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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla%20Cambridge | Guerrilla Cambridge (formerly SCE Studio Cambridge) was a British video game developer based in Cambridge, England. The studio was founded under Sony Computer Entertainment in July 1997 through the buyout of the game development division of CyberLife Technology. In 2010, SCE Studio Cambridge was restructured as a sister studio to Guerrilla Games under the name Guerrilla Cambridge and shut down in 2017. The studio is best known for developing the MediEvil series.
History
On 15 July 1997, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) announced that it, through its London-based division, was to acquire the game development division of CyberLife Technology for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1996, CyberLife had previously developed games under the name "Millennium Interactive", including Creatures, but changed its name early on when developing artificial intelligence technology and "artificial life" simulations became its primary focus. The bought-out team was integrated into a new internal studio for Sony, known as SCE Studio Cambridge. CyberLife would later change its name to Creature Labs in November 1999 before shutting down 2003, with some assets and staff acquired by Gameware Development.
In January 2012, SCE announced a restructuring of its United Kingdom-based studios; within this move, SCE Studio Cambridge became a sister studio to Guerrilla Games to bring Guerrilla's Killzone series to PlayStation Vita. Within the same year, SCE Studio Cambridge assumed the name "Guerrilla Cambridge". An undisclosed number of staffers were let go from Guerrilla Cambridge and other United Kingdom-based studios owned by SCE in March 2014. Guerrilla Cambridge was closed down on 12 January 2017 as a result of a regular review process within SCE's Worldwide Studios division.
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As Guerrilla Cambridge
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasomi%20Networks | Jasomi Networks was a pioneer in the development of Session Border Controllers (SBCs), computer network devices that enable, control, and monitor the flow of multimedia data streams across carrier networks, corporate networks, home networks, and the Internet.
History and evolution
The concept for Jasomi was conceived in a meeting between Cullen Jennings and David A. Bryan, who introduced the concept to Dan Freedman, resulting in the founding of the corporation in 2001. Funded by the founders and early employee Benjamin Freedman, the company quickly created a demonstrable SBC, and began to market it as the PeerPoint product line at the Fall 2001 VON trade show organized by Jeff Pulver.
Strong early interest encouraged Freedman and Jennings to commit additional bootstrapping funds from themselves and friends and family. An R&D center was established in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in early 2002, and Alan Hawrylyshen joined the team. 2002 was spent turning the early demonstrator into a more full featured and supportable product. Ryan Kereliuk and Johnson Wu joined the company in mid-2002, and in late 2002, Jasomi adopted a hybrid coopetition model of software development, keeping certain advancements proprietary while releasing others to the public through the reSIProcate open-source SIP stack. David A. Bryan left the company and Alan Hawrylyshen became CTO in late 2002.
Between 2002 and 2004, the company advanced the state of the art in SBC technology, providing customers for the first time with the ability to perform VoIP through existing NAT-enabled firewalls so that residential subscribers could be supported without placing any hardware on their premises. An early customer making great use of this facility was Jeff Pulver's Free World Dialup, which provided free calling services worldwide amongst its subscribers using the SIP VoIP protocol.
In 2005, the company was acquired by Ditech Communications (itself later acquired by Nuance Communications) in a deal valued at $20 million.
Investment
Jasomi was unusual (although not unique) in that it shunned venture capital, relying initially on self-funding by the founders, and later on money invested by friends and family. A total of about $2.8M was raised, much of that in the few months preceding the company's acquisition. The company's main competitors were Acme Packet and Kagoor Networks that had each raised about $40M, and Netrake that had raised about $70M. By comparison, virtually all of Jasomi's operating funds came in organically from customers in the form of revenue a true bootstrapping startup experience.
Performance
Substantially as a result of being capital-poor, the company could not hire a large number of employees, and sales and the company eventually settled into the number 3 spot in the industry behind Acme Packet and Kagoor Networks, as repeatedly reported by market research firm Infonetics. Nevertheless, by 2005, the company was firmly established as a leading technical player in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Computing%20Devices | Network Computing Devices (NCD) was a company founded in 1987 to produce a new class of products now known as a thin client. It was founded in Mountain View, CA, and when it closed it was headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon.
The corporate founders were Mike Harrigan, Doug Klein, Dave Cornelius, Ed Basart, Martin Eberhard, and Kevin Martin.
At that time these devices were known as network terminals or X Terminals. Judith Estrin and William Carrico joined the company about 6 months after its founding as its new CEO and executive vice president, and led the company through its IPO in 1992. The products were some of the earliest examples of a thin client and providing remote access to data in something other than ASCII as was common with traditional terminals of the time.
The X Protocol provided a way to show high-resolution images of data and graphics over a network connection. NCD supported a range of network protocols including TCP/IP, Token Ring, DECnet and others.
NCD also developed network-transparent audio system called the Network Audio System (nas) to play, record and manipulate audio over a network.
Acquisitions
NCD purchased PCXware, which made an X Window System for Microsoft Windows.
NCD purchased Z-Code Software in 1994. Z-Code made Z-Mail, a cross platform open standards email client. Z-Mail was later sold by NCD to Netmanage.
NCD purchased TekXPress X-terminals line from Tektronix.
NCD ceased operations in 2004. However, a few of the company's employees have set up a new company, ThinPATH Systems, to provide former NCD customers and others with service, support and products.
See also
DESQview/X, a similar product
References
External links
Welcome to NCD – The Thin Client Experts!
NCD X-Terminal HOWTO
National Semiconductor & NCD to Jointly Develop Information Appliances Business Wire, Nov 14, 2000
Network Computing Devices – NCD – Acknowledged by Australian Government Technology Productivity Award Business Wire, March 28, 2001
Network Computing Devices, Inc. Introduces NCD ThinPATH PC; New Software Manages PCs as Thin Clients, Reducing the Total Cost of Ownership of the Desktop Business Wire, March 27, 2002
NCD is Finalist in The Computing Industry Awards 2002; Newly Launched ThinPATH PC is Selected as a Finalist in the Computing Industry Awards Business Wire, August 13, 2002
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Burns%20%28record%20producer%29 | Scott Burns is an American computer engineer and a former music producer of death metal records from late 1980s and 1990s. He was crucial to the emergence of the Florida death metal scene.
He has produced many records for many famous death metal bands, including Death, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura, Obituary, Atheist, Transmetal, Suffocation, and Cynic. He has engineered some of the top genre-defining death metal albums such as Death's Human, Massacre's From Beyond, Obituary's Slowly We Rot, and Assück's Misery Index. He most recently worked on the album Frozen in Time (2005) by Obituary. Burns has since quit producing full-time to work in computer programming.
Albums produced/mixed/engineered
References
Living people
Heavy metal producers
American record producers
American electronics engineers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A20%20autoroute | The A20 autoroute or L'Occitane is a highway through central France. A part of France's national network of autoroutes, it is long.
Regions Crossed
The road travels through the areas of Occitania, Limousin and Midi-Pyrénées. It starts at Vierzon in Cher and finishes in the south at Montauban in Tarn-et-Garonne. However further sections between Orléans and Vierzon (A71) and Montauban-Toulouse (A62) could be renamed the A20 in the not too distant future. L'Occitane is free from Vierzon to Brive-la-Gaillarde via Limoges.
The operating companies are ASF between Cressensac and Montauban, DDE in the department between Vierzon and Nespouls. The road crosses the following departments Cher, Indre, Creuse, Haute-Vienne, Corrèze, Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne
History
The motorway was proposed to reduce the travel time along the RN20 and to avoid congestion during holiday periods at Châteauroux, Argenton-sur-Creuse, Saint-Benoît-du-Sault, Limoges, Uzerche, Brive, Souillac, Cahors and Montauban.
Route
From Vierzon to Martel
The motorway is managed by the respective DDE in Cher, Indre, Creuse, Haute-Vienne, of Corrèze and Lot. It is a free motorway with 2x2 lanes, with certain sections with 2x3 lanes, for example the by-pass of Limoges.
History
Pre 1992: The Brive and Limoges by-pass.
1992 to 2000: creation of the various sections of the motorway
Future
In the long term, a new by-pass for Limoges is proposed (The A20bis project), in order to return the section of the A20 motorway which crosses the Limoges conurbation to its original planned use as a major urban road.
Junctions
A71 to A20
Péage
05 (Vierzon-North) to 1 km: served city Vierzon
06 (Vierzon) to 3 km: served city Vierzon
07 (Vierzon-South) to 6 km: served city Vierzon
08 (Massay-Nord) to 9 km: served city Massay (half-exchanger)
08 (Massay-South) to 15 km: served city Massay (half-exchanger)
09 (Gracay) to 23 km: served city Gracay
Service Area: Champs-d'Amour
10 (Vatan-Nord) to 28 km: served city Vatan (half-exchanger)
10 (Vatan-Sod) to 32 km: served city Vatan (half-exchanger)
11 (Brion) to 42 km: served cities Brion, Levroux and Issoudun
Rest Area: Les Avionneurs (Southbound), Les Avionneurs (Northbound) Les Blés d'Or (Southbound)
12 (Déols) to 54 km: served cities Déols and Châteauroux
13 (Châteauroux) to 60 km: served cities Châteauroux and Buzançais
13.1 (Mézières-en-Brenne) to 64 km: served cities Châteauroux and Mézières-en-Brenne (half-exchanger)
14 (Châteauroux-Sud) to 67 km: city served Châteauroux
Service Area: Mille Étangs (Southbound), Val de l'Indre (Northbound)
15 (Velles) to 75 km: served city Velles
16 (Tendu) to 80 km: served city Tendu
17 (Saint-Marcel-Nord) to 84 km: served cities Saint-Marcel and Argenton-sur-Creuse (half-exchanger)
17 (Saint-Marcel-Sud) to 87 km: served cities Saint-Marcel and Argenton-sur-Creuse (half-exchanger)
18 (Argenton sud) to 91 km: served city Argenton-sur-Creuse and Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
Rest Area: La Marche Occitane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Macintosh%205500 | The Power Macintosh 5500 is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from February 1997 to March 1998. Like the Power Macintosh 5260 and 5400 that preceded it, the 5500 is an all-in-one design, built around a PowerPC 603ev processor operating at 225, 250 or 275 megahertz (MHz).
Apple originally produced the Power Macintosh 5500 for the educational market as a replacement for the previous year's Power Macintosh 5400. It is the last All-In-One from Apple to be housed in the Power Macintosh 5200 LC's form-factor; its replacement, the Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One, introduced a significantly different design.
Hardware
The 225 and 250 MHz models were produced in beige and black, whilst the rarer 275 MHz models were only black.
External ports: External ports include two LocalTalk/GeoPort serial ports, a DB-25 SCSI port, an ADB port, a stereo sound input port, a built-in microphone above the monitor, stereophonic sound output ports, a headphone jack on the front, a stereo miniphone jack on the back.
Memory: Unlike the 5400, the 5500 has no soldered on-board memory. There are two JEDEC-standard DIMM slots (168-
pin, 60 ns or faster, 2K refresh rate, 5-volt buffered EDO DIMMs), which can support up to 64 MB each, for a total maximum memory of 128 MB, 8 less than the 5400.
Cache: The processor makes use of 32 kilobytes (KB) of L1 cache, with an option for a 256 or 512 KB L2 cache (the latter being available only on the 275 MHz model) cache operating at the stock 50 MHz bus speed.
Hard disk: The 5500 includes a larger ATA hard disk than its predecessor. The computer came stock with a 2 gigabyte (GB) hard disk, but the 275 MHz model came with a 4 GB drive; a faster SCSI CD-ROM drive (12x in early models and 24x in the top-end).
Video: An accelerated ATI 3D Rage II+ DVD graphics card, containing 2 megabytes (MB) of dedicated SGRAM and allowing for resolutions up to 832x624 at 32 bits per pixel, 1152x870 at 16 bpp, and 1280x1024 at 8 bpp. An optional video connector kit is available which adds a DB-15 output port to the back; the output of this display mirrors the main screen, suitable for presentations.
Floppy disk: The 5500 includes Apple's standard SuperDrive 1.44 MB floppy drive.
CD-ROM: All 5500 configurations include either a 12x or 24x CD-ROM.
Multimedia: 5500s came with optional multimedia expansion cards, that connect via internal cables. In European models, these were an S-Video card and a Philips TV tuner card that also had an audio input. Black 5500s with this configuration were marketed as Director Edition in North America and Australasia and the 225 MHz version had the phrase printed on the case.
Expansion slots: The 5500 has one PCI card slot.
Operating system: The 5500 supports System Software versions 7.5.5 through 9.1 – Mac OS X is not officially supported on this machine. However, it can be run with XPostFacto but is not recommended, due to the 5500's lack of a G3 processor and RAM ceiling of 128 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20USA%20Radio%20Network | Sports USA Media is the largest independent sports broadcasting radio network in the United States, specializing in live broadcasts of American football, specifically of the NCAA football Division I-A and National Football League (NFL). In 2018, more than 450 radio stations across the United States carried NFL and NCAA football games from Sports USA.
Programs
The NFL on Sports USA
Sports USA began broadcasting NFL games in 2002. It broadcasts two games every Sunday during the NFL regular season for a total of 34 games.
College Football on Sports USA
Sports USA broadcasts at least one major college football game every Saturday during the college football season. In addition, Sports USA periodically broadcasts a Thursday night match up, along with select bowl games.
The NHL on Sports USA
In February 2021, Sports USA reached a deal with NBC Sports, which was phasing out of both radio and hockey, to take over its rights to national radio broadcasts of the National Hockey League. That season, it aired two outdoor games, selected early round playoff games, and all games from the Stanley Cup Semifinals and Finals. Later in 2021, Sports USA renewed its rights until the 2024-25 season. Unlike other league's major championship coverage, this coverage is not exclusive and stations that are affiliated with the participating Stanley Cup Finals team's radio networks will be allowed to carry and stream coverage.
Other sports
Sports USA Media also carries the Little League World Series, NFL Draft and horse racing from the Horse Racing Radio Network. HRRN also produces the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes); however distribution is handled by Westwood One.
Announcers
Sports USA has a large list of announcers for its football coverage. Play-by play announcers include the network's founder and former USC Trojans football broadcaster Larry Kahn, Anaheim Ducks broadcaster John Ahlers, FOX Sports announcer Adam Amin, former USC Trojans football and Los Angeles Rams head coach John Robinson, former Colorado head coach Gary Barnett, former ABC announcer and quarterback Dan Fouts (Fouts also splits time with the NFL on CBS), Ross Tucker, Golden State Warriors announcer Bob Fitzgerald, former USFL defensive back Troy West, and Eli Gold (voice of the Alabama Crimson Tide, perhaps better known nationally for his work on NASCAR). Analysts include former Chicago Bears safety Doug Plank, former Indianapolis Colts tight end and ESPN, studio and game analyst Charles Arbuckle, and Anaheim Ducks color commentator Brian Hayward. Veteran Los Angeles reporter and broadcaster for KFWB Ted Sobel acts as the network's studio host and reporter.
Podcasts
Sports USA also produces a variety of sports podcasts.
Conversations with Joe Morgan was a weekly podcast from the Cincinnati Reds late Hall of Famer and two-time World Series Champion Joe Morgan. Previous guests on Morgan's program show included the late former President Ge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO%20CRONOS | Crisis Response Operations in NATO Operating Systems (CRONOS) is a system of interconnected computer networks used by NATO to transmit classified information. It provides NATO Secret level operations, with access to NATO intelligence applications and databases. As of 1999, a wide area network of NT computers used in NATO in Europe.
CRONOS provides e-mail, the Microsoft Office Suite, etc.
It provides informal messaging (e-mail) and information sharing within the NATO community.
There is no connectivity between CRONOS and any US network or with the coalition wide area network.
See also
SIPRNet – U.S. Secret Internet Protocol Router Network
RIPR – U.S. / Korea Coalition Network
UK Networks
Joint Operational Command System (JOCS)
Defence Information Infrastructure
Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) FIRECREST
References
External links
Newsletter for Information Assurance Technology Professionals, Spring 1999
NATO
Wide area networks
Military communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweep%20line%20algorithm | In computational geometry, a sweep line algorithm or plane sweep algorithm is an algorithmic paradigm that uses a conceptual sweep line or sweep surface to solve various problems in Euclidean space. It is one of the critical techniques in computational geometry.
The idea behind algorithms of this type is to imagine that a line (often a vertical line) is swept or moved across the plane, stopping at some points. Geometric operations are restricted to geometric objects that either intersect or are in the immediate vicinity of the sweep line whenever it stops, and the complete solution is available once the line has passed over all objects.
History
This approach may be traced to scanline algorithms of rendering in computer graphics, followed by exploiting this approach in early algorithms of integrated circuit layout design, in which a geometric description of an IC was processed in parallel strips because the entire description could not fit into memory.
Applications
Application of this approach led to a breakthrough in the computational complexity of geometric algorithms when Shamos and Hoey presented algorithms for line segment intersection in the plane, and in particular, they described how a combination of the scanline approach with efficient data structures (self-balancing binary search trees) makes it possible to detect whether there are intersections among segments in the plane in time complexity of . The closely related Bentley–Ottmann algorithm uses a sweep line technique to report all intersections among any segments in the plane in time complexity of and space complexity of .
Since then, this approach has been used to design efficient algorithms for a number of problems, such as the construction of the Voronoi diagram (Fortune's algorithm) and the Delaunay triangulation or boolean operations on polygons.
Generalizations and extensions
Topological sweeping is a form of plane sweep with a simple ordering of processing points, which avoids the necessity of completely sorting the points; it allows some sweep line algorithms to be performed more efficiently.
The rotating calipers technique for designing geometric algorithms may also be interpreted as a form of the plane sweep, in the projective dual of the input plane: a form of projective duality transforms the slope of a line in one plane into the x-coordinate of a point in the dual plane, so the progression through lines in sorted order by their slope as performed by a rotating calipers algorithm is dual to the progression through points sorted by their x-coordinates in a plane sweep algorithm.
The sweeping approach may be generalised to higher dimensions.
References
Geometric algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-forcing%20equalizer | The zero-forcing equalizer is a form of linear equalization algorithm used in communication systems which applies the inverse of the frequency response of the channel. This form of equalizer was first proposed by Robert Lucky.
The zero-forcing equalizer applies the inverse of the channel frequency response to the received signal, to restore the signal after the channel. It has many useful applications. For example, it is studied heavily for IEEE 802.11n (MIMO) where knowing the channel allows recovery of the two or more streams which will be received on top of each other on each antenna. The name zero-forcing corresponds to bringing down the intersymbol interference (ISI) to zero in a noise-free case. This will be useful when ISI is significant compared to noise.
For a channel with frequency response the zero-forcing equalizer is constructed by . Thus the combination of channel and equalizer gives a flat frequency response and linear phase .
In reality, zero-forcing equalization does not work in most applications, for the following reasons:
Even though the channel impulse response has finite length, the impulse response of the equalizer needs to be infinitely long
At some frequencies the received signal may be weak. To compensate, the magnitude of the zero-forcing filter ("gain") grows very large. As a consequence, any noise added after the channel gets boosted by a large factor and destroys the overall signal-to-noise ratio. Furthermore, the channel may have zeros in its frequency response that cannot be inverted at all. (Gain * 0 still equals 0).
This second item is often the more limiting condition. These problems are addressed in the linear MMSE equalizer by making a small modification to the denominator of : , where k is related to the channel response and the signal SNR.
Algorithm
If the channel response (or channel transfer function) for a particular channel is H(s) then the input signal is multiplied by the reciprocal of it. This is intended to remove the effect of channel from the received signal, in particular the intersymbol interference (ISI).
The zero-forcing equalizer removes all ISI, and is ideal when the channel is noiseless. However, when the channel is noisy, the zero-forcing equalizer will amplify the noise greatly at frequencies f where the channel response H(j2πf) has a small magnitude (i.e. near zeroes of the channel) in the attempt to invert the channel completely. A more balanced linear equalizer in this case is the minimum mean-square error equalizer, which does not usually eliminate ISI completely but instead minimizes the total power of the noise and ISI components in the output.
References
Filter theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20output%20management | Enterprise output management (EOM) is an information technology practice that deals with the organization, formatting, management and distribution of data that is created by enterprise applications like banking information systems, insurance information systems, ERP (enterprise resource planning systems), CRM (customer relationship management), retail systems and many others.
In 2006, Gartner research estimated the market of EOM solutions at $441 million with 5% growth rate between 2006 and 2010. Gartner defined Distributed output management as middleware that drives the output process and supports the automated creation and delivery of business process and ad hoc documents. Middleware is software that is bridging between different software applications in terms of data formats, languages, communication protocols, etc.
See also
Enterprise content management
Enterprise information management
References
Enterprise architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9%20Rouge | Café Rouge is a French-styled restaurant chain, with 28 sites across the United Kingdom. Café Rouge is part of a bigger restaurant network owned by The Big Table.
History
Café Rouge was founded by Roger Myers and Karen Jones, in Richmond, London as a small restaurant chain in 1989. As the brand grew, Myers and Jones incorporated the chain into a larger restaurant group: the Pelican Group. In July 1996, Whitbread purchased Pelican Group – comprising 110 restaurants under the Dôme, Mamma Amalfi and, primarily, Café Rouge brands – for £133m.
The restaurant chain gained much exposure after frequently being mentioned in the 1996 novel Bridget Jones's Diary, with the main character Bridget Jones (and her friends) visiting her local branch of the restaurant regularly throughout the novel.
In May 2002, Whitbread sold Pelican to Tragus Group (later renamed Casual Dining Group) in a management buy-in for £25m.
In 2009, Café Rouge began a partnership with the Gourmet Society, offering their members discounts on production of a Gourmet Society restaurant discount card.
In February 2011, Café Rouge introduced a new fast-service format to the brand. Café Rouge Express at Euston railway station and Southampton's WestQuay shopping centre, aims to reduce customer waiting time and the reduced menu range is available to eat in or take away.
In 2012, it was reported that Café Rouge intended investing in excess of £20m refurbishing its restaurants over the next few years, starting with the Hampstead branch, designed by Afroditi Krassa. The design was to be rolled out across 125 restaurants within three years, with interiors tailored to each site.
In September 2012, Café Rouge joined the Nectar loyalty card reward scheme as a redemption partner.
In light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, in May 2020 Café Rouge's owner Casual Dining Group announced that it was working with advisors on next steps for the overall business as a prudent measure to protect the company whilst planning for the future and as part of that process had filed a Notice of Intention to appoint administrators. On 2 July 2020 the company entered administration, with 32 branches of Café Rouge set to close. The Café Rouge company was dissolved on 4 August 2022. Casual Dining Group, owner of Café Rouge and Bella Italia, went into administration in November 2022.
The Café Rouge Web site listed 28 locations .
Charity
In 2013, Café Rouge were official partners of Comic Relief, the British charity founded in 1985 that aims to "bring about positive and lasting change in the lives of poor and disadvantaged people."
Tipping and minimum wage
In 2008 the company was reported as paying staff less than the legal minimum wage, relying on tips to make up the difference. This led to a campaign in Parliament to make this practice illegal.
In 2009 the company was found to be threatening to dismiss waiting staff who do not get customers to pay tips on credit cards rather than in cash. Credit card tips |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyScheme | TinyScheme is a free software implementation of the Scheme programming language with a lightweight Scheme interpreter of a subset of the R5RS standard. It is meant to be used as an embedded scripting interpreter for other programs. Much of the functionality in TinyScheme is included conditionally, to allow developers to balance features and size/footprint.
TinyScheme is used by the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) starting with version 2.4, released in 2007. GIMP previously used SIOD.
TinyScheme was used as the core of Direct Revenue's adware, making it the world's most widely distributed Scheme runtime.
References
External links
Scheme (programming language) interpreters
Scheme (programming language) implementations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lennon%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Project | The John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project is a chatterbot designed to simulate a conversation with John Lennon. It was developed as a "Persona-Bot" by Triumph PC Online, based in Washington, D.C. Triumph PC's "Persona-Bots" are software programs that attempt to mimic the personalities or quirks of particular historical figures in conversation.
In development since 1997, the JLAI Project (originally called the Plastic Digital Karma Project) claims to have achieved similarity to Lennon's speech patterns, but still has a way to go to achieve the seamlessness of a conversation with a real person.
References
Feature in the Evening Standard
Article in Stereophile
Article in the Austin Chronicle
Official site
Chatbots
Artificial Intelligence Project |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRFI | SRFI may refer to:
Scheme Requests for Implementation, an effort to coordinate libraries and extensions of the Scheme programming language
Squash Racquets Federation of India, the apex body for the squash racquet sport in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VB%20Watch | VB Watch is a Visual Basic programming utility. VB Watch consists of three tools for Visual Basic 6.0: Profiler, Protector and Debugger.
Profiler
VB Watch Profiler measures the speed of a running Visual Basic program. It displays the time spent in each procedure and/or a line of code. This information can be used in code optimization to detect bottleneck procedures and lines. The Profiler can also be used to measure code coverage during software testing.
Debugger
VB Watch Debugger monitors what happens inside a running Visual Basic program or library. It displays the call stack, execution trace, global variables and the number of live objects.
The Debugger also allows one to add breakpoints in executable files.
External links
VB Watch home page
Debuggers
Profilers
Software testing tools
Programming tools for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20Malta | Television Malta (; TVM) is a terrestrial television network in Malta operated by the national broadcaster, Public Broadcasting Services. Alongside the main TVM station, PBS operates TVMNews+ (formerly TVM 2) and TVMSport+.
History
TVM was launched on 29 September 1962 as the first television service in the country, with technical backing from Rediffusion UK, although television broadcasts from neighbouring Sicily in far-southern Italy could be received in Malta from as early as 1957. Until 1964, TVM was based at Rediffusion House in Gwardamanġa, after which it was moved to the nearby, purpose-built Television House.
In October 2011, PBS announced an overhaul of the TVM brand, to mark 50 years since the establishment of the Malta Television Service in 2012. The new branding pays homage to previous TVM identities, and makes use of the Maltese cross, which features heavily in the 2010's L-Aħbarijiet title sequence.
In March 2012, PBS started its trial transmissions on the new sister channel TVM2, which replaced Education 22 (E22). The broadcast time starts at around the morning (for TVM) and finishes at around 12:00am.
In 2021, PBS announced another rebrand. The rebrand was met with criticism, since it was held in the form of a competition, and the competitors didn't even get acknowledgment for participating. The new logos for PBS, TVM and TVMNews+ were especially met with fierce criticism, after some competitors took to Facebook to share their designs.
This was an overhaul of all their stations. TVM's main focus turned into drama and family entertainment. TVM2 was rebranded to TVMNews+ which started focusing on News and Current affairs. TVM's online presence was also changed, with the URL of the online portal being changed from tvm.com.mt to tvmnews.mt
In 2022, TVMi was rebranded to become more modern, and offer on demand recordings of most programmes broadcast on their network. PBS also released a brand-new TV station, named TVMSport+, aimed at broadcasting local and foreign sports. The channels made a update with new logos once again in early October 2023.
Programming
TVM broadcasts a mix of news, sport, entertainment, magazine programming and children's programmes. It is funded through a government grant and commercial advertising. The majority of programmes broadcast on TVM are produced externally of PBS. PBS publishes details of the types of programmes it wishes to broadcast on TVM and production companies provide PBS with a detailed report of their proposal for the programme.
Most programmes are broadcast in Maltese, however the Maltese speak both Maltese and English so English also features, mainly in BBC and ITV titles. Sunday evenings are dedicated to classic British comedy, and English language films are shown on Saturday evenings. The English language feed of Euronews is also broadcast daily.
A new programme schedule was announced, including an increased number of news bulletins and a new current affairs-led breakfast show. F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebbles%2C%20Volume%205 | Pebbles, Volume 5 is a compilation album in the Pebbles series that has been issued in both LP and CD formats.
Release data
This album was released on BFD Records in 1980. AIP Records kept the LP in print for many years.
AIP Records issued this volume in CD format in 1992. Although having a somewhat different cover, the two formats are largely the same album and even have similar catalogue numbers.
Two box sets of the first five volumes of the Pebbles series have also been released, the Pebbles Box on LP (in 1987) and the Trash Box on CD (in 2004).
Omitted tracks on the CD
When AIP Records issued the early volumes of CDs, they omitted some tracks from the corresponding LP for the stated reason that they were already widely available on other anthologies. In this case, all of the tracks on the LP are included on the CD and in the same order, although "You Need Love" shows a different band name. Thus, the CD has only 3 bonus tracks.
Track listing
LP
Side 1:
The Tree: "No Good Woman", 2:36" – rel. 1967
The Plague: "Go Away", 1:51
The Magi: "You Don't Know Me", 2:28
The Gentlemen: "It's a Cry'n Shame", 2:30
The 5 Canadians: "Writing on the Wall", 2:18
The Dirty Wurds: "Why", 2:19
The Merry Dragons: "Universal Vagrant", 2:54 – rel. 1966
The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2: "I Wanna Come Back (From the World of LSD)", 2:16
Side 2:
The Escapades: "I Tell No Lies", 1:59
Danny & the Escorts: "You Need Love", 2:32
The Satyrs: "Yesterday's Hero", 2:41
Little Phil & the Night Shadows: "The Way it Used to Be", 2:01
The State of Mind: "Move", 2:09
Yesterday's Children: "Wanna Be with You", 2:27
The Time Stoppers: "I Need Love", 2:30
Thursday's Children: "You'll Never Be My Girl", 2:03
The 12 A.M.: "The Way I Feel", 2:18 – rel. 1967
CD
The Tree: "No Good Woman" — rel. 1967
The Plague: "Go Away" — rel. 1966?
The Magi: "You Don't Know Me" — rel. 1971?
The Gentlemen: "It's a Cryin' Shame" — rel. 1966?
The Five Canadians: "Writing on the Wall" — rel. 1966
Dirty Wurds: "Why" — rel. 1966
The Merry Dragons: "Universal Vagrant" — rel. 1966
The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2: "I Wanna Come Back (From the World of LSD)" — rel. 1967?
The Escapades: "I Tell No Lies" — rel. 1966
Danny and the Counts: "You Need Love" — rel. 1966
The Satyrs: "Yesterday's Hero" — rel. 1967?
Little Phil & the Night Shadows: "The Way It Used to Be" — rel. 1966
The State of Mind: "Move" — rel. 1967?
Yesterday's Children: "Wanna Be with You" — rel. 1966?
The Time Stoppers: "I Need Love" — rel. 1967
Thursday's Children: "You'll Never Be My Girl" — rel. 1966
The 12 A.M.: "The Way I Feel" — rel. 1967
The Shags: "Stop & Listen" — rel. 1967
The Sound Barrier: "(My) Baby's Gone" — rel. 1966?
The Traits: "High on a Cloud" — rel. 1966?
Release history
LP
BFD Records (#BFD-5022) — 1979
AIP Records – several reissues
CD
AIP Records (#AIP-CD-5022) — 1992
References
Pebbles (series) albums
1980 compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers%20Alert%20Network | Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a group of not-for-profit organizations dedicated to improving diving safety for all divers. It was founded in Durham, North Carolina, United States, in 1980 at Duke University providing 24/7 telephonic hot-line diving medical assistance. Since then the organization has expanded globally and now has independent regional organizations in North America, Europe, Japan, Asia-Pacific and Southern Africa.
The DAN group of organizations provide similar services, some only to members, and others to any person on request. Member services usually include a diving accident hot-line, and diving accident and travel insurance. Services to the general public usually include diving medical advice and training in first aid for diving accidents. DAN America and DAN Europe maintain databases on diving accidents, treatment and fatalities, and crowd-sourced databases on dive profiles uploaded by volunteers which are used for ongoing research programmes. They publish research results and collaborate with other organizations on projects of common interest.
Function
DAN has an international network of emergency call centers which operate 24 hours a day to provide members with specialized assistance for diving emergencies from a group of experts in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine
History
In 1977, Undersea Medical Society (later the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society) introduced the concept of a national organization (to replace LEO-FAST at Brooks Air Force Base, directed by Colonel Jefferson Davis, M.D.) where a diving medicine specialist could be contacted by telephone 24 hours a day. Dr. Peter B. Bennett received a two-year grant from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in September 1980 to form the "National Diving Accident Network" at the Frank G. Hall Hyperbaric Center at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
In 1981, DAN published its "Underwater Diving Accident Manual". The Hyperbaric Center received 305 calls for information and assistance. DAN implemented a medical/safety advisory telephone line to handle questions from recreational divers with non-emergency questions in 1982. This change was followed by a name change from "Diving Accident Network" to "Divers Alert Network" and hosted the first annual Diving Accident and Hyperbaric Treatment continuing medical education course at the Duke University Medical Center.
In 1983 International Diving Assistance (IDA), later to become DAN Europe, was founded by dr. Alessandro Marroni as a 24-hour per day diving emergency assistance service, set up as a membership organization, with specific insurance benefits since the start.
In 1984, federal grant monies were decreased (50 percent in 1982 and then by 25 percent in 1983) and support now comes exclusively from divers and the diving industry.
In 1985 DAN started a 'sponsor program' for clubs, stores and corporations,
In 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEA-M | In cryptography, FEA-M (Fast Encryption Algorithm for Multimedia) is a block cipher developed in 2001 by X. Yi, C. H. Tan, C. K. Siew, and M. R. Syed.
With the unusually large block size of 4096 bits, all of FEA-M's calculations operate on 64×64 binary matrices. Unlike most block ciphers, FEA-M does not use multiple rounds of encryption. Each block is encrypted using just two multiplications and two additions. The data is encrypted using a pair of session keys chosen for just that message. The key is an invertible matrix used to encrypt the session keys, and the encrypted session keys must be sent along with the ciphertext. Since only invertible matrices can be used for the key, the effective key size is about 4094.2 bits.
FEA-M is insecure; an attack found by Youssef and Tavares (2003) recovers the secret key using only 1 known plaintext and 2 chosen plaintexts.
References
Further reading
Broken block ciphers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom%20Gold | Telecom Gold (sometimes also known as BT Gold) was an early commercial electronic mail service launched by British Telecom in 1982. It was based on Prime minicomputers running Dialcom software under a customised version of PRIMOS. (ITT Dialcom was later acquired by BT in 1986.) The system offered various services, including e-mail to and from other Telecom Gold users and those of Dialcom services in other countries, and other e-mail systems such as Sprint and integration with telex, fax, online databases and an experimental OCR system for a short while. Later, X.400 functionality was added.
Users would dial into the system using a conventional modem and terminal emulator. Alternatively, users could dial a local number and connect via the PSS X.25 network. The X.400 services also had a Mail User Agent which ran on IBM PCs and compatibles.
The UK data centre was originally located in the basement of Beckett House 60-68 St Thomas St, Bermondsey, London, SE1 3QU but later moved to a custom built facility at Oxgate Centre, Oxgate Ln, London NW2 7JA which now houses LDEX1.
The service eventually became obsolete with the growth of the Internet in 1996.
Although BT continued to market the service, it decided not to develop its [Telecom Gold] successor, Mailbox, into an Internet Service Provider when it became clear that people wanted to connect to the Internet during the early to mid 1990s. Instead, BT decided to launch a new Internet Service Provider, called BTnet, in 1994, and within two years, Mailbox had ceased to exist.
During the 1980s, BT Gold hosted one of the first online communities. Users communicated using a noticeboard () and via a simple chat facility which allowed real-time conversations to take place. The BT Gold community was worldwide, but the majority of users were in London and would meet regularly at "eyeballs" (coined from CB usage).
See also
Robert Schifreen & Steve Gold, alleged hackers of Prince Philip's Telecom Gold mailbox in 1985
References
BT Group
History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom
Pre–World Wide Web online services
Internet properties established in 1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse%20%28emulator%29 | The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (Fuse) is an emulator of the 1980s ZX Spectrum home computer and its various clones for Unix, Windows and macOS. Fuse is free software, released under the GNU General Public License. There are ports of Fuse to several platforms including GP2X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, the Nokia N810, and Android (as the Spectacol project).
The project was started in 1999 and is still under development . It has been recognised as one of the most full-featured and accurate Spectrum emulators available for Linux, and portions of its code have been ported and adapted for use in other free software projects such as the Sprinter emulator SPRINT and the ZX81 emulator EightyOne.
References
External links
GP2X Port
PSP Port
Wii Port
Maemo (Nokia N810) Port
ZX Spectrum
Free emulation software
GP2X emulation software
MacOS emulation software
MorphOS emulation software
Unix emulation software
Linux emulation software
Windows emulation software
Amiga emulation software
AmigaOS 4 software
Free software programmed in C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%20Live | Australia Live was a four-hour telecast, broadcast live on the Nine Network, on 1 January 1988 to open Australia's Bicentennial celebrations. The telecast crossed live to over 70 locations right across the country (and some overseas) to represent a 'typical' day in the life of the Australian people. At each of the locations, Australian television celebrities talked with everyday Australians about their experiences, with the whole event anchored by Clive James, Ray Martin and Jana Wendt from the TCN-9 studios in Sydney. Other presenters included Paul Hogan, Tony Barber, George Negus, Derryn Hinch, Greg Evans, Daryl Somers and Graham Kennedy who billed the program as a "unique electronic carpet ride"
Locations were as diverse as Thursday Island in Queensland, Maatsuyker Island lighthouse in Tasmania, the Mount Lofty Fire Tower near Adelaide, Kings Cross in Sydney, The Lodge in Canberra, Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory, and remote Kingoonya with a population of six in outback South Australia.
It was, at the time, a great achievement in television technology, if not in terms of the quality of the content. A number of crosses were made to people in remote locations from which live television had never been broadcast. These included the Indian Pacific passenger train on its way through the middle of Australia, a conversation (through a translator) with soviet cosmonauts who were orbiting the Earth, and, perhaps the most outstanding achievement, a live broadcast from the Davis Base in Antarctica.
The telecast included pre-recorded messages from world leaders including US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Australia Live was simultaneously broadcast on Channel Nine, ABC and SBS in Australia (as well as all regional stations), on Channel 4 in Britain, and on the A&E Network in the United States.
The broadcast ended with a rendition by Julie Anthony of the Australian national anthem at the Old Parliament House in Canberra with live fireworks displays from all of the Australian capital cities. The ABC later picked up the finale and played it at closedown until it began round-the-clock broadcasting in the 1990s.
External links
BFI Film & TV Database
TV Guide - 1 January 1988
TV Guide Advertisement - Australia Live
Nine Network specials
Australian television specials
1988 in Australian television
Australian bicentennial commemorations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafail%20Ostrovsky | Rafail Ostrovsky is a distinguished professor of computer science and mathematics at UCLA and a well-known researcher in algorithms and cryptography.
Biography
Rafail Ostrovsky received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1992.
He is a member of the editorial board of Algorithmica
, Editorial Board of Journal of Cryptology and Editorial and Advisory Board of the International Journal of Information and Computer Security .
Awards
2022 W. Wallace McDowell Award "for visionary contributions to computer security theory and practice, including foreseeing new cloud vulnerabilities and then pioneering corresponding novel solutions"
2021 AAAS Fellow
2021 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to the foundations of cryptography"
2019 Academia Europaea Foreign Member
2018 RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics "for contributions to the theory and to new variants of secure multi-party computations"
2017 IEEE Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award "for outstanding contributions to cryptographic protocols and systems, enhancing the scope of cryptographic applications and of assured cryptographic security."
2017 IEEE Fellow, "for contributions to cryptography”
2013 IACR Fellow "for numerous contributions to the scientific foundations of cryptography and for sustained educational leadership in cryptography"
1993 Henry Taub Prize
Publications
Some of Ostrovsky's contributions to computer science include:
1990 Introduced (with R. Venkatesan and M. Yung) the notion ofhttps://services27.ieee.org/fellowsdirectory/home.html interactive hashing proved essential for constructing statistical zero-knowledge proofs for NP based on any one-way function (see NOVY and ).
1991 Introduced (with M. Yung) the notion of mobile adversary (later renamed proactive security) (see survey of Goldwasser
1990 Introduced the first poly-logarithmic Oblivious RAM (ORAM) scheme.
1993 Proved (with A. Wigderson) equivalence ofone-way functions and zero-knowledge .
1996 Introduced (with R. Canetti, C. Dwork and M. Naor) the notion of deniable encryption .
1997 Introduced (with E. Kushilevitz) the first single server private information retrieval scheme .
1997 Showed (with E. Kushilevitz and Y. Rabani) (1+ε) poly-time and poly-size approximate-nearest neighbor search for high-dimensional data for L1-norm and Euclidean space.
References
External links
Ostrovsky's home page
Some of Ostrovsky's publications
1963 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Jewish American scientists
Modern cryptographers
Theoretical computer scientists
Computer security academics
American cryptographers
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched%20video | Switched video or switched digital video (SDV), sometimes referred to as switched broadcast (SWB), is a telecommunications industry term for a network scheme for distributing digital video via a cable. Switched video sends the digital video more efficiently freeing bandwidth. The scheme applies to digital video distribution both on typical cable TV systems using QAM channels, or on IPTV systems.
Description
In hybrid fibre-coaxial systems, a fiber optic network extending from the operator's head end carries video channels out to a fiber optic node that services up to 2000 end points. Video is then sent via coaxial cable. Note that only a percentage of these homes are actively watching channels at a given time. Rarely are all channels being accessed by the homes in the service group.
In a switched video system, the unwatched channels do not need to be sent.
In US cable systems, equipment in the home sends a channel request signal back to the distribution hub. If a channel is requested, the distribution hub allocates a QAM channel and transmits the channel to the coaxial cable. For this to work, the home equipment must have two-way communication ability. Switched video uses the same mechanisms as video on demand and may be viewed as non-ending video on demand that users share.
Technical
Two-way communication is handled differently between cable and IPTV schemes. IPTV uses Internet communication protocols but requires a different distribution infrastructure. US cable companies elected the less costly approach of upgrading existing infrastructure. In the upgrade approach, various proprietary schemes use specific frequencies for messaging the distribution hub.
For switched video to work on cable systems, digital television users in a subscription group must have devices capable of communicating to the distribution hub in a compatible manner. Unlike other features dependent on two-way communication such as video on demand, the requirement to upgrade all digital set-top boxes within a group makes conversion to switched video expensive. CableLabs proposed in the CableCARD 2.0 specification that two-way communication be supported with a scheme that required more powerful hardware capable of running Java software. Many cable companies indicated they would build lower cost devices that do not require this OCAP programming environment, so that upgrading to switched video would not be as costly. Consumer electronics companies also prefer a lighter weight solution, and so absent a standard, the conversion to switched video may require many years.
History
BigBand Networks (acquired by Arris Group in 2011) was the switched video pioneer, and received the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award in 2008 for innovation in the HFC market.
Major vendors like Arris Group and Cisco also provide SDV solutions for the cable operators. An emerging market supplies back office applications to analyze and control performance.
See also
Cable television
Internet Proto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA%20Action%20Extreme%20Team | USA Action Extreme Team was a children's television programming block on USA Network from 1995 to 1998. The block aired on Sunday mornings, but it later expanded to weekday mornings beginning in 1996 and took over the USA Cartoon Express block's timeslots as a result. The block ended on September 11, 1998, when the network permanently removed children's programming.
Shows
Original programs
Exosquad (1995–1996)
Savage Dragon (1995–1998)
Street Fighter (1995–1998)
Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (1996–1998)
Wing Commander Academy (1996–1998)
Acquired programs
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (1995–1997)
Highlander: The Animated Series (1995–1996)
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) (1995–1997)
The Superman/Batman Adventures (1995–1996)
WildC.A.T.s (1995–1996)
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (1996–1997)
Double Dragon (1996–1998)
Mighty Max (1996–1998)
Super Mario World (1996–1997)
Street Sharks (1996–1997)
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1996–1997)
Ultraforce (1996–1998)
Sailor Moon (1997–1998)
External links
USA Network original programming
Television programming blocks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming%287%2C4%29 | In coding theory, Hamming(7,4) is a linear error-correcting code that encodes four bits of data into seven bits by adding three parity bits. It is a member of a larger family of Hamming codes, but the term Hamming code often refers to this specific code that Richard W. Hamming introduced in 1950. At the time, Hamming worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories and was frustrated with the error-prone punched card reader, which is why he started working on error-correcting codes.
The Hamming code adds three additional check bits to every four data bits of the message. Hamming's (7,4) algorithm can correct any single-bit error, or detect all single-bit and two-bit errors. In other words, the minimal Hamming distance between any two correct codewords is 3, and received words can be correctly decoded if they are at a distance of at most one from the codeword that was transmitted by the sender. This means that for transmission medium situations where burst errors do not occur, Hamming's (7,4) code is effective (as the medium would have to be extremely noisy for two out of seven bits to be flipped).
In quantum information, the Hamming (7,4) is used as the base for the Steane code, a type of CSS code used for quantum error correction.
Goal
The goal of the Hamming codes is to create a set of parity bits that overlap so that a single-bit error in a data bit or a parity bit can be detected and corrected. While multiple overlaps can be created, the general method is presented in Hamming codes.
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So, by picking the parity bit coverage correctly, all errors with a Hamming distance of 1 can be detected and corrected, which is the point of using a Hamming code.
Hamming matrices
Hamming codes can be computed in linear algebra terms through matrices because Hamming codes are linear codes. For the purposes of Hamming codes, two Hamming matrices can be defined: the code generator matrix G and the parity-check matrix H:
As mentioned above, rows 1, 2, and 4 of G should look familiar as they map the data bits to their parity bits:
p1 covers d1, d2, d4
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRVM-FM | KRVM-FM (91.9 MHz) is a community radio station in Eugene, Oregon, United States. KRVM's primary programming is available via online streaming, with listener-supporters located around the world. The station license and studio facility are owned by Eugene School District 4J, but the school district provides no direct funding to the station; all funding comes from listener supporters, business underwriters, and the Corporation For Public Broadcasting. The main studio is located at Sheldon High School, with a satellite studio at Spencer Butte Middle School.
Two additional stations, KSYD (92.1 FM) in Reedsport (serving Coos Bay) and KAVE (88.5 FM) in Oakridge, rebroadcast KRVM, as does a translator, K211BP (90.1 FM) in Florence, Oregon. KRVM-FM broadcasts in HD Radio.
History
KRVM-FM is the oldest public radio station in the state of Oregon. The first words ever spoken on FM radio in the Pacific Northwest were broadcast on KRVM on December 6, 1947, and the station formally opened in early 1948. It was the only educational FM station west of Minneapolis and north of San Francisco and just the twelfth in the United States. The call letters were almost WDWD until Roger Houglum, the founder of the station, advised the Federal Communications Commission of its mistake in assigning a call sign starting with W to a station west of the Mississippi River. Originally on 90.1 MHz, the station moved to 91.9 MHz in 1954 because it generated interference to television sets attempting to tune in KOIN-TV on channel 6 (82–88 MHz) in Portland.
During the day on weekdays, KRVM features a progressive adult album alternative music format with students handling much of the hosting and voice tracking. Other hours feature specialty programming encompassing many genres of music, including "Breakfast With The Blues" every morning. Specialty shows are hosted by volunteer DJs who select their own music.
See also
Community radio
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
Official Website
RVM-FM
RVM-FM
Radio stations established in 1947
1960 establishments in Oregon
Community radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Town%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Our Town" is the twenty-fourth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on May 12, 1995. It was written by Frank Spotnitz and directed by Rob Bowman. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Our Town" received a Nielsen rating of 9.4 and was watched by 9.0 million households. The episode received mixed reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Dudley, Arkansas, is the site of the latest investigation for Mulder and Scully, who are sent to find a missing poultry inspector. The case takes a twist when another poultry worker is shot after she goes insane, leading Mulder to believe that certain townspeople are cannibals.
"Our Town" was future executive producer Spotnitz's first stand-alone episode for the show. Spotnitz was inspired to write the episode after thinking of cannibalism occurring at a chicken processing plant, an idea that he thought was one of the most despicable and vile things. Spotnitz later named the characters after real life cannibals.
Plot
In Dudley, Arkansas, government health inspector George Kearns follows his seemingly young lover, Paula Gray, into the woods. However, after losing track of Paula, George Kearns soon finds himself surrounded by approaching lights in the woods. He is then killed by an axe-wielding assailant wearing a tribal mask.
When Kearns is reported missing and a witness claims to have seen foxfire near Dudley, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigate. At the site of the alleged foxfire, the agents find the ground burnt. After visiting Kearns' wife Doris, the agents discover that he was about to recommend a local chicken plant, Chaco Chicken, to be closed down for health violations. While giving the agents a tour of the plant, floor manager Jess Harold claims that Kearns held a vendetta against Chaco Chicken. After hearing this, a hallucinating Paula, who works at the plant, grabs and holds Harold at knifepoint. Mulder and Scully attempt to reason with Paula until she is shot and killed by Arens, the local sheriff. The plant's physician, Dr. Vance Randolph, later claims that Paula was suffering from consistent headaches, which Kearns had also reported.
The agents later see Walter Chaco, Paula's grandfather and the plant's owner, who allows the agents to perform an autopsy. The agents find that while Paula's personnel file gives her age as 47, she appears no older than her mid-20s. They also discover that Paula suffered from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, a rare and fatal illness that causes dementia. When the agents nearly collide with a Chaco Chicken truck, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20on%20ESPN%20Radio | The NBA on ESPN Radio is a broadcast of National Basketball Association games on the ESPN Radio network. The program began on January 21, 1996 and the current contract runs through the extra season.
Coverage overview
The NBA on ESPN Radio broadcasts games on a weekly basis, many more than once. Game coverage includes:
Select weeknight games, with varying days on a week-by-week basis
Christmas double header games
NBA Saturday Primetime games
Martin Luther King Jr. Day games
NBA All-Star Weekend festivities, including the All-Star Game
Select postseason games, including all of the NBA Finals
Commentators
Currently, the lead commentary team for the NBA on ESPN Radio is Marc Kestecher and Jon Barry, with occasional contributions provided by P. J. Carlesimo, Hubie Brown, Rosalyn Gold-Onwude, Corey Alexander and Kelenna Azubuike as analysts along with Sean Kelley or Mike Couzens for play-by-play. Sideline reporter-turned full-time analyst Doris Burke joins the radio crew calling the conference finals and the NBA Finals since 2020. Past contributors to the NBA on ESPN Radio have included Jim Durham, Kevin Calabro, Brent Musburger, Mike Tirico, Dave Pasch, Dave Flemming, Doug Brown, Tim Legler, Howard David, Dr. Jack Ramsay, and Will Perdue.
Availability
As of 2022, the NBA on ESPN Radio is part of ESPN Radio’s main lineup, instead of in an opt-in/opt-out basis by ESPN Radio affiliates like in previous years (although affiliates retain the ability to opt out of broadcasts involving their in-market teams). It is also available in several regions outside the U.S.
Most NBA on ESPN Radio games can be heard on mobile devices and connected televisions via the ESPN app as well as many other radio apps, including TuneIn and iHeartRadio (mostly from ESPN Radio affiliates streaming on iHeartRadio).
References
Press Release: 2006-07 NBA SEASON ON ESPN BEGINS NOV. 1
Press Release: NBA ON ESPN RADIO TIPS OFF NOV. 2
Houston Chronicle: Durham-Ramsay team to sign off after Finals
External links
NBA on ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio official website
American sports radio programs
ESPN Radio programs
ESPN Radio
1996 radio programme debuts
1990s American radio programs
2000s American radio programs
2010s American radio programs
2020s American radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPMC%20Harrisburg | UPMC Harrisburg is a 409-bed urban hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) system. The hospital serves as the hub for the UPMC network, providing care to the residents throughout southcentral Pennsylvania.
The hospital is a teaching facility providing inpatient and outpatient services. Specialties include women's health, cardiovascular care and orthopedic, stroke, and rehabilitative services. Physician residency programs exist on-site for family practice, internal medicine, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopaedic surgery, and general surgery.
In November 2020 UPMC announced the opening of the new pediatric unit at UPMC Harrisburg. The new unit was opened in partnership with the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and consist of 26-pediatric-beds. The unit treats infants, children, teens, and young adults age 0-21. The unit is named "UPMC Children’s Harrisburg" and features telemedicine connections to the main hospital in Pittsburgh.
In May 2021 UPMC announced the renaming of UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg to UPMC Harrisburg, effective May 24.
See also
List of hospitals in Harrisburg
References
Hospitals in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Hospitals in Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
University of Pittsburgh
Teaching hospitals in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPOV-FM | KPOV-FM (88.9 FM) is an American non-commercial educational radio station in Bend, Oregon, broadcasting at 1100 watts on 88.9 MHz. KPOV-FM airs a variety of syndicated news and talk programming such as Democracy Now!, Free Speech Radio News, along with locally originated programming, including the local community affairs program The Point.
On October 4, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission granted KPOV a construction permit to increase power to 1,100 watts on 88.9 FM.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
KPOV official website
FCC construction permit
Calling All Cowboys radio program
POV-LP
POV-LP
Community radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1984
1984 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmclub.com | Farmclub.com is an American TV show, which aired on USA Network. It was broadcast from January 31, 2000 to June 15, 2001. The show's content featured "it" musical artists of the moment and promoted unsigned bands through national exposure and website interaction, with such featured moments as the return of N.W.A., in which Snoop Dogg substituted for the late Eazy-E.
Farmclub.com signed artists to real record deals and put their albums out through partnerships with Interscope, Def Jam, Universal, and other labels. The unsigned artists were selected from viewer votes from their website of the same name. Hosted by model/actress and former Miss USA 1996 Ali Landry and former MTV VJ Matt Pinfield, the show's label signed artists such as: British DJ Sonique, and rock bands Dynamite Hack and Sev. The exposure also helped other bands obtain mass audience appeal leading to subsequent record deals such as Dog Fashion Disco and heavy metal band Chimaira.
Farmclub.com had a short lived partnership with Extreme Championship Wrestling in late 2000.
Artists who performed on Farmclub
20 Dead Flower Children
98 Degrees
Alley Life
The American Tragedy
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
At the Drive-In
Audra & The Antidote
Bad Religion
Beanie Sigel
Beck
Bloodhound Gang
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Busta Rhymes
Cash Money Millionaires
Cold
Chimaira
Creed
Cypress Hill
D12
Disturbed
DMX
Dog Fashion Disco
Dream
Dragon Fire
Dr. Dre
Eastcide
Eminem
Eve
Excon
Gargantua Soul
Godsmack
Green Day
Headstrong
Incubus
Invisibl Skratch Piklz
Insolence
IPS
Jay-Z
Ja Rule
Jinxed
Kid Rock
Kittie
Korn
Lil' Kim
Limp Bizkit
Linkin Park
LL Cool J
MDFMK
Method Man
Methods of Mayhem
[minus] later known as [Minus.Driver] after signing with Universal.
Monster Zero
Moisture
Mýa
Mystikal
MxPx
Nelly
The New System (Nik Sharp & Eric Bice of Suburban Tragedy)
Nickelback
No Doubt
N.W.A.
Orgy
P.O.D.
Planting Seeds
Powerman 5000
Powderburn
Primus
Queens of the Stone Age
Rapnexx
RK aka the Fugitive
Sev
Sevendust
Sloppy Meateaters
Smash Mouth
Sum 41
Skycopter9
Sonique
Staind
Static-X
Steaknife
Stereomud
Stone Temple Pilots
Stroke 9
Sundaze
System of a Down
Spine
Third Eye Blind
Three Six Mafia
Trucker
U2
U.P.O.
Wu Tang Clan
The Warbers
Artists signed by Farmclub
Alley Life - 1999
Sonique - October 1999
Deep Obsession - February 2000
Sev - June 2000
Bionic Jive
Fisher
Dynamite Hack
Moisture
Music from the show
After the demise of the show from television, Farmclub.com continued to exist online and through the release of an album entitled Live and Unreleased from Farmclub.com.
Track listing
N.W.A. – "Nuthin' But a "G" Thang"
Eminem – "The Real Slim Shady"
Limp Bizkit with Method Man – "N 2 Gether Now"
DMX – "Party Up"
Nelly – "Country Grammar (Hot...)"
Staind – "Mudshovel"
Mystikal – "Shake Ya Ass"
Ja Rule – "Between Me and You"
Powerman 5000 – "Nobody's Real"
Eve – "Love Is Blind"
Nickelback – "Leader of Men"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%20of%20three%20%28C%2B%2B%20programming%29 | The rule of three and rule of five are rules of thumb in C++ for the building of exception-safe code and for formalizing rules on resource management. The rules prescribe how the default members of a class should be used to achieve these goals systematically.
Rule of three
The rule of three (also known as the law of the big three or the big three) is a rule of thumb in C++ (prior to C++11) that claims that if a class defines any of the following then it should probably explicitly define all three:
destructor
copy constructor
copy assignment operator
These three functions are special member functions. If one of these functions is used without first being declared by the programmer it will be implicitly implemented by the compiler with the following default semantics:
Destructor – call the destructors of all the object's class-type members
Copy constructor – construct all the object's members from the corresponding members of the copy constructor's argument, calling the copy constructors of the object's class-type members, and doing a plain assignment of all non-class type (e.g., int or pointer) data members
Copy assignment operator – assign all the object's members from the corresponding members of the assignment operator's argument, calling the copy assignment operators of the object's class-type members, and doing a plain assignment of all non-class type (e.g. int or pointer) data members.
The rule of three claims that if one of these had to be defined by the programmer, it means that the compiler-generated version does not fit the needs of the class in one case and it will probably not fit in the other cases either. The term "Rule of three" was coined by Marshall Cline in 1991.
An amendment to this rule is that if the class is designed in such a way that resource acquisition is initialization (RAII) is used for all its (nontrivial) members, the destructor may be left undefined (also known as The Law of The Big Two). A ready-to-go example of this approach is the use of smart pointers instead of plain ones.
Because implicitly-generated constructors and assignment operators simply copy all class data members ("shallow copy"), one should define explicit copy constructors and copy assignment operators for classes that encapsulate complex data structures or have external references such as pointers, if you need to copy the objects pointed to by the class members. If the default behavior ("shallow copy") is actually the intended one, then an explicit definition, although redundant, will be "self-documenting code" indicating that it was an intention rather than an oversight. Modern C++ includes a syntax for expressly specifying that a default function is desired without having to type out the function body.
Rule of five
With the advent of C++11 the rule of three can be broadened to the rule of five (also known as "the rule of the big five") as C++11 implements move semantics, allowing destination objects to grab (or steal) data from tem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse%20C | Impulse C is a subset of the C programming language combined with a C-compatible function library supporting parallel programming, in particular for programming of applications targeting FPGA devices. It is developed by Impulse Accelerated Technologies of Kirkland, Washington.
Overview
The High-level synthesis tool CoDeveloper includes an Impulse C compiler and related function library intended for development of FPGA-based applications. Impulse C is compatible with standard ANSI C, allowing standard C tools to be used for designing and debugging applications targeting FPGAs. The Impulse C compiler accepts a subset of C and generates FPGA hardware in the form of Hardware Description Language (HDL) files. Impulse C allows embedded systems designers and software programmers to target FPGA devices for C-language application acceleration.
Impulse C is distinct from standard C in that it provides a parallel programming model for mixed processor and FPGA platforms. For this purpose, Impulse C includes extensions to C, in the form of functions and datatypes, allowing applications written in standard C to be mapped onto coarse-grained parallel architectures that may include standard processors along with programmable FPGA hardware.
The Impulse C tools include hardware/software co-simulation tools as well as C-to-RTL scheduling/optimizing technology used to map application elements to hardware via FPGA logic synthesis tools.
Programming model
Impulse C supports a variant of the communicating sequential processes (CSP) programming model, while remaining compatible with standard C tools such as debuggers and profilers. Impulse C is designed for dataflow-oriented, streaming applications, but is also designed to support alternate programming models including the use of shared memory as a communication mechanism.
In an Impulse C streaming application, hardware and software processes communicate primarily through buffered data streams that are implemented directly in hardware. This buffering of data, which is implemented using dual-clock FIFOs generated by the compiler, makes it possible to write parallel applications at a relatively high level of abstraction, without the cycle-by-cycle synchronization that would otherwise be required.
Using Impulse C, an application can be partitioned to create a multiple-process implementation that is partitioned into hardware and software components, or implemented entirely within an FPGA device. For example, an image filtering application could be described using Impulse C as a collection of parallel, pipelined processes, each of which has been described using one or more C subroutines.
On the software side of the application, for example in an embedded FPGA processor, Impulse C library functions are used to open and close data streams, read or write data on the streams and, if desired, send status messages or poll for results. For processor-to-FPGA communications, stream reads and writes can be specified as operat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFCS | LFCS may refer to:
Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, a research institute in Edinburgh, Scotland
Linux Foundation Certified System, a certification program of the Linux Foundation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KALL | KALL (700 AM) is a sports radio station in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area licensed to North Salt Lake, Utah, though in station identifications and the FCC database, the station is listed as being licensed to "North Salt Lake City". The station is owned by Dell Loy Hansen's Broadway Media. The station's studios are located in Downtown Salt Lake City and its transmitter site is located in Legacy Nature Preserve west of Bountiful. Their sister station KOVO is also an ESPN Radio affiliate.
Program highlights include live play-by-play of University of Utah football and basketball and Real Salt Lake soccer, Keyshawn, JWill and Zubin, Greeny, the daily local show "The Bill & OC Show" and "Dan Patrick". KALL also carries the "NFL from Compass Media Networks" package.
History
KALL in Utah was founded in 1945 by Mr. and Mrs. George C. Hatch and Mr. and Mrs Robert H. Hinkley. In 1946 the Salt Lake Tribune, owned by the Kearns Corporation, through the efforts of John F. Fitzpatrick and Tribune's president Thomas F. Kearns purchased a fifty percent interest in the radio station. This interest was in turn sold in 1954 to permit the Kearns-Tribune Corporation to apply for a Channel 2 Television license in a fifty-fifty partnership.
KALL signed on the air September 22, 1981 as KFAM. KFAM broadcast a beautiful music format in AM stereo. In 1997, WLW owner Jacor purchased KFAM, which broadcast with 50,000 watts during the day and 10,000 watts at night in order to protect WLW. They changed the call letters to KWLW and even began to air programming such as Dale Sommers "The Truckin' Bozo" (also heard on WLW) on the station. The station aired a classic country format until 2003, when Clear Channel Communications moved the KALL letters and programming from 910 AM.
Clear Channel sold KALL to UT Radio Acquisition LLC in 2006., and the station is now owned by Broadway Media. ESPN 700 added MMA fighter "OC" Sean O'Connell in 2014.
Programming
The station primarily airs their contracted ESPN Radio talk programming. Aside from this, the station airs the locally produced The Bill Riley Show on weekday mornings and The Drive with Spence Checketts on weekday afternoons. The station is the flagship broadcaster of the Utah Utes Learfield network, broadcasting Utes football, Utes basketball, and Utes baseball games. Until 2023, KALL was the flagship radio station of Real Salt Lake soccer matches. In 2023, Real Salt Lake left KALL for KSL When not running the above, ESPN 700 broadcasts nationally syndicated content from Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio, NBA on ESPN Radio, ESPN Radio College Football, and the National Football League on Westwood One Sports
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KALL
Official website
Mass media in Salt Lake City
ALL
American Basketball Association flagship radio stations
Radio stations established in 1981
1981 establishments in Utah
ESPN Radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOS%20%28operating%20system%29 | NOS (Network Operating System) is a discontinued operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by Control Data Corporation in 1975.
NOS ran on the 60-bit CDC 6000 series of mainframe computers and their successors. NOS replaced the earlier CDC Kronos operating system of the 1970s. NOS was intended to be the sole operating system for all CDC machines, a fact CDC promoted heavily. NOS was replaced with NOS/VE on the 64-bit Cyber-180 systems in the mid-1980s.
Version 1 of NOS continued to be updated until about 1981; NOS version 2 was released early 1982.
Time-sharing commands
ACCESS – selects the access subsystem
APL – selects APL programing language
ASCII – select fill 128-character ASCII
ATTACH – links to a permanent file
AUTO – automatically generate five-digit line numbers
BASIC – selects BASIC system
BATCH – selects the batch system
BEGIN – starts processing of CCL procedure (control language file)
BINARY – selects binary input mode
BRIEF – suppresses headers
BYE – log off the system
CALL – starts processing KCL procedure file (control language before CCL)
CATLIST – lists user's permanent files
CHANGE – changes parameters of a permanent file
CHARGE – set charge number and project number
CLEAR – releases all local files
CONVERT – converts character sets
(CR) – Carriage Return – requests terminal status if it is the first thing on a line
CSET – selects the terminal character-set mode
DAYFILE – lists a record of the user's activity
DEBUG – activates or terminates CYBER interactive Debug
DEFINE – create a direct-access permanent file
DIAL – sends a one-line message to another terminal
EDIT – Selects the text editor
ENQUIRE – Requests the current job status
EXECUTE – selects the Execute subsystem
FORTRAN – selects the FORTRAN subsystem (FORTRAN 5)
FTNTS – Selects the FORTRAN Extended Version 4 compiler (CDC's enhanced version of FORTRAN 4)
FULL – Selects full-duplex mode
GET – gets a copy of a permanent file
GOODBYE – same as BYE
HALF – clears full-duplex mode
HELLO – logs out and starts login
HELP – gets descriptions of NOS commands
LENGTH – requests the length of a file
LIB – get a copy of a permanent file
LIMITS – lists the user's limits
LIST – lists the contents of a file
LNH – same as LIST except no headers
LOGIN – same as HELLO
LOGOUT – same as BYE
MONITOR – connects to a terminal
NEW – creates a new primary file
NORMAL – clears modes set by ASCII, AUTO, BRIEF, NOSORT, CSET, PARITY, and TAPE
NOSORT – prevents the system from sorting the primary file on the subsequent command
NULL – selects the null subsystem.
OLD – gets a copy of a permanent file
P – proceed
PACK – compress a file with several logical records into one logical record
PACKNAM – direct subsequent file requests to an auxiliary device
PARITY – set terminal parity
PASSWOR – change user password
PERMIT – grants another user permission to access a file
PRIMARY – makes temporary file the new primary file
PURGE – remo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakeup%20Call%20%28WBAI%29 | Wakeup Call was a morning radio program produced in New York City by the WBAI station of the Pacifica Radio Network. Until its cancellation in August 2013, its final hosts were Esther Armah Monday to Thursday and Felipe Luciano on Fridays.
References
External links
David Hinckley "WBAI morning show seeks wider appeal" August 8, 2005 New York Daily News
Current affairs shows
Pacifica Foundation programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Hugo | Dr. Daniel Hugo (born 26 February 1955 in Stellenbosch, South Africa) is a poet, translator, compiler and editor. He worked a specialist announcer / producer for Radiosondergrense, the national Afrikaans radio service, and was also responsible for the literary programmes "Leeskring" and "Vers en Klank". He is an edit at the publishing house Protea Boekhuis.
Daniel Hugo has a B.A. Honours degree (Afrikaans and Dutch) from the University of Stellenbosch and later did his master's degree at the University of Pretoria. Between 1980 and 1988 he worked as a lecturer of Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of the Free State. During 1983 he studied at the Catholic University Leuven in Belgium. He was awarded his doctorate in 1989 for his thesis "Afrikaans poetry of wit".
Daniel Hugo has written 14 poetry albums, the latest "Hanekraai" in 2012, and has also compiled numerous collections of poetry and short stories. He has translated several books by the following writers from Dutch to Afrikaans including Tom Lanoye, Herman de Coninck, Harry Mulisch, Herman van Veen, Karel Glastra van Loon and David van Reybrouck.
He is married to journalist Marlene Malan and lives in Prince Albert, South Africa.
Compilations
2004 - Land van sonlig en van sterre – gedigte oor Namibië. Protea Boekhuis (Pretoria).
2004 - Liefde, natuurlik – liefdesverhale (saam met Carina Diedericks-Hugo). LAPA Uitgewers (Pretoria)
2003 - Ina Rousseau: Die stil middelpunt. Human & Rousseau (Kaapstad).
2002 - Tydskrif II. 'n Herontmoeting met vroeë Afrikaanse kortverhaalskrywers. LAPA Uitgewers (Pretoria).
2001 - Tydskrif. 'n Herontmoeting met vroeë Afrikaanse kortverhaalskrywers. LAPA Uitgewers (Pretoria).
2000 - Nuwe Verset (saam met Phil du Plessis & Leon Rousseau). Protea Boekhuis (Pretoria).
1999 - Lyflied. 'n Keur uit die liedtekste van Hennie Aucamp. Tafelberg Uitgewers (Kaapstad).
1996 - P.J. Philander: 'n keur uit sy gedigte. Tafelberg Uitgewers (Kaapstad).
1994 - Olga Kirsch: Nou spreek ek weer bekendes aan. 'n Keur 1944-1983. Human en Rousseau (Kaapstad).
1993 - Storie-konsertina, humorverhale van A.A.J. van Niekerk. Tafelberg Uitgewers (Kaapstad).
1989 - Miskien sal ek die wingerd prys; ryme en gedigte oor wyn en sterk drank (saam met Etienne van Heerden) Tafelberg Uitgewers (Kaapstad).
1988 - Speelse verse. Tafelberg Uitgewers (Kaapstad).
Translations from Dutch
2015 - Leonard Nolens: 'n Digter in Antwerpen. Protea Boekehuis (Pretoria)
2008 - Tom Lanoye: 'n Slagterseun met 'n brilletjie. Protea Boekhuis (Pretoria).
2005 - Gerrit Komrij: Die elektries gelaaide hand. Protea Boekhuis (Pretoria).
2003 - David van Reybrouck: Die plaag. Protea Boekhuis (Pretoria).
2002 - Karel Glastra van Loon: Passievrug. Queillerie (Kaapstad)
2000 - Herman van Veen: Verhale. Queillerie (Kaapstad)
1999 - Harry Mulisch: Die aanslag. Queillerie (Kaapstad)
1997 - Herman van Veen: 'n Teer gevoel (op CD) (liedtekste)
1997 - Vandeputte, O. Nederlands. Die Taal van twintig miljoen Nederlanders e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia%20undata | Banksia undata, commonly known as urchin dryandra, is a species of shrub that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It has sessile, wedge-shaped, wavy, serrated leaves, pale yellow flowers in heads of between 80 and 160, and later up to eight follicles in each head.
Description
Banksia undata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. It has wavy, serrated, wedge-shaped leaves that are long and wide and sessile or on a very short petiole. There are between four and nine irregular teeth on each side of the leaves. The flowers are pale yellow, arranged in heads of between 80 and 160 with hairy egg-shaped to narrow lance-shaped involucral bracts long at the base of each head. The perianth is long, sometimes pinkish, and the pistil long. Flowering occurs from July to October up to eight egg-shaped to elliptical follicles, long form in each head.
Taxonomy and naming
This species was first formally described in 1848 by Swiss botanist Carl Meissner who gave it the name Dryandra praemorsa and published the description in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected by James Drummond near the Swan River.
In 1996, Alex George describe two varieties of D. praemorsa:
Dryandra praemorsa var. praemorsa that has a pistil long and leaves usually long and wide;
Dryandra praemorsa var. splendens that has a pistil long and leaves usually long and wide.
In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus Banksia. As there was already a plant named Banksia praemorsa (cut-leaf banksia), Mast and Thiele were forced to choose a new specific epithet; their choice, "undata", is from the Latin undatus ("undulate"), in reference to the wavy leaves. The names of the two varieties, var. splendens and var. undata are accepted by the Australian Plant Census.
Distribution and habitat
Urchin dryandra occurs between Clackline, Dwellingup and Bannister where it grows in jarrah forest. Variety splendens is found from the Brookton Highway south to Bannister and var. undata between Clackline and Dwellingup.
Ecology
An assessment of the potential impact of climate change on this species found that its range is likely to contract by between 50% and 80% by 2080, depending on the severity of the change.
Conservation status
Banksia undata and its two varieties are classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
References
undata
Plants described in 1848
Taxa named by Carl Meissner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysakerelven%20station | Lysakerelven is a former station in western Oslo on the Kolsås Line of the Oslo T-bane network, between the stations of Bjørnsletta and Jar, from Stortinget. It was the last station within Oslo's boundaries before the line continues into Bærum; taking its name from the river Lysakerelven which is the boundary between Oslo and Bærum.
The station was opened on 15 June 1942. Along with most of the line, Lysakerelven closed for upgrades since 1 July 2006.
The future status of the Kolsås Line was debated, and one suggestion which was made was to end the line's subway service in Bærum entirely and replace it with trams, making Lysakerelven the end station. This option proved unpopular with passengers. Instead Lysakerelven and Bjørnsletta were merged into a new station located between them that took take the name of Bjørnsletta.
References
Oslo Metro stations in Oslo
Railway stations opened in 1942
Railway stations closed in 2006
Disused Oslo Metro stations
1942 establishments in Norway
2006 disestablishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1940s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPCGEN | RPCGEN is an interface generator pre-compiler for Sun Microsystems ONC RPC. It uses an interface definition file to create client and server stubs in C.
RPC Language
RPCGEN creates stubs based on information contained within an IDL file. This file is written in a language called RPCL - remote procedure call language. This language closely mimics C in style, and is designed purely for defining specification to be used for ONC RPC.
An RPC specification contains a number of definitions. These definitions are used by RPCGEN to create a header file for use by both the client and server, and client and server stubs.
RPCL Definitions
Constant
Enumeration
Struct
Union (Note that this is not like a C union — it behaves more like a discriminated record)
Typedef
Program
References
rpcgen Programming Guide A programmer's guide to developing applications using RPC
NOTE: There is an error in the first example, to properly compile and link msg_proc.c, the declaration "printmessage_1(msg)" must be = "printmessage_1_svc(msg, req)"
Otherwise the command: example% cc msg_proc.c msg_svc.c -o msg_server fails due to a naming discrepancy with the rpcgen generated code.
NOTE: The same error appears in the second example. The example is also missing "#include <errno.h>" in rls.c and dir_proc.c.
ONC+ Developer's Guide
Remote procedure call |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Musser | David "Dave" Musser is a professor emeritus of computer science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, United States.
He is known for his work in generic programming, particularly as applied to C++, and his collaboration with Alexander Stepanov. Their work together includes coining the term "generic programming" in , and led to the creation of the C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
In , he developed the sorting algorithm called introsort (also known as introspective sort), and the related selection algorithm called introselect, to provide algorithms that are both efficient and have optimal worst-case performance, for use in the STL.
In 2007 he retired from Rensselaer.
Selected publications
References
External links
David Musser's home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim%20Notification%20System | A Victim Notification System (VNS), Crime Victim Notification (CVN), or Statewide Automated Victim Notification Service (SAVNS), is a computer-controlled system by which victims of federal crimes are informed about the release of or the escape of the offender(s) who perpetrated that crime.
In the United States, the VNS is operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Attorney's Offices, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It is an electronic system accessible by telephone or via the internet, and information is also sent by mail. The VNS provides information on scheduled court events and their outcomes, as well as changes in the offenders custody status. Access to VNS information requires a Victim Identification Number (VIN) and a personal identification number (PIN).
In Canada, the VNS system consists of a computer operated telephone system, which automatically contacts the victims of crimes when the offender is either released from custody or escapes.
See also
All Points Bulletin
Electronic tagging
External links
- Appriss Safety's VINE Service which provides victim notification services for 48 states
- The US Victim Notification System website
References
https://apprisssafety.com/solutions/vine/
http://www.forensiceducation.com/sourcebooks/glossary/v.htm#8
http://149.101.1.32/usao/ohn/vw/vw_vns.html
Law enforcement in the United States
Public safety communications
Victims' rights |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosu%20%28disambiguation%29 | In Korean, gosu refers to a highly skilled person.
Gosu may also refer to:
Pansori gosu, a drummer in pansori performances
Gosu (programming language), an object-oriented, static typed programming language built on the Java Virtual Machine
Gosu (manhwa), a South Korean manhwa series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHLPA%20Hockey%20%2793 | NHLPA Hockey '93 is a Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System ice hockey game developed by Park Place Productions and published by Electronic Arts Sports Network. It is the second installment of the NHL series and the first to be released for the Super NES.
Although considered to be the second EA Sports NHL game, the game was not licensed by the NHL; however, it did receive licensing permission from the NHLPA. Because of this, all teams are referred to only by city (the New York Islanders were referred to as "Long Island") with no use of the team name itself. Additionally, no NHL team logos or NHL emblems are seen anywhere in the game.
Gameplay
The game features are a single-game exhibition mode and a playoff mode (single-elimination or best-of-7), wherein the winner collects a trophy similar to the Stanley Cup.
The game includes mostly complete rosters and all 24 teams from the 1991–92 NHL season, including the expansion Tampa Bay Lightning and Ottawa Senators.
The Genesis version also included EEPROM saving, which allowed one to save lines and the ongoing Playoff, rather than use passwords as in the Super NES version.
Reception
Computer Gaming World approved of the game's use of real NHL hockey player names and teams, and concluded that it was "just about as realistic and detailed as one could hope a cartridge game to be ... two red and blistered thumbs up".
In 2001, Game Informer ranked it the 20th best video game ever made. The staff praised the game's depth and strategy.
References
External links
1992 video games
Electronic Arts games
Sega Genesis games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Ice hockey video games set in Canada
Ice hockey video games set in the United States
EA Sports games
Video games set in 1992
Video games set in 1993
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Park Place Productions games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHI-base | https://canto.phi-base.org/
The Pathogen-Host Interactions database (PHI-base) is a biological database that contains curated information on genes experimentally proven to affect the outcome of pathogen-host interactions. The database is maintained by researchers at Rothamsted Research, together with external collaborators since 2005.
Since April 2017 PHI-base is part of ELIXIR, the European life-science infrastructure for biological information via its ELIXIR-UK node.
Background
The Pathogen-Host Interactions database was developed to utilise effectively the growing number of verified genes that mediate an organism's ability to cause disease and / or to trigger host responses.
The web-accessible database catalogues experimentally verified pathogenicity, virulence and effector genes from bacterial, fungal and oomycete pathogens which infect animal, plant and fungal hosts. PHI-base is the first on-line resource devoted to the identification and presentation of information on fungal and oomycete pathogenicity genes and their host interactions. As such, PHI-base aims to be a resource for the discovery of candidate targets in medically and agronomically important fungal and oomycete pathogens for intervention with synthetic chemistries and natural products (fungicides).
Each entry in PHI-base is curated by domain experts and supported by strong experimental evidence (gene disruption experiments) as well as literature references in which the experiments are described. Each gene in PHI-base is presented with its nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence as well as a detailed structured description of the predicted protein's function during the host infection process. To facilitate data interoperability, genes are annotated using controlled vocabularies (Gene Ontology terms, EC Numbers, etc.), and links to other external data sources such as UniProt, EMBL and the NCBI taxonomy services.
Current developments
Version 4.15 (May 2, 2023) of PHI-base provides information on 9377 genes from 285 pathogens and 236 hosts and their impact on 20950 interactions as well on efficacy information on ~20 drugs and the target sequences in the pathogen. PHI-base currently focuses on plant pathogenic and human pathogenic organisms including fungi, oomycetes and bacteria. The entire contents of the database can be downloaded in a tab delimited format. Since the launch of version 4, the PHI-base is also searchable using the PHIB-BLAST search tool, which uses the BLAST algorithm to compare a user's sequence against the sequences available from PHI-base. In 2016 the plant portion of PHI-base was used to establish a Semantic PHI-base search tool".
PHI-base is aligned with Ensembl Genomes since 2011, Fungidb since 2016, and Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (since August 2018). All new PHI-base releases are integrated by these independent databases. PHI-base has been cited in over 350 peer-reviewed publications. Details on all these publications are cited in the ‘ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet%20scalar%20quantization | The Wavelet Scalar Quantization algorithm (WSQ) is a compression algorithm used for gray-scale fingerprint images. It is based on wavelet theory and has become a standard for the exchange and storage of fingerprint images. WSQ was developed by the FBI, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
This compression method is preferred over standard compression algorithms like JPEG because at the same compression ratios WSQ doesn't present the "blocking artifacts" and loss of fine-scale features that are not acceptable for identification in financial environments and criminal justice.
Most American law enforcement agencies use WSQ for efficient storage of compressed fingerprint images at 500 pixels per inch (ppi). For fingerprints recorded at 1000 ppi, law enforcement (including the FBI) uses JPEG 2000 instead of WSQ.
See also
IAFIS
References
External links
WSQ Fingerprint Image Compression Encoder/Decoder Certification Guidelines
WSQ Fingerprint Image Compression Encoder/Decoder Certification
Graphics file formats
Lossy compression algorithms
Fingerprints |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Test%20Data%20Format | Standard Test Data Format (STDF) is a proprietary file format for semiconductor test information originally developed by Teradyne, but it is now a de facto standard widely used throughout the semiconductor industry. It is a commonly used format produced by automatic test equipment (ATE) platforms from companies such as Cohu, Roos Instruments, Teradyne, Advantest, and others.
STDF is a binary format, but can be converted either to an ASCII format known as ATDF or to a tab delimited text file. Decoding the STDF variable length binary field data format to extract ASCII text is non-trivial as it involves a detailed comprehension of the STDF specification, the current (2007) version 4 specification being over 100 pages in length. Software tools exist for processing STDF generated files and performing statistical analysis on a population of tested devices.
Computer file formats
Hardware testing file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplacian%20smoothing | Laplacian smoothing is an algorithm to smooth a polygonal mesh. For each vertex in a mesh, a new position is chosen based on local information (such as the position of neighbours) and the vertex is moved there. In the case that a mesh is topologically a rectangular grid (that is, each internal vertex is connected to four neighbours) then this operation produces the Laplacian of the mesh.
More formally, the smoothing operation may be described per-vertex as:
Where is the number of adjacent vertices to node , is the position of the -th adjacent vertex and is the new position for node .
See also
Tutte embedding, an embedding of a planar mesh in which each vertex is already at the average of its neighbours' positions
References
Mesh generation
Geometry processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic%20code | In coding theory, a systematic code is any error-correcting code in which the input data are embedded in the encoded output. Conversely, in a non-systematic code the output does not contain the input symbols.
Systematic codes have the advantage that the parity data can simply be appended to the source block, and receivers do not need to recover the original source symbols if received correctly – this is useful for example if error-correction coding is combined with a hash function for quickly determining the correctness of the received source symbols, or in cases where errors occur in erasures and a received symbol is thus always correct. Furthermore, for engineering purposes such as synchronization and monitoring, it is desirable to get reasonable good estimates of the received source symbols without going through the lengthy decoding process which may be carried out at a remote site at a later time.
Properties
Every non-systematic linear code can be transformed into a systematic code with essentially the same properties (i.e., minimum distance).
Because of the advantages cited above, linear error-correcting codes are therefore generally implemented as systematic codes. However, for certain decoding algorithms such as sequential decoding or maximum-likelihood decoding, a non-systematic structure can increase performance in terms of undetected decoding error probability when the minimum free distance of the code is larger.
For a systematic linear code, the generator matrix, , can always be written as , where is the identity matrix of size .
Examples
Checksums and hash functions, combined with the input data, can be viewed as systematic error-detecting codes.
Linear codes are usually implemented as systematic error-correcting codes (e.g., Reed-Solomon codes in CDs).
Convolutional codes are implemented as either systematic or non-systematic codes. Non-systematic convolutional codes can provide better performance under maximum-likelihood (Viterbi) decoding.
In DVB-H, for additional error protection and power efficiency for mobile receivers, a systematic Reed-Solomon code is employed as an erasure code over packets within a data burst, where each packet is protected with a CRC: data in verified packets count as correctly received symbols, and if all are received correctly, evaluation of the additional parity data can be omitted, and receiver devices can switch off reception until the start of the next burst.
Fountain codes may be either systematic or non-systematic: as they do not exhibit a fixed code rate, the set of source symbols is diminishing among the possible output set.
Notes
References
Coding theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20architecture%20simulator | A computer architecture simulator is a program that simulates the execution of computer architecture.
Computer architecture simulators are used for the following purposes:
Lowering cost by evaluating hardware designs without building physical hardware systems.
Enabling access to unobtainable hardware.
Increasing the precision and volume of computer performance data.
Introducing abilities that are not normally possible on real hardware such as running code backwards when an error is detected or running in faster-than-real time.
Categories
Computer architecture simulators can be classified into many different categories depending on the context.
Scope: Microarchitecture simulators model the microprocessor and its components. Full-system simulators also model the processor, memory systems, and I/O devices.
Detail: Functional simulators, such as instruction set simulators, achieve the same function as modeled components. They can be simulated faster if timing is not considered. Timing simulators are functional simulators that also reproduce timing. Timing simulators can be further categorized into digital cycle-accurate and analog sub-cycle simulators.
Workload: Trace-driven simulators (also called event-driven simulators) react to pre-recorded streams of instructions with some fixed input. Execution-driven simulators allow dynamic change of instructions to be executed depending on different input data.
Full-system simulators
A full-system simulator is execution-driven architecture simulation at such a level of detail that complete software stacks from real systems can run on the simulator without any modification. A full system simulator provides virtual hardware that is independent of the nature of the host computer. The full-system model typically includes processor cores, peripheral devices, memories, interconnection buses, and network connections. Emulators are full system simulators that imitate obsolete hardware instead of under development hardware.
The defining property of full-system simulation compared to an instruction set simulator is that the model allows real device drivers and operating systems to be run, not just single programs. Thus, full-system simulation makes it possible to simulate individual computers and networked computer nodes with all their software, from network device drivers to operating systems, network stacks, middleware, servers, and application programs.
Full system simulation can speed the system development process by making it easier to detect, recreate and repair flaws. The use of multi-core processors is driving the need for full system simulation, because it can be extremely difficult and time-consuming to recreate and debug errors without the controlled environment provided by virtual hardware. This also allows the software development to take place before the hardware is ready, thus helping to validate design decisions.
Cycle-accurate simulator
A cycle-accurate simulator is a computer progra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20Independent%20Surveillance%20%E2%80%93%20Privacy | Automatic Independent Surveillance – Privacy (AIS-P) is a data packet protocol for the TailLight system of aircraft Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), wherein a single Mode S 64 microsecond message is transmitted by an aircraft ATCRBS or Mode S transponder, and received by aircraft and Air Traffic Control on the ground. This is an augmentation to aircraft transponders, which report aircraft position and velocity in such a way as to minimize interference with any other avionics system, maximize the possible number of participating aircraft, while not relying on any equipment on the ground, and protecting aircraft from potential attack. AIS-P and ADS-B are competing protocols for aircraft based surveillance of traffic, a replacement technology for Mode S radar and TCAS.
AIS-P as an alternative to ADS-B
The TailLight, which is offered as a complimentary feature in General Aviation ATCRBS transponders like the AT-155, utilizes the AIS-P protocol to effectively deliver the advertised collision avoidance benefits of ADS-B in both airport terminal and en route airspace. It has no adverse impact on other avionics systems, can accommodate up to 335,000 aircraft within line-of-sight range of each other, and is interoperable with other collision avoidance systems while ensuring the aircraft's protection from potential attacks.
The AIS-P protocol is an alternative to the ADS-B and Mode S based TCAS protocols, and solves the problems of frequency congestion, by eliminating a requirement for multiple packet messages, or new longer packet definitions for ADS-B not established by international treaty, and by eliminating the 24 bit overhead for named identity in each packet of the message (required to tie multiple packets together into a message). One packet encodes latitude and longitude, altitude, direction, and speed (full position and velocity), handles error detection and recovery, along with channel use arbitration, in the AIS-P protocol. This reduces verbose overhead unnecessary for collision avoidance purposes.
The AIS-P protocol is not meant for purposes of billing and targeting. Additionally, one of the requirements satisfied by the AIS-P protocol is that a missile with an ADS-B type target homer aimed at the unnamed aircraft alone in the sky would miss.
See also
ADS-B
References
External links
What is Wrong With ATC Transponders, And How to Fix Them For Just About Free, B. Keith Peshak, Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation and CIGTF 21st Guidance Test Symposium, 2002
Avionics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Windows%20Mobile%20Professional%20games | This is a list of games released for the Windows Mobile Professional operating system (formerly known as Pocket PC).
0-9
Constructo Combat - Concrete Software, Inc. (2006)
Lawn Darts - Concrete Software, Inc. (2007)
"4Pinball" - Limelight Software Limited
A
Aces Texas Hold'em - No Limit - Concrete Software, Inc. (2004)
Aces Texas Hold'em - Limit - Concrete Software, Inc. (2004)
Aces Omaha - Concrete Software, Inc. (2005)
Aces Blackjack - Concrete Software, Inc. (2006)
Aces Tournament Timer - Concrete Software, Inc. (2006)
Add-Venture - Qsoftz (2006)
Atomic Battle Dragons - Isotope 244 (2006)
Age of Empires Gold edition - Microsoft, ZIO Interactive
Age of Empires III - Microsoft, Glu Mobile
B
Baccarat - Midas Interactive Entertainment (2003)
Bass Guitar Hero - www.iPocketPC.net (2009)
Batty - Applian Technologies (1999)
Bejeweled 2 - Astraware (2006) - Also known as Diamond Mine 2
Bingo - Midas Interactive Entertainment (2003)
Blackjack - Midas Interactive Entertainment (2003)
Blaster - Fognog (1999)
Break My Bricks - www.iPocketPC.net (2009)
Burning Sand 2 - (2009)
Blade of Betrayal - HPT Interactive (2003)
C
Call of Duty 2 - Mforma (2006)
Call of Duty 2 Pocket PC Edition - Aspyr (2007)
Caribbean Poker - Midas Interactive Entertainment (2003)
Craps - Midas Interactive Entertainment (2003)
Cubis - Astraware (2003)
D
Diamond Mine - Astraware (2002)
Domination - Smart-Thinker
Dopewars - Jennifer Glover (2000)
Dragon Bane II - Mythological Software (2003)
Drum Kit Ace - Momentum Games (2006)
Dragon Bird
F
Fade - Fade Team
Fish Tycoon - Last Day of Work (2004)
Fruit Bomb - Momentum Games (2004)
G
Glyph - Astraware (2006)
Gold Mine - Momentum Games (2004)
Guitar Hero III Mobile - Glu Mobile (2009)
H
Hoyle Puzzle & Board Games 2005 - VU Games (2004)
"Harry Putter's Crazy Golf" - Limelight Software
I
Insaniquarium - Astraware (2003)
Intelli Cube - Midas Interactive Entertainment (2003)
Interstellar Flames - XEN Games
J
Jawbreaker - Oopdreams Software, Inc. (2003)
K
K-Rally - Infinite Dreams Inc.
"JIGaSAWrus" - Limelight Software
L
Lemonade Inc. (aka Lemonade Tycoon) - Hexacto Games (2002)
Leo's Flight Simulator Leo's Space Combat SimulatorM
Madden NFL 2005 - Mobile Digital Media (2005)
Metalion - ZIO Interactive (2001)
Metalion 2 - ZIO Interactive (2003)
Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2004 - Microsoft Game Studios (2004)
Monopoly - Infogrames (2002)
Multi Machine - Midas Interactive Entertainment (2003)
My Little Tank - Astraware (2005)
Mystery of the Pharaoh - Midas Interactive Entertainment (2003)
"Marble Worlds" 2 - Limelight Software
Q
Quake - Pulse Interactive, Inc (2004)
Quake III Arena - noctemware (2005)
The Quest (2006)
P
PBA Bowling - Concrete Software, Inc. (2008)
Plant Tycoon - Last Day of Work (2004)
Pocket Humanity - Alexis Laferriere (2005)
Pocket UFO - SMK Software (2006)
Pocket Mini Golf - Momentum Games (2003)
Pocket Mini Golf 2 - Momentum Games (2005)
Pop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System/34%20BASIC | IBM System/34 BASIC was an interpreter for the IBM System/34 midrange computer.
System/34 BASIC was first offered in 1978, and as such, contained many of the trappings that a BASIC program would have encountered in the time period of the TRS-80, or many other offerings of the 1970s and early 1980s. As such, S/34 BASIC uses conventions that are no longer standard in modern BASICs, such as line numbers, and does not support newer features such as WHILE/WEND, DO/ENDDO, WITH/END WITH, procedures, properties, and so forth.
BASIC conventions
BASIC interpreters written in the 1970s tended to "do odd things odd ways." For example, on the Apple II, a programmer could embed a DOS command into a program via PRINT, when prefaced by the character string . PEEK and POKE could be used in various BASICs to examine memory content or change it, or even to create an ad hoc machine language program and then run it. System/34 BASIC tends to stay away from these odd conventions; however, the programmer could call for the Alarm (a buzzing sound made by the terminal) via .
BASIC statements are expected to be entered in capital letters, and while the operator can press Cmd2 to use lowercase, the BASIC interpreter will convert non-comment keywords into uppercase.
So that BASIC could be useful in a midrange computing environment, IBM added extensions to the language that were specific to the hardware and software conventions of the IBM System/34 Family, such as the WORKSTN file, support for indexed, direct, and sequential disk files, the ability to open and close multiple printer files, and LOAD/SAVE from libraries on the fixed disk.
BASIC statements
These core BASIC statements, functions, and commands were used:
More advanced IBM-supplied statements included:
ON ERROR is an error-trapping statement that allows BASIC to suspend an error that might otherwise stop a BASIC program from running and perform an error-handling routine instead. Variants include suffixing OFLOW, ZDIV, and other error types to a statement and immediately trap these errors.
OPTION allows the BASIC program to meet special criteria. Sometimes BASIC did not have very much user space (since all S/34 programs are limited to 64K) and the area called "code space" which contains the current user program must reside within the user space. Therefore, users could choose OPTION LPREC which causes BASIC to compute with double-precision (long) numerics, or OPTION SPREC which provides more space and single-precision (short) numerics. Some programmers prefer matrix mathematics where the lowest-numbered index is 0, others prefer 1. OPTION BASE 0 and OPTION BASE 1 accomplish this. There are other uses for OPTION.
RPG II programs on the S/34 could not call each other, but BASIC programs could, using the CHAIN statement. CHAIN passes control from the current BASIC module to the named module, bearing a list of arguments which can become variables in the new module when it is loaded.
DEF FN allows th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/36%20BASIC | IBM System/36 BASIC was an interpreter for the IBM System/36 midrange computer.
System/36 BASIC was first offered in 1983, and as such, contained many of the trappings that a BASIC program would have encountered in the time period of the IBM PC, the Commodore 64, the VIC-20, the TRS-80, or many other offerings of the Seventies and early Eighties. As such, S/36 BASIC uses conventions that are no longer standard in modern BASICs, such as line numbers, and does not support newer features such as , procedures, properties, and so forth.
BASIC interpreters written in the Seventies tended to "do odd things odd ways". For example, on the Apple II, a programmer could embed a command into a program via PRINT, when prefaced by the character string . and could be used in various BASICs to examine memory content or change it, or even to create an ad hoc machine language program and then run it. System/36 BASIC tends to stay away from these odd conventions; however, the programmer could call for the Alarm (a buzzing sound made by the terminal) via .
BASIC statements are expected to be entered in capital letters, and while the operator can press Cmd2 to use lowercase, the BASIC interpreter will convert non-comment keywords into uppercase.
So that BASIC could be useful in a midrange computing environment, IBM added extensions to the language that were specific to the hardware and software conventions of the IBM System/36 Family, such as the file, support for indexed, direct, and sequential disk files, the ability to open and close multiple printer files, and LOAD/SAVE from libraries on the fixed disk.
Statements, functions, and commands
These core BASIC statements, functions, and commands were used:
DATA
DIM
END
FOR...NEXT
GOSUB...RETURN
GOTO
IF...THEN
INPUT
LET
ON...GOTO
PRINT
PRINT USING
READ
REM
STOP
ASC()
RND()
SIN()
COS()
TAN()
TAB()
SQRT()
LOG()
LIST
More advanced IBM-supplied statements included:
ON ERROR Allows error trapping
OPTION Permits program-wide properties such as Base 1 or Base 0 array indexing, long or short precision, etc.
OPEN Allows a file or device (formatted workstation, printer) to be opened
CLOSE Closes a file or device
WRITE Outputs to a file or device
REWRITE Changes a record or display format
APPEND Adds to a file
DELETE Deletes a record from a file
IMAGE Defines the format of a record using COBOL-like syntax
FORM Defines the format of a record using RPG-like syntax
DEF FN..FNEND Defines a function
CHAIN Loads and passes control to another BASIC program
PRINT #255: Prints to the (default) printer file
PRINT NEWPAGE Clears the screen
PRINT #255: NEWPAGE Advances to the next page on the printer file
AIDX() Refers to the ascending index of an array, which is an array of relative sorted pointers to array elements
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonsound | Moonsound is the name of a sound card released for the MSX home-computer system at the Tilburg Computer Fair in 1995. It was designed by electronic engineer Henrik Gilvad and produced by Sunrise Swiss on a semi-hobby basis.
It arrived after the US branch of Microsoft abandoned the MSX system, instead focusing on the IBM PC. The name originates from the Moonblaster software that was written for people to use the hardware plug-in synthesizer.
Overview
Based on the Yamaha YMF278 (OPL4) sound chip, it is capable of 18 channels of FM synthesis as well as 24 channels of 12 and 16 bit sample-based synthesis. A 2 MB instrument ROM containing multisampled instruments was unusual for its time. From the factory it came equipped with one 128 KB SRAM chip for user samples.
History
Two generations were made. The first is a small size PCB without a box. Later, a larger size PCB which fit into an MSX cartridge was available. The later version had room for two sample SRAM chips resulting in 1 MB of compressed user samples.
Sound effects
Sound effects like chorus, delay and reverb are omitted due to cost, size and usability reasons. The Yamaha effect chip requires its own specialised memory and effect routing is basic. All 18 FM channels and 24 channels of sample-based sound shares the same effect setting. Creative step-time sequencer programmers made pseudo effects like chorus, reverb and delay by overdubbing or using dedicated channels to repeat notes with delay and stereo panning. This is effective but quickly reduces the musical complexity possible.
Specifications
Moonsound version 1.0 had one socket for user sample RAM.
Moonsound version 1.1 and 1.2 had two sockets for up to 1 MB SRAM.
Some hackers and modders found out how to stack two additional SRAM chips resulting in 2 MB of SRAM.
Being based on the OPL4 chip, The FM registers of Moonsound are compatible with the OPL, OPL2 and OPL3 chips. The MSX-AUDIO contains a chip which is similar to and also compatible with the OPL. Therefore, some older software can make use of the Moonsound.
The 2 MB ROM contained 330 mono samples, mostly at 22.05 kHz at 12 bits, but with some drums at 44.1 kHz.
The FM part of the OPL4 chip can be configured in several ways:
18 two-operator FM channels
6 four-operator FM channels + 6 two-operator FM channels
15 two-operator FM channels + 5 FM drums
6 four-operator FM channels + 3 two-operator FM channels + 5 FM drums
Four-operator FM allows for more complex sounds but reduces polyphony.
Eight waveforms are available for the FM synthesis portion:
Sine
Half-sine
Absolute-sine
Quarter-sine (pseudo-sawtooth)
Alternaing-sine
"Camel" sine
Square
Logarithmic sawtooth
The Moonsound audio's power supply is isolated from its digital supply in an attempt to reduce noise. It has a separate stereo audio output as it is not mixed with the internal MSX sound.
Software
Moonblaster is a software designed by Remco Schrijvers based on his time-step sequencer software fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice%20Cho | Eunice Cho (born December 15, 1991 in New Jersey) is an American actress and scientist. Her best-known role was Robin in the Cartoon Network live-action/animated TV movie, Re-Animated. She also voiced Kiku Wong in Little Bill on Nickelodeon.
Cho obtained a Ph.D. degree in pharmacology from Yale University, where she studied regulation of oncogenic mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling. Her Erdős-Bacon number is 5.
Filmography
Little Bill (1999–2004) - Kiku Wong (voice)
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie (2005) - Hoola Hooper
Re-Animated (2006) - Robin
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) - Madison (voice)
References
External links
1991 births
American child actresses
Living people
Actresses from New Jersey
American actresses of Korean descent
21st-century American actresses
American television actresses
Orange County School of the Arts alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlink | Interlink may refer to:
Hyperlinks
Interlink Electronics
Interlink (interbank network)
Interlink Airlines
Interlink Publishing
B-Train road trains in southern Africa
T. F. Green Airport (MBTA station), in Warwick, Rhode Island, US
Interlink Computer Sciences
Interlink, former trading name for a European parcel company, now owned by DPDgroup
INTERLNK, a DOS application |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil%20attack | A Sybil attack is a type of attack on a computer network service in which an attacker subverts the service's reputation system by creating a large number of pseudonymous identities and uses them to gain a disproportionately large influence. It is named after the subject of the book Sybil, a case study of a woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. The name was suggested in or before 2002 by Brian Zill at Microsoft Research. The term pseudospoofing had previously been coined by L. Detweiler on the Cypherpunks mailing list and used in the literature on peer-to-peer systems for the same class of attacks prior to 2002, but this term did not gain as much influence as "Sybil attack".
Description
The Sybil attack in computer security is an attack wherein a reputation system is subverted by creating multiple identities. A reputation system's vulnerability to a Sybil attack depends on how cheaply identities can be generated, the degree to which the reputation system accepts inputs from entities that do not have a chain of trust linking them to a trusted entity, and whether the reputation system treats all entities identically. , evidence showed that large-scale Sybil attacks could be carried out in a very cheap and efficient way in extant realistic systems such as BitTorrent Mainline DHT.
An entity on a peer-to-peer network is a piece of software that has access to local resources. An entity advertises itself on the peer-to-peer network by presenting an identity. More than one identity can correspond to a single entity. In other words, the mapping of identities to entities is many to one. Entities in peer-to-peer networks use multiple identities for purposes of redundancy, resource sharing, reliability and integrity. In peer-to-peer networks, the identity is used as an abstraction so that a remote entity can be aware of identities without necessarily knowing the correspondence of identities to local entities. By default, each distinct identity is usually assumed to correspond to a distinct local entity. In reality, many identities may correspond to the same local entity.
An adversary may present multiple identities to a peer-to-peer network in order to appear and function as multiple distinct nodes. The adversary may thus be able to acquire a disproportionate level of control over the network, such as by affecting voting outcomes.
In the context of (human) online communities, such multiple identities are sometimes known as sockpuppets.
The less common term inverse-Sybil attack has been used to describe an attack in which many entities appear as a single identity.
Example
A notable Sybil attack in conjunction with a traffic confirmation attack was launched against the Tor anonymity network for several months in 2014.
There are other examples of Sybil attacks run against Tor network users. This includes the 2020 Bitcoin address rewrite attacks. The attacker controlled a quarter of all Tor exit relays and employed SSL stripping to downgrade |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrier%20%28disambiguation%29 | A terrier is a type of dog. It may also refer to:
Entertainment
Terrier (novel), by Tamora Pierce
Terriers (TV series), on the FX network, 2010
Sports
Boston University Terriers, the athletics teams of Boston University
St. Francis Terriers, the athletics teams of St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, New York
Wofford Terriers, the athletics team of Wofford College, South Carolina
Huddersfield Town A.F.C., association football club in England, nicknamed 'The Terriers'
David Terrier (born 1973), French football defender
Yorkton Terriers, a junior ice hockey team in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
Transportation
Beagle Terrier, a British monoplane
Terrier Armoured Digger, engineering vehicle of the British Army
LB&SCR A1 class, a class of British railway locomotive commonly known as Terriers
, more than one United States Navy ship
Other uses
Terrier Search Engine (aka TERabyte RetrIEveR), a search engine
Glebe terrier, a Church of England inventory document
Land terrier, a record of landholdings
Saint-Loup-Terrier, a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France
RIM-2 Terrier, a Cold War surface-to-air missile of the US Navy
Territorial Army (United Kingdom), nicknamed the "Terriers"
Terriers, a suburb of High Wycombe, a town in England
See also
Galt Terriers (disambiguation)
Orillia Terriers (disambiguation)
Staffordshire Terrier (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969%E2%80%9370%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1969–70 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1969 to August 1970.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs to other timeslots) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for their newscast, depending on stations' schedule.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC News
The Adventures of Gulliver
Bewitched
The Bullwinkle Show
Dark Shadows
The Dating Game
Discovery
Dream House
The Dudley Do-Right Show
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Voyage
General Hospital
George of the Jungle
Happening
Issues and Answers
Let's Make a Deal
The New American Bandstand 1970
The New Casper Cartoon Show
The Newlywed Game
One Life to Live
Spider-Man
That Girl
New series
A World Apart
All My Children
The Best of Everything
The Cattanooga Cats Show
Get It Together
The Hardy Boys
Hot Wheels
Skyhawks
The Smokey Bear Show
Not returning from 1968–69
The Children's Doctor
The Dick Cavett Show
Funny You Should Ask
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The King Kong Show
Linus the Lionhearted
The New Beatles
Treasure Isle
CBS
Returning series
The Adventures of Batman
The Andy Griffith Show
As the World Turns
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News
The Edge of Night
Face the Nation
The Guiding Light
The Jetsons
Jonny Quest
Lamp Unto My Feet
Look Up and Live
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
Love of Life
The Lucy Show
The Monkees
The New Adventures of Superman
Search for Tomorrow
The Secret Storm
Sunrise Semester
Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
Tom and Jerry
Wacky Races
New series
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
Gomer Pyle, USMC
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
Where the Heart Is
Not returning from 1968–69
Aquaman
The Archie Show
The Batman/Superman Hour
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Go Go Gophers Show
The Herculoids
The Linkletter Show
The Lone Ranger
Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor
Shazzan
NBC
Returning series
Another World
Another World in Bay City
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
Concentration
Days of Our Lives
The Doctors
The Flintstones
Frontiers of Faith
The Heckle and Jeckle Cartoon S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSJJ | KSJJ (102.9 FM) is a commercial country music radio station in Redmond, Oregon, broadcasting to the Bend, Oregon, area.
Syndicated programming includes After Midnite with Blair Garner hosted by Blair Garner from Premiere Radio Networks.
References
External links
KSJJ official website
SJJ
Country radio stations in the United States
Redmond, Oregon
1981 establishments in Oregon
Radio stations established in 1981 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Children%27s%20Museum | The Chicago Children's Museum is located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1982 by The Junior League of Chicago who were responding to programming cutbacks in the Chicago Public Schools. Originally housed in two hallways of the Chicago Public Library, it soon began to offer trunk shows and traveling exhibits in response to capacity crowds on-site.
The museum moved a number of times over its initial years of existence while it continued to search for a permanent home. In 1995, the Museum thought it found that home when it reopened as an anchor tenant at Navy Pier on Lake Michigan. The new facility offered of exhibition space and included three floors of educational exhibits, public programs and special events. Upon the move to the Pier, the expansion made it the fourth largest children's museum in the United States. The museum serves more than 650,000 people, both at its Navy Pier location and in communities in and around Chicago, each year.
Relocation
The Navy Pier space served the museum well for more than a decade, but in 2006, the Museum announced plans to expand further and move to another location at Daley Bicentennial Plaza in Grant Park that would more than double its exhibition space and allow for greater community access. Despite some strong support from the community especially from Mayor Richard Daley, the proposal has met with some resistance from others who feared that the museum's move will invade Grant Park's open space and set a precedent for other organizations moving to the park. The new facility at Grant Park was designed by the architecture firm of Krueck and Sexton Architects, who designed the Spertus Museum on Michigan Avenue.
By early 2011, museum officials affirmed their commitment to the plan but announced no new developments. Fundraising efforts had lagged while costs for the project had risen to an estimated $150 million. Crain's Chicago Business cited unnamed park officials who said that the museum will likely stay in its current location. At the same time, the Chicago Park District also awarded contracts to begin repairs on the garage under Daley Bicentennial Plaza. On October 25, 2011, the Chicago Park District unveiled a renovation plan for the northeast area of Grant Park that did not include the museum. When asked about the museum, the park district's director of planning and development replied, "Well, they're not coming to Grant Park."
In late 2012, the museum announced it had agreed on a new, 90-year lease with Navy Pier. The agreement includes an expansion of the museum's presence at the Pier by nearly 50 percent (57,000 square feet to 84,000 square feet). Details of the expansion were expected to be announced in 2013.
References
External links
Chicago Children's Museum
CCM News on WindyChat.com
Children's museums in Illinois
Dinosaur museums in the United States
Museums in Chicago
Central Chicago
Natural history museums in Illinois
Science museums in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%E2%80%9371%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1970–71 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1970 to August 1971.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs to other timeslots) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for their newscast, depending on stations' schedule.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
In the Know aired on CBS at 8:55am, 9:55am, 10:55am, 11:55am, and 12:55pm.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Evening News
All My Children
American Bandstand
Bewitched
The Bullwinkle Show
Cattanooga Cats
Dark Shadows
The Dating Game
Discovery
General Hospital
The Hardy Boys
Hot Wheels
Issues and Answers
Jonny Quest
Let's Make a Deal
Motormouse
The Newlywed Game
One Life to Live
Skyhawks
The Smokey Bear Show
That Girl
A World Apart
New series
Here Come the Double Deckers
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
Love, American Style
Password
The Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad Show
Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down
Not returning from 1969-70
The Adventures of Gulliver
The Best of Everything
Dream House
The Dudley Do-Right Show
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Voyage
George of the Jungle
Get it Together
The Hardy Boys
The New Casper Cartoon Show
Spider-Man
CBS
Returning series
Archie's Funhouse
As the World Turns
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
The Edge of Night
Face the Nation
Gomer Pyle, USMC
The Guiding Light
The Jetsons
Lamp Unto My Feet
Look Up and Live
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
Love of Life
The Lucy Show
The Monkees
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Search for Tomorrow
The Secret Storm
Sunrise Semester
Tom and Jerry
Where the Heart Is
New series
Family Affair
Groovie Goolies
Harlem Globetrotters
Josie and the Pussycats
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Not returning from 1969-70
The Adventures of Batman
The Andy Griffith Show
The New Adventures of Superman
Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
Wacky Races
NBC
Returning series
Another World
Bright Promise
Concentration
Days of Our Lives
Dinah's Place
The Doctors
H.R. Pufnstuf
The Heckle and Jeckle Cartoon Show
Here Comes the Grump
Hollywood Squares
Ja |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mysterious%20Murasame%20Castle | is an action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo and Human Entertainment and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System. It was released exclusively in Japan on April 14, 1986. The game was one of the early games released for the system, and the second original game after The Legend of Zelda. The game was released outside Japan for the first time on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in Europe and Australia in May 2014 and in North America in August 2014.
Gameplay
The player takes on the role of the main protagonist Takamaru. The objective is to race through Murasame Castle and the four neighboring castles, obtain the four gems from the castle lords and defeat the main antagonist Murasame. The player moves from different directions in a top-down view with no side-scrolling. The game has only a limited number of power-ups, forcing players to rely on their own action skills more than anything else.
The game world has scrolls scattered throughout the castles for Takamaru to collect, and special raccoon suits may reveal power-ups. Players are given a certain number of lives, and may gain additional lives by rescuing the castles' princesses and playing through bonus rounds after completing the first half of each level. One life is lost when Takamaru's health gauge runs out or he runs out of time. When all lives are lost at any point in the game, the game over screen will appear, in which the player can continue the game or save their progress.
The game consists of five castles: Aosame Castle, Akasame Castle, Ryokusame Castle, Momosame Castle, and the titular Murasame Castle. The appearance of enemy characters (including samurai, ninja and hannya) borrows heavily from existing Japanese culture. Each level, divided into two parts: the path to the castle, and the castle itself, is of considerable size, and Takamaru must defeat generic enemy characters to reach the innermost region of the castle where the castle-lord resides.
The player's only weapons are a katana and shurikens; upgrades to the shuriken can be obtained, but are lost whenever Takamaru loses a life. The katana can only be used when Takamaru is close to an enemy or projectile (excluding fireballs), while the shurikens can only be used when he is farther away. The katana can also be used to deflect projectiles. Other items include fireballs, which are more powerful than the shurikens; a lightning-themed explosive, which gives heavy damage to every enemy on screen; and a cloak, which makes Takamaru invisible and invulnerable to enemies and objects for a short period of time. When Takamaru reaches more than 99 lives, he becomes invincible.
Plot
In Edo-period Japan, Murasame Castle houses a gigantic stone statue known as Murasame. The people lived peacefully until one stormy night, when a shining golden object fell onto the castle from the sky. Deafening shrieks arose from the castle, and the shining object is later revealed to be an alien creature who gives life to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%E2%80%9372%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1971–72 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1971 to August 1972.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs to other timeslots) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for their newscast, depending on stations' schedule
Monday-Friday
Saturday
In the News aired after all of CBS' Saturday morning shows except The Bugs Bunny Show, You Are There, and CBS Children's Film Festival.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning Series
ABC Evening News
All My Children
American Bandstand
Bewitched
The Bullwinkle Show
The Dating Game
General Hospital
Here Come the Double Deckers
Issues and Answers
Jonny Quest
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
Let's Make a Deal
Love, American Style
The Newlywed Game
One Life to Live
Password
The Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad Show
That Girl
Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down
New Series
Curiosity Shop
The Funky Phantom
The Jackson 5ive
Lidsville
Make a Wish
The Road Runner Show
Split Second
Not Returning From 1970-71
A World Apart
Cattanooga Cats
Dark Shadows
Discovery
The Hardy Boys
Hot Wheels
The Motormouse & AutoCat Show
Skyhawks
The Smokey Bear Show
CBS
Returning Series
Archie's TV Funnies
As the World Turns
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bugs Bunny Show
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
The Edge of Night
Face the Nation
Family Affair
Gomer Pyle, USMC
Groovie Goolies
The Guiding Light
Harlem Globetrotters
Josie and the Pussycats
Lamp Unto My Feet
Look Up and Live
Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Love of Life
The Lucy Show
The Monkees
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Search for Tomorrow
The Secret Storm
Sunrise Semester
Tom and Jerry
Where the Heart Is
New Series
The Amateur's Guide to Love
CBS Children's Film Festival
Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
My Three Sons
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
You Are There
Not Returning From 1970-71
Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines
The Jetsons (moved to NBC)
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
NBC
Returning Series
Another World
Bright Promise
The Bugaloos
Concentration
Dinah's Place
Days of Our Lives
Doctor Dolittle
The Doctors
The Hollywood Squares
Jeopardy!
Meet the Pre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Christy | Jim Christy (born 1951) is an American government employee, who retired from his position as the Director of Futures Exploration (FX) for the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center in 2013. FX was in charge of establishing strategic relationships between the US Government and private agencies and academia. Christy was the Director of the Defense Cyber Crime Institute from 2003 to 2006, and Director of Operations of the Defense Computer Forensics Laboratory from 2001 to 2003.
Christy was chief of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) computer crime investigations unit from 1989 to 1996. As the founder of the world's largest digital forensics shop, he is notable for his involvement in high priority government computer security.
Christy joined the Air Force when he was 19. He later became a computer operator at the Pentagon, and got a job as a computer crime investigator at AFOSI in 1986.
In 1986 Christy investigated the notorious Hanover Hackers, a band of West German digital delinquents who stole information from United States Defense Department computers and sold it to the Soviet KGB. It was his first hacker case as an AFOSI agent. In 1991, Christy founded the Pentagon's first digital forensics lab for the Air Force. In 1998, the Air Force Lab became the Department of Defense Computer Forensics Laboratory, supporting all of the investigative agencies of the Department of Defense.
In 2016, Jim Christy was asked by Tom Colbert to join his DB Cooper Cold Case Team. Christy put together a team to go undercover online to help Colbert's team prove the real identity of DB Cooper that he identified in the History Channel's documentary aired in July 2016.
References
1951 births
Living people
Computer security specialists
United States Air Force civilians
United States Air Force airmen
United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnimeFest | AnimeFest is an annual four-day anime convention held during August at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas.
Programming
The convention typically offers autograph sessions, cosplay contests, and a masquerade.
History
In 2012, the convention moved from the Hyatt Regency Dallas to the Sheraton Dallas Downtown Hotel. A-Kon also used the same hotel in 2012. AnimeFest in 2017 had issues with its autograph lines. AnimeFest 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. AnimeFest 2021 was initially cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and an online event held in its place. The convention would later hold an event in December 2021.
Event history
References
External links
AnimeFest Website
Anime conventions in the United States
Recurring events established in 1992
1992 establishments in Texas
Annual events in Texas
Conventions in Texas
Japanese-American culture in Texas
Festivals in Dallas
Tourist attractions in Dallas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue%20Thomas%20%28author%29 | Sue Thomas (born 1951) is an English author. Writing since the late 1980s, she has used both fiction and nonfiction to explore the impact of computers and the internet on everyday life. In recent years her work has focused on the connections between life, nature and technology.
Biography
Sue Thomas was born in Rearsby, a small village in Leicestershire, England, where her maternal grandparents owned a rose-growing business. Her parents were both Dutch: her mother, Dora had been brought to the UK as a small child, whilst her father, Wim, grew up in The Netherlands and emigrated to England to marry her mother in 1950. The de Vos family was very active in the Dutch Resistance during World War II, and Wim later wrote an account of his teenage years under the German occupation of the Netherlands.
The three children. Susan, Stephen and Carolyn, were often culturally adrift, caught between two different nationalities – their Dutch heritage and English homeland. Their parents made little attempt to teach them the language but they heard Dutch spoken around them all the time. Sue once wrote that she grew up ‘feeling like a foreigner in my own family’.
During the 1950s and the 1960s, their father had a series of jobs, selling office furniture, photocopiers, articulated lorries and, once, a revolutionary chicken feed system. This meant that the de Vos family frequently moved houses and schools – from Leicestershire to Newcastle, then Corby, Epsom, and finally Nottingham, where Wim at last found his metier as a life underwriter. After five years of disrupted secondary education, Sue left school at 16 and pursued her own equally varied career as accounts clerk, life model, fine art student, bookseller, and self-taught machine-knitter. She married Tyrone Thomas in 1974, had two daughters, Amber b.1976) and Erin (b.1979), and divorced in 1984. In 1985 she enrolled as a mature student to study for a BA Hons in English and History.
After graduation, she spent several years working freelance and teaching creative writing in a wide range of communities from schools and libraries to a high security prison, eventually joining Nottingham Trent University as an English lecturer. Her first novel, ‘Correspondence’, was published in 1992.
Her unsettled and diverse early life seemed to have positioned her for an outsider adulthood in the margins, so she was surprised to find that her resulting maverick qualities made her attractive to new universities and other institutions looking for a fresh approach. It appeared that many years of not fitting in had drawn her towards creative and academic success.
Her most recent book is Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age. Her previous book, Technobiophilia: nature and cyberspace came out in 2013. The non-fiction travelogue of cyberspace Hello World: travels in virtuality was published in 2004. Her first novel Correspondence was short-listed for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the European Science Fiction Award in 1992 and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Coffee | Pacific Coffee (formerly known as Pacific Coffee Company; abbv. "PCC") is a coffee house chain from Hong Kong, with outlets in China, Singapore and Malaysia. The group is owned by computer distributor Chevalier Pacific, formerly Chevalier iTech. It acquired the chain from founder Thomas Neir for HK$205 million in 2005.
In June 2010, China Resources Enterprise (CRE) and Chevalier forged a partnership to further expand the Pacific Coffee business in the Chinese Mainland with CRE being a major shareholder and to have Pacific Coffee developed under the umbrella of CRE's Retail Business Unit.
Apart from its stores, PCC also sells own-brand coffee beans and Jura brand coffee machines to distributors and corporate clients, such as banks, airline companies, clubs and hotels. Its coffee beans are sold in Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore.
Hong Kong
PCC was started by Thomas Neir of Seattle, who came to Hong Kong in 1992. Neir saw a lack of European-style coffee houses in his adopted city. The first PCC outlet opened in 1993 at the Bank of America Tower in Hong Kong's Central district.
In 2005, the PCC at The Peak was voted "Asia's top favourite wireless hotspot" in a survey of 1,996 people in 20 countries by Intel.
International branches
PCC has 120 branches in Hong Kong, as well as branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Macau, Foshan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shenyang, Suzhou, Xi'an, Zhuhai, Singapore, Cyprus and Malaysia.
See also
Starbucks
McCafé
List of coffeehouse chains
References
External links
A Hong Kong public listed company announcement regarding to the Pacific Coffee Company.
Coffeehouses and cafés in China
Fast-food chains of Hong Kong
Fast-food chains of China
Catering and food service companies of Hong Kong
Hong Kong brands
Drink companies of Hong Kong
Restaurants established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon%20%28storage%20engine%29 | Falcon is a discontinued transactional storage engine being developed for the MySQL relational database management system. Development was stopped after Oracle purchased MySQL. It was based on the Netfrastructure database engine. Falcon was designed to take advantage of Sun's ZFS file system.
Architecture analysis showed an interesting mixture of possible performance properties, while low level benchmarks on the first alpha release in 5.1.14-falcon showed that Falcon performed differently from both InnoDB and MyISAM. It did better in several tests, worse in others, with inefficient support for the MySQL LIMIT operation a limitation. Its biggest advantage though is known to be ease of use; Falcon requires minimum maintenance and designed to reconfigure itself automatically to handle all types of loads efficiently.
See also
InnoDB
ISAM
MyISAM
XtraDB
References
Database engines
MySQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ministers%20for%20transport%20of%20Luxembourg | The minister for transport () was a position in the Luxembourgian cabinet. The minister for transport was responsible for maintenance and revision of the road network, operation of public transport, and regulation of aviation and waterways.
On 23 July 2009, the position was merged with those of the Ministry for the Environment and Minister for Public Works to form the new position of Minister for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, under Claude Wiseler.
List of ministers for transport
References
Luxembourg Government website, retrieved 11 August 2009
Transport, Minister for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20the%20Internet | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Internet.
Internet – worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of interconnected smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.
Internet features
Hosting –
File hosting –
Web hosting
E-mail hosting
DNS hosting
Game servers
Wiki farms
World Wide Web –
Websites –
Web applications –
Webmail –
Online shopping –
Online auctions –
Webcomics –
Wikis –
Voice over IP
IPTV
Internet communication technology
Internet infrastructure
Critical Internet infrastructure –
Internet access –
Internet access in the United States –
Internet service provider –
Internet backbone –
Internet exchange point (IXP) –
Internet standard –
Request for Comments (RFC) –
Internet communication protocols
Internet protocol suite –
Link layer
Link layer –
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP/InARP) –
Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) –
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) –
Tunneling protocol (Tunnels) –
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) –
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) –
Medium access control –
Ethernet –
Digital subscriber line (DSL) –
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) –
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) –
Internet layer
Internet layer –
Internet Protocol (IP) –
IPv4 –
IPv6 –
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) –
ICMPv6 –
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) –
IPsec –
Transport layer
Transport layer –
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) –
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) –
Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) –
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) –
Resource reservation protocol (RSVP) –
Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) –
QUIC
Application layer
Application layer –
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) –
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) –
Domain Name System (DNS) –
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) –
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) –
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) –
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) –
LDAP –
Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) –
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) –
Network Time Protocol (NTP) –
Post Office Protocol (POP) –
Routing Information Protocol (RIP) –
Remote procedure call (RPC) –
Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) –
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) –
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) –
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) –
SOCKS –
Secure Shell (SSH) –
Telnet –
Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL) –
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) –
History of the Internet
History of the Internet
The internet wasn't invented but continually developed by internet pioneers.
Predeces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle%20%28disambiguation%29 | A chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order.
Chronicle may also refer to:
Companies
Chronicle (company), a cybersecurity company owned by Alphabet Inc.
Chronicle Books, a San Francisco-based book publisher, formerly a subsidiary of Chronicle Publishing Company
Chronicle Publishing Company, a San Francisco-based publishing & media company
Film and TV
Chronicle (film), a 2012 American film
Chronicle (U.S. TV program), a 1982–date newsmagazine program
Chronicle (UK TV programme), a 1966–1991 archaeology programme
Music
Chronicle (Lights & Motion album), a 2015 album by Swedish band Lights & Motion
Chronicle (Chicago Underground Trio album), a 2007 album by the Chicago Underground Trio
Chronicle, Vol. 1, a 1976 album by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Chronicle, Vol. 2, a 1986 album by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Other uses
Chronicle (ballet), a ballet choreographed by Martha Graham to music by Wallingford Riegger
See also
Chess Player's Chronicle
Chronicles (disambiguation)
List of chronicles
The Chronicle (disambiguation)
:Category:Chronicles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Science%20and%20Technology%20Abstracts | FSTA, also known as FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts, is produced by IFIS Publishing.
FSTA is a bibliographic abstracting and indexing (A&I) database of scientific and technological research and information relating to food, beverages, and nutrition. It contains over 1,400,000 indexed records, with full-text links where available.
The database is used by researchers, industry practitioners, and university students.
Coverage
In addition to over 5,475 active and historical journals, FSTA indexes books, trade publications, reviews, conference proceedings, reports, patents, and standards, producing 22,675 sources overall. Updated weekly, its records are indexed against IFIS' thesaurus, which contains over 12,346 food science keywords, curated and structured into food-centric hierarchies.
With records dating back to 1969, FSTA contains information sources in 29 languages, sourced from publishers in over 60 countries.
Coverage includes all major commodities in the food and beverage industry, related applied and pure sciences, pet foods, food psychology, food economics, food safety, and more.
Online access
FSTA can be accessed through EBSCOhost, Ovid, Proquest Dialog, STN and Web of Science.
See also
Google Scholar
List of academic databases and search engines
Lists of academic journals
List of open-access journals
List of scientific journals
References
External links
Food technology organizations
Online databases
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20RFID | Mobile RFID (M-RFID) are services that provide information on objects equipped with an RFID tag over a telecommunication network. The reader or interrogator can be installed in a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA.
Unlike ordinary fixed RFID, mobile RFID readers are mobile and the tags fixed, instead of the other way around. The advantages of M-RFID over RFID include the absence of wires to fixed readers and the ability of a small number of mobile readers can cover a large area, instead of dozens of fixed readers.
The main focus is on supporting supply chain management. But this application has also found its way in m-commerce. The customer in the supermarket can scan the Electronic Product Code from the tag and connects via the internet to get more information.
ISO/IEC 29143 "Information technology — Automatic Identification and Data Capture Technique — Air Interface specification for Mobile RFID interrogator" ] is the first standard to be developed for Mobile RFID.
References
See also
MIIM
RFID
RTLS
ISO
Mobile telecommunications
Radio-frequency identification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo%20Data%20Systems | Diablo Data Systems was a division of Xerox created by the acquisition of Diablo Systems Inc.
for US$29 million in 1972, a company that had been founded in 1969 by George E. Comstock, Charles L. Waggoner and others.
The company was best known for the HyType I and HyType II typewriter-based computer terminals, the Diablo 630 daisywheel printers, as well as removable hard disk drives that were used in the Xerox Alto computer and resold by DEC as the RK02 and RK03.
Overview
The RK02 and RK03 drives that Diablo made for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was described by DEC as "stores digital data in serial format on IBM 2315 type disk cartridges." They differed from what DEC later manufacturered for itself, as the "RK04 and RK05 use voice coil head positioning, and the RK02 and RK03 use rack and pinion head positioning."
The RK02/RK04 were low density and stored 600K 16-bit words, whereas the RK03/RK05 store 1.2 megabytes of 16-bit words. By using "12 sectors of 128 words (low density) or 256 words (high density)" and "203 cylinders of 2 tracks per cylinder" the capacity was 1.22 megabytes or 2.45 megabytes respectively.
Diablo also made full computer systems as well as printers.
Diablo systems
The Xerox Diablo 3100 was among the complete computing systems sold by Diablo.
Diablo printers
Among the models for which Diablo was known were the 9R87201, the HyType I (1973) and the HyType II. Some of the printwheels were plastic, others were "metalized." Also included were the Diablo 630 and 635.
References
Further reading
Xerox
1969 establishments in California
1972 establishments in California
1972 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1969
American companies disestablished in 1972
Computer companies established in 1969
Computer companies disestablished in 1972
Defunct computer companies based in California
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Manufacturing companies established in 1969
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1972
Technology companies established in 1969
Technology companies disestablished in 1972
Database companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebbles%2C%20Volume%207%20%281980%20album%29 | Pebbles, Volume 7 is a compilation album in the Pebbles series. The music on this album has no relation to Pebbles, Volume 7 which was released on CD many years later.
Release data
This album was released as an LP by BFD Records in 1980 (as #BFD-5024) and was kept in print for many years by AIP Records.
Notes on the tracks
The Human Beings are not to be confused with the Human Beinz, which make an appearance on Pebbles, Volume 8. A song by The Chocolate Watchband was included on the original Nuggets compilation, and the Dovers are also represented on Pebbles, Volume 2. Craig are an English group.
Track listing
Side 1:
Something Wild: "Trippin' Out", 2:05
The Descendants: "Lela", 2:30
The Denims: "White Ship", 2:42
The Heard: "Stop It Baby", 2:23
Hysterics: "Everything's There", 2:15
Silver Fleet: "Look out World", 2:41
The Human Beings: "You're Bad News", 2:11
The Chocolate Watchband: "Sweet Young Thing", 2:41
The Craig: "I Must Be Mad", 2:52
Side 2:
The Edge: "Seen through the Eyes", 2:58
We the People: "When I Arrive", 3:01
The Survivors: "Shakin' with Linda", 2:48
Four Fifths: "If You Still Want Me", 2:00
The Dovers: "She's Not Just Anybody", 1:54
Sunday Funnies: "A Pindaric Ode", 2:12
The Painted Ship: "Frustration", 2:53
The Live Wires: "Love", 3:20
Pebbles (series) albums
1980 compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebbles%2C%20Volume%208%20%281980%20album%29 | Pebbles, Volume 8 is a compilation album among the LPs in the Pebbles series. The music on this album has no relation to Pebbles, Volume 8 that was released on CD many years later.
Release data
This album was released as an LP by BFD Records in 1980 (as #BFD-5025) and was kept in print for many years by AIP Records.
Notes on the tracks
"I Never Loved Her" by the Starfires is one of the most sought after garage rock singles and has brought $1,000 or more. This band has no relation to the band of the same name that later evolved into the Outsiders (see Pebbles, Volume 9). Question Mark & the Mysterians is one of the many Latino garage rock bands and is well known for their major hit with "96 Tears". The Human Beinz also had a Top 40 hit with "Nobody but Me". The Lollipop Shoppe was originally known as the Weeds, which is represented among the bonus tracks on the Pebbles, Volume 1 CD.
Track listing
Side 1:
The Lollipop Shoppe: "You Must Be a Witch", 2:40
The Starfires: "I Never Loved Her", 2:43
The Gants: "I Wonder", 2:14
The Sound Barrier: "(My) Baby's Gone", 2:49
The JuJus: "Hey Little Girl", 2:06
The Uncalled For: "Do Like Me", 2:44
The Bruthers: "Bad Way to Go", 2:50
The Clue: "Bad Times", 2:00
Faine Jade: "It Ain't True", 3:09
Side 2:
The Caravelles: "Lovin' Just My Style", 3:03
The Human Beinz: "My Generation", 2:41
Question Mark & the Mysterians: "Make You Mine", 2:46
The Others: "I Can't Stand This Love, Goodbye", 2:07
The Cindermen: "Don't Do it Some More", 1:50
The Rovin' Flames: "How Many Times", 1:57
The Rockin' Ramrods: "She Lied", 2:05
Movin' Morfomen: "Run Girl Run", 1:52
The Lemon Drops: "I Live in the Springtime", 2:52
Pebbles (series) albums
1980 compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebbles%2C%20Volume%209%20%281980%20album%29 | Pebbles, Volume 9 is a compilation album among the LPs in the Pebbles series. The music on this album has no relation to Pebbles, Volume 9 that was released on CD many years later.
Release data
This album was released as an LP by BFD Records in 1980 (as #BFD-5026) and was kept in print for many years by AIP Records.
Notes on the tracks
The Outsiders had several hits in this time period, including "Time Won't Let Me". New Colony Six also had some prominence in the charts following their garage rock beginnings, with hits that include "I Will Always Think About You" and "Things I'd Like to Say". The Gestures' "Run, Run, Run" was one of the biggest hits to ever appear on a Pebbles LP, reaching number 44 on Billboard and number 48 on Cash Box.
Track listing
Side 1:
The Free-for-All: "Show Me the Way" (Kevin Colley)
Byron & the Mortals: "Do You Believe Me"
The Endd: "Out of My Hands"
The Knaves: "The Girl I Threw Away"
The Bugs: "Pretty Girl"
The Bucaneers: "You're Never Gonna Love Me Anymore"
The Beckett Quintet: "No Correspondence"
The Outsiders: "I'm Not Trying to Hurt You"
Side 2:
The Gestures: "Run Run Run" – rel. 1964
The Bold: "Gotta Get Some"
The Banshees: "Project Blue"
New Colony Six: "At the River's Edge" - rel. 1966
Beethoven's Fifth: "Come Down" – rel. 1967
It's All Meat: "Feel It"
The Bad Roads: "Too Bad" - rel. 1966
The Bad Roads: "Blue Girl" - rel. 1966
Pebbles (series) albums
1980 compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebbles%2C%20Volume%2010%20%281980%20album%29 | Pebbles, Volume 10 is a compilation album among the LPs in the Pebbles series. The music on this album has no relation to Pebbles, Volume 10 that was released on CD many years later.
Release data
This album was the last of the Pebbles LP's to be released by BFD Records (as #BFD-5027), in 1980. The LP was kept in print for many years by AIP Records.
Notes on the tracks
The Five Americans are known for their hit song "Western Union". The Ides of March had a quite different hit song several years after this track was recorded called "Vehicle" (referred to on the liner notes of this album as a "horn dirge"). The marvelous cover of "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" by Steve Walker & the Bold is played much faster than most other recordings of this classic. The same band, but this time called The Bold is also included on Pebbles, Volume 9. The Ugly Ducklings are one of several Canadian bands whose songs are sprinkled on the albums in the Pebbles series. "Primitive" was covered by the Cramps and is included on the Nuggets box set as well as the Born Bad series (Songs the Cramps Taught Us). Gary Duncan and Greg Elmore of the Brogues later became members of Quicksilver Messenger Service. Guitarist Bob Webber of the Moonrakers founded Sugarloaf with Jerry Corbetta, who brought in drummer Robert MacVittie and rhythm guitarist Veeder Van Dorn III from this band as well.
Track listing
Side 1:
The Next Five: "Talk to Me Girl"
The Moon Rakers: "You'll Come Back"
Peter Wheat and the Breadmen: "Baby What's New"
The Marauders: "Since I Met You"
The Ides of March: "Roller Coaster"
The Foggy Notions: "Need a Little Lovin'"
The Ugly Ducklings: "Just in Case You're Wondering"
Raga and the Talas: "My Group and Me"
Side 2:
Leo and the Prophets: "Tilt-a-Whirl"
The Human Expression: "Love at Psychedelic Velocity"
The Wig/Wags: "I'm on My Way down the Road"
Steve Walker & the Bold: "The Train Kept a-Rollin'"
Things to Come: "I'm Not Talkin'"
The Five Americans: "Slippin' and Slidin'"
The Groupies: "Primitive"
The Brogues: "Don't Shoot Me Down"
Pebbles (series) albums
1980 compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFR | AFR may refer to:
AFR (film), a 2007 film
Afrikaans language, ISO-639 code
Air France, ICAO code
Air–fuel ratio, an engineering term.
Armed Forces Radio, original name of American Forces Network
Alternate frame rendering, a computer term
American Family Radio, a network of radio stations in US
American Film Renaissance, a US film institute
American flag rugby, a variant of Rugby Union
Americans for Financial Reform, an organisation in US
Annualized failure rate, a measure of reliability
Annual Financial Report
Arbel Fauvet Rail, a French rolling stock manufacturer
Australian Financial Review, a business newspaper
Automatic facial recognition, also known as live facial recognition
A short form for the continent of Africa. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolva | Evolva is a third-person action game created by British computer artist William Latham and game designer/programmer Mark Atkinson, and released in 2000.
Gameplay
The player leads a team of four "GenoHunters" exploring a planet; each of the GenoHunters can develop new abilities by incorporating and altering the DNA they've absorbed from the creatures they have killed. The GenoHunters change their physical appearance (change colors, develop spikes or horns) based on the DNA they've used to mutate themselves. Genohunters can punch, jump, super jump, breathe fire, vomit flammable liquids, shoot explosives, scramble enemies' brains, and spawn small alien offspring that injure enemies. Prior to the game's release, publisher Interplay Entertainment advertised that there are over one billion possible variations on the basic Genohunter.
The game has 12 large, linear levels populated with alien insect-like creatures known as the "parasite guardians". There are different types of these alien creatures. In some of the levels there are "Bosses" at the end which your team of GenoHunters must defeat.
Reception
The game received favorable reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. The game was praised by critics as very innovative, without any major criticisms, other than the high hardware requirements (for the time) and weak multiplayer support. Jim Preston of NextGen said of the game, "The gorgeous graphics and beautiful sound conceal some rather ordinary, if mostly fun, gameplay."
Nick Woods of AllGame gave it a score of four stars out of five, saying, "A strong point of Evolva is the quality of the environments created by Interplay. The sense that you're on another planet is apparent and adds to the enjoyment of the game. I'd recommend this game to just about anyone as, overall, Evolva is a good, solid game that will provide many hours of enjoyment." Michael Lafferty of GameZone gave it 8.5/10, calling it "a well-designed action-adventure game that demands intellect and reflexive skill."
References
External links
2000 video games
Action games
Biopunk
Interplay Entertainment games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games about extraterrestrial life
Video games set on fictional planets
Virgin Interactive games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAD%20navigation | CAD navigation refers to software tools which are used for the correlation of electronic semiconductor design data with a physical semiconductor device. CAD navigation tools consist of software that is capable of reading and displaying the physical layout and logical schematic for the device. The logical design consists of a netlist and/or a schematic. The physical design consists of a set of polygons which precisely represent the location of all electrical conductors, diffusions and interconnections in the physical semiconductor device. CAD navigation tools are often used to provide a cross-correlation between the logical design and the physical design. CAD navigation tools are used extensively with E-beam probers, focused-ion beam systems and photon probers for the purpose of semiconductor failure analysis.
Notes
References
Semiconductor analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe%20University%20and%20Minnesota%20School%20of%20Business | Globe University and Minnesota School of Business (Globe/MSB) was a private for-profit education network based in Washington County, Minnesota, providing specialized training programs in business, accounting, medical, legal, information technology, massage, veterinary technology, and design fields. The large network had multiple campuses in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota.
In September 2016, the state of Minnesota stopped the business from operating in the state. All Globe/MSB locations were permanently closed by 2017 because they lost their federal student aid funding.
History
Minnesota School of Business
Minnesota School of Business was founded in 1877 by Professor Alexander R. Archibald, previously of Dartmouth College. He and an assistant taught classes in bookkeeping, shorthand, English, and penmanship in a three-room school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For 12 years the school was called Archibald Business College. In 1890 the school was purchased by Charles T. Rickard and Grove A. Gruman and moved to larger facilities in the Jewelers’ Exchange Building in Minneapolis.
In 1929, the school was sold to the Correll and Kamprath families and was relocated to 24 South Seventh Street. In 1979 the School was moved again to the Chamber of Commerce Building in Minneapolis.
In 1969 ITT Educational Services Inc. purchased the school. Terry L. Myhre purchased the school in January 1988.
All Minnesota School of Business locations were permanently closed as of 2017.
Globe University
Globe College was founded in 1885 by Frank A. Maron, who was born and educated in Germany. An accomplished scholar, he received a classical education in his native country. Recognizing a need for a practical education for young men and women, he established Globe College in Minnesota. From its inception, the university stressed the teaching of business as it is practiced.
In October 1972, Helmer Myhre and Terry Myhre purchased the college. In June 2007, it was renamed Globe University.
All Globe University locations were permanently closed as of 2017.
Lawsuit leading to closure
In 2011, Heidi Weber, a former dean, filed a whistleblower-wrongful termination lawsuit against Globe/MSB. In 2013, her case went to jury trial in the Washington County Courthouse. After a seven-day trial, a jury found in her favor and awarded $395,000 plus interest to the former dean. This is now called the first whistleblower case/trial of a for-profit institution of higher education.
Globe/MSB appealed the ruling; however, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld Weber's verdict. A judge ruled that Globe/MSB must additionally pay in excess of $995,000 (including attorney costs for Weber) for wrongful termination after she reported the school's unethical practices and was retaliated against by being fired.
In July 2014, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announced that the state was suing Globe/MSB. The lawsuit "[alleges that] the for-profit schools misled criminal justice program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%E2%80%9373%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1972–73 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1972 to August 1973. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's shows are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Monday-Friday
ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for their newscast
Saturday
In the News aired after all of CBS' Saturday morning shows except Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, and CBS Children's Film Festival.
ABC debuts Multiplication Rock, a series of three-minute animated educational shorts shown five times each Saturday in between programs, on January 6.
Sunday
Multiplication Rock followed Curiosity Shop and Make a Wish on ABC starting January 7.
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Evening News
All My Children
American Bandstand
Bewitched
The Bullwinkle Show
Curiosity Shop
The Dating Game
The Funky Phantom
General Hospital
H.R. Pufnstuf
Issues and Answers
The Jackson 5ive
Let's Make a Deal
Lidsville
Love, American Style
Make a Wish
The Monkees
The Newlywed Game
One Life to Live
Password
Split Second
New series
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
The Brady Bunch
The Brady Kids
The Girl in My Life
Kid Power
Multiplication Rock
The Osmonds
Not returning from 1971-72
Here Come the Double Deckers
Jonny Quest
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
The Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad Show
The Road Runner Show
That Girl
Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down
CBS
Returning series
Archie's Funhouse
Archie's TV Funnies
As the World Turns
The Bugs Bunny Show
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Children's Film Festival
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
The Edge of Night
Face the Nation
Family Affair
The Guiding Light
Harlem Globetrotters
Lamp Unto My Feet
Look Up and Live
Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Love of Life
Match Game
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Search for Tomorrow
The Secret Storm
Sunrise Semester
Where the Heart Is
New series
The $10,000 Pyramid
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
The Flintstone Comedy Hour
Gambit
Hollywood's Talking
The Joker's Wild
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The Price Is Right
The Vin Scully Show
The Young and the Restless
Not returning from 1971-72
The Amateur's Guide to Love
The Beverly Hillbillies
Gomer Pyle, USMC
Groovie Goolies
Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
The Lucy Show
The Monkees
My Three Sons
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
Tom and Jerry
You Are There
NBC
Returning series
Another World
Concentration
Days of Our Lives
Dinah's Place
The Doctors
The Hollywood Squares
Jeopardy!
The Jetsons
Meet the Press
NBC Nightly News
NBC Saturday Night News
NBC Sunday Night News
The New Pink Panther Show
Return to Pey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Community%20of%20Women%20Living%20with%20HIV/AIDS | The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), a registered UK charity, is an international network run for and by HIV positive women. ICW was established to support programs designed to safeguard and improve the quality of life for women living with HIV.
ICW Global operates in 120 countries through ten regional networks, including North America and Eastern Africa networks.
Formation
ICW was formed by a group of HIV positive women from many different countries attending the 8th International Conference on AIDS held in Amsterdam in July 1992. HIV positive women shared stories and strategies for coping and devised action plans for the future. An important achievement at this first ICW pre-conference was drawing up the "Twelve Statements". These statements relate to the issues and needs facing all women living with HIV worldwide and form the basis of the organisation's philosophy. During this meeting, the women agreed that they did not want to lose this momentum and ICW was created.
Purpose
ICW is an international network run for and by HIV positive women that promotes and advocates for changes that improve the lives of HIV positive women and gives them a voice. Over the course of its 20-year existence, ICW has been a unified force for women living with HIV. ICW has made a significant impact in international forums, winning a voting position on the International AIDS Conference Coordinating Committee and Consultative Status at the UN Economic and Social Council. Their global advocacy program ensures that women living with HIV have a voice in the creation of policy that affects their lives and fights for the needs of women, young women, adolescents, and girls living with HIV in significant global decision-making arenas.
Funding
ICW is financially supported by many organisations, trusts and foundations. The major ones include DANIDA, NOVIB and UNAIDS. Project-specific grants have recently been provided by Comic Relief and the UK Government through the Department for International Development.
In Kenya
The National coordinator in Kenya until 2020 was Inviolata Mbwavi.
See also
Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS
References
External links
The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
Health charities in the United Kingdom
HIV/AIDS organisations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%E2%80%9374%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1973–74 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1973 to August 1974. All times are Eastern and Pacific. By 1974, the networks in the Pacific Time Zone would shift to a Central Time Zone schedule altogether.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's programs are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station.
Monday-Friday
Note
ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for their newscast, depending on stations' schedule.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Evening News
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
All My Children
American Bandstand
The Brady Bunch
The Brady Kids
The Bugs Bunny Show
General Hospital
The Girl in My Life
H.R. Pufnstuf
Issues and Answers
Kid Power
Let's Make a Deal
Love, American Style
Make a Wish
Multiplication Rock / Grammar Rock
The Newlywed Game
One Life to Live
The Osmonds
Password
Split Second
New series
The $10,000 Pyramid
Goober and the Ghost Chasers
Lassie's Rescue Rangers
Mission: Magic!
Super Friends
Yogi's Gang
Not returning from 1972-73
Bewitched
The Bullwinkle Show
Curiosity Shop
The Dating Game
The Funky Phantom
The Jackson 5ive
Lidsville (reruns; moved to NBC)
The Monkees
CBS
Returning series
The $10,000 Pyramid
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
As the World Turns
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Children's Film Festival
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
The Edge of Night
Everything's Archie
Face the Nation
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
The Flintstones Comedy Show
Gambit
The Guiding Light
Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
The Joker's Wild
Josie and the Pussycats
Lamp Unto My Feet
Look Up and Live
Love of Life
Match Game
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
The Price Is Right
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Search for Tomorrow
The Secret Storm
Sunrise Semester
The Young and the Restless
New series
Bailey's Comets
Jeannie
My Favorite Martians
Now You See It
Speed Buggy
Tattletales
Not returning from 1972-73
Archie's Funhouse
Archie's TV Funnies
Family Affair
Harlem Globetrotters
Hollywood's Talking
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
Love is a Many Splendored Thing
The Vin Scully Show
Where the Heart Is
NBC
Returning series
Another World
Baffle
Days of Our Lives
Dinah's Place
The Doctors
The Hollywood Squares
Jeopardy!
The Jetsons
Lidsville (moved from ABC)
Meet the Press
Name That Tune
NBC Nightly News
NBC Saturday Night News
NBC Sunday Night News
The New Pink Panther Show
Return to Peyton Place
Somerset
Three on a Match
Today
The Who, What, or Where Game
The Wizard of Odds
New series
The Addams Family
Butch Cassidy and th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic4GL | Basic4GL (B4GL; from Basic for openGL) is an interpreted, open source version of the BASIC programming language which features support for 3D computer graphics using OpenGL. While being interpreted, it is also able to compile programs on top of the virtual machine to produce standalone executable programs.
It uses a syntax similar to traditional dialects of BASIC and features an IDE and a very thorough and comprehensive debugger.
Basic4GL is not designed to compete with programming languages such as C++; it was intended to replace older languages such as QBasic or GFA BASIC.
Basic4GL features the usual commands that you would expect to find in a version of BASIC such as...
PRINT
INPUT
GOSUB
It also includes a few features that C programmers will be familiar with, such as support for pointers, structures and most importantly the entire OpenGL v1.1 API.
History
Tom Mulgrew created Basic4GL from a desire to be able to run OpenGL functions easily and quickly, without all of the setup normally required in a language such as c++ and be more stable. He built a virtual machine similar to one used at his workplace. It started simply, with few OpenGL functions and minimal other functionality. The first version was relatively popular.
The first version was named GLBasic, which also happens to be a commercial programming language. The issue was civilly resolved, and Mulgrew's project renamed Basic4GL.
Mulgrew set himself the goal to expand Basic4GL to the point that it could load and display and MD2 model.
Versions
2.3.0 - Added networking capability
2.3.5 - Support for code compilation at runtime
2.4.2 - Changed sound system from OpenAL to Audiere
2.4.3 - Support for Plugin DLLs added
2.5.0 - Support for functions added
2.5.8 - Support for hexadecimal numbers
Versions
Basic4GL was designed to run on the Windows operating system, but versions were being developed for Linux and Mac OS. Meanwhile, Gambas also features an OpenGL 2.1 component, with GL bindings also available for FreeBASIC and QB64.
Basic4GL for Linux
Basic4GL was being ported over to Linux. The major difference between Basic4GL for Windows and the attempted Linux version is that it uses the SDL library rather than Windows specific libraries to initialize an OpenGL enabled window.
Basic4GL for Mac
A version for Mac OS is was also under development. No working versions have been released.
Basic4SDL
Based on the Linux build, a project to create an extended version of Basic4GL that wraps more closely to the SDL library (not to be confused with SDLBasic).
Basic4Games
A successor to Basic4GL was also being developed dubbed "Basic4Games". Only one preview has been released.
Basic4GLj
A port of the language to the Java virtual machine.
Example code
Dim A
For A = 0 To 4
Printr "Hello "; A
Next
When the above code is entered into Basic4GL and executed, the following is output to the monitor screen.
Hello 0
Hello 1
Hello 2
Hello 3
Hello 4
Features
Support for sound and music
Wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Data%20Mining | Oracle Data Mining (ODM) is an option of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. It contains several data mining and data analysis algorithms for classification, prediction, regression, associations, feature selection, anomaly detection, feature extraction, and specialized analytics. It provides means for the creation, management and operational deployment of data mining models inside the database environment.
Overview
Oracle Corporation has implemented a variety of data mining algorithms inside its Oracle Database relational database product. These implementations integrate directly with the Oracle database kernel and operate natively on data stored in the relational database tables. This eliminates the need for extraction or transfer of data into standalone mining/analytic servers. The relational database platform is leveraged to securely manage models and to efficiently execute SQL queries on large volumes of data. The system is organized around a few generic operations providing a general unified interface for data-mining functions. These operations include functions to create, apply, test, and manipulate data-mining models. Models are created and stored as database objects, and their management is done within the database - similar to tables, views, indexes and other database objects.
In data mining, the process of using a model to derive predictions or descriptions of behavior that is yet to occur is called "scoring". In traditional analytic workbenches, a model built in the analytic engine has to be deployed in a mission-critical system to score new data, or the data is moved from relational tables into the analytical workbench - most workbenches offer proprietary scoring interfaces. ODM simplifies model deployment by offering Oracle SQL functions to score data stored right in the database. This way, the user/application-developer can leverage the full power of Oracle SQL - in terms of the ability to pipeline and manipulate the results over several levels, and in terms of parallelizing and partitioning data access for performance.
Models can be created and managed by one of several means. Oracle Data Miner provides a graphical user interface that steps the user through the process of creating, testing, and applying models (e.g. along the lines of the CRISP-DM methodology). Application- and tools-developers can embed predictive and descriptive mining capabilities using PL/SQL or Java APIs. Business analysts can quickly experiment with, or demonstrate the power of, predictive analytics using Oracle Spreadsheet Add-In for Predictive Analytics, a dedicated Microsoft Excel adaptor interface. ODM offers a choice of well-known machine learning approaches such as Decision Trees, Naive Bayes, Support vector machines, Generalized linear model (GLM) for predictive mining, Association rules, K-means and Orthogonal Partitioning
Clustering, and Non-negative matrix factorization for descriptive mining. A minimum description length based technique to gra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based%20legislation | Evidence-based legislation (EBL) refers to the practice of using the best available scientific evidence and systematically collected data in the formulation and drafting of laws by legislatures. Rooted in the broader movement towards evidence-based practices, EBL incorporates various elements such as evidence gathering, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, stakeholder assessments, expert input, cost-benefit analyses, and ongoing monitoring and evaluation.
Overview
The concept of Evidence-based legislation was first introduced by psychologist Gerald T. Kaplan during a conference titled "At the Margins. A Conference on Sex Offender Management in Minnesota 2006. Policy and Management Options for the Most Dangerous Sex Offenders". The conference, held on February 24, 2006, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was organized by Eric Janus, Esq. Vice-Dean of the William Mitchell College of Law, and centered on policy considerations for managing dangerous sex offenders.
The conference highlighted that legislation concerning sex offenders often gets passed in response to public sentiment and fear, neglecting the need for rational policy deliberation and assessment of potential consequences. Drawing from the evolving standard of evidence-based medicine, Kaplan proposed a similar standard for legislatures when drafting legislation, particularly in areas prone to swift legislative action in reaction to emotionally charged incidents, such as publicized sex crimes. Although initially applied to legislation affecting sex offenders, this evidence-based approach can be extended to other legislative areas.
History
The emergence of evidence-based legislation as a recognized concept is a recent phenomenon, with scant references in legal or academic literature until contemporary times. It was first acknowledged in legal discourse in a publication by Shajnfeld and Krueger. This paper, along with a book by Jenkins, scrutinizes the often irrational approach towards prior sex offender legislation, suggesting "evidence-based legislation" as a countermeasure. The objective is to avert the continued promulgation of emotionally charged, reactionary laws, particularly concerning the management of sex offenders and the reduction of sexual crime. Such hastily enacted laws often fail to adequately consider their practical and economic implications.
The notion of evidence-based legislation also appeared in an op-ed in theLos Angeles Times on March 11, 2007, titled "The new American witch hunt," authored by Richard B. Krueger, M.D.
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Evidence-Based Legislation
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) serves as a fundamental tool within the framework of evidence-based legislation (EBL). By comparing the anticipated costs and benefits of a proposed legislative action, CBA provides policymakers with a quantitative method for decision-making. This process aids in ensuring that the proposed laws or regulations are economically efficient and beneficial.
The integration of c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975%E2%80%9376%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1975–76 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1975 to August 1976.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's programs are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
The Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station.
Monday-Friday
Notes
ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for their newscast, depending on stations' schedule.
The Edge of Night aired its final CBS broadcast on November 28, 1975. The serial moved to ABC on December 1, 1975 with a 90 minute episode; Although it aired in the 4PM (ET)/3PM (CT) timeslot, affiliates were allowed to air the program outside the scheduled timeslot, while affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone had a 12 Noon feed for the series.
In the Pacific Time Zone (from December 1975 to March 1977), ABC's lineup had its game shows aired in the morning, while the 12 Noon to 3 PM block featured The Edge of Night, Ryan's Hope, All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital in succession.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
The $10,000 Pyramid
ABC Evening News
AM America
All My Children
American Bandstand
Devlin
The Edge of Night (moved from CBS)
General Hospital
Groovie Goolies
Hong Kong Phooey
Issues and Answers
Let's Make a Deal
Make a Wish
The New Adventures of Gilligan
One Life to Live
Rhyme and Reason
Ryan's Hope
Schoolhouse Rock!
Showoffs
Speed Buggy
Super Friends
These Are the Days
You Don't Say!
New series
The $20,000 Pyramid
Break the Bank
Family Feud
Good Morning America
Happy Days
Hot Seat
The Lost Saucer
The Neighbors
The Tom and Jerry Show
The Great Grape Ape Show
The Oddball Couple
Uncle Croc's Block
Not returning from 1974-75
The Big Showdown
Blankety Blanks
The Brady Bunch
The Girl in My Life
Goober and the Ghost Chasers
Korg: 70,000 B.C.
Lassie's Rescue Rangers
The Money Maze
The Newlywed Game
Password
Split Second
Yogi's Gang
CBS
Returning series
As the World Turns
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Children's Film Festival
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
The Edge of Night (moved to ABC)
Face the Nation
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Gambit
Guiding Light
The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine
Lamp Unto My Feet
Look Up and Live
Love of Life
Match Game
Musical Chairs
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
The Price Is Right
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Search for Tomorrow
Shazam!
Sunrise Semester
Tattletales
The U.S. of Archie
Valley of the Dinosaurs
The Young and the Restless
New series
All in the Family
Clue Club
Far Out Space Nuts
The Ghost Busters
Give-n-Take
The Secrets of Isis
Not returning from 1974-75
Bailey's Comets
The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20Image%20Library | Generic Image Library (GIL), is an open source generic programming library created by Adobe Systems for image-related programming. It was accepted to the Boost C++ Libraries in November 2006 and is included in Boost's latest official release.
References
External links
Official site
Boost C++ Libraries
Adobe Source Libraries
GIL page in Adobe Source Libraries
Generic programming
Free computer libraries
Free software programmed in C++ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976%E2%80%9377%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1976–77 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1976 to August 1977.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's programs are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station.
Monday-Friday
Additional Information
♦ABC had a 6pm (ET)/5pm (CT) feed for their newscast
In the Pacific Time Zone (from December 1975 to March 1977), ABC's lineup had its game shows aired in the morning, while the 12 Noon to 3 PM block featured The Edge of Night, Ryan's Hope, All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital in succession. After April 1977, ABC's Pacific Time Zone daytime schedule began matching that of its 10 AM-3:30PM Central Time schedule.
Saturday
Sunday
Notes
By network
ABC
Returning Series
The $20,000 Pyramid
ABC Evening News
All My Children
American Bandstand
The Edge of Night
Family Feud
General Hospital
Good Morning America
The Great Grape Ape Show
Happy Days
Hot Seat
Issues and Answers
The New Adventures of Gilligan
The Tom and Jerry Show
The Oddball Couple
One Life to Live
Ryan's Hope
Schoolhouse Rock!
Super Friends
New Series
Animals, Animals, Animals
The Better Sex
The Don Ho Show
Jabberjaw
Junior Almost Anything Goes!
The Krofft Supershow
The Mumbly Cartoon Show
The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour
Second Chance
Not Returning From 1975-76
The $10,000 Pyramid
AM America
Break the Bank
Devlin
Groovie Goolies
Let's Make a Deal
The Lost Saucer
Make a Wish
The Neighbors
Rhyme and Reason
Showoffs
Speed Buggy
These Are the Days
Uncle Croc's Block
You Don't Say!
CBS
Returning Series
All in the Family
As the World Turns
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Children's Film Festival
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
Clue Club
Face the Nation
Far Out Space Nuts
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Gambit
Guiding Light
The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show
Lamp Unto My Feet
Look Up and Live
Love of Life
Match Game
The Price Is Right
Search for Tomorrow
The Secrets of Isis
Shazam!
Sunrise Semester
Tattletales
The Young and the Restless
New Series
Ark II
Double Dare
Here's Lucy
The New Adventures of Batman
Sylvester and Tweety
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
Way Out Games
Not Returning From 1975-76
The Edge of Night (moved to ABC)
The Ghost Busters
Give-n-Take
The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine
Musical Chairs
The U.S. of Archie
Valley of the Dinosaurs
NBC
Returning Series
Another World
Days of Our Lives
The Doctors
Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles
The Gong Show
The Hollywood Squares
Land of the Lost
Meet the Press
Name That Tune
NBC Nightly News
NBC Saturday Night News
NBC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974%E2%80%9375%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1974–75 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1974 to August 1975.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's programs are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station.
Monday-Friday
Notes
ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for their newscast, depending on stations' schedule.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning Series
The $10,000 Pyramid
ABC Evening News
All My Children
American Bandstand
The Brady Bunch
The Bugs Bunny Show
General Hospital
The Girl in My Life
Goober and the Ghost Chasers
Issues and Answers
Lassie's Rescue Rangers
Let's Make a Deal
Make a Wish
The Newlywed Game
One Life to Live
Password
Schoolhouse Rock!
Split Second
Super Friends
Yogi's Gang
New Series
AM America
The Big Showdown
Blankety Blanks
Devlin
Hong Kong Phooey
Korg: 70,000 B.C.
The Money Maze
The New Adventures of Gilligan
Rhyme and Reason
Ryan's Hope
Showoffs
These Are the Days
You Don't Say!
Not Returning From 1973-74
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
The Brady Kids
H.R. Pufnstuf
Kid Power
Love, American Style
Mission: Magic!
The Osmonds
CBS
Returning Series
As the World Turns
Bailey's Comets
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Children's Film Festival
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
The Edge of Night
Face the Nation
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Gambit
The Guiding Light
Jeannie
The Joker's Wild
Lamp Unto My Feet
Look Up and Live
Love of Life
Match Game
My Favorite Martians
Now You See It
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
The Price Is Right
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Search for Tomorrow
Speed Buggy
Sunrise Semester
Tattletales
The Young and the Restless
New Series
The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine
The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show
Musical Chairs
Partridge Family 2200 A.D.
Shazam!
Spin-Off
The U.S. of Archie
Valley of the Dinosaurs
Not Returning From 1973-74
The $10,000 Pyramid (moved to ABC)
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
Everything's Archie
The Flintstones Comedy Show
Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
Josie and the Pussycats
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
The Secret Storm
NBC
Returning Series
The Addams Family
Another World
Celebrity Sweepstakes
Days of Our Lives
The Doctors
Emergency +4
Go!
High Rollers
The Hollywood Squares
How to Survive a Marriage
Jackpot
Jeopardy!
The Jetsons
Meet the Press
Name That Tune
NBC Nightly News
NBC Saturday Night News
NBC Sunday Night News
The New Pink Panther Show
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
Somerset
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Today
Winning Streak
New Series
Blank Check
Land of the Lost
The Magnificent Marble Machine
Run |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FocusTrack | FocusTrack is a database program created specifically for stage lighting applications. The program is designed to allow lighting designers, lighting programmers and lighting electricians to document the way that a show is lit, in order to be able to accurately maintain the look of the lighting over the run of the show, and to be able to re-create the lighting on tour or for future productions of the show in other venues.
Usage
Traditionally, the lighting programmer has relied on their memory, the reliability of the lights or the services of an assistant, often called a lighting tracker, to document each position each light is used in. FocusTrack automates this process by importing the lighting console showfile (from Strand 500-series, ETC Eos-family and MA grandMA consoles) to create a list of each position (called a 'focus') used by each light in the show. The programmer can then add a written description of the purpose of each position. To precisely document the light's position on stage, the programmer can use a digital camera to take a picture of each position in turn. FocusTrack can aid in this process by controlling the lighting console, turning each light on in each position as required; it can then import the photographs to give a complete record of the work of the automated lights during the show.
The information can be displayed in a variety of ways according to circumstance, for example showing all of the uses of one light if it was replaced and the replacement needs to be checked, or all of the lights used in each cue state that might need their focuses corrected when setting up a show in a new venue. FocusTrack is designed to work alongside other lighting industry software, such as Lightwright, to manage information about the lighting rig as a whole. It can also analyze how equipment is used in a show, particularly colour scrolls or gobos, in order to allow the lighting rig to be rationalised for future productions.
It has been used on a range of productions around the world.
See also
Intelligent Lighting
Stage lighting instrument
Light board
Light board operator
Stagecraft
Theatre
External links
FocusTrack website
FocusTrack in PLSN magazine
FocusTrack in Live Design magazine
Stage lighting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Salavon | Jason Salavon (born 1970) is an American contemporary artist. He is noted for his use of custom computer software to manipulate and reconfigure preexisting media and data to create new visual works of fine art.
Early life
The son of an artist, Jason Salavon was born in 1970 in Indianapolis, Indiana and raised in Fort Worth, Texas (Hill 2004). He earned his BA in 1993 from the University of Texas at Austin and his MFA in 1997 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. During and after school, Salavon worked as an artist and programmer in the video game industry. After he earned his MFA, he also designed and taught courses as an instructor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Salavon currently lives in Chicago, where he is a studio artist and an associate professor at the University of Chicago.
Work
Salavon is noted for his use of custom computer software to manipulate and reconfigure media and data to create new visual works of art. A significant body of Salavon's work involves two general means of manipulating preexisting media to create works of art: first, by overlaying images (such as multiple photographs) and averaging the result to create visual amalgamations and, second, by distributing processed media (such as individual frames of a movie) side by side or in other configurations. An example of the first means is Salavon's 2004 suite of works, 100 Special Moments, which consists of images based on the average of groups of 100 unique commemorative photographs culled from the Internet.
An example of the second method of production is his 2000 work, The Top Grossing Film of All Time, 1 x 1, which is a static image showing all of the frames of the movie Titanic reduced to the average color most representative of each frame. Salavon employed a similar method in his 2003 series Emblem, reducing films such as Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey to a set of concentric rings of color representing each frame of the film.
A third part of Salavon's work involves the recomposition of statistical data into visual images. For example, in the 2001 works Shoes, Domestic Production, 1960-1998, Salavon organized and transformed a data set concerning the show industry into "psychedelic constellations" bursting with color. A more recent example is Salavon's 2006 work, American Varietal, a commission to transform census data into site-specific art for the new headquarters of the US Census Bureau in Suitland, Maryland.
Salvon's public installation American Varietal is installed at the US Census Bureau in Suitland, Maryland.
At one point in time, the Google search results for the term "Playboy" placed Salavon's website in a higher position than Playboy's own website. This was likely the result of extensive blogosphere discussion about and linking to Salavon's website for his works Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades, amalgamations showing the decade-by-decade evolution of the "average" Playboy centerfold from the 1960s to the 199 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khuzayma%20ibn%20Thabit | Khuzayma ibn Thabit Dhu al-Shahadatayn al-Ansari (; d. July 657) was one of the companions of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.
Biography
610–632: Muhammad's era
He was an Ansar and one among those on whose authority the Hadith of the pond of Khumm was reported.
632–634: Abu Bakr's era
He was among those who initially refused to give allegiance to Abu Bakr.
644–656: Uthman's era
Uthman ibn Affan told the sahaba to gather the Quran so they can compile it into an official book. Up to that point, it was memorized by the sahaba and kept together written on various materials. One complete copy was available with Hafsa which was prepared during First Caliph Abu bakar.
In the Itqan, Al-Suyuti discussed the number of witnesses required for writing down a revelation of Muhammad.
656–661: Ali's era
He was a general under Ali's command during the Battle of the Camel (656), riding in the head of 1000 Ansar cavaliers.
He died in the Battle of Siffin (657), fighting on the side of Ali.
See also
Thabit (name)
References
Companions of the Prophet
657 deaths |
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