening of her new film, The Rural Juror. The film, based on a "Kevin Grisham novel" (John Grisham's brother), revolves around a Southern–born lawyer named Constance Justice. Jenna wants Liz to give her an honest opinion of the film, as she is nervous about how it will be received by the public. Liz sees the film in private, and her reaction is very negative, but she hesitates to tell Jenna the truth. When Jenna finds out that Liz hated the film, the two start fighting and accusing each other of not being truthful. Meanwhile, ignoring Liz's warnings, Josh Girard (Lonny Ross) manages to break into Liz's office to steal the film, which he watches with the rest of the TGS with Tracy Jordan writing staff. Much to Liz's shock, the staff say they liked the film. As the argument between Liz and Jenna escalates, Jack intervenes and persuades them to work things out. Liz admits that she was jealous of Jenna's success and Jenna remembers that the diet pills she was taking would lead to mood swings, and they forgive one another.
Jack is on the phone with Maureen Dowd when Tracy shows up to ask him for $100,000. Jack tells him that this is impossible but says that he has a better idea: use his celebrity image to endorse a product to generate the money. After Tracy agrees, he comes up with "The Tracy Jordan Meat Machine". Armed with an "endorsement" from Dr. Spaceman (Chris Parnell) and hook-ups from Jack, the product is finally ready for sale. Soon after, a series of product defects prompts Tracy to tell Jack that he no longer wishes to endorse the product. Jack finds a way to make it work: by rebranding it as a Whoopi Goldberg-endorsed product targeted for Ukraine.
Production
"The Rural Juror" was filmed in early November 2006. Regarding the episode's title, Tina Fey explained that "it came out of a discussion in the writers' room" when she asked, "you know what two words I cannot pronounce properly?" After a few abortive efforts by Fey's co-writers, who also made "rural juror" sound akin to "ruhhr-juhhrr," everyone was so pleased that they "wanted to hurry up and get it on the air before someone else did." Jenna's film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace%203000 | Cyberspace 3000 is a comic book that was published by the Marvel UK imprint of Marvel Comics from 1993 to 1994. The series follows the adventures of the 31st century spaceship Sol III, which has fled Earth with a cargo of refugees.
Although the series is mostly science fiction, it is also tied to the Marvel Universe and occasionally features appearances by established Marvel characters such as Galactus, the Silver Surfer and Adam Warlock, as well as a version of the Marvel UK heroine Dark Angel.
Plot
The premise of Cyberspace 3000 is closely linked to another Marvel series, the Guardians of the Galaxy, with the Sol III ship fleeing an invasion by the alien Badoon. This connection is emphasized by references to related characters appearing in some characters dialogue - crewmembers swear "by Korvac's mother" and also "thank Korvac" for a lucky escape.
Characters
Captain Jennifer Cabre-Rios
Shan O'Meara
Commander Yan Onanwro
Doctor S'Rell
Sol, the onboard computer system. Described as a 'Mark IV' A.I. system.
The Clan Cyorse, a fanatical religious order.
The Trilexia, an insectoid alien race
References
Sol III at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Gamble at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Cyberspace 3000 at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
Cyberspace 3000 at the Big Comic Book DataBase
External links
Captain Cabre-Rios profile
1993 comics debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapath | A data path is a collection of functional units such as arithmetic logic units (ALUs) or multipliers that perform data processing operations, registers, and buses. Along with the control unit it composes the central processing unit (CPU). A larger data path can be made by joining more than one data paths using multiplexers.
A data path is the ALU, the set of registers, and the CPU's internal bus(es) that allow data to flow between them.
The simplest design for a CPU uses one common internal bus.
Efficient addition requires a slightly more complicated three-internal-bus structure.
Many relatively simple CPUs have a 2-read, 1-write register file
connected to the 2 inputs and 1 output of the ALU.
During the late 1990s, there was growing research in the area of reconfigurable data paths—data paths that may be re-purposed at run-time using programmable fabric—as such designs may allow for more efficient processing as well as substantial power savings.
Finite state machine with data path
A finite-state machine with data path (FSMD) is a mathematical abstraction which combines a finite-state machine, which controls the program flow, with a data path. It can be used to design digital logic or computer programs.
FSMDs are essentially sequential programs in which statements have been scheduled into states, thus resulting in more complex state diagrams. Here, a program is converted into a complex state diagram in which states and arcs may include arithmetic expressions, and those expressions may use external inputs and outputs as well as variables. The FSMD level of abstraction is often referred to as the register-transfer level.
FSMs do not use variables or arithmetic operations/conditions, thus FSMDs are more powerful than FSMs. An FSMD is equivalent to a Turing machine in expressiveness.
References
Central processing unit
Digital electronics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM%20Interworking%20Profile | The GSM Interworking Profile, usually abbreviated to GIP and sometimes to IWP, is a profile for DECT that allows a DECT base station to form part of a GSM network, given suitable handsets. While proposed and tested, notably in Switzerland in 1995, the system has never been commercially deployed. Infrastructure issues make it less practical and useful to implement than the more recent GAN/UMA system, which can make use of usually unmetered and neutral Internet service to provide the connection back to the network operator.
Description
Like the later GAN/UMA standard, GIP makes use of a technology that doesn't require licensed spectrum to expand capacity and allow end users, in theory, to improve coverage in areas difficult to reach via large, external, cell towers.
GIP is a DECT profile, meaning a set of protocols that runs over the base DECT system. The most popular profile for DECT is GAP, which is used to provide cordless phone service, but this is not used for GIP.
In GIP, several of the GSM lower level protocols are replaced by DECT-friendly equivalents. Voice channels make use of 32 kbit/s ADPCM channels rather than 13 kbit/s FR/EFR/AMR channels, for example.
The system supports handoff, and authentication is done via the GSM SIM card as normal. However, DECT terminals need to authenticate themselves against the base station, and this added layer is implementation dependent.
The base station is usually connected back to the GSM network via an ISDN line. An "A interface" is implemented over the ISDN line just as it would be for a BSC. This allows multiple GSM calls and GSM control data to be multiplexed over the 64 kbit/s ISDN B channels.
Deployments
While GIP was deployed to some success at Telecom '95 in Geneva, the system has not been commercially deployed since. Hybrid DECT/GSM devices have appeared, but these have essentially been "Two phones in a box" systems that combine the functionality of a standard GAP phone with a GSM phone, so that a person can receive and make calls on either their home phone line or a mobile network without having to use two phones. An example of this approach is BT's/Ericsson's OnePhone service.
Most probably, the fact that the system requires an ISDN connection, which in most countries where ISDN is popular is priced by time used, has made GIP a difficult sell. In practice, the system appears to be oriented towards carriers instead of individuals, and carriers can more easily create microcells using their own spectrum, running ordinary GSM and not requiring the use of special handsets.
With the advent of the Internet and widespread availability of high speed Internet connections, GIP could be redesigned to make use of Internet instead of ISDN connections. However, the industry has gone in the direction of using GAN/UMA, which substitutes an 802.11 or Bluetooth air interface for GSM/UMTS's and as such can use unmodified commodity infrastructure.
References
ETSI: ETR 341: Radio Equipment and Syste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20SemWare%20Editor | The SemWare Editor (TSE) is a text editor computer program for MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows and Linux.
Starting in November 1985 as a shareware program called Qedit, it was later modified to run as a terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) program, and ported to OS/2 and eventually evolved (via rewrite) to TSE. TSE was eventually ported to Windows.
TSE supports a Pascal-based macro language (SemWare Application Language or SAL), regular expression search and replace, keystroke recording and playback, full undo and redo, shortcut key assignment (both as configuration and on the fly) that allow extensive modification of the functionality of the text editor, and other features. Like its predecessor QEdit, TSE is used by programmers and others.
QEdit
QEdit was an MS-DOS text editor requiring 50 KB of memory.
QEdit stores all of the files being edited in RAM. Later versions of QEdit added support for the various systems of memory supported by MS-DOS: expanded memory (EMS), extended memory (XMS) and virtual memory, up to a maximum of 16MB.
QEdit was ported to OS/2 initially as a 16-bit application for Microsoft's OS/2 1.x. This 16-bit OS/2 version of QEdit had version 1.x. Version 1.50 for 16-bit OS/2 is dated February 1990.
SemWare ported QEdit for 32-bit OS/2 with the release of QEdit Pro 3.0 for OS/2 on February, 1994 which sold for $99. Version 3.0 included multi-file operation, HPFS support and access to the OS/2 Clipboard. SemWare claimed "over 120,000 licensed users" on all platforms at that time.
The last version released for OS/2 was "TSE Junior/2" v4.00e released on February, 1997. It was functionally equivalent to TSE Junior v4.00e with support for OS/2's system-wide clipboard and long filenames. It retailed at the time for $99 and was supplied with a copy of the MS-DOS basic version.
The SemWare Editor (TSE)
QEdit was rewritten and significantly expanded, and eventually released as The SemWare Editor (TSE) 1.0. The initial release maintained the tradition of fast I/O and response, fast search, a simple text scripting language and the fundamental design of a native core with functionality split between native code and scripting.
New TSE features included a more powerful scripting language (SAL), regular expressions, a native Win32 port, SAL access to Win32 DLL entry points, a 'graphical' port using the native Windows GDI (previous versions employed the console window), optional native dialogs (e.g. Open), and graphical features such as window transparency.
User interface
Earlier versions of TSE operated in the console window in text-only mode with limited character sets and colors. Version 2.6 added a native Win32 port, but was still character-based (using the Win32 Console APIs). Version 4.0 included the Win32 application rewritten as a pixel-based graphical application (g32.exe) using the GDI. This is commonly misunderstood to be a console application, as it still appears textual despite being a native Win32 graphical application. Visually, g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural%20reasoning%20system | In artificial intelligence, a procedural reasoning system (PRS) is a framework for constructing real-time reasoning systems that can perform complex tasks in dynamic environments. It is based on the notion of a rational agent or intelligent agent using the belief–desire–intention software model.
A user application is predominately defined, and provided to a PRS system is a set of knowledge areas. Each knowledge area is a piece of procedural knowledge that specifies how to do something, e.g., how to navigate down a corridor, or how to plan a path (in contrast with robotic architectures where the programmer just provides a model of what the states of the world are and how the agent's primitive actions affect them). Such a program, together with a PRS interpreter, is used to control the agent.
The interpreter is responsible for maintaining beliefs about the world state, choosing which goals to attempt to achieve next, and choosing which knowledge area to apply in the current situation. How exactly these operations are performed might depend on domain-specific meta-level knowledge areas. Unlike traditional AI planning systems that generate a complete plan at the beginning, and replan if unexpected things happen, PRS interleaves planning and doing actions in the world. At any point, the system might only have a partially specified plan for the future.
PRS is based on the BDI or belief–desire–intention framework for intelligent agents. Beliefs consist of what the agent believes to be true about the current state of the world, desires consist of the agent's goals, and intentions consist of the agent's current plans for achieving those goals. Furthermore, each of these three components is typically explicitly represented somewhere within the memory of the PRS agent at runtime, which is in contrast to purely reactive systems, such as the subsumption architecture.
History
The PRS concept was developed by the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International during the 1980s, by many workers including Michael Georgeff, Amy L. Lansky, and François Félix Ingrand. Their framework was responsible for exploiting and popularizing the BDI model in software for control of an intelligent agent. The seminal application of the framework was a fault detection system for the reaction control system of the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery. Development on this PRS continued at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute through to the late 1990s, which led to the development of a C++ implementation and extension called dMARS.
Architecture
The system architecture of SRI's PRS includes the following components:
Database for beliefs about the world, represented using first order predicate calculus.
Goals to be realized by the system as conditions over an interval of time on internal and external state descriptions (desires).
Knowledge areas (KAs) or plans that define sequences of low-level actions toward achieving a goal in specific situations.
Intentio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track0 | Track0 (pronounced 'track zero') is the area located at the start of a computer disk and is predominantly used to store information regarding the layout of the disk (the partition table) and executable code needed to boot an operating system. Track0 typically consists of the first 64 sectors of the disk (since each sector is normally 512 bytes, this corresponds to 32,768 bytes = 32KiB). Since the first sector of a disk is sector zero, the first 64 sectors are sectors 0 to 63.
The first sector of Track0 is known as the master boot record (MBR) and contains the initial code used to boot the operating system (bootstrap code). Near the end of the MBR is the Partition Table: a predefined structure containing the layout of the disk.
Track0 is also increasingly used to store licensing information for particular pieces of software because it is an area of the disk outside of the OS filesystem and not seen or used by most computer users (and therefore cannot be easily modified or replicated).
The origins of Track0 came about from the original specifications of PCs, where computer hard disks were defined in terms of Cylinders, Heads and Sectors (CHS system). In this context, Track0 was defined to be all the sectors on the first cylinder and first head. As with many (now legacy) original PC specifications, the terminology stuck and the first 63 sectors of modern hard disks are still referred to as Track0. Track0 is physically located on the outer edge of the disk platter.
Track0 is also the name of a terminate-and-stay-resident MS-DOS program that allows users to revive floppy disks with defective first tracks by swapping it with another track under the hood. With DOS, the first track of a floppy disk is used to store system information. If the first track is defective, the whole disk becomes unusable. Track0 tries to work around this limitation.
While it was the first program of its kind, Track0 entered the game when the use of floppy disks had already declined. Even so, a plethora of similar programs appeared shortly after the release of Track0.
External links
(1) Track0 - Retrieved on 26.10.2017
(2) Track0 - Retrieved on 26.10.2017
(3) Track0 - Retrieved on 26.10.2017
DOS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality%20%28data%20modeling%29 | Within data modelling, cardinality is the numerical relationship between rows of one table and rows in another. Common cardinalities include one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many. Cardinality can be used to define data models as well as analyze entities within datasets.
Relationships
For example, consider a database of electronic health records. Such a database could contain tables like the following:
A doctor table with information about physicians.
A patient table for medical subjects undergoing treatment.
An encounter table with an entry for each hospital visit.
Natural relationships exist between these entities, such as an encounter involving many doctors. There is a many-to-many relationship between records in doctor and records in patient because doctors have many patients and patients can see many doctors. There is a one-to-many relationship between records in patient and records in encounter because patients can have many encounters and each encounter involves only one patient.
A "one-to-one" relationship is mostly used to split a table in two in order to provide information concisely and make it more understandable. In the hospital example, such a relationship could be used to keep apart doctors' own unique professional information from administrative details.
Modeling
In data modeling, collections of data elements are grouped into "data tables" which contain groups of data field names called "database attributes". Tables are linked by "key fields". A "primary key" assigns a field to its "special order table". For example, the "Doctor Last Name" field might be assigned as a primary key of the Doctor table with all people having same last name organized alphabetically according to the first three letters of their first name. A table can also have a foreign key which indicates that field is linked to the primary key of another table.
Types of Models
A complex data model can involve hundreds of related tables. Computer scientist Edgar F. Codd created a systematic method to decompose and organize relational databases. Codd's steps for organizing database tables and their keys is called database normalization, which avoids certain hidden database design errors (delete anomalies or update anomalies). In real life the process of database normalization ends up breaking tables into a larger number of smaller tables.
In the real world, data modeling is critical because as the data grows voluminous, tables linked by keys must be used to speed up programmed retrieval of data. If a data model is poorly crafted, even a computer applications system with just a million records will give the end-users unacceptable response time delays. For this reason, data modeling is a keystone in the skills needed by a modern software developer.
Database modeling techniques
The entity–relationship model proposes a technique that produces entity–relationship diagrams (ERDs), which can be employed to capture information about data model entity typ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cardinality may refer to:
Cardinality of a set, a measure of the "number of elements" of a set in mathematics
Cardinality of a musical set, the number of pitch classes
Cardinality (data modeling), a term in database design, e.g. many-to-many or one-to-many relationships
Cardinality (SQL statements), a term used in SQL statements which describes the "uniqueness" of the data in a given column
Cardinal utility, in contrast with ordinal utility, in economics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug%20compatibility | Computer hardware or software is said to be bug compatible if it exactly replicates even an undesirable feature of a previous version. The phrase is found in the Jargon File.
An aspect of maintaining backward compatibility with an older system is that such systems' client programs often do not only depend on their specified interfaces but also bugs and unintended behaviour. That must also be preserved by the newer replacement. Besides the significantly higher complexity that needs to be maintained during the natural evolution of the code or interface, it can sometimes cause performance or security issues, and the inconsistencies in the behaviour of interfaces can sometimes lead to new bugs in the software using it, creating difficult to resolve multi-directional cross dependencies between various pieces of code.
Examples
DOS
Examples can be found in MS-DOS/PC DOS:
When MS-DOS/PC DOS 3.1 and higher (including Windows 9x) and OS/2 detect certain FAT OEM labels, they do not trust some BIOS Parameter Block (BPB) values and recalculate them from other disk geometry parameters in order to work around several off-by-one calculation errors caused by some of their formatter software under earlier issues of these systems. While this undocumented behaviour allows them to cope with these incorrectly formatted volumes specifically, it limits the flexibility of disk geometries they can work with in general and can cause them to trash validly formatted volumes created by third-parties if they deviate from the defaults used by Microsoft and IBM.
When MS-DOS/PC DOS 5.0 and higher are running on 286 or higher processors, the resident executable loader contains code specially designed to detect and fix certain widespread applications and stub loaders (such as programs linked with older versions of Microsoft's EXEPACK or Rational Systems' 386 DOS extenders) by patching the loaded program image before executing it. Under certain conditions an underlying DOS also patches Windows (WINA20.386).
Over the course of development, DR-DOS also had to be modified to not only emulate many undocumented peculiarities and undesirable properties of MS-DOS and PC DOS (like having to use certain misleading filenames such as IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM or COUNTRY.SYS for files which do not follow the specs for executables under DOS, or having to introduce a directory path length-limited Current Directory Structure (CDS) internally), but also actual bugs in the kernel and several drivers, in order to make certain other drivers and applications run on DR-DOS, when they were tested on specific versions of MS-DOS only.
Windows
Windows, which has traditionally emulated many old system bugs to allow older low-level programs to run, is another example. As a result, Wine, which makes it possible to run many Windows applications on other platforms, also needs to maintain bug compatibility with Windows.
When Microsoft phased out support for 16-bit code in Windows by no longer including NTVDM i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara%20Henderson | Kara Henderson (born June 27, 1973) is an American sports media personality, most recently for the NFL Network. At NFLN, Henderson provided in-depth interviews, pregame and postgame reports and sideline reports for a variety of shows across the network including NFL Total Access, Around the League, NFL GameDay Morning and NFL GameDay Final. For the 2010 season, Henderson contributed on-site reports for both NFL Network and NFL.com for coverage of Thursday Night Football.
Henderson last appeared on NFLN in March 2012, with no explanation given on her absence. On Sunday, September 9, she confirmed that she had left broadcasting to get married and raise her son. She was replaced by Amber Theoharis.
Kara graduated cum laude from Duke University, where she majored in political science.
Kara was formerly an anchor and reporter for Fox Sports Net New England. She began her career as a production assistant at ESPN and later ABC News. Her on-air career began at NESN in 1998 as the co-host of NESN's "Front Row". From 2000 to 2003, she worked at CNN as a reporter.
In the fall of 2012, Henderson married Los Angeles Rams general manager Les Snead. She has a son Tate from a previous marriage along with a stepson, Logan, and stepdaughter, Cannon.
References
Women sports announcers
1968 births
Living people
American television sports announcers
American television reporters and correspondents
Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences alumni
National Football League announcers
NFL Network people
American women television journalists
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Data%20Processing%20Associates | Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) is an American non-profit organization that serves the professional well-being of African Americans and other minorities working within technology. BDPA provides resources that support the professional growth and technical development of minority individuals in the information technology industry. Through education and leadership, BDPA promotes innovation, business skills, and professional development. The organization has over 50 chapters throughout the United States. BDPA National headquarters is located in Largo, Maryland.
History
BDPA was founded in 1975 by Earl A. Pace Jr. and David Wimberly after the two met in Philadelphia to discuss their concerns about ethnic minorities in the data processing field. The founders cited a lack of minorities in middle and upper management, low recruitment and poor preparation of minorities for these positions, and an overall lack of career mobility. The founders built an organization of 35 members, hosted presentations to improve data processing skills and launched a job opportunities announcement service. This nucleus has grown to over 50 chapters throughout the United States and thousands of members. The organization is a catalyst for professional growth and technical development for those in the IT industry.
BDPA has been active in community involvement, mentorship, and classes, especially during COVID-19. In summer 2020, BDPA offered STEM-related mentorship and classes for high school students in Indiana. In 2021, BDPA collected laptops and other electronics for children's e-learning efforts for Afghan refugees at Camp Atterbury.
BDPA High School Computer Competition
The National High School Computer Competition (HSCC) was founded in 1986. The competition started as a two-team event between Washington, DC, and Atlanta, Georgia, and now has over 20 teams from chapters throughout the nation.
See also
Black in AI
References
External links
BDPA
BDPA Education and Technology Foundations (BETF)
African-American professional organizations
Information technology organizations based in North America
Professional associations based in the United States
1975 establishments in the United States
Diversity in computing
Organizations established in 1975
Data activism
Data and information organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20roads%20in%20Zone%207%20of%20the%20Great%20Britain%20numbering%20scheme | List of A roads in the zone 7 in Great Britain starting north of the Solway Firth/Eden Estuary, west of the A7 and south of the A8 (roads beginning with 7). Data from Openstreetmap.
Single and double digit roads
Three and four digit numbers
See also
B roads in Zone 7 of the Great Britain numbering scheme
List of motorways in the United Kingdom
Transport in Edinburgh#Road network
Transport in Glasgow#Other Roads
Transport in Scotland#Road
References
7
7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracenote | Gracenote, Inc. is a company and service that provides music, video and sports metadata and automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies to entertainment services and companies, worldwide. Formerly CDDB ("Compact Disc Data Base"), Gracenote maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records. From 2008 to 2014, it was owned by Sony, later sold to Tribune Media, and has been owned since 2017 by Nielsen Holdings.
History
Gracenote began in 1993 as an open-source project involving a CD player program named xmcd and an associated database named CDDB. xmcd and CDDB were created by Ti Kan and Steve Scherf. Because CDs do not contain any digitally-encoded information about their contents, Kan and Scherf devised a technology that identifies and looks up CDs based on TOC information stored at the beginning of each disc. A TOC, or Table of Contents, is a list of offsets corresponding to the start of each track on a CD. Its original database was created from and continues to receive voluntary contributions from users. This led to a licensing controversy when Gracenote became commercialized.
On April 22, 2008, Sony announced that it would acquire Gracenote for $260 million. The acquisition was completed on June 2, 2008.
On September 9, 2010, Gracenote received its one-billionth piece of data, with a submission about the Compact Disc release of Swans' My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky.
On December 23, 2013, Sony announced it would sell Gracenote to Tribune Media for $170 million. The acquisition closed in February 2014: Gracenote was aligned with the Tribune Media Services division which focused on TV and Movie metadata and IDs.
On June 12, 2014, Tribune Media Services merged with Gracenote to form one company under the Gracenote name.
On July 9, 2014, Tribune Media Company purchased What's-ON, a provider of TV data and advanced search offerings covering India and the Middle East for $27 million.
On September 3, 2014, Gracenote acquired Baseline, a Los Angelesbased provider of film and TV data and information. Baseline had previously been owned by the NY Times from 20062011 after which it was sold back to its original owners. This $50 million purchase deepened Gracenote's existing video datasets and added the Studio System database, a subscription-based resource for the Hollywood content creation and distribution communities, to its line-up of offerings.
On October 2, 2014, Gracenote purchased Australia-based TV and movie data company HWW for $19 million US to expand its Asia Pacific presence and international offerings.
On May 28, 2015, Gracenote acquired Amsterdam-based Infostrada Sports and Halifax-based SportsDirect, providers of music, video and sports data.
On December 20, 2016, Tribune Media announced that it was selling Gracenote to Nielsen Holdings for $540 million in cash. The deal officially closed on February 1, 2017. In September 2017, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dop%C3%A1dromo | Dopádromo (Drug-O-Rama) is the third album by Argentine rock group Babasónicos.
Track listing
"Zumba" (Hum)
"El Médium" (The Medium)
"Cybernecia" (Cyberfool)
"Safari Vixen"
"¡Viva Satana!" (Long Live Satana!)
"Perfume Casino" (Casino Perfume)
"Calmática"
"Coyarama"
"Su Majestad" (Your Majesty)
"Pesadilla Biónica del Perro Biónico" (Bionic Nightmare of the Bionic Dog)
"Gronchótica"
"Su Ciervo" (Her Deer)
Trivia
"¡Viva Satana!" refers to actress Tura Satana, famous because of her appearance in various sexploitation films of the 60's, most notably Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.
"Gronchótica" samples the main theme from Shaw Brothers studios' "The drug addicts".
"Safari vixen" starts with a sample from the theme from Mario Bava's film "Shock".
"Su Ciervo" is a play on words, as "Siervo" means "serf" or "slave", and "Ciervo", though pronounced exactly the same way, means "deer".
References
1996 albums
Babasónicos albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%E2%80%93line%20intersection | In Euclidean geometry, the intersection of a line and a line can be the empty set, a point, or another line. Distinguishing these cases and finding the intersection have uses, for example, in computer graphics, motion planning, and collision detection.
In three-dimensional Euclidean geometry, if two lines are not in the same plane, they have no point of intersection and are called skew lines. If they are in the same plane, however, there are three possibilities: if they coincide (are not distinct lines), they have an infinitude of points in common (namely all of the points on either of them); if they are distinct but have the same slope, they are said to be parallel and have no points in common; otherwise, they have a single point of intersection.
The distinguishing features of non-Euclidean geometry are the number and locations of possible intersections between two lines and the number of possible lines with no intersections (parallel lines) with a given line.
Formulas
A necessary condition for two lines to intersect is that they are in the same plane—that is, are not skew lines. Satisfaction of this condition is equivalent to the tetrahedron with vertices at two of the points on one line and two of the points on the other line being degenerate in the sense of having zero volume. For the algebraic form of this condition, see .
Given two points on each line
First we consider the intersection of two lines and in two-dimensional space, with line being defined by two distinct points and , and line being defined by two distinct points and .
The intersection of line and can be defined using determinants.
The determinants can be written out as:
When the two lines are parallel or coincident, the denominator is zero.
Given two points on each line segment
The intersection point above is for the infinitely long lines defined by the points, rather than the line segments between the points, and can produce an intersection point not contained in either of the two line segments. In order to find the position of the intersection in respect to the line segments, we can define lines and in terms of first degree Bézier parameters:
(where and are real numbers). The intersection point of the lines is found with one of the following values of or , where
and
with
There will be an intersection if and . The intersection point falls within the first line segment if , and it falls within the second line segment if . These inequalities can be tested without the need for division, allowing rapid determination of the existence of any line segment intersection before calculating its exact point.
Given two line equations
The and coordinates of the point of intersection of two non-vertical lines can easily be found using the following substitutions and rearrangements.
Suppose that two lines have the equations and where and are the slopes (gradients) of the lines and where and are the -intercepts of the lines. At the point whe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due | Due or DUE may refer to:
DUE or DNA unwinding element, the originating site for splitting the DNA helix
DÜE (Datenübertragungseinrichtung), German for “data communications equipment”
Due (surname), including a list of people with the name
Due, Georgia, a ghost town in Fannin County, Georgia, United States
ISO 639:due, code for the Umiray Dumaget language
"Due", a song by Raf from the 1993 album Cannibali
"Due", a song by Mindless Self Indulgence from the 2008 album If
Due, a character in the anime Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers
Rai Due, an Italian television channel
Telegiornale Due, an Italian news program broadcast on Rai 2
See also
Doo (disambiguation)
Due date (disambiguation)
Deus (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keykit | KeyKit is a graphical environment and programming language for MIDI synthesis and algorithmic composition. It was originally developed by Tim Thompson and released by AT&T.
Overview
Tim Thompson is a software engineer and the originator of various software titles, including Keykit and Stevie (predecessor of the now widely distributed and popular text editor Vim). Keykit (originally named "Keynote") was developed by Thompson in his spare time while he worked for AT&T. However, it was not related to his actual job there. Keynote was originally released through the AT&T Toolchest, and
in 1995 was released as KeyKit with a license making it freely available for non-commercial use.
Keykit is noteworthy for its versatility and expressiveness. Complex algorithmic arrangements can be produced with as much detail and sophistication as required, and the software works on multiple platforms and operating systems. It is not dependent on peripherals or sound cards from a specific vendor. These are unique advantages over similar "music workstation" products with the same or similar functionality for algorithmic composition and computer generated music.
Language features
variables, functions, classes, and dynamic typing
supports object-oriented programming
always-active MIDI recording
multi-tasking environment
library functions and classes (both built-in and user-definable)
multi-platform multi-os and not dependent on specific peripherals
GUI features
Features:
GUI-based multi-track sequencer
pop-up context menus
built-in and user-definable "tools"
Limitations
interoperability: no support for COM/OLE, Jack, VST, ReWire
no support for audio processing (MIDI only)
See also
Algorithmic composition
List of MIDI editors and sequencers
List of music software
External links
Keykit Download
Tim Thompson software
Tune Toys: interactive web-based algorithmic composition (based on KeyKit engine)
Video demo of keykit from 1994
Article about KeyKit from Linux Journal, March 2005
Audio programming languages
Dynamically typed programming languages
Object-oriented programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LandView | LandView was a public domain GIS viewer designed to display United States Census Bureau, Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and U.S.Geological Survey (USGS) data. The last available version was LandView 6.
LandView is related to the CAMEO system (Computer-aided Management of Emergency Operations), in that they share the same mapping program (MARPLOT).
External links
Former LandView page at U.S. Census Bureau
CAMEO page at EPA
Public-domain software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-class%20Melbourne%20tram | The Z-class are single-unit bogie trams that operate on the Melbourne tram network. Between 1975 and 1983, 230 trams spanning three sub-classes were built by Comeng, Dandenong. The design was based on two similar Gothenburg tram models, and a prototype built by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board. While the Z1 and Z2-class trams were very similar, the Z3-class had significant design changes.
Since introduction they have had a variety of liveries, and modifications. The Z1 and Z2-class trams have been retired, with 100 Z3-class trams remaining in service.
History
When Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) staff were sent to Europe in 1965 to investigate other tramway operations, they took interest in Swedish trams, and upon return in 1966 drew up specifications, and had a timber mockup built. This mockup was to be the basis for a new tram design for Melbourne. The MMTB approved of the design, and in 1972 requested a prototype be constructed, the result was PCC 1041 being built at Preston Workshops. It was 'European in appearance' and utilised some components bought new, and many recycled from an earlier prototype tram, PCC 980. Prototype PCC 1041 became the basis of the Z-class trams, influenced by the M28 design running in Gothenburg, Sweden. PCC 1041 was to be launched by Premier Rupert Hamer on 26 August 1973, but the tram failed at the launch in front of the media. Due to constant electrical failures, PCC 1041 was infrequently used and was out of service between April 1975 and October 1976. PCC 1041 was finally withdrawn in 1984.
Despite the failure of PCC 1041, 100 Z1-class trams were ordered. Between 1974 and 1983, a total of 230 Z1 to Z3-class trams were built by Comeng at Dandenong.
Between 1995 and 1999, the remaining 106 Z1s and Z2s were refurbished by Goninan. The bodies were overhauled in an area of Preston Workshops allocated to Goninan, and the bogies were sent to Goninan's Auburn, New South Wales facility. On all except four, the flap type destination displays and route number indicators were replaced by dot-matrix displays.
When the Melbourne tram network was privatised in August 1998, M>Tram was allocated 94 Z1s, 12 Z2s and 84 Z3s, and Yarra Trams received 31 Z3s. Yarra Trams later transferred its Z3s to M>Tram in 2002 as the C class trams arrived to replace them. Yarra Trams’ former units were either refurbished and repainted in M>Tram livery or left in the former Met Green & Yellow livery after their transfer to M>Tram
It was envisaged that the delivery of the C and D class trams would allow for the Z1 and Z2s to be retired after the 2006 Commonwealth Games, but rising patronage levels necessitated the retention of 30 Z1 and three Z2s until the E class trams entered service from 2014. Half of those remained in service in December 2015, and the last were withdrawn in April 2016.
In late 2007, the Z3s with analogue signage were fitted with digital signage, replacing the original rolling route destination |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Bellamy%27s%20Who%27s%20Got%20Jokes%3F | Bill Bellamy's Who's Got Jokes? (also known as Who's Got Jokes?) is a one-hour televised stand-up comedy competition hosted by Bill Bellamy which airs on cable television network TV One.
The original run was from August 22, 2006 until October 4, 2009. It features Thomas Mikal Ford as the "Pope of Comedy" and Rodney Perry as the "Man on the Street." Each episode, four contestants have to give a nice, clean three-minute comedy. If they curse or go over their time, the "Pope of Comedy" takes away a point.
Season One winner was George Willborn, a.k.a. "The Stress Reliever," who has gone on to co-host Baisden After Dark on TV One. Season Two winner was Shawn Morgan. Season Three winner was Lav Luv. Season Four winner was J. Reid.
Notable contestants
Rajiv Satyal
Lil Rel Howery
Tiffany Haddish
Karlous Miller
Eric Andre
References
External links
Official site
TV One (American TV channel) original programming
English-language television shows
2000s American stand-up comedy television series
2006 American television series debuts
2009 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%20Gigabit%20Ethernet | 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) are groups of computer networking technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at rates of 40 and 100 gigabits per second (Gbit/s), respectively. These technologies offer significantly higher speeds than 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The technology was first defined by the IEEE 802.3ba-2010 standard and later by the 802.3bg-2011, 802.3bj-2014, 802.3bm-2015, and 802.3cd-2018 standards. The first succeeding Terabit Ethernet specifications were approved in 2017.
The standards define numerous port types with different optical and electrical interfaces and different numbers of optical fiber strands per port. Short distances (e.g. 7 m) over twinaxial cable are supported while standards for fiber reach up to 80 km.
Standards development
On July 18, 2006, a call for interest for a High Speed Study Group (HSSG) to investigate new standards for high speed Ethernet was held at the IEEE 802.3 plenary meeting in San Diego.
The first 802.3 HSSG study group meeting was held in September 2006. In June 2007, a trade group called "Road to 100G" was formed after the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago.
On December 5, 2007, the Project Authorization Request (PAR) for the P802.3ba 40 Gbit/s and 100 Gbit/s Ethernet Task Force was approved with the following project scope:
The purpose of this project is to extend the 802.3 protocol to operating speeds of 40 Gbit/s and 100 Gbit/s in order to provide a significant increase in bandwidth while maintaining maximum compatibility with the installed base of 802.3 interfaces, previous investment in research and development, and principles of network operation and management. The project is to provide for the interconnection of equipment satisfying the distance requirements of the intended applications.
The 802.3ba task force met for the first time in January 2008. This standard was approved at the June 2010 IEEE Standards Board meeting under the name IEEE Std 802.3ba-2010.
The first 40 Gbit/s Ethernet Single-mode Fibre PMD study group meeting was held in January 2010 and on March 25, 2010, the P802.3bg Single-mode Fibre PMD Task Force was approved for the 40 Gbit/s serial SMF PMD.
The scope of this project is to add a single-mode fiber Physical Medium Dependent (PMD) option for serial 40 Gbit/s operation by specifying additions to, and appropriate modifications of, IEEE Std 802.3-2008 as amended by the IEEE P802.3ba project (and any other approved amendment or corrigendum).
On June 17, 2010, the IEEE 802.3ba standard was approved. In March 2011, the IEEE 802.3bg standard was approved. On September 10, 2011, the P802.3bj 100 Gbit/s Backplane and Copper Cable task force was approved.
The scope of this project is to specify additions to and appropriate modifications of IEEE Std 802.3 to add 100 Gbit/s 4-lane Physical Layer (PHY) specifications and management parameters for operation on backplanes and twinaxial copper cables, and specify optional Energy Efficient Ethernet ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20TV | Star TV may refer to:
E! (Canadian TV channel) (formerly Star!), a Canadian entertainment news channel
Las Estrellas (Spanish for The Stars), the Mexican television network
Estrella TV (Spanish for Star TV), the American Spanish-language network
Star, an international television and streaming brand owned by Disney Entertainment unit of The Walt Disney Company
Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific, a Hong Kong-based commercial broadcasting company, the original incarnation of the brand under its previous name Star TV
Star (Disney+), a general entertainment hub within Disney+ available in some countries where Disney+ is operated
Star+, a streaming service in Latin America owned by Disney
Star Channel (Latin American TV channel), a Latin American television network by Disney formerly known as Fox (1993–2018) and Fox Channel (2018–2021)
Disney Star (formerly known as Star India), previously a part of Star in Hong Kong, now a distinct division owned by Disney
Star India v Leo Burnett, Indian copyright case law
Star China Media, a media group in Mainland China, previously part of this group but now owned by China Media Capital
Star Channel, former name of The Movie Channel, an American premium cable and satellite television network
Star Channel (Greece), a Greek television network
Star Channel (Japan), a Japanese group of premium television channels
Star Cinema, a Filipino film and television production company and distributor
Star Television Network, a short-lived American television network based in Orlando, Florida
Startv, a Canadian weekly entertainment television program
Star TV (Australia), a former television network in Queensland
Star TV (Tanzania), a television station in Tanzania
Star TV (Turkey), a general entertainment channel in Turkey
Zvezda (TV channel) (Russian for Star), a military-themed Russian television channel owned by the Russian Ministry of Defense
See also
Star Channel (disambiguation)
Star-world (disambiguation)
Star News (disambiguation)
Star Sports (disambiguation)
Star One (disambiguation)
Star Plus, Indian television channel owned by Disney Star
Start (streaming service), a Russian streaming service
Start TV, an American free-to-air television network
Starz, an American premium cable and satellite television network
Starz Encore, its sister channel
StarHub TV, a cable television operator in Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20system | A service system (or customer service system, CSS) is a configuration of technology and organizational networks designed to deliver services that satisfy the needs, wants, or aspirations of customers. "Service system" is a term used in the service management, service operations, services marketing, service engineering, and service design literature. While the term frequently appears, it is rarely defined.
One definition of a service system is a value coproduction configuration of people, technology, internal and external service systems connected via value propositions, and shared information (language, laws, measures, etc.). The smallest service system is a single person and the largest service system is the world economy. The external service system of the global economy is considered to be ecosystem services. Service systems can be characterized by the value that results from interaction between service systems, whether the interactions are between people, businesses, or nations. Most service system interactions aspire to be win-win, non-coercive, and non-intrusive. However, some service systems may perform coercive service activities. For example, agents of the state may use coercion in accordance with laws of the land.
Another definition for service system states that a service system consists of elements (e.g., people, facilities, tools, and computer programs) that have a structure (i.e., an organization), a behavior (possibly described as a business process), and a purpose (or goal). A service system worldview is a system of systems that interact via value propositions.
A much simpler and more limited definition is that a service system is a work system that produces services. A work system is a system in which human participants and/or machines perform work (processes and activities) using information, technology, and other resources to produce products/services for internal or external customers. Co-production occurs in work systems in which customers are also participants, e.g., many work systems that provide medical care, education, and consulting. (Alter, 2013)
History
Usages of the term service system (bold added) are provided below:
The earliest known usage of the phrase service system in a book title is Stochastic Service Systems by John Riordan.
Usages from Quinn and Paquette (1990) Technology in Services: Creating Organizational Revolutions. MIT Sloan Management Review. 31(2).
"Properly designed service technology systems allow relatively inexperienced people to perform very sophisticated tasks quickly—vaulting them over normal learning curve delays."
Examples: "Domino's Pizza ... industrial engineering and food science research automated the making of a pizza to as near a science as possible, eliminating much of the drudgery in such tasks, yet ensuring higher quality and uniformity. Then, finding that its store managers were still spending fifteen to twenty hours per week on paperwork, Domino's introduced NCR "mini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSPI | KSPI may refer to:
KSP Interstellar a Mod for the computergame Kerbal Space Program
The ICAO code for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport
KSPI (AM), a radio station (780 AM) located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
KSPI-FM, a radio station (93.7 FM) located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zmodeler | ZModeler (or Zanoza Modeler) is a 3D modeling application developed by Oleg Melashenko. It is aimed at modelers who model vehicles and other objects for computer games such as Euro Truck Simulator, UK Truck Simulator, American Truck Simulator, 18 Wheels of Steel, Grand Theft Auto series, Empire Earth 2, Midtown Madness, or similar video games.
ZModeler versions
ZModeler is capable of complex modeling and Importing. On later versions it supports important modeling functions such as extruding, or beveling.
Version 1 does not support polygons other than triangles, or NURBs, or other forms of modeling other than polygonal and splines. It comes with filters to import and export meshes of other formats. However, there are more formats other than the included ones for download in various websites. ZModeler does not have a lighting system, although lighting can be made by using gradients for reflection maps.
The current ZModeler2 branch has a revised user interface, and adds new functions. Since version 2, ZModeler is no longer proposed as a feature-full freeware. Once activated, it becomes possible to use filters and plugins to import and export models of various other formats, including formats for computer games. ZModeler2 has a new rendering engine, and adds several more functions. It sports a vastly different user interface than ZModeler1. Additionally, ZModeler2 supports quadrilateral polygons, a major step-up from ZModeler1. Next version of Zmodeler was Zmodeler3 with changes to the material browser, UV Tile which replaces the "Scale" of the texture map. There were other various changes to Zmodeler3.
Rendering
No version of ZModeler comes with support for making final scene renderings. Currently, scene renderings can only be made by taking a screen capture. This method, however, does affect the output quality because no post-processing, such as anti-aliasing, is performed on the final image. Any necessary manual post-processing can, for example, be done by rescaling a high-output rendering of the scene with any graphics software.
Supported Model Files
Zmodeler supports .DFF, .OBJ, YFT and other 3D files you can edit.
Primitive objects
Both ZModeler versions come with a standard list of primitive objects that can be easily created. After determining the size and location of the object, a dialog box will pop up, allowing the user to specify the object name, and the "horizontal steps" and "vertical steps". The list of primitive objects include spheres, cones, cubes, cylinders, tubes, and tori.
Format
The ZModeler file format has an extension of "*.Z3D". The ZModeler2 file format is different from the ZModeler 1x series' file format. Although ZModeler2 can open ZModeler 1 files, ZModeler 1 cannot open ZModeler2 files. Both formats have the same file extension. They are also both capable of storing unsupported data. Since ZModeler 2.2.4, Z3D files are capable of storing the textures, although this feature must be enabled. On older versions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding | Checkerboarding may refer to:
Checkerboarding (beekeeping)
Checkerboarding (land)
Checkerboard rendering, a 3D computer graphics technique. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjan%27s%20strongly%20connected%20components%20algorithm | Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm is an algorithm in graph theory for finding the strongly connected components (SCCs) of a directed graph. It runs in linear time, matching the time bound for alternative methods including Kosaraju's algorithm and the path-based strong component algorithm. The algorithm is named for its inventor, Robert Tarjan.
Overview
The algorithm takes a directed graph as input, and produces a partition of the graph's vertices into the graph's strongly connected components. Each vertex of the graph appears in exactly one of the strongly connected components. Any vertex that is not on a directed cycle forms a strongly connected component all by itself: for example, a vertex whose in-degree or out-degree is 0, or any vertex of an acyclic graph.
The basic idea of the algorithm is this: a depth-first search (DFS) begins from an arbitrary start node (and subsequent depth-first searches are conducted on any nodes that have not yet been found). As usual with depth-first search, the search visits every node of the graph exactly once, declining to revisit any node that has already been visited. Thus, the collection of search trees is a spanning forest of the graph. The strongly connected components will be recovered as certain subtrees of this forest. The roots of these subtrees are called the "roots" of the strongly connected components. Any node of a strongly connected component might serve as a root, if it happens to be the first node of a component that is discovered by search.
Stack invariant
Nodes are placed on a stack in the order in which they are visited. When the depth-first search recursively visits a node v and its descendants, those nodes are not all necessarily popped from the stack when this recursive call returns. The crucial invariant property is that a node remains on the stack after it has been visited if and only if there exists a path in the input graph from it to some node earlier on the stack. In other words, it means that in the DFS a node would be only removed from the stack after all its connected paths have been traversed. When the DFS will backtrack it would remove the nodes on a single path and return to the root in order to start a new path.
At the end of the call that visits v and its descendants, we know whether v itself has a path to any node earlier on the stack. If so, the call returns, leaving v on the stack to preserve the invariant. If not, then v must be the root of its strongly connected component, which consists of v together with any nodes later on the stack than v (such nodes all have paths back to v but not to any earlier node, because if they had paths to earlier nodes then v would also have paths to earlier nodes which is false). The connected component rooted at v is then popped from the stack and returned, again preserving the invariant.
Bookkeeping
Each node v is assigned a unique integer v.index, which numbers the nodes consecutively in the order in wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20Network%20%281975%20TV%20program%29 | The NHL Network was an American television syndication package that broadcast National Hockey League games from the through seasons. The NHL Network was distributed by the Hughes Television Network.
Conception
After being dropped by NBC after the season, the NHL had no national television contract in the United States. In response to this, the league put together a network of independent stations covering approximately 55% of the country.
Coverage summary
Games typically aired on Monday nights (beginning at 8 p.m. ET) or Saturday afternoons. The package was offered to local stations with no rights fee. Profits would be derived from the advertising, which was about evenly split between the network and the local station. The Monday night games were often billed as The NHL Game of the Week. Viewers in New York City, Buffalo, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Los Angeles got the Game of the Week on a different channel than their local team's games. Therefore, whenever a team had a “home” game, the NHL Network aired the home team's broadcast rather than their own.
Initially, the Monday night package was marketed to ABC affiliates, the idea being that ABC carried Monday-night NFL football in the fall and (starting in May ) Monday-night Major League Baseball in the spring and summer; as such, stations would want hockey to create a year-round Monday night sports block. But very few ABC stations picked up the package.
During the season, the NHL Network showed selected games from the NHL Super Series (the big one in that package was Red Army at Philadelphia, but the package did not include Red Army at Montreal on New Year's Eve 1975, which was seen only on CBC) as well as some playoff games. During the season, the NHL Network showed 12 regular season games on Monday nights plus the All-Star Game. By (the final season of the NHL Network's existence), there were 18 Monday night games and 12 Saturday afternoon games covered.
The 1979 Challenge Cup replaced the All-Star Game. It was a best of three series between the NHL All-Stars against the Soviet Union national squad. Only the third period of Game 2, which was on a Saturday afternoon, was shown on CBS as part of The CBS Sports Spectacular. Unfortunately, CBS and their sponsors had a problem with the rink board advertising that the NHL sold at Madison Square Garden, and refused to allow them to be shown on TV. As a result, CBS' viewers were unable to see the far boards above the yellow kickplate, and could only see players' skates when the play moved to that side of the ice. Games 1 and 3 were shown on the NHL Network, where the advertising was no problem.
Saturday afternoon coverage
When Saturday afternoon games were added, the NHL said that they would start at 1 p.m. and end by 4 p.m. ET. Apparently, markets with only three stations were reluctant to give up prime time programming slots. Ultimately, the plan failed, as not only did they not gain new markets, many stations that already carried |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20on%20SportsChannel%20America | The NHL on SportsChannel America was the presentation of National Hockey League broadcasts on the now defunct SportsChannel America cable television network.
Terms of the deal
Taking over for ESPN, SportsChannel's contract paid US$51 million ($17 million per year) over three years, more than double what ESPN had paid ($24 million) for the previous three years SportsChannel America managed to get a fourth NHL season for just $5 million.
The SportsChannel America deal was in a sense, a power play created by Charles Dolan and Bill Wirtz. Dolan was still several years away from getting control of Madison Square Garden, and Wirtz owned 25% of SportsChannel Chicago. NHL president John Ziegler convinced the board of governors that SportsChannel America was a better alternative than a proposed NHL Channel backed by Paramount and Viacom that had interests in the MSG Network and NESN.
SportsChannel's availability
Unfortunately, SportsChannel America was only available in a few major markets (notably absent though were Detroit, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis) and reached only a 1/3 of the households that ESPN did at the time. SportsChannel America was seen in fewer than 10 million households. In comparison, by the 1991–92 season, ESPN was available in 60.5 million homes whereas SportsChannel America was available in only 25 million. As a matter of fact, in the first year of the deal (), SportsChannel America was available in only 7 million homes when compared to ESPN's reach of 50 million. When the SportsChannel deal ended in 1992, the league returned to ESPN for another contract that would pay US$80 million over five years.
SportsChannel America took advantage of using their regional sports networks' feed of a game, graphics and all, instead of producing a show from the ground up, most of the time. Distribution of SportsChannel America across the country was limited to cities that had a SportsChannel regional sports network or affiliate. Very few cable systems in non-NHL territories picked it up as a stand-alone service, with many only taking it on a pay-per-view basis during the Stanley Cup Finals. In addition to the SportsChannel regional networks, Maryland-based Home Team Sports and Minneapolis-based Midwest Sports Channel (independently owned and operated despite the similar sounding name) carried the games. In 1991, two Prime Sports networks, KBL (Pittsburgh) and Prime Sports Northwest agreed to carry the playoff package, expanding it reach to an additional 2.6 million homes.
Philadelphia
Since SportsChannel Philadelphia did not air until January 1990, PRISM (owned by Rainbow Media, the owners of SportsChannel, at the time) picked up the 1989 Stanley Cup Finals. Other than that, there was no NHL television coverage in Philadelphia except for the Flyers for the first half of the original deal.
Lawsuit
As previously mentioned, the NHL would return to ESPN following the 1991–92 season. Shortly after the ESPN deal was signed, SportsChannel America would |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfe | X File Explorer (Xfe) is a graphical file manager for the X Window System for Unix and Unix-like operating systems, written by Roland Baudin. Its stated goals are simplicity, lightness and ease of use. It is written in the programming language C++ using the FOX toolkit, and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
References
External links
Free file managers
Orthodox file managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikifonia | Wikifonia was an on-line publisher of sheet music, combining a MusicXML-based technology in a wiki system, with copyright clearance. Its score database was accessible from 2006 to 2013.
Development
The Wikifonia system was developed in a collaboration between several institutes of higher education in Ghent, Belgium. In March 2005 the researchers of the project received the Creativity to Business Award from the Ghent University Association. The system went live on 6 November 2006.
Copyrights
The Wikifonia system aimed at the creation of music, the publication of public domain traditionals, and the publication of previously copyrighted music.
Music published on the Wikifonia website was licensed by Musi©opy, a music copyright clearance organisation based in the Netherlands. The actual rights were paid for by the Wikifonia foundation, a non-profit organisation founded in July 2006.
Wiki
The Wikifonia website could be browsed and the sheet music downloaded in PDF or MusicXML format, without login or subscription.
Uploading music, in MusicXML format, and commenting on published music required login or registration.
Termination
The Wikifonia website was discontinued on due to Wikifonia Foundation's inability to continue to obtain copyright licenses. After this date, the website encouraged visitors to use MuseScore.
See also
List of online music databases
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
Archive of Wikifonia database in MXL format
Archive of Wikifonia database in PDF format
Online music and lyrics databases
Wikis
Belgian music websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund%20Data%20Bank | The Dortmund Data Bank (short DDB) is a factual data bank for thermodynamic and thermophysical data. Its main usage is the data supply for process simulation where experimental data are the basis for the design, analysis, synthesis, and optimization of chemical processes. The DDB is used for fitting parameters for thermodynamic models like NRTL or UNIQUAC and for many different equations describing pure component properties, e.g., the Antoine equation for vapor pressures. The DDB is also used for the development and revision of predictive methods like UNIFAC and PSRK.
Contents
Mixture properties
Phase equilibria data (vapor–liquid, liquid–liquid, solid–liquid), data on azeotropy and zeotropy
Mixing enthalpies
Gas solubilities
Activity coefficients at infinite dilution
Heat capacities and excess heat capacities
Volumes, densities, and excess volumes (volume effect of mixing)
Salt solubilities
Octanol-water partition coefficients
Critical data
The mixture data banks contain () approx. 308,000 data sets with 2,157,000 data points for 10,750 components building 84,870 different binary, ternary, and higher systems/combinations.
Pure component properties
Saturated vapor pressures
Saturated densities
Viscosities
Thermal conductivities
Critical data (Tc, Pc, Vc)
Triple points
Melting points
Heat capacities
Heats of fusion, sublimation and vaporization
Heats of formation and combustion
Heats and temperatures of transitions for solids
Speed of sound
P-v-T data including virial coefficients
Energy functions
Enthalpies and entropies
Surface tensions
The pure component properties data bank contains () approx. 157,000 data sets with 1,080,000 data points for 16,700 different components.
Data sources
The DDB is a collection of experimental data published by the original authors. All data are referenced and a quite large literature data bank is part of the DDB, currently containing more than 92,000 articles, books, private communications, deposited documents from Russia (VINITI), the Ukraine (Ukrniiti) and other former USSR states, company reports (mainly from former GDR companies), theses, patents, and conference contributions.
Secondary sources like data collections are normally neglected and only used as a literature source. Derived data are also not collected with the main exception of the azeotropic data bank which is built partly from evaluated vapor–liquid equilibrium data.
History
The Dortmund Data Bank was founded in the 1970s at the University of Dortmund in Germany. The original reason for starting a vapor–liquid phase equilibria data collection was the development of the group contribution method UNIFAC which allows to estimate vapor pressures of mixtures.
The DDB has since been extended to many other properties and has increased dramatically in size also because of intensive (German) government aid. The funding has ended and the further development and maintenance is performed by DDBST GmbH, a company founded b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Norris%20%28reporter%29 | John Norris (born March 20, 1959) is an American music journalist, known as a reporter and special correspondent for MTV News and the MTV Radio Network.
Life
Originally from Houston and a graduate of New York University with a degree in broadcast journalism, Norris lives in New York City. He is vegetarian, and has appeared in two PETA videos promoting animal rights and vegetarianism. He has also done non-profit work for Mercy for Animals, GLAAD, and GLSEN.
In December 2008, Norris left MTV. He is no longer listed as a correspondent by MTV News, though he appeared on June 25, 2009, to discuss the career of Michael Jackson, who had died earlier that day.
In June 2009, Norris was a founding partner in the music website Noisevox. He served as managing editor for the site and host of the Indie Rock interview series Noisemakers on Noisevox and Face Time.
As a freelance journalist, Norris has written about music and culture for Vice, Entertainment Weekly, Yahoo!, Refinery29, Interview, MTV Iggy, and MTV Hive, as well as Dazed, V, and VMan magazines.
In April 2013, he was hired by the music channel Fuse, as Supervising Producer of the nightly Fuse News, where he also appeared periodically as an on-air correspondent.
References
External links
1969 births
Living people
American television reporters and correspondents
New York University alumni
American male journalists
Journalists from Houston
American LGBT journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consortium%20of%20Humanities%20Centers%20and%20Institutes | Established in 1988, the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes serves as a site for the discussion of issues germane to the fostering of cross-disciplinary activity and as a network for the circulation of information and the sharing of resources within the humanities and interpretive social sciences. CHCI has a membership of over 200 centers and institutes that are remarkably diverse in size and scope and are located in the United States, Australia, Canada, China, Korea, Finland, Taiwan, Ireland, United Kingdom, and other countries.
Mission and History
Established in 1988, the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) serves as an arena for the discussion of issues germane to cross-disciplinary activity in the humanities and as a network for the circulation of information and best practices related to the organizational and management dimensions of humanities centers and institutes. CHCI produces a major annual meeting of its membership, maintains a content-rich website, produces an annual print directory, and serves as a re-circulator for information about its members via listservs and its website. Members of the consortium also assist one another with ideas, evaluation, and other forms of service. The organization is headed by a president, and is governed by an international advisory board of member directors and other leaders in the humanities.
CHCI was established in 1988 as the product of two meetings: The Institutional Impact of Institutes at the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI, now based at the University of California, Irvine), convened by Murray Krieger, and an organizational meeting at the 1988 meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), convened by E. Ann Kaplan of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University. These gatherings were the first moments at which directors of humanities research organizations had come together to discuss issues of mutual concern, and the major product of the meetings was a unanimous sense that it was essential to establish a consortium to continue these dialogues. Ralph Cohen of the University of Virginia served from 1988 to 1995 as the organization's first chair, while CHCI administration was based at UCHRI. In its early years, the CHCI membership included over 70 members from the US and four other countries.
In 1995 CHCI operations and leadership moved to the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, at that time directed by Kathleen Woodward, currently director of The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. During CHCI's term at UW-Milwaukee, the membership grew to over 125 organizations as new centers were opened and existing members began to expand their programs and operations. This period of time also saw the dramatic expansion of CHCI's annual meetings, the development of the organization's first website, and two major grants from the Rockefeller Fou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ViVA | ViVA (Virtual Vector Architecture) is a technology from IBM for coupling together multiple scalar floating point units to act as a single vector processor. Certain computing tasks are more efficiently handled through vector computations where an instruction can be applied to multiple elements simultaneously, rather than the scalar approach where one instruction is applied to one piece of data at a time. This kind of technology is highly sought after for scientific computing and is IBM's answer to the vector-based supercomputers pioneered by Cray and that was the basis for NEC's Earth Simulator which was the fastest supercomputer in the world 2002-2004.
ViVA was developed and implemented by IBM together with National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center inside the Blue Planet project where they had 8 dual core POWER5 processors made into one vector processor capable of approximately 60-80 GFLOPS of computing power. ViVA technology is in use in the ASC Purple supercomputer.
Where ViVA was a software implementation in high-end POWER5 based systems, the second generation, ViVA-2, is directly supported by hardware in the POWER6 processor.
References
Blue Planet: Extending IBM Power Technology and Virtual Vector Processing – NERSC
Science-Driven System Architecture: A New Process for Leadership Class Computing – NERSC
An eCLipz Looms on the Horizon – Real World Technologies
IBM computer hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20database | A current database is a conventional database that stores data that is valid now.
For example, if a user inserts "John Smith" into the Staff table of a current database, this asserts that the fact is valid now and until it is subsequently deleted. By contrast, a temporal database qualifies each row with a valid time stamp, valid time period or valid time interval. For example, we can assert the fact that "John Smith" was a member of staff during the period 1 June 2001 and now. As of 2006, current databases were the most common type of database in use. The concept of now is discussed in Clifford et alia (1997).
References
External links
Types of databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20DHCP | A rogue DHCP server is a DHCP server on a network which is not under the administrative control of the network staff. It is a network device such as a modem or a router connected to the network by a user who may be either unaware of the consequences of their actions or may be knowingly using it for network attacks such as man in the middle. Some kind of computer viruses or malicious software have been found to set up a rogue DHCP, especially for those classified in the category.
As clients connect to the network, both the rogue and legal DHCP server will offer them IP addresses as well as default gateway, DNS servers, WINS servers, among others. If the information provided by the rogue DHCP differs from the real one, clients accepting IP addresses from it may experience network access problems, including speed issues as well as inability to reach other hosts because of incorrect IP network or gateway. In addition, if a rogue DHCP is set to provide as default gateway an IP address of a machine controlled by a misbehaving user, it can sniff all the traffic sent by the clients to other networks, violating network security policies as well as user privacy (see man in the middle). VMware or virtual machine software can also act as a rogue DHCP server inadvertently when being run on a client machine joined to a network. The VMware will act as a rogue DHCP server handing out random IP addresses to the clients around it on the network. The end result can be that large portions of the network are then cut off from both the Internet and the rest of the domain without any access at all.
Mitigation
Rogue DHCP servers can be stopped by means of intrusion detection systems with appropriate signatures, as well as by some multilayer switches, which can be configured to drop the packets. One of the most common methods to deal with rogue DHCP servers is called DHCP snooping, which drops DHCP messages from untrusted DHCP servers.
External links
Rogue DHCP servers can be detected using the software:
Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 (Windows XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, Server 2008)
dhcp_probe (UNIX)
SoftPerfect Network Scanner (Win32 Freeware, supports Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Seven)
dhcploc.exe (Win32) in Windows Support Tools (Windows XP, Server 2003)
DHCP Sentry (Win32) – DHCP Sentry tool
Rogue detect (Perl)
Open DHCP Locate (UNIX, Win32, C)
Manual examination perusing Scapy package in Python:
Scapy (Python)
References
Internet security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boys%20of%20Bummer | "The Boys of Bummer" is the eighteenth episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 29, 2007. It was written by Michael Price and was the first episode to be directed by Rob Oliver.
Plot
Bart catches a fly ball at a Little League Baseball game, pushing the Springfield Isotopes into the championships. The next day, Marge is shopping at a department store, but Homer is tired and cannot find a place to sit, so he lies down on a mattress and falls asleep. Homer's slumber attracts a crowd, including the store manager. Homer instantly exclaims his love for the mattress and manages to sell five to the Rich Texan, which convinces the store manager to hire Homer as a mattress salesman.
In the championship, Springfield leads Shelbyville 5–2 in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, but Shelbyville has the bases loaded. When their batter hits a pop-up towards Bart, he drops the ball and repeatedly fails to pick it up, letting all four runners score and thus giving Shelbyville the 6–5 victory. The crowd boos Bart and pelts him with beer. Bart's attempt to flee is thwarted by Chief Wiggum, who tricks Bart into his police car and returns to the field so that Bart's ostracization can continue.
Bart, now a social pariah, is reluctant to show himself in public. Lisa tries to cheer him up by taking him to see Joe LaBoot, a baseball player who made the same mistake as Bart did in the 1943 World Series. However, this backfires when LaBoot learns who Bart is and turns on him. Meanwhile, the Lovejoys buy a mattress from Homer to address a sex problem, but bring it to the Simpsons' house the next day with their problem unresolved. As Homer writes them a refund check, they begin making out on his and Marge's mattress, and trade their new mattress for it. When Homer and Marge discover that their new mattress is uncomfortable, they sneak in to the Lovejoys' home to steal back their old mattress. The Lovejoys return and catch Homer and Marge having sex on the mattress. Reverend Lovejoy invokes the Judgment of Solomon and cuts the mattress in half diagonally, giving one half to Homer and Marge. On the way, Homer convinces Marge to drive behind a billboard where they try to have sex as they did on their honeymoon with the same bum watching them.
One morning, Lisa awakes to find someone has spray-painted "I HATE BART SIMPSON" all over the town. She and the rest of the family eventually find Bart, now at the point of self-loathing, spray-painting on the water tower. Encouraged by a mob, Bart jumps off the water tower and lands in a bush. As Bart recovers at the hospital, Marge is upset by the mob chanting "Bart sucks!" outside, and she scolds them for their vindictive behavior. The townspeople, realizing that they have lived up to a billboard's message of Springfield being the "meanest city in America", agree to restage the game to restore Bart's self estee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20telecommunications%20access%20method | Basic Telecommunications Access Method (BTAM) is a low-level programming interface specified by IBM for use on the IBM System/360 for start-stop and binary synchronous telecommunications terminals. Later, IBM specified higher-level interfaces QTAM and TCAM.
BTAM was superseded by VTAM for Systems Network Architecture (SNA) devices. BTAM continued to be supported in later iterations of the system architecture, and IBM finally withdrew support in 2000.
BTAM requires the application program or transaction processing system to handle almost every detail of the protocol. This is harder than using a higher-layer protocol, but it permits interfacing to non-standard devices in non-standard ways.
An access method for terminals
BTAM is an access method for interactively communicating with remote terminals, usually connected through a front end processor such as a 270x communications controller, although support for local channel-attached 3270 terminals is included. BTAM dynamically builds Channel command words (CCWs) for reading, writing and "polling" terminals and deals with specific responses from those terminals, according to the success or failure of the communication channel.
Key role in transaction processing systems
BTAM was a key component in IBM's early transaction processing systems such as MTCS, CICS and IMS and underpinned the rise of online transaction processing for many large commercial banks and insurance companies. It was not unusual for BTAM and later developed access methods (such as VTAM) to co-exist, supporting different devices simultaneously under the same transaction processing system.
Programming
Material in this section taken from IBM System/360 Operating System Basic Telecommunications Access Method; GC30-2004-6.
BTAM programming requires detailed knowledge of the characteristics of the specific terminals to be used.
THE DCB macro is used to define a communications line group:
dcbname DCB DSORG=CX...
DEVD=BS can be coded to specify a Binary Synchronous (Bisync) line. Many other operands specify unique characteristics of the attached terminals.
A terminal list, specified by the DFTRMLST macro, identifies the terminals attached to the line. This macro specifies the line characteristics—start-stop, bisync, point-to-point, multipoint, leased line or dial — and the type of polling required— wrap around or open. The polling characters or telephone number used to identify each specific remote device on the line are coded. The CHGNTRY macro can be used to modify information for a specific device in the list during execution. A wrap-around polling list will cause each device in the list to be polled sequentially by the channel until a response was received, This reduces the load on the CPU for continuous polling.
The programmer can specify a buffer pool, a data structure used to hold messages transmitted to or from the terminals. BTAM can construct the pool automatically or the programmer can construct the pool in various |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20X-Men%3A%20The%20Animated%20Series%20episodes | The X-Men animated series debuted on October 31, 1992, on the Fox Network as part of the "Fox Kids" Saturday morning lineup. The plot was loosely adapted from famous storylines and events in the X-Men comics, such as the Dark Phoenix Saga, Days of Future Past, the Phalanx Covenant, and the Legacy Virus. The show features a team line-up similar to that of the early 1990s X-Men comic books: the lineup largely resembles that of Cyclops' Blue Team, established in the early issues of the second X-Men comic series. Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, Storm, Beast, Gambit, Jubilee, Jean Grey and Professor X were featured as the X-Men.
Synopsis
The series' first 13 episodes were notable for being possibly the first time that an animated series had a full season of episodes flow one into the next, creating a single continuing narrative, something the series producers fought heavily for. However, starting with season three, most episodes (except for multi-part stories) were shown in random order.
Each episode was assigned two different numbers internally. One was for script order, which indicates the number assigned by the production company. The other was for the production order, which are the official episode numbers assigned by Fox Children's Network, indicating the order in which they received the episodes. These both vary from the order in which the series aired after season three. According to series writer Steven Melching, the script order is the "best guide in terms of overall series continuity, as this is how the stories were originally envisioned to flow together."
The X-Men also appeared on Spider-Man in episodes "The Mutant Agenda" and "Mutants' Revenge". Storm later appeared in the three-part episode "Secret Wars" on the good side against the evil side. The series was canceled after the episode "Graduation Day", which aired on September 20, 1997. The X-Men animated show was the longest-running Marvel Comics animated series, lasting for six years, with five seasons and a total of 76 episodes until their record was beaten by Ultimate Spider-Man, when its 77th episode aired on October 17, 2015.
The following list reflects the episode order as originally scripted. The television air-date order and DVD release order disregard the script order.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1992–1993)
Season 2 (1993–1994)
The second season saw a parallel narrative featuring Magneto and Professor X lost in the Savage Land interwoven throughout. Many of the stories dealt with the X-Men dealing with the professor's absence, as well as increasing the backstory of many of the X-Men, particularly Rogue and Wolverine.
Season 3 (1994–1995)
After the five-part "Phoenix Saga", episodes were aired in a more random sequence. Also, due to animation problems with a few episodes, several did not air until the fourth or even fifth season.
Season 4 (1995–1996)
Some of the Season 4 episodes were aired during Season 3 to compensate for episodes in that season being pushed back |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigar%20%28software%29 | Sigar is a free software library (under the Apache License) that provides a cross-platform, cross-language programming interface to low-level information on computer hardware and operating system activity. The library provides bindings for many popular computer languages and has been ported to over 25 different operating system/hardware combinations. Sigar stands for System Information Gatherer And Reporter and was originally developed by Doug MacEachern, the author of the popular mod_perl module for the Apache web server.
External links
hyperic.com , SIGAR home page.
, Source Code at GitHub.
Apache Software Foundation
Computer programming
Computing platforms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Tretton | Jack Tretton is a member of the advisory boards for Genotaur, an artificial intelligence startup, and LifeApps Digital Media, a digital publisher of products and services focused on health, fitness, and sports topics. He is best known for being the former President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) from 2006 to 2014.
Career
After graduating from Providence College, Tretton was a territory manager for Duracell from 1983 through 1985. In 1986 he joined Activision as the Vice President of sales until 1991, when he joined JVC Musical Industries and became general manager of JVC's game division until early 1995.
Tretton joined Sony in March 1995 and was part of the team that created the original PlayStation and was involved in the development and publishing of all major Sony consoles and handhelds. In November 2006, Tretton was promoted to President and CEO of SCEA, succeeding Kazuo Hirai who became President and COO of Sony Computer Entertainment. Following his appointment as President, Tretton personally presented Sony's conferences at E3 from 2007 to 2013.
In early March 2014 it was announced that Tretton would step down from his position at the end of the month, citing a mutual agreement between himself and SCEA not to renew his contract. He was succeeded by Shawn Layden, who was previously the Executive Vice President and COO of Sony Network Entertainment International.
In late May 2014, it was announced that Tretton joined the advisory board of Genotaur, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, and the following September it was announced Tretton joined the advisory board of LifeApps Digital Media, a digital publisher of products and services focused on health, fitness, and sports topics.
Professional reputation
Tretton has made a number of controversial comments regarding the video game industry. When asked in 2007 to describe each game console as a meal or food, Tretton called the PS3 "Surf 'n Turf" and the PS2 "your favorite burger restaurant," but called the Wii a "lollipop" and the Xbox 360 a restaurant he would "get sick from once in a while because the cook isn't always reliable." He also called the Nintendo 3DS "a great babysitting tool … But no self-respecting twenty-something is going to be sitting on an airplane with one of those. He's too old for that."
However, shortly after the PlayStation Vita was released in North America in February 2012, Tretton stated that he is a "believer in a rising tide lifting all boats" and that "a successful Nintendo or a successful gaming industry is good for anybody that's in the gaming business."
Reception
Tretton's popularity while working for SCEA led fans, including Greg Miller and Colin Moriarty, to informally refer to him as "Jackie T". He made his appearance on Kinda Funny Live 2 and KindaFunny's PlayStation Podcast "PS I LOVE YOU XOXO" in May 2016
Personal
Tretton was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Providence College in 1983 with a Ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Francisco%20System | The San Francisco System (also known as the "Hub and Spokes" architecture) is a network of alliances pursued by the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, after the end of World War II – the United States as a "hub", and Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand as "spokes". The system is made of bilateral political-military and economic commitments between the United States and its Asia-Pacific allies. This system stands in contrast to a multilateral alliance, such as NATO.
Initially, the United States sought to establish a multilateral alliance among its allies in the Asia-Pacific region, but the American allies in the Asia-Pacific region were unwilling or ambivalent about entering into a multilateral alliance. As a consequence, the United States opted for the hub-and-spokes architecture, a set of bilateral alliances.
History
The hub-and-spokes system, with the United States as the "hub" and no apparent connections between the "spokes" allowed the United States to exercise effective control over the smaller allies of the Asia-Pacific region. The legacy of the system continues to today, represented by the absence of the multilateral security architecture in the region like NATO. Some argue that the reason why the hub-and-spoke network remains viable today is because its focus moved from regional concerns to those of the global such as the War on Terror and issues dealing with weapons of mass destruction.
Post Korean War
Right after World War II, United States was not interested in being involved in the Asia-Pacific region and was more concentrated in its role in Europe. However after the Korean War, the United States became more engaged in the Asia-Pacific region.
Bilateral agreements of the 1950s
The United States started building its diplomatic relations in the Asia-Pacific region with the Philippines, its former territory. It moved to sign a Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines in August 1951. Thereafter in September 1951, the United States established the Security Treaty with Australia and New Zealand and at the San Francisco Conference, signed the Security Treaty with Japan. Following this, the Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of Korea was established in October 1953, as well as the Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of China in December 1954. Later on, the United States signed a communiqué with Thailand, not a Defense Treaty, in March 1962. With these agreements, the United States was able to construct the hub-and-spokes system.
Victor Cha explains the reason for the United States’s choice for a bilateral structure with the powerplay theory. The underlying idea came from the domino theory – that if one nation falls into communism others will follow. He defines powerplay as 'the construction of an asymmetric alliance designed to exert maximum control over the smaller allies in the region that might engage in aggressive behavior against adversaries that could entrap the Unite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis%20of%20Justice%3A%20Concert%20Series%20Volume%201 | Axis of Justice: Concert Series Volume 1 is a live CD/DVD by various artists in support of the Axis of Justice organization.
Track listing
Audio: (Excerpts from The Axis Of Justice radio network)
Interview with Michael Moore
Interview with Janeane Garofalo
Rants and raves with Serj And Tom
Personnel
CD
1. Where the Streets Have No Name
Performed By:
Flea (Bass)
Brad Wilk (Drums)
Tom Morello (Acoustic Guitar)
Pete Yorn (Guitar/Vocals)
Tim Walker (Electric guitar)
Serj Tankian (Vocals)
Maynard James Keenan (Vocals)
Jonny Polonksy (Keyboards)
2. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Performed By:
Chris Cornell
Maynard James Keenan
3. Alice in My Fantasies
Performed By:
Flea (Bass)
Brad Wilk (Drums)
Tom Morello (Guitar)
Pete Yorn (Guitar)
Serj Tankian (Vocals)
4. Piano Improvisation
Performed By:
Serj Tankian
5. Charades
Performed By:
Serj Tankian (Vocals/Piano)
6. Until the End
Performed By:
The Nightwatchman
7. I Feel Good Again
Performed By:
Pete Yorn (Vocals/Guitar)
Simon Petty (Acoustic Guitar)
Tim Walker (Lead Guitar/Pedal Steel)
Malcolm Cross (Drums/Percussion/Piano)
Sid Jordan (Bass/Piano)
Joe Mora (Guitar)
8. Get Up, Stand Up
Performed By:
Serj Tankian (Vocals)
Tom Morello (Guitar/Vocals)
Wayne Kramer (Guitar/Vocal)
Flea (Bass)
John Dolmayan (Drums)
9. Union Song
Performed By:
The Nightwatchman
10. (Free Jam)
Performed By:
Flea (Bass)
Brad Wilk (Drums)
Serj Tankian (Piano)
11. What's Golden
Performed By:
Jurassic 5
12. Freedom
Performed By:
Jurassic 5
13. Speak on It
Performed By:
Knowledge
Serj Tankian
14. Chimes of Freedom
Performed By:
Tom Morello (Guitar/Vocals)
Serj Tankian (Piano/Vocals)
Pete Yorn (Guitar/Vocals)
Flea (Bass)
Brad Wilk (Drums)
15. Jeffrey Are You Listening?
Performed By:
Serj Tankian (Words/Melodica)
Tom Morello (Guitars)
Brad Wilk (Drums)
Brian O'Conner (Bass)
Tracks 1, 3-7, 9-14 Recorded live at Axis Of Justice Concert Series at The Avalon, Hollywood, CA, by Howard Karp and assisted by Ronny Mikkelsen on 7/19/04
Track 2 Recorded live @ Lollapalooza, Seattle, WA, on 8/23/03
Track 8 Recorded live @ The Axis Of Justice Concert Series at The Troubadour, Hollywood, CA on 3/31/04 by Bobby Crown
Track 15 Recorded at Serjical Strike Studios, 2004
Produced By Serj Tankian
All Audio Mixed by David Bianco
Street Audio Mixed at Scream Studios, Studio City, CA except Tracks 2, 15 (Mixed at Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, CA)
Assistant Engineer at Scream Studios: Alex "Odd Jobs" Uychocde
5.1 Audio Mixed at Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, CA
Assistant Engineer at Mad Dog Studios: Rafael Serrano
Mastered at Oasis Mastering, Studio City, CA
Mastered by Eddy Schreyer
Art Direction and Design by Brandy Flower
Photograph by Jim Wright, Kevin Estrada, Hampig Koulayan, George Tonikian, Darren Doane
DVD
1. Airplane Skit
Performed By:
Ahmed Ahmed (Spoken Word, Comedian)
2. President Evil
Performed By:
Knowledge (Spoken Word)
3. Speak o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20Encoding%20and%20Transmission%20Standard | The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is a metadata standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The standard is maintained as part of the MARC standards of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation (DLF).
Overview
METS is an XML Schema designed for the purpose of:
Creating XML document instances that express the hierarchical structure of digital library objects.
Recording the names and locations of the files that comprise those objects.
Recording associated metadata. METS can, therefore, be used as a tool for modeling real world objects, such as particular document types.
Depending on its use, a METS document could be used in the role of Submission Information Package (SIP), Archival Information Package (AIP), or Dissemination Information Package (DIP) within the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model.
Digital libraries vs traditional libraries
Maintaining a library of digital objects requires maintaining metadata about those objects. The metadata necessary for successful management and use of digital objects is both more extensive than and different from the metadata used for managing collections of printed works and other physical materials. METS is intended to promote the preservation of, and interoperability between digital libraries.
Where a traditional library may record descriptive metadata regarding a book in its collection, the book will not dissolve into a series of unconnected pages if the library fails to record structural metadata regarding the book's organization, nor will scholars be unable to evaluate the book's worth if the library fails to note, for example, that the book was produced using a Ryobi offset press.
The same cannot be said for a digital library. Without structural metadata, the page image or text files comprising the digital work are of little use, and without technical metadata regarding the digitization process, scholars may be unsure of how accurate a reflection of the original the digital version provides.
However, in a digital library it is possible to create an eBook-like PDF file or TIFF file which can be seen as a single physical book and reflect the integrity of the original.
Flexibility and interoperability
The open flexibility of METS means that there is not a prescribed vocabulary which allows many different types of institutions, with many different document types, to utilize METS. The customization of METS makes it highly functional internally, but creates limitations for interoperability. Interoperability becomes difficult when the exporting and importing institutions have used vocabularies. As a workaround for this problem the creation of institutional profiles has become popular. These profiles document the implementation of METS specific to that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax%20%28TV%20series%29 | Parallax is an Australian children's television series that screened on the Nine Network. It is a 26-episode series funded by the Film Finance Corporation Australia and supported by Lotterywest. The series was filmed in various locations around Perth. These include Kings Park, East Perth, and many beach and South West forest locations.
The series is about a boy named Ben Johnson, who discovers a portal to multiple parallel universes, and explores them with his friends: Francis Short, Melinda Bruce, Una, Due, Tiffany and Mundi as well as newfound sister, Katherine Raddic.
Cast
Main cast
Joshua Marshall-Clarke as Ben Johnson
Gillian Alexy as Katherine Raddic
Caroline Brazier as Veronica Johnson / Betti
David Richardson as Francis Short / Francis Zapmeister
Francoise Sas as Melinda Bruce
Kazimir Sas as Martin Dunkly
Rebecca McCarthy as Fortuna / Una
Genevieve McCarthy as Due
Lauren Williams as Mundi
Luke Hewitt as Jeremy Johnson
Paris Abbott as Tiffany
Igor Sas as Stefan Raddic
David Ngoombujarra as Otto
Rhys van Nek as himself
Guest cast
Faith Clayton as Mrs Irma Dawes
Kristian Barron as Spy Kid
Significant objects and locations
Stave
A kind of baton that most Guardians possess. It has various functions including communication over different worlds to other stave holders, a radio, manipulation of electronic devices and most importantly, the ability to shoot lasers which kill Welkin and Krellicks
Orb
A smooth, white sphere. There is one orb for every world whether it be hidden or in possession of the resident Guardian. When not in its original world, if a person with full Guardian blood touches the orb, whatever happened in the world before the removal of the orb will play like a movie on its surface. When the orb is in its original world the person will be transported to the Reading Room thus the orb being its 'keys'. The orbs also act as a defence to the Welkin and Krellicks hiding the blood of a Guardian.
Reading Room
The central repository of all knowledge of the Parallax. It keeps records of all the bad and good times of the stories and creatures in the Parallax. Although it is not a control room. The weather can't be changed and an election can't be fixed. Also the central hub of all world transportation.
Golden Stave
Only comes into being when a normal stave is taken to the Reading Room. Able to control the "Wheel of Knowledge". Can also manipulate certain times and events to an extent.
Purple Water
The key to Betti's blandishment. Betti pours it into the water supply of a world. It reacts with a person who does not fit into the 17.65% personality average of that world and turns them into water vapour. For example if in Hippie World there is a businessman and he drank the purple water he would be blandished.
Francis Cam
The form of communication through the Parallax. This is started by Techno World Una and Hippie World Francis. It is a link between four worlds, Techno, Forest, Ben's and Hippie World |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20%28TV%20series%29 | Matrix is a Canadian fantasy adventure series that ran for 13 episodes in 1993. The series was broadcast by CTV in Canada, and the USA Network in the United States. The series was rebroadcast in 2000.
Synopsis
The series starred Nick Mancuso as Steven Matrix, a hitman who is killed during a job and sent to a version of Purgatory called The City In-Between. There he is given a choice: to be sent to Hell for all the murders he's committed, or return to Earth and help people. Once alive again, Matrix receives periodic assignments from The City In-Between.
Cast
Phillip JarrettBilly Hicks
Carrie-Anne MossLiz Teel
John VernonNarrator
Production
The central premise of this series may be derived from "Sea of Fire", an episode of the TV series The Equalizer. In that episode, Robert McCall (Edward Woodward's character) attempts to scare a street gang into going straight by taking them to a morgue. There, McCall introduces the gang to one of his friends, a former hit man, who relates a dream he had of standing beside a sea of fire, surrounded by all the people he ever killed.
Episode list
Rebroadcast
In 1999, Carrie-Anne Moss starred in The Matrix, which had no relationship to the television series apart from its title and Moss' involvement. As a result, Matrix was made available for syndication in Canada and the United States.
References
External links
1990s Canadian drama television series
1993 Canadian television series debuts
1993 Canadian television series endings
Fiction about purgatory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabble%20DB | Dabble DB was a web application written using the Seaside web framework which allows users to create database applications using a web browser. A Dabble DB application can import data and export data in a variety of formats. Unlike most traditional relational database systems, it uses a point-and-click interface rather than relying on programming. The system is forgiving of data type issues when importing or entering data.
On June 10, 2010, Dabble DB announced that their parent company, Smallthought Systems, had been acquired by Twitter.
On March 17, 2011, Dabble DB announced that the Dabble DB service would be shut down on May 18, 2011.
On March 31, 2011, Morningstar ran a story about Dabble DB users being thrown a lifeline.
References
External links
Web frameworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%20tantalate%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on lithium tantalate.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its directions.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglia%20%28disambiguation%29 | The term ganglia may refer to:
Plural form of ganglion, a cluster of neurons
Lymph node
Ganglion cyst
Ganglia (software), a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems
See also
Ganglion (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GemStone/S | GemStone/S is computer software, an application framework that was first available for the programming language Smalltalk as an object database. It is proprietary commercial software.
Company history
GemStone Systems was founded on March 1, 1982, as Servio Logic, to build a database machine based on a set theory model. Ian Huang instigated the founding, as the technology adviser to the CEO of Sampoerna Holdings (Putera Sampoerna), by recruiting the following team, consisting of:
Frank Bouton - President, who was the cofounder of Floating Point Systems Inc
Dr. Michael Mulder - Vice President of Engineering, who was the Group Manager for Advanced Processor Design at Sperry Univac and Principal Architect for the Univac 1180 mainframe
Steve Ivy - Vice President of Operation, who was a senior manager at Tektronix
Leonard Yuen - Vice President, Business Development, who was the Development Manager for the IBM DB2 database
Dr. George Copeland - Chief Architect, who was the Senior Staff Engineer at the Advanced Development Group in Tektronix
Steve Redfield - Chief Engineer, who was the Chief Engineer for the Intel 80286 microprocessor
Alan Purdy - who was a Staff Engineer at Tektronix
Bob Bretl - who was a software engineering manager at Tektronix Signal Processing Systems
Allen Otis - who was also with Tektronix
John Telford - who was a software engineering manager from Electro Scientific Industries
Monty Williams
Servio Logic was renamed GemStone Systems, Inc. in June 1995. The firm developed its first hardware prototype in 1982, and shipped its first software product (GemStone 1.0) in 1986. The engineering group resides in Beaverton, Oregon. Three of the original cofounding engineers, Bob Bretl, Allen Otis, and Monty Williams (now retired), have been with the firm since its start.
GemStone's owners pioneered implementing distributed computing in business systems. Many information system features now associated with Java EE were implemented earlier in GemStone. GemStone and VisualWave were an early web application server platform. (VisualWave and VisualWorks are now owned by Cincom.) GemStone played an important sponsorship role in the Smalltalk Industry Council at the time when IBM was backing VisualAge Smalltalk. As of 2005, Instantiations acquired the world-wide rights to the IBM VisualAge Smalltalk product and has rebranded it as the VAST (VA Smalltalk) Platform.
After a major transition, GemStone for Smalltalk continued as GemStone/S and various C++ and Java products for scalable, multitier architecture distributed computing systems evolved into the GemStone/J product. This in turn gave rise to GemFire, an early example of a Data Fabric for complex event processing (CEP), event stream processing (ESP), data virtualization, and distributed caching.
On May 6, 2010, SpringSource, a division of VMware, announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GemStone.
On May 2, 2013, GemTalk Systems acquired the GemStone/S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Sham | Brad Michael Sham (born August 16, 1949) is an American sportscaster who is known as the "Voice of the Dallas Cowboys". Sham is currently the play-by-play announcer on the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network.
Biography
Sham has been with the Cowboys since 1976, when he was hired to be their color analyst alongside play-by-play man Verne Lundquist. Sham also held the position of Sports Director at former Cowboys Radio Network flagship station 1080 AM KRLD between 1976 and 1981. When Lundquist left for CBS in 1984, Sham became the lead play-by-play man, a position he has held ever since (save for three seasons in the mid-1990s). In 2003, Sham wrote Dallas Cowboys: Colorful Tales of America's Greatest Teams (). He also contributes weekly columns to dallascowboys.com. The 2009 season marked Sham's 30th year with the organization; the longest of any broadcaster with the team, albeit not consecutive due to his three-year absence from the club from 1995–97. During his absence from the Cowboys, Sham called Texas Rangers games on the radio with Eric Nadel between 1995 and 1997.
Sham has done NFL play-by-play for the NFL on Westwood One, the NFL on Fox, TNT Sunday Night Football, and the NFL on CBS for one game in 2004. He has also worked games for NFL Europe and the Arena Football League's Dallas Desperados. Sham has extensive experience broadcasting collegiate sports, having done play-by-play for NCAA athletics, most notably the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and college football. He spent over a decade as the radio voice of the Texas Longhorns' football and basketball teams (mostly in the 1980s), which also aired on flagship KRLD and on the Mutual Southwest Radio Network. Sham has been in the booth for 26 Cotton Bowl Classics, calling play-by-play for 25 games and serving as the analyst for one. He has also served as a play-by-play broadcaster for the Big 12 Network basketball Saturdays, as well as for select ESPN Network Big 12 games.
Sham has also worked Major League Soccer games for the Dallas Burn (now FC Dallas) and North American Soccer League games for the Dallas Tornado. He also provided color commentary for ESPN's coverage of the NASL in 1982. He also was part of the crew that covered the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Sham made his acting debut in the 2008 movie, W.
Honors
Sham has won the NSSA Texas Sportscaster of the Year award 11 times and is a member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.
Personal life
Sham is Jewish. Cory Provus, broadcaster for the Minnesota Twins, is his cousin. He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1970. He was a brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. In the 1980s he owned a sporting apparel store named Brad Sham’s Big League Threads.
References
Arena football announcers
1949 births
Living people
American Basketball Association announcers
American radio sports announcers
American television sports announcers
Association football commentators
College basketball an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20user%20interface%20testing | In software engineering, graphical user interface testing is the process of testing a product's graphical user interface (GUI) to ensure it meets its specifications. This is normally done through the use of a variety of test cases.
Test case generation
To generate a set of test cases, test designers attempt to cover all the functionality of the system and fully exercise the GUI itself. The difficulty in accomplishing this task is twofold: to deal with domain size and sequences. In addition, the tester faces more difficulty when they have to do regression testing.
Unlike a CLI (command-line interface) system, a GUI may have additional operations that need to be tested. A relatively small program such as Microsoft WordPad has 325 possible GUI operations. In a large program, the number of operations can easily be an order of magnitude larger.
The second problem is the sequencing problem. Some functionality of the system may only be accomplished with a sequence of GUI events. For example, to open a file a user may first have to click on the File Menu, then select the Open operation, use a dialog box to specify the file name, and focus the application on the newly opened window. Increasing the number of possible operations increases the sequencing problem exponentially. This can become a serious issue when the tester is creating test cases manually.
Regression testing is often a challenge with GUIs as well. A GUI may change significantly, even though the underlying application does not. A test designed to follow a certain path through the GUI may then fail since a button, menu item, or dialog may have changed location or appearance.
These issues have driven the GUI testing problem domain towards automation. Many different techniques have been proposed to automatically generate test suites that are complete and that simulate user behavior.
Most of the testing techniques attempt to build on those previously used to test CLI programs, but these can have scaling problems when applied to GUIs. For example, Finite State Machine-based modeling – where a system is modeled as a finite state machine and a program is used to generate test cases that exercise all states – can work well on a system that has a limited number of states but may become overly complex and unwieldy for a GUI (see also model-based testing).
Planning and artificial intelligence
A novel approach to test suite generation, adapted from a CLI technique involves using a planning system. Planning is a well-studied technique from the artificial intelligence (AI) domain that attempts to solve problems that involve four parameters:
an initial state,
a goal state,
a set of operators, and
a set of objects to operate on.
Planning systems
Planning systems determine a path from the initial state to the goal state by using the operators. As a simple example of a planning problem, given two words and a single operation which replaces a single letter in a word with another, the goal might b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20common%20shading%20algorithms | This article lists common shading algorithms used in computer graphics.
Interpolation techniques
These techniques can be combined with any illumination model:
Flat shading
Gouraud shading
Phong shading
Illumination models
Realistic
The illumination models listed here attempt to model the perceived brightness of a surface or a component of the brightness in a way that looks realistic. Some take physical aspects into consideration, like for example the Fresnel equations, microfacets, the rendering equation and subsurface scattering.
Diffuse reflection
Light that is reflected on a non-metallic and/or a very rough surface gives rise to a diffuse reflection. Models that describe the perceived brightness due to diffuse reflection include:
Lambert
Oren–Nayar (Rough opaque diffuse surfaces)
Minnaert
Specular reflection
Light that is reflected on a relatively smooth surface gives rise to a specular reflection. This kind of reflection is especially strong for metal surfaces. Models that describe the perceived brightness due to specular reflection include:
Phong
Blinn–Phong
Cook–Torrance (microfacets)
Ward anisotropic
Subsurface scattering
Subsurface scattering is an indirect form of reflection where some of the light is transmitted into a semi-transparent material, scattered under the surface and bounced back out again. The light that is not absorbed by the material and bounced out through the surface again gives rise to a diffuse indirect reflection, which will illuminate the surface not only where it is lit, but also in the vicinity of where the light hits, as well as on the other side of thin parts of an object. Most non-metals can transmit light to a certain degree and are therefore affected by this effect. Subsurface scattering models include:
Hanrahan–Krueger model of subsurface scattering
Non-photorealistic
Non-photorealistic illumination models don't attempt to model the perceived brightness of a surface in a realistic way, but focuses expressing certain styles. They are used for example in cartoons, video games, movies or technical illustrations, and include:
Cel shading
Gooch shading
See also
Bidirectional reflectance distribution function
Physically based rendering
Unbiased rendering
Gamma correction
Shading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwicke%20House | Hardwicke House is a seven-episode sitcom produced by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. It was originally produced in the beginning of 1987. It was so negatively received that only the first two episodes were transmitted.
Plot and episode titles
The series is set in the large comprehensive school of the title, the staff of which are as dysfunctional as the pupils. One teacher is a multiple murderer while the deputy headmaster lusts after male pupils. One teacher, Moose Magnusson, is on an extended exchange placement because his own school in Iceland refuses to have him back.
Episode 1 – "The Visit" (24 February 1987)
Episode 2 – "The First Day of Term" (25 February 1987)
Episode 3 – "Interview Day" (scheduled for 4 March 1987)
Episode 4 – "Prize Giving" (scheduled for 11 March 1987)
Episode 5 – "Old Boys" (scheduled for 18 March 1987)
Episode 6 – "An Inspector Calls" (scheduled for 25 March 1987)
Episode 7 – "Passion Play" (scheduled for 1 April 1987)
Production and curtailed broadcast
The series was extensively trailed and also mentioned on the front cover of the TV Times for the week of the first two episodes: a double-length premiere and a regular episode, which were shown on consecutive Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Later episodes were scheduled for subsequent Wednesdays, but the public and press outcry against the series was so great that it was pulled and replaced with repeats of Chance in a Million before the third episode was aired. The decision to pull the show was taken at such short notice that TV Times was unable to change its listings and the Hardwicke House feature.
References
External links
1987 British television series debuts
1987 British television series endings
1987 controversies
1980s British sitcoms
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
Television controversies in the United Kingdom
Television shows produced by Central Independent Television
Television shows set in Nottinghamshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20Regional%20Network | The Michigan Regional Network was an American regional radio network, in operation from 1933 to 1946. It is sometimes referred to as the "Michigan State Network" or the "Michigan Regional Network".
The "Michigan Radio Network" also refers to a modern radio network, unrelated to the original "Michigan Radio Network".
The network consisted of WXYZ: Detroit, WIBM: Jackson, WKZO: Kalamazoo, WJIM: Lansing, WBCM: Bay City, WFDF: Flint, WELL: Battle Creek and WASH-FM-WOOD: Grand Rapids.
The Michigan Regional Network was started by George W. Trendle on January 31, 1933. It was originally intended to become part of the Amalgamated Broadcasting System radio network which was established on September 25, 1933. However, the ABS network launch immediately proved to be a public relations disaster, and Amalgamated went out of business on October 28, 1933.
The Michigan Regional Network was the first to broadcast the Lone Ranger radio series produced by WXYZ, either beginning with, or shortly after its first episode on January 30, 1933. (Sources differ as to when the other stations in the Network began broadcasting WXYZ's Lone Ranger program, some indicate that it was with the first episode while many others indicate an unspecified later date).
The network used telephone lines to connect each station.
Beginning in November 1933, Silvercup Bread (Gordon Baking Company), which sponsored the Lone Ranger program, arranged for WGN, Chicago to broadcast the program. Early in 1934, WOR: New York and WLW: Cincinnati were added.
In September 1934, WOR, WGN, WLW, and WXYZ formalized their relationship with a contract, and the following month, the Mutual Broadcasting System was established.
In 1946, the newly formed American Broadcasting Company purchased the King-Trendle Broadcasting Company and its radio stations for $3.65 million. This sale was for the broadcast facilities (including WOOD, WXYZ and the Michigan Regional Network).
External links
History of Michigan AM Broadcasting
Lone Ranger Broadcast History
1933 establishments in Michigan
Defunct radio networks in the United States
1946 disestablishments in Michigan
Radio stations established in 1933
Radio stations disestablished in 1946
Defunct mass media in Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GESMES/TS | GESMES/TS (GEneric Statistical MESsage for Time Series) is a data model and message format
appropriate for performing standardised exchange of statistical data and related metadata.
It is based on the GESMES message (a UN/CEFACT standard using the EDIFACT syntax).
Its most common use is in the exchange of official statistics.
The data model is optimised to represent multi-dimensional arrays of floating point numerical data where one dimension is time.
The essential design pattern resembles a star schema.
GESMES/TS promotes automation by its ability to explicitly declare the dimensions and allowable metadata fields in a standardised way.
Software can then translate these declarations into a database schema suitable to hold the multi-dimensional data.
This mechanism makes GESMES/TS versatile enough for efficient use in many domains.
The initial name of GESMES/TS was GESMES/CB (GEneric Statistical MESsage for Central Banks),
but has been changed in order to reflect its wider application.
The model and format are maintained under the auspices of the SDMX initiative.
In this context, GESMES/TS is known as SDMX-EDI.
References
SDMX initiative.
SDMX-EDI
A UML Model
GESMES (developed by the EBES EG6 WG1 Group)
GESMES/TS and SDMX on the web site of the European Central Bank
The OECD statistical glossary (entry: “GESMES”)
Information technology management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJENTS | AJENTS (sometimes known as ATS - "Agency Ticket System") is one of the two original computer-based railway ticket issuing systems supplied to travel agencies in Britain. It allows agencies which are not connected to one of the major GDS (Global Distribution System) networks to issue and print railway tickets from a standard personal computer, and submit revenue and accounting data securely to Rail Settlement Plan Ltd for allocation to the appropriate train operating companies.
System details
In contrast to ELGAR, which is fully integrated with all four major GDS systems and provides a complete ticket-issuing, reservation, printing and accounting system and interface, AJENTS is a standalone issuing mechanism, powered by a single software application, that requires only a PC with a dot-matrix printer and special thin card ticket stock.
Having been introduced in the mid-1990s, the PC system requirements for AJENTS are relatively low:
Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0
Processor speed: 300MHz
RAM: 32MB
Hard drive capacity: 1GB
Modem: 56 kbit/s
Dot matrix printer: Epson compatible 24-pin unit with at least an 80-column carriage width. The Epson LQ-300 and LQ-570+ printers have been identified by ATOC as being ideal.
The software works by placing an image of the ticket on the computer's monitor, so that each text field can be filled in via the keyboard before it is printed. A colour monitor of reasonable size (at least 15") is therefore recommended as well, as is a CD-Rom drive (for the software and any update information).
Ticket stock
Fan-fold, partly pre-printed ticket stock is produced on perforated thin card, for use in the dot matrix printers. It has tractor feed holes on detachable perforated strips on both sides. In British Rail days, the form reference of the stock was BR 4403/44; since privatisation, a slightly different layout has been used with code RSP 4404/46. The code is printed near the bottom left corner of the front of the ticket.
Relationship to other systems
AJENTS works with the ISTEL reservation booking system and the RailPlanner journey-planning software. There is no direct link into the Central Reservation System (CRS) for seat reservation bookings, or to the Rail Journey Information Service (RJIS), which was developed for the rail industry in 1998 as the centralised, standard data "hub" for all information relating to journey planning and booking: timetables, fare tables, valid routes, card authorisation and similar. This means that, in most cases, variables such as fares and valid routes have to be checked manually at the time the ticket is booked, usually by using printed manuals and guidebooks. (AJENTS does hold a simple database of the "Top 50" fares for the most popular combinations of origin and destination, however).
There is a system in place for sales and revenue data to be sent automatically to Rail Settlement Plan Ltd, via a secure e-mail address.
The future
ATOC currently provides the AJENTS sys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDMX | SDMX, which stands for Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange, is an international initiative that aims at standardising and modernising ("industrialising") the mechanisms and processes for the exchange of statistical data and metadata among international organisations and their member countries.
The SDMX sponsoring institutions are the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the European Central Bank (ECB), Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Union), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), and the World Bank.
These organisations are the main players at world and regional levels in the collection of official statistics in a large variety of domains (agriculture statistics, economic and financial statistics, social statistics, environment statistics etc.).
The latest version of the SDMX – SDMX 2.1 – was released in May 2011, and was approved by ISO as International Standard (ISO 17369:2013) in 2013.
Technical Standards
SDMX message formats have two basic expressions, SDMX-ML (using XML syntax) and SDMX-EDI (using EDIFACT syntax and based on the GESMES/TS statistical message). The standards also include additional specifications (e.g. registry specification, web services). Version 1.0 of the SDMX standard has been recognised as an ISO standard in 2005. The RDF Data Cube vocabulary implements the cube model underlying SDMX as Linked Data.
See also
Data
Economic statistics
ISO
Metadata
Statistics
UN/EDIFACT and UN/CEFACT
XML
References
External links
SDMX
European Central Bank (SDMX tutorial)
Eurostat SDMX Info Space
RDF Data Cube Vocabulary
Statistical data coding
ISO standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20wire | Private wire systems are localised electricity grids connected to the local distribution networks but linked to privately-owned central plant which produces electricity. This enables them to operate a stand-alone supply in the event of the national grid failing, providing localised energy security. The business case for private wire supply is driven by the fact that off-grid generation generally avoids network charges and statutory costs. Ofgem's "Significant Code Review" in the UK, launched in August 2017, includes private wire supplies within its scope.
References
Electric power distribution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aironet%20ARLAN | ARLAN is a family of both proprietary non-802.11 and 802.11-compliant wireless networking technologies developed and marketed by Aironet Wireless Communications in the 1990s prior to Aironet's acquisition by Cisco Systems. Operating in the 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz ISM bands and offering a nominal 2.0 Mbit/s throughput, the non-802.11 DSSS products competed directly with NCR's WaveLAN technology. After acquisition, the ARLAN lineup was renamed to Cisco Aironet; the non-802.11 products were supported briefly then discontinued.
Hardware
The ARLAN lineup consisted of several offerings:
900 MHz DSSS non-802.11
Half-length ISA card, part number 655-900, RP-TNC connector. Cisco part number 200-001292.
MCA card, part number 670-900, RP-TNC connector
PC card, part number 690-900, large external antenna dongle
900 MHz access point, part number 630-900
900 MHz bridge, part number 640-900
2.4 GHz DSSS non-802.11
Half-length ISA card, part number 655-2400 (later renamed to IC 2200), RP-TNC connector
MCA card, part number 670-2400, RP-TNC connector
PC card, part number 690-2400 (later renamed to PC 2200), large external antenna dongle
2.4 GHz access point, part number 630-2400
2.4 GHz bridge, part number 640-2400
2.4 GHz high-speed bridge, part number BR2040-EE
2.4 GHz FHSS early 802.11 draft D5 compliant
2.4 GHz PC card, part number PC3000
2.4 GHz PC card, part number LM3000
2.4 GHz access point, part number AP3000
Official specifications
External links
Cisco End-Of-Life announcement about pre-acquisition Aironet devices
Wayback machine archive of documentation on an ARLAN backbone built in Latvia
Linux drivers for Aironet ARLAN
Wayback machine archive of the Aironet products webpage
Wireless networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickStart | QuickStart is a loading method used by several different software applications, designed to speed up the loading time of their software. Some load the core files and libraries during computer startup and allows the applications to start more quickly when selected later. QuickStarters typically place an icon in the System Tray. When the full application needs to be loaded, the base components are already in RAM, which significantly reduces load time.
QuickStarters are controversial because they use up RAM even when the application is not open. For this reason, QuickStarters can actually decrease performance as a whole. For example, if six applications load a QuickStarter into the System Tray at 50 megabytes per piece, that is 300 megabytes of RAM that could otherwise be used for working applications. If the user only has 256 megabytes of RAM, this will cause running applications to page to virtual memory and drastically reduce performance. On the other hand, if the user has one gigabyte of RAM, running applications will probably not be paged, and load times for QuickStart applications will be reduced (resulting in higher overall performance). The point from where the user powers on the system and when the system is ready for use will be delayed, as the system must incur a performance penalty in the form of reading the QuickStart applications from the hard drive and additional CPU processing and sub-system usage as the QuickStart application is loaded into memory.
The following are examples of applications which use the QuickStart method:
Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader and Acrobat 3D, though these do not load the programs into memory (since version 7.0) (reader_sl.exe, adobearm.exe)
Java Runtime (jqs.exe)
The Microsoft Office Suite (OSA.exe)
The OpenOffice.org Suite
Apple QuickTime and iTunes (QTTask.exe, iTunesHelper.exe)
Winamp Music Player
QuickStarters are a workaround for the poor performance of hard disk drives (HDDs) which have traditionally been the standard for desktop computers. Solid-state drives (SSDs) have lower latency and faster seek times than HDDs, so there is less need for QuickStarters on SSDs. SSD are slowly becoming more popular on certain types of computers.
In a business setting
In a business setting, a quickstart can also be an informal, often short description of how to accomplish some specific task. It is generally meant to help non-experts, leave out details that are only important to experts, and may also be greatly simplified from an overall discussion of the topic.
See also
Prefetcher from Windows XP
SuperFetch from Windows Vista
References
Booting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Hines | Theodore Christian "Ted" Hines (September 9, 1926 - June 25, 1983) was a Washington, D.C.-born pioneer in the use of microcomputers and microcomputer programs in libraries. He attended undergraduate school at George Washington University and received his Masters of Library Science (MLS) in 1958 and a PhD in 1960 both from Rutgers University. He began his career as a children's librarian, and later became a professor of Library Science at Rutgers, followed by Columbia University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
With his wife, Lois Winkel, he designed an indexing program called the Children’s Media Databank. The program was first constructed on a mainframe computer, and then transferred to a microcomputer for patron use. This program allowed a patron to search for children's books by subject and reading level. A sample search query might be a 3rd grader with a 6th grade reading level on the subject of clouds.
Hines convened the first meeting of the American Society of Indexers (ASI, now American Society for Indexing) in 1968.
The ASI considers him its "founding father", and set up the Theodore C. Hines Award in his honor in 1993.
Publications
"The Crisis in Children's Cataloging" Library Journal (September 15, 1966)
"Computer Filing of Index, Bibliographic, and Catalog Entries" (BroDart, 1966) written with Jessica Harris
"Terminology of Library and Information Science: A Selective Glossary" (Columbia University School of Library Service, 1971).
Translation of Louise-Noelle Malcles' "La Bibliographic" (1961)
References
1926 births
1983 deaths
American librarians
Columbia University faculty
George Washington University alumni
Founders of learned societies
People from Washington, D.C.
Rutgers University alumni
Rutgers University faculty
Place of death missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Museum | "Red Museum" is the tenth episode of the second season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on December 9, 1994. It was written by Chris Carter, directed by Win Phelps, and featured guest appearances by Mark Rolston, Paul Sand, Bob Frazer, and Robert Clothier. The episode helps to explore the series' overarching mythology. "Red Museum" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.4, being watched by 9.9 million households in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
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. In the episode, Mulder and Scully travel to Wisconsin after several teens are found wandering in the woods in their underwear with “He Is One” or “She Is One” scrawled on their backs. However, the duo soon stumble upon a strange cult of vegetarian “walk-ins.”
Originally, the episode was slated to be a crossover episode with the CBS show Picket Fences. However, the networks nixed the idea before any filming could begin. A facet of the episode, that the adherents of the Red Museum believe that the year 2012 will bring about the dawning of The New Age, is later referenced in the series' finale "The Truth", seven seasons later.
Plot
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are called in to investigate a number of kidnappings in Delta Glen, Wisconsin where local teenagers are recovered half-naked and drugged with either the phrase "He is one" or "She is one" written on their backs. Meeting with Sheriff Mazeroski, the agents initially suspect a nearby cult, the Church of the Red Museum, which was founded by vegetarian Richard Odin. Mulder, Scully and Mazeroski attend a ceremony of the Red Museum, causing Mulder to believe that they are walk-ins, people whose souls have been taken over by someone else. One of the kidnap victims claims to have felt an animal spirit enter him.
Katie, the girlfriend of Mazeroski's son Rick, is the latest to be found, and her blood is found to contain an unknown alkaloid substance and high levels of scopolamine, a controlled substance. This appears to link her to Odin, a former doctor. Meanwhile, the agents meet an old man who points to a pair of men injecting growth serum into cattle, which he believes is the cause of the trouble. That night, local doctor Jerrold Larson is killed in a plane crash. An investigation of the site turns up shipping orders that trace back to the kidnapped teens. One of the men injecting the cows is murdered by the Crew Cut Man. The other, a peeping tom named Gerd Thomas, is revealed to be the kidnapper after the agents find a hidden supply of videotapes in the home of one of the victims. Thomas claims that Larson had been turning the children into "monsters" with the drugs he had been injecting in them, which he claims to be unknown.
Meanwhile, Rick is murdered by the Crew Cut Man. Having passed b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition%20for%20the%20International%20Criminal%20Court | The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) is an international network of NGOs, with a membership of over 2,500 organizations worldwide advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC). Coalition NGO members work in partnership to strengthen international cooperation with the ICC; ensure that the court is fair, effective and independent; make justice both visible and universal, and advance stronger national laws that deliver justice to victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. The CICC Secretariat is hosted by the Women's Initiative for Gender Justice and it is based in The Hague.
History
The coalition was founded in 1995 by a small group of NGOs that coordinated their work to ensure the establishment of an international criminal court. The founders, decided to house the Secretariat of the movement with the World Federalist Movement, and Mr. William Pace, at that time Director of the WFM, was appointed Convenor for the Coalition.
Since then, the coalition's membership has progressively increased as its original goal of establishing the ICC grew to include the larger goal of guaranteeing the court's fair, effective and independent functioning. Over the years, the coalition secretariat and its global membership have worked together at every stage of the court's development from the preparatory committees for the establishment of the court, to the Rome Conference that established the court to the annual Assembly of States Parties meetings. Milestones in the coalition's work include the participation in and monitoring of the 1998 Rome Conference, resulting in the adoption of the Rome Statute of the ICC; the statute's rapid entry into force on July 1, 2002; and the election of the court's senior officials, completed in June 2003. The role of the coalition was recognized by the Assembly of States Parties when it adopted a resolution entitled Recognition of the coordinating and facilitating role of the NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court (ICC-ASP/2/Res.8) during its second session in September 2003.
In 2019, Mr. William Pace stepped down as CICC Convenor after almost 25 years. The Steering Committee of the Coalition appointed Ms. Melinda Reed (Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice), as the Acting Convenor, until a new Convenor is appointed by the membership of the movement.
Profile
Steering committee
A core group of well-known and respected NGOs form the Steering Committee of the Coalition, which provide policy and program coherence for the Coalition’s efforts and activities. Adapting and adjusting to political developments, the Steering Committee helps guide the work of the coalition's secretariat, serving as an advisory body not only to provide global policy coherence, but to ensure cooperation and provide crucial strategic oversight. Each of these organisations has its own ICC programs, staff and resources.
Steering committee members include:
Amnesty Intern |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spider-Man%20%281994%20TV%20series%29%20episodes | Spider-Man, also known as Spider-Man: The Animated Series, is an American animated television series based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name. The show ran on the Fox Kids Network for five seasons, consisting of 65 episodes, from November 19, 1994, to January 31, 1998. The series also aired in syndication on Fox Family Channel, Toon Disney and ABC Family. As of 2021, it is available to stream on the paid service Disney+.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1994–95)
Season 2 (1995–96)
Each individual title had the "Neogenic Nightmare" chapter prefix to it.
Season 3 (1996)
Each individual title had "The Sins of the Fathers" chapter prefix to it.
Season 4 (1997)
Each individual title had the "Partners in Danger" chapter prefix to it.
Season 5 (1997–98)
This season has four main story arcs: "Six Forgotten Warriors" (episodes 2 to 6), "The Return of Hydro-Man" (episodes 7 to 8) "Secret Wars" (episodes 9 to 11) and "Spider Wars" (episodes 12 and 13).
Notes
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External links
Episodes
Lists of Spider-Man television series episodes
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Caron | Tom Caron (born November 18, 1963) is a sportscaster and anchor on New England's NESN network.
Background
Caron is a graduate of Lewiston High School in Maine and Saint Michael's College in Vermont, where he majored in journalism.
After graduating, Caron took a job with a small newspaper in Vermont covering the Vermont Reds, Cincinnati's AA affiliate. He quickly left that job to take a job with WPTZ-TV in Plattsburgh, New York, where he covered the Montreal Canadiens and Montreal Expos. He later held a sports anchor job at WNNE-TV in Hanover, New Hampshire.
In 1988, he took a sports anchor job at WGME-TV in Portland, Maine, where he stayed for five years. In addition to his anchor duties, he hosted a weekly ski segment and produced a number of half-hour sports specials.
In 1993, he left WGME-TV to work as a sports reporter at WPXT-TV in Portland, where he also hosted a weekly hockey feature. Caron also provided play-by-play coverage for the Portland Pirates as well as the New England Stingers of Roller Hockey International.
NESN
Caron joined NESN in 1995, and has been with the network ever since. His first job for the network was hosting the sports magazine Front Row. He later served as the station's Boston Bruins studio host and Red Sox field reporter, and also did play-by-play coverage for the Providence Bruins and Pawtucket Red Sox, as well as college basketball and college hockey (including the Beanpot).
Caron currently hosts the New England Sports Network's (NESN) Red Sox coverage, including the Red Sox pre- and postgame shows. During the baseball off-season, he serves as host of The Instigators, a weekly roundtable discussion of issues surrounding the NHL, and is the play-by-play announcer for the network's Hockey East broadcasts as well as The Beanpot.
Caron writes a weekly sports column for the Tuesday edition of the Portland Press Herald, mostly pertaining to the Red Sox, Bruins, and New England Patriots.
He also makes frequent guest appearances on sports talk radio station WEEI-FM to discuss the Boston Red Sox, and makes weekly appearances on 102.9 WBLM-FM ("The Blimp") and 101.3 WCPV-FM ("The Game") in Burlington, Vermont.
While reporting during a March 2023 spring training game for the Boston Red Sox, on NESN, a cat ran onto the field and into the home team dugout, where it jumped at him.
Personal life
Caron lives in Framingham, Massachusetts with his wife Kelley and their two sons Jack and Robbie.
He is often called "TC" by his NESN co-workers.
Awards
Caron has won three New England Emmy Awards, a New York State Broadcasters Award, two James Ellery Awards (given for excellence in covering the American Hockey League), and the ECAC Media Award. On March 29, 2014, Caron was inducted into the Portland Pirates Hall of Fame along with former Bruins goaltender Byron Dafoe, former Washington Capitals goaltender Olaf Kolzig, and Nashville Predators coach Barry Trotz. On October 2, 2018, Tom was the 27th recipient of the Hock |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTAR%20%28AM%29 | KTAR (620 kHz) is an AM commercial radio station licensed to Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Owned and operated by Bonneville International, it currently features a sports format airing programming from ESPN Radio. The studios are located in north Phoenix near Piestewa Peak, and the station broadcasts with 5,000 watts from a transmitter site near the corner of 36th Street and Thomas Road.
KTAR was established in 1922 as KFAD, owned by the McArthur brothers, and became one of just two stations in Phoenix (alongside KOY) from the early 1920s through 1940. It was purchased by The Arizona Republican (soon renamed the Arizona Republic) in 1929 and adopted its present call sign in January 1930 as part of a major overhaul. From the 1930s for several decades, KTAR was the key NBC radio affiliate in the state. Its program director, John Howard Pyle, jumped from radio to politics and served two terms as Governor of Arizona. KTAR, which added a television station (KVAR, later KTAR-TV) in 1954 and an FM radio station in 1960, grew into one of the most important broadcasters in the state. After dropping music programming in 1973 to focus on news, talk, sports, and information, it consolidated itself as the leading station of its kind in Phoenix under the ownership of Combined Communications Corporation and Pulitzer Broadcasting; Bonneville has owned KTAR since 2004.
While KTAR today primarily broadcasts network programming and live sports overflow, its local programming was spun out in two stages onto the FM band. In 2006, KTAR-FM (92.3) began airing all of KTAR's news and talk programming, and the AM station adopted a full-time sports format. KPKX (98.7 FM) was flipped from music to become KMVP-FM "Arizona Sports" in January 2014, allowing the AM station to become a full-time ESPN Radio outlet and moving local sports talk programming to FM. As Bonneville holds the radio broadcast rights to most major professional and college sports in Phoenix, KTAR carries games in the event of scheduling conflicts and, in the case of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals, as a simulcast with KMVP-FM.
History
Early history
Effective December 1, 1921, the United States Department of Commerce, in charge of radio at the time, adopted a regulation formally establishing a broadcasting station category, which set aside the wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz) for entertainment broadcasts and 485 meters (619 kHz) for farm market and weather reports. On June 21, 1922, the McArthur Brothers Mercantile Company, at 134 South Central Avenue in Phoenix, was issued a license for a new station on the shared 360-meter "entertainment" wavelength. The station's call letters, KFAD, were randomly assigned from an alphabetical roster of available call signs. KFAD was the third broadcasting station licensed in the state of Arizona and, as KTAR, is the oldest surviving one. The original station was built by Arthur Anderson, who would remain with KFAD and later KTAR until his death in 1956 and along the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenMAPP | GenMAPP (Gene Map Annotator and Pathway Profiler) is a free, open-source bioinformatics software tool designed to visualize and analyze genomic data in the context of pathways (metabolic, signaling), connecting gene-level datasets to biological processes and disease. First created in 2000, GenMAPP is developed by an open-source team based in an academic research laboratory. GenMAPP maintains databases of gene identifiers and collections of pathway maps in addition to visualization and analysis tools. Together with other public resources, GenMAPP aims to provide the research community with tools to gain insight into biology through the integration of data types ranging from genes to proteins to pathways to disease.
History
GenMAPP was first created in 2000 as a prototype software tool in the laboratory of Bruce Conklin at the J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco and continues to be developed in the same non-profit, academic research environment. The first release version of GenMAPP 1.0 was available in 2002, supporting analysis of DNA microarray data from human, mouse, rat and yeast. In 2004, GenMAPP 2.0 was released, combining the previously accessory programs MAPPFinder and MAPPBuilder, and expanding support to additional species. GenMAPP 2.1 was released in 2006 with new visualization features and support for a total of eleven species.
Usage
GenMAPP was developed by biologists and is focused on pathway visualization for bench biologists. Unlike many other computational systems biology tools, GenMAPP is not designed for cell/systems modeling; it focuses on the immediate needs of bench biologists by enabling them to rapidly interpret genomic data with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.
GenMAPP is implemented in Visual Basic 6.0 and is available as a stand-alone application for Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Boot Camp or Parallels Workstation on a Mac.
Content and Features
GenMAPP builds and maintains gene databases for a variety of key model organisms:
human - Homo sapiens
mouse - Mus musculus
rat - Rattus norvegicus
yeast - Saccharomyces cerevisiae
zebrafish - Danio rerio
worm - Caenorhabditis elegans
fruit fly - Drosophila melanogaster
dog - Canis familiaris
cow - Bos taurus
mosquito - Anopheles gambiae
E.coli - Escherichia coli
GenMAPP provides tools to create, edit and annotate biological pathway maps.
GenMAPP allows users to visualize and analyze their data in the context of pathway collections and the Gene Ontology.
See also
WikiPathways
Cytoscape
Ensembl
KEGG
Netpath
Reactome
Gene Ontology
References
External links
GenMAPP – Data Links
Cytoscape
PathVisio
WikiPathways
Bioinformatics software
Free science software
Systems biology
Windows-only free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CacheFS | CacheFS is the name used for several similar software technologies designed to speed up distributed file system file access for networked computers. These technologies operate by storing (cached) copies of files on secondary memory, typically a local hard disk, so that if a file is accessed again, it can be done locally at much higher speeds than networks typically allow.
CacheFS software is used on several Unix-like operating systems. The original Unix version was developed by Sun Microsystems in 1993. Another version was written for Linux and released in 2003.
Network filesystems are dependent on a network link and a remote server; obtaining a file from such a filesystem can be significantly slower than getting the file locally. For this reason, it can be desirable to cache data from these filesystems on a local disk, thus potentially speeding up future accesses to that data by avoiding the need to go to the network and fetch it again. The software has to check that the remote file has not changed since it was cached, but this is much faster than reading the whole file again.
Prior art
Sprite used large disk block caches. These were located in main-memory to achieve high performance in its file system. The term CacheFS has found little or no use to describe caches in main memory.
Grossmont version
The first CacheFS implementation, in 6502 assembler, was a write through cache developed by Mathew R Mathews at Grossmont College. It was used from fall 1986 to spring 1990 on three diskless 64 kB main memory Apple IIe computers to cache files from a Nestar file server onto Big Board, a 1 MB DRAM secondary memory device partitioned into CacheFS and TmpFS. The computers ran Pineapple DOS, an Apple DOS 3.3 derivative developed in the course of a follow on to WR Bornhorst's NSF funded Instructional Computing System. Pineapple DOS features, including caching, were unnamed; the name CacheFS was introduced seven years later by Sun Microsystems.
Sun version
The first Unix CacheFS implementation was developed by Sun Microsystems and released in the Solaris 2.3 operating system release in 1993, as part of an expanded feature set for the NFS or Network File System suite known as Open Network Computing Plus (ONC+). It was subsequently used in other UNIX operating systems such as IRIX (starting with the 5.3 release in 1994).
Linux version
Linux operating systems now commonly use a new version of CacheFS developed by David Howells. Howells appears to have rewritten CacheFS from scratch, not using Sun's original code.
The Linux CacheFS currently is designed to operate on Andrew File System and Network File System (NFS) filesystems.
Terminology
Because of its similar naming to FS-Cache, CacheFS' terminology is confusing to outsiders. CacheFS is a backend for FS-Cache and handles the actual data storage and retrieval. FS-Cache passes the requests from netfs to CacheFS.
FS-Cache
The cache facility/layer between the cache backends just like CacheFS and |
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