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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Monkey%20Suit
"The Monkey Suit" is the twenty-first and penultimate episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 14, 2006. In the episode, Ned Flanders is shocked after seeing a new display at the museum about evolution. Together with Reverend Lovejoy, he spreads the religious belief of creationism in Springfield, and at a later town meeting, teaching evolution is made illegal. As a result, Lisa decides to hold secret classes for people interested in evolution. However, she is quickly arrested and a trial against her is initiated. J. Stewart Burns wrote "The Monkey Suit", for which he received inspiration from the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. The episode features a few references to this legal case, as well as several references to popular culture. Many analysts have commented on the episode's treatment of the creation–evolution controversy, a dispute about the origin of humanity between those who support a creationist view based upon their religious beliefs, versus those who accept evolution, as supported by scientific evidence. Critics have given the episode generally positive reviews, praising it for its satire of the creation-evolution debate. "The Monkey Suit" has won an award from the Independent Investigations Group (IIG) for being "one of those rare shows in the media that encourage science, critical thinking, and ridicule those shows that peddle pseudoscience and superstition." In 2007, a scene from the episode was highlighted in the scientific journal Nature. Plot Lisa decides to bring the family to the museum to see a weaving exhibit for her summer vacation, but they soon discover that it has been replaced by a "History of Weapons" exhibit, sponsored by Kellogg's. Faced with an incredibly long line, Homer notices Ned Flanders and his sons at the front of the line and cuts in front of them. Everyone else starts taking advantage of Ned’s kindness as well until the Flanders family is stuck at the end. At the end of the day, they are still waiting, and are denied entry, as it is closing time for the weapons exhibit. They decide to check out the human evolution exhibit next door. Ned is outraged to hear that humans actually evolved from apes and that the creation account in the Genesis is therefore a myth. Covering his sons' eyes, he forcefully drags them out of the exhibit. Ned meets up with the church council to suggest promotion of creationism. The next day, he and Reverend Lovejoy blackmail Principal Skinner into introducing creationism in the school. Lisa is perturbed by this, and at a town meeting asks everyone to make a choice between creationism and Darwinism, as there is only one truth. The townspeople vote for creationism, much to her chagrin, and the act of teaching or learning Darwinism and evolution is made illegal. Lisa therefore decides to start holding secret classes for people interested in evolution. However, just as the fir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regarding%20Margie
"Regarding Margie" is the twentieth episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 7, 2006. In this episode, Marge gets amnesia and fails to remember Homer. Plot To earn money, Bart and his friends Milhouse and Nelson go around the neighborhood spray-painting people's addresses on their curbs and making them pay for the unsolicited service. This works on Moe and Ned Flanders, but when Homer does not pay them, they leave with only the first two digits painted. The following day, a mail carrier brings Homer and Marge the wrong mail after reading their curb. Homer receives steaks and an invitation to a wedding, while Marge gets a letter claiming that she has won a contest, with the prize being a maid cleaning her house for a day. Fearing that she will be judged for having a dirty house, Marge cleans until it is spotless, except for a small stain on the kitchen floor. She combines all of her different cleaners, but passes out from the fumes and hits her head on a stool. Marge wakes up in the hospital and is told that she has amnesia, and does not remember her family. When she returns home, the environment quickly jogs her memory of her children, in addition to Flanders and Milhouse. Homer is still a stranger to her due to her mind blocking out an unpleasant memory. Homer tries to remind Marge who he is, but she is disturbed and disgusted instead and forces him out of the house. Patty and Selma take Marge to a speed dating event, and she meets a man who shares her interests. When Marge tells him that she has amnesia and three kids, he immediately leaves. Homer scolds the man for leaving her, saying that she is the most beautiful woman he will ever meet. Marge tells Homer that even though she may not remember him, he knows the most wonderful things about her. As they drive back home, Homer mentions beer, and she suddenly remembers him through his alcoholic tendencies. Production Former baseball players Sal Bando and Gene Tenace appeared as themselves. They were depicted as members of the 1974 Oakland Athletics. Bando recorded his lines in Milwaukee while Tenace recorded his lines in Bend, Oregon. Producer Tim Long directed Tenace and named his line as one of his favorites. References External links The Simpsons (season 17) episodes 2006 American television episodes Television episodes about amnesia Cultural depictions of George W. Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation%20index
The fixation index (FST) is a measure of population differentiation due to genetic structure. It is frequently estimated from genetic polymorphism data, such as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) or microsatellites. Developed as a special case of Wright's F-statistics, it is one of the most commonly used statistics in population genetics. Its values range from 0 to 1, with 0.15 being substantially differentiated and 1 being complete differentiation. Interpretation This comparison of genetic variability within and between populations is frequently used in applied population genetics. The values range from 0 to 1. A zero value implies complete panmixis; that is, that the two populations are interbreeding freely. A value of one implies that all genetic variation is explained by the population structure, and that the two populations do not share any genetic diversity. For idealized models such as Wright's finite island model, FST can be used to estimate migration rates. Under that model, the migration rate is , where is the migration rate per generation, and is the mutation rate per generation. The interpretation of FST can be difficult when the data analyzed are highly polymorphic. In this case, the probability of identity by descent is very low and FST can have an arbitrarily low upper bound, which might lead to misinterpretation of the data. Also, strictly speaking FST is not a distance in the mathematical sense, as it does not satisfy the triangle inequality. For populations of plants which clearly belong to the same species, values of FST greater than 15% are considered "great" or "significant" differentiation, while values below 5% are considered "small" or "insignificant" differentiation. Values for mammal populations between subspecies, or closely related species, typical values are of the order of 5% to 20%. FST between the Eurasian and North American populations of the gray wolf were reported at 9.9%, those between the Red wolf and Gray wolf populations at between 17% and 18%. The Eastern wolf, a recently recognized highly admixed "wolf-like species" has values of FST below 10% in comparison with both Eurasian (7.6%) and North American gray wolves (5.7%), with the Red wolf (8.5%), and an even lower value when paired with the Coyote (4.5%). Definition Two of the most commonly used definitions for FST at a given locus are based on 1) the variance of allele frequencies among populations, and on 2) the probability of identity by descent. If is the average frequency of an allele in the total population, is the variance in the frequency of the allele among different subpopulations, weighted by the sizes of the subpopulations, and is the variance of the allelic state in the total population, FST is defined as Wright's definition illustrates that FST measures the amount of genetic variance that can be explained by population structure. This can also be thought of as the fraction of total diversity that is not a consequence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%2C%201956
This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1956. This listing is the complete, 40 items, "Partial Dataset" as listed on www.legislation.gov.uk (as at March 2014). Statutory Instruments The Coal Industry (Superannuation Scheme) (Winding Up, No. 10) Regulations 1956 SI 1956/248 The Airways Corporations (General Staff Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1956 SI 1956/305 The Pupils' Registration Regulations 1956 SI 1956/357 The Prevention of Damage by Pests (Application to Shipping) (Amendment No. 2) Order 1956 SI 1956/420 The Sheriffs' Fees (Amendment) Order 1956 SI 1956/502 (L. 5) The Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) Order 1956 SI 1956/619 The Civil Service Commission (Fees) Order 1956 SI 1956/674 The National Insurance (Modification of the London Transport and Railway Pension Schemes) Regulations 1956 SI 1956/732 The Seal Fisheries (Crown Colonies and Protectorates) (Amendment) Order in Council 1956 SI 1956/838 The Foreign Compensation Commission Rules 1956 SI 1956/962 The Double Taxation Relief (Estate Duty) (India) Order 1956 SI 1956/998 The Administration of Justice Act (Commencement) Order, 1956 SI 1956/1065 The Navy and Marines (Property of Deceased) Order 1956 SI 1956/1217 The Visiting Forces (Designation) (Colonies) (Amendment) Order, 1956 SI 1956/1368 The Mines and Quarries Act, 1954 (Commencement) Order, 1956 SI 1956/1530 The Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Refugees) Order 1956 SI 1956/1698 The Governors' Pensions (Commutation) Order 1956 SI 1956/1736 The Coal and Other Mines (General Duties and Conduct) Order 1956 SI 1956/1761 The Coal and Other Mines (Ventilation) Order 1956 SI 1956/1764 The Coal and Other Mines (Safety-Lamps and Lighting) Order 1956 SI 1956/1765 The Coal and Other Mines (Fire and Rescue) Order 1956 SI 1956/1768 The Coal Mines (Precautions against Inflammable Dust) Order 1956 SI 1956/1769 The Coal and Other Mines (Locomotives) Order 1956 SI 1956/1771 The Coal and Other Mines (Sidings) Order 1956 SI 1956/1773 The Coal and Other Mines (Sanitary Conveniences) Order 1956 SI 1956/1776 The Coal and Other Mines (Horses) Order 1956 SI 1956/1777 The Miscellaneous Mines Order 1956 SI 1956/1778 The Miscellaneous Mines (Electricity) Order 1956 SI 1956/1779 The Quarries Order 1956 SI 1956/1780 The Quarries (Electricity) Order 1956 SI 1956/1781 The Census of Distribution (1958) (Restriction on Disclosure) Order, 1956 SI 1956/1860 The Greenwich Hospital School (Regulations) (Amendment) Order, 1956 SI 1956/1894 The Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) (New Zealand) Order 1956 SI 1956/1895 The Coal Mines (Cardox and Hydrox) Regulations 1956 SI 1956/1942 The Stratified Ironstone, Shale and Fireclay Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1956 SI 1956/1943 The Mines (Manner of Search for Smoking Materials) Order 1956 SI 1956/2016 The Visiting Forces (Designation) Order 1956 SI 1956/2041 The Visiting Forces (Military Cou
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%2C%20Berlin
Berlin, Berlin is a television series produced for the ARD. It aired in Germany from 2002 to 2005 Tuesdays through Fridays at 18:50 on the German public TV network Das Erste. The show won both national and international awards. A sequel film, Berlin, Berlin, was released on Netflix on May 8, 2020. Plot The series tells the story of Lolle (played by Felicitas Woll) who, after finishing school, follows her boyfriend, Tom, from Malente to Berlin. Once there, she discovers that Tom has been cheating on her with another girl. Rather than move back home, Lolle decides to stay in Berlin with her cousin, Sven (played by Jan Sosniok), his best friends Hart (Matthias Klimsa) and Rosalie (Sandra Borgmann). At the end of season one Lolle and Sven fall in love with each other, even though they are second cousins. Their grandparents were siblings, as is revealed in the first episode when Daniel, Sven's son, asks Lolle how she is related to him. Before getting into a relationship with Lolle, Sven instead decides to go back to his former wife, Silvia, because of Daniel. Season one also follows Lolle's relationship with the ex-girlfriend, Rosalie, of Tom's new girlfriend. At the end of season one, Rosalie, an actress, leaves Germany to go to the USA and pursue a new life. At the beginning of season two Lolle, desperate after losing Sven to Silvia and Rosalie's departure to the USA, she finds a new friend with Rosalie's former girlfriend, Sara (Rhea Harder). At first Lolle wants to convince Sven to love her, but he seems to be undecided and is unsure of what he should do. She then meets Alex, an art student, and they become a couple. Sven separates from Silvia once more, however, and is now free to be with Lolle, but she replies that she should stay with Alex. At the end of season two, she realizes that she loves Sven too, and attempts being with both Sven and Alex. Hart also begins to acknowledge his love for Sarah, and after a series of problems, they get together. Cast Episodes Series One (2002) Landflucht (Pilot) Wie bekomme ich meinen Freund zurück Happy Birthday, Lolle Auf der Flucht Rotalarm Ich will Sandra Bullock massieren Selbstversuch All you need is love Träume Lolle und der Traumprinz Nicht ganz koscher Die Geliebte Singles Dr. Strangelove Lesbe sein dagegen sehr Küssen, küssen, küssen Lolle gegen Fatman Ich bin nicht nett Beste Freunde Taddi und Mr. Psycho Cousin und Cousine Extremsitutionen ... Martha Überraschungen Eine Million Positiv ist negativ Series Two (2003) Lolle allein in Berlin Frisch verheiratet Cinderello Froschkönige Höllendate Männer sind auch nur Menschen Malente, Malente Eltern, früher oder später kriegen sie dich Looking for Beinlich Nicht fair Wer liebt Fatman? Big and Beautiful Kairo That's the way Ex und hopp Spieglein, Spieglein Gegen die Uhr 20 Minuten Ich lieb dich nicht - du liebst mich nicht Aha Series Three (2004) Sven oder Alex? Alex oder Sven Nimm Zwei Nicht g
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage%20map
Coverage maps are designed to indicate the service areas of radiocommunication transmitting stations. Typically these may be produced for radio or television stations, for mobile telephone networks and for satellite networks. Such maps are alternatively known as propagation maps. For satellite networks, a coverage map is often known as a footprint. Definition of coverage Typically a coverage map will indicate the area within which the user can expect to obtain good reception of the service in question using standard equipment under normal operating conditions. Additionally, the map may also separately denote supplementary service areas where good reception may be obtained but other stations may be stronger, or where the reception may be variable but the service may still be usable. Technical details The field strength that the marked service boundary on a coverage map represents will be defined by whoever produces the map, but typical examples are as follows: VHF(FM) / Band II For VHF(FM) / Band II, the BBC defines the service area boundary for stereo services as corresponding to an average field strength of 54 dB (relative to 1 µV/m) at a height of 10 m above ground level. For mono it is 48 dB (relative to 1 µV/m). The receiving antenna height of 10m dates from the 1950s when receivers were relatively insensitive and used rooftop antennas. Although this may seem unrealistic for typical situations today, when combined with the above threshold it is considered a good proxy for providing coverage to more sensitive modern receivers used without external rooftop antennas. MF / Mediumwave For MF / Mediumwave, the BBC defines the daytime service area boundary as a minimum field strength of 2 mV/m. At night, the service area of mediumwave services can be drastically reduced by co-channel interference from distant stations. Limitations Often coverage maps show general coverage for large regions and therefore any boundary indicated should not be interpreted as a rigid limit. The biggest cause of uncertainty for a coverage map is the quality (mainly sensitivity) of receiving apparatus used. A coverage map may be produced to indicate the area in which a certain signal strength is delivered. Even if it is 100% accurate (which it never is), a major factor on whether a signal is receivable depends very much on whether the receiving apparatus is sensitive enough to use a signal of that level. Commercial receivers can vary widely in their sensitivity, thus perception of coverage can vary widely. The quality of reception can be very different at places only short distances apart, and this phenomenon is more apparent as the transmission frequency increases. Inevitably small pockets of poor reception may exist within the main service area that cannot be shown on the map due to scale issues. Conversely, the use of sensitive equipment, high gain antennas, or simply being located on high ground can yield good signal strengths well outside the indica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii%20Kon
Kawaii Kon is an anime convention geared towards Japanese animation and comics held in the Honolulu area. Programming Kawaii Kon currently has AMV and anime screenings; industry, fan, and guest panels; Hall Cosplay contests, Masquerade/Cosplay Competitions, Art Shows, Artist Alley Contests, Concerts, Dances, and Karaoke, along with Video and Role Playing games, autographs, and a Dealer's Room. History Kawaii Kon was founded by Gamers Evolution Expo, LLC., a company started by Stan Dahlin, Marlon Stodghill and Scott Richardson. Dahlin is a Hawaii native himself, who was at the time based out of Atlanta, Georgia. As for why they decided to bring an anime convention to Hawaii, taken from the website: "Being a transplanted local boy living far away from home for a better part of a decade or more, I'm very proud to be hosting this show in my home state. You ask why? A number of reasons but to simply state it.... I love anime!" Kawaii Kon was the first anime convention to be held in Hawaii. Local support for the convention by fans in the event's first year resulted in a surprising attendance level that surpassed the staff's expectations. Kawaii Kon 2020 was moved from May to August due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was later cancelled. Comic Con Honolulu and Kawaii Kon were going to combine for the August 2020 event, until it was cancelled. Kawaii Kon 2021 was moved from April to November due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was also later cancelled. Kawaii Kon held an online event on May 29-30, 2021. Comic Con Honolulu and Kawaii Kon combined for the 2022 event. Event history Pictures References External links Kawaii Kon Website Anime conventions in the United States Recurring events established in 2005 2005 establishments in Hawaii Annual events in Hawaii Festivals in Hawaii Culture of Honolulu Japanese-American culture in Honolulu Tourist attractions in Honolulu Conventions in Hawaii
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20Freaks%20%28TV%20series%29
Control Freaks was a weekly video game review television show which was broadcast at 12:30pm on Sundays on the Seven Network in Australia. It was made in Adelaide, South Australia, by the digital media production company Brave Vision Pty Ltd, founded by Brett Howe and David Nye. Control Freaks was first broadcast in 2001. The program was cancelled by Seven in 2003 after two years on air. Two DVDs were released in Australia and New Zealand, just after the show went to air. Overview After Australian distribution ended, Brave Vision launched control-freaks.tv. Online video streaming was still new in 2002, but Control Freaks was one of the world's major streaming games TV services, syndicated to over 100 affiliated websites across the globe. The show continued to be broadcast on the international market, with a 26 part series in 2003/04, and a 52 part series in 2006/07. The team at Brave Vision made a total of 98 episodes of Control Freaks for cable, satellite, free-to-air and online distribution, distributed internationally by Worldwide Entertainment and Sportsbrand International. Brave Vision still produces games-related content for the video games industry, whilst also taking a more immersive role in the sector, providing marketing, product management and PR services in Australia and abroad. The production company has gone on to produce several international TV series and specials, including Hero 2 Zero for Worldwide Entertainment, Ultimate Gadgets for Virgin TV in the UK, Hotrods & Mean Machines for the Beyond Group, Cultural Flavours, a high definition cooking show, and CC Classic Cars, an HD 13 part series about classic cars, filmed in South Australia. External links Video Australian non-fiction television series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Joseph%20McGovern
Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr. (August 11, 1937 – March 19, 2014) was an American businessman, and chairman and founder of International Data Group (IDG), a company with subsidiaries in technology publishing, research, event management and venture capital. In September, 2013, he was listed on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans, having a net worth of $5.1 billion. Biography Forbes magazine wrote that in the 1950s McGovern earned a college scholarship by designing an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program. During his sophomore year he worked at the MIT student newspaper The Tech on the features staff. McGovern received a degree in course 7, or biology/life sciences, from MIT, in 1959., After university, his first job was writing for the first computer magazine, Edmund C. Berkeley's Computers & Automation. In 1964, McGovern founded International Data Corporation (IDC), which produced a computer-industry database and published the newsletter EDP Industry & Market Report (based on "ADP Newsletter", published by The Diebold Group). After three years, the company was losing money and McGovern contemplated liquidating it, until in 1967 he hit on the idea of making the newsletter into a weekly newspaper, Computerworld. After failing to wrest control of "Computer and Automation" from his friend and mentor, Ed Berkeley, he subsequently started the magazine PC World. In 1980 he created one of the first American-Chinese joint ventures, and in 1997 Forbes estimated that "Pat McGovern has more readers in China than the People's Daily does." In 1991 his company published "DOS For Dummies", the first of the very popular "For Dummies" series of books explaining various subjects to the lay person. Bloomberg News reported that IDG had 280 million regular readers of its publications, and annual revenues of $3.6 billion. Personal life Although born in Queens, New York, his family moved when he was a child to Philadelphia, where he delivered newspapers at the age of eight. He was divorced once. He was the father of two children and two stepchildren, and divided his time between Hillsborough, California and Hollis, New Hampshire. He and his second wife donated $350 million to MIT to found the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He was a trustee of MIT and of MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He also served on Society for Science & the Public's board of trustees. At the time of his death, surviving family members included his wife, Lore Harp McGovern, a son, Patrick McGovern, daughter Elizabeth McGovern, stepdaughters Michelle Harp Bethel and Dina Jackson, and nine grandchildren. Death In May 2012, Patrick McGovern had open heart surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He died March 19, 2014, aged 76. IDG legacy After his death, the ownership of IDG was transferred to the McGovern Foundation; in 2016, the foundation retained Goldman Sachs to explore a sale. On March 29, China Oceanwide Holdings Group announced the close of the acquisition of Intern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNFM%20%28TV%29
"WNFM" was a cable channel serving Fort Myers and Naples, Florida, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. The call sign is fictional as the channel was not licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It was broadcast exclusively on Comcast channel 8 (hence the My TV 8 branding) and was operated from Comcast's Southwest Florida headquarters south of Naples Manor on Tower Road along SR 951/Collier Boulevard. WNFM was the largest cable-only MyNetworkTV affiliate. History This channel began on January 11, 1995 as a WB affiliate. It aired exclusively on MediaOne channel 10 (then Southwest Florida's cable provider) and was not available over-the-air. It used the fictional call letters "WSWF" (for Southwest Florida) and was branded as "WB 10". In March 1998, WSWF switched affiliations with WTVK (now WXCW) and became a UPN affiliate. However, anyone in the market that did not have cable could not get "TV 10" as it was later called, so UPN made an affiliation deal with low-powered WEVU-LP which would allow for additional coverage over-the-air. Several months later, WEVU owner Caloosa Television made a deal with MediaOne to have the cable system take over programming of the off-air station on analog VHF channel 7. MediaOne then discarded the faux WSWF call letters in favor of WEVU-LP (already in use officially as assigned by the FCC) and adopted the on-air moniker "UPN 8" after changing its cable channel to that location (previously used by over-the-air WEVU). MediaOne replaced the over-the-air station's non-network programming with its own thus unifying the UPN affiliates in the market. During this period, the network could also be seen in Naples on low-powered WBSP-LP on VHF channel 9 because this translator repeated WEVU-LP's weak signal to the market's southern locations. The working relationship lasted until midnight on September 1, 2004 shortly after Holston Valley Broadcasting (then owner of over-the-air WEVU-LP) struck a deal for carriage of the station on DirecTV. However, this forced VHF channel 7 to seek UPN programming via microwave from UPN owned-and-operated station WTOG in St. Petersburg, Florida. Eventually, Comcast merged with MediaOne and took over as the area's cable provider. The company continued to operate the UPN affiliate on cable channel 8 which resumed using fictional call letters, "WNFM". On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced the merger of the two networks into the new network The CW in September 2006. On March 9, ACME Communications announced all of its WB stations (including WTVK) would affiliate with The CW, an effectively default decision as the group's CEO was a former WB executive. WNFM was unlikely to have any chance at a CW affiliation even without ACME's connections, as the network looked to have over-the-air carriage the cable channel would never have. WNFM would not confirm its affiliation with the competing Fox Television Stations-owned MyNetworkTV until August 10. At the network's ince
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV-5
CCTV-5 (), also known as the Sports Channel, part of the China Central Television family of networks, is the main sports broadcaster in the People's Republic of China. CCTV-5 began broadcasting on 1 January 1995. CCTV-5 now broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Current sports coverage CCTV-5 has coverage of the following sports leagues, teams, and events: Multi-sports games Asian Games Summer Olympic Games Summer Paralympic Games Winter Olympic Games Winter Paralympic Games Auto Racing Formula One Badminton BWF World Championships Badminton Asia Confederation China Open China Masters Chinese Badminton Association All England Open Badminton Championships Sudirman Cup Uber & Thomas Cup Basketball Chinese Basketball Association National Basketball Association FIBA Basketball World Cup Boxing World Boxing Association World Boxing Council International Boxing Federation World Boxing Organization Cycling Tour de France Tour of Qinghai Lake Field Hockey Hockey World Cup Women's Hockey World Cup Women's FIH Hockey World League Football Chinese Football Association Chinese Super League Chinese FA Cup Chinese FA Super Cup China National Football Team FIFA World Cup FIFA Confederations Cup FIFA Club World Cup FIFA U-20 World Cup FIFA U-17 World Cup FIFA Futsal World Cup FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup FIFA Women's World Cup FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup AFC Asian Cup AFC U-23 Championship AFC U-19 Championship AFC U-16 Championship AFC Champions League UEFA Euro UEFA Champions League UEFA Super Cup Premier League Serie A Toulon Tournament Copa Libertadores Golf PGA Tour Ryder Cup Handball IHF World Men's Handball Championship (CCTV5+) IHF World Women's Handball Championship (CCTV5+) Ice Hockey National Hockey League (CCTV5+) Kontinental Hockey League (CCTV5+) Ice Hockey World Championships (CCTV5+) World Cup of Hockey (CCTV5+) Champions Hockey League (CCTV5+) MMA Kunlun Fight MMA Rugby Union Rugby World Cup (CCTV5+) Premiership Rugby (CCTV5+) Snooker World Snooker Championship Shanghai Masters (snooker) China Open (snooker) UK Championship Surfing America's Cup Table Tennis World Table Tennis Championships Table Tennis World Cup ITTF World Tour Asian Table Tennis Championships China Table Tennis Super League Tennis All four Grand Slam Australian Open French Open Wimbledon Championships US Open ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP World Tour Finals China Open WTA Shenzhen Open WTA Wuhan Open Volleyball FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship Asian Men's Volleyball Championship Asian Women's Volleyball Championship AVC Cup for Men AVC Cup for Women Chinese Volleyball Super
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahid%20Tarokh
Vahid Tarokh (; born ) is an Iranian–American electrical engineer, mathematician, computer scientist, and professor. Since 2018, he has served as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Professor of Mathematics, and the Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Microsoft Data Science Investigator at Microsoft Innovation Hub at Duke University. Tarokh works with complex datasets and uses machine learning algorithms to predict catastrophic events. Biography Vahid Tarokh was born in the Imperial State of Iran. He received the M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 1992, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1995. At the University of Waterloo, he studied under Ian Fraser Blake, who also served as his Ph.D. advisor; his dissertation was titled Trellis Complexity of Lattices (1995). He worked at AT&T Labs-Research until 2000, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an associate professor from 2000 until 2002. He worked at Harvard University as a Hammond Vinton Hayes Senior Fellow of Electrical Engineering, and as a Perkins Professor of Applied Mathematics from 2002 until 2017. He joined Duke University in January 2018. His current research interests are in representation, computer modeling, inference, and prediction from data. Honors Elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering (2019). Gordon Moore's Distinguished Scholar (2017). 2016 Honorary Dr. Tech. H.C. University of Southern Denmark Sciencewatch World's Most Influential Scientific Minds (2014). 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (based only on published papers between 2002–2012). 2014 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications Honorary D. Sc., Concordia University, 2013 2013 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award 2012 IEEE TCCN (Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks) Publication Award (for the modeling and information theoretic development of the cognitive radio channel) 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in Applied Mathematics (for contributions to the spectral theory of pseudo-random matrices) IEEE Fellow, 2009 Honorary D.Sc., The University of Windsor, 2003 IEEE Communications Society 50th Anniversary Recognition (named by the IEEE Communications Society as the author of one of the most important 57 papers published in society's transactions in the past 50 years), 2002 TR100 Award (selected as one of the top 100 inventors of the year by the Technology Review Magazine), 2002 Alan T. Waterman Award 2001 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award, 1999 Governor General of Canada's Academic Gold Medal 1996 See also List of University of Waterloo people References External links Vahid Tarokh's Home page 1967 births Living people 21st-century American engineers Canadian electrical engineers University of Windsor alumni University of Waterloo alumni Harv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20communication%20satellite%20operators
The following is a list of the world's largest fixed service satellite operators in the world. Comparison data is from different time periods and sources and may not be directly comparable. Note: Revenue in U.S. Dollars References Link to 2005 numbers as pdf Link to 2007 numbers as pdf Link to 2008 numbers as pdf External links 2001 numbers 2002 numbers 2003 numbers together with other space firms (total 50) firms reviewed 2004 numbers reviewed in this page from Space News Largest fixed satellite operators Space lists Communication satellite operators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeleniX
BeleniX is a discontinued operating system distribution built using the OpenSolaris source base. It can be used as a Live CD as well as installed to a hard disk. Initially developed as a Live CD along the lines of Knoppix to showcase OpenSolaris technologies. Belenix went on to become the initial base for Sun's OpenSolaris distribution. A number of technologies pioneered in the Belenix project have gone on to become full projects in their own right within the OpenSolaris ecosystem. Design and principles BeleniX aims to have the latest stable revisions of most software, and packages are continuously pushed in the package repository with this aim in mind. However, in many cases bleeding-edge software is pushed out to help validate it and try out new features. Due to these reasons BeleniX also includes a lot of third-party drivers that may not be found in the official OpenSolaris distribution from Sun. While the focus of BeleniX is on the developer desktop, it is also stable and scalable enough to work as a workstation or development server environment. This is mainly due to the underlying OpenSolaris kernel and userland environment. BeleniX is compiled only for 32-bit execution (at i586/Pentium opcode based). However, references from the BeleniX team members have indicated that as of BeleniX 0.7, their live CD contains both 32-bit and 64-bit installation files. BeleniX is focused on using KDE for its desktop environment, although Xfce has also been supported since the beginning of the distribution. An upcoming release will also include first-class support for GNOME. The BeleniX dev team includes other OpenSolaris based distros such as MilaX, Nexenta OS, and SchilliX. The name and logo are references to the Celtic god of light, Belenus. BeleniX thus is also a first-class OpenSolaris development environment and is completely self-hosting. Every package included in BeleniX is built on BeleniX itself, including the OpenSolaris kernel. BeleniX aims to be an easy-to-use distribution that gently exposes the power of OpenSolaris. The Live CD format makes OpenSolaris more easily approachable, and boots within two to three minutes from a CD-ROM. It also aims to encourage innovation by bringing in new features and usability enhancements and increasing community participation. History After the announcement of the OpenSolaris project, BeleniX was started as a private project by a few Sun employees working at Sun's India Engineering Centre in Bangalore, India, in the year 2005. Their aim was to have something along the lines of Knoppix to showcase OpenSolaris to end users. In a few weeks' time, an ISO image was ready for people to use. Over a period of time, BeleniX was developed further and grew in popularity. Non-Sun contributors also joined in the effort developing it into a FOSS community project. BeleniX was the first OpenSolaris distribution to bundle a complete working Xorg X11 GUI environment. Over the years a number of critical innovations spr
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Nonviolence International (NI) acts as a network of resource centers that promote the use of nonviolence and nonviolent resistance. They have maintained relationships with activists in a number of countries, with their most recent projects taking place in Palestine, Sudan and Ukraine. They partnered with International Center for Nonviolent Conflict to update Gene Sharp's seminal work on 198 methods of nonviolent action (The Politics of Nonviolent Action) through a book publication. NI has also produced a comprehensive database of nonviolence tactics, which stands as the largest collection of nonviolent tactics in the world. They partner with Rutgers University to provide the largest collection of nonviolence training materials in the world. History In 1989, Palestinian activist Mubarak Awad founded Nonviolence International along with co-founders Jonathan Kuttab, Kamal Boulatta and Abdul Aziz Said. Nonviolence International is a 501(c)(3) organization registered in Washington, DC, United States and is continuously active in educating and training the public and activists in the use of nonviolent resistance. They are particularly known for their work in conflict zones and Civil Society at the United Nations, building coalitions to find and advocate for nonviolent solutions across the globe. Their mission statement is: "Nonviolence International advocates for active nonviolence and supports creative constructive nonviolent campaigns worldwide. We are a backbone organization of the nonviolent moment, providing fiscal sponsorship to partners all over the globe. We tell the transformative stories of dynamic emerging nonviolent movements that give us hope in difficult times and are reshaping what we view as possible. By telling these inspirational stories and supporting these movements we help to create a peaceful and just future." In 1991, Nonviolence International coordinated anti-coup d'état training in Russia. This led to the organization's publication of the Training Manual for Nonviolent Defense Against the Coup d'État, which has since been used globally in both English and Spanish. In 1993 and 1994, Andre Kamenshikov partnered with Nonviolence International to found the Nonviolence International-Newly Independent States (NI-NIS), based in Moscow. NI-NIS was the first major organization to publicly warn the world about the impending war in Chechnya; the organization also released the first environmental damage assessment regarding the . During the 1995 International Campaign to Ban Landmines, NI was one of the endorsing organizations and was one of the attending parties of the Phnom Penh conference in Cambodia during June 1995. This conference was the largest anti-landmine conference to date and was the first gathering to take place in a heavily mined country (see land mines in Cambodia). NI organized a groundbreaking consultation entitled "Mainstreaming Peace Teams" at American University in 1996. As a result, more than 50 experts from
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This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1960. This listing includes the complete, 45 items, "Partial Dataset" as listed on www.legislation.gov.uk (as at March 2014). Statutory Instruments The Coal and Other Mines (Shafts, Outlets and Roads) Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/69 The Plant and Machinery (Rating) Order, 1960 SI 1960/122 The Opencast Coal (Fees) Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/194 The Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Denmark) Order 1960 SI 1960/211 The Cycle Racing on Highways Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/250 The Cycle Racing on Highways (Scotland) Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/270 The Western European Union (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1960 SI 1960/444 The Election Petition Rules, 1960 SI 1960/543 The Whaling Industry (Ship) (Amendment) Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/547 The Diving Operations Special Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/688 The Post-War Credit (Income Tax) Amendment Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/769 The British Transport Commission (Male Wages Grades Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/784 The Foreign Compensation (Czechoslovakia) (Registration) Order, 1960 SI 1960/ 849 The Coal Mines (Firedamp Drainage) Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/1015 The Visiting Forces (Royal Australian Air Force) Order, 1960 SI 1960/1053 The Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) (Amendment) Order, 1960 SI 1960/1061 The National Insurance (Non-participation-Benefits and Schemes) Amendment Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/1104 The Coal and Other Mines (Ventilation) (Variation) Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/1116 The Traffic Signs (Speed Limits) Regulations 1960 S.I. 1960/1124 The Mental Health Review Tribunal Rules, 1960 SI 1960/1139 The National Insurance (Pensions, Existing Contributors) (Transitional) Amendment Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/1226 The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia Order in Council, 1960 SI 1960/1369 The International Development Association Order, 1960 SI 1960/1383 The Caravan Sites (Licence Applications) Order, 1960 SI 1960/1474 The Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) (Mauritius) Order, 1960 SI 1960/1662 The Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) (Trinidad and Tobago) Order, 1960 SI 1960/1663 The Tuberculosis (England and Wales Attested Area) Order, 1960 SI 1960/1708 The National Insurance (Non-participation-Local Government Staffs) Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/1725 The British Wool Marketing Scheme (Directions) Amendment Order, 1960 SI 1960/1726 The Coal Mines (Precautions against Inflammable Dust) (Variation) Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/1738 The Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/1932 The Visiting Forces (Canadian Military and Air Forces) Order, 1960 SI 1960/1956 The Merchant Shipping (Confirmation of Legislation) (Sarawak) Order, 1960 SI 1960/1963 The Trustee Savings Banks Life Annuity (Amendment) Regulations, 1960 SI 1960/1985 The Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) (Amendment) Order, 1960 SI 1960/2029 The National Insu
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This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1953. This listing is the complete, 19 items, "Partial Dataset" as listed on www.legislation.gov.uk (as at March 2014). Statutory Instruments The Diseases of Animals (Extension of Definition of Poultry) Order 1953 SI 1953/37 The Psittacosis or Ornithosis Order 1953 SI 1953/38 The Merchant Shipping (Confirmation of Legislation) (Federation of Malaya) Order 1953 SI 1953/195 The Veterinary Surgeons (University Degrees) (Cambridge) Order of Council 1953 SI 1953/404 The Airways Corporations (General Staff Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1953 SI 1953/611 The Trading with the Enemy (Enemy Territory Cessation) (France) Order 1953 SI 1953/780 The Coal Industry (Superannuation Scheme) (Winding Up, No. 5) Regulations 1953 SI 1953/845 The National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Reciprocal Agreement with Italy) Order 1953 SI 1953/884 The Merchant Shipping (Confirmation of Legislation) (Cyprus) Order 1953 SI 1953/972 The Stores for Explosives Order, 1953 SI 1953/1197 The Merchant Shipping Safety Convention (Singapore) No.1 Order, 1953 SI 1953/1218 The Merchant Shipping Safety Convention (Singapore) No. 2 Order 1953 SI 1953/1219 British Transport Commission (Executives) Order 1953 SI 1953/1291 The Airways Corporations (Radio, Navigating and Engineer Officers Pensions) Regulations, 1953 SI 1953/1296 The British Transport Commission (Pensions of Employees) Regulations 1953 SI 1953/1445 The Consular Conventions (Kingdom of Greece) Order 1953 SI 1953/1454 The Consular Conventions (French Republic) Order 1953 SI 1953/1455 The Iron and Steel Foundries Regulations, 1953 SI 1953/1464 The Iron and Steel (Compensation to Officers and Servants) (No. 2) Regulations 1953 SI 1953/1849 Unreferenced Listings The following 10 items were previously listed on this article, however are unreferenced on the authorities site, included here for a "no loss" approach. The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) (Scotland) (Bothwell, North Lanarkshire and Motherwell) Order 1953 SI 1953/386 The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) (Scotland) (Bothwell, North Lanarkshire and Coatbridge and Airdrie) Order 1953 SI 1953/387 The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) (Scotland) (West Renfrewshire and Greenock) Order 1953 SI 1953/388 The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) (Scotland) (Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire and Stirling and Falkirk Burghs) Order 1953 SI 1953/389 The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) (Scotland) (West Fife and Kirkcaldy Burghs) Order 1953 SI 1953/390 Transfer of Functions (Ministry of Pensions) Order 1953 SI 1953/1198 Doncaster Corporation Trolley Vehicles (Increase of Charges) Order 1953 SI 1953/1348 Mule Spinning (Health) Special Regulations 1953 SI 1953/1545 Civil Defence (Grant) Regulations 1953 SI 1953/1777 Civil Defence (Grant) (Scotland) Regulations 1953 SI 1953/1804 References External links Legislation.gov.uk delivered by the UK National A
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This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1959. This listing is the complete, 50 items, "Partial Dataset" as listed on www.legislation.gov.uk (as at March 2014). Statutory Instruments 1-499 The Magistrates' Courts (Maintenance Orders Act, 1958) Rules 1959 SI 1959/3 (L. 1) The Airways Corporations (General Staff, Pilots and Officers Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/42 The Agriculture Act, 1958 (Appointed Day) (England and Wales) Order, 1959 SI 1959/80 The Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Agricultural Tenants) Regulations 1959 SI 1959/84 The Copyright Act, 1956 (Transitional Extension) Order 1959 SI 1959/103 The Agriculture (Miscellaneous Time-Limits) Regulations 1959 SI 1959/171 The public Record Office (Fees) Order, 1959 SI 1959/181 The Superannuation (Polish Education Committee and Civil Services) Transfer Rules, 1959 SI 1959/191 The Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/277 The Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (European Interim Agreement) Order, 1959 SI 1959/292 The National Insurance (European Interim Agreement) Order, 1959 SI 1959/293 The Schools Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/364 The Handicapped Pupils and Special Schools Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/365 The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Order, 1959 SI 1959/377 The Service Departments Registers Order, 1959 SI 1959/406 The Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/413 (S. 16) The Agriculture (Circular Saws) Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/427 The Food Standards (Ice-Cream) Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/472 500-1499 The Government Oil Pipe-Lines Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/715 The Government Oil Pipe-Lines (No. 2) Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/724 Military Pensions (Commonwealth Relations Office) Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/735 The Arsenic in Food Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/831 The Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) (Amendment) Order, 1959 SI 1959/874 The Visiting Forces (Designation) (Colonies) (Amendment) Order, 1959 SI 1959/875 The Post-War Credit (Income Tax) Regulations 1959 SI 1959/876 The First-aid Boxes in Factories Order, 1959 SI 1959/906 The Opencast Coal (Concurrent Orders and Requisitions) Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/980 The Opencast Coal (Annual Value in Special Cases) Regulations, 1959 (LA) SI 1959/981 The Opencast Coal (Claims) Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/1146 The Coal Mines (Clearances in Transport Roads) Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/1217 Compensation (Occasional Use of Land for Defence Training purposes) (War Office) Regulations, 1959 SI 1959/1289 The Foreign Compensation (Roumania) (Registration) (Amendment) Order, 1959 SI 1959/1295 The Geneva Conventions Act (Colonial Territories) Order in Council, 1959 SI 1959/1301 The Evidence (New Zealand) Order 1959 SI 1959/1306 The Civil Aviation Act (Application to Crown Aircraft) Order, 1959 SI 1959/1309 The Diseases of Animals (Ascertainment of Compensation) Order, 1959 SI 1959/1335 The Governors' Pensions (Allocation) Rules, 1959 SI 1959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adishi%20%28village%29
Adishi (Adysh, Hadysh; ) is a highland village, 2,040 metres above sea level, in the Mestia Municipality of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of Georgia. According to the data of 2014, 44 people live in the village. Village is 27 kilometres from the town of Mestia. History The landscape of the village is dominated by a number of medieval monuments, and the Greater Caucasus mountains. The important cultural sites of Adishi are: the Church of the Deliverer (10th–11th centuries), two churches of St George (12th century), the Church of the Archangel (12th century) and several typical Svanetian towers. The well-known Adysh Gospels (AD 897) was preserved here for centuries. See also Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti References Churches in Georgia (country) Populated places in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Populated places in Mestia Municipality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlock%20%28disambiguation%29
Deadlock is a situation in computing where two processes are each waiting for the other to finish. Deadlock or deadlocked may also refer to: Film Deadlock (1931 film), a British crime film featuring Stewart Rome, Marjorie Hume and Warwick Ward Deadlock (1943 film), a British crime film starring John Slater Man-Trap or Deadlock, a 1961 American crime film featuring Jeffrey Hunter and David Janssen Deadlock (1970 film), a West German Western starring Mario Adorf Wedlock (film) or Deadlock, a 1991 American science fiction film featuring Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers and Joan Chen Deadlock (2021 film), an American action thriller starring Bruce Willis Television The Bold Ones: The Protectors or Deadlock, a 1969–1970 American crime drama television series "Deadlock" (Star Trek: Voyager), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager "Deadlock" (Battlestar Galactica), an episode of Battlestar Galactica Deadloch, an eight-part 2023 Australian comedy television series A "Deadlock seal" is a type of nearly impregnable security in Doctor Who. Music Deadlock (band), a German melodic death metal band Deadlock (EP), a 2023 EP by South Korean rock band Xdinary Heroes "Deadlock", a 1970 song by Can from track from Soundtracks "Deadlock", a 1998 song by Front Line Assembly from Cryogenic Studios Compilation "Deadlocked", a 2012 song by F-777, used as the soundtrack for the 20th level in Geometry Dash Computer games Deadlock: Planetary Conquest, a computer game by Accolade Ratchet: Deadlocked, a game in the Ratchet & Clank video game franchise Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, a 2017 turn-based strategy game Print Deadlock (novel), a detective novel by Sara Paretsky starring private investigator V. I. Warshawski Deadlocked (novel), a Sookie Stackhouse novel by Charlaine Harris Deadlock, a character in ABC Warriors Politics and law Deadlocked jury or hung jury Political deadlock or gridlock Other uses Dead lock or deadbolt, a physical door locking mechanism Deadlock (game theory), a type of game in game theory, where the action that is mutually most beneficial is also dominant See also Impasse Deathlok Dreadlock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%2C%201962
This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1962. This listing includes the complete, 74 items, "Partial Dataset" as listed on www.legislation.gov.uk (as at September 2017). Statutory Instruments 1-499 The Overseas Service Superannuation (Amendment) Order, 1962 SI 1962/44 The Superannuation (National Fire Service and Fire Brigades) Transfer Rules, 1962 SI 1962/109 The Superannuation (Transfer of Hostels Staff) Rules, 1962 SI 2962/158 The Visiting Forces Act (Application to the Isle of Man) Order 1962 SI 1962/170 The Commonwealth Telegraphs (Cable and Wireless Ltd. Pension) Regulations, 1962 SI 1962/196 The Construction (General Provisions) Reports Order, 1962 SI 1962/224 The Construction (Lifting Operations) Reports Order, 1962 SI 1962/225 The Construction (Lifting Operations) Prescribed Particulars Order, 1962 SI 1962/226 The London Cab Order, 1962 SI 1962/289 The Deeds of Arrangement (Amendment) Rules 1962 SI 1962/297 (L. 5) The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Boundaries) Order in Council, 1962 SI 1962/396 The Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Order, 1962 SI 1962/409 500-999 The British Wool Marketing Scheme (Amendment) Order, 1962 SI 1962/622 The Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Norway) Order 1962 SI 1962/636 The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (Spanish State) Order 1962 SI 1962/638 The Evidence (Barbados) Order 1962 SI 1962/641 The Evidence (Hong Kong) Order 1962 SI 1962/642 The Evidence (Jamaica) Order 1962 SI 1962/643 The Evidence (Montserrat) Order 1962 SI 1962/644 The Trustee Investments (Additional Powers) Order, 1962 SI 1962/658 The Housing (Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation) Regulations 1962 SI 1962/668 The Exchange of Securities Rules 1962 SI 1962/868 The British Transport Commission Group Pension Funds Regulations, 1962 SI 1962/898 The Exchange of Securities (No.2) Rules 1962 SI 1962/906 The Trunk Roads (40 m.p.h. Speed Limit Direction) (No.27) Order 1962 S.I. 1962/973 1000-1499 The Cambridge Waterworks Order, 1962 SI 1962/1030 The Exchange of Securities (No.3) Rules 1962 SI 1962/1219 The Food and Drugs (Legal Proceedings) Regulations 1962 SI 1962/1287 The Exempt Charities Order 1962 SI 1962/1343 1500-1999 The Exchange of Securities (Consolidation) Rules 1962 SI 1962/1562 The Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) (Amendment) Order 1962 SI 1962/1638 The Visiting Forces (Designation) (Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia) Order 1962 SI 1962/1639 Non-ferrous Metals (Melting and Founding) Regulations 1962 SI 1962/1667 The Opencast Coal (Notice of Work) (Amendment) Regulations 1962 SI 1962/1696 The Land Drainage (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1962 SI 1962/1734 The River Taw Mussel Fishery Order 1962 SI 1962/1751 The Transport Act 1962 (Commencement No.1) Order 1962 SI 1962/1788 Nationalised Transport (London Fares) Order 1962 (1) SI 1962/1880 2000-2499 The Cambridge Waterworks (No. 2) Order 1962 SI 1962/2130 The Exchange of Securities (No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Wide%20Molecular%20Matrix
The World Wide Molecular Matrix (WWMM) was a proposed electronic repository for unpublished chemical data. First introduced in 2002 by Peter Murray-Rust and his colleagues in the chemistry department at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, WWMM provided a free, easily searchable database for information about thousands of complicated molecules, data that would otherwise remain inaccessible to scientists. Murray-Rust, a chemical informatics specialist, has estimated that 80% of the results produced by chemists around the world is never published in scientific journals. Most of this data is not ground-breaking, yet it could conceivably be of use to scientists doing related projects—if they could access it. The WWMM was proposed as a solution to this problem. It would house the results of experiments on over 100,000 molecules in physical chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry and medicinal chemistry. In other scientific fields, the need for a similar depository to house inaccessible information could be more acute. In a presentation at the "CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communications (OAI4)", Murray-Rust said that chemistry actually leads other fields in published data. He estimated that the majority of the data in some scientific fields never reaches publication. Although scientific in nature, the WWMM was part of the broader open archives and open source movements, pushes to make more and more information freely available to any user via the Internet or World Wide Web. In his CERN presentation, Murray-Rust stated that the WWMM was a "response to the expense of [scientific] journals", and he asked the rhetorical question, "Can we win the war to make data open, or will it be absorbed into the publishing and pseudo-publishing world?" Murray-Rust and his colleagues are also responsible for the development of the Chemical Mark-up Language (CML), a variant of XML intended for chemists. See also The open archives initiative (OAI) The science of Informatics Chemical Mark-up language (CML) References External links The home page of Dr. Peter Murray-Rust at the University of Cambridge The Cambridge Center for molecular informatics An outline of the WWMM CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI4) Data management
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica%20M%C3%B3vil
América Móvil is a Mexican telecommunications corporation headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It is the 7th largest mobile network operator in the world in terms of equity subscribers, as well as one of the largest corporations in the world. América Móvil is a Forbes Global 2000 company. As of Q1, 2019, América Móvil had 277.4 million wireless subscribers, and 84.3 million fixed revenue generating units ("RGUs", consisting of fixed voice, fixed data and Pay TV units). History América Móvil was created in 2001 when Telmex spun off its wireless mobile activities from its landline and internet activities. On November 15, 2005, the company signed an international pact with Ooredoo to jointly deliver various international services. In 2006, América Móvil made a bid to acquire Verizon's Latin American and Caribbean operations and unified its brands (Comcel Colombia, Porta in Ecuador, Telcel in México, Tracfone in the US and CTI Movil in Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina) under Claro unbrella. América Móvil acquired 100% of Jamaican mobile operator Oceanic Digital, under the brand name MiPhone in August 2007. By 2007, América Móvil's valuation was over $100 billion. In the US, its prepaid mobile subsidiary Tracfone had 8.6 million customers. 2007 was also the year América Movil's owner Carlos Slim became the richest person on the planet. In 2008, América Móvil launched the iPhone in Latin America. In 2009, América Móvil partnered with Nokia to use Nokia maps as its location-based service in Latin America. The group also launched the first Android phone in Latin America. In January 2010, it made an offer to buy Carso Telecom and Telmex International ($21 billion for Telmex) in order to better compete against Spain's Telefonica and Malaysia's Telekom Malaysia. The acquisition was approved by the CFC (Comisión Federal de Competencia) Antitrust Office in Mexico on February 11, 2010. América Móvil had once been Telmex' mobile division, but had grown far larger than its former parent since its spinoff in 2001. In early August 2013, América Móvil offered to take over the remaining 70% stake of the Dutch telecommunications company KPN for 7.2 billion Euros ($9.49 billion). América Móvil currently owns close to 30% of KPN. The Dutch government has warned against this acquisition quoting it as a threat to national security. The Dutch government's intervention comes after the council representing employees of KPN urged authorities to halt América Móvil's planned bid. In 2018, the company's chief executive Daniel Hajj announced that América Móvil is seeking a TV license in Mexico. In January 2019, America Movil announces the acquisition of Telefonica's operations in Guatemala and El Salvador for $333 million and $315 million respectively. However, the agreement for Telefonica Moviles and Telefonica Multiservicios in El Salvador, under the Movistar brand, was cancelled by mutual agreement with Telefonica in 2020 due to the conditions imposed by the monitoring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare%20Tomlinson
Clare Louise Tomlinson (born 6 September 1968) is a presenter for the British satellite broadcast sports network Sky Sports. She was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Early life Tomlinson was born at Barrowby in 1968. She was educated at the Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School. Career Tomlinson started her career in public relations, including a period as the receptionist for Max Clifford & Associates. In the early 1990s Tomlinson worked at the Football Association as a media officer. Later in the decade she was appointed as the head of the communications department at Arsenal Football Club, where she helped the then new manager Arsène Wenger with media relations. Tomlinson joined BSkyB's UEFA Champions League coverage alongside Richard Keys. She then became touchline reporter on Sky Sports' Ford Super Sunday, and co-presented Goals On Sunday, Sky Sports' Sunday morning football highlights programme. Tomlinson was placed on leave from Goals on Sunday for two months, from October 2007. Tomlinson is a presenter on Sky Sports News, usually on their late show Through the Night. In April 2007 she became the first woman to present the Professional Footballers' Association Awards Ceremony at the Grosvenor Hotel in London. Personal life Tomlinson is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur. In 2000, it was revealed that she had a relationship with the married footballer Bryan Robson. Tomlinson currently lives in Matlock Bath in Derbyshire. References External links Clare Tomlinson at TV Newsroom 1968 births Living people People from Grantham People educated at Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School English television presenters Sky Sports presenters and reporters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum%20Technology
Platinum Technology Inc. was founded by Andrew Filipowski in 1987 to market and support deployment of database management software products and the applications enabled by database management technology and to render related services. Over its 12-year history, it was known for its acquisition of other companies, having bought more than 50 companies between 1994 and 1999 and growing to become the eighth largest global software company with revenue of a billion dollars per year. Acquisitions included Altai, Inc. (1995), AutoSystems Corporation, Brownstone Solutions, ICON Computing, Intervista Software, Software Interfaces, Locus Computing Corporation, LBMS (1998), Logic Works (1998), Protosoft, RELTECH Group, Memco Software, Softool, SQL TOOLS, Inc., Trinzic, Viatech and VREAM (1996). The company was a member of the UML Partners consortium. Acquisition by Computer Associates In March 1999, Platinum was itself acquired by Computer Associates (CA) for 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, at that time the largest transaction in the history of the software industry. CA offered $29.25 per share, almost a three-to-one premium over Platinum's stock price of $9.875. Transition In 2001, CA was sued by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), alleging that the two companies prematurely reduced competition between each other. The DOJ claimed that this was achieved by agreeing to limit discounts offered to customers before the deal was completed. Acquisitions Protosoft In November 1995, Protosoft was acquired by Platinum Technology for 40 million U.S. dollars. Protosoft was founded by Dr. Anthony Lekkos and Erick Rivas in 1990 to develop and market Paradigm Plus, an object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) modeling product and associated code generation and reverse engineering tools. Memco Software In September 1998, Platinum Technology acquired Israeli company Memco Software (Nasdaq: MEMCF). The acquisition was accounted for as a stock-for-stock pooling of interests valued at just more than $400 million. The combined offering of both companies was aimed at providing a complete software security solution for protecting enterprise networks, databases, and systems across multiple platforms. With this merger; Platinum was hoping to become a major security software provider in areas such as access control, single sign-on, user and database security administration, authentication, intrusion detection, secure communications, and policy audit. Memco Software was founded in 1990 in Tel Aviv, Israel; in 1996 it had an initial public offering on NASDAQ, raising $50 million. Following the acquisition of Platinum by Computer Associates, Memco Software became the basis for CA’s research and development center in Israel. References External links Press release following acquisition Defunct software companies of the United States Software companies based in Illinois Companies based in DuPage County, Illinois Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois Software companies establ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20of%20Recorded%20American%20Music
The Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) is an online resource providing streaming media access to about 9,000 musical works from 15 record labels, along with their liner notes, album art, and other related materials. All materials are keyword-searchable using any number of criteria, including composer, performer, date of publication, Library of Congress Classification and label of origin. DRAM facilitates the use of music in research for students and faculty across 90 campuses and gives scholarship philosophical priority in its approach to both collection development and intellectual property. The database began as a project of New World Records, Inc. a not-for-profit recording label which has successfully maintained a very precise and distinctive mission for more than thirty years: to actively document and disseminate the work of American composers, selected solely based on artistic merit. Neglected by the commercial recording industry, whose primary motivation is to minimize risk to the profit margin, these are important compositions that would otherwise be seldom heard and narrowly accessible for listening or study. However, through DRAM, students, faculty and scholars affiliated with subscribing universities are able to access the database from their library, home or any other location, and may use the system as frequently as they wish without charge to the individual. In 2006, the parent company of DRAM and New World Records modified its name from Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc. (RAAM) to Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc. (ARM) and charter in order to allow works from non-American composers to be included in DRAM. Though New World Records remains exclusively dedicated to the American composer, DRAM's mission has been expanded to include content from foreign sources and composers, so long as it satisfies the curatorial requirements of the collection. References External links DRAM website Online music and lyrics databases American music websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Silberschatz
Avi Silberschatz (born in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli computer scientist and researcher. He graduated in 1976 with a Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. He became the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, USA in 2005. He was the chair of the Computer Science department at Yale from 2005 to 2011. Prior to coming to Yale in 2003, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs. He previously held an endowed professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught until 1993. His research interests include database systems, operating systems, storage systems, and network management. Silberschatz was elected an ACM Fellow in 1996 and received the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 1998. He was elected an IEEE fellow in 2000 for contributions to the development of computer systems dealing with the efficient manipulation and processing of information. He received the IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award in 2002 for " teaching, mentoring, and writing influential textbooks in the operating systems and database systems areas". He was elected an AAAS fellow in 2009. Silberschatz is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. His work has been cited over 34,000 times. Books Mainframe operating systems have an acquired dinosaur trope that even their manufacturers recognize. Peter B. Galvin, co-author, notes that the series of books became informally known as the dinosaur book due to the illustrations on the front cover depicting the various operating systems as actual dinosaurs. References External links Yale University faculty American computer scientists Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE Stony Brook University alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Yale University alumni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOLF-TV
WOLF-TV (channel 56) is a television station licensed to Hazleton, Pennsylvania, United States, serving Northeastern Pennsylvania as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is the flagship property of locally based New Age Media, LLC, and is co-owned with Williamsport-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WQMY (channel 53); New Age also provides certain services to Scranton-licensed CW affiliate WSWB (channel 38) under a management services agreement (MSA) with MPS Media. All three stations, in turn, are operated under a master service agreement by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The stations share studios on PA 315 in the Fox Hill section of Plains Township; WOLF-TV's transmitter is located at the Penobscot Knob antenna farm near Mountain Top. However, newscasts have originated from the facilities of sister station and CBS affiliate WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana since January 2017. History The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted an original construction permit for Hazleton's first full-service television station on September 30, 1982. The new station, given the call letters WERF, was owned by James Oyster and was to broadcast from a tower south of the city. At that location, the station could serve its city of license but not the main cities in the market, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. In April 1983, WERF applied to move its transmitter to the Penobscot Knob antenna farm near Mountaintop where WNEP-TV (channel 16), WDAU-TV (channel 22, now WYOU), WBRE-TV (channel 28), and WVIA-TV (channel 44) also housed their transmitters. The application was denied, however. Oyster changed the station's call letters to WWLF-TV on July 25, 1984, then sold the construction permit to Hazleton TV Associates on December 13. Two months later on February 20, 1985, the station was sold again, this time to Scranton TV Partners who completed construction of the station and brought it on-air on June 6. WWLF was a satellite of co-owned WOLF-TV in Scranton which was then on UHF channel 38 and was an independent station. That station had just begun broadcasting itself on June 3. WWLF, as a satellite of WOLF-TV, was independent for a little more than a year. On October 9, 1986, it became a charter affiliate of Fox. In 1988, WWLF moved to a new transmitter on Nescopeck Mountain near the junction of I-80 and PA 93 but remained a satellite of WOLF-TV. On April 27, 1993, WWLF was sold to Pegasus Television and the new owners were able to accomplish something that the station's original owner could not: get permission to move the transmitter to the antenna farm at Penobscot Knob. The completion of the new transmitter ushered in a new era for WWLF. On November 1, 1998, Pegasus moved the WOLF-TV call sign to channel 56 and made it the sole outlet for Fox programming in Northeast Pennsylvania. It changed the call letters of channel 38 to WSWB and made that station an affiliate of The WB. That station's owners had sought for many years to move either the channel 38 or channel 56 tran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameserver
A Frameserver is any program that acts as a media source in the process called frameserving, which transfers digital video data from one computer program to another without intermediate files. The program that receives the data – the frameclient – could be any type of video application. The process is controlled by the frameclient: the frameclient requests audio/video frames and the frameserver serves them. The client can request frames in any order, allowing it to pause or jump to an arbitrary frame, just as a media player does with a file on disk. The client is most commonly a media encoder, a non-linear editing system, or a media player. Some popular frameservers are: AviSynth VirtualDub Blender VapourSynth Debugmode FrameServer See also Client–Server Model References Video editing software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation%20on%20Fox
The American television network Fox has aired numerous animated television series. During the more than thirty-year existence of the network, there have been many successful prime time animated series. The first and most famous of these, The Simpsons, was the first such series since the end of The Flintstones in the 1960s. History 1980s When the upstart young Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox) was formed in 1986 by Rupert Murdoch, early shows tended to attract low viewership, with the exception of some early ratings successes such as Married... with Children and 21 Jump Street. The animation industry had experienced a decline in the 1980s, but later experienced a revival after the success of films made by Disney and Steven Spielberg such as An American Tail, The Land Before Time, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Little Mermaid. In 1987, The Tracey Ullman Show premiered with mild success. During this time, a series of short cartoons originally intended to be bumpers gained a following with young and old audiences, and Fox ordered thirteen episodes of a new animated television series based on these, titled The Simpsons. When The Simpsons premiered in December 1989, the series was instantly popular. Merchandise featuring the show's breakout character Bart Simpson has accumulated over US$1 billion in sales. The Simpsons was the first successful primetime animated series since The Flintstones, paving the way for other animated series on major broadcast networks. Since its debut, a total of episodes of The Simpsons have aired, and the series is currently airing its 34th season, with two more on the way. 1990s In September 1992, Batman: The Animated Series made its debut, and from December 1992 to March 1993, it aired in primetime while also airing on Fox Kids for several more years. Also in September 1992, Eek! The Cat premiered on Fox Kids. In 1994, it was renamed to Eek! Stavaganza. Eek! ended in 1997. The only episode of the series to air in primetime was a Christmas special in 1993. A few Tiny Toon Adventures specials were also aired in primetime during that show's run on Fox Kids. In 1994, X-Men: The Animated Series had a brief primetime run as the first two episodes of season 3 aired in primetime on Friday nights in July and August 1994 for two consecutive weeks. The last episode of season 3 (along with an episode of Spider-Man) would premiere in primetime in June 1995. Also, in 1994, The Tick, an animated superhero/satirical Children's show based on the comic of the same name aired on Fox Kids. A repeat of the show's Christmas episode aired in primetime in 1996. A boom in new adult-oriented animated programming began thereafter, with MTV's Beavis and Butt-head beginning in 1992, and Simpsons producers Al Jean's and Mike Reiss' own series, The Critic, in 1994. The Critic ran for one season (13 episodes) on its original network, ABC (in 1994); from there, it moved to Fox, where it ran for another season of 10 episodes (1995). The Critic can b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFLX
WFLX (channel 29), branded on-air as Fox 29, is a television station in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Gray Television, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with the E. W. Scripps Company, owner of NBC affiliate WPTV-TV (channel 5) and Stuart-licensed news-formatted independent station WHDT (channel 9), for the provision of certain services. The stations share studios on South Australian Avenue in downtown West Palm Beach (mailing address says Banyan Boulevard, also known as 1st Street), while WFLX's transmitter is located near Wellington west of US 441/SR 7. History WFLX was to begin operations in August 1982 but delays pushed the sign-on date back to October 1, 1982, as an independent station, the market's first. Originally owned by Malrite Communications, it ran a programming lineup typical of independent stations at the time—early-morning cartoons, older sitcoms later in mornings, movies in early afternoons/prime time (hence the slogan "South Florida's Free Movie Station"), classic sitcoms in the late-afternoon, and current sitcoms during early/late-evenings. WFLX originally operated from studios located on West Blue Heron Boulevard/SR 708 in Riviera Beach. Unlike most independents, the amount of children's programming seen on WFLX during this time was low compared to similar stations in other markets, a trend owing to the older demographics of the West Palm Beach area; instead, the station focused on its movies, owning a library of 3,600 titles by 1984. The station was an aggressive promoter, using a red macaw named Firecracker as its mascot in station advertisements and events, playing movie requests from viewers and counterprogramming West Palm Beach's three network-affiliated stations. One of WFLX's original programs was Bedtime Movies, which aired late on Saturday night. Although rarely making a dent in the ratings against NBC's Saturday Night Live, the show gained a loyal cult following thanks to its rotating group of hosts: attractive young women, who would announce the films while lying on a queen sized bed, wearing a lace teddy. The "Bedtime Movie Girls" (as well as a few male hosts) were also sent out on station promotions, at county fairs, jai alai matches and even tractor pulls. Bedtime Movies was cancelled at the end of 1987, but was brought back briefly in the late 1990s. On October 9, 1986, WFLX became one of the charter affiliates of Fox. At the time, it was the de facto affiliate of the network in all of South Florida, since WCIX, the Fox affiliate in Miami (now CBS O&O WFOR-TV), had a signal unable to reach most Broward and northern Miami-Dade county viewers, an issue eventually rectified on January 1, 1989, when a number of affiliation swaps in Miami and West Palm Beach resulted in Miami's WSVN becoming Miami's Fox affiliate. WPTV and WFLX would be the only two West Palm Beach stations unaffected by any of the affiliation shuffles. As the 1990s appr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justsystem%20Pittsburgh%20Research%20Center
Also known as Just Research, Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center (JPRC) was a late-1990s computer science research laboratory in Pittsburgh, loosely associated with Carnegie Mellon University. Its director was Dr. Scott Fahlman. During its relatively brief existence, from May 1996 to July 2000, JPRC performed work in machine vision, text classification and summarization, programming environments and user interface design. Just Research researchers included: Dr Vibhu Mittal Dr Andrew McCallum Mr Mark Kantrowitz Dr Mikako Harada Mr Paul Gleichauf Dr Rahul Sukthankar Dr Michael Witbrock Mr Antoine Brusseau Dr Shumeet Baluja Mrs Keiko Hasegawa Dr Dayne Freitag Dr Rich Caruana Dr David "Pablo" Cohn See also JustSystems References Research institutes in Pennsylvania Computer science institutes in the United States Carnegie Mellon University 1996 establishments in Pennsylvania 2000 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire%20%28TV%20series%29
Desire is an American telenovela which debuted at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central on September 5, 2006, on the American network MyNetworkTV, and ended on December 5. It was produced by Twentieth Television. The program starred Sofia Milos, Michelle Belegrin, Nate Haden, Kelly Albanese, Zack Silva, Chuti Tiu, Jessie Ward, Tanisha Harper, Will Rolland, Al Bandiero, Kristen Kerr, and Eliana Alexander. Haden and Silva played two brothers on the run from the Gamarras, a New Jersey crime family. They run from Bayonne to Los Angeles and become restaurateurs. Along the way, the pair find themselves on a heated trail of passion, betrayal, and murder over the woman they both loved (played by Belegrin). The Desire brand is also used as an umbrella name for Twentieth's limited-run serials. As of 2021, the entire series can be seen on TubiTV. Origins The show first emerged in late 2005 as a September syndicated program for the stations on the FOX network to air in a weekend or midday time period. The idea was greenlit by Fox Television Stations Chairman Roger Ailes as a contingency plan for Fox-owned UPN stations. After receiving lukewarm response from stations not owned and operated by Fox, Twentieth Television decided to pitch the show for June 2006 on the premise that teenagers are out of school and planted in front of their TV sets, and that reruns dominate network schedules. Desire had a few takers for a planned summer syndication run. Twentieth made those stations surrender the show, thanks to a clause in its contract that allows Fox to take away the show if it is carried by a network. It was also briefly considered for placement on The CW Television Network, but was taken off the table by Fox for use on MyNetworkTV. Desire is based on the 2004 Colombian television program Mesa Para Tres (Table for Three), which aired on Caracol TV. Changes have been made in the location and the plot to make them more palatable to Americans. The serial was known as Table for Three and Three's a Crowd before its debut. The show was filmed at Stu Segall Productions in San Diego, using 25 principal actors, 250 supporting actors and about 2,000 extras. Cast Episodes The Desire Brand The original format of the Desire syndicated program was for three telenovelas to run with different titles. The Desire name was intended as an umbrella for all the separate telenovelas within. When MyNetworkTV picked up the telenovelas, Desire was used as the name of one series. The network later revived the Desire name as an umbrella title. MyNetworkTV promoted Wicked Wicked Games and American Heiress as "part of the Desire series." Performance Ratings for Desire fell below expectations. The debut scored a 2.0 rating and the first week averaged an 0.8 rating and 1 share. It averaged a 0.4 rating in the adult 18–49 demographic., falling to a 0.3 in its second week. The program has also been sold to several international markets, however. In Asia, for example, Star World de
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI%20Systemhouse
MCI Systemhouse specializes in running Data centers for customers and is a subsidiary of the Washington, DC-based MCI Communications Corporation, the result of a 1995 $1 billion acquisition of Canadian company SHL Systemhouse and its subsequent integration with MCI's technical services branch. The new company was formed to provide systems integration and outsourcing services. SHL Systemhouse based in Ottawa, Ontario, had revenue of $1.2 billion Canadian dollars in 1994, or about $883 million at then current exchange rates. On February 11, 1999, MCI Systemhouse was acquired by EDS of Plano, Texas for $1.65 billion. EDS was able to recoup almost 25% of the purchase price by selling SHL Systemhouse's stake in Commerce One for $400 million in January, 2000. Prior to the acquisition, MCI Systemhouse was one of several entities that formed UML Partners, a group devoted to the development of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). History Customers of MCI Systemhouse have included Vons, CSAA, Ultramar, and United States Postal Service. References http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1995/MCI-to-Acquire-SHL-Systemhouse-for-$1-Billion/id-feaa2ae99f147f83354a20d769fd18b9.html http://news.cnet.com/EDS%2C-MCI-in-17-billion-services-deal/2100-1017_3-221552.html http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/18802628/eds-retains-systemhouse-identity-for-canada.htm https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/26/business/company-news-eds-to-sell-commerce-one-holding-for-400-million.html Telecommunications companies of Canada Telecommunications companies of the United States MCI Communications
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion%20House
Fashion House is an American nighttime soap opera that aired at 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central Monday through Saturday on MyNetworkTV stations. The series premiered on September 5, 2006, and concluded on December 5, 2006. It was produced by Twentieth Television with directors David Hogan, Alex Hennech, Jim Slocum and Jeremy Stanford. Fashion House focused on greed, lust and ambition surrounding a corporate takeover of the business's hottest company. It starred Bo Derek as the ruthless head of the business and Morgan Fairchild as her long-time arch-rival. Fashion House is an adaptation in the original Cuban script "Salir de Noche" written by Euridice Charadian & Osvaldo Huerta and was sold to MyNetworkTV by InjausTV. As of 2021, the entire series can be seen on TubiTV. Production Fashion House aired for a 78-episode run. MyNetworkTV episode aired it Monday through Friday for 13 weeks, with a "recap" show on Saturdays airing at 9 p.m. Eastern. It was based on the Cuban telenovela Salir de Noche ("Out in the Night"), produced by Miami firm XYSTUS. MyNetworkTV originally planned to use the umbrella title Secrets, later changed to Secret Obsessions, for its telenovelas in the 9:00 p.m. ET timeslot, with Fashion House as its first installment. While the show is set in Los Angeles, it was filmed at Stu Segall Productions in San Diego. Logo design was done by design director Chris Hoffman. Its debut week saw modest viewership; an average 1.3 household rating and 2 share, slightly higher than its lead in, Desire, according to Nielsen. The second week dipped to 1.1 million viewers. During the next few weeks, ratings stabilized at a 0.6 rating. National advertising spots sold for between $20,000 and $35,000 for a 30-second spot as of September 2006. Cast Theme The theme song played during the opening credits was Chesterwhites "Good At Being Bad". Crossover A later MyNetworkTV telenovela, American Heiress, made a brief reference to this show. In episode 17, which aired on June 6, Jordan Wakefield says that "since Maria Gianni died you can't find a decent dress in a store." International Africa In Cameroon the show airs on LTM TV: show time 7pm (East Africa Time) from Mondays to Fridays, with reruns on Saturdays (22pm) & Sundays (17pm). In Ghana, the show aires on Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00 pm. In Kenya, KTN airs the show Sundays at 10:30. In Togo, the show aired on Saturdays at 10:00 am. Asia In Hong Kong, China, Star World airs the show from Feb 6, 2007 weeknights at 10pm, plus weekdays and Saturday afternoons at 4.30pm. In Iran, GEM TV at 6 pm In India, Star World aired it at 11 pm and at 4:30 pm next afternoon. In Israel, HOT3 finished airing on 11/10/07. Star World also aired the series. In Malaysia, Star World airs it at 10 p.m. from Monday to Friday. The series airs at 5:00 p.m. UTC, Saturday through Wednesday, in the Middle East on MBC 4. In Nepal. Star World aired the show on weeknights at 11:15 pm and recapped it at 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those%20Who%20Trespass
Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Television and Murder () is a 1998 novel by US television personality Bill O'Reilly. The story focuses on the revenge a television journalist exacts on network staff after disputes very similar to O'Reilly's real tensions with CBS (such as one involving Falklands War footage). The revenge takes the form of a series of graphically described murders. The novel was first published in 1998 by a small publishing house, and rereleased in 2004 by Broadway Books as a trade paperback. On July 13, 2011, in O'Reilly's "Backstage Conversation" video section of the BillOreilly.com website, he responded to a viewer who asked "Does Mel Gibson still own the rights to Those who Trespass?" O'Reilly replied, "He does not. We had two cycles with Mr. Gibson's production company—this was before he got into all the trouble—and now I own it again. So hopefully someone will step up." Plot summary The antagonist is a tall, "no-nonsense" television journalist named Shannon Michaels, described as the product of two Celtic parents, who is pushed out by Global News Network, and systematically murders the people who ruined his career. Meanwhile, the protagonist, a "straight-talking" Irish-American New York City homicide detective named Tommy O’Malley, is charged with solving the murders that Michaels has committed, while competing with Michaels for the heart of Ashley Van Buren, a blond, sexy aristocrat turned crime columnist. Some reviewers have said that Michaels and O'Malley are "thinly veiled versions" of O'Reilly. Michaels' first victim is a news correspondent who stole his story in Argentina, and got him into trouble with the network. He then stalks the woman who forced his resignation from the network and throws her off a balcony. After that he murders a television research consultant who had advised the local station to dismiss him by burying him in beach sand up to his neck and letting him slowly drown. Finally, during a break in the Radio and Television News Directors Association convention, he slits the throat of the station manager. After this, he is pursued by O'Malley and Van Buren, where he attempts to lose them by crossing a runway in front of a speeding jet. Although he makes it, his car's right back tire is cut by the jet's wing, causing the car to spin, flip over, and be subsequently melted by the exhaust from the jet, which explodes. Michaels dies in extreme agony, as his contacts (used to hide his identity) burn into his eyes and a chunk of the car crushes his head in. Reception The New Yorker called the book O'Reilly's "most ambitious and deeply felt piece of writing. 'Those Who Trespass' is a revenge fantasy, and it displays extraordinarily violent impulses". Michael Hastings, of Salon.com, commented that the book gave the reader a look inside the author's mind. "The talented talk-show host serves up characters who are paranoid, arrogant, insecure and supremely egotistical. On television, those qualities are O'R
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20balancing
Load balancing or load distribution may refer to: Load balancing (computing), balancing a workload among multiple computer devices Load balancing (electrical power), the storing of excess electrical power by power stations during low demand periods, for release as demand rises Network load balancing, balancing network traffic across multiple links Weight distribution, the apportioning of weight within a vehicle, especially cars, airplanes, and watercraft Production leveling, a prerequisite to allow 'flow' in the factory Resource leveling, a group of techniques for distribution of a workload between workers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-valued%20logic
In logic, a four-valued logic is any logic with four truth values. Several types of four-valued logic have been advanced. Belnap Nuel Belnap considered the challenge of question answering by computer in 1975. Noting human fallibility, he was concerned with the case where two contradictory facts were loaded into memory, and then a query was made. "We all know about the fecundity of contradictions in two-valued logic: contradictions are never isolated, infecting as they do the whole system." Belnap proposed a four-valued logic as a means of containing contradiction. He called the table of values A4: Its possible values are true, false, both (true and false), and neither (true nor false). Belnap's logic is designed to cope with multiple information sources such that if only true is found then true is assigned, if only false is found then false is assigned, if some sources say true and others say false then both is assigned, and if no information is given by any information source then neither is assigned. These four values correspond to the elements of the power set based on {T, F}. T is the supremum and F the infimum in the logical lattice where None and Both are in the wings. Belnap has this interpretation: "The worst thing is to be told something is false simpliciter. You are better off (it is one of your hopes) in either being told nothing about it, or being told both that it is true and also that it is false; while of course best of all is to be told that it is true." Belnap notes that "paradoxes of implication" (A&~A)→B and A→(B∨~B) are avoided in his 4-valued system. Logical connectives Belnap addressed the challenge of extending logical connectives to A4. Since it is the power set on {T, F}, the elements of A4 are ordered by inclusion making it a lattice with Both at the supremum and None at the infimum, and T and F on the wings. Referring to Dana Scott, he assumes the connectives are Scott-continuous or monotonic functions. First he expands negation by deducing that ¬Both = Both and ¬None = None. To expand And and Or the monotonicity goes only so far. Belnap uses equivalence (a&b = a iff avb = b) to fill out the tables for these connectives. He finds None & Both = F while None v Both = T. The result is a second lattice L4 called the "logical lattice", where A4 is the "approximation lattice" determining Scott continuity. Implementation using two bits Let one bit be assigned for each truth value: 01=T and 10=F with 00=N and 11=B. Then the subset relation in the power set on {T, F} corresponds to order ab<cd iff a<c and b<d in two-bit representation. Belnap calls the lattice associated with this order the "approximation lattice". The logic associated with two-bit variables can be incorporated into computer hardware. Matrix machine There are sixteen logical matrices that are 2x2, and four logical vectors that act as inputs and outputs of the matrix transformation: X = {A, B, C, D } = {(0,1), (1, 0), (0, 0), (1, 1} }. When C is input
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20FM
Life FM may refer to: New Zealand Life FM (New Zealand), a Christian radio network United States The Life FM, a Christian radio network Australia Life FM (Adelaide), 5RAM, a radio station in Adelaide, South Australia Life FM (Gold Coast), 4CAB, a radio station on the Gold Coast, Queensland Life FM (Gippsland), 3GCB, a radio station in the Gippsland region of Victoria Life FM (Wagga Wagga), 2WLF, a radio station in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales Life FM (Bathurst), 2BCB, a radio station in Bathurst, Central Tablelands, New South Wales Life FM (Bendigo), Central Victorian Gospel Radio Inc. in Bendigo, Victoria England a former name of Bang Radio, a radio station in Harlesden, London South Africa Life FM (South Africa), a Christian community radio station based in the North West.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bose%20computer%20speakers
Bose has sold various computer speaker products since 1987. Most models consisted of two small satellite speakers, sometimes with a subwoofer. Models MediaMate The computer speakers from Bose was the "MediaMate" system, which was released in 1987. The MediaMate included magnetic shielding so that they could be placed near a CRT computer monitor without causing the monitor's image to distort. They had dual inputs and two sources (such as a CD player and a computer game) to be played simultaneously, with a dial to adjust the relative level of the two sources. There is no on/off switch for the MediaMate speakers or any tone controls. Production of MediaMate speakers ended in 2005. In Japan, the MediaMate was sold as the "MM-1". The MM-1 included an "enhance" function, which basically acted as a tone control. An "MM-2" system was also sold in Japan, which included a subwoofer. Wave/PC Companion 2 The "Companion 2" was released in 2005 as the replacement for the MediaMate. The Companion 2 speakers had two input ports, however (unlike its MediaMate predecessor) there was no control to adjust the level of each source. Virtual surround sound emulation ("TrueSpace Stereo Everywhere") was included. The "Companion 2 Series II" were introduced in 2006. The appearance changed from round speaker grilles to rectangular speaker grilles. Compared with the similarly priced M-Audio Studiophile AV20, the Companion 2 speakers were found to have inferior sound quality but the benefit of being able to play two sources simultaneously. Companion 3 The "Companion 3" system was released in 2003 and consisted of two satellite speakers and a subwoofer. Control is via a wired remote. Dual inputs allow two sources to be played simultaneously, however it is not possible to adjust the relative level of each source. The "Companion 3 Series II" was introduced in 2006. Changes included smaller satellite speakers with similar appearance to the Companion 5 system and the speaker grille on the subwoofer changing from circular to square shaped. Sales of the Companion 3 Series II ceased in 2016. Companion 5 The "Companion 5" system was first listed on Amazon in 2004. It was a 2.1 system consisting of two satellite speakers, a subwoofer, a wired control unit and an inbuilt sound card, which connected to the computer via USB. The subwoofer was very similar to that used in the Companion 3 Series II system, however the Companion 5 used larger satellite speakers. In Europe and Asia-Pacific, a "Companion 50" version of the system was also produced. Companion 20 The "Companion 20" system was released in 2011 and consists of two satellite speakers and a wired control unit (called "control pod" by Bose). It was discontinued in 2021. Computer MusicMonitor The "Computer MusicMonitor" system was sold from 2007 and consisted of two satellite speakers and a remote control. The Computer MusicMonitor system was judged to have a convenient small size, but sub-standard audio quality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain%20and%20Abel%20%28software%29
Cain and Abel (often abbreviated to Cain) was a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows. It could recover many kinds of passwords using methods such as network packet sniffing, cracking various password hashes by using methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks. Cryptanalysis attacks were done via rainbow tables which could be generated with the winrtgen.exe program provided with Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel was maintained by Massimiliano Montoro and Sean Babcock. Features WEP cracking Speeding up packet capture speed by wireless packet injection Ability to record VoIP conversations Decoding scrambled passwords Calculating hashes Traceroute Revealing password boxes Uncovering cached passwords Dumping protected storage passwords ARP spoofing IP to MAC Address resolver Network Password Sniffer LSA secret dumper Ability to crack: LM & NTLM hashes NTLMv2 hashes Microsoft Cache hashes Microsoft Windows PWL files Cisco IOS – MD5 hashes Cisco PIX – MD5 hashes APOP – MD5 hashes CRAM-MD5 MD5 hashes OSPF – MD5 hashes RIPv2 MD5 hashes VRRP – HMAC hashes Virtual Network Computing (VNC) Triple DES MD2 hashes MD4 hashes MD5 hashes SHA-1 hashes SHA-2 hashes RIPEMD-160 hashes Kerberos 5 hashes RADIUS shared key hashes IKE PSK hashes MSSQL hashes MySQL hashes Oracle and SIP hashes Status with virus scanners Some virus scanners (and browsers, e.g. Google Chrome 20.0.1132.47) detect Cain and Abel as malware. Avast! detects it as "Win32:Cain-B [Tool]" and classifies it as "Other potentially dangerous program", while Microsoft Security Essentials detects it as "Win32/Cain!4_9_14" and classifies it as "Tool: This program has potentially unwanted behavior." Even if Cain's install directory, as well as the word "Cain", are added to Avast's exclude list, the real-time scanner has been known to stop Cain from functioning. However, the latest version of Avast no longer blocks Cain. Symantec (the developer of the Norton family of computer security software) identified a buffer overflow vulnerability in version 4.9.24 that allowed for remote code execution in the event the application was used to open a large RDP file, as might occur when using the program to analyze network traffic. The vulnerability had been present in the previous version (4.9.23) as well and was patched in a subsequent release. See also Black-hat hacker White-hat hacker Hacker (computer security) Password cracking Aircrack-ng Crack DaveGrohl Hashcat John the Ripper L0phtCrack Ophcrack RainbowCrack References External links Windows-only freeware Password cracking software Windows security software Network analyzers Windows network-related software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNSN-TV
KNSN-TV (channel 21) is a primary sports-formatted independent television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, which has a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Deerfield Media, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Fox affiliate KRXI-TV (channel 11), for the provision of certain services. Sinclair also manages NBC affiliate KRNV-DT (channel 4) under a separate JSA with Cunningham Broadcasting; however, Sinclair effectively owns KRNV as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The three stations share studios on Vassar Street in Reno; KNSN-TV's transmitter is located on Red Hill between US 395 and SR 445 in Sun Valley, Nevada. History The station launched on October 11, 1981, as KAME-TV, an independent station airing movies (TV-21's The Big Movie), cartoons, westerns, and sitcoms. On October 9, 1986, it became a charter Fox affiliate. On January 16, 1995, KAME-TV picked up UPN on a secondary basis; it became a full-time UPN affiliate on January 1, 1996, after KRXI signed-on and took Fox. Between September 1996 and May 1997, the station was briefly owned by Raycom Media. With the 2006 shutdown and merge of The WB and UPN to form The CW, the station joined News Corporation–owned and Fox sister network MyNetworkTV on September 5, 2006. On July 20, 2012, one day after Cox Media Group purchased WAWS and WTEV in Jacksonville, Florida, and KOKI-TV and KMYT-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Newport Television, Cox put KRXI-TV (along with the LMA for KAME-TV) and sister stations WTOV-TV in Steubenville, Ohio, WJAC-TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and KFOX-TV in El Paso, Texas (all in markets that are smaller than Tulsa), plus several radio stations in medium to small markets, on the selling block. On February 25, 2013, Cox announced that it would sell the four television stations, and the LMA for KAME, to Sinclair Broadcast Group; as part of the deal, Ellis Communications would sell KAME-TV to Deerfield Media. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted its approval on April 30, 2013, one day after it approved the sale of sister station, KRXI. The sale was finalized on May 2, 2013. Sinclair would subsequently purchase the non-license assets of a third Reno station, KRNV-DT, on November 22, 2013. Sinclair could not buy KRNV-DT outright because Reno has only six full-power stations—three too few to legally permit a duopoly. With the sale of KRNV's license to Cunningham, Sinclair now controls half of those stations. The sale also created a situation in which a Fox affiliate is the nominal senior partner in a duopoly involving an NBC affiliate and a "Big Three" station. On August 31, 2018, Sinclair announced that KAME-TV would relaunch as "Nevada Sports Net," which would feature extended coverage of Nevada Wolf Pack athletics, as well as the Reno Aces and the Mountain West Conference. The station would continu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20Investigation%20Team%20%28TV%20series%29
Murder Investigation Team was a British police procedural drama/cop thriller series produced by the ITV network as a spin-off from the long-running series, The Bill. The series recounts the activities of the Metropolitan Police's Murder Investigation Team, who are led by D.I. Vivien Friend (Samantha Spiro) and D.S. Rosie MacManus (Lindsey Coulson). The series, also starring Diane Parish, Steven Pacey (best known for playing Del Tarrant in the 1970s sci-fi drama Blake’s 7) and Michael McKell, produced 12 episodes between 3 May 2003 and 1 August 2005. In September 2005, The Sun reported that ITV would not be commissioning a third series. Background Like The Bill, Murder Investigation Team was filmed in the London Boroughs of Sutton, Merton and Greenwich. Locations included the former Woolwich campus of the University of Greenwich. The first series debuted on 3 May 2003, and ran for eight episodes. This series was filmed with the working title Think Murder, and was produced by Tom Cotter. The first episode featured the team investigating the death of one of The Bills most popular characters, Sgt. Matthew Boyden, who was killed in a drive-by shooting. Several members of The Bills cast also appeared in the episode. The first series also featured guest appearances from such actors as Gary Kemp, Paul Bown and Bradley Walsh. After a two-year hiatus, a second series of four episodes debuted on 11 July 2005. All four episodes had previously been broadcast in February 2005 in Australia. This series features the re-appearance of DC Eva Sharpe, who joined the team, transferring from the CID office at Sun Hill. Each episode in series two was extended by half an hour and was produced by ITV's head of drama, Johnathan Young. Cast and characters Main cast and characters Lindsey Coulson as Sergeant Rosie MacManus (series 1–2), an M.I.T. detective. MacManus has two children, and must balance work and family life. It is for this reason that she remained a D.C. for much of her career. Four months prior to the start of series 2, she is promoted to D.S. at the behest of newly appointed D.C.I. Wishart, who wants to rid M.I.T. of its "old boy's network" mentality. In series 1, she is partnered with D.I. Friend, while in series 2 she is assigned by Hands to oversee the work of Eva Sharpe. Samantha Spiro as Inspector Vivien "Viv" Friend (series 1), a fast tracked, university-educated D.I. and the senior investigating officer of the Metropolitan Police's Murder Investigation Team. In series 1, she is partnered with D.C. MacManus. Friend departs M.I.T. for promotion six months prior to the start of series 2, and is replaced as D.I. by her Sergeant, Trevor Hands. She is described as detached and methodical. Diane Parish as Constable Eva Sharpe (series 2), a D.C. recruited by D.C.I. Wishart from Sun Hill. Eva is described as being sharp by nature, as well as by name, and during her time at borough policing she had earned herself a reputation as a lone wolf whose attit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analyser
An analyser (British English) or analyzer (American English; see spelling differences) is a tool used to analyze data. For example, a gas analyzer tool is used to analyze gases. It examines the given data and tries to find patterns and relationships. An analyser can be a piece of hardware or software. Autoanalysers are machines that perform their work with little human involvement. Operation Analysis can be done directly on samples or the analyser can process data acquired from a remote sensor. The source of samples for automatic sampling is commonly some kind of industrial process. Analysers that are connected to a process and conduct automatic sampling, can be called online (or on-line) analysers or sometimes inline (or in-line) analysers. For inline analysis, a sensor can be placed in a process vessel or stream of flowing material. Another method of online analysis is allowing a sample stream to flow from the process equipment into an analyser, sometimes conditioning the sample stream e.g., by reducing pressure or changing the sample temperature. Many analysers are not designed to withstand high pressure. Such sampling is typically for fluids (either liquids or gases). If the sample stream is not substantially modified by the analyser, it can be returned to the process. Otherwise, the sample stream is discarded; for example, if reagents were added. Pressure can be lowered by a pressure reducing valve. Such valves may be used to control the flow rate to the online analyser. The temperature of a hot sample may be lowered by use of an online sample cooler. Analysis can be done periodically (for example, every 15 minutes), or continuously. For periodic sampling, valves (or other devices) can be switched open to allow a fluid sample stream to flow to the analyser and shut when not sampling. Some methods of inline analysis are so simple, such as electrical conductivity or pH, the instruments are usually not even called analysers. Salinity determined from simple online analysis is often determined from a conductivity measurement where the output signal is calibrated in terms of salinity concentration (for example ppm of NaCl). Various types of other analyses can be devised. Physical properties can include electrical conductivity (or effectively electrical resistivity), refractive index, and radioactivity measurement. Simple processes that use inline electrical conductivity determination are water purification processes which test how effectively salts have been removed from the output water. Electrical conductivity variations include cation and anion conductivity. Chromatography such as ion chromatography or HPLC often tests the output stream continuously by measuring electrical conductivity, particularly cation or anion conductivity, refractive index, colorimetry or ultraviolet/visible absorbance at a certain wavelength. InlineOnline and offline analysers are available for other types of analytes. Many of these add reagents to the samples or sam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29
Mayday, alternatively known as Air Crash Investigation(s) on Seven Network, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, alternatively known as Air Crash: Disaster Revealed on 5Select, and some Asian and European countries, and Air Emergency, Air Disasters, and Mayday: Air Disaster in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television program examining air crashes, near-crashes, hijackings, bombings, and other disasters. Mayday uses re-enactments and computer-generated imagery to reconstruct the sequence of events leading up to each disaster. In addition, survivors, aviation experts, retired pilots, and crash investigators are interviewed, to explain how the emergencies came about, how they were investigated, and how they might have been prevented. Cineflix started production on , with a budget. In Canada itself, the program premiered on Discovery Channel Canada on 3 September 2003. Cineflix also secured deals with France 5, Discovery Channel, Canal D, TVNZ, Seven Network, Holland Media Group, and National Geographic Channel to take Mayday in 144 countries and 26 languages. The series was received well by critics and nominated for a number of awards. In 2010, Sharon Zupancic won a Gemini Award for her work on the season-seven episode, "Lockerbie Disaster", that depicts the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. A University of New South Wales senior lecturer, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. Lewis's results indicated using the strategy had "a positive effect on learning outcomes" for prospective pilots. Hallmarks The series features re-enactments, interviews, eyewitness testimony, computer-generated imagery, and in nearly all of the episodes, voice-actor readings of cockpit voice recorder (CVR) transcripts to reconstruct the sequence of events for the audience. Several passengers and crew members (whether they survived the incident or not) are picked and actors/actresses play the roles of those passengers and crew throughout the flight, usually starting from boarding of the flight. The flight routines in the air traffic control, cockpit, and cabin are recreated on screen starting from departure up to the moment of the emergency. At the moment of the emergency, external views of the aircraft from different angles are recreated to show the effect and what had happened to the aircraft. The responses and reactions of the passengers, crews, and air traffic control personnel leading up to the eventual crash or emergency landing are then recreated. Scenes in the cockpit and air traffic control centres are recreated using the transcript obtained from the CVR of the aircraft and other recordings made at the time. Throughout the episodes, the victims (or the relatives and friends of the victims) are interviewed, adding further information about a case as it relates to them personally. In addition, aviation experts, retired pilots, and investigators are interviewed on the evidence and ex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinja%20%28template%20engine%29
Jinja is a web template engine for the Python programming language. It was created by Armin Ronacher and is licensed under a BSD License. Jinja is similar to the Django template engine but provides Python-like expressions while ensuring that the templates are evaluated in a sandbox. It is a text-based template language and thus can be used to generate any markup as well as source code. The Jinja template engine allows customization of tags, filters (for formatting or transforming values), tests (for evaluating conditions), and globals. Also, unlike the Django template engine, Jinja allows the template designer to call functions with arguments on objects. Jinja is Flask's default template engine and it is also used by Ansible, Trac, and Salt. It is also used to make SQL macros, for example for use with dbt. Features Some of the features of Jinja are: sandboxed execution automatic HTML escaping to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks template inheritance compiles down to the optimal Python code just-in-time optional ahead-of-time template compilation easy to debug (for example, line numbers of exceptions directly point to the correct line in the template) configurable syntax Jinja, like Smarty, also ships with an easy-to-use filter system similar to the Unix pipeline. Syntax The syntax for printing output in Jinja is using the double curly braces, for example {{ Hello, World! }}. Statements which set variables in jinja or those which do not have an output can be wrapped within {% and %}, using the set keyword. For example {% set foo = 42 %} sets a variable called foo with a value of 42. Similar to above, comments in jinja can be written using hashtag (#) instead of a percentage (%), for example, {# helpful comment #}. The syntax for creating a filter in Jinja is a vertical bar (|), for example {{ variable|filter }}. A variable can have multiple filters, for example {{ variable|filter|filter }}). The syntax for creating a test in Jinja is the keyword is as well as the conditions for evaluating the validity of a test, such as for example {% if variable is divisibleby 10 %}do something{% endif %}). For loops can be used to iterate over sequences, while retaining their object properties. The following example demonstrates iterating over a list of users with and fields. {% for user in users %} {{ user.username }} {{ user.password }} {% endfor %} Although and are not allowed inside loops, sequences can be filtered. Example Here is a small example of a template file example.html.jinja: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>{{ variable|escape }}</title> </head> <body> {%- for item in item_list %} {{ item }}{% if not loop.last %},{% endif %} {%- endfor %} </body> </html> and templating code: from jinja2 import Template with open('example.html.jinja') as f: tmpl = Template(f.read()) print(tmpl.render( variable = 'Value with <unsafe> data', item_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] )) This produces th
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing%20network
A crossing network is an alternative trading system (ATS) that matches buy and sell orders electronically for execution without first routing the order to an exchange or other public displayed market such as an electronic communication network (ECN). Such crossing networks are a type of dark pool that employ computerized systems to match buyers and sellers of large blocks of shares without using a stock exchange. The advantage of the crossing network is the ability to execute a large block order without impacting the public quote and avoidance of market impact (i.e., the movements in a stock's price due to an investor's indication of interest). These networks are often owned and operated by broker-dealers to match buyers and sellers of large blocks of shares. Depending on the particular broker-dealer's system and the type of securities traded (e.g., exchange-listed or OTC securities), these crosses could occur at various times during the day, or after the close of trading, and could be priced at the last sale price or some other objective price, such as the midpoint between the bid and offer or the volume weighted average price (VWAP). Crossing networks tend to be used for highly liquid stocks and offer money managers the advantages of very low commissions, anonymity for the buying or selling, and avoidance of market impact. , examples of crossing networks included Liquidnet, Pipeline Trading Systems, ITG POSIT and Goldman Sachs' SIGMA X. References Financial markets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simian%20%28band%29
Simian were an English rock band, formed in Manchester in 2000. Members Simon William Lord (vocals, lead guitar, drum programming) Alex MacNaghten (bass) James Anthony Shaw (keyboards, drum programming, percussion) James Ellis Ford (drums, drum programming) Touring members Michael Tighe - additional guitar, keyboards, percussion (2003) History Simian were formed while members of the band were studying at Manchester University. MacNaghten, Shaw and Ford were formerly members of live breakbeat project King Rib, alongside MC Mr. Wrong and DJ Silver. Main releases Their debut album Chemistry Is What We Are was first released in the UK on 9 July 2001 on Source Records and in the US on 18 September 2001 on Astralwerks. The US edition contained two bonus tracks, "The Tale of Willow Hill" and "Grey", that had previously been released in the UK as part of The Wisp and Watch It Glow EPs respectively. Their second album, We Are Your Friends was released in the UK on 28 October 2002 (on Source Records) and in the US on 29 October 2002 (on Astralwerks). The Japanese release (26 March 2003) also included the bonus tracks, "Out of Bed", "Coins" and "Reasons", the first two of which had previously been released in the UK as B-sides of the "Never Be Alone" single. Other work In 2000, the band recorded a cover version of the Prince song "Under the Cherry Moon" from his album Parade (1986). This song was released on the tribute album, If I Was Prince (2001). The band remixed various tracks by other artists, including "Playgirl" by Ladytron, "AM/PM" by Appliance, "Destiny" by Zero 7, and "Papua New Guinea" by The Future Sound of London. In 2005, their song "La Breeze" was featured in a Peugeot 1007 television advertisement. It was also used in the 2007 Dove advertisement "Onslaught". Split The band split up in 2005 with Ford and Shaw forming the spin-off group Simian Mobile Disco. The new group is more dance-oriented and are in demand as remixers and DJs. Ford is also in the baroque pop group The Last Shadow Puppets with Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner. Lord is now in The Black Ghosts, an electronica act with DJ Touche from The Wiseguys. Justice Remix In 2006, the single "We Are Your Friends", which is a remix of their song "Never Be Alone", was released on a reactivated Virgin Records subsidiary label called Ten Records. This single was credited to "Justice vs Simian", and started life as a submission by the French music group Justice in a remix competition. The video for the single won the award for best video at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards. At the awards ceremony, fellow nominee Kanye West appeared on stage to complain about the Justice vs Simian victory. "Illmerica" (by Wolfgang Gartner) was, in turn, mashed up with "We Are Your Friends" to form the track "Illmerica Are Your Friends" by Australian DJ Steve Camp; the song became popular after it was played as the opening track on episode 186 of Tiësto's radio show Club Life in 2010. In 2011,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail%20recursive%20parser
In computer science, tail recursive parsers are a derivation from the more common recursive descent parsers. Tail recursive parsers are commonly used to parse left recursive grammars. They use a smaller amount of stack space than regular recursive descent parsers. They are also easy to write. Typical recursive descent parsers make parsing left recursive grammars impossible (because of an infinite loop problem). Tail recursive parsers use a node reparenting technique that makes this allowable. Example Given an EBNF Grammar such as the following: E: T T: T { '+' F } | F F: F { '*' I } | I I: <identifier> A simple tail recursive parser can be written much like a recursive descent parser. The typical algorithm for parsing a grammar like this using an abstract syntax tree is: Parse the next level of the grammar and get its output tree, designate it the first tree, While there is terminating token, , that can be put as the parent of this node: Allocate a new node, Set 's current operator as the current input token Advance the input one token Set 's left subtree as Parse another level down again and store this as the next tree, Set 's right subtree as Set to Return A basic example of this kind of parser in C is shown here. Implementation details have been omitted for simplicity. typedef struct _exptree exptree; struct _exptree { char token; exptree *left; exptree *right; }; exptree *parse_e(void) { return parse_t(); } exptree *parse_t(void) { exptree *first_f = parse_f(); while (cur_token() == '+') { exptree *replace_tree = alloc_tree(); replace_tree->token = cur_token(); replace_tree->left = first_f; next_token(); replace_tree->right = parse_f(); first_f = replace_tree; } return first_f; } exptree *parse_f(void) { exptree *first_i = parse_i(); while (cur_token() == '*') { exptree *replace_tree = alloc_tree(); replace_tree->token = cur_token(); replace_tree->left = first_i; next_token(); replace_tree->right = parse_i(); first_i = replace_tree; } return first_i; } exptree *parse_i(void) { exptree *i = alloc_tree(); i->left = i->right = NULL; i->token = cur_token(); next_token(); return i; } See also META II Further reading Article in the January 2006 edition of Dr. Dobbs Journal, "Recursive Descent, Tail Recursion, & the Dreaded Double Divide" Parsing algorithms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ESPN%20personalities
Present television personalities on the ESPN network. Current ESPN personalities Analysts Troy Aikman (2022-present): Monday Night Football Eric Allen (2002–present): NFL Live Teddy Atlas (1998–present): Friday Night Fights Jon Barry (2006–present): NBA on ESPN Jay Bilas (1995–present): College GameDay (basketball) and ESPN College Basketball Aaron Boulding (2005–present): video game Hubie Brown: (2005–present) NBA on ABC and NBA on ESPN Ryan Callahan (2021-present): NHL on ESPN Cassie Campbell-Pascall (2021-present): NHL on ESPN Lee Corso (1987–present): College GameDay (football) Rick DiPietro (2021-present): NHL on ESPN Ray Ferraro (2002-2004, 2021-present): NHL on ESPN Fran Fraschilla (2004–present): ESPN College Basketball Rod Gilmore: ESPN College Football Friday Primetime Mike Golic (1995–2020): Golic and Wingo Scott Goodyear (2001–present): IndyCar Series Tim Hasselbeck (2008–present): NFL Live Kirk Herbstreit (1995–present): College GameDay (football) and ESPN Saturday Night Football on ABC Desmond Howard (2005–present): College GameDay (football) Quint Kessenich (2005–present): lacrosse and ESPN College Football and ESPN College Basketball Mel Kiper, Jr. (1984–present): NFL Draft and scouting Hilary Knight (2021-present): NHL on ESPN Tim Kurkjian (1998–present): Baseball Tonight Tim Legler (2000–present): NBA on ESPN, NBA Shootaround and NBA Fastbreak Trevor Matich: ESPN College Football Mark May: ESPN College Football Lon McEachern (1994–present): poker Greg McElroy (2015–present): ESPN College Football Patrick McEnroe (1995–present): tennis Steve McManaman (2010–present): soccer Todd McShay: ESPN College Football and NFL Draft scouting Barry Melrose (1995-2008, 2009–2023): NHL on ESPN Mark Messier (2021-present): NHL on ESPN A. J. Mleczko (2021-present): NHL on ESPN Dominic Moore (2021-present): NHL on ESPN Chris Mortensen: Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown David Norrie: College Football on ABC and ESPN College Football Andy North (2004–present): golf Buster Olney (2003–present): Baseball Tonight Jesse Palmer: College Football on ABC and ESPN College Football Thursday Primetime Jeff Passan (2019—present): MLB David Pollack: ESPNU College Football and College GameDay (football) Derek Rae (1994–present): Champions League coverage Jordan Rodgers (2016–present): ESPN College Football Jalen Rose (2007–present): NBA on ESPN Adam Schefter 2009–present: NFL programming Mark Schlereth (2002–2017): NFL Live Chris Singleton: Baseball Tonight and Monday Night Baseball Michael Smith (2003–present): Around the Horn, NFL Live, and E:60 Matt Stinchcomb: ESPNU College Football John Tortorella (2021–2022): NHL on ESPN Bob Valvano: ESPN College Basketball Jeff Van Gundy: NBA on ESPN Fernando Viña: Baseball Tonight Dick Vitale (1982–present): ESPN College Basketball Jay Walker: ESPNU College Football Andre Ware: ESPN College Football Kevin Weekes (2021-present): NHL on ESPN Jay W
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL%20Manager
MySQL Manager is an application that is included in the Mac OS X Server that starts and stops the MySQL Database service that is within the server. The application is located in . Unlike other server tools, this tool is only installed on the server itself. External links https://www.apple.com/server/macosx/ MacOS Server
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Point-to-Point%20Encryption
Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) encrypts data in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)-based dial-up connections or Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) virtual private network (VPN) connections. 128-bit key (strong), 56-bit key, and 40-bit key (standard) MPPE encryption schemes are supported. MPPE provides data security for the PPTP connection that is between the VPN client and the VPN server. MPPE alone does not compress or expand data, but the protocol is often used in conjunction with Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression which compresses data across PPP or VPN links. Negotiation of MPPE happens within the Compression Control Protocol (CCP), a subprotocol of PPP. This can lead to incorrect belief that it is a compression protocol. RFC 3078, which defines this protocol, defines RC4 with either 40-bit or 128-bit key lengths as the only encryption options with this protocol. External links (the protocol), (deriving initial session keys) MPPE, Microsoft Point-To-Point Encryption Protocol Broken cryptography algorithms Cryptographic protocols Internet protocols Microsoft Windows security technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthTV
EarthTV Network GmbH is a German satellite Television Network, which airs live broadcasts from its camera network around the world. Cameras are located in well-known cities as well as lesser-known locations. EarthTV cameras usually feature beaches, mountains, seaside resorts, or skylines of major cities. They have over 70 cameras and air the World Live program, featuring 7 locations in 90 seconds, which is shown in 200 countries, reaching more than 2 billion viewers daily. The cameras for live streaming are fully remote-controlled from the broadcast centre in Munich. The programme, featuring cities and landscapes, is transmitted from the headquarters in Munich. From there, they are sent to worldwide partners under the name World Live and similar formats such as Prayer Times and The Weather Today, claiming to reach 2 billion viewers in 200 countries, available in 10 languages and broadcast across 40 TV stations. Earth Television Network GmbH (EarthTV), a company under Telecast Media Group (founded in 1985), produces, processes, manages and distributes broadcast quality video content from destinations around the world for use on the internet, mobile phones, info-screens and television. At the beginning of the millennium, EarthTV set up a network of fully remote-controlled TV cameras with motion control heads and zoom lenses, delivering live video feeds in broadcast quality, day and night (EarthTV cameras work well in low-light conditions). The unique technology and hardware of EarthTV equipment are the exclusive property of EarthTV protected by several international patents. History In 2009, the BBC selected EarthTV.com as one of the best websites: "The quality of the EarthTV feeds is exceptional". In the same year, EarthTV launched its video player, which features a growing number of mainly weather and news-related websites. Programmes The World Live Motion Timelapse Seasonal Motion Timelapse Earthquiz World Weather Best of the Month Best of World Live El Mundo en Directo (Spanish) The World Programmes What a World! What a Day! What a Month! World Cup Countdown World Cultural Events The programmes are aired on a multitude of news, travel and geographic channels throughout the globe, including Bloomberg TV, N24, Wetter.com TV, France 2, Jurnal TV, Power TV, ON E, Al Arabiya, Al Iraqiya, Al Sharqiya, Saudi Broadcasting Corporation, Oman TV, Kurdsat, TVB Jade and SBS. Music The music from EarthTV is on the CD Earthgrooves. Volumes 1 and 2 are available via iTunes. References External links Television stations in Germany Television in Germany Mass media in Berlin Mass media companies established in 1985 Meteorological organisations based in Germany 1985 establishments in West Germany Television channels and stations established in 1998 1998 establishments in Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUAR
KUAR (89.1 MHz "FM 89") is a public radio station in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a network affiliate of National Public Radio (NPR) and is licensed to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. During the day, KUAR airs NPR news, talk and information programming as well as Arkansas news and culture. At night, the station airs jazz music. Programming is simulcast on a translator station, 94.5 K233AD in Monticello. KUAR's transmitter shares the tower of Channel 7 KATV, on Two Towers Road in Little Rock. KLRE-FM (90.5 MHz "Classical 90.5") is also a public radio station in Little Rock, licensed to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. KLRE is a full-time classical music station, airing syndicated classical programming from Classical 24 and NPR, along with some local hosts. KLRE's transmitter is on the campus of Metropolitan High School, off Scott Hamilton Drive. The two stations have studios and offices on Asher Avenue in Little Rock's University District. A full-time staff of nine people run the operation, including Interim General Manager/Program Director Nathan Vandiver, Operations Director William Wagner, News Director Michael Hibblen, and Development Director Vanessa McKuin. The stations also offers UALR students the chance to get broadcasting experience by working part-time. Like most public broadcasting operations, KUAR and KLRE rely on listener contributions for a large part of their operating budgets and several times each year hold on-air fund raisers. History In 1972, the Little Rock School District was planning a new vocational high school and wanted to include a small FM radio station to train students in the field of broadcasting. In February 1973, 90.5 KLRE-FM first signed on. At first, KLRE was powered at only 3,600 watts on a 265 foot tower, so its coverage was limited to the city of Little Rock and adjacent communities. It was on the air during school hours, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., airing educational and classroom programming, largely staffed by students and teachers. In 1977, the "Friends of KLRE" was formed to support the station, which expanded its hours, on the air from 6:30 a.m. till 10 p.m., playing classical music in the evening and, beginning in 1978, on weekends as well. Also in 1978, the Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation was formed to take over the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license. In 1982, UALR received an FCC construction permit to build an additional non-commercial FM station at 89.1. In 1983 KLRE's power was increased to its current 40,000 watts, covering Little Rock and its suburbs, adding NPR programs such as All Things Considered and A Prairie Home Companion the following year. On September 16, 1986, KUAR began broadcasting. It is powered at 100,000 watts, the maximum permitted by the FCC for non-grandfathered FM stations, covering most of Central Arkansas. At first, KUAR and KLRE simulcast their programming. But in 1988, the two stations began carrying separate shows duri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb%20Southern
Caleb August Southern (December 26, 1969 – July 6, 2023) was an American musician, record producer and computer science lecturer at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was referred to as the "fourth member" of Ben Folds Five. Early life Caleb August Southern was born on December 26, 1969, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to David Southern and Susan Naumoff. He attended Jordan High School, where he formed a band called "The Ledbetters". They played a gig at Cat's Cradle in 1988. Southern completed his bachelor's in mathematics and computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996, having paused his education while touring with Ben Folds Five. Career In the early 1990s, Caleb founded Kraptone Studios, where he produced for Ben Folds Five and Archers of Loaf. As of 2002, he was a member of Partners Against Crime, District 5. Ben Folds has called him the "fourth member" of Ben Folds Five. He collaborated with Ben Folds on their album Fear of Pop, as well. Southern began a PhD at Georgia Tech in 2010, focusing on human–computer interaction for mobile devices. He was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in 2012. Personal life and death Southern was married to Josephine Worthington. They lived together in Atlanta, Georgia, where he died on July 6, 2023, at the age of 53. Select production credits Archers of Loaf, Icky Mettle (1993) Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds Five (1995) Ben Folds Five, Whatever and Ever Amen (1997) Ben Folds Five, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner (1999) Select publications References External Links 1969 births 2023 deaths American computer scientists Musicians from Durham, North Carolina Record producers from North Carolina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-founded%20semantics
In computer science, the well-founded semantics is a semantics for logic programming. It defines how to make conclusions from a set of logical rules. In logic programming, a computer receives a set of facts, and a set of "inference rules" about how these facts relate. The well-founded semantics is one way to define the precise meaning of such logic programs. History The well-founded semantics was defined by Van Gelder, et al. in 1991. Three-valued logic The well-founded semantics can be viewed as a three-valued version of stable model semantics. Instead of only assigning propositions true or false, it adds a value for representing ignorance. For example, given: Specimen A is a moth if specimen A does not fly during daylight. but whether specimen A flies during the day is unknown, the well-founded semantics would assign the proposition "specimen A is a moth" the value bottom, which is neither true nor false. Applications The well-founded semantics is a way of making safe inferences in the presence of contradictory data such as noisy data, or data acquired from experts who promote varying opinions. Many two-valued semantics do not consider such a problem state workable. Well-founded semantics, however, circumvents the contradictions and proceeds to derive as many two-valued facts as possible, even though some consequences may remain unknown. Complexity The fastest known algorithm to compute well-founded semantics, is of quadratic time complexity. References Logic programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricart%E2%80%93Agrawala%20algorithm
The Ricart–Agrawala algorithm is an algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. This algorithm is an extension and optimization of Lamport's Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm, by removing the need for messages. It was developed by computer scientists Glenn Ricart and Ashok Agrawala. Algorithm Terminology A site is any computing device which runs the Ricart-Agrawala Algorithm The requesting site is the site which is requesting to enter the critical section. The receiving site is every other site which is receiving a request from the requesting site. Algorithm Requesting Site Sends a message to all sites. This message includes the site's name, and the current timestamp of the system according to its logical clock (which is assumed to be synchronized with the other sites) Receiving Site Upon reception of a request message, immediately sending a timestamped reply message if and only if: the receiving process is not currently interested in the critical section OR the receiving process has a lower priority (''usually this means having a later timestamp) Otherwise, the receiving process will defer the reply message. This means that a reply will be sent only after the receiving process has finished using the critical section itself. Critical Section: Requesting site enters its critical section only after receiving all reply messages. Upon exiting the critical section, the site sends all deferred reply messages. Performance Max number of network messages: Synchronization Delays: One message propagation delay Common optimizations Once site has received a message from site , site may enter the critical section multiple times without receiving permission from on subsequent attempts up to the moment when has sent a message to . This is called Roucairol-Carvalho optimization or Roucairol-Carvalho algorithm. Problems One of the problems in this algorithm is failure of a node. In such a situation a process may starve forever. This problem can be solved by detecting failure of nodes after some timeout. See also Lamport's bakery algorithm Lamport's distributed mutual exclusion algorithm Maekawa's algorithm Suzuki–Kasami algorithm Raymond's algorithm Naimi–Trehel's algorithm References Maekawa, M.,Oldehoeft, A.,Oldehoeft, R.(1987). Operating Systems: Advanced Concept.Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc. Distributed algorithms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Ybarra
Joseph Ybarra (born ~1954) is an American producer and designer of video games. He left Apple Computer in 1982 to work at the new Electronic Arts that was founded by his fellow ex-employee Trip Hawkins. He was the original producer of the first Madden NFL. As one of the original game producers at EA, Ybarra worked on acclaimed games such as M.U.L.E., Seven Cities of Gold, Starflight, and the first version of Madden NFL. Ybarra later served as the president of Infocom and produced MMORPGs for Sierra Online and Monolith Productions. He also held a position at Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, which eventually filed for bankruptcy. In 2013, Ybarra launched a Kickstarter for a simulation game called Shackleton Crater, which ultimately did not meet its funding goals. Professional biography Joe Ybarra worked at Apple Computer before leaving in 1982 to work at Electronic Arts, a startup company founded by his fellow ex-Apple employee, Trip Hawkins. There he became one of the original game producers and game designers at Electronic Arts in 1982 (along with Stewart Bonn, Dave Evans (Apple), Susan Lee-Merrow and Pat Marriott), where the concept of a game producer was created by Trip Hawkins. During this time he produced several highly acclaimed computer games, including M.U.L.E. by Dani Bunten and Ozark Softscape, Seven Cities of Gold (also by Bunten), Starflight and Dr. J. and Larry Bird Go One on One by Eric Hammond. Ybarra was also the original producer on the first version of Madden NFL. He later became president of game publisher Infocom and produced MMORPGs for Sierra Online and Monolith Productions. He had been working with Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment and its subsidiary FireSky on the Stargate Worlds MMO as Senior Vice President of Strategic Operations. However, Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment filed for bankruptcy on February 12, 2010 and no longer sells or operates Stargate: Resistance. On March 11, 2013 Joe Ybarra announced a Kickstarter project for a simulation game called Shackleton Crater, billed as "the lunar colonization strategy game based on today's science and tomorrow's dream." However, it was closed down before achieving its funding goals. Video games produced or designed by Joe Ybarra Alien Legacy Earth Orbit Stations M.U.L.E. John Madden Football Dr. J. and Larry Bird Go One on One Shadowbane Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor Starflight Stargate Worlds The Bard's Tale The Matrix Online Seven Cities of Gold The Shadow of Yserbius References External links Electronic Arts employees Infocom Living people Madden NFL Video game producers American video game designers Year of birth missing (living people)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TASSL
The Application Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL) is a research lab, as a part of Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP), and Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering at Rutgers University . It is under the direction of Dr. Manish Parashar and the current research fields include Autonomic Computing, Parallel Computing and Distributed Computing, Grid Computing, Peer-to-peer Computing, Adaptive Computing Systems, and Scientific Computation.. It is one of the leading research groups in the field of Autonomic Computing and adaptive computation systems. External links CAIP Artificial intelligence laboratories Research institutes in New Jersey Computer science institutes in the United States Laboratories in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Windows%20XP
Criticism of Windows XP deals with issues with security, performance and the presence of product activation errors that are specific to the Microsoft operating system Windows XP. Security issues Windows XP has been criticized for its vulnerabilities due to buffer overflows and its susceptibility to malware such as viruses, trojan horses, and worms. Nicholas Petreley for The Register notes that "Windows XP was the first version of Windows to reflect a serious effort to isolate users from the system, so that users each have their own private files and limited system privileges." However, users by default receive an administrator account that provides unrestricted access to the underpinnings of the system. If the administrator's account is compromised, there is no limit to the control that can be asserted over the PC. Windows XP Home Edition also lacks the ability to administer security policies and denies access to the Local Users and Groups utility. Microsoft stated that the release of security patches is often what causes the spread of exploits against those very same flaws, as crackers figure out what problems the patches fix and then launch attacks against unpatched systems. For example, in August 2003 the Blaster worm exploited a vulnerability present in every unpatched installation of Windows XP, and was capable of compromising a system even without user action. In May 2004 the Sasser worm spread by using a buffer overflow in a remote service present on every installation. Patches to prevent both of these well-known worms had already been released by Microsoft. Increasingly widespread use of Service Pack 2 and greater use of personal firewalls may also contribute to making worms like these less common. Many attacks against Windows XP systems come in the form of trojan horse e-mail attachments which contain worms. A user who opens the attachment can unknowingly infect his or her own computer, which may then e-mail the worm to more people. Notable worms of this sort that have infected Windows XP systems include Mydoom, Netsky and Bagle. To discourage users from running such programs, Service Pack 2 includes the Attachment Execution Service which records the origin of files downloaded with Internet Explorer or received as an attachment in Outlook Express. If a user tries to run a program downloaded from an untrusted security zone, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 will prompt the user with a warning. Spyware and adware are a continuing problem on Windows XP and other versions of Windows. Spyware is also a concern for Microsoft with regard to service pack updates; Barry Goff, a group product manager at Microsoft, said some spyware could cause computers to freeze up upon installation of Service Pack 2. In January 2005, Microsoft released a free beta version of Windows Defender which removes some spyware and adware from computers. Windows XP offers some useful security benefits, such as Windows Update, which can be set to install security patches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docstring
In programming, a docstring is a string literal specified in source code that is used, like a comment, to document a specific segment of code. Unlike conventional source code comments, or even specifically formatted comments like docblocks, docstrings are not stripped from the source tree when it is parsed and are retained throughout the runtime of the program. This allows the programmer to inspect these comments at run time, for instance as an interactive help system, or as metadata. Languages that support docstrings include Python, Lisp, Elixir, Clojure, Gherkin, Julia and Haskell. Implementation examples Elixir Documentation is supported at language level, in the form of docstrings. Markdown is Elixir's de facto markup language of choice for use in docstrings: def module MyModule do @moduledoc """ Documentation for my module. With **formatting**. """ @doc "Hello" def world do "World" end end Lisp In Lisp, docstrings are known as documentation strings. The Common Lisp standard states that a particular implementation may choose to discard docstrings whenever they want, for whatever reason. When they are kept, docstrings may be viewed and changed using the DOCUMENTATION function. For instance: (defun foo () "hi there" nil) (documentation #'foo 'function) => "hi there" Python The common practice of documenting a code object at the head of its definition is captured by the addition of docstring syntax in the Python language. The docstring for a Python code object (a module, class, or function) is the first statement of that code object, immediately following the definition (the 'def' or 'class' statement). The statement must be a bare string literal, not any other kind of expression. The docstring for the code object is available on that code object's __doc__ attribute and through the help function. The following Python file shows the declaration of docstrings within a Python source file: """The module's docstring""" class MyClass: """The class's docstring""" def my_method(self): """The method's docstring""" def my_function(): """The function's docstring""" Assuming that the above code was saved as , the following is an interactive session showing how the docstrings may be accessed: >>> import mymodule >>> help(mymodule) The module's docstring >>> help(mymodule.MyClass) The class's docstring >>> help(mymodule.MyClass.my_method) The method's docstring >>> help(mymodule.my_function) The function's docstring >>> Tools using docstrings cobra -doc (Cobra) doctest (Python) Epydoc (Python) Pydoc (Python) Sphinx (Python) See also Literate programming – alternative code commenting paradigm Plain Old Documentation – Perl documentation References External links Python Docstrings at Epydoc's SourceForge page Documentation in GNU Emacs Lisp Section from the doxygen documentation about Python docstrings Programming constructs Lisp (programming language) Python (programming language) Software documentation St
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maekawa%27s%20algorithm
Maekawa's algorithm is an algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. The basis of this algorithm is a quorum-like approach where any one site needs only to seek permissions from a subset of other sites. Algorithm Terminology A site is any computing device which runs the Maekawa's algorithm For any one request of entering the critical section: The requesting site is the site which is requesting to enter the critical section. The receiving site is every other site which is receiving the request from the requesting site. ts refers to the local time stamp of the system according to its logical clock Algorithm Requesting site: A requesting site sends a message to all sites in its quorum set . Receiving site: Upon reception of a message, the receiving site will: If site does not have an outstanding message (that is, a message that has not been released), then site sends a message to site . If site has an outstanding message with a process with higher priority than the request, then site sends a message to site and site queues the request from site . If site has an outstanding message with a process with lower priority than the request, then site sends an message to the process which has currently been granted access to the critical section by site . (That is, the site with the outstanding message.) Upon reception of a message, the site will: Send a message to site if and only if site has received a message from some other site or if has sent a yield to some other site but have not received a new . Upon reception of a message, site will: Send a message to the request on the top of its own request queue. Note that the requests at the top are the highest priority. Place into its request queue. Upon reception of a message, site will: Delete from its request queue. Send a message to the request on the top of its request queue. Critical section: Site enters the critical section on receiving a message from all sites in . Upon exiting the critical section, sends a message to all sites in . Quorum set (): A quorum set must abide by the following properties: Site is contained in exactly request sets Therefore: Performance Number of network messages; to Synchronization delay: 2 message propagation delays The algorithm can deadlock without protections in place. See also Lamport's bakery algorithm Lamport's Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm Ricart–Agrawala algorithm Raymond's algorithm References M. Maekawa, "A √N algorithm for mutual exclusion in decentralized systems”, ACM Transactions in Computer Systems, vol. 3., no. 2., pp. 145–159, 1985. Mamoru Maekawa, Arthur E. Oldehoeft, Rodney R. Oldehoeft (1987). Operating Systems: Advanced Concept. Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc. B. Sanders (1987). The Information Structure of Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithms. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 145–59. Concurrency contro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Entertainment
was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its former members went on to form new companies including Nude Maker, Sandlot, Spike, and Grasshopper Manufacture. The company is known for originating the popular Fire Pro Wrestling series, as well as other sports games such as Formation Soccer and Final Match Tennis, and racing video games such as Human Grand Prix and Fastest 1. They are also known for developing the first music rhythm video game, Dance Aerobics (1987), the 3D open world game Mizzurna Falls (1998), and some early horror games including the Twilight Syndrome and Clock Tower series. History On November 1, 1999, Human Corporation began to negotiate restructure with Tokyo Hachiōji district court over the approximately 4 billion yen outstanding debt. As part of the deal, the game creator school subsidiary was to be transferred. At the same time, the rights of Fire Pro Wrestling series, Twilight Syndrome series, Bakusou Dekotora series went to Spike Co., Ltd. In January 2000, Human Corporation declared bankruptcy for failing to negotiate for a restructuring deal over the 3.79 billion yen (as of November 1999) outstanding debt. Former Human members went on to form different development teams including Nude Maker, Sandlot, and Spike, and notable member Goichi Suda formed his own company, Grasshopper Manufacture, with former members. Games Developed by Human Entertainment Arcade Front Row (unreleased) Mad Dancing (unreleased) Grand Striker - Human Cup (released 1993) Blazing Tornado (released 1994) Grand Striker 2 (released 1996) Famicom Disk System The Mysterious Murasame Castle (released 1986) Game Boy HAL Wrestling (released 1990) SD Gundam Gaiden: Lacroan Heroes (released on October 6, 1990) Nintendo Entertainment System Adventures of Gilligan's Island Athletic World Dance Aerobics Egypt Exciting Rally: World Rally Championship Gyrodine Kabuki: Quantum Fighter Kamen Rider Black Karakuri Kengoden Musashi Lord: Karakuri Jin Hashiru! Meimon! Daisan Yakyuubu Monster Party Motocross Champion Venus Wars Stadium Events SD Gundam World Gachapon Senshi 2 - Capsule Senki Super Team Games Top Rider Nintendo 64 Air Boarder 64 (released March 27, 1998) F1 Pole Position 64 (released October 15, 1997) PC Engine F1 Triple Battle (released 1989) Fire Pro Wrestling Combination Tag (released June 22, 1989) Fire Pro Wrestling 2nd Bout (released August 30, 1991) Fire Pro Wrestling 3: Legend Bout (released 1992) Fire Pro Women-ALL WOMEN VS JWP (released 1995) Final Match Tennis (released 1991) Formation Soccer-Human Cup 90 (released 1990) FORMATION SOCCER ON J LEAGUE (released 1994) FORMATION SOCCER '95 DELLA SERIE A (released 1995) Human Sports Festival (released 1992) NEO METAL FANTASY (released 1992) Space Bat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgins%20project
Higgins is an open-source project dedicated to giving individuals more control over their personal identity, profile and social network data. The project is organized into three main areas: Active Clients — An active client integrates with a browser and runs on a computer or mobile device. Higgins 1. X: the active client supports the OASIS IMI protocol and performs the functions of an Information Card selector. Higgins 2.0: the plan is to move beyond selector functionality to add support for managing passwords and Higgins relationship cards, as well other protocols such as OpenID. It also becomes a client for the Personal Data Store (see below) and thereby provides a kind of dashboard for personal information and a place to manage "permissioning" — deciding who gets access to what slice of the user's data. Personal Data Store (PDS) is a new work area under development for Higgins 2.0. A PDS stores local personal data, controls access to remotely hosted personal data, synchronizes personal data to other devices and computers, accessed directly or via a PDS client it allows the user to share selected aspects of their information with people and organizations that they trust. Identity Services — Code for (i) an IMI and SAML compatible Identity Provider, and (ii) enabling websites to be IMI and OpenID compatible. History The initial code for the Higgins Project was written by Paul Trevithick in the summer of 2003. In 2004 the effort became part of SocialPhysics.org, a collaboration between Paul and Mary Ruddy, of Azigo, (formerly Parity Communications, Inc.), and Meristic, and John Clippinger, at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Higgins, under its original name Eclipse Trust Framework, was accepted into the Eclipse Foundation in early 2005. Mary and Paul are the project co-leads. IBM and Novell's participation in the project was announced in early 2006. Higgins has received technology contributions from IBM, Novell, Oracle, CA, Serena, Google, eperi GmbH as well as from several other firms and individuals. Version 1.0 was released in February 2008. As of 2019 Eclipse Higgins is archived, meaning that it is an inactive project. See also Windows CardSpace (formerly code-named InfoCard) I-Card Information Card References Eclipse (software) Federated identity Identity management initiative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20reviewing%20software
Code reviewing software is computer software that helps humans find flaws in program source code. It can be divided into two categories: Automated code review software checks source code against a predefined set of rules and produces reports. Different types of browsers visualise software structure and help humans better understand its structure. Such systems are geared more to analysis because they typically do not contain a predefined set of rules to check software against. Manual code review tools allow people to collaboratively inspect and discuss changes, storing the history of the process for future reference. See also DeepCode (2016), cloud-based, AI-powered code review platform References Software review
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%2C%201955
This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1955. This listing is the complete, 28 items, "Partial Dataset" as listed on www.legislation.gov.uk (as at March 2014). Statutory Instruments The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (Kingdom of Norway) Order 1955 SI 1955/156 The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (United States of America) Order 1955 SI 1955/157 The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (Kingdom of Sweden) Order 1955 SI 1955/158 The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (French Republic) Order 1955 SI 1955/159 The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (Kingdom of Greece) Order 1955 SI 1955/160 The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (United States of Mexico) Order 1955 SI 1955/161 The Coal Industry (Superannuation Scheme) (Winding Up, No. 8) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/281 The Savings Bank Annuities (Tables) Order 1955 SI 1955/419 The National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Luxembourg) Order 1955 SI 1955/420 The Consular Conventions (United States of Mexico) Order 1955 SI 1955/425 The Transfer of Functions (Iron and Steel) Order, 1955 SI 1955/876 The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Track Laying Vehicles) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/990 The Local Government Superannuation (Benefits) Amendment Regulations, 1955 SI 1955/1041 The Cinematograph (Safety) (Scotland) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1125 The Cinematograph (Safety) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1129 The Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Isle of Man) Order 1955 SI 1955/1205 The International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges of the Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa South of the Sahara) Order 1955 SI 1955/1208 The Coal Industry (Superannuation Scheme) (Winding Up, No. 9) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1345 Boarding-Out of Children Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1377 The National Insurance (Modification of Trustee Savings Banks Pensions) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1472 The Superannuation (Local Government and National Health Service) Interchange Rules 1955 SI 1955/1494 The Official Secrets (Prohibited Place) Order 1955 SI 1955/1497 (S. 136) The Revision of the Army and Air Force Acts (Transitional Provisions) Act, 1955 (Appointed Day) Order, 1955 SI 1955/1807 The London Cab Order 1955 SI 1955/1853 The Commonwealth Telegraphs (Cable and Wireless Ltd. Pension) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1893 The Cinematograph (Children) (No.2) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1909 The International Finance Corporation Order 1955 SI 1955/1954 The Whaling Industry (Ship) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1973 Unreferenced Listings The following 15 items were previously listed on this article, however are unreferenced on the authorities site, included here for a "no loss" approach. The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (West Stirlingshire and Stirling and Falkirk Burghs) Order 1955 SI 1955/2 The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Glasgow Bridgeton, Glasgow Provan and Glasgow Shettleston) Order 1955 SI 1955/3 The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Edinburgh Central and Edinburgh P
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background%20Intelligent%20Transfer%20Service
Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is a component of Microsoft Windows XP and later iterations of the operating systems, which facilitates asynchronous, prioritized, and throttled transfer of files between machines using idle network bandwidth. It is most commonly used by recent versions of Windows Update, Microsoft Update, Windows Server Update Services, and System Center Configuration Manager to deliver software updates to clients, Microsoft's anti-virus scanner Microsoft Security Essentials (a later version of Windows Defender) to fetch signature updates, and is also used by Microsoft's instant messaging products to transfer files. BITS is exposed through the Component Object Model (COM). Technology BITS uses idle bandwidth to transfer data. Normally, BITS transfers data in the background, i.e., BITS will only transfer data whenever there is bandwidth which is not being used by other applications. BITS also supports resuming transfers in case of disruptions. BITS version 1.0 supports only downloads. From version 1.5, BITS supports both downloads and uploads. Uploads require the IIS web server, with BITS server extension, on the receiving side. Transfers BITS transfers files on behalf of requesting applications asynchronously, i.e., once an application requests the BITS service for a transfer, it will be free to do any other task, or even terminate. The transfer will continue in the background as long as the network connection is there and the job owner is logged in. BITS jobs do not transfer when the job owner is not signed in. BITS suspends any ongoing transfer when the network connection is lost or the operating system is shut down. It resumes the transfer from where it left off when (the computer is turned on later and) the network connection is restored. BITS supports transfers over SMB, HTTP and HTTPS. Bandwidth BITS attempts to use only spare bandwidth. For example, when applications use 80% of the available bandwidth, BITS will use only the remaining 20%. BITS constantly monitors network traffic for any increase or decrease in network traffic and throttles its own transfers to ensure that other foreground applications (such as a web browser) get the bandwidth they need. Note that BITS does not necessarily measure the actual bandwidth. BITS versions 3.0 and up will use Internet Gateway Device counters, if available, to more accurately calculate available bandwidth. Otherwise, BITS will use the speed as reported by the NIC to calculate bandwidth. This can lead to bandwidth calculation errors, for example when a fast network adapter (10 Mbit/s) is connected to the network via a slow link (56 kbit/s). Jobs BITS uses a queue to manage file transfers. A BITS session has to be started from an application by creating a Job. A job is a container, which has one or more files to transfer. A newly created job is empty. Files must be added, specifying both the source and destination URIs. While a download job can have any number of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%20Memorial%20High%20School
Lyman Memorial High School is an American high school in Lebanon, Connecticut. It has a very large agricultural program that, with its computer science classes, attracts students from neighboring communities, especially Columbia and Hampton. The school has approximately 330 students with about 70-90 students in each grade. History Lyman Memorial was originally built on the Lebanon Green (at the site where the Lebanon Town Hall now sits) and was funded by a generous donation from the Lyman family. The original Lyman building burned down, and the school was re-built on Route 207. This second building became Lebanon Middle School after the present-day Lyman Memorial building was built in the mid-1990s. The Principal is James Apicelli and the Vice Principal is Samantha Singleton. The current building was completed in 1992. Extracurricular activities Lyman's sports teams are nicknamed the Bulldogs, and Lyman historically has very strong soccer and cross country teams. Other athletic programs include basketball, indoor track, wrestling, baseball, softball, volleyball, track and field, tennis, a co-op ice hockey team with Bolton High School, Rockville High School, and Coventry High School, and a co-op football team with Coventry, Windham Tech, and Bolton which went 10–0 in 2017 and won the Pequot League Championship. Accreditation Lyman Memorial High School is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc., a nongovernmental, nationally recognized organization whose affiliated institutions include elementary schools through collegiate institutions offering post-graduate instruction. External links Lebanon Public School District website References Schools in New London County, Connecticut Public high schools in Connecticut Lebanon, Connecticut Educational institutions established in 1992 1992 establishments in Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berndt%E2%80%93Hall%E2%80%93Hall%E2%80%93Hausman%20algorithm
The Berndt–Hall–Hall–Hausman (BHHH) algorithm is a numerical optimization algorithm similar to the Newton–Raphson algorithm, but it replaces the observed negative Hessian matrix with the outer product of the gradient. This approximation is based on the information matrix equality and therefore only valid while maximizing a likelihood function. The BHHH algorithm is named after the four originators: Ernst R. Berndt, Bronwyn Hall, Robert Hall, and Jerry Hausman. Usage If a nonlinear model is fitted to the data one often needs to estimate coefficients through optimization. A number of optimisation algorithms have the following general structure. Suppose that the function to be optimized is Q(β). Then the algorithms are iterative, defining a sequence of approximations, βk given by , where is the parameter estimate at step k, and is a parameter (called step size) which partly determines the particular algorithm. For the BHHH algorithm λk is determined by calculations within a given iterative step, involving a line-search until a point βk+1 is found satisfying certain criteria. In addition, for the BHHH algorithm, Q has the form and A is calculated using In other cases, e.g. Newton–Raphson, can have other forms. The BHHH algorithm has the advantage that, if certain conditions apply, convergence of the iterative procedure is guaranteed. See also Davidon–Fletcher–Powell (DFP) algorithm Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) algorithm References Further reading V. Martin, S. Hurn, and D. Harris, Econometric Modelling with Time Series, Chapter 3 'Numerical Estimation Methods'. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Estimation methods Optimization algorithms and methods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%20Panthers
The Pink Panthers are an international jewel thief network responsible for a number of robberies and thefts described as some of the most audacious in the history of organized crime. The organization has roughly 800 core members, many of whom are ex-soldiers with extensive military and paramilitary backgrounds. Both women and men play an equal part in the structure of the organization. The organization's membership mostly consists of Serbian, Montenegrin and other former Yugoslavian state citizens, believed to be remnants of the Bosnian War who have made criminal use of their militaristic skills. The organization was named by Interpol after The Pink Panther series of crime comedy films. The Pink Panthers are responsible for what have been termed some of the most "glamorous" heists in history, with one criminologist even describing their crimes as "artistry". They have operated in numerous countries and on several continents, and include Japan's most successful robbery amongst their thefts. A film documentary based upon their thefts, Smash & Grab, was released on 2 July 2013. Some law enforcement agencies suspect that the group is responsible for over US$500 million in robberies of gold and diamonds from the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Japan, France, Liechtenstein, Germany, United States of America, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Spain, Monaco, Austria, Australia, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Belgium. Law enforcement authorities suspect their involvement in the heist of the jewellery store Harry Winston in Paris on 9 December 2008. The thieves escaped with more than €80 million worth of jewellery. Raids In 2003, the gang first came to attention and earned the nickname "Pink Panthers" following the theft of a £500,000 diamond from a jewellers in the Mayfair area of London. The thieves hid the diamond in a jar of face cream, mimicking an act seen in the film The Return of the Pink Panther. In May 2005, Graff, a diamond specialist in London, was targeted by Pink Panthers and lost a total of £1 million in jewellery. Three men were suspected of being behind the theft; one was in possession of a firearm. Graff had been targeted in 2002 and lost £23 million on that occasion, £3 million of which was recovered two years later. One of the thieves was sentenced to 15 years in prison in July 2004. In the space of six years during the 21st century, the Pink Panthers robbed 120 stores in 20 countries. Japan, United Kingdom, Denmark, Monaco, France, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United States have all been targeted by the gang, with the attention to detail of the heists ensuring a high rate of success. Before robbing a jewellery store in Biarritz, the gang covered a nearby bench in fresh paint to deter anyone from sitting on it and seeing them in action. The gang is suspected of participating in at least two smash-and-grab jewellery robberies in Tokyo's Ginza district. The first, in 2004, netted ¥3.5 million in gems. The second, in June 2007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20theory%20in%20political%20science
Systems theory in political science is a highly abstract, partly holistic view of politics, influenced by cybernetics. The adaptation of system theory to political science was conceived by David Easton in 1953. Overview In simple terms, Easton's behavioral approach to politics, proposed that a political system could be seen as a delimited (i.e. all political systems have precise boundaries) and fluid (changing) system of steps in decision making. Greatly simplifying his model: Influence of computers on the discipline of political science and the political system work within an environment. The environment generates different demands from different section of society such as reservation system in the matter of a certain group, demand for better transportation etc. Step 1. changes in the social or physical environment surrounding a political system produce "demands" and "supports" for action or the status quo directed as "inputs" towards the political system, through political behavior. Step 2, these demands and supporting groups stimulate competition in a political system, leading to decisions or "outputs" directed at some aspect of the surrounding social or physical environment. Step 3, after a decision or output is made (e.g., a specific policy), it interacts with its environment, and if it produces change in the environment, there are "outcomes." Step 4, when a new policy interacts with its environment, outcomes may generate new demands or supports and groups in support or against the policy ("feedback") or a new policy on some related matter. Step 5, feedback, leads back to Step 1, forming a never-ending cycle. Political analysis Easton aspired to make politics a science, that is, working with highly abstract models that described the regularities of patterns and processes in political life in general. In his view, the highest level of abstraction could make scientific generalizations about politics possible. In sum, politics should be seen as a whole, not as a collection of different problems to be solved. His main model was driven by an organic view of politics, as if it were a living object. His theory is a statement of what makes political systems adapt and survive. He describes politics in a constant flux, thereby rejecting the idea of "equilibrium", so prevalent in some other political theories (see institutionalism). Moreover, he rejects the idea that politics could be examined by looking at different levels of analysis. His abstractions could account for any group and demand at any given time. That is, interest group theory and elite theory can be subsumed in political systems analysis. His theory was and is highly influential in the pluralist tradition in political science. (see Harold Lasswell and Robert Dahl) Critiques Easton's approach has been criticised for being unfalsifiable and holding a Western or American bias, as well as not explaining crises or the breakdown of the system. See also Behavioralism Karl W. Deutsc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation%20system
A navigation system is a computing system that aids in navigation. Navigation systems may be entirely on board the vehicle or vessel that the system is controlling (for example, on the ship's bridge) or located elsewhere, making use of radio or other signal transmission to control the vehicle or vessel. In some cases, a combination of these methods is used. Navigation systems may be capable of one or more of: containing maps, which may be displayed in human-readable format via text or in a graphical format determining a vehicle or vessel's location via sensors, maps, or information from external sources providing suggested directions to a human in charge of a vehicle or vessel via text or speech providing directions directly to an autonomous vehicle such as a robotic probe or guided missile providing information on nearby vehicles or vessels, or other hazards or obstacles providing information on traffic conditions and suggesting alternative directions simultaneous localization and mapping acoustic positioning for underwater navigation The first in-car navigation system available to consumers in 1985 was called Etak Navigation. The company, Etak, was led by engineer Stan Honey and incubated by Nolan Bushnell's Catalyst Technologies in Silicon Valley. Etak held a number of patents and produced digitized maps for the navigation system. The maps were streamed to the navigation system from special tape cassettes. The early digitized maps turned out to be more valuable than the navigation system. The car icon used in Etak Navigation display was a vector-based graphic based on Atari, Inc.'s Asteroids spaceship. Types of navigation systems Automotive navigation system Marine navigation systems using sonar Satellite navigation system Global Positioning System, a group of satellites and computers that can provide information on any person, vessel, or vehicle's location via a GPS receiver GPS navigation device, a device that can receive GPS signals for the purpose of determining the device's location and possibly to suggest or give directions GLONASS, satellite navigation system run by Russia Galileo global navigation satellite system IRNSS, regional satellite system run by India. Surgical navigation system, a system that determines the position of surgical instruments in relation to patient images such as CT or MRI scans. Inertial guidance system, a system which continuously determines the position, orientation, and velocity (direction and speed of movement) of a moving object without the need for external reference Robotic mapping, the methods and equipment by which an autonomous robot is able to construct (or use) a map or floor plan and to localize itself within it XNAV for deep space navigation See also Positioning system Guidance, navigation and control Guidance system References Navigation Navigational equipment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Jones%20%28author%29
Lee Jones is an online poker executive and the author of Winning Low-Limit Hold 'em. Education Jones earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University in North Carolina in 1978, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1983. In 2019, Lee partnered with Tommy Angelo to create the video series called PokerSimple. He also contributes a monthly column to Bluff Magazine. Career From October 2003 to April 2007, Jones worked as the cardroom manager of the PokerStars online poker cardroom. As the poker room manager, Jones decided which poker tournaments and games to offer the players. In April 2007, Jones left PokerStars and began work with the European Poker Tour. Jones said that he was making the change "to expand [his] horizons and stretch some new muscles." Jones organized, hosted, and provided television commentary for EPT events, while also still serving as a consultant for PokerStars. In April 2008 Jones announced he was leaving EPT to become COO of CardRunners, a poker instructional website. He left Cardrunners in 2009. In May 2009 Jones signed on with the Cake Poker Network's flagship member Cake Poker as the Card Room Manager. He was also acting as a player advocate at Cake Poker. He resigned from Cake Poker in December 2010 citing "strategic decisions with which I'm not comfortable" In 2012, Jones returned to work with PokerStars when they acquired FullTiltPoker. In 2014, Jones earned 14th place in the Isle of Man stop of UKIPT (United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour) Heads-up poker system In 2006 Jones and a former math lecturer named James Kittock (now at Google) developed a system for playing heads-up that they called the Sit and Go Endgame System (SAGE). This drew a mention in the New York Times poker column. Notes External links Official site Lee Jones Interview (audio + transcript) American poker players American gambling writers American male non-fiction writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Maryland, College Park alumni Duke University alumni American chief operating officers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOPEX
ALOPEX (an acronym from "ALgorithms Of Pattern EXtraction") is a correlation based machine learning algorithm first proposed by Tzanakou and Harth in 1974. Principle In machine learning, the goal is to train a system to minimize a cost function or (referring to ALOPEX) a response function. Many training algorithms, such as backpropagation, have an inherent susceptibility to getting "stuck" in local minima or maxima of the response function. ALOPEX uses a cross-correlation of differences and a stochastic process to overcome this in an attempt to reach the absolute minimum (or maximum) of the response function. Method ALOPEX, in its simplest form is defined by an updating equation: Where: is the iteration or time-step. is the difference between the current and previous value of system variable at iteration . is the difference between the current and previous value of the response function at iteration . is the learning rate parameter minimizes and maximizes Discussion Essentially, ALOPEX changes each system variable based on a product of: the previous change in the variable , the resulting change in the cost function , and the learning rate parameter . Further, to find the absolute minimum (or maximum), the stochastic process (Gaussian or other) is added to stochastically "push" the algorithm out of any local minima. References Harth, E., & Tzanakou, E. (1974) Alopex: A stochastic method for determining visual receptive fields. Vision Research, 14:1475-1482. Abstract from ScienceDirect Classification algorithms Artificial neural networks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino%20%28disambiguation%29
A neutrino is an elementary particle. Neutrino may also refer to: QNX Neutrino, an operating system Team Neutrino, a FIRST Robotics Competition team Neutrino, a suborbital spacecraft in development by Interorbital Systems , or Neytrino (), a village near Baksan Neutrino Observatory in Elbrussky District of Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia Neutrino (JavaScript library) Fiction Neutrinos (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), characters in the TV show Neutrino 2000, a series of guns used in the Artemis Fowl books See also Neutrino Factory, a proposed particle accelerator complex Poppa Neutrino, born William David Pearlman (1933–2011), musician and "free spirit" Oxide & Neutrino, a UK garage/rap duo Neutralino, a hypothetical particle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers%20%26%20Painters
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age is a collection of essays from Paul Graham discussing hacking, programming languages, start-up companies, and many other technological issues. "Hackers & Painters" is also the title of one of those essays. Table of contents Why Nerds Are Unpopular Hackers and Painters What You Can't Say Good Bad Attitude The Other Road Ahead How to Make Wealth Mind the Gap A Plan for Spam Taste for Makers Programming Languages Explained The Hundred-Year Language Beating the Averages Revenge of the Nerds The Dream Language Design and Research Publication data References External links Paul Graham's essays online, including some of the essays in the book Slashdot Review: Hackers & Painters Dabblers and Blowhards: Essay by a hacker and painter. Computer books American essay collections O'Reilly Media books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOB
CLOB may refer to: Character large object, a collection of character data in a database management system Clabber, a trick-taking card game CLOB, slang for the drug Methcathinone Central limit order book, a centralised database of limit orders proposed by the Securities Exchange Commission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit%20du%20Nord
was a French retail banking network. It consisted of the following banks: , Toulouse, Aquitaine (oldest existing bank in France, founded in 1760) , Alsace, Lorraine , Savoy , Massif Central , Lyon , Limoges , Marseille itself in the rest of France , a stock brokerage firm is fully owned by Société Générale. specialises on professionals and small business. It serves about 1.5 million customers in more than 700 stores (2006). History started in Lille in 1848. After buying a number of small banks, it was, in turn, acquired by Paribas between 1972 (35% owned) and 1988 (100% owned) but remained run as a separate network. In the following years several regional French banks were brought in the group while retaining their names. In 1984, it was the fifth-ranking French banking group. It rebranded itself, after working with Creative Business (a public relations company), with a new logo, graphics of its name, the architecture of its branches, and public relations. It changed its logo from an orange cube to a blue star. In 1997, the whole network with the associated banks was acquired by from Paribas. Since 2000, is 80% owned by Société Générale and 20% by Dexia. A full merger with Société Générale was achieved . The customer-facing SG Crédit du Nord (SG meaning Société Générale) brand is applied to both the former Crédit du Nord, and the Société Générale branches in the North of France. As with SG Crédit du Nord, the remaining Crédit du Nord banks' identities are also applied as regional brand names : SG Tarneaud in Centre-Val de Loire and in parts of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (the remaining of the branches in Nouvelle-Aquitaine are named SG Sud-Ouest) SG Courtois in Occitanie SG SMC (for ) in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur SG Laydernier in parts of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (the remaining of the branches in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes are named SG Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) Controversy In 2010, the French government's (the department in charge of regulating competition) fined eleven banks, including , the sum of €384,900,000 for colluding to charge unjustified fees on check processing, especially for extra fees charged during the transition from paper check transfer to "Exchanges Check-Image" electronic transfer. References External links Credit du Nord bank profile Société Générale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNYF-CD
WNYF-CD (channel 28) is a low-power, Class A television station in Watertown, New York, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Carthage-licensed CBS affiliate WWNY-TV (channel 7). Both stations share studios on Arcade Street in downtown Watertown, while WNYF-CD and WWNY-TV's transmitters are located on the same tower along NY 126/State Street on Champion Hill. Since WNYF-CD's transmitter is not nearly strong enough to cover the entire market, the station can also be seen in standard definition on WWNY-TV's second digital subchannel (virtual and VHF channel 7.2) from the Champion Hill transmitter site. History Before becoming a separate entity, WNYF-CD was a repeater for ABC affiliate WWTI (channel 50) with the call signs W25AB and W28BC. During that time, WWTI and WWNY had secondary affiliations with Fox. WWNY's secondary affiliation was for NFL games during the years CBS did not have broadcasting rights of the league. When that network acquired the rights to the AFC, WWTI then aired NFC games from Fox, in addition to ABC's Monday Night Football (now on fellow Disney network ESPN). In 2001, United Communications and WWNY entered into an agreement with Smith Broadcasting to make W25AB and W28BC full-time Fox affiliates; Smith formerly owned WWTI, but did not include the translators in that station's sale to Ackerley Group in 2000. W25AB then changed its call letters to WNYF-LP and eventually moved from channel 25 to channel 28; after the Watertown station upgraded to Class A status in October 2002 (becoming WNYF-CA), W28BC inherited the WNYF-LP call sign. WNYF-LP's low-powered analog signal on UHF channel 28 aired from a transmitter on NY 420 in Massena. An agreement with Time Warner Cable (now Charter Spectrum) in fall 2001 placed the station on channel 2. Normally, cable systems are not obligated to carry low-power stations. However, the FCC's must-carry rules also give full-power stations the option of "retransmission consent," or requesting compensation from cable systems to carry their station. In this case, WNYF is carried on North Country cable systems as part of the compensation for carrying WWNY. After a year of joint operation of WNYF by Smith Broadcasting and United Communications, the latter took complete ownership and made it a full sister to WWNY. Until September 18, 2006 when UPN shut down and merged with The WB to form The CW, WNYF also ran some programming from the network as a secondary affiliate. On August 25, 2008, WNYF-CA received FCC approval to begin its own high definition digital broadcasts as WNYF-CD on UHF channel 35 after WWNY-DT returned to its former analog position on VHF channel 7 (which happened February 17, 2009). On September 14, WNYF-CD signed-on using WWNY-DT's existing UHF antenna structure. The change represented the first time WNYF was available over-the-air in high definition. On June 30, 2009, United Communications applied to the FCC for a digital ver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Vienna
Vienna has an extensive transport system that includes roads, railways, trams, metro, and buses. Public transport Vienna has a large public transport network. Vienna S-Bahn Vienna U-Bahn Local Railways (Lokalbahn Wien-Baden) Wiener Linien (= Vienna Lines, municipal company operating the U-Bahn, Vienna's tramway network, and most Bus routes) Carsharing (= cars parked in the city you can rent per minute DriveNow) Vienna has an extensive train and bus network. The convenience and flexibility of the public transport system is reflected by its popularity; 53% of Viennese workers travel to their workplace by public transport. The overall modal split was 39% public transport and 27% private transport in 2016, compared to 29% and 40% respectively in 1993. Fares within the city cover all modes of public transport and are available for various time periods, such as for 24 hours, calendar weeks and calendar months. Tourist and yearly tickets are also available. Passengers must buy tickets prior to boarding or entering a station; however, on buses and trams, tickets can be bought or validated on board. There are no ticket barriers or inspections when entering public transit system, however transit inspectors - often in plainclothes - do conduct random ticket inspections on certain lines. The Viennese public transport services are incorporated into a larger concentric system of transport zones, the VOR (Verkehrsverbund Ostregion = eastern region transport association). VOR includes railway and bus lines operating into the surrounding areas, and ticket prices are calculated according to the number of zones crossed, Vienna being a single zone. Airports Vienna International Airport is located to the southeast of Vienna. The airport handled 22 million passengers in 2012. Following lengthy negotiations with surrounding communities, the airport will be expanded to increase its capacity by adding a third runway. The airport is currently undergoing a major expansion, including a new terminal building opened in 2012 to prepare for an expected increase in passengers. Another airport that's rather close to the city is Bratislava Airport in Slovakia. The airport is primarily used by low-cost airlines, such as Ryanair. It is a few kilometres away from the city, meaning that Bratislava & Vienna share each other's airports, due to the fact that both cities are not far away from each other. Water Vienna is connected to Rotterdam and German industrial areas via the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, and to Eastern European countries along the Danube to the Black Sea. Construction on a Danube-Oder Canal was begun during the Nazi era but remains unfinished, though it may be completed in the future. The Twin City Liner boat service connects Vienna and Bratislava. Nearly all of Vienna's drinking water is brought from the Alps to the city via two large water pipelines, built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The pipelines stretch and from the Alps to Hietzing (th
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP%20Computer%20Science
In the United States, Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science (commonly shortened to AP Comp Sci) is a suite of Advanced Placement courses and examinations covering areas of computer science. They are offered by the College Board to high school students as an opportunity to earn college credit for college-level courses. The suite consists of two current classes and one discontinued class. AP Computer Science was taught in Pascal for the 1984–1998 exams, in C++ for 1999–2003, and in Java since 2004. AP Computer Science A AP Computer Science A is a programming class. The course emphasizes object-oriented programming methodology, especially problem solving and algorithm development, plus an overview of data structures and abstraction. The AP Computer Science A exam tests students on their knowledge of Java. It is meant to be the equivalent of a first-semester college course in computer science. The Microsoft-sponsored program Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) aims to increase the number of students taking AP Computer Science classes. AP Computer Science AB (discontinued) AP Computer Science AB included all the topics of AP Computer Science A, as well as a more formal and a more in-depth study of algorithms, data structures, and data abstraction. For example, binary trees were studied in AP Computer Science AB but not in AP Computer Science A. The use of recursive data structures and dynamically allocated structures were fundamental to AP Computer Science AB. AP Computer Science AB was equivalent to a full-year college course. Due to low numbers of students taking the exam, AP Computer Science AB was discontinued following the May 2009 exam administration. AP Computer Science Principles AP Computer Science Principles is an introductory course to computer science, "with a focus on how computing powers the world". It is designed as a complement to AP Computer Science A, to emphasize computational thinking and fluency. It is meant to be the equivalent of a first-semester course in computing. See also AP Computer Science A Computer science Glossary of computer science Scope (computer science) Computer graphics (computer science) References Computer science education Computer engineering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia%20Perlman
Radia Joy Perlman (; born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the internet. She is most famous for her invention of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation, thus earning her nickname "Mother of the Internet". Her innovations have made a huge impact on how networks self-organize and move data. She also made large contributions to many other areas of network design and standardization: for example, enabling today's link-state routing protocols, to be more robust, scalable, and easy to manage. Perlman was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols. She holds over 100 issued patents. She was elected to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014, and to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2016. She received lifetime achievement awards from USENIX in 2006 and from the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGCOMM in 2010. More recently she has invented the TRILL protocol to correct some of the shortcomings of spanning trees, allowing Ethernet to make optimal use of bandwidth. As of 2022, she was a Fellow at Dell Technologies. Early life Perlman was born in 1951, Portsmouth, Virginia. She grew up in Loch Arbour, New Jersey. She is Jewish. Both of her parents worked as engineers for the US government. Her father worked on radar and her mother was a mathematician by training who worked as a computer programmer. During her school years Perlman found math and science to be “effortless and fascinating”, but had no problem achieving top grades in other subjects as well. She enjoyed playing the piano and French horn. While her mother helped her with her math homework, they mainly talked about literature and music. But she didn't feel like she fit underneath the stereotype of an "engineer" as she did not break apart computer parts Despite being the best science and math student in her school it was only when Perlman took a programming class in high school that she started to consider a career that involved computers. She was the only woman in the class and later reflected "I was not a hands-on type person. It never occurred to me to take anything apart. I assumed I'd either get electrocuted, or I'd break something". She graduated from Ocean Township High School in 1969. Education As an undergraduate at MIT Perlman learned programming for a physics class. She was given her first paid job in 1971 as part-time programmer for the LOGO Lab at the (then) MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, programming system software such as debuggers. Working under the supervision of Seymour Papert, she developed a child-friendly version of the educational robotics language LOGO, called TORTIS ("Toddler's Own Recursive Turtle Interpreter System"). During researc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCAW
KCAW is a non-commercial radio station in Sitka, Alaska, on 104.7 FM, which airs public radio programming. It first went on air in 1982. History KCAW first began daily broadcasts on the 6th of March 1982 after a sign-on broadcast on the 19th of February. During the Sitka pulp mill years, Raven Radio News broadcast opposing perspectives to those of Alaska's national representatives on the issue of resource development. The Anchorage Times, after at first defending resources developers, eventually investigated the issue and found that Raven Radio was presenting an overall unbiased account of Sitka's issues. Original materials from KCAW have been contributed to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Programming KCAW is Sitka's only public radio station and offers a wide variety of programming. News for the station includes local news coming from Raven Radio's two paid reporters, Southeast Alaska news from CoastAlaska, statewide news from the Alaska Public Radio Network, national news from National Public Radio, and international news from the BBC World Service. KCAW also airs a variety of American Public Media and Public Radio International programming as well as its own variety of locally produced shows, including the critically acclaimed soul and funk show, "Powerful Love". KCAW also syndicates Encounters, a nature and wildlife-themed show hosted by Richard Nelson, statewide. Listening area KCAW has a large listening area, by the means of translators, which include much of the western and northern portions of the Alaska Panhandle including Sitka, Angoon, Elfin Cove and the Fairweather fishing grounds, Kake, Pelican, Port Alexander, Tenakee Springs, and Yakutat. Raven Radio has roughly a 1,200-strong member base (listeners who donate money to the station). Translators See also List of community radio stations in the United States References External links Official site 1982 establishments in Alaska CAW Community radio stations in the United States NPR member stations Public Radio International stations Radio stations established in 1982 CAW Sitka, Alaska
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20network%20monitor
Nokia network monitor or Monitor Mode was a hidden mode on most Nokia cell phones used to measure network parameters. Additionally there are measurements for phone and battery temperature and other phone specific measurements and tests. The mode can only be activated over a special FBus, or MBUS cable; or in some cases over infrared. Free software exists on the internet that allows one to activate this mode. The first step is to select a Nokia Phone like Nokia 3310 that has network monitor then activate the monitor. To activate, download software such as Gnokii, logomanager, or N-Monitor by Anderas Schmidt and connect the mobile with a FBus cable. In Nokia phones you just activate the monitor and not upload it to the phone, as it is already present. External links "The Nokia Network Monitor" by Nuukiaworld, a good starting point Download N-Monitor by Andreas Schmidt Description by Logomanager FAQ Nokia services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic%20data%20storage
Holographic data storage is a potential technology in the area of high-capacity data storage. While magnetic and optical data storage devices rely on individual bits being stored as distinct magnetic or optical changes on the surface of the recording medium, holographic data storage records information throughout the volume of the medium and is capable of recording multiple images in the same area utilizing light at different angles. Additionally, whereas magnetic and optical data storage records information a bit at a time in a linear fashion, holographic storage is capable of recording and reading millions of bits in parallel, enabling data transfer rates greater than those attained by traditional optical storage. Recording data Holographic data storage contains information using an optical interference pattern within a thick, photosensitive optical material. Light from a single laser beam is divided into two, or more, separate optical patterns of dark and light pixels. By adjusting the reference beam angle, wavelength, or media position, a multitude of holograms (theoretically, several thousands) can be stored on a single volume. Reading data The stored data is read through the reproduction of the same reference beam used to create the hologram. The reference beam's light is focused on the photosensitive material, illuminating the appropriate interference pattern, the light diffracts on the interference pattern, and projects the pattern onto a detector. The detector is capable of reading the data in parallel, over one million bits at once, resulting in the fast data transfer rate. Files on the holographic drive can be accessed in less than 0.2 seconds. Longevity Holographic data storage can provide companies a method to preserve and archive information. The write-once, read many (WORM) approach to data storage would ensure content security, preventing the information from being overwritten or modified. Manufacturers believe this technology can provide safe storage for content without degradation for more than 50 years, far exceeding current data storage options. Counterpoints to this claim are that the evolution of data reader technology has – in the last couple of decades – changed every ten years. If this trend continues, it therefore follows that being able to store data for 50–100 years on one format is irrelevant, because you would migrate the data to a new format after only ten years. However, claimed longevity of storage has, in the past, proven to be a key indicator of shorter-term reliability of storage media. Current optical formats – such as CD – have largely lived up to the original longevity claims (where reputable media makes are used) and have proved to be more reliable shorter-term data carriers than the floppy disk and DAT media they displaced. Terms used Sensitivity refers to the extent of refractive index modulation produced per unit of exposure. Diffraction efficiency is proportional to the square of the ind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie%20Barr
Natalie Anne Barr (born 19 March 1968) is an Australian television presenter, journalist, and news presenter. Barr is currently co-host of the Seven Network's breakfast television program Sunrise alongside Matt Shirvington. She was previously the news presenter on Sunrise. Career In July 2008, Barr began presenting Seven Early News alongside Mark Beretta at 5.30am, which leads into Sunrise where she is still the news presenter. Natalie also occasionally fills-in on Seven News Sydney. Barr was a front-runner to co-host Sunday Night, a new current affairs show, however Chris Bath was appointed co-host with Mike Munro. Barr made a guest appearance on Home and Away 16 April 2018, appearing as herself reporting that missing girl Ava Gilbert. In June 2020, it was announced Barr will host Sunrise with David Koch and Samantha Armytage on Monday and Friday respectively, after Armytage requested a reduced workload. However, due to dwindling ratings, Barr returned to presenting the news five days a week. In January 2021, Barr again became the permanent Friday co-presenter, this time with Matt Doran. On 14 March 2021, Barr was appointed co-host of Sunrise after Samantha Armytage’s resignation. Personal life Barr was born in Bunbury, Western Australia and is married to Andrew (a television commercial editor). They have two sons. References External links Sunrise EntertainOZ celebrity speakers 1968 births Living people Seven News presenters Australian television journalists Journalists from Sydney People from Bunbury, Western Australia Curtin University alumni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20correction%20code
In computing, telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels. The central idea is that the sender encodes the message in a redundant way, most often by using an error correction code or error correcting code (ECC). The redundancy allows the receiver not only to detect errors that may occur anywhere in the message, but often to correct a limited number of errors. Therefore a reverse channel to request re-transmission may not be needed. The cost is a fixed, higher forward channel bandwidth. The American mathematician Richard Hamming pioneered this field in the 1940s and invented the first error-correcting code in 1950: the Hamming (7,4) code. FEC can be applied in situations where re-transmissions are costly or impossible, such as one-way communication links or when transmitting to multiple receivers in multicast. Long-latency connections also benefit; in the case of a satellite orbiting Uranus, retransmission due to errors can create a delay of five hours. FEC is widely used in modems and in cellular networks, as well. FEC processing in a receiver may be applied to a digital bit stream or in the demodulation of a digitally modulated carrier. For the latter, FEC is an integral part of the initial analog-to-digital conversion in the receiver. The Viterbi decoder implements a soft-decision algorithm to demodulate digital data from an analog signal corrupted by noise. Many FEC decoders can also generate a bit-error rate (BER) signal which can be used as feedback to fine-tune the analog receiving electronics. FEC information is added to mass storage (magnetic, optical and solid state/flash based) devices to enable recovery of corrupted data, and is used as ECC computer memory on systems that require special provisions for reliability. The maximum proportion of errors or missing bits that can be corrected is determined by the design of the ECC, so different forward error correcting codes are suitable for different conditions. In general, a stronger code induces more redundancy that needs to be transmitted using the available bandwidth, which reduces the effective bit-rate while improving the received effective signal-to-noise ratio. The noisy-channel coding theorem of Claude Shannon can be used to compute the maximum achievable communication bandwidth for a given maximum acceptable error probability. This establishes bounds on the theoretical maximum information transfer rate of a channel with some given base noise level. However, the proof is not constructive, and hence gives no insight of how to build a capacity achieving code. After years of research, some advanced FEC systems like polar code come very close to the theoretical maximum given by the Shannon channel capacity under the hypothesis of an infinite length frame. Method ECC is accomplished by adding redundancy to th
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated%20fluorescence%20process%20algorithm
The Simulated Fluorescence Process (SFP) is a computing algorithm used for scientific visualization of 3D data from, for example, fluorescence microscopes. By modeling a physical light/matter interaction process, an image can be computed which shows the data as it would have appeared in reality when viewed under these conditions. Principle The algorithm considers a virtual light source producing excitation light that illuminates the object. This casts shadows either on parts of the object itself or on other objects below it. The interaction between the excitation light and the object provokes the emission light, which also interacts with the object before it finally reaches the eye of the viewer. See also Computer graphics lighting Rendering (computer graphics) References H. T. M. van der Voort, G. J. Brakenhoff and M. W. Baarslag. "Three-dimensional visualization methods for confocal microscopy", Journal of Microscopy, Vol. 153, Pt 2, February 1989, pp. 123–132. Noordmans, Herke Jan, Hans TM van der Voort, and Arnold WM Smeulders. "Spectral volume rendering." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 6.3 (2000): 196–207. External links Freeware SFP renderer Computational science Computer graphics algorithms Visualization (graphics) Microscopes Microscopy Fluorescence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return%20of%20the%20King%20%28The%20Boondocks%29
"Return of the King" is the ninth episode of the first season of the animated television series The Boondocks. It originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim on January 15, 2006. The episode's name was taken from The Lord of the Rings volume The Return of the King. It won a Peabody Award in 2006. Plot The episode begins with two epigraphs: Huey Freeman narrates an alternate version of history in which Martin Luther King Jr. survived his assassination attempt on April 4, 1968, but fell into a 32-year coma. Awakening in October 2000, he experiences a resurgence of popularity and signs a deal to write his autobiography. He shows up to vote for the 2000 U.S. presidential election, but is "turned away due to voting irregularity". A biopic based on King's life is released shortly after the September 11 attacks, and becomes a box office flop as a result. During an appearance on Politically Incorrect, King states that the teachings of his Christian faith require him to "turn the other cheek," even with respect to enemies such as al-Qaeda. His commentary draws severe scorn from major news outlets and the White House, and his popularity plummets. During a book signing in Woodcrest attended by no one, Huey and Robert Freeman meet King. Robert had participated in the Montgomery bus boycott, but has harbored a long-standing grudge against Rosa Parks because she received all the attention for refusing to give up her seat when Robert was sitting next to her, too, neither arrested nor acknowledged the same way Parks was. Huey and Robert offer to let King stay with them while he is in town. Following an uneasy family dinner with King, Tom DuBois, and Uncle Ruckus as guests, Huey and King watch television together and King bemoans the state of black popular culture. Huey tells him that the deterioration occurred because the culture was waiting for King or another strong leader to emerge. The next day, Huey persuades King to try and reach out to the public again, this time by starting a political party. King tries to explain its principles on a talk show, only to be repeatedly cut off by the host until Huey throws a chair at him. Huey and King next decide to spread the word by going door to door, but King hires an event promotions firm to publicize a planning meeting for the party without telling Huey. The meeting becomes a raucous event, filled with dozens of young black attendees and performers behaving as though they are at a nightclub. Shocked and disgusted by the crowd's poor behavior, King launches into a furious tirade that stuns them into silence. He sharply castigates them for falling victim to the worst stereotypes about their race after the Civil Rights Movement did so much to give them the opportunity to better themselves, and ends by announcing his plans to relocate to Canada. King thanks Huey for trying to help, tells him to do all he can, and leaves. It is the last time that Huey sees him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20extender
An Ethernet extender (also network extender or LAN extender) is any device used to extend an Ethernet or network segment beyond its inherent distance limitation which is approximately for most common forms of twisted pair Ethernet. These devices employ a variety of transmission technologies and physical media (wireless, copper wire, fiber-optic cable, coaxial cable). The extender forwards traffic between LANs transparent to higher network-layer protocols over distances that far exceed the limitations of standard Ethernet. Options Extenders that use copper wire include 2- and 4-wire variants using unconditioned copper wiring to extend a LAN. Network extenders use various methods (line encodings), such as TC-PAM, 2B1Q or DMT, to transmit information. While transmitting over copper wire does not allow for the speeds that fiber-optic transmission does, it allows the use of existing voice-grade copper or CCTV coaxial cable wiring. Copper-based Ethernet extenders must be used on unconditioned wire (without load coils), such as unused twisted pairs and alarm circuits. Connecting a private LAN between buildings or more distant locations is a challenge. Wi-Fi requires a clear line-of-sight, special antennas, and is subject to weather. If the buildings are within 100m, a normal Ethernet cable segment can be used, with due consideration of potential grounding problems between the locations. Up to 200m, it may be possible to set up an ordinary Ethernet bridge or router in the middle, if power and weather protection can be arranged. Fiber optic connection is ideal, allowing connections of over a km and high speeds with no electrical shock or surge issues, but is technically specialized and expensive for both the end equipment interfaces and the cable. Damage to the cable requires special skills to repair or total replacement. Specialized equipment can inter-connect two LANs over a single twisted pair of wires, such as the Moxa IEX Series, Cisco LRE (Long Reach Ethernet), Enable-IT Ethernet Extender Experts VDSL2, Patton CopperLink or EtherWAN Ethernet Extenders using VDSL technology. Distances of 300 m (1000 feet) at 50 Mbit/s up to at 128 kbit/s is possible. Westermo DDW products are capable of 10 miles at 30.3Mbit/s using SHDSL technology. Coaxial cable are often permitting higher speeds and larger distances than twisted pair wires. The equipment is mostly simple to operate, and the connection wire is common, cheap and maintainable. Ordinary ADSL modems cannot be connected back-to-back, because the ATU-R (ADSL Termination Unit - Remote) units that are used by customers require specialized ATU-C (Central Office) support provided by phone company equipment, usually by a complex and expensive DSLAM (DSL access multiplexer). However some symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL) modems such as the SpeedStream 5851 can be connected back-to-back, allowing upload and download speeds of about 2Mbit/s over substantial distances, using a simple twisted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Raddatz
Martha Raddatz (; born February 14, 1953) is an American reporter with ABC News. She is the network's Chief Global Affairs Correspondent reporting for ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, and other network broadcasts. In addition to her work for ABC News, Raddatz has written for The New Republic and is a frequent guest on PBS's Washington Week. Raddatz is the co-anchor and primary fill-in anchor on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Early life Raddatz was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Her family later moved to Salt Lake City. She attended the University of Utah but dropped out to work at a local station. Career Prior to 1993, Raddatz was the chief correspondent at the ABC News Boston affiliate WCVB-TV. From 1993 to 1998, Raddatz covered the Pentagon for National Public Radio. Raddatz began her tenure at ABC News in 1999 as the network's State Department correspondent and became ABC's senior national security correspondent in May 2003, reporting extensively from Iraq. On June 8, 2006, Raddatz received a tip that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been located and killed. This tip allowed Raddatz and ABC News to become the first news organization in the world to break the news shortly after 2:30 a.m. EST. In a March 24, 2008, extended interview with Dick Cheney conducted in Ankara, Turkey, on the fifth anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Raddatz posed a question about public opinion polls showing that Americans had lost confidence in the war, a question to which Cheney responded by saying "So?" Raddatz appeared taken aback by the response, and Cheney's remark prompted widespread criticism, including a Washington Post op-ed by former Republican Congressman and Cheney friend Mickey Edwards. Raddatz is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family, a book about the Siege of Sadr City, Iraq. A TV mini series based on the book aired on NatGeo in late 2017. After the national security beat, Raddatz became the network's chief White House correspondent for the last term of the George W. Bush administration. On January 9, 2007, Raddatz's mobile phone went off during a White House press briefing with Tony Snow. Of particular humor was her musical ring tone, Chamillionaire's "Ridin'." The press corps and Tony Snow enjoyed a few moments of laughter. Raddatz was appointed to her current position as ABC's Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent in November 2008. Raddatz served as the moderator of the Vice-Presidential debate on October 11, 2012, between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Raddatz also served alongside Anderson Cooper as co-moderator for the second presidential debate in 2016, between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at Washington University in St. Louis. Cooper and Raddatz were reviewed and some commentators noted their "no-nonsense approach" and "aggressive style", though Raddatz was criticized for a challenge to one of Trump's stateme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system; Microsoft Office, a suite of productivity software; Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music, and video; Bing, a line of search engines; and Microsoft Azure, a cloud services platform. In 1980, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM to bundle Microsoft's operating system with IBM computers; with that deal, IBM paid Microsoft a royalty for every sale. In 1985, IBM requested Microsoft to develop a new operating system for their computers called OS/2. Microsoft produced that operating system, but also continued to sell their own alternative, which proved to be in direct competition with OS/2. Microsoft Windows eventually overshadowed OS/2 in terms of sales. When Microsoft launched several versions of Microsoft Windows in the 1990s, they had captured over 90% market share of the world's personal computers. As of June 30, 2015, Microsoft has a global annual revenue of US$86.83 (~$ in ) Billion and 128,076 employees worldwide. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. 1975–1985: The founding of Microsoft In late 1974, Paul Allen, a programmer at Honeywell, was walking through Harvard Square when he saw the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800, the first microcomputer. Allen bought the magazine and rushed to Currier House at Harvard College, where he showed it to high school friend Bill Gates. They saw potential to develop an implementation of BASIC for the system. Gates called Altair manufacturer Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), offering to demonstrate the implementation. Allen and Gates had neither an interpreter nor an Altair system, yet in the eight weeks before the demo, they developed an interpreter with the help of Monte Davidoff. When Allen flew to Albuquerque to meet with MITS, the interpreter worked and MITS agreed to distribute Altair BASIC. Allen moved to Albuquerque, Gates soon quit Harvard to join him, and they co-founded Microsoft there. Revenues of the company totalled $16,005 by the end of 1976. Allen came up with the original name of Micro-Soft, a portmanteau of microcomputer and software. Hyphenated in its early incarnations, on November 26, 1976, the company was registered under that name with the Secretary of State of New Mexico. The first employee Gates and Allen hired was their high school collaborator Ric Weiland. The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft Japan"), and on November 29, 1979, the term, "Microsoft" was first used by Bill Gates. On January 1, 1979, the company moved from Albuquerque to a new home in Bellevue, Washington, since it was hard to recruit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20State%20Railroads%20in%20summer%201939
In the summer of 1939, weeks ahead of the Nazi German and Soviet invasion of Poland the map of both Europe and Poland looked very different from today. The railway network of interwar Poland had little in common with the postwar reality of dramatically changing borders and political domination of the Soviet-style communism, as well as the pre-independence German, Austrian and Russian networks which the Second Polish Republic had partially inherited in 1918 after the end of World War I. The most important junctions in the Polish territory in summer of 1939 were: – Lwów (Lviv), Tarnopol (Ternopil), Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk), Stryj (Stryy), Kowel (Kovel), Chodorow (Khodoriv), Kołomyja (Kolomyya) and Sarny (Sarny) – all now in Ukraine, – Łuniniec (Luninyets), Baranowicze (Baranavichy), Brześć nad Bugiem (Brest), Lida (Lida), Wołkowysk (Vawkavysk) and Mołodeczno (Maladzyechna) – all now in Belarus, – Wilno (Vilnius), Landwarow (Lentvaris) – now in Lithuania, – Cieszyn Zachodni (Český Těšín), Bogumin (Bohumín) – now in the Czech Republic. Several junctions of today's Poland belonged in 1939 to Germany. Among them were such hubs as: Breslau (Wrocław), Stettin (Szczecin), Oppeln (Opole), Allenstein (Olsztyn), Liegnitz (Legnica), Köslin (Koszalin), Schneidemühl (Piła), Neustettin (Szczecinek), Lyck (Ełk). Gdańsk, another important junction, belonged to the Free City of Danzig. Polish railway network in 1939 The 1939 rail map of Poland was set by the nation's pre-1914 borders that were determined by the three empires that partitioned the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth late in the 18th century. In the western part of Poland, in Poznań Voivodeship, Pomorze Voivodeship, and the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship (former territories of the German Empire), the rail network was very dense. There were stations in all the towns and almost every city served as a junction. Southern Poland (the former Austrian province of Galicia with Kraków Voivodeship, Lwów Voivodeship, Stanisławów Voivodeship, and Tarnopol Voivodeship) was less developed. The areas with a fairly dense rail network were only around Kraków and Lwów. In the very south, along the border with Slovakia, Romania, and Hungary, rail lines were virtually non-existent, although it is fair to say that lines would have been difficult to build in that mostly mountainous region anyway. The worst situation was in Central and Eastern Poland – the territory of the former Russian Empire. These were the Voivodeships of Łódź, Kielce, Warszawa, Lublin, Białystok, Volhynian, Polesie, Nowogródek and Wilno. The rail network in some parts, especially in easternmost provinces (close to the Soviet border), was nonexistent. A better situation was around Warsaw and Łódź. Even though the Polish railway network in 1939 had deficiencies, the majority of important cities had convenient rail connections with each other. The major exception was the connection of Wilno to the seaport of Gdynia, some 500 km away. Trains r
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurocomputer
Neurocomputer may refer to: Wetware computer, a computer made of living neurons Artificial neural network, a mathematical model designed to imitate the function of living nerve cells
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Information%20Assurance%20Certification%20and%20Accreditation%20Process
The National Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (NIACAP) formerly was the minimum-standard process for the certification and accreditation of computer and telecommunications systems that handle U.S. national-security information. NIACAP was derived from the Department of Defense Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP), and it played a key role in the National Information Assurance Partnership. The Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) Policy (CNSSP) No. 22 dated January 2012 cancelled CNSS Policy No. 6, “National Policy on Certification and Accreditation of National Security Systems,” dated October 2005, and National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Instruction (NSTISSI) 1000, “National Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (NIACAP),” dated April 2000. CNSSP No. 22 also states that "The CNSS intends to adopt National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issuances where applicable. Additional CNSS issuances will occur only when the needs of NSS are not sufficiently addressed in a NIST document. Annex B identifies the guidance documents, which includes NIST Special Publications (SP), for establishing an organization-wide risk management program." It directs the organization to make use of NIST Special Publication 800-37, which implies that the Risk management framework (RMF) STEP 6 – AUTHORIZE INFORMATION SYSTEM replaces the Certification and Accreditation process for National Security Systems, just as it did for all other areas of the Federal government who fall under SP 800-37 Rev. 1. References Computer security accreditations United States Department of Defense
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet%20%28computing%29
The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits. The term is often used when the term byte might be ambiguous, as the byte has historically been used for storage units of a variety of sizes. The term octad(e) for eight bits is no longer common. Definition The international standard IEC 60027-2, chapter 3.8.2, states that a byte is an octet of bits. However, the unit byte has historically been platform-dependent and has represented various storage sizes in the history of computing. Due to the influence of several major computer architectures and product lines, the byte became overwhelmingly associated with eight bits. This meaning of byte is codified in such standards as ISO/IEC 80000-13. While byte and octet are often used synonymously, those working with certain legacy systems are careful to avoid ambiguity. Octets can be represented using number systems of varying bases such as the hexadecimal, decimal, or octal number systems. The binary value of all eight bits set (or activated) is , equal to the hexadecimal value , the decimal value , and the octal value . One octet can be used to represent decimal values ranging from 0 to 255. The term octet (symbol: o) is often used when the use of byte might be ambiguous. It is frequently used in the Request for Comments (RFC) publications of the Internet Engineering Task Force to describe storage sizes of network protocol parameters. The earliest example is from 1974. In 2000, Bob Bemer claimed to have earlier proposed the usage of the term octet for "8-bit bytes" when he headed software operations for Cie. Bull in France in 1965 to 1966. In France, French Canada and Romania, octet is used in common language instead of byte when the eight-bit sense is required; for example, a megabyte (MB) is termed a megaoctet (Mo). A variable-length sequence of octets, as in Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1), is referred to as an octet string. Octad Historically, in Western Europe, the term octad (or octade) was used to specifically denote eight bits, a usage no longer common. Early examples of usage exist in British, Dutch and German sources of the 1960s and 1970s, and throughout the documentation of Philips mainframe computers. Similar terms are triad for a grouping of three bits and decade for ten bits. Unit multiples Unit multiples of the octet may be formed with SI prefixes and binary prefixes (power of 2 prefixes) as standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 1998. Use in Internet Protocol addresses The octet is used in representations of Internet Protocol computer network addresses. An IPv4 address consists of four octets, usually displayed individually as a series of decimal values ranging from 0 to 255, each separated by a full stop (dot). Using octets with all eight bits set, the representation of the highest-numbered IPv4 address is . An IPv6 address consists of sixteen octets, displayed in hexadecimal representa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESeL
eSeL is an art platform in Vienna, Austria. Founded 1998 by Lorenz Seidler, it provides a weekly newsletter "eSeL Mehl", various mailing lists, a photo-archive and an event-database. The label "eSeL" is also serving as a nickname for the artist Lorenz Seidler (originating in the phonetic pronunciation of his initials), who also is initiating, curating and conducting various art projects. eSeL's offices are located at Museumsquartier in Vienna. About eSeL The label eSeL (also serving as a nickname of founder Lorenz Seidler) represents the crossover of the roles of artist, curator, online medium and infrastructure-provider in contemporary artistic practice in the new media genres. "Esel" means "donkey" in German. The label originates in the phonetic pronunciation of its founder's initials and soon became a standalone brand, expanding its animal analogies into a multitude of animals-participants. Qualities attributed to the eponymous animal are consciously matching with the initiative's characteristics: stubbornness (autonomy and independence), grey fur (searching for options beyond the polarity of right/wrong or good/bad), long ears (overhearing insider's information), asininity (asking alleged “stupid” questions). eSeL aims at revealing and changing conventions and coherence in the art field, putting a special focus on structural implications and representation in the media sphere. "Kunst kommt von Kommunizieren" ("art derives from communication") is eSeL's slogan - Contributions of the term "art" are shown as a constant process of (transitory) quality agreements. The eSeL-initiative grew from an independent online medium for of art information and event listings to an institutional carrier and server for art activities in Vienna, combined with focused interventions through projects, performances, and exhibitions. Reaching a young audience beyond the art circles, eSeL's information services deliberately feature upcoming initiatives next to well-established art positions from all fields of artistic practice in Vienna (Fine Arts, performance, dance, art-in-public space, film, media art, music and civil society's artistic activities, inviting participation by new artists as well as the audience). Website The website www.eSeL.at offers a selected database/calendar covering art events in Vienna and surrounding areas, a weekly newsletter ("eSeL Mehl") as well as a photo archive. The calendar eSeL.at is divided into daily overviews by date and into the categories "eSeL Neugierde" (editorial recommendation), "hAmSteR Events" (scene), „Maultier Kunst" (fine art), "Uhu Diskurs" (discourse / mediation), "Ameisen Urbanismus" (Architecture / City), "Nerz Techleben" (Internet / Technology), "Flimmer Ratte" (Film / Video Art), "Kanari Klangwelten" (Sound Art / Music), "Tauben Loge" (Performance / Choreography), "Pudel Design" (design), "Public Access" (society / participation), "Eselchen Kinderprogramm" (children / family) and „nicht in Wien“ (not in Vie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuo%20II%3A%20Body%20Hammer
is a 1992 Japanese tokusatsu cyberpunk body horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget sequel to Tsukamoto's 1989 film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas as his first film, and largely the same cast, though the story is not a direct continuation of that of its predecessor. In Body Hammer, a Japanese salary man, played by cult actor Tomorowo Taguchi, finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs. Although not as well received as its predecessor, Body Hammer won the Critic's Award at the 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1992. A third installment, entitled The Bullet Man, was released in May 2010. Plot Yatsu - known as "The Metal Fetishist" or "The Guy" - holds out his index finger like a gun and fires at a man, killing him. Taniguchi Tomoo, a salaryman married and with a son named Minori, does not have any memories before his adoption at eight years old. On a trip out, two skinheads inject him with an unknown substance and kidnap Minori. After a chase, they retreat, leaving the boy unharmed. Rattled by the encounter, during which he thought his son was killed, Tomoo starts working out and is suddenly capable of enormous feats of strength. Later, Minori is kidnapped again from his house. Tomoo chases the kidnappers to a roof where he again finds himself hanging on the edge, close to death. However, this time he manages to pull himself up, only to be told the skinhead already threw Minori off. Enraged, Tomoo unconsciously transforms his arm into a cannon. He shoots at the skinhead, who holds Minori in front of him, causing Tomoo to kill his own son. The skinhead escapes, leaving a distraught Taniguchi and his wife, who saw everything. The skinheads arrive at their hideout, where their accomplices work out lifting enormous weights. They meet the Mad Scientist, return the ejection gun, and report the result of the experiment. The skinheads kidnap Tomoo, and the Mad Scientist manipulates his memories, furthering his change from man to machine. Yatsu, the leader of this cult, informs the Mad Scientist that his only goal is destruction and that every cult member will get an injection. Believing the injection gun is complete, Yatsu kills the Mad Scientist. Before he can kill Tomoo, he escapes. All cult members inject themselves and rapidly transform. One cult member pursues Taniguchi. In an abandoned factory, the skinhead tells Tomoo that they all want to be made into gods by Yatsu. The cult member taunts Tomoo by mentioning his son's death, causing him to transform and kill him. Later, it is revealed that the ejection gun is imperfect and all cult members' bodies are rapidly rusting. Taniguchi's wife, Kana, discovers that Tomoo's injection was actually blocked by his pocket organizer and that he has had this ability all along. When he gets home, she panics and flees the house, only to be kidnapped. Yatsu te
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Dare%3A%20Pilot%20of%20the%20Future
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future is a 1986 video game by Virgin Games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 home computer systems. It is based on the classic British comic strip Dan Dare. The Commodore 64 version was considerably different in gameplay to the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions. Plot The Mekon reveals his typically dastardly plan: Earth must submit to his terms or he will propel a hollowed-out asteroid the size of a small planet into Earth. Dan and his sidekick Digby fly to the asteroid in Dan's spaceship, the Anastasia. Arriving at the asteroid they find small buildings and structures and realise it must be inhabited. Digby remains on the ship whilst Dan is lowered down to the asteroid's surface. Once again, Earth is relying on him to defeat the Mekon. Versions Spectrum and Amstrad CPC Dan is armed with only a laser gun. He must progress through the levels, acquiring the five pieces of an explosive device. Each piece is hidden somewhere within a section of the game, the first piece collected unlocks the door to the area containing the second piece and so on. On the way he encounters foot soldiers, also known as Treens (which he can shoot but which shoot back), floorguns (which can be destroyed by jumping on them) and wall guns (which can usually be destroyed by shooting them). Any enemy contact or getting shot will cause Dan to lose energy. If it reaches zero, Dan is "captured" and returned to a prison cell from which he then escapes, but it is some distance from most of the accessible parts of the complex and also causes lost time. Should Dan fire too much, his gun will run out of ammo (which can be replenished by collecting ammo powerups). Should Dan run out of time before he can assemble the five parts of the bomb, the Mekon has won again. The game went to number 2 in the UK sales charts, behind Dragon's Lair. Commodore 64 Dan does not use a gun in this version, preferring to deal with Treen guards by using his boxing skills. He must progress first through the planet's surface and subterranean lakes, where he must solve various puzzles and collect items to enable him to progress down into the Mekon's heavily guarded base. Here he must fight hordes of Treen guards, find and free Digby and the Professor, before destroying three supercomputers with a giant laser. The final scene sees Dan tackling the Mekon in a hand-to-hand grenade battle. Having destroyed the Mekon, he has just two minutes to return to the planet's surface and escape. The whole game takes place over 25 minutes in real time. Dan fails the mission if he has not destroyed the Mekon and escaped within this time. Reception Zzap!64 enjoyed the Commodore 64 version of the game which was said to be "a highly original and playable arcade adventure". It received an overall rating of 94%. Legacy The game was followed by two sequels, Dan Dare II: Mekon's Revenge and Dan Dare III: The Escape. References External links Review of the Spectrum version fr
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A synapse is a neural junction used for communication between neurons Synapse may also refer to: Computing and information systems Apache Synapse, open source enterprise service bus (ESB) and mediation engine Azure Synapse, a fully managed cloud data warehouse Peltarion Synapse, a component-based integrated development environment for neural networks and adaptive systems Synapse (software), a free and open-source application launcher for Linux Synapse Audio Software, German software company that develops music production software for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms Synapse.org, an open source scientific collaboration platform Science Chemical synapse, in neurobiology Electrical synapse, in electrophysiology Immunological synapse, in immunology SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics), a DARPA project Synapse, Fujifilm Medical Systems Picture archiving and communication system application Publishing Synapse (journal), a neurology journal Synapse: The Magazine of the University of Nevada School of Medicine (online) Synapse Magazine, produced by the Chester County (PA) Hospital and Health System (online) Synapse (magazine), an electronic music magazine published 1976-1979 Synapse Group, Inc., a multichannel marketing company and magazine distributor The Synapse, Oberlin College science magazine Entertainment Synapse Films, a DVD releasing company specializing in cult and hard-to-find movies Synapse Software, an American computer game development and publishing company active during the early-1980s Celestial Synapse, musical event held at the Fillmore West on the evening of 19 February 1969 Usurp Synapse, a screamo band from Indiana Synapse (film), a 2015 science fiction film Synapse, the fictional communications software in the 2001 film Antitrust (film) Synapse, song by British post-grunge band Bush on the album Razorblade Suitcase Synaps, series of Steinberger electric guitars See also Synapsid, a group of animals that includes mammals and everything more closely related to mammals than to other living amniotes Synapsis, the pairing of two homologous chromosomes that occurs during meiosis Synopsis, a brief summary of the major points of a written work